It was as dark as the bottom of a pot, and I couldn't see my fingers. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoThe old north wind howled in the return wind of the col, the branches and leaves of the trees rustled, and the water on the shore was rustling.

Zeng Fanzhi led a dozen militiamen with spears on their backs to build a fire with chopping wood in a grass hut in a sheltered place, and everyone sat in a circle on the chopping wood.

Originally, it was enough to keep a vigil for three or two people, but this time the matter was too big, and six cold corpses were placed at once, and they couldn't be dragged inexplicably when the boat was tugged in the afternoon, and it was not dragged away until the drunkard did something about it, and I felt a little panicked when I thought about it. For the sake of those dozen points of work, Mo people are willing to be frightened. What's more, the sky has changed again, the north wind is cold and biting, who doesn't want to lie in the warm quilt and is willing to guard a bunch of dead people who are cold and afraid?

When Zeng Fanzhi arranged people, no one would come, so he couldn't help it, so he just came more, anyway, he didn't have to go to work in the countryside. The people were so bold that they got a pile of chopping wood, and everyone was talking and laughing while roasting the fire to pass the time.

"Were you all there at the time of the salvage? I heard that there is a sign that a girl is born well, and she is a yellow flower girl who is not married! It's a pity that there are more than one single men in this world. ”

It was Zhang Shishan of the third team who spoke.

"More than one? It's four miles. Of the four women, the oldest seems to be in their forties, and the two younger ones will not be more than thirty years old. Alas, it's a pity, it's a pity that there is more than one more in this world, but four men who knock on the bedside every night like you......"

A team of Zeng Feng's words caused a burst of laughter.

"Zhang Shishan, didn't you say that she was good-looking? If you are bold, go down and sleep with her, and maybe she will be able to marry you alive!" One interjected.

"Don't stumble, beware of insulting the dead and coming to you for trouble." Someone stopped.

Death is great, and it is not to be blasphemed. This is the simple perception of the villagers, in addition to the respect for the victims, there is also the fear of retaliation for insulting the dead and causing dissatisfaction with the undead.

Guarding the six cold corpses under the road, these bloody descendants can't say how sad they are. They don't know each other, they can't hit the eight poles, they are not relatives, no one guides the infection, except for sighing and regretting, even if they want to be sad, they can't be sad. The world is so big, when will no one die? saw the falling flowers crying, only Lin Daiyu in "Dream of Red Mansions". These earth repairmen with hoes won't understand, they will only say that she is a bourgeois stinky lady who moans innocently.

"Yes, Zhang Shishan, don't you often brag about being bold? Do you dare to sit with the dead for one night? ”

It's really boring to sit on the fire like this, Zeng Feng joked and teased Zhang Shishan. Someone on the side immediately answered:

"That's right, as long as you sit down for one night, I'll lose you a pound of pork."

"I'll add a bottle of tiger bone papaya wine."

"A pound of pork and a bottle of wine bet on me to accompany the dead to sell frozen meat overnight? Thanks to your twenty-four teeth, you are afraid that I will never eat and drink in my life. Zhang Shishan said disdainfully.

"Yo ho? Say you're fat, but you're really panting? So what do you say you want to bet on? ”

"yes, so how do you gamble?"

The hip-hop crowd stopped talking together, and more than a dozen pairs of eyes stared at Zhang Shishan.

Gambling is actually a kind of human **** that can be seen everywhere. Gambling does not only refer to gambling, but also to gamble, curse and bet.

In the countryside, gambling is a very ordinary existence. Gambling on alcohol, food, strength, guts, etc., to name a few, adds a lot of joke fun to the big guys, and of course there are some costs.

For example, Li Changzi can eat, once the family celebrates his birthday and sets up wine, someone in the team bets on him to eat noodles, he eats up two and a half full twenty bowls in one go, everyone is not convinced, and then bets on eating sweet potatoes again, he spent two and a half hours to eat ten catties of raw and cooked sweet potatoes, for which he won a dime of pork in the team, but also paid the price of three days of discomfort and stomach problems.

The most common is also gambling strength, when the team goes out to work and rest, the scene of twisting the shoulder and wrenching the wrist often appears. As for gambling, it has been a bad habit that has been repeatedly banned in all dynasties since ancient times, but now life is not rich, and the government is strict, except for a very small number of people who secretly play cards, there are really few people who dare to play.

Betting is different, this is a rare entertainment in a boring life, no one regards this as a gamble, willing to gamble and lose, and cadres generally don't care.

Zhang Shishan glanced at everyone and said, "Do you really want to gamble?" In that case, I don't want things, it's going to be the New Year soon, who can't get half a catty of wine and four taels of meat? Not uncommon. Each of you will give one dollar, and I will count it, one, two, three...... Twelve, thirteen, thirteen, thirteen people, bet thirteen dollars, and I go down and sit among them for one night, how about it? Can you afford to pay for it? ”

Zeng Feng immediately stood up and said okay, everyone also coaxed, Zeng Fanzhi stopped: "Don't mess around, wait for the drunkard to come, what kind of gambling is there." ”

"Yes, why hasn't the drunkard come yet? It can't be that you can't get drunk, right? ”

When the drunkard Li Chaokuan left in the afternoon, he said that he would come over in the middle of the night to overtake the undead, but it was still only eight o'clock, which was very early.

Everyone was quiet for a while, and someone repeated the old saying:

"Zhang Shishan, don't say it, there are six people below, don't say it's only thirteen yuan, even one hundred and thirty yuan, I don't dare to go, you don't see what they looked like when they were fished out, oops, don't talk about it......"

A cold wind hit, Zhang Shishan was excited, his brain was in a trance, but after he came to his senses, he had an idea: Aren't you worried about marrying a wife? Be sure to take a gamble with them.

Zhang Shishan is twenty-five years old this year, his family background is average, he looks good, he said a family in the first two years, he came and went several times, the two sides were quite satisfied, and when he was about to get engaged, he helped work at the woman's house that day, drank an extra glass of wine during the meal, and forgot to restrain when chatting with people, just like usually playing with people on the team, the rude mouth of the ancestors of the Japanese mother continued, and it was extremely harsh, and happened to be heard by the woman's mother, saying that he was vulgar Mo tutor, and the family affairs were yellow, which made him very angry and sad. A while ago, someone finally introduced one, and it is still in the inspection period, and it is not yet engaged. Now that the year is over, he is trying his best to send something to please his sister and the future "mother-in-law", so that he can get engaged and marry early, but the conditions are average, and there is a lack of money in his pocket. If everyone is willing to gamble, he can get more than a dozen yuan for nothing, although it is not much, but it is not a lot, he can cut a dozen catties of meat or tear two pieces of clothing, at least he can buy a gift that can be given. At this moment, he was annoyed that Zeng Fanzhi had "stirred up" a good thing, and when he saw someone talking again, he was dozing and someone handed him a pillow, and he was secretly happy in his heart, but he said to the person with disdain:

"Only a superstitious rat like you would say that. What is so terrible about a man dying in the mud like a lamp going out? Don't say it's sitting, sleep between them. It's a pity that all of your money is worn on your ribs, so how can you give up that dollar......"

As soon as these words came out, they really worked, and Zeng Feng, who had a temper, immediately jumped out and shouted: "Okay! You say, sleep! As long as you dare to sleep in the middle of the night, I will immediately bet with you, and I will add you two yuan, thirteen is not good, fifteen yuan, do you want to win fifteen yuan if you lose? But what if you lose?"

"I lost? Joke! Will Lao Tzu lose? Look at the person not at the hat, look at the old man without looking at the sedan chair. Is Lao Tzu a loser? ”

"Hold on! Your word is the wind under the dog's tail, who believes? If you dare to bet, take out the bet, oh? You win and get money, and you lose eggs, so you don't have to worry about it? ”

"Of course! Otherwise, if you go down and sleep with the dead for one night, I don't want you to lose. ”

Seeing the two of them fighting loudly, everyone was happy to coax, and the roar was inextricable, Zeng Fanzhi was not surprised, and he didn't bother to say it, and finally the gambling contract was established, Zeng Feng gave three yuan, one for the other person, and fifteen yuan in Zeng Fanzhi's hands, but it was stipulated that Zhang Shishan immediately went down to the slope of the shore and lay down among the six cold corpses, unless the family of the deceased came in to collect the corpse before dawn, in order to prevent scaring others, you can get up, in addition, even if the drunkard is not allowed to leave when he comes to practice the law, otherwise he will lose, Not a penny to get.

Of course, the wind was stronger at the water's edge, so in order to prevent him from getting sick from the cold, he was allowed to go home with extra clothes and trousers and a straw mat.

Half an hour later, Zhang Shishan, who was wearing a thick coat of straw, went down the road with a bundle of straw on his back, and under the strong light of two flashlights on the road, he walked to the slope of the waterfront that was more than ten zhang away from the road, spread out the straw in the middle of the six cold corpses, and really lay down, like those cold corpses, pulled a broken straw mat and covered his body, and in the bright light of the flashlight, the broken straw mats side by side on the slope became seven.