Volume 1 Spring Bamboo Shoots Chapter 12 Fish and Shrimp Rain
More than 30 miles away from our village, there is a hill called Guzi Mountain, and there is a Guzi Nunnery on Guzi Mountain. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Legend has it that there is a small evil dragon under the Guzi Nunnery, because the Guzi Nunnery Bodhisattva was smashed and lost his spirituality, and he couldn't suppress the evil dragon that has now grown up, and the evil dragon is feeding out of the machine.
In February, the dragon raised its head. At noon one day after the sting, lightning and thunder thundered over Guzi Mountain, followed by strong winds and torrential rain. The evil dragon that had been dormant for thousands of years broke out of the nunnery, and suddenly, a lightning bolt struck the nunnery, and the nunnery collapsed in response, and unfortunately, several people who were hiding from the rain in the nunnery were buried in the ruins.
And that's not all, as the heavy rain accompanied the fish, shrimp, crabs and other living creatures falling from the sky. Guzi Mountain and the surrounding villages for about a mile are full of small fish, shrimp and crabs running rampant with pincers. People were ecstatic and rushed into the rain to pick up the ...... After the rain stopped, the villagers from a little farther heard the news and picked up a lot of ...... on Guzi Mountain
It is said that this is a special gift from the evil dragon to thank the residents near Guzi Mountain for thousands of years of good neighborliness...... For a while, the truth and falsehood were boiling, and it was rumored that he was a god with a nose and eyes.
And this little girl Ou Meiyu, who came to find the bright sailor to heal her injuries, was injured that day in the sister-in-law's nunnery. Of course, facts and rumors are often far from each other.
Actually, I didn't know at the time that the person lying on the bamboo chair covered with an umbrella was a little girl named Ou Meiyu. I only learned about her later.
It was a Sunday, and Ou Meiyu was at her grandmother's house in Yangjiawan. After breakfast, her cousin Yang Xiaohua took her to pick bitter herbs on Guzi Mountain (Note 1). She went to her grandmother's house the afternoon before to go to the mountains to pick bitter herbs to satisfy her hunger. They were accompanied by a few little sisters from the village.
At that time, the sting was early, and it was only a few days before the Qingming Festival, which was the mid-spring season. It has been raining for the past few days, and the continuous spring rain has accelerated the pace of spring, and now it is the shore willows and green, the warblers fly and the grass grows, the peach is red and plum white, and the rape flowers are fragrant. The spring bamboo shoots on the mountain are breaking through the soil, and the red mountains in the sunny place are also beginning to bloom sparsely, and the bitter herbs are tender and green. The little sisters were in a group of five or six, carrying baskets and baskets, chattering into the green of the mountains and forests.
On the mountain, there are not only tender green bitter herbs, but also sprouts of thorny core tung (Note 2) and cabbage, in the laughter and cheers, half a morning has passed, and the big guys have already harvested a lot. At this time, it was still early to go home, and while the mouth was dry, a few people went to the Guzian to drink water.
There is a good mountain spring next to the side of the sister-in-law nunnery, which is clear and sweet, and warm in winter and ice in summer. Guzi Mountain itself is not high, and all those who work nearby are willing to drink water to rest and relieve fatigue when they are tired. After drinking enough water from the spring, several of them walked to the nunnery with a smile. Anyway, it's still early, so why don't you go to the nunnery and have a look.
The nunnery is not big, and in the early years, there were Xuandi Bodhisattva and Guanyin Master. It is said to be very effective, so the incense is prosperous. After liberation, the two old nuns in the nunnery went down the mountain to return to customs. There is no one to take care of it, and it is becoming decadent day by day. During the Cultural Revolution, the Red Guards went up the mountain to smash the enshrined clay sculpture Bodhisattva, it was even more dilapidated, now some earthen walls have collapsed, only the main hall and two side halls of the blue bricks to the top are still intact, and they can not be considered intact, some rafters on the top have rotted due to rain and snow soaking, rotten out of several big holes that can see the blue sky and white clouds, the green bricks on the ground are covered with moss, the stumps and leaves are all over the ground, there are a lot of wild grasses leaning out of the brick cracks, playing strong growth. This little-visited ruined temple has become a habitat for mountain rats and wild foxes, so it is even more desolate.
The little girls in the township are already wild, and they are twelve or thirteen years old when they are not afraid of heaven and earth. Although there are many mysterious legends about Guzian in the village, isn't that a legend? Right now, there are five or six people together, and they are very bold. There are a few timid people who are too embarrassed to bring it up. Several people stepped on firewood and grass into the main hall.
There was a musty smell in the gloomy hall, the altar was littered with fragments of broken clay fetal bodhisattvas, and the wooden shrine with a missing leg leaning against the wall. The open space in front of the god case used to be used to place the incense burner, but now the incense burner is long gone, and it is estimated that it was moved and sold for scrap. In the cracks in the bricks on the ground were the remnants of burned incense sticks, and a pile of gray and black embers of paper money. Although the old feudal superstition has been around for more than 20 years, there are still some villagers in the vicinity who secretly worship with incense.
The murals of gods and ghosts on the walls on both sides of the hall are already mottled, but those hideous heads are still vaguely there, which makes people feel frightened, and the footsteps of several little girls are a little hesitant.
Ou Meiyu has always been bold, and it was the first time she went to the Guzi Nunnery, she looked at it with great interest, and when she retracted her gaze, she found that she was no longer in the main hall, her cousin Yang Xiaohua and none of them were gone, but she was in the dark side hall.
Ou Meiyu was shocked in her heart, and shouted loudly as she walked towards the main hall: "Sister Xiaohua, Sister Xiaohua." “
The voice swirled through the empty hall, but no one answered, and the hall was empty.
She looked up to the outside, and the sky that had been clear was now cloudy. The mountain wind was swaying the trees, firewood and grass, and it seemed that there was a heavy rain soon, and the large flat in front of the hall was empty.
A hint of fear rose from the bottom of my heart. Did they go somewhere in another side temple or in the back of the temple? Or did you leave yourself and go down the mountain? Ou Meiyu thought. No, it's impossible, they're guests, they can't do that, let alone have their cousin together...... By the way, they must be hiding to scare themselves, maybe they are hiding in another side hall and snickering......
A flash of lightning swept by, followed by a hoarse thunderclap, and the raindrops the size of beans whipped diagonally under the strong wind, and the branches and leaves of the trees outside danced, and the green tiles of the roofs were clanged.
Ou Meiyu shrunk her neck, retreated into the main hall, hesitated slightly, and walked into the side hall on the other side, at this moment, a fireball accompanied by a thunderclap, smashed on the roof of the side hall, and at the same time as the roof collapsed, a scorching smell spread, and Ou Meiyu saw that the ground of the side hall seemed to crack a big crack, she couldn't close her feet, screamed and fell The moment she felt a sharp pain in her ribs, and then lost consciousness......
And her cousin Yang Xiaohua and they did go down the mountain. Just after discovering the change of day. A few of them went down the mountain in a panic, and the strange thing was that none of them found that Ou Meiyu was missing at that time. When the thunderstorm came, they just ran to the edge of the forest farm house at the foot of the mountain, and they didn't notice it when they entered the forest farm house to hide from the rain, until the fireball hit the sister-in-law with thunder, Yang Xiaohua woke up like a dream, and found that her cousin Ou Liyu did not follow, and heard the forest guard Yang Baipi say that the sister-in-law was afraid that the sister-in-law would be smashed by the thunder and lightning and was scared to cry.
Yang Baipi was also startled after asking about the situation, and hurriedly found out the hat and put on the hat and got into the rain curtain, and ran to the sister-in-law's nunnery. At this moment, the pouring rain was mixed with large and small fish, shrimp and crabs crackling and falling to the ground.
The torrential rain was carried by strong winds and fell sharply and violently, although it only rained for more than ten minutes, but there was already a finger-deep water on the flat ground. The white-flowered fish are not big, only two or three fingers wide, three or four inches to seven or eight inches long. Most of them are dead, floating on the surface of stagnant water, drifting down the river to low-lying mountain streams, ponds and paddy fields.
The heavy rain mixed with fish and shrimp only fell for a while, and it was only about a minute or so. After that, no more fish and shrimp fell from the sky. The little girls who were hiding from the rain were stunned, and after a while, they rushed into the rain frantically, grabbing the fish and shrimp on the ground, and turned into soup chickens one by one.
Soon after the thundershower, the rain weakened after a while, and slowly stopped, Yang Xiaohua couldn't care about picking up fish, and ran home drenched, and when her father led people to the sister-in-law's nunnery, Yang Baipi had already taken Ou Meiyu, who was covered in blood and unconscious, out of the broken nunnery.
Haocai partial hall only the roof collapsed, the blue brick to the top of the wall did not collapse, the ground did not crack and sag, Ou Liyu was pressed by the collapsed rafters on her chest and thighs, Yang Baipi only a few strokes picked up the thin rubble, moved the broken rafters, and carried her out.
Yang Xiaohua's father was in a hurry, hurriedly carried her to the district hospital, and called someone to go to Sangongqiao Middle School to inform his sister Yang Manxiang. After the district hospital examined, they did a simple treatment and asked them to rush to the county people's hospital. Ou Meiyu broke her leg bones and ribs, and it is estimated that she also suffered a serious head injury, which is not something that their small hospital can treat.
In the county people's hospital, Ou Meiyu woke up after two days and two nights in a coma, there was no major wound on her head, and her internal organs were fine, but her right chest ribs were broken twice, her right thigh was fractured, and she was splinted after the bone was aligned, and the rest was hospitalized for observation and recuperation.
Ou Meiyu, who woke up, was very wrong, sometimes confused and sometimes sober. When I was confused, I looked at my parents with strange eyes, talking nonsense, and sometimes the mountains and rivers were inexplicable. The speech is also strange and obscure. Once she even said that she was not called Ou Meiyu, she said that her name was Fu Shanxiang, and she was the female champion appointed by the King of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. also asked who was the emperor now, which frightened her mother, Teacher Yang, to turn pale.
When she was sober, she didn't know what she was saying. The doctor said that it might be a brain injury, coupled with excessive shock, and it will naturally be fine after a while, if it is really not good, then it can only be sent to a psychiatric hospital to see.
After only half a month, Ou Meiyu never said nonsense again, but her parents felt that she was slowly changing, but found that she couldn't say anything except that her vision was a little different when she looked at people, but she felt a little awkward. It's just that as her injuries slowly improved, the matter gradually faded.
As the old saying goes, it takes a hundred days to break your bones. Ou Meiyu went home to recuperate after staying in the county people's hospital for more than a month, and when she went to the hospital to loosen the clip, she found that the leg bones were not in place, and the injured leg was more than a centimeter longer than her left leg. The county hospital said that the surgery was reconnected, and it was recommended to go to the regional hospital. The regional hospital said that she was going to break the bone of the injured leg and reconnect it in this case, but the hospital did not have an expert in this area recently, and recommended that she be sent to the provincial hospital, which would make her parents' hair gray.
Her father Ou Chengde is an ordinary coal miner, her mother Yang Manxiang is a teacher in the district middle school, there are elderly grandparents to support at home, and she has a younger sister under her. In order to treat her injuries, she used up the little savings of her family, and owed a few foreign debts. What's more, both of them have to go to work, where do they still have the ability and energy to go to the provincial capital hospital?
Later, I heard that the Liangshui Division's technique of retreating water and bone grafting was clever and magical, and I came to seek medical treatment today, but I begged the Liangshui Division to help heal it.
No, as soon as I entered the village, I met our group, I led them to Liangshuishi's house, and when I arrived at the gate, I met Guan Boniang who came back from the field. After letting people in, Guan Boniang asked me to help call the bright water master, I hurriedly agreed, spread my feet and ran to the consignment store.
Note 1: Bitter cabbage, also known as bitter leaf vegetables, is wild and delicious.
Note 2: A thorny shrub shoot.