Chapter 1 The Laughing Owl (Kneeling for a Recommended Collection)
As we all know, even in today's highly developed science and technology, there are still many strange phenomena in the world that are difficult to explain by normal logic. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
In particular, many of the world's top figures, such as astronomers, physicists and medical scientists, have all discovered phenomena that cannot be explained by previously known theories after reaching the final bottleneck of their research, and thus have studied theology one after another. For example, the famous Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, etc.
The story I'm going to tell you is entirely from my own experience, but you can listen to it as a story.
My name is Wu Zhengzhi, I am not tall or short, not fat or thin, and I am no different from ordinary children from the mountains. I wasn't happy with my name, but because of my father's majesty, I never dared to ask anything.
I was born in a small village in the eastern part of Hebei Province, and I heard from the elders of my family that it had not rained in my hometown for more than half a year before I was born, but on the night of my birth, the sky suddenly became cloudy and followed by a downpour, although it did not rain for long, but it was enough for the banker.
This is a good thing to look at, but it's just the beginning of all nightmares ...
I was born when the rain stopped. Since my hometown is in a remote mountain village, it is said that it is a village, but there are only about 20 families, and the neighbors are very familiar with each other.
So when I was born, there were a lot of neighbors who helped in the house, and the seven aunts and eight aunts in the neighborhood helped to boil the water, and made clothes for me, and my house was also crowded with people for a while, and the old men were playing cards in my wing, the so-called wing, also called the partial room, the partial room here is not the meaning of the little wife, but a small room similar to the east and west in the courtyard, there is also a fire kang inside, but most of them are mainly used to put sundries.
Just when everyone was busy with their work, something unexpected happened.... Suddenly, a flock of owls flew from outside the village and landed on the walnut tree in my yard, making a sound that resembled the laughter of a child. It's not an animal sound at all!! There is an old saying in my hometown that "if you are not afraid of a cat barking, you are afraid of a cat laughing".
The "cat owl" here refers to the owl. There is a very popular rumor that the "cat head" laughs to indicate that someone in the village is about to die or there is also a horizontal death.
Seeing the dozen or so "cat heads" falling on the walnut tree in my yard and laughing incessantly, the neighbors present were suddenly a little stunned, and everyone's expressions became serious. On the day of the big day, they seemed a little surprised by the sudden appearance of uninvited guests.
My cousin immediately picked up the bamboo poles and tried to blast them away, but each time he circled a few times and then returned to the tree, as if he had an attempt. My grandfather sat on the threshold and smoked a cigarette pouch without saying a word.
"The last time the cat's head fell on Lao Huang's yard and laughed, Lao Huang's daughter-in-law hanged herself." The person who said this was Xing Jun, a good friend of mine who was 4 years older than me. As soon as he finished speaking, his father grabbed his ears and dragged him away.
The frozen atmosphere exploded in an instant, and some neighbors began to whisper. Xing Jun said that Lao Huang's daughter-in-law was indeed hanged from her own tree, as for the reason, anyway, the comrades from the police station came and said that she committed suicide.
After a moment, everyone fell silent again, looking at my grandfather, the eldest. I saw my grandfather gently knock his cigarette pouch and pot to the ground and gently knock off the ashes inside. Glancing back at my grandmother, "Go and get the iron egg daddy here."
My grandmother was about to go, "Let me go," but it was my cousin who said this, and he hurried away.
"Iron Egg Daddy" is about the same age as my grandfather and is the head of the village. Usually not angry and self-assured.,It's very serious.。 But it was said that he knew something about feudal superstition, and since things were really weird, my grandfather thought about asking him to come and see them.
After a while, my cousin uncle helped the village chief into the courtyard, looking at the people in the courtyard who were puzzled and the dozen owls on the tree, the village chief at this time suddenly turned pale. After looking up and down in the yard, he turned around and said loudly to everyone, "Hasn't the baby been born successfully?" Let's all disperse, and if you want to drink tonight, come back another day."
Seeing the village chief's face, the neighbors knew that something must have happened, so they didn't dare to slack off and went home. At this time, only the village chief and my family remained.
"It's troublesome now," the village chief tensed the nerves of those present as soon as he spoke. My grandmother hurriedly asked, "What the hell is going on, this cat head is coaxing on our tree and won't leave, and my grandson has just been born, what is there to say?" ”
The village chief sighed, looked up at the owl in the tree and said, "This child, I'm afraid it's bad luck..."