Chapter 33: Forty Years Ago

"Teacher Ren, about this ...... Fox? Do you know what? No matter how Yang Kang looks at it, he just thinks that what flashed in the video is a white canine animal, which may be a dog, a cat, or a wolf, and it is not strange, why did the teacher in front of him call out that this is a fox?

"Officer Yang, do you know what the name of this place was when it was not established thirty years ago?" Teacher Ren asked, his face already turning pale.

"I wasn't born thirty years ago, and my parents had just fallen in love in Shanghai at that time, how could they know about Linyang's side?" Yang Kang shook his head.

"At that time, this place was called Huxian Ridge." Teacher Ren gently read out those three words, as if he was afraid that his voice would be too high and would wake up the undead hidden in these three words, "And our old teaching building was built on the original Fox Immortal Temple, the Fox Immortal Temple was destroyed during the special period, and nothing has happened since the old teaching building was established more than 20 years ago, but I didn't expect to see this white fox again." ”

"For this case, I also went to the city's archives to check, the city from the Qing Dynasty to the early period of the special period, has indeed been popular fox fairy worship, fox fairy in the northern region is very popular Huhuang, white willow gray one of the five evil gods, it is said that the Qing Dynasty has been sacrificed more than a dozen babies and children male and virgin, in the special period of the city's fox fairy worship was regarded as a typical criticism of feudal remnants, the city's fox fairy temples, portraits, sculptures were all destroyed, but until now it is still not completely eliminated this bad habit......" Wan Ruyue added on the side.

"Is it the fox immortal cult that was cracked eight years ago in Yunxi Village near Linyang?" Yang Kang thought for a while and asked.

"Do you remember a case that was so long apart?" Ruyue asked in surprise.

"It's not that I remember, it's the glorious deeds that our director Xiao Quanzhi Xiao often talks about, he has been the director for almost ten years, this is the only thing worth bragging about is a big case, a farmer who came back from the big city and had some ideas, tangled up a group of foolish people and foolish women, through all kinds of man-made so-called ' The fox fairy's manifestation, lying that he was possessed by the fox fairy, the fox fairy has returned, and he is engaged in worship ceremonies and renovated the fox fairy temple, it is said that he almost engaged in human life sacrifice, and was gathered by Director Xiao More than a dozen policemen served in a pot, as if this matter was still on the news for thirty points, and Director Xiao made a second-class merit. Yang Kang can memorize this old thing that Director Xiao often mentions in the casual conversation at dinner.

"The fox fairy really can't be completely said to be a feudal superstition, since it exists, it really has its supernatural features." Teacher Ren suddenly spoke, as if he remembered some strange past, and his eyes wandered.

"I've seen the fox fairy, and during the special period forty years ago, I was one of the Red Guards who raided the fox fairy temple here." Teacher Ren whispered.

"Teacher Ren, you have been a veteran party member for thirty or forty years, you can't talk nonsense, haven't you always been a staunch materialist before?" Teacher Cui reminded in a whisper on the side.

"Of course I'm a materialist, but I did see it with my own eyes! I've never mentioned it to anyone in my heart, and now that I've seen this scene today, I'm going to have to talk to the two policemen about it, and my gut tells me that it's deeply connected with the disappearance of the three girls! I've never believed in ghosts, and if such a thing exists, it must be scientifically explained, but we haven't really recognized it yet! Mr. Ren made a very difficult decision to reveal a secret that had been hidden in his heart.

Yang Kang and Wanruyue glanced at each other, and moved three chairs to the side, and the four of them sat together as if they were going to hold a seminar.

"We should always be in awe of the unknown." Yang Kang nodded at Teacher Ren.

"It was early one morning on June 26, 1976, and we received a report that someone was worshipping the fox fairy on the fox fairy ridge in the suburbs......" Teacher Ren picked up the teacup, took a sip of tea and moistened his throat, and his thoughts returned to forty years ago......

The sun was particularly strong that day, more than a dozen Red Guard generals sat on a big truck with an ugly engine that looked like a broken gong, the truck was flying in the wind, and the young people were holding red books, wearing green uniforms, armbands shining in the sun, they first sang "Beloved Chairman Mao", and then sang "The Sea Sails by the Helmsman", and then a heroic female soldier brought up the "Yellow River Cantata......

16-year-old Ren Zhiguo leaned on the side of the car, looking at the red treasure book in his hand, his mind had long been unknown where to drift with the wind, and he sang those songs that had long been sung with everyone in a daze......

This kind of thing has just been done at the beginning, and he is still very enthusiastic, but it has been intermittent for several years, seeing the frightened, fearful, desperate and lost eyes of the people who have been criticized, Ren Zhiguo gradually began to ask himself in his heart, is what he is doing really righteous? Is there really so much hatred to vent and sin to fight in the world?

He didn't dare to mention those tiny thoughts in his heart to anyone, because he knew that if his thoughts were known to others, he would probably be the next one to be dragged out to fight in the streets.

Although he thinks that he is well hidden, his recent "passive sabotage" in the struggle movement has been seen by others, and he was "named and criticized" a few days ago.

The fields on both sides and the white clouds on the horizon were quickly pulled behind by the trucks, and the trucks gradually drove out of the newly built avenue, jolting on the muddy winding mountain road, the Red Guards all took out their sticks, knives and forks, and began to howl excitedly, there were more and more ancient trees on both sides, and the branches gradually grew wantonly like the arms of monsters, and the shadows of those trees were swept by the wild wind in the mountains, and the wind was cool and swept into Ren Zhiguo's tattered military uniform, which made him shiver a few times.

"Comrades-in-arms! Look at the smoke in the distance, it's a precursor to the class struggle! Our enemies are there! All reactionaries are vulnerable to the iron fist of the masses! A young man in his twenties stood up energetically, and he waved the pitchfork in his hand and pointed to the Fox Fairy Ridge, which was surrounded by countless old trees at the end of the mountain road, where a cloud of black smoke drifted into the sky, and countless black crows screamed like dark clouds.

"Click!" There was a sudden strange noise in the truck, as if it had hit something, the car suddenly shook violently on the road, the people in the car swayed left and right, and the young man who stood up was unstable in his center of gravity, and fell off the car with his head.

At the same time, the right wheel of the truck was deflated, and the whole car ran weakly for dozens of meters, parked on the side of the road, and the young driver refused to take a step no matter how angry he scolded and stepped on the accelerator.

A crowd of people jumped out of the car and ran to the place where the young man had fallen, and the man was lying upright on the ground without a sound.

The female medical soldier ran up to check it out, and said with relief:

"It's just a slight injury, I don't know where I hit my head, there is a little blood, it's not a big deal."

A few people found a crude wooden stretcher from the truck, and the criticism often evolved into a martial fight, and the young generals were prepared with first aid when they traveled, after all, the body is the capital of the revolution, Mao Taizu said so.

Someone in the team proposed to turn around first and send this person to heal, and the critic could go again tomorrow, but he was immediately refuted by several people for not having revolutionary enthusiasm, and this young man lying on a stretcher with weak breath had just recovered his senses, and his mouth was still weakly muttering:

"I'm fine, let's go clean up first...... The ...... of Fox Fairy Ridge Cow ghost snake god ......"

In the end, the team leader decided to go to Huxian Ridge first, after all, there is still a small village there, and after the fight, you can also find a fellow villager to help take care of this person first.

They also didn't think about who would receive these Red Guard generals who were afraid of God and killed God.

And Ren Zhiguo, who was the shortest and least noticeable of the people, quietly walked to the place where the young man had just fallen on the side of the road, and looked at the waist-high weeds in the forest beside the road in a daze......

A stone statue of a fox with a fox's head and a short and fat human body was standing quietly in the gloom, it was about half a man tall, wearing an ancient crown and holding a jade wat in its hand, the fox head that looked sinister and cunning shone with a vivid cold light in its eyes, and a wicked smile on the corner of its mouth.