Chapter 083: Potholes

They say it's haunted, but in fact there are no ghosts, and the ghost they are talking about is just a dried corpse.

It's kind of interesting to talk about.

The haunting happened at the beginning of spring that year. At that time, it was a good season for birds to hunt, and on Saturdays and Sundays, there were always a large number of teenage children who went to hunt birds in groups.

As mentioned earlier, when I was a child, I was no longer allowed to use air guns, slingshots were pure nonsense, and the sticky nets used to catch birds that are most commonly used now were not as popular as they are now. To shoot birds, we mostly use the kind of "clips" made of two thick wires and a pair of springs.

In the north, the most basic "mechanism" such as "clip" is very common, because it can be baited, so it is useful to fight birds, rats and weasels.

The clamp is like a big mouth, and the upper and lower half-moon-shaped iron beams protect one of the "tongues" in the middle, and the "tongue" clamps the bait, and a slight touch will trigger the mechanism to let the two beams bite hard.

It is more troublesome to hunt birds than rats, for the birds and finches are more shrewd than the rats, and these little ones will fly away at the sight of the iron on the bait, and will not touch them.

Therefore, in order to use a clip to hit a bird, in addition to the right time and the right place, you must have a good skill of "eliminating the clip".

As the name suggests, "eliminate the clip" is a special method for hiding the clip.

In fact, it is not easy to hide such a thing, and it is usually necessary to be very careful. Because the "tongue" of the trigger mechanism is particularly sensitive, it will "snap" and clamp together at the slightest force, and if you don't get it right, you will have to hit your hand.

The method we use is generally to bury the soil with a bow-shaped beam, dig a hole in the soil, and then hide the clamps between the relatively moist soil that has been turned out.

According to the different processes of soil cover, there are two kinds of buried things: "live clip" and "dead clip".

The "live clip" is buried very roughly, that is, the base of the thing is buried in the soil, and there is a beam above the soil and a stick to support the tongue is exposed, this kind of thing is more obvious, and it is most commonly used when beating mice, but to hit the birds and finches that eat food, it is often buried into a "dead clip".

"Dead clip" corresponds to "live clip", which is a method of burying the entire clip into the soil, usually this burial method only exposes a bug or ear of grain as bait outside, once seen by passing birds, the success rate of hitting the prey is quite high.

However, it is easy to say, but it actually takes a lot of skill to bury this kind of clamp, and there is a lot of attention to the place where the clamp is placed, and at that time, there were traces of us placing the clamp in the fields, wheat fields, riverside woods, etc.

However, the most popular place for people to visit is still in the mountains.

Because there is more grass on the mountain, and the grass seeds scattered in the grass are the favorite things of those birds and birds, in spring and autumn, it is naturally the place where birds and birds gather, and because of this, burying clips in the graves in the mountains has become a common thing between adults and children.

As mentioned earlier, the hill is actually a large and small dirt slope, and the mounds on it are also of all ages, and the old ones have long been flattened, and no one can figure out which mound has a coffin hidden under it, and which one has a solid layer of soil underneath.

Out of caution, we were all very cautious when burying the clips, for fear of accidentally digging out a dead man's bone, but just like that, something happened.

Among my childhood playmates, there was a kid named Sanwa'er, who was the initiator of that incident.

This thing is white and chubby, with a little freckles on his face, he loves face very much, he is usually bold when he encounters anything, and his bounce ability is particularly good, and he can jump out of the distance at once.

In order to show off this bouncing ability, this thing likes to bury the clip on the top of the mound, and after burying it, it has to stand up and fly down and then pose for its own amusement.

Many people scoffed at his 24k pure pretending behavior, including me.

Anyone who has experience knows that birds and finches do not climb high, don't look at them landing on high places, but when they really come out to feed, they are all wandering blindly in a relatively low position, and he puts the clamp there, and rarely can hit something.

Everyone knows that he lacks heart and eyes, so they don't sue him, because this person is too fond of pretending to be forced, and facts have proven more than once that people who pretend to be forced are often very annoying.

On the day of the accident, it was the same, early in the morning we went to the hillside in groups, in a mound to mound to mound, we saw a lot of "string chickens", "string chicken" is not a chicken, it is a kind of bird, and it is a big, stupid and greedy bird, everyone is happy when they see this thing, because they are really stupid.

But the stupidest of the birds were also alert, and we tacitly did not make a sound, and let two sophisticated ones walk over, whistling and walking them away, and after making sure they were not startled, we rushed to bury our equipment.

Sanwa lived close to me, so he went with me, this kid moved really fast, and he buried six clips on the mound in five minutes.

Seeing that I was moving a little slowly, he laughed and made a standing long jump while laughing at my pig's paws not parting.

Seeing him like this, I said you be careful, don't you see that there are mountains around here, maybe there is a tomb waiting for you somewhere, you go down this foot, and then fall in.

When the boy heard this, he laughed, and said that I was worried about the sky and came to run, and after three or five steps, the whole person flew up, and smashed his hands into the soil with a pop

How else to say that you are a crow's mouth, what do you say?

I was busy with my own business, and I didn't see the specific process clearly, but I could hear a muffled sound of the broken box being smashed and the trivial sound of a clang, and then when I turned around, I saw the guy Sanwa standing on the side with a pale face, half of his body sunk into the soil, and his two arms pressed down vigorously.

Seeing this scene, he was stunned at first, and then an extremely funny feeling came to his heart, and he immediately made him lean back and lean back.

But before he finished laughing, he suddenly found that this thing was not quite right, Sanwa's face was particularly ugly, sweat broke out on his forehead, and he trembled as if he was being led by something.

"What's wrong with you? Did you fall? Seeing his trembling appearance, I hurried over.

Sanwa didn't speak, her lips turned white, and she lowered her head and looked down vigorously.

Seeing him like this, I was also a little panicked, I hurried over to pull him, but my hands were under this armpit and dragged him still!