introduction

Thirty years ago, Guangxi Province was in the field of Lalongtun Town.

A middle-aged woman is sweating and hoeing in the field. With each swing of the hoe, the beads of sweat on the woman's face increased a few more points, and then slid down her face and dripped into the mud.

The woman stopped and looked up at the sky, then looked down at her field. He sighed, stretched his voice and said to himself, "One more point-" After saying that, he went down with another hoe.

The hoe made a noise in the mud, apparently touching something.

The woman thought it was a stone underground, so she didn't think much about it, and pushed it up vigorously to pull the stone out. But the first time I used my strength, I didn't pull the stone out.

"Why does Nenko have a tender (so) big stone? Didn't find out before the horse? The woman scolded in a low voice, increasing the strength of her hand as she scolded. The second time I tried hard, I still didn't pull it out.

The woman's temper suddenly came up, pulled the hoe out of the mud, and began to lay on the earth around the stone. I'm going to see how big the stone really is.

After digging half a meter wide, I finally saw what the stone looked like.

The stone has a calf length and looks like a pillar. The woman had never seen much of the world, but she had heard from people who had been to the city that there were these stone pillars in the city's parks. It seems to be called a stone bench, which is for people to sit down and rest.

Although it was strange for the stone bench to appear in the field, the woman did not think so much. After all, this is something from the city, and since it was dug up by itself, it doesn't seem to be broken. Just take it home and use it.

The woman pulled the mud off the stone bench and carried it to the ridge, hoeing the rest of the ground a few times, and then carrying the stone bench home.

The woman's husband died young, and she had only one son. The son usually works for the group above the brigade. Therefore, the affairs of the family are handled by the woman.

When the woman arrived home, she didn't even enter the hall, but put the stone bench at the door and went into the kitchen through the side door to get busy.

When the son came back in the evening to eat in the hall, the woman ostentatiously told her son about the stone bench she had dug in the field in the afternoon.

"Stone piers?" The man buried his head in the food and asked, "I just came in from the hall, I didn't see it." ”

"Nenko (how) maybe, when I come back, I will be in a hurry to cook, and I will put the stone at the door of the hall." The woman said. After saying that, he got up and walked out, wanting to bring the stone bench in and show it to his son.

"I really haven't seen it." When the man saw the woman get up and go out, he quickly picked up the bowl and got up and followed out.

The woman went outside the house and found that the place where the stone bench had been placed was empty, and there was nothing.

"Pinch, yes. So I told that I didn't see it. The man leaned against the door frame and continued to eat.

"I moved back." The woman said. Saying that, he was still unwilling to walk around the ground at the door and look for it.

"According to what you said, that stone pier is tender and big, and you can move it back?"

"It's not very heavy." The woman was still looking, and even walked to the edge of the chicken coop and stuck her head in to look. I almost turned the chicken coop over.

"It's impossible, the tender and big stone you talked about, if it were me, I wouldn't be able to pick it up and go home far away." The man finished pulling the rice in the bowl and turned back to the hall, "Don't look for it, isn't it just a stone." I want to wait for the stone to come back by the river one day. ”

"Yay, over here!" The woman shouted, and then laughed and scolded her son in the hall, "Dare to make a fucking joke about you! After speaking, he didn't wait for his son to react and walked straight to the kitchen.

The man blinked, got up and followed the woman to the kitchen. Sure enough, the stone bench was placed inside the kitchen door.

"Pinch, I'll tell you, Nenko may not have moved back." The woman smiled and looked at her son. It means that if you move it to the kitchen and don't say a word to me, it will make me worry in vain.

How could the son not understand what the woman was thinking, and hurriedly waved his hand and said, "I really didn't move it." As soon as I came back, I went straight into the hall, and you saw it. ”

"Oh - that might have been my own move. Old and confused. After saying that, the woman smiled self-deprecatingly.

The man didn't bother to say anything more, just looked at the stone bench and felt a little strange. So I crouched down and took a closer look.

The stone bench looks a bit like a bucket, except that the middle is two or three points larger than the head and tail ends. Wipe off the mud that hasn't been wiped clean, and find that there are still many bells and whistles engraved on it. Dazzling.

"Did you dig it out of the field?" The man asks the woman.

"Oh!" Seeing that her son didn't believe in herself, the woman also reluctantly responded.

"There's such a thing in the field? Soruma (why) I didn't find it when I was digging the ground before? The man said to himself.

The woman stood beside her son, and when she heard him say this, she thought about it again. So he said, "Oh, I didn't dig the ground before-" After a pause, as if suddenly remembering something, "Could it be that your father buried it there?" ”

"My dad died early, and I maybe."

"Maybe he buried it before he died—" said the woman hurriedly, as if she remembered something, and her tone began to weep. "--I told you that your father must have been killed by someone else."

The man was tired after a busy day, and when he heard the woman crying, he hurriedly stopped it, and said impatiently: "Come on, it's just a stone pier." I want to play the horse more. Then he wiped the mud from the stone bench with his hands. Keep it if you like, and I'll wash it for you. After saying that, he wrapped his hands around the stone bench and prepared to get up.

Unexpectedly, the weight of the stone bench was far less heavy than expected. Generally speaking, a stone the size of a bucket is fifty catties, and the stone bench in front of him is only thirty catties. It was picked up at once.

"It's so light." The man held the stone bench in his arms with both hands and said.

"Guan Nen plays a lot of horses, maybe the stone is different." The woman said.

The man nodded, but didn't say anything. Holding the stone bench and lifting it vigorously, he was ready to take it to the well to wash it. But at the mention of this, a strange feeling came out of his arms.

Why does it seem that something is moving in this stone pier?

I tried to lift it up again, and immediately felt that the thing inside was also moving with me!

The man blinked vigorously and felt it carefully.

There's really something moving in there.

When the woman saw her son standing motionless holding the stone bench, she thought that he was too tired from working during the day and could not walk with the stone in his arms. So he hurriedly reached over to help.

The man who hadn't come back to his senses didn't expect the woman to reach out to help him, and was startled by the hand that reached out in front of him. As soon as the hand was scattered, the stone bench took off its hand and smashed directly on the ground.

If you change to a normal stone, you can't say that it falls to the ground from the height of your chest. It's okay to stand on the beam and throw it down. But after the stone bench fell to the ground, it actually "clicked!" There was a crack, and then wisps of black gas began to bubble out! The frightened woman screamed and quickly stepped back.

The stone bench was black for nearly a minute, and then slowly stopped.

The woman swallowed and looked at the stone bench on the ground and didn't know what to do. But the man came to his senses. The young man was bold, and I saw him take a deep breath and hold it steady, then pick up a stick of firewood on the ground and walk towards the stone bench.

Seeing this, the woman hurriedly stretched out her hand to grab the man, but she didn't want the man to suddenly turn around and say, "You don't want to understand that my father died of a young son?" ”

The woman was stunned by this inexplicable sentence, and when she came back to her senses, the man had already walked to the stone bench.

More than 30 years ago, the countryside still used the same round tungsten light bulb. The dim light shone on the cracked stone bench, reflecting a faint green light!

The man wanted to swallow his saliva to moisten his throat, but his throat was already dry and tight. But I can't care so much, and as soon as I was in my heart, I lifted the firewood and poked it towards the stone bench. only heard a "pop", and the stone bench actually poked a hole.

The stone bench is hollow! I felt something moving just now, and the man had pores all over his body, followed by a complete shiver, and his legs were numb.

The woman was blocked behind her, not seeing what had just happened, but seeing the man holding up the firewood and stabbing hard at the stone bench and then standing still. So I wanted to go up and see what was going on.

"Momo, come here," the man said, staring at the ground and trembling. In front of me, there was a black and faint thing squeezing out of the hole in the stone bench that I poked out! Looks like there's a living creature inside!

On closer inspection, the mass appears to be human hair.

The man stared motionlessly at the clump of hair in the black hole on the stone bench, and there was no response.

I saw that the clump of hair was squeezing out like an underground fountain. After a while, I only heard a few crisp sounds of "click", and there were a few more cracks on the stone bench that were originally covered, and there was a tendency to spread gradually!

The woman saw the man holding the sticks and froze in place in a strange posture, so she hurriedly stepped forward regardless of the obstruction just now. And just as the woman walked up to her son, the hair on the stone bench finally broke through the restraints. There was a crisp sound, and the stone bench burst open. Then a round, black thing rolled out of it. And this roll rolled directly to the woman's feet.

If it's just an ordinary thing, it doesn't scare a woman like this. But this is clearly a human head! The woman's face turned white almost instantly, and she almost fainted with a scream.

The human head that rolled to his feet suddenly paused, and then jumped up suddenly, and just hung in front of the woman!

The toe is how close and how close it is to the face. The human head and the woman were almost face to face at this time! The dark hair obscured the eyes of the skull, and all that was left was the face and lips so white that there was no trace of blood to be seen.

The woman couldn't react at this time, and just looked at the face that was almost close to her nose in a daze. At this time, a gust of wind blew outside the door, and it also blew up the piece of hair on the skull. It was at this time that the miserable white face grinned strangely! The woman couldn't lift it in one breath at that time, and was frightened and fainted.

That face was all too familiar to the woman. Because that's the face of a man who has been dead for more than ten years!

It didn't matter if the woman was dizzy, she was so frightened that the man pinched her and fed her water, and ran to the next village overnight to invite the old Chinese medicine doctor in the village.

The old Chinese medicine doctor sat on the edge of the bed and checked the woman's pulse, touched the woman's forehead, and then rolled the woman's eyelids. Finally, he asked, "Did she see something and be frightened?" Although this sentence is an inquiring sentence, it can be said from the mouth of the old Chinese medicine doctor but it becomes an affirmative sentence.

"No, no. I don't know why, she suddenly fainted. The son hesitated for a moment and said. This kind of thing must be unlucky in the eyes of others. The person who happened to this kind of thing must have done something hurtful to heaven and reason, and then he was punished by God. Besides, he saw the face of the man just now. What does it mean that the dead father suddenly came to find his wife? It shows that he is indecent! If this matter gets out, it will not only be a shameful thing.

The old Chinese medicine doctor slowly looked up at him, then took out a fire fold from the medicine box and put it on the side of the bed, got up and said slowly: "Young man, don't lie. Then he began to pack up his medicine box, turned around and walked towards the door. When he reached the door, he suddenly stopped, looked up at the stars in the sky, and said, "There is medicine in it, just blow it up and smoke it." After saying that, he didn't wait for the man to send him off, and left on his own.

The man watched the old Chinese medicine doctor go out and walk away, hurriedly picked up the fire fold, pulled off the lid, blew the fire on, and then helped the woman to smoke her with a cigarette.

Sure enough, within a few minutes, the woman suddenly coughed violently a few times and slowly woke up.

The first thing the woman said when she woke up was, "I'm going to die, and your father told me to accompany him." After that, he lay down on the bed and stopped talking.

The man didn't seem to be in a big deal when he saw the woman, and he was probably frightened by what he just said. So he simply let her lie on the bed and relax, and walked to the door of the hall and sat down to enjoy the coolness.

Then again, it's impossible to say that he wasn't frightened himself. But after all, he is a young man, and as a productive force in the team, he is often called by the team to keep vigil in the fields. Moreover, he heard that the edge of the field where the night vigil was a former mass grave, and he also saw ghost fires floating from the field at night. The first time, I was scared to death, but I was numb when I saw more. So just when the woman fainted, he gritted his teeth violently, picked up the firewood stick in his hand and hit the head. But the head dodged in the air and dodged the stick. He smiled strangely at him, then turned his head and jumped away.

The man walked to the door and looked up at the sky, tossing and turning all night, and it was almost dawn. So he went to the kitchen door, picked up the sticks he had used as weapons again, and then went back to the door of the hall and sat down. He planned to sit here until dawn to see if the human head would come again.