Chapter 47: Majiawa Village

I asked, "When will you get to the next stop, that Wu, what ditch is Wu?" ”

The driver smiled: "Wujiagou has passed." ”

I wondered, "I haven't seen anyone on the side of the road at all, why did I pass by?" ”

The driver said, "The next stop is Majiawa." I didn't dare to ask any more questions, so I had to wait for him to drive to this place called Majiawa.

After driving for about ten minutes, the driver slowly stopped the car: "Ma Jiawa has arrived." "I saw a village on the right side of the road, with only a few houses lit up. I had no choice but to get out of the car, intending to stay at someone's house in the village until dawn, and then find a way to think about going home.

Opening the door, I asked the driver, "How much?" ”

The driver leaned to the right, reached out to close the door, and drove away. I felt furious in my heart, watching the taxi drive farther and farther away, disappearing into the night, and had to walk towards Majiawa. The village road is uneven, there is a pond on the left side of the road, and there is a young man standing next to him, his eyes are looking at the water, he is drenched in water, and he keeps dripping water down his clothes. I walked over and asked, "Excuse me, is this Ma Jiawa?" ”

The young man turned to look at me with a look of surprise on his face. I thought to myself, is Mandarin not standard enough? I asked again. The young man nodded, I walked along the village road towards the village, the young man saw me ∵ out a few dozen meters, I couldn't help but look back, and found that he was still staring at me.

Entering the village, I walked to the courtyard of a house with a light on, raised my hand and slammed on the wooden door. After a dozen shots, I heard the sound of opening the door and walking in the courtyard, the door opened, and a middle-aged woman stood inside the door, looking me up and down, with a puzzled expression on her face. I asked, "Auntie, my family lives in the city and I got lost, can I stay with you for one night?" If I really don't have a place to sleep, I can sleep on the ground in the yard, just cover it with a mattress. ”

It took a long time for the middle-aged woman to come to her senses, nodded and let me into the courtyard. The yard is clean, but there is no well, only a stone square table, and four stone piers. She asked, "How old are you?" ”

I thought I would have to ask my age for the night, so I told her that I was twenty-nine. The middle-aged woman sighed: "It's a pity. Without waiting for me to ask, she said, "My parents and my sister live in the house, and it's not convenient for you to enter the house, so make do with it in the yard." I can't let you cover this futon, it's not good for you, anyway, it's summer, let's deal with it. ”

All I can say is okay, the middle-aged woman took out a roll of mats, spread them on the floor of the courtyard, and went into the house by herself. Fortunately, it is the height of summer, otherwise this night would have been really sad. As I lay on the mat, I thought back to all these experiences tonight, and I always thought that the taxi driver was weird. At this time, there was a sound of footsteps from outside the courtyard, and when I arrived at the entrance of the courtyard, someone knocked on the door. The middle-aged woman came out of the house and asked who it was.

A man's voice sounded outside the door: "Deliver something." ”

The middle-aged woman hurriedly opened the courtyard gate, someone outside threw in a bundle of things, turned around and left, the middle-aged woman closed the courtyard door, picked up the bundle of things, happily ran to the stone table in the middle of the courtyard, and put the things on the table. Three more people came out of the room: an elderly couple and another middle-aged woman who looked older, and asked eagerly, "Is it really delivered?" ”

The middle-aged woman smiled and nodded, and the four of them sat on the stone pier and unpacked the bundle of things, including pastries, bananas, rice, and apples, all of which were eaten. The four of them rummaged and ate as if they hadn't eaten all day. The old man was gobbling up a piece of cake, and when he looked sideways at me, he was so startled that he almost choked, and pointed at me and asked, "How, how did he get in?" ”

"I said I was lost." The middle-aged woman said as she ate.

The old lady looked at me: "I really envy him." ”

The old man said, "Don't let him go, this is a rare opportunity." ”

The middle-aged woman shook her head: "Isn't this okay?" ”

The older middle-aged woman said, "What's wrong? Who wants to be sealed here forever? ”

The middle-aged woman glared at her: "Sister, eat quickly!" I can eat it four times a year, and I can't stop it! The older middle-aged woman stopped talking, and the four continued to eat.

How dare I sleep? Eyes were fixed on the four men. The older middle-aged woman held up an apple and smiled at me and said, "Are you hungry too?" For you to eat. ”

The middle-aged woman hurriedly stopped: "Don't make trouble, how can he eat this, if he eats it, then he really has to stay!" The four of them laughed.

When the four men had finished eating, they went into the house contentedly, and did not come out again. I was lying on the mat, thinking about the words of the four people just now, when suddenly a head popped out of the wall near the gate, it was the young man I had just met at the entrance of the village. The lad was still dripping from the wall to the ground, and he struggled to climb up the wall, his eyes fixed on me, as if he were coming at me. At this time, the window of the house opened, and the middle-aged woman shouted, "Get out!" ”

The guy was so frightened that he didn't hold his hand, and he fell off the wall, making a muffled sound, and it seemed that the fall was not light. I didn't dare to lie down, so I sat on the mat tremblingly, trembling all over. One side is sleepy to death, and the other side is unable to sleep because of fear, this feeling is simply unbearable.

I don't know how long it took, but I opened my eyes in a daze, and my head hurt very much. It was already dawn, and in front of me stood an old man carrying a basket of dirt, looking at me with a look of astonishment. I looked left and right, and I was sitting on a grave, surrounded by grave bags. I was so frightened that I bounced and startled the old man, and he raised his scythe in his hand, and his hands trembled.

I hurriedly said, "What are you going to do?" ”

The old man asked, "What's the matter with you, why do you sleep in the graveyard?" ”

I touched my aching head and asked the old man what kind of place this was, if it was Ma Jiawa. The old man said yes, but the village still had to go on, and it was a shared cemetery for several nearby villages. The old man seemed to be very experienced, and asked me if I had walked at night last night, and I had to tell the truth that I had taken the wrong road, and when I saw that the village was still lit up, I came.

The old man asked nervously, "You didn't eat their food, did you?" ”

I said no, I didn't dare to eat it. The old man nodded: "Fortunately, you didn't eat, in the first few years, there was a stunned boy from this village, in order to save a few yuan for the car, he had to walk home from the Yuhong District Government, but he met a ghost in the middle of the night and ate their things." Doesn't that make your brain bad? Still a fool. ”

I felt a chill down my back and thought to myself that I was glad I hadn't eaten anything last night. Following the old man, I came to the real Majiawa, there are many villagers in the village who want to drive a tricycle to buy vegetables in the city, and the old man's son is too, I hitchhiked and returned to the city. When I got home, my parents asked me where I had been last night, and I didn't say a word. I told me that a few classmates asked me to play mahjong overnight.

Lying on the bed, my head still ached, and my back muscles tightened, as if I was pressing against three mountains. After breakfast, I barely slept for a while, and when I was about to wake up, I couldn't get up. The door opened, and out of the corner of my eye, I could see my parents walking around the living room, and then an old man walked into my bedroom, and I was still wondering who this was, a guest at home?

The old man walked very slowly, stood still at the head of my bed, his eyes fixed on me, and his hands stretched out to touch my body. I was very angry, but my body couldn't move at all, the old man touched for a while, and slowly climbed into bed, saying that he was crawling, but in fact he should have floated on the bed, as if his body was full of air. I was so frightened that I tried to kick him down, but I couldn't move my foot despite the effort I put on it. I was so anxious that I yelled, and I couldn't speak. The old man smiled and floated in the air, his body straightened, and slowly pressed against me. I frantically tried to push him away, panting like a cow, the old man's body pressed against me, extremely heavy, I felt like I was going to suffocate, my consciousness began to blur, and a voice came from my ear: "What others can't see, can you ...... You've seen it all, right? I've seen them all......"

I screamed and sat up from the bed, and my dad was bringing a plate of grapes to me into the house, when his hands shook and the plate shattered at my shouting. My mother hurriedly ran over and asked, I was sweating and panting, and it took me a long time to recover, and I said that I had a nightmare. After about half an hour, the symptoms of panic slowly disappeared, but my brain felt like a mess, and it was indescribably uncomfortable.