Chapter 1: Trickery in the Water 1
My name is Liu Shugui, and I am a child who grew up in the countryside. Most people know that children from rural families. In order to provide for their children, adults mostly take this rustic-sounding name. For example, what two dogs, dog babies and the like.
Although I grew up in a rural area, I grew up listening to stories about ghosts and gods told by the adults in the village, but since I was in school, modern education has taught me that the protagonists of the stories in the mouths of adults are all deceiving children and are fictional. Over time, as I grew up, I no longer believed in ghosts and gods, I only believed in science, even though there were still many things in the world that science could not explain.
It wasn't until I graduated from high school and stepped into social work. A fortuitous incident completely upended my twenty years of understanding.
It was the beginning of the 21st century, when various cities in the country had just embarked on the road of rapid economic construction, and I had just graduated from high school, and I easily found a good job in a small and medium-sized city with a salary of about 600 yuan -- a factory purchaser. No way, who would let the migrant workers with their high school diplomas be popular. Unlike now, college students can only struggle at the bottom, receiving meager salaries, nibbling on steamed buns, and eating pickles.
As a buyer, you have to be busy outside at all times instead of staying at the assembly line in the factory.
I remember that it was three or four years when I was in the factory, and the factory once received a large order, which required large-scale production of materials, and the major material suppliers in the city have gone all over, but still cannot meet the production needs of the factory. Therefore, the leaders of the factory decided to send us buyers to the county or township and local dealers to purchase.
Xiao Ke and my old partner, Xiao Ke, who had been in the factory with me, were unfortunately sent to a township far away from the city, and it took four hours to reach the destination by car from the city alone, and there were several changes on the way.
The moment I got out of the car, Xiao Ke and I looked at each other. Although the remote township we were sent to was far away from the city, the environment was not bad, and it was on par with the suburbs. All the main roads are paved with concrete, perhaps because there is some history, or the construction people at that time were black-hearted, the roads are not so smooth, and there are potholes in some places, which cause bumps in the passing traffic. The houses on both sides of the road are generally made of fiery red bricks, and some families have tiled the exterior of the houses.
I found a random pedestrian and inquired about the location of the material dealer. Soon found the location of the dealer, and now he and Xiao Ke played the role of a purchaser, bargaining with the boss together, and finally the two sides finalized it at a satisfactory price.
Xiao Ke used the mobile phone equipped for the purchaser in the factory to report that the leader had successfully completed the task, and asked the factory to send a car to load the goods and pay by the way.
Standing on the sidelines, I was already impatient to ask my boss what was interesting in the area. Actually, I wasn't negligent in my duties, but it took hours to wait for the factory car to arrive. For such a long time, where can you let me stay in such a strong-blooded young man, how can I not have some fun? What's more, this is something I often do when I work with Xiao Ke, and it's no surprise anymore.
Didn't you see Xiao Ke hang up the phone and look at me, signaling that I could go!
Don't get me wrong, Xiao Ke and I are looking for women, although the salaries of the two of us are relatively high, but most of them are frugal, send the money home, let the parents save it, and build a house and marry a wife in the future. What's more, this was not the case at the time.
If we don't look for women, then what's so fun for us two young people? It's simple, young man! Where is the excitement, where to drill, anyway, just watch the excitement to pass the time. In the final analysis, the emerging industry of Internet cafes has not yet spread all over the country.
From the boss's mouth, I heard that today is the busiest day of the week in the township. Because they have one day a week in the local area, it happened that we caught up. Maybe people who grew up in the city don't have any concept of rushing to the polder, but Xiao Ke and I, who grew up in the countryside, both know what that means.
Sure enough, the polder day is the polder day, especially the towns and villages that have a polder in a week. Good guys, this excitement can be described as a sea of people. Locals in all kinds of costumes walked the streets in groups, each carrying a basket of vegetables or carrying a woven bag, which contained a variety of ingredients or daily necessities, and the vendors on both sides of the street used their own means of livelihood to try their best to attract customers to buy their things.
At this time, Xiao Ke and I were crowded around a small stall selling medicinal wine, and the stall owner was holding a live king cobra in his hand, constantly explaining to the people in front of the stall that his medicinal wine was made with a unique secret recipe and this poisonous snake, which could be used internally to aphrodisiac, and external application could cure rheumatism and bruises.
For this kind of miraculous medicinal wine, every rural person will know a little. After all, there must be people who use snakes to make medicinal wine in the range of their lives, but whether there is this effect is only known to those who have taken it, anyway, I don't believe it. If it is really so powerful, will there still be so many medical experts in China who are helpless against rheumatism?
I just wanted to move with Xiao Ke and rush to the next interesting stall. I heard an exclamation from the crowd in front of me, "Something happened at the bridge!" Then a group of people immediately spread their legs and rushed in the same direction.
It is estimated that the boss who sells medicine and wine is no longer surprised by this, and only heard him moan: "Alas, Qiaotou dies every year, and this year is the first one."
Xiao Ke and I glanced at each other, and then followed the crowd towards the dead man's bridge, this kind of excitement is not something that can be encountered.
Following the footsteps of the crowd, turning a few streets and bypassing a few alleys, soon, a river dozens of meters wide appeared in front of us.
At this moment, both sides of the riverbank are full of people, and in a conspicuous place on the riverbank, there is a pile of clothes, presumably the relics of the deceased. It seems that it's not just me and Xiao Ke who love to be lively.
I found a location closer to the shore and pricked up my ears to listen carefully to the discussions of passers-by next to me. After listening for about five minutes, I finally figured out what was going on here.
It turned out that there was a twelve-year-old boy here who hid from his family and resolutely went into the river to bathe despite the dissuasion of the angler on the shore, but unfortunately drowned.
Xiao Ke listened, muttered, and whispered in my ear: "Didn't you just take a bath and drown with cramps, why do you think it's a big deal!"
I nodded slightly, agreeing with Xiao Ke's words, after all, this kind of thing is often seen in the city. However, this is a township, and it probably doesn't happen a few times a year, so it's a big deal.
Maybe it was a little louder, and the passers-by on the side laughed contemptuously, and said in a provocative voice: "Give you ten dares, do you dare to bathe in the river in this weather and in this environment?" If it's not an evil spirit, how could such a thing happen?"
After passers-by mentioned this, Xiao Ke and I looked at the river intently, and couldn't help but gasp. Not to mention that the weather was quite cold at that time, Xiao Ke and I were both wearing autumn clothes and a uniform jacket from the factory. Let's just say that the river, perhaps because of the rain just a few days ago, the turbidity of the river is completely the same as that of the Yellow River, and the current is also quite turbulent, and from time to time you can see fierce waves appearing on the water surface and slapping the water hard, making a beast-like roar.
That's right, this kind of weather, this kind of conditions, in other words, I don't go down to the river to bathe. Looking at Xiao Ke again, I saw that he shook his head to show that he would not do it either.
Could it be that you really hit the evil spirit? This is the question in my mind at that time! Because this is a township, I don't dare to say that there is no such thing as an evil sect in this world. I had to continue to stop and watch with Xiao Ke to see what would happen next.
After waiting for a while, there was a sudden commotion among the crowd watching from the shore, and I saw a very ordinary rural woman, accompanied by several elderly people, walking to the embankment in a distraught, lowering herself and grabbing the clothes on the embankment, and crying loudly, it seemed that she should be the family of the deceased.
I only heard the lamentation of the onlookers: "Alas, what a pitiful! My husband just died here last year, and my son died this year! What a sin!"
Isn't that incredible? Husband also died here? Xiao Ke and I looked at each other in shock, Xiao Ke swallowed his saliva and whispered in my ear: "It's really a bit evil!"
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