Chapter 18: The Wonders of the Birch Grove

Li Bai was woken up by the mobile phone alarm clock, stretched on the bed, and looked over to the big bed, Lei Baoquan was not there, it was rare to get up earlier than the alarm clock!

"Uncle Lei!" Li Bai shouted.

No one agreed. Li Bai sat up, wondering in his heart, where did Lei Baoquan go this early in the morning? Just thinking about it, the door opened, and Lei Baoquan walked in with a smile, followed by Uncle Li and Jin Guo.

"Awake?" Lei Baoquan said, holding the breakfast for Li Bai in his hand.

"What are you?" Li Bai was puzzled.

Jin Guo sat on the sofa with Uncle Li and said, "Uncle Li got up early and asked us to go out for a walk, but Uncle Lei said that it was rare for you to sleep so steadily, so he didn't call you." ”

"Oh, I'm still wondering if Uncle Lei usually wakes up much later than me." Lei Baoquan scratched his head and said.

"Hurry up and eat, finish your work." Lei Baoquan said while changing clothes.

Uncle Li looked at the three of them with a smile and said, "You said how good it is for you three strong boys to work together and take care of each other, I think of when I was young, I did white things for others, and everyone from all over the country looked for me, how could anyone want to learn this at that time?" I run back and forth alone, sometimes at night. ”

"Uncle Li, did you encounter anything strange when you were on the night road before?" Li Bai said while eating.

Jin Guo also became interested and said, "Yes, Uncle Li, when I was a child, I only heard you talk about some strange things in the town, but I haven't heard of anything in other places?" ”

Uncle Li saw that everyone was interested, so he asked, "Is it too late?" ”

Lei Baoquan looked at his watch and said, "We drive by ourselves, it doesn't matter." ”

Seeing that everyone was enthusiastic, Uncle Li did not shirk it, straightened his hair and began to say: "If you want to talk about strange things, there are still a lot of things, so I'll tell you about a time when I was on a night road." At that time, I had just turned forty years old, and my wife had just given birth to my second child, and I wanted to take good care of it at home, but who would have thought that someone in Deyuan Village asked my friend to ask me to do a white thing for the old man who had just passed away in his family. At that time, the traffic was not like the buses that there are now, it was all horse-drawn carts and two-legged vehicles. At that time, I made some money doing white work for others, bought a bicycle, and rode my bicycle to that village. ”

Li Bai didn't forget to ask questions while eating: "Where is this Deyuan Village?" ”

Lei Baoquan replied beside him: "It seems to be quite far from Jigang Town, right?" Anyway, it's quite far from Yungang City, and it takes two hours to drive. ”

Uncle Li nodded and said, "At that time, I had to walk for most of the day on a bicycle, and I was originally given a three-wheeled motorcycle to take me, but I like to go alone, so I didn't agree, and I rode a bicycle to the village overnight." ”

"Why don't you go during the day, but at night?" Li Bai was puzzled.

"I have to hurry up to do white things, and when the family notified me, it was already a little late, and I had to go back in a hurry." Uncle Li explained.

The three of them let out an "oh" and continued to listen to Uncle Li.

"Don't say it, it's very exciting to ride a bicycle at night, the wind is blowing, and that night is still a big moon day, and the light is like daytime, so I will ride the bike humming a little song all the way. Why are you humming a little song? Because riding alone on a small road in the wilderness in the middle of the night is also quite terrifying, and I hum the Bodhisattva song that my grandfather taught me when I was a child, which is said to have the effect of driving away evil spirits. Uncle Li talked for a long time, his mouth was dry, and he asked Lei Baoquan to pour a glass of water and moisten his throat.

"Did this song exorcise evil spirits?" Li Bai asked.

"Haha, not only did I not exorcise evil spirits, but I also hit evil spirits." Uncle Li smiled and said, "At that time, I passed by a birch forest, you know the birch forest, right? It may be rare now, but at that time it was very high, and when the wind blew at night, the leaves rustled, and it sounded eerie. Halfway through the ride, I heard movement in the birch forest, and I was not very timid at the time, and I had seen everything before, so I stopped to find out what it was. After listening to it for a long time, it seems that a woman is crying, crying miserably, babbling, the voice is not loud, and it is creepy. Uncle Li spoke eloquently, and the three people around him listened as if they were there, and they couldn't help but get nervous.

I followed the sound and looked into the woods, and under a tree not far away, there was a person squatting, and she was crying. At that time, I hesitated, but after all, we are in this business, how can we say that we are afraid of hell? Besides, if the daughter of a family comes out and gets lost, don't we have to help too? So, I pulled my bike to the side and walked that way. As she got closer and closer, her voice became clearer and clearer, and the girl was not only crying, but also muttering something in a low voice. I walked up to me and asked what are you doing, why are you crying here in the middle of the night? Then the girl suddenly stopped crying, and slowly turned her head around, and guess what? ”

The three people who were a little trembling when they heard Uncle Li ask, and thought at the same time: "Why do storytellers like to ask such a question?" Do you want to interact with the audience? ”

Li Bai shook his head: "Uncle Li, we can't guess, you better say it yourself." ”

Uncle Li picked up the cup and took another sip of water, and continued: "She turned around, I looked at it like this, drink!" This woman's face was pale and bloodless, her eyes were red, and her tongue was so long! Uncle Li said and stretched out his arms to measure.

The three of them gasped and said, "What about after that?" ”

"It scared me out at the time, but we just have an aura that is not chaotic, and our first reaction is not to run, but to find my small mirror from my bag." Uncle Li took out a small mirror from his satchel, the mirror is not big, and it can be held with one hand.

"I took the mirror and looked at it like this, and the girl was gone!" Uncle Li said with some pride.

"Wow! Look in the mirror! Li Bai exclaimed.

"What kind of demon mirror, this mirror reflects the moonlight, originally the moonlight is useless, it is reflected by the mirror like this, shining on them, and treating yin with yin, it still has an effect." Uncle Li said with a smile.

"And then?" Jin Guo asked.

"Then I was just about to turn around and leave, my eyes saw something hanging on a tree not far away, I was too curious, I walked over and looked, it was this girl just now, her body was hanging on the tree, hanged, the eyes of the boss, are congested." Uncle Li said.

"It's so miserable, what the hell is going on?" Lei Baoquan said.

"I didn't care about it at the time, so I rode away. Later, when I went home, I heard that there was a little girl in a village who was missing, and she was found hanging in the birch forest. The reason is that it seems to be an arranged marriage at home, but she herself disagreed, was beaten by her family, ran out, and looked for a short time. Uncle Li shook his head and sighed.

"Is this the soul that belongs to the wronged?" Li Bai asked.

"Yes, there is still this kind of resentment, but it is not as big as the kind of resentment that was killed. So I just took a light shot and it ran away. Uncle Li explained.

"I guess if it were me, I would negotiate with it and try to protect myself." Li Bai said.

"Come on, if it's you, turn around and run, it's impossible to even look at it!" Lei Baoquan still knows Li Bai well.

"Okay, okay, after eating, let's go, go early and return early, and we have to take the bus at night." Jin Guo said.

The four of them packed up, brought the axes and saw knives, and Lei Baoquan drove the car and took the three people to Liangyuan Mountain. Parking the car on the side of the road, the four of them followed the road that night and walked towards the other side of the mountain.

Not far away, Li Bai saw the tree on the grave, pointed over there and shouted, "That's it." ”

Uncle Li looked at it, looked at the surrounding environment again, sighed and said: "These unfilial descendants, burying the old man here, no one has taken care of it for so many years, I guess his family has not received any good rewards now." ”

"What's the point here?" Li Bai asked.

"This burial is not better than the current cremation, you have to pay attention to a feng shui direction, this place is exhausted, the old man is buried here alone, and there is a tree growing in the tomb, do you think he can be better? He's not happy, can he make his children and grandchildren feel better? ”

The three of them nodded when they heard this, and felt that it made sense.

Uncle Li said: "Therefore, filial piety to the elderly, whether in life or after death, must be consistent." ”