The scream was very miserable, and before the scream ended, I vaguely saw a patch of blood pouring out of the ground in the middle of the crowd, and the people around me avoided it, so they quickly pulled their feet to hide. In the flickering figures, I suddenly saw that in the middle of the crowd, there was an old well, and three or four sturdy young men were dragging ropes and pulling out a mass of blood-red things from under the well.

"Huh!" Xiao Jiuhong felt disgusted when she saw the blood-red thing, and she didn't want to look at it squarely.

The blood-red thing was indeed a little seeping, and after being pulled out of the old well, it was still dripping with blood, and after three or four sturdy young men pulled it up, they immediately hurriedly wrapped it in a quilt, and ran all the way to the nearby village. The onlookers around had different expressions, some regretful, some angry, some frightened, and after the mass was wrapped and taken away, seven or eight people followed along the way. The rest spit around the old well and scolded repeatedly.

"Shall we go and have a look?" Xiao Jiuhong was a little scared, but she was curious, and she couldn't help but want to get into the crowd, I quickly grabbed her, and now I don't know what happened, so I rushed over, I'm afraid it's not appropriate.

Those people were very angry, at this time, from the village not far away, a few strong villagers ran over, all carrying knives in their hands, and the two leaders were stunned young people, when they rushed to the old well, without saying a word, rolled up their sleeves and were about to go down the well. The people next to him scolded and scolded, but as soon as they saw that someone was going to go down the well, they immediately tried their best to stop them.

"So many years! I have to see it today! What the hell is down there! "A young man with a knife was very angry, and he was hugged by four or five people, and he still dared to jump into the well.

"What are you fighting with this well! Don't go any further! There aren't enough people who die! An old man stood in front of him and persuaded: "This is all done by the old Hu family, be obedient and put away the knife." ”

A group of people were talking about it, and the four or five young men put away their knives hatefully, and looked towards the east with their eyebrows raised. Listening to their conversation, and following the gazes of a few people, I think what they are talking about should be the old knife's house, not far east from here, is the house of the Hu family in Huangshachang in the past.

It was my first time in Huangshachang, and I was not familiar with it, but as soon as I arrived here, I vaguely felt that the Hu family's reputation in the local area did not seem to be very good, and those nearby villages gritted their teeth and hated it.

The crowd surrounded the old well and refused to disperse for a long time. Xiao Jiuhong stretched her neck to look, she always felt that it was not enjoyable, she had to go over, Maitreya didn't talk much, so she stopped Xiao Jiuhong at this time and said, "Don't go over yet." ”

"I'll just take a look, see what's going on?"

"You don't know what they just fished out of the well?" Maitreya lowered his voice and said, "That's a person! ”

"Whatever!" Xiao Jiuhong couldn't help but shudder, pouting and saying, "It's such a mess"

If Maitreya doesn't say it, I don't want to think about those disgusting places. But now that I think back to the mass of "things" that I was wrapped in a quilt and taken away just now, I should really be a person, but there is no one anymore. Thinking about such a well-behaved person, suddenly turning into a bloody mess, my scalp couldn't help but tighten.

"If something happens to someone else, you have to go over to join in the fun, and you won't lose anything if you are beaten." Maitreya persuaded Xiao Jiuhong and continued to look over there.

As soon as Maitreya said this, Xiao Jiuhong was really scared, and she didn't dare to talk about the past to join in the fun. The group of people surrounded the old well for a long time and refused to disperse, the Yellow River water could not be drunk directly, especially the people who lived by the river, knowing that there was everything in the river, even if the river water was precipitated and disinfected by soil methods, but it was boiled and drunk, and they were going to have diarrhea. Therefore, water is usually drawn from wells, and sometimes two or three neighboring villages share the same well, and the well is very precious.

We were new to the city, and we didn't want to cause unnecessary trouble, so we wanted to wait for the group to leave, and then quietly go over and have a look. I didn't expect the other party to be able to survive better than us, and the people around the well had not left, and a few old ladies with small feet ran from the village not far away, sitting cross-legged by the well, scolding with their faces to the east, and tossing for several hours, until the smoke of cooking in the village began to have dinner, and everyone left in a huff.

The old well was suddenly empty, Xiao Jiuhong pushed me, and said, "Can you go and see it now?" ”

"Yes." I nodded, so many villagers gathered around the old well all afternoon, indicating that at least the well was safe. At that time, there was almost no electricity on the river beach, and after dinner, the people in the village hardly left the village again, so we waited a little longer before walking towards the old well.

But before we could reach the well, Maitreya grabbed us at once, and then the cat lowered himself and said to us, "Wait first! ”

I immediately squatted down, only Xiao Jiuhong was still stunned and stretched her neck to look ahead, and I pulled her back. In fact, when Maitreya spoke, I had already seen a thing slowly swaying from that side, something less than a meter high, but it seemed to have long legs, slowly moving on the ground, coming towards us.

The three of us squatted in place and didn't dare to move, Xiao Jiuhong muttered in a low voice, "What is that?" ”

"It's a person." Maitreya turned around and said, "Don't talk nonsense yet. ”

When I looked up, goosebumps were popping up on my body. The thing, which was less than a meter high, got closer and closer, and sure enough, as Maitreya said, it was a "person".

His two legs were broken at the root, his right arm was broken, but the arm of the rat was still intact, and a piece of felt cloth was placed under half of his body, and he supported the ground with his left hand, moving a little. The man was blind in one eye, his ears looked like they had been gnawed by something, his teeth were uneven, and there was no hair on the front half of his head, only a small patch growing at the back of his head. When I got closer, I saw a very visible scar on his upper forehead, as if the skull had been opened.

Is this still a person? When I looked at it, I felt my heart pounding, and I couldn't imagine how this person had managed to survive.

"Is this a person? How can this be personal! Xiao Jiuhong endured it again and again, and finally couldn't help it, pinched my arm hard, as if the root of the tooth was itching to death, gritted his teeth and whispered: "How can this be a person!?" ”

This "person" who is not like a person is obviously alive, little by little moved to the well, his eyes are very dull, in fact, at this time we want to hide and can't dodge, but the other party turned a blind eye, half of the body stood straight on the edge of the well, stretched out his left hand, grabbed the fine gravel from the ground, while shouting something indistinctly, while slowly throwing the gravel into the old well.

"You pit me, I pit you, you pit me, I pit you" The man shouted for a while, and his voice was lower, but it became clearer that his only remaining left hand also had two fingers broken, and he slowly but stubbornly grabbed the sand with the remaining three fingers, and kept throwing it into the old well.

Looking at this strange person, our desire to look around the old well suddenly vanished, and Maitreya observed for a while, and quietly took us back for a while. He thought for a moment and said, "Do you see something?" ”

"The man is probably a fool." I could see that the "man" who did not look like a human being, his gaze was similar to that of Jinbao's daughter-in-law, slow and sluggish, without a trace of spirituality.

"I guess he's going down this well." Maitreya said: "Although I survived, I have a grudge against this well. ”

As I said this, I suddenly felt that the man kept slowly grasping at the gravel and dirt chips, trying to fill in the old well. No one knows what happened to him, but his brain is stupid, and those resentments are still in his heart. As you can imagine, the impact of this well on him is too great.

What does an old well have to do with the Hu family in Huangshachang? When I listened to the words of the red lady, I faintly realized that the Hu family in Huangshachang must be hiding some secrets, and sure enough, as soon as I arrived here, I encountered such a thing.

The man kept muttering in a low voice, and kept sprinkling dirt into the well, anyway, it made people panic when they saw this action in the middle of the night. The three of us were guarding not far away, and after staying up for a long time, Xiao Jiuhong actually fell asleep, and I also felt my eyelids sinking, Maitreya said: "Don't take risks tonight, you sleep for a while, I'll stay up." ”

Sleeping outside is always not as solid as in bed, I haven't slept all night, and I wake up from dreams. In the drowsy dream, I suddenly saw the old ghost, he was walking on a road that seemed to have no end, scarred, covered with blood, the back made me can't help but feel extremely sad, my heart was anxious, and I immediately woke up from the dream.

Before the day was fully dawn, the chickens in the village had already begun to crow, and when I opened my eyes, I saw that the half-cut man had probably been sitting by the well all night, and only then did he slowly hold the ground with his left hand and move slowly towards the village not far away. Finally boiled him away, I woke up Xiao Jiuhong, and the three of them ran to the old well with a smoke.

It looks like it's an ordinary old well, it's been a long time, but it's dry and there is no water. Standing by the well and looking down, you can't see anything, you can't hear anything.

"This well doesn't look strange." Xiao Jiuhong touched her cheeks and thought about it, and said, "Fatty, why don't you go down and have a look?" ”

As he spoke, a group of people came over from the village, and the three of us were standing by the well, probably seen by the other party, and it was not good to avoid it in a hurry at this time, anyway, Naxi is an ordinary village person, and there is nothing to be afraid of.

After a while, the group of people approached, and I saw at a glance that the three or four young men who were holding knives and trying to fight with Lao Jing yesterday were also there, and the group of people was violent, as if they were in a hurry to fight with others.

"Who are you and what are you doing here?" A young man at the head of the group had a scruffy beard and looked a little fierce, and when he saw the three of us surrounding the old well, he asked angrily.

"We are from Huaixi Building, we want to take advantage of the two pieces of the day to hurry, and the water we brought is finished drinking, passing by here, we are very thirsty, and we want to get saliva to drink." I hurriedly spoke to the other party in the local dialect, and when the villagers heard my words, their expressions softened.

"Don't mess around, there's no water in this well." An old man in his fifties handed over a bottle of warm water and said, "Just filled with warm water, drink two sips." ”

"Uncle." I thanked him, took the water bottle, and said, "Isn't this well good?" How can there be no water? This month, the well water won't dry. ”

"Hmph." The young man at the head looked at the east and snorted coldly, "If a few people don't die, there will be no water in this well!" ”