The next day, near noon, Li Bing and his party of five drove to Xiangyang Village again.

After they parked the car, they walked along the mountain village path for a long time before they came to the entrance of the village.

An old man in his sixties greeted him and asked with a smile: "How many of you, are you big reporters from the provincial capital?" ”

Li Bing asked politely, "Uncle, who are you?" How do you know how many of us? ”

The old man smiled heartily: "I am Wang Dafu, the village chief of Xiangyang Village, and you met my wife yesterday, who is the Aunt Zhou you have seen." ”

Li Bing hurriedly said enthusiastically: "It turned out to be Uncle Wang, we came to Xiangyang Village to experience life, you are always the village head, and you have to rely on you to take care of us more!" By the way, what about Aunt Zhou, why didn't she come, but asked Uncle Wang to wait for us here? ”

Wang Dafu said happily: "I heard that a few of you are big reporters from the provincial capital, and you have come to our poor ravine to experience life, not to mention how happy we are in the village." Your aunt, I'm cooking good food at home to entertain you. She was afraid that you would not recognize my home, so she specially asked me to wait for you at the entrance of the village. ”

Li Bing and the others hurriedly thanked him, and happily followed Wang Dafu into the village.

Although this is only a two-storey typical rural building, which looks so simple, Li Bing and others can't help but be surprised that this house covers such a large area, and they are very envious of the advantage of few people and large land in the mountain village.

Before entering the door, Wang Dafu shouted: "Old woman, the reporters from the provincial city are here, are you ready?" ”

As soon as the words fell, I saw Aunt Zhou wearing an apron, and her two hands stained with greasy and soot were wiping on the apron on the ground, and she walked out of the back room with neat steps.

She smiled and said, "Oh, I've finally waited for you." Tired and hungry along the way, right? Make them a cup of tea, old man, and I'll serve the food. ”

Aunt Zhou turned around and happily entered the kitchen, and after a while, she walked out with a large pot of fragrant goose meat.

Zhao Wan'er sniffed the aroma and cheered: "Aunt Zhou, this dish you cooked is so fragrant, it's about to kill me!"

Aunt Zhou said with a smile: "People in the mountains, there is nothing to entertain your distinguished guests. It's just a free-range goose, and the old man wants to eat it, and I've been reluctant to do so. A few of you distinguished guests are coming today, and I will tell the old man to slaughter the goose early in the morning. No, I've been stewing all morning, and it's just out of the pot, and it's hot. You're hungry too, so eat quickly! ”

Aunt Zhou brought out a few more side dishes in the mountains, and Wang Dafu took out two bottles of two pots and warmly beckoned everyone to take a seat.

took a sip of wine, which made Li Bing burst into tears and amused everyone.

After drinking for a while, Shi Liya picked up her wine glass, saluted Wang Dafu and Aunt Zhou, and said: "Uncle Wang, Aunt Zhou, a few of us, we are going to live here for ten days and a half months, and we have to trouble you to arrange two rooms for us." ”

Aunt Zhou smiled and said, "Child, don't worry about the house, I have already discussed it with the old man." No, our house is big, and our only son works outside. I'll clean a few rooms after I've eaten, and you'll live here!" ”

Shi Liya smiled and said, "Thank you for the kindness of uncle and aunt, I want to ask, is the house where Wenyuan and Qu Lili lived when they were in the queue still there?" ”

When Aunt Zhou heard this, a trace of sadness crossed her face, and she sighed: "Yes!" Since one of them committed suicide and the other left here, no one has lived in that house again. It is said that some people in the village heard the cries of women inside, and others saw sparks coming out of the chimney of the house after they died and disappeared. It was scary, so no one lived in that house anymore, and even the people in our village did not dare to approach it. ”

Shi Liya was overjoyed: "Aunt Zhou, then we won't live in your house." We're going to live in the same house they used to live in! ”

Aunt Zhou was taken aback, and Wang Dafu also shook his hand holding the wine glass.

Aunt Zhou said in surprise: "Child, are you all right?" It's a haunted house, and no one else dares to approach it during the day, and you even want to live in it with a whimsical mind. No, I can't let you take such risks. ”

Shi Liya hurriedly said: "Uncle, aunt, you listen to me." A few of us came to the newspaper to collect the style, describing the life of the educated youth in those special years. We lived in the same house where they lived, which was more conducive to inspiring our creations. What's more, we are journalists, and of course we are not allowed to believe in ghosts and gods. We don't believe in this evil, and if we live in it for ten days and a half months, after that, the people in the village will naturally not be afraid of this so-called haunted house again. ”

Wang Dafu looked at them with concern, looking worried and swollen, he always disagreed with Shi Liya and the others to live in that haunted mansion, and insisted that they live in his own house.

The two sides were at a stalemate for a while, and Aunt Zhou sighed and said, "Old man, forget it, just fulfill their wishes, let them live there." These two beautiful girls, with their stubborn personalities, are really like Wenyuan and Qu Lili back then. ”

Seeing that Aunt Zhou also said the same, Wang Dafu nodded helplessly and said, "Okay, a few of you will live there." No one has lived there for decades, and I don't know what the mess has become. After eating, we went and cleaned the house. ”

The crowd was happy and thanked them repeatedly. After a while, he was full of wine and food. Uncle Wang brought a few pieces of furniture from the mountain village, and led everyone to walk towards the recess of the hill.

After walking for more than ten minutes on the mountain road, Wang Dafu pointed to a two-bay bungalow hidden in the recess of the hill and said: "The house in front is of course where they lived. The house is not very large, but it has three rooms and a kitchen. ”

A few people hurried to the house, and a row of weeds half a man high blocked their way. Several people looked at each other, but saw that Wang Dafu had already put down the farm tools he was carrying, took out a machete, and began to cut at the tall and dense weeds.

After a while, Wang Dafu had already carved out a grass path more than one meter wide and came to the door of the house.

Looking at the gate with a rusty iron lock, Wang Dafu knocked lightly with a machete, and the iron lock suddenly scattered a lot of iron and quietly fell to the ground.

Everyone walked into the house and was pleasantly surprised to find that the inside of the house was different from the outside, and there were almost no weeds.

Several people looked at it, imagining the hardships of life when the educated youth joined the queue. There were no signs of wires passing through the room, there were no wooden beds, and in each room, only earth pits were prepared.

Everyone worked together, and after two or three hours, the haunted house was tidied up.

There were only three rooms with earthen pits, and Wang Dafu looked solemn and said, "You men, just live in the middle room, the one on the left, and the two girls live." As for the room on the right hand, you must not go in, it is very evil, Wen Yuan committed suicide back then, and he died in this pit. ”