Our current Eighth Route Army engineering diary records it like this:

'On the night of April 19th, Xu Shi probed, and there was a hidden stone room in the belly of the mountain...'

After reading this passage at that time, I thought that this 'Xu Shi' was not Master Xu, but the abbreviation of Engineer Xu. At that time, I was quite puzzled, because the conditions of the Eighth Route Army were difficult and the equipment was poor, and I didn't know what method the 'Xu Division' used to detect that there was a stone chamber in the belly of the mountain. Turning to the back page, I saw this sentence:

'Master Xu used the Yin and Yang Five Elements Technique to determine the direction, excavated all the way, and saw a room..."

It turned out that Engineer Xu did not use advanced equipment to detect the stone chamber, but relied on the 'Yin and Yang Five Elements Technique'.

According to the description of the stone chamber in the engineering diary, we found a secret door in the stone chamber. After pushing the door into another cave, we saw the remains of many Eighth Route Army engineers. In the pile of remains lay a small, broken compass. In the jacket pocket of the corpse next to the compass contained astrological charts and various engineering drawings. At that time, I thought that the remains were the 'Xu Shi' mentioned in the engineering diary.

However, the political commissar mentioned by the village elder of Gaojia Village in front of him is also surnamed Xu, judging from the fact that the political commissar Xu is looking for fish, he should know the art of yin and yang and the five elements. Could it be that the remains in the cave are not the 'Xu Shi' mentioned in the engineering diary, but the political commissar Xu? …

"What's wrong?" The village elder asked.

"Huh? It's okay. I came back to my senses, pointed to the old men sitting opposite me, and said to the village elders, "Could it be that these uncles are the other children who are now the political commissar Xu who fell at the door of your ancestral temple when they were playing with you back then?" ”

The village chief nodded, sighed and said, There are still a few of them, all of them are dead, and after so many years, our brothers are also old. A few old men sighed for a while.

"Uncle, what about after Commissar Xu led the villagers to dig up the fish? You go on...", I said.

It was getting dark, and the rain was getting heavier and heavier outside. There was no light in the room, and in the darkness, the dry smoke pot in the hands of several old men flickered on and off. Listening to the sound of the rain, our thoughts drifted out of the house with the curling smoke, drifting back to that era...

At that time, when the villagers saw so many fish under the riverbed of the Yellow River, they roared and screamed with joy. Under the command of the village chief, several villagers jumped down and grabbed them one by one. The number of fish is so large that it is up to everyone's imagination. Some hungry and crazy villagers don't have time to cook and barbecue, and when they get the fish, they can't wait to stuff it into their mouths and bite it alive.

Political Commissar Xu hurriedly stopped, "Bring the fish back and eat it again, don't eat it like this!" ”

However, the villagers did not listen to him. More and more people ate the live fish, and in the end, everyone, including the village chief and the villagers who were fishing for fish at the bottom of the cave, all held a struggling and wriggling fish, and tore and chewed it, as if suddenly they had suddenly turned into a group of beasts that drank blood. Political Commissar Xu's anxious tears fell, he said to the villagers, these fish are the descendants of the river god, blessed by the river god, they hide at the bottom of the river should not die, I am desperate to take you to dig them out to make food, you actually eat the descendants of the river god alive in this river, the river god will be angry when he knows it, and will punish Gaojia Village.

However, the eyes of those villagers who ate fish and ate them were red, and their left ears went in and out of their right ears when they said to Political Commissar Xu. The scene of eating live fish continued until the evening, and the villagers were holding their eyes straight one by one, and their clothes were stained red with fish blood. They fished out all the remaining fish from under the riverbed and brought them back to Gaojia Village to be salted and stored.

At first, those villagers were very frightened, but after a period of time, they were not punished by the river god as Commissar Xu said, so they didn't take it seriously. Some old people in the village think that they are blessed by the ancestors of the Gao family, and they don't dare to do anything to them at all.

But one day later, the villagers' illusions were finally shattered. It was about half a year after the incident of eating live fish, and a pregnant woman in the village had a difficult birth, giving birth for two days and two nights, and as a result, she gave birth to a freak. The boy was born dead, with two horn-like bumps on his head, frog-like webbing between his fingers, and layers of fish scales all over his body.

Fear spread in Gaojia Village, and the villagers remembered what Commissar Xu had said. Although Commissar Xu helped the villagers of Gaojia Village find fish to survive the famine, the villagers did not repay him with gratitude, but fear and rejection. Originally, in that era, the soldiers were like demons and monsters in the eyes of ordinary people, and it was easy to have a good impression of Commissar Xu, but this Commissar Xu could know that there were fish under the riverbed of the Yellow River, and the villagers passed it on by word of mouth, thinking that Commissar Xu must know witchcraft. Even with him, Gao Laozhuan and his daughter were also ostracized by the villagers, and the villagers hid away like ghosts when they saw them.

Since the incident of eating live fish, Political Commissar Xu has locked himself in his home, and no one knows what he is doing every day. According to several villagers who live in front of the village, they got up early in the morning and saw Commissar Xu coming out of the reeds in front of the village, like a ghost.

Gradually, the villagers seem to have forgotten that there is a person in the village, the political commissar Xu, and that the person who fought hard to take them to dig out fish to survive the famine. It wasn't until the pregnant woman gave birth to a freak that the villagers remembered Political Commissar Xu. Several villagers found the village chief and asked the village chief to find the political commissar Xu, saying that since the surnamed Xu knew 'witchcraft', if it was really the river god who punished Gaojia Village, maybe he could help Gaojia Village drive away the disaster.

The village chief didn't dare to go by himself, so he took the villagers with him. When they came to Gao Lao's house, everyone was stunned in shock, and the timid even screamed in fright. What did they see? They saw that the courtyard and house of Gao Lao's house were full of paper figurines that had been tied!

The village chief mustered up the courage to enter the house and told Political Commissar Xu who was making a paper figure with reeds. When Commissar Xu raised his head, the village chief saw that this person was full of exhaustion, the corners of his eyes were full of wrinkles, and he seemed to be more than ten years older than before. Political Commissar Xu pinched his fingers and calculated, and told the village chief that he would send someone to pull all these paper figures to the embankment of the Yellow River in three days, and at that time, he would cast a spell to sacrifice to the river god and pray for the river god to forgive Gaojia Village.

That day, the village chief sent four or five rickshaws, and it took more than a dozen trips from morning to night to pull all the paper figures up the Yellow River embankment. At that time, water was already coming from the Yellow River, the turbid water was roaring, and a strong wind was blowing on the embankment. They tied the paper figures together one by one, so that they were not blown away by the river wind. As for what happened that night, no one in the village knew about it, because no one dared to go over and see it.

Early the next morning, Commissar Xu returned to the village and told the village chief that he had communicated with the river god, and that the river god had promised him to spare the descendants of Gaojia Village. As for those paper figures, they were all sacrificed to the river god in place of the descendants of the villagers of Gaojia Village. Some of the brave villagers ran to the embankment to look, and now the paper figures were gone. On the second day of Commissar Xu's sacrifice to the river god, a villager spread a rumor that he had a dream in which he saw the river god, and the river god told him that it would not take revenge on the descendants of Gaojia Village, but there was actually an additional condition, that is, Commissar Xu would give his two children to him at that time.

Rumors spread quickly in the village, and coincidentally, it didn't take long for Political Commissar Xu's wife, that is, Gao Laoshuo's daughter, to become pregnant. Most of the people in the village believed the rumor, for fear that Commissar Xu would run away with his wife, and if Commissar Xu's child was born and not sacrificed to the river god, what if the river god turned his face and took revenge on the descendants of the villagers of Gaojia Village? The villagers organized themselves and took turns guarding Commissar Xu's family until the child was born. Coincidentally, it was a pair of twins, two boys, fleshy and very cute. As a result, the villagers believed the rumor. Amazingly, the two children seemed to know their fate, and they opened their eyes not long after they were born, and the four round eyes like black grapes revealed an incomparably pure eyes that had not been infected by this filthy society at all, looking at this strange world that they were about to leave.

Those villagers were like enchanted people, ignoring the fainting Gao Laozhuan and the crying political commissar Xu and his wife, snatched the two children and went out. At that time, it was raining heavily, and from time to time lightning split the clouds, thunder helped the water, and the Yellow River was like a galloping and roaring dragon. The villagers went up to the embankment, shouted in unison, and threw the two children into the boiling water...

It didn't take long for Gao Lao Bolt to die. Political Commissar Xu was stimulated and had mental problems, sometimes sober, sometimes crazy. His wife washed her face with tears all day long, and the family ate the last meal but did not eat the next. Maybe God took pity on the couple, but the next day, Political Commissar Xu's wife became pregnant again, and gave birth to a boy the next year. Fortunately, those villagers did not throw Gao Laosan to sacrifice to the river god. Due to his weak health, Political Commissar Xu's wife died a few days after giving birth to the child. The birth of the child made Political Commissar Xu rekindle hope for life, and he did not do anything crazy, and he became a father and a mother every day, and the child grew up day by day.

However, as a foreign surname, coupled with a person who was once crazy, Political Commissar Xu has become an outlier in the eyes of the villagers. He and his children were ostracized and bullied at every turn, and eventually the villagers drove them out of the village and moved to the river beach...

The village elder stopped at this point, and there was silence in the room.

"Uncle, can I say a word?"

"What?" The village elder asked.

"Those villagers of your Gaojia Village, those of your ancestors..."I paused, and coldly spit out four words, "They are all brutes." ”

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