Chapter 17: The River Drifter

"Three mountains, three rivers and two river basins, eight mountains, one water and one field." This sentence is to say that the topography of Lushi County, Henan Province, there are many mountains, forests, rivers, and streams, which is the main feature.

In the summer of 52, if Lushi County can only be described in one word, it was hot, and it was like a fire that day, and the water did not fall for several weeks, and it was scary to listen to. Some people will definitely say that the greenhouse gases in the past are as high as they are now. No matter how hot can there be heat now?

It is true that the poor ravine was not as industrialized as it is now, and it was certainly not as hot as it is now, but at that time, it was not encountered for decades. At that time, the tractors in the field were rare objects that belonged to the state, and if an individual could have a bicycle, it would be considered a good skill, and carrying a flashlight in his pocket was the treatment of county-level cadres.

Speaking of this, the grave team also has a flashlight, which was sent by Officer Liu before, saying that it can be used by the grave team when they work at night. What he said was strange, who went to dig the grave at night? It's taboo. But Director Liu didn't believe in evil, and he didn't let the grave team say anything superstitious, so it was all some words that people couldn't understand, and no one in the grave team took him seriously, and the flashlight was thrown there without being used once.

There is a river near the big granary where the grave team lives, and the river is usually quite wide and the water is not shallow, but it is said that the weather has been hot and dry recently, and there has been no rain for a long time, and many small streams have long dried up. The water level of the small river near the dormitory of the grave team has also dropped a lot, and the brothers can usually go there to tie a fierce son after their work and swim happily.

But that day, it was estimated that the hot people were confused, and the old erhu ran back from the grave slope, hurriedly took off his clothes and was about to go into the river to take a bath, and rub the ashes on his body. No one usually comes to this place, Hu Dabao thinks that no one is better to strip naked anyway, and it is strange and uncomfortable to go back with wet pants, but as soon as he took off his pants and threw them aside, he saw a little daughter-in-law with a wooden basin walking in the distance, and he could see Hu Dajian walking a few steps forward.

Recently, many of these streams have dried up, and the places where clothes were washed have either dried up into riverbeds or become small puddles. The women of each family had to walk far away to wash in the river where there was still water, and it happened that a little daughter-in-law in this village was going to wash her clothes, and she passed by the dormitory of the grave team, and she was about to bump into Hu Da Dang, who was undressed and exposed her bare buttocks.

This frightened Hu Dabao at the time, but the clothes were thrown away by him, and it was too late to pick them up, so he had to quickly find a place to hide. Looking left and right, the surrounding trees are thin, and the grass is not high, so he can't stop him at all, and at this time, he saw the small river on the side, and Hu Dafang didn't think much about it and plunged into the river.

As a result, he never expected that the water level of the river had dropped a lot and was only less than one meter deep, and Hu Dabo hit the stone at the bottom of the river headlong, and his head was broken at that time.

The little daughter-in-law walked by the river and saw Hu Da Arm floating on the water, she thought Hu Da Arm was a floating corpse, and she didn't dare to look at it with her bare buttocks, so she threw down the wooden basin and ran home in fright.

When the man of her family saw her mother-in-law hurrying back, he asked her, "What have you done to let the dog chase you?" The little daughter-in-law finally took a breath and said in a trembling voice: "It's okay to let the dog pick it up, the small river by the big granary has drowned people, and it can be scared to death if it is still floating." As soon as these words came out, her man reacted, and hurriedly went out and called a few people to go to the small river.

When I got to the place, I really found the floating corpse, but it was not Hu Dabei, but the corpses of two and a half children, eleven or twelve years old, one was wearing clothes, the other was bare-bottom, and the two children were lying face down in the water, the water was too shallow, and the two children were half-sunk in it and were hung by the branches at the bottom of the river, and were not carried away by the current.

At that time, several people saw this scene, and quickly went into the water to fish up the two children, but it was useless to rescue them, and they were already out of breath.

Then the little daughter-in-law and some villagers rushed over to see the excitement, and found that there were two half-sized corpses lying on the ground, and she felt strange. This matter is very strange, but she didn't say it, and she was afraid that no one would believe her if she said it, but when she said it, she would say that she was a woman who chewed her tongue.

said that this Hu Dabo jumped into the river to hide from the little daughter-in-law, but the river was too shallow and hit the stone at the bottom of the river and fainted, but fortunately he floated face up in the river for a while and woke up. Hu Dafang was a little confused at that time, he didn't see the little daughter-in-law just left, sat in the water and thought about it for a long time without remembering what was going on just now, only felt that the top of his head was swollen and touched it with his hand, it was a swollen bag.

Hu Da staggered up and walked to the shore, picked up the clothes on the ground, put on his body and covered his head indiscriminately and was about to go back to the dormitory to sleep, and he didn't take two steps before he saw that there was a wooden basin on the ground in front of him, and some clothes were scattered next to it. He saw the wooden basin and then remembered, he had just taken off the essence and saw a little daughter-in-law looking like a woman walking in his direction, in order to avoid her jumping into the river and hitting her head, this was really unlucky, and he didn't think much about why the little daughter-in-law threw the wooden basin here, and the head hit the stomach hurt and had a share of anger, so he kicked the wooden basin away, and left without looking back.

But at this turn, it was originally the place where Hu Dajiao knocked out and floated, but at this time, there were two floating corpses, fortunately Hu Dajiao didn't look back, otherwise he would have to be scared to go out of the water.

Stand-up comedy master Liu Baorui once said that this cross talk is called "Learning to Calling", and there is such a paragraph.

A said: Then how do ...... call the "river drifters"?

B said, "This ...... a "river drifter"? "River drifters" do not call!

A said, "Ah, call."

B said, "Calling?"

A said, "Calling."

B said, "Well, I haven't heard of that."

A said, "Call, call."

B said, "How do you call the river drifter?"

A said, "When you are not in the water, you cry out, "Save people!" Boom! ”

B said, "Ah! Then do you want to jump well, and find someone to save you when you jump!

Of course, in this paragraph, he is ridiculing this river drifter in a very witty way, and the river drifter is the name of Tianjin people, that is, floating corpses. Many rivers in Tianjin can drown many wild swimmers every year, and some people are drowned and float on the water surface and walk along the current, so they are also called river drifters.

As for why mention the river drifter? It has something to do with the two and a half children who drowned in the small river next to the dormitory of the grave team in 52, saying that Hu Dawei had also been in the water for a long time at that time, and it stands to reason that he should have found two floating corpses, but there was no other person or anything in the local river except him, and two floating corpses came out as soon as he turned around, which is strange and can't be explained. Besides, the river is very shallow, unless they are all like tigers like Hu Dafang, and they plunge into it and stun and choke to death, then it is impossible for two children to jump in together with one with clothes and one without clothes, right? It wasn't until later that this matter began to be rumored to be more evil because of the cracking of a major case.

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