When the village elder said this, there was silence in the room. Under the kerosene lamp, the old men drooped their heads one by one, as if they were repenting of the mistakes of their ancestors. The way they looked made me lose the urge to scold, I just felt mixed in my heart.

I sighed, snapped my fingers, and said to the old man, "From 1966 to the present... It's been 39 years, why are you so sure that it was Political Commissar Xu who scared Gao Xiaowen to death? ”

The old man took two puffs of his cigarette, "Because, after the political commissar Xu jumped into the river, the village chief died the next day." ”

"Dead?"

"Well, I was scared to death, I died like that, it's almost the same as who Gao Xiaowen died..."

The old man said that at that time, the village was very panicked for a while, thinking that the political commissar Xu had become a water ghost after jumping into the river, and the village chief was scared to death by him climbing up from the river and returning to the village. During that time, the villagers did not dare to stay at home at night, so they all gathered in the compound of the village branch and lit a fire for the night. After a while, the village was peaceful, no more people died, nothing strange happened, and it was gone.

The village chief who died was not a good person in the first place, he even sent someone to open the grave of his ancestor, in view of the social situation at that time, the villagers did not dare to say anything on the surface, but in fact, most of the people gritted their teeth with hatred for him in their hearts. Reminiscent of the famine in those years, the village chief told Commissar Xu that he was willing to 'repay with death' and bear all the faults that the villagers had put on Commissar Xu's family. Therefore, the villagers generally believe that the village chief has 'fulfilled' his promise, and since Commissar Xu has 'taken him away', he will no longer retaliate against the rest of Gaojia Village.

After so many years, there has really been no accident in the village. After the reform and opening up, Gaojia Village was restored to its former state, and the villagers silently guarded their ancestral tombs and lived a life without fighting with the world. Regarding the past of Political Commissar Xu, people who personally participated in it back then, or who knew the inside story, such as the old men in front of me, usually never mentioned it. Therefore, these young people in the village do not know about this past. As for Gao Laosan, the son of Political Commissar Xu, he later married a fisherman's daughter from the upper reaches of the Yellow River, and the next year he had a son, Gao Dashang, and the family continued to live in the old stone house on the Yellow River beach. More than 10 years ago, Gao Laosan's wife died of illness, because the family conditions were not good, and his son was tall and middle-aged and could not marry a daughter-in-law, and it was easy to marry a mentally retarded girl in the spring of this year, but the girl fell into the Yellow River and drowned, and the body was not buried for a few days and was stolen... The life of this family is really bitter. If it is said that those young people in the village look down on the two fathers and sons, think that they are outsiders and reject them, then these old men in front of them feel guilty about the father and son, or rather, because of the matter of Political Commissar Xu back then, they dare not face them...

"Since I feel guilty, I should compensate them, because I don't dare to face it, so I let the father and son live on the river beach and blow the river breeze, and live a hungry and full life, which is really a bit undesirable." I said coldly.

Several old men didn't talk, silently smoking dry cigarettes, and the rain outside was still 'fluttering and plopping'.

Suddenly, a voice came from afar.

"Here they are." After the village chief finished speaking, he pinned the cigarette pouch and pot to his waist and walked towards the door.

We also got up and followed the old man, and after a while, a group of villagers, some carrying sticks and some shovels, came to the compound of the village branch. These people were told by the village elders to gather in the evening to patrol the night after the grave was completed in the afternoon. The villagers drank a bowl of hot water and smoked a cigarette in the village branch, and then went out to patrol the night.

"Ah Leng." Miss Bai nudged me gently.

"Huh?"

"Since there are so many people patrolling the village at night, there shouldn't be anything wrong tonight, should we go to find Uncle Yang again?" Miss Bai asked in a low voice.

I thought about it, sighed, and said, "If only there was a boat, we could go to the other side and look for it." ”

"We have a boat in our village." The village elder said.

"Oh?"

"Follow me."

Braving the rain, we followed the village chief to a dilapidated house with no courtyard walls. The old man twisted the wire on the door and pushed it open. As soon as the flashlight shone, I saw that the house was full of sundries, old kettles, rotten baskets, broken jars, everything, and there was a strange smell of unpleasantness. Next to the pile of debris stood an old ship against the wall, it was a small wooden boat, which had not been used for many years, with cobwebs in the cabin and many gaps in the bottom. The old man told us that his grandfather was a fisherman back then, but because there were fewer and fewer fish in the river in this area of Gaojia Village, he stopped fishing, and the boat was left idle until now.

I swallowed, you know, this old man is over 70 years old, his grandfather used the boat when he was fishing, so how old is this boat? I stretched out my hand and knocked on it, the board of the boat is quite strong, it is not the flood season of the Yellow River, the waterway is very gentle, if you fill the gap in the bottom of the boat, it should be able to be used. I said in my heart that there is no ferry in this area, and I can't hire a boat, so in order to find Yang Shujun, I can only settle for it.

The old man said that he could leave the matter of repairing the boat to him, and let us go back to the village branch to rest, and the boat would be ready for use early tomorrow morning.

"The attitude of the village elder towards us has changed so quickly, just like two people before and after." Walking on the road, Miss Bai said.

"Of course." I snorted, "Their village is 'haunted', and now he has asked me to help them exorcise ghosts, how can he still have the same attitude as before?" ”

"After being careful, they will immediately turn their backs and ungrateful and throw you into the Yellow River to feed the fish." Miss Bai pursed her lips.

"They don't dare, when the time comes, it's not as simple as scaring people to death when I become a water ghost, in case I kill the river god and take charge of the water of the Yellow River, with a slight wave of my hand, Gaojia Village will be flooded."

Miss Bai snorted and said, "Wouldn't it be a handsome guy to be in charge of a small Yellow River, and it is almost the same as being in charge of Tianhe." ”

"Isn't that so? …”

I put my fingers on my nose and pushed it up, opened my mouth, and hummed twice. Miss Bai sneered, frowned and patted me, muttering, how can there be a lazy guy like you, Uncle Yang hasn't found it yet, and he doesn't know how to worry.

Actually, I'm dying of sorrow, but it's useless to worry, I can't find it or I can't find it. Instead of worrying, it is better to adjust your mood before the boat is repaired, and then get a good night's sleep.

I thought so, but after sleeping for less than two hours, Miss Bai and I woke up one after the other. The house was dark, and the other old men went out with us to go home when we went out to see the boat, so there were only two people in the village branch, Miss Bai and me.

"Let's sleep a little longer, I'll go to Uncle Yang early tomorrow morning." I whispered.

"I can't sleep, you sleep."

"Actually, I can't sleep either, so let's go out for a walk." I said.

Miss Bai thought about it and nodded.

The rain was still falling outside, but it was already very small, and when the breeze blew, the rain hit the face obliquely, burrowed into the neck, and was cold.

We walked along the wet muddy village road for a short time when we came across the villagers who were patrolling the night.

"A few big brothers are working hard." I smiled and said hello to them.

A few people stopped and shone their flashlights on us. One of them snorted and said, what the hell do you want to do with a rabbit cub?

"Others greet you with good voices, how can you scold people?" Miss Bai said angrily.

I reached out and pressed Miss Bai's shoulder and smiled, "What's wrong?" What can I do as I want? ”

The villager spat on the ground with a 'poof', "We didn't scold you in front of the village chief in the village branch before, you can see for yourself, since you came to our village, how many things have happened in our village, I think you are a plague god." Our village has never had an accident before slaughtering sheep to worship ancestors, as soon as your kid goes to the sheep to cheat the corpse, my mother was scared by the sheep and pulled a trouser pocket, and went home to let my daughter-in-law wash her, my daughter-in-law did not wash, the two of them fought, my mother took off her pants and used her pants to pump my daughter-in-law, that... My mother, you go to my house to have a look, go..."

Miss Bai and I looked at each other with tears and laughter.

"You two are still laughing!" The man stomped his foot.

"Do you cry if you don't laugh?" Miss Bai snorted, "What does that sheep corpse have to do with Ah Leng?" Besides, didn't Ah Leng restrain the sheep in the end? Also, Ah Leng helped you find the head of your ancestors in Gaojia Village, why didn't you mention it? ”

"What's there to mention?" Another villager said, "Didn't you steal the fox when we caught it?" You two pretended to be ghosts and scared Gao Xiaowen to hide in the ancestral temple, but died inside, the older the village chief became, the more confused he became, and he didn't hold you two responsible, but listened to your two nonsense and thought that our village was haunted. Now, we can't even sleep well at night, and we have to patrol the night. If you want me to say, Gao Xiaowen was scared to death by the two of you! ”

"Don't spew blood without evidence!" Miss Bai said.

"Believe it or not, in short, there are ghosts." I said.

"There are ghosts and ghosts, and your grandmother is a big-headed ghost," the man muttered, "Let's go, continue the night patrol..."

"Second child, let's go, let's go, what are you going to see."

The man who said his mother was in his pants dragged the villager lying on the side of the road. The man turned around and shivered as he said, "Well, I don't think there's a person standing on the roof."

A few villagers all came over, and so did we. A villager adjusted the flashlight, held it high, and everyone's eyes followed the flashlight through the dense branches, only to see a person standing faintly on the roof opposite! Because of the obscuration of the branches, I couldn't see the man's appearance clearly...

"Who's who, who's there?! …”

As soon as a few villagers finished shouting, the man disappeared all of a sudden.

"I'm cǎo. There really are ghosts! …”

The villagers screamed in fright, and in the blink of an eye, they were gone.

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