Gao Mingchang shook the cigarette butt, kicked open the door of the house and rushed in, and then heard a scream inside, and when he came out, he was holding a wet baby in his hand, the umbilical cord was not cut, and the placenta was hanging there and swaying.

With red eyes, he scolded while rushing out to the ancient well: "I let you live, I let you live!" ”

The people outside were stunned and didn't know what he was going to do.

I saw Gao Mingchang rushing towards the ancient well, the secret way was not good, he rushed over, but it was a little far away, and when he rushed to the ancient well, he had already raised his hand and smashed the baby into the ancient well.

I jumped so hard that the tip of my hand only touched the baby's placenta and didn't catch it.

With a "bang", the sound of falling water came from the well.

This sudden turn of events stunned everyone, and it was a long time before someone screamed: "Murder! ”

"your ancestor!"

I gritted my silver teeth, got up and kicked Gao Mingchang out a few steps away, and then threw myself to the edge of the well to look down, the well was too deep, the wellhead was small, and I couldn't see anything in the dark, and there was no sound after the child fell into the water.

The scene exploded at once:

"Hurry up and save people!"

"Get a flashlight!"

"Bring the rope and the bucket!"

“……”

People rushed into Hong Qingsheng's house to find something, the first thing I found was a flashlight, I took it and hurriedly turned it on to shine inside, but I found nothing on the water, and the baby was gone.

"Who knows how to water, dive down to save people, be fast!" I'm not good at water, so I have to find someone else.

Fortunately, I, a college student, still have some prestige in the village, and a thirteen-year-old boy from the Chen family named Chen Shuisheng stood up, "Brother Chun, I'll come." ”

We hurriedly wrapped the flashlight in a transparent plastic bag and handed it to him, and then put him down with a bucket of water. A point of light was faintly visible from above, and it was quickly sinking into the depths, and it was difficult to see clearly for a while.

"My baby, my baby......"

At this time, Hong Qingsheng's wife stumbled out of the house, and several mothers-in-law hurriedly stopped her, saying that they had already asked people to go down to find her, but she was like crazy, rolling and crawling, grabbing and biting, crazy to get close to the well, no one could stop her.

The heart-rending shout made people's noses sour.

"Hold her down."

In the chaos, I don't know who shouted, and several people went up to hold her down, and if she was close to the well, she had to jump down in a hurry.

"Bastard!"

My lungs were about to explode, and I ran over and kicked Gao Mingchang to death, this beast actually did such a conscientious thing to a baby.

Gao Mingchang didn't dare to resist at this time, he was kicked by me and rolled around on the ground, screaming: "I didn't mean to, I don't know what happened just now, don't fight......"

Where can I listen to his words, kicking and cramping, I picked up a flat shoulder next to him and beckoned to him, at this time, several of Gao Mingchang's nephews and wives came up to stop him, I even beat them together, they fought back, and then my brothers and uncles all rushed up to help me, and then there was a scuffle.

Gao Mingchang didn't have as many people as us, he was beaten and fled in embarrassment, and he didn't even want a car, we chased for a while and they ran away, so he vented his anger on the two cars, smashing the cars inside and out.

After venting for a while, my anger also disappeared a little, and at this time I found that Hong Qingsheng's wife was lying quietly on the ground, not screaming or making trouble, maybe because she had just given birth and had no strength, maybe because she had lost hope, and her eyes were like ashes.

My heart also sank, it had been seven or eight minutes and there was no news from the bottom of the well, and there was little hope that her child would survive, at most she would get the body back.

After a while, there was finally news from the well, Chen Shuisheng was pulled up by us, his mouth was white from the cold, and he vomited water wildly when he came up, but he was empty-handed, and even lost his flashlight.

After vomiting for a while, he trembled and said that the well was too deep, and he didn't dive to the end, and he didn't see the child.

I was disappointed that the child was gone, whether he could find it or not.

"Hehehehehe......"

At this time, Hong Qingsheng's wife sat up with a blank face, and then began to laugh, that kind of smile was not a little angry, very calm, calm to the point that my scalp was numb. I know that this is not really calm, but a kind of resentment to the extreme, hateful and hateful, revealing endless desolation.

The mothers-in-law next to her were frightened by her laughter and retreated again and again, letting her go.

"The Hong family is dead, the Hong family is dead." Hong Qingsheng's wife sat up and muttered nervously: "Everyone has to be buried together, everyone has to be buried together." ”

What she said made me feel cold, and the next moment, I saw that she didn't know where she got a force, and she slammed her head against the well railing with a leap, and with a "bang", blood splashed.

In this way, Hong Qingsheng's wife crashed to death by the well fence, bleeding all over the ground.

Her eyes were round, with endless resentment in them, and she couldn't blink a blind eye.

……

Everyone present, including me, was terrified, and many screamed and ran away, and there was a lot of chaos.

Fortunately, after a while, Ma Yongde, the head of Hong Village, rushed to hear the news, and when he saw the scene, he repeatedly said that he had committed evil, and then organized the villagers to call the county public security bureau while sending people out to find Hong Qingsheng, and to continue to salvage the child's body.

Hong Qingsheng's wife has been covered with a blanket, but I still seem to be able to feel the resentful gaze from the thick blanket. I felt uneasy, and from the look in her eyes, I always felt that something was going to happen.

At noon, the county police arrived, interviewed some witnesses, took some photographs, and brought professional diving equipment, but unfortunately the baby's body was not found in the end.

After the baby fell into the well, it disappeared strangely.

Not long after Hong Qingsheng also came back from outside, a black and thin person, with a somewhat hunched back, his face was full of wind and frost, and he cried and fainted after seeing his wife's corpse, and his spirit was seriously stimulated, and then he began to chatter, and he went crazy in a few clicks, jumping and laughing at the scene of his wife's funeral, his mouth was crooked, and his mouth was crooked.

The Hong family is a single widow, and there are no brothers and nephews, and in the end the funeral had to be presided over by the village chief Ma Yongde, and each family has a laborer to help take care of the aftermath.

By the time everyone had set up the shed, it was already dark.

After dinner, the helpers went back to their homes to prepare to come back tomorrow, and I and a few strong men in the village who had never been married were left by the village chief to keep vigil. This is also the consistent rule of funerals, the boy's body is yang, and it is not easy to have an accident at vigil.

Among the people left, two are my own brothers, one is Ma Jialiang, and the other is Ma Yong, in terms of blood, I and the two of them are the same grandfather, in addition to the three descendants of the Chen family.

The six of us divided the work, and the three descendants of the Chen family guarded Hong Qingsheng, who had been locked in his room since he went crazy in the afternoon, for fear that he would make trouble.

Ma Jialiang and Ma Yong and I stayed outside the mourning shed, in addition to our people, there is another person, Hong Qingsheng's only daughter, named Hong Xiaoyun, is more than ten years old, but unfortunately the nerves are abnormal, can't speak, my father is crazy, my mother and brother died, and I haven't seen her cry, sitting expressionlessly in the mourning shed like a puppet.

"The Chai family's gang of dogs, they didn't come alone, it's really black." Ma Jialiang looked at Hong Xiaoyun's back and scolded angrily.

I understand what he means, Gao Mingchang is the son-in-law of the Chai family, and his wife Chai Jinhua is from our village, and the Chai family has to pay half of the responsibility for this matter today.

Hong Village seems to be the surname of the people in the village from the name, but in fact it is not the case, there are three surnames in the village: Ma, Chai, Chen, in addition to some scattered small surnames, the surname Hong is the rarest surname in the village, on the Hong Qingsheng family. It stands to reason that during the vigil, the three surnames of Ma, Chai, and Chen should all send people, but now that the Ma family and the Chen family are here, none of the Chai family have come, and I don't know if they are sad or afraid.

Speaking of Hong Village, we have to mention the origin of the name of the village, the reason is not that the surname of the village is Hong, but because there is a large stone tablet carried by a turtle at the entrance of the village, on which is engraved with the word Hong.

Listen to the older generation of people said, Hongcun once also changed its name, but after the name was changed, the village was full of strange things, and there were people who died one after another, and then an old Taoist priest came to the village, saying that the name of Hongcun can suppress the luck in the village, can not be changed, Hongcun people half-believe according to the Taoist priest's words to do, really spiritual, after changing back those strange things have never happened.

Of course, this is just a statement, and the root cause may be that the three surnames compete with each other, so they can't be changed.

In the village, the two surnames of Ma and Chen are the most prosperous, accounting for almost 80 percent, there are not many people with the surname Chai, but the power is not small, there are a few officials in the town, and there are also people in the county, Gao Mingchang took a fancy to the relationship behind the Chai family, so he married Chai Jinhua.

Ma Yong and I also scolded a few words, the three of them sat bored and fought the landlord, and gradually the night was deep, the night wind in the mountains blew, cold, and a lamp on the funeral shed was dusk and yellow, and it was swayed by the wind.

I suddenly felt a chill down my spine, and at that moment, a few vague baby cries drifted into my ears.

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