Chapter 4
This story is a story from my classmates about their village.
This classmate of mine is called Haozi, and slowly we all call him Mouse.
Their village is not too far from my village, that is, there is only a three- or four-mile road.
However, their village is a notoriously "fierce" in our neighborhood
This "fierce" means unclean.
According to him, there is a large ditch about 10 meters in diameter on the east side of their village.
No matter how cold it is in winter, the water in it never freezes, and no matter how heavy the rain is in summer, the water does not rise, and it does not rain for a long time, and the water does not fall.
I was at the same table with him, and that day because my homeroom teacher, our Chinese teacher, had something at home, so I hurriedly asked for leave in the middle of the class and let us study on our own.
We were very bored, so he took the initiative to tell me that something had happened in their village the day before yesterday.
The reason was that the night before yesterday, a woman, because her husband was out to work, she was alone at home with the children, but she didn't know what was going on, and halfway through the meal, she suddenly got up and ran out after taking a bite of an egg before she could swallow it.
Her son thought that someone was calling her at the door, so he ignored it and ate his own food.
But when her son didn't come back after eating, she went out to look, and there was no one at the door, and there was no one in the neighborhood.
Now her son panicked, and the neighbors around him also helped to find someone together.
It stands to reason that she was eating this meal, and when she went out, she didn't put down the eggs in her hand, she went out with them, and she didn't tell her son anything, so she shouldn't be able to go far.
But everyone is looking for her, and the movement is so loud that she shouldn't be unable to hear it.
Later, I heard that in the small shop in the east of the village, the card player said that he saw her running to the east, and he seemed to be in a hurry.
When everyone heard this, their hearts were "broken"
Further east of the village was a wooded wasteland, and there was the big ditch.
In the middle of the night, just in time to eat this meal, she could not suddenly run into the woods, the only possibility is that she went to this ditch.
Sure enough, when everyone walked to the ditch, they found a pair of her shoes, one of which was lost seven or eight meters away from the ditch, and the other was on the edge of the puddle.
Later, the villagers called the police, and after the police surveyed the area, they found nothing other than the shoes.
Later, she asked her son for some information, and took her son back to the police station.
In fact, this ditch has happened a few times before.
I heard that at the beginning, a lonely old man a few years ago washed clothes here, washed and washed, and then fell headlong, and then he didn't even see a figure.
Later, several more people had accidents here, and they were all dead without seeing their bodies.
The police will come over every time, and they can't find any problems after checking, in short, they can't solve it in the end.
When the police left, the villagers began to talk.
Some people say that she was conjured by the unclean things in this ditch.
Some people also questioned whether she committed suicide, but this is not logical.
Did you run out and commit suicide before you finished eating? Even if it's suicide, don't you say a word to your son when you go out?
In the end, everyone thought that it was the stuff in the ditch that was at work.
The next day, as soon as the day dawned, the woman's family came, driving a diesel-burning tricycle, "bang bang" from the west end ......of the village to the east end of the village to the east end of the ditch.
There is a water pump and a water pipe in the car, and it looks like this posture is to pump water.
Some of the older people in the village came to persuade him, but the woman's younger brother was also a short-tempered man, five big and three rough, no matter how he persuaded him, he insisted on pumping the water clean to see what was in it that hurt his sister.
In fact, most of the people in the village still support him, because after all, there is such an evil place in his own village, and no one is down-to-earth.
A few old people couldn't stop it, after all, it was someone else who had an accident, and it was not good to say anything more, so they stood aside and didn't participate.
As soon as they said they would do it, the family members unloaded the water pump from the car and threw it into a puddle, which led the other end of the hose to the wasteland to drain the water.
In this way, from morning to noon, the water is still the same as the water, and there is no less.
From noon to night, there was still that water in the ditch, and when I looked down, it was black, and I still couldn't see anything clearly.
In the evening, everyone had to rest after eating, and they couldn't find a pump where to continue pumping.
Because the pump must be driven by a motor, they use the pump of the tricycle, and the noise is very loud all day ......long.
During the day, everyone went to work in the fields, but no one cared about them.
In the evening, everyone had to rest after a tired day, so they turned off the water pump and prepared to rest.
But just when they turned off the pump and were about to pull it up, they found that the pump was gone!
All that was pulled up was a short rope and an empty water pipe.
It is important to know that the water pipe is generally fixed to the pump with a large iron bar, one is to prevent it from falling off, and the other is to prevent the water leakage here in the water pipe when the pump is draining.
On the other side, there is also a child's wrist-thick rope fixed, especially after the rope is wet, let alone broken, even if it is cut with a knife for a while.
Now her mother's family is really panicked now, and it has consumed manpower and material resources, but there is still no result, not to mention, and this incident happened.
You must know that it has been a day, and there is still no noticeable change in the water level.
If you count it according to this ratio, how much more will you draw a year? Or ten years? This is clearly unrealistic.
What's more, now that the pump has just been turned off, the pump over there seems to have disappeared suddenly.
It is impossible to say that you don't feel evil.
But this is already on the way, is it possible that it can still come violently, and finally it will be over? .
Her mother's family is afraid that others will see them laughing, but they don't want to continue to make trouble.
In the end, a few elders in the village came to play a round and said, "This ditch is not clean, in case the contents of the ditch are upset, everyone is upset, etc., and after a long time of persuasion, her mother's family finally put a few cruel words appropriately, and finally it was over.
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The above incident is just one of the trivial stories of this ditch.
It wasn't until much later, when I had grown up, that there was another big event here, and in the end, I invited a lot of Taoist monks and the like, and at the same time, I also alarmed the leaders of the county to come over in person.
But that's another thing, and we'll get to that later.
But the ditch is still there, and the water in it hasn't changed, but at least I haven't heard anything about it anymore.