"What a sin, why is there still something alive in this tree!" A lumberjack broke down and cried on the spot.

"Blind dog's eyes, who sees it alive?" Chen scolded for three days and pretended to be calm.

"The things that live in this tree must be fine, if not phoenix......" the lumberjack continued.

"What if it's a phoenix? Dead is dead, you can't turn the sky! Chen Tiantian interrupted the lumberjack, but no one could hear his voice trembling and his face turned pale.

"It's not you who cut down the tree, no one cares about the big talk to the pants, we are all old and young, and we are all old and young, and we are stained with this evil thing, in case there are three long and two short, how can the old and young in the family live......"

I didn't hear what they said after that, I stared at the black monster that jumped out of the stump, and I didn't dare to move, I only felt the monster staring straight at me, and I could even see its very human face, its cheekbones protruding, its mouth slightly open, as if it had been hungry for many years, and as if it had something to say.

I timidly hid behind my grandfather and buried my face in his lap, not daring to look again.

Grandpa sensed my fear, he touched my head and lifted me up to his shoulder like carrying a monkey.

"What are you afraid of, it's not that we cut down the tree, it's his life."

When grandpa carried me away, I looked back at Chen Sansan, who was frightened and turned blue, Chen Sansan, who seemed to feel my gaze, also raised his head to look at me, he opened his mouth, as if he had something to say, he just kept watching me leave, and finally didn't say anything.

Later, I heard from my playmates that after my grandfather and I left, Chen had people find some dry branches and burn them on the stump for a long time, and then used an excavator to pluck the stump again before he dared to cover the place with soil.

The news of the phoenix corpse in the tree spread far and wide, and the next day it was on the local newspaper, and the content of the newspaper was that Chen three days broke the remnants of feudal superstition, and the newspaper said that the old plane tree did live in something, but it was a wild goose that drilled a hole into it to make a nest, and it was not as the villagers said, saying that the plane tree lived in a phoenix, and there was no villager rumored that the person who cut down the tree would die.

As for the reason why the Red Guards did not cut down the tree that year, some people jumped out to prove it, saying that the revolutionary leaders of that year did not allow it to be cut down, because the tree was planted by his grandmother, and it was just a memorial.

Chen Tiantian not only cut down the tree, but also killed the things inside the tree, he not only did not die, but lived more vigorously, his feat of breaking the remnants of feudalism was rated as an advanced cultural model, the whole face almost occupied half of the local section, next to his deeds over the years to praise his great achievements, Chen Tiantian became a celebrity in the county.

Underneath Chen Sansan's face, there is a special section dedicated to the legendary story of how Chen Santian communicated and reconciled with the villagers of Wangjia Village, in which the villagers are portrayed as extremely savage and ignorant, like the natives living in the Amazon forest.

In those days, every household in Wangjia Village locked their doors at night, and even during the day, everyone was silent, as if waiting for some day to come.

In those days, my mother would wake me up once a night and lead me to the big yard to pee, and my mother would hold my hand when I pee, even though the moon was shining in the yard.

It wasn't until the third day when the old tree was cut down that it finally happened.

That morning, I was awakened by a sharp knock on the door, and I opened my eyes to find that my mother and father were gone in bed.

"Big grandson, the rooster crows! Your parents have gone to see the scene, do you dare to see it! ”

As soon as I heard my grandfather's voice, I replied excitedly: "Dare, I dare to look, grandpa wait for me!" ”

In Wangjia Village, the meaning of watching the scenery is to see the dead, from a very young age, as long as someone died in Wangjia Village, my grandfather would take me to see, for this reason my mother said how many times Grandpa, and Grandpa said confidently to give me practice courage.

Grandpa trotted me on his shoulders, and when the sun rose and there was a cacophony at the end of the horizon, I cried out in fright when I followed my grandfather through the gap in the crowd and saw circles of dead people next to the stump of the sycamore tree.

Since I was very young, my grandfather took me to see the deaths of all kinds of people, such as a child who was drowned, a thug who was hacked to death, or a literary boy who was killed while riding an electric donkey to chase the wind.

The men were naked, kneeling naked, unclothed, pouting their big butts, and from their crotches they could see that their faces were distorted against the ground, their eyes wide as eggs, and their hands pointing in the same direction in a strange position.

I realized that my grandfather didn't know when he was gone, and it was not yet dawn, so I didn't dare to look into the distance, and whispered to my grandfather.

Because I was very small, I was pushed around by the crowd and quickly lost my way, I never thought that Wangjia Village would be so lively one day, there were more people than the town at the time of the fair, and when the day opened, there were more people, some of them were from other villages to see the excitement, some were reporters who rushed to hear the news, and some were county leaders.

Later, more than a dozen police cars whistled to evacuate the crowd and surround the dead who were still naked, and I saw clearly that those dead people were the workers who had cut down trees with Chen Santian, and Chen Santian was also among these dead people, his body was particularly easy to identify, his stomach was frighteningly fat, probably due to his heavy body, and he was kneeling with his head touching the ground, his face had been flattened in half, and half of his eyes were dripping outward.

Suddenly, there were loud cries, and they were the wives of the lumberjacks who had been notified to arrive, and the police had stopped the crying women from approaching, no matter how terrible they wept.

"Tell them not to cut down the tree, they have to cut it, this tree has lived for a thousand years, and they will cut it down?" An aunt standing next to me muttered in a low voice.

"How did I hear that there was something unclean living in the tree! The thing also got into a nest, and gave birth to a few things that looked like human heads, and the tree was still moving when it was first cut down! Another aunt said.

"Then who knows, their village is very evil, how many years ago the public was going to build a railway from here, that scientist Li Heguang came here, said that it can't be repaired, and it can't run the train if it is repaired, otherwise why would the train in our county specifically bypass here?"

"Auntie, do you mean that the geologist Li Siguang came here back then?"

The two aunts were talking with relish, a young man wearing black-framed glasses came up and asked, this young man was polite and spoke Mandarin, the aunt saw him ask like this, and nodded like a chicken pecking rice: "Oh yes, yes, yes, it's a geologist, called Li Siguang, and it was a big-character poster written by my man to welcome him." ”

After listening to the aunt's words, the young man gently pushed his black-rimmed glasses and asked, "Then do you know why Li Siguang said that the railway cannot be built here?" ”

The aunt shook her head and said, "Then how do I know, those big people talk around their heads, and they don't understand!" Young man, you look very handsome, which village are you a college student? Have you married a daughter-in-law, my second daughter ......"

As the aunt was talking, two more men of five big and three thick came next to her, they squinted their eyes and nodded to the young man, the young man waved his hand to the aunt and apologized, turned around and left here with the two of them.

There were more and more onlookers, occupying almost every inch of Wangjia Village, and I shuttled through the crowd, still not finding my grandfather, and my nose was sour and I was about to cry.

It was at this time that my mother's voice reached my ears, and I turned my head and saw my mother walking towards me with an anxious expression, calling my name and holding my hand and walking out of the crowd, so loud that I couldn't hear what was being said from my mother's mouth.

"Mom." Suddenly, the voice of a little boy sounded, it was the neighbor's tiger, the same age as me.

My mother and I followed the prestige, only to see Xiaohu's mother hurriedly leading Huzi past us, as if there was something urgent.

"Mom, why do those dead people point to the old well in our village?"