Huzi's mother was crying and crying when she came in, and she was already panicking.

"Auntie, what's wrong with you?" Mother hurriedly asked.

"Huzi, Huzi is lost! I, I've looked for a lot of places, I've seen the old well, but there's no shadow, I don't know where I went..."Huzi's mother spoke anxiously and was a little incoherent, she looked at me and said: "I was still playing with Yangyang in the morning, and he didn't come back to eat at noon, I thought I was going to the construction site to find his father!" ”

My mother turned around and asked me, "Yangyang, do you know where Huzi went later?" ”

I shook my head and said, "I don't know, Huzi didn't tell me." ”

While he was talking, Huzi's father also walked in from outside the yard, his face was ugly, and he dragged Huzi's mother aside and yelled: "What do you think of the child, what is the use of finding someone else's child now?!" ”

Huzi's mother covered her face, squatted on the ground and cried: "He's such a big child, can I still tie him to the house?" ”

"You!"

"Lao Qi, don't get angry first, Huzi lost it and our family will help you find it together, it's not too late now, maybe Huzi just ran to play somewhere." The father patted the tiger and his father comforted.

After my father finished speaking, he turned his head and asked me, "Where do you and you usually play?" ”

I said, "In the wheat fields, in the woods to the west, there are obvious homes. ”

"Where's the obvious home?" My father didn't know who I was talking about.

"Wang Mingming, Dasha!" My mother explained that Dasha often came to my house to play with me, and I called Dasha Wang obvious most of the time, so my mother also knew Dasha's real name.

"I've looked for all of these places, but I haven't!" Huzi's mother said.

My father looked at me and asked again, "Think about it, what other places have you been!" ”

"And, there'......" I lowered my head, fiddled with the sleeves of my coat with both hands, and did not dare to speak.

"Speak quickly!" My father suddenly raised his voice and pulled me to him and questioned me.

I whispered, "Dead boy ditch." ”

The dead child ditch is located in the east of Wangjia Village, in the southeast south of the old tree at the head of the village, the reason why the place is called the dead child ditch is because there is an old habit in Wangjia Village before the Cultural Revolution, the child who is not over three years old dies or the dead baby who has an abortion cannot enter the soil, so if there is a child in Wangjia Village who dies, it will be thrown into the ditch that is inaccessible, for a long time, no one dares to go over there, and the grass grows wildly in the long run, and no one dares to approach it if it looks gloomy, sometimes people who pass by there can be scared to the scalp when they hear the wild crane cry in the grass. But what is really frightening is not the dead child ditch, but the location of the dead child ditch, which is where the ancestral grave of our Wangjia Village is located.

Every year during the Qingming and New Year, grandpa will lead me to the ancestral grave to worship, except for grandpa and grandma, grandpa has never worshiped anyone else, he led me to let me kowtow to the ancestral grave one by one, I kowtow every time grandpa will say a word, and tell me who is buried in the grave, at that time I was very young, I forgot what grandpa said, in addition to there is a short small grave, grandpa only did not speak in front of this tomb, grandpa will let me kowtow to it every year, At that time, I didn't know who was buried in the grave, and I didn't ask, but I later found out that it was my sister who was buried in the grave.

And the reason why Huzi and I went to play in the dead child's ditch is because we once passed by there after school, we saw an injured white crane, it was lame on one leg, as if someone had been clamped, Huzi and I used a pencil knife to cut a strip of cloth from the scarf to help the white crane bandage the wound and release it, I didn't expect to find it again when we passed by there the next day, the white crane was very alive to us at first, and saw that we would run, but the number of times was too much to stop afraid of us, And the reason why it didn't fly away was because it laid a nest of eggs in the wild grass, and then Huzi and I were picked up and dropped off by our family for a long time, and we didn't go again, and when we went again, the white crane was gone, and the nest of eggs was gone, and we didn't find the eggshell in the white crane's nest.

When my father heard that we had been to Dead Child's Ditch, he didn't rush to reprimand me, but said to Huzi's father: "Old Qi, I will go to Dead Child's Ditch with you to find Huzi, and let Huzi's mother and Wenxiu go to the construction site where you work to have a second look, or maybe the child is curious to climb upstairs to play." ”

"Well, that's it, let's go." Huzi's father nodded.

My father pushed out his girder car and Huzi's father hurried out the door, and when he was leaving, my father glared at me and said, "Stay at home well, and I'll clean you up when I come back!" ”

My mother told me not to go out to watch TV at home, and then went to the construction site in the town with Huzi's mother.

I was so scared that day that I turned on all the lights in the house, turned on the sound of the TV, and before I knew it, I fell asleep in my chair.

I don't know when my father and mother came back that night, but the next day they got up in a hurry, and my mother called me up, and cooked some polenta, which was hot with the steamed buns of the previous night, and she told me to serve my own meal, and told me to be careful not to burn my hands, and then went out with my father.

At noon, the people of Wangjia Village joined the team to find Huzi, Wangjia Village is so big in total, and there is no ditch and river, where can a child hide? Everyone thought that there were still many strangers living in tents on the periphery of Wangjia Village, and there were many deep and shallow pits outside the village, so the villagers all took shovels and hoes to sweep around, but still did not see the figure of the tiger.

Now the wellhead of the old well has been sealed by bluestone slabs, and an adult may not be able to lift it open, let alone a child.

But Huzi's father was still unwilling, and had to lift the bluestone slab on the old well to look at the well, so it didn't matter, he really found someone in the well, but it was not Huzi, but three corpses that had been soaked and rotten, judging from their clothes, it was the person I saw in my dream a few days ago who was dragged into the well by something.

The police had been fishing at the well all morning without finding anything, and now they had floated up again, and the three bodies were covered with scars, and half of their faces were gone, as if they had been gnawed by something.

Liu Quan received a report and rushed to Wangjia Village with a group of policemen, and everyone told Huzi's father to let him report the case as well, and Huzi was probably abducted by human traffickers, but at this time, I don't know who suddenly said: "When I invited Wu Zhenren yesterday, Wu Zhenren said that there was a child in our village who was going to die." ”

It's too late for the people next to them to cover the person's mouth, Huzi's parents heard the news like thunder, what kind of person is Wu Zhenren, the children of Xiaowangjia Village grew up listening to Wu Zhenren's story, and they all said that he "cut off the iron mouth, don't take a penny" The next sentence of the iron mouth should have been "a hexagram of gold", in the Republic of China period, the Taoist priest can say that he can say eight or nine without leaving ten to see the dignitaries, and Wu Zhenren has cultivated the way of divination to the extreme, and he said it casually when he saw it at a glance, It's not a big deal at all, so people who have heard his rumors have always believed in his proverbs, even if Wu Zhenren himself said that there are rules in heaven, people have lives, everything is predetermined, and they are changing rapidly, which means that what he said may not necessarily happen, but when can the words of a living immortal be fake?

"What are you talking nonsense!" The village chief blamed the person who spoke, in fact, when they heard the news that Huzi had been lost overnight, the villagers of Wangjia Village who went to invite Wu Zhenren yesterday immediately thought of Wu Zhenren's words, and there was a child in Wangjia Village who was going to die.

But no one wants to say such a thing, after all, Wu Zhenren didn't say who it was, not to mention that the child was just lost, Wu Zhenren asked if anyone had a serious illness or something, and everyone wanted to give Huzi's parents some hope, but then again, Wu Zhenren calculated that there would be a child in Wangjia Village who died young, and then calculated how the child died, then he could be notified in advance to help him change his life, which seems to be too exaggerated.

"Alas, the adults are dying in a heap, and now the children are also dying." Liu Quan sighed and said.

"Who the are you talking about to die!" Huzi's father suddenly became angry, pointed at Liu Quan and scolded.