As I said earlier, since the mass death in Wangjia Village, there have been many strange people in and out of the village, and most of these people are in a hurry, as if they are looking for something.

They often carried a round plate in their hands, and the plate was densely covered with pictures and texts, and in the middle of the pictures, there was a high-speed swinging pointer, which my grandfather told me was a compass.

There are many types of compasses, some are nautical compasses, some are Fuping compasses, some are feng shui compasses, some are compasses for measuring directions, and the compasses in the hands of these people are used to measure the direction with high precision, grandpa said, they must be looking for something.

This went on for about two months, and when the year came to pass, I noticed that the people, consciously or unconsciously, would look at the old well at the head of the village, and some of the other people would pass by the door of the lame king's house from time to time and look inside, and if they saw Dasha or his foolish lady coming out of the house, they would give them some money.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, my grandfather took me to the back mountain to kowtow to Wu Zhenren and hurried back to Wangjia Village, because the cattle of Dasha's family wanted to give birth. After the death of the lame man, the grandfather took care of the silly couple, and now the cattle in Dasha's family gave birth, and the villagers also went to help.

When the old scalper saw me, I always felt that there was some kind of uneasiness in his eyes, and I didn't know if it was my delusion or if I was too fanciful.

The scalper kept mooing, its hips on both sides collapsed, the muscles on both sides of the tail were visibly concave, and the transparent amniotic fluid hung on it, it kept looking back at the position of the tail belly, and began to walk back and forth restlessly.

Suddenly, the ox let out a very terrible cry, yes, at least I had never heard a cow make such a cry. It fell to the ground suddenly, its hooves struggling incessantly, and its cries became more and more violent, even a little crazy.

Everyone was startled by the sudden scene in front of them, and they all retreated sharply, and the butcher Wang, who came from the back of the village, saw this scene, pouted and said: "It's bad, I'm afraid this cow has fallen into evil, and nine times out of ten in the stomach is a freak!" ”

In his early years, Butcher Wang spent some time in the army, specializing in killing pigs and slaughtering cattle for people, and once he saw a pig give birth to a baby elephant, and the nose was old and elder, but the baby elephant died not long after it was born.

In the countryside, the rumor that the cow gave birth to a unicorn pig elephant has been widely spread, and now this scalper suddenly has such a crazy behavior, and most of the things in the womb are abnormal.

When Dasha and her mother saw this scene, they cried louder than a louder, they have been raising this cow for three years, and they need it to plow the fields and threshk wheat, and if they die, their family will have no more labor.

The ox was still tethered to the stake at this time, and it struggled more and more, and almost pulled the stake out, and blood was dripping from its nose, and suddenly a strange sound came to everyone's ears, like the roar of some animal, and the source of the sound was the belly of the ox.

A round thing suddenly bulged out of the cattle's huge belly, and then a sound of flesh being torn suddenly sounded in the gloomy winter, the belly of the scalper was torn open from the inside out, and a bloody thing came out of the calf's belly.

Anyone could tell that what came out of the belly of the ox was not a calf at all, its head was much larger than that of an ordinary calf, with two pointed horns on its head, and its four legs were very short and strong, and it looked more like a ferocious dog, which was born with fangs and looked at everyone with fierce eyes.

"The cow gives birth to a unicorn and the pig descends to the elephant, can this thing be a unicorn?" Wang Fugui, who was watching the excitement in the crowd, wondered.

"The unicorn is a rui beast, even if there is, it will not be born here, this beast is naturally fierce, it can't be raised, let's kill it." The king butcher proposed.

Everyone looked at Grandpa, who was holding a big cigarette stick, and asked for his opinion, and Grandpa nodded and said, "Let's do it." ”

So a group of people took stones and sticks and beat the monster of the ox to death, and the poor cow also swallowed in pain.

It just looked at me like that, and I always felt like it had something to say to me.

That night I had a dream in which I suddenly woke up from my bed, and I saw that my mother was still asleep, so I crept out of bed, pushed the hall open, and saw the ox in the yard.

When the scalper saw me, he mooed at me, then bent down and motioned for me to ride. I didn't know why I wasn't afraid, but the ghost rode on the back of the ox, and the ox led me through the alley in front of my house, through the boulevard, all the way to the head of the village, and I patted it on the neck and said, "The old well is ahead, you can't go." ”

The ox barked again, and continued to walk in the direction of the old well, I saw from a distance that there was a faint light coming from the old well, as if someone was there, I was a little anxious, and wanted to escape, but found that my legs did not obey the call at all, and could not jump off the back of the ox.

It wasn't until the scalpers got closer that I could see the faces of the people gathered around the old well, which were the strangers who usually gathered outside Wangjia Village, and one of them was a young man with black-rimmed glasses that I had seen many times.

There were five of them, all wearing army-green coats, and the two big men who followed the young man were among them, and the other two were new faces.

"Third child, you're only going to go down the well tonight? This village is unusual, a few months ago a tree killed twenty or thirty people, those dead people all pointed to this old well, Mr. Li Siguang also because of this old well to suggest that the country should not build roads here, a while ago there was a big snake living in it was killed by the villagers, although we measured for a few months and did not find anything unusual about this old well, I have to make it clear to you, don't blame my brother for not reminding me if something happened. One of them said.

The person who was called the "third child" said: "The next time the well is 3,000 yuan, the second one, do you want to repay the debt?!" ”

"Okay, okay, you go, when I didn't say anything." The man called "second" waved his hand and said.

"Hehe, a broken well, and you still want to bluff me, the master, then I'll go down." As he spoke, he looked at the young man with black-rimmed glasses, who was carrying an oxygen cylinder and a rope tied around his waist, and the other end of the rope was tied to a wooden frame at the mouth of the well.

The young man nodded and said, "Don't be careless, if something is wrong, pull the bell immediately." ”

The third nodded, put on the diving goggles, and then made an OK gesture to everyone and went down the well.

After just a moment's effort, there was a scream from the well, and the four people on the ground immediately pulled the rope upwards when they heard the movement, but there was laughter from the well: "Don't pull, just kidding, the searchlight is broken, and the inside is dark and invisible, give me a brighter light." ”

"Grass, you want to scare people to death!" One of them was visibly angry.

"Haha, Lao Wu, you are too rigid, I don't see everyone so tense and active."

"Okay, third, this is not the place to joke." The youth handed the searchlight to the well. "I always feel that something is wrong, you can take a general look at what is in the well, how big the well is, why it hasn't been dry for hundreds of years, go and go back quickly."

"Okay." After speaking, the third child continued to dive into the well, and the rest of the people kept staring at the water with flashlights, but after a while they heard the sound of splashing again.

"What's wrong again?" The person who was called the fifth was a little impatient.

The man in the well said in a deep tone: "This well is indeed strange, the diving lamp can't shine on the wall of the well, I saw something like an iron chain inside, very thick, you throw down a rope, and after a while I tie the rope to the chain, I pull the bell and you pull it up, I observe underwater, to see if there is something tied to the end of the chain." ”

"Okay, it's still the same sentence, be careful." The young man nodded and handed the rope down.

This time, the four of Inoue waited for a long time, and I kept watching them on the back of the ox, and I was so close to them that with their alertness they should have spotted me a long time ago.

Suddenly, a hurried bell rang, and the four of them immediately picked up the rope and pulled it back, they looked very hard, as if they were carrying something extremely heavy, and the sound of metal hitting the wall of the well was particularly harsh in the dark and silent night.

The four of them really pulled out a very thick iron chain with great effort, and the iron chain was rusted, and the rust in some places actually condensed into an iron lump, which seemed to have been many years.

"How can there be such a thick chain in the well?" The young man's brows furrowed, and he fell into deep thought.

"Pull it up and take a look, the third child still has enough oxygen to breathe in for a while, let him look inside for a while, and tell us what is in this well." The person who was called the second of the few proposed.

"That's good." The young man nodded, agreed, and several people picked up the iron chain, pedaled on the eaves of the well, and pulled the iron chain out little by little, seeing that the iron chain had been pulled out more than ten meters long, at this time the bell tied to the wooden frame rang again, and the sound was more rapid than before, and even a little panicked.

"Oh no, something happened to the third child, pull it quickly!"

The young man's words were not finished, at this moment, there was a sudden sound of water splashing in the well, and then a huge wave erupted from the well, knocking several people to the ground, and several people were so frightened that their faces turned pale, and then looked at the old well, it was constantly bubbling yellow soup, and it was accompanied by the sound of whining sea breeze, and a pungent fishy smell followed.

"Pull it quickly, save the third child!" The young man yelled and ran to the well to pick up the rope on the ground, but before the rest of the people could come forward, the young man was stunned, and he pulled out the rope from the well little by little, without any effort, until the other end of the rope appeared on his instep, and the man who was called the third child was gone.