Wu Zhenren said that the tree was the eye of Wangjia Village, and once it moved, it would affect the occurrence of other things, and I naturally remembered the well.

When Chen Tiantian's gang died, everyone's hands pointed in the same direction in a strange posture - the old well.

Their eyes widened as if they had seen something terrible, and no one knew why they knelt in line around the stump of the plane tree, as if someone had deliberately arranged it.

In fact, everyone in Wangjia Village knew that those dead people were referring to the old well, but no one dared to say it, because that well was the biggest taboo in our village, so when the unscrupulous Huzi asked why those dead people were pointing to the old well in our village, Huzi's mother would slap Huzi so emotionally out of control.

More than 100 years ago, our Wangjia Village was a well-known mountain village and water town, even in the case of severe drought weather, the surrounding rivers have not seen the bottom, at that time every household had fish and shrimp to eat, and grain has always been hoarded with grain. However, after the phoenix was besieged and killed at the head of the village, it rarely rained in Wangjia Village, sometimes not once for three or five years, and the original great water town became dry land in more than a hundred years.

The only thing that wasn't affected was the well, a bottomless well.

The old well was about two meters in diameter, and around the mouth of the well was a ring of granite with waterweed patterns, half a foot high, on which I could easily jump on, even when I was only three years old.

No one knows how deep the old well is, because the life span of this well is longer than that of the old people in the village, some people say that this well is only ten meters, and some people say that this well is 100 meters, but the oldest old man says that this well has been leading to the Yellow Spring of Difu.

Because the water in the old well can never be drained.

At that time, although I was small, I was very bold, and I was not too afraid of the dark well water, sometimes I saw a large white snakeskin hanging between the stone cracks in the wall of the well, and I would playfully find a branch to pick up the snakeskin and play with it, and occasionally the length of the branch was not satisfactory, so that I would grab the eaves of the well and lean myself towards the mouth of the well, so that the branches could pick up the snakeskin.

This action was once seen by the mother who came to the village to fetch water.

I still remember my mother's frightened cries and the sound of the bucket clattering on her shoulder, and she almost cried and pounced, and she held me in her arms, dragged me down from the eaves, and dragged me backwards, completely ignoring my struggles, and I forgot what she was shouting at that time, except vaguely remembering that she was calling me by name, blaming me for why I was standing on the eaves.

After a long time, my mother's face was still pale, she asked me to kowtow to the old well, and before I could react, she knelt down and knocked down to the old well, I didn't understand anything at that time, I didn't know why my mother was scared like this, but in order to stabilize my mother's mood, I had to kowtow to the old well like her.

After my mother brought me home, she told my father about it, and without saying a word, my father dragged down his shoe board and beat me on the ass, so that I cried out in pain and called grandpa.

When my grandfather heard my cry, he hurriedly ran over, and when he saw that my father was beating me, he scolded him and said, "You rebel, what are you doing beating him?!" ”

When my father saw that my grandfather was angry, he was still clutching the big cigarette stick in his hand, and explained in a little fright: "He just stood by the well and picked up snake skins, why don't I give him some memory?" ”

Grandpa went up and gave his father a kick, snatched me who was crying and hugged me in his arms, and said: "The baby is okay, my grandson, the king of Hades doesn't dare to accept it!" If you dare to hit him again in the future, I will break your legs! ”

After a while, my grandfather seemed to think that the kick just now was not enjoyable, so he went up to my father again, and scolded me for something I didn't understand: "Little red guy." ”

At that time, I had no idea why they had such a fear of the well, but my grandfather later told me that the well had drowned two children in the past few years, one of whom was my sister.

From then on I never dared to stand on the edge of the old well, and became more and more afraid of the well, more than the tree, and once in the middle of the night I dreamed of the well, and there was a man in the well who was disheveled and pale all the time, and I was awakened by the fright, and my mother was awakened by my throbbing, and asked me what was wrong.

I said that I dreamed of the well, and someone called me to go there.

When my mother heard me, she began to cry and held me tightly all night, as if I would be dragged away by something as soon as I let go.

After that, the well became my nightmare, and I never told my mother about it again.

I don't know much about this well, and I haven't heard anyone talk about it, the old well has never dried up for a day since ancient times, and it has nurtured generations of people in Wangjia Village.

In Wangjia Village, there was nothing to see at all except the plane tree that had been cut down, so when Chen Tiantian's twenty-seven people died, everyone could see that they were pointing to the old well in the direction they were pointing.

No one knew why those dead people pointed to the old well, and those outsiders didn't understand why they asked all the people in Wangjia Village, who didn't know anything about the well, and even had a frightened expression on their faces.

After the murder of the phoenix corpse in Wangjia Village, there were suddenly many strangers around the village, some of these people were in a hurry, some seemed to have nothing to do, and sometimes they would talk to the people of Wangjia Village, and there was one person I was very impressed, that is, the young man with black-framed glasses on the day of the mass death, he was dressed in an extraordinarily neat black cedar, and he was wearing leather shoes under his feet, and he also saw me a few times, but he did not speak to me once.

After Wu Zhenren came to Wangjia Village, the first few nights were in my house to live, the Taoist temple in the back mountain was repaired before he moved over, I was at that time to this fairy-like figure in addition to worship or worship, so that every time I saw him will always hide first, and then poke out his head to look at him, once I saw him come to the old well alone, standing on the eaves of the well and watched for a long time, until the sun set, his figure disappeared in the darkness.

It was in the summer of that year that my mother sewed a flower schoolbag for me and took me to the kindergarten in Wangjia Village.

From that day on, I had to pass through the village once a day on my way to and from school, and my mother told me not to go near the old well, and the more she said this, the more frightened I became, until one day I saw a snake as thick as a water tank, and it was coiled on the eaves of the old well, and it was far away and swallowed the snake letter at me, and it was so terrible that it seemed to be laughing at people.

I was so frightened that my hairs rose and I didn't dare to move, until the neighbor's third brother came back from the town on a girder car, called me and saw that I didn't answer, so he got out of the car and carried me to the girder of the car and sent me home.

That night I had a serious illness, the high fever that lasted for two days and two nights did not go away, my mother took care of me for two days and two nights without closing my eyes, I could feel my little hands held by her all the time, she gently put my little hands in her palms, like holding a shelled egg, gently rubbing, hoping that I could get better soon.

In the old habit of Wangjia Village, it has been rumored that licking eyebrows can dispel diseases and eliminate disasters, and it will be blessed.

My mother licked my brows like that without saying a word, until there were no more fine beads of sweat on my forehead, until she was so tired that she fell asleep next to my shoulder.

When I woke up on the third day, the first thing I said when I opened my eyes was, "Mom, there's a big snake on the old well." ”

Mother's cry came to everyone's ears without warning, she took me in her arms and cried, crying hoarsely, for the first time in the mother's eyes there was a resentful look, she looked at the helpless father and shouted: "I said a little earlier to move to the county seat, you have to stay in Wangjia Village, now it's okay, the daughter is gone, the son is gone!" Wang Huaiyuan, if your son has three longs and two shorts, you wait to collect the bodies of our mother and son! ”

Later, my grandfather told me that when I was one year old, my sister also had a high fever, and the first thing she said when she woke up was, "Mom, there is a big snake on the old well." ”