When I woke up, I wondered why the scalpers carried me to see those people going down the well. Why is there a chain in the well? Why does the yellow soup come out of the well when those people pull the chains, accompanied by a pungent fishy smell? More importantly, why was it that I was able to remember every detail of this dream as if I had experienced it myself?

And what's tied to the end of that chain?

I got out of bed, pushed open the door of the hall, and saw my mother coming out of the kitchen with two buckets in her hands, as if she was about to fetch water, and I stopped her.

The mother turned around and said, "Why wake up, sleep more, and eat scallion pancakes for breakfast." ”

I said, "Mom, I can't drink the water in the old well today, and people are drowning in it." ”

When my mother heard me say this, she was visibly stunned for a moment, and my father came out of the house and rebuked me, saying, "What nonsense do children say! ”

"I saw it." I lowered my head and muttered a little aggrieved.

The mother, whose face turned pale with fright, said to her father, "I'll go and see." ”

The father said, "I'll go, and you can eat first." ”

After my father finished speaking, he took the iron bucket from my mother's hand and glared at me before leaving.

After my father left, my mother brought the food to the table, and my mother and I sat at opposite ends of the table, without eating or talking.

After a while, my father came back from outside, and I could hear my father tiptoeing as he put the bucket on the ground, for fear of hearing it to my mother.

My father's face was very ugly, so he sat down, took me and my mother a piece of scallion pancake, put it on the plate in front of us, and said, "Hurry up and eat." ”

My mother's eyes were red, and tears were pouring down her face, but she didn't speak, and she knew that what I said was true.

"What are you crying about, the child is fine and nothing!" Father slapped the table hard and said impatiently.

"What are you yelling at!" Grandpa's voice suddenly came from behind him. "Who did you show with a stinky face all day?"

After my grandfather reprimanded my father, he picked me up and walked out of the house on my shoulders while I was eating scallion pancakes.

I knew that my grandfather was going to take me to the old well at the head of the village to see the dead, so I secretly rubbed the oil on my hand on his shoulder, and told him about the dream I had last night.

Grandpa wasn't surprised when I heard what I said, I thought my grandfather didn't believe it, but what Grandpa said next made me scared all of a sudden.

Grandpa said, "Tonight, the cows will come." ”

I don't know why my grandfather didn't comfort me, but told me this proverb, but when I arrived at the head of the village, a group of policemen were already surrounding the old well, and there was a corpse covered with a white cloth by the well, and next to the corpse, there was a pile of rusty iron chains.

Liu Quan saw his grandfather carrying me over, he greeted him from afar, he saw his grandfather's smile and even a little flattering, now Liu Quan is already the squadron leader of the town police station, everyone said that he finally got through, and the policeman who has been working for 20 years has not had a chance to be promoted, and the case in Wangjia Village two months ago made him jump from an unknown old police officer to a squadron leader.

"How did this man die?" Grandpa asked, pointing to the dead body under the white cloth.

Liu Quan said: "Just now, the forensic examination said that he was scared to death, and his courage was broken. ”

"Who is the one who died?" Grandpa asked again.

"I don't know, I don't think he's wearing a local." Liu Quan replied.

Grandpa nodded, and then said to me, "Eldest grandson, do you dare to look at it?" ”

I nodded, and said in a childish voice, "Dare! ”

Liu Quan heard the conversation between me and my grandfather, hesitated for a moment and said, "Secretary Wang, I'm afraid this person's death is going to scare the little boy!" ”

After Liu Quan finished speaking, he saw the displeasure on his grandfather's face, and hurriedly signaled the police guarding the corpse to lift the white cloth, even if I was mentally prepared in advance, I was still frightened and my hair stood on end, because this person's eyes were wide open, staring in a certain direction, as if he had seen something terrible.

Grandpa pointed to the iron chain next to the corpse and asked Liu Quan: "Where did this iron chain come from?" ”

Liu Quan said: "Secretary Wang, I was about to ask you, seeing that the iron chains have been rusted like this, and the other end is still in the well, it should come from the well, but I don't know that in the taboo of Wangjia Village, this well ......."

Grandpa smiled when he heard Liu Quan's words and said: "There is nothing alive in this well, some of them have also been killed by us, and the ancestor did not say that the well cannot be moved, I think it is better to pull the chain up and take a look, such a dirty thing is put in the well, which makes people sick to their stomachs." ”

When Liu Quan heard his grandfather say this, the expression on his face relaxed slightly, the reason why he didn't dare to touch the iron chain was to wait for his grandfather to come before making a decision, for fear of violating the taboo of Wangjia Village.

I turned my head and said, "Grandpa, it's going to squirt." ”

When the policemen who were about to pull the chain stopped their movements when they heard me say this, they hurriedly threw away the chain in their hands. Wangjia Village is now a famous ghost village, and if it weren't for someone's death, they wouldn't have come here at all.

When Liu Quan heard my words, he also looked at his grandfather in disbelief, his face was a little ashamed, they would rather believe this kind of thing, just a tree next to the old well confessed twenty-eight lives, and now I don't know why a person drowned in this well, in case a cow, ghost, snake and god pulled out and explained them here, wouldn't it be too unjust.

Grandpa shook his head and said, "The police are really capable of doing this, and they can pull a chain to kill people, if they can drag Hades out, I will swallow him alive!" Grandpa said that he went up and picked up the chain, and then turned his head to look at Liu Quan and them. Don't want to come over and take a hand? ”

Liu Quan's face turned red, and he walked behind his grandfather and held the chain, and then said to several young policemen next to him: "What are you doing there, don't you work for nothing?" ”

When the policemen saw that the captain had also gone up, they dared to run, took the end of the chain and began to pull the chain with the slogan of the grandfather, and the iron chain grinded strings of sparks from the granite stone on the eaves of the well, and the rust fell to the ground with a clatter.

When the iron chain was about seventeen or eighteen meters up by the grandfather, a strange whining sound suddenly came from the well, which sounded like a sea breeze and a human voice, and the sound became louder and louder, making people uneasy.

Suddenly a yellow soup bubbled up from the well, and the eaves of the well flowed out of the well, and a policeman was so frightened that he ran backwards.

Grandpa said, "Things are coming up, don't let go!" Let's pull! ”

Several people were so frightened that their hands and feet were weak, and they all dragged the chains far away to stand behind, only the grandfather came to the eaves of the well with yellow soup, only to hear the grandfather shout, wrapped the iron chain around his arms, and lifted it up suddenly, and a huge boxy thing rushed out of the well and was thrown by the grandfather to the open space next to it.

The thing was angular and angular, one end wide and the other narrow, and when the yellow soup on it leaked out of its true face, everyone, including Grandpa, turned pale with fright, because everyone could see that this was a coffin!

"How can there be a coffin in the well, our Wangjia Village has been drinking coffin water for generations!" The old man at the head of the village called out and slapped his thighs with both hands, like a shrew.

The coffin was pitch black, with yellow mud dipped under the coffin, and water was bubbling out of the coffin at this time, and a fishy smell could be faintly smelled.

The coffin was still wrapped with iron chains, which were wrapped very regularly, as if they were afraid that something would come out of the coffin, and a group of people were too frightened to move, and they all looked at their grandfather.

Grandpa took two small sips with his big cigarette stick, and a fine bead of sweat appeared on his forehead, I rarely saw grandpa so nervous.

Grandpa took a deep breath and said, "Stand back." ”

"Secretary Wang, do you really want to open this coffin?" The village chief who came in time said. "The most famous thing in our Wangjia Village is the plane tree, but what is really frightening is this well, in fact, the secret of this well is not that no one knows, but everyone who knows is dead, our village has fled from the Qin Shi Huang period, and it has been safe for many years, but in the Ming Dynasty, a big official surnamed Yao came to destroy the clan, and the reason for the clan disaster was this well! I don't know anything else. ”

Grandpa said: "In this way, this coffin has to be opened even more, our village is now panicking because of this well, I am afraid that no one dares to drink the well water, and the tap water is not available, why wait for death if you can't move home?" ”

As he spoke, Grandpa took off his coat, then took the axe handed by one of them and slashed at the coffin!

Grandpa was already strong, but at this time, he slashed down with all his strength, and the thick iron chain on the coffin broke in response!

Grandpa pulled the chain off the coffin, and then looked at the four corners of the coffin, he slammed into one of the corners and then lifted it suddenly, the coffin made a loud bang, and there was an extra black nail in Grandpa's hand!

Grandpa's hand didn't see any doorway, but they simply thought that grandpa had great strength, and he had been a bandit before, so he naturally had two hits, but a person standing in the crowd opposite widened his eyes, as if he had seen a ghost. I noticed that his eyes were full of horror, but not because he was afraid of the coffin! I don't know this man, but I do know that he is one of the outsiders who are looking for something in Wangjia Village.

After the grandfather pulled out the four corners of the coffin, he suddenly lifted the axe and smashed the side of the coffin lid with the back of the axe, and the coffin lid fell to the ground with a clanging sound, and a pungent fishy smell followed, and the onlookers retreated one after another, and some people ran to the distance and vomited.

Suddenly, there was a creaking sound in the coffin, like the sound of the door being pushed open, the baffles on all sides of the coffin suddenly unfolded, and a puddle of green liquid flowed down the coffin board, and the crowd of onlookers screamed in horror, and some people fled in a hurry, because in the middle of the coffin, there was a monster lying on its stomach.

The monster was as if it were asleep with its eyes closed, its body was blue-black, its hooves were strong and powerful, its back was covered with scales, and its two horns on its head were straight and sharp, and it was covered in a layer of green slime, and I was so frightened that I retreated, because this monster was exactly the same as the monster born by the scalpers of the Dasha family, but the body was several times larger.

Suddenly, the monster's front paws moved, and although it was an extremely small movement, many people's eyes still caught it.

"This thing is alive!" I don't know who suddenly shouted, the crowd was frightened and dispersed, even if there was a grandfather present, they didn't dare to stay any longer, a dead phoenix corpse killed twenty-eight people, this thing was locked in the well I don't know how many years, it must also be a spiritual thing, if you are angry, you don't know how many people will die.

Grandpa snorted, an axe slashed at the monster, and at this time the monster suddenly opened its eyes, it grabbed the axe in Grandpa's hand, and roared hideously, at the same time, its head actually made a sound of flesh tearing, as if to open the third eye, Grandpa was also shocked, and wanted to run away, but poof, the monster's head fell in response, and the bones rolled to the ground.

Everyone looked from afar, and saw Dasha also holding an axe in his hand, standing opposite his grandfather, he stared at the monster whose neck was still bleeding, and said, "Returning my cow!" ”

Look at the severed head of the monster, like a balloon leaking, quickly drying up, like the head of a dog that has been dead for many years.