Zhang Ke's father tilted his head and thought for a while, and said: "There are strange things, but many years have passed, when I was still very young, and I went to the mountains with the two children in the village to herd cattle. At that time, it was a large collective, and we had to rely on earning work and sharing food to eat, and we were small, so we couldn't do the work in the field, so we had to herd cattle and earn some work to subsidize our family. ”

Zhang Ke's father began to speak very slowly, I think it must be that this matter is indeed too long, he is about to forget, and he has to talk about it while recalling, so he is so slow. However, after a few sentences, his narration became fluid.

Zhang Ke's mother and I listened.

Zhang Ke's father seemed to have returned to the scene at that time, his eyes became a little weird, and he only heard him say: "Our three children drove a cow and two calves up the mountain. Fearing that the cattle would eat the crops in the field, we drove them as far into the mountains as we could, and before we knew it, we were at the place where the mass grave was. Because there was no crop land in that area, it was a barren mountain, and the weeds grew very luxuriantly. We were so happy to see that the cow was finally ready to eat a good meal, and we planned to drive the cow into the innermost valley, for there was the most grass and the most tender.

"But, I don't know what's going on, the big two, the little three cows won't go in, and no matter how much we try to get in, they won't go in. We wondered why the cows wouldn't go in and eat the grass inside, of course, we didn't know it was a mass grave, we thought it was just an ordinary col.

"One of the children, Ergozi, was on fire, and pulled the reins of the cow's nose in front and pulled it in hard, while I hit the cow's ass with a branch in the back. The second dog broke the nose of the ox, and the reins fell out of the nose of the ox, and a lot of blood was shed, but the cow still refused to go in.

At this time, the other youngest child, named Zhao Di, was a girl, and she told us that the cow was crying with tears in her eyes. The second dog and I thought it was a broken nose and tears in pain, but we didn't care. However, the second dog let the cow go, and the cow walked back more than ten meters as if he had been granted amnesty, to eat the weeds there.

Then the second dog scolded, scolding the cow for not being happy, and for not eating the delicious young grass, but eating the old and yellow weeds. Then they drove the two calves in, and the two calves refused to go in, and one of them, while we were not looking, slipped away and ran to the cow.

It's really weird, the second dog scolded fiercely, which immediately aroused his temper, and he had to drive a cow in. We drove the youngest cow inside, but the cow was small and weak, and although we tried desperately to resist, we pushed it in.

"In order to prevent the calf from escaping, the three of us children blocked the place, and we did not go in or let the calf out. It was very strange to us that when the calf came inside, he did not eat grass, his legs trembled, and he was also teary-eyed. ”

When Zhang Ke's father said this, he stopped, and shivered in a trance. I basically know what is going on, because Chen Erdong said that cows can see ghosts, and they will shed tears when they see ghosts. Therefore, the three cows that Zhang Ke's father and they drove must have seen the ghosts inside, so they refused to go in to eat the grass inside, and they were in tears.

Zhang Ke's father swallowed his saliva and continued: "Looking at the strange performance of that calf, although Ergouzi and I felt strange, we didn't think about the weird place, but Zhaodi suddenly felt scared and had to go home. We had no choice but to drive the cattle down the hill and go home.

"When I got back to the production team, the stranger happened, the smallest cow didn't eat or drink. You must know that at that time, the cow was a very important production tool for the production team, and the captain thought it was sick, so he asked a veterinarian to treat it. The veterinarian examined the calf's body and found nothing ailmentary.

The veterinarian finally concluded that the calf was not sick and said that maybe it would be fine after a while. Hearing that the calf was not sick, we were all relieved, and the captain was also relieved, so we handed the cow over to Aunt Luo, a breeder who was responsible for taking care of the cattle. We're all home, too.

However, in the evening, Aunt Luo suddenly shouted at the top of her voice, saying that the cow had run away. Our village is not big, there are only about 30 families, Aunt Luo has a loud voice, she screamed like this, we all heard it, and almost all of us ran to see what was going on.

"It turned out that the calf ran away and ran up the hill, and everyone followed after it. Unbeknownst to him, the calf ran to a large stone bag and slammed it headlong into the stone. The collision was so severe that the calf's brain burst and he fell into a pool of blood, struggling a few times before moving.

"We were all stunned by the calf's suicide, and we all looked at the calf's corpse and didn't know what had happened. At this time, the second dog suddenly yelled and ran desperately home. Everyone was frightened by the strange behavior of the second dog, so they didn't care about the calf, and ran to see what kind of nerves the second dog had.

Later, Ergouzi told everyone that after the calf died, he saw a woman get up from the calf, smiled at him, and disappeared.

Hearing what Ergouzi said, everyone was frightened, and the captain immediately realized that the problem was serious, and asked us what happened when we were grazing cattle during the day. The second dog was so frightened that he couldn't speak clearly, and Zhao Di was also so frightened that she cried so hard that she couldn't say why, and finally I told everyone the situation at that time.

"Everyone thought it must have been a ghost, and they were all very upset. The next day, the captain sent someone to the village to invite a Taoist priest, and the Taoist priest asked me to lead the way and went to the place where we were grazing cattle to have a look. Then he told us that it was a mass grave with a lot of ghosts trapped in it. The calf was possessed by a female ghost, so he committed suicide and let the female ghost get out and go to the underworld. The Taoist priest also told us the origin of the mass grave, which is what I just told you.

Later, the Taoist priest told us that although there were many ghosts in the mass grave, because of the special terrain there, it was a ghost pot, and the ghosts in it could not come out at all. So, as long as people and animals don't go in, they can't harm people. ”

When Zhang Ke's father said this, he turned his head to look at me and said, "Since then, everyone in our village knows that there is a mass grave there, and we don't dare to go there again. Fortunately, after such an incident, there has been no similar thing for so many years. Me and Ergouzi, as well as Zhao Di, are fine, and slowly, we are not so afraid. If you hadn't asked about it now, I'd almost forgotten about it. ”