After a long chat with them, my father watched the moon slowly set in the west before he got up to see them off. When he was about to be discharged from the hospital, his father carried a bag of chili peppers in one hand, gave a bag to Brother Zhongyang, and gave a bag to his second aunt, and he kept saying words of thanks in his mouth......

They were all gone, and I got up and went out to pee. There was no wind at night, and the poplar leaves in the courtyard did not move, so I felt into the foot of the wall outside with my fascinated eyes and urinated in the corner.

As soon as I had finished urinating, I turned my head to go back to the courtyard, when I saw a dark shadow at the root of the big mulberry tree in my house, which moved low and hidden. I thought I was dazzled, so I quickly opened my eyes wide and looked over.

It was late at night, and the village was very quiet, with no voices and no dogs barking. I thought I was half-asleep and dazzled, so I quickly rubbed my eyes and looked over to the mulberry tree.

The mulberry tree in my house grows very thick, the trunk is not too high, but it is as thick as three people hugging each other. The three main branches on it are so leafy.

As soon as it got dark, it was even darker under the mulberry tree. If you don't bring a bright light here at night, it really feels like you can't see your fingers. And just as I saw the black shadow, just as I was staring, suddenly it came out from behind the tree, darker than under the mulberry tree, so dark that I could clearly see that it was something that was a black winter.

The black shadow flashed out from behind the tree, as if looking at me, and then slowly disappeared behind the mulberry tree.

I stomped my foot a few times, thinking to myself that if someone ran out of the cow, sheep, pigs, or dogs, or the like, I would at least be scared away when I heard the footsteps of people, but after I stomped a few times, the black shadow still slowly disappeared behind the mulberry tree.

I quickly squatted down, stretched out my hand, and wanted to touch a half-cut brick from the ground or something to throw it over to see what it was, but I didn't expect that when I stretched out my hand, I actually touched a soft and rotten thing, and I felt something wrong in my heart, so I came to my nose and smelled it, it was a bubble of shit, and I scolded angrily.

I threw my hand forward, but I didn't expect the black shadow behind the mulberry tree to stretch out a hand or a long neck softly, and snap the shit to catch it accurately.

I was about to exclaim what this thing was, when suddenly a bright light shone like an arrow, and I clearly saw that a large long worm was blacker than black, coiled in a neat disc, and a flat head sticking out of the middle, stretching out its long core one by one, probing its brain one by one.

When I saw this, I was startled and hurriedly looked to the side. I saw my father standing beside me with a long flashlight in one hand and a shovel in the other, looking intently at this side like me. He also said to me softly: "Xiaoliang, you go back quickly." ”

I couldn't move, I couldn't move my feet as if they were pinned. I gestured to my father with a bitter face, and he seemed to understand that I couldn't move. He protected me behind him, took the shovel in his right hand and aimed at the big black worm, and stabbed it softly.

But who knows, the long worm seemed to understand that it was about to be attacked, and quickly untied those disks, and its round body was like an extremely thick black rope, shining with a faint and terrifying light in the flashlight.

I thought that the black long worm was going to get up and attack our father and son, but I didn't expect that at this time, when the shovel had not yet landed, I heard a thin voice coming from the mulberry tree: "Xiaoliang, Xiaoliang, I am your master, you come here, I will give you candy to eat......"

I distinctly heard my father's voice coming from the tree, and after my father called me once, the shovel had already fallen, impartially, and was rooted in the tail of the black long worm, and the section in front of the black long worm seemed to be very frightened and swept over the mulberry tree, along the root of the wall, and plunged into the courtyard of the neighbor's ninth uncle's house like the wind.

Uncle Jiu's mansion has not been entered for many years. Uncle Nine died violently, Aunt Nine went south, and the courtyard grew dense weeds and hemp trees, and in this inaccessible place, you can often hear the sound of wild mice fighting, the sound of wild cats mating, and some strange footsteps, as well as ethereal human voices.

Anyway, no one has been here for many years since Uncle Jiu died, and now such a big black worm is really scary. When my father saw the long black worm burrowing into the empty yard at a gallop, he went over and pulled out the shovel, and slapped the tail of the long worm that was still struggling, and slapped it desperately a few times, seeing that the tail was broken into pulp, and then put away the shovel and pulled me, ready to go back to the house to sleep.

I still stood still, watching the thrilling scene in front of me, and I was almost unconscious. And most importantly, why at this time, my grandfather's voice suddenly came. And I didn't see my father's shadow.

Thinking of this, I snatched the flashlight from my father's hand and shone it up and down the mulberry tree, and shone it back and forth, but I saw nothing but a few sleeping night birds. I returned the flashlight to my father, rubbed my numb legs, and limped into the yard with my father.

Back in the house, I sat alone on the bed gang, staring at the flickering kerosene lamp in a daze. What is this black long worm going to do when it comes out, and my grandfather's shout comes out at this time, what does it portend, I don't know the answer. The kerosene lamp suddenly burst out with a spark, which burst in front of my eyes, and I was startled and fell asleep.

A man stared at the kerosene lamp, fixedly, watching, watching, and slowly, the shadow of my father appeared in the light, and the shadow was still tall and big, wearing a black old coarse cloth coat, black old cotton pants, and black hand-soled cotton shoes.

The shadow loomed in the light, and my grandfather's appearance was still so white and pure, with a kind smile on his thin face. I didn't know what was the matter with my grandfather coming out to look for me at this time, so I sat up straight and looked at the shadows in the light.

"Xiaoliang, Xiaoliang, I'm your master, you come, I'll give you candy to eat......" In fact, to be honest, I have grown up, at this time, I am not so afraid of my father, this call followed me throughout my childhood.

The years I should have been afraid have passed, so I sat on the bed, watching the shadow of my father in the light, and calling my voice was also thin and soft. I know that every time my father comes out to look for me, it looks like something has happened. This time is certainly no exception. But I don't know what it is.

My father was in the shadow of the lamp, called me five or six times, and then slowly retreated. I myself was dazed and sleepy, and when it was almost dawn, I was awakened by a soak of urine, and reached out to wipe the saliva from the corner of my mouth, but I didn't expect to smell the smell of dog shit.