Chapter 21: The Donkey in the Ghost Courtyard Barks
I scooped a bowl of noodles from the fence, picked a few boiled sweet potato seedlings on top, poured frangipani and garlic juice, brought it to the outside under the neem tree, stirred well, and ate it in a big gulp.
I ate two big bowls, and I ate a little bit, so I put down the bowls, put the pots and bowls, and put them all in the basin, took them to the edge of the well, pressed the water and slowly washed them, and put them back on the board in the stove house.
I wiped my hands, looked at the sun on the western roof, and wondered where I was going to play for a while, when I suddenly heard a long, short donkey bark outside.
I hurriedly looked out, and through the gable courtyard wall of my house, I looked around the whole circle, and I didn't see a donkey running over. This is really strange, we have no one in the village, no one has looked at the donkey, all say that the donkey is useless, and can not plow the ground, and can not pull the cart, even if it is killed and eaten, there is not as much meat as the cow, so for many years, the village has not raised this thing, but this long and short donkey cry, where did it come from?
I've always been curious about this donkey, and I've always felt that this thing is full of all kinds of strange things. I don't know if it's my quirk or if I'm an alternative person, the more I can't see anything, the more I think it's worth seeing.
We don't have this thing in the village, could it be that the donkey in the village ran over, or someone drove the donkey cart past us? I kept speculating in my mind.
I began to walk outside, and when I arrived at the dragon gate, I took the courtyard gate with me, and then ran to the road outside the Chen Thorn Tree, looked north and south, looked in the direction of the donkey's barking, and ran over.
I ran to the courtyard of Uncle Nine's house in the back. For I could hear the donkey's call, and it was evident that it had come from the other side of their yard. However, as soon as I ran to the dragon gate of Uncle Jiu's house, I began to hesitate.
Because, I know, since Uncle Jiu died and Aunt Jiu went south, their two three-room bungalows have been uninhabited for many years and have been empty.
Although my house is only separated by a wall from Uncle Nine's house in the backyard, I have never been to his yard. Even if Uncle Nine was still like this before, and since he died, it is impossible for me to run to his courtyard.
But now, there is a donkey cry coming out of his yard, and the big iron lock on the dragon gate of his house has rusted.
The courtyard gate of the ninth uncle's house is open to the east, from the gate of this courtyard to the east, a few steps is the courtyard wall of the second son's house, and then to the east is the very deep moat river with steep and steep ditches, and beyond this moat, there is the endless green carpet-like crop field.
I stood outside the courtyard gate of Uncle Jiu's house, pacing back and forth, muttering in my heart, forget it, what's so nice about this donkey. But the high and low call of the donkey, as if it had magical power, kept hooking my soul, and I almost couldn't stop it......
I concluded that there must be a donkey in this courtyard who was crying for joy, otherwise it would not have barked so merrily, and it would not have barked so unscrupulously. I'm a demon, if there is really such a crazy bark of a donkey, how can there be no adults come out to see, at least those old people will slowly come over to see what is going on.
I really ignored it completely, I walked back and forth several times at the gate of Uncle Jiu's house, and when I saw that no one around me had come, I raised my foot, jumped lightly, and floated into his yard.
The courtyard of Uncle Jiu's house is connected by two three-room bungalows, and the middle of the two bungalows is only separated by a wall. The two bungalows, along with the boundary wall in the middle, are made of pure red brick.
I don't know where he bought these red bricks from at that time, they are completely different from the pink bricks of other homes, and the red bricks of Uncle Jiu's house, that color, look a little crimson, and even ...... I don't even dare to think deeply......
I jumped into his yard, and what caught my eye was that the yard was covered with a dense field of wild hemp trees, these wild hemp trees grew very luxuriantly, because there were no trees planted in the yard of Uncle Jiu's house, so the broad leaves of these hemp trees were very verdant, and the leaves were fluffy, very light green, and the wind swept by, and the leaves were like no backbone, crowded to the side to the side.
I saw a round hole in the middle of the hemp tree, and when I looked closer, I realized that it was a sweet potato cellar with a collapsed roof, because the remaining sweet potatoes had sprouted, and I climbed madly to the mouth of this sweet potato cellar.
I looked at the sweet potato seedlings that crawled out, the deep purple green leaves, which were dazzling in the sunlight, because all around me were the fluffy light green of the wild hemp trees, and these sweet potato seedlings were not only the color of the surrounding ones, but they grew out in bundles of each other, and after they grew up, they did not fall on the ground at the entrance of the cave, but then grew straight up, which is a rare spectacle.
I looked a little strange, looking down at the sweet potato seedlings, I only felt that under the collapsed sweet potato cellar, there was some fog steaming, and in such a strangeness, there was a long and short sound of the donkey's bark.
No matter how light I walk and how small my movements are, there is still a sound, but why does the donkey keep barking when I jump in from the outside? And this sweet potato cellar can't accommodate a normal adult donkey at all. From the perspective of ordinary people, I speculated why this donkey kept barking under the sweet potato cellar, but I really didn't understand it.
Just as I was looking down at the sweet potato cellar, I felt a bird flying overhead. I hurriedly looked up, and saw a large black bird, dragging its long tail, flying in from the outside over the courtyard wall, and after the bird flew in, it stopped steadily at the boundary wall.
It was only then that I saw that on the long tail of the big bird, which was as black as charcoal, there was actually a long white hair, which was dragging behind it very incongruously. I saw that the bird was a little strange, it stood impartially in the middle of the wall, its head facing the direction of me standing, and then one of its wings suddenly stretched out, and drew an arc on the side, and suddenly twisted its head back, and the pointed beak pecked at the long white hair, and after it pecked off the long white hair with great difficulty, I could only hear a super ugly croaking sound from the big bird's beak, and then the bird fluttered and fell to the side of the wall.
I was dumbfounded, and I just wondered if the big bird had hysteria, or had eaten poison, how could it harm itself under my nose like this? I'm afraid this bird is not crazy, right?