Lao Li Tou told us that the lonely grave of the hanged ghost is not usable, and the complete solution is to dig out the coffin and cremate it on the spot, as long as the bones are still in the soil, there will still be problems in the future, and it will become more and more fierce, but the July and a half are coming, and it is not suitable to dig the grave and open the coffin during this time, only wait until the beginning of winter to deal with it.

I glanced at the old yellow calendar hanging in the corner, it was only July 17, the fifteenth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, and there was still a whole month before the seventh and a half months.

Pan Shun patted me on the shoulder and said solemnly: "Brother, it's been hard for the past two days, why don't you have two drinks with me at night?" ”

I waved my hand again and again to refuse, thinking that I was so drunk last time that I almost bowed to the handle, and this time I might have done something out of the ordinary, so I said that I hadn't slept much in the past few days, and I had to rest early tonight, and I would talk about it later.

Pan Shun looked at Lao Li Tou on the side again, and was about to speak, but was intercepted by Lao Li Tou: "Thank you for looking at it, don't drink a drop of wine!" ”

Seeing that he had eaten the closed door, Pan Shun touched the back of his head in embarrassment, and said words of thanks again and again, until we were invited out by Lao Li Tou, and we still thanked him in those three steps and one turn.

"Huazi, where have you been? Let's find it! Just as Pan Shun and I were walking, Qiangzi shouted at me not far away.

"Uncle Pan? Why are you there? Qiangzi approached and was a little surprised to see Pan Shun, after all, we don't have much contact with each other on weekdays, but now he sees me walking with him on the road, and he is a little suspicious.

"That, I just ran into it on the road, you talk, I have to go home and skin the rabbit." Pan Shun looked like a person who couldn't lie, his dark face was a little red, his speech was stumbling, and he hurried up and left by himself after coping with a sentence.

"Why are you with him? Hunting in the mountains? Eating alone again? Hadron frowned, tilted his head, and asked.

"You and I are as good as you and enjoy yourself, everyone should be? What's the matter with me in such a hurry? "I didn't bother to make up nonsense, so I diverted the topic and asked him what he meant.

Qiangzi said that the leaders had already arrived at the village committee this morning, and according to the instructions issued by the above, the educated youths of the three villages around us should indeed gather together to set up two production brigades.

"What? Do you really want to break up? "I was a little surprised, I didn't expect that the news Fang Qing said was true, which meant that the four of us were likely to be separated.

"Is the list out?" I asked.

"The big-character poster hasn't come out yet, but I heard Fang Qing say that the personnel have been adjusted, I have good news and bad news, and I must notify you immediately!"

"Tell me the bad news first." I felt a little weak in my heart.

"Fang Qing is really going to be transferred, going to Jixi Village twenty miles away, and he is separated from the glasses!" Qiangzi patted his thigh as he spoke, a little annoyed.

When I heard this, my heart sank, I was afraid that Fang Qing would leave, but I didn't expect this to be the result.

"And what about the good news?" I paused and continued to ask.

"The good news is that your brother Qiang is still your kindest revolutionary comrade-in-arms, and we have been assigned to Hongxing Village together!" Qiangzi's gloomy face suddenly opened his eyebrows and laughed, and the whole person jumped on the spot twice and laughed.

"What? What the fuck is the good news you're talking about? Divide into a group with you, and return her mother to other villages? "I opened the meat mouth, a little surprised but true and a little angry, why don't you put me and Comrade Fang Qing in a group? But if you think about it, at least there is an acquaintance who can take care of each other, and it's not bad news.

Seeing that I was not excited, Qiangzi looked dazed, and after calming down, he replied to me that Jilian Village was too small and there were no conditions suitable for the brigade to live, so he temporarily decided to arrange two points in Jixi Village and Hongxing Village, and the production work of Jixi Village would be transferred from the two groups of brigades from time to time to help. He also said that our brigade is the second production brigade of Dafeng Commune, and in the future, a strict division of work system will be implemented, and dividends will be distributed and rations will be divided.

This is really a wave of unevenness, the matter of the dead has just been solved, and the living people here are tossed again, after hearing Qiangzi's words, my whole person is like a frosted eggplant wilting, thinking that not only will it be difficult to see Fang Qing in the future, but this good day of leisurely production and life will also come to an end.

Not long after, the village committee posted a big-character poster, the content and Qiangzi said that the big difference, the team adjustment time is in a hurry, only gave two days of preparation time, two days passed, the four of us went to their respective villages to report, leaving the village when the rich sister-in-law, Pan Shun and Yanni watched us from afar on the bridge to say goodbye, I looked at the direction of the old Li Tou's house, but did not see his figure.

After walking for about five or six miles, the four of us were about to fork in the road, and Qiangzi and I were lost in our hearts and didn't talk much, but we were full of spirit with glasses smiling all the way, and we didn't forget to say that we would go to Jixi Village to sit when we were free, and he and Fang Qing would be very welcome.

I muttered in my heart that I finally picked up a bargain for this kid, and I still wanted to leave a good impression on Fang Qing, and I said to them with a sigh of separation, Fang Qing didn't say a few words to me all the way, the whole person looked listless, at first I thought she was uncomfortable, but later I realized that she was like this because of me.

I didn't expect that the team of four intellectuals would now become me and Qiangzi, but what I didn't expect was that I encountered something strange on the first night I arrived in Hongxing Village.

Qiangzi was fat, and he was out of breath since he hit a sharp slope, and we walked more than ten miles in a row with a large marching bag, and now we saw a forest, and he refused to move any further.

I have a light wind on the surface, but my physical strength has long been overdrawn, and this forest is lush, there is a breeze blowing from time to time, and I don't want to get up when my butt touches the ground, thinking that I have to eat bite by bite, and the road must be walked step by step.

Our bags were full, but we didn't have a mouthful of dry food, and we both felt that we could get to our destination before dark in one go, and it was clear that we were both overestimating our practical abilities.

There was no other way to starve or suffer in front of us, and we argued for a long time about this, and finally came to an agreement, feeling that we would rather die of exhaustion than starvation, and sighed and continued to set foot on the road to Hongxing Village.

It was also strange to this man that whenever the body consciousness relaxed, he would lose his willpower, and we would stop and go until the sun went down and did not see the shadow of the village.

It was so dark and silent that we could hear our heartbeats, and we didn't have oil lamps, but walked by the faint light cast by the misty moon in the sky.

"Huazi, it's a little strange that you don't see the moon......" Qiangzi whispered in my ear.

I've been muttering about this for a long time, and I've heard adults talk about the Mao Moon many years ago, saying that when this kind of moon is in the sky, there are ghosts in the sky, and people with weak characters are easy to hit ghosts in this environment.

I was a little suspicious when Qiangzi mentioned this, but I still told him that the old idea of feudal superstition is unacceptable, and now it is a new society and a new China, and everything has to be scientific and factual, but I know very well in my heart that I may be contaminated with this kind of thing.

The mountain road was eighteen bends, and I walked on the wild road with twists and turns, except for the occasional birdsong without any sound, and the strong son suddenly sank down, and his left hand grabbed my shoulder hard.

"Ouch, it hurts me." Hadron called, and I looked closely at the ground and saw a black object, and I tentatively stepped on it with my foot, and it turned out that he kicked on the stone and mixed his foot.

"Who the fuck is so immoral to move the stones." Hadron rubbed his legs and cursed.

I helped him up, saying that the road was not easy to walk at night, don't look around, I still want to see something, right?

After speaking, I took the opportunity to look at the right rear, and I saw a black thing floating in the air, this black is different from the darkness of the night, it is the kind of inky black, and this thing looks like a standing coat under closer inspection.

My eyes widened and I stared at the thing in a daze, speechless.

"You're leaving." The strong son was about to step out of my leg with one hand on my arm, but because I was still standing in place, his body that had been moving forward was pulled back again.

When he saw me standing there as if I had lost my soul, he asked, "What are you doing backwards?" It's all in the opposite direction! ”

I didn't speak, I still looked at the black shadow like a gown in front of me, and my legs were like mud tied and I couldn't move.

Qiangzi also sensed that the situation was wrong, and looked at me at the past, which was not tight, and scared him into a loud cry of "wow".

The thing began to move when it heard Hadron's voice, swaying from side to side and slowly moving towards us.

"Shall we run?" The strong son grabbed me, and he spoke like he was about to cry.

I suddenly thought of what Lao Li Tou had told me before, he said that everyone has three fires on their bodies, two on their shoulders and one on their heads, as long as the three fires are not extinguished, they will not be haunted by ghosts, but I have a canopy in my eight characters, and it is easy to see unclean things, especially in this mountain, I may not bump into something when I walk at night, if I really bump into my back, I must stabilize my position and not run blindly, and someone pats my shoulder and calls my name, and I must not turn back suddenly.

"Don't move, don't move!" I whispered to Qiangzi, first, I can't take a step at all now, and I'm already scared alive, and second, Lao Li Tou won't use this to trick me, so he naturally has his reason, Qiangzi wants to go, but he can't run if his leg is injured.

The two of us stood upright, seeing the thing getting closer and closer, my heart was already in my throat, and cold sweat broke out, but as the thing got closer and closer, I saw more and more clearly, and gradually out of the haze appeared an old man in a black coat and gray trousers, and his legs limped as if he were limping.

We both let out a long sigh at the same time, daring to scare ourselves, and the old man, because he was wearing gray trousers and could not see clearly in the night, thought that it was a gown floating in the air.

"Fucking scared me to death, this old man doesn't bring a light when he walks at night." Qiangzi wiped his forehead with his sleeve and shouted: "You old comrade has bad legs and feet, and you are not afraid of falling?" ”

As if he had not seen us, the old man walked with his head bowed to himself, and did not reply to the words of the strong son, until he came to me and took two steps past me, without glancing at us.

"Hey, this old comrade is really unqualified."

Hadron was about to turn around in annoyance, but I grabbed him by the arm and told him to wait, feeling that something was wrong.

I whispered to him that when the old man had just passed me, his face had been very white, and it was impossible to see it in such a dark environment, but his face was a very abrupt pale, not like the blood of a living person.

I slowly turned my face sideways and looked back, and the old man had not taken a few steps before he suddenly turned around and walked towards us, standing behind me.