On the playground of Xiguan Primary School, students and teachers are gathered in twos and threes, whispering.

Needless to say, this is talking about yesterday's grave robbery.

In the primary school at the foot of the gate building outside the West City Gate, there are not only students from the city, but also students from several nearby villages, teachers from the city and teachers from the countryside.

In the era when communication technology was not so developed, in remote areas where there was a lack of news media, the place where people gathered naturally became the distribution center of information, and Xiguan Primary School was a typical representative.

According to what we learned in the past two days, the tomb robbery happened not only in our village, but also in many villages in the county.

Whenever a message has completed its dissemination process, the next step is the fermentation of the message. This morning, this fermentation has already begun.

"I heard that there are people who specialize in digging up the bones of dead people to boil medicine, and if you give people such medicine, you can control that person and let him do whatever he wants. ”

"It is impossible for a man to do such a thing, and to dig a grave in the middle of the night, and not to be afraid? ”

"You think it's a pig, and you arch the grave. You're not right, none of this is done by humans, well——, it's not an animal. ”

"What do you do? You don't believe there are ghosts in the world, do you?"

"Don't tell me, the hell did it. Yesterday He Weilong told me that his father slept in a shack on the mountain that night, and the shack was built against a tomb. In the middle of the night, he heard the sound of 'knock, knock,......' and thought that someone was hitting the wall. But who would hit the wall on the mountain, let alone in the middle of the night. His father came out of the shack and looked around, but there was no one. He followed the direction of the sound, and found that the sound came from the tomb. He was wondering, only to hear an 'ah' cry from inside the grave, then a 'click', and then he saw the earth at the head of the grave slipping down. His father was paralyzed with fright, and even crawled down the hill and knocked on the door of their village, but the people in their village were all fools, and none of them believed it. ”

The person who said this was my classmate, who was called Lu Buping, a flamboyant guy, and liked to chase after the wind and shadows, and hearsay. He and He Weilong are at the same table.

I didn't participate in their conversation, but I was watching the excitement on the sidelines, and when I heard him say that we were all fools, I felt that my dignity had been violated, and I walked up and shouted, "You Zhuang are all fools." ”

"I don't have a village, I'm from the city. ”

I was speechless in a word.

Just as I was thinking about how to fight back, the school radio rang:

"Sixth Set of Radio Gymnastics, Ready, Start!1st Session, Stretching ......"

Before the first math class began, the homeroom teacher who taught Chinese hurried into the classroom.

Standing in the center of the podium, she said solemnly: "Students, after yesterday's incident, there is now a lot of gossip that has no scientific basis in society. You are all people who have studied science, and you should face these false statements with a scientific attitude. Put your mind on your studies, strive to get a good score in the final exam, and win the ranking for the school in the county's unified examination. Finally, a circular issued by the Education Bureau to all schools was announced. ”

The homeroom teacher took out a piece of paper from his jacket pocket and read: "All teachers, students, and teachers and staff of primary and secondary schools in the county: According to the county earthquake bureau, on the evening of June 19, an earthquake with a magnitude of 2.5 on the Richter scale occurred in most parts of our county. There was no earthquake felt in the county, and there was no loss of life or property. Only some of the loose soil plots have ground collapse. It is predicted that there is no possibility of aftershocks. All schools are requested to make normal arrangements for daily teaching work, and do a good job in the ideological work of teachers and students, and do not believe or spread rumors. County Education Bureau Announcement. ”

After reading it, the homeroom teacher nodded to the math teacher standing in the doorway and walked out of the classroom.

After that class, on my way to the bathroom, I saw a bunch of students huddled in the flower bed on the side of the school building, not knowing what they were doing.

I walked over and saw a big fat man in the next class surrounded in the middle, and said in a low voice, "Don't listen to the teacher's nonsense, there is no earthquake at all." My dad is from the geological team, and they received a notice from the county yesterday to go to the countryside to inspect the collapse of the grave. When he came back in the evening, he told my mother that they had dug up several graves, and that the coffins were broken into pieces, and that the dead people in the coffins were gone, only a layer of lime. The soil on the grave collapsed because the coffin was shattered and there was no support underneath. The old tomb did not collapse because the soil on the upper layer was relatively porcelain, and grass and trees grew on the top of the tomb, which fixed the soil. In fact, it was the same below, the coffin was all broken, and there was nothing in it. The county has formed an investigation team to investigate, but the real news is not allowed to be released. ”

"He also said that the teacher was talking nonsense, I think you are talking nonsense, how can the coffin be broken at a good end, and the 2.5 magnitude earthquake can shatter the coffin? Let's disperse, the Education Bureau has said, let's not believe rumors or spread rumors, you are still spreading rumors here. A few rational classmates who listened stood up and exposed the big fat man's lies.

Everyone dispersed.

After school, I heard the people of Zhuangli say that the county sent a notice that the collapse of the grave was caused by the earthquake, and asked the people who had collapsed the grave to repair the grave as soon as possible, and hoped that the members of the society would put their minds into agricultural production as soon as possible, and this matter should not be mentioned again, let alone use this matter to promote feudal superstition.

For our village on the edge of the city, the county seat is close at hand, but the "county" is far away. People who have lived according to their own habits for generations have never cared about any county or province, so the notice in the county seems to the people of Zhuangli like a cloud floating overhead, knowing that it is there, but what does it have to do with me.

However, the restoration of the grave was unanimously carried out resolutely.

The new graves in the village have been renovated. There is one exception.

That's the grave of the sailor's grandmother. It is said that only this one of the new tombs in the village has not collapsed.

This became one of the fuses for the He family's troubles. Another fuse * is that the fairy grandmother killed He Laosan.

Yesterday morning, after He Laosan went crazy. The people of Zhuangli went to the back mountain to invite the fairy grandmother.

After the fairy grandmother arrived at the gate of the brigade courtyard, she walked back and forth more than ten times outside the door, and kept saying: "This is impossible, this is impossible!"

Then let people open the door, and she went in alone, and after entering, she couldn't hear He Laosan's crazy voice.

About an hour later, the fairy grandmother came out and said, "It's worth living for so many more years." ”

After saying that, he went straight to the back mountain.

The people outside rushed into the courtyard to see that He Laosan was lying upright on the ground, without any breath.