One day in June, the weather was so hot that the trees in the mountains seemed to be sick, their leaves hanging on the branches and curling; the branches were too lazy to move, hanging listlessly. The green grass on the ground was scorched, and the yellow ground was scorching hot. Several brown pot-bellied crickets screamed frantically in the mountains or on the roadside. Two friends, Xiaolin and Wang Wazi, dressed in pants and barefoot, and Wang Wazi’s father, Wang, came to the edge of a large reservoir in the mountains. Lao Wang went to mow the cattle and grass, Xiao Lin and Wang Wazi were playing by the reservoir. Xiao Lin accidentally fell into the water and drowned. Later, Xiaolin was buried on the slope opposite the neighbor Liu Dabing’s house.
One night a week after Xiaolin’s death, Liu Dabing was awakened by urine until midnight, so he got up and opened the door to pee. He suddenly saw someone burning a fire on the opposite slope. He thought it was a charcoal burning person burning charcoal there, so he didn’t pay attention, and went back to sleep after peeing. Liu Dabing got up to urinate for several nights, and strangely, the fire on the opposite mountain had not gone out. The next day he deliberately went to the mountain to find the source of the fire. But when I got there, there was nothing suspicious except Xiaolin’s grave, and there was no sign of burning. Remember this place! Why is there no source of fire? At this time, Liu Dabing became scared. He doesn’t know what the fire is, is it a ghost fire? So Liu Dabing hurried back. When I returned home, I said to my wife, “I have seen it on the opposite mountain, and there is nothing. The ghost fire may be Xiaolin’s ghost!” His wife was shaking all over after hearing this! Liu Dabing never dared to come out to pee at night.
The next day, he told Xiaolin’s parents about this. Of course, Xiaolin’s parents didn’t believe it. Later, some people walking at night also saw the ghost fire. Liu Dabing said to his wife: “The ghost fire happened to be facing his own fairy. It is very unlucky. Let’s ask a witch to drive it away!” Of course, the wife agreed. The next day, Liu Dabing invited a witch to the house, and it was considered a random incident. The witch pinched a finger and said that at night on that mountain, many ghosts sang and danced around a fire, and those who died unjustly cried there, which was extremely frightening. Liu Dabing asked, “Can you drive away ghosts? Because it is unlucky to be haunted by my own house fairy!”
The witch said: “Yes, but those ghosts want Receive red envelopes.”
As long as you can get rid of ghosts, it doesn’t matter if you have more red envelopes. So Liu Dabing bought a big pig’s head as the witch said, bought some incense and other things, and sealed a few red envelopes. Although the witch said that he was giving money to the ghosts, he put it in his pocket. The couple seemed to sleep peacefully that night. But then the ghost fire appeared again, and he was gone. Isn’t the witch’s mana low? He wanted to find a new witch with high magic power to restrain these lonely ghosts.
One day, two policemen came to Xiaolin’s house and asked Xiaolin’s parents about Xiaolin’s life. Xiaolin’s father poured a glass of boiling water for the police.While playing, Lao Wang was afraid that they would fall into the water, so he followed him, cutting cattle and grass not far away. After a while, I suddenly heard Xiaolin yelling: “Wang Wazi has fallen into the water, please help!”
Lao Wang ran over in a hurry, panicking. He hurriedly took off his shoes and clothes, ready to go into the water. At this moment, Xiaolin didn’t take off his clothes, so he jumped down to rescue Wang Wazi and swam to the shore. After swimming to the shore, Lao Wang reached out and grabbed Wang Wazi’s hand and pulled him to the shore.
Wang Wazi said to Lao Wang after she went ashore: “Dad, go and save Brother Xiaolin, he can’t swim!”
Lao Wang He said calmly, “What’s the hurry? Take your clothes off and dry them first.”
Kobayashi is exhausted, and he is eager to have a hand to pull him up, but Lao Wang didn’t save him in time. When Lao Wang turned his head after preparing his son, he found that Xiaolin had disappeared. Lao Wang thought, this is over, he might sink. Xiaolin really sank, and said goodbye to Wangwazi, farewell to his parents, and farewell to this world that has not had time to experience happiness!
Wang Wazi saw that Xiaolin hadn’t come ashore, so he asked: “Dad, where’s Brother Xiaolin?”
“He may be drowned, go , Let’s go home.” Lao Wang said.
After hearing this, Wang Wazi burst into tears. Lao Wang covered Wang Wazi’s mouth with one hand: “Don’t shout! If someone asks about Xiaolin, you don’t know anything, don’t say it! You know? If you say it, Lao Tzu won’t take you The skin!” Wang Wazi nodded in fear.
A few days later, someone went to the edge of the reservoir to mow the grass and found Xiaolin’s body floating on the water. Kobayashi was indeed drowned. After Xiaolin’s death, Xiaolin’s parents also asked Wang Wazi, but Lao Wang kept the truth of the matter very tight, so Xiaolin’s parents couldn’t ask, so they didn’t ask. As the saying goes: The human heart grows in flesh. What’s more, Xiaolin is also his son’s iron buddy, so he can’t survive his conscience’s death. After Xiaolin’s corpse was buried, he waited every night for the villagers to fall asleep. He took an iron washbasin and a bag of paper money, and went to Xiaolin’s grave and burned the paper money in the iron washbasin. Kobayashi’s forgiveness.
This is the truth about the “wild fire” seen by the folks.
The story is about to end, but Lao Wang kneels in front of the police and confessed deeply: Police officer, I can’t help Xiaolin…