There is an ancient canal on the plain in the middle of the Qilu land. In China’s thousand-year history, it has always connected the economic lifeline of China’s north and south. The canal turns into a bay from Shandong into Jiangsu, and our village is located in this bay. The ancestors of the village have lived on this land, and the story happened in the village at the end of the 20th century.
The protagonist of this story is a couple in their thirties and their father who is nearly 70 years old. It is said that when the young couple first got married, the family conditions were not good, so Both of them went to work in other places. After three to five years with some savings in their hands, they returned to the village and opened a department store in front of the village branch behind the village, and the woman opened a barber shop in front of the department store. And because his father had nothing to do with his age, the village arranged for him to manage the only irrigation station in the village. Speaking of this irrigation station is located on an ancient river, perhaps this river is older than the canal. The elders said that there is a sea eye below the river that leads directly to the East China Sea, and we can often see strange things in the river. When we were young, we often went to other rivers to bathe in groups in summer, but none of them People who dare to bathe in this river, adults say that there are cattle intestines in this river (probably meaning that people kill cattle and sheep, or the afterbirths of cattle and sheep are thrown into the river. It doesn’t rot in the water for a long time, and has spirituality. When someone gets into the water, he entangles people’s hands and feet, causing people to drown. Therefore, the afterbirths produced by cattle and sheep in our place are hung on the branches and never lost. Into the water) This river is called the Bu Lao River. The irrigation station in our village is located on the southern bank of the Bulao River. Both sides of the river are full of willows and declining poplars, and overgrown with weeds. There are several graves on both sides of the irrigation station. The old man is in charge of this irrigation station. Whenever he grows rice, he is responsible for irrigating the rice fields.
One year came the rice planting season again. The old man filled the water that day. In the afternoon, he stopped the motor, pulled down the electric knife, locked the door of the irrigation station and went home. But just after the next morning, the village party secretary ran to his house and asked him how to get it. The irrigation station irrigated it all night, and the gutters were full of rivers and drops. What you see in hundreds of acres of land is all white water, and the rice seedlings are submerged under water. The old man hurriedly took the key and ran to the irrigation station, saw that the water was still turning over, and hurriedly opened the door and pulled the switch knife down. When he came back, the old man thought it might be because he was old. He forgot to switch the knife last night, so he went to the department store. The shop helped my son, and went home to sleep at night. But the next day it was still dark, and the village party secretary called out what you were doing. I filled it all night yesterday and the water was full everywhere. Why are you doing it again? Flip the water! The old man panicked when he heard this, and ran to the irrigation station with the key and flashlight. The more he thought about it, the more he wondered.
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I remember that the knife was pulled down specially in the morning. I didn’t turn over the water during the day and didn’t go to the irrigation station at night. Why is it still turning over at night? When going to the department store behind the village, he called his son to go with him. When the two of themWhen he arrived, his son took the flashlight and took the key to open the door. First, he took a flashlight in the irrigation station and found nothing unusual. So he walked in and prepared to pull the switch, but when he walked to the switch accidentally He took a flashlight on the ground and found that there were a few marks like cat paws on the ground under the switch knife. The son was puzzled, so he pulled down the knife and asked his father to come and take a look. His father had seen it. After that, he winked at his son and told his son not to speak, so he told his son to lock the door and went back. After dawn in the store, he told his son that something was causing trouble, maybe during the day. What did he see when he pushed the knife, waited until the evening to follow his way to play with the knife. The son probably guessed what it should be when he heard it, so he found a piece of iron sheet and wire, and brought it to the irrigation station. He connected electricity from the knife to the iron sheet under the knife. Just push the knife and the iron sheet will be there. Powered up.
I told his father not to go to the water for these two days, and also told his father what he did. At the same time, he asked his father to leave a message, and if he found it turned over, tell him. At ninety o’clock that evening, the son saw that the water was turned over again, so he called his father, and two night watchers from the village branch went to the irrigation station together and opened the door. The scene before them stunned them, under the electric knife. Actually electrocuted a fox more than one meter long. His son carefully pulled down the electric knife. A few people talked in surprise there. The son packed up his things and dragged the fox’s tail with a few people. He stripped the fox the next day when he arrived at the shop. We don’t eat fox meat in our place, but the fur of the fox is a good thing. So he arranged the fur and nailed it outside the south wall. But they don’t know that the bane has been planted since then…
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Since then, the store has been moving every night. When sleeping at night, it’s not bicycles. When the wheels turned on their own, they heard the rattling of pots and pans, and sometimes seemed to hear people sighing. But they didn’t take it to heart. One night the woman got up at night. When she went outside, under the bright moonlight, she saw a fox wearing a bowler hat, facing the wall like a human being. Zhang fox skin bowed. When the woman saw it, she ran back in shock, and told the man about it the next day. The man was half-believing, but he didn’t dare to care about it. He took off the fox skin and buried it, but it was not because of this fox. The skin was buried and ended, and this was only the beginning of the tragedy. One night, the woman ripped her one-year-old biological daughter alive from her legs without warning. Fortunately, the man found out in time and took the girl away. Come down. She was sent to the hospital for rescue. During that time, several villages near us had donated a lot of money to the girl, and finally saved her life. This matter once caused a sensation with us. Soon the woman hanged herself in pain and regret. In the summer of the next year, the old man became hemiplegic after falling down at the east end of the village. One summer night, he climbed into the river by himself……Only the upper body is in the water when it is discovered during the day. After such a series of blows, the man went mad at the old man’s funeral. The tribe helped with the funeral and buried the old man hastily. The little girl was also picked up and fed by her aunt.
Since then, the man has been wandering all over the world all day long…Three years ago, the girl was twelve or thirteen years old and returned to the house in the village to live by herself, and that After ten years of madness, the man actually recovered. He went to his sister’s house and asked for some rice noodles. He talked to his sister about his father’s death and so on. Then he went home. The neighbors and villagers gave them to their father. The two gave some things, and the men recognized the people in the village one by one. That day the man cried and cried and was heartbroken with the girl in his arms. In the evening, the man said to the girl that everything would start from the beginning and live a good life. But the next day, when the man saw the store, it was turned into ruins. The land was barren, and there was nothing in the house. In the afternoon, the man went to the woman’s grave, repaired the exposed coffin, burned some fire paper for his wife, sat in front of the grave and cried, and the man bought it at night A bottle of wine, after coaxing the girl to sleep, the man committed suicide after drinking the bottle of wine…
A few days later, at the simple funeral of the man, the girl gave the man a piece of hemp. At the time of the burial, passers-by hid their faces and wept and lamented…