Chapter 3 The Woman in the Well(1/2)
With four little piglets, Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun returned to Shuifu Village in Uncle Chen's minivan.
After arriving home, Lu Qingjiu first sent the piglets into the pigsty. He had cleaned the pigsty in advance and spread clean straw on the floor. According to Yin Xun, pigs actually like to be clean and the place they live in is comfortable.
It's easier to gain weight.
Lu Qingjiu picked up a few piglets and put them into the pig pen. He also put clean pigweed and water in the trough. As soon as the two little white pigs entered, they twisted their fat little buttocks and ate happily.
They got up, but the two little black pigs stood hesitantly at the door of the pigsty and did not move.
"What's wrong?" Seeing that they refused to move, Lu Qingjiu asked doubtfully, "Is there something about this pigsty that doesn't suit your liking?"
Hearing Lu Qingjiu's question, the big black piglet actually nodded, stretched out his little pig hooves and pointed at the two little white pigs who were eating happily.
Lu Qingjiu: "You don't want to live with them?"
The black piggy snorted.
Lu Qingjiu looked at Piggy suspiciously: "Are you really a pig? You're not a human, right?"
The black piggy looked at Lu Qingjiu with an innocent face, as if it didn't understand what Lu Qingjiu was talking about. Lu Qingjiu seriously suspected that it was deliberately pretending to be innocent. However, this black piggy should not be a human. After all, if it is a human
If you find someone willing to communicate with you, you will definitely show it immediately, and you won't act stupid like this.
Lu Qingjiu thought for a while, then took a wooden board from the side and separated the two black piglets and the white piglets in the middle. In this way, the two little piglets walked carefully on tiptoes into the pig pen.
, after looking around, he lay down on the clean straw and began to rest.
Seeing this, Lu Qingjiu ignored them and turned around to go back to the house.
Yin Xun was busy in the kitchen, placing the things Lu Qingjiu bought one by one. Lu Qingjiu came in and asked him what he wanted to eat at night.
"Anything is fine." Yin Xun said casually, "I'll go pick some vegetables from the fields and let's have hot pot?"
"Okay." Lu Qingjiu said, "I'll make a pot of soup first... By the way, where can I get the pigweed? Or should I just feed it with feed?"
"Pig grass, you can ask the children in the village to help you pick it." Yin Xundao said, "It's only 50 cents per basket. If they earn some pocket money, you don't have to go to the mountains. You can just watch the feed and add some vitamins that the pigs need.
Yes, if you eat too much pig meat, the meat will not be so fragrant, but it is not easy to get sick."
When Lu Qingjiu heard this, he nodded to indicate that he understood.
"I'm going to pick vegetables. You can make soup first." Yin Xun went to his own field.
Lu Qingjiu put the bones he bought from the market today into the pot, lit the fire and started cooking, and cut some meat he bought. There was a refrigerator in the old house, but it had not been used for a long time, so the cooling effect was not very good.
Lu Qingjiu stuffed the remaining ingredients into the refrigerator, picked up the vegetables and walked to the yard to wash them, when he heard a loud pop, which sounded like a heavy object falling into the water.
The sound came from the backyard. Lu Qingjiu was slightly stunned when he heard the sound. Then he thought of something, put down the vegetables in his hands and hurried to the backyard.
The backyard has not been cleaned much, and is surrounded by withered trees and messy weeds. There are also white spider webs hanging on the walls. The black well in front of you looks particularly abrupt in it.
Lu Qingjiu just heard the sound of something falling into the water clearly. He was afraid that a child from the village had accidentally fallen into the well, so he quickly walked to the edge of the well and looked inside.
The mouth of the well was dark, with no end in sight. Lu Qingjiu shouted several times, but did not hear any signs of help coming from inside.
"Is there anyone? Did someone fall in?" Lu Qingjiu continued to shout, "If there is anyone, just scream-"
It was quiet inside the well, except for the dead silence.
Lu Qingjiu called out a few more words, but there was still no response. He was thinking about whether a person fell in or what kind of thing fell in, when Yin Xun's voice came from beside him: "Jiu'er? Jiu'er? You're a human being?"
Woolen cloth?"
"I'm in the backyard." Lu Qingjiu responded.
"What are you doing in the backyard?" Yin Xundao said, "I came back from picking vegetables. These cucumbers are so sweet..."
Lu Qingjiu glanced at the mouth of the well: "I just heard the sound of something falling in, so I came over to take a look."
"Oh, is there anything there?" Yin Xun stood at the door of the backyard, holding a half-eaten cucumber in his hand, looking at Lu Qingjiu from a distance.
"No." Lu Qingjiu said.
"Then don't worry about it." Yin Xun said, "Maybe some of the stones thrown by some child outside the wall accidentally rolled into the well mouth."
Lu Qingjiu thought about it and decided that the person who fell into the well was not a human being, so he didn't care anymore. He left the backyard and walked to Yin Xun's side, and they walked towards the front yard together. Yin Xun looked at Lu Qingjiu and took another bite of cucumber.
Crunch chewed it up and said vaguely: "What is that on your back?"
"On my back?" Lu Qingjiu turned to look behind him, "What is it?"
Yin Xun stretched out his hand and took out a bunch of black stuff from Lu Qingjiu's back: "This..."
Lu Qingjiu saw clearly what was in Yin Xun's hand. It was actually a ball of black hair that had stuck to his back at some point.
"Is this hair? Damn it!" Yin Xun saw clearly that the thing in his hand was hair and quickly threw it aside, "What the hell, it's so disgusting."
Lu Qingjiu: "..." He looked at the well in his backyard in silence, feeling an unpleasant premonition in his heart.
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, it's okay." Yin Xundao said, "In rural areas, there are always some weird things happening in remote places..."
Lu Qingjiu was shocked: "Weird things? For example?"
Yin Xun was silent for a moment, then whispered to Lu Qingjiu: "Last summer, the youngest child of the Liu family drowned."
"Drown?" Lu Qingjiu said, "In the creek in the village? Isn't that creek very shallow?" There are not many rivers in their area. From his understanding, the only place with water near the village is one that is no more than knee-deep.
The stream is not fast flowing and there are no aquatic plants. Even if you fall in it, you can easily stand up.
"No." Yin Xundao, "It wouldn't be a particularly strange thing if it happened there. He was drowned in... the woods."
Lu Qingjiu didn't understand for a moment and repeated in confusion: "In the woods?"
"That's right." Yin Xun whispered: "It was in the woods, and there was no water around. The Liu family called the police at that time. After the autopsy, the police said he drowned."
Lu Qingjiu said: "...Then what happened in the end?"
"What can we do in the end?" Yin Xun said, "Let's forget it. In fact, strange things like this happen in other villages, but not many, maybe one or two every few years."
Lu Qingjiu had nothing to say. He had actually encountered this kind of thing before when he was working in the city, but he didn't expect that such strange things would still happen in another place.
"So if you encounter it in the future, just treat it as if you haven't seen it." Yin Xun said, "Out of sight, out of mind."
Lu Qingjiu thought to himself, this is how out of sight, out of mind works...
Yin Xun handed Lu Qingjiu a cucumber, and the two squatted in the front yard and continued washing vegetables.
The taste of cucumber is really good, crisp and sweet, not bitter at all, and very watery. It tastes similar to fruit. Lu Qingjiu felt better after eating the cucumber and said, "Have you ever encountered anything strange?
thing?"
Yin Xun grinned happily, and that cute tiger tooth was exposed again: "Maybe you have encountered it before, I didn't pay attention."
Lu Qingjiu thought it was great to be so nervous.
Yin Xun picked a lot of vegetables. After washing them, Lu Qingjiu added the stewed bone soup pot with the hot pot ingredients brought from the city. After it was boiled, it was brought to the yard. The two opened a few bottles of beer, enjoying themselves.
Started eating hot pot and drinking beer.
The taste of the hot pot is very simple. Fortunately, the ingredients are fresh, so the taste is not bad. The rich aroma of the bone soup fills the entire garden. Yin Xun drinks a few glasses, two blushes appear on his cheeks, and he looks a little drunk.
Lu Qingjiu was also very drunk. He had not been drunk for a long time. He worked overtime on weekdays and his consciousness was blurred. He had no time to stop and have a drink with his friends.
My hometown is still comfortable, and I don’t have to think about clocking in to work tomorrow. Just as he was thinking this, Lu Qingjiu saw Yin Xun sitting in front of him suddenly stretched out his hand, pointed behind him, and said vaguely: "So... so dark.
ah."
"What?" Lu Qingjiu said, "Didn't you turn on the light?"
Yin Xun tilted his head, his expression very confused: "But it's still very dark."
Lu Qingjiu thought Yin Xun was completely drunk. It wasn't until he turned his head and looked behind him that he understood the meaning of Yin Xun's words. He saw a black figure standing not far from them.
The figure was like a light-absorbing black hole. When the light reached that location, all the light was absorbed in. Lu Qingjiu rubbed his eyes heavily, and then he could see clearly that the black figure was actually a ball of human-shaped hair.
"Do you know what I'm most afraid of?" What rang in my ears was a woman's soft inquiry.
Perhaps the alcohol had numbed his nerves, but Lu Qingjiu didn't have much fear. He looked at the ball of hair and heard the woman ask again.
"Do you know what I'm most afraid of?" The man with black hair came closer to them.
Lu Qingjiu's lips moved slightly: "You are most afraid of..."
"What?"
"What...are you most afraid of being bald?" Lu Qingjiu, who was drunk, said it very seriously. He also felt that his logic was perfect and there was nothing wrong with it. Otherwise, why would the female ghost have so much hair... He said this and touched it
He touched his hair and sighed sadly, "Fortunately, I resigned early, otherwise I wouldn't be able to escape..."
The black shadow trembled twice, and she didn't know if she was shocked by Lu Qingjiu's answer. After all, this was the first time she heard such an answer in so many years. The man in front of her was so pure and unpretentious, and he was completely different from other coquettish bitches.
.
The black shadow in front of him seemed to want to speak, but a thick black fog suddenly appeared around the yard. The female ghost felt something, and disappeared from Lu Qingjiu's eyes the next moment, leaving only a dim water on the ground.
stains.
Lu Qingjiu felt that he was really drunk, otherwise why would that thing disappear like this? Opposite him, Yin Xunzai opened another bottle and filled him up with a glass.
"Drink..." Yin Xun said with a big tongue, "Keep drinking..."
Lu Qingjiu picked up the cup and drank it in one gulp, saying, "Drink!"
He couldn't remember clearly what happened after that. The next time he remembered it was the next morning. He and Yin Xun lay in the yard all night. When they got up, their backs ached and they almost fell apart. Especially
To be continued...