Savage Secret

() It is said that people who accidentally die in the water will have a lot of resentment, and the resentment will linger for a long time, and eventually become a water ghost. Find a scapegoat within a certain time!Therefore, there is a saying in the world that water ghosts pull people into the water.

There is a wild forest ditch near our village, the total area is only a few mu, but it stretches for two or three miles because of its narrowness.The old people said that there was no water in this ditch at first, but it was filled with water after the dams were built on both sides when the nearby villages built roads after liberation.The bottom of the water used to be full of trees with a height of more than ten meters. When we were young, the water stored in it had buried all the trees. Only when the water was pumped too much in a dry year would we see that some of them had been soaked in water and turned black. The tree poked its head out of the water.

Yelingou is very strange. Every two years, a person will always drown, and it is always from July to September, when the weather is the hottest. It has been like this for decades. No one can explain why, and it has never been People can guard against it, and everyone in the village said that it was a drowned person who was reincarnated for himself, so he went to the world to find a substitute for the dead ghost.

The militia captain in the village, Zhang Yuan, did not believe in this evil. He had participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and was later hit by shells in the Battle of Jincheng, wounded in more than a dozen places.During the battle, he crawled out of the dead. He was very courageous. He had decades of work and life experience, and he had received training from the organization. Ghost rumors.

In the seventh month of the year when the legendary water ghost was reincarnated, Zhang Yuan sent dozens of militiamen to guard Yelingou day and night. As the saying goes: Even if the rule of drowning a person in two years is set by Hades, he must change it here.

Dozens of people guarding a few acres of wild forest ditch is naturally not difficult. The militiamen stopped when they saw someone approaching from a long distance. With such a tight defense, nothing happened all summer. Everyone thought that the water ghost would never find a substitute for the dead ghost this year, but at this moment, an accident happened, and it was Li Qing from the village who died.

Li Qing was in his 50s, and went out to run in the rivers and lakes when he was a teenager. Later, he was captured by the Communist Party as a young man, fought with the People's Army, and then became a prisoner.In those days, the policy of the People's Army was to give preferential treatment to prisoners of war.In fact, everyone knows what happened to the Kuomintang soldiers. Except for those stubborn and criminals who provoked public outrage, such as the bearded man who killed Liu Hulan and his accomplices, the other captives basically received some ideological education. , Then observe and observe, and if you perform well, you will be issued a discharge certificate from the People's Army to let you go home.

It was just like this that Li Qing, a prisoner of war, received two years of education and reform in the People's Army, and was even ignorant of his ignorance. < The enemy of the people criticized fiercely, but Li Qing rummaged through boxes and cabinets to find a discharge certificate from the People's Army, which made everyone dumbfounded.Those who knew Li Qing's background naturally had doubts about Li Qing's discharge certificate, but later called the army to check according to the number of the discharge certificate, and the person on the other side really admitted that there was such a person.Those who don't give up still want to be investigated again, but they quit, saying that these trivial matters can be solved by themselves.At that time, the country had both internal and external troubles, and war could break out at any time. The country had to be defended by soldiers, and people looked at soldiers differently.

The troops are unwilling to investigate further, and their own side cannot fabricate evidence out of thin air, which dampens everyone's enthusiasm for serving as soldiers.Of course, Li Qing also knew that he had a problem. Looking at those ghosts and snakes who had been condemned to death, he was so frightened that he only dared to behave like a human being with his tail between his legs. Everyone looked at his cowardly appearance and stopped paying attention to him. Li Qing miraculously escaped. The catastrophe.

However, there was something he couldn't hide from.

It was the penultimate day of September in the lunar calendar. According to legend, the three-month time limit for the water ghost to find a substitute for the dead ghost was only two days away. At the end of the lunar calendar, the shadow of the moon cannot be seen in the sky at all, and it is so dark that it can be said that you can't see your fingers.Although the climate change in the south is not very obvious, but the night in September is by the water, it still feels gloomy and cold, and there are occasional owls hooting from somewhere, which makes the whole night look a bit gloomy Mori.

The seasoned Zhang Yuan knows very well that the more he gets to the end, the more he cannot relax his vigilance, as many things fall short at the last moment.Anyway, it was the last two days, he was afraid that the militiamen who had been guarding the Yelin ditch for three months would be tired and slack, so he specially recruited more than [-] strong young men from the village to help watch the night.

Because it was cold at night, Zhang Yuan asked the militiamen and the young and middle-aged people in the village to build fires on the spot to keep warm. There were more than a dozen piles of fires burning beside the wild forest ditch two or three miles away. No one could see them except the blind, let alone the blind. Run around in the middle of the night.The distance from one guard point to the next is only a few dozen steps. If you speak louder, others can hear you.Zhang Yuan firmly told the militiamen on duty: Most animals are afraid of fire. We did this to prevent a cat or a dog from crossing our defense line.

No one cared what Zhang Yuan said, no one cared about the life of a cat or a dog.

With the light and heat, and more people, everyone is naturally bold. It was boring to guard alone, but now suddenly find a companion, and it is lonely in the middle of the night. Kan.

This talk lasted until the middle of the night, when the sound of "plop, plop!" suddenly came from the water.At first, no one cared.Everyone has been at the water's edge for two or three months, and I don't know how many times I have heard this sound. Often, fish jump out of the water, turn over on the water surface and then go underwater, making this sound.

But then everyone felt that something was wrong. The sound was very regular, and it sounded every two seconds, as if it had been set. This is by no means what fish can do.

Not a fish, what is that?Everyone greeted each other nervously, and searched the water surface with flashlights. Dozens of flashlights soon gathered at a place on the south bank, where something was jumping up and down non-stop.

Zhang Yuan was puzzled by such a strange incident. The first thing Zhang Yuan thought of was the spies. At that time, the relationship between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait was tense, and the relationship with the American imperialists on the other side of the mainland was not good. Spies were often found in mainland China.Is this some kind of trick played by the secret agents?With great doubts, Zhang Yuan left some people to continue guarding in place, while he picked out a few elite soldiers and went down first, wanting to see clearly what it was.

Zhang Yuan even expected that it would be the movement made by the spies. In this way, he could make up for the regret of not being famous on the Korean battlefield when he was young. The report tells the broad masses of the people a magnificent chapter in which he fought wits and courage with the spies and finally captured them alive.

But when they walked to the water's edge, everyone felt guilty: the jumping thing was only the size of a fist, watching it jumping on the water surface, thinking that something was manipulating it, but a daring person fished it When I was fishing, I found that it was easy to catch. When the fishing net was stretched out, it fell into the net.

After seeing that thing clearly, those who were less courageous were immediately frightened to death: that thing is an ordinary weighing mound!

People say that whoever "eats the weighing mound has ironed his heart!", the weighing mound is made of iron, who would have thought that iron would jump up and down on the water?

Zhang Yuan was not a person who gave up easily, he ordered the militia guards to go back to the village to count the number of people, and at the same time ordered people to stand guard by the water.

After such a weird thing happened, and it was the middle of the night when the yin was at its heaviest, no one wanted to go into the water.After finally dawn, those who went back to count the number of people also came back and reported that everyone in the village was safe and sound except Li Qing who went out last night and did not return.

"It's him again!" Zhang Yuan said angrily.Although Li Qing has been a man with his tail between his legs for so many years, there have been constant rumors about him in the village. Some people say that he secretly stole food from the production team, while others say that he acted secretly. There is an affair, but every time no one can come up with proof.The militia captain Zhang Yuan also took people to search Li Qing's house several times, but found nothing suspicious, so he had to give up in the end.

At this moment, Zhang Yuan's heart could no longer calm down. Even if Li Qing died, he should die under the trial of the people. He must not just be so ignorant, otherwise he, the captain of the militia, would not be able to get away with it.Thinking of this, Zhang Yuan immediately sent a few brave men into the water to search for the place where the weight was jumping. Not long after, Li Qing's body was fished out from the bottom of the water by a militiaman!His skull was smashed to pieces, as if he had been hit by a weighing mound. What was even more bizarre was that a bag of copper coins was found in each of his left and right pockets!

Later, people recognized that the weighing mound belonged to a landlord in the village who was denounced and had nowhere to go, and finally jumped to his death. But no one figured out how Li Qing sneaked to At the bottom of the wild forest ditch, he died in the water again, and no one knew where the copper coins in his pocket came from!