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Chapter 19

Chapter 19-The Drowned River Pond

It’s already the next day to go fishing for sand in the river pond.

As one of the building materials, river sand has always been very important. Building walls and floors is inseparable. However, the country has recently restricted sand mining in rivers, which is said to affect the environment.

Of course, that kind of restriction should be restricted to a large number of sand mining, large-scale battlefields, such as Liu Pingan’s occasional need, and a little to fish, should be no one cares.

Not far from home, there is a river meandering down in a neighboring village. In the rainy season, the water is rising and mountain floods erupt. The river is constantly scoured, and the bottom of the river is gradually descending. pond.

The sand brought by mountain torrents will settle in the river pond. After being washed by the river water, it is quite good to be used as a building material. It just has to be taken out of the water with a little effort and piled on the open area of ​​the river to drain the water. Pick it at home, or dripping all the way is annoying.

So Liu Pingan didn’t carry a pole or a bucket at the beginning, so he went down to the river with a shovel.

I went straight to the most convenient and largest river pond. I stood on the riverside and hesitated. After all, I got down to the river beach and started to clear a small area with a shovel, ready to pile sand and drain water.

There was a reason for his hesitation. The river pond was at a bend in the river course. A stone the size of a house blocked the river water, forming a very big pond with deep water and a lot of sedimented river sand.

The key is to go along the way. Villages from here to other villages have to pass from here. There is no bridge built, and the river is crossed by stepping on the rocks next to the big rocks in the pond. Sometimes it will slip, but there are big rocks blocking it. It won’t fall into the pond.

Even so, this river pond is dead.

A young daughter-in-law from a neighboring village fell into the pond and drowned because she didn’t know what to do.

Of course no one knows the reason for the fall. There are different opinions, and there are all kinds of speculations.

It is said that he climbed onto a rock the size of that house to see the scenery, and fell accidentally.

It is said that he was washing clothes by the river pond and accidentally rolled off.

It is said that I saw a big frog above the river pond.

It is also said that quarreling with her in-laws and her husband frustrated, and couldn’t figure out how to jump off.

It just didn’t say that she was like the little kids who were still in elementary school. In the summer, she went to the river pond to take a bath, but her feet cramped and sank.

Among all these miscellaneous claims, the most widely circulated version is the version that you jumped off yourself, saying that there are noses and eyes, just like someone watching and witnessing the whole process.

It’s no wonder that in rural areas, there are mostly three aunts and six wives with broken mouths, and the invisible things can also be passed on. What’s more, it is commonplace for mother-in-law and daughter-in-law not to quarrel with the young couple.

Besides, in rural areas, people who are unable to figure out because of quarrels, especially women, are really a lot of people who jump into rivers, fish ponds, reservoirs, hang themselves, drink pesticides, and eat rats and drugs. There are so many strange things. It is possible to publish a “Encyclopedia of Rural Women’s Suicide”.

Leaving aside, Liu Pingan’s pro-Big sis Liu Pingping almost drank pesticides in order to get married.

All are impulsive and temperamental, with long hair and short insights, and a dizzy brain. You can do any kind of stupid things.

There is a widely circulated saying among the older generation that people who die by suicide will be embroiled in sins and will not enter the sorrow or superbirth. If you want to re-enter Samsara, you must find a substitute for the dead.

Those who find short-sighted impulsively and impulsively are regarded as surrogate ghosts, the kind of stupid things that can be done only when their brains are dizzy, they are blinded by ghosts, commonly known as ghosts.

Of course, those are the remnants of feudal superstition, and they are all rumours that cannot be believed.

However, after all, it is a bit taboo, especially in places where people have died. If you stay for a while, you will feel the wind and goose bumps all over your body.

Liu Pingan doesn’t believe in these gods and gods, but Zhang Youqun believes it, the old man, the older he gets, the more taboos he will have.

Not to mention being afraid of being a substitute for the dead, even if it is just to get some sand to use, you will also worry about getting bad luck and causing grievances or something.

That is to say, the little wife has been dead for many years, and the mountain torrents have risen countless times. In this river pond, there have long been bold people who have lifted stones and fished for sand. The key is to follow the road. There are frequent people coming and going. It is really unlucky and resentful. , It can also make the popularity clean.

Therefore, Liu Pingan just hesitated casually, and chose this place for fishing sand, and he didn’t need to care whether his mother would have any opinions.

There is also sand in other river ponds, but it doesn’t follow the way. The river ditch is filled with rocks and water. It’s not easy to walk empty-handed. Not to mention picking up the sand. Maybe you staggered and fell into the pond.

There is actually sand on the river beach, but that kind of sand is mixed with too many pebbles and mud, and the quality is not very good, and it is incomparable to what is fished out of the water.

What didn’t say, this is the river pond, just throw off the arm and dry it.

The blue sky and the white sun are so bright that they can really catch the dead ghost for the dead.

Feudal superstition is not desirable, technology is the last word.

At the beginning, I still remembered to cheer myself up and take courage. There was no mess of careful thinking when working. Liu Ping’an quickly forgot the daughter-in-law of the neighboring village in the river pond.

After all, it was many years ago. At that time, Liu Ping’an was still a schoolboy, and he was not familiar with the daughter-in-law of the neighboring village, let alone the appearance of being salvaged.

I really didn’t think it could be so terrible.

What’s more, you don’t want to go to the deepest part of the river to fish. You can do it by standing on the edge of the river pond. It’s just to the calf.

It is estimated that even a rabbit will not drown.

If this way, the drowned ghost can be caught as a substitute for the dead ghost, then it really means seeing a big head ghost on the street in broad daylight.

It is simply impossible.

No, I survived my busy schedule. The cleared land was already full of sand. Liu Ping’an washed his feet out of the water and put on his shoes until he went home with a shovel to rest. He was about to wait for the sand to drain before picking it in the afternoon. What’s wrong.

Just before leaving, he looked at the stone the size of the house and the deepest river water in the pond, and a vague red shadow subconsciously appeared in his mind.

I vaguely remember that when the little daughter-in-law got married to a neighboring village, he saw him from a distance on the way to school in the procession of sending off the family. He looked like a wedding dress like a fire, but didn’t want to be buried in Bibo, and he didn’t know what to say. The confidante is fateful, or that things are impermanent.

Putting aside some inexplicable emotions, Liu Ping’an shook his head and cast off the red shadow, patted his butt and left without being muddled.

After all, it’s someone else’s story, and it has nothing to do with yourself.

Thinking well, when he came over in the afternoon with a bucket carrying a bucket and a shovel, Liu Ping’an was really stunned.

In the sun, I actually got goose bumps.