When I was a child, it felt like it was hot every summer, and that annoying mosquito kept buzzing in my ears. At that time, there were no electric fans, no air conditioning, and there was not even electricity in my village. However, on that hot summer day when there was no entertainment or any means to drive away the heat, my only hope was to go to the gate of my grandmother's house after dinner and listen to the villagers gossiping and chatting!After the arrival of summer, every time I have dinner, I take a bundle of straw to the open space at the gate of my grandmother's house at the head of the village, spread the straw, lie on it, and occasionally blow a cool breeze through XiXi!In this way, when my grandmother finished cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks, she would take the old pu fan, carry the faded maza, sit in front of me, and start to fan the old pu fan non-stop!It won't be long before there will be another group of people at the door, men, women and children, and my straw will be full of people!They began to talk about labor, and then they talked about it, and when the topic was almost finished, my grandmother and some of the older ladies began to tell everyone about some strange things, which they also heard from others, and the truth of which could not be verified. The two things mentioned below are told to us by my grandmother, everyone can use it as a pastime, we should believe in science and not superstition!
Event 1: There is a large puddle in the south of the ancient town eight miles away from our village, the water is very deep, and it never dries up all year round!One day a bean sprouts seller passed by the pit on his bicycle, and somehow the weighing stone hanging on the handlebar suddenly fell to the ground and rolled into the big puddle, but the strange thing is that the weighing stone did not sink to the bottom of the water, but floated on the water, as if waiting for the owner to salvage it!The bean sprouts seller just wanted to fish for the scales, and then thought about how the scales could float on the water, the water was not frozen, this thing was too strange, I didn't want the scales, so the bean sprouts seller said to the scales: Don't lie to me, I won't be fooled by you, and I don't want the scales!After finishing speaking, I saw that the scale sank to the bottom of the water in an instant!The frightened bean sprout seller gasped, thinking that if I went to fish for the scales, the dirty stuff in the water would definitely pull me into the water, and my life would be gone!
Event 2: This happened again in that big puddle. One summer, several local villagers met to swim in the puddle after dinner, one of them called the stunned man went down to the water first, the water on the shore was not deep, about just below the knee, only to see the stunned man standing motionless in the water with his back to the shore, he said loudly to his companions on the shore: How about we make a bet?I'm standing in the water now, and if you can pull me to shore without getting wet, I'll ask you to drink tomorrow!."My companions were amused when they heard it, isn't it easy to pull you to the shore, we have won this wine!The villagers were giggling, and there happened to be a rope on a villager's bicycle, so they made the rope into a rope sleeve, and shook it hard, the rope just caught the stunned one, and several villagers pulled the rope hard, and the stunned seemed to not move!The villagers joked, you kid really has strength, when did you learn Shaolin kung fu?As he spoke, several villagers increased their strength and called the other two people who were standing on the edge of the pit to watch the excitement, and finally they couldn't hold it anymore, and slowly began to retreat, and finally were pulled ashore!After going ashore in a daze, he said to the villagers: I don't know what happened just now, my feet seem to have been dragged by something under the water just after entering the water, and I always want to drag me to the deep water, I gritted my teeth and insisted, and I didn't dare to tell you the truth, for fear that you would be afraid, so I pretended to be calm and made a bet with you, and asked you to pull me out and save my life, and I will definitely invite you to drink tomorrow!
Trust the science, don't be superstitious!