The Yellow River originates from the ancient Zongliequ at the northern foot of Bayan Kala Mountain in Qinghai, and it flows mightily and majestically through many provinces. Of course, there are also some remote mountain villages. My family is located in a desolate area in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, and has been nurtured by the water of the Yellow River for generations. This story is about the Yellow River, about that land.
It was still ** when I was young, and it was really during the Great Leap Forward period, and steel was being made all over the country. Some of the iron utensils of each household were gathered together by the production team and thrown into a larger semi-oval furnace, which was filled with firewood day and night, hoping that these broken copper and iron would be melted and cast into hard cold weapons, which would be sent to Taiwan and subdued the great rivers and mountains of the motherland. But in the end, the cold weapon was not forged, but it bred refugees.
Due to the unwarranted waste of production tools, they abandoned agriculture, and in addition to the severe drought in the northwest in those years, the crops were not harvested, and the farmers had to go hungry and live a life without a meal. One day, ** was really hungry and couldn't stand it, so he went to the wet depression on the bank of the Yellow River with a few playmates from the same village to prepare to salvage some aquatic products and bring them back to cook and eat. According to **, that night, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse, and the sky was clear like a pure girl. He and Tie Dan (the milk name of the third master) and Erwa (a playmate of my **, but he has long passed away) quietly took the net he had woven and went to the mouth of the dam together. When they got there, the river was glowing with moonlight, and the ground was sparkling, and occasionally a few "croaking" frogs were heard in the grass of the depression, and the atmosphere seemed very quiet.
They shook off the net, tied a knot, threw it into the dam, and when the nets were all submerged in water, they took out the pipe they had with them and smoked it themselves. The iron egg who came with him is also an old smoker, watching the ** smoking with relish, he is greedy, and he asks for ** with a shy face. ** Not stingy, he grabbed a handful of tobacco leaves from the cloth pocket and handed it to the iron egg. He took it, mixed the tobacco leaves into a paper and rolled them into a finger-long stick, and his face was full of pleasant intoxication. Just as they were smoking, ** suddenly felt the net pocket shake violently, as if something was caught. **Very excited, judging from the strength of the struggle alone, the net must be a big guy, maybe a big river crab or something, bring it back to improve a meal beautifully. The second baby also discovered the strangeness in the river, and worked hard with ** to pull the net pocket. The two of them tried a lot of hard work, but they were still unable to salvage the contents of the net. **If you are in a hurry, you will shout to the side, and you will still be intoxicated with the iron eggs in the smoke. **Shout, hey, iron egg, you muddy ball, you can't come and pull together. When Tie Dan heard this, he came to his senses, ran over with his fart, and joined the three of them to pull the net. Finally, the net bag slowly surfaced on the river. They all watched with bated breath, what kind of big guy is so heavy?After a while, **through the white light, I saw a light green thing in the net pocket, a large lump, because it was late at night, the light was not good, ** did not see exactly what it was.
The iron egg pulled in front, and ** and Ergou worked hard in the back, dragging the light green thing to the shore. **Leaning down to look, a rancid smell suddenly rushed to his brain, and Tie Dan quickly covered his mouth in disgust, muttering in his mouth, "What the hell is this, why does it stink?".* glanced at Tie Dan and motioned for him to be quiet, if he alarmed the production captain, it would be difficult to handle things. In fact, at that time, ** had a mind, he thought that this light green thing looked wet and unsightly, but maybe it was some kind of strange treasure.
Erwa curiously touched the mass with her fingers, feeling soft, slippery, and covered with layers of folds. The three of them were amazed, and Tie Dan asked **, what is this thing that we hurriedly tinkered with. ** was speechless, just looked at it in a daze, and couldn't say three, five or six. In the end, after soliciting the opinions of Tie Dan and Erwa, he took this ball of things back home, and wanted to wait for the signs to come out in the future.
However, things are never as simple as they think.
After ** went back that night, he smoked it with mugwort and hid it under the bed with ** on his back. The next day, they pretended to go to work as if nothing had happened, and at night it was about two o'clock in the morning, when suddenly a carp turned up, babbling and began to talk nonsense, **was woken up, and when they opened their eyes, they saw** their hair scattered, and they danced like ghosts. **was also startled, and asked loudly**, "Hey, my mother, what nerves do you have if you don't sleep in the middle of the night." As if he hadn't heard, he was still babbling and babbling, and at last, ** plunged into the stove, stirring up the warm ashes, and wiping them on his face and said, "It's cold, it's cold." "* realized the seriousness of the situation, and was afraid that ** would do something out of the ordinary again, so he found a nylon rope under the bed and tied ** to the pillar in the house with his backhand. Then he rushed out in a panic to find the captain and Tiedan, Erwa and them. When everyone felt ** home in a panic, they saw ** drooping cheeks and hanging upside down on the pillars of the house with unkempt hair. looked pitiful and miserable, ** my heart tightened, and I ran over and picked it up**.
In the early years of the captain, a yin and yang master in the follower village had learned some spiritism, and when he saw the appearance of **, he also exclaimed. Then immediately disperse everyone. She said to **: "Looking at her aunt's appearance, most of them are possessed by river ghosts, and she has to hurry up to exorcise the spirit, if she doesn't do it in time, her aunt is afraid that her life is worried." * When he heard this, he immediately lost his senses, grabbed the captain and said, "What can I do, what can I do, you must save the child and his mother." The captain waved his hand and comforted ** Don't panic first, everyone does what I tell you, ** and you can be saved.
The captain ordered Tie Dan to catch a majestic red-crowned rooster in the team, and asked Erwa to dig half a bowl of millet in the kitchen. Then, let ** kneel in front of ** religiously, light three incense sticks, and respectfully insert it on the millet. Then the captain picked up the kitchen knife from the table, pressed the red-crowned rooster to the ground, used the tip of the knife to break the ** on the chicken's head, and after taking a few drops of chicken blood, it all dripped on the millet. At this time, **'s body shook suddenly, as if something was about to break out. Seeing this situation, the captain rushed to the ** with a strong step, pressed the ** Tianling cover with his hand, and shouted, "Weeping blood flies and insects laugh at the sky, and the long exorcism of ghosts does not truce, broken!."”
Finally woke up from the chaos, looked at a room of people looking at each other, and asked what had just happened. ** breathed a long sigh of relief, untied the rope from ** hand, sat down lightly and told everything that had just happened. **Look** returned to a normal state, a hanging heart finally settled, he got up to thank the captain, and asked everyone to go back early. Say "It's okay, it's okay." ”
The captain looked at the dodging eyes and knew that there must be something hidden in his heart, so he didn't leave with everyone. After he and the others were all gone, he quietly asked ** if he had caused any dirt?After thinking for a while, he told the captain about the night before, and took out the hidden mass from under the bed. I don't know if I don't see it, I was startled when I saw it, the captain looked at the mass of things, and his face was white at the moment, he pointed to the mass of things, and said tremblingly, "You." You. How did you get him to the house? * Judging from the captain's nervous expression, this must not be a mascot. After questioning, I realized that this light green soft and slippery thing turned out to be a human skin wrapped in layers of skin.
The next day, early in the morning, ** threw the human skin into the ditch, and from then on, he no longer dared to salvage things in the ditch.