The Li family is a big surname nearby. According to legend, this family has been multiplying here for hundreds of years. Counting from the first generation of people who migrated, the family tree has recorded the seventeenth generation. According to the village chronicles, when the ancestors first settled here, there were only a few households, and they gradually developed into the current scale of hundreds of households.
The number of people is prosperous, and there are more children. Later, the superiors felt that there were a lot of school-age children around here. It is not a matter of traveling more than a dozen miles to go to school in the village. It is simply built on the edge of the village. Elementary school. After repairing a few tiled houses, enclosing a piece of land as a playground, and then on the playground with tree roots and flagpoles, two more private teachers are sent, and one school will be all done.
The school was built at the foot of a soil mountain outside the village. Forty or fifty children with a radius of ten li all go to school here. There are two teachers in the school, each with a class. One teaches Chinese, mathematics, music, sports painting, and the other also teaches Chinese, mathematics, and music. Sports painting.
The school has a history of more than ten years since its establishment. It was said that it was very particular about the site when it was first selected. The old master was asked to read Feng Shui. The last site I chose was a chaotic grave, and I don’t know which dynasty and which ethnic group belonged to. In the cemetery, even the oldest village chief does not know the origin of this chaotic grave.
In the north, many schools are built on cemeteries. Burials have been popular in ancient China for thousands of years. Wherever there are human gatherings, after years of multiplication, life and death, large cemeteries have gradually formed. These cemeteries take up a lot of space. In recent years, people have often turned out some bones when digging and planing the ground.
Although many cemeteries have long been barren and abandoned, occupying a large area, they have remained empty and no one moved. Everyone is more taboo about this kind of place, which can neither be used as farmland, nor can it be used as a homestead-it is only suitable to be a school.
Building a school on a cemetery is also an ancient custom. It is said that because the children in the school are all teenagers, they have strong yang energy and are easy to suppress evil.
Moreover, there is a saying among the people that the tomb is a cave, and the acupuncture points are for learning, and the tomb is for learning. Therefore, it is a good sign that the school is built on the cemetery.
There is another argument related to Wen Quxing. Some people say that the cemetery is heavy, and ordinary residential towns can’t live in town. We can only rely on Wenquxing Town. According to this statement, if there is a lot of grievance, then it will be a military school town.
The school’s playground is just above a chaotic cemetery. I remember that when villagers were digging here, they often dig out some bones and debris.
The news that Commissioner Zhang wanted to catch the "water ghost" spread like wildfire. Before they arrived at the playground, a group of people had already seen crowds standing around them watching the excitement. In such a small place, the transmission of information between people is sometimes faster than modern communication technology.
At this moment, the stagnant water on the playground has almost dried up, leaving large and small pools on the ground. There is a square hole in the center of the playground. According to the memories of several children, it is the place where A Chong got stuck.
The villagers did not dare to step forward and watched from a distance. Commissioner Zhang was bold and daring. He leaned forward to observe and saw that the pothole was only a few feet deep, and the bottom was blocked by sludge, and there was still a lot of water inside. Nodded, turned and walked to the old village chief, and whispered a few words in his ear.
The old village chief coughed, "Dig!"
A few younger generations took out the hoe, shovel and other tools they brought with them, shoveling and planing indiscriminately, and in a short while, they dug a large pit with a width of more than 1 meter and a depth of more than 1 meter around the pit. The courageous young man used a shovel to shovel away the clumped soil around the pit, and soon a dilapidated old coffin gradually showed its original shape in the mud.
This coffin was buried at an unknown age. The wood on the outside has decayed like dirt. The coffin is very thick, and the inner layer still maintains the structure of wood. There is a hole on the top of the coffin. I don’t know if it was originally there. The one that was stepped on recently, from the side, you can see a pool of green sewage inside, exuding a pungent smell.
Commissioner Zhang wore a pair of water boots and a pair of rubber gloves. He held an iron wedge and inserted it into the seam of the bottom of the coffin, tapped it lightly with a claw hammer, and a stream of turbid, smelly green water flowed from the seam of the coffin. , Slowly infiltrated the soil under the coffin, and the next few youngsters hurriedly crawled out of the pit, fearing that they would get a little green water.
Commissioner Zhang didn't seem to mind at all. He took out a white handkerchief and put it on his nose. He took a one-meter-long thin iron rod with a hook on his head from his entourage, and carefully checked the contents of the coffin. , The surrounding villagers craned their necks a few meters away to watch. Although I couldn't see anything, the crowd continued to sigh.
Seeing that the crowd became tighter and tighter, the old village chief ordered a few strong offspring to drive everyone away. There are only a few middle-aged and elderly people who are relatively senior and have status in the village.
Later, according to the rumors of the villagers who participated in the excavation, the coffin was buried for many years. Although it was rotten on the outside, it was smooth as new on the inside. It can be seen that the coffin was made of a good wood. The most weird thing is that after draining the sewage from the coffin, there is a wet corpse inside, whose head and face have long rotted into rags, but the whole body's skin is still connected. There was a big hole in the belly of the body, and the internal organs had long been rotten and mixed with mud.
The scariest thing is: there are deep scratches on the coffin wall and the inside of the coffin lid. The villagers all say that there are living people buried in this coffin!
The villagers' rumors became more and more evil, and some people continued to add oil and vinegar. Some people say that the coffin was buried in the big family, so it was a good coffin board. This eldest lady is usually unscrupulous, she is pregnant first when she is unmarried, and is vulgar. The landlord’s old wealth is afraid of ruining her reputation. Now, the eldest lady in the coffin struggled so hard that the inside of the coffin was full of ditches drawn by her nails.
Some people say that the coffin was not buried in the coffin, but was a young wife who was jealous with her original partner. The original partner had not given birth to a child for a long time. He saw that the young wife was pregnant with six children, and the old man had a successor, fearing that he would fall out of favor. .
What's more evil is that the skin on the body of the corpse is fine, except that there is a big hole in the belly.
Someone inferred that after the eldest lady (little wife) was buried alive, the child in her belly came out of her belly. In a coffin without the sky, she collected the aura of the heavens and the earth and collected the essence of the sun and the moon. They did not know how many years of cultivation and finally became A ghost... A Chong's arm was caught by this ghost. The idiot was also sucked by the ghost... Oh, it's scary when you think about it, maybe that ghost is sucking people's soul everywhere...
Most of the villagers in the mountain villages are idle outside of their busy schedules. They give full play to their imaginations about all kinds of gossip. You and I say a word. With the creation of the wisdom of the community, this story is constantly enriched and the plot gradually becomes Perfect, the "playground bizarre coffin"** has been continuously processed and recreated in everyone's word of mouth. A panic spread among the villagers, but no one mentioned A Chong's life experience.
These are all things later.
If the imagination and speculation of the villagers are removed, then this matter is much simpler.
Commissioner Zhang motioned to his entourage to take a few pictures of the inside and outside of the coffin, and then picked up a few pieces and put them in small bottles. Instructed the old village chief to set up firewood for the leftovers. There may be bacteria in these green waters. Infection of humans and animals can cause plague.
While the old village chief ordered people to follow suit, he pulled Commissioner Zhang's sleeve and said that you must give us an explanation! Is the child hitting an evil? When will the relief money be issued
Commissioner Zhang said that it was not a major event, but an old coffin with an old corpse inside. The tomb collapsed in the rain. The child accidentally stepped on the coffin and got his hand stuck in the seam of the coffin. The sewage inside is infected.
The old village chief also said that his foolish uncle... Commissioner Zhang analyzed that it is estimated that where he picked up a wild cat or a wild dog, he was frightened and scratched the fool. The fool may have something congenital. Illness can't withstand such a shock, so I went all at once.
Regarding Commissioner Zhang’s explanation, the old village chief was quite satisfied. At the moment, he found a few articulate villagers and conveyed Commissioner Zhang’s meaning to the next level. As for how far the villagers can communicate, it is beyond human control.
Next, the old village chief will entertain guests to show the friendship of the landlord. Commissioner Zhang declined. The old gentleman is not welcome. It is my job to explain the doubts to the villagers. Now that the matter has been resolved, I should go back.
After that, he didn't say anything to everyone, so he hurried back to the county seat. It is said that someone came from above and he wanted to transfer him to the provincial capital.
When Commissioner Zhang was leaving, he said that A Chong's illness needed imported medicine, which could be cured in the provincial capital, and he had to be taken away.
A Chong has been confused these days, although his condition has not deteriorated, but it is not getting better. After the death of Uncle Fool, he had no relatives in the village, and no one stopped him when someone took him away. Only Ziyang's parents Yiyi were a little bit reluctant. But thinking that Commissioner Zhang was also doing well for A Chong, he had to pack a few sets of his clothes for him and sent them all the way to the entrance of the village.
Zi Yang collected herbs for A Chong outside. After returning, he heard that A Chong was sent away. He cried loudly. No one persuaded him to listen. He chased him barefoot and crying for a long time. Finally, Dad Ziyang rode. The bicycle drove him back.
Later, the adults persuaded him that this was also for the good of A Chong, and Commissioner Zhang said to treat him and let him go to a good school. Better than our small village, many people want to send their children out without a chance!
Even so, Zi Yang was still depressed for a summer. When there was no one, he often squatted alone in a daze where he played with A Chong.