To talk about the sow essence, we must start from the abandoned brick kiln at the east end of the village!

At the east end of the village is the land owned by the big landowner Hu Dekun. It was originally a fertile land for growing gold and silver. However, due to the nearby mass graves, it became a low-class land with no tenants to rent the land and no long-term workers to work it.

field!

I don’t know when the mass graves started. I heard from my grandpa that from the time he could remember, all the people in the surrounding three miles and five villages who died of sudden illness, died in misfortunes, had no owner’s corpses, or died young were all buried there.

There. Of course, in a place like this, it is unlikely that many good things will happen to anyone!

Hu Dekun, the big landowner, refused to let that large piece of fertile land grow with grass. The rent dropped again and again, and even if he could collect a few buckets of grain, it would be better than planting grass to raise grasshoppers!

As the saying goes, there must be brave men under big rewards, but here it means that under low rents, there must be brave men! Because the rent is really low, Axiang, the poorest tenant in the village, rented the land. He originally thought that the land was fertile.

The rent was low, and if we worked for a year, the whole family should be able to live happily. But what I didn’t expect was that soon after the crops were planted, something strange happened, and I almost lost my life in that field!

That day, the old tenant Axiang had not returned from hoeing at noon. Axiang's wife was worried that there was something wrong, so she took her eldest son to the field to look for Axiang. From a distance, she saw Axiang squatting in the field, as if he was eating.

Both hands kept stuffing things into his mouth.

Axiang's wife and son knew something was wrong, so they kicked off their legs and ran over to take a look. They saw Axiang's eyes were dull, and he kept stuffing sand into his mouth with his hands. He murmured to himself while eating sand:

Delicious, really delicious, I’ll eat some more...

Axiang's wife and son knew that Axiang must have hit something evil, so they quickly helped him home...

Later, Axiang said that when he was working, he saw a few people coming over and asked him to take a rest before working again. They enthusiastically took out a lot of sugar for him to eat. Looking at the bright yellow fine sugar, he was filled with joy.

I couldn't help but grab it and stuff it into my mouth. Who knew that the sugar would be sand...

After the incident of Ah Xiang eating sugar, no one dared to plant that land. The big landowner Hu Dekun saw that the land was about to be laid waste, so he had no choice but to build a brick kiln there and hire people to dig out the soil and make bricks for burning.

brick.

But not many kiln bricks were burned, because the villagers who were responsible for lighting the fire and keeping watch on the kiln at night always heard the babies crying nearby, and the adults were so frightened that no one dared to go anymore, so a few young and strong people were replaced to keep watch.

Still running back in a mess!

As time goes by, the brick kiln gradually became abandoned. I just planted some sweet potatoes that usually don't need to be managed and let nature take its course. Let's rely on God to make a living...

I heard from my grandparents that the big guy living in the abandoned cave dwelling is not an ordinary big pig or wild boar (of course, otherwise the food would have been improved long ago), but a pig that can speak human language and has eyes like lights.

It's a sow spirit! You can't find it during the day, but it scares people when you encounter it at night. It usually appears when the moon is dark and the wind is high, or there is lightning and thunder!

Two years ago, Hu Decai, the "Three Hands" in the village, had the honor to meet him in the evening!

Hu Decai later told people that it was impossible to open the pot at home. His wife was lying on the bed and moaning, and the children were hungry and crying for food. There was really no other way, so he thought of going to an abandoned kiln that people didn't often go to, and planned to cook some food there.

A sweet potato makes a living.

At that time, the moon was black and the sky was cloudy, and he couldn't see his fingers. Hu Decai had only picked up a few sweet potatoes when he smelled the unique fishy smell of pigs coming from behind, and heard the sound of pigs grunting not far behind him, but the grunting sound

Much bigger than a domestic pig, my scalp immediately felt numb and my spine felt chilly!

I looked back and saw, oh my God, there was a pig bigger than a cow right behind me, with a mouth longer than a foot, ears like fans, and eyes shining like lanterns. It opened its mouth wide and spoke in a loud voice,

"Go away, go away...!"

Hu Decai was so frightened that he crawled around. After stumbling home, he found that he had wet his pants and was shaking all over, as if he had fallen into an ice hole. He was so frightened that he became bedridden. It took several months before he could get out of bed...

No one doubted what Hu Decai said, because he was neither the first nor the last person to encounter that sow spirit. But what I never expected was that I was one of them!

The weather is yellow in May and the sky is in June, it is the time for wheat harvesting. Unlike now, there was a combine harvester (grain combine harvester) that could complete harvesting and threshing in one go. Even walk-behind tractors were not seen. They were all hand-held sickles.

After cutting, it is dried in the threshing field for a few days and then ground with stone rollers. Therefore, someone needs to watch the field at night when the wheat is drying...

During the wheat harvest that year, Goudan and I slept in the wheat field at the east end of the village at night to watch the wheat field (about a mile away from the abandoned kiln), that is, to watch the wheat being stolen.

It was a moonlit night. The cool breeze was blowing and the bugs were singing. Goudan and I were very happy. We chatted until we were really sleepy and fell asleep.

About dawn, a burst of thunder woke us up. When we opened our eyes, we saw a strong storm, lightning and thunder. Goudan and I were about to get up and cover the wheat with raincloths, when we saw a black shadow coming towards us from the east.

It ran towards us and jumped in front of us in the blink of an eye. We couldn't see clearly. It looked vaguely like a big cow. It was filled with an unpleasant stench that made people uncomfortable. It stopped next to the wheat pile where we were sleeping.

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Goudan and I both felt each other's trembling. We covered our heads with a sheet used to prevent mosquitoes, and our bodies were soaked with cold sweat. We hid under the sheet and dared not move, just hoping that the monster would leave as soon as possible!

Strange to say, the thunder sounded near the wheat stack, and the lightning flashed brightly and darkly in front of my eyes. The thunder became louder and louder, and the lightning became brighter and brighter. No one stopped, and what was even more uncomfortable was that

, the roaring thunder kept surrounding us, exploding all around us! The black figure was breathing heavily, and the stench filled the air around us! We felt like we were in a pigsty.

I still remember it fresh. The grunt made by the black shadow was indeed the same as that of a pig. It seemed to be very scared. The grunt was full of fear... Yes, I have been feeding pigs at home since I was a child, so I am very familiar with pigs! From the sound

Judging from the fishy smell on its body, it is indeed a pig, a super big pig!

Thunder kept ringing around us, and thunderbolts flashed. The black shadow got closer to the two of us, and said angrily, "Let me hide for a while, let me hide for a while!"

It doesn’t matter that it is a super big pig. The most terrifying thing is that it can speak human language! It also said that it would hide beside us for a while. Oh my god, how long will it take to hide? I live under the bed sheets like a year, no,

It can be said that every second is like a year!

Just when I was so scared that I almost collapsed, the bead that looked like jade but not jade in my coat pocket fell to the ground with a clanking sound. The black shadow was, to be precise, the big pig.

, suddenly like a rabbit seeing a wolf, it screamed in fright: "Oh, my life is over!", shouted, and ran towards the village in a hurry, and the thunder and lightning went away with it, no longer exploding around us.

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The next day, Hu Changlai, the poorest man in the east of the village, told people that the sow spirit from the abandoned kiln last night went to his shed to take shelter from lightning at dawn. The smell of pigs made him dizzy, and the beast was still there.

He kept humming in a low voice, "I'm scared to death, I'm scared to death!", until the thunder stopped and left...

Since then, Goudan and I have never dared to go to the fields at the east end of the village, and as we are not afraid of anything, we have been afraid of thunder ever since...

I knew that it was the sow spirit that left the shadow of thunder and evil in my heart, but what I didn't know was that the sow spirit was so frightened that she shouted "Oh, my life is at stake!" and ran away despite the thunder.

It turned out to be that inconspicuous bead made of who knows what! Because I got that bead in a dream!
Chapter completed!