Since the showdown with his father again tonight, Liu Jun felt relieved. He felt that although his father did not let go, he was relieved in his heart that he would not read it again and go to the city to make a living. His father was sensible.
As everyone knows, being an official is important for your life, and you also need to have a book to study.
After Liu Jun finished washing, he lay on the bed and tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep, which made the wooden bed creak. If his father hadn't gone to the fields to drain water, the sound would have been scolded by his father as a sign that he didn't want to study and miss his wife.
Since his father didn't give him any money, Liu Jun could only rely on himself. Although Langshang Village was a large village with a population of three to four thousand people, it was located in a remote location and farmers lived in scattered places. They usually relied on some paddy fields and dry land for farming.
People in the village are very poor. It is impossible to borrow one or two thousand yuan to go to the provincial capital to set up a stall and do business. Liu Jun has never thought about borrowing money from a certain uncle or aunt in the village, let alone not being able to borrow money.
, even if someone had money to borrow, they would not believe that a rural kid who had just dropped out of school had the ability to pay back the loan.
Although it is now the 21st century, a thousand yuan is nothing to city people, but few people in the remote Langshang village can spare a thousand yuan. A thousand yuan is worth a thousand yuan to a farmer.
For a farmer's family to make a living, they don't know how many years it would take to save, so most of the young people in the village went to work in the city.
Liu Jun knew that his family was extremely poor. To use a rural dialect, it was called "too poor to knock on the stool." He really wanted his father to come up with some money to support him in going to work in the city or start a small business.
Even three to five hundred is difficult.
There was a reason why Liu Jun, who felt that he would never be able to study any more, wanted to go to the city and was unwilling to stay in the countryside.
Like village chief Xiao Fugui, the surname Xiao is a common surname. Liu Dekui's family moved to Langshang Village from their ancestors as a single family. Liu is the smallest surname in Langshang Village. Only Liu Dekui and Liu Junye are left. Any household in the village can be named Liu Dekui.
It is common for father and son to boss around and be bullied. Liu Jun's brother Liu Qiang killed someone in a fit of anger.
Later, people in the village did not dare to point fingers at Liu Dekui. Who knows whether Liu Jun, who has read books, would kill someone in anger like his brother Liu Qiang? Liu Jun is 1.82 meters tall and is a head taller than his brother.
Although he looks like a white-faced scholar, when it comes to fighting, Liu Jun is very tall and strong. There are really not many people in the entire Longshang Village who dare to challenge Liu Jun in a one-on-one fight.
Liu Jun, who was lying on the wooden bed unable to sleep, had an idea and thought of a way to make money. He heard that city people like to eat tortoise, yellow rice, shrimp, small loach and other aquatic products. These things are plentiful in the countryside.
No one went to catch him.
In addition to the old, young, sick, disabled, pretty wives and other left-behind people in Langshang Village, most of the young people in the village have gone to work in the city. The young people who have not gone out are idle all day long, bragging, spanking, playing poker, and playing poker at night.
Those who care about their wives are too lazy to make a living. No one wants to make a fortune by catching bastards and eating fish.
Liu Jun was very excited when he thought about catching tortoises, loaches, etc. and selling them for money. There was still more than a month before the busy farming season. If he worked hard, it was still possible to scrape together a thousand yuan to start a small business in the provincial capital.
When people are excited, they become less sleepy, especially on hot summer nights. When Liu Jun got excited, his pants were pushed up for no reason. Thinking that he would have to catch the bastard early tomorrow, Liu Jun put his hands into his pants and pinched the big tool to force himself.
Fall asleep.
At that time, Liu Jun, who was studying in a remote mountain village, was not very civilized. Although he was a high school student and had taken physiological hygiene classes, he still did not know or understand what "masturbation" was...
When he was drowsy, and he didn't know how long he had slept, Liu Jun vaguely heard noises outside the house, as well as the barking of dogs. Such noises felt very strange in the middle of the night. The night in the countryside was inherently strange.
It was quiet, how could there be such a noise? Liu Jun thought it was a scene in a dream.
"Bang bang bang -" followed by a rapid knock on the door, Liu Jun shuddered and had an ominous premonition. He suddenly remembered that these days are the days in folklore of the seventh month of the lunar calendar when ghosts are released. It is haunted.
What?
As soon as Liu Jun grunted on the wooden bed, he jumped out of bed with his trousers on, turned on the light, ran out of the bedroom, picked up a pole and held it in his hand, shouting: "Who?"
No one answered, but there were still knocks on the door. The door was hammered hard and hard, which made Liu Jun's heart stand on end. Today seems to be July and a half of the folk Ghost Festival?! Is it July and a half?
Regardless of whether it was a person or a ghost knocking on the door, Liu Jun firmly believed that it was definitely not his father who came back from running water late at night. If his father came back from running water in the field late at night, he would usually open the copper-headed lock on the back door and enter the house gently for fear of waking Liu Jun.
Doors are often fastened with large wooden bolts.
"Hey, who's knocking on the door?" Liu Jun approached the door and shouted to embolden himself. He held the pole tightly with one hand and tried to push the door bolt with the other hand. He was ready to hold up the pole whether he was a man or a ghost. How could he knock on the door without shouting?
The truth is, it is said that even if a ghost knocks on the door, there must be a shrill ghost cry.
People who studied like Liu Jun did not go to college, but they still received the orthodox national education of the Chinese dynasty. The philosophy of Marxist-Leninist materialism was not only deeply rooted in their bones, but they were also brainwashed.
For Liu Jun, a dignified high school graduate naturally didn't believe in any ghosts and gods. However, Liu Jun only heard knocking on the door and no one shouted. This matter, put aside in July and a half, was really a bit evil.
"Boom..." The crisp sound of the hand holding the pole was unusually loud.
Liu Jun suddenly pulled the door bolt open, and a figure rushed forward. Liu Jun swung a pole towards the incoming person without even looking at it. The figure actually blocked it with his arm. The incoming person was really fierce.
"Hmm..." The visitor didn't have time to touch his sore arm, and gestured up and down at Liu Jun, making Liu Jun startled.
"Ali, why are you here?" The person who came was sixteen or seventeen years old, tall and round, and looked to be about the same age as Liu Jun. It was the mute Xiao Li who saved Liu Jun's life when he was a child.
Xiao Li was picked up by a lonely old man in Langshang Village since he was a child. He was not mute at first, but when he was seven or eight years old, he almost drowned while playing in the large pond next to the graveyard at the east end of the village. Fortunately, he was saved by Liu, who was a few years older and was familiar with water.
Jun rescued him, but for some reason, after that drowning incident, Xiao Li became unable to speak and became mute. Maybe he was frightened. Some people said that he was possessed by the ghost of the grave.
However, what many people did not expect was that Xiao Li, who had lost his voice, was very stubborn. He was not afraid of death even after drowning once. After that, whenever he saw Liu Jun coming home from school, he would ask Liu Jun to teach him how to row in the large pond in the cemetery.
Swimming comes later. Xiao Li can stay in the water for half an hour without getting up, and he can also catch big carps. His water skills are far superior to Liu Jun's.
Later, the centenary old man who adopted Xiao Li passed away, and Xiao Li became an orphan. Out of humanity, the village arranged for Xiao Li to guard the fish pond in the graveyard, and built a hut in the fish pond for the mute Xiao Li to chat with.
To survive.
Although Xiao Li is mute, he is grateful and never forgets his lifesaver Liu Jun. During those days when Liu Jun was studying in the county seat, Xiao Li would secretly go to the village fish pond where he was guarding every now and then to catch a few grass carp, bear carp, etc.
It was sent to the home of Liu Jun's father, Liu Dekui. Liu Dekui would also cook fish from time to time and take the bottled rice to the hut next to the fish pond in Fenshan to have a few cups with Xiao Li.
Liu Jun had a flash of inspiration and wanted to catch the tortoise and eels in the city to sell money to earn the money to enter the city. Subconsciously, he thought of Xiao Li, a mute who is very good at water, and planned to invite him to the wild pond and stream in the bamboo forest outside the village tomorrow morning.
He went to catch bastards and loaches, but Xiao Li unexpectedly knocked on the door like a resentful ghost at night to look for him.
"Talk, what's the matter?" Liu Jun threw the pole away, and as soon as the words came out, he felt that it was too much. He knew that Xiao Li was mute, but he asked him to speak. What did he mean?
Xiao Li didn't mind, but he was so anxious that he was sweating. He pointed at Liu Dekui's room, gestured for a while, picked up Liu Jun and ran out.
Liu Jun finally understood that something happened to his father Liu Dekui. Xiao Li didn't know what happened. He only knew that his father Liu Dekui and the village chief's wife Tian Xiuhua were tied to the fish pond in the graveyard by the village chief and his family. It seemed that they were trying to kill him.
Throwing it into the pond to feed the fish, many people in the village rushed to watch. He saw it with his own eyes in the straw hut on the other side of the fish pond.
"Mom, it's really July and a half. Ghosts are everywhere. Didn't my father just release the water at night? Why did the village chief Xiao Fugui dare to tie up his father? What did the village chief want to do? The eldest brother Liu Qiang died at the hands of people from Xiaojia Village.
, is this the Xiao family’s plan to kill all the old Liu family? Are there only two members of the Liu family left to be spared?”
Liu Jun was angry. He regretted that he was only thinking about going to the city instead of reading again at night, but when his father said to go to put out water, he forgot to remind his father that it was half July and it was better not to go out at night.
July and a half, what the hell, the good father was kidnapped by the village chief and wanted to be thrown into the fish pond, and there was also the village chief's wife Tian Xiuhua. Is there any kind of connection here? In the legal society of the 21st century, there is still
It is unheard of to sink people into a pond, it is inhumane!
The furious Liu Jun's head was swollen and his eardrums were roaring. He had no time to think about it, and he couldn't figure out what happened. He shook off Xiao Li's hand heavily, rushed into the bedroom, and threw on his clothes without hesitation.
He picked up a copycat version of the Swiss Army Knife and put it in his hand, rushed out of the gate and ran towards the fish pond at the east end of the village.
In other words, there are not many high school boys who have never played with knives or daggers, and there are also not many boys who have not hidden several murder weapons and carry them with them. In rural middle schools, few students have seen a real multifunctional Swiss Army knife, but
Counterfeit versions of sabers, military spurs, and even highly simulated pistols and blunderbuss that can shoot iron sand are all the favorites of energetic boys.
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The fish pond is at the east end of the village, about two or three kilometers away from Langshang Village, which is a bit far away. The mute Xiao Li must be brave enough to guard a pond for many years alone, and it is too big to imagine.
A hundred meters away from the fish pond is the graveyard of Langshang Village.
Why is the fish pond near Fenshan not abandoned? It is a fish pond for fish farming. The water is very fat. It is very strange. It takes at least a year to raise a silver carp cub in a normal fish pond to three to five kilograms of water. And
Silver carp are raised in the fish pond near the tomb hill, but the water can be raised twice a year, so the fish pond is used. The villagers are taboo about the tomb hill, and no one dares to guard it. The job of guarding the fish pond falls to the mute Xiao Li.
On top of that, it just so happens that the village can also solve the life of the orphan Xiao Li.
The strange fish pond, the grave on the ridge, the midnight night in July, these scary elements were nothing in Liu Jun's eyes. Liu Jun thought that his father must not be thrown into the grave by the inhumane village chief.
Feed the fish in the pond...
Liu Jun ran wildly in the night at the speed of a 100-meter sprint in school physical education class, and Xiao Li followed him closely.
In the remote mountain village, there were only a few households, and some farmers' houses turned on their lights. When Liu Jun ran out, the full moon in the sky was pale, dark clouds were flying, and there was a strange sound of wind. Many villagers with flashlights were rushing forward, stretching towards the village.
The field path at the fish pond at the east end of the village resembles the long lantern dragon that shines during the Lantern Festival.
The flashlights in the hands of the hurried villagers flashed in a chaotic manner. The more courageous men and women in the village all picked up flashlights and ran towards the fish pond. There were not many children and elderly people in sight. The villagers were superstitious and couldn't do anything in July and a half.
Those who walk at night are afraid that the elderly and children will be infected with evil spirits.
Liu Jun passed through the running crowd. There were villagers he was familiar with, but no one said hello to Liu Jun. Liu Jun ran so fast that he knocked down several villagers. No one dared to contradict Liu Jun. This was not usually the case, but everyone seemed to be hiding.
Avoiding him like the plague.
On the night of July 1st, people were thrown into the pond in Fenshan to worship their ancestors again. Everyone rushed there to watch the fun. The pond in Fenshan had not been filled with people for many years. The villagers were inexplicably excited.
Forbearance...
Liu Jun was running, his heart was bleeding, and his heart was getting colder and colder. He was the last one to know that something happened to his father. No one in the village told him. If the mute Xiao Li hadn't reported the news in time, Liu Jun might have died when he was sleeping.
By daybreak, my father's body had already been found in the fish pond in the cemetery.
The people in this village are very cold, terribly cold-blooded. Liu Jun no longer has any nostalgia for the people in Longshang Village, nor does he want to. Not only does he not have nostalgia, but he instantly develops a kind of hatred, an unforgettable hatred, and an instant epiphany.
Why did eldest brother Liu Qiang kill someone? His dignity should not be insulted!
The people in this mountain village are very feudal and ignorant, and cannot tolerate foreigners. Liu Jun has felt since he was a child that his father has always been a man with his tail between his legs in Langshang Village, and the Liu family has difficulty finding a place in Xiaojia Village...
Thinking that his father's life or death was uncertain, Liu Jun had a terrible thought in his heart. If his father really sank into the pond, maybe on this night of the Ghost Festival of the Ghost Festival, Liu Jun would ask the strong men to cut off their wrists and kill everyone, and then rush to Jiuquan to meet him.