People living in rural areas may only know the difference between graveyards and cemeteries, especially the difference between graveyards and cemeteries at night. Zen
In rural areas, there are basically earthen graves, where the deceased are buried beside the road in a fixed farmland.
Some have been buried here for hundreds of years, and many were buried in the ground at that time. After death, a hole was dug. Those who had money would buy a coffin for burial, and those who had no money would wrap it in a straw mat and bury it, and then fill it with a pile of soil.
Get up and fill it up high. If you have money, you can erect a monument. If you don't have money, you won't even have a monument.
There are graves on both sides of the road. The so-called grass on the graves refers to the earthen graves. Some have earthen graves on both sides of the road, and some have an area full of earthen graves. The area is quite large, and they are shaped like a ridiculous zigzag.
The nights in the countryside are really dark. It is so dark that you can only see the road clearly with the help of moonlight, stars or a flashlight. Otherwise, it is really so dark that you can’t see your fingers in the dark. In the early years, some bad things happened in the countryside at night, such as girls being raped.
He was bullied, and in the end he couldn't even see who it was, and he was suddenly dragged into the woods while walking in the dark. This type of crime often happened in the dark.
In addition, there are many snakes, insects, rats, ants, and wild cats and dogs in the countryside, and the night is particularly quiet. If you are unfortunate enough to walk to the graveyard at night, it will be really scary. There are all kinds of strange sounds, wind and grass, and even in early summer.
Things like fireflies are really scary if you think about them randomly. Some people are really scared to death because they scare themselves.
Each earthen tomb seems to look the same, and it is easy to lose direction at night. This seems to many people to be a ghost beating a wall.
In fact, there are few entertainment projects and facilities in rural areas. The only entertainment for everyone at that time was to gather together to chat, tell stories and gossip. Some stories can even be circulated in rural areas for hundreds of years and people believe them to be true. Zen
The older generation in rural areas will also tell children with rumors and rumors, in fact, just to stop the children from running around at night. But if you tell them too much, everyone may believe it, especially if the stories become more and more evil, it's really
It's so scary.
Only people who go out to big cities to see a bit of the world or go to school will feel that some things are not necessarily true, but there are still people who, even after going out, will leave in their hearts some of the information that was instilled in them when they were young.
At this moment, the village where Zhao Mingyang is located is a very remote village. The remoteness here is that it is only 40 kilometers away from the urban area here, but it seems to be two parallel universes.
The urban area is full of modern atmosphere, with pedestrian streets, Wanheng Plaza, etc. all available.
There are dirt roads everywhere in this village. These dirt roads have not changed in decades. There are also many decorations and appliances in people’s homes that are from decades ago or even longer. For example, some people still use earthen stoves to cook food.
Water is drawn from the well in the courtyard, and the light bulbs used at home are still the kind that turn on and off again.
The village is surrounded by fields. Those in the village who had some money built their own two-story houses. After the construction was completed, they went out to work. The elderly and children stayed at home to look after the houses.
Most people's idea is to go out and make money, and don't think much about anything else. The elderly basically take care of their children at home, cook some food for them, and go to the fields to cultivate the farmland. They work from sunrise to sunset every day. For children,
On the contrary, I don’t think much of education. Zen
It is very common in rural areas for children to get out of school by themselves. Many of them don’t care much about their grades. Few people in the village care about their grades, so they are more strict and don’t let them run around. In rural areas, teenagers and even younger children It is not unusual for a child to be able to do laundry and cook, and even more so to work in the fields. He has a strong ability to take care of himself. During the holidays, he may only see his parents for less than half a month.
But because of this kind of carelessness, many children drop out of school after graduating from elementary school. Graduating from junior high school is considered the end of their studies. If they fail to pass into high school, they are not suitable for school. They are sent to work early or find a place to learn skills as an apprentice.
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Therefore, there are many teenage children in the village who have nothing to do but fight at home or fall in love early. Except for the environment, it seems that the people have not changed. If there is a college student in the village, everyone in the village knows it. Who has a college student?
, they will say that the child’s father or mother could have studied well in the past, because the family difficulties were delayed, so it is reasonable for the child to study well.
For example, if a child of a family makes money, some villagers will say that their family is blessed by gods, which can be passed down for a long time. If a child of a family commits a crime, his father also committed a crime before.
It was passed around the village until no one knew what the original version was. The more outrageous it was, the more people believed it.
There was a statistic before that said that a lot of literature comes from rural areas. Is this a coincidence? Both Liu and Mo Yan gave some explanations that are more realistic. Because rural areas remain unchanged, they can carefully observe every scene.
Everyone's speech, behavior, expressions and movements, as well as all kinds of strange customs and strange stories passed down from generation to generation.
This is indeed a unique advantage for creators, because these things are vivid and interesting, ordinary but not boring, common but not common. For modern people, especially city dwellers, they are both familiar and unfamiliar.
of freshness.
Zhao Mingyang was in this familiar yet unfamiliar place at this moment. It was pitch black all around. Zhao Mingyang used his mobile phone flashlight to illuminate it. He was walking on a narrow dirt road with earthen graves on both sides. When he was a child, Zhao Mingyang would still be afraid of this.
, and later after experiencing several funerals of relatives and friends, he basically became indifferent to this. Zen
To put it bluntly, if there is something scariest in this world, it will never be ghosts and gods, but the poor who cannot support themselves and their filial piety, and those who cannot support their children and cannot fulfill their responsibilities. Sometimes Zhao Mingyang would also think that it would be nice to live here all his life.
The house may have been left by the ancestors. Even if it is renovated, it will not cost much money. You can farm the land to be self-sufficient and live an unchanged life every day until you finally lay down in the ground and live your whole life like this.
What people are most afraid of is living in a world that is constantly changing. The more you know but cannot change, the more painful it is.
There were bursts of whistles and the sound of motorcycles, and Zhao Mingyang knew that these were a group of young people who had dropped out of school and had nothing to do at home and liked to cause trouble. They wandered around the villages at night, just looking for girls to play with. Many times they would also fight with another group of people on the road.
If you don't agree, take action.
Zhao Mingyang stopped in front of a three-tile-roofed house. There was bright light in the tile-roofed house. This is where Su Zimeng lives. I have to say that this old man really has no taboos. It is really quiet here and almost no one will disturb him.
Zhao Mingyang quickly stepped back and turned off the flashlight, because there were a lot of dogs barking, more than one dog, and the sound sounded like a large dog. It seemed that this was used as an alarm system. When someone approached the dog, it would roar to remind them. This was a dog raised by a family in the village.
One of the uses of .
In rural areas, petty theft occurs in the dead of night, and there are even people who enter the house at night and want to do evil things. Therefore, keeping dogs in the courtyard has become a kind of alarm function. Most of them keep large dogs, and they also have a defensive function. Zen
Zhao Mingyang retreated quickly because he didn't want to be discovered by Su Zimeng. Just as Zhao Mingyang retreated to the main road, a group of people were on the road. Two motorcycles actually carried six people.
The motorcycle lights were on, and with the help of the lights, Zhao Mingyang discovered that a woman in the crowd was surrounded.
The girl also saw Zhao Mingyang and shouted to Zhao Mingyang: "Brother!"
Zhao Mingyang frowned. This was asking him to help him out. What benefits could he get? Pretending not to hear and leaving would reduce trouble. If he stepped forward, what if these brats would kill him?
The prerequisite for a hero to save a beauty is that the rescue is successful. If the rescue is not successful, he may be trying to be brave and competitive, and may end up asking for trouble and death.
These young people ride around on broken motorcycles every day. Without family control, they make trouble all day long and dare to do anything.
It is not worthwhile for Zhao Mingyang to have a conflict with this group of people, and his life may be in danger. Zen
But the woman's shout made everyone's eyes focus on Zhao Mingyang.
A reformed-through-labor man shouted to Zhao Mingyang: "It's none of your business, get out of here, or you'll get a good look."
The other party probably noticed that this woman was asking for help and calling for help. Zhao Mingyang didn't look like someone here, and it was obvious from the way he was dressed.
Zhao Mingyang still stood there, staring at the group of people.
