the last priest

Little Baoya had nowhere to go, so he simply followed Cha Wenbin and the others in a shameless manner. Chaozi happened to be keen to take care of his younger brother, so Xiaobaoya followed him during that time. After a long time, Chaozi gradually stopped talking about it. It was a matter of giving money, and the square box became the basis for Xiao Baoya to join the gang.

They were planning to go to Qinling Mountains, but Chaozi's business couldn't stop anytime soon, so they planned to wait until October when autumn was clear and crisp.

At that time, something happened to our family.

There is a reservoir in our village. The area of ​​the reservoir is not large, only forty to fifty mu of water area.

During the vigorous Great Leap Forward era, a number of small hydropower stations were established in the local area.Our village is located in a mountainous area. Electricity for civilian use was a rare commodity at that time, but it was better to have a water source. A reservoir like this was built by damming two mountains.

The dams of the reservoirs are all artificially built with stones. It is said that when the dams were being built, a person was crushed to death, but the reservoir was built after all.This hydropower station is a high-voltage power station, which was directly integrated into the largest power station in East China at that time, Xin'an River Power, so our village became one of the few places that were first connected to electricity.

Inside the reservoir is a bamboo forest. People who live on the mountain need to cut bamboo to make a living, and Abba is no exception.The water source of this reservoir comes from several dragon pools inside. The water quality is very clear, sweet and drinkable. Many people who understand Feng Shui say that our village can be well-regulated and rainy because of this water, and it can live in dragons. So even though it is a mountainous area, it is also At least there was no major disaster.

At that time, my father was still a farmer and a strong man. One day when he went to work in the mountains with a few workers and encountered heavy rain, he took shelter in the hut of the mountain people for a while. When the rain stopped, it was already dark.

They have walked the road from the mountain to their home countless times. They said that when I was not there, the family was short of food and there were few fields in the mountain area, so they went into the mountain to open up wasteland and plant corn. They often walked this road in the middle of the night all year round.

Dad was very courageous. When he was young, he carried a shotgun on his back and went into the barren mountains and old forests alone for a night to touch, what barren cemetery or old cemetery, sitting and lying down, but that time It was frightening for some reason.

He came back a bit late that day, the food at home was already cold, and Dad felt a little tired when he came back, so he fell asleep after eating.As soon as he woke up, a rash began to appear on his body, a large rash, from head to toe, with large patches of red and swollen skin, and he also started to have a fever.

It was sent to the health center in the village and put on a drip for several days, but it didn't improve at all. The family members were in a hurry, so they entrusted someone to send him to the county hospital.After various examinations, the doctor told Dad that his physical indicators were declining, but they didn't know the reason. Seeing his body itching unbearably, he often scratched his skin at night and bled, Ah Mom can only cry.

Some people say it's eczema, others say it's rubella, and rural people also call it wind lumps, but no matter how many medicines they take, it doesn't work, and the body is getting worse day by day, with new scratches and old scars on the skin.The hospital didn't work, and I went to earthwork again. After trying all kinds of folk remedies, they still didn't work. Only then did someone ask about the cause of the incident.

Dad said that he only started it that night. Some people heard that Dad was afraid that something was wrong. Dad just smiled. He didn't dare to think about it, because one summer three years ago, the reservoir did leak out. A Zhuangzi thing.

Two teenagers went to play in the reservoir, one could swim and the other was a landlubber.The one who can swim is good in water, and the landlubber touches the snails by the side, and the two are also friends.

The one who can swim has finished swimming and is about to put on clothes, but the landlubber slipped and fell into the reservoir.At that time, there were quite a few people swimming in the reservoir, and my brother-in-law was also there. He saw another boy plunge into the water to save his companion, but soon, splashes began to appear on the water, followed by a series of blister.

In such a situation, a person with bare hands would not dare to go down to save someone, even if it is a professional, he would not be sure to save someone without equipment.

That afternoon, the reservoir began to drain water, and it lasted for two full days and two nights. As the talkative person in the village, Abba naturally wanted to help.His task at that time was to catch people with bamboo rafts. The crowd of onlookers almost filled the entire dam, and the flashlight illuminated the area where the water fell into the water. Dad held a long pole and searched carefully back and forth in the water that was not deep enough, because The silt in the reservoir is very deep, and they have been looking for this small piece of water for a long time.

At that time, there were five bamboo rafts in the area where they fell into the water. Strange to say, the water depth was less than one meter at that time, but the two teenagers who fell into the water could not be found.

Among the onlookers at that time, an old man who knew a little bit said that the ghosts who fell into the water would not go ashore easily, because the yang energy on the shore was too strong, and water was inherently yin, and water ghosts were yin within yin. If there are too many people, the person will not get up.

Later, there was nothing they could do, the parents of the two teenagers just knelt down and let the onlookers back up and down, which was regarded as a Sima doctor.There were only a few rafts left in the whole scene, and one person on each raft was in charge of lighting, and one person was in charge of finding people, and Abba was the one in charge of finding people.

Dad can still recall that creepy scene. Although he has seen many dead people at his age, in various ways, those two are the most terrifying to him.

In a place where I have walked back and forth countless times, the pole in my father's hand was poked into the water as before. Suddenly, there was a "crash" on the water surface, and a naked corpse suddenly jumped out of the water with its face facing upwards. He stared straight at the person on the bamboo raft, and the one in charge of lighting threw away the flashlight in his hand in fright. The corpse of the boy who had been soaked in the water for two days and two nights had already begun to swell.

Someone began to shout that they had been found, but at this moment, far away from them, there was another "crash" on the surface of the water, and the lights swept over there, and another corpse vaguely surfaced.

No matter how hard people tried before, they couldn't find it, but when people lost their patience, the two corpses surfaced automatically one after another.The posture of the person who fell into the water is very strange. The arms of the landlubber are still in his arms, while the legs of the swimmer are bent, and the arms are also straight upwards, which shows that he was dying at the moment He was still trying to survive, but his companion ruined his way out.

Two stiff corpses were salvaged, and the one that Abba found was pulled by him. It is said that within a month, there was a fishy smell on the palms of Abba's hands, which could not be washed off. Later, someone Tell him to soak his hands with a handful of old incense ash from the temple to completely eliminate it.

That matter, my father has always had lingering fears in his heart. Not everyone is willing to touch a dead body, and not everyone can touch it.

The rash on his body became more and more severe, and then he was sent to the provincial capital. After consulting a specialist, there was still no clue. The blood vessels in his arm were all dripped and there was no place for injection. Dad finally decided to go home. , when he was forced to do nothing, he thought of Cha Wenbin.

At that time, Cha Wenbin seldom came out of the mountains, but he heard that it was my family's business, so he still came here.At that time, Cha Wenbin was thinner than before.

Who is he? After just looking at it, he concluded that Dad's skin disease was very serious, and asked, "Lao Xia, has anyone drowned in your village? It's been almost three years since I figured it out." .”

Abba was startled, so he told the story of that year, and Cha Wenbin said, "Don't worry, I'll give you a try, if I'm not wrong, the two drowned people are afraid It was buried on the mountain of your Xia family's ancestor's tomb, and now the thousand-day death anniversary is approaching, so I'll go and have a look first."

The ancestral tomb of our old Xia’s family was originally selected from a tea field, which was picked by the great grandfather himself, and the feng shui said it was excellent.In order to open up this piece of ancestral graves, thick loess was dug down, and the old graves below were stacked one on top of the other, and I don't know which dynasty it was from.

This ancestral tomb mountain is located on the mountainside, shaped like a chair, facing a curved river. Since ancient times, the burial soil is yellow for good luck and red for bad luck.When bricks were still scarce, people came to this area to pick loess to build walls and houses, because the viscosity of loess is quite good, mixed with lime, the hardness is comparable to the current concrete, and this kind of adobe is warm in winter and summer Cool, also as a yin house, belongs to yellow among the five elements, and is also earth.

The upper part of this tea mountain is a bamboo forest. At that time, the rural land contract system was implemented, and the economic forest was also contracted to farmers. It happened that this forest was the family of the boy who could swim and drown. A place was chosen between the tea field and the bamboo forest to build a grave.

The young man's name is Huzi, and his grave is higher than that of the old Xia's family, but because it is his bamboo forest, so our Xia family can't have any objections.There has always been an old saying that white-haired people do not send black-haired people, that is, the older ones will not go to the graves of the younger ones, so this tiger has been dead for three years, and the grave is still bare.Cha Wenbin went up to take a look, good guy, weeds are overgrown, the cemented tomb is cracked everywhere, and even the tombstone is crumbling. Judging from the incense candle holder in front of the grave, no one has come to offer incense for many years. .

After going down the mountain, Cha Wenbin first came to my house and asked my mother to cook a few half-cooked vegetables at night, three meat and three vegetables, and prepare some joss paper money for me to accompany me at night. I represent my father.

I am still young, but I am no stranger to Zha Wenbin. I thought it must be a fun thing, so I washed up early in the morning and lay on the bed very excited. I just waited for Zha Wenbin to wake me up in the middle of the night to go up the mountain. . . . . .