Weiyang Nancun can be said to be a vegetable garden, with various fruits and vegetables grown on the farmland throughout the village.
There are less than 100 households in the village, and the total population is less than 300 people.
The outline of the village residential area is like a long winter melon lying horizontally in the vegetable garden, with a larger head in the west and a smaller head in the east.
You can see trees everywhere in the village, mostly fruit trees, especially pomegranates. Trees are planted in various places, some places have seven or eight trees, and some places have only one. The land is chosen so as not to block the road.
The village is very close to the highway and the transportation is very convenient. Jiang Jinjiu arrived here in less than two days.
In fact, one day was enough. He was supposed to change trains in Xi'an, but he spent half a day there, which cost him a lot of money on the old road on Zhongnan Mountain.
Jiang Jinjiu stayed in the village for two days and thought the best thing was the food.
You can eat fresh vegetables as you go. The cabbage heart is as sweet as if it were dipped in sugar, the cucumber is crisp and refreshing, the persimmon is sour and sweet, the carrot is more addictive than snacking, the green onion is spicy but has a sweet aftertaste... Even if you don't fry it, eating it raw is just as good. You can have rice.
Not to mention the chicken, duck, fish and pigs raised in the village, the taste is completely unmatched by the farms. A bowl of braised pork cooked by a village woman almost made him bite off his tongue. The stewed chicken and fish made him think about his next meal, and he had to eat twelve minutes after each meal.
Jiang Jinjiu did not use his identity as a reporter in the village. Instead, he pretended to be a student of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences and went to the village for research on the pretext of collecting graduation thesis materials.
Surveying in rural areas is different from that in cities. Except for some relevant people who intervene, the rest of the people mostly come to watch the fun and rarely participate.
But in the countryside, as soon as they heard that a reporter was coming to investigate something, the whole village would probably gather around to steal the spotlight, causing a scene.
He could have done this, but the country was opposed to feudal superstition. Unless the purpose was to decipher the theory of superstitious gods from a scientific perspective, other actions to investigate the incident were more or less a disguised promotion of feudal superstition.
Especially in recent years, a cult organization has emerged that has used superstitious ideas to poison many people, so that related activities have become the target of purges. And various levels of reward orders were issued to those criminals. If he was taken to receive the reward, I am afraid Qin Zhenyang would also take the blame.
Therefore, Jiang Jinjiu must keep a low profile and go to the countryside to investigate as a student. It is reasonable and reasonable to ask people about the legends of the village's past in his spare time, and naturally he will not be suspected by the villagers.
However, it is a new thing for college students to go to the countryside these days. "Going to the mountains and going to the countryside" has long been a thing of the past.
The "Going to the Mountains and Going to the Countryside" movement refers to the political movement in the 1960s and 1970s that organized a large number of urban "intellectual youth" to leave the cities and settle and work in the countryside.
Jiang Jinjiu's arrival was welcomed by the older generation and they took great care of him. At least they didn't have to spend money on accommodation.
After discussing with the villagers, the village chief placed him in a small room in the Sun family compound.
It was a single room belonging to the Sun family's son, who was currently studying in the city and usually had free time.
The village chief also took time out of his "busy schedule" to help Jiang Jinjiu and arrange an "assistant" for him at the dining table.
He was a man nicknamed "Li Dazui" in the village. His family had a few acres of land, and he also opened a canteen (a small convenience store selling tobacco, alcohol and daily necessities) at the entrance of the village, which his wife took care of.
Li Dazui does nothing on weekdays, and his son takes care of the farm work. He wandered around the village all day long, looking for where he could go if there was any excitement. It was said that there was nothing going on in the village that he didn't know about.
But everyone knows that he likes to brag. Even if he really knows something, what comes out of his mouth will definitely be filled with exaggeration. People can't predict the extent to which the facts will be distorted.
Jiang Jinjiu needs just this kind of person.
Li Dazui has a square face, a big nose and thick lips, and his skin is tanned and red. He is an ordinary farmer.
However, Jiang Jinjiu was embarrassed when he greeted him for the first time. He called him "Uncle Li."
Li Dazui is 42 years old this year. He cannot be called "Bo". He must be over fifty years old to use this title. It's not appropriate to call him Uncle Li, he should be called Brother Li.
Jiang Jinjiu was full of grievances. Li Dazui had some white hair on his temples, the wrinkles on his forehead could collect water, the crow's feet at the corners of his eyes were like fan folds, and the brown spots under his eyes were either sun spots or age spots. At first glance, he looks like a person over sixty years old, but when he looks at it, it is reduced to fifty-five at most, but he doesn't look like a forty-two-year-old person at all.
This can't be entirely blamed on Jiang Jinjiu, it's a reference point relationship.
He grew up in the city and was used to the phenomenon that city people look younger than their age.
If Li Dazui was placed in the city with a 42-year-old man, he would definitely be called uncle.
Later, Jiang Jinjiu discovered that the villagers here generally looked older, especially those over forty years old, and few looked younger than their age. Some young men who have just turned 20 look like they are 30 years old, and they can't help but lament the hard work of the working people.
It is said that after Jiang Jinjiu got his assistant Li Dazui, he pretended to ask Li Dazui about crop problems during the day, and found opportunities to take a break and chat with him about household matters from time to time. Never would I have thought that every time I wanted to ask about the double death incident, he would change the topic without even opening my mouth. There was no chance.
He is really worthy of the nickname "Big Mouth Li". He can tell all kinds of gossip news with just a movement of his mouth.
Which family's daughter-in-law quarreled with which family's wife, which family's aunt said bad things about that family's, which family's men did something embarrassing, which family's men did something secretly, which family's daughter-in-law screamed happily at night, which family's The mother-in-law made a lot of noise, which boy had an affair with the daughter of a certain family, or even whose dog rode whose dog. It would be a pity not to be a reporter for a gossip weekly.
However, the things in the countryside were new and interesting to Jiang Jinjiu. Every time he heard Li Dazui talking, he forgot the purpose. It wasn't until Li Dazui once said that someone's child was naughty and almost broke his leg that Jiang Jinjiu remembered the mission of this trip.
As soon as he asked the question casually, Li Dazui couldn't close his mouth anymore.
Let’s talk about it more recently, last autumn.
The village has had another bumper harvest and sales are still going smoothly.
Seeing that the Mid-Autumn Festival was approaching, the 43-year-old brother Wang went to the city and bought a box of Laoyao wine. He wanted to invite the two brothers to get together and have a few drinks.
On the afternoon of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Brother Wang set up a table of wine and food at his home, and invited his two brothers and their families to have a good time, talk, and eat. After drinking so much, the three brothers no longer used cups, and each drank from a bottle, as if they would only stop drinking after getting drunk.
After drinking until evening, there were only two bottles of wine left in the box.
The eldest brother was lying on the table, the third brother was lying unconscious under the table, and only the second brother Wang was still sitting.
Li Dazui said that he passed by the door of Brother Wang's house at this time. The window was open. He saw Brother Wang holding an empty bottle in the house and kept shouting about drinking.
At this time, the women came up to dissuade him one after another, but the more they persuaded Brother Wang, the more energetic he became.
He opened a bottle of wine while shouting that I was not drunk, raised his head and drank half of the bottle, and then shouted at the women, "See, see, oh? I'm... not drunk! I'm not... no, I'm drunk." Not...not drunk!"
Bang! Brother Wang suddenly fell down and hit his head so hard that the plates and bowls were broken! The women were so frightened that they screamed "Oh my God" and ran all over the floor.
Li Dazui imitated the scene at that time, trotting around in a circle with his hips swung very exaggeratedly, and called out in a soft voice, making Jiang Jinjiu laugh for a long time.
However, what they didn't expect was that after the women helped Brother Wang up, they found that he was out of breath! His face was twisted and his nose was bleeding!
Later, the autopsy revealed that he died from a ruptured blood vessel in the brainstem, caused by excessive drinking and severe head trauma.
Here comes the point!
Li Dazui said that when Brother Wang fell on the table, he heard a bang, which seemed to be a bangleizi (a kind of firecracker, also known as a single blast, the thickest one is like a bamboo tube, and the bangleizi is half of it Rough, no less loud than a salute). After a while, I heard a commotion on the other side, as if something had happened.
Later I found out that the sound was from the Sun family's son playing with Thunderbolts. Somehow he lit a few Thunderbolts in his pocket and his stomach exploded! It is said that the intestines flowed all over the floor, but within a few minutes the Sun child died.
There was something even weirder. When Li Dazui followed the sound, he found two strange clouds in the sky.
One is on the other side of Sun's house. It looks like a pink birthday bag from a distance in the evening glow.
The other flower was above Brother Wang's house. It was a little yellow in color, and Li Dazui looked like a three-foot-diameter sesame seed cake underneath.
However, the clouds appear to be very high, but they are obviously far away from the higher clouds. At that time, he threw a stone at Yunduo like a ghost. Although he didn't hit it, it felt very close. I wanted to try a slingshot, but the clouds dispersed after a while. It didn't scatter properly, like a ball of flour blown away by a strong wind, flying to the north.
But the wind that day was blowing from the east. Did the wind direction change in such a short period of time?
Another thing happened in the winter of the previous year.
One day it was extremely cold, with a level 5 cold wind blowing. No one is willing to leave the house and sit on their own kang to relax.
But it happened that on this day, the daughter of the Ma family, a college student in the village, returned to the village in order to complete the procedures for transferring her household registration to her workplace.
Li Dazui said that the place where the Ma family's daughter died happened to be on the road diagonally opposite the door of his house.
The Ma family's daughter was sitting in a car at the time, and the driver should be his boyfriend.
The car was driving very slowly at the time, and it may have stalled because it was too slow. The man got out of the car to check and found something wrong with the car. Li Dazui judged it based on the fact that the Ma family's daughter got out of the car and took out the tool box.
The daughter of the Ma family did not close the car door when she got out of the car and went to the trunk to get tools. Afterwards, Li Dazui remembered that he saw something getting into the car.
At that time, the white shadow flashed, and the thing was surprisingly fast. He mistakenly thought that he was dazzled, but unexpectedly it turned out to be a poisonous snake!
When the two returned to the car, the venomous snake attacked and one of them took a bite. The man grabbed the snake and threw it out of the car. Later, Li Dazui found the white snake under a nearby tree. It was motionless and seemed to have frozen to death.
At that time, he wondered, where did the snake come from?
The snake was white all over, its thumb was thick and three feet long, and there was a red spot on its triangular head. It was not a common species.
He wanted to find something to pack up the snake and take it home, but when he returned, the snake was missing. He couldn't help but wonder if he had encountered a snake spirit.
Let’s talk about the two people who were bitten.
The daughter of the Ma family was so timid that she fainted from fear. Men are more stable. Although they are panicking, they can still keep calm and drive to the village health center.
However, as fate would have it, snake venom broke out before they had gone far, and the two were involved in a car accident. The car overturned into a ditch on the side of the road. By the time villagers came to rescue them, and then carried them to a health center, they found that they were too poisoned and could not be saved.
The spring of the previous year.
The Liu family picked a basket of wild mushrooms from the mountains and stewed them in chicken soup that night. Unexpectedly, one of the mushrooms was poisonous.
It is said that this poisonous mushroom looks like an ordinary mushroom, but is very poisonous. A family of three was poisoned after eating it.
But the strange thing is that the couple was so poisoned that they were already dead when they were discovered. But their child was still breathing, managed to get to the hospital for rescue, and survived.
Even doctors find it unbelievable that the contents of the child's stomach are enough to poison eight adults. It is an evil word.
In the summer of the previous year, Li Dazui said that this incident was the most bizarre and terrifying thing he had ever encountered in his life.
There was a rat plague that year, and although corresponding measures were taken, there were so many rats that it was impossible to get rid of them all at once.
That night, the weather was sultry and Li Dazui couldn't stay indoors so he went for a walk outside.
While walking, he found a young couple walking side by side on the path beside the fields. He knew the couple well enough not to hang around in front of their eyes. But he couldn't help but wonder what kind of scene the two children would create, so he followed them from a distance.
The young couple walked hand in hand to the road and followed the path under the road.
Not long after, a large truck drove up the road. The whole truck was full of sacks and was carrying rice.
When the truck came into Li Dazui's sight, something strange happened.
There was a big hole in a bag of rice in the car, and the rice fell like rain. When the rice leaked to a certain extent, the top two bags of rice slipped down and fell right next to the young couple. The bags broke and a lot of rice spilled out.
The young couple was stunned by this sudden situation. When they realized that the truck was already far away, they happily packed up the rice and planned to carry it home.
Li Dazui kept regretting it from a distance. If he was closer, he would naturally get a share of it, and he could get half a bag of rice no matter what.
But in the blink of an eye, he no longer thought so. Suddenly, many rats appeared from all directions on the trail, at least a thousand!
The scene was like water gushing up from the ground, quickly submerging the section of road where the young couple was.
They had no time to escape, and Li Dazui witnessed with his own eyes that the young lovers were covered in rats. They drove the rats away almost frantically, but they were just blocking the car with the mantis' arms. They both fell down and were swallowed up by the rats. It was as if the rats had eaten both of them cleanly in just one bite, leaving no bones behind!
At the same time, sitting on the stone pile of the highway sign, a mouse as big as a cat, with a dark body and gray belly fur, and two red eyes with faint green fluorescence, as if watching the scene of a group of rats attacking people. !
Li Dazui swore that even though he was far away, he could somehow see the big rat cradling its beard with its paws and glancing at him. The proud look on his face scared him to the point of cramping his legs.
About three minutes passed, and the rats retreated in all directions, disappearing as mysteriously as they had appeared. The big mouse didn't know where to go. Li Dazui just blinked and it disappeared.
At that time, he found the young lovers lying on the ground. When he walked over, he saw that they were all dead. However, there were no wounds on either of them, and their clothes were not even torn.
The woman died peacefully, her eyes closed, and she lay straight on the ground.
But the man's death appearance was particularly terrifying. His eyes were bulging open, his mouth was wide open, his face was blue, and he was facing the sky, but his entire upper body was turned to the right, with his chin next to his shoulder. The posture was very weird!
That's not all. His legs were hooked back, and his hands were reaching for his toes. His fingers were hooked like chicken claws, as if he wanted to hook his toes. The situation was like someone pressing his head, twisting his body, gathering his hands and feet to tie them together.
Li Dazui only took one look and then sat down on the ground in fright, not daring to take another look for a long time.
There were no grains of rice left on the ground, and the rice bags were all turned into crumbs.
The autopsy report stated that the man suffered a sudden myocardial infarction and the woman died of suffocation.
There was no trace of mice on either of them, not even a single mouse hair. Without evidence, the villagers naturally did not believe what Li Dazui said.
But he still told people everywhere that the reason for this was because the rats had been beaten too much recently, which offended the Rat King and was retaliated against. But afterwards, there were suddenly fewer rats in the village. The cabbage snakes raised in the village sometimes couldn't catch a single rat in a day, as if all the rats had migrated.
Li Dazui's description of "a thousand rats appearing out of nowhere" was so self-evident that no one believed what he said anymore.
In the past two years, no one died in the village. However, the harvests in the past two years have not been good, and the crops have grown slowly for unknown reasons. The climate conditions are the same as in previous years, and there are no changes in fertilizers or planting methods.
I called an expert for testing and said it was a soil problem, caused by a decrease in potassium. The fertilizer used by the villagers has low potassium content, so the plants do not grow as well as before.
But Li Dazui said that the poor harvest in those two years was due to a strange wind blowing at the beginning of each year.
The gust of wind swept the yellow sand close to the ground, reaching as high as a person's calf, and there was no wind at all further up. Even if I hold the candle in my hand and the flame doesn't move, I won't believe it even if I tell anyone.
The strange wind blew for more than ten minutes, turning the ground into a scorched brown.
No one took it seriously at the time, and Li Dazui said he was the only one who noticed something was wrong.
The earthworms that were buried shallower in the soil were all dead, but the earthworms that were deeper in the soil were fine. So he thought there was something wrong with the yellow sand blown by the wind, so he peeled off a layer of soil along with the sand. As a result, the harvest was also bad.
He also said that this was just a cover-up, and something must be coming to cause trouble.
A few years ago, it was the ten years that Grandma Sun's great-grandson left posts on the forum.
Li Dazui's words alone were no longer impressive, so in order to obtain more credible information, Jiang Jinjiu simply put the post on his laptop and showed it to the villagers.
Once there is a reason to investigate further, it will not be suspected. Secondly, it can bring back memories of villagers and notice places they have not noticed before.
As a result...the past ten years can be said to be full of divergent opinions.
