[Bottle Evil] The Old Mansion's Strange Story

What the fourth child told me next turned out to be a story he had experienced himself, but his ability to tell stories was not as good as that of Zhang Haike. The so-called evil thread of the story.

This is the story of Xiao Si when Lao Si was young.

When the fourth child was still the fourth child running around the street naked, I heard from the adults in the family that there lived an old man who ate children in the opposite mountain. The children who were captured were skinned and eaten, and the bones were piled on In the col.

This is of course a nonsense fabricated by adults to scare children and warn them not to run around.When I heard this, I sighed, thinking that the folk customs here are so tough, won't telling such stories leave a shadow in the hearts of children?

But although there are such horror stories, the fourth child is not a young man who easily succumbs to the threat of language.He was only six or seven years old at that time, and he wanted to understand everything, not to mention being able to stand out among the boys and be a hero in front of the little girls, such things would definitely not leave him.

So on a sunny day, Xiao Si took one of his good brothers, each carrying a homemade knife and gun, and went up the mountain while the adults at home went to work.

There are many plains in the northeast, and the mountains are not high or steep. Children have been running around in the nearby mountains since they were young, and they are actually very familiar with the terrain.They climbed over one mountain after another very smoothly, and arrived at the legendary col that was piled with bones.Of course, there are grasses and wild flowers everywhere, and there are no human bones at all.

Arriving here, in fact, the mission and feat of Xiao Si can come to a successful conclusion, after all, this is a place that no other children in the village have ever been to.However, the children's curiosity is the most important. Before the two of them had enough fun, they marched towards the next hill again.

And what happened next developed in a slightly weird direction.

The two climbed to a new mountain, but suddenly found that the mountain in front of them became very strange.

There is almost no grass growing in the mountain depression in front of me, the bare ground is covered with sand and stones, and a few big crooked trees are also dead branches and leaves.There is no green vegetation cover, no bird calls, and no human habitation. The whole area is dead silent.

This is the picture I can imagine from the description of the fourth child. I can't help but become curious and feel a dangerous signal.

However, in the eyes of the two children, such a scene is not terrifying, at most it is novelty and strangeness.So the two children went on and came to the barren land.At this time, the boy who came with Xiao Si began to panic, he couldn't see the mountain when he turned his head, so he pulled Xiao Si and proposed to go back.

The fourth child was not afraid of the sky and the earth when he was a child, so he insisted on walking around.The other boy didn't dare to go back by himself, so he had to follow him.The two walked for a while, and what appeared in sight was the legendary old house.

According to Lao Si's description, what I imagined was a magnificent Qing Dynasty aristocratic house with a simple and heavy shape, complete bricks and tiles.It's just that no one lives there, and it looks a little desolate.

It is very strange for such a building to appear in this kind of mountain. The two children have never seen such a house before, and it was very novel for a while.Looking around, he walked towards the door.

I don't know if it's because the fourth brother's ability to fool people is too strong, or if the abnormality in this story really aroused my interest, I suddenly felt a little tense when I heard this.It's like watching a suspense movie and finally getting to the point, and the protagonist is an acquaintance of yours.

The actual situation made me a little disappointed. After Xiaosi and the others entered the lobby, they saw nothing novel, and nothing dangerous happened.It was empty inside, only some dilapidated tables and chairs, and the few rooms were no different from ordinary people's houses.

The two children were also very disappointed, so they came out and sat at the door to rest for a while.It was already noon at that time, and the sun was very high and hot, so the two children decided to wait here until the sun was less basking before walking back.

After sitting for about half an hour, just as they were about to get up and go back, Xiaosi's brother suddenly said, "Why did you ask me?"

Xiaosi was very strange: "I didn't call you."

Another boy added: "No, I did hear you call my name."

Xiao Si was baffled, and was about to refute again, when the two heard the voice of a third person at the same time.It was still two people's names.

The two children looked at each other, and then looked at the dark room behind them together. They were suddenly aroused with a sense of fear, so they ran away.

The fourth child sighed slightly when he talked about it, as if he was recalling the deep childhood shadow.I patted him on the shoulder: "I didn't expect you to have such a big psychological shadow when you were a child. It is really not easy to grow into such a promising young man now."

The fourth child clicked his tongue, glanced at us, and said, "Where is this?"

Is there a follow-up?I looked at Poker Bottle, and it seemed that I was not so bored to the point of staring at the sky in a daze, so I said, "Could it be that during the run, your little friend was arrested, and you went to save him, so you became a brave man in the village?" March [-] Red Banner Bearer?"

The fourth child hissed again, expressing dissatisfaction, and then said that they ran around without thinking for a while.Fortunately, there is only one road, and children who are used to living in the mountains have a good sense of direction. After running for a short time, they have already run out of the place where there is no grass, and the fear in their hearts is also on the grass once again. The moment is gone.

The two turned around and looked behind them again, giggled at each other for a while, and then forgot the panic just now.Then they went back the same way, and it was very smooth, until they returned to the col with grass and flowers again, and both of them regained their vitality.

Lying on the grass, the two children were still studying the strange land.While chatting, Xiao Si's little brother casually touched something on the grass, and held it up in front of the two of them.And the round square hole displayed in front of their eyes turned out to be a yellow paper money.

They all recognized it, and Xiaosi didn't think anything of it, but when he turned his head to look, he saw a short grave not far from where the two were lying, surrounded by withered grass, which was inconspicuous. So never noticed it before.

The two children were courageous, they didn't pay attention to the grave, and they took a nap before going home after waking up.Originally, the story of this adventure was enough for them to brag for a long time, but something happened that night, which made them lose their mind to brag.

The child who went up the mountain with Xiao Si suddenly had a high fever that night, which reached nearly [-] degrees, and kept talking nonsense in a daze, such as "Don't chase me", "I didn't take your money" and so on.

At that time, it was not easy to see a doctor in the village. The adults in the family first resorted to physical methods, rubbing his body with alcohol to cool him down, and then sent him to the village health center for antipyretic injections. However, after three days of tossing, the high fever still persisted.

Xiao Si knew about it and went to see the child, and he was still muttering those words at that time.The adults all thought that the child stole the money to buy popsicles, but only Xiao Si knew what kind of money he was talking about—it must be the paper money!

Xiao Si remembered that they threw the paper money on the ground at random, and no one took it back.But he still told the adults about it. At this time, the old man in the family touched the child's hot forehead and said that it must be possessed by evil spirits. It doesn't work even with injections and medicines. "Send away.

The next day, Xiao Si ran to the child's house and watched the excitement of the day.That family really invited a fairy girl.Xiangu practiced exorcising evil spirits for a day, and that night she asked the child to wear the clothes that she had gone up to the mountain that night, then she swept the child with a broom, and chanted all the way until she came back to the village entrance and said she was leaving.

Strange to say, antipyretic drugs and antipyretic injections did not cure the high fever for three days, but Xiangu performed a "method" and the child recovered the next day.All the neighbors in the neighborhood call Xiangu a real fairy.

At this point, the story came to an end. Since then, the child never played with the fourth child again, probably because the adults in the family said something to scare him.

After listening to the whole story, I was not surprised at all. After all, I have personally experienced stories that are several times more surprising than this one.This is what happened to the fourth child when he was young. Even if he remembers the story so many years ago, with his personality that likes to fool people, he will still add more embellishments when he tells it. I don’t think it has any important value.

I am more concerned about the reaction of Poker Bottle.It stands to reason that he should be calmer and more "disdainful" than me, but I was surprised to find that Poker Face was really thinking seriously during the fourth lecture, especially when he talked about the barren land and the When in the old house.

Recently, I have been secretly observing the facial expression of Poker Bottle.In the past, he always had a sullen face, unable to see emotions, not that he didn't have any emotions, he just didn't have the need to release emotions naturally like ordinary people, through smiling or crying, because usually nothing can touch He needs facial movements.However, if something really comes from his heart, he will still have some expressions.Like now he's frowning at the story.

The fourth child may not be able to see it. Based on my experience with Poker Ping, he doesn't say anything or ask anything, but he still listens to his stories. This in itself shows that there seems to be something hidden that he cares about.

This got me interested too.

I figured that if I wanted to really uncover the secrets of that old house and figure out what Poker-Face cares about, I still had to go there myself, so I asked him: "How do I get to the old house? You've already drunk the wedding wine. I'm fine this afternoon." I just went for a walk with my brother."

The fourth child looked at me with raised eyebrows, and said, "Are you really going? You didn't scare you by saying such old things."

I thought to myself that I was frightened to grow up so big, and you frightened me so badly.He looked at Poker Bottle and asked him, "Brother, do you want to go and have a look?"

Poker Bottle really nodded.

I winked at the fourth child, meaning did you see, I have to listen to someone who has spoken.

The fourth child laughed and said: "Then I will find a car to take you two later."

I thought it would be too troublesome to find another person, so I refused.The fourth child glanced at us, pointed us in the direction, and arranged for us to stay at his uncle's house too late at night, and waved his hands and went back to the house.

As soon as he left, I couldn't wait to ask Poker Fing: "What do you remember? What he said is really strange?"

Poker bottle looked at the sky, turned to me and said calmly: "I'm not sure, I'll only know when I go, let's go." Then he walked towards the gate of the yard, and I had to follow.

Poker bottle's reaction actually made me a little depressed. Even if it was "not sure", I should have a general idea, but he tightened the bottle cap like before, without saying a word.Anyway, this time it's "Let's go" and I've made progress by bringing me along.

For Poker Ping to completely change his habit of being alone, he probably has to do it step by step, just like I quit smoking.Thinking of me aiming at Poker Bottle's pocket again, he took the fourth cigarette and slipped it in.