The Green Skeleton of Folk Wonders

? When I was nine, a terrible thing happened in our village. Before I say this, I must first say something about our village at that time. Our village is located in a remote ravine, which is quite poor, and it is very inconvenient to get in and out of traffic. Adults have to drive donkey carts on rugged and winding mountain roads for a day and a night to see the county seat.

? Although the village is poor, there are nearly 100 families, and the education of children in so many families is a problem. On the hill to the east of our village, there is a row of three short white houses. From a distance, the five-star red flag on the bamboo pole in front of the short house fluttered in the wind. This is the Hope Primary School where I attended when I was a child.

? Hope primary school has only one teacher, including the principal. Uncle Li is our headmaster and a teacher who teaches us all kinds of courses. He was the only person in our village who had been to the county to study at that time. After returning to the village, he persuaded the village chief to do the ideological work of parents door to door, and then led us children to set up this Hope Primary School on the hill at the east end of the village.

? Li Shu is tall and thin, with sunken cheeks, wearing a pair of glasses with high myopia, and the skeleton on his nose is badly faded. He is wearing that white shirt that has been wrinkled several times all year round and turned yellow again. In his thirties, he walked on the valley road leading to the east of the primary school, feeling dizzy, as if an oncoming strong wind might blow him to the mountainside in the west at any time. However, it is this seemingly weak figure. For many years, it has been firmly standing on the thin mountain road in our village, regardless of wind and rain, helping our young bodies to go to school and leave school on the road of hope.

? In Li Shu's humble headmaster's office, there are many strange bottles and jars filled with different colors of solids and liquids. Li Shu kept a close watch on these bottles and jars, locked the doors and windows when going out, and repeatedly warned us not to touch these things privately, which was very dangerous.

? Later we learned that those things were chemicals. Li Shu likes these chemicals very much. On weekdays, he always likes to stay alone in the house and play with them for half a day.

? Li Shu didn't completely keep us away from these chemicals. On weekdays, when he teaches us literacy and arithmetic, he will move these strange bottles into the classroom and give us chemistry lessons in advance. Li Shu put these chemicals in front of us. Let's observe the colors of various compounds one by one, and then tell us which ones are sulfur, magnesium, phosphorus and phosphorus. When Li Shu put a piece of white phosphorus in the sunshine of the window, the white phosphorus burned violently and gave off dazzling white light. We were so scared that we couldn't shut up for a long time.

? At that time, in the innocent heads of children in the mountains, we saw what Li Shu was holding suddenly glow and burn by itself, turning into strange light, which we simply thought was something that a fairy could do.

? Li Shu gave such a detailed introduction here, mainly because these terrible things that happened in our village next were closely related to Li Shu. At that time, two people died in our village, one of whom was Li Shu's wife.

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? There is a small river in front of our village, which is made up of a mountain stream. The amount of water varies with seasons, sometimes it dries up and sometimes it overflows. The drinking water and washing of chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep in our village basically depend on it all year round.

? There were several heavy rains in the rainy season that year. After the water level dropped, the river was covered with strange stones washed down from the mountains. That day, Zhang's daughter-in-law who was washing clothes by the river suddenly ran back, holding a strange thing in her hand, standing at the head of the village and asking everyone what it was.

? Everyone has studied this mud bag the size of a sheep's head for a long time, saying it is a urinal. Uncle Li's wife, Eiko, was sharp-eyed, grabbed the urinal in one hand, looked left and right, knocked twice with her finger, and immediately retorted, "What urinal? This is an ancient bronze ware. This was discovered by the semi-blind man when he came to the village. This is very valuable. " After hearing what Eiko said, everyone was moved. I heard that Zhang's daughter-in-law said she found it by the river and went to the shore to look for it.

? As I said before, our village is very poor, and everyone has basically no other income except natural farming. This semi-blind man is a herbalist in the county. He is blind in his left eye. Every two or three months, he goes to the mountain without fear of difficulties, buys some herbs from the village, and occasionally sees some "garbage" we picked up from the mountain, so he happily throws out a few tickets and takes them away with joy. We mountain people are also very happy to receive his tickets.

? Everyone went to the riverbank and found several such antiques. Finally, Li Shu's wife, Eiko, was in a good mood, saying that the heavy rain must have washed away an ancient tomb on the mountain, washed these antique bronzes into the river, and then encouraged everyone to go home and get hoes and shovels at once, and dig the ancient tomb together.

? Everyone is happy to hear this. My mother ran home at once and found my father plowing in the field. The story soon reached the ears of Li Shu, who rushed to stop everyone from saying, "These ancient tombs belong to the protected material and cultural heritage and cannot be dug."

? Eiko swore: "Protect my ass! I only recognize money, and my family is too poor to open the pot. I haven't seen you earn a penny to go home. I only care about those stupid books and nonsense chemistry all day, but I have to get up early and raise you in the dark all day. "

? Li Shu suddenly lost his voice and stood by in dismay. We all know that Eiko married Li Shu's wife from a neighboring village before her mother died. She is fierce and wild, and no one in the village is angry with her. The children in our school don't like Eiko either. They secretly call her a tigress. Whenever she was in a bad mood, she pointed her finger at Li Shu's nose and scolded him like a dog. But Li Shu just stood aside for a long time without answering and let her abuse her. We all feel wronged for Li Shu.

? Li Shu saw all the people in the village running with tools in their hands. Knowing that there was no way to stop it, he had to give up. Under the guidance of Eiko, a group of people searched the upper reaches of the river. Li Shu had no choice but to follow. We children seldom see such a big scene. We were excited and curious when we knew that we were going to dig an ancient tomb and take things from the dead.

? After some searching, we finally found the tomb of the ancient tomb. On one side of the river bank, half a mountain poured down, cutting off a small part of the ancient tomb from the side, revealing a dark hole, and the edge of the hole was half covered with some ancient things that fell with the soil. As soon as everyone saw it, they immediately swarmed, picked up the antiques at the mouth of the cave and climbed into the tomb hole one by one. Fortunately, stupid people are blessed with stupidity. Because of the exposure of the tomb, the tomb has been replenished with fresh air. Otherwise, people may rush into the grave, and may inhale the toxic gas inside, which may lead to death. This is what I learned later.

? There are three rooms in the ancient tomb, with the main room in the middle and the side rooms on both sides. Every room is filled with various styles of porcelain, bronzes and other ancient things, and in the center of the main room, there is a black coffin with a long history, which looks quite mysterious and terrible.

? However, the power of the masses is even more terrible. Suddenly, the contents of the three rooms in the huge ancient tomb were almost swept away by the villagers in our village, leaving only the dark coffin that no one dared to touch.

? Standing by, looking at the ancient prose on the mural of the tomb wall, muttering something, saying that the owner of this ancient tomb was the wife of a noble named Xu in the Song Dynasty. She was only 25 years old when she died. Then Li Shu suddenly changed his face and shouted to everyone: "You can't take things from this ancient tomb!"

? Everyone stopped and looked at Li Shu in surprise. Li Shu pointed to the last paragraph on the mural and said in a trembling voice, "It says here that whoever disturbs my wife's peace will die."

? Everyone stared, cocked his head and thought for a long time, then asked Li Shu what he meant. So Li Shu explained the old saying, saying that it may be cursed by the husband of the owner of this ancient tomb, so you'd better put things back. After listening to Li Shu's words, everyone was a little scared. People in the mountains are superstitious. They are going to dig up dead people, so they have scruples. But they didn't think so much because of the courage of many people. At this time, fear suddenly rose from my heart, and everyone looked at it with' trepidation' and stopped, not knowing what to do.

? At this time, it was Li Shu's wife Eiko who came with greater courage. She threw the bronze in her hand out of the hole and said loudly, "I don't believe in this evil." What can a dead man do to me? " Don't listen to this nerd's nonsense It is true to hold the ticket in your hand. Come on, Wu San, help me open this coffin and see what's good in it. "

? Wu San's stout body emerged from the crowd, took a mocking look at Li Shu and helped Eiko open the coffin lid. He is the brother-in-law of Zhang's wife. Men in their twenties still can't get a wife. On weekdays, he idles around and picks up goods on the train track half a mile away with several young men from the neighboring village. Now he has a chance to collect money on the ground. Of course, he is brave.

? When Eiko and Wu San opened the lid of the coffin, they all showed greedy faces. They hurriedly grabbed some valuable little things in the coffin and stuffed them into their trouser pockets. Seeing that there was nothing else to take, they turned and left together. Li Shu could not help but shake his head and sigh.

? I always wondered what the dead man in the coffin looked like, so I approached the coffin and put my head into it to see. This can't help but frighten me to take two steps back and shake all over. In that spacious coffin, there is only a complete skeleton, with bones all over and dark eyes. How horrible it is. At this time, my mother grabbed the collar: "You are a thousand pieces. What is there to see in the bones of the dead?" Help me move my things home quickly. "