I think this is God's will, and the coin in my heart finally fell to the ground.
From the map, it seems that the distance from Jinling to Fucheng is very long, crossing half of the hot summer, but the high-speed train only takes six hours, which is not a long time.
Today is Friday, Song Lei's wedding is on Sunday, so I bought a ticket for Saturday and arrived one night early.
Being the best man probably requires some rehearsals or something.
At night, I dreamed of a girl again. She seemed to have known that I was going to find her, and she had been quietly squatting in the corner of my sight, accompanying me through my dreams all night. It was not until I woke up in the morning that she came.
He stood up and waved goodbye to me.
The high-speed train took off at around 10 a.m. and arrived in Fucheng at 5 p.m.
Song Lei was busy preparing for the wedding and couldn't pick me up, so he gave me a detailed address and asked me to take a taxi there.
It was a bit cold in the early autumn in the north. I didn't wear enough clothes, so I carried my suitcase and shivered into a taxi. The taxi driver asked me, "Where can I go?"
I gave him the address. The master looked at it, frowned and asked, "What are you doing in a remote village? Archeology?"
I didn't pay attention. Song Lei had said before that according to local customs, the wedding had to be held in their hometown in the countryside. The population loss in the Northeast was serious, especially in the countryside. After young people gradually left, there were no people in the village.
As the taxi left the city, the road gradually narrowed, and the mountains on both sides became more and more undulating. It bypassed several hills. Although there was still asphalt road under the wheels, the scenery outside the car window showed that it had completely entered the mountains.
There is not a single rival car on the road.
After walking for an hour and a half, we finally arrived at this small village called "Fanjian".
The sky was already dark, and the dirt road in the village was filled with potholes after days of torrential rain. The driver refused to go in, and left me at the end of the concrete road. Soon, the headlights of the car licked the curve on the ridge, and the sound of the engine disappeared.
The few houses in front of me didn't turn on the lights. It was completely different from the village scene in my impression of "the cicada forest is quieter and the bird singing mountain is even more secluded". This small dark village seemed to be isolated from the world, and the silence was a bit terrifying.
I called Song Lei and said we were at the entrance of the village.
"Okay, old classmate, I'll come out to pick you up right now!" Song Lei said enthusiastically.
Almost at the same time he hung up the phone, the lights in the houses suddenly appeared, and dozens of lanterns lit up on the road. For a while, the sounds of farmers chatting, children playing, cocks crowing and dogs barking filled his ears.
, the fireworks of the small mountain village at night are blowing towards your face.
Two minutes later, Song Lei came rushing over on a motorcycle. Seven or eight years after graduation, he has not changed at all. He is still the same green look as before. I guess it is because the mountains and rivers of Northeast China nourish people.
?
After a few words of greeting, I got on the back seat of Song Lei's motorcycle and bumped into the village. The strange thing was that although the village sounded lively, as if everyone was helping him prepare for his wedding, I was alone along the way.
Not seen.
When we arrived at a house with a vermilion door, Song Lei stopped the car and said to me with a smile: "Old Wu, you can sleep at my cousin's house tonight."
"Don't you need my help?" I asked.
"No, it's all arranged. Our rural wedding doesn't have that many items. You can just follow me and toast to relatives and friends tomorrow!"
"Then it's up to you to do whatever you want. Just don't be polite to me." I said politely.
As we were talking, the red painted door creaked open, and a girl who looked to be only about 1.5 meters tall came out. She was as thin as a piece of paper, with a fair face, thick lipstick on her small mouth, and a pair of eyes.
, big and lifeless, as if he hasn't woken up.
"My cousin," Song Lei introduced, "Sister, this is my classmate, Wu Chengfeng. I have no room at home. Let him stay at your house for one night. You must not bully him!"
How can such a small one still bully me? Haha.
The cousin showed no expression and turned around and walked towards the house. It was visually estimated that she weighed no more than 60 pounds. Her feet were so light under her long skirt that she didn't even make a sound when she walked.
Song Lei said he was busy and asked me to have a good rest.
My cousin and I entered the yard and came to the house. There were three brick farmhouses. The door was open in the middle. She led me into an antique room on the left. It was simple but clean, but there was a heavy smell of damp mold.
smell.
There is a brand new white quilt spread on the kang, and there are three basins of water on the cabinet, as well as toothbrushes and towels, which should be for me to wash up.
"The preparation is very thoughtful, thank you cousin."
The cousin still didn't speak, turned around and went to another room, and closed the door behind her. The lights were not turned on in that room. There was no movement after the cousin entered, maybe she was getting ready to sleep.
Since I was alone, I didn't ask too many questions. After a simple wash, I turned off the lights, put on my clothes and lay down on the bed.
The musty smell in my nose lingered, like the smell of a smelly pond. It made people drowsy, and I soon fell asleep.
As soon as I fell asleep, the girl broke in and asked me eagerly: "Why do you want to live here? How dangerous!"
I said this is my classmate’s cousin’s house, what’s the danger?
The girl frowned, opened her mouth several times, and seemed hesitant to speak, and finally said: "Brother Chengfeng, you can't sleep! Come up the mountain and find me! If you fall asleep, you will never wake up again -!"
Before the girl finished her last sentence, suddenly, a rope flew out of the darkness and wrapped it around the girl's neck, making her unable to speak. This was the first time I dreamed that a girl was being controlled by someone. I felt anxious and wanted to go and save her, but I couldn't help but step on it.
She was stuck in some kind of quagmire, unable to move, and saw the girl being dragged further and further away by the rope until she disappeared.
Suddenly I woke up. I reached out to touch the light switch on the wall, but I touched a handful of dry soil. The surroundings were pitch black. Fortunately, I had the habit of putting my phone next to my pillow. I took out my phone and turned on the flashlight function to take a photo——
Damn it!
I jumped up from the kang and looked around in disbelief. The room I was in was no longer the same place just now. There were ruins everywhere, half of the roof collapsed, and there was a pit on the ground filled with turbid rainwater.
There are many unknown insects squirming around, and the musty smell comes from here!
This is obviously an old house that has been abandoned for a long time!
I was a little confused, so I quickly put on my shoes, grabbed my suitcase and ran out of the room. Unintentionally, the flashlight light shone on the opposite house. The door had collapsed, and it was also dilapidated inside. It looked like a person was lying in the ruins.
I had a brain twitch for a moment, and I kindly thought, could it be that the house collapsed and trapped my cousin? I hurried over to try to rescue my cousin, but when I looked closer, I was so scared that I jumped on the spot like a cat.
Get up!
That thing looks exactly like my cousin, but it's not my cousin!