On the fifth day after leaving the village, Daniel began to return to the village with his distant uncle who was carrying a shotgun and a bullet bag. When Daniel arrived at his uncle's village, he happened to catch up with him while he was patrolling the mountains, so he had no choice but to wait.
Three days.
"Daniu, I have been to your village many times. It only takes half an hour to walk past Niujia Village. Why have I not arrived yet after walking for so long this time?" The middle-aged man carrying a shotgun asked the young man behind him in confusion.
"Uncle, I also feel something is wrong. Is the fog too heavy and we are going the wrong way? Why don't we wait until the sun gets stronger and the fog clears to see if we are going the wrong way?" Daniel who was following behind answered honestly.
"How can we go the wrong way? I haven't heard that the road has been rebuilt. There is only one road from Niujia Village to your house! Let's walk again!" The middle-aged man changed the shotgun he was carrying to his shoulder and continued walking forward.
"Uncle, I'm tired. Let's take a rest. I must have gone the wrong way. It took me a long time to reach Niujia Village and back!"
The man who was called uncle by Daniel actually suspected in his heart that he had taken the wrong road. However, because he was an elder and was familiar with this road, he could not let go of his dignity and forced himself to lead the way. Hearing Daniel say that he was tired.
, also stopped and leaned against a tree pole on the side of the road.
Daniel sat down on the ground, picked up a small stone, and tossed it around in his hands.
"Ah! Uncle, that's not right!" Daniel suddenly screamed.
"Daniu, what's wrong with you, you scared someone to death?" The man scolded Da Niu, but he still stood up and walked to Da Niu's side.
"Uncle, look at this stone!" Daniel handed the man an ordinary and extremely ordinary pebble.
“What’s so interesting about broken rocks?”
"You see there is a gap in the stone. On the way here a few days ago, when I was approaching Niujia Village, the stone I threw on the road was exactly the same as this one. Does the stone also have a younger brother or older brother?"
The young man smiled and pointed at a triangular gap in the cobblestones.
"Nonsense! How can there be two identical stones? Are you stupid to think that your uncle is the same?"
After the man made a joke, he threw the stone into the ditch beside the road. He really wanted to scold Daniel, but suddenly he remembered something and asked Daniel nervously: "You said you threw the stone when you left the village?"
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Daniel casually agreed, and the man picked up the shotgun leaning on the tree next to him and shouted: "Daniu, let's walk again!" As if to confirm what was in his mind, this time his steps were obviously a little anxious.
After about half an hour, he estimated that he had walked five or six miles. The man turned back and looked at Niujia Village not far away. His face was gloomy and he sat down on the ground.
"Daniu, we shouldn't be able to reach your village. Look over there!" The man pointed to Niujia Village, two miles away.
"Why can't we get there? Isn't that Niujia Village? Haven't we passed Niujia Village a long time ago?" Daniel was confused for a while, and then screamed loudly why he was still in Niujia Village.
The man looked up at the sky. It was almost noon, and the thick fog had not yet dispersed. He sighed: "If the fog doesn't clear, we won't be able to reach Zhangxiang Village."
Daniel scratched his hair as if he didn't understand: "Then let's wait for a while before the fog clears before leaving."
The man stared at the honest big cow, shook his head slightly, and touched the big cow's head dotingly.
"My uncle works as a forest protector and often goes up the mountain. Sometimes he encounters situations like this. The old people say they encounter ghosts breaking into walls. Daniel, do you know about ghosts breaking into walls?"
"You know, when they finished their work and told the story, they said that they were possessed by ghosts."
"Daniu, do you know why we can't reach Zhangxiang Village? There is a ghost in this fog!"
"Ghost? Is there a ghost?"
Daniel was so frightened that he stammered and trembled all over when he thought about the ghosts said by his colleagues who worked together.
The middle-aged man smiled and comforted Da Niu, saying that he had a shotgun and it wouldn't hurt his life if he hit the wall.
Daniel said that his friends also told stories like this. He just didn’t want people to wander around in circles when they walked to a certain place. Otherwise, they kept walking forward. In fact, they didn’t move at all. After finishing speaking, Daniel stared at
He was staring at the thick fog, his eyes suddenly turned red, and he said with a choked voice: "It's broken! Uncle, my mother is most afraid of ghosts! I have to protect my mother!" As he said this, he picked up a stone on the roadside, held it in his hand and mouthed it.
He shouted for his mother and rushed into the thick fog.
"Da Niu! Da Niu!" The man shouted twice anxiously, picked up the shotgun on the side and chased after him.
It was three days later when Daniel appeared again in Niujia Village. He was covered in blood, and his clothes were torn with holes everywhere. It looked like they had been broken by falling to the ground. Daniel was running around in Niujia Village like crazy.
He kept repeating one sentence in his mouth: "Dead! They are all dead!"
Many villagers in Niujia Village know Daniu. After all, the two villages are right next to each other. Most of them are acquaintances. Even if they are not familiar with each other, they often see each other.
When the villagers who came back from the busy farming season in the evening saw this situation, they were all worried about what had happened to Zhangxiang Village. Several young laborers organized themselves, carrying lanterns, and went to see the situation in Zhangxiang Village together.
The thick fog in Zhangxiang Village was still there. After walking along the dirt road for a long time, a few people walked back to the same place inexplicably.
The villagers who thought something was strange, under the guidance of the older generation, went to the commune in the village and told the township chief about the incident. The township chief thought that the villagers were dissatisfied with their work and were deliberately making things difficult, so he made up a sinister story to embarrass them.
He and the township chief got angry and threatened to take back their fields to scare the villagers. Seeing that several villagers who came still looked serious, they realized that the matter was not a joke. The township chief used the only phone in the commune to call the county public security bureau.
Got the phone call.
Two police cars from the Public Security Bureau were parked at the intersection from Niujia Village to Zhangxiang Village, attracting villagers to watch. Cars are rare in the village, and there are buses to the county in the township. Such jeeps are very rare. In the village
The children happily circled around the police car, and occasionally touched it secretly when no one was paying attention.
The chief of public security led the police officers and police dogs along the dirt road into the thick fog. From the time they entered at noon until they came out at five or six o'clock in the evening, without saying a word, the police officers got into police cars and returned to the county town.
No one noticed that the chief who was walking at the front had a sullen face, and that he had brought several police dogs with him when he came, but when he returned, he didn't see any of them.
About a week after the police left, the township head brought several people to Niujia Village, knocked on the doors of every house, and delivered a document in a leather envelope to each household.
The general meaning of the document is: The terrain near Niujia Village is difficult. After many inspections and studies by experts, it will be converted into a military training base. The county working group and the Armed Forces Department will assist the villagers of Niujia Village to relocate to the designated location within three days.
The transitional site. The farmland and houses will be re-divided and constructed according to the original area! According to 150% of the previous year's harvest, food stamps will be subsidized, etc.
In the end, with the earnest persuasion of the township cadres, and after the relocation, the geographical transportation is more convenient, and the farmland water conservancy is much better than now. The most important thing is, after receiving 15% of last year’s output from subsidized food stamps, this season
It's still possible to farm again in time, which is equivalent to two more years of production. It's just that we need to change to a better place to live, and no one is willing to do so.
After the documents were fingerprinted, the next day, seven large green trucks drove in from the entrance of the village. Each truck was filled with soldiers wearing camouflage uniforms. Following the order, the soldiers began to assist the villagers in an orderly manner.
The relocation work was carried out in an orderly manner, and more than ten households in Niujia Village were successfully moved to the temporary transition destination in just one day.
Another day later, a three-meter-high wall was built at an intersection one mile away from Niujia Village. The words "Military Training Base" were neatly written in red paint on both sides of the wall. Only a passage was left for vehicles to pass.
, a movable door with barbed wire is installed in front of the passage. Soldiers stand guard all day long and no one is allowed to enter.