The water at the bottom of the pond, pumped by twenty-four large irrigation pumps, became shallower and shallower at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The afterglow of the setting sun shone all over the shallow water at the bottom of the pond. Some big fish were already jumping around in the shallow water at very fast speeds because of their uneasiness.
Look ahead, suddenly look behind.
Suddenly, among the crowd watching the excitement by the pond, someone pointed to a spot on the water and exclaimed: "Look! Look! Look what's there? Are they human bones?"
"Where? Where?"
"Holy shit! There's something really out of the water there, and it's not the back of the fish! It doesn't move! It doesn't move at all!"
"That's a bone? It doesn't look like it, does it? It doesn't look like it to me..."
"Oh my god! Lanlan and her second uncle can't really sink to the bottom of this pond, right? I swam in this pond last year, damn! I was scared to death..."
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Such noises broke out one after another in the crowd watching the excitement, and Comrade Xu and others naturally heard it.
They also saw on the water surface not far away, as the water at the bottom of the pond became shallower and shallower, a small cluster of black spots was revealed. Standing on the shore and looking at it, they could not see clearly.
Comrade Xu's expression remained unchanged, but his eyes narrowed again.
His younger brother Xu Tonglu, who was standing next to him, secretly gritted his teeth and subconsciously turned to look at his eldest brother Xu Tongdao.
Sister Ge Yuzhu, mother Ge Xiaozhu...
They both stood on tiptoes, stretched out their necks, and looked at the small cluster of black spots on the water.
Ge Xiaozhu murmured to himself: "Really? Really?"
At this moment, Xu Hengchun, the head of Xujia Village, and two village cadres brought over some pairs of black gelatin fish pants and placed them not far from Xu Tongdao.
Xu Hengchun sighed, walked over, stood beside Xu Tongdao, looked at the cluster of black spots on the water at the bottom of the pond, and whispered: "Xiaodao, fish pants, we brought you four pairs! Our village has
There are so many pairs of fish pants, do you want me to send someone down to take a look first?"
When he said this, everyone who heard him subconsciously looked at Xu Tongdao.
Including Xu Tonglu and Ge Yuzhu.
Tongdao Xu shook his head slightly, "No need! Let's wait until the water is shallower."
Twenty-four water pumps pump water at the same time without interruption, and the speed is very fast. Moreover, the closer the water in the fish pond is to the bottom of the pond, the faster the water surface drops.
Because the bottom of the pond is not flat!
Instead, it is as concave as the bottom of a bowl.
The closer to the bottom of the pond, the smaller the water surface becomes.
At the same pumping speed, the water surface will naturally drop faster and faster.
No, within a few minutes, the small cluster of black spots on the water surface not far away became larger and larger, and... became less and less like human bones.
The part of this black spot that emerges from the water gradually takes on the shape of an arc, with the arc approaching that of a large pumpkin.
The more people on the shore looked at it, the more they felt it didn't look like human bones.
Gradually, as more and more people realized that it was not human bones, the noisy and exciting atmosphere of the lively crowd watching on the shore gradually cooled down.
Many people looked disappointed.
They are there to watch the fun. As the saying goes: Those who watch the fun do not think it is a big deal.
Not only do they not take it too seriously, they also need to make things happen.
The more exciting it is, the more scary it is, and the more frightening something is, the more exciting it is for them.
At this time, they felt like - Damn! I have taken off my pants, and you want to show me this?
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There are many things that do not require orders from Comrade Xu.
For example: the sun was going down and it was getting dark. Xu Tongdao didn't say anything at all. Bai Jingjing, who lives in Baiwan Village, had already ordered her father, uncle and others to set up two 200-watt lamps by the pond.
The big light bulb was carried on a bamboo pole and hung on the crooked neck tree by the pond.
She is still testing the effect of the light bulb after it is powered on.
On the water surface, the cluster of black spots just now gradually revealed an arc-shaped black shadow... and gradually revealed a small half of its shape.
The lively crowd watching on the shore gradually became noisy again.
Many people's expressions and eyes became more excited and excited than before.
"What is that? A stone mill? Right? That's a stone mill, right?"
"Stone mill! Definitely stone mill!"
"Fuck! Look at the stone mill with a rope tied to it. What did they say before? Xu Weixi was tied to the stone mill and sunk into the pond, right?"
"Hiss... In what age are we now? Are there really people who tie up stone mills and sink people into the pond?"
"In the past, landlords and wealthy people liked to do this kind of thing the most!"
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Comrade Xu on the shore also saw and heard it.
There was still no change in his expression. From this morning until it was almost dark now, his mood had slowly become calmer for such a long time.
He remembered this sentence from the previous text: A true warrior dares to face the bleak life and faces the dripping blood.
I had already learned that Bai Jingen had confessed and admitted to killing Xu Weixi.
Bai Meifeng also said that when Xu Weixi was sunk at the bottom of the fish pond, Xu Tongdao actually had no chance at all.
He knows that in real life, there are not many twists and turns.
This is not a bloody TV series. Almost every time someone is drowned in the TV series, as long as the person being drowned is a handsome guy or a beautiful woman, they will basically be saved.
But real life... doesn't have so many surprises.
In almost everything, the possibility of going bad is always far greater than the possibility of it getting good.
His father...Xu Weixi 99% really died in 1998.
The only thing he was not sure about before was - five years later, are Xu Weixi's bones still at the bottom of the pond?
Have you ever been taken away by Platinum Root?
Or... some other accident.
For example: a fish thief who used a fishing net to steal fish suddenly threw the net into the pond while Bai Jingen was not paying attention. While the net pulled up big and lively fish, he happened to also remove the bones of his father Xu Weixi.
Is the Internet coming up from the bottom of the pond?
This is unlikely, but it is certainly possible.
At this time, he saw with his own eyes the shape of the stone mill exposed on the water, as well as the still intact rope on the stone mill...
He knew then - there was no accident!
His father is still at the bottom of the pond.
He lowered his head and lit a cigarette, but choked on one puff.
He didn't even take two puffs before he threw it under his feet and crushed it.
He turned to look at his younger brother Xu Tonglu beside him, "Xiaolu, let's put on our fish pants and go down!"
"good!"
Xu Tonglu did not hesitate.
With everyone watching, the two brothers walked aside and put on the fish pants that Xu Hengchun had brought before.
Mother Ge Xiaozhu stumbled over and said to them: "I, I bought some incense candles. You guys, how about you burn a few sticks of incense for your father, and then go down and ask for his body?"
Xu Tonglu looked at his elder brother Xu Tongdao.
Tongdao Xu looked at his mother and saw that her eyes were swollen from crying and her expression was miserable, so he nodded, "Okay!"
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Sometimes, it's so cruel.
Brothers Xu Tongdao and Xu Tonglu were on the edge of the pond, facing the direction of the stone mill at the bottom of the pond. When they knelt down to burn incense, a pale white hand bone gradually appeared on the surface of the water as the pond water continued to drop.