Chapter 21: Strange Things in the Village
Zhang Yuan and the three of them came to a sparsely populated village, and the people left in the village were some old people and some children who had not yet gone to school, and the younger ones were all too poor to live here, so they went to some big cities to work together, and they didn't necessarily come back once a year.
Zhang Yuan borrowed a family is a lonely old man, the old man's son is not married, because the family is poor, so until he is in his thirties has not been able to get a wife, the family originally had a few acres of land, but the old man has been sick, so the old man's health is not too good, the farmland can only rely on his son to take care of, but the old man's son felt that it was difficult to get rich by relying on the family's fields, so he directly abandoned the farmland and went out to work with the young people in the village.
When Zhang Yuan and the three came out of the mountains and forests, the people in the village were not very enthusiastic, but in order to make more money, the old man directly let Zhang Yuan and the three live in his own home, and the old man's decision also made other people in the village complain for a long time.
At the beginning, Zhang Yuan couldn't understand the attitude of the people in the village, even if he didn't like to stay with strangers, but why did others complain when they stayed overnight, but after living in the village for a few days, Zhang Yuan finally understood the truth of the matter from the old man's mouth.
It turned out that in this village, there was an ancient tomb, and the people in the village were a group of tomb keepers in history, and then gradually became a village, as for what age the ancient tomb is, the people in the village do not know, only know that the ancient tomb has been a long, long time ago, and if the ancient tomb is opened, there will be a disaster in the whole world, so the people in the village do not welcome people from outside the village to live here, in order to prevent its real purpose is to rob the tomb.
After Zhang Yuan learned the truth, his complaints about other people in the village were reduced a lot, after all, in modern society, the people in the village still insisted on the duty of inheritance, which was a group of people who were very admirable.
Of course, Zhang Yuan didn't have any interest in this ancient tomb, after all, he didn't like those gloomy feelings, if Wang Chenglong was here, I was afraid that his hands might be a little itchy, after all, Wang Chenglong used to be the one who did it.
After learning about the situation in the village, Zhang Yuan's life returned to calm again, and every day he looked at the scenery everywhere, and then practiced brute force and realized the way of affection, and did not have any interest in other things.
With the passage of time, the people in the village gradually accepted the existence of Zhang Yuan and the others, after all, if it was really for the ancient tombs in the village, I am afraid it would have been a long time ago, where would it have been more than a month and just circling in the mountains and forests, no matter what it was for, in short, it had nothing to do with the ancient tombs in the village.
The ancient tomb is in the very center of the village, it is just a very simple mound, there is nothing surprising, if no one says it, Zhang Yuan does not know that the mound is an ancient tomb.
On this day, the village suddenly became lively, after Zhang Yuan came back from the mountains and forests, he saw that the people in the village were in a hurry, and he knew that something must have happened, so he quickly returned to the old man's house, but the old man was not at home at the moment, Zhang Yuan asked Qin Siyu, who had been staying at home: "Siyu, where did Uncle Wa go, when I came back today, I saw that the people in the village were in a hurry." β
"There is a dead person in the village today, and it seems that he is the oldest corpse in the village. β
Zhang Yuan thought about it and decided that it would be better to take a look, if there is anything that can help, he can also help a little, although the people in the village don't like him and others very much, but Zhang Yuan still has to take the initiative to go, so that he can better handle the relationship between each other.
When Zhang Yuan came to the old man's house in the village, there were several young men standing outside the old man's house at this moment, this was the first time Zhang Yuan saw the young man in the village, he didn't expect that the old man had just died, and a young man came back.
With a subtle smile, Zhang Yuan walked towards the room, but what he didn't expect was that as soon as Zhang Yuan walked to the door, the young men on both sides of the door reached out and stopped Zhang Yuan.
Zhang Yuan glanced at the two of them in surprise, and then said in a low voice: "What, what's the matter?" I'm going to see if there is anything I can do to help. β
Zhang Yuan spoke more politely, after all, this is someone else's home, but Zhang Yuan wanted to see that as long as he released his kindness, the two would let himself in, but what he didn't expect was that the two had no intention of letting themselves in at all, but they just asked Zhang Yuan to leave quickly with an ugly face.
Zhang Yuan's face sank, he didn't expect that he would be kind enough to come to help and get such treatment, but Zhang Yuan didn't quarrel with a few people, but turned around and walked towards Old Man Wa's house.
Zhang Yuan had just walked a few steps, when he heard movement behind him, and turned his head to look, Zhang Yuan actually found several young men carrying a coffin from the old man's house and came out, the coffin was not only firmly nailed to the coffin nails, but also some adhesive tape was glued to all the seams, as if he was afraid that the coffin nails would not be enough to nail the coffin firmly.
Zhang Yuan was a little curious, I don't know why he had just died for a few hours, and he was carried forward to be buried, not to mention whether the descendants of the old corpse had returned, at least a simple ceremony had to be held, could it be that the customs here were so strange, after a person died, he had to put people into the ground as quickly as possible?
Zhang Yuan walked a few steps quickly, caught up with a young man who was behind the lifter, patted him lightly on the shoulder, and asked him, "Is the funeral of the old man so hasty?"
Zhang Yuan's sudden pat on the shoulder startled the young man, and the wooden stick that he had been carrying on his shoulder also slid down to the ground, seeing that the coffin was about to land, Zhang Yuan hurriedly reached out and grabbed the wooden stick and lifted it up hard to maintain the balance of the coffin, but just like that, the tape at the link between the coffin lid and the bottom suddenly loosened, and then a strong stench came out, so that Zhang Yuan almost didn't hold his breath.
Smelling such a stench, Zhang Yuan didn't believe that the corpse lying in the coffin was an old man who had only been dead for a few hours, Zhang Yuan felt that there was a thick weirdness here, so the wooden stick in his hand was not returned to the young man, and his hand dragged back hard, making it difficult for the other people to continue to leave.
Zhang Yuan's actions completely angered several young men, and they all looked at Zhang Yuan with hateful eyes, and the young people around Zhang Yuan directly roared, "What are you going to do?"
"I suspect you're doing something illegal, so you'd better explain it clearly!"
"This is a matter in our village, and it has nothing to do with you, a foreigner, so you better not meddle in it. The young man still yelled at Zhang Yuan in a deep voice.
Zhang Yuan originally wanted to let them explain clearly, but at this moment, a voice suddenly appeared behind him and made Zhang Yuan stop continuing to investigate.
It turned out that at some point, the old man came out of the old man's house, and happened to see Zhang Yuan, who was entangled with a few young people, so he said with some displeasure: "Zhang Yuan, please don't meddle in the affairs of our village, otherwise, you can only move out of my house." β
Zhang Yuan didn't expect that the matter would be so serious, he just wanted to find out the truth of the matter, but he turned against the old man who had been with Zhang Yuan for a while, and for a while Zhang Yuan didn't know whether he should continue to insist, but at this time, the young man next to him took out a roll of tape from his clothes, re-glued which section of tape had failed before, and then snatched the wooden stick from Zhang Yuan's hand and left quickly with several other people.
Zhang Yuan didn't stop him anymore, but reflexively walked to Old Man Wa's side, and asked him respectfully: "Old Wa, what is going on? I thought of coming over to help out, but I didn't expect to encounter such a thing." β
The old man shook his head, didn't say anything, then turned around and walked in the direction of his house, looking at the lonely back of the old man, as if he was the closest person to him, but Zhang Yuan heard the old man say that there are no two families in this village who are related, because from ancient times to the present, the people in the village have only children, no baby girls, and no family has a second child.
Of course, this is not the strangest, the strangest thing is that the village has been eighty-one families since ancient times, no matter how many dynasties have changed, these eighty-one households have not been cut off the inheritance, and there is that before the oldest of these eighty-one families dies, the next generation or the next generation will never die first, which is also the reason why the eighty-one families have been passed down.
Of course, after many years of inheritance, the reason for the appearance of this in the village has long been lost, and the people of later generations are also speculating about the reason, some people think that this place has suffered a curse, so someone has left here before, but in the end they all came back, because even everyone who left here has found that even if they don't live here, the ending has not changed in any way, so they have to move back again.
At that time, when I listened to the old man Wa, Zhang Yuan only thought it was a legend, so he didn't go to his heart, but the strange things he encountered today made Zhang Yuan believe a little, and the old man Wa said that he had no choice but to move back after this death, but he was afraid that it was different from ordinary people after this death, so he had to move back, of course, these are Zhang Yuan's guesses, and the old man did not tell Zhang Yuan, but judging from what happened today, it is indeed a little weird, and those who moved out of here, even if it is passed down from generation to generation, they don't have to move back here, so there must be some reason why they have to move back to move back, and now it seems that the reason is after this deathγ
The corpse has been carried away at this moment, and Zhang Yuan's desire to understand is already a little finished, but Zhang Yuan's heart does want to understand the secrets, so Zhang Yuan is ready to live here for a longer time, and the next time someone in the village dies, even if he is not invited to go, Zhang Yuan will ask Zhang Yue to use his immortal sense to help him check it.