24. A miserable fate
At this moment, Mizutaro held Sun Zhu's head and sat on the ground dejectedly: "Stinky boy, I didn't say it, let you not fool around outside, you will die, you see...... Right now...... Now you're gone...... It's better to ...... It's better to stay with me and be a simple person, that's the way to be happy......"
Hearing what he said, I wiped my tears and comforted him: "Water shopkeeper, people can't be resurrected after death, Sun Zhu is dead, we should ...... His body should be disposed of as soon as possible so that he can rest in peace......"
Mizutaro looked at Sun Zhu, who died tragically, and then looked at me with teary eyes, and then nodded reluctantly.
The next morning, the autumn rain was pouring down in the air, the air was dreary, and the birds in the sky were screaming and flying overhead. Mizutaro buried Sun Zhu in the place where they first met.
While burning Sun Zhu's clothes, he mourned and told us about the encounter with Sun Zhu: "I met this stinky boy here, at that time he was wearing a dress called Hanako, and he was dirty......" He looked at the rain that was coming, as if returning to yesterday, and there was a beautiful light in his eyes: "I saw that he was pitiful, so I got him a few decent clothes and gave him some food, who knew that this kid relied on me, saying that I lacked a helper in my shop......" He wiped his tears and smiled sadly: " We came out of the ghost village, and although we didn't have to live a life of fear, the curse of legend was real. The people in our village are short-lived, and according to what my father said, the village is an old monster that sucks people's lifespan! Because of that curse, all of our people left early, leaving me alone...... "He took a deep breath: "I treat Xiaozhu like a younger brother!" He suddenly turned his gaze to Xue Wei, who had been silent, and blamed: "You say! Why do you want young boys to be spies! From ancient times to the present, there are several spies who have had a good end!"
Xue Wei put his hands behind his back, like a huge pillar that did not move on a stormy day, and he replied in a gloomy voice: "Everyone has their own choice, Sun Zhu chose to be a spy, and he thought about one day...... " He turned around, and everyone couldn't see his joy, but at the moment he turned around, I still caught a trace of sadness in his eyes, and Xue Wei was deliberately hiding his emotions......
Just as he was leaving, the little Taoist priest asked Mizutaro: "Water shopkeeper, just now you said that the people in your village don't live long, and that your village seems to be an old monster that sucks people's lives?"
Xue Wei's expression changed slightly when he heard the little Taoist's question, and he stopped in place, squinting at Mizutaro, waiting for an answer.
Mizutaro sniffed and said, "Yes, my father died suddenly at home, and my mother died not long after." In the past, my grandfather died of illness, my father said, when my grandfather died, the whole person seemed to be more than ten years old, I wondered at that time, my grandfather was not very old when he died, how old is the old teens?
Everyone stared at Mizutaro with interest, and Mizutaro eased up for a moment, and then said: "My father said that my grandfather had an illness before he died, and that illness was enough to toss him for more than a month, and in that period of more than a month, my grandfather suddenly became old, his skin was dry, like a dry corpse, and his hair fell out like a straw during that time, so my father said that the essence and soul of my grandfather's body were absorbed by some monster...... When he died, he was left with only a pair of skins......"
"Skin, don't you want to be so exaggerated?" Chen Yu didn't believe it, and I couldn't imagine such a thing.
Mizutaro looked at us with a suspicious face, propped himself up from the ground, and said, "What are you doing with me!"
Thinking of that picture, I shuddered inexplicably, and the little Taoist priest pondered for a while and asked, "Then what did your father look like when he died?"
Mizutaro said bitterly: "I don't know ......"
"I don't know?" the little priest looked at Mizutaro in confusion.
Mizutaro said: "I won't tell you, when my father died, I was not at the scene, and when I arrived, he was already in the ground, and it was my mother who took care of the funeral for him, and my mother also died after that, and when the body was fished out of the water, the villagers didn't ......let me see it."
Baocai shouted, "Then you really haven't seen it?"
I grabbed the treasure that was dissatisfied with Mizutaro and asked him to be quiet, and I asked Mizutaro, "Why don't you let you see it?"
Mizutaro sighed and said sullenly, "I was knocked unconscious!"
"Stunned?" The conversation with Sutaro makes us feel like a fog in front of us that can't be cleared, and the more we inquire, the more confused we feel.
Mizutaro looked at us all confused, and said: "Okay, let me be clear, I heard the person who helped my mother deal with the aftermath at that time, saying that my mother's body was miserable, and everyone was swelling in the water, but she was soaked, and her wrinkled skin became like a cloth floating in the water, and said that there were dense insects on her body, if it weren't for the jade pendant that my mother wore around her neck, no one would have recognized that the corpse was her." Speaking of this, Mizutaro sighed again and said sadly: "Not only did my family die tragically, but many people who escaped from the ghost village did not end well, to be honest, I don't know when I will die, I still have a small pillar to cook for me...... Take care of the aftermath...... I didn't expect ...... I didn't expect him to be one step ahead of me now!" After speaking, he couldn't stop sobbing again.
As soon as Mizutaro said, everyone looked at each other, and the matter was complicated to a strange degree, and I felt uneasy: "What kind of story does that village have? And what is the curse? How good people will ......" At this moment, countless questions swirled in my heart, I turned my eyes to Mizutaro with twists and turns of fate, patted him on the shoulder, and said with relief: "Water shopkeeper, this may be just a coincidence...... When I said this, I also felt a little empty, if what happened in Mizutaro Village was a coincidence, it would be a terrifying coincidence.
Suitaro sniffed, and then said calmly: "Feng Gongzi, you don't have to comfort me, I have already seen it, so I want to make more money and enjoy it in time!"
"No wonder you're so greedy......" Sanyu mocked Mizutaro coldly, but his tone was much softer than before.
"Girl, don't worry, although my Mizutaro loves money like life, but also trustworthiness, although the little pillar has just been put into the ground, I can't get out of the way, but I promised you to go to Watergate Village before, and I will definitely give priority to completing your things. ”
"Aren't you afraid that the village has harmed your whole family so far, and you still make money from it?" asked him.
Mizutaro said: "Of course I'm afraid, but my fate is already predestined, so what's the social risk at the entrance of the village?
Everyone replaced the answer with silence, and Mizutaro sighed and said, "Okay, if you insist on this, I will sacrifice my life to accompany the gentleman......"
"Then you still don't ask us what we're going to do in the ghost village?" asked Xue Luo.
Mizutaro looked up and said, "Honestly......" He hatefully looked at Luo Wei, who was bound under the tree and had not yet woken up: "Based on your conversation, I can probably hear that you are looking for the tomb ......"
Xue Wei, who was not far away, stood and asked quietly, "Then do you know what grave we dug up?"
Mizutaro said: "I've never heard my father and mother say that there are tombs in our ghost village, so naturally I don't know. ”
Xue Wei turned around, "Then have you heard of a person named Water Enemy?"