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When the old Taoist priest and I returned to the village, it was already dawn, so I asked the fat man and his father to find a few people to carry back the bodies of Naxincheng and Xiao Meng. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

If the old Taoist priest didn't give them an explanation, or more accurately, give them a safe explanation, they couldn't sleep peacefully, and now the fear was not limited to people who came back from working outside, and began to spread to the whole village.

"Everyone, you go back first, I will give you an explanation in the evening, please leave a few big brothers and sisters who are sixty years old, I have something to ask you, the others, go back first." The old Taoist priest stood at the front and shouted loudly into the crowd.

About twenty or thirty old people in the village stayed, and the others turned around step by step, and were persuaded to leave by the fat man's father, and even their families in Xincheng were arranged by the fat man's father.

The old people who stayed behind also looked at the old Taoist priest with a puzzled expression, not knowing what he was doing with these people, but these old people in the village believed in these things more than the young people.

"Little Qi, little fat man, you two go and help move the stool over, let these big brothers and sisters-in-law sit down, let's talk slowly." The old Taoist priest directly closed the door of the hall of the Xincheng family, and the bodies of Xiao Meng and Xincheng were all placed in the hall of the Xincheng family.

After closing the door, the old Taoist priest and the fat man's father moved two chairs directly at the door and sat down casually, as if they wanted to chat with these old people, the old Taoist priest looked relaxed, and Chen Xin's father was full of seriousness. Originally, Xincheng's family was in trouble, and Xincheng's body was stolen on the day of the incident, so the tables and stools in the courtyard of Xincheng's house were all there, and the fat man and I moved those over, and after arranging for these old people to sit down, the fat man and I also sat down beside them.

The old Taoist priest felt that he was sitting a little far, so he pulled the chair to the middle of the group of old people, and the fat man and his father also came with the old Taoist priest.

"Big brother, sisters-in-law, you all know these things in the village, what do you think?" When the old Taoist priest spoke, his face was still relaxed. It can be seen that the expression of the old Taoist priest is to ease the emotions of those old people so that they can speak freely.

However, this trick of the old Taoist priest obviously had no effect, and after asking for a long time, no one spoke, and I and the fat man and his father looked at the old Taoist priest at the same time, and they were a little helpless.

It was still the fat man whose father spoke: "Uncles and aunts, say whatever you want, don't be afraid, this long road is high, you see that the body of Xincheng was lost for two days and was recovered, which is much better than the last time Uncle Meng." ”

Although the words are so, but those old people still did not speak, I saw that some old people wanted to speak and stopped, in the end still did not say anything, it seems that the prestige of the old Taoist priest is still not enough, I am wondering, whether to invite Mr. here, after all, this kind of occasion, if Mr. is there it should be better.

"Big brother, sisters-in-law, just talk about it, whether anything strange happened in the village before, before and after liberation, as long as you know, just say it, just gossip." The old Taoist priest picked up the teacup and took a sip.

Seeing the old Taoist priest drinking tea, the fat man and I remembered that we didn't pour tea for these old people, so we quickly got up and went to find a teacup and teapot and poured tea for the old people one by one.

Finally, someone spoke.

The first to speak was the one with the highest rank in the village, the fat man and his father had to call the old man, who looked eighty or ninety years old, with deep wrinkles on his slender face, and a white beard on his chin, which looked like an old goat.

It was forty or fifty years ago, when there was just a ************, and there was famine everywhere, and the village was no exception.

At that time, there was no electricity in the village, and in order to save some lamp oil at night, they all went to bed early, and at that time, there were wolves in the mountains, and it was often heard that the children of each family in the neighboring village were taken away by wolves, so almost at night, when it was just dark, every house was closed, except for the barking of dogs, there was no sound in the whole village.

In the summer evening, it gets dark very quickly, and the temperature in the village is still normal at that time, and several brave young people can't sleep in the heat, so they make an appointment to enjoy the cool outside together.

Several young people were actually scared in their hearts, after all, the wild wolves in the mountains were notoriously fierce, and one of them was a hunter at home, so he took out the shotgun and bow and arrow that had not been handed in at home, and several other young people saw these guys, their eyes were straight, and they immediately took them and tried their skills.

People who don't have a curiosity, especially young people, curiosity is stronger, after these people take the guy, their self-confidence is bursting, and they hit it off and are ready to go to the back mountains to hunt some game, on the one hand, they are hungry, on the other hand, they are also good for their families, in that era, only during the New Year, they can eat some meat.

That night, all the people in the village heard the dogs outside howling desperately, and the howling was very similar to the howling of wolves, and the barking was so urgent that it was even crying, and not only the dogs barked, but all the children in the village were crying almost at the same time, and this crying was the whole night.

The next morning, just after dawn, the dogs stopped barking, the children stopped crying, and the adults still went to work normally.

In those days, if you don't work in the field, there is no work, and you will divide the food according to the work, and those who have more work will have more food, and those who have less work will have less food, and at that time, men were counted as strong laborers, and women were counted as half a day according to one work, so if anyone had four or five strong laborers at that time, then when they distributed food, they would get more. This is also the reason why they all wanted to have boys back then, and it also further aggravated the patriarchal thinking in the countryside.

Those few people are gone, and the most anxious people must be the people in their own family, and it is important to earn work, but in those days, it was not easy to find people, and they had to work in the field. At that time, it was spring planting time, and the laborers of each family had to work in the fields, so it was the old people of the family who went to find people.

A total of three old people went to find someone, and at night, only one old man came back, and the old man who came back was dull-eyed, full of nonsense, and didn't even know his own grandson, the grandson who had just passed three years old wanted to hug her, and was almost strangled to death by her, and said something like "You are a harmful ghost, and you don't let people live in peace when you die".

At that time, it was the early stage of the Cultural Revolution, and the atmosphere of breaking the four olds had already begun, and the whole village was organizing and studying, and they only said that of course they did not believe in the ghost, and when this kind of thing happened, of course the cadres of the commune had to stop it, and they had to prove with their actions that there were no ghosts in this world at all.

So at that time, the commune cadres decided to set aside a day for all the people in the village to go into the mountains to find someone, and that year, the fat man's father had not yet been born, and his grandfather had just gotten married, so his grandfather also went with him.

The old man said that when he left that day, the sun was big, but as soon as he entered the woods, he felt that it was cold and cold, and the old man was still a young and strong man, in his early thirties, and he was also a small cadre in the commune, and he went into the forest with seventy or eighty people.

I walked around in the woods, I didn't find anything, I came back in the evening for a meeting to summarize the lessons of this time, the spirit of the meeting was originally drawn up, and I wanted to educate some of these villagers well, there were no ghosts in this world, otherwise, this time I went into the forest so deep, how could I not meet anything.

But at this time, the sharp-eyed village name found that there were a few fewer people, and there was already a bit of a panicked atmosphere, but this time it was even more panicked, and the cadres of the commune were also a little unable to suppress, I have to say that the people of that era, although the poor could not eat enough, but the spirit was extremely strong, several cadres of the commune discussed it, and finally decided to go and find the people back, who made them party members, the current party members are just a title, and the party members at that time were all regarded as an honor.

Just when he was about to go, this old man happened to have a baby when his wife was about to give birth, so he didn't go with him, and none of the cadres who went came back.

This time, the rumors were even more powerful, the whole village was spread in fear, the fear this time was much bigger than this time, the commune really had no choice, there was only one cadre left in the old man's family, and at noon that day, he left his wife and children who had just given birth, and ran dozens of miles to report to the township government in person.

The township government attached great importance to this matter, and many villagers died, and several commune cadres also died, and that night, the township government sent a deputy township chief and several people from the police station to follow the old man to the village.

Strange to say, the dogs in the village barked every night every night, and the children cried, but it was all quiet that night.

I thought that this was the end of the matter, but just after dawn the next day, a miserable cry filled the whole village with fear again.

The only old man who had come back from looking for his son died. The person who hanged himself happened to be in the village, and the possibility of his murder was ruled out on the spot, and the old man committed suicide.

But there are many suspicions, the beams are very high, there are no chairs or anything nearby, and no one knows how a thin and boneless old man in his sixties and seventies hangs up.

Before leaving, he called the old man over and asked him to re-select the commune cadres, and when the time came, he only needed to report it, and the deputy township chief was okay, and called the old man over and introduced a Taoist priest from a nearby village, and asked him to invite the Taoist priest to take a look.

The old man didn't believe in those gods and ghosts at that time, but he didn't dare to disbelieve it after a lot of experience, and he didn't have a good impression of Taoist priests or anything, but this time it was introduced by the deputy township chief, and he still had to go and see it, and the eyes of the whole village were staring at him, as the only remaining cadre of the commune, he could only do this thing.

Before leaving, he gathered the whole village together, and selected a few cadres to come out, although the incident happened, but the people who should be busy still have to be busy, if the work in the field could not be done, they could not collect food, and they would all starve to death.

After everything was ready, and the affairs of the commune were handed over to the newly elected cadres, he took up his dry rations and walked towards the place where the Taoist priest was said by the deputy head of the township.

I left before dawn, and when it was dark, I arrived at the village that the deputy township chief said, and in those days, almost every village was the same, and every family went to bed early, and there was no electricity, and there were no entertainment facilities.

When the old man was still a strong man, after arriving in that village, he wanted to inquire about the Taoist priest mentioned by the deputy township chief, but no one could ask, and the whole village was relatively peaceful, and the only thing he heard the most was the barking of dogs.

He knocked on the doors of several houses, and when the owner heard that he was coming to the Taoist priest, he quickly waved his hand and said that he did not know the person, and then closed the door with a "clang" in front of him.

If you want to say that one is enough, several families are like this in a row, there must be a problem, and he can see from the faces of that family that they must know this Taoist priest, but they don't want to say it, there must be some scruples, people have scruples, he can't be strong, but it's already dark, he has to find someone to spend the night, the wild was still more dangerous in those days, there were many fierce beasts and wolves, but the people in this village don't open the door to him now, so he has no choice but to find a place to live.

The old Taoist priest from afar saw that there were houses on the mountain, either temples or Taoist temples, and in that era, almost all Taoist temples and temples were smashed to pieces, and monks and Taoist priests were also arrested to work.

Although it was said that it might have been smashed, there were four walls, and even if it was rotten after all, it was much safer than sleeping in the wild, so he climbed directly to the top of the mountain, and it took him more than half an hour to climb to the top of the mountain.

Faintly, seeing that there was a fire in the temple, the old man who was still a strong man was stunned, but he didn't expect that there were people in the temple, but there were just people, so I could ask where the Taoist priest was.

When he entered, he saw a middle-aged man dressed like Hanako, roasting a pheasant on the fire, and the fragrance of the pheasant was overflowing, making him drool.

The middle-aged Hanako ignored him, and roasted his pheasant by himself, the fragrance made him forget the purpose of his visit, and his eyes stared straight at the pheasant.

It didn't take long for Hanako to tear off a piece of thigh and throw it to him, and then gnawed it on his own, he didn't care about 3721, he took the thigh and gnawed it, and after a few bites, he remembered that there were still a few pieces of stick noodles steamed buns in his bag, so he quickly took it out and ate it.

"Hey, hey, don't give me any good things, but I gave you that chicken leg of yours." Hanako saw the steamed bun in his hand, kicked him lightly twice with her foot and said.

Only then did he realize that he gave half of it to the middle-aged man next to him called Hanako, and then ate it by himself. I only heard the middle-aged man next to him call Hanako and said, "If only there was a drink to drink, alas, ......" (to be continued.) )