Story 59 The Cursed Surname (4)
In the evening, Ah Sheng's wife quietly found Ji Mantang and asked what the people who came back said and why her man disappeared.
After hearing this, she whispered to Ji Mantang, "There is something wrong with these people!" ”
Ji Mantang was shocked when he heard this, "Why do you say that?" ”
Ah Sheng's wife said with a pale face, "My man I know, he won't take them to Wucai Bay!" ”
"Why are you so sure Ah Sheng won't go?" Ji Mantang asked puzzled.
"Because our son died in Wucaiwan in the first place, he swore that he would never go there again for the rest of his life!" Ah Sheng's wife said firmly.
Ji Mantang's heart sank after hearing this, who said it was true? Before, he didn't have the slightest doubt about Da Zeng's words, but now after listening to the words of the woman in front of him, Ji Mantang's heart began to sway!
And he didn't understand why the secretary didn't go to the mountains to find someone? On the contrary, everyone is asked to stay in the village......
In the evening, Han Yanan began to have a fever, and Dazeng and the others decided to drive her to the county hospital early tomorrow morning to avoid infection of the wound.
Now that something like this has happened, Ji Mantang is not very happy, he thought that the first batch of guests should be well received, but he didn't expect such a thing to happen, and now there is no villager missing, let alone whether it is life or death.
The more he thought about it, the more he couldn't sleep, and the whole person was tossing and turning like a pancake on the bed, and suddenly, Song Haiping stood at the head of his bed and said faintly, "Brother Ji, I feel that something is wrong with that injured woman!" ”
Ji Mantang was startled, hurriedly got up from the bed and said, "What's the matter, what did you see?" ”
Song Haiping thought for a while and said, "I came out of Chunxiao's room just now, and when I passed by Han Yanan's room, I heard some unusual sounds inside, so I went in to take a look, and found that Han Yanan's face was pale, her eyes were red, and her nails were black and blue, in short, she was in a very bad state, like a living dead!" ”
"The living dead? Why is it described as such? Ji Mantang asked suspiciously.
Song Haiping didn't know how to describe it more appropriately, "because...... Because I can't feel the popularity of her, or to put it another way, the yin qi on her body is very heavy, and it doesn't look like a living person! ”
Ji Mantang's heart sank when he heard this, and it seemed that he still couldn't escape his special physique when he went out to see ghosts! Forget it, let's take one step at a time, but for the sake of insurance, Ji Mantang still let Song Haiping go to Chunxiao House, if there is really any danger, he is also a ghost, no matter how bad it is, he can still talk about a sentence or something!
Early the next morning, Ji Mantang asked everyone to get up for dinner, but found that Li Jing and Han Yanan had not left the room, so he asked Chunxiao to call, but within half a minute of her entering, she heard Chunxiao screaming at the frequency of a flowery soprano!
Everyone immediately ran over to take a look, and saw that there was no one in Li Jing's room at all, but there was a pool of blood on the ground, and it was almost dry.
Everyone ran to Han Yanan's room, and sure enough, she was gone! So everyone searched inside and outside the farmhouse, but there was no two of them, and in the end, Ji Mantang could only help Secretary Tang.
After the secretary came, he first looked at the blood stains on the ground, and then asked about the specific situation, when he heard that Han Yanan was bitten by Ah Sheng, his face was shocked, "What? Why didn't you say it earlier, it's over! The lives of these two girls can't be saved even by the gods! ”
Ji Mantang saw that the old secretary must have concealed some of his things about the village, but now that it was this time, if he didn't say it again, something big would definitely happen! So he said to the secretary, "Secretary, do you know what's going on, but now you're going to die, just tell me quickly!" ”
The secretary sighed and said, "I don't know, this is all made by the old grandmother, and the secret of our village will only be told to the next person when she is dying!" ”
When Ji Mantang heard this, he took the secretary and walked to the grandmother's house, "Now it's all on fire, let's go to her now!" ”
As soon as they came to the grandmother's house, they saw that the lights were bright, it turned out that the third uncle and Ah Sheng's wife had already arrived at the grandmother's house, and when they saw that the secretary had brought Ji Mantang away, they were a little unhappy at first, but as soon as they heard Ji Mantang say that two guests in his house had lost two, the faces of the two began to look ugly.
The old grandmother looked at Ji Mantang and said, "You said that one of your girls there let Ah Sheng bite?" ”
Ji Mantang nodded affirmatively, "When I came back yesterday, I saw that her hands were wrapped in gauze, and they told me that it was bitten by Ah Sheng, who came back from the dead!" I didn't think much about it at the time, I just asked her to take out iodophor and let her disinfect it, but she still had a fever at night, originally they wanted to go to the county hospital early this morning, but when they came together, they found that the injured Han Yanan and Li Jing had disappeared together?! ”
The old grandmother pondered for a long time before she said slowly, "The people who can't be found can't be saved, and now we must save the rest of the people in the village......"
Everyone was confused, Ah Sheng's wife was called Ah Zhen, and she asked puzzled, "Grandma, what's going on?" Is my man really dead? ”
"Ah Sheng can be counted dead now, or he can be regarded as not dead, because he has become a living dead!"
As soon as the old grandmother said this, everyone present was stunned, and the secretary said with a pale face, "Is that legend true?" ”
The old grandmother nodded and said, "It's true, I am also the reason why people in our village can't leave the village, and they must be cremated immediately after death." ”
It turns out that there is a rule in Big Elm Village, that is, no matter how the people in the village died, they must immediately be carried to the stone platform that is usually used for sacrifice and cremated, this rule has not changed for hundreds of years, and people have always obeyed it......
But as for why everyone is not very clear, because only one person in the whole village knows this secret, and when this person is about to die, it will be passed on to the next person, to ensure that the family secret can be passed on, and the grandmother is the secret of this generation.
And the person who passed on the secret to her was her husband, who was also the previous patriarch, and her only task after the old lady's death was to continue the family's secrets, and at the same time to ensure the safety of the Tang clan.
But at the moment it seems that this secret cannot be kept, because things have developed in the most terrible direction, but fortunately it is daytime, and the old grandmother still has time to tell the big story about this secret that has been passed down for 700 years......
The old grandmother stroked her snow-white bun with her hand, and then slowly talked about the secret that she had existed in her heart for decades, 700 years ago, our ancestors were not surnamed Tang, but surnamed Zhao, they were the descendants of the royal family of the Song Dynasty, and they have always wanted to recover the rivers and mountains of the Han Dynasty.
But at that time, they had no money in their hands, and they had no ability to recruit troops and horses, so they thought of a way that was not a way, that is, to steal and dig up the imperial tombs of their ancestors.
But they never expected that they thought of their ancestors too kindly! In fact, the imperial tombs of the Great Song Dynasty have long been dug up by the Mongols, and the rest are also the few places that the Mongols do not know.
There must be a certain truth that these imperial tombs have not been stolen and excavated, but our ancestors did not think of this at that time, and they brought all the people to the hidden imperial tombs of the Song Dynasty, because they also had some methods handed down by their ancestors to open the imperial tombs, so they easily entered without much effort.
But after entering, a terrible thing happened, the people who were buried in the imperial tomb before were not dead, or they were not human at all, and these monsters bit people when they saw them, so that many people were injured.
In the end, everyone killed all the living dead in the imperial tomb despite heavy casualties, but when they saw the so-called treasure inside, they were all dumbfounded, it turned out that the treasure in the imperial tomb was not a gold and silver treasure, but a bottle of immortal pills!
After thinking about it for a long time, the patriarch at that time asked the whole clan to take this pill, but then something terrible happened, and those clansmen who were bitten by the living dead before immediately became the living dead!
They have no sense, no feelings, they only know how to bite and eat meat! Only then did they realize that the so-called elixir they had just taken was only able to turn corpses into living dead after death! Such immortality is terrifying!
By this time, however, it was too late to regret it, so those who had not yet become the living dead killed all their relatives and friends and burned their bodies alive.
After these remaining people came out of the imperial tomb, they were all discouraged, and they no longer wanted to help the Han family, they came to this hidden mountain, changed their names and surnames, and settled here, in order not to become the living dead after their deaths, these people made several family rules.
First, the Tang clan people do not travel far, second, the people of the Tang clan should be cremated immediately after death, and the mortuary should not be supported, and third, the Tang women are only allowed to marry outside.
These three iron laws have not been violated by the villagers of Great Elm for hundreds of years, and although everyone does not know the secrets, they have always strictly followed them......
After listening to Grandma's speech, everyone was in an uproar, and Ah Zhen said even more excitedly, "Grandma, do you mean that my Ah Sheng has become a thing that is not a human or a ghost?" ”
The old grandmother nodded sadly and said, "Ah Sheng must have died first, and then came back to life, that's why she bit that foreign girl, and then she also became a living dead and bit her companion." The old grandmother said to Ji Mantang again, "Xiao Ji, but there must be something wrong with Ah Sheng's death, because our whole village knows that he will not take people to Wucai Bay, last time there was an old man who went out with a lot of red tickets, he was not moved, that was his sad place, it is impossible to go in this life, those people are lying......" (to be continued.) )