Chapter 257: The Mystery of the Ancient Well II
"What the hell is going on?"
Although I have heard of a mother and wife dying in an ancient well before, I don't know what is going on.
Seeing that this woman was also a talker, when I asked, she grinned and opened the conversation.
"The dead woman's name is Shang Jing, her mother's family has long been dead, and she married into the Wei family in her village when she was seventeen or eighteen years old. In fact, this Wei family originally married a daughter-in-law, but the Wei family kid is a gentleman, with a full belly and intestines, and he can't live a good life, so he forced the daughter-in-law of the front room to hang herself at home, and later married Shang Jing, hey! What is it called marrying! In fact, it is just to renew the incense for the Wei family........."
It's a pity that after several years of marriage, Shang Jing's stomach has not moved, and everyone in the village knows that the reason why she can't get pregnant is the Wei family.
About five or six years after marriage, Shang Jing finally became pregnant, watching her belly bulge day by day, making the Wei family happy all day long, nine months later, finally giving birth, who knew that she was born a girl, and her arm was disabled, the Wei family was very angry, and began to be angry with Shang Jing and the disabled baby girl, the nose is not the nose, the eyes are not the eyes, and when the child was three years old, he finally couldn't help it, and jumped into the well with the child.
On the day Shang Jing jumped into the well, in fact, the Wei family also knew, but in order to save trouble, they pretended not to know, and let the two corpses, one large and one small, swell and rot in the water, and finally turned into white bones and sank to the bottom of the well.
Most of the people in the village knew about this, and almost every person who lived on the edge of the Yellow River in this era had an organic well, and there was no need to go to the ancient well to draw water.
Originally, the matter passed like this, and there was a new topic of conversation in the village, and gradually the people in the village stopped mentioning it, as if Shang Jing and the disabled baby girl had never existed, who knew that from the second year, some strange things began to happen in the Wei family, in just one year, seven or eight people were stupid, crazy, crazy, and finally all died strangely and tragically.
At that time, many people had seen that all the dead Wei family members had their eyes wide open and their mouths open, as if they had seen something very terrible in a moment before they died. For more than a year, a large family has become extinct in a daze.
Hearing this, I couldn't help but gasp, and hurriedly asked, "Is there anyone else in this family surnamed Wei now?" ”
The woman shook her head: "There should be a girl left, but no one knows where she went...... Later, the house was also lived in by a cousin of the Wei family. ”
Wei cousin?
Maybe I've watched too many Chinese TV series and movies, and when I hear the word "cousin", the first thing that comes to my mind is Wang Yuyan in "Dragon Babu", but then I think about it, there are only a few families around Gujing, except for the coffin Li and the fat woman...... Wait a minute! I remember just now that the fat woman said that he moved here two years ago, and the house was originally his cousin's house...... Could it be that the cousin that the woman said is a fierce fat woman?
It's a bit of a big surprise......
I asked the woman again, "Haven't you heard of a great serpent in the well?" ”
The woman laughed: "What? Orochi? Return the king! After saying that, he left with a smile.
After walking around the village, I didn't ask for any useful information, so I had to buy two boxes of cigarettes in the supermarket and go back to Li's house in the coffin.
Fa Dian is still unconscious, and it makes me a little anxious. The red boy was still smiling and chatting with me, "big brother is long", "big brother is short", shouting made me feel uncomfortable for a while.
At this time, the "squeak" of the tricycle sounded outside, and I walked to the door in two steps and saw the coffin Li getting down from the tricycle, holding a bundle of branches in his hand. In fact, at this time, I was quite entangled in my heart, looking at the red boy who had been following me, I wanted to rush over, grab his collar, and ask where the child was abducted, but when I thought of my uncle's words, I immediately hesitated again.
After struggling for half a minute, I decided to listen to my uncle's words and forced a very happy expression to welcome out.
"Uncle Li, you're back!"
Coffin Lee nodded, glanced at the red boy beside me, and fixed his gaze on my face.
"I have to go out in the afternoon, you two are still selling coffins!"
This time, I couldn't hold back the curiosity in my heart, and hurriedly asked, "Uncle Li, what are you doing here!" I'm still in a hurry to see it. ”
Coffin Li frowned, put the branch he was holding in his arms on the platform on the side, patted the soil on his body, and then replied: "I won't tell you, this monk is very seriously injured, and now he can only save his life, but if you want to cure him completely, you still need to find a few things." ”
"What's that?"
"A pure yang peach pit, twenty yin peach branches and twenty yin willow branches, I have a few other things at home, willow branches and peach wood are not too difficult to find, in the afternoon I will go to the peach orchard of the neighboring village, I should be able to find all, the problem is that this pure yang peach pit can not be found!"
I pondered for a while, but I didn't understand what it meant, if I say that people with pure yang I know, to put it bluntly, they are virgins, what is the peach pit of pure yang?
Maybe it was because I was stunned, but the coffin Li took the initiative to explain: "The peach pit of pure yang is actually the peach on the peach tree, the peach that bears fruit from the south-facing branches, naturally ripens, and then rots, and the remaining peach pit." ”
"Isn't it okay if someone picks it off?"
The coffin Li gave me a blank look: "Nonsense! ”
Not to mention, such a peach pit is indeed hard to find, the key is that the peach pit on whose tree will let it rot on the branches?
I asked again: "Uncle Li, what should I do if I can't find the pure yang peach pit all the time?" ”
"What to do? Then the monk's consciousness has never been able to recover, and even if he wakes up, he is equivalent to a fool! ”
It sent a chill down my back. Kanshu.com
"I'll go with you in the afternoon! Uncle Li, you may not know, I have good eyesight! Good stamina! Maybe it helps! ”
After saying this, my face turned red, what do you mean to help others, it is obvious that someone else's coffin Li helped us.
At lunchtime, Hao Minyuan called, first asked about Fa Dian's situation, and then told me that he had truthfully reported the progress of the case to Liu Liwei, and that he attached great importance to this case, but ...... However, for the time being, I will not continue to investigate.
I hurriedly asked why.
Hao Minyuan smiled bitterly and said that he also wanted to know.
In the afternoon, let the red boy stay at home by himself, and sell coffins by the way, I wanted to open my mouth several times, but finally I held back, maybe as my uncle said, behind all the unreasonable things, there is a reason that I don't know for the time being, but it is very reasonable. The key is that Fa Dian has not been cured yet, and no matter how impulsive he is, he can't break with the coffin Li at this time.
In the afternoon he rode me on a tricycle, and the thought of the rotting animal carcasses on the cart made me feel sick to my stomach, and I resisted it so that I didn't throw it up. followed him to a peach forest on the edge of the Yellow River, and at a glance, this peach forest was fifty or sixty acres.
Coffin Li held a dagger in one hand, wandered around the peach forest for an hour, and finally gathered twenty peach branches facing the shade, in this hour, I didn't stop for a minute, my eyes were like cameras, and the speed of my legs was not less than 40 kilometers per hour, but there was not even a peach on the tree.
The owner of the peach orchard knew the coffin Li, and he also knew what kind of peach pit he was looking for, and persuaded me to let us go several times, saying that it was impossible!
The two of them looked for another hour, both sweating and panting, and had to give up.
Coffin Li gasped and asked his friend who was a fruit farmer: "Are there any other peach groves around here?" ”
The farmer friend replied: "Yes, there is, but I don't think it will be possible to have what you are looking for, unless you ......."
"Unless what?" I hurriedly asked.
"Unless you can find a peach tree that no one will touch, and maybe keep the kind of peach pit you're looking for."
"No one has ever touched a peach tree?" I muttered it again in my mouth, thinking that this kind of tree may be found in the deep mountains and old forests, but how can there be deep mountains and old forests within hundreds of miles here, and even if there are, most of the animals such as monkeys and squirrels in the mountains and forests can still leave peach pits?
Coffin Li pondered for more than ten seconds, and suddenly clapped his hands, both of which were overjoyed: "I thought of a place, maybe there is really something I'm looking for!" ”
Almost at the same time, my farmer friend and I spoke up and asked him where he was.
Coffin Lee laughed twice, didn't speak, turned around and called me to get in the car.
I didn't expect him to carry me back to the village.
"Uncle Li, there is no peach forest, can there still be in the village?" I don't think it's likely.
Coffin Li pedaled hard, panting and replied, "Try it!" ”
Qilijing Village is not large, except for the dense households in the center of the village, the courtyards around the village are relatively sparse, and the open space between the courtyards is planted with various trees, including fruit trees, elms, pear trees and other common tree species in the countryside.
The coffin Lee rode all the way to the northernmost part of the village, stopping in front of a courtyard where the wall was half down.
Although there is still a gate in this courtyard, it has rotted and cracked, the lock has rusted into a pimple, and a large hole has collapsed at one end of the house, and there has been no one living in this courtyard for a long time.
Seeing the coffin Li stop the car, I still didn't understand a little, and hurriedly asked: "There are no peach trees here!" ”
The coffin Li smiled slightly, and pointed to the broken yard: "There is one in it!" ”
It dawned on me, yes! Perhaps only in this way can such a peach pit be preserved in a yard that has been uninhabited all year round.
The two of them were not polite, and went directly into the courtyard over the wall.
As soon as my feet hit the ground, after taking a look, I couldn't help but sigh: This is too desolate!
The yard was overgrown with weeds and wild vegetables more than a meter high, and there were really a few trees, among which there was indeed a peach tree.
I didn't care if there was a road under my feet, the two of them staggered to the peach tree one after the other, and I saw the peach pits hanging on the branches at a glance, and my heart was suddenly happy.
The coffin Li was also overjoyed, and after circling around the peach tree, he pointed to a branch facing south and shouted, "That! That's the peach pit of pure yang! ”
I finally found all the things I was looking for, and I could see that Li had a sense of accomplishment in the coffin, and chatted with me on the way back.
I thought it was an opportunity, so I took the opportunity to ask about the red boy.
Looking at the coffin Li's back was obviously stunned, he was silent for half a minute, and then sighed and said, "The red boy will go home early tomorrow morning!" After saying this, he was silent again until he went home.
Coffin Li asked me to spread all the peach and willow trees on the platform in the yard, and then one by one, gently plucked the leaves.