Chapter 114: The Tragedy of the Year
Twenty meters away from the temple, the villagers stopped, and Uncle Xing turned to look at them and sighed deeply.
It's not easy to be the head of a village! Usually the neighbors in the street treat you as a leader. The guide looks, but he only greets each other with a smile on the surface, and secretly he doesn't know how ugly it is, and he won't put you in his eyes when he is in danger. Actually, this is human nature!
Following Uncle Xing and Liu Liwei, I heard Liu Liwei, who had just stepped up the steps, exclaim: "Oh my God! How...... How could two red coffins suddenly appear! ”
Almost at the same time, I also saw two bright red coffins erected in the temple, which were very eye-catching compared to the dull colors around them, but the bodies of Yang Shuhui's daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law were missing.
Uncle Xing was in front of me, and I saw him trembling a few times, then turned around and ran back, still muttering, "It's them!" It's them! It's them who are asking for their lives! "Just a few meters after running out, the man collapsed to the ground like a noodle.
"Uncle Xing!"
"Village Chief"
……
I hurriedly rushed over and tried to help him up, but the villagers more than ten meters away did not dare to approach, but just shouted his name from a distance, and only Lao Mu came over.
Liu Liwei squatted down and touched Uncle Xing's neck, and said softly: "The person is just dizzy, it should be fine." Then he went and pinched her among the people.
"Viagra, what did you hear him shout just now?" I asked Liu Liwei, "Is it evil?" ”
"I hear you...... Wake up and ask! As he spoke, the movements in his hands did not stop, and in less than half a minute, Uncle Xing coughed a few times and slowly opened his eyes, but his face was as white as paper, and he was panting.
"Brother, what did you just shout?"
Liu Liwei helped him up and asked softly.
"I ...... I didn't say anything! ”
Uncle Xing was a little incoherent, his voice was as low as a mosquito, and he didn't dare to look at Liu Liwei's eyes.
"What time is it, you still don't tell the truth, do you want the whole village to die here?"
These words made Uncle Xing tremble, but he still didn't say anything.
Liu Liwei may have been in a hurry, so he stood up and shouted angrily to more than 100 villagers more than ten meters away: "Does anyone know what is going on with these two red coffins, and if you want to live, don't hurry up." ”
Suddenly, the scene was as silent as death, you look at me, I look at you.
"If you don't say it, I'm afraid no one will be able to leave alive! Is there anything more terrible than death? ”
Again up to a minute from the silence.
"I ...... I don't want to die! I don't want to die, I know what's going on? ”
At this time, a shrill voice came from the crowd, and then an old man with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks ran out. He first looked back at the neighborhood behind him, then at Uncle Xing sitting on the ground, and finally at Liu Liwei.
"The people in these two coffins are...... They killed them, and they ...... They should also be approached. ”
These words were like a thunderbolt from the sky, and they exploded in my mind in an instant, and the amount of information was a bit large, how did this old man know who was in the coffin, and it seemed that he was involved in a murder.
"You...... Do you know who is lying in the coffin? ”
Liu Liwei also looked puzzled and asked the old man with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks.
"Know! Of course I do, there are several more in the village who know! ”
Again, this shocked me, and it seems that things have become more complicated.
Without waiting for the old man to speak, Uncle Xing sighed deeply, raised his arm and slapped himself vigorously.
"Forget it! Good and evil are finally rewarded, heaven and earth are reincarnated, and what should come is always coming! I'll talk about it! ”
He stood up slowly, still trembling a little, turned around and bowed deeply towards the temple, and then turned around and bowed to more than a hundred neighbors.
"This matter has nothing to do with most of the neighbors, whoever created the sin, who has to pay it back!"
Uncle Xing raised his head again, and he was already in tears. Heng, he smiled bitterly at me and Liu Liwei, and then slowly told an unbelievable past.
It has been almost 30 years since Uncle Xing was in his early thirties and was the village officer.
As I said before, Zhanhua County in Binzhou Prefecture belongs to the relatively poor areas of the North China Plain, especially twenty or thirty years ago, it was still barely enough to solve the problem of food and clothing, in fact, there were many poorer places in the country at that time, especially in the western Qinghai and Shaanxi areas.
At that time, many refugees who fled the famine in the west went down the river, some stayed in Henan, some stayed in Shanxi, and of course some arrived in the area of Zhanhua in Shandong.
There were a few families in our village, and one of them was mute, and I remember how he was in his fifties when I was a child, and he was old and ugly, but his daughter-in-law was not yet thirty years old, and she was so good-looking, that even my teenage child thought they were not a good match.
What's even more annoying is that the mute often beats his daughter-in-law, and every time he is ruthless, I remember often seeing her with injuries on her hands and neck, of course, this little daughter-in-law ran away with a migrant worker.
At that time, a mother and daughter also came to Niutou Village, the mother was less than 30 years old, and the child looked like she was five or six years old, a girl, and they lived in this dilapidated temple at night, begging everywhere during the day, not provoking others or annoying people.
The villagers only knew that they were from some poorer place in the west, and they didn't take it too seriously, and then for some unknown reason, the mother and daughter left again.
In fact, the so-called "leaving" was a secret that only seven or eight people knew at that time, including Yang Shuhui, Uncle Xing, and the old man with the sharp-beaked monkey cheeks just now.
In fact, Uncle Xing and the old man with the sharp-beaked monkey cheeks met by accident, and the culprits were a few other people.
It was an afternoon after a heavy rain in the middle of a scorching summer, and although the rain had just stopped, the weather was still dry. The heat is unpleasant, and the incessant screaming of the acquaintances in the trees makes people upset.
At that time, there were two officials in the village, one was Uncle Xing, and the other was Yang Shuhui, and the old party secretary would retire in half a year, and everyone knew that the next village party secretary would be one of the two.
Speaking of which, it was more likely that Yang Shuhui would become the village party secretary at that time, because he was more lively than Uncle Xing and was good at interpersonal relationships.
Because of the rain that day, he called a few young people to drink at home, and his daughter-in-law was six months pregnant and went back to her parents' house to raise the baby.
Several people pushed the cups and drank very happily, and then they were all a little drunk.
At that time, a man named Wang Baojiang half-jokingly asked Yang Shuhui if he was suffocated during this time.
Most of the men who have children understand that the daughter-in-law is very painful and difficult in the year she is pregnant, just like a person who has been addicted to alcohol and tobacco for more than ten or twenty years, and suddenly does not let you smoke and drink, not to mention the pain.
was already uncomfortable, and was provoked by this Wang Baojiang, and suddenly an uncontrollable fire came out of his heart.
A few other people also followed suit, and every word you said to me made this fire even worse. It's even more vigorous.
At this time, Wang Baojiang mentioned the mother and daughter living in the temple, and gave a detailed description of the figure of the young woman.
Wang Baojiang proposed to go to the temple to tease her.
In fact, as the village officer, Yang Shuhui, who is very likely to take over as the village head, must not want to cause trouble, she also feels that it is too immoral to do so, but under the stimulation of alcohol, men regard face more than anything else, not to mention their own desires. The fire is unbearable.
Several people pushed each other to go to the ruined temple outside the village.
At that time, the heavy rain had just stopped, and there was no one outside the village, which added to the arrogance of several people.
At that time, the mother and daughter were about to go out to beg, and several people happened to block them in the temple.
Uncle Xing replaced the description with howling and crying......
A few people can be said to have done their best, leaving no strength, letting one big and one small howl sing through the sky.
At that time, Uncle Xing happened to go to the field to see if there was any water, and when he heard the screams in the temple, he felt strange and turned around and walked towards the temple. The old man with the monkey's cheeks was also in his twenties at the time, and his family was poor, so he wanted to take advantage of the heavy rain when there was no one in the field, so he secretly broke some sticks. Son, also heard the voice in the temple.
While curiosity is the primordial driving force for human progress, sometimes curiosity can also bring disaster.
Uncle Xing and the old man with the sharp-beaked monkey cheeks came to the temple almost one after the other, and happened to meet the "finish", at this time Yang Shuhui had already woken up for most of the time, and his intestines were repentant, so he knelt down in front of the two of them with a plop, begging them not to expose it.
At this moment, Wang Baojiang, who was behind him, slammed the woman's forehead with a stone in the broken temple, once, twice...... Soon the woman's head became a bloody blur, and the little girl who had been curled up in the corner was scared to death.
Wang Baojiang threatened them, whether they participated in this matter or happened to meet them, they all had a part, and no one could get out of it if something happened, and everyone would end it together. At that time, the old man with the sharp-beaked monkey cheeks still had his mother and his unmarried sister, Uncle Xing had just been married for half a year, and his wife was also pregnant.
Both of them knew that this Wang Baojiang was a ruthless person.
Yang Shuhui kowtowed vigorously, saying that as long as Uncle Xing didn't expose them, the village chief would not participate in the election.
In that era, whether he could be the village chief, for Uncle Xing of a Zhuang family, it can be said that it was a change in the fate of life, under the soft grinding and hard bubbles, he finally compromised, and the old man with the sharp-beaked monkey cheeks also got five acres of land from the village for free, so far the family has solved the problem of food and clothing, and began to run to a well-off.
A few people did not stop doing anything, secretly bought two coffins, painted the coffins all red, and then filled them with stones, and in the dead of night, rowed the boat and sank into the river. There are two reasons why they did this, the purpose of using the red coffin to hold the corpse was to trap the unjust souls of the mother and daughter, and they forgot that they had listened to the Jianghu gentleman at that time, and Yang Shuhui's family was a fisherman and had a fishing boat, so it was convenient to act.