Chapter Twenty-Six: The Past
Wang Er's body was found in a bamboo grove in the backyard, where he had helped a woman pull bamboo shoots a few days earlier.
At that time, it was the season when the spring bamboo shoots were unearthed, and the forest was full of bamboo shoots of different heights, all like sharp cones, dressed in pale green tender clothes.
Wang Er's neck was stuck in one of the bamboo shoots, and his neck was completely pierced by the tip of the bamboo shoots. His blood stained the surrounding land red, spreading, seeping deep into the bamboo roots.
A large flock of crows landed on Wang Er's corpse, scrambling to tear his clothes and peck at this rare feast, Wang Er's body was pecked open by these ugly birds, and even the purse around his waist was ripped off by a crow, and plundered into the dark sky.
The woman saw Wang Er's scarred corpse, and she was so frightened that she couldn't get out of bed for a few days, and she was sick for more than a month before recovering. But what she didn't expect was that Wang Er's death was just the beginning. From that day on, there were fewer and fewer people in the house, and those people disappeared one by one without realizing it.
The woman did not suspect the man at first, until she was awakened one night to find that the man lying next to her was missing, and when she came to the courtyard to look for him, she learned the truth.
The man was in the bamboo forest, digging the soil with a sharp bamboo shoot, and next to him was a corpse that had been pierced in the throat by a bamboo shoot. The woman recognized the corpse, he was the cook in the house, a very amiable middle-aged man, and he had greeted her this morning.
The woman saw that the cook's face looked more and more strange in the moonlight, and the blood that spurted from his throat splattered horizontally on his blue face, as if it had split the face in half.
The woman covered her mouth so hard that she didn't scream, although she was extremely disgusted with the behavior of men watching her, she never thought that the person next to her pillow would be a murderer with blood on his hands. She silently stepped aside, and for the first time took a serious look at the man she called her husband: his appearance was not at all related to the viciousness, and he was even a little delicate, and he also had a bit of a woman's appearance; He likes to read very much, is erudite and talented, treats people very kindly on weekdays, never criticizes his subordinates, and is of course even more considerate to women; Although he did not have many friends and had a dull personality, his business was doing well, and he had purchased a new mansion at great expense, because it was full of bamboo, which women liked.
It is these advantages that make a woman and her parents ignore the nature of a man: he is extremely controlling, especially for the things he cherishes, and does not leave a trace of freedom and privacy for the other party; He is sensitive and suspicious, bows and snakes, and has even given birth to a heart disease, and any little wind and grass can be imagined, and a completely unrealistic story can be imagined.
But if this is the case, at most the relationship between the husband and wife is not harmonious, she is not ladylike, no matter whether it is good or bad in the future, she can barely survive this day.
But tonight, the woman thoroughly recognized a reality: she can't live with a person who has killed countless people for the rest of her life, absolutely not.
However, now there are only two people left in the house, she and the man, not only does the man not let her go out at will, but even does not let outsiders in, and he even pushes her own parents to come in. She was literally imprisoned by him, how could she escape?
Fortunately, at this time, there was something wrong with a man's business in other provinces, and he had to go there in person. That business was very important to the man, so he had to go out this time.
The woman saw the moment and deliberately feigned illness and begged the man to let her parents take care of her. When the man saw that she was very sick, he had to agree. So, the woman finally waited for her chance to escape, and she knew that this was her only and last chance.
After the man left, the woman told her parents everything that had happened in the house, and the old couple didn't believe it at first, so the woman took them to the bamboo forest.
Sure enough, they found eight corpses in the woods, all of which belonged to the people who had left without saying goodbye. Looking at these bloody corpses, the old couple was stunned, they didn't expect that the humble and polite young man was actually a demon in human skin.
So they decided to flee overnight, without further delay.
However, just as the three of them were packing up their belongings and preparing to leave the house, the man's hired groom returned to the courtyard, and he looked alarmed, telling them that the man had accidentally fallen from the boat while crossing the river and had fallen into a deep stream, and that he had not been found yet.
Hearing the news, the three of them didn't know whether to be surprised or happy, but the woman felt a heart put back in her stomach, and she felt a sense of relief that she hadn't felt for a long time, although this ease was sandwiched in a sense of guilt that came and went quickly, because the man was her husband after all, her former husband.
The three of them stayed in the house for a few more days, waiting for news from the man, but the three of them knew in their hearts that the man would not come back, the river was long and wide, and now it was the waterlogging season, and the water flow was very fast, and those who could swim in the river could not escape, not to mention the man, a person who did not know water at all.
They finally decided to report to the police, because even if the man died, those who were killed by him were still buried in the bamboo forest, crying that they had nowhere to redress their grievances.
But the night before the report, the man returned. He walked into the courtyard drenched, and the moonlight fell above his head, but there was no shadow on the ground.
The woman and her parents never got out of the house.
A few days later, a number of bodies were found in the house, including a small cook, a housekeeper, a woman and her parents, but there was no man alone.
In the second month after the woman was buried in the earth, the man's body was found in the river, his clothes were already soaked, and there was not much meat left.
The unwitting people dug up another burial chamber and buried the man beside the woman, but on the day of the burial, a strange thing happened.
The lid of the man's coffin has not been nailed on, and the snails have been hammered in, and they will be warped in the blink of an eye, and they have been the same dozens of times. In the end, the face of the person who nailed the coffin turned white with fright, he had never seen such a treacherous thing in this industry for decades.
Later, an elderly man came up and said, "Could it be that the husband is too affectionate and does not want to be separated from his wife when he dies, so he is reluctant to seal the coffin?" ”
"Then what should I do, it will be too much effort to open the tomb now, and it may also disturb the lady." Everyone talked about it.
"That'...... Let's make it across the fairy bridge. ”
The old man thought for a long time and said slowly.