Chapter 508: Shift Guards
After several people went down to the old man's grave, after digging out the soil from it, they did not find the old man's bones, looking at the empty coffin, several men were also angry in their hearts.
After all, such a thing is completely unforgivable, and it is said that it is safe to go into the ground, but it has not been a year since the old man was buried, and the grave was dug open, and the old man's bones were still missing, which was the first time in the village that such a situation had happened.
Why are these people angry?
Is it because of the old man's business?
Yes, no, it's more of a worry, although the old man is a person in the village, but many people don't have too many interests involved with the old man, when the old man is alive, he may be able to say hello when he meets, but the old man died, and the original not very strong affection was broken.
However, you must know that it is not only the old people who are buried here, after the death of many old people in the village, everyone will bury their graves in this back mountain, which is a kind of convention in the village, and this is also the location of the cemetery drawn in the village.
But the situation in front of him clearly shows that there is one or several crazy guys who have dug up the old man's tomb, what does he want to do?
Why take the bones of the old man?
Now that he has dug up the grave of the old man, will he one day dig up the graves of other people who have been buried for many years?
Or maybe all this person wants is the corpse of someone who has been dead for less than a year, in that case, will these old people in the village continue to be buried here after they die, and if they are not buried here, will this happen to them in other places?
Returning to the roots, it is not only about returning to the homeland, but also about being buried next to the family after death, and these old people value the inheritance.
After death, he reunited with his deceased relatives, walked through Huangquan Road, went to the underworld, and returned to his parents' knees to fulfill his filial piety.
Although this is a superstitious idea from a scientific point of view, people must always have a thought, otherwise life is too tiring and death is too terrible.
Looking at the empty coffin, the village chief was also angry for a while, and he didn't know what to say, and he muttered for a long time before he finally suppressed that anger, after all, the most important thing now is not anything else, but to bury the old man's son first.
"Okay, you two, cover those coffin boards first, then bury them a little, go back and talk to the people in the village, let's look for it together, if someone does it, teach him a good lesson, no matter what, you have to find the bones, you will be lonely for the rest of your life, you can't die and you don't have a safe life."
"Besides, bury this coffin, turn around and leave two people, find a place to hide and guard, I want to see what kind of person came to our village to do such unconscionable things."
"Who stays with you to discuss it yourself, go back and arrange a few people to watch in shifts, since this beast has done the first time, then there must be a second time, if you find out who it is, don't make a noise, quietly follow it, and then go back to the village to report the news, we are in a hurry to catch this unconscionable thing."
The village chief's tone was full of anger, and he waved his cane in his hand, if he didn't have anything else at hand, and at this time in front of the grave of the old man and his son, he would definitely be furious.
After a few efforts, the two graves were hastily refilled, and then the village chief left two people behind, and took the others down the mountain and back to the village.
Leaving those two people there was the fear that the person who had stolen the body was behind everyone at this time, and would take advantage of the time when everyone was away to dig up the body of the old man's son from the grave, and then they would be looking for a needle in a haystack if they wanted to find the person.
Of course, the village chief didn't know how many people had done this kind of unconscionable thing at this time, and the temperature would drop a lot at night on the mountain, so he returned to the village, mainly to tell everyone about it, and then arranged for people to go to the mountain to build a shed for the people left behind, and then he could barely live in it.
Back in the village, the village chief told everyone what he saw, without adding oil and vinegar, the prestige of the village chief was already strong, and there were several people who went with him to testify, and suddenly the people in the village exploded, after all, such a lack of virtue is unbearable no matter who hears it.
And when his ancestral grave is threatened, the men in each household do not shirk it, and everyone works shifts, such a thing is nothing.
The only thing I'm worried about is sleeping next to the graveyard at night, which always makes people feel a little panicked.
After some discussion, everyone finally decided that during the day, two people would be left there to guard, and at night, let the four men go with them, after all, the men's yang energy is strong, and the four men gathered together, all of them were from peasant families, strong and healthy, holding some farm tools, but they were not afraid of anything.
The matter was thus decided, and at night, a simple straw hut had been built near the cemetery, and although the environment was a little simple, no one was prepared to live in it permanently, just to catch the man who had done something immoral.
As soon as the incident happened, everyone was driven by anger, but there was not much fear in their hearts, and in the middle of the night, four men stayed there, gathered around the fire, chatting at the same time, and did not forget to observe the surrounding movements.
A few days went on, and there was no movement in the cemetery, and the grave of the old man's son was laid there, and no one was seen digging it.
At first, everyone was still a little worried, thinking that this was some strange change in the old man's body, but nothing unusual happened for several days, and the men in the village had also taken turns to be on duty, and they were not so afraid of the cemetery.
At first, I was really carried by anger, but in the second half of the night, I didn't sleep, and most of them were a little scared.
After all, there are a lot of strange legends in the countryside, but in the past seven days, nothing has happened, everyone is not afraid or not, and from the bottom of their hearts, they also believe that this matter was done by people, but they also began to worry in their hearts, if this person has not been caught, then do they say that they will stay here all the time?
It's one thing not to be afraid now, the main thing is to stay here for a day, delay the farm work, and then the grain harvest will not be much, which will affect the life of the year.
Everyone went to look for the old man's body together, but after searching all over the mountain, they didn't find anything, the old man's body seemed to have disappeared out of thin air, for such a situation, everyone can't say that they searched farther away, after all, the range is getting bigger and bigger, and it is very difficult to find a corpse in such a big place.
And maybe there will be some beasts encountered, and there may be other dangers when the time comes.
But things were not so simple, and when it came to the early morning of the eighth day, the two men in the village, as before, brought food and prepared to go up the mountain to change shifts, and along the way they scolded the number of people who had lost their conscience and now did not know where to hide.
But when they reached the place next to the straw hut in the cemetery, they saw no one standing guard, for they knew that even if they were sleeping, they would have to leave two people to keep vigil, and everyone would sleep in shifts, and if the grave digger came while they were sleeping, they would not see it at all, and if the grave was dug up again, the faces of the people would be lost.
"These deflated calves, this is lazy, go back and tell the village chief that they have good fruit to eat."
A man scolded, and then stepped forward, trying to wake up a few people in the straw shed, but when he walked to the side of the straw shed, he happened to be able to see the grave of the old man's son, and his footsteps immediately fixed there, and the other man did not react, and suddenly hit him.
The man just wanted to open his mouth to scold, but when he looked at the eyes of the man in front of him, his face changed, and he immediately ran towards the grass shed next to him, but as soon as he ran into the grass shed, there was a "Mom!" A scream.
Then the man ran out with a roll, and despite the doubts of the man before, he dragged him down the mountain.