Chapter 6 The Place of First Residence
The girl's name is Ah Qing, and she disappeared around twelve o'clock last night. The village is so remote that even the nearest village is more than a dozen kilometers away, separated by a continuous mountain range, and even further away from the town.
In such an isolated mountain village, the villagers basically go to bed after 8 o'clock. Aqing's family was no exception, but just when the family was sleeping in a daze, the hunting dogs raised by the family suddenly barked, and the chickens and ducks in the chicken pen also made noisy barks. The movement in the yard woke up the whole family, and Aqing's father thought that a weasel was stealing the chicken, so he asked his daughter to go out to have a look, but he didn't expect this time to go out, and there was no movement.
By the time A-Qing's family realized that something was wrong, there was only a big black dog with a severed head and blood-stained chicken feathers all over the yard, and A-Qing had disappeared.
Wasn't that the time when our car broke down around twelve o'clock last night? I thought to myself, I felt the need to go out and have a look, I always felt that there was something to do with what happened to me last night.
After a morning of sleep, my spirit was also restored, and as soon as I got off the bamboo building, I saw several sturdy young men hurrying in one direction carrying hemp ropes. I hurriedly chased after him and stopped him, and asked him what he was doing and how he was carrying so many ropes.
The young man was very anxious, his head was covered with sweat, he glanced at me, probably finding that I was not from this village, so he was a little impatient, but when he saw Lin Qiao'er beside me, he immediately smiled innocently: "Sister Qiao'er, it's you!" ”
Seeing this posture, I couldn't help but be stunned and asked her, "Do you know each other?" ”
Lin Qiao'er nodded, smiled at the young man, and told me that it was this brother who found out about us last night, and then she asked my question again.
This time, the young man did not hesitate, saying that Ah Qingmei has no news so far, but they found one of her shoes outside the burial forest of the first residence, and the priest said that she was brought into the first residence by the undead, and now the big guy is preparing to go into the forest to save people, and these ropes are used to tie the body to prevent the people who enter the forest from getting lost.
After speaking, the young man was about to leave, Lin Qiao'er hurriedly said that we will also go to help, the young man's face showed embarrassment, but he still couldn't stand Lin Qiao'er's soft grinding and hard bubbles. He agreed, but let's follow him closely and not run around, because it is dangerous to live first!
When the young man agreed, I didn't bother to ask how they met, so I hurried after the young man and soon left the village.
As soon as I came out of the village, I was greeted by the endless greenery, the continuous mountains full of green trees on top of each other, and there was no gap in sight, let alone the road, it was really hard to imagine what kind of place we broke into last night?
The first residence was not far from the village, and after more than half an hour, we had reached the place where the car had been stuck last night. In the morning, with the help of the villagers, our car had been dug out and stopped at the threshing floor two or three kilometers away from Xianju. At this time, three ox carts were parked on the muddy path, full of wicker, hemp rope, and a kind of purple liquid in a wooden barrel, one man was watching the cart here, and the rest of the villagers went to the place at the end of the grass pond where I had been last night. Day is different from night, the view is good, in fact, the grass pond is not big, the reason why I got lost last night is because of the darkness of the night, and on the other hand, because I was squinted by a ghost.
As soon as we arrived, the young man told us to stay here and not move, and after talking to the man in the car, he hurried into the grass pond with a bundle of hemp rope on his shoulder.
Compared to last night, the woods in the sun looked particularly lush and vibrant, but when I thought of hanging corpses, I thought of the dead hanging in the woods, and my back couldn't help but feel cold, and when I looked at the woods again, I suddenly felt a little more gloomy.
With last night's experience, I had a shadow on the woods, so I didn't plan to go over, Lin Qiao'er walked this section of the mountain road, and I was tired enough, and I sat down on the ox cart, not wanting to move anymore.
I thought I could just wait until they found someone, but I didn't expect that less than twenty minutes after the young man had passed, something happened on the other side of the forest, and many people returned to the ox cart with solemn faces to carry the things on the ox cart into the grass pond.
The young man also came back just now, and I stopped him and asked him what had happened, and his face was not good-looking, and he was even a little frightened, saying that a man had just slid down the hill and rolled into the forest without moving, and now the big guy was ready to go down to save people.
The hillside he was talking about was the steep slope at the edge of the grass pond, and down there was a dense forest that I almost planted last night. While we were talking, the young man who was holding the old woman in the morning also rushed back, and when he saw me, he came to me with an unkind face.
After the old woman left in the morning, I learned from Lin Qiao'er that this person's name was Kun Chang, who was the next patriarch heir of Ah and Village, and was very prestigious in the village, and was the leader of the younger generation in the village. But judging by his attitude towards me in the morning, he didn't like me.
Ah Chang came to us, and first said something in their language to the young man I was talking to, and then saw the young man nod his head and move his things, obviously scolded. Immediately afterwards, he turned his gaze to me and scolded me in a very unfriendly tone: "Who asked you to come? ”
I just wanted to say that I was here to help, but before I could say anything, I saw him reluctantly say, "Grandmother told you to come and help, come with me!" ”
Do I think there is such a lover to help? But I can't refuse, Ah Chang has already picked up a large bundle of wicker and turned around and walked out, there is no way, I can only follow him with a bundle of hemp rope.
The daytime grass pond was much easier than at night, and it took less than ten minutes to reach the edge of the hillside, whereas last night I had been running in it for more than an hour.
There were about 30 people crowded on the side of the forest, and the situation down the slope was completely blocked, and when I put down the hemp rope and followed Ah Chang to the front of the people, I knew why so many people did not dare to go into the forest to save people. Today's weather is exceptionally good, the sun is shining, even if it is late autumn, you can still see the heat wave on the grass pond, but just under the hillside at the edge of the grass pond, the dense forest is filled with a thick fog, and you can only see the outermost trees, less than two meters inward, you can't see anything.
Such a scene is really a bit weird, and when you think of this forest full of corpses, let alone going in, even if you look at it a few times, you will feel goosebumps all over your body.
Everyone around me was whispering, and I saw in the crowd the old woman in the morning, standing on the edge of the hillside with several old men of the same age, squinting their eyes into the woods.
As I squeezed in front of the people, the old woman also saw me and beckoned me to pass, and the old men beside her all looked at me with indescribable strange eyes.
"Why did you come here, didn't you stay well?" As soon as I put down the hemp rope, I heard the old woman ask in a suppressed voice.
"Grandma, I'm ......"
I just wanted to speak, but I didn't want to but was interrupted by the old woman: "Forget it, since you're here, let's do me a favor by the way!" ”
With that, she squinted at me, as if there was no room for me to refuse. I said in my heart that this is their family's tradition, never give others a chance to speak, this is too domineering!
I suppressed the unhappiness in my heart and asked what I could help me with, and my heart said that if I hadn't been saved by you last night, I wouldn't have bothered to take care of this bird matter.
Seeing that I didn't refuse, the old woman's stiff face showed a rare smile, and then pointed to the depths of the forest, saying that a baby was dragged in by the mountain ghost just now, because of some relationships, in addition to the corpse movers guarding the forest, the people of Aji Village will never be able to get out if they go in, and the last generation of corpse movers has disappeared two years ago, so now the only people who can enter the forest here are me and Lin Qiao'er from outside.
I looked into the forest with some suspicion, and the fog was tumbling, as if some behemoth was rolling and tossing in the depths of the woods, stirring the fog. Seeing this scene, I was worried in my heart, and subconsciously retreated, saying what kind of joke are you kidding, you let me go down in this kind of place?
I shook my head like a rattle, one thing to another, I am grateful that they saved me, but I can't stop dying because of gratitude.
Seeing that I refused, the old woman's face immediately sank, but she didn't say anything more, looked at Lin Qiao'er who was taking pictures on the side, and asked, "Girl, are you willing to help with this?" ”
I was stunned for a moment, I really didn't expect the old woman to come to this trick, Lin Qiao'er is kind-hearted, she will definitely not stand idly by, she will definitely help, but, can I, a big man, let her go down?
"I'll go!" Without waiting for Lin Qiao'er to agree, I gritted my teeth and said, my good impression of this old woman is gone.
"Say, how?"
The old woman smiled with satisfaction, revealing a mouth of yellow teeth that had been missing most of them: "You go down with the wicker, no matter what you encounter, pick up the wicker and beat it, and tie him to the rope after finding someone, pull the rope three times, and the person above will pull you out." ”
After explaining this, I saw them dip bundles of hemp rope into a bucket with purple liquid, so I asked the old woman what it was, and she said that it was the juice of bauhinia vines, mixed with a dozen roosters over three years old, and I would know what they were doing when I went down.
When I was a child, I had seen my grandmother use a similar plant juice to dispel it, but I never thought it would work, so when I heard her about the origin of the juice, I immediately lost interest in asking again.
Lin Qiao'er looked a little worried, looking at the expression on my face that wanted to speak and stopped, I asked her what was wrong, and just as she was about to speak, the old woman's deep voice came: "Okay, you can go down!" ”
I turned my head to look, and saw that all the ropes had been soaked in that juice and joined into a long one, and the wicker had been hooped in a large circle. They wrapped one end of the rope around my waist, straddled the bundle of wicker diagonally over my shoulder, and pulled the rope down the hillside. When I went down, the old woman gave me a small flag made of white paper, and she didn't say how to use it, but told me to put it up and not to drop it.
At first, I could still see the figure behind me, but as the slope decreased, I went deeper and deeper into the forest, and the fog became thicker and thicker, and when I looked back, I couldn't see anything, not even a sound.
The obstructed view and the silence of the environment made me feel anxious, and the thought of the possibility of corpses hanging from the trees around me made me instinctively begin to fear, and the more I feared, the more I couldn't help but look up at the treetops. Luckily, the fog was very thick, and the trees were all locust trees, so tall that it was completely impossible to see the conditions above.
I breathed a sigh of relief in my heart, and was about to continue walking down, when I suddenly heard a terrible voice not far from the left: "Help, help......"