Chapter 20: The Woman Who Sings at Night
In the evening we came to the lotus village.
Although it is a village, the silence is terrible.
Normally, there are some animals in the village, such as chickens and dogs.
But when I came in, I didn't hear any roosters and dogs barking.
Not even the sound of a frog was heard.
If there is a pond nearby, you can usually hear the sound of frogs.
But no! Not at all!
I couldn't hear a single sound.
Animals are also spiritual, and they should be able to sense that there is something terrible in this village.
Although it was not yet dark, the doors of every house were closed.
The whole village was dead.
The old man said that this was all caused by that thing, and everyone used to come out to chat at eight o'clock in the evening. But now that it's night, everyone doesn't dare to come out, so they go to bed early.
He asked me to sleep in his house tonight, and his house was three small tiled houses, and I could sleep in one of them tonight.
In the evening, after the old man brought me some more food, he went back to his room, and then closed the door of the room as well.
Soon it was late at night.
I'm a little tired after a day's drive today, so I'm going to rest for the night tonight and wait until the next morning to investigate the ins and outs of the matter.
I moved everything into my room and lay down on the bed.
Soon those who are dazed and seem to be asleep will fall asleep.
But at this moment, a woman's voice came from the village.
It's singing in a relatively standard dramatic tone.
See the Jade Rabbit (wow), the Jade Rabbit rises east early.
The ice wheel is far from the island, and the sky is very clear. When the moon is empty, it is just like (copying) Chang'e leaving the Moon Palace.
The slave is like Chang'e leaving the Moon Palace, just like Chang'e's nine-fold clear and cold fall in the Guanghan Palace.
Ah, Guanghan Palace.
The jade bridge leaned on the railing, and the mandarin ducks came to play in the water.
The golden carp is facing the water, ah.
The water is facing, and the sky is (ah) geese.
Geese fly, oops, geese.
The geese flew and fell, and the sound of the slave fell into the shade of the flowers.
This scenery is sultry and intoxicating, and I don't realize that I have come to the Hundred Flowers Pavilion.
I feel very familiar after listening to it, this is a part of the drunken concubine!
I heard it when Master and I went to the Huaibei area before, and my brother and I were drunk at that time.
But in the quiet of the night in this lotus village. A woman's voice is heard singing about the drunkenness of the chaise.
It creeps me out.
This voice went from far to near, as if it was singing all the way from the direction of the lotus pond.
The voice was empty and desolate, and for some reason it made my heart feel uncomfortable for a while.
The sound just flickered by my window.
I climbed up and opened the window to reveal a small gap to see what the figure was.
But when I opened the window, there was nothing.
The drama gradually went away.
"No matter, let's go to bed first, understand that the sky is investigating." Since I can't see it, I'll ask again tomorrow. I don't want to chase it out.
Early the next morning.
Mr. Wang took me to the village committee, which was already full of people.
Everyone looked at me curiously, they knew that this was the master invited by Wang Laohan, so they were also in awe of me.
Wang Laohan took me to it and said. "This person is the master that Wang Banxian said, our village is saved."
There was a lot of talk about the people below, but then some of them stood up and kowtowed to me. "Master, you must save our village, the Red Luo girl came to sing again last night."
"What's going on?" I asked.
I also heard last night's opera, and I was also a little curious.
The man continued. "As long as the Red Luo girl sings, it means that someone will die the next night, Lao Zhang, Lao Qin, and my wife Yumei all died like this."
The man cried as he spoke, and his voice stirred up the emotions around him, and everyone became depressed, and some of them cried as well.
I said comfortingly. "Don't worry, I'm here to deal with this matter, but what's going on with this matter, why did strange things start to happen in the village a month ago."
I need to figure out what happened.
Wang Laohan was obviously the person who spoke in the village, so he suppressed the low sobs of the crowd and began to talk to me about the matter in detail.
It turns out that the history of Lotus Village is very long.
As early as more than 100 years ago, the village has always existed, but at that time there were few people, and then gradually some outsiders felt that this place was very beautiful, so they settled down, and gradually the population of Lotus Village was also replenished, and it became what it is today.
The village has also retained the habit of taking in outsiders.
Just two months ago, another couple came to the village, and they decided to settle here after seeing the scenery of Lotus Village.
Women are very beautiful and often wear a red Luo gauze, which is also the origin of the name of the red Luo girl.
Every day, he would sit by the lotus pond with his men and enjoy the lotus flowers.
However, the man's health was not very good, he coughed a lot, and he seemed to be seriously ill.
He died early last month.
Even after the man died, the woman may also be unable to think about it for a while and threw herself into the lotus pond.
"Hey, it's a pity that this kind of thing happened." The old man sighed and continued.
But just after they died, something strange happened.
First of all, the chickens and ducks in the village always die inexplicably, and the death is very strange, and their necks are twisted alive.
Then, every night, the dogs in the village would gather together and bark in the direction of the lotus pond, so loudly that sometimes they would bark all night, and the villagers could not sleep.
Finally, one day, the dogs stopped gathering.
Just when everyone thought they could get a good night's sleep.
But the sound of a woman singing an opera floated in the direction of the lotus pond towards the village.
This voice is very familiar to everyone, it is the voice of the Red Luo Girl.
And the next night.
Lao Qin, who was farming in the village, died, and he was hanged.
Lao Qin is a humorous person, and he often likes to tell jokes to everyone. How could such a cheerful person not think of hanging himself without making a sound!
And what's even weirder is that the beam that Lao Qin hanged was very high, two or three meters long, but there was no bench or footing underneath!
When a person hangs himself, he usually stands on a footing object and kicks it off. But Lao Qin seemed to be hanging like a hanging beam, and his feet were more than a meter above the ground after his death!
The atmosphere was weird, but everyone felt that the neighborhood was a neighbor, so they forcibly suppressed fear and buried Lao Qin.
But two days after burying Lao Qin, the woman's voice appeared again, and the same drama was sung in the village.
The next night, Lao Zhang also died.
At this time, the village names panicked, so they looked for people everywhere to take a look.
But most of the people who come in are liars.
Instead of solving the problem, several villagers died.
It wasn't until later that a feng shui master named Wang Daxian came.
He sprinkled a few copper coins in the pond, and the red Luo girl never appeared again.
However, he said that the copper money could not last for a few days, and although he could solve it, he didn't want to care about it.
Let Wang Laohan go to Eternal Antiques to find a person named Zou Huan, as long as the money given is enough, that person will solve the matter.
Later, Wang Laohan came to the antique shop to find my master.
After listening to it, I kind of understood what was going on.
However, I have a question in my heart, since the feng shui master named Wang Banxian can solve it, why doesn't he take action? Instead, let Wang Laohan come to my master.
Not only why, but I always felt something odd.