My grandmother told me the story in a dialect, and I didn't understand the Chongqing dialect very well, so I figured out the ins and outs of the story anyway.

In the early years of the Republic of China, the social turmoil was serious, a family fled to this village, when they came, there were only two young people, a man and a woman, and the two people fled here and lived here, the man was very diligent, and opened up the wasteland on the back mountain to grow crops. The woman is also virtuous and lovely, although the times are turbulent, but she has a good life.

Two years after settling down, the two had a child, and the little boy was very good-looking and healthy. Every night after the family eats, the little boy's father will tell his son a story to put him to sleep.

It's just that a lot of times, it's always the devil's wish. One afternoon, the boy's father did not come home as usual, and the mother and son went out to look for it but did not find it, and that night, the boy kept clamoring to listen to the story, but the girl could not tell the story, and the boy's crying spread through half the village.

After dawn, at the woman's begging, the people of the village reluctantly went out to help find the missing man, and finally found the man's body in a mountain stream.

The woman could not believe that her husband was dead, and at night the woman had a dream, in which her man was pushed into the mountain stream when he came home, and this man was the son of the head of the village, and a few days ago he came to their house and demanded that the family give them half of the land that had been cleared, saying that the whole village belonged to theirs, and that the two strangers should hand over the land and grain from now on, otherwise they would be driven away.

In the face of such an unreasonable request, the family must have refused, and this happened later, the man died! But what can you do if you know, first, there is no evidence, and then even if there is evidence, in those days, the head of the village was the largest in a village, how could their family of outsiders fight here without support?

Before the heartbroken woman could bury her husband in the ground, the murderer swaggered into the door of his house with several strong men, saying that the man of their family had died, and that their land and house would be owned by the village in the future, and that the woman would leave the village with his son.

The woman collapsed, as soon as her husband died, the murderer came to her house to seize her property, how could a woman be the opponent of several men who were five big and three thick, and finally could only watch the things and food in her home being moved, the woman cried and begged the villagers to watch the excitement around, but all she gained was cold eyes, and all the people stood by.

The woman cried and screamed, saying that her man was killed by this man, and still no one stood up to say a word of justice to her.

Gradually, the woman stopped making trouble, just sat on the ground in embarrassment and held the child in her arms, the little boy kept crying, and the mother and son sat helplessly in the yard, watching others carry their own things, and the woman's heart completely collapsed.

That night, the woman committed suicide in the house with her child left, the mother and son ended their lives with two hemp ropes, and the next day the people who came to demolish the house found the mother and son dead at home, the woman opened her two eyes, staring at the door, and the whole house was cold!

The people carried the bodies of the mother and son out of the house to find a place to bury them, and as soon as the bodies were carried out of the door, all the birds in the trees flew away, as if something terrible was approaching, and a dark cloud from nowhere also obscured the sun, and the rain poured down. Maybe God is also pitiing this mother and son.

The people hurriedly buried the bodies and returned to their homes. The days went on as usual, and on the night of the first seven days of the woman, people began to die in the village, and the first to die were the people who went to their own homes to carry things, and the five men died in their own homes in five days, and when they died, their eyes were wide open, as if they had seen some monster.

The people in the village panicked, everyone said that the woman had come back for revenge, and many people who chose to stand by at that time took things to the place where the woman was buried to pay respects, wanting her to let her go. However, when they found the place, they were surprised to find that the bodies of the mother and son were gone, and only an empty dirt pit remained.

This time the people in the village were completely frightened, every night the doors of every house were closed, and there were no more dead people in the village after the five men died, but many people found that the door of their house often heard someone knocking on the door at night, and a little boy's voice asked outside the door: "Do you know how to tell a story?" This kind of days went on for a while, and finally one morning, the villagers found that all seven members of the family had died violently in the headman's home. The way of death was very terrifying, everyone had no heart, a big hole in the chest, and everyone's heart was gone.

When the villagers saw that the culprit was dead, they thought the matter was over, but they didn't expect that the villagers' nightmare had just begun! Every night, a little boy will appear in someone's house and pester you to tell him a story, and if you can't tell it, or if he has listened to the story you told, then the next day the person will be found dead in his own home.

These villagers have more or less indifferently watched the mother and son being bullied to death, and everyone once thought about leaving this village to live elsewhere, but many people are difficult to leave their homeland, plus no one wants to leave the place where they live in that era, Xiangma! Hunger! A scuffle between military courts! If you're not careful, it's easy to die outside.

In desperation, many people began to collect stories and even make up stories, as long as they could bluff the little boy over, no one would die, but how many stories did the villagers in the mountain village have, and these stories will be told one day. What kind of novel story can a farmer who has never been out and has no imagination make up a novel story?!

The death continued, until one day a passing Mr. Yin and Yang saw the situation in the village, and after knowing the ins and outs, he sat alone in the open space at the entrance of the village at night and told a story and succeeded in attracting the little boy, and after the gentleman subdued the little boy, he found his mother in the house where they died.

It turns out that his mother has become a corpse, something between a zombie and a ghost, both as powerful and invulnerable as a zombie, but also preserving the heart of a ghost. The conditions for the formation of this kind of corpse are very harsh, and when you die, you must be a person with a monstrous grievance, and after death, you happen to be buried in a special corpse breeding ground, so that this very rare corpse will be formed.

In the end, this gentleman fought a big battle with the other party, and he couldn't completely destroy the mother and son with all his might, so he could only use Taoism to seal the mother and son in the home at the time of death. The gentleman was also seriously injured and was found dying the next day. The gentleman told the villagers not to approach the house and died.

No one in the village ever approached the house, but the story was passed on.