Chapter 47: The Massacre
Black tuyere, located in the northeast of our town in the depths of the mountain, is a natural big sandwich formed between two mountains, both sides rise from the ground up on the peak such as towering clouds, from the bottom to the top of the stretch of the mountain is full of pine and cypress, green wood grass, eagle fly or welcome guests, the wide ridge is rich in a large number of primitive iron ore and copper ore, the mineral deposits are very rich, from a distance to see the mountains and rocks and plants are all a color black connected into a piece, quite spectacular, the mountain, the mouth, the green wood black soil, as the name suggests, the black tuyere.
When Master and I arrived at Heifengkou, it was already more than four o'clock in the afternoon, and when we entered Heifengkou, behind the mountain is a natural village called Heifengkou, saying that it is a paradise, but in fact it is a place that is easily forgotten by people, this village is no different from other mountain villages, they are all built on the mountain, there are only dozens of families in the village, or even less, if it were not for the earth-shattering event such as the massacre in their village last summer, few people remember that there is such a place in our town.
It is still relatively rare for this kind of tragedy to occur in the countryside, but once it happens, it can be said that the villagers of ten miles and eight villages are shocked by each other...... In the end, rumors spread everywhere, saying everything, which will inevitably cause unnecessary panic, and the most feared thing is that people will be confused...... In our rural area, the best medium is the mouth of the girl, as long as an ugly thing is two girls, and then by their stinky mouth processing and rendering, I'm afraid, the whole world has to know, then again, in fact, this kind of thing has nothing to do with us, but things have passed more than a year, and now at this time to find me and Master, it is enough to explain the problem, it must be haunted.
Once this happens, Master will definitely not sit idly by, not to mention, someone came to invite, and Master and I drove to Heifengkou without hesitation, and it was the village secretary and some other people who received me and Master.
When Master and I were led to the village committee, the compound of the village committee was already crowded with a crowd of black oppressors, and the old secretary of Hei Fengkou warmly greeted me and invited Master and me to his humble office.
I took a look at the village secretary of Heifengkou, who was over five years old, with a Chinese face, a ruined hair, a few traces, a full amount of sweat, smooth eyebrows, and it seemed that he was loyal and honest.
Before I could finish examining this person, Master had already spoken, and it was not appropriate to make a noise about this matter, and to drive away all the boring idlers, etc., we are not here to act.
Master's few words made the village secretary lose face and feel ashamed, yes, Master and I are not liars who go around swaggering and deceiving under the banner of a high-ranking monk, what are you doing with such a big scene, our profession itself is easy to be talked about, you see, the old and young masters, the big girls and the old ladies of the whole village in Heifengkou can't wait to get all together, obviously afraid that the world will not be chaotic!
After the idle crowd was driven away, the village secretary seemed to be full of grievances, he sat on the broken wooden chair next to him and sighed, his eyes were full of tears, I knew that the master did not mean to embarrass him, if he didn't do this, the villagers would not only not leave, but also surround the village committee.
"I can't help it, the villagers said that if I don't give them an explanation today, they will pick up my ancestral grave."
"And this kind of absurdity?" Master said lightly.
"It's all haunted, people's hearts are panicked, and I can't stabilize people's hearts, so I can't complain about them."
"Let's talk about it" The master glanced at the village secretary and couldn't bear it, and besides, he didn't understand the rules of the industry after all, so he was wrong.
"Last year, there was a tragedy in our village, I think all the people in our town know that it is Zhu Benyu's family of five in the south of our village, including himself, his wife, his wife, his mother, none of his sons and daughters were all killed, they were hacked to death with knives, and they died very miserably, the heads and arms were all separated, and they were placed together, the heads were arranged in a row, the limbs were arranged in a row, and they were arranged neatly, very unconscionable (the meaning of losing conscience), the key is that the two children are too innocent The two of them are still young, The eldest is no more than 10 years old, and the youngest is less than 3 years old."
"The murderer has not been found so far, at the beginning, there were rumors in the village that Zhu Benyu's wife was watery Yang Hua, did not abide by women's morals, and her life style was very indiscriminate, and she often messed with other men outside, and it was said that she cheated people out of a lot of money, and finally did not give people a good look, so they ended up empty, so they killed themselves, of course, this is impossible to judge"
"There is also a saying that it is to kill people for money, Zhu Benyu has made a lot of money by defecting to relatives in the south over the years, before the accident, he was planning to go to the city to buy a house to live a good life, and never return to this poor black outlet, this is not that he has not bought it, but he ...... In the end, the person died, and the whereabouts of the money are unknown, the key is whether Zhu Benyu has the money to buy a house, no one knows"
"The most widely circulated is that Zhu Benyu's wife offended a wild man and provoked the other party to kill him"
"Just after the accident at Zhu Benyu's house, within three days, an unknown male corpse was found in the mountain on the right side of the black wind outlet, and a long knife stained with blood stains and the blade had been found not far from the corpse, the police speculated that he may be the murderer of the tragedy, after committing the crime, he committed suicide in the mountains in fear of crime, and the case was over"
"Who knows, when they were killed for a year this summer, something happened in the village, because there was not enough manpower when the police came to deal with the crime, so they asked a few brave people in the village to help, and put those broken bones or something to help them be taken away, so that the police or forensic doctors or funeral homes or something could take them away, I was ashamed to say that I was too timid to go in, but among the three people who went in to help, on the day of the one-year sacrifice when they were killed, one fell in his own yard out of thin air and lost his breath, when the ambulance came, Death was confirmed on the spot, and the doctor who came with the car couldn't figure out what the reason was, and the second went to work in the field, because it was hot and came back to swim in the river at noon, and plunged into the water and never came up, and only floated on the surface after four or five days, and was salvaged by the villagers but was already unrecognizable and couldn't find his face at all, and the other was to go to the town and I don't know what to do, and was hit alive by a coal truck on the national highway in the town, and the flesh was blurred, and there was no human form at all, If it weren't for the fact that her mother felt that something was in her heart, she went out of the village and found the town to recognize the clothes he was wearing, I'm afraid ...... On that day, all three of them had an accident without explanation, and I did all their funerals."
Speaking of this, I was already terrified, shuddering, scalp tingling, this is not the end, at this time a mother and son were brought into the room by the village committee, without waiting for me to look carefully, the village secretary has spoken.
"Dog, me, tell the master about the haunting, tell me about it."
I saw the woman standing there trembling for a while, not knowing what to say, she kept touching the forehead of a teenage boy in her arms, and it could be seen that she couldn't help but be nervous when she saw the master.
"Sister-in-law, tell me, what has happened to you, don't be afraid, justice is at ease in the hearts of the people," the master said to her with a smile on his face, and glanced at everyone present.
"Where do you start?" said the woman's voice, which was not loud but crisp, but her speech was choppy due to nervousness.
"My family is closest to Zhu Benyu's house, although it is not a neighbor of the wall, but it is separated by a road, my family lives in the west of the road, her family lives in the east of the road, and I usually come and go more frequently, and the children often play together."
"People in the village say that she was killed because she upset her good friend, do you believe it?" Master asked.
"I don't believe it," the woman denied.
"Benyu's daughter-in-law is not that kind of person, she is too enthusiastic, she can't help but say a few more words when she sees someone, and it's the same when she meets a man, it's inevitable that people will gossip after a long time, the people in the village don't know her, although she looks a little beautiful, but she is not a romantic woman"
"What anomalies have you noticed lately? Or something weird."
"Strange things, quite a lot, that is, in the second half of the night recently, I always heard heart-rending screams and begging for mercy from her house, the sound of help, the crying of children, and the sound of falling things, and then the cries of adults, children and old people, getting louder and louder, and then the sound suddenly disappeared, and it didn't take long for the cry to appear like thunder, just like they stood beside you crying, it felt like the sound was in the ears, not to mention how scary it was" The woman still has palpitations in the future, The face has completely changed color.
"Also, my child came home very late in those days, summer, it's normal to be late, but ask him where he went, he said to go to Zhu Benyu's house to play with his child, at first I didn't believe it, I thought the child was talking nonsense, that day I saw that he was very late and didn't come back, so I went to the street and shouted, I didn't expect the child to run out of his house all of a sudden, it really scared me to death, from then on I took the child to his grandmother's house today I heard that the master came before I dared to bring it back"
"It's very strange that since the accident in his house, the courtyard door has been locked, I asked the child how he got in, and he said that the two children who were killed opened it for him, but the next day during the day I stood on the street and peeked, but the courtyard door was locked."
"I thought it was last night, the child ran out of somewhere else, I asked him, he didn't understand to answer that"
"Coincidentally, that day, I have a big nephew who is in charge of the family to get married, let me be an aunt to sew and sew the quilt to lay the kang, I don't know what time it is when I go home, anyway, it's very late, I looked up and saw that there was no light in the village, I hurried home When I got home, I saw two small black shadows shaking at the door of my house, I thought it was my two children waiting for me to sleep yet, who knew that it was not my child at all, only a vague shadow stood in front of me, They lowered their heads and couldn't see their faces, but asked me softly, "Auntie, why hasn't my mother come back yet" They didn't finish speaking, I didn't know where a black shadow flew out of there and took the two children away, I was so frightened that I sat on the ground, and I woke up before crawling home, and since then, I can hear the screams and cries of her house every day...... especially in the past few days, as long as I walk down the street, I feel like there are several pairs of hostile eyes staring behind me, and I am so scared that I don't dare to look back......"
"Another time my man got up at night, and saw the light in his house, and told me to go out and look at it, and then it went out, and after a while it was lit up again, and it flickered and dimmed, as if he knew that we were watching them......"
"Master, you heard it all," the village secretary couldn't help crying.
"There are still people among the villagers who have heard it, but they haven't all called it today, and there is another drunk man who drank too much and walked down the street, and somehow ran to his house, and the next day he sobered up and climbed out of the wall, and then he himself couldn't remember what was going on, and he has been in bad spirits so far, so you go and call the drunk man and let him tell the master."
"No more"
"They have grievances," said the master with a sigh and touching his thick beard, his face flushed with regret.
"Master, you must help us, this small village is a natural village, there are few families, and now there are even fewer, since there is a haunted thing in the village, several have moved away, those who have the ability to move to the town to live, some have moved to the village in front of the mountain and behind the mountain, our village itself has many older young people, there are still a lot of old singles, it is not easy to find a daughter-in-law, and it is poor, since this happened, it is even worse, many girls from other villages have come to withdraw from their relatives, and they dare not marry into the black wind outlet, The parents of these young people who have been divorced are now blocking my family from asking for a daughter-in-law all day long, and they also threaten me that their son can't find a daughter-in-law, so he will marry my daughter, and I can't tell if I want to marry a daughter."
"Master, what I'm worried about now is not this, but, if this thing can't be eliminated, it doesn't matter if I personally suffer some grievances, the key is that in the next few years, the village will move away a little, and the young people can't find a daughter-in-law to beat the singles, I don't think it will take ten or twenty years, the old and the young will run, our village will be empty, and the village where our ancestors have lived for generations will die......" The old secretary had already burst into tears before he finished speaking, and his snot was wiped a lot, and everyone present was moved, After all, this is a place where they have lived for hundreds of years, how can they not share honor and disgrace in such a thing.
This time, the master did not reply, because there are too many such things in the countryside, and it is normal for the poor to be stupid and not be able to please their mother-in-law.