Chapter 0138: A Village Elegy
This time into the Taihang Mountain, according to my previous experience, I am afraid that it is indispensable to toss in the mountain, people who have not entered the vast and dark mountains will never know how bad the environment is in the deep mountains and old forests, and the preparation is not thorough, it is really a business that depends on luck if you can go in.
To be alive is luck; It's dead, it's fate!
I don't want to be trapped in Li Cunshi's tomb like the last time, because the supplies are not well prepared, drink the dirty water full of leeches everywhere and eat compressed biscuits, the taste is enough to experience it once, and I don't want to experience it again in this life!
Therefore, after Zhang Bowen and I left the office, we purchased everything that should be purchased in the supermarket, and then sent the sunspot to Uncle Li, and asked Uncle Li to help me raise it for a while, so I parted ways with Zhang Bowen and them, and went home to rest at night.
Since accepting my father's business and starting this life in the two worlds of yin and yang, my schedule is greatly reversed, basically working at night and sleeping during the day, so I can't sleep when I am idle all of a sudden, I lay in bed all night, and the next day I almost set off with Zhang Bowen with two big black circles.
From Taiyuan City to Taihang Mountain, you have to take the road of Luliang, the road is not very easy to walk, there are big trucks pulling coal everywhere, so Zhang Bowen drove very slowly, I simply put down the seat to sleep, and we finally came to the foot of Taihang Mountain in the afternoon.
To tell the truth, although I am from Shanxi, but it is the first time to come to the foot of this towering Taihang Mountain, the first time I saw the past is really spectacular, as far as the eye can see, everywhere there are ravines piled up by loess, and the terrain is dangerous.
Zhang Bowen drove us into this majestic mountain, the road in the mountain is even more difficult to walk, much more difficult than the last time we went to Guanshui Mountain, so we walked very slowly, and finally arrived at Shigu Village in the evening. When I first saw this village, I was also shocked by the poverty and backwardness here, this is a small village in the middle of the cracks in the corner of the mountain, the houses in the village are all caves, there is no electricity, the papier-mΓ’chΓ© windows, just like the ancient village hundreds of years ago, the country dirt road is only a few meters wide at most, and the poverty even gives people a shocking feeling, I really don't know how such a village can make up 7,000 yuan.
Because there was no signal in the mountains, when the village chief called the phone left by my father, he walked forty or fifty miles before using the public phone, so several of our mobile phones came here and became completely waste, and there was no way to contact the people in the village, so we could only drive into the village recklessly.
As soon as I entered the village, my heart was suddenly stimulated by the scene here.
Corpse!!
It's all corpses!!
Forty or fifty corpses were laid out along the road, and these corpses were not even buried, that is, the straw mat was spread on the ground, and then the corpse was placed on the straw mat, and then a white sheet was put on it. In fact, this is completely understandable, I know that it is not that the family of the deceased is indifferent to the deceased at all, but in this year of suffering, prices have skyrocketed, and a coffin has to be sold for thousands of yuan, where can the people in this village afford it? Usually when they die, they go to the mountains to sawn wood to make a thin coffin, but now that so many people have died at once, where are so many coffins coming out at once? I'm afraid that after the accident, everyone in the village who has carpentry skills will be busy and crazy, but there is still no supply!
It's not a cold day yet, and it's impossible for the corpses to be kept for too long, plus the village can't afford to buy refrigeration boards to store the corpses, so these corpses placed outdoors are already stinking, and as soon as we enter the village, we immediately smell a pungent smell of corpses!
Where is this still the world? It's purgatory!
Looking at this scene, even if I am strong, I have a little blurred tears, maybe some people will say that poor people must have something to hate, as long as they are willing to work hard, they are not afraid of no food, who is to blame for no money? In fact, this is completely fucking bullshit, half of the good and bad things people live in this life, half of them are acquired efforts, and half of the environment in which they were born are born, even if he is born in this kind of place, I am afraid that he can only accept his fate!! How did Liu Wen, a college student who finally got out, leave this mountain? It was the whole village that tightened their belts!!
Want to go out to work? Can you get out without a thousand eight hundred fares? If you go out, you will starve to death!!
"Fuck, what the hell is this dirty thing that's messing around!"
Zhang Bowen couldn't stand it anymore, his eyes were red, he gritted his teeth and turned his head to look at me and said, "Xiaotian, can you discuss something?" I don't want a dime for the mission this time, let's return it all to them, it's too miserable, I can't take this money! β
I nodded silently, I really can't take this money, I feel sorry for it!!
After a while, an old man in his sixties, who seemed to be the village chief, came over, knocked on the window glass of our car, and asked us in a dialect: "How many of you are ......?"
I got out of the car and walked over to the old man, "Old man, we're here to help you solve things!" β
"You?"
The old man looked at me suspiciously: "Why isn't it the man who came to us ten years ago?" β
"He's my father."
I sighed softly and said slowly: "It's just that my father passed away more than half a year ago, and I have now taken over his industry, so I came here to help you deal with this matter." β
Speaking of this, I thought about it and took out 20,000 yuan of spare cash from my backpack and handed it to the old village chief, and said softly: "I am also very sad that something like this happened in the village, this is a little money, take it and give it to those who have no relatives to share!" β
As soon as the old village chief heard my words, tears suddenly rolled out of his eyes, and he refused to accept my money: "Little doll, you are here to help us, we are already ashamed that we have nothing to thank you here, how can we still ask for your money?" β
"The village needs money now!!"
I frowned, pointed to the corpses on the street, and sighed lightly: "The corpses can't be put like this, you have to dispose of them quickly, otherwise they will all rot and there will be a plague, and then the village will probably die again, so you can take this money old village chief, do you want to see more people die?" β
It's okay if I don't say this, as soon as I say that the old village chief finally couldn't stand it, he opened his mouth and cried "wow", at this time the remaining 200 people in the village have all come out, and the old village chief shouted "benefactor" again and again and then he was about to kneel, and the 200 or so villagers behind him also knelt down for me......
This meeting made my heart even more sour and uncomfortable, and I forced the money to the old village chief and then went to help those villagers.
These villagers are old and young, how can I Ge Tianzhong? I can't afford them!
I waited until the villagers' emotions calmed down a little, and I finally pulled them up from the ground, I can't care about what is going on at the moment, the top priority is to let the villagers dispose of the corpses, just put it outside and there will definitely be something, in case there is a plague Judging from the current situation in Shigu Village, I am afraid that the villagers can really only wait for death, which is hundreds of lives!
I don't know what the fuck those policemen are for, since they have already been here, it is understandable that they can't take away the corpses, because the carts in the deep mountains and old forests are not passable, and it is difficult to take away fifty or sixty corpses, but these villagers can always be advised to dispose of the corpses! The villagers don't know science and don't know that decomposing corpses can cause a plague, don't they know? This is simply a matter of careless human life!
Maybe what I did before was completely recognized by these villagers, so after listening to my words, these villagers were very cooperative, and all the old and young in a village began to get busy, collected the corpses, and then went to chop wood.
Yes, I'm going to cremate these bodies!
These people are all people who have died horizontally, and there are adults and minors, the resentment accumulates, and the backlog of resentment in the burial is definitely not good, and the corpses in the mountains and forests of Taihang Mountain cannot be thrown into the wild, because there are too many foothills, blocking the spread of resentment, once you encounter the beasts in the mountain to eat the corpses, I am afraid that the corpses will rise, or form a terrible ghost!
Come to think of it, you can only be cremated!
After cremation, the ashes were scattered, they were born in this land, and the ashes were scattered on this land, and they may be able to sleep peacefully after death.
I've seen all these corpses, most of them are men, all of them were stabbed to death by weapons, and I don't know what kind of ghost they used to hurt people. However, there were also several old ladies among the deceased, all of whom were not young, and their feet were all gone after they died, and the wounds should have been cut off alive!!
This discovery made me wonder for a while, and then asked about the old village chief, these old ladies, after listening to the old village chief talk about the situation, I found that these old ladies who had their feet cut off have a common feature - they are all elderly women, born before liberation, women at that time still have the custom of binding feet, that is to say, they are all old ladies with bound feet!!
So, does their severed feet have anything to do with their bound feet?
I also have some doubts in my heart, I was busy in the village until the evening, and waited for the villagers to cremate all the corpses before I was relieved, the burial in the time of burial, but cremation did not, so I cremated the body at night, and then I and Zhang Bowen, Zhou Jingquan lived in the old village chief's house, after eating, I went to bed early, ready to go to Liu Wen's house early tomorrow morning, after all, her family was the first to have an accident, And the only witness who survived the disaster was Liu Wen's grandmother, go to her house to see if she can find any clues.