Chapter 9: The Village of Bones (I)
One of the masterminds of the man was strangled to death by the black corpse on the spot, and his wife was even more frightened and almost crazy, overnight, in that premeditated burning of the carpenter's family of three, the main people died tragically, and the villagers were frightened, to say that the ghost retaliated well, but a half-burned corpse to find them to retaliate, this is really even more terrible, in the daytime, the villagers urgently discussed, and decided to send a gentleman to the outside of the mountain to take care of the affairs, to see what happened to Jiazi Village.
To say that there is really a wandering magician, the so-called warlock, is a person who cultivates by magic, such a cultivator is not a person in the Tao, because they only practice the powerful Taoist art for their own use, but do not pay attention to the practice of the Tao, the real cultivator, not only to practice Taoism, but also to cultivate the mind and self-denial, the body, the righteous mind, everywhere in the way of heaven and walking, and the way of heaven is in the middle of humanity, so the real cultivators pay great attention to the cultivation of virtue, hold the Taoist precepts, cultivate their hearts inside, cultivate their bodies outside, and are in harmony with the way of heaven.
But most of the warlocks do not have so many constraints, more to collect money, only need to pay the price of money, can rely on the elimination of disasters, so gradually, the world to Taoist priests and magicians and the like of the confused, confused with each other, thinking that the street fortune telling, thinking that the rules of magic are all Taoists, so that many sins are blamed on the Taoist priests, the Taoist Xuanfeng serious slander, in fact, is a big mistake, the world is ignorant, but it is difficult to educate, just because there are too many ill-intentioned people, between fame and fortune, there are many people who disturb the orthodox religion, It has affected the understanding and status of the true Taoist priest in the eyes of the world.
As everyone knows, bearing the cause and effect, the retribution is unpleasant, and the cause of the operation must have karmic consequences.
Without further ado, the villagers brought in a warlock, who knew a lot of tricks, and went around the three graves on the barren slope and concluded that the problem was with the carpenter's wife.
The villagers told the warlock about the strange events that had happened in the village recently, and the warlock immediately asserted that the carpenter's wife was not a ghost asking for her life, but ...... It's a resurrection of the corpse! As soon as this statement came out, it was still there, and then the warlock said that the possibility of a person defrauding the corpse after death was extremely small, let alone a half-burned corpse, but the carpenter's wife was too resentful, and the anger was too heavy, even if she turned into a ghost, it was not uncommon, but she deceived the corpse to resurrect the soul, with a breath of resentment, a breath of anger, and a breath of revenge, to pull the villagers underground to be buried.
After listening to the warlock's words, the villagers were frightened, and they all knelt down and begged the warlock for help, but the warlock was not ambiguous, took the silver ticket of the villagers' filial piety, and immediately asked the villagers to dig up the grave of the carpenter's wife at noon and noon the next day, and dispose of the body separately.
On the second day, the villagers dug up the grave of the carpenter's wife at three o'clock in the afternoon according to the warlock's instructions, and strangely, there was no body in it, and the warlock said on the spot that since the carpenter's wife had deceived the corpse and returned the soul, the corpse could naturally enter and leave the grave, otherwise how could it enter the village and harm people, sure enough, the villagers saw a passage in the grave, and the warlock immediately led the villagers to look in the direction of the passage, and fifty or sixty meters away, they found a hole in the ground, and the warlock immediately ordered someone to set a fire from the end of the grave, and this fire, But it is made of peach wood branches, and it is said that it can burn ghosts.
After setting the fire, he asked the villagers to seal the passage of the grave, and the cave on this side was also set on fire, and after burning, the warlock for some reason, in front of all the villagers, said that he was doing evil and that he would be punished by heaven, but since he had taken care of this matter, he had to continue to manage it to the end, and ordered the villagers to build a grave at this end, and let one of the villagers bring the youngest son of Mu Jian's wife, that is, the only flesh and blood who survived, a child of seven or eight years old, although he could understand what the adults said, But he didn't know what to do, plus his parents died, his brother also died, he was the only one in the world, he was not only afraid, but also endlessly afraid.
The warlock asked the carpenter's wife's youngest son to carry a willow stake to the new grave, bowed down to his mother, and asked the villagers to kneel down as well, promising that the villagers would take good care of their only offspring in the future, and prayed to the carpenter's wife to put aside her grudge and stop seeking revenge from the villagers, who had already confessed their mistakes.
Subsequently, the warlock inserted the willow stake next to the grave, and used twenty-one peach stakes to line up around the tomb, connected each other with blood-stained strings, and put a charm on each of the peach stakes to suppress it, and asked the villagers to drive the peach stakes into the ground and bury them with soil, saying that if they did this, even if good words could not be negotiated, the carpenter's wife would not be able to get out, which was also to make an extra layer of barrier for the sake of insurance.
But in fact, the villagers are just to solve the trouble of the carpenter's wife, after the matter is settled, the warlock just left, the villagers no longer care about the child, just imagine who dares to take care of this child, his mother just asked for the lives of a few villagers not long ago, if it is contaminated with this family, I don't know what blood mold will be poured, so the villagers are almost very repulsive to this child, fortunately, the next day, the carpenter's distant relatives came to Jiazi Village, they heard the bad news of the carpenter's family, and rushed over, knew that although this child was not the carpenter's biological flesh and blood, after all, he also recognized the carpenter as his father, so he took the child away and raised it.
The villagers finally breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that this solution would be the most satisfactory result, but they were wrong, and between the first day and the seventh day when the new tomb had just been repaired, more than 400 people in the village committed suicide one after another, and no one said anything for some reason.
In the village outside, no one dares to enter Jiazi Village, thinking that the people of Jiazi Village are a catastrophe, and some people say that the people of Jiazi Village have this ending because they are infected with leprosy, and whoever gets involved is unlucky, coupled with the legend of leprosy, no one dares to come to this Jiazi Village, even the relatives and friends of the villagers of Jiazi Village from other villages only dare to burn paper outside the village to worship, and then hurriedly leave.
Gradually, the villagers who committed suicide, as time passed, the corpses gradually decomposed, detached, until the white bones of the forest remained, and some people in the outer villages called the original Jiazi Village as the white bone village.
Speaking of this, the old man's tears can no longer be stopped, dripping non-stop, it seems that there is no need to go down to this point, and then down, the old man opened a coffin shop here, and today, with the white bone village in front of him, until the end of his life.
"Bone Village?" I looked at the old man in surprise, and although I heard it with my own ears, I still didn't quite believe my ears, but I immediately thought of something again, and asked eagerly: "Old man, you came from out of town to open a coffin, right?" ”
"Since the old man witnessed the catastrophe in Jiazi Village when he was about eight years old, that is to say, the old man was present at the time, then the old man was ......" Master ignored my question, but cut off my question and asked the old man again.
"Well, Sir guessed right, I am the carpenter's youngest son." The old man sighed deeply and told this amazing secret, after listening to the old man's words, I suddenly realized, no wonder he knew so much about this catastrophe, it turned out that he ...... He is the youngest son of the carpenter's wife, after the old man choked, he waved his sleeves and brushed the tears on his face, at this moment, he was an elderly man with a face full of vicissitudes, and smiled miserably: "My father's name is Wang Dafu, my mother's name is Ye Xiaoyu, and my brother, called Wang San'er, although San'er is a colloquial language, but it also has the meaning of my father, changing this name for my brother is to recruit a biological son of his own, that is San'er, my name is Wang Zhaodi, hehe, a family with good wishes, should have lived a happy life, but it was gone in an instant." , no ......"
"Old man......" My heart was also sour, and I was about to comfort the old man, but I immediately scratched my ears, if I heard it correctly, the old man just said the names of several people, namely the names of his father and brother, how can I ...... these two names How can I be so familiar? Ahh The two fathers and sons I met on the mountain road last night, one dead and one alive, the deceased is a living father, isn't it called Wang Dafu? The little one is called Wang San'er? Thinking of this, I hurriedly looked at Master: "Master! This ......"
The master shook his head and didn't say anything, but I was even more curious and surprised, the father and son I met last night couldn't be the old man's father, carpenter and brother, right? But why didn't Master speak? Just shaking his head, what does that mean? My mind suddenly felt like a cat scratch, if the two are not related, how can it be so coincidental? It doesn't make sense, it doesn't make sense!
But Master obviously didn't mean to explain, and I was even more anxious, what kind of medicine was sold in Master's gourd? Smacking my lips, my eyes rolled, and suddenly I thought of something, so I asked the old man, "Old man, among your customers, is there often a father and son who come to the coffin?" Also surnamed Wang? ”
"Father and son came to pull the coffin?" When the old man heard my words, he immediately frowned: "Surname Wang? No, I have customers who do the business of pulling coffins, among the five or six families, there is no one surnamed Wang, but there is a master whose surname is Wang, but the person who hired to pull the coffin has never met a person surnamed Wang, Ergou, what do you want to say? ”
The old man's eyes suddenly looked at me strangely, and when I heard the old man's words, I was speechless for a while, and then the master hurriedly came to my side and intercepted the words: "Ergou wanted to say that when we were on the road last night, we met a family surnamed Wang in the outer village for a funeral, and he wondered if the family came to you to buy a coffin." ”