Chapter 516: Ashes
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There are three dishes on the table, a stir-fried shredded pork with green peppers, a stir-fried cabbage, and a minced eggplant.
It's all dishes for dinner, Lu Nan feels very delicious when he eats it, and he eats the first bowl of rice before he knows it.
"Come, I'll serve you dinner." When Yan Yingying was eating, she chewed and swallowed slowly, exuding the breath of a woman in a water town in the south of the Yangtze River.
"No, no, I'll just go myself." Lu Nan hurriedly got up and went to serve the meal by himself.
What are you kidding, it's already a shame to eat like you haven't eaten before, if you still let the host's family serve you food, Lu Nan really has no place to put his face.
After eating three bowls of rice in a row, Lu Nan stopped, and after Yan Yingying finished eating, Lu Nan found that it was already dark outside.
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While Lu Nan and Yan Yingying were having dinner at home, the fifty-year-old people in Rouge Town, as well as the Zhang family lady and the Lu family lady, had already carried their dead son-in-law to the outside of the town.
It was outside the archway of Rouge Town where Lu Nan entered the town, and the people in Rouge Town gathered in a circle.
The bodies of the son-in-law of the Zhang family and the son-in-law of the Lu family were placed on top of two bundles of dry firewood.
The old grandmother with a cane gave an order: "Ignite!" โ
The lady of the Lu family and the lady of the Zhang family each stepped forward and lit the dry firewood, and the rubbing flame began to burn on it.
When the wood began to burn, the people gathered in a circle began to circle and began to chant in a low voice as they went around, turning left three times and right three times, and then they all stopped.
Then, the lady of the Zhang family and the lady of the Lu family took out a bamboo flute and began to blow the bamboo flute.
The sound of the flute was slow and tactful, confused with a sad and longing mood.
When all the flames were gone, the sound of the flute slowly stopped, and at this time, the people gathered here did not leave, but continued to wait.
After waiting for the ashes to cool down, two grandmothers of the same grade who were standing next to Yan Yingying's nurse stepped forward with a black wooden box.
The lady of the Zhang family and the lady of the Lu family gathered the ashes on the ground and put them into these two black wooden boxes.
After the gesture was completed, under the leadership of Grandma Yan Yingying, everyone lined up and followed her forward.
The team first passed under the torii of Rouge Town, then walked to the top of a bluestone street, then went around to the second bluestone street, and after walking the third bluestone street, they came to the front of the wooden bridge.
The lady of the Zhang family and the lady of the Lu family stood on the head of the bridge with a black wooden box, and Yan Yingying and her grandmother said: "Go to my house and ask Lu Nan to come over to help." โ
Soon, a young woman in her twenties, who was standing behind the old woman, came out of the queue and walked straight towards the old woman's house.
At this time, it was already more than nine o'clock in the evening, and Lu Nan was chatting with Yan Yingying.
"So, Rouge Town can only recruit sons-in-law?" Lu Nan asked dumbfounded.
"Hmm." Facing Lu Nan's question, Yan Yingying nodded a little shyly, she didn't have the coolness of shouting beside Lu Nan during the day, and the whole person looked completely soft like a woman in the water town in the south of the Yangtze River. Greasy people.
Lu Nan talked a lot with Yan Yingying, and he knew almost everything about Rouge Town.
I don't know when it started, maybe it's been like this since the existence of Rouge Town, Rouge Town can only recruit sons-in-law, and women in Rouge Town can't marry out.
All the women who marry out of Rouge Town will not live for a day.
Every few generations, there are women in Rouge who want to marry and take action, but none of them survive a day.
The people who died, without any injuries or accidents, just died silently.
As a result, most of the people in Rouge Town abide by this rule.
As a result, Rouge Town can only recruit sons-in-law, however, the sons-in-law recruited by Rouge Town usually don't live long.
As long as there are offspring, the son-in-law recruited by Rouge Town will basically not live long, and generally when the child grows up to seven or eight years old, the son-in-law will die quietly.
Over time, the people in the neighborhood also knew about the strange events in Rouge Town, and slowly no one came to Rouge Town to be a son-in-law.
No matter how beautiful the woman in Rouge Town is, it is not as important as her own life.
By Yan Yingying's generation, the population of Rouge Town has decreased sharply, and Yan Yingying said that with the help of Rouge Town's tourism development, Rouge Town can develop again.
Who knew that on the construction site of Rouge Town, there were several bizarre deaths in a row, so this matter was over.
Even the sons-in-law who had negotiated with Rouge Town before couldn't choose to come.
Now, the last two sons-in-law have also died during the day, and Rouge Town can be said to have no men left.
"Didn't you look up why?" Lu Nan asked.
"This kind of problem can't be solved by science." Yan Yingying shook her head and said: "Someone once wanted to find out the truth behind this, and wanted to use science to explain the truth in it, but in the end, it ended in nothing, and no one came to investigate this matter after that." โ
Lu Nan couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth when he heard Yan Yingying say this.
This is too terrifying, it seems that everything that involves Rouge Town basically ends in death.
Is this a curse?
Curse that everything related to Rouge Town will die?
There is a scientifically researched saying that is reasonable to apply to paranormal events, and that is the conservation of mass.
If this is a curse that a person has placed on Rouge, then the person who has placed this curse will have to bear the damage of this curse.
Such a curse involves generations, and the person who makes the curse will definitely be tortured, and will not be able to die well, and will not be able to reincarnate as a human after death.
According to this line of thought, if it weren't for some kind of hatred, there shouldn't be such a curse.
"What does your grandma do when she goes out at night?" Lu Nan was very curious that the old grandmother had been out for so long and hadn't come back.
"Hmm......" Yan Yingying pondered for a while and said, "They are going to cremate their son-in-law, and after the cremation of the dead son-in-law, the ashes will be placed in the attic." โ
Yan Yingying said: "It's the attic on the bridge you went up to during the day." โ
Lu Nan: "......"
As soon as Yan Yingying said this, Lu Nan instantly remembered the shelves arranged in the attic into a gossip array, focusing on the black boxes on the shelves.
Those black boxes won't be all ashes inside!
According to the scale of those shelves, there are seven or eight hundred urns, and those are all the urns of the son-in-law of Rouge Town?
Thinking of this, Lu Nan couldn't help but shudder. Shake.