Chapter 101: The Devil (Part II)
But seeing that the three old ladies were welcomed in, the master and the others hurriedly stood up and bowed, and the master smiled and said, "There may have been some misunderstandings before, if there is any rudeness, I hope the three old ladies will forgive me." Now Pingyang Town is in dire straits, and the three old ladies come to help regardless of their previous suspicions, which is really a great act of benevolence and righteousness, and Yang admires! Hearing Master's words, the three old ladies were angry, and they really eased a lot.
Old lady Wu nodded, reluctantly bowed, and said: "This time is also for the sake of our Pingyang Town, the three big gentlemen don't have to be polite, speaking of which, we also had a lot of offenses before, thanks to the three big gentlemen Haihan, the previous matter will be turned over." Hu Zhishu said a lot of pertinent words back and forth, which made the three old men sound and feel that there was some truth, and they couldn't hinder the survival of the entire village for the sake of a little resentment! ”
Hu Zhishu immediately walked out, arched his hands to both sides and smiled: "Since the words have been spoken, everyone is still in harmony, this is good, let's sit down and seriously discuss the recent demon in Pingyang Town, I hope to discuss a result, so that the three big gentlemen can get rid of the demon and keep my Pingyang Town safe!" After speaking, Hu Zhishu politely made an inviting gesture and invited both sides to sit down and talk.
I don't know what Hu Zhishu said to apologize, but he really made sense of the three old ladies, and the three old ladies at this time were not so domineering. On the contrary, it was more polite, and the people on both sides sat down. Hu Zhishu spoke again, and said cautiously: "The specific situation, I have just explained at the house of the three old ladies that the matter of the bloody ghost has actually been resolved, but when Mr. Yang sent the ghost to the ground, a demon suddenly appeared and took Liu Xueyin's soul away. Now the demon is very powerful, under the investigation of Mr. Yang and Mr. Hu, it was found that the drought in our local area for several months may be caused by the demon, and now the clues of the demon are traced, and I also found Grandma Wei's house who lives behind the village, about Grandma Wei's family affairs, there are not many people in the village who can still know, after all, Grandma Wei is so old, now invite the three old ladies to come, is to explain Grandma Wei's family affairs for a few big gentlemen, and we will discuss again! ”
The general reason for the situation was put out by Hu Zhishu in three or two sentences, but it was also expressed. When the three old ladies on the opposite side heard this, they each stroked their beards, and finally the three old ladies chatted with each other for a while before the old lady Wu spoke: "Well, Mrs. Wei's age is also one of the best in the village, and if she can remember the things at home, there are indeed few people in the village." However, the three of us old men, who are the same age as Mrs. Wei, happen to know a little about what happened in her family back then. ”
When the master heard this, he hurriedly clasped his fists and said, "In this case, the old lady Lao Wu will tell you one or two. ”
Old lady Wu hesitated for a moment, and nodded slightly: "Speaking of which, the old woman Wei is also an unblessed person, she just married into the Wei family when she was young, and the elders of the Wei family are no longer there." The life of the little couple is also not good, the old man Wei was still a long-term worker in my family at that time, I know a little about the affairs of his family, but the old man Wei is not a holiday, in his thirties, he passed away, at that time there was a girl in their family, the girl was only more than ten years old, my father thought that the old man Wei worked sincerely, and when he died, he gave his family three more years of wages. ”
As he spoke, Old Lady Wu turned over the old accounts of the year one by one.
Old man Wei is naturally Grandma Wei's husband, according to Old Lady Wu, within two years of Old Man Wei's death, the family really can't go on, just because of poverty, a word of poverty, can destroy a family. When Old Man Wei's girl was sixteen years old, Grandma Wei asked someone to tell a matchmaker and married off the girl of the Wei family. At that time, it was just in time for the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the national politics were turbulent, from the south to the north, from the west to the east, all wars broke out, and robbers were rampant in various places, and most of them occupied the mountains as kings.
It just so happened that the person married by the girl of the Wei family was actually a robber, and this matter was only known after the death of the girl of the Wei family. The reason for this, some people say that the matchmaker deceived the Wei family, and some people say that the robber is not a good person, and he was very good to the Wei family girl at the beginning, but not long after getting married, he was ferocious, drunk and made trouble all day long, and either beat or scolded the Wei family girl, poor Wei family girl didn't live a good life!
The old lady Wu recalled for a while, and then remembered that the robber married by the girl of the Wei family, named Xing Hu, was rough and illiterate, but there was one that liked to drink and make trouble. made Grandma Wei have a headache at that time, but the water splashed out by the married daughter, although Grandma Wei wanted to persuade Xing Hu to be kind to her daughter, but Xing Hu didn't eat Grandma Wei's set at all, and it could almost be said that the king of heaven was the eldest and his second, and no one listened to him.
Even during the New Year's holidays, it was the Wei family girl who went back to her parents' house alone to visit Grandma Wei, and Xing Hu rarely came to Pingyang Town. It wasn't until he went up the mountain that he became a robber, and he didn't care about this Wei grandmother, but the Wei girl was a good child who would hurt people, but whenever she had a good thing, good food and good clothes, she secretly sent it back to her mother. Until one day, the girl of the Wei family suddenly ran back to Pingyang Town in the middle of the night, and the people in the village at that time also wondered that the man of the girl of the Wei family was so "beautiful", as long as there was food and drink, no one dared to bully, and if she could, she would go on and live, why did she run home in the middle of the night?
Only later did I know that the girl of the Wei family had an accident with Xing Hu, and the girl of the Wei family had been married to Xing Hu for three years at that time, and finally conceived a child. But the child has not yet been born, Xing Hu's brute actually listened to the trick of some charlatan, saying that if he wants to worship the king and claim the title of marquis in the troubled times, he must eat the child in his woman's belly, and the child in her woman's belly is Xiaolong Tuoshi, Xing Hu himself has no royal spirit, as long as he eats the unborn child, he can take advantage of the dragon's qi and win a place in the troubled times.
The so-called little dragon refers to the snake. The snake is in the zodiac, and it is called Xiaolong by the folk, and at that time, Xing Hu had already married three or four other wives, perhaps consciously killed a woman, and died a child, and could give birth to more children and more women in the future. However, as soon as this idea of exterminating humanity came out, Xing Hu still had good people under him, and he informed the Wei family girl in advance, so that the Wei family girl fled for her life overnight.
The girl of the Wei family took pity on her unborn child, and was about to be killed by her biological father, so she fled back to her mother's house in Pingyang Town overnight. Grandma Wei cried for a day and a night while holding her daughter, saying that the Wei family had done something evil in their previous life, and actually let her own girl marry such a brute. But Grandma Wei knew that hiding at home was not a way at that time, because Xing Hu had a lot of people and knew the address of the Wei family, so he could easily find it.
Grandma Wei's first thought was the three major families in Pingyang Town at that time, and hoped that the patriarchs of the three major families could come forward to mediate, so that Xing Hu could turn back to the shore and stop poisoning her own women and her own children. As the saying goes, tiger poison does not eat children, he Xing Hu is also a person who occupies the mountain as the king, how can he not even be as good as a beast? However, the three major families at that time were also afraid of the robber Xing Hu, and they were all afraid that their own family would cause death.
Speaking of this, Mrs. Wu sighed, saying that it was a decision made at that time, and it was still his father's decision, pointing out two ways for Grandma Wei's mother and daughter. One way is that Grandma Wei's mother and daughter left Pingyang Town together, how far they could escape, and never return to Pingyang Town, and the entanglement used on the road was raised by the three major families. The other way is to send the Wei family girl back to Xing Hu, so as not to invite disaster in Pingyang Town, sacrifice the Wei family girl, and protect the safety of a town in Pingyang Town, and finally this road seems to show that the three major families do not want to come forward to compete with Xing Hu.
Faced with a dilemma, Grandma Wei resolutely made up her mind and fled with her daughter, away from Pingyang Town, and when she got outside, she could go as far as she could. Moreover, Grandma Wei rejected the entanglement given by the three major families at that time, perhaps because of the silent resistance of the three families, or because of the helplessness of the indifference of the world at that time, Grandma Wei discussed with her daughter and left Pingyang Town early the next morning.
Unknowingly, before dawn, the girl of the Wei family packed her luggage, left a few lines for Grandma Wei, and left alone. No one knows the content of the words, but they can roughly guess that the Wei family girl is filial and doesn't want the old mother to follow her to the end of the world, as long as she can't find herself, even if Xing Hu is poisonous, it is impossible to poison an old woman, so she left her mother at home and left by herself.
What was even more unexpected was that when Grandma Wei went out of Pingyang Town to look for her daughter the next day, she had a face-to-face with the people brought by Xing Hu, and then she knew that her daughter had been caught by Xing Hu's people. Moreover, already dead.
The cause of death is very clear, when Xing Hu's people caught the Wei family's girl, the Wei family's girl would rather die than see Xing Hu again, so when she was bound, she bit her tongue and committed suicide. What Xing Hu and the others found was only one corpse and two lives, but at that time, the belly of the Wei family girl was already bulging, and the child in the belly still had six full-term months. Grandma Wei looked at her daughter's corpse at that time, she wanted to cry without tears, and even fought hard with Xing Hu, but she was beaten half to death by Xing Hu's men.
Under the urging of the townspeople, the three major families in Pingyang Town had to come forward to ask Grandma Wei back, but Xing Hu was unwilling to return the body of the Wei family girl to Pingyang Town, and claimed that since the Wei family girl married him, she was his Xing Hu's woman, and they could ignore Grandma Wei, but Grandma Wei's daughter, the people of Pingyang Town had no right to interfere. The three major families faced the pressure of Xing Hu and others, and remembered that the girl of the Wei family was dead, so they had to compromise.