I followed my grandmother away, and when I walked to a place where there was no one, I couldn't help it, so I asked, "Grandma, what is the corpse?" Listening to Mr. Liu's meaning, why am I still in danger of my life? ”

"Go home and say!" She replied heavily.

After that, no matter what I asked, she didn't open her mouth.

When I returned home with the corpse on my back, I was sweating all over, and my already soaked clothes stuck to my body, not to mention how uncomfortable it was.

My grandmother asked me to leave the body at the door and said to me, "Go into the house and change your clothes and drink some hot water, otherwise you will catch a cold." ”

I didn't figure it out, so I didn't care about going to change my clothes.

"No, you don't! I now want to know what the hell is going on, what did I do wrong with this corpse? I almost shouted that.

Grandma looked at me and sighed, "What you made is not a mistake, but a taboo." ”

"Taboo? What's taboo? "I don't understand what she means.

"This sacrificial corpse is the corpse that died as a result of the sacrifice." When Grandma said this, she looked into the distance and continued with memories: "In the past, we held a sacrifice here every year, begging for the blessing of the river god, and in addition to cattle, sheep, pigs and chickens, there must also be a girl who is at least fifteen years old. The girl, dressed in red makeup at the time of the sacrifice, was thrown alive into the river and sacrificed to the river god. ”

Hearing this, I felt a little sad in my heart.

The so-called sacrifice, to put it bluntly, is not a matter of grass and human life.

After a pause for a few seconds, the grandmother spoke again and said, "Usually, the corpses of those sacrificial girls will disappear, which is accepted by the river god and become the mother of the Yellow River." But there are also a very small number of girls' corpses that will always sink to the bottom of the water, not rotting or rotting, which is not accepted by the river god, and is not worthy of being called the Yellow River Niangniang, calling it a sacrificial corpse. ”

I listened quietly, and I already understood what the sacrifice of corpses was, but I still didn't understand what taboos I had committed.

"Is it taboo to fish out the sacrificial corpse?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.

Grandma looked at me, her eyes flashed with embarrassment, and said: "Although the sacrifice corpse is not accepted by the river god, but she is sacrificed with red makeup, that is, she is married to the river god, and she is its woman, where can ordinary people touch it?" ”

"In addition, the sacrificial corpse you fished up is not ordinary, she has been underwater for so many years, and the red hijab on her head has not been lifted, and now you have lifted her, which means that you married her, which will not only make her entangle you, but also anger the river god."

I took a breath, looked at my grandmother's serious face, squeezed out a smile and said, "Grandma, I'm not a child anymore, don't scare me, how can it be so evil?" This sacrificial corpse may be a corpse, but it's not as terrible as you say, I don't believe it! ”

Grandma shook her head and didn't speak, but the sadness on her face was even worse.

The way she looks makes me feel even more uncertain.

After a while, I glanced at the corpse on the ground, thinking of what my grandmother had just said, and my heart panicked, and the cold air under my feet began to be a little scared.

"Grandma, don't scare me." As I spoke, my voice began to tremble, "I haven't heard you say these things before, how do you know so clearly, it can't be someone talking nonsense, right?" ”

When I was a child, my grandmother told me a lot of stories, but she never told me about it.

Grandma sighed again: "Alas, I can know so clearly because my family suffered this disaster back then." ”

"Woe has happened to your family?"

I glared at my grandmother, full of doubt.

Grandma said: "Your grandfather died early, you haven't seen him, but you should have heard someone say that I have been pressing him all my life, and he didn't dare to raise his head in front of me, in fact, not because he was afraid of me, but because his Chen family owed our family a life." ”

Grandma bullied grandpa all her life, but I often heard people say this. Who in the whole town doesn't know that the old wife of the Chen family is spicy and powerful, and she often beats and scolds the men of her family since she got married.

It's just that I didn't expect that grandpa's "weakness" was actually for a reason.

"That was our last sacrifice here, and I had just been born, and the person who sacrificed to the river god at that time chose the daughter of the old Chen family, that is, your grandfather's sister-in-law. But she secretly escaped the night before the sacrifice, and the Chen family bullied our family by relying on the large number of people, and forcibly pulled my aunt to replace her. Later, his family may also feel guilty, and took the initiative to take me home after my father and mother died of illness, raised me to grow up, and made me your grandfather's child daughter-in-law. ”

I've never heard anything about my grandfather, and this is the first time.

I didn't expect the two of them to come together like this, it's really a bad fate.

At this time, my grandmother took my hand and admonished: "Ping'an, what grandma said is true, I specifically asked someone about this when I was young, and I know some of the inside information, so you fished out the sacrificial corpse this time, and it is indeed a little troublesome." ”

"That's... So what to do? "I also have no idea, and the science I insist on in my heart has long been thrown out of the clouds.

Grandma said, "I'll take you to Sun Blind first." ”

Sun Blind is a god in our village, who can pinch and calculate, and can also ask God to exorcise ghosts, and talk all day long. However, there are also rumors that he was unable to eat in the early years, so he self-harmed and became half-blind, and supported himself by abduction.

However, if there is anything in the village, they will still go to him.

When we came to the door of the blind man's house, my grandmother didn't call the door, but pushed it open and went in.

"Sun is blind! Sun is blind! ”

Everyone in the same village, looking down and not looking up, listen to the voice and know who it is.

As soon as I entered the door, I heard Sun Blind scolding: "You old woman, it's so rude, you don't know what to knock on the door when you enter my house, if my family loses money, I must go to you to ask for it." ”

Grandma is here for my business, and she doesn't have time to talk nonsense with him.

"Blind man, I came to you for business. Ping'an just fished up a sacrificial corpse from the Wenshui River and lifted her hijab, now what do you say? ”

The expression on the blind man's face suddenly froze.

It took a while to come back to his senses, and then he shouted, "What's that?" Safely went into the water to fish out the corpse? And caught up the corpse? Even if it's Lao Liu, it's not easy to touch it. Does Ping An really have such a great ability? ”

After speaking, he squinted at me.

also joked to me: "Ping'an, your baby has potential, go to learn from Lao Liutou, you will definitely be better than him in the future." ”

Old Liu Tou naturally refers to Mr. Liu, but Sun Blind has no taboos and does not respect anyone, so he calls him Old Liu Tou.

I laughed awkwardly and didn't speak, but my grandmother scolded: "I won't let my grandson go to the water, you quickly think about it for me, is there any other way." ”

Sun Blind didn't joke anymore, and Zhengse said: "There must be a way, this kind of thing hasn't happened by the Wenshui River, just find a coffin and bury it." ”

Grandma shook her head: "The surname Liu said, this sacrificial corpse is not ordinary, and it can't be buried." ”

"That..."Sun Blind stretched his voice and glanced at me with slanted eyes, "That's really not good, just let Ping'an marry, this thing can also ward off evil spirits, the only drawback is that there is no way to stay after Ping'an, and this thing can't have babies." ”

"Fart!"

Grandma lifted the cane in her hand and smashed it straight into the blind man's head.

I hurriedly grabbed it, and the blind man Sun hurriedly dodged it, otherwise I could really open the scoop for him this time.

"Blind Sun, let me tell you, my grandson doesn't marry that thing, don't joke with me today, if you can help me, I thank you for a lifetime, old woman, if you can't help, just say it, I'll think of another way."

Sun Blind was almost hit by his grandmother, but he didn't get angry, but got up from the ground and said in a deep voice: "Hehe, I owed you family affection back then, planted cause and effect, and since you said so today, I'll show you the way, as for whether it can be done, I'm not sure." ”

Hearing this, Grandma put down her crutches.

"Say!"

Sun Blind said: "Didn't your son also carry back a corpse back then, so you took him with you..."

"Say no more!"

Grandma interrupted him, winked at the blind grandson, and said, "Let's go out and talk." ”

Sun Blind glanced at me, nodded, pushed open the door and walked out.

My grandmother said to me, "Ping, you are waiting for me here." ”

After speaking, he didn't give me a chance to speak, and just pushed the door and went out.

This is obviously deliberately avoiding me, and just now Sun Blind said about my father, and my father also carried back the corpse back then? This brings me to the rumors that my family eats human flesh.

But I don't know what the connection is.

The two of them went out, and they didn't know what to say in the courtyard, and I couldn't hear it, so they could only sit down and wait in Sun's blind house.

After about half an hour, there was a knock on the door outside.

I hit a spirit, looked outside, and asked, "Who?" ”

"I... I—" There was a trembling voice outside.

"Sun Xiaoguo?!"

Listening to the voice, it is the little fat son Xiaoguo, he is as old as me, and today he informed me that my mother fell into the water.

I went over and opened the door, and saw Sun Xiaoguo's face pale, cold sweat on his forehead, standing at the door and trembling, and I didn't know what was wrong.

"Xiaoguo, you came to find Sun Blind..."

As I spoke, I glanced around the courtyard and found that my grandmother and grandson were gone, and I didn't know where they had gone.

"No, no, I'm not looking for Sun Blind, I'm looking for you..." Before he finished speaking, he shook his head violently, pointed to the door and said, "No, no, no, it's not that I'm looking for you, it's... The corpse you fished out was looking for you..."