"Ling'er, don't think too much, you have to face it!" Shangguan Yunyun gently patted Qin Lingxuan's shoulder and said in a harmonious voice.

"Anthracene, grandma, don't worry, Ling'er won't let you down!" Qin Lingxuan nodded obediently, thoughtful.

The red candles were still burning fiercely, and the light of the candles illuminated the entire lobby, even the dead corners were illuminated.

Shangguan Yunyun adjusted her emotions, pursed her thin lips that were a little shriveled, and told them her story meaningfully under the candlelight.

When she was born less than a year old, she encountered a ghost "revenge", the ghost has a fierce face, extremely angry, it has no fundamental purpose, just simply want to vent its unhappiness, it set a fire, burned her home, raging fire to the sky, although the nearby villagers actively engaged in the firefighting, but her family was still not spared, all buried in the sea of fire.

The reason why she survived was thanks to Lao Li next door, who saved her from the fire at the cost of his life, so even if she went up the mountain to learn the Tao, she has always been grateful to Lao Li's family.

In the village, his family usually suffers from the cynicism and sarcasm of some bitter villagers, because there will be a common phenomenon in the countryside, no son is called "bald tail", broken incense inheritance, no queen is unfilial piety to the ancestors, it is the lack of virtue of this family to do too much, so God will make a final punishment to his family, and after the death of the family without a funeral, there is not even a man to bury the body, even a coffin wrapped in a corpse is not prepared, and there is no man to build even the mourning hall, Not to mention the glamorous funeral, all of this comes from the pathological thinking of patriarchy.

And there is only one son, who is the most vulnerable to bullying in the countryside where manual labor is the mainstay, such as fighting for land, grabbing water for irrigation, people going to relatives, quarreling and fighting, etc., so Lao Li's family is regarded as a soft persimmon by the people of the same village, and they are pinched at will!

Ordinary people are "full of children and grandchildren", seven or eight children are a normal phenomenon, anyway, as long as you give a mouthful of hot food to eat, so that you can feed, there is no way to survive, they will attribute the death of this child to the "number of lives", it is the day to collect, no one can do it......

There is a family that gave birth to thirteen daughters in a row, the family is extremely unharmonious, and the family can't be a "person" in the village, so they still insist on giving birth, and finally gave birth to three more baby boys, which ended the strange appearance of "women's breeding tools", and their family raised their heads to be "people" in the village.

Therefore, in the village, girls who get married and give birth at the age of fifteen abound, in order to give birth to boys, there are also many wives who abandon the chaff, and it is also common for the "old man" in his forties and fifties to take a woman in his twenties, these women are all disliked by her ex-husband's family, poor women who can't give birth to boys, they only "accept their fate", and in their early thirties, grandmothers and grandfathers also abound, and these are not dreams of five generations in the same house......

Lao Li's family is different, in his opinion, giving birth without raising is equal to not giving birth, raising without teaching is better than not raising, his concept in the countryside, is "ahead", not understood is also normal, many unreasonable villagers are behind the rumors, saying that the old Li family can not give birth at all, Lao Li has a problem, her daughter has a problem...... Wait for these basins to be detained indiscriminately, people's words are terrifying, one is passed on to ten, ten to hundred, Lao Li didn't care so much, his mouth grew on others, it was impossible to seal their mouths with adhesive tape, but the road was chosen by himself, and he had to go by himself, and he couldn't block his own way because of someone else's broken mouth, and it was broken......

As the saying goes, whoever doesn't talk about people behind his back, and no one says behind his back, he is used to these ridicules, even abuse, ignore them, and be a "lone ranger", but what suffers

His son, this he never expected!

Since Lao Li's death, his wife Yu has lived alone with their only son, Li Ergouzi, who has been walking on thin ice step by step......

Li Ergouzi, who grew up in a single-parent family, became withdrawn, behaved a little weird, didn't like to talk, and just did things with his head bored, and the "abuse" of those people in the village made him suffer from his soul, and over time, he became autistic, hateful and extremely weak.

When he grew up, Yu left him because of a serious illness, and he was the only one left in the stormy family, because of the embarrassment of the family, he had no money to take a daughter-in-law, so when he was thirty years old, he was still a bachelor, which gave those bitter villagers "rhetoric", they were talking about him after tea and dinner, and the topic of conversation was that Yu was killed by him, and even worse, he openly used him as a negative teaching material for his own children, saying that you are not good at studying, not good at life, and will be like Li Ergouzi in the future, Killed his father and mother, and he couldn't marry his daughter-in-law, so he would be a bachelor for the rest of his life......

After a long time, Li Ergouzi really became a "lone ranger", in the village, he would not say a word to anyone, and farmed the land to support himself, however, under the huge mental torture, he was infected with alcohol, and the addiction made him unable to extricate himself, and by paralyzing himself with alcohol, he lived in a fairyland in the clouds and fog every day, and only in a state of complete drunkenness could he feel that he was alive and that he could feel his "value" as a person.

After a long time, he was drunk all day long, his physical labor ability declined, the weeds in the field grew three feet high, the crops were not "drowned", and he never went to the ground again.

Gradually, when the addiction to alcohol came up, he could no longer control himself, collected all the valuable things in his own home, and sold them one by one, the so-called sale was just a very low price "gift" to people with ulterior motives, and even sometimes, the original items of some value were only exchanged for two taels of wine.

However, his amount of alcohol was really large, and in the village, he received a "glorious nickname", which others called "Wine Fairy", and the ten or eight big men in the village combined, all of them couldn't drink him, and he was put down one by one.

To say that drinking made him poor, this is not the most accurate, what really made him destitute was the so-called "brothers", they are all in the same village, they are idle on weekdays, not doing their jobs, these wine and meat brothers, just treat Li Ergouzi as an "ATM", when there is alcohol, he is "Dad", when there is no alcohol, he is "Turtle Sun"......

At their instigation, Li Ergouzi became addicted to gambling, gambling addiction is more difficult to quit than alcohol addiction, once contaminated, it is impossible to "get out" at all, every gambler has his own beliefs, today to lose, must be his own posture and method skills are wrong, such self-deception comfort, to give themselves the courage to raise gambling funds, and wait until tomorrow and again "put on armor", but ten gambles and nine losses, every gambling must have "fried", that is, the line said a thousand techniques, but for the gambler's heartbreak, even if they know that there is a thousand, they still have to gambleThe second is that they always want to win back the lost money through gambling, and even some "arrogant" gamblers are daydreaming all day long, making a living from gambling, making a fortune by gambling, and eventually going to the point of no return......

Without gambling funds, the family's land was sold by Li Ergouzi, as his "comeback" gambling book, but it was all "set in", he lost cleanly, his pants were lost, his only asset was his dilapidated ancestral house, he had the idea of playing the ancestral house many times, and sold the ancestral house, which could be exchanged for a good price, and he had the capital to go to the casino to fight

, can live happily for a long time, but Lao Li gave him an "ancestral rule" before his death, this ancestral house has been passed down from generation to generation, although it is old and dilapidated, but it can't fight the idea of the ancestral house, even if it is starved to death, it can't be sold, otherwise he won't be blind under the nine springs, and the ancestors of the Li family will come to question him day and night, and turn into a ghost to torture him......

The simple "ancestral rules" scared Li Ergouzi, he didn't sell the ancestral house after all, in fact, what scared him was superstition, the ants still stole his life, not to mention that he was still a person, he was afraid that the ancestors of the Li family would really turn into ghosts and entangle him.

As the saying goes, there is no way out of doubt, the boat is naturally straight to the bridge, a person has no way to go, there is no way back, there is always a way to survive, Li Ergouzi is no exception, but his way of survival is a little "alternative", he often sneaks into the deep mountains and dense forests alone, or in the dead of night, catches frogs and snakes and other wild things, and sells them in the market for a good price.

There is no fire in the world that can wrap the paper, and there is no impermeable wall, he quickly penetrated the matter of catching wild things on his body at night, and made a lot of noise in the village, the ancient village was already strange and frequent, running to the mountains, that would provoke a lot of evil, his bold and debauched wine and meat "brothers" heard the news, first went to him for verification, and gradually stayed away from him, afraid that the evil qi he was contaminated from his body would spread to himself, and when the time came, the pond fish would be affected, and they would "lose a lot".

Catching wild things is also a good "industry", because it can be exchanged for a lot of income, people from ten miles and eight towns in the bazaar will buy his wild things, and the price is not low, there is a phenomenon of short supply, Li Ergouzi seems to have found a "way to get rich", he forgot about the wine industry and forgot about gambling, and devoted himself to this "great cause".

The mountains and forests near the ancient village were drilled all over by him, and the wild things were also captured, and he set his eyes on the forbidden place - Mangshan!

Mangshan is a real forbidden place, no one dares to set foot in it, in the ancient village, everyone "talks about the color change of Mangshan", even the people of Bixian County also know the place of Mangshan, because there are too many evil things there, the people who go in, have never seen it come out, even if it comes out, it is also out horizontally, and no one knows, how big is the Mangshan Mountain, which is connected to the endless mountains and mountains, where is the Mangshan Mountain connected, even the Japanese army that invaded China at that time could not find out the secret of Mangshan, the Japanese army sent planes and a large number of ace troops into Mangshan, But it was like the world had evaporated, and no one had ever come out.

In their opinion, the "regular Japanese army" was buried in Mangshan, and they ordinary people had only one way to die in Mangshan......

But Li Ergouzi is very bold, in order to "make a fortune", he resolutely entered Mangshan, two times down, he harvested a lot, out of the frogs and snakes caught on weekdays, wild boars, bison and other wild things, one by one by him using the "trap" to capture, just these two times, worthy of his harvest in the ancient village near the mountains and forests for a whole year, his waist is swollen, and people are also a lot of spirit.

Li Ergouzi bravely entered Mangshan, and the news quickly fermented as soon as it spread, not only the ancient village, but also the people of ten miles and eight towns after hearing about it, they all exploded, they were all "praised", and gave him a nickname, Li Daring!

Those wine and meat "brothers" did not come back, and although Li Ergouzi was now extremely "rich", they still did not dare to approach him.

He didn't bother to take care of them, and after he had money, he lived a happy life again, he asked the old carpenter to make a fine wine jug that could hold three catties of wine, and he played all the best wines, and often went to more "high-end" casinos, and from time to time he also went to the kiln, and bought spring ...... every night

According to legend, the people who have entered Mangshan are dead, and the reason why Li Ergouzi is still alive can only be said that he is blessed by the ancestors of the Li family and has a big life, but in the eyes of the people in the village, he is already a dead man, but it is not yet time......

(End of chapter)