"That'...... Is there such a thing as a curse? I asked.

Xu Changhe and Xu Dongyang glanced at each other, and Xu Changhe nodded at me: "What your grandfather said is true, our village has indeed fallen into a curse." For so many years, we have never dared to leave Shoushantun for half a step. Do you see those two ancient trees at the entrance of our village? That's a boundary between our village and the outside world, don't look at the gate is open all year round, but no one dares to take half a step. ”

I knew about the gate, and I really paid attention to it when I came in, and I was very impressed by the gatehouse. The two trees intertwine to form a gatehouse. It turned out that it was not only a gatehouse, but also played the role of a boundary.

"Master Xu, for so many years, you haven't walked out of your village alone?" I still don't quite believe Xu Changhe's words, just using a curse to tie the legs of everyone in a village, this is a bit unbelievable.

Xu Changhe smiled bitterly: "You asked well, we were all young people with strong blood back then, how could we not dare to go out of the village because of your grandfather's words?" At that time, after your grandfather had spoken out about the taboos in our village, two young men who did not believe in evil walked out from under the gatehouse with great swagger......"

"How did it turn out?"

Xu Changhe paused, a hint of fear on his face. It seems that after several decades, he still doesn't want to remember the scene at that time. If I hadn't asked this, he would have preferred to keep the past in his heart forever.

Xu Changhe took a deep breath and said, "Those two descendants, when they walked out of the gatehouse from the village, they walked out five or six meters, and there was nothing to do. They turned around and yelled at the crowd that what your grandfather said was nonsense and that your grandfather was a liar. Outcome...... Before they could finish their words, they suddenly became convulsed all over their bodies. Their bodies trembled like chaff, and terrible cries came out of their mouths. The screams were terrible, and it made people's scalps tingle to listen to. ”

Speaking of this, Xu Changhe's body also trembled twice in a row, and his voice trembled involuntarily: "They ...... After shouting a few times, their bodies fell to the ground like a puddle of mud, and they began to crawl desperately towards the village, using their hands and feet...... However, we stood at the entrance of the village and watched their bodies crumble little by little, and all the scraps of flesh fell from their bodies along the route they crawled, and then we ...... They, they became a skeleton...... But the skeleton is still desperately crawling towards the entrance of the village......"

Xu Changhe's tone of voice was very slow, but what he said was enough to make me feel frightened. His own face is also not good-looking, because the person who becomes a skeleton must also be a member of the Xu family. They watched their well-behaved people turn into dry bones, and their psychology must have been devastated. So much so that after 50 years of saying it, he is still moved.

"They...... Is this a curse? I asked.

Xu Changhe nodded: "When they were about to climb into the entrance of the village, your grandfather shouted loudly, don't let them enter the village, otherwise the whole village."

Everyone has to die. This time, the people of the village believed your grandfather, and each carried a stick and a farm implement, and when the two men were about to climb into the entrance of the village, they broke up their skeletons with a stick. In the end, your grandfather went out of the village and helped dispose of the two skeletons. It was the first attempt, and the second was a month later. We had been trapped in the village for more than a month, and another man could not hold back and ventured out of the village in the dark, but that night, all of us in the village heard the man's howl outside the village, and the same fate happened to him. Now the people in the village finally believed in this curse, and no one dared to step out of the village entrance for half a step. ”

I looked at Xu Changhe and Xu Dongyang: "You have lived in Shoushan Tunli for fifty years, from a young descendant to a white-haired old man now?" ”

Xu Dongyang still maintained his taciturn personality and did not react to my questioning. Maybe that's why Xu Changhe left him behind.

And Xu Changhe nodded: "What is more important than life." After two lessons, the villagers were already convinced of the curse. Gradually, the people of the village have become accustomed to being trapped in the village. The villagers are also completely self-sufficient in their work, and we have been living like this until now......"

I nodded, looked at the clay sculpture on the altar, and said, "Then tell me about this clay sculpture?" Why did my grandfather erect such a statue? ”

Xu Changhe sighed and said, "Actually, we didn't live here, but on the other side of the mountain. It's just that at that time, our village suffered a catastrophe, and it was your grandfather who saved us and settled us here. He said it was the safest place for us and that no one would disturb us. But I didn't expect that the curse came out later, which made many villagers say that your grandfather deliberately led us to this cursed land. Later, your grandfather said that he would go out to find a way to save us, and when he found it, he would come and rescue us. When we asked him what he was looking for, he said he didn't know. ”

I snorted, "Since my grandfather said he could come back to save you, why do you have to ask?" ”

Xu Changhe nodded: "Now I know that guarding the mountain is keeping promises." But at that time, the vast majority of people did not trust him. So your grandfather erected such a clay statue, made his own image into a god, and placed it on the altar in such a pose. He said that he had sealed a wisp of his soul in the idol. Although he is gone, the villagers can come here to worship him on the first and fifteenth days of the new year. Because he was kneeling there in such a position, he could not enjoy the incense of the villagers, but on the fifteenth day of the new year, his own body felt miserable. In this way, the villagers can remind him on the fifteenth day of the new year to find a way to lift the curse. You can recall, when your grandfather was on the fifteenth day of junior high school, was it not the same as usual? ”

When I heard this, I was shocked. During the time I lived with my grandfather, I knew that he would lock himself in his room every half month. For us, it is to worship God, and outsiders are not allowed to be present.

This has become a master

A habit of the master, in the future, we are not surprised. However, I never found any statues of gods and Buddhas in my grandfather's room, which became a mystery to my childhood. Until the death of my grandfather, this mystery could not be solved.

I never imagined that this would be the case. Grandpa locked himself in the room at that time, not to worship some gods and Buddhas, but because his body was suffering greatly and refused to let us see it, he chose to bear it alone.

And this pain turned out to be brought to him by the people in front of him who had saved the mountain guards.

(End of chapter)

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