Chapter 55: The Ghost at the Bottom of the Cliff

Lao Liu and I slid down the slide, because it had just rained, and the slide had wood sliding in it for many years, it was very smooth, we were very fast, turning along the slide, hitting many horizontal shrub branches, and I don't know how long it took, and finally slipped to the bottom of the valley, but there was not a single log at the bottom of the valley, and there was no place to dry wood, all around were twisted old trees, the trunks were tangled together, covered with moss and various vines, like a huge python.

"Something seems wrong!"

I touched my buttocks, and there was already a hole in it, and it was not big or small, and the clothes on my body were sticky, not like they were wet with rain and dew.

"Something is really wrong!"

Lao Liu's falcon-like eyes stared straight ahead, followed his gaze, and saw that the slide did not disappear at the bottom of the valley, but turned a corner, and continued to go deep into the bushes...... Pressed out by a giant python! Because, not far ahead, there is a bunch of python skins that have just fallen off!

My head buzzed, a little dazed, this ...... What a big python it must be to shed such a bunch of snake skin, think about it carefully and feel wrong, this groove is obviously not a day or two can be pressed out, but the snake's action is not such a fixed route, no snake will go back and forth on a line like this!

"It's been a long time since anyone came."

An old voice came from the woods not far away, startling me.

"Who? Who's over there? "I looked over there, and there was also a dense old forest, and in terms of its thickness, even in broad daylight, there was not much sunlight here.

Through the rare gap, I faintly saw an old man sitting under an old tree in front of me, and there was a young man next to the old man, the young man was very weird, and he had been circling around the tree, which seemed to be a little abnormal, no, at this time, in this environment, the appearance of these two people was very abnormal!

"It's been a long time since anyone has been here, no one has been here for a long time......" The old man seemed to be talking to me, and as if he was muttering to himself, his tone added a bit of melancholy, and his voice was smeared with a bit of melancholy.

I took out the Luban ruler from the back collar, clenched it tightly in my hand, and then slowly walked towards the old man.

The old man looked at the Luban ruler in my hand and said slowly: "You don't have to worry, our grandfather will not harm you, we are all honest villagers." After speaking, he thought of something, his expression darkened, and he sighed and continued: "The villagers are honest, should honest people be bullied......

I let go of the Lu Ban ruler in my hand, a little embarrassed, but I still didn't get it back, and the heart of defense is indispensable, but listening to the old man's words, I don't know whether I was infected by him or resonated with him, and a burst of sadness inexplicably appeared in my heart.

"Uncle, what are you doing here in the middle of the night, it's dangerous in the old forest at night, and it's cold." Lao Liu's careful clichés.

"I've always been here, this is my home, and when I'm old, I don't want to go anywhere. It's good to have a son and daughter-in-law with you. The old man touched the old tree behind him, and then moved his gaze to the young man who kept circling around the tree.

"Uncle, what is this place? How can we get out? I asked.

The old man did not answer my words, but slowly took out an old smoking gun from his patched clothes, twisted a roll of tobacco, put it in his mouth and took a puff, and the pipe suddenly lit up with green flames.

He took a slow puff, then moved outside, taking the end of his cigarette and pointing to the side. Lao Liu and I sat down on the side according to his wishes.

"When people are old, they like to talk about old things, let me tell you a story, and you will understand."

It was a long, long time ago, how far ago, I can't remember the old man, at that time, there were not so many trees here, there was a village at the bottom of this valley, called Pisces Village, there was a butcher surnamed Hu in the village, maybe he had done too much killing, he was in his forties and had no heirs, so he went to the temple in Peishi Village to petition, and the pig was not killed, but became a carpenter.

I don't know if God opened his eyes or the gods worked, a few months later, Hu Laohan's wife was really pregnant, Hu Laohan immediately went to repay the vow, looking at his wife's bulging belly day by day, Hu Laohan was happy all day long, even sleeping was smiling, but good things always don't last long, just like the moon will not always be perfect, pregnant in October, the child was born, but Hu Laohan's wife died of dystocia.

That night, Hu Laohan was really no longer young......

That night, half of Hu Laohan's hair turned white......

That night, Hu Laohan shed tears that he had held back for decades......

After that, Hu Laohan was a father and a mother again, he just wanted to raise the child, he did carpenter work during the day, and sewed and sewed the clothes of the two at night, mended and mended, and the threads were red, it was difficult for you to see......

But fortunately, Hu Laohan is enthusiastic and kind-hearted, he never lacks two catties when he is a butcher, and he never cuts corners as a carpenter, the door of the east house is broken, and the chair of the west house is crooked, so he asks him to help, and after the end of the day, others thank him and give gifts, he always smiles, waves his hand and leaves. Therefore, the people in the village take good care of the old man and the man, they are not rich, but they will still get by.

There is a rich man Huang in the village, although he is rich, but he treats people very well, often helps the poor, and is willing to give, people don't care about him called Huang Dacai, but call him Huang Dashanren, Huang Dashan also helped Hu Laohan a lot.

There is also a paper figure at the head of the village, the craft, the paper man tied out is like a living person, he has a daughter, very delicate, learning to sing outside, people call her the red lady, after completing the study, he went back to the village to live for a period of time, that is, during that period of time, the red lady and Da Zhuang, that is, Hu Laohan's son got along, the two parents saw that the two children could get along, and they were all villagers, so they agreed to this family business, no one thought that this was the beginning of a nightmare......

That is, from then on, Huang Dashan became Huang Da Rich Man, and finally became Huang Da Evil Man who people only dared to call in private, he was like a different person, changing his way to merge the land of the villagers, and soon became a big landlord in the village, treating the villagers as cattle and horses.

Since then, the rich man Huang has stopped meeting people, and people rarely see him go out, and even if they do, they always feel that something is wrong, and as for what is wrong, the village names can't say.

That is, since then, people in the village began to disappear, every three or five there are fewer people, no one dies alive, no corpse is seen, no matter how to find it, it is not that no one wants to escape from the village, but the people who flee the village will appear in the old well at the head of the village after the third day, and rumors spread for a while, some say that the rich man Huang is possessed by something unclean, some say that the rich man is dead, and the current evil man of the Yellow Rich is a monster in the mountains, and some people say that the rich man is dead, and he has become a zombie, specializing in sucking human blood, That's why people keep going missing in the village, and there are different opinions, and as for the real reason, no one knows.

Just the day before Da Zhuang and the matchmaker were ready to get engaged, the rich man Huang snatched love with a knife and wanted to marry the matchmaker into the door as a daughter-in-law, his son was born a fool, and the temperament of the rich man Huang Da has also changed, and no girl in any family is willing to be a daughter-in-law to his family, but helplessly the rich man Huang is rich and powerful, as the saying goes, money can make ghosts grind, not to mention people.

Under the coercion and temptation of the rich man Huang, the paper man Zhang Wan was helpless, so he had to marry the matchmaker to the rich man's house as a daughter-in-law. But I didn't expect the matchmaker to have a stubborn temper, crying, making trouble, and hanging herself, and she couldn't die.

Huang Da Rich Man is also ruthless, saying that the matchmaker is disgusted that his son is a fool, not as good as Da Zhuang, and threatens to make Da Zhuang a fool, so he called a group of people to rush into Hu Laohan's house that night, and beat Da Zhuang, Hu Lao Han pinched and pinched the pig killing knife that had been sealed for nearly 20 years, thinking of Huang Da Cai's previous care for the father and son, he finally put down the knife and hugged Da Zhuang. The sticks fell on father and son, staining the night's rain red.

Afterwards, Hu Laohan burst into tears, looked at Da Zhuang and said, son, you will be a fool in the future.

Da Zhuang looked at his elderly father, tears couldn't stop flowing out, he didn't say anything, just gritted his teeth and nodded vigorously.

The next day, there was one more fool in the village who could only laugh and cry......

Three days later, the matchmaker married into the family of the rich man Huang, because she knew that this was fate, and if she didn't marry, Da Zhuang would die; If she doesn't marry, her father will die.

That day, the fool at the door of Hu Laohan's house laughed and cried, and the rich man Huang Da specially sent a happy wine to Hu Laohan and Silly Dazhuang, and Silly Dazhuang took the wine glass with the most silly smile, and drank the happy wine with a bitter heart, which was very strong, drunk his people, but could not get his heart drunk......

Later, Silly Da Zhuang saw the matchmaker from afar a few times, the matchmaker's face was pale, her eyes were dull, just like the paper man her father is now tying, not human, not only that, he also found that the matchmaker's neck had a few black strangulation marks, all this, look at the big strong eyes, hurt in the big strong heart, finally, one night, the stupid big strong turned into the courtyard of the Huang rich man's house, he saw that the red lady was not in the son room of the rich man, but in the room of the rich man!

Silly Dazhuang didn't know how he came out of the courtyard of the rich man Huang, and when he got home, he threw himself into Hu Laohan's arms, howling and crying, the matchmaker is miserable.

Since then, Silly Da Zhuang has really become a fool, only occasionally sober up a few times at night, he does not cry or laugh on weekdays, squatting at the head of the village all day long, looking at the courtyard of the rich man Huang from a distance, muttering to himself, saying something that people do not understand, he said that there are many strange trees growing in the village, there are many crows on the trees, and there is a big python, and there are beating red flowers, which spread in that courtyard......

Again, Silly Dazhuang squatted at the entrance of the village and talked nonsense, and suddenly he smirked, and someone heard what he said clearly.

“…… The beams of the house in the Huang family's courtyard are crooked, and the daughter-in-law is forced to go to her father-in-law's bed, and she sings a sad drama with her life, life is better than death, she is a matchmaker......"

The speaker had no intention, but the listener had a heart, and for a while, this matter was in a uproar in Pisces Village, and it became a topic of conversation after dinner.

Can you believe the words of a fool? Everyone has a different answer in their hearts, and the common people are like a mirror in their hearts, but the rich man Huang didn't think so, that night, the rain dyed red again, and Hu Laohan limped two legs in order to save his life, and from then on he could only crawl on the ground with two hands.

Not long one late night, Silly Dazhuang woke up once, looked at his father crawling all over the ground, and thought of the inhuman-shaped red lady, finally, he planned to escape from this sad place with his two families. After everything was explained, he sneaked into the courtyard of the rich man Huang again......

This time, he saw the matchmaker slumped on the bed, naked, entangled in many red threads, surrounded by many half-red and half-white candles, and the candles were glued with red threads, to be precise, those threads were dyed red by the matchmaker's blood.

The matchmaker has a dense mouth all over her body, constantly dripping blood, the blood is sucked into the candle by the rope tied to the body, and the white candle is slowly infected into a red candle, one of the blood lines is connected to a bowl, and there is red blood in the bowl, and the yellow rich man is holding the bowl, his eyes are glowing green, and the corners of his mouth are still undried blood......

That night, Silly Da Zhuang couldn't come out. The next day, as soon as the sky was bright, Hu Laohan didn't say anything, and there was no joy or sorrow on his face, he silently picked up the pig-killing knife that had followed him for most of his life, and crawled to the Huang family's compound in the dark......

When the first rays of sunlight shone on Pisces Village in the morning, everyone was surprised to find that there was a twisted old tree in the compound of the rich man Huang at some point.

From then on, there was no more Huang family in the village, and later, the people in the village disappeared in just a few days, and Pisces Village became a ghost village. Later, a large python came out from under the strange tree, and the strange tree grew more and more, covering the whole valley......

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A gust of night wind blew, and I was stunned, I couldn't tell what it was like, maybe there was fear, but it was more of an indescribable feeling.

"What about the matchmaker?" I asked.

"She's buried under the old tree." The old man knocked his pipe, coughed for a while, and pointed the cigarette gun in one direction: "You can go out from that direction, no matter what you see or hear on the road, don't look back, don't ...... it."

The old man's voice gradually drifted, and I suddenly realized that we were still in the same position, and everything just now was like a dream. I turned my head and looked at the strange tree where the old man was sitting just now, and I could vaguely see that he was still sitting there, and a stupid young man was circling around the old tree, and there was a woman in the old tree, babbling and singing, and then I suddenly found that the old man's trouser leg was empty and there was nothing......