Chapter 15 Beating people
What kind of ritual is it?
Ring the gong to exorcise the soul!
The guest of Renfeng's family is dead, can it be said that the exorcism can still live?
I was surprised and surprised, but there were so many people, and everyone was flocking to the mouth of the cave. Naturally, I wasn't so scared, but the apprehension in my heart was still there.
There was still a lot of life around me, and the sun made my fear disappear a lot. However, seeing Xiao Hua's blank gaze, thinking that his father had just died, it was not good to mention anything to him. Motioning for him to join me, we also blended in with the crowd and walked with everyone.
I've always stayed away from ghosts. This time, I came to join in the fun, purely because there were so many children who came with me.
Several adults stood at the entrance of the cave, looking at the black pressure inside, and seemed to be very cautious.
I didn't immediately follow and stood by to watch everyone's actions. At this time, someone actually pulled out a rooster, and I didn't even notice it along the way. Although I don't know what they are going to do, it must be related to the dead cousins of the Renfeng family.
Some friends couldn't hold back and wanted to go to the cave first, but after being scolded by a few adults, they also retreated to the side to watch the excitement. At this time, they saw that they tied the rooster's legs, and tied it with a strip of red cloth, and finally it was on the three stones outside.
This piqued my interest, and I didn't find that it was possible to tie something to the stone. And it's on the arch composed of three large stones, and the top arch bridge stone.
It wasn't until I got closer that I discovered why. It turned out that on this stone, which was two feet thick, ** feet long, and three feet wide, there were two small stone nests the size of a handful on the left and right sides.
This small stone socket is shallow, no deeper than two knuckles, and it is hewn into a semicircular stone socket. In the middle of this stone nest, there is a small stone beam with a finger-thick crossbar, which seems to have been specially left for bolting things.
I don't know why, I suddenly remembered the big rooster hanging on the coffin when Xiaohua's father was at the funeral. I don't know if this chicken is related to that chicken, but the rooster that keeps fluttering in the sun makes this cave seem a little vibrant.
Someone took out a small plastic tassel and filled it with some discarded diesel. At this time, diesel is still more precious, and most of these that can be brought out are left over after repairing the machine and cleaning accessories.
It is not convenient for country people to travel at night, and it is extremely convenient if there is a torch or something. I saw that someone had wrapped a few cloth balls with iron wire, and the cloth balls were tightly wrapped and soaked in the diesel fuel in the rubber drum.
Sure enough, I wanted to make torches, which was to prepare for entering the cave. I had already learned this at school, and I knew that going into caves and cellars, if there were torches, could avoid the danger of hypoxia.
Of course, there are adults who took out their flashlights, and looking at the silver-shaped flashlights, the children's eyes were a little envious.
At that time, although most families could afford flashlights, adults were generally reluctant to buy batteries. Therefore, the flashlight is still one of the important household appliances in the family at this time.
If we can use a flashlight to enter the cave, it is still a little exciting for us children. Whether there is danger or not, if you can hold the light in your own hands, then the darkness will not be so terrible.
I don't know whether it is to give myself courage to enter the cave, or to envy the charm of having a flashlight, or to be afraid that this simple torch made of wire will burn me, anyway, these children gather around Master Mo who has a flashlight.
What made me at a loss was that because Master Mo was about to strike the gong, he actually handed me the flashlight. I was so excited that I almost didn't catch it, and I couldn't help but hold on tightly to my little friend's envious eyes and appearance.
Xiaohua approached me immediately, and he looked at me who was not good at words, and I quickly nodded to him. Prove that he is my friend and can stand by my side. I didn't even hear what Master Mo said, and I held the flashlight tightly and my eyes were a little starry.
Poop!
As Master Mo struck the gong in his hand, the sound in the cave spread for a long time.
I don't know what they were doing in the cave, but as everyone entered, all they saw were stalactites like yellow mud. The smell of damp mildew came to my nose, mixed with a smell similar to chicken manure, which was really strange.
Because I was holding a flashlight, I had to follow Master Mo's side, and the sound of the gong made my blood gush all over my body.
After entering the cave, it is to turn left and go down, the path is not more than two feet wide, it is built on the original stalactites, and some slabs are artificially placed the day after tomorrow. In the light of torches and flashlights, I saw the stalactites sparkling with fluorescence, while the winding path extended infinitely.
As the adults walked and chatted, I gradually heard some of the sermons. Renfeng's cousins drank medicine and died, and the old people in the big house said that the woman was too angry, and he should quickly ask the master to suppress it. There is also the fear that the soul of the woman will turn into a ghost, so that people come to the cave to disperse the lonely soul.
This may sound cruel, but someone called the provincial capital, and Uncle Luo was said to have suggested that the spirits should be dispersed quickly. Because he couldn't come back immediately, he asked people to go into the cave to find the charm he had drawn, and take it back to the exorcism and the town.
"Found it, found it!" A happy voice came from the front, but someone had already discovered the so-called rune paper first.
The black smoke from the burning of diesel torches, and the smell of oil and humidity in the air, have been ignored by everyone.
Poof!
Suddenly, a strange voice came, and everyone didn't care at first, but suddenly I saw Master Mo's face change, and shouted, "Hurry up and get the torch together!" ”
Hearing his roar, I couldn't help but be a little frightened, and I had a premonition that something was about to happen, so I couldn't help but get together with Xiaohua.
"Plop plop!"
Countless black things screamed and rushed out of a black hole below, and there was a crispy scream from their mouths.
"Rock rats, rock rats!" Someone screamed in horror, waved the torch in his hand, and the alarmed things flew around.
Luckily, they weren't hit, although they were panicked. Finally, when the dark cave calmed down, Master Mo took a torch and raised it to see that just above everyone's heads, countless bats were hanging upside down with their teeth bared.
It was the first time I had actually seen a bat, and I felt a little weak in my legs thinking about the sharp teeth, the crimson and pink mouth, and the fluttering wings. What's more, there are countless bats here.
"It's rock rats, don't make a fuss, don't alarm them again!" Master Mo seemed to be relieved: "They are afraid of fire!" As if to prove his claim, Master Mo stretched out his torch and leaned aside.
There were a few bats in a slightly lower position, which were quickly burned by Master Mo's torches, and there was a smell of burnt meat, and a strange chirping sound, and those bats fell to the ground. Although his actions startled a few bats, he did not alarm a large number of them to fly together.
Look at the half-dead bat, its wings already charred, chirping and twitching in the ground. I shuddered, a little uneasy, and a little excited.
The adults didn't dwell on the rock rats anymore, but all looked at the hole that had just flown out of the rock rats. The entrance to the cave is only four feet high, and it is the entrance to the second level of the cavern. But we're not going to go to the second level, but there's a huge stalactite at the edge of this hole.
It was less than two meters high above the ground, and there was a small column of stalactites piled up underneath, as if the dripping stalactites had been transformed after countless years of hard work. The most amazing thing is that the top of this stalactite in the ground is actually like a natural small wine jar.
I don't know if it's a real jar, but it's covered with three yellow runes with red runes that make it feel mysterious. Obviously, this is the talisman paper that Uncle Luo asked him to take, and the adults looked at it and didn't do it immediately.
Because among these people, there is Feng's younger brother who is a classmate of my youngest cousin's brother. He motioned to Master Mo, and after a pause, Master Mo looked solemn and chanted at the wine jar.
I didn't understand it, but I knew it was a spell. Sure enough, after Master Mo finished reading, he carefully removed one of the rune papers, carefully put it away, and then took everyone out of the cave.
I don't know why, but looking back at this cave, I suddenly felt a little kind. Because I vaguely felt that I seemed to be a little bolder, although I don't know why, but it was a real feeling.
Master Mo untied the rooster and took it down the mountain with him. I looked a little relieved, and I kept going over the canal full of water, and I looked back in the direction of the cave.
I just arrived at the big house next to the mansion, and I happened to be leaning on the nineteenth master's house. I saw a bunch of people making a fuss. It is said that the Hakka family of Renfeng Hall is coming and is making trouble at Renfeng's house, but it is inconvenient for the neighbors to come forward for the time being, because the two sides are excited, and the mother's family said that they want to come over and beat people.
Ever since I was a child, I knew that this was not a good thing!
Because, this kind of thing is a family or a family, and the people who come to the door to ask for explanations are naturally aimed at the other party's family or family.
No one wants this kind of thing to happen, after all, it was originally a family of in-laws. A marriage that is rare to cultivate in a hundred years, but because of some things, it was forced to go to the opposite side, or the face of life and death.
Ever since I was a child, I've seen two beatings.
For the first time, it was naturally the death of Renfeng Tangke, and her mother's family came to our village to beat people. Another time, we went out and beat someone, and that was because someone in that family killed the woman in our family.
Either way, I still remember these things vividly.
It may not be called a ritual, or it should be called an action, perhaps more appropriately.
In any case, it is not a good thing, a so-called crusade launched by a family or a clan against people or many people who have bullied or harmed them.
This crusade is inherently just, but it is inevitable that there will be some extremes, and it is even said that in some crazy actions, there have been incidents of dead people.
In this way, these things are illegal.
But in that era, and even in that era when everyone was still kind-hearted, it was an angry roar of the weak, and it was also a crusade of justice.
Even in that era, the government knew that there was such a thing, but most of them would turn a blind eye, and as long as there was no particularly crazy thing, they would generally allow the weak to vent and then pass away.