Chapter 5: The Bronze Branch
The village chief was also forced to have no choice, so he had to grit his teeth and agree, but several women in the same village quit, saying that the corpse leader was so powerful, he could suck the blood of people at night, who would be willing to contribute his own children?
The village chief was forced to use coercive measures to tie up all the children between the ages of five and seven in Lao Yaogou with ropes and force them to sit in the coffin.
The first half of the night was peaceful, and the adults of the whole village were guarding the coffin, but also to watch over the children, so that the blood would not be sucked by the corpse. After guarding for several hours, they have been peaceful, and everyone's vigilance has been relaxed, who knows that as soon as the second half of the night arrives, just after twelve o'clock in the night, there is a "whirring" wind outside the village entrance, and the black clouds of Wuyangyang gather at the entrance of Lao Yaogou Village, turning over and down like a flood.
The wind was blowing at the entrance of the village, and the wind that pulled out of the ground lifted rows of rotten shacks, and the yellow dogs of the whole village barked collectively and made noise all night.
At the same time, the whole village was scared silly, and the coffin with the corpse in the town was not very peaceful, at first there was only a sporadic "gurgling" sound, as if someone was sleeping in it and knocking on the coffin, and after a while, the movement of knocking on the coffin intensified, just like someone sleeping in it, chiseling the coffin board with a sledgehammer.
The whole coffin shook like a convulsion, and it actually jumped up by itself, and all the children who were pressed on the coffin board were thrown to the ground, and the village exploded, saying that the corpse was about to be unable to sleep, and it would definitely jump out in the middle of the night to suck blood and harm people.
This is the feng shui master holding a statue of the three Qing gods jumped out, drank to stop the villagers, so that they all do not panic, and he turned over and sat on the coffin, and pressed the statue of the ancestor firmly on the coffin, saying that it is also strange to say, the corpse seems to be very afraid of the ancestor of the three Qings, and immediately the coffin did not move, and returned to calm.
The master jumped in front of the crowd again, beckoned the children who had fallen off the coffin to climb up again, took a piece of ink fountain line, and tied the coffin to death. After all this, the master began to vomit blood, and was urgently carried into the village chief's house by the villagers, and sure enough, the coffin was never touched again, and the villagers said that the master was a living immortal, and he really shocked the murderous corpse.
After a peaceful night, several children sitting in the coffin fell asleep, and did not wake up until dawn, crying and shouting that they were hungry, and the adults took the children away and discussed what to do with the corpse.
The village chief sent someone to invite the feng shui master again, but the villagers looked around the village, but they didn't see where the master was, and they were all anxious, and asked the village chief what to do?
Several of the oldest old men in the village got together to discuss for a morning, and finally discussed the way, no matter how fierce the corpse was, one word, that is, burn, one day is less clean and burn for two days, two days if it doesn't work, burn for three days, I don't believe that after ten days and half a month, this old zongzi can't be burned.
The villagers couldn't think of any other way, so they did it, who knew that pouring tung oil on a little fire, but there was a heart-rending scream from the coffin, and the coffin was even more fierce than last night.
The village chief thought that he had burned the corpse, and said with a cruel smile that it was time to burn you dog and grass! The villagers also chimed in, clapping their hands and applauding.
The child who was herding the cattle yesterday noticed that something was wrong, so he pulled the village chief's sleeve and said, "Master, it's not right, this scream seems to be from the feng shui gentleman!" The village chief was stupid on the spot, and quickly organized the villagers to extinguish the fire, and when there was no water, he picked sand and covered the coffin, and it took a lot of effort to extinguish the flames on the coffin.
When the whole village joined hands to fish out the feng shui master, they found that the master had been burned, and the smell of mush all over his body scared the children to cry.
Strange to say, in the afternoon of the same day, the thunderstorm at the entrance of the village was raging, the torrential rain fell from the sky, the torrential rain fell for two or three days in a row, even the sky turned yellow, Lao Yaogou just experienced a great drought, and fell into waterlogging in a blink of an eye.
The rain lasted for half a month, and when the sky cleared, there was a landslide in the back mountain, and the cathartic flood was wrapped in thick yellow mud slurry, which washed down the shack of the small half of the old Yaogou, after the mud dried thoroughly, the villagers fished out a few corpses in the torrent, all of them were the people who accompanied the master to go down to the pit to catch the corpse, without exception, there were awl-shaped tear bites on the neck, and the muscle hair of the whole body was atrophied, deflated and wrinkled, like an old dry corpse.
The village chief saw the corpses that rushed down from the back mountain road, his face was yellow, and he quickly ordered someone to dig a pit and bury the corpses, but the strange thing did not stop there, but intensified, first the children who participated in the coffin that night had a high fever one after another, woke up and said they were thirsty, and drank water while holding the big water jar, until the stomach was filled and it was not enough, and at night, the eyes of the little cubs were green light, and Huo Huo dropped the chickens and dogs and livestock in the whole village.
By the time the village chief sensed that something was wrong, it was too late, and the children were no longer satisfied with sucking cows, sheep and livestock, and began to jump on the backs of living people to bite and eat meat.
The first to suffer was the father and mother of the children, the villagers woke up and found that several rural women had been gnawed alive into the bone frame, seeing that this matter could not be suppressed, the village chief hurriedly sent someone to report the matter to the county, and the next day the county came to gather these children who eat human flesh alive, and the heavy fire suddenly broke out, and the corpses were burned and buried in the back mountain.
A turmoil will be considered to have subsided.
After listening to Qianyong's narration, I broke out in a cold sweat, smiled and asked, "Brother, in broad daylight, don't go to me to talk about fasting, I'm afraid that the wine I drank with Lao Zhong last night hasn't woken up yet." ”
Qian Yong looked at me directly and said You think I'm joking with you? I was also involved in what happened back then, and I saw it all with my own eyes.
I didn't calmly turn my gaze to Lao Zhong, and found that he was nodding lightly to me, and said, Lao Qian is an upright person who never jokes with people, he said yes, it must be like this.
I then said, "But what does this Yanyang female tribal ruin we are looking for have to do with it?" ”
Lao Zhong took out a bag wrapped in yellow cloth from his pocket, handed it to me and said, "After the turmoil that year, flash floods often broke out in the back mountain, in addition to rushing out a lot of corpses, someone picked this up in the mouth of the mountain torrent, I don't know archaeology, I can't understand what age this is an object, the fat man said that it should be a product of the pre-Qin, after hearing this story last night, I had the same reaction as you, Lao Qian took it out and gave it to me, you can see for yourself." ”
I opened the bag, and there was a forked bronze tree lying in the defense line, only two fingers long, divided into three strands, extending irregularly, and quickly jumped up from the sofa and said to the three of them, "You guys wait a minute, I'll go find Chen Yun." ”
Early in the morning, I rang the doorbell for a long time, and Chen Yun opened the door for me, rubbing her eyes and asking me what was wrong? I couldn't wait to hand over the bronze branch and said, look at this, what kind of age does it look like?