The first strange thing I encountered was actually not a "nightmare for the soul".

It's just that this strange thing didn't happen to me in the first place, and its origin goes back even before I was born.

It wasn't until I joined the "Supernatural Case Investigation Alliance" that I recalled this unexplained incident I experienced when I was a child, and then I traced back to the source, found the person involved in this incident, and understood this matter in detail from beginning to end.

One of the most important parties was my aunt, and because she didn't want to be disturbed, I withheld her name and called her "my aunt" directly.

My aunt was five years older than my mother and married into a family surnamed Yang on the outskirts of Linnan City.

At that time, Linnan City was similar to a small county town.

Laoyu Village, where the Yang family is located, is still an authentic rural village.

In the early 80s of the last century, when the new countryside was being built, the Yang family built three new houses with red bricks and black tiles next to a small hill in the north of Laoyu Village.

At that time, there was also a family surnamed Ma who built a new house with the Yang family.

The Ma family and the Yang family are as good as a family, so when building a new house, the two families not only shared a partition wall, but also a large fence that put the two families together in one courtyard.

The yard is divided into a front yard and a back yard, and naturally the front yard is more spacious and the back yard is narrower.

In the back left corner of the two yards, that is, on the side of the Ma family, there is a very old elm tree. Although the trunk is not particularly thick, the bark is extremely rough.

According to the old people in the village, this old elm tree is at least a few hundred years old, and the reason why their village was named Old Elm Village is precisely because this old elm tree has existed since the beginning of the village.

So although this old elm tree grew behind the yard of my aunt's house, it belonged neither to my aunt's house nor to the Ma family, but to the public property of the village.

Later, my aunt married into the Yang family, and she happened to get pregnant at the same time as the daughter-in-law surnamed Ma.

At that time, the adults of the two families joked that now that family planning is implemented, each family can only have one child, and if the two families give birth to two boys in the future, they will let them marry as brothers. If two girls are born, let them marry as sisters.

But if a boy is born and a girl are born, let them be married.

The latter sentence is actually a joke.

After all, at that time, freedom of love had been advocated, and there was no such thing as "finger for marriage" for a long time. The two families actually hope that the two children, both male and female, can love each other in the future.

However, the children of the two families were born one after another, my aunt gave birth to a boy, and the daughter-in-law of the Ma family really gave birth to a girl.

So the adults of the two families joked in private, and still said that the girl of the Ma family was the daughter-in-law of my aunt's family.

But the Ma family's child was raised for less than three months before he died of fever.

And in our place, there is an ancient custom, if any family dies an unweaned baby, it is a "debt" owed by the family in the previous life.

Therefore, the body of a baby must not be buried normally, and can only be disposed of in two ways.

The first is to take the body of the baby into a ravine and throw it away, which means to throw it far away, so that the "debt of iniquity" will not come back to the door.

The second way, which sounds cruel but is better, is to bury the baby's body at the intersection with its head and feet so that pedestrians can step on it, so that the family can not only eliminate the sins caused by the family, but also allow the baby to forgive his sins and grow up in the next life.

The baby's father, Ma Decheng, was only in his twenties at the time, and he didn't believe in this evil, and second, whether he threw his son's body into a ravine to feed the beasts, or buried it at the intersection for people to step on, it was difficult for him to accept.

So Ma Decheng took advantage of the darkness to quietly bury the body of the little baby under the old elm tree behind the courtyard wall.

Of course, except for Ma Decheng, no one else knew about it.

Including Ma Decheng's wife and Ma Decheng's old father, as well as my aunt's family, they all thought that Ma Decheng had thrown the child into the ravine behind the village.

As a result, three days later, my aunt slept until midnight, and suddenly heard the intermittent crying of the child from the Ma family next door.

My aunt was suspicious, but it was not good to get up in the middle of the night to ask, but she still coaxed her own child, while listening to the intermittent crying of the child next door, and fell asleep again in a daze.

The next day, my aunt was very curious and took my cousin to the next door Ma's house.

Ma Decheng's wife has been lying on the bed for the past few days because of the death of her daughter, and when she saw my aunt enter the door, she forced herself to sit up, with a tired smile on her face.

My aunt persuaded her to open a little, but she couldn't help but look around.

Ma Decheng's wife noticed my aunt's strange expression and asked her what she was looking for.

My aunt smiled awkwardly and said, "It's so strange, I seem to have heard the cry of your child last night, I thought it was ......"

My aunt's words were only here, because she saw Ma Decheng's wife suddenly turn pale and tremble.

My aunt was so frightened that she hurriedly asked Ma Decheng's wife what was wrong, but Ma Decheng's wife did not answer my aunt, but turned her head and shouted her husband's name again and again.

"Ma Decheng! Ma Decheng, come here! ”

Ma Decheng heard his wife's urgent call, and hurriedly ran in to ask what was wrong.

Ma Decheng's wife burst into tears and said: "I told you, I was woken up by our child's crying last night, but you didn't believe it, and said that I was in a daze and talking nonsense!" Now Sister-in-law Yang has also heard the cry of the child, how else can you explain it? I know that my Niuniu is not dead, it is you and your father who are patriarchal, I don't know what happened to my Niuniu! You give me back Niu Niu, you give me back Niu Niu! ”

She grabbed her husband's shirt and cried and made trouble, so frightened that my aunt quickly stood up and said, "Actually, I didn't listen to it too seriously! It may be that our tiger has been too noisy these days, and I am a little nervous! If you have something to say, I won't bother you yet! ”

My aunt hurriedly withdrew from Ma's house and returned to her own house, and all day long, she wondered if she had heard it wrong last night.

My cousin's name is Yang Hu, and his nickname is Huzi.

According to my aunt, Yang Hu was very noisy when he was a baby, and my uncle had to do things during the day and had to rest well at night.

So in the first few months of Yang Hu's birth, my uncle moved to another house.

But that night, my aunt was so frightened that she called my uncle back to sleep with her and her son.

But that night, nothing happened quietly, and for two consecutive nights, there was no movement.

My aunt began to make sure that she had misheard it that night, so she sent my uncle to sleep in another room.

But on the night when my uncle moved to the other house, about twelve o'clock, a child's cry woke my aunt from her sleep again.

(Please see Chapter 326 "The Daughter-in-law of the Ma Family is Dead")

[At eight o'clock in the evening, the next chapter will be updated.] I wish you all a happy and prosperous New Year! 】