29. Trickery across the river
Panshui Village is still the same Panshui Village, and it has been more than a week since the last incident, and basically half of the people in the village have left, except for the women who have come down.
The last time the psychic and the cultivator saw a fight, eight villagers were killed or injured, and because the cause of death could not be investigated, it was finally judged to be an accidental death.
And most of them were detained or arrested, and now there are some old, weak, sick and disabled people left in Panshui Village, so it is very cold.
When we entered Panshui Village, I saw people looking at us in fear, which made us very uncomfortable.
"Several, please stay!" A crisp voice stopped us.
I looked back and saw that it was the same woman who had been beaten by her husband that day near the granary.
I said, "Is that you?" ”
"Yes, thank you for the last time, can you please come to my house for a cup of tea?" The other party said.
I saw that the woman was carrying three children by her side, and looked at Guan Yinping and others, and Yinping said, "Just go and ask why she didn't go away." ”
We came to this woman's house, this woman had reported her name at the beginning, her name was Li Min, because she was a few years older than me, so I called her Sister Min.
I said, "Sister Min, many people have left, why didn't you leave?" ”
"Those who stay now are all because of the children." Li Min made us tea and said.
I saw that the inside of the house was still very dilapidated, the land was dirt floor, and the walls were mottled, revealing dark wall tiles, and most of their houses were bungalows, and Li Min's family was no exception.
The house also has no distinction between a living room and a bedroom, just a hodgepodge with a few dirty blankets in the middle divided into three rooms.
The young couple and the child have a compartment, a compartment for eating and cooking, and a compartment with an old man paralyzed in bed who sleeps.
"Anyway, he's already been locked up and sentenced to life in prison...... If I also go, my three children will starve to death, and the cubicle is my mother-in-law, my mother-in-law used to have a sharp mouth, but some time ago she had a stroke, she was paralyzed in bed, and she couldn't take care of herself, if I also left, I am afraid that their family will die......"
Li Min sighed as he spoke.
I said, "That's hard for you." ”
"No, thanks to you, it's okay to lock him in, as soon as he loses his temper, he beats me and his biological mother, he is gone, the family is quieter, I usually make some small livelihoods, and I can also support the family, although the days are harder, but the children are here, my heart will not be so boring." Li Min said.
I looked at her, and I said, "What about your parents?" They should know, right? ”
"I have a younger brother at home, and three days ago, they all came, because I refused to leave, and they wanted to cut ties with me." Li Min smiled bitterly.
I looked at Li Min, a good girl, but at the most beautiful age, she experienced the ups and downs of life.
To tell the truth, Li Min was brought over to give birth to a baby at the age of twenty-four, and it has only been five years since then, and now she is twenty-seven years old, and twenty-seven years old is the most attractive, mature and beautiful age for women, but she has fallen so far.
Li Min said: "At noon today, a few people came, going door to door, looking for a girl with a ponytail, it should be looking for you, right?" ”
"Yes, they're a bit of a holiday with us, do you have their whereabouts?" I said.
"Well, a few bear children in the village were naughty, and lied to them that you went to the other side of the river, and there is a river beach on the other side of the river, which is very dangerous, and I am afraid that something will happen, so I just called you to stop, in case it is your friend, then I am afraid of harming you." She said.
I wondered, "It's just a river beach, why is it dangerous?" ”
"Actually, this is a long story, but on the night of July 7, there was a ruined temple on the other side of the riverbank, and the ruined temple would be lit up at night, and the people in the village said that the place was a ghost temple, and inside it were ghosts burning incense and worshiping their ghosts." Li Min laughed at himself, "Of course, this is just a very bizarre legend, so it's half true and half false." ”
As soon as she said this, I suddenly remembered one thing, why there were so many female ghosts in Panshui Village before, and the infant spirits at the bottom of the well were so dense, and there were a lot of them, according to my understanding, even if it was a task system, there should not be such a bizarre thing, unless there was another unknown origin in this mysterious Panshui Village.
I said, "Sister Min, please tell me what you know." I said.
Sister Min bit her lip, in fact, she was still a beautiful woman, with clear eyebrows, but there were too many vicissitudes between her eyebrows, she said: "This has to be said to be an unwritten rule in the village." ”
"Oh?" Guan Yinping also became interested.
Li Min helped us fill with hot tea and said: "That river beach is called Ghost Shadow Beach, when the sun sets, that is, when the red glow is full, there will be a lot of people, in fact, I have also been there, at that time it was my baby who had a fever, according to the old man in the village, to use the root of the wild mountain onion to cook brown sugar water to eat, I was also crazy, I didn't care about the urgency in the village, I went to the opposite side on a bamboo raft, but I saw something that should not be seen......"
"What?"
"Ghost singing." Li Min leaned closer and said, "A group of men and women stood on an abandoned high platform, and then sang, and the opera they sang was very difficult to understand, like a cat meowing. ”
I gasped: "And such an amazing thing? ”
"That's not all, I saw an abandoned village on the other side of the riverbank, it seems that the old people in the village know some things near the riverbank, but when I came back, I asked them, and no one would tell them, as if it was a secret that no one knows." Li Min said.
"Ya'er." The old lady inside came from a voice, "I'll tell you about that!" ”
"Mother-in-law?" Li Min stood up and hurriedly went over, and we also walked over with Li Min.
The old lady sighed: "I was confused before, with such a good daughter-in-law as you, I even beat and scolded you...... Now I can't move, my relatives and neighbors think I'm a dead man, they don't care about me, you still take care of me...... This story was originally a taboo in the village, and since these people are all capable people, then I will tell everyone about it. ”
"Mother-in-law, don't you hate me anymore?" Li Min lowered his head and said.
The old lady laughed miserably: "Why do I hate you, that dead boy has been disobedient since he was a child, and he will beat and scold you, I can't control it for a long time, and now we can't control it, so let the police take care of it......"
We moved the stool, Pan Feng also brought peanuts, and I clapped his hands, he realized that it was abrupt, and hurriedly put Li Min's peanuts back in place, but unexpectedly, as soon as he put them down, they were snatched away by a few naughty babies of his family.
But we don't care, I'm curious to know about Panshui Village.
The old lady said: "In the past, Panshui Village had Panshui West Village and Panshui East Village, we were in Hedong, that is, the people of East Village, but the people of West Village all died overnight fifty years ago, some people said that it was a plague, but some people said that it was offended which great immortal ......."
The old lady coughed as she spoke, and Li Min hurriedly handed over the water.
After the old lady's face improved a little, she continued: "Alas...... Speaking of it, it is also a hindrance, I was still young at the time, and I was deceived by his father, after being deceived, I refused to obey his father, I was ruined during the day, I ran away in the middle of the night, and I went to the other side of the river by mistake, and then I got lost, and it was an old Taoist priest with no face who sent me back......"
"A Taoist priest with no face?" My scalp tingles when I hear it.
"The faceless Taoist priest is said to have been invited by the people in the village to go to the other side of the river to exorcise demons and open the altar of the master, but no matter how many people are invited, there is no return, and the opposite side is dangerously tight, I later learned that it turned out that it was the ghost of the old way who sent me back, and they were all imprisoned on the other side of the river, and they couldn't come back......"
I gasped and hurriedly said, "So evil? ”
"It's more than a little evil, every time I think about it, I feel a chill down my back......" The old lady's old eyes were cloudy, as if she had thought of something terrible.