Zhang Nifeng heard the bald brother say that something had happened in the village because of the demolition of the archway, so he also came to his senses, turned his head and listened carefully with me.

I urged the bald brother to tell us quickly, and he told us mysteriously that this matter should start from the construction team demolished the archway in the west of the village.

That day, the construction team called by the village committee finished the work, and demolished the archway originally, after all, so many years of old objects, although it was demolished, it was not intended to be destroyed, but it was ready to be moved to the compound of the village committee to leave a memorial.

After finishing the work that night, the village committee simply prepared a table of meals in the open space of the compound to entertain the workers of the construction team.

There are a total of six people in the construction team, all of whom are Liba who take on short-term jobs everywhere in the nearby villages, and a group of rough old men eat together, and it is inevitable that they will have to drink some wine.

As the saying goes, you can see yourself in the mirror, and you can see people's hearts in wine. A few rough old men do some hard work together on weekdays, and it is inevitable that there will be some contradictions because you have less effort and he is a little lazy.

On weekdays, it's just a matter of looking up and not looking down, but now after three rounds of wine and five flavors, a few cats pee on their stomachs, and they all spill out the resentment in their stomachs.

This said that when Lao Zhang, your mother repaired the house of Lao Liu's family in Gayingzi Village last time, the last thatched house could last for two hours, and all the men were dried.

Then he said, "What's the matter, last year's wheat harvest and grain, didn't your grandmother also pretend to be sick and lie at home for two days, don't think we don't know."

Everyone talked while eating and drinking, and it was so lively, but when it came down to making trouble, no one took it to heart, they were all old men, and they didn't have such a small belly.

A few people talked about the archway that had just been demolished, looking at the archway in the corner of the yard that had been split so that they couldn't see the original shape, and they all muttered in their hearts.

Everyone is a few nearby villages, how much do you know about this archway, at the beginning of the job is also a drum in the heart, but this time the village to demolish not only two arches, but also those old houses that have been in disrepair for a long time, this trip to the job is a lot of money, enough for a few of them to do it for two years.

Among the six people, there is an eighteen or nineteen-year-old old man, who is from this village, and the rural children go to school less, and as soon as he graduates from high school, he comes out to work with these people, everyone calls him the sixth child, and he is also very good at work.

The sixth child is young and vigorous, and he doesn't believe in these feng shui metaphysical things when he is young, so he immediately stood up with a wine glass to reassure a few old brothers, saying that a few broken pillars can have an egg, if it's okay, forget it, but whenever there is a female ghost or something, I will sleep with her first, and then I won't forget to laugh after I finished speaking, and I will stuff the beer in the cup as soon as I look up.

A man in an old-fashioned red vest next to him quickly pulled him back into his seat and told him that the kid's family was talking nonsense all day long.

Everyone laughed and laughed, and they all threw his words behind them as a joke, and the more they drank, the happier they became, and they drank until it was dark, and the people of the village committee went home from work, leaving them with a table of people still in the courtyard and talking about the mountains.

The countryside is different from the city, when it is dark, it is really dark, except for a few dim street lamps on the street, there are basically no other lights.

The sixth man drank so much that he said to everyone to go to the thatched house to put some water, and everyone answered and went with him, but the sixth went for an hour and still did not come back, it is said that this is not far from the thatched toilet by the river, and it is enough for ten minutes to come and go.

People who have been to the countryside should know that many villages do not have independent toilets, and this is the case in Zhuankou Village.

The huts had man-made septic tanks under the pits, which were not very deep, and the excrement was piled up in them, and when they were almost accumulated, they were pulled away by special manure trucks to water the crops.

Everyone said in their hearts, should the sixth child be dizzy after drinking some wine, and fell into the pit!

This is not a joke, as ridiculous as it sounds, there have been quite a few such things in the countryside, and most of them have been done by drunks who have drunk too much.

At that moment, everyone stopped the dishes and chopsticks, and went to the thatched house by the river to find the sixth, but the five people arrived at the thatched house and found that there was no one inside.

After looking around, they didn't see a hair from Lao Liu, and everyone thought that it was not good that the two groups of people went wrong when the child went back from the thatched house, so everyone returned to the compound of the village committee.

But when I went to the compound of the village committee, there was still no trace of the sixth child, and everyone panicked, how could such a big living person disappear out of thin air.

I don't know who suddenly shouted, let everyone see the corners of the courtyard under the pillars of the archway, whether there is a head! Everyone was startled by his words, and they all stared wide at the broken wooden beams.

It didn't matter what it looked like, but I really found that there was a black thing that looked like a human head pressed under the overturned wooden beam, and when I saw such a strange and terrifying picture in the middle of the night, everyone's heads were numb.

Those who were brave approached to take a look, and then they saw that it was not someone else who was pressed under the pillar, it was the head of the sixth child who everyone was looking for but was nowhere to be found!

When the rest of the people heard the news, they hurriedly moved the pillar away, and found that under the pillar was the body of the sixth child who had been crushed to a bruise, and when everyone took great effort to lift him out from under the pillar, his body was already cold.

The forensic doctor said that the cause of death was intracranial hemorrhage caused by blunt force blows to the head, and the wound on his head was completely consistent with the contact marks on the wooden pillar, and he was obviously stoned to death by the pillar.

How do you think about it and don't understand, good end, how can the sixth be crushed to death under the archway pillar, the more I think about it, the more I panic, the more I think about it, the more scared I am, for a time people are panicked, and they all say that it is the retribution for demolishing the archway.

In order to stabilize people's hearts, the village committee announced to the public that Lao Liu had drunk too much and crashed into a wooden pillar in the yard, and the pillar fell down and was stoned to death, but this statement was obviously not recognized by everyone.

With the investigation report of the police station, the family of the sixth child could no longer entangle with the village committee, so they had to take the body back, set up a funeral shed on the street, set up a coffin, and prepared to bury the sixth child according to the old practice.

Unlike the rules in the city, the custom in the countryside is that people must rest for seven days after death, which means that they can only be buried after the first seven days.

I asked Zhang Nifeng, "Why do you have to be buried for seven days?" ”

He glanced at me impatiently and explained, "After death, it takes seven or four days to be reincarnated, which means seven seven days, and the first seven days of the mortuary are often referred to as the 'first seven'. ”

The bald eldest brother obviously understood the reason for this, and praised Zhang Nifeng: "Big brother, you are quite knowledgeable, that's right, this is the first seven, and the 'soul return night' is the last day of the first seven, it is said that if the family has something to say to the deceased, or something to ask, they can ask the mage to open the altar on this day to summon the soul." ”

The sixth child died in a blur, so his family pondered asking a mage with a higher level of Taoism to summon the soul of the sixth child back and see if he could ask what happened.

After being introduced, his family found a Taoist priest from the county town, and the other party began to prepare the things needed for the opening of the altar after collecting the labor fee, and asked the family to prepare some sacrifices such as roast chicken and goose.

Zhang Nifeng snorted coldly when he heard this, saying that this Taoist priest is a charlatan, since ancient times, the three animals, five grains, and six animals used in the Taoist altar opening practice are all raw food, and they are not sacrificed to the sky, and they have never heard of any roast goose and chicken.

When the bald eldest brother heard him say this, he hurriedly responded, saying that the other party was not a liar, and the sixth family spent more than 3,000 yuan before and after, all of which were lost.

That's not all, the fake Taoist priest estimated that he wanted to cheat some money, but he didn't expect to almost take his life into it.

According to what the bald eldest brother said, on the night of the seventh soul of the sixth child, the fake Taoist priest opened the altar, and there was no effect for a while, and the sixth family was in a hurry, and his son's soul was not seen for a long time, how can this be good.

But the Taoist priest said bluntly that it was because the sixth child walked steadily and had no resentment in his heart, so he would not show up and embark on reincarnation as soon as possible.

The sixth family is a superstitious person in the countryside, and they believe in the words of this kind of charlatan, so they don't ask more, but they know that their son died without complaining, and they feel a little better.

Seeing that the plan had been accomplished, the false Taoist priest took the altar and pocketed all the cooked food prepared in advance, including roast chickens and goose, and brought them back to the room prepared for him by the lord's house, planning to take them out and feast on them when he was hungry at night.

But when he returned to the room and opened the plastic bag he had carried all the way, he found that the bag that was originally full of roast chickens and geese had all turned to stone.

He thought it was someone from the old sixth family who took advantage of his inattention to transfer the bag. So he was ready to go back to the spiritual shed to find the sixth child's parents to theorize. The sixth child's funeral shed was placed on the side of his house, and it took him less than three minutes to walk through the alley, but he walked for more than ten minutes and still circled in the alley.

Zhuankouzi Village is a typical rural building in North China, out of the courtyard door are straight alleys, the longest alley is only 100 meters, how can you walk for so long and still can't go out.

This time it can be regarded as a fake monk meeting a real Buddha, although this Taoist priest is a charlatan, but he is not a fool, he understands that he has encountered a ghost and hit the wall.