Chapter 4 Forbidden Land in the West of the Village
Is this a person? Why do you have three legs!!
I hurriedly leaned against the wall and stared at the thing, not daring to breathe. For half a minute, I saw him move several times in this half minute. Looking at it, suddenly I had a familiar feeling. Is this a person? This person is my grandmother! It turned out to be a grandmother on crutches, and in the dark night, like a monster with three legs.
Recognizing it as my grandmother, I felt like I was grasping at a life-saving straw, shouted "milk", and rushed over.
"Little evil! Have you seen them all? "When my grandmother saw me, she was not surprised at all, and kept her face sideways, as if she was listening to something.
The barking of chickens and dogs in the distance was getting noisier and louder.
"Look...... See? Milk, do you know those two bodies are gone? ”
Grandma didn't reply, but pointed in the direction where the voice came from in the distance: "This is to kill everything!" It's been ten years, but I didn't expect it...... I didn't expect the resentment to be so heavy - you take a shovel and come with me! ”
After saying that, Grandma walked out on crutches.
Seeing that my grandmother's steps seemed to be lighter than during the day, I was a little puzzled: "Milk, can your eyes see again?" ”
"Who said I couldn't see at night? Grandma is just blind, but she didn't say she couldn't see anything at night! ”
I scratched my head, I didn't understand what this meant, I still didn't ask if I thought about it, I was used to my grandmother saying such mysterious things since I was a child.
The two of them came to the west of the village one after the other, and along the way I pondered repeatedly, where is grandma going to take me? When I left the village and saw the black and oppressive woods in front of me, I had a good time.
"Milk? What are you doing here? ”
"Don't ask, follow me, no matter what you see for a while, don't be surprised, let alone speak!" Grandma's words seemed to carry a force that shook my body and mind.
The woods always have an eerie feel, especially at night, when it feels like it's late autumn and early winter.
Grandma walked around the woods for a few minutes, and seemed to be familiar with the road.
This forest is full of yin during the day, and I heard that it is very evil inside, and even domestic animals such as dogs, cats, sheep, and cattle are in and out. Seven or eight years ago, I overheard an eighty or ninety-year-old man in the village say that these trees were actually planted by people, and they implied the principle of Qimen Dunjia, which was equivalent to a maze array, and the forest was overgrown with weeds and the light was dark, so it was easy to enter and difficult to get out.
Listening to the sounds of unknown birds and the occasional sounds in the dense grass, an indescribable sense of dread slowly flooded my brain.
Suddenly, I saw a dozen white figures faintly appear in the distance, some of them carrying red lanterns in their hands.
It's so late, it's early in the morning, why are there people here?
Following behind my grandmother, I felt confident, but I didn't feel too scared, but I was very puzzled. Something is wrong! Look at the clothes of these dozen people,! It turned out to be a "white coat"!
According to local customs, when the elders of the family die, the children and grandchildren must wear coarse white shirts to complete the three-day funeral ceremony, and they all call this kind of clothing "white coat".
How could anyone be buried in the early hours of the morning? I shuddered at the thought of this, this forest is a forbidden place within a radius of a hundred miles, who dares to come at this point - is it possible that the fuck is not human?
"Mark my words! Don't speak! Grandma whispered to me again.
I was stunned and took a deep breath, but my eyes didn't listen!
Gradually, I saw the faces of these ten people clearly—faces? They don't have a face at all, and the so-called face turns out to be a smooth face.
In fact, I was mentally prepared, so I was confident that I wouldn't be surprised when I saw no matter how ugly my face was, but I didn't expect it! These dozen or so people don't even have faces, are they still people without faces?
I took a look at my grandmother and was anxious! Can't you see it? Or turn a blind eye? Why did you walk towards those glossy white shadows!
A few dozen meters closer, I saw dozens or hundreds of graves of different sizes on the side of the white shadow, and these smooth people lined up in the gap between the graves, as if they were performing some kind of ritual.
I've long heard that there are a lot of ancient burial mounds in this wood, but I've never seen them. I heard that these graves are buried both by people from the village and from outside the village......
Grandma actually walked towards the mound without the slightest hesitation, but my heart hung in my throat, seeing that the distance between the two sides was less than fifty meters, and the glossy man was still completing the strange ritual according to a fixed trajectory as if we did not exist.
After walking more than ten meters, I was so frightened that my breathing stopped, and I put the shovel in front of me, and my body began to shake unconsciously.
I secretly said in my heart: If there is a wind and grass, even if it is a ghost, Lao Tzu will shoot him to death with a shovel!
Just when my nerves were about to be tensed, I suddenly heard my grandmother cough softly, and then whispered, "It's time to go back." I was distracted, and when I looked at the glossy men again, there was still a figure somewhere.
"Little evil, you look for a grave, the tombstone says 'Yin Yang Feng Shui' is a word." Grandma stopped in the middle of the mound and whispered as she pointed around.
I glanced around, and there were graves around me, some of which had stone monuments erected in front of them, and some of which did not. In my cognition, the names of the deceased are written on the tombstones, some are surnamed Zhang Wang Li Zhao, and some are surnamed Ouyang and Gongsun, why is there still a surname "Yin and Yang" in this world? This person is called "Feng Shui"?
Could it be that these four words are not personal names, but just two words, "yin and yang" and "feng shui"?
By the faint moonlight, I almost put my face on the tombstones, looked side by side, and finally saw these four words on the stone tablet in front of a small grave less than half a meter.
"Found it, milk!"
Grandma walked to the grave gently, and then knelt down very respectfully: "Little evil, you also come and kowtow!" ”
I muttered to myself, whose grave is this? Since I was a child, except for my grandmother herself, she didn't let me kowtow to anyone!
After the three heads were finished, the grandmother pointed to the grave and said, "Now you dig up the grave!" ”
Planing? I heard you right! In fact, when I heard my grandmother ask me to find those four words just now, I thought of the result, but when I heard that it really made me dig a grave, I still chuckled in my heart.
Digging graves is an extremely immoral thing, even if it is your own family's grave, you will not dig it unless you have to do it.
I hesitated for a moment, but picked up the shovel and got to work.
Who let this be grandma's words, listen to grandma's words, don't make her sad, this is my Yang Xiaoxie's consistent purpose.
Maybe it's because grandma is a god mother-in-law! Ever since I can remember, I've seen all kinds of "dirty things", and I've seen a lot of all kinds of dead bodies, but I think digging graves in the middle of the night is a bit weird, but I'm not very afraid.
What's more, grandma is still standing aside.
Soon I dug half a meter deep, wondering why there was nothing in this grave, and suddenly I heard a "dang long", and the shovel seemed to touch the metal.
"Dig it, take it out!"
I could hear the excitement in my grandmother's voice—she had never been so excited in my memory.
Inside the grave was a black metal box! I gently brushed the soil off the box and took it out.
This box is so familiar! After looking at my grandmother, who was a little excited, I suddenly remembered that this metal black box was the same as the black box that my grandmother almost never left her!
"—" I shouted unconsciously.
"Open it! I've been preparing the contents for you for ten years! ”
Decade? It's another ten years, and at this moment I have a feeling that I can't say clearly, Uncle Wang, Drunkard Liu, and Grandma all mentioned ten years, and it just so happened that Grandma said that I had a serious illness ten years ago...... Is it all related?
There's no time for me to hesitate.
I crouched on the ground and blew the dirt off the black box, which appeared to be made of copper with a layer of black patina. Using both hands and feet, I tried a few times, and the box opened all at once!