Chapter 52: Longevity and Destiny
About a week ago, a township police station in Haicheng received a report. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
There is an old man in their village who celebrates his 90th birthday, because they have a custom that participating in the birthday banquet of these old people can get the life of longevity, so whenever the old people in the village celebrate their birthday, they are all feasting.
Although the big birthday party is used to invite guests, they never entertain people outside of their network. Because they have a custom that there is a fixed amount of longevity, and it is okay to say that it is to touch the people they know, but if they let strangers touch it casually, the share of people they know will be less, so strangers are not welcome at these birthday banquets.
But when the old man was celebrating his birthday, there happened to be five young people in the village who came out for five weekends, and after they arrived at the banquet, they felt that no one knew them, and eating and drinking casually was just a little cheap, and it was just a meal, even if these simple rural people knew, they would not embarrass them much, and they would send them some money if it was a big deal, so they also ate and drank with confidence.
And even if the people in the village are in the network, I am afraid that there are people who don't know each other, so I didn't pay much attention to it at the time.
But the next day, I don't know if it was a coincidence or what, there was an uncle in his forties in the village, who had a heart attack when he was working in the field, and he didn't survive for a while, so it passed.
The villagers were also grieving and strange at the same time.
Normally, after eating the birthday banquet, even if the day wants him to die, he will not die within seven days after the birthday banquet, and the longevity of the birthday banquet will last for 7 days, ensuring that he will live for an extra week. And since the establishment of this custom in their village, no one has ever died within seven days, unless his share of life has been taken away by someone else.
Thinking of this, the villagers immediately went to the village guest house, checked the total of 11 people who lived in the guest house, and the five young people were found out.
The young people looked at the menacing villagers, and they didn't intend to admit it, but when they went out yesterday, because of the large number of people, the movement was also a little big, and they went out in a noisy manner, and were seen by some residents and the front desk lady of the guest house. The front desk lady of the guest house also specially reminded them not to go to the birthday banquet, and they said that they couldn't die if they ate two bites, so the guest house lady didn't hesitate at all, and directly confessed to them.
The five young men were brought to the body of the deceased, told them to kowtow and confess, and demanded that they compensate the dead villager.
But those young people were immediately angry, they were materialists, they went to eat someone else's meal last night, and the next day an irrelevant stranger died, so they put the blame on their heads, and there was no royal law? Moreover, the surveillance of the guest house showed that they did not leave the hotel at all when the villagers died, which did not constitute murder at all.
For the behavior of the villagers, the five young people strongly condemned their feudal superstition and fiercely resisted the villagers' detention of them.
But now the pampered young man can't resist the villagers who are still doing farm work every day, and they are tied up and locked up in the firewood house after two clicks.
Before the young man could discuss how to escape, an old man in his fifties came to the firewood room. Although his hair has turned gray, his spirit is still very good, his steps are very steady, and his face is full of red light, and it seems that he has done a good job.
The old man was very respected by the villagers, and everyone respectfully followed the old man into the firewood house.
The old man didn't approach the five young people, just glanced at them, and said to the villagers behind him: "Five people robbed the five lives that should belong to the village, and one died today, and four more people will die later." ”
When the villagers heard this, they panicked, and maybe tomorrow it would be their own people who would die, and everyone knelt on the ground and begged the old man for help.
After the old man accepted the villagers' salute as a matter of course, he said, "It's easy to save them, as long as you let these people who have stolen their lives return what they shouldn't have taken, and they'll be fine." ”
When a few young people heard this, their hearts were also unsteady, if they were to spit out the food they ate yesterday, it would be reasonable, but after a night, they had already digested it and not to mention, if they got it out, should they give it to those who didn't get their lives?
Thinking of this, several young people all had strange faces.
But before they could think about something heavy, the old man said, "Life Qi is a very mysterious thing, I know a way to pass the life, but the loss of this method is a bit large, to get back the bit of life Qi they took last night, it will lose more than ten times the life in the process." ”
When several young people heard this, they panicked. They still don't believe in any fate, but listening to what this old man said, even if it is a feudal superstitious activity, they will definitely do something to them, and they don't want to go home without arms and legs.
The reaction of the villagers was diametrically opposed to that of the young people, they heard that they could save the lives of their relatives, and the lives of these strangers were none of their business, and the loss was ten times that of ten times, and it was these young people who stole the birthday banquet first, and they should be punished.
The old man said that he would prepare in the afternoon and carry out the ceremony in the evening, and told the villagers not to let a few young people run away, so he left the firewood house. After the old man left, the villagers spontaneously left two people with firewood knives to guard the firewood room, making the young man's escape plan slim.
Soon the time came to night, several young people tried to escape several times, but they were found by the two villagers with firewood knives, and every time they found it, they would beat them severely, and in the evening several young people had been subdued, and their noses and faces were swollen and they were taken to the village ancestral hall.
Inside the ancestral hall of the village, a special partition has been set up with cloth, and a table with messy things has been placed in it, and a wooden shelf that I don't know what to do with it.
Several young people were taken into the curtain by the villagers, and the old man walked in, let all the timid ones, pigs, dogs, and horses leave the ancestral hall, leaving two middle-aged men with good physical strength, and then ordered that no one should come in, no matter what sound was inside, so that the two middle-aged villagers took off all the young people and tied them to the prepared shelf.
Hearing that they were going to take it off, the two men in the prime of life tacitly set their eyes on the only girl among the five young men.
The girl went out with her boyfriend and his friends, but she didn't expect to encounter such a thing, screaming and crying in horror to let her boyfriend save her.
The girl's boyfriend was not the kind of person who was greedy for life and afraid of death, but his body was tied up with flowers, and his mouth was stuffed with strips of cloth, he could only stare and whine, watching the middle-aged man strip the girl naked and tie her limbs separately to a wooden frame.
The greedy eyes of the two villagers swept over the young girl, who was already in tears, but her mouth was gagged, and she could only cry silently, looking at her boyfriend who was tied up like a dumpling on the ground with pleading eyes.
The old man walked up to the girl at this time, and although his eyes were also greedy, it could be seen from his eyes that he was not coveting the girl's beauty, but something else about the girl.
The old man held in his hand a skull of a man, the skull was black and shiny, and there seemed to be nothing special about it.
A few young people didn't have much feeling about the skeleton at first, they could buy this kind of prop in the mall boutique casually, and they didn't think about other places, they just felt that this old man was not professional as a magic stick, and they just found a scary skeleton prop to deceive people.
However, what happened next almost scared a few good materialist young people to death.
I saw that the old man used a delicate knife the size of a finger to draw a cut in the middle of the girl's chest, and although it did not hurt anything, the blood remained, and it flowed right down the chest to the navel, and from the navel down until it dripped to the ground.
There was already a porcelain bowl on the ground that was also black to catch the dripping blood. At this time, the girl was as if her whole person had been split in half from her chest, which was particularly terrifying.
And the girl suddenly stopped crying when the knife had just cut through the skin, and did not resist, staring blankly at the skeleton in the old man's hand.
The old man dipped a little blood from the black porcelain bowl on the ground, drew a pattern on the skull, and said something in his mouth, and kept changing gestures in his hands, just under the surprised eyes of the young people who were watching, the skeleton suddenly opened its mouth by itself, and from its mouth, a thin snake with a red body came out.
The old man took out the cloth that gagged the girl's mouth, and aimed the skeleton at the girl's face, and the terrifying black skull and the girl came to eye to eye, and the young people next to him already felt terrifying when they looked at it.
The girl who was gagged didn't scream, her eyes were still glazed, her eyes staring straight into the darkness of the skeleton's sockets. At the same time, the red snake in the skeleton's mouth slid silently into the girl's stomach as the old man opened it.
Watching the snake slip into the girl's belly, the old man's eyes were full of joy, and after stuffing the gag cloth back, he quietly looked at the girl who was still stupid.
However, not long after the girl was quiet, her brows began to furrow, and then her whole body began to tremble, and finally it turned into convulsions, as if she had experienced some great pain, but unfortunately she could not scream, she could only whine. Recite.
Several young people who were still tied up were already stunned, and they saw that under the girl's skin, there would be a bulge protrusion from time to time, as if something was moving in her body, and the movement of that thing did not know which blood vessel it had reached, and the small wound on the chest, which was only two centimeters, was bleeding nonstop, and the blood that flowed out dripped into the bowl through the middle line.
Strange to say, the twitching of the girl's body did not affect the flow of blood at all, and no matter how she moved, the blood dripped impartially in the black bowl below.
This process lasted for more than ten minutes, and the girl was finally unconscious, only convulsing twice from time to time.
The old man saw that he was almost done, and once again he thought about the skeleton, making complex gestures in his hands. The frequency of the movement of the thing in the girl's body also decreased, and finally, along the girl's ribs, everyone present saw a long bulge begin to slide towards the wound in her chest, and soon, a bright red snake came out of the wound.
The old man hurriedly lifted the skeleton, and the red spit out the letter and circled around the skeleton a few times before getting into the skeleton through the skeleton's eyes.
After doing this, the old man picked up the blood that had already filled most of the bowl on the ground, followed the blood line of the girl's body, scraped the mouth of the bowl upward, and scraped all the blood on the blood line into the bowl without wasting it. When the bowl scraped the wound, the wound magically disappeared!
At this time, the girl was not much different from when she was first tied to the wooden frame, except that her face was pale and weak.
The old man told the two villagers to put the girl down and replace her with a different person.
But at this time, the two middle-aged men were already scared stupid, they had never seen such a terrifying picture when they were so old. This old fairy came to their village a year ago, helped solve several ghost upper body incidents, and was treated as a guest, but he never thought that this old man would have such a terrifying spell.
The old man cried impatiently a few times, and the two men put the poor girl down tremblingly. At this time, they no longer coveted the girl's beauty, only deep fear, and sympathy for her.
It's just that their sympathy is sympathy, and the matter of "returning their lives" still has to continue, but their hands and feet are no longer so nimble, and it took a lot of effort to tie the second young boy to the wooden frame.