Chapter 54: Grievances of the Year
I plucked my ears out over and over again, not believing what the village chief said.
"Village chief, you are talking nonsense! Liu San is dead? I saw him alive last night. Ermao shouted, can you believe this?
"I don't know! Listen to what the third master in the village said, get out of the way, I'll go over and have a look first. ”
Dead people in the village are not trivial, Liu San is not like the eighth master who died right, he is young and strong, if there is any murder or the like, the village chief can't get around it.
"Let's go to Liu San's house first!" I stomped my foot on the ground, if Liu San was really dead, it would definitely be inseparable from Grandpa Zhou.
Ermao had no objections, and ran to Liu San's house with me in a hurry. The one at the end of his house in the middle of the village is a red brick house, with four walls, and it can leak in winter.
There were few people at the door of his house, and even if there were people, they quickly walked away after taking a look, secretly spitting on the side. I know that this is the most earthy way for the people in the village to get rid of bad luck.
"It's so miserable, it's so miserable!" The village chief's body shook into a chaff sieve, and his legs bent into a small arc, trying not to kneel.
"!" Ermao exclaimed in surprise and quickly pinned his face to the side.
I went up to take a look, and almost shouted "", Liu San's skin didn't know who had peeled it, and he opened his mouth from the neck, covered in flesh and blood, and there were a lot of flies flying on it. His eyes widened, his mouth opened in horror, and he didn't bat himself.
And the skin that was peeled off was hung by a rope beside it, and the hands and feet could be seen.
A gust of wind blew, and the fishy smell made my stomach churn, and it just blew the human skin, and there were scattered things in it.
My eyes straightened, it was the golden horse and those copper coins and ingots, which were buried in Grandpa Zhou's grave. Fuck you, uncle, I watched Liu San throw these things on the ground, and I touched the golden horse.
"Open... Enlightened... Be enlightened! "Even if Ermao is bold like this, the same two trembles, this kid grabbed my arm and didn't let go! He's afraid!
If he is afraid, am I not afraid? This death is too tragic, it is simply inhumane.
"Ermao, you said you saw Liu San last night, where did you see it?" The village chief was busy.
"Graveyard, my grandfather's grave!" Ermao lost his mind and said, "My grandfather's grave is Liu San's planing." He wanted to steal the gambling debts he owed from the funeral goods, and I tried to stop him yesterday and let him run away. ”
The village chief shuddered again, and cautiously glanced back, "You say... Is that true? ”
"Oops! Could it not be true? I can't kill this person? If I want to kill him, I won't skin him!" Ermao dared to say anything, but what he said made sense.
The village chief didn't ask any more, and at this time, another person came over, it was Uncle Zhou, "Ermao, what are you still doing here?" Hurry up and go and invite Daochang Wu here. ”
"Dad, Liu San is dead." Ermao said in a deep voice.
Uncle Zhou was stunned at first, "Liu San is dead?" Was he drunk to death or was he forced to die by a debtor? ”
"Neither." Saying that, Ermao got out of the way.
Uncle Zhou jumped back, "My mother! Who is so vicious? It's too miserable! ”
"Dad, what do you see on the ground?"
"Golden Horse! Your grandfather's funeral goods! Uncle Zhou was shocked, he seemed to have guessed something, but he didn't dare to say.
Ermao said, "It's Liu San who dug up his grandfather's grave, I blocked him last night, he said he was scared, so he wanted to return the things." ”
Could it be that Grandpa Zhou killed the person? Do the dead still kill? No one believed it. The father and son of the Zhou family didn't dare to believe it, and at this moment, they didn't want to investigate Liu San's grave digging.
A man dies like a lamp going out, and in a sense, he himself has paid a terrible price, and it is strange to die like this.
"No wonder, no wonder grandpa... It's all blood! Feelings are Liu San's! Ermao jumped up on the spot, and Uncle Zhou was silent.
"But... But what do you want to say about it? "The village chief is in trouble, people's lives are at stake, and now it is not a closed village, this news can't be stopped!
"What to do, what to do! I'm afraid that the police won't be able to find out anything if they come. I said.
"That's all there is to it!" The village chief said dejectedly.
"Ermao, you go home first, I'll go find... Go to Daoist Wu. Uncle Zhou trembled.
I just wanted to say something, but in the end I still didn't say it, according to me, Daoist Wu is afraid that he won't make a move if he says anything, he left so resolutely last time, how can he deal with these things.
Ermao and I came to his house, there were few people at the door, and Uncle Tuesday knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing. Grandpa Zhou did come back, but as Ermao said, the corpse was full of blood, all blood, and the placket of his clothes was already soaked with red blood.
Uncoagulated blood dripped from the toes, adding another layer of weirdness and horror. Grandpa Zhou is still wearing the same pair of mandarin duck cloth shoes on his feet.
I remember clearly, before Grandpa Zhou was buried yesterday. The Zhou family changed his shoes back, and the pair of mandarin duck cloth shoes were sent into the fire with my own eyes. It's actually reappeared.
"Second uncle, it was Liu San who dug his grandfather's grave, but... Liu San was skinned and died... Grandpa's blood... It's Liu San's. Ermao knelt on the ground limply.
"Grandpa, if you have any grievances, just say it! Don't scare us! ”
Uncle Tuesday didn't seem to hear Ermao's words, he was stunned, and didn't dare to face his old father, "What about your father?" Is Daochang Wu here? Are you here? ”
"Uncle, don't get excited, my dad has already passed and will be back soon." Ermao stabilized his uncle's mood first.
After a while, Uncle Zhou came back alone, and said dejectedly, "Daochang Wu left yesterday, and no one knows where he went?" It's supposed to be hiding from us! ”
For the people of the Zhou family, this matter is undoubtedly a bolt from the blue, and Daoist Wu is their last hope, and he ran away in the end?
"Enlightened, uncle, please beg you, where is Mr. Song? I... I shouldn't have listened to Mr. Song! Uncle Zhou said remorsefully.
If he knew that this would happen, he would definitely bury Grandpa Zhou in the grave chosen by his grandfather at all costs.
"Why don't we move Grandpa back to that place?" Ermao suddenly proposed.
Uncle Zhou's eyes lit up and he slapped his head, "That's right!" ”
"It's useless! It's useless! As long as people enter the earth, they will be safe, people will recognize their homes, and corpses will recognize their graves, and then moving will only cause greater chaos. I sighed, "That's what my grandfather told me."
Grandpa Zhou must have breathed a sigh of relief in his chest, which was a prelude to stiffness. Within a few days, he would be outraging and hurting, and the first to suffer was his blood relatives.
And now the situation has not been figured out, and the corpse cannot be burned rashly, since my grandfather can't burn it with a thousand instructions, then he has a reason.
"Enlightened, enlightened, you must save... You want to save our Zhou family..."Uncle Zhou suddenly knelt on the ground.
I was caught off guard by this, he was sick and rushed to the doctor, and there was really no way to do it.
Ermao said in a low voice, "Dad, don't be embarrassed and open-minded!" Probably this is the retribution of our family. ”
I know, this kid doesn't want to drag me into the water. I really want to help the Zhou family, but I don't have any clue and don't know how to help. If you run around with a headless fly, you don't know what kind of mess you're going to cause.
"Retribution, it is indeed retribution, this is a bastard thing that Zhou Laoba did in his early years, implicating you descendants!"
I turned my head and saw my mom walking over with my grandmother caressing.
"Uncle Zhou, get up quickly! If there's anything I can do to help, I'll definitely help! "I rushed to help him.
My mother stopped talking, but in the end she didn't say a word, not knowing what to think.
"Granny Mo, my dad... What did my dad do back then? Tuesday asked.
"Not many people know about this, but Zhou Laoba told my old ghost at the beginning, because he was afraid of implicating you, so he asked the old ghost to bury your family." Grandma said in a deep voice.
"That's... So where did Mr. Song go? Uncle Zhou didn't give up, "Now... The only one who can save our Zhou family is Mr. Song. ”
"I don't know!" Grandma affirmed, "But I can tell you about Zhou Laoba." ”
"When Zhou Laoba was young, he was a helper in the landlord's house in the next village, and that guy fell in love with the young lady of a big family, and the two of them actually looked at each other. One day, the old man went into the young lady's room at night, and did a good job. ”
I gasped, Grandpa Zhou was also a tough person back then!
"But I... My mom isn't a big lady! Uncle Zhou said.
Grandma glanced at him, "This incident happened in the east window not long after, and this young lady was originally going to be married to the son of the family, but in the end she found that she was gone, so she naturally knew that she had violated the taboo." At that time, this was to be immersed in the pig pen. ”
"That young lady didn't know what she liked about Zhou Laoba, and she refused to confess to her adulterer until she was pushed into the river and drowned, but Zhou Laoba didn't stand up, but sneaked away."
"My dad did something like that?" Tuesday Uncle was full of distrust.
"Do you have not done it, do you say it doesn't count, do you see the mandarin duck cloth shoes on his feet? It was made by the young lady for your father. Grandma sneered, "Although Zhou Laoba is a bad seed, you are innocent." ”
"Back then, our family was able to gain a foothold in Zhoujiadun, and your family gave a lot of help, and my old ghost offered to help, but... It backfired, and something went wrong. ”
"So what's going on with Grandpa Zhou?" I asked, according to my grandmother, Grandpa Zhou is not resentful and wants to stiffen.
"Zhou Baye has suffered for most of his life, regretted for most of his life, he is sorry for that young lady, he is not happy in the second half of his life. He actually has an obsession, that is, to get the understanding of that young lady, otherwise he will climb out and hang himself every day. Grandma said.
"Hanging is not the most terrible, the most terrible thing is that this old guy is dead and will not survive, he will kill!"
"Liu San... Liu San was killed by my grandfather..."Mao shrunk his neck on Tuesday.
Grandma snorted coldly, "That guy is obsessed with money, and he doesn't know how to steal Zhou Laoba's things, but he helped you block the disaster, otherwise it would not be him who died, but one of you..."
The Zhou family was frightened, and my expression was complicated, it turned out that my grandmother had already known that Liu San would die, so she didn't let us stop him.
"Three days, three days at most, and there will be deaths. If no one prevents the disaster this time, it must be someone surnamed Zhou who dies! "Grandma's expression was gloomy and a little scary.
But no one questioned what she said, my grandfather ate white food, and he was a really capable person. Grandma has been with him all the year round and knows that some things are normal.
"What to do! Granny Mo, you must save our family! Uncle Zhou was like an ant on a hot pot, looking at his father's corpse and not knowing what to do.
"His guilt needs to be resolved by your Zhou family, only with that person's understanding, Zhou Laoba can be buried with peace of mind, otherwise even if it is cremated, your family will still be restless." Grandma continued.
Ermao stepped forward, "Granny Mo, if there is any way, just say it directly, as long as it can make my grandfather buried with peace of mind, you can do anything." ”
"Try your luck!" Grandma's eyes closed and she spat out three words.
"Luck? How to try your luck? I asked.
"Your grandmother meant to go to the soul of that woman and ask for forgiveness." My mom replied, "After all these years, who knows if there is a netherworld, so... Chance. ”
"It's better to be lucky than to be blind in both eyes! Where did she die? I went to her, I apologized to her and begged her for forgiveness. Ermao said urgently.
When I saw my grandmother's slightly gloomy face, I knew that things were not so simple, and I felt more and more mysterious in my heart, but I didn't dare to urge.
"After the death of that young lady, the landlord's family entered the strongman, and hundreds of people in the family all died in the house, along with the entire house, which was burned down by a fire." Grandma muttered for a moment.
Uncle Zhou was also silent for a while, "What Granny Mo said... Is it the Zhang Mansion in the next village? ”
"Zhangfu? Which Zhangfu? ”
"There is a Zhang Mansion in the next village." My mom said.
I couldn't speak for a long time after this shock, because Zhangfu is a famous ghost house in ten miles and eight towns, and it is rumored that none of the people who have been in it can come out, and it is really a place of great evil.
When I was a child, my grandfather warned me not to enter Zhang's Mansion, and with his jealousy of it, I could see that Zhang's Mansion was really not a good place.
You know, my grandfather is a person who can deal with Hu Ran and the store manager, and the place he focuses on reminding can be a good place to go?
Ermao gritted his teeth, "Things are already like this, even if it is the Longtan Tiger's Den, I have to break through, what is the Zhang Mansion?" ”
Is there a way out for the Zhou family? No! If you sit back and wait, the consequences are unimaginable.
"Shut up! I'll go! Uncle Zhou shouted, "I'll go to Zhang's Mansion to find her, since it's my father's debt, I'll pay it back as a son!" ”
"Why are you going?" Tuesday Uncle stood up.
Although the two brothers of the Zhou family will quarrel, no one can question their feelings.
"Don't fight for either of you, you can't go to this mansion, Ermao is the most suitable to go. Even if my dead ghost comes back, there may not be a good way. Grandma suddenly turned to look at me, "Enlightened..."
My mom grabbed me abruptly and yelled at my grandmother, "Mom! ”
Ermao also reacted and patted his chest, "I'll just go alone, I don't need to be enlightened." ”