Chapter 39: The Hundred-Year Curse
"That night, Mrs. Guo broke through the adultery of a foreign woman, and the adulterer was a servant in the family and a personal servant of Guo Gongzi, who was very handsome and young."
"Of course, Mrs. Guo didn't catch the rape on the spot, according to her, she heard the conversation between the two, the child is not Guo Gongzi's at all, but the little maid and the foreign woman, and the plan of the two people is to let the child inherit the Guo family's property, and after killing Guo Taigong and Guo Gongzi, you can justifiably get all the village."
I thought to myself, this must be another trick by Mrs. Guo.
The old lady continued.
"Although this matter sounds very logical, but it is too shocking, of course Mrs. Guo and Guo Gongzi will not listen to Mrs. Guo's words, so they interrogated the little guy, and the little guy said a lot of details under coercion, including the secret characteristics of Mrs. Guo's body, which made Guo Gongzi suspicious."
"Of course he didn't know, these were actually known by Mrs. Guo through witchcraft."
"At the beginning, the foreign woman was a ghost, and Mrs. Guo's witchcraft was no match for the other party's ghost art, so she couldn't fight the other party, but as the foreign woman became pregnant for a longer time, she gradually became an ordinary person, and naturally she couldn't fight Mrs. Guo."
"When Guo Gongzi hesitated, Mrs. Guo said to him, we have not had children for so many years, and this woman has a child as soon as she comes, isn't it suspicious?"
"Guo Gongzi is suspicious by nature, and in the end, he still believed Mrs. Guo's words."
"Mrs. Guo is also very angry, according to the rules of the village, if such a thing happens, the men will be beaten to death with sticks, and the women will be drowned in the pig cage."
"However, before that little guy could be beaten to death with a stick, he inexplicably committed suicide at night."
Speaking of which, the old lady looked at me and said.
"I think you already know the truth, yes, this little guy took Mrs. Guo's money to help her frame a foreign woman, originally Mrs. Guo promised him to secretly let him go at night, but Mrs. Guo still used witchcraft to make him commit suicide in order to prevent future troubles."
"However, the matter of dipping in the pig cage was not canceled because of the death of the little girl, that night, the foreign woman with a big belly was put into the pig cage, before she died, she looked at Mrs. Guo and said, although I am a ghost, but I have no intention of harming people, I can kill you before but I didn't kill you, because I am here just to repay Guo Gongzi for saving my father's kindness, I want to leave an heir for him, I didn't expect you to be so vicious, although you are a human but more terrible than a ghost, I will die again and turn into a ghost so that you all die without a place to be buried."
"Eventually, though, she drowned in a pig cage."
Saying this, the old lady sighed and continued.
At this time, an old woman rushed to the village in a hurry, she kept talking while running, still a step late, and then she said to Mrs. Guo, let him quickly open the belly of the foreign woman, the person just died, the child in the belly can still live, and then scatter the family wealth to surpass the soul of the foreign woman, treat the child well, and leave the village quickly, or still live."
"Mrs. Guo has always been high-minded, and he refused to leave his hometown, so he did not accept the old woman's opinion, and Mrs. Guo heard that the child could still live, so she secretly manipulated poisonous insects to bite the child in the belly of the foreign woman."
"The old woman is a local goddess, and she has some Taoism, she quickly used a spell to stop the poisonous insects, but at this moment, two lines of blood and tears have flowed from the eyes of the foreign woman, and at the same time, the white mist began to appear......"
At this, the old lady paused and looked at us, sighed long, and then said.
"Actually, at that moment, this foreign woman was also blinded by anger, she forgot that she was actually a ghost in the first place, and as long as she gave birth to a child smoothly at this moment, she would die physically, and she would just return to her original state, and her original purpose was just to leave an heir to the Guo family."
"But human emotions are like that, like the waves of the sea, they are as difficult to control."
"The rest of the matter is easy to guess, the curse started at that time, everyone in the village died, Guo Taigong's bones were broken and died, Mrs. Guo was bitten by insects and died, Guo Gongzi was burned to death, the goddess went crazy and died, anyway, everyone looked dead."
"However, there is one person who is not actually dead, that is Guo Gongzi, that night is the 15th of July Midyear Festival, so Mrs. Guo used the last witchcraft to put Guo Gongzi's soul in the river lantern, so that his soul left the village, which was originally her last means of saving her life, but at the last moment she still became Guo Gongzi's substitute ghost."
When I heard the words "for the dead ghost", I felt a pang in my heart again, I remembered the previous thing that Qianxue used the river lantern to find the dead ghost, maybe it was not actually a trap, originally Qianxue's soul was attached to the river lantern and was about to leave the village, but the river lantern was intercepted by Situ Xiaozhu halfway, so it didn't succeed and there was a "backlash" later.
If that's the case, doesn't that mean that the dimple woman is credible?
In an instant, I felt like my head was messing up.
And the old lady continued.
"Legend has it that since then, only people who are close to this place will die inexplicably, and the range of dead people has a tendency to gradually spread."
"Then, more than a hundred years ago, a group of women came here, they built small buildings, and suppressed the evil spirits, but they couldn't lift this hundred-year curse, and they paid the price, that is, they were trapped here forever, and all those who entered here would also be trapped here......"
Speaking of this, the old lady sighed and said.
"How many people have died and how many things have happened over the years, except for the ghosts wandering here, I'm afraid no one knows."
At this, the old lady stood up, and she said with a smile as she walked outside.
"Okay, you have a good rest, I have already told you about the things you asked me to say about this village, but these are all country strange stories, and they should not be true."
She said as she slowly walked out of the main room.
I asked quickly.
"What about the kid? What happened to the child in the womb? ”
The old lady said without looking back.
"How can the old body know? I'm just hearsay. ”
With that, she disappeared outside the courtyard gate.
Everyone in the main room didn't speak, especially me, and I always felt that the reason why she told such a story or a real story should have some kind of purpose.
"Is it a hint that we can leave as long as the curse here is lifted?"
The leader, Aizen, said thoughtfully, leaning on the frame of his glasses.
I think what he said may have a point, but it should not be the real message that the old lady wants to convey to us, because, if what she says is true, this curse cannot be broken for hundreds of years, and how can we break it? So, there must be something else to it.
At this time, the leader of the cosplay into indigo said again.
"I feel like this might be an opportunity."
Then, he said with his eyes shining.
"Everybody is looking forward to adventure, and isn't what we're experiencing now just about it? Maybe we will rise from now on, dominate the Corpse Soul Realm, and dominate the world......"
I felt that this thing should have had a secondary two illness, so I didn't pay attention to him.
At this time, a man suddenly said with horror.
"Butterfly...... Butterfly ......"
We all turned our heads to look at him, and we saw that he was staring at the back of his hand with wide eyes, and a butterfly pattern appeared on the back of his hand, which was very clear, beautiful, but rather unusual.
Then he rolled up his sleeves, and I was surprised to see that his forearms were densely covered with all kinds of butterfly patterns.
"Gross!"
Someone couldn't help but vomit already.
To be honest, people with dense phobia must not be able to stand this, even I was scared all over the body, and I felt goosebumps.
"Curse...... Cursed ......"
At this time, another person said in horror.
"Do you remember that story? When Guo Gongzi married the ghost bride, a butterfly pattern appeared on his body......"
I thought about it carefully, and it seemed that this was really the case, and there was indeed such a scene in the story that the old lady had just said.
"The haunted house that the old lady said couldn't be here, could it?"
At this time, someone said in horror again.