Chapter 6: Digging a Grave in the Middle of the Night
When we arrived at my uncle's house, there were already many people in the yard, whispering something to each other, and some people saw our family of three coming, and immediately shut up, looking at us with strange eyes and a feeling of disgust.
Thinking about it, I just ran here in the morning to quarrel with my aunt, and my aunt hanged herself in the evening, if it has nothing to do with the morning incident, even I don't believe it.
However, although my aunt played a sympathetic role in the morning, her vicious heart and mean mouth did not look like such a self-defeating person!
What the hell is going on?
After we hurried into the hall, there was still a knotted white silk hanging on the beam of the hall, and the eldest aunt was lying on the bed with a pale face, a bruise on her neck, and her eyes were wide open, as if she had a feeling of death.
There were several old people from the village standing in the house, all of whom had a relatively high reputation in the village, and they were sighing with embarrassment. The eldest cousin and sister-in-law were kneeling in front of the bed, crying with mournful faces.
Seeing us enter the house, before we could get close to the bed, the eldest cousin stood up suddenly, and yelled at us with a hideous face: "The surname is Zhang, my mother is angry with you, are you happy now?" Get out, get out of here, I won't have any relatives like you in the future......"
The eldest cousin was furious, those old people also looked at us coldly, my parents' faces were ugly, and finally my father dragged my mother away with an angry face, and was kicked out without saying a word after coming in, and those people in the village looked at us even more wrongly, pointing at us and saying something, anyway, there must be no good words.
After leaving the door of his uncle's house, Miao Chun said to his parents who were full of anger and grievances: "You go home quickly and remember what I explained!" ”
Then Miao Chun hurriedly pulled me out of the village and rushed to the cemetery on the mountain.
After leaving the village, I saw that Miao Chun's face was still ugly, and I cautiously asked, "My aunt ...... her?"
"Not hanged!" Miao Chun directly interrupted my words, looked back in the direction of my uncle's house, and said in a solemn tone: "I was strangled to death by a ghost!" ”
"Ahh I couldn't help but exclaim, looking at Miao Chun with wide eyes.
His face was complicated, and he said in a deep voice: "If you don't kill people, you will be killed, before she used a paper figure to write your birthday, and she must have used her own blood." Your uncle's ghost is stained with a strong grudge, and you were saved by me in the morning, and this is just ...... Alas, I also ignored this! ”
Hearing him say this, I trembled in my heart, and wanted to say that this was retribution, but now I am not in the mood to do so, and I am even more worried that my uncle's ghost will find me.
"Your uncle's family is a little resentful now, and your aunt's body can't be kept for a long time, otherwise it will be easy to change!" Miao Chun said in a deep voice: "Let's go to the cemetery first, and when we come back, we must cremate your aunt's body as soon as possible, otherwise...... Damn, it's been a long time since I've encountered a ghost, and now I'm lucky, it's tricky! ”
I don't know what he's scolding and muttering there, I just know that I've been too old lately, whether I'm going to find a time to go to the temple to burn incense or something, to get rid of the bad luck on my body.
Coming to the foot of the mountain, Miao Chun paused, looked at the dense cemetery halfway up the mountain, pointed in one direction, and asked in a low voice, "Is your uncle's grave in that location?" ”
I nodded, looked at him a little confused, and said, "How do you know?" ”
The corners of his eyes twitched, and he said with a solemn face: "That direction is full of resentment, and it's about to catch up with the ghosts!" ”
I don't even want to go up the mountain when he says this, but I also know that if I can't solve this trouble tonight, I don't know if my life will be gone one day!
Gritting my teeth, I took Miao Chun up the mountain, and when I came to my uncle's grave, I clinged to Miao Chun's side tightly, observing the surroundings with fear.
Miao Chun looked at my uncle's grave, frowned slightly, then turned his gaze to the cemetery to the south, and muttered, "That is the grave of the woman who died in childbirth!" The resentment is too heavy, and it has all spread here...... Let's go over there! ”
The woman's grave was only a hundred meters away from my uncle's grave, and the location of the graveyard was relatively remote, and I felt lonely.
Just as Miao Chun and I were about to go over, Miao Chun suddenly grabbed me and squatted on the ground, and at the same time made a gesture to silence me. Before I could come back to my senses, I saw a faint light on the south side of the cemetery, and a tall, strong figure sneaking towards the woman's grave.
I don't know this guy, he's not from our village, and if he sneaks here in the middle of the night, nothing good will happen.
Miao Chun quietly tugged at my sleeve and motioned for me to follow him, and we cautiously moved over there, hiding behind a grave more than ten meters away from the man, secretly watching the guy's actions to see what he was going to do.
The stout fellow came to the woman's grave, bowed to it, and then took out a small shovel and dug it up from one side of the grave.
Grave digging and robbing?
Seeing this, my eyes widened and I almost screamed.
Miao Chun covered my mouth and whispered in my ear: "Don't be silent, don't let him find out, see what he wants to do!" ”
It is taboo to dig up people's graves, that guy is tall and strong, and he has a bulging baggage, and there are iron tools in his hands, if he really finds out, he will definitely not let us go.
The woman's grave was not a monument, but a mound grave, and the stout fellow, wielding a shovel in his hand, dug very quickly, and in a short time he dug most of the grave.
In the mound, a straw mat and a pair of women's feet wrapped in straw mats were exposed.
This woman had a hard life, died in childbirth, her mother-in-law didn't care about it, her mother's family took her back and buried it, she couldn't erect a monument without a name, her mother's family was relatively poor, and she couldn't even afford a decent coffin, so she could only be hastily wrapped in a straw mat and buried.
There were no coffins, let alone any burial goods, so I couldn't figure out what this stout guy was doing in the middle of the night digging graves and robbing tombs.
And Miao Chun stared at the sturdy man, and his face gradually became ugly.
After the man opened the grave, he gasped and threw aside the shovel in his hand, jumped into the grave with the large package, and carefully lifted the straw mat that wrapped the woman's corpse.
The straw mat was opened, and a foul smell came out, although we were more than ten meters away, we could still smell the faint unpleasant smell of decaying corpses. The female corpse lay quietly in the grave pit, her face was pale, her face was dotted with corpse spots, and she was quite terrible in the middle of the night.
The man was probably also a little scared, knelt beside the female corpse, and said in a trembling voice: "Cousin-in-law, my cousin's family is sorry for you, you didn't let your mother and son be buried together when you died." Their family is so bad, I've sent the child now, you can go with peace of mind! ”
As he spoke, the man took out a small coffin with a delicate shape more than a foot long from the big baggage, and lifted the lid of the coffin, and inside was the body of a curled up baby, dry.
At this moment, the eyes of the female corpse opened suddenly, and a trace of hideous color appeared on her face full of corpse spots, and there was not the slightest color in her gray eyes.
The man shuddered for a moment, and hurriedly placed the body of the shriveled baby on the chest of the female corpse, and the female corpse slowly stretched out her arms and hugged the shriveled baby corpse tightly.
After seeing this scene, a cool breath rose in my back, my scalp was numb, and my heart almost stopped beating, it was so weird!
And Miao Chun seemed a little nervous at this time, his eyes were still staring at the man, to be precise, at the small black coffin in the man's hand.
After seeing the female corpse hugging the baby's corpse tightly, the man swallowed a mouthful of saliva and cautiously said to the female corpse: "Cousin, cousin, their family is all beasts, if you believe me, I will take this grievance for you, okay?" ”
As he spoke, the man took out a white candle from his pocket, lit it, and held the candle close to the face of the female corpse, and used the candle flame to burn the female corpse's chin.