Chapter Forty-Seven: Grandpa's Story
Seeing that I had been thinking for a long time, Da Zhuang hurriedly asked, "Have you thought about it?" I leaned one hand against the window, dragged my chin and said, "Well, I overheard my grandfather talk about this once, and he said that it was a tragedy that happened in the village when he was a child...... and I began to tell the story. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
"At that time, my grandfather was only twelve years old. He followed his parents, my great-grandfather and great-grandmother, and the family of three lived in a remote southern mountain village. Although the four seasons are like spring and the scenery is pleasant, there are only a dozen households, and the location is remote, so every once in a while, everyone will arrange for a person to go into the city to sell some vegetables and rice grown in the village, and at the same time buy some daily necessities. ”
"Once, because the man who often came to the city was sick, he had to ask another bachelor in the village to help him go into the city to sell his goods. And the bachelor had witnessed the death of his parents, and he was a little withdrawn, and he lived alone all the year round, so he had some problems in his brain, but the rest of the people in the village did not know, and those who knew did not think so. ”
The bachelor took what the village had given him, and went out of the village. Normally, you have to go out to sell goods for at least two or three days before you can come back, but the bachelor came back that night empty-handed and with a woman. ”
When they saw that he came back empty-handed, they asked him where his things had gone and what was the matter with this woman. The bachelor said that when he was walking over a mountain, he accidentally fell down the mountain, lost everything, and he himself fainted, and it was this woman who saved him. ”
Then he saw that the woman was homeless and took her back to the village. Seeing that his clothes were tattered and covered with injuries, they didn't want to pursue him any more, so they asked him to go to Langzhong in the village first to heal his injuries. ”
"Speaking of Langzhong in the village, he actually has no real skills, and he has studied Chinese medicine with others for a period of time outside, but he was kicked out because he died because he was not good at medicine. Then he ran with the fortune teller for a few years, and finally the fortune teller died, and he lived alone in this village, so he was deceived into becoming a langzhong. ”
"Although Na Langzhong has no real talent and no real learning, he can't cure those more serious diseases, but there is no problem in curing some minor diseases such as colds, wind chills, bruises, sprains, abdominal pain, diarrhea, etc. Usually, if there is surplus grain in the village, it will be distributed to Nalangzhong, and if the villagers have some minor diseases, he will give them free of charge to see the illness and treat the injury. ”
After that, the bachelor took the woman to Lang Zhong, and Lang Zhong relied on what he had learned from the fortune teller a few years ago, and with a slight glance, he felt that there was something wrong with the woman. Although this woman has a handsome appearance, her eyes are blank, her eyebrows are sinister, and there is a faint black gas on her forehead. ”
While helping the bachelor to drugged, he whispered to the bachelor that the woman could not be kept, and that if she was kept at home, it would be a disaster. But the bachelor didn't take it to heart, there was such a beautiful woman willing to follow him, it was too late to be happy, how could he care so much. ”
After the medicine was applied, the bachelor led the woman and went home. But unexpectedly, the next day, some villagers found that the bachelor had died in his own home, his death was very miserable, he was naked, and his hands and feet seemed to have been torn alive by the beast and thrown aside. ”
After hearing the news, the villagers gathered at the bachelor's house, and my grandfather was among them, and witnessed this scene at the same time as a few friends. Everyone, you and I are talking about it. And the woman who was brought back by the bachelor sat alone on the edge of the bed and cried. A kind villager asked the woman what had happened last night. ”
"The woman sobbed and said that there was a big bear in the house last night, and when the bachelor saw it, he tried to drive the bear away with a stick, but this act annoyed the bear, and the bachelor was killed in the fight with the bear, and she barely escaped by hiding under the bed."
When they heard the truth and believed it, they felt sorry for the woman, and several of them, who were also single, stood up and rushed to marry her. But at this moment, Lang Zhong also stood up, he pointed to the woman and said, this is not the case, you said that he fought to the death with the big bear, but the equipment in the house is neat, it doesn't look like he has fought at all, I'm afraid you killed him! ”
When the woman heard Lang Zhong say this, she cried even more fiercely. She covered her face and said, I am a weak woman, and I finally look forward to a man to get married, why should I kill him, you don't spray people with blood. ”
"When Lang Zhong heard this, he was afraid that everyone would be confused by her, so he hurriedly explained to everyone that when I saw her for the first time yesterday, I thought she had a problem, and I persuaded the bachelor not to take her in, but he didn't listen, so he ended up like this......"
But no matter how Lang Zhong persuaded the villagers, most of them refused to believe what he said, and said that he was a fallacy to confuse the public and deceive people. In the end, the village chief stepped forward to drive Lang Zhong out of the village, and everyone refused to give up. ”
But Na Langzhong was kind-hearted, and before leaving, he pasted a piece of talisman paper on the door of each house. But some people felt that this thing was unlucky, and turned around and tore off the talisman paper. Only a small number of people felt that it was better to believe it than not to believe it, and it didn't hurt to leave the rune paper anyway. ”
"That evening, they held a funeral for the bachelor, and buried him on the hill behind the village, and the woman took up residence in the bachelor's house."
"In the next few days, the families of those who tore off the talisman paper, the livestock in the family died one after another, and the death method was the same as that of a bachelor, they were all divided by five horses, and strangely no one found out what was done."
Then the woman said, "Look, I said there is a bear." When a few villagers heard her say this, they took out their own hunting guns, plows, and drafts, saying that they were going up the mountain to hunt bears. ”
"Contrary to expectations, after three days of painstaking searching, no big bears were found, not even tigers and leopards, and the only catch was to hunt a few hares. But in the past three days, the family's livestock continued to die one after another, the dogs who cared for the house, the cattle ploughing the fields, including chickens and ducks, were not spared. ”
"At this time, one of the villagers, who had a gun at home, volunteered to keep a vigil for everyone to see what was done."
The next day, the bad news came again, and the villagers who helped everyone keep vigil died at the entrance of the village. At this time, everyone was completely panicked, and every night, the villagers locked their doors and windows, and did not dare to take half a step out of their homes. ”
Even so, two or three more bodies were found at the entrance of the village every morning, but no one heard any noise in the village. As the days passed, the people who tore off the talisman paper on the door at that time were almost dead. The entrance of the village has long been full of corpses, like a small mountain of corpses. ”
At this time, some villagers remembered what Lang Zhong said before, but it was too late, a small mountain village with nearly 20 households and nearly 100 people, and now there are less than 20 people left. The remaining families discussed that they would burn the woman brought by the bachelor to avenge the death of the blind date. ”
"When they came to the bachelor's house, more than half a month had passed, and the room still maintained the appearance of the day the bachelor died, where there were traces of someone's life, and the woman had long since disappeared."
The rest of the families, seeing this scene, looked at each other and discussed moving out the next day. But that night, it rained heavily, lightning pierced the sky, and thunder was heard. ”
"It's also a coincidence, my grandfather happened to have a stomach upset that night, although he was a little scared, but he couldn't pull it in the house, otherwise the whole room would stink, and he couldn't sleep at all."
So he had to be bold and came to the courtyard with an umbrella. He squatted in the open-air toilet at the base of the wall, went to the toilet, and looked around in a panic from time to time. ”
At the same time, my grandfather heard a grinding sound at the courtyard gate, and he was so frightened that he almost sat on the ground. The grinding sound drowned out the sound of the rain and rang in my grandfather's ears as if a sharp claw with sharp nails was scraping his young heart, and he listened to it with straight hair. ”
"My grandfather hurriedly wiped his buttocks, put on his pants and prepared to run home. But because he was young and curious at the time, he thought to himself, it wouldn't be good to see through the door, and it wouldn't be able to get in anyway. ”
Thinking about it, my grandfather tiptoed to the courtyard gate. He cautiously lay on the side of the door, looking out of the house through the crack in the door, but it was dark, and the dark clouds were closed, there was not even a trace of moonlight, and it was pitch black outside the door, and he couldn't see anything. But the friction sound was very harsh, and every sound made my grandfather's whole body tremble, and even the umbrella was almost unstable. ”
At that moment, a flash of lightning suddenly swept through the sky, lighting up the night sky. At this moment, he saw clearly that there was a ghost like a demon like Shura. And its face was facing the direction that my grandfather looked out, bursting out of the eyeballs, pus and blood kept gushing out of the corners of the eyes, and the face seemed to be torn, revealing the white bones, and the evil ghost seemed to have seen my grandfather, and grinned at my grandfather. ”
This completely frightened my grandfather, he hurriedly took two steps back, sat on the ground, and didn't care about the umbrella that was thrown aside, and ran back to the house.
"When my grandfather's parents saw him like this, they stumbled back from outside and asked him what had happened. My grandfather told his parents what he had just seen, and his parents did not believe it, so they took a shower and changed my clothes, and said to him, "We really have to thank Na Lang Zhong ...... at that time."
"After that, my grandfather's family hugged each other and spent the night trembling. The next day, when they were about to move out with the rest of the families, they found that the runes on the doors of those houses had been washed down due to the heavy rain last night. And all of them, without exception, died at the door of their homes. ”
After that, my grandfather's family moved out on their own, moved to the county seat, and started their lives again. When my grandfather told me the story again, he told me that he didn't dare to look at any of the cracks now. Every rainy night, I will wrap the quilt tightly when I sleep. ”