Chapter 69: The Female Corpse in the River
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However, at this time, it is still unknown whether the boat can be found, and it is very likely that it has been washed away by the river.
The two brothers came to the bank of the river to look for it, and they were really lucky, Wang San'er's boat got into the reeds in a shallow water by the river, and the dense reeds were intercepted. The two brothers swam towards the boat.
Before they could swim to the boat, the two of them saw from a distance that there was a slippery thing on the boat, like a lotus root, Wang San'er screamed in fright again, turned around and swam back.
Wang San'er's second brother Wang Er'er saw that thing, although he was also a little worried in his heart, but he wanted to find out what the thing hanging on the boat was, he didn't believe that anything evil could happen in this blue sky and daylight, and besides, this is a shallow water area, the water level is only waist-deep, with his water nature, he will not be able to plant his head in waist-deep water, so he ignored Wang San'er's shouting, and swam towards the boat alone.
Swimming to the front to take a look, he was also startled, the thing on the boat gang was an arm, and the hand on the arm was tightly grasping the boat gang, Wang Er'er flickered in his heart, and wanted to turn his head and swim back, but he was curious, and he got a little closer to the boat with courage.
At this time, he could see clearly that his body was still attached under his arms, and his body was all soaked in water.
It turned out to be a "river drifter", and we call the drowned person "river drifter" here, but how can this "river drifter" have his hands on the boat?
Wang Er'er took a look into the water again, and saw a pale woman's face was leaning upward, her eyes were bloodshot, and her eyes were very wide, and at this time, she was staring at him for a moment.
Seeing this situation, Wang Er'er felt a chill in his heart, and said that it was fake not to be afraid, so he turned around and swam back.
When he returned to the shore, his brother Wang San'er was half-squatting and half-sitting on the bank of the river, trembling all over.
Wang Er'er scolded Wang San'er and dragged Wang San'er up from the ground. Subsequently, the two brothers went to the village chief Wang's house and told Wang Boss about the matter.
When Boss Wang heard this, he immediately asked his son Wang Dahe to bring a few people over to have a look.
Led by Wang Er'er, Wang Dahe took a few strong young men and rowed to the reeds.
When I found Wang San'er's boat, I saw that there was an arm on the boat, and then I looked into the water, and there was indeed a female corpse, and the face of the female corpse buried in the water still looked hideous and terrifying, just like a living person staring at them in the water.
There were more people, so they were not so afraid, and besides, in the shallow water, a few young men jumped into the water and fished the female corpse onto the boat, after which a group of people rowed the boat to the shore and carried the female corpse ashore again.
Looking at the appearance of the female corpse, the drowned time is not long, it is estimated that it was last night, the corpse has no signs of decay, the age is about twenty years old, the height is not high, and the clothes on the body are also very ordinary. None of the people present with this female corpse knew her, not from their Sanwangzhuang.
There was just one point, the female corpse's belly was very large, round, and like a big drum, and several young men looked at the corpse's belly and argued, some said that the female corpse's belly was filled with river water, and some said that the female corpse was pregnant before her death.
Wang Dahe did not participate in their argument, let a few people guard the body, and he went home himself and asked Boss Wang what to do.
As soon as Wang Boss heard that he had fished out a "river drifter", he didn't think about it, and said to Wang Dahe: "What can I do, there are people drowned in the river every three or five days, and if you can't catch the "river drifter", go to the county government to report the case, go to the nearby village to ask, see who has lost the population, if no one comes to collect the body, just find a place to bury it." ”
According to what Boss Wang said, Wang Dahe found a few fast people in the village and went to the nearby villages to report and inquire.
Until it was dark, several villagers ran all over the nearby villages, and no one came to claim the body.
Wang Dahe thought about it, even if it was not dark, don't ask again, on such a hot day, the female corpse was designated to send the corpse overnight, and it was not a matter to keep it by the river all the time, so it was buried while it was not dark.
Wang Dahe led a few people to wrap the female corpse in a straw mat and bury it in the barren slope in the southeast of the village.
The barren slope in the southeast of the village is where my great-grandfather met the Qingshui cultists pretending to be "mind eaters" there.
This place has been mentioned in the past, throwing dead children, burying lonely and widowed old people, the evil atmosphere is extremely heavy, at the same time, it is also a place to bury the "river drifter", once someone in Sanwangzhuang fishes out the dead body in the river, if no one claims it, it will also be carried to this place to be buried, how many years down, I don't know how many unknown lonely ghosts are buried here.
After burying the woman's corpse, I originally thought that this matter would be over, but no one thought that this was the beginning.
On the third day of burying the woman's corpse, a strange thing happened in the village, the dogs in the village disappeared en masse overnight, and there was no male or female, no matter how big or small. In the past, those dogs were all native-born rookie dogs, and they were not leashed, and every family had "dog climbing holes", "cat road eyes" or something, which were specially used for those cats and dogs raised at home.
This thing was very abnormal, the people in the village did not hear the dog bite in the middle of the night, and there was no blood on the ground, as if there was some powerful evil thing in the village, which scared all the dogs away.
Two days later, that is, five days after the female corpse was buried, the cattle in the village began to disembowel something for no reason, two or three heads a night, and the situation was exactly the same as my grandfather's horse.
Another day, on the sixth day, many people heard the cry of children at night, and they don't know where it came from, the cry was sharp and piercing, very terrifying, and it was different from the crying of children in the past when children disappeared, in the past, some people could hear and some people could not hear, this, the whole village could hear this.
After more than ten days of trouble, the donkeys and horses pulling the carts and the ploughing cattle in the fields basically caused more than half of the disaster, but no one saw what the disaster was caused.
At this time, many people in the village speculated that it might be a murderous scene, why do you guess so much, if it is some ferocious beasts that harm the livestock, those dogs in the village will bite and bark, even if they dare not meet those beasts, these dogs will at least bark twice, remind the owner of the house, can scare the dogs away without saying a word, only these evil things.
The villagers asked the village chief, Mr. Wang, to sum up, and it was best to invite my great-grandfather back and let him see it.
Just when Wang Dahe set up the carriage and Wang Boss was about to personally go to Weishi County to invite my great-grandfather, a middle-aged man passed by in Sanwangzhuang.
The middle-aged man looked to be in his early forties, carrying a shabby felt baggage, his clothes and appearance were very ordinary, his speech was not a local accent, and he looked like a passer-by in a hurry.
He may have inquired from the villagers that Boss Wang is the village chief, stopped Boss Wang's carriage, and said to Boss Wang, "Your village is not clean, there is something to trouble, if you don't get rid of it quickly, there will be endless troubles."
When Boss Wang heard this, he asked him, "How do you know that our village is not clean now?" ”
The middle-aged man replied, "That's what I do, and I can smell something unclean with my nose." ”
Hearing the middle-aged man say this, Boss Wang was suspicious, and asked him again, "Then do you know what kind of unclean thing is in our village, and do you have a way to get rid of it?" ”
The middle-aged man pondered for a while and said, "What is it, can you get rid of it, I have to ask you the land lord here to know." ”
The Lord of the Land, also called the Lord of the City God in some places, is a small god who blesses the people. In the past, there was basically a land temple in every village. However, no one can say whether there is a land lord in this world.
After the middle-aged man finished speaking, he was not verbose, nor did he ask Boss Wang for money and things, and immediately asked Boss Wang to find a porcelain bowl, and the porcelain bowl was filled with half a bowl of water.
Subsequently, under the watchful eyes of many villagers, the middle-aged man came to the intersection in the center of the village with half a bowl of water, and instructed Wang Boss to have people use hoes to dig a handful of soil in the four directions of the east, south, west, and north of the village.
After the villagers dug the soil, the middle-aged man asked the villagers to dig a handful of soil in the center of the crossroads, pinched a handful of soil in the five directions of the southeast, northwest, and scattered them into a bowl, and took out a bamboo skewer from the felt skin wrapper, and stirred the water into a muddy soup.
The middle-aged man held half a bowl of muddy soup to his chest, muttered something in his mouth for a while, and after that, he was not too dirty, and he tilted his neck and poured all the water into his mouth.
The water was not swallowed by the middle-aged man, all of it was in his mouth, causing the two cheeks to bulge, which looked very strange, and then the middle-aged man closed his eyes and sat cross-legged in the middle of the crossroads, with a solemn face.
At this time, those villagers watched from a distance, not knowing what the middle-aged man was going to do.
After a while, the villagers heard a strange "purr" in the middle-aged man's mouth, which sounded like a pigeon's call, and it was low and high, like two pigeons talking to each other, asking and answering.
After a while, the sound stopped, and the middle-aged man slowly opened his eyes, took a "poof", and spit out all the water from his mouth.
I heard my grandmother say that the middle-aged people use this is called the "thorny soil method", take the five sides of the soil, ask the land lord, can ask the good fortune and evil, this method is its own, it is also a folk thaumaturgy, but I don't know if this method is still there, anyway, I haven't seen it.
This middle-aged man, according to my grandmother's speculation, should be a strange person who travels all over the world, and the purpose of the tour is to practice.
At this time, the middle-aged man wiped his mouth, walked up to Boss Wang and asked Boss Wang, "Did you bury a female corpse here a few days ago?" ”
When Boss Wang heard this, he immediately felt that the middle-aged man was not simple, and hurriedly said: "Bury it, bury it in the barren slope southeast of the village." ”
The middle-aged man said: "The place where this woman's corpse is buried is not good, it has already melted, and it will be a corpse in the future. ”