Chapter 127: The Widow's Red Dress
At this time, it was already evening, and my grandfather finished work on the fishing boat, and as soon as he entered the house, he heard someone shouting in the yard, and hurriedly walked out.
I saw a little old man of the same age standing in the courtyard, the old man had a dusty face, a broken straw hat on his head, and his clothes were patched and patched, and he was dressed quite coldly.
My grandfather is well-informed, and as soon as he looks at the old man's dress, he knows that he came from the ravine, and when he looks at the anxious look, there is something wrong with the family.
When the old man saw my grandfather, he asked, "This old brother, is Master Xuanyi?" ”
My grandfather smiled slightly: "That's my father, asleep in it." ”
My grandfather said, and brought in the old man.
At this time, my great-grandfather was asleep, and when he heard someone shouting outside, he got up from the bed, and just got dressed and came out of it.
The old man looked at my great-grandfather and hesitated.
My great-grandfather didn't notice it, and asked the old man what he was looking for.
The old man was not in a hurry at this moment, and he was not in a hurry as he was when he first entered the door, and he looked very embarrassed to see my great-grandfather stand up.
At this time, my grandmother brought the food to the table and called my great-grandfather to eat with my grandfather.
My grandfather politely asked the old man if he had eaten, the old man looked at the food on the table and pursed his lips, and my grandfather hurriedly asked my grandmother to serve a bowl to the old man.
The old man probably came in a hurry, and it seemed that he had not eaten for a day, but drank five bowls of polenta and ate three large pancakes in one go. Seeing the amount of food that the old man eats, my grandfather is sweating in his heart, he is enough to eat, this old man can eat better than him.
After eating, my great-grandfather asked the old man if there was something evil going on in the family, and at this time my great-grandmother, my grandfather, my grandmother, and my grandfather all sat around and looked at him.
In front of everyone's eyes, the old man looked very restrained, and he didn't know where to put his hands and feet, and after meeting my great-grandfather's family one by one for a while, his throat moved, and he seemed a little embarrassed to speak.
Seeing this, my great-grandmother got up from the stool and asked my grandmother to help her back to the room to rest.
In the hall, there are three left: my great-grandfather, my grandfather, and the old man.
My grandfather said to the old man: "If my brother has anything to say, if there are some things that are not good for outsiders to hear, we just don't tell others after listening to them." ”
The old man hurriedly waved his hand: "No, no, I don't mean that." As he spoke, the old man looked at my great-grandfather, "The old man is so old, I'm afraid he won't be able to climb the mountain road." ”
"Oh" my grandfather understood as soon as he heard it, this old brother designated to live in a deep ravine, and he had to climb the mountain in the past, my great-grandfather was so old, it was okay to walk on a flat road, and it was indeed a little difficult to climb the mountain, if you hired someone to carry it with a sliding rod, the old man was so poor, it was estimated that he could not afford to pay for the sliding rod.
Since my grandfather and my grandmother got married, for so many years, because my great-grandfather was standing there at home, my grandfather almost never helped anyone to do this kind of thing, and it was all my great-grandfather who did it. Over time, many outsiders only know that there is a master Xuanyi in Sanwangzhuang, but they forget his existence as a "dragon slayer", which is very sad for my grandfather.
My great-grandfather spoke at this time, "What's the matter, I can't walk the mountain road, and it's the same for my child, you say, what's the matter." ”
When the old man heard my great-grandfather say this, he looked at my grandfather and asked, "This old man...... Will you? ”
Hearing the old man's words, my grandfather laughed. My grandfather said in his heart, nonsense, you don't want to inquire about who I am when you come to our Sanwangzhuang.
My grandfather said to the old man, "My father taught me a little when I was a child, so tell me quickly, what the hell is going on." ”
The old man looked at my grandfather suspiciously, and then he spoke.
This old man's surname is Bai, his name is Yueshan, and his family lives in the tethered horse village in the north of the mountain.
The origin of the name "Tethered Horse Village" is unknown, but at that time it was a small village with only a dozen households, surrounded by mountains, and a stream on the mountain passed by the west end of the village from north to south.
In the tethered horse village, there is a twenty-seven or eight-year-old widow, surnamed Zhang, the village people call her Widow Zhang, Widow Zhang's man died of illness five years ago, there are no old people and no children in the family, and there is only one widow Zhang left after the man dies.
It is not easy for people in the mountains to marry daughters-in-law, Widow Zhang was brought by her man from outside the mountain, she looks good, and before her man died, there were a few bachelors in the village who were worried about her. After the man died, a few bachelors were in the arms, and several people asked the matchmaker to take turns to go to Widow Zhang's house to talk about matchmaking, but Widow Zhang didn't know for what reason, she just didn't agree, and she kept the widow at a young age.
As the saying goes, there are many rights and wrongs in front of the widow's door.
One night half a year ago, Widow Zhang's howl suddenly came from Widow Zhang's house, the sound was quite loud, and the villagers who heard it knew very well in their hearts that this was a bold bachelor who touched Widow Zhang's house and was harming Widow Zhang. However, none of the villagers who heard it went to stop her, feeling that she was asking for herself, who told her to be young and widowed, and to covet these bachelors in the village.
With the first time, there was a second time, and since the day of the fight, the villagers could hear Widow Zhang howling in the house every once in a while, sometimes even during the day.
Not long after, Widow Zhang went crazy, her hair was disheveled all day long, and she ran around and screamed outside the village.
Before Widow Zhang was not crazy, she liked to hum a few mountain songs when she had nothing to do, and after she went crazy, when she didn't run or scream, she kept singing a few words in her mouth: "Sister outside the mountain, Shanli Lang, looking at the mountain beam in twos and twos, my sister shouted Lang Come and see, look at my sister's red clothes ......" while singing, crying, looking very pitiful.
One day, Widow Zhang was bullied again, as if she had been dragged to the mountain beam to be bullied, and Widow Zhang's howl echoed in the valley, and the people in the whole village could hear it clearly.
Not long after the howling stopped, some villagers found the body of Widow Zhang at the bottom of the valley, as if it had fallen from Shangliang Mountain, the body had fallen into a blur of flesh and blood, if it weren't for the red clothes on the body, it would have been seen that the pile of rotten meatloaf was a person......
Because Widow Zhang had no friends or relatives in the village, no one collected her body, so she was left to dry in the valley. For Widow Zhang's death, the people in the village were obviously very numb, and no one investigated whether she jumped off by herself, or someone pushed her down, not only that, but some girls in the village also scolded her for dying well, who called her immodest and stealing men all day long.
The next day, some villagers found that Widow Zhang's pile of rotten meat was gone, and only the red clothes were left, and the clothes were scratched by some wild beasts, and the villagers speculated that Widow Zhang's body might have been eaten by wolves at night.
On the seventh day after Widow Zhang's death, strange things began to happen in the village, first the dogs in the village disappeared overnight, and then followed the dead animals, and the animals that were still alive at night, got up early the next morning, and died straight in the circle (juan's fourth sound), if it was said that it was bitten to death by a wild beast, but there was no injury on the body, the eyes were red, and there were tear stains in the corners of the eyes, as if they were scared to death by something.
Half a month later, the cattle in the village were no longer dead, and the oldest old bachelor in the village, Zhou Cripple, went crazy.
Zhou is in his fifties, in addition to farming, he also shaves his head, but because he is lame, he has never begged his daughter-in-law.
After Zhou Cripple went crazy, he didn't know where to get a red dress, so he wore it all day long and ran around the village.
One day, Zhou Cripple was wearing red clothes, holding a razor in his hand, and singing in a coquettish voice: "Sister outside the mountain, Shanli Lang, looking at the mountain beam, sister shouted Lang Come and see, look at my sister's red clothes......"
Singing a song, holding a razor, limping to the village to a few nagging girls, smiling at a few girls, suddenly took off his pants, grabbed the guy on his leg fork with one hand, pressed the razor with the other hand, stabbed and stabbed a few times, and cut off his guy bloodily, a few nagging girls were scared on the spot, and the other crying fathers ran away.
When the men in the village heard that they were coming, Zhou was gone, and in the evening of the next day, someone found a puddle of rotten meat in the place where Widow Zhang fell, and on top of the rotten meat, there was a red dress......
Some people say that the pile of rotten meat is Zhou Cripple, and some people in the village are afraid, why is it so coincidental, Zhou Cripple also fell in that place in red clothes.
Less than half a month has passed since the incident of Zhou Cripple, and the sheepherd in the village has gone crazy again, and the shepherd is in his early forties and is also a bachelor.
When the shepherd went crazy, he didn't know where he got a red dress, and he sang the song in the red dress, and took the leader of the flock to ride as a horse, but of course the leader did not let him ride, and finally the leader was furious, and he ran around with him, and accidentally fell down the cliff with the sheep. The shepherd and the leader were broken to pieces, and there was still a red robe on the rotten meat.
After the incident of the sheepherd, all the people in the village were afraid, especially those men who had bullied Widow Zhang, all of them did not dare to go out at home, just like that, they should have come or couldn't hide, and soon went crazy again, this is not a bachelor, there are wives and children at home, in their thirties, crazy for a few days, and inexplicably fell off the mountain beam, on his pile of rotten meat, there is still a creepy red dress!
At this time, the people in the village were completely frightened, and they all picked up the sheets and fled to the mountains as if they were fleeing from the wilderness, those who had relatives looked for relatives, and those who did not have relatives went out to ask for food.
There is a way, I didn't do anything wrong, and I wasn't afraid of ghosts calling the door. #~@@
This old man named Bai Yueshan has a family full of people, and no man in the family has bullied Widow Zhang. Seeing that other people's families were running out of the mountain, a few men were nothing, Bai Yueshan's wife couldn't hold her breath, so she discussed with Bai Yueshan, "Everyone in the village has run away, let's run too." ”
At this time, nearly four months had passed since the day of Widow Zhang's death.
Bai Yueshan said to his wife, "What are we running, our family hasn't done anything wrong, seeing that Fugen'er and his daughter-in-law are about to give birth, you call her to be on the road, and the wheat in the field is almost ripe, people have run away, what should I do with the wheat, don't do it!" ”
That's it, Lao Bai's family and another Lao Wang's family, these two families didn't run. But it's strange to say that nothing really happened to these two families.
Half a month later, the old Bai family and the old Wang family An Ansheng harvested the wheat, and the old Bai family waited for the child in Fugen's daughter-in-law's belly to be born. As for the old Wang's family, when they saw that the people in the village had run out, and the wheat in their field was about to be blown up in the ground, they felt that it was a pity, so they took the whole family to harvest the wheat in other people's fields.
Lao Wang's family has a little grandson, four or five years old, who is not sensible, and when the adults harvest wheat in the field, he runs and plays in the field.
Friends who live in the mountains must know very well that the land in the mountains is all terraced fields, one by one, this little grandson is running and running in the field, and his head is planted from the ground, and the bottom is not high, it is also a wheat field, and those adults are busy harvesting wheat and don't see him, this child, he didn't cry, and when he climbed back to the field from the wheat field below, he was actually dressed in a red dress like blood...... - The Last Ghost Hunter-