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Boss Ma's honest face showed a look of panic. He took a few puffs of his pipe, and finally sighed: "For decades, there has been an accident in the ancestral house, and since then, our people have locked up the ancestral house and left it uninhabited for many years. I thought it would be okay again, but I didn't expect it to happen, alas......"

I hurriedly asked, "What happened in this house decades ago?" Also, what is the origin of this peculiar burial custom at the bottom of the well? "I've only heard of cremation, water burial, earth burial, sky burial, and even space burial, but I've never heard of burial at the bottom of a well.

Boss Ma then began to talk about the old things of the ancestral house:

It turned out that the ancestors of the Ma family had several big officials, and they were all famous families in the township in the Ming and Qing dynasties. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, there was an ancestor of the Ma family who was a high school jinshi, and after the official worshiped the Beijing Mansion, he began to build this official residence. As part of the construction plan, a well was dug in the garden.

When the well was dug to a depth of about five meters, Ma Fucheng heard from the servant who dug the well that there was something strange underground. What's the weird method? They said that a crack had been carved into the stone wall at the bottom of the well, and a strong cold air oozed from the crack. It was a scorching summer, but when a person stood at the bottom of the well for a minute, he was so cold that he had goosebumps.

Holding a candle and looking through the crack, there seems to be a lot of space in the black hole.

Ma Fucheng listened to the strange things that the servants said, so he went down to the bottom of the well to inspect it, and it was true. At that moment, Ma Fucheng was shocked, so he ordered someone to dig the crack, and he wanted to go in to find out.

A few servants braved the cold, and dug a big hole at the bottom of the well, which was amazing, and it was a huge karst cave inside, covered with colorful stalagmites and stalactites, and in the dim light, it showed a kind of unique magnificence of nature. Listening carefully in the cave, you can faintly hear the sound of gurgling water, and it is clear that there is an underground river nearby. As for where that strong cold breath came from, I can't find a reasonable explanation, perhaps, this geographical location is more unique.

There are three openings in the depths of the cave, and I don't know where they lead. Ma Fucheng led his servants into every fork in the road, but they walked more than 200 meters and still couldn't see the end! Ma Fucheng was worried that he would encounter accidents if he continued to go deeper, so he did not go any further.

Not only is the temperature in the cave very low, but the fact that a piece of earth from the ground is as black as coal dust shows that it is a good place to preserve the corpse. Ma Fucheng invited a famous feng shui gentleman, pinched his fingers, and said, this is an excellent feng shui treasure! Ma Fucheng had the idea to rebuild this cave into a family cemetery to keep the body from decaying for a long time.

After Ma Fucheng's death, the children of the clan followed his will and placed his coffin in the cave. Since then, the descendants of the Ma family have followed this burial custom, and the more prestigious elders of the mortal clan will be buried in the cave after death. As the days went by, there were dozens of ancestors of the Ma family who slept in the cave.

Time has changed, and the stars have changed. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, in the first year of Xuantong, the world was in turmoil, the warlords were divided, and there were many bandits who did evil everywhere. Even Majia Village, a small remote land, inevitably gave birth to some cases of wealthy families being kidnapped and ancestral graves being stolen and excavated.

An elder of the clan who was once lifted up, after being kidnapped by gangsters, his family spent a lot of money to ransom him back. Ma Juren escaped from death, and he felt that the world was not good, and he was worried that the ancestral grave would be dug up, destroying feng shui, and affecting the longevity of future generations. So he ordered someone to build the entrance to the family cemetery into a well, and the hole at the bottom of the well was blocked with a large stone, so that it could not be seen from the ground.

Then a mansion was built on the cemetery, which was not used for lodging, but only for worship and sacrifice.

With the careful care of the children of the clan, this Qing Dynasty Juren Mansion has been well preserved, on weekdays, the gate is locked, and it is only opened for the descendants to sacrifice during the New Year's Festival. However, when it was passed down to Boss Ma's father's generation, that is, when he was eight years old, a shocking and strange thing happened in the old mansion.

At that time, Boss Ma had two good playmates, one named Ah Xiang and the other called Erxi, both of whom were slightly older than Boss Ma and were very naughty and mischievous. On the side of Boss Ma, he is an honest child, who usually just follows the ghost ideas of the two of them and plays behind him, and he rarely participates in those things that are beaten by adults.

One evening, the three of them came to the wall of the Ma family's old house, and there was a big banyan tree outside the wall, which had grown for quite a few years, and the thick horizontal girl crossed the wall and stretched into the garden.

Ah Xiang saw that there was a bird's nest on the horizontal side that reached into the garden, so he began to be mischievous and wanted to climb up to dig up the bird's eggs. He was a small man, with his hands and feet, and he quickly climbed up the fence and over the wall to the top of the garden. Erxi and Boss Ma stood sideways under the tree, looking up at him.

Ah Xiang put all the eggs in his pocket, looked down again, and shouted out to the wall, "I have a well down here!" From my position, I can clearly see the bottom of the well! As he spoke, he waved his hand excitedly and loudly.

Erxi said, "Be careful! Hurry down after digging! ”

Ah Xiang was about to turn around and come down, when suddenly, a sound of wings fluttering sounded in his ears. It turned out that the mahjong mother came back, and when she saw that the bird's eggs were taken away by Ah Xiang, she was very angry, and flapped her wings hard and rushed straight to Ah Xiang's face. Ah Xiang sat on the trunk of a tree that was not too thick, there was no way to avoid it, and he twisted it a few times, and he actually carried it down!

Erxi and Boss Ma screamed at the same time, and hurriedly shouted: "Ah Xiang! What's wrong with you? ”

After a while, I heard Ah Xiang's voice coming from the bottom of the well: "Ouch...... It hurts me! I've got my foot broken, you guys get someone to get me up!" ”

The two children immediately ran home and called the adults over. When they led a group of people back to the wall, along with ropes and ladders, it was already dark and they couldn't see what was going on under the well.

People surrounded the ancient well and shouted loudly to the well: "Ah Xiang! Cheung! There was no response for a long time. When the flashlight was turned on, everyone was stunned, and Ah Xiang was lying at the bottom of the well, drenched in blood, and his eyes were wide! It looked like he was terrified. He lay motionless, and the people on the ground felt a sense of foreboding.

Ah Xiang's father hurriedly put down the ladder, quickly jumped to the bottom of the well, touched Ah Xiang's body, the corpse had no pulse and no breathing, so he howled and cried, and got Ah Xiang out of the ancient well.

The people around me also listened sadly.

Just when Xiang's father was about to touch the well railing, suddenly, a strange cry of "whoop" came from the well, very similar to the roar of a lion and a tiger. His heart sank, and he immediately stopped crying.

The rest of the people standing by the well also heard it clearly, and hurriedly pulled Xiang's father up, blocked the mouth of the well with large stones, locked the door of the house, and hid far away.

Since then, the clansmen rarely enter the old house, and occasionally three or so people will go in in broad daylight to clean up, and after worshipping, they will hurriedly lock the door.

……

A few years later, on a full moon night, Daddy Ma couldn't sleep, so he went outside to smoke a cigarette. Suddenly, through the wall, he faintly heard movement in the old ancestral house.

Could it be that there are bad people who climb over the wall to get in?

He was very curious, and forgot for a moment that Ah Xiang died a few years ago, so he leaned a bamboo ladder against the wall beside him, and crept up to take a look, but he was so frightened that his legs were weak and he almost fell down. He saw that the large stone pressed at the mouth of the ancient well had been lifted off at some point, and dozens of ancestors of the Ma family were standing in the garden with their mouths open, absorbing the essence of the moon. The ancestors had gloomy faces, sharp fangs, and ten fingertips sharpened and blackened; Moreover, they walk with their feet together, jumping one high and one low!

Daddy Ma finally understands how Ah Xiang died! He didn't dare to come out, and watched the group of monsters jump back into the well one by one, only to come back to his senses and flee back to the house with a crawl.

The next day, Daddy Ma changed a bigger lock and strictly ordered the old and young people in the clan not to enter the ancestral house. So in the past few decades, nothing has happened.