21, Cannibal Curse (II)

The villagers followed the bloodstains until they found the hollowed-out jade mine cave in the back mountain, and found the old woman's body in the cave. The old woman sliced both of her wrists with a knife, splattering her own blood all over the hole. At that time, there was a large number of Shanghaode rough jade stored in the mine, and the blood stained not only could not be removed, but also emitted a strong smell of blood.

Seeing that the priceless inventory had become worthless rotten, the villagers took out their anger on the old woman, who had died. They chopped the old woman into meat sauce and gave it to everyone in the village, even children as young as two or three years old.

After the old woman's death, this special hunting activity in Sanliangzi Village lasted for another half a year before it finally came to an end.

And the reason why the word "end" is not used is because at the end of the sixth or third year, the village began to eat people again, but this time it was not the "wild boar" caught from the outside, but the people in the village, and the cannibal was Old Man Chen himself.

According to Old Man Chen's own recollection, on the day he ate people, he was still awake during the day, no different from usual, but in the evening, he suddenly felt very hungry and wanted to eat everything he saw.

At that time, his grandmother was at home, but when Old Man Chen saw his grandmother, it was like seeing the most delicious thing in the world, so he rushed over and bit his grandmother to death, and then ate his grandmother's meat at home. By the time he came to his senses again, the left half of his grandmother's body had been gnawed out by him.

Old man Chen's father initially thought that this was their retribution for cannibalism, but in the following days, there were continuous instances of his family eating each other. Old man Chen and his father thought of the bloodstained jade and the old lady, and then asked a friend to invite a wizard to the village, and that wizard was the wolf Zhang Zi Zhang Zhi.

After Zhang Zhi came to the village to see it, he told Old Man Chen that his father was a blood curse, and then he asked in detail what happened.

And when Zhang Zhi learned that the old woman who had left the blood curse was eaten by the villagers, he shook her head, saying that everyone who ate the old woman's meat was cursed, and this curse would be passed down from generation to generation until it was extinct. The person who is cursed will become bloodthirsty and inhumane, which can only be relieved by killing people and eating meat, and the only way to break the curse is to self-inflict on their limbs, that is, to eat their own hands and feet.

Old man Chen's father was worried that one day he would suddenly go crazy and eat his son, and he didn't want his son to become a bloodthirsty madman, so he gritted his teeth and cut off his son's arms first to let his son self-inflictate. After that, he also cut off one of his arms and one leg and ate it himself.

This is also the reason why Old Man Chen has no arms.

Zhang Zhi left a way to solve the curse, and at the same time let the people of Sanliangzi Village know the danger of this blood curse.

However, there are not many people in the whole village who are willing to break the spell through autophagy like the Chen family, and they prefer to use another way to keep themselves awake and not devour their families, and this way is to return to the traditional activity of the village - hunting the living!

Maybe the old woman who left this blood curse wanted the people of Sanliangzi Village to gnaw on each other, and Zuihou didn't want to die well, but in the end, because of Zhang Zhi's few words, Sanliangzi Village completely became a murderous village later-from the middle curse villagers of Sanliangzi Village made this decision to kill people and solve the curse, and they completely abandoned a trace of Zuihou's humanity.

Zhang Zhi knew that things were beyond his ability, so he gave up Sanliangzi Village. And he only briefly wrote down in his notes that there had been a blood curse in six or three years, and warned his descendants not to seek their roots, so as not to enter the cannibal village and cause death.

As for the reason why Zhang Zhi didn't write the details of the blood curse, I don't think he wanted to protect the Chen family, but didn't want his descendants to know that this cannibal village was born because of him in a sense.

In the following decades, the killing methods of Sanliangzi Village also changed many times, and Zuihou formed a fixed and stable routine: the villagers went to the city to use the accumulated jade as bait to attract those greedy jade dealers into the village, and the villagers first gave warm hospitality, then stole mobile phones and other tools that could contact the outside world, and then brought people to the village for hunting.

Old man Chen secretly escaped from the village after his father's death. He was afraid that the people of Sanliangzi Village would kill him, and at the same time, he didn't want to remember his experience of eating human flesh again, so he kept his name incognito and always buried the murderous secret of Sanliangzi Village in his heart.

However, in early May this year, things changed, and Qian Fushun's cannibalism in the mine attracted the attention of Old Man Chen.

Qian Fushun's family used to be the head of the Sanliangzi bandits, and the first to arrest people and come back to eat was also the Qian family's people, and later they were the ones who wanted to go out of the village to deceive people and come back to eat. Old man Chen knows this very well, he is always worried that the people of the Qian family will find him, so while hiding, he has been secretly paying attention to the Qian family's every move, and this year Qian Fushun suddenly ate people in the mine. Although the incident was not reported, Old Man Chen still learned the truth through other miners. After thinking about it, Old Man Chen finally decided to write the letter to Zhang Zhi, hoping that Zhang Zhi could have a way to solve everything.

After the letter was sent, Old Man Chen wanted to hide at home and leave nothing behind, but a few days later, he couldn't help but come out.

Old man Chen knew that Qian Fushun put jade in the warehouse, and he also knew that it was the bait used in the village to "fish", so he decided to go there to have a look, and he happened to see Zhang Yuchi setting fire in the warehouse! In the words of Old Man Chen, Zhang Yuchi looked exactly like Zhang Zhi back then, and he even thought that Zhang Zhi had returned to old age.

Of course, after that, Old Man Chen knew that Zhang Zhi was dead, and Zhang Yuchi was just Zhang Zhi's grandson.

Old man Chen told Zhang Yuchi everything about Sanliangzi Village, and Zhang Yuchi immediately decided to go to Sanliangzi Village after hearing it, and asked Old Man Chen as an introducer. Zhang Yuchi's intention is to let himself play the role of prey, he wants to see with his own eyes what the people of Sanliangzi Village will do to him, if things are really the same as what Old Man Chen said, then he is ready to take care of this pile of left by his grandfather fifty years ago.

Old man Chen didn't raise any objection to Zhang Yuchi's seemingly crazy move, he just told Zhang Yuchi one thing, that is, once he felt tired, he could hide in this jade mine on the mountain to catch his breath, because since the people in the village knew about the blood curse, no one dared to enter the mine again.

The ensuing thing doesn't need to be continued, Old Man Chen, I can guess the approximately.

As for the people of Weishenme Sanliangzi Village, they will be afraid of this cave, and I can only guess that they will not be able to control their bloodthirsty impulse to devour their own people when they enter this cave again. Regardless of whether the answer is so or not, I think this mine will also have its use value in the future, such as extorting confessions and so on.