Chapter 59: Out-of-town women
The old man looked at the edamame with some fear, took two puffs of cigarette tremblingly, and explained in a low voice: "Master, in fact, we can't all blame us, you know, we countrymen believe this, plus there were always strange things during that time, and there was only one outsider in our village......
Edamame waved his hand and interrupted the old man: "Forget it, you don't have to explain it to me, let's talk about the rest of the matter......"
The old man hesitated for a moment, and said hesitantly: "Back...... Later, we dragged the woman from other places to the back mountain, and the Taoist priest said that the woman was a thousand-year-old snake spirit, and he had to do a magic thing to suppress her, otherwise it would be bad for our village in the future, and maybe the whole village would die. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
We were all scared stupid, and we believed whatever he said, so we pooled money to make him do a ritual...... The foreign woman has been in a trance since she was struck by lightning, she looks like she is stupid, and she has been kneeling on the ground and not moving, and the Taoist priest said that the soul of the monster has been scattered by him after doing the ritual, but the body is still there, and he has to find a place to seal it.
So we listened to him and went looking for it again...... I found a coffin, and then the Taoist priest found a place on the back hill and asked us to dig a pit and bury the coffin in it......"
"Wait......" Dongdong frowned when he heard this, and asked, "That Taoist priest...... Oh! Didn't the magic stick say that the body should be sealed, and what does this buried coffin mean? ”
Jiang Xiaoyan, who had been sitting in the back and didn't speak, suddenly raised her head at this time, and said in a somewhat dry voice: "What he means is that they put the woman from other places in the coffin and buried it." ”
"What?" Dongdong was taken aback, and looked back at the old man with a shocked face: "In other words, you ...... You take the woman from the land ...... Buried alive? ”
The old man lowered his head, not daring to look at Dongdong's eyes, and only nodded slightly after a while, and said with guilt in his voice: "At that time, we were all scared stupid, we will do whatever the Taoist priest says, and the woman seems to be ...... after being put in the coffin She suddenly came to her senses again, and kept banging on the lid of the coffin inside, begging us to let her out......
But where did we dare to open the coffin at that time, and the Taoist priest also said that this was a monster returning to the soul, and wanted to confuse us, as long as the coffin was opened, none of the people present could live, so we were ruthless...... As soon as he was ruthless, he sealed the coffin with a coffin nail and buried it on the back mountain......
Edamame didn't even have the heart to be angry when he heard this, so he had to shake his head helplessly.
Ignorance! What foolishness! A human life was lost in vain...... However, in the past, information was blocked, people in the mountains believed this, the social legal system was not perfect, many places did not even have a police station, and the abuse of lynching was not uncommon.
Maodou frowned, suddenly thought of something, and suddenly raised his head and asked, "Didn't you just say that the woman from other places has been pregnant for seven months?" And the child in her belly......"
The old man didn't answer, just lowered his head and smoked silently, and when Edamame saw him like this, he sighed again and said coldly.
"There is an account in front of the king of Hades, what you have done in your lifetime, you will naturally pay the price when you get to Yin Si in the future, and I am too lazy to say anything......"
The old man glanced at Edamame, his eyes showed a hint of fear, and the cigarette pot in his hand trembled slightly,
His lips moved, but he didn't speak.
Edamame didn't want to dwell on these old things anymore, after all, so many years have passed, and there is no point in talking about it now, he thought about it and raised his head again.
"But I'm sure this won't end there, since you said I would save your village, what happened after that?"
The old man raised his head and glanced at Edamame, then nodded slowly and said in a low voice, "Let's take that foreign woman...... After burying it, the Taoist priest asked us to build a temple on it, saying that it could keep our village safe for a hundred years, and we didn't think much about it at the time, just according to what he said, those who have money will pay and make powerful contributions, and within two days they will build a small temple in that place.
The old man sighed when he said this, added some more tobacco to the smoke pot, lit it and continued: "Actually, then again, that woman is usually good to us, and has seen the world, and often teaches the children in the village to read and write......
But after the death of the foreign woman, the village was indeed a lot more peaceful, and the unkempt ghost did not come at night, and no one got sick anymore, so everyone thought that the Taoist priest was really right, and all the things that happened before were all caused by the foreign woman. ”
Dongdong frowned when he heard this, thought for a while and asked, "What about the man who is a woman from other places, the one who was tied up by you." ”
"When we came back, we didn't see others, it is estimated that we were in a hurry to walk and did not tie it tightly, I was afraid that we would come back and what would happen to him, so we broke free from the rope and ran away after we left, there are mountains everywhere here, I don't know where I went, anyway, the people in the village don't want to mention this matter again, and it's good ......for him to leave."
Dongdong asked strangely: "Then according to what you say, this matter is over, then why did you just say that there is something strange in the village?" ”
The old man shook his head and said, "I haven't finished talking just now, and I was interrupted by you...... After the death of the out-of-town woman, the village was indeed a lot more peaceful, but the good times did not last long, and it was not a few years later......"
The old man thought for a while, "It's probably two or three years later, and then the accident began again, there were three people who went to the back mountain to collect firewood, and they didn't go home for a few days, and then the people in the village went up the mountain to look for it, only to find that they died in the small temple where the women from other places were buried below, and the appearance was very scary, the eyes bulged out, and the mouth was open, very much like the two young people who died in the grass pile at the entrance of the village a few years ago." ”
Swallowing his saliva, the old man's eyes showed a trace of fear, and then continued: "We were all frightened when we saw it, thinking that the ghost of the foreign woman was still going away, and she came back to take revenge, so we pooled money and went out to invite Taoist priests, and invited several before and after, and the result was ...... The next day, they all found themselves dead in that small temple. ”
Edamame shook his head and said: "It can't be that foreign woman, even if that woman died unjustly and turned into a ghost and came back to take revenge, but the time of the accident was only two or three years away from when she died, it is impossible to have a deep Taoism in such a short time, at most it is a white-clothed resentful spirit, and there is no way to directly harm people, even if those Taoist priests you invite are all charlatans and have no real skills, but they will always run, and they will not all die in that small temple." ”