Chapter 14: Buried alive at the age of sixty
This secret was finally known to the whole town, and it also aroused the pity of many thieves, but they never heard that the thief had stolen anything valuable in his house, but fortunately, the people in the town were simple, and the villagers lived in the mountains all their lives, and there were no big treacherous people, so Liu Yishou and they lived freely.
Within two years, the woman gave birth to a child, at first, everyone didn't know, until the child could run, maybe this child brought happiness and joy to Liu Yishou and their family, so this woman became more and more talkative, but as long as it was about their family background or family property, this woman kept silent, and after a long time, everyone gave up this idea, just like that, Liu Yishou and their family settled here safely.
Liu Yishou named the child Liu Zhongtang, this Liu Zhongtang and his old son, there is still endless money, but Liu Zhongtang has a cheerful personality, willing to give, one year, the weather is drought, the crops are not harvested, Liu Zhongtang provides money for everyone to eat and drink, relying on him, the whole Liujia Town has survived this drought, so he is very famous in the local area, about his money, it is even more confusing, and there are different opinions.
However, such a good person, the end was very miserable, because the era in which he lived was the peak of being buried alive at the age of sixty, and the saying "shooting the first bird" is not false at all, Liu Zhongtang is a celebrity in the town, if you want to convince the public, you must first take him under the knife, so this Liu Zhongtang was the first batch to be buried alive.
When Liu Zhongtang was fifty-nine years old, his family had already dug a grave for him, and the so-called grave was actually like a cellar for burying sweet potatoes in the countryside in winter, but this time it was not used to bury sweet potatoes, but to bury people.
The cellar is generally dug more than a zhang deep, the reason why it is so deep, it is to prevent the people buried in it from stealing out, there will be a small hole in the grave, which is used for ventilation, and there will be five or six days of rations in the cellar, generally speaking, as long as the rations are eaten, then this person is not far from death, so the old people living in this era can see where they will be after death before they die, and that year is really counting the days.
Liu Zhongtang, like others, is also counting the time, calculating, he also sees it, people, sooner or later, they will die, sooner or later, sooner or later, the clouds and smoke of the past are like a movie in his mind, he thinks about his four sons, and then thinks about his inexhaustible family property, what is not satisfied? So as soon as he reached the age of sixty, Liu Zhongtang consciously walked into the cellar.
More than 20 years after Liu Zhongtang's death, a major event happened in the town of Liujiazhen, every autumn harvest season, the harvested grain is always missing, at first it was a household or two, everyone thought that whose hands and feet were not clean, and did not care too much, who knew that after two years, it was a village next to a village, and the village ran out of food, everyone panicked, and took turns to keep an eye every day, patrolling and standing guard night and night, and did not find any traces of thieves.
Soon after, it was the season when the crops were ripe, the extent of the destruction of the crops in this season was worse than ever, even the ones that grew in the ground were not let go, this incident alarmed the leaders, and the top also sent people down to investigate and investigate, but there was still no result, and finally Liujia Town had no way at all, so he built a large granary with the capital of the whole town, the granary has been designed and supervised by professionals, and has the three functions of fire prevention, anti-theft and waterproof.
At the beginning of the construction of the granary, a large amount of grain was hoarded, and hundreds of young and strong young men were sent to patrol and guard it 24 hours a day.
"Hard work pays off", on this day, a team of patrol officers into the granary routine inspection, a little light, suddenly found a pair of bright beads in the dark flickering in the flickering staring at themselves, this team of patrol officers were startled, they successively lit a few lights, only then to see clearly, it turned out that the eyes just now were a cat's eyes, but the cat was as big as a dog, strong as a cow, fat head and ears, very scary.
They called all the team members, closed the warehouse door, ready to arrest the culprit, after being bitten a few team members, they did not dare to step forward, the cat biting the tooth marks are clearly human tooth marks, and the tooth marks are neat and tidy, the most people have no way to take him is that the cat actually went on the wall, and even ran fast on the roof, like walking on the ground, they found the most ferocious dog in the town, who knew that this dog saw this cat, and was stunned with his tail and did not dare to step forward, but this cat, showing off his might.
The team members did not dare to open a warehouse to release the cat, for fear that they would never find it again, but they could not catch it, they did not dare to burn it, they could not kill it, in this granary, the cat was the boss, and for a while, a group of people and a cat were frozen here.
At last it was a young man in the group who said something to relieve the cat, and the young man said, "Since we can't do anything about it, why don't we ask the oldest people in town to come and have a look, and maybe they will know how to keep the cat down." ”
The group thought about it and finally adopted the young man's method, but the old people in the town were dying, who should they turn to? Finally, they dug out an old man who had just been buried in it and was dying.
They carried the old man into the granary and asked for advice on how to solve it, and the old man looked at the cat, which was bigger than a dog, and breathed a sigh of relief, and gave the young man a task: to find a stray wild cat; , and this wild cat must also be a hungry cat, which can stump this group of young men, but they still live up to expectations, it took a lot of effort to catch a wild cat from the side of the street, but this wild cat skeleton is very small, sick, all over the body hair is also dry and rolled together, looking no spirit, does the old man want to use this wild cat to fight the big cat? Everyone shook their heads.
Only the old man smiled with satisfaction when he saw the wild cat, and he ordered the two cats to be kept in the same room, and then left a hole in one side of the wall for viewing, and sat down with a smile.
As soon as the two cats were locked in, the entire granary instantly fell silent, and everyone held their breath and waited to see a good show.