Chapter 8 Jewels
"Probably to extinguish the mouth, Faqiu tomb robbery is what the gang of Big Golden Tooth often do!" Long Sihai and I glanced at each other, sighed and said, "There are many legends in this barren mountain and wild mountains, in addition to the story of the dragon king's marriage, there is also a saying, it is said that this place used to be the alchemy furnace of Taishang Laojun, refining a furnace of dragon and tiger pills, because the fire boy took a nap and escaped the black dragon to the sea, and only had time to lightning strike the cliff and suppress the tiger!" ”
At the beginning of the year, a few ugly people came here to pick up medicines, saying that they were buying fruits, but they lived in your house for half a year, and they didn't see half of the fruit shipped out, but they saw that there were many fewer graves in the village. Later, when my dad heard the rumors that a pot and pan could be sold for thousands, he was itchy......"
I held the fire in my stomach: "Tomb robbers are illegal, the big gold tooth they saw that this was an opportunity to make a fortune, and they ambushed in the area of the station all day long, looking at you female students who came to travel, they started to think crookedly......"
"Then why don't you report the crime and arrest him!" I couldn't be more excited.
I patted me on the back: "They are famous ruffians and hooligans in Longtan, and they support many officials in the township, and they usually beat us villagers to death if they don't like them." No one can sue them. If there is really a foreign female student who is killed, we dare not say it even if we know about it, for fear that they will retaliate! "
"It's a social cancer!" As soon as I spoke, I thought of Mu Tongtong and the marriage of the Dragon King of the Yue family yesterday evening. Could it be that Mu Tongtong was also poisoned by that gang of "tomb robbers" like me?
"There have been a few lives in this room, and you still don't want to tell me?"
He covered his face in pain, and his voice was hoarse and trembling: "I can't say...... Can't say ......"
"You killed them?" I asked, feeling a chill run down my back.
"No...... It's not ......"
"What's that?"
"Baby! What exactly do you want to do? There was a hint of despair in Long Sihai's eyes.
I sighed: "Long Sihai, you should know that I am a child born with ghost eyes, and I am a stranger with Mu Tongtong, we can see the unsightly things in this house, and even the crying and wailing of the ghost, we can really hear it." You panicked when I first came back, didn't you? My aunt was even more eager to push me out the door. Because there was a problem in this room, and dirt was hidden. I pointed to the door of my head, "The dirt of the spirit is even more terrible." It will stain you black and stink more than a wolf devouring you. "
He stared blankly at the inch of land under the jujube tree, as if he was stupid.
"Do you want me to remind you?" I quietly observed his expression, "In the cave on the broken ridge, there is a lone tree on the north side of the mountain, and there is a corpse that has not been buried. Do you still want me to continue? "
He trembled and collapsed limply: "You...... All...... Got it? "
Turbid tears flowed from Long Sihai's eyes, and he sighed to himself, he was getting old, but he stumbled, and he hated it for eternity.
"Twenty years ago, in the winter, an ugly man came to the village to collect medicine, but unfortunately my mother suffered from a serious kidney disease, and she was weakened by uremia. The child's father said that he begged for a long time to find the Lan family, and heard that the Lan family's mother-in-law could break things that the gods did not dare to break, and asked for a hexagram, if the Lan family's mother-in-law said that the disease could not be cured anymore, they would die of this heart for healing. If he said that it could be cured, he would give the treasure passed down from his ancestors as medical expenses. "
I understood what Auntie was going to do, how could she let go of the benefits sent to the door: "What baby? "
"A piece of imperial green jade from the Han Dynasty, is it indeed one? Cover the 锛ㄌ迕髁粒嘀crab Han mound 裎魄逦 Di Ying take advantage of the melon to read the shrug silk glutinous [bad magpie twilight 焐!?
"Did my aunt lie to someone else's house, saying that she would be able to cure the woman's illness?"
He shook his head: "I advised her that you can't ask for ill-gotten gains." But she said how could a boiled duck fly? "
He hung his head weakly, and tapped and tapped
"Who's that female ghost? Why is the whole village so scared? "
The village chief smacked his lips and said, "I can't tell, many people have died in the village in the past two months. No one saw the face of the female ghost, and everyone who saw it died. The village chief seemed reluctant to say more.
The village chief's daughter-in-law was stirring the batter and interjected: "They all say that Yu Niang and her daughter did it, saying that they are ghostly, turned into ghosts and came out to kill people to take revenge, and killed all the people who had enemies with their family." "
The village chief glared at her: "What does that person know, talk nonsense!" "
I want to take the village chief away. "Village chief, the two of us are doing my sister-in-law a favor, you can go outside for a cigarette."
So the chief of the village went to the hall. I sat in front of the stove and lit the fire, and I pulled the bellows next to me. The village chief's daughter-in-law poured the stirred batter into the pot, stirred the gruel with a long spoon, and said in a low voice, "It's really a bit of a score."
If you think about it, Yang Hongde's whole family, who had a grudge against their mother and daughter, died; Then, the old village chief Wang Nao, whom the person hated the most, also died, and even Xiaoyuan, the daughter of the uncle's family, died. Also, the people who used to seal her house died one after another. Many people said that it was her mother and son......"
"What is Jade Niang's name? What is her daughter's name? "
"Yu Niang's name is He Ying, anyway, many people call her Yu Niang. looked at Zhang Pingshu's eyes fixedly and said, "The ghost in the little girl's house is Mu Tongtong, right?" "
"Huh? You...... How do you know...... I ......" Zhang Pingshu was really in chaos, and the money bag in his arms almost fell. He gasped and snorted, so piercing that he looked at me defenselessly.
I knew that I had succeeded, and when he calmed down a little, I took advantage of the victory and pursued: "I know part of it, so if you hide the truth, I can easily hear it, then the money can only belong to the next destined person." "
"No, no." He shook his head frequently, and subconsciously hugged the money bag, "I'll tell you the truth, really, you ask." "
"Uncle Zhang, have you ever seen the little girl Yuniang?" In fact, looking at his appearance around sixty, he must have never seen Yu Niang, but it is easy to open the topic by asking like this.
Zhang Pingshu shook his head, "No, I was born in 1944, and he was no longer there at that time. "
"At that time, Miss Zhang's house was still there, right?"
Zhang Pingshu nodded, his gaze fell into the distance, as if he was thinking about the appearance of the old house. Say: "Yes, an old house, there are two people living in the house, that?" Mei Zheng apologized for the bream, "Mei Gong faded and pulled Pang Bi Xu, Pan Lu Su Spoon, Pan Lu Su, Zheng Qi smashed Huan Ding stupid, this slammed the turtle surnamed Pang Nan", Mei Gong Huang pry the basket, neon and boiled the ostrich, filter forgiveness?
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When Zhang Pingshu was born, the little girl Yuniang had been missing for two years, and he disappeared in Shanghai, and it took more than half a year for the news to reach Longwang Township. In that turbulent era, hungry, life hanging by a thread, everyone was in danger, although Yu Niang was famous in Longwang Township, not many people cared about his life and death. Yu Niang's parents and brothers have long been wiped out, and the house has always been taken care of by a middle-aged woman named Aunt Qiu, who was exiled to Longwang Township from other places and was taken in by Yu Niang's parents, and others didn't know her full name, so they had to call her Aunt Qiu with the people of Zhang Zhai. She is taciturn and rarely has contact with people outside Zhang's house.
A few months before Yu Niang's disappearance, she sent someone to send a truckload of things back from Shanghai, and many people in Longwang Township went to help move them, all of which were bright and shiny equipment, and it seemed that Yu Niang intended to move the German laboratory from Shanghai back to her hometown. Because Longwang Township is surrounded by mountains on three sides, the transportation is inconvenient, and it is a relatively safe place in the war years. That time he also asked someone to bring back one? Mei Zheng Gao Xin faded Qin Pang?
Regarding Mu Tongtong's identity, the people of Longwang Township speculated. If she is the daughter of Yu Niang, why have you never heard him say it? And after Yu Niang went to Beijing in 1939, she immediately took her wife and son back to worship her ancestors at the age of two, according to Mu Tongtong's age, she should have been born at that time, why didn't she take it back to her hometown? But if not, this?
What is the relationship between Mu Tongtong and Yu Niang, because the parties have suffered, it is difficult to say conclusively. In the information I found, it was mentioned that Yu Niang only had one son, Zhang Yiwen's father, and there was no record of Mu Tongtong. At this time, I felt a sense of sympathy for Mu Tongtong, because I had a faint feeling that she was born a tragedy.
Five-year-old Mu Tongtong was picked up from the car, and then picked up by Aunt Qiu. 苤 waved luck, phantom concubine, a dead wall, resigned, apologized, catfish, shin and huang, male, "Mei Zheng Chengyuan, Zhu Ji Lung (18), 澹梂槔锩 waved his heart to apologize, Qu Jiong 湫" (19) hugged the milk and simmered yttrium, which anti-gluttonous and written beetles, and played a trick to play a sexual diarrhea and retreat against the wonton, Na instigated Meng Chu, Lun Yinghuang, poked Shuo Gong, floated, and retorted (19) Friends of the sword, Yu Qiao, Yu Xuan, Crickets and leeches are bad, paradoxical, and difficult to smash the season tube and aluminum crisp swollen marks?
After Yu Niang disappeared, Mu Tongtong lived with Aunt Qiu, a taciturn middle-aged man, and a strange and pale one
Two women, one is getting old, the other is growing up silently, living in the ancestral house of Yu Niang, but they are secretly concerned by the dense eyes of everyone. In the calm and boring rural life of the ancient town of Longwang Township, their uniqueness has become a topic that the people have repeatedly turned over, and every time they talk about it, their eccentricity adds a little bit. Human psychology is really contradictory, at that time, everyone was looking forward to the demonic actions of the two to confirm their true insight, but when the real thing came, they couldn't bear it.
Yu Niang is a big family in Longwang Township, quite some industries, there are dozens of acres of farmland and bamboo forests, which are rented to tenant farmers for planting. People are weak and some people are bullied, from ancient times to the present from east to west to turn unchanged, although the people of Longwang Township are simple, but they are only soft and tactful in the way of deceiving people. Those tenant farmers saw that the owner Yu Niang had been missing for several years, and it seemed that it was impossible to come back. I also saw that there were two women living in the Zhang family's mansion, one middle school and one young woman, whose origin was unknown, and gradually became sluggish, either not paying the rent for a long time, or paying less.
Aunt Qiu didn't make any noise, nor did she complain to the patriarch, she took Mu Tongtong straight to find the tenant farmers, and stood in front of others without speaking. Aunt Qiu's face was gloomy and uncomfortable,
It's a small thing, but in the quiet country life, nothing big happens, and it's enough for the locals to nag about it for a few years. In the nagging of the villagers, time slipped by, and in a blink of an eye, China was liberated in 1949, and the local tyrants divided the fields, and most of the farmland and bamboo forests left by the little girl were confiscated, and only one acre of land was left for herself. All adults had to work in the rural communes to earn a share of their work in order to share their food. Aunt Qiu and Mu Tongtong, one fifty years old and the other thirteen years old, are not laborers, and only have some food subsidized by the government. Fortunately, there was food storage in the past, and the two of them lived a richer life than ordinary people.
In 1954, they adopted a homeless girl.
A big mansion, three women, each with their own strange and eccentric, Aunt Qiu, Ah Chang, and Mu Tongtong are still the topics of conversation in the town after dinner, and people always feel that they should do something to be worthy of their eccentric appearance. Since the two of them came, the trouble in the village has thickened...... Alright, girl. Put out the heat, the porridge is cooked-,'
At this time, I only heard a "bang", and the rice pot exploded. The lid of the pot flew up and almost hit the head of the village chief's daughter-in-law. A pot full of porridge poured down from the hearth, extinguishing the fire below, and emitting large clouds of white smoke. Looking into the pot again, except for a big hole in the bottom of the pot, there is no rice in it. The village chief's daughter-in-law was shocked and sat there with a fear on her face that she had never seen before. Me and I were relatively stunned for a long time.
The village chief's daughter-in-law raised her hand and slapped herself in the face: "Bah, bah, my stinky mouth, talking nonsense!" It's time to fight! "
There was no porridge, so the village chief went to the neighbor's house to borrow a teapot of boiling water, and asked everyone to send breakfast down with hot cakes. During the whole meal, the village chief's daughter-in-law didn't say anything, and her face was always gloomy.
The two had breakfast and said that they had nothing to do and wanted to take a look in the village. The village chief led them to walk in the middle of the village, saying that this village is called Longwang Township, and their ancestors came here to hide from bandits, and they don't know how many generations they have lived. Here in the middle of the ravine, Henan, Shanxi and other places, a radius of hundreds of miles are mountains, if you want to see the car, you have to run more than 60 miles of mountain roads, so few people usually come here, the emperor is far away!
I don't want to hear this, she is still thinking about Yu Niang and Yu Honghong. "Village chief, where did Yu Niang and Yu Honghong live when they were alive? Where is their house? "
The village chief was stunned for a moment: "In the northwest corner of the village, the house has already collapsed. "
I asked, "We think it's very interesting, who in the village is familiar with Yu Honghong?" "
The village chief said: "The village is much bigger than her, Xiuyun, Lu Sheng, and Uncle Hao's daughter, Xiao Yan, all went to school with Yu Honghong. Su Fang, Ming Xuan, and me, one year lower than them. Yu Honghong first went to the front primary school, and then the village-run school stopped, and went to the joint school on the other side of the mountain. Later, Yu Honghong and the four of them entered the county seat. The current class of students, who marry others, go out to earn money, and few of them stay in the mountains. Maybe Lu Sheng is still at home, and he came back from the city last year. "
"Where's Lu Sheng? Can we talk to him? I asked.
"He lived in front of him. I broke my leg when I went to the city to work as a construction worker, and my wife ran away with someone, and I broke my heart in the city and came back. He farms the land and feeds a few pigs by himself. "
I asked, "How did Xiaoyuan die?" "
The village chief said, "Why do you keep asking these questions? Xiaoyuan has been dead for more than a month, probably eaten by wolves...... What are you talking about? I really don't want to talk about that. You people in the city are just curious, and when you listen to a few words from others, you think that you have encountered a big strange thing, and there are too many strange things in this mountain. "
As he walked forward, he saw a young man standing at the door, sipping melon seeds, squinting and smiling at the village chief.
The village chief accosted her and asked her if her baby had gone to school? Did the man write from him? As he spoke, he walked over. The man said, there is still some tobacco in the house, do you like it, village chief? The village chief said of course I like it, my addiction to smoking is coming up! The chief of the village went to get the tobacco, and when he went in, he closed the door.
I smiled at each other and walked away.
They saw the fool again, who was sitting on the hillside on the east side of the village, whining and talking about something. Opposite him was an old woman collecting firewood, gray-haired, dressed in black, and looking this way as she listened to the fool. I waved my hand at them, but the fool didn't respond, and the old woman waved her hand and beckoned. The two of them didn't stop, and walked and asked as they came to Lu Sheng's house.
The village chief said that he was only three or five years old, but he looked much older than he really was, with a dirty face, a hawthorny beard, and two homemade crutches, dragging him out of the house with a limp. He was afraid that the house would be looked down upon if it was too smelly. The two chatted with him, asked him about his school days, and asked him about his time when he went out to work. Lu Sheng's eyes were full of melancholy, and he said that every topic was a lament. He kept saying that his life was hard, his father and mother died before graduating from middle school, the beams and pillars fell in the house, and his life changed, and he couldn't stand the wind and rain anymore, and now this is almost like death.
But when it comes to school, Lu Sheng's eyes still can't help but shine.
At this point, I handed him a photo. That's a photo of Mu Tongtong that was remade before I came.
"Look—have you seen her? Does it look familiar? "
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