Chapter 39: Descent
My heart was about to jump out, my mouth was dry, and my whole body was trembling. Finally, the man stopped bumping and collapsed on the ground like a dead loach, and the woman next to him was also lying, and began to move her hands and feet a few times, and then there was no movement. I shouted a few times and called for someone to come out and help, but the people in the village were like they were all dead, not even a dog.
I don't know how I got over this night, my heart was pounding, I finally fell asleep in a daze, and when I opened my eyes again, it was already dark. Hearing a sound outside the house, I got up and went over to look, and saw Uncle Hong walking over with several male villagers and standing in front of the corpses of women and men. After talking in a low voice, the two male villagers returned to find two sets of wooden stretchers to carry the woman and the man away, Uncle Hong slowly came to the window, and I quickly asked, "What happened last night?" β
Uncle Hong snorted: "What did you shout last night?" Haven't you ever seen a man beat his wife, you don't beat his wife? I was speechless for a moment, and asked him when he would let me out, and Uncle Hong said that when someone came to you for treatment, he would release him. At this time, several people walked in from the entrance of the village, one was short and thin, I recognized him, it was Bai Laosan, who had died of his wife yesterday, there was a middle-aged woman behind him, and finally a woman in her thirties. The doorman smiled and talked to the other, pointing at Bai Laosan and the woman on the other side.
I asked who it was, and the doorman said with an envious face: "The bride introduced to him by Bai Laosan's matchmaker, look at the chest of the divination, it's really good!" "I'm shocked, didn't he just drugged his wife to death yesterday and started looking for a new one today? I have to sigh that the men here are really efficient.
For three meals in the morning, noon and evening, the long chili peppers were replaced with a few salted radish strips, although the food was poor, it was also better than the chili peppers. It was a cloudy day at night, and I looked out with both hands like a prisoner, and in the night I seemed to see an old lady slowly coming from a distance, judging by her figure, very much like the old woman who was rummaging things outside my window last night.
The old lady walked very slowly, but I hoped that she would never come over, but no matter how slow she was, she still walked under my window, and the old lady still bent her waist and stood outside the window and asked me, "Noodles, noodles." I shook my head, afraid she wouldn't see it, and waved my hand again. The old lady asked again, "Baked cakes, baked cakes." I waved my hand, the old lady stopped asking, turned and walked towards the right side of the house, there was only one window in this room, and the old lady could not be seen, and I was still in a hurry, and struggled to lean my head close to the window, and squinted my eyes to look out.
Suddenly, an old lady's voice came from the house: "There are noodles." I hurriedly turned around, and the old lady actually entered the house, and sat on a small bench in the middle of the ground, and there was a small stove in front of her, on which sat a soup pot, and the water in the pot was boiling, and the old lady grabbed a handful of wet noodles in her hand and slowly threw it into the pot.
I leaned against the wall and pointed to the old lady, "Youβwhen did you come in?" β
The old lady looked at me with a raised face and grinned, without half a tooth in her shriveled mouth, and she smiled and said, "Eat noodles." "How dare I eat any noodles? Running to the door and banging on it vigorously, the old lady slowly stood up, muttered something in her mouth, and walked towards the shadow in the corner, and disappeared in a blink of an eye. My mind was in a mess, and I went up and kicked the soup pot over with the stove. An old lady's voice came from outside the window: "Noodles, my noodles!" β
When I looked back, the old lady was standing outside the window, her eyes staring at me. I was just about to speak, when the old lady looked sideways, as if she saw something, and took a few steps back and couldn't see it. I was so frightened that I didn't dare to walk over anything, when a woman came over slowly and stood outside the window, it was actually the woman who gave the whole village a trick.
The woman smiled: "How is it, this village is lively at night, right?" β
I swallowed a few mouthfuls of spittle, not knowing how to answer. The woman asked, "Do you know how this old lady died?" β
"Yes, I guess I'm starving." I replied.
The woman nodded: "You're smart, but you can't guess that she was starved to death by her own son, right?" β
I was shocked, and the woman said, "The old lady is getting old and can no longer work in the fields, so the family is unwilling to give the old lady any more food. "I was silent, in fact, I was prepared, Bai Laosan's wife was in the prime of life, but she had to be poisoned if she was sick, and at her age like an old lady, the end couldn't be better.
The woman asked again: "Why was that woman beaten to death by her wife last night, can you guess it?" Wise man? β
I thought about it for a moment and said, "Her husband is drunk and drunk." β
The woman said, "It's only half right, last night the woman accidentally broke the wine jug, and the man had already drunk a lot, so he took the opportunity to get angry and beat his wife to death." β
I asked, "But how did he die?" Did you do it? β
The woman shook her head: "I haven't killed a single person in this village, and there are many ghosts in the village who are resentful, such as those who were poisoned by rat poison, starved to death by their families, beaten to death by their husbands, abused by their in-laws and committed suicide, and those who fell off the cliffs in heavy rain while walking on winding mountain roads, there are too many of them, and they all come out to hang out at night." β
No wonder no one in the village dared to come out at night, it turned out to be so. I boldly walked over and looked at this woman in the dim darkness of the night, she was about twenty-six or seventeen years old, slender and thin, with fine eyes, and I knew at a glance that she was not a simple person. I asked, "Just because you are not on good terms with your husband's family, you are doing this to them, and it will also affect the whole village, I'm afraid it's not okay?" β
The woman smiled: "Do you know what kind of Gu I played?" β
I looked down at the necklace of the five poisonous oils on my chest and said, "It's not Gu that you ordered, it's Nanyang Descending Head." β
The woman was stunned for a moment, obviously surprised: "Why?" β
I smiled: "I don't know much about the Miao Gu worm, but I also know that the Gu is a poisonous insect that is driven by the owner and cast, which can make trouble in the human body, and there is also medicine to solve it, but it can't cause insanity." And the people in this village have their own symptoms, and there are those who are crazy and mentally ill, it should not be Gu worms, but you mixed the head-lowering powder in the well water. Also, there's this. "I picked up the pendant from the necklace of the five poisonous oils.
The woman asked, "What's that?" Is the black liquid inside a head-lowering oil? β
I shook my head: "No, this liquid is called the Five Poisonous Oil, and if there is a Yin Spirit nearby, the color will deepen, and you have Yin Qi on your body, which means that you are also a black cultivator." The woman's eyes lit up, I could probably guess her thoughts, so I was careful, and sure enough, the woman quickly reached out to grab the pendant, and I quickly hid back, and she snatched it a few centimeters. The woman said, "I'm not afraid that if you don't give it to me, tomorrow your abdominal pain will attack, and then you will faint in pain, see who will help you." β
I said that my friend is in Thailand and I have already sent him a message and he knows a lot of Southeast Asian Azan and will come to my rescue soon. The woman was skeptical and said to me, "How did you get here?" "I said bluntly that Wang Hong was looking for me. The woman asked, "Do you know who Wang Hong is?" β
"He is from this village and has opened a marriage agency in Bijie, and you met him there, right?" I replied. The woman said, "You're half right, I met him at that so-called marriage agency, but he is not a marriage agency at all, but a human trafficker!" "I was shocked and said do you have any evidence? The woman sneered and did not answer, and went around the window to the door, and with a few clicks, and in a few moments the door opened, and the woman pushed the door open, carrying an axe in her hand. I came out alertly, and the woman did not speak, but walked in the direction of her house, and I had to follow behind.
When I arrived at her husband's house, the woman opened the door and entered, and I followed into the room. There was a strange smell in the room, fishy and smelly, mixed with the smell of medicine and rottennessβ€ there were three rooms, and in the woman's room there was a young man lying on the bed, naked, staring blankly at the roof, and in the center of the room there was a large vat covered with a bamboo cover. On the small bench next to him sat an old man, with a blue scarf on his head, chopping something with a kitchen knife on the board.
The woman sat in a chair and pointed to the man on the bed: "This is my husband, and he also spent 3,500 yuan to buy me from Wang Hong." β
To my surprise, the man glanced sideways at me and turned back to look at the roof. The woman said, "My father is from Gongshan, Yunnan, and my mother is from Burma. My grandfather was a well-known head bearer in northern Myanmar, and since my mother married Gongshan, the two of them have often quarreled, and once the quarrel was so bad that my father ran away from home and never came back. I often asked my dad if he would come back, and my mom said that as long as he was away from home for more than 15 days, he wouldn't be able to come back even if he wanted to. β