Chapter Eighty-Six: Teeth
The old man hardened his face and found Xiaoqing's grandfather, and asked him if Xiaoqing's grandfather passed on his method of raising evil spirits, and asked him to tell him any taboos when he carved the black stone tablet, and now the whole family is shrouded in an evil aura, if he knows the way to crack it, I hope he can say it and save these clansmen.
Xiaoqing's grandfather didn't sue him, and of course he wouldn't sue him, because it was this old man who ordered his father to be buried alive. As a result, the family became more and more chaotic, and eventually fell apart.
The old man sighed, "That's it, I moved here with my son and daughter-in-law. ”
"Just your family of three?" I frowned.
"Well, however, those people didn't move far away from us, and they all went into the Taihang Mountains. Within two years, news came from outside the mountain, saying that the Cultural Revolution had ended, and that our clansmen had lived in the mountains for a long time, and the suspicions between each other had disappeared, and they slowly got together again to form such a village. Yang Shujun) family moved the earliest and didn't stay with us. Not long after sending Niansheng to Taihang Mountain, their family moved away. ”
"Didn't you look for them?" I asked.
"What if you can't find it?" The old man said, "What's so good about living in this hellish place, the children can't even go to school." Didn't you just say that you found a military baby's house in a village? Alas, the military baby's father is a plugged in the door, he is very good at coming to things, and he is also smart, he moved to the countryside outside the mountains, and mixed with the household registration, unlike us, one by one has become a black household..."
"Grandpa, did you have a really good relationship with Uncle Yang's father back then?"
"That's," said the old man, "and when they moved away, I went through the clutter in his house to keep something as a souvenir." And guess what? ”
"What's wrong?"
"I found a very long tooth..."
"Teeth... Tooth? "I shuddered.
The old man looked at me with cloudy eyes, "Why, you doll know that tooth?" ”
"Grandpa, what kind of tooth is that?" I suppressed my excitement.
Back then, after Yang Shujun's family moved away from the county seat, the old man missed his previous friendship with Yang Shujun's father very much. On this day, the old man drank some wine, and came to the house where Yang Shujun's family used to live in a daze, looking at the messy sundries, thinking that he used to drink here a lot, but now that the house is empty, the whole family has become smoky, and the old man can't help but sigh.
He wanted to keep a piece of Yang Shujun's belongings as a souvenir, but in the clutter heap, except for broken teacups and old shoes, rummaging for a long time, there was nothing suitable for keeping as a souvenir. Just as the old man was about to return disappointed, he suddenly saw a plastic bag that seemed to contain something.
Curious, the old man took the bag, shook his mouth downward, and a tooth fell out of it. The teeth were sharp and long, and I don't know what kind of animal they were. The old man was surprised and surprised, he didn't know why Yang Shujun's family had such a thing, he had never heard his father mention it before...
"What about the tooth?" I asked excitedly.
"I've saved it." The old man said, "I also brought it with me when I moved later, but in fact, the strange funeral customs in our village have a lot to do with that tooth." ”
"With... Does that tooth have anything to do with it? ”
"Hmm." The old man nodded, "Two years after moving to Taihang Mountain, we clansmen moved together to form this village, regardless of our previous suspicions. Originally, I thought that the evil aura surrounding the family had disappeared, and it disappeared after we moved to Taihang Mountain. However, things are far from being as simple as I thought...
"People will die, good or evil, rich or poor. One of my cousins who died first was not used to the climate and environment in the Taihang Mountains, so he kept getting sick after moving here, and died in the third year. About a week before he died, I missed the father of the military baby, and I took out that tooth to play with, and suddenly I appeared, and the tooth changed color! ”
"Changed color?" My eyes widened.
"Well, it's getting dark." The old man said, "It is an abnormal blackness, as if it had been smoked by a kind of black smoke, and when you look at it coldly, the black will move on the teeth as if it were alive." ”
The more I listened, the more strange I became.
"I was terrified." The old man said, "I have been a feng shui master, and I have seen a lot of things that are placed at home to avoid evil, such as jade ruyi, jade pendants, old Buddha shrines and so on. I've heard people say that once something big happens in the family or clan, some old things will be sensitive. At that time, looking at the color on that tooth, I always felt unlucky, and I thought that something was going to happen in the clan, and sure enough, within a few days, my cousin died.
"According to the custom in my hometown, when a person dies, he can be buried after a day's rest, but when I saw my cousin's body, I felt that way again..."
"What does it feel?" I couldn't help but interject and ask.
"When I was in the county town, the feeling of family civil strife, I realized that the evil aura did not disappear, and with the death of the clan, it came out again. I was terrified, because I didn't know what would happen to the dead under the influence of that evil aura, could it be that they would become zombies? I suddenly thought of the tooth, ran home and took it out, and it had turned a jet-black color.
"That's when I realized that the tooth must be a holy thing, because it could sense the evil aura of the family after death. It's just that I don't know how the military baby's family can have such a thing. I hurriedly took the tooth and placed it on the head of the bed where my cousin's corpse was kept, hoping it would stop the evil spirit. Maybe it's psychological, but after I took that tooth, I couldn't feel that evil aura. The next day, I saw that the black on that tooth was much lighter than the previous day.
"According to custom, my cousin should have been buried, but I stopped him. As the days passed, on the seventh day, the tooth regained its original color, and my cousin was buried... Since then, every time someone in the family dies, that tooth turns color, including my son and my daughter-in-law. ”
"Are they all dead?" Miss Bai asked.
"Well, alas." The old man sighed, "They all died of illness, all these years, thanks to those dolls in the village taking turns to take care of my old man..."
"What about that tooth, old man, go on." I said.
"That tooth is a holy artifact, and it is not only able to sense, but also absorb the evil aura that our family members have formed after death. For this reason, I specially organized people to build a temple outside the village and sealed the tooth in the temple. Whenever someone dies, the body is placed in the temple and buried for seven days. ”
"So, that tooth is still in that temple at the moment?" I asked.
"Hmm..."The old man nodded, and suddenly his whole body was shocked, "Oh, how did I forget this, doll, quick, help me up and go back to that temple to see..."
The tooth that the old man said should be the one that Yang Niansheng got when he entered the underground passage in Stone Village. Yang Niansheng gave it to his sister, Yang Shujun's mother. Yang Shujun told us that he had only seen him once in his hometown, and he had not seen him again since he moved, and according to this, when he moved, that tooth was left out in the clutter pile, and it ended up in the hands of the old man in front of us...
On the way to that temple, my mind was filled with thoughts. The old man, with the support of Miss Bai and me, looked like he couldn't give up, and he met several villagers along the way, all of whom greeted him respectfully, some called the fifth grandfather, some called the grandfather, and the old man was silent. Director Zhang walked beside me, and he stared at every villager, and those who looked at him didn't even dare to raise their heads.
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