Chapter 25 Houtang Temple

Liu Xi went to the Zhang family's house to steal things, which led to the fact that the Zhang family used to eat children.

As for why the Zhang family is gone, and the house is deserted? There is one of the most widely circulated sayings that this Zhang brother was so hungry that his brain may have been hungry and confused, and then he began to eat children, and every time he went down the mountain, he would go to a nearby village to catch one or two children, and after they died, they were stuffed into a jar and covered with alkali, which was done to hide people's eyes and ears, but the result was counterproductive, and it made others notice them.

Although many of the children of the family were lost at that time, they all thought that they had let the traffickers such as the flower abductor and the head of Henan from outside be abducted and sold, so naturally they all went outside to look for it, and some simply did not look for it, thinking that they would definitely not be able to find it, but who would have thought that those children would be eaten by the Zhang family.

At that time, the brothers of the Zhang family grabbed the children and went home to eat, and there were more than a dozen of them who ate in a row, all of them were seven or eight-year-old white children, and in the end they were addicted to eating.

The old man of the Zhang family didn't feel anything wrong at first, and he was able to eat meat every once in a while, which was quite good at that time.

He thought that his two sons had the ability to get game in the mountains where rabbits did not burrow, but every time the brothers dealt with the prey from the hoods in the mountains, they even hid and hid, and never knew what animal meat they ate.

It wasn't until later that the old man went to pee in the toilet in the courtyard, and when he came out, he was wearing his pants and tying his trouser belt while walking, and at this time he suddenly heard the sound of chopping bones in the firewood room on the side, and the old man was also curious, so he took his pants and lay down on the small window of the firewood room to take a look inside.

I saw that the two brothers were covered with bloodstains, and they were wielding a firewood knife to chop something, and the old man was scared stupid when he looked at the thing on the ground carefully, it was all children's hands, feet, heads, intestines, stomach, heart, liver, spleen and lungs and other things, and a fishy smell came to his face.

The old man knew that he had eaten human flesh for a long time, and his whole body was instantly crispy, and he trembled a few times, and then he couldn't stand up and took a few steps back, but the pants were not tied and fell to his ankles, and he tripped over the back of his head and hit the ground, and died on the spot.

The two brothers thought that the old man Zhang was scared to death when he saw that he was chopping the flesh of the child, and he was also heartbroken and regretted, regretting that he should not have had the idea of eating human flesh in his first mind, which not only caused others to suffer the pain of losing his son, but also took the life of his own father, so he hastily settled the aftermath, put the bones left over from eating meat into the box, and then left here to change his mind and become a new person.

Of course, this is just a rumor spread by the nearby villagers, but in fact, it is completely the old man of the Zhang family who instigated the two sons to go down the mountain to catch the children and come back to eat, and the three of them chopped off the dead children's heads, hands and feet, sometimes boiling and sometimes steaming, and the way to eat depends on the mood.

Why do you keep mentioning only the three masters? What about the mother-in-law and the two daughters-in-law? Even if you don't show up, don't you have to eat? Let's just say that this old man Zhang's wife died early, and he died of illness when his two sons were not big, and it has always been the old man Zhang who dragged his two sons to grow up alone, and later married a daughter-in-law to both brothers, it stands to reason that all this is quite ordinary who doesn't have a daughter-in-law, but this is not normal is that only three of the five people in the family are alive, and this matter has to start with the militia group searching the Zhang family's house.

The militia was a local armed force during the Republic of China, which was mostly organized by landlords, and its function was mainly to guard the family and support the courtyard, and it was not included in the establishment of warlords and the central army. The Republic of China is the most basic unit in the administrative system, ten households are one Jia, and ten Jia are one Bao, but in fact, most places do not follow the decimal system, and A generally does not have a specific manager.

That is to say, when something happened in the Republic of China, there was a police station in the city, and the countryside was looking for the militia group, and this time it was found that there were many children's bones in the Zhangjia deserted house that were investigated by the militia group.

There are two before and after the Zhang family's house, the front room is larger and lives in the Zhang family of five, and the back room is relatively small, there is only one main hall, there are no side rooms, bedrooms and no doors and windows, it looks like an ancestral hall in the old times.

But the back room is really strangely built, and the slender shape and square roof look like a coffin. It looks like an ancestral hall but there is no tablet inside, but in the middle of the position enshrined a clay statue more than two meters high wearing a red cloth, which is not a Buddha statue but a strange thing with a human body and a rat head and hands in front of his chest.

Several militia soldiers present are young and have never seen this thing, no one can say what this thing is, there is no room for any furnishings, you can see that end from this side at a glance, the beams are painted with black lacquer large square wood, and occasionally dust will fall down after a long time, which is mixed with sawdust and some gray stone, it seems that if the house is not repaired when it is old, it will collapse in a short time.

No one thought that this crumbling back house was stunned to stand for more than 30 years without falling, but because this house was built very strangely, like both an ancestral hall and a temple, the locals gradually forgot that it was the Zhang family house that used to eat children, but it was called the back hall temple, and it was precisely because of this title that it was demolished as a product of feudal superstition when the Red Guards were disturbed.

Having said that, at that time, the people of the militia group saw that this back room was not safe and was about to collapse, and they didn't dare to stay here for long, and there was nothing here, so they left back to the front room, and rummaged in the house separately to find the things left by the Zhang family.

But it has been five or six years since the Zhang brothers last came down the mountain, and the house has been empty for a long time, and there are not many furnishings in the home, and there is a thick layer of dust on it.

There were several large chests in the main room, all of which were of fine timber and brass nails nailed around them, which looked strong and heavy, and one of the large boxes had been lifted from the lid of the bones, and there were some long strips of white cloth, and the other chests were the same, all bones and cloth.

The door of the West House was covered with a heavy cotton curtain, but it was so dirty that it could not be seen in its former color, and a militia soldier with a very black face and a nickname called Black Egg asked the others, "Have you gone in this room to see it?"

At that time, everyone's attention was on the surroundings of the large boxes in the house, rummaging for clues to something, the dust in the room was so big that rummaging through it was like a sandstorm, squinting, coughing, sneezing, and no one responded to him.

Seeing that he was busy and no one took care of him, Hei Dan turned around and opened the heavy curtain and entered the West House, where the place was small, and a clay kang took up more than half of the place, and the same place was very dirty, leaving a few clear footprints after stepping on the ground.

Then the black egg walked around the west room, and there was nothing to find, but when he looked at the earthen kang, he realized that something was wrong, the earthen kang was covered with several layers of large thick quilts, and there seemed to be two things inside, and the outline size seemed to be two people lying in it.

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