The militia is also the civil armed force during the Republic of China, which also plays the role of law enforcement in the countryside, dealing with some daily trivial matters, such as stealing chickens and dogs, burglary, and committing murder and injuring people.

During the Republic of China, there were many vicious incidents in Lushi County that caused great impact, including the Zhang family in the Houtang Temple eating children.

This incident took a total of five years from the time it happened to the time it was discovered, and then to the Zhang brothers' execution in accordance with the law, and countless people were killed by the Zhang family, and according to the statistics of the two brothers' confessions, there were 37 lives, of which 16 were children who were eaten by them.

But there have always been a lot of questions about this matter, the old man of the Zhang family is the main participant in eating children, and he also asked his two sons to steal children, but since the two brothers of the Zhang family escaped until they were shot, the old man of the Zhang family is like evaporating from the world, no one knows where the old man went, even the brothers of the Zhang family don't know.

There are also Lushi County militia groups found a lot of unexplained strange things when they thoroughly inspected the Houtang Temple of Zhang's house, the first is what is the clay statue of the rat head enshrined in the Houtang Temple, and the second is that there are two paper figures in the shape of daughters-in-law lying on the earthen kang in this Zhang's house.

The people who came to investigate were confused, to say that the hearts of murderers are often abnormal, there will be a lot of quirks, it must be different from ordinary people, but these things are strange no matter how you look at them, especially this Zhang family house and Houtang Temple look at it makes people feel ominous.

After discovering the paper figure on the kang, they all wondered why they still put this thing on the kang? This is something to be burned for the dead, can it be put in the bed as a daughter-in-law?

As soon as this daughter-in-law is mentioned, some people remember that the Zhang brothers used to marry their mothers-in-law, and they were carried up the mountain by the two before and after the big sedan chair, but they have never shown up since they went up the mountain, and no one has ever seen what the two daughters-in-law look like.

The other retorted, "Are you stupid? still uses a paper man as a daughter-in-law, do you know that this thing is burned to the dead? How bad is that? Usually, who wants to get involved, let alone marry into the family as a daughter-in-law, unless the family's brains are broken. ”

After this person finished saying this, even he himself was stunned, who said no, that Zhang's family can do things like eating children, and the comparison of making a paper man as a daughter-in-law is quite ordinary.

The militia group has been checking the Zhang family's house for a day, collecting all the bones and finding someone to carry them down the mountain, and then splicing them together for their families to take away, but they are all meatless bones and sticks, not to mention putting them together, it is difficult to sort out a corpse, that is, to fool the villagers.

By the evening, they were ready to call it a day and leave, and in pairs they tied up large boxes of children's bones with rope and carried them away with poles.

The black egg walked at the back for fear of falling something, and when everyone else went out with the box, he was still looking around the house.

Originally, the sun was about to set and the earth was still red, but in these few minutes, the sky suddenly darkened, and the direction of the house was not good, even in broad daylight, it was dark and could not be seen clearly.

The black egg was still standing in the west room, and the sudden darkening of the surroundings made him a little nervous, and the smell of dust and mold in the room went straight to his head, and the smell and the surrounding atmosphere produced a strong sense of fear that rose from the soles of his feet and went up his back to the top of his head, and in an instant, a layer of goosebumps and hairs stood up all over his body, and this sudden feeling made the black egg feel helpless, and his whole body froze, and he could only turn his eyes to observe the movement in the house.

Being alone in such a closed and dark space can make people feel nervous and anxious, not to mention in the Zhang family's house where so many people have died, the black egg shrunk his neck and swallowed a mouthful of saliva and turned his head to look around, although it was darker, he could still vaguely see the things in the house, it seemed that there was no abnormality, everything was as before, which made him feel a little relieved, and his heart that had been mentioned for a long time was finally able to let go a little, and he wanted to leave here to find the people who walked in front of him.

As a result, he had just lifted his legs and walked a few steps, and before he could open the thick curtain and go out, out of the corner of his eye, he found that one of the two paper figures lying on the kang didn't know when he sat up, and the two big red faces were painted on his pale face.

The black egg himself is not too young and guts, and he suddenly saw that the paper man was still sitting up, which frightened him, and he shouted with a thick head and opened the thick door curtain with his face, and ran out.

As a result, he rushed too hard and couldn't stop when he caught up with others, and directly knocked over an old man who was carrying a box surnamed Wen at the end, and the two of them and a big box rolled down the hillside, fortunately, there were a lot of trees growing on the hillside, and the two of them didn't fall too deep and were hung by the branches, so they didn't roll directly down the mountain, but the box containing a lot of bones rolled without a shadow and disappeared into the darkness.

After pulling up the two people who fell down the hillside and were hung by the branches, the captain sent by the militia to check the Zhang family's house was scared enough, and thought that the two people had to fall down the hill and fall to death, and when they dragged the black egg up from the hillside, they were angry and afraid, and they rolled up their sleeves and wanted to beat him, saying that the black egg had just experienced several frightens and didn't pee his pants, and his legs were as soft as noodles, and the captain could only cover his head and lie on the ground to beg for mercy when he wanted to beat himself.

"Don't beat me, don't beat me, I didn't mean to, it's all the paper people in the house who scared me out and couldn't stop."

As soon as a few people next to him heard this, they quickly stopped the captain and asked him: "You almost killed Lao Wentou, and you still said what kind of paper man lived, what's the matter with you?" Is it tight and waiting to be beaten? Hurry up and say a few words to the captain, and maybe I'll let you go. The few people who stopped the captain were also to protect the black egg, afraid that the captain would get angry and hurt people again, so they pretended to scold the black egg for him and told him not to talk nonsense, apologize and be done.

But the black egg recognized that it was the paper daughter-in-law in the house who was alive and sat up and smiled at himself, almost scaring him to death.

The captain calmed down at this time, and thought to himself, muttering to himself Although this kid is usually a little tough, he doesn't talk nonsense, and his appearance this time doesn't look like nonsense, could it be that this house is really haunted? But not seeing is not believing, and besides, in this troubled world, those gods and ghosts know to hide, and they shouldn't come out to make trouble, so it looks like either the black egg is wrong, or there is really something.

Originally, these people were ready to go down the mountain, so that the black egg was delayed for a long time, and now it is really dark this day, but what the black egg said is the same as the truth, the paper person can sit up by himself, this is too weird, there are two paper people in that place in the place It looks very abrupt and discordant, which makes people uncomfortable, if you don't confirm it with your own eyes, you don't want to sleep if you go back tonight, you have to think about it, so the gang put down the box and turned around and went back to this house.

It was dark, and several people from the militia group returned to the gate of the Zhang family's house along the mountain path, standing outside and looking at the black hole in the house, like an abyss, and the cool breeze that blew from time to time made everyone present have goosebumps, which felt like walking into a mass grave in the middle of the night, and it was cool from the inside out.

The black egg couldn't hold back at this time, and said tremblingly: "If you don't go, let's go quickly, the paper man must be waiting for us inside." ”

The captain made him upset, and scolded him directly: "You fart, Lao Tzu doesn't believe in evil if he still fucks him, I'm going to go in and have a look, if I meet something that doesn't matter what it is, I'll kill him." After saying a cruel word, he cheered himself and the others up, picked up the gun, and walked in.

The walls of the house are very dirty and black, and at this moment they are completely integrated into this darkness, so that the people who go in do not know where they are, and people unconsciously become nervous.

Since the captain went in, a few followed, and Hei Dan and a few people didn't dare to go, so they could only wait outside. In fact, the captain was also stunned, the paper man was scary enough, and said that she sat up, and the more she walked to the West House, the more scared she became.

The captain walked in front and touched the wall with his hands, and slowly rubbed to the position of the door of the West House, reached out and touched a thick curtain, and then softly reminded everyone to be careful when they fell down, and the next few pulled open the bolt and made a sound to signal that they were ready, and then lifted the door curtain a crack, and several people leaned over to look inside.

The window in the west room is small, so you can't see the situation inside the house at all, but someone with a bright child on his body tore off a piece of the curtain and threw it in.

The burning cloth quilt was still on the ground of the West House, the flame was not big, but the fire was enough to illuminate the situation in the house, several people stretched out their heads to look at the kang, and they all took a breath of cool air, and the paper figure on the kang was neither lying down nor sitting up, but one of his mother's less.

Everyone present was shocked and couldn't say a word, and the surrounding black couldn't see their expressions clearly, anyway, it would definitely not be a smile, and one person couldn't hold back and wanted to go in through the crack in the open door curtain to see where the paper man was, but as soon as he walked to the captain's side, he was suddenly pulled by someone, and before he could speak, he listened to the captain say a word at this time.

"Look at the footprints on the ground."

There was a thick layer of dust in the west room, and there was a pile of messy footprints at the door, which they had stepped on when they went in during the day, and there was a string of footprints in it that were of black eggs, but there was also a string of small shoe prints from the side of the kang to the back of the curtain.

Everyone saw the small footprints at first sight, small like the three-inch golden lotus when the woman wrapped her feet in the past, the footsteps were very small and fine, as if she couldn't take a step, the footprints one after another went to the dead corner behind the door curtain, and the others looked stunned and unconsciously looked for the direction of the footprints and slowly opened the door curtain, and suddenly saw a pair of small embroidered three-inch golden lotus under the door curtain.

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