I don't know if it's because Hu Zongren is eager to perform, so his voice is a little loud. The old woman must have noticed that we were coming to their yard when the dog barked. She wore a pair of reading glasses, but when she looked up, she didn't look at us through the glasses, but looked at us all with her eyebrows raised and over the lenses. Hu Zongren walked up to her and squatted down and said, "Auntie, we are the staff of this community opposite. After speaking, Hu Zongren pointed in the direction of Manager Han's community, and then said, We have some situations here that we want to know about with you, can we have a few words.

The old woman didn't seem to be very interested, but she lowered her head and continued to embroider her insole, and said, I don't recognize the people in your community, you want to ask me about Sazi. Speech is a little leaky, and it seems that the condition of the teeth is not very good. Hu Zongren then said to the old woman, it's not a big deal, just talk casually, I want to know Aunt Lu Dao, have you been living here? The old woman said that she has been here since she was a child, and it has been almost 70 years. Hu Zongren asked her, "Then you have a high birthday this year?" The old woman said that she would be 70 years old in the new year.

At the age of 70, I have been living here, so I think I am very familiar with the changes in this area. Hu Zongren looked at me proudly, I nodded to him, and Hu Zongren continued to ask the old woman and said, Then your body and bones are really immortal, there are many people of your age in this area, they are already old and are about to roll up, and you can still do needlework, it is really not easy.

Hu Zongren is a sycophant, now people's living conditions are better, the average life expectancy has improved, as long as you take care of your body, then it is common to live to the age of 70 or 80. But many people of this age are not necessarily as old as the old woman in front of them, saying that she is 70 years old, but she looks like she is almost 80 years old, I think it is probably because she is a rural person, she is more tired on weekdays, and she looks older. But the so-called sycophants are not worn, even if the old woman knew in her heart that Hu Zongren was patting the sycophants, but she still felt happy, she said happily, how can we be considered immortal, there are many old men and old women who are more powerful than us! But although she said so, her eyes were full of joy.

Hu Zongren knew that his sycophants had worked, so he said to the old woman, such an aunt, do you know if there was a collective cemetery or something like this in the 70s? When the old woman heard Hu Zongren ask this, she was a little surprised at first, then put the needle on the insole, looked at Hu Zongren and said, This place used to be a place where the government concentrated on burying people, and our locals called it a mass grave. Hu Zongren exclaimed, mass graves? Are there so many people? The old woman shook her head and said, it's not that much, it's just that during that time, there were often government people dragging a cart of dead people, who were originally going to dig deep pits and bury them on the edge of this weir pond, but no people stopped them, so a row of cemeteries was built. After saying that, the old woman said to the row of wall tombs we just found, right there, when the house was not repaired before, it was basically all over the hill.

I couldn't help it, so I interjected and asked the old woman, did I say that this was a small hill before? The old woman said yes, the mountain used to be full of pine trees, not only here, this whole area used to be a chaotic hill, and the mountain was densely packed with pine trees. After speaking, the old woman also said to me that it was not far from this side to the pine bridge, and it was because this place used to have many pine slopes that it was named. The old woman went on to say that those graves, on the opposite hill, were quite a few in the past, and I am afraid that hundreds or thousands of people were buried.

Hu Zongren asked the old woman, are these people from this neighborhood? The old woman said no, they were all pulled by the government from outside, and every time they came, they used that kind of big truck to pull, and sometimes the people in the village had to help move the dead, but then because some dead people were buried on the edge of the weir pond, so every year people died at the head of the weir pond, and the people in the village felt that this was because the dead people had damaged the water source, so when the government came to bury it again, it was not allowed. Since then, a Guanyin temple has been built on the edge of the weir pond.

Weir pond is the meaning of reservoir. It seems that it is not a rumor that people have drowned in this reservoir in the past, and the locals have built a temple in order to improve this phenomenon, which is also a great act of kindness. The old woman went on to say that the government saw that the villagers were not allowed to bury them, so they came here every once in a while to repair rows of tombs, and people still sent them here, but they were not buried, but burned to ashes and buried. Hu Zongren asked the old woman, how could it be that the government sent the dead for a long time? Who are these dead people?

The old woman looked at Hu Zongren, then shook her head and sighed and said, This is evil. In those years, the year was not good, not long after the famine, there was chaos everywhere again, fighting and killing people, shouting fiercely on the street with a radio all day long, one moment saying that the family's house composition was not good, and another saying that the family used to be capitalists, and it was a mess, and those who had an armband on their sleeves and dressed like the People's Liberation Army, the most evil thing was them, they said that whoever was guilty was guilty, and there was no way to sue the official.

As soon as the old woman said this, I understood, no wonder most of the dates of death on the above were between 1974 and 1978, it turned out that she was talking about the Cultural Revolution. My parents were people who lived through that time, so when I grew up, my father used to describe some of the scenes with me, such as everyone learning from those brainwashing posters, holding a red book in one hand, raising their arms and shouting with the other, and the sleeves on their hands were still rolled up, they judged others with their own moral standards, using chicken feathers as arrows, and in a struggle that lasted for 10 years, countless people became prisoners inexplicably. Even a large number of people have become victims because of their blind participation in the struggle. Burning schools, destroying temples and Buddhist halls, and it is said that the so-called Red Guards of that year either died violently or died unexpectedly, in short, none of them had a good end after the worst.

So when the old woman said this, I knew that the dead in these tombs were probably the dead caused by the movement back then. But soon I couldn't figure it out again, earlier in the surveillance video of the community, we saw some children, and even the evil ghost who took the lead was a little girl himself, you said that children of this age, even if they are ignorant and participate in sports, they will not be punished to death, right? So I asked the old woman, but we just looked at the tombstones, and some of the dead were children.

The old woman sighed and said, that's why I said that there is evil, after the tomb is repaired, the government will always pull some jars at the end of three days, and someone in the village will go to help, and at that time a piece of paper was pasted on the outside of each jar, saying the age of birth and death, and someone in the village found some of the children among them, so they asked the people from the government who had brought these things, and said that some of them were orphans and had no family members to claim them, and some were children who lost their lives in the catastrophe. Most of these children are family members of those who participated in the struggle or who have been criticized. Hu Zongren scolded, what is the difference between this and Zhulian in ancient times, it is too hateful. Although the old woman sighed, she still said calmly, that can't be helped, the current situation is like this, and human life is cheap.

It's just eight words, but it's so heavy. Hu Zongren continued to ask the old woman, "Then you have lived here for so long, haven't you encountered anything strange?" The old woman asked, "What's strange?" Hu Zongren said that it is the kind of unbelievable and strange things, such as making some evil sects or something. The old woman's eyes began to become alert, and I quickly explained, don't get me wrong, we are the original developers of that community, and some questions are just to ask, and we will not take out the nonsense.

The old woman looked at me suspiciously, then lowered her head and continued to embroider her own insole, while embroidering and said, there used to be a few times when there was an evil sect, that is, when your community began to build, at that time the water in the weir pond was deeper than now, you built the house and laid the foundation, and the cannon bombed all day long, and since then, we have begun to be unpeaceful here. The old woman said, you repaired those big pillars at that time, and the graves of the people were broken, and the people in the village were almost gone at that time, and some well-wishers also helped you to burn incense for the dead, but where could so many graves be burned, so during that time, it was not very peaceful at night, basically every night, our dogs, when they arrived at that time, they barked, and often saw some white figures dangling on the hillside. Hu Zongren hurriedly asked, did it start around 10 o'clock in the evening?

The old woman thought about it and said, I don't remember the specific points. But every time I saw those shadows, it was after the troops next to me blew the lights-out horn. Hu Zongren patted his thigh and stood up, this action frightened the old lady, Hu Zongren said, the time when the lights out was the time we found last night. Hu Zongren continued to ask the old woman, "Among the evil things you saw, have you ever seen a little girl who was dressed very dirty, probably only a little taller?" After speaking, Hu Zongren compared the height of the little girl. The old woman took a look at it and said, I don't remember, she is old, and it is only a matter of time before she sees anything. Most of the children buried here are pitiful, they died at such a young age, and they died unexplained, and it is natural to have a grievance or something.

After speaking, the old woman stood up, patted the threads on her pants, and then asked Hu Zongren, do you have anything else to ask? If not, I'll get busy. Hu Zongren said no, we left after Xie Lu thanked the old woman.

Hu Zongren said that the troops are yang, and after the lights are blown out at night, the soldiers are resting, so only at this time do they dare to come out to move, as for the little girl, it is estimated that it is one of the several graves that were crushed by the load-bearing beam, and the graves no longer exist, and they died unjustly before death, and there is no peace after death.

I sighed and comforted Hu Zongren and said, you don't have to change, with your virtue, you are also a demon when you live. Zhao Jing interjected and asked, now that things are basically clear, if you want to find so many graves one by one, I'm afraid it's a bit unrealistic, in case you are attacked and injured again, what can you do. Hu Zongren thought for a while and said, let's go, let's go to worship the Guanyin Temple first. Manager Han said, aren't you Taoists, how can you go to worship Guanyin Bodhisattva?

Hu Zongren said disdainfully, so ghosts love to haunt people like you, and they don't understand anything. This Guanyin, we are not called Guanyin Bodhisattva, we call it Cihang Taoist, in our Taoism is one of the twelve golden immortals, China's native Buddhism has absorbed many other religious things, such as Buddhism in Jialan Venerable, in our Taoism is also called Guan Sheng Emperor, in fact, it is Guan Erge, but in the Three Kingdoms era, although there is already Buddhism, but it is far less prosperous than Taoism. A few of our Taoist priests went to worship Guanyin, which is not inauthentic. Then he smiled at me and said, you don't have to worship, you don't count, hahaha.

So I followed everyone along the edge of the reservoir, found the Guanyin Temple, a very small earthen temple, built under a protruding cliff, can be regarded as able to shelter from the wind and rain, the surrounding stone walls are all the marks of being smoked by incense, indicating that the incense here is vigorous, and there is a merit monument standing in 1988 on the side, which is densely engraved with the names of those good people who donated the temple at the beginning. Hu Zongren brought his own incense candles, and gave them to Zhao Jing and Manager Han, the three of them worshiped God and worshiped incense, Hu Zongren also knelt down on one knee in front of Guanyin, and there were words in his mouth.

After bowing, Hu Zongren bought a bun and some paper clothes from an old lay woman with a bamboo basket on her back, and then returned the same way, crossing the bridge to the opposite side of the reservoir. There are many shrubs around the tomb, and if you burn incense, it will cause a fire, although the fire brigade is nearby, it is better not to cause trouble. Hu Zongren used paper money as a broom, swept away the dead branches and leaves on the ground, lit incense and candles, and then tore the money paper into a Z-shaped shape and raised it in the air, and then made a uniform pair of paper around the incense candles, and then took out the rice paper on his body, and after folding it in half several times, he tore the paper into the shape of a small man holding hands, which was still flat on the ground.

Then Hu Zongren held the yellow mounted paper, pinched the fingers with his right hand to make a pen, and wrote a text, saying that he was going to be sent to the city god here, and asked the city god to come forward and take away these unjust ghosts, of course, this also includes the little girl. I saw that Hu Zongren's move was a bit fierce, so I asked him if you wanted to think about it, no matter how hateful it was, he was a child after all. Hu Zongren said, don't worry, I naturally have my plans. He said that these ghosts, which are unclaimed and worshipped, will end up the same wherever they go, and instead of letting them be captured and suffer by the city gods, it is better for me to help them and suffer less. After speaking, Hu Zongren picked out the wound on his finger yesterday and dotted a little blood on the body of each little paper figure.

Hu Zongren said that they are far away from humanity, so let's use the blood of our Taoist family to help them cultivate. I tossed and turned like this all morning, until I walked to the side of the tombs again, and examined them one by one with a compass as I could, only to find that there was no trace of any ghost at the moment.

Afterwards, I gave generously again and fulfilled my promise, I invited everyone to eat roast sheep, of course, this fee was finally paid by Manager Han to us along with the commission. Manager Han was by our side from beginning to end, and he knew that we would not deceive people, so we were very happy when we paid.

After finishing everything, it was already more than four o'clock in the afternoon, and we told Manager Han that if there was no abnormality tonight, it would mean that there was no problem, otherwise call us. Then we went to the clinic and checked the wound and my sprained finger a little. On the way home to send everyone, everyone didn't speak for a long time, Zhao Jing asked us to send her to a place to take a taxi, so I threw her near the station in Hongqi Hegou, she was about to leave after getting off the train, Hu Zongren rolled down the window, stopped Zhao Jing, and then said to her:

Let's get to know me officially, my name is Hu Zongren, from the Yaoshan faction.