Chapter 52: The Legend of the Elm Tree
"Oh!? Striking the grass and startling the snake, Comrade Zhao means that the children's illness is deliberately caused by someone? The mayor of the town asked in surprise, and the second uncle of Lao Li was also surprised, no one thought that this disease was actually caused by man.
I took a sip of tea, then nodded and said, "Yes, you just have to do as I tell you, this is the material I need, and I can get as many copies as I have when my children are sick." ”
The mayor hurriedly took the note and checked it, and then handed it to the second uncle of Lao Li and asked him to do it.
I didn't see anything to do, so I told me to gather the children tomorrow and pick me up at my house, and then take the car back home.
"God, where have you been? Why did the mayor and the village mayor send you back? My mother asked curiously, in fact, I don't want to hide it from my family, but I'm afraid of leaking it, not to mention that I won't necessarily believe it.
I still admire my grandfather, and when I saw my stumbling appearance, I said to my mother: "The child has grown up, and he has his own things to do, so don't ask." ”
The mother retorted: "No matter how old it is, it's not my son, I really can't figure it out, how can the mayor send the child back." ”
"Mom, don't ask, you'll find out in a few days, I'm not eating at home at noon tomorrow, so you don't have to bring my food." While saying to my mother, I walked away.
I am in the open and the enemy, and I must know myself and the enemy in order to achieve complete victory, and I may be able to find any clues when I walk around.
There is a big intersection in the center of our village, there is a big elm tree in the southeast of the intersection, it is more than ten meters high, it is said that this tree is at least more than 100 years old, when my grandfather and they settled here, it was already so high, and my grandfather was only more than ten years old at that time.
There is also a poignant legend about this elm tree.
More than 100 years ago, there was a rich man surnamed Ren who lived here, because his wife Wu had not given birth to a son, so he spent a lot of money to buy an eighteen-year-old concubine named Liu Tianjiao, this Liu Tianjiao is very beautiful, three points out of seven points of beauty are charming, just got married and fascinated this rich man is unstoppable.
Originally, this Wu family agreed to marry his father-in-law to the second room, because the people at that time took inheritance fireworks very seriously, and there was a saying that "unfilial piety has three and no queen is great".
However, as the days passed, this Wu family became more and more jealous, and she found that her father-in-law was becoming more and more alienated from her, and ran to Liu Tianjiao's house every day, so she became angry and jealous.
As everyone knows, a tragedy began like this.
In the winter of the second year of marrying the concubine, Liu Tianjiao gave birth to a big fat boy to the rich man, which was a big event that caused a sensation in the whole village.
In the blink of an eye, the contradiction between Wu and Liu Tianjiao has become bigger and bigger, from the beginning of mutual abuse to almost one time, and the vast majority of the rich people are partial to Liu Tianjiao, and the relationship between the Wu family and the rich man is getting worse and worse, and later, the rich man does not go to the Wu family room to rest at night.
The smell of gunpowder was already everywhere in the house, and finally exploded under the ignition of a fuse.
Ren's son, who is almost four years old and can speak most of the words, accidentally fell off a wall while playing with his sister (the daughter of Wu and Ren), causing a broken arm.
Ren and Liu Tianjiao didn't ask what was going on, so they blamed the responsibility for this incident on their daughter, who was tied to a tree by Ren Cai is a whip, and when Wu arrived, he found that his daughter was scarred all over her body, and she was crying, this is her own flesh, how can she not feel distressed.
Wu didn't dare to blame Xianggong, so he looked for Liu Tianjiao to theorize, both sides were already angry, the situation can be imagined, Zuihou The two women fought together, and when the rich man saw this, he dragged Liu Tianjiao away, and gave Wu a slap in the face, and immediately beat Wu stupid, because she has been married to the Ren family for more than ten years, and this is the first time she has done it to herself.
Wu ran back to his room crying, looked at his daughter, and cried: "Girl, your father has been bewitched by fox spirits!" He has changed his mind, don't want us two anymore! ”
The mother and daughter hugged each other and cried, Wu cried for a while, as if he had made some decision, stopped crying, grabbed his daughter's shoulders tightly with both hands, gritted his teeth and said: "Girl, I can't live like this, when your father is the vixen in charge after a hundred years, she will definitely drive our mother and mother out of the house!" ”
In fact, this Wu's maiden family is also a bit shili, but it is a big family in the town hundreds of miles away from here, and the Wu family took his daughter back to her parents' house.
Who knows, she has been gone for half a year, and no one from the Ren family has come at all, which also makes the Wu family completely dead, and one afternoon, the Wu family returned to the Ren family alone.
Her father-in-law is still lukewarm to her, but he accompanies Liu Tianjiao every day, and the rich man has recently had a business to go out, and before leaving, he instructed his subordinates that all the affairs in the house should be decided by Liu Tianjiao in the second room.
It is said that he was killed by a robber on the road, but in fact, the Wu family went to his mother's house to buy the killer.
As soon as the rich man died, the power of the family fell into the hands of Liu Tianjiao, and a few months passed, but Liu Tianjiao did not drive himself back to his parents' house as Wu thought, which was still good for her.
But Wu didn't believe it, she thought that Liu Tianjiao did this for the people in the mansion to see, in order to buy people's hearts.
One day, Liu Tianjiao had dinner and felt dizzy and light, so he went to bed and lay down to rest.
When she woke up, it was already the next day, she touched it with her hand and found that there were people around her, Liu Tianjiao didn't open her eyes, thinking that her son came to sleep with her, but when she stretched out her hand, she found that something was wrong!
Liu Tianjiao hurriedly opened his eyes and saw a man lying naked beside him, Liu Tianjiao screamed in fright, and after a while, many people arrived.
At this time, Liu Tianjiao was already dressed and sitting on the side crying, but the man had not woken up yet, and a subordinate brought a basin of water and splashed it on the man's face, and the man woke up, and he also exclaimed, and then asked, "Where is this?" How did I end up here? ”
As soon as the words fell, there was a lot of noise in the courtyard, and then many officials came, and without asking, they directly took Liu Tianjiao and the man who hadn't figured out what was going on.
Half a month later, Liu Tianjiao was convicted of adultery, and in ancient times, women could not have relationships with other men after losing their husbands, which was a big taboo.
Liu Tianjiao's fate was very miserable, he was soaked in the pig cage alive, and it is said that before he died, he roared wildly, saying that he was wronged by the Wu family, and swore that he would become a ghost and come back to take revenge after death.
The real situation is just as Liu Tianjiao said, everything is done by Wu Shi looking for someone, she first spent money to buy the official yamen, and then used drugs to charm a beggar, and then put the same medicine in Liu Tianjiao's meal, the two stripped off their clothes and put them on a bed, and then the officials of the government arrived.
Although Liu Tianjiao has been dead for a few days, and the Wu family is once again called the grandmother of the Ren family, she often has nightmares at night, always dreaming that Liu Tianjiao asks her for her life.
Wu was so frightened that she didn't dare to sleep every night, even if she closed her eyes, she felt that Liu Tianjiao was standing in front of her, drenched in water, and wanted to seek revenge on herself.
Wu found many Taoist priests and monks to do it, but it didn't work at all, and finally after a year, he couldn't bear it anymore, and Wu was already on the verge of collapse at this time.
One day, the people in the palace found that Wu was gone, so they went to the Yamen to report to the official, and after the Yamen's search, they found that Wu had hanged himself on the elm tree in front of Liu Tianjiao's grave.
No one knows if Wu really committed suicide or why, but since then, everyone knows that this elm tree is very evil, because when the branches and leaves of this tree are broken, bright red blood will flow out of the fracture, which is terrifying.