Chapter 27: A Strange Family That Never Heard Before
The lights in the room flickered, and Old Liu Tou talked about the childhood of the three bandit brothers, and his voice became low and mysterious, completely different from the feeling he had when he told the book. Butcher Zhang's grandfather didn't say a word, and listened very attentively, as if he was afraid of missing a word.
Lao Liu Tou talked for about half an hour, and his mouth was a little dry, so he picked up the tea on the table and drank a few sips to moisten his throat. The grandfather of the butcher Zhang, who had been listening quietly, took advantage of this gap and asked Lao Liu Tou gently: "Mr. Liu, I heard that these three bandits once learned some side door left techniques from a Taoist priest, I don't know if it's true?" ”
Old Liu Tou put down the teacup, cleared his throat, lowered his voice, and said to Zhang Butcher's grandfather very mysteriously: "I'm not sure about this, but you know what? The ancestor of these three bandits has a very close relationship with Taoist priests."
Butcher Zhang's grandfather's eyes widened, and he asked in surprise: "Is it?" What's going on here? ”
Lao Liu Tou saw that Zhang Butcher's grandfather was so interested, so he also talked about it very strongly:
"When I was a child, I heard the old people in the village chatter, saying that the ancestor of the three bandit brothers used to be a Taoist priest, it is said that it is still a Taoist temple near our area, one day, the Taoist priests in the Taoist temple all went out to the cave on the mountain to kill a monster, it is said that this monster was born from a cross between a man and a sheep, part of it is like a sheep, but the other part is a bit like a person, you say strange is not strange, scared is not scary? The Taoist priests used sticks to block the monster into the cave, chased and beat it fiercely, and finally killed the monster. But in the process, the monster must have resisted, hissing and biting, but no one else was injured, except for the ancestor of the three bandit brothers, who was bitten. And the injury was not light, and a large piece of flesh was torn off from his shoulder.
Originally, I was going to take some medicine by myself and raise it in the Taoist temple, but the wound was always pus-shedding and foul-smelling. So, he had no choice but to go down the mountain and prepare to find a famous doctor a hundred miles away for treatment. But because his wounds worsened and he had a fever, he passed out halfway through. Fortunately, he was found by a squire and carried to his home. Maybe he didn't deserve to die, this squire was a well-known local good man, especially to the monks, and he was even more courteous. After the squire brought the ancestor of the three bandit brothers to his home, he not only sent a special person to take care of him, but also invited the famous doctor to his home to specially treat the ancestor of the three bandit brothers. After more than two months in this way, the ancestors of the three bandit brothers were basically cured.
After thanking the good man who saved him, the ancestor of the three bandit brothers embarked on the journey home, preparing to return to the Taoist temple. But on the way back, he heard that all the Taoist priests in the Taoist temple were killed overnight, and their heads were put on the steps of the Taoist temple's courtyard. This made him both frightened and glad, it was really a blessing for Saion to lose his horse, if he hadn't been bitten, he would definitely be in a different place like other senior brothers.
However, he was still afraid of reprisals, so he did not dare to stay in the local area, but hurried to return to the customs, and exiled for more than a year. After a year, he felt that there should be no danger, so he returned to the village before he became a monk, and continued to be a farmer like his father and brothers.
He is young and strong, has the strength of a hand, and is willing to work hard, so although he is not rich, he can get by. And after matchmaking, he married a girl from a neighboring village, and he looked very smooth.
Soon after getting married, his wife became pregnant, and the neighbors all said that seeing his wife's sharp belly, her left leg first when she walked, and she loved to eat sour things so much, she must be a son, the ancestor of the three bandit brothers, after hearing these words, he couldn't close his mouth with joy.
But his joy didn't last long.
After ten months of pregnancy, when the child fell to the ground, for some reason, the midwife in her sixties suddenly fainted, and after being carried home, she never woke up, and died after three or four days.
The people in the village said that the child's life was so hard, and as soon as he was born, he killed the midwife. And the ancestor of the three bandit brothers, since he gave birth to this son, has never been happy, but all day long, not only him, but even his wife often sighs, and burns incense and worships Buddha all day long.
This son grew up slowly, but he rarely played with the children in the village, and all year round, he was always tightly wrapped, even if it was hot in summer, he never saw his bare buttocks, not even his arms, and the people in the village thought he was very strange.
When it comes to the age when he should marry a daughter-in-law, this son looks normal except for being wrapped in thick clothes all year round, whether it is speech and demeanor, or body appearance. So this son married a fairly handsome girl from a neighboring village. But on the night of the cave room, something strange happened again, and the girl went crazy for some reason. So in this area, everyone knows that this son has a hard life, and no one dares to marry him anymore.
The ancestor of the three bandit brothers definitely didn't want his only son to be a bachelor, so he tried his best to get a blind woman back from out of town and be a daughter-in-law for his son, but this woman had no other problems except blindness, she was knowledgeable and virtuous, and she was very good in terms of figure and appearance.
It's strange to say, this blind woman was neither killed by her hard-working son, nor "crazy", a qiē is normal, and the little couple is also very affectionate and happy, and soon after, the blind woman was happy.
Not only why, when this blind woman was born, the ancestor of the three bandit brothers did not invite a midwife, but let his wife deliver the birth to his daughter-in-law.
It was born a boy. But since then, there has been such a very strange family in the village, why do you say that his family is weird? What's the weird way?
It is from this son on the ancestor of the three bandits that only one is born in each generation, and they are all sons; Every generation has taken a blind woman as a wife; Every generation has never been naked in public, and their bodies are tightly wrapped all year round.
Weird enough, right? It wasn't until the generation of the three bandit brothers that there was some change, although their mother was still blind, and the three of them still never showed their bodies, but after all, his father gave birth to three sons, not like the previous generations, and it was a single lineage. ”
Zhang Butcher's grandfather, after listening to Lao Liu Tou's detailed account of the family history of the three bandits, thought to himself that it was absolutely correct for him to come to Lao Liu Tou before cutting off the head of the third bandit, and this information was too important to him. Regarding the mysterious power of the three bandits and the tragic deaths of the first two executioners, he also felt that he was gradually gaining some eyebrows.