Chapter 174: The Legend of the Ancient Well
Da Xian'er said at the time that I didn't die the first night because the big black dog followed me home.
It's kind of intimate to see it now.
The big black dog was very sensible, as if he knew me, wagged his tail for a while, and barked at me a few more times.
The big black dog was sent by the owner to save me, and this dog belonged to Tang Yao's family, could it be that after I sent Tang Yao home that night, she knew that I was in danger and specially sent the big black dog to send me back?
I was lying on the window teasing the dog, Tang Yao didn't know when he had finished cleaning up and stood behind me and called me, the two of us said let's go, and stepped on the first ray of sunshine in the morning when many people haven't gotten up yet, and climbed the mountain!
Of course, I have a purpose in climbing the mountain with Tang Yao, and along the way, I used my brains to try to bring the topic to the reservoir car accident ten years ago, so as to warm up for the next topic.
Tang Yao is stupid and likes to talk, as long as I start talking, she will be able to continue.
On the way to the foot of the mountain, there is an old well at the head of the village.
I have an impression of this well, it was noticed when I first came to Tiger Waist Mountain, when I was going to look down the well with Xiaoliu was stopped by a little brother, according to Lao Liu, this well is particularly powerful, and there is no one in the entire Northeast who is good to make, which surprised me, so I was very impressed.
This round well looked weather-beaten, Tang Yao noticed that my eyes had been on the well, and she also slowed down and glanced at the ancient well and said:
"Guess how many years this well has been in our village!"
I glanced at her and looked at Ishii again.
"Now the rural water is buried in the ground to pump water for electricity, when I was a child, the water was a hand-pressed iron well, this stone well was used in ancient times, I think it is the well used by our grandfather's grandfather, and it is not a hundred years?"
After listening to my analysis, Tang Yao shook his head and said:
"This well will have to be a hundred years away."
Saying that, Tang Yao waved me to continue walking, and as he walked, I asked:
"Isn't this well quite ordinary?"
Tang Yao didn't expect me to ask this question, and said with a smile:
"This well has a long story in our village, it's scary, do you want to hear it?"
"Listen! Tell me about it! ”
Tang Yao smiled "poof".
"You're timid and curious, so I'll tell you about it."
I'm not a person who likes to watch lively and good gossip and rumors, but this well makes Lao Liu say something amazing, which really arouses my interest.
Tang Yao learned to be a storyteller, coughed twice, and cleared his throat before he said slowly:
"This well existed as early as my grandfather's generation, it was the only well in the village at that time, and the whole village relied on this well for water, this village was not called Tiger Waist Mountain at that time, and the people in the village were surnamed Liu, so it was called Liujia Village!"
Liujia Village, in fact, there are many villages named after surnames in some remote villages now, I asked:
"At that time, foreign surnames were not allowed to marry, right?"
"It's not, there is a family that married a woman surnamed Zhao, this woman is very beautiful and very capable of working, this family likes it very much, and she is very good to her, and then the woman became pregnant, and she gave birth to a fat boy in October, at that time, the countryside was patriarchal, and I was very happy to see that the first child was a son."
I asked anxiously:
"What does that have to do with wells?"
Tang Yao glanced at me and said:
"Listen to me, normal children are generally more than a year old and can already talk and walk, but the child she gave birth to can't speak or walk when they are five years old. As soon as they saw the child like this, the ugliness of the family was revealed, and they thought that the woman did not give birth to a good child, so they began to treat her very badly, let her do heavy work, and did not even give her food! He also put an iron chain on her. ”
At this point in the story, I could already guess what happened, but I didn't interrupt her to continue listening to her.
"The woman couldn't stand it anymore, so she jumped into the well with her son in her arms! What's even more hateful is that after the woman jumped into the well, the family didn't even look for it and didn't ask, and later some villagers often saw some blood in the well to draw water, but they didn't go to their hearts, until the bodies of the woman and the child stinked under the well, and the village didn't know! ”
Although I guessed the end of the story, I didn't expect that there would be such a process, two people drowned under the well, and the villagers still drank well water every day, drinking bloodshot well water, which made people uncomfortable to think about....
"And then?"
"Later, I realized that something was wrong, and often people heard crying when they passed by the well at night, and some people even saw women sitting by the well with children in their arms, and the people who saw it ran home and went crazy after a few days!"
The two of us turned into the mountain road, and I broke a branch of an obstructive tree on the side of the road to let Tang Yao pass first. Asked:
"Then what to do in the end, isn't there Mr. Yin Yang to take care of it?"
Then a gentleman from another village came, and he came to the well and looked at it, but turned away without saying anything. Not long after he left, the woman's husband suddenly became paralyzed, and her parents-in-law also suffered from a strange disease with crooked mouth and eyes. ”
I wondered and asked:
"Then why did the gentleman take a look and leave?"
Tang Yao didn't answer me and continued:
"Mr. came back after their family got retribution, he came back and sealed this well with the folk wild way, the people in the village let this matter frightened and moved away, except for the paralyzed woman's husband and the two old men with crooked eyes have stayed in the village to accompany the woman in the well, and later it was said that the family of three died in the house, and no one collected the corpse very miserably!"
I was fascinated by the story and immersed in it, Tang Yao glanced at me and said:
"The first time the gentleman came here and didn't do anything, he was waiting for the retribution to fall on this family, but the female ghost hurt the innocent villagers, and the gentleman sealed her in the well so that she could live forever! Until now, successive village chiefs have not let everyone go to the well to look around! ”
When the story of the ancient well was finished, I sighed and looked back in the direction of the mountain, and I couldn't help but be stunned.
"Tang Yao, do you believe that there is karma in this world?"
Tang Yao should have grown up listening to this story, and his emotions were not affected, and he replied with a smile:
"I believe it, there must be!"
Before we knew it, we had climbed to the mountainside, and seeing that it was just the two of us at the moment, the time was ripe, and I asked seriously:
"Tang Yao, what did you learn from this story?"
I thought that Tang Yao would say that good will be rewarded with good and evil will be rewarded with evil, but she didn't expect her head to tilt, thought for a while and said:
"I've learned that you have to think through before you get married!"
This......... It's embarrassing!
I shook my head helplessly, simply stopped going around the bend with her, and said:
"Karma determines that there are, such as the car accident in the reservoir in your village ten years ago, do you believe that the driver really did not die?"
There are a lot of flowers and plants on the mountainside, Tang Yao seems to be in a good mood, and he looks left and right, and he replied casually:
"I don't know, anyway, there are people who say they are not dead!"
She's still pretending!!
"Tang Yao, you said that when you saw the driver escape, why didn't you stand up and ask everyone for justice?"
Tang Yao took a deep breath of the fresh air in the mountains and said:
"I'm afraid, the village didn't go up to complain when the accident just happened, but there was no result, it's useless!"
I deliberately nodded at her and said:
"At that time, the opportunity was not in place, and now if there is evidence, do you think the eyewitnesses should come out to testify?"
Tang Yao was stunned when he heard this, turned his head to look at me, and said more meaningfully:
"I said that you kid can't do without the car accident since you saw me, I don't think you came to our village to pay tribute to the village chief, right?"
Now that we have talked about this, I was about to open the skylight and say something bright to have a showdown with her, when I suddenly heard a dog barking, and a wolf dog with black hair ran up from the bottom of the mountain.
It was the big black dog that saved my life, the big black dog was very good with Tang Yao, first circled around her twice, and then ran over to play with me for a while, Tang Yao's expression was very unnatural after seeing the big dog, and he touched the dog's head and said:
"I've got to get home, let's not go up!"
Seeing that she was quite anxious, why did she have to go home when she saw the black dog, did the big black dog come to bring her news?
I asked curiously:
"Tang Yao, this black dog followed me the night I sent you home, and Da Xian'er also said that I would have died without her that night! It's your dog! ”
We turned around and walked back, Tang Yao pointed forward, and the big black dog seemed to understand the meaning and "swished" in front of him to lead the way.
"It's my family, and I'm afraid of scaring the children in the village, so I rarely let it out during the day!"
Looking at the big black dog in the distance, Tang Yao didn't have the ease just now, and seemed to be getting more and more anxious, asked her not to say anything, and finally simply trotted up.
They ran all the way down the mountain, and before I could say what I wanted to say, they were already far away.
But it doesn't matter, today is not tomorrow, I am confident to convince her!
Back to the old village chief's house for lunch, the daughter-in-law of the Zhou family has been packing up in the house, she went to find Meiling in the morning, Da Xian'er said that the matter of Tai Sui is over, and the two of them can move back to the house tomorrow.
The daughter-in-law of the Zhou family chatted with me while packing up her things, chatting and chatting, and talked about me.
She folded her clothes in her hands and said:
"Guy, I see that you have a good relationship with Tang Yao's girl, do you two want to have a partner?"
I laughed out loud and said:
"Don't engage in objects, I have objects in the city, and didn't she have objects in your village before?"
The daughter-in-law of the Zhou family looked up at me when she heard the words and said:
"She has a partner in my village? Who's so unlucky? ”
I smiled and said:
"I don't know anyone from your village, but I heard her say that she returned to China this time and found that his object was dead! I'm also embarrassed to ask her, eldest sister, do you know how to die? ”
The daughter-in-law of the Zhou family put down the clothes in her hand, and finally couldn't hold back a sneer:
"Oh, it's, there are no dead people in our village this year, why did this crazy girl make up an object for herself when she saw that she had no one!"
The more the daughter-in-law of the Zhou family talked, the more she laughed, the more she laughed.
Seeing that she couldn't straighten up with a smile, I asked suspiciously:
"Eldest sister, she really has no object in your village, didn't she grow up with childhood sweethearts?"
The daughter-in-law of the Zhou family kept waving her hand.
"No, no, her family has money and neighbors don't get along with each other, she has been playing with a group of girls since she was a child, there are no boys, I know it!"
Tang Yao lied to me!!
The tragic story she told when she went to the reservoir to commit suicide and was rescued by me turned out to be lying to me! So since there is no such thing, what did she do when she went to the reservoir to commit suicide at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, why did she lie?
Could it be a fake suicide?
Tang Yao was an important witness to the car accident, and I felt a little chill in the back of my neck, and asked:
"Eldest sister, where was Tang Yao when the reservoir car accident occurred, do you know?"
The daughter-in-law of the Zhou family said without thinking:
"When that happened, their family went abroad to play, and they were all abroad!!"