Among the seven people who bullied Zhou Manman, Zhou Cheng was the fifth to die, and like most of the previous dead, he strangled himself to death, and his death was extremely ugly.

Zhou Cheng is not a fool, the death of the seven of them one after another has given him a great sense of crisis, yesterday afternoon I did not give him the antidote to Guo Blind, he was quickly sent to the town clinic for treatment.

The poison of the black cat killed him, but Guo Blind's attitude when he left reminded him of Zhang Kun who died last time, so after returning to Dawa Village, Zhou Cheng asked his family to stay by his side, saying that the person who died tonight might be him, and if he survived this night, he could be saved.

In order to ensure that nothing went wrong, Zhou Cheng also asked his parents to call several relatives and take turns keeping vigil to watch him.

But when the midnight bell rang, Zhou Cheng suddenly grabbed his neck like crazy, his eyes widened and he tried to call for help but couldn't make a sound, and when his family found out, he was already dying, and hurriedly stepped forward to break his fingers. But Zhou Cheng's strength was terrifying, and several adults couldn't break his fingers together, and watched him strangle himself to death.

Zhou Cheng's parents were so frightened that they sat on the ground, and their relatives shuddered and rushed out of the door.

This incident spread throughout Futuling early the next morning, and everyone can be sure that the murderer is an invisible and untouchable ghost.

The cinnabar yellow charm given to Zhou Cheng by Huang Cripple did not protect his life, and the villagers gradually realized that the murderous ghost might not be something that Huang Cripple could deal with, and they began to panic, and every household went to the town to buy firecrackers and set them off, and the doors were full of willow branches and wormwood, two things to ward off evil spirits.

After breakfast, I went out to Guo's house, and I wanted to ask him what was going on, and he must know something.

When I passed by the path in front of my house, I happened to see the old lady of our village coming from the direction of Dawa Village, so I went up to say hello to him.

When the old lady saw that it was me, he said with a serious face: "Xiaohao, you come with me." ”

I felt strange in my heart, I didn't know what the old lady was looking for me, so I followed him all the way to his house.

As I said earlier, the old lady is the only one in our village who has lived to be 100 years old, and he is not as old and dizzy as ordinary old people who can't walk, so for many years, all newborn children in the village have to ask him to hug him, and touch his blessings in order to make a good living.

The old lady originally had a pair of children, and was sent to the Northeast when the educated youth went to the countryside, and then died somehow.

He has the highest rank in the village, he also taught when he was young, and he also loves the younger generation, so he is highly respected in the village, even if Li Fugui sees him talking, he has to be polite.

The old lady likes to comment on books, and the people in several nearby villages sometimes invite him to entertain him with delicious food and drink to let him tell the story of the Three Kingdoms and the Water Margin, I didn't have any playmates when I was a child, so I liked to follow him and listen to him comment on the story, and the old lady didn't scold me when he saw me, and he would take me with him when he ate.

After arriving at the old lady's house, the old lady said, "I haven't seen you for a few years, and you have grown so big, like your father." ”

I didn't expect the old lady to suddenly mention my father, but I didn't have a good feeling for my father, who gave birth to me but didn't raise me, so I pretended to be indifferent and asked, "Isn't he dead?" ”

The old lady sighed and said, "You blame him for abandoning you and your mother." ”

I said, "It doesn't matter, it's been all over the years." ”

The old lady said: "I have watched you grow up since I was a child, you have a stubborn temper and love more seriously, but your father is not what you think, he is a strange person, he does not belong to the mountains, as for why he didn't bring you and your mother, there must be his troubles." If he hadn't been there, the disaster in Futuling would have happened 20 years ago. You are a smart person, and you should be able to see that the successive deaths in Futu Ridge are not just as simple as ghost killing. ”

I didn't expect the old lady to think the same as me, so I asked, "What the hell is going on, and what do you know?" ”

The old lady shook his head and said, "I don't know much, and I haven't had a clue after investigating for a few days, but you shouldn't have touched the coffin in the back mountain yesterday." ”

"You know everything?" I asked, surprised.

The old lady said, "The woman in that coffin is unusual, she can't drown, she can't starve, and even the cat next to her lives older than a man." ”

"Among the villagers who were left behind by Lao Xiucai back then, are you, the old lady?" I asked tentatively.

The old lady nodded, and did not hide it, he said: "New China was not established back then, and now I am the only one who knows about it. ”

"Who the hell is that woman?" I asked straight to the point.

The old lady said: "She escaped from Henan back then. ”

"It is rumored that a great plague broke out in the mountains that year, and many people died, has it to do with this woman?" I asked.

The old lady shook his head and said, "It doesn't matter at all, no one knows the cause of the plague in the mountains except for Lao Xiucai." But what is certain is that it is related to the forbidden place in the north of Futu Ridge, for thousands of years, some strange things will happen every few decades, and accordingly, some strange people will come to stop it, Lao Xiu is such a person, and your father is also such a person. The woman who fled Lao Xiucai said that she was a woman with the life of Jiuyin, who could suppress the evil of Futuling and purify the plague, so she was nailed to the coffin. ”

"What is the life of the Nine Yins?" I asked.

Lao Xiucai said: "I don't know this, I just heard Lao Xiucai say this, maybe it has something to do with the fact that the woman is difficult to kill, Lao Xiu is a strange person, and that woman is just an ordinary person with a special fate, naturally not his opponent." ”

I sighed and said, "Isn't it too cruel to kill an innocent person in order to save a group of people?" ”

"It's cruel indeed, but the woman later seems to have reached some kind of agreement with Lao Xiucai, promising not to break free from the coffin." The old lady was stunned when she saw me, and continued: "That woman fled from Henan during the famine in 1942, and later separated from her husband and son on the way, and Guo's ancestral home is also from Henan. ”

"That woman is Guo Blind's mother?" I was extremely shocked to hear the news, I vaguely felt that something was wrong when I saw Guo Blind's expression at the beginning, and now I think about it and realize that he seems to have guessed who the woman is, and he didn't want the woman to suffer again, so he killed her!

The old lady said: "Most of them are like this, there were thousands of people infected with the plague in Futuling back then, and most of them were children with poor resistance, Xiao Guo was one of them, the woman did not agree to Lao Xiucai's request to lie in the coffin, her son would die, although I don't know this agreement, but I can guess eight or nine is not far from ten." Lao Xiucai never accepted apprentices in Futuling, but accepted Xiao Guo as an apprentice, all of which shows that Xiao Guo is the son of that woman. ”

"Old lady, do you suspect that this series of ghost murder cases in Futuling was carried out by blind Guo from beginning to end?" I asked.

The old lady said, "Yes. ”

I said: "Impossible, I have been with Guo Blind during this time, he doesn't look like this kind of person, and he also saved Manman, when Li Fugui wanted to burn Zhou Manman in front of the Dingfeng pile at the head of the village, he crushed the jade, saying that Li Tong was dead, and the murderer was not Manman." Besides, yesterday I could see that Guo Blind didn't know that the person in the coffin was his wife. ”

The old lady's face showed a trace of sadness and said: "Xiao Guo, this person, I also grew up, he is indeed a good person, but it is difficult to be a good person." Back then, Li Fugui's father, Li Wuye, took people to his house to grab food and hand it over, and humiliated his father in public, causing his father to be unable to raise his head in the village, and finally died of depression. Later, Lao Xiucai secretly accepted Xiao Guo as an apprentice, and a large family in the county received the favor of Lao Xiucai, and when he saw that Lao Xiucai still had heirs, he married his daughter to Xiao Guo. After the two got married, they lived a very happy life and gave birth to a male baby, but it didn't take long for a revolution to break out, Lao Xiucai became too famous in the county, and became the number one person who defeated all cows, ghosts, snakes and gods, Xiao Guo was naturally not spared, but Lao Xiucai helped many high-ranking officials and nobles, and some people made a stumbling block for him, and Xiao Guo just survived. But Xiao Guo's wife is miserable, she was born in a rich family, her family is engaged in the tobacco business, the class composition belongs to the big capitalist faction, her parents were killed, she was stripped naked and paraded in the street, asking her to admit that she was messing with the relationship between men and women. Xiao Guo's wife has a strong temperament, she can't stand the insult, she goes crazy, she runs naked all day long after she goes crazy, and you can think of some things even if you don't say it, and finally she committed suicide by jumping into the river. ”

"So, Lao Guo has been holding back until now to take revenge? What about his son? I asked.

The old lady said: "Xiao Guo's son survived because of his young age, and survived well at the end of 76 years*, but in 83 years of hard crackdown, the county gave Futuling a few indicators, Lao Guo's composition has not been good, and he is not treated by Li Fugui, and belongs to the remnants of old feudalism, so his son was shot because of the fight." ”

"Shot for fighting?" I was puzzled.

The old lady sighed and said: "Specifically, he was beaten, not beaten, at that time, the society was very chaotic, the law and order were difficult to control, the gangsters didn't even pay attention to the police station, and there were qualitative indicators that someone must die, Xiao Guo's son became a scapegoat, and now he found out that the woman nailed in the coffin was his own mother, no one can bear such hatred." ”

"But...... "I was terrified and frightened, speechless, if it was really as the old lady said, what did Lao Guo have been forbearing, and what did he take care of me these days?

The old lady said: "Widow Li's son Li Tong died in the bathhouse he built, the door was locked, you think only ghosts can do it, but I think people can." Don't forget that Xiao Guo is Lao Xiucai's apprentice, and Lao Xiucai's methods back then were amazing, and I once saw him crush the gun of a horse bandit from a long distance. Xiao Guo has only been with Lao Xiu for a few years, and he is definitely not comparable to a half-hung gentleman like Huang Cripple. ”

The old lady said again: "Before they went to arrest Zhou Manman, Li Tong was already dead. ”