Extra: The Atonement Gaiden (3)

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The great monk said, "The men in the village are all dead, don't you feel curious?"

Daoist Chongyang groaned for a moment at that time and said, they died voluntarily?

The great monk sighed and recited the Buddha's name. He said that all living beings are suffering, especially in this kind of world. Dao Chief, if you knew how they died, you wouldn't have killed them all.

Chongyang Dao Chang said coldly, since he is dead, he has to go where he should go, no matter what the reason, he must return to dust and dust to earth. It is a great sin for a yin soul to stay in the yang world, and the poor Dao will never tolerate such a thing.

As mentioned earlier, Chongyang Dao is jealous and hateful, and he can't tolerate ghosts wandering in the yang world. The dead should go to the place of the dead, what are you tossing here?

What's more, because of what happened to him when he was a child, the parents of the head of the Chongyang Dao died in the hands of the hanged ghost, and it may be very difficult for him to let go of this group of ghosts.

The monk said, these men are actually men who can sing and cry, what kind of story they have, I will tell you slowly.

It turned out that in that era of famine, there was definitely not enough food to eat. The men said that they were going out to beg for food and find food, but in fact, they were leaving the limited rations for their children and wives, and then went out to fend for themselves.

Because the whole territory of Henan is starving, there is no place to beg for food.

The emaciated men first went to catch wild beasts, and then when they couldn't catch them, they ate tree bark and digging grass roots, and they basically ate everything they could eat in the wilderness. But there are many monks and little porridge, and those who should be hungry still have to starve, so soon some people fainted from hunger.

Later, everyone thought that it would be better to go back and die in their hometown anyway, so it would be better to go back and die in their hometown, so that the leaves would return to their roots, and it would be considered that they had not come to the world in vain. Wait for a good baby in the next life, and that's it.

So the remaining dozen men returned in groups, and settled on a hill near the village.

Some people say that the food rations in the village are limited, and if everyone goes back like this, the family will definitely not watch us die. At that time, the old and weak women and children will give us food, and we will not be able to last for the next season's food. At that time, the whole family will really die.

As soon as they said this, everyone hesitated again, because the people in the village value affection, and since they are a family, they must be desperate to save themselves first.

A man named Ah Han said, "No, we can't go back." Everyone knows how much rations there are in the village, and we will hurt them when we go back.

Some people said weakly that even if we don't go back, those rations won't last the new food, but they just live longer.

As soon as he said this, everyone fell silent, and someone sighed and said, "This damn world, isn't this the way of the damn world for us to die?"

The men were silent, there was no food, in fact, everyone had to die, it was nothing more than a matter of dying sooner or later.

Later, someone couldn't stand it anymore and said, "It's better to die than this, and then let my wife eat me." I'm going to survive.

As soon as he said this, Han immediately struck a stir, because he already had a terrible idea in his head.

He said, "Guys, are you afraid of death?"

Many people were particularly convinced of Han, and some people said on the spot, Brother Han, of course we are not afraid of death. What are your good ideas?

Han said, we definitely won't be able to live, this damn God won't give us a way to live. But although we can't survive, we can let others live, it depends on whether you have the courage to do so!

A thin and weak man said, Brother Han, if you have any ideas, just say it directly, as long as I can let my wife and children live, Lao Tzu will admit it even if he is dead!

Ah Han smiled bitterly and said, there is not enough food in the village, but we still have a hundred and ten catties of meat here. Grandma's, we're going to die anyway, so let's donate these 100 catties of meat to the women and children in the village to eat! Maybe they'll be able to get through it then!

As soon as this sentence came out, everyone was shocked on the spot. Let the old and weak women and children in the village eat their own flesh? Cannibalism? Han: Is this crazy?

Some people tremble and say, "If you eat human flesh, you will become a devil!"

Ah Han stood up and said, I don't force everyone to do this. Anyway, the food is so small, choose everyone to die together, or choose to die by yourself, let your wife and children live, you can do it yourself.

And we can't let them know that they are eating human flesh, so we can coax them to say that it is wild boar! As long as you don't starve to death, who cares about what meat?

Now everyone is silent, eating human flesh is almost a taboo now, no matter who eats human flesh, it will definitely become a demon, this thing is absolutely impossible.

But if you don't, not only will you starve to death, but your wife and children will also starve to death. At that time, the whole village was starved to death, and it was definitely not just talk, many places became deserted villages, and the villagers either starved to death at home, or went out to flee the famine.

But escaping the famine is also death, and only a very few lucky people can survive the era of the great famine.

Everyone was silent for a long time before someone said that this world is not for people! It doesn't matter if we die, but the wife and children are innocent, why should they starve to death? Han! I listen to you! Isn't it just eating meat? What meat is not eaten?

To be sure, if you take modern science as scary, human flesh sounds terrible, but to put it bluntly, it's just carbohydrates. It's just that people are more resistant to eating human flesh.

Ah Han told everyone the truth, everyone thought about how they could die, if they dedicate their own flesh and blood, they can save their wives and children, it is not in vain!

Henan people also have men who are not afraid of death, so soon everyone decided that someone would commit suicide first, and then the remaining living people would decompose the flesh of the deceased and send it back to the village to share it with everyone.

Han said, since I came up with this idea, then I will naturally be the first to die! It doesn't matter if I die, I hope you can share my flesh with everyone.

After he said this, he stabbed him directly into the heart with a knife.

After Han's death, the remaining villagers dismembered his body and sent it to the village, falsely claiming that it was a wild boar boar. The people in the village are very hungry, where is the time to tell? Put it in the pot on the spot and cook it and eat it.

Han died, and it wasn't long before another person committed suicide, and a few days later, a third person also committed suicide. In this way, relying on a steady stream of human flesh, the village finally survived the famine.

Later, the villagers found the hill and saw the decomposed white bones, as well as the last two hungry and dying villagers, and then they knew the cause and effect of the incident.

Only then did the old and weak women and children know that the meat they have eaten in the past half month is actually the meat of the men in their village.

It sounds a little disgusting, but at that time, the old and weak women and children were very strong, and after the initial shock, they did not cry like ordinary village husbands and fools, but silently collected the bones of their men, and then buried them.

They said that since it was their husbands who exchanged their lives for their own lives, they must live well.

This should have ended here, the men died, but the old and weak women and children in the village survived. Even if it is passed down, it can be regarded as a good story.

But it turned out to be wrong.

Because the men led by Ah Han committed suicide, according to the rules of the underworld, the person who committed suicide belonged to the horizontal death, the horizontal death, and the yin soul had to spend the rest of its life in the yang world before it could be brought into the underworld.

As a result, Ah Han and more than a dozen of them were all stranded in the village.

You must know that after people die, they actually have obsessions, Ah Han and they think of their wives and sons, elderly parents, and after a long time, they turn into ghosts and guard the village.

Later, a Buddhist monk who walked the world came here, and saw that the village was full of gloom, and it seemed that there were unjust spirits at work, so he came to see and understand, and heard the story of Ah Han and his group of men.

Moreover, the monks also found that the local residents were pale and looked hungry on the surface, but in fact they had become like this because they had eaten human flesh. Because they have eaten human flesh, it is inevitable that the souls want to get close to these living people.

The monks said that these unjust souls may not harm people, but after all, being together with the living and the dead is not a long-term way, and the poor monks are willing to spend the souls of the dead for you and let the dead go where they should go.

The local old and weak women and children were overjoyed, because the village was poor, and they could not afford to hire monks and Taoist leaders.

So the monks chose the village under the big willow tree, held a copper bowl, and recited the mantra to transcend the souls of the dead. Because the big willow tree is yin, even in the daytime, the spirits can attach themselves to the willow tree to receive the excesses of the scriptures.

It's just that I didn't expect to meet the jealous and hateful Chongyang Daoist at this time.

The monk told the Chongyang Daoist about the cause and effect of the matter, saying, they are all poor people, although they have turned into dead souls, they are still worthy of admiration, Dao Chief, why don't you watch from the side, and wait for me to surpass the dead soul, and then make a decision?

It stands to reason that although Daoist Chongyang is jealous and hateful, he is not an unreasonable person. The Buddha's mantra of rebirth is also well-known and useful in circles.

But Daoist Chongyang smiled coldly and said, Monk, monks don't speak, have you learned to deceive people for the sake of these ghosts?

His voice suddenly became loud, and he said, Tell me honestly! How many living people have these ghosts killed! If you have killed the living, why do you want them to die in bliss? What are the sins of the innocent people who died? Well?