I was stunned and asked, "Can you tell me about it?" ”

The old man smiled and waved his hand, and said, "It's all the old yellow calendar many years ago, and I also listened to my grandfather...... Young man, where did you know that our village was haunted? ”

I looked at the old man, he should be seventy or eighty years old, and how long ago did he listen to what his grandfather said?

Facing the old man's slightly questioning eyes, I asked, "Uncle, has there been any haunting in the village in recent years?" The old man shook his head and said: "Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, our village has been peaceful, neither any disasters nor any ghosts, and has always been with Shunshun, if it weren't for the accident with the doll of Xiaoshun's family a few days ago...... If you want to say that the female doll of Xiaoshun's family, it's really cute! When you meet, you call grandpa, that sweet mouth! But the little doll was gone a few days ago, and it was gone if it didn't happen, and it just came out of the funeral yesterday... It's so pitiful, it's only that big girl......"

The old man babbled and said, although there were no tears on the old face full of vicissitudes, but obvious regret and sadness could be seen.

I know that the little doll he said should be Mimi, as for what he said since the founding of the People's Republic of China, there has been no haunting in the village... I thought of the ghost I met last night, could it be that ghost was summoned by my spiritualism? But it's clear that I'm going to recruit Mimi's ghost, why is this happening?

"Uncle, can you tell me about the haunting incident in the village before the founding of the People's Republic of China?" The old man's sadness and regret were only for a moment, and after I asked the question, his attention was diverted, and his dim eyes rolled a few times, revealing a look of recollection: "It was a long time ago, and I was not born at that time, and my grandfather told me ...... later."

"Old Zhaotou, you tell people your old-fashioned ghost story again! How many years have you been telling this story? I also deceived this young man from outside, we are all tired of hearing it, change one, change one! ”

As soon as the old man said a word, the old men next to him started to coax, and the old man who told the story stopped talking, waved his hand at his old friends, and shouted: "Go, go!" It's a real thing, you didn't have a life back then, you know a fart! Listen to me, young man... At the end of the village there was a big camphor tree, which was much taller than it is now when my grandfather was there, but it became what it is now. If you look from this side, you can still see the top of the camphor tree..."

The camphor tree that the old man was referring to was the one outside Mimi's yard, the one I met last night!

I felt a little more cautious about what the old man said.

Here's what the old man told me about the story.

It was about the twenties before the founding of the People's Republic of China, when the old man was not born (the old man can't tell the exact time, I deduced it from what he said).

At that time, Zhang'an Village was not called Zhang'an Village, but Chang'an Village, named after the ancient camphor tree in the village that lived for an unknown number of years.

Next to the camphor tree, there lived a family, a couple with a little boy.

At that time, it was a chaotic world of warlords, but Chang'an Village was located in the southeast corner and was protected by the Nationalist Government, but it was still peaceful. It's just that the world is in a recession, and the male owner of that family sees that life is getting worse and poorer, and he thinks that only when he gets ahead can he have a good life. So he left his beautiful wife and young son behind and signed up for the army.

But the battlefield is ruthless, the guns are eyeless, and the hostess looks forward to her husband's return every day under the camphor tree, but she didn't expect to wait for the bad news that her husband died in battle! The hostess was a widow and grief-stricken, and wanted to go with her husband, but her son was young and had no one to take care of her, so she had to survive.

As the saying goes, blessing and misfortune do not go alone, and I don't know if this family has offended any gods, and it didn't take long for the widow's youngest son to fall into the water and drown! Now the widow finally broke down, and on the night after her son's death, she hanged herself from the big camphor tree at the door!

The instant destruction of the family is a very sensational thing nowadays, but it also happened from time to time in that war era, although the villagers lamented what happened to the family, but they did not have much extra energy to pay attention.

They helped deal with the aftermath of the widow's mother and son, and they could be regarded as having the affection of living in the same village.

After the widow's death, Chang'an Village was quiet for a while, and nothing special happened. But no one expected that a year later, the man who was thought to be dead suddenly came back with a pair of soldiers and horses, it turned out that he was not dead, but a small officer of the national government, he came back this time to pick up his wife and children to reunite, but he didn't expect that what was waiting for him was the news that his wife and children had died! The petty officer was furious, but the villagers said that his son had accidentally fallen into the water and died, and his wife had hanged herself, so who could he blame?

The petty officer didn't believe it, and he vowed to find out the culprit who had destroyed his family.

At first, the villagers didn't believe that Xiao Junguan could find anything, but the progress of the incident surprised everyone in the village.

No one thought that the petty officer would really find out the culprit behind all this.

To put it mildly, the cause of the incident was that the wife of the petty officer was too pretty. In Chang'an Village, there were many young people who coveted the beauty of the petty officer's wife, but when the petty officer was there, they did not dare to make a move. Unexpectedly, the junior officer left his wife and children to go out to join the army, and some young students in the village felt that the opportunity had come, so they went to tease the wife of the junior officer. But the petty officer's wife, though beautiful, was upright. She only loved her husband in her heart, so those young descendants all touched the ashes and gave up later.

Except for one of the posteriors.

The latter was very persistent, and he had to get the wife of the petty officer, and after the 'frontal attack' was frustrated, he came up with a poisonous plan.

He faked the death of the petty officer, hoping to break the determination of the petty officer's wife. Unexpectedly, after hearing the news of her husband's death, the wife of the junior officer still refused to agree to the pursuit of the next life. After being hit repeatedly, that offspring completely turned into a devil! He deliberately pushed the petty officer's son into the water and drowned, hoping to cut off all thoughts of the petty officer's wife, and then take advantage of the opportunity to occupy her body and mind.

It's just that the wife of the petty officer, after losing all hope, chose to die, so that all the insidious schemes of that later life came to naught!

And after his husband Jinyi returned, he found out the truth, avenged her, and made her loyalty known to the world.

On the day when the truth was discovered, the petty officer set up a fire under the camphor tree and burned the offspring of the victim alive on the fire.

All the villagers watched, and the young descendants who had flirted with the wives of the petty officers were so frightened that their faces turned pale.

After the real murderer was burned to death, the fire of the fire was not extinguished, and suddenly a gust of wind swept by, and the flames flew away. At the same time, lightning struck in the sky, thunder exploded, and after some earth-shattering, the villagers suddenly found that the towering camphor tree had been cut off by lightning and the crown was only half of its original height!

And what's worse is that the big camphor tree actually caught fire!

The fire burned for a day and a night before it stopped, and the originally lush camphor tree burned to the point that only a dry trunk remained!

After the big camphor tree was destroyed, the villagers who witnessed the earth-shattering upheaval began to think that the big camphor tree was an ominous thing, and they didn't want to have a camphor character in their village, so they changed it to Zhang'an Village, which has been called until now.

Ten years later, the old man's grandfather appeared.

Appeared with the old man's grandfather, as well as the old man's little uncle. At that time, the old man's little uncle was still young, only seven or eight years old.

The seven or eight-year-old boy in the countryside is the age when he runs around the village.

The little boy was very playful, and the old man's grandfather, the little boy's father, was busy earning money to support the family all day long, and he didn't care much about him, as long as he came home every night at dinner. But one night, the boy never came home for dinner—something that had never happened before.

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