Chapter 434: The Candle Shadow Flickered
Indeed, there is a difference between this village and the movie, which is much more advanced than the real thing, at least there is electricity in the movie. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
But before the old man said that he would be saved at eight o'clock, and said that he would follow the local customs, which clearly coincided with the strange custom of not going out at eight o'clock in the movie.
So is this village the one in the movie?
Just ask.
"Uncle, you just said that you follow the customs of the locals, don't you know what customs are in the village?"
Seeing that the time had not yet reached eight o'clock, Lu Fan asked.
"After eight o'clock, you have to stay in your room and can't go out. The old man looked serious, "Even if there is a big thing, you must stay in the room." ”
Okay, this is the village in the movie.
"This custom is quite chic, I don't know what the origin is?"
"If you want to know, I can tell you. The old man took out an old watch and looked at the time, "It's almost eight o'clock, let's go in first." ”
"Good. ”
The old man had three tiled rooms, he and his wife lived in one, and two of them were empty, so Lu Fan and the seven of them lived.
The room was simply assigned, Lu Fan, Lin Si, Yao Di, and Tang Thirty were in that relatively large room, and Jun Qiushan, Chen Shu, and Wang Xuan were in another room.
In fact, it doesn't matter whether it is distributed or not, because the three tiled houses of the old man's house are connected to each other, and you can move around the interior at will, and I think that this arrangement should be influenced by the custom of not going out at eight o'clock in the evening.
The room was very simple, just a bed, a few small benches, the old man even said sorry, and wanted to move his bed for everyone to sleep on.
Everyone is not here to travel, and they will definitely go out at night, and it is actually the same with or without a bed.
Lu Fan stopped the uncle from moving the bed, ripped off the mattress on the bed, spread it on the ground, and several people sat in a circle on the mat.
Because the stove is outside, now you can't go out to make a fire to cook, the old man will also enthusiastically take out his wife's baked flatbread for everyone to come, and pat his chest to ensure that everyone will eat hot tomorrow morning.
Lu Fan and the others had already bought delicious things when they set off, and now that they took them out, they didn't have to trouble the old man at all.
However, you can't just let the old man go like this, and there are still things to ask the old man.
"Uncle, you can't go out at eight o'clock in the evening, how can there be such a strange custom, we are all very curious, so tell us how this custom was formed. ”
"Well, since you want to hear it, I'll tell you about it. ”
The old man moved a small maza, sat down at the mat, and talked to everyone.
"I don't know exactly when it happened. ”
"At that time, there were quite a lot of people in our village, more than 300 people, like now, not even 30 people. ”
"At the beginning of the matter, it is said that it was because of the son of the village chief, who gave birth to a very naughty son, who did everything to steal chickens, dogs, garlic, and onions, which gave the village chief a headache. ”
One night, the village chief's son didn't know what his nerves were, so he had to go swimming. ”
"It's a big night, how could the village chief agree?"
"But that son is very stubborn, the more he doesn't let him go, the more he wants to go!"
The village chief's wife frightened her son and said that they couldn't go out at eight o'clock in the evening, and as soon as they went out, a dark shadow would arrest them. ”
In order to better scare her son, she made up the black shadow very terrifying, and her son was really scared and didn't dare to go out. ”
The village chief and his wife thought that this was the end of the matter, but they could not imagine anything, and the matter had just begun. ”
"The next morning, the village chief was woken up and someone had died in the village. ”
"The man died a terrible death, from the head to the crotch of his pants directly split into two, the old hunter in the village said that it was not cut with a knife, but directly torn in half!"
Speaking of this, Lin Si and Yao Di couldn't help but gasp, how much strength it had to tear people apart like this.
This is definitely not human!
Lu Fan listened very energetically, under the flickering candlelight, everyone sat on the ground, listened to an old grandfather tell a ghost story, and turned his head to see the waning moon outside the window, what an atmosphere!
"This was only the first person to die tragically, and from that day on, people died outside almost every day in all sorts of tragic ways. ”
"About a dozen people died, and the village chief finally knew that those people had gone out after eight o'clock in the evening and died tragically. ”
"The story that the village chief's wife made up has come true!"
"At eight o'clock in the evening, you must not go out!"
The village chief looked serious.
"Then are there any exceptions?" Lu Fan asked, "I went out at eight o'clock in the evening, but there were no people who died tragically?"
"Maybe, maybe not. The village chief shook his head, "This story was told to me by my father, and my father told it by my grandfather. ”
"Has anyone in the village recently broken this custom and gone out after eight o'clock in the evening?"
Chen Shu asked.
"Hehe, how could it be. The old man smiled bitterly, "There are only about 30 people left in this village now, all of them are a group of little old men and little old ladies, who have the leisure to go out for a night walk." ”
"Aren't there any young adults in the village?"
Junqiu Mountain Road.
"Young man, there is no electricity in this kind of place, do you have the habit of living?" said the old man, "the village is so backward, everything that can be walked is gone, and only us old fellows are still stubbornly guarding this land where we have lived for generations." ”
"Uncle, when did no one start to be in the village?"
Lu Fan asked again.
"Decades ago. The old man said, "When I was young, the villagers began to leave in large numbers. ”
"Uncle at that time, you were still young, why didn't you leave?"
"I can't bear the land under my feet. The old man opened his hands and stroked the ground, "Although this land is barren, it can't grow beautiful flowers, it can't grow delicious fruits, but I can never forget how happy I was running barefoot on this when I was a child, I can't forget that I fought with Er Mazi on this land, I knocked out one of his teeth, I can't forget ・・・・・・"
Speaking of this, the old man smiled, "Look at me, why are you talking to you about this, alas, this person is old, so he misses the old." ”
"Uncle, when you were young, or when you were young, did anything go against this custom?"
"Once. There was a candle in the house that was almost burning, and the old man asked his wife to bring a new candle and light it, "It was because of that incident that the villagers began to move out in large numbers." ”
"Can you tell me, uncle? ”
Lu Fan said.
"Actually, there is nothing to say, and there must be people who do not believe in the strange custom of not going out at eight o'clock, so they agreed to go out at eight o'clock in the evening, and as a result, they all died, and died very, very miserably. ”