Chapter 3: The Mountain of the Dead
The third uncle snorted, and then ignored me.
But the gray-haired old man said respectfully: "Master He, look at this matter......"
The third uncle said, "Don't worry, old man, I'll pack my things and go over immediately." ”
The old man was overjoyed and said, "Thank you for the master's righteous action, you can rest assured, we understand the rules." ”
He took a thick stack of bills out of his bag and placed them directly on the counter.
The third uncle didn't even look at the banknotes, and said to me: "Xiao Jiu, put down the salute, go out with me to do something, and then pick you up at night." ”
I hurriedly put the salute behind the counter, and then I saw the third uncle take out a box from the corner and said; "Lock the door and let's go!"
I asked the third uncle, "Where are we going?" ”
The third uncle said: "The female died in the mountain." ”
I chuckled in my heart, and my face immediately changed.
I read in my grandfather's notes about the female death mountain, the female death mountain, not a specific mountain, but a back mountain specially for women to commit suicide.
In the feudal era, the status of women was very low, what followed their father at home, married with their husband, and what three obedience and four virtues, all of which restricted women's freedom.
There are even some families where women are born to use with their relatives.
Under this oppression, the woman could not resist, and the only relief was suicide. And these women who committed suicide were either still in mass graves or thrown into a barren mountain.
Such a barren mountain is called the Mountain of Female Death. It is rumored that the yin qi on the mountain is extremely heavy, and if a living person strays into it, he will often encounter a ghost hitting the wall, lose his way in the mountain, and eventually lose his life.
The new society has been established for so many years, and the female death mountain that has been circulated in various places has either been bulldozed and transformed, or it has been gradually forgotten.
The third uncle saw that my face changed color, and his drooping eyelids raised slightly, and he seemed to look at me again. Then he gave me a few prods, pulled down the roller shutter, and got straight into a Grand Cherokee.
The Grand Cherokee belonged to an old man, and after seeing the two of us packing up our things and getting into the car, he drove away without hesitation. I felt sorry for the 30,000 yuan hidden in my bag, and said, "Third uncle, you won't have thieves in your store, right?" ”
The third uncle glared at me and said, "The Pentagon of the old United States has been stolen, and my store will not be stolen!" ”
I secretly bragged in my heart, but I also made up my mind that if I lost my money, I would have to ask for it from my third uncle. Seeing that the old man gave a lot of money just now, the third uncle should not be a master who is short of money.
After thinking about it, I asked again: "Third uncle, are there still women who have died in the mountain this year?" ”
The third uncle nodded and said, "Where there are bad habits, there are female death mountains." ”
I asked again, "Then what are we going to do in the Female Death Mountain?" ”
The third uncle only replied with two words: "Collect the corpse." ”
Whose corpse is it collected? Naturally, it is the corpse of a woman. And it was a female corpse that hanged herself.
If it is an ordinary female corpse, there is really no need to invite someone from the provincial capital to collect it. The main reason is that this corpse is about to change, and no one in the village dares to touch it, so he scraped together tens of thousands of yuan and came to ask the third uncle to come over.
Speaking of the female corpse, she is also a person with a story. Her name is Xiao Yan'er, and she married from the county next door.
Xiao Yan'er's life is hard, and her family has valued sons over daughters since she was a child, treating her as a money-loser. After graduating from elementary school, she was asked to work in a nearby factory, and she got married before she was twenty years old.
If Xiao Yan'er marries a good family, it is one thing, but when she got married, her family asked her in-laws for a very heavy bride price, about more than 100,000 yuan.
At that time, the bride price of more than 100,000 yuan was indeed a sky-high bride price.
The bride price is too much, and the in-laws are naturally dissatisfied. So after Xiao Yan'er got married, she was scolded by her mother-in-law all day long and scolded by her husband. This husband is not a thing, not only is he violent, but he is also an alcoholic. Every time he was drunk, he beat Xiao Yan'er severely.
If you fight too much, life will naturally turn gray. A few years of life is really miserable.
Later, Xiao Yan'er couldn't stand the beating, so she changed into a big red dress in the middle of the night, took a rope and secretly ran to the cemetery in the back mountain, found an old tree with a crooked neck, hung the rope, stretched her neck, and hanged herself.
This incident caused a big sensation in the local area, and people said that Xiao Yan'er's in-laws were not things. But the family is also very thick-skinned, and the mother-in-law is even more rude, standing on the street and scolding the street, saying that more than 100,000 yuan was spent in vain, and now you still want the old lady to collect the body? There are no doors!
There are kind-hearted people in the village who want to get Xiao Yan'er down, but someone hurriedly persuaded them, saying, everyone else has confiscated the corpse, you go to touch the corpse, and promise that you can't find your fake pants.
That's right, Xiao Yan'er's mother-in-law is a brutal character, no matter whether Xiao Yan'er is dead or alive, she is her daughter-in-law after all, if you move the body of someone's daughter-in-law, just wait to be blackmailed.
So the villagers let the corpses hang on the crooked old trees for four or five days.
It stands to reason that after five days, the corpse should be almost decomposed, at least the neck can't withstand the force of the fall, so it should fall off, right?
But then someone passed by and took a look, and almost peed his pants without being scared, because Xiao Yan'er's corpse not only did not decompose, but her teeth, nails and other things were still growing slowly.
The people in the village panicked now, and they all said that Xiao Yan'er had lived a hard life in this life, and she was unwilling to die after death, and she was afraid that she would become a corpse. If this makes a fuss, maybe whoever is unlucky will be killed.
So the people in the village went to talk to Xiao Yan'er's in-laws, and the in-laws also panicked, so they asked their alcoholic son to get the body down. I didn't think that after my husband passed, I didn't know how to go crazy, and I had to die on the old tree with a crooked neck.
The two men who went together couldn't stop it, and the drunkard hit his head on the spot, and even his brain almost flowed out.
Then the two men dragged the drunkard and fled, and halfway through, the drunken man choked his breath, and when he died, he was terrified and said, I was wrong, Xiaoyan'er, I was wrong!
When I heard the third uncle talk about this, his face turned a little pale, so he asked, "The tree that Xiaoyan'er hanged is a willow tree?" ”
The third uncle looked at me and said, "That's right. ”
In the book that my grandfather showed me, it was recorded that the woman was dressed in red and hanged herself for the great murderer. The resentment of the deceased will condense on the soles of the feet, and the color will be pitch black.
Therefore, if a person hangs himself and digs down at the place where he hanged, often after three feet, there will be a cloud of pitch-black soil, which is the resentment of the deceased.
If this dark soil is not dug up, this house will become a murderous house, and it is most likely to attract lonely spirits and wild ghosts to come in.
The willow tree is yin, and it is the best at absorbing resentment and yin. At that time, it is a trivial matter for the willow tree to absorb the grievances, and at best it will become a demon tree.
But if the corpse is hung on the tree and not taken down, the resentment will follow the branches of the willow tree and re-enter the corpse.
I don't have to say it, if Xiao Yan'er doesn't change corpse, it will be strange!