Chapter 5 Debt-ridden
The woman was born with a good appearance, looking like she was in her early twenties at most, at this time she closed her eyes slightly and smiled at the corners of her mouth, but she was still lifelike, if it weren't for a strange white in her skin, where could she see that she was a dead person?
As soon as the woman's face was revealed, Lao Li Tou was so frightened that he sat on the ground and hurriedly grabbed Huang Cripple's arm.
"Huang Ye, you have to save me!"
Huang Cripple looked bitter, but still comforted: "Don't worry, with the friendship of our old brothers, I will take care of your affairs to the end, but can I save ......"
Huang Cripple wanted to speak and stopped, and after a deep groan, he beckoned to me and said, "Shousheng cub, help me dig out this girl." ”
I didn't dare to slack off, so I hurriedly grabbed the shovel and stepped forward, calculating the length of the corpse, first digging up the surrounding soil loose, and then digging down finely with a spade and spade, and without much effort, I dug the whole straw mat out of the soil, and cooperated with the yellow cripple to lift the mat out of the dirt pit.
Then the yellow lame man took out three sticks of incense from his back, lit them, and inserted them into the ground above the corpse's head, and then carefully opened the rolled straw mat, and saw a complete white female corpse lying in the mat.
The female corpse wore a red jacket and gray pants, with a pair of embroidered shoes with mandarin duck buttons, and her complexion was innocent, without any signs of decay.
Maybe it has something to do with my own background experience, I haven't been afraid of this kind of thing since I was a child, and after looking at the whole female corpse, I pretended to be smart and said, "Uncle, this girl should have just died." ”
As soon as I finished speaking, the yellow cripple glared at me and said coldly, "Soon? She has been dead for at least three years, and the little pony show that Lao Li dug was prompted by her resentment......"
"Three years?" I was shocked, "Wouldn't the three-year-old corpse have already rotted into slag?" ”
"There's something wrong with her, so she's just stiff......"
As soon as Huang Cripple finished speaking, he heard Lao Li Tou say timidly beside him: "Master Huang, did she hang herself?" ”
I turned my head to look, and saw that Lao Li was raising his hand in a panic, pointing to a strangulation mark on the jaw of the female corpse.
Huang Cripple looked at it, shook his head and said: "The self-hanging drifter is fierce, she is more fierce than the self-hanging float." ”
"Didn't she hang herself? How so? Lao Li Tou suddenly panicked.
I heard the yellow cripple say: "When a living person hangs himself, the strangulation marks are thin and deep, dark red, and there will be blood shade around the strangulation marks, and then turn from red to black." But if it was hung on a rope after death, the blood had long since stopped circulating, and there was no blood around the strangulation marks, only a white mark, and then it turned from white to brown, and the girl's strangulation marks belonged to the latter, and they were left after death by someone who disguised them as hanging......"
"So, how did she die?" Lao Li asked again.
Huang Cripple didn't answer, and after staring at the female corpse again, he clasped his fists with both hands and said 'offended' to the female corpse, and then pressed both sides of the female corpse's neck with both hands, and pressed with his fingers from front to back.
When he pressed to the back of the female corpse's head, Huang Cripple's expression changed obviously, and he hurriedly said to me: "Shousheng cub, help!" ”
I hurriedly stepped forward and helped the cripple to sit up the female corpse.
Huang Cripple brushed away the loose hair on the back of the female corpse's neck and shone a flashlight, this time not only Lao Litou, but even I was dumbfounded.
In the middle of the stalk on the back of the woman's neck, a thin blood hole appeared, as if it had been bitten by something with a fang.
"This is the fatal wound!"
As soon as Huang Cripple's words came out, my head buzzed, and I instantly remembered the strange story about me that had been circulating in the village, on the night of the flood, on the day I was born, something with a fang, bit the flat-haired beast of our whole village.
"Uncle......
I looked at the yellow cripple in a panic, but the yellow cripple only waved his hand, as if he didn't want me to ask more, so I could only shut up.
At this time, the yellow lame man turned to Lao Li Tou and said: "Now that the matter is clear, this woman has a longevity debt that has not been paid off, because you are old and dizzy, digging ginseng indiscriminately, and now it has been transferred to you, if this debt is not paid off, she will always pester you!" ”
"So, what can I do?" Lao Li was about to cry.
Huang Cripple thought for a while, and said: "The soul is uneasy, the corpse is not buried, this girl has accumulated hatred in the mountains for three years, and if she leaves it alone, she will have a big disaster!" Now I have to take her out of the mountain first, and when this debt is over, I will mourn again. ”
Lao Li nodded again and again after hearing this, and Huang Cripple continued: "Then it's hard for you, whoever makes the trouble will carry it yourself, this girl has to be carried down the mountain by yourself, and our two masters can't help." ”
Lao Li Tou hurriedly waved his hand and said, "What are you still polite to me!" I'm back! As long as this can be done, she can ride me on the neck! ”
Seeing that the time was not early, Lao Li Tou hurriedly picked up the female corpse and followed the yellow cripple to return the same way.
In fact, the place where we found the corpse is not too far from the mountain pass that goes down the mountain, if the foot is fast, you can almost go down the mountain before dark, but the old Li Tou is old and decrepit after all, and now he is carrying the corpse that has been steamed by the ground for three years, and the weight is less than the weight before his death, which is fifty or sixty pounds.
Seeing that it was the second watch, Huang Cripple knew that it was difficult to walk on the mountain road at night, and it was unrealistic to go out, so he took us to find an empty shack left by the diggers, and prepared to spend the night in the forest.
But the shack was not for us to live in, but for the woman's corpse to be put in.
After the yellow cripple sprinkled the shack with the lime he had brought with him, he asked me to light a bonfire in the open space in front of the shack, and the three of us slept outside around the campfire, just to guard the corpse, lest the hairy beasts in the mountains come and steal the corpse in the middle of the night.
After a day of mountain road, everyone was already tired, especially Lao Litou, who didn't have a mouthful of dry food, and snored when he turned his head.
I wanted to take advantage of this gap to ask Huang Cripple more about the details of this strange thing, after all, why does he know so many things when he opens a shop and sells ginseng? I'm curious.
But the yellow lame man still didn't say anything, only waved his hand and said: "Don't ask too much first, no matter how people are in the day, don't talk about ghosts at night, not to mention that there is a lot of evil in this mountain forest, there are already a lot of things that love to listen to stories and love to make fun, in case they are invited, it will not be good for us." Anyway, you'll know when it's time to know......"
Seeing that the yellow lame man said this, I didn't say anything more, and after eating some dry food, we both lay down separately in order to recuperate our spirits, and continued to hurry as soon as the morning dawned.
After all, I was tired, and as soon as I lay down, I slept like a dead pig, and I didn't know how long I slept, and I vaguely heard a loud noise.
I opened my eyes in a daze, and for a moment my blood was cold with fright, and in the moonlight I saw the female corpse arch out of the shack by itself, twist her body stiffly, and begin to run into the woods......