008 - Bloodstained strips of cloth
Hearing what my grandmother said, Bai Wei immediately asked about the style and size of the tambourine, and after my grandmother finished speaking, she saw Bai Wei frown again, and began to ponder in my arms.
After pondering for a few minutes, Bai Wei struggled to get up from my arms, patting the dust on her body, and said, "No wonder even Sister Huang died because of this, it looks like you are something that has caused a lot of trouble!" Last night, a few little ghosts came to ask for their lives, all of them were evil ghosts with a strong body, but obviously they were not the real murderers who wanted to destroy your family......"
Hearing this, my grandmother panicked and asked, "Could it be that all these things are because of the tambourine that my old man picked up back back then?" ”
After the grandmother finished speaking, Bai Wei nodded thoughtfully, and asked again: "Old lady, how did Xiao Liuzi's grandfather pick up that thing at that time, can you tell me in detail?" ”
The stakes were so high that my grandmother certainly wouldn't hide it, so she told me all the causes and consequences of the bronze drum that my grandfather had picked up.
It was no secret in our village, that is, on the day my grandfather suddenly disappeared overnight, when he came back, his face turned dark, and he climbed onto the kang and began to throw himself, and hid the tambourine in the quilt.
Because he hid it quickly, no one noticed it at the time, and my grandmother only found out when she was laying out the quilt at night and preparing to go to bed, but because my grandfather was out of order that night, he fell and injured himself, so he didn't ask in detail.
The next day, when my grandfather was better, my grandmother asked my grandfather where the drum came from, and my grandfather gritted his teeth at first, but then he was annoyed by my grandmother's question, so he said that he had picked it up, and my grandmother asked him where he had picked it up. Grandfather raised his hand and pointed out, and only said two words, graveyard.
As for the details of the process, my grandfather never mentioned it, and later told my grandmother that it was a very important thing and that it had to be kept and that no one should know about it.
At that time, the rural feudalism had always been followed by husbands and wives, so my grandmother didn't continue to ask questions, and she didn't take it seriously.
A few days later, my grandfather suddenly took an iron pickaxe and threw away the kang and hid the bronze drum in the kang hole, and rebuilt it with bricks.
When Grandmother spoke, Bai Wei's face became more and more ugly, and then she asked, "That's it, you really don't know anything else?" ”
Grandmother shook her head in fear, so anxious that tears rolled in her eyes, obviously she didn't know the details of this, otherwise she wouldn't hide it when I encountered this kind of thing now.
After another period of silence, Bai Wei said: "Old lady, your old man is obviously lying, just now I heard you talk about the shape of the drum, and I guessed that it should be something that was a shamanic thing outside the gate back then, and it must be a great thing, otherwise there would not be so many evil ghosts to harm you for it." It's not something that anyone can pick up casually......"
"What then?" Grandmother asked.
Bai Wei waved her hand and said: "Don't worry, I confronted the evil ghosts last night, obviously these evil ghosts are just driven by something, and there is no grievance with your family, it is easy to solve, but ......"
"Just what?"
"It's just that the thing that drives the evil ghost behind his back, the Tao should not be low, he has always wanted to go back to the thing that the old man of your family took back then, for this matter, he has to destroy your family, it seems that this thing is the key......"
Speaking of this, Bai Wei frowned and looked at her grandmother, and said, "In this case, you go and dig that thing out of your kang hole and give it to me to see." ”
After listening to Bai Wei, grandmother nodded again and again, and quickly replied, "Okay, okay, I'll go back and cut the kang open, and then send that thing here for you." ”
"No, you don't have to send it here......" Bai Wei said as she moved her muscles, and then continued: "It's over here, you have to go to the cemetery with me, and we'll meet at your house in the afternoon." ”
Speaking of this, Bai Wei looked at the fifth master again and said, "Fifth master, you are from this village, it shouldn't be difficult to find some shovels and pickaxes, right?" ”
The fifth master patted his chest and replied: "Sanshan's grandson is my grandson, and the affairs of the Sanshan family are my family's affairs, you taught me!" ”
"Good! Go and find more shovels and pickaxes, preferably a few more men, the stronger the better, preferably alive and yang, and then come with me to the graveyard......"
After Bai Wei finished speaking, the fifth master nodded, didn't ask more, turned around and walked out of the Huang family's house.
After the fifth master left, Bai Wei sat down with my support, although I didn't know what she did overnight, but looking at her face and actions, I knew that she seemed to be injured a lot, as if she had just experienced a desperate struggle and escaped by luck, but no matter how I tried, Bai Wei just didn't say anything, only replied 'It's none of your business, the more you know, the worse it will be for you'.
After half an hour's effort, the fifth master came back, in addition to bringing his own sons and grandchildren, he also brought seven or eight strong men in their thirties, each carrying a shovel and pickaxe, and a few of them were from the Huang family, we met when we came yesterday.
Later, Bai Wei found a bundle of rope in the courtyard for me to hold, and after taking it, she took us out and set off to the cemetery near the entrance of our village.
When we were about to arrive at the cemetery, my grandmother said goodbye to us for a while and went home to get the tambourine alone, while the other strong men came to the cemetery under the leadership of Bai Wei and the fifth master.
It is a large cemetery, and even in the daytime, people can't help but stand up their hairs, and the legend of the dead man's pit after the earthquake makes it even more cautious.
After entering the cemetery, Bai Wei said to the fifth master again: "Fifth master, you were also present when you stuffed the cloth strips into the grave bag last night, and now you take people to find them one by one, and then find out the strips of cloth stuffed into the grave last night......
"Find out? Why is that? The fifth master asked puzzled.
Bai Wei shook her head and said: "Don't worry about this, in short, you must look carefully, don't leave any grave, if you find anything unusual about the strip of cloth taken out, you quickly tell me......"
The fifth master nodded, and hurriedly led people to act, after all, there were hundreds of burial mounds in front of him, and it was a big project to find out the strips of cloth stuffed in, so eight or nine people acted separately and began to look carefully in the cemetery with their heads bowed and bent over, while Bai Wei herself leaned against a tree at the edge of the cemetery and began to rest.
After looking for about half an hour, the cloth strip that was pulled out of the grave bag was only half smaller, after all, the work was also shared by the fifth master, grandmother and others, so only they knew where to stuff the grave bag, and it was not convenient to find it now, sometimes they even had to use their fingers to rummage back and forth in the soil on the grave bag, and looking for it, suddenly I heard someone shouting in the distance: "Look, there is a different strip of cloth here!" ”
As soon as the man shouted, he immediately attracted everyone's attention, Bai Wei also quickly stood up leaning against the tree, and then the man ran to Bai Wei and handed over the strip of cloth, we looked at it and were taken aback, it was indeed the strip of cloth that grandmother and the fifth master cut last night, but the strip of cloth was not white, but blood-red......
"It's ......"
The fifth master asked in surprise, and Bai Wei, who was sniffing the strip of cloth close to his nose, frowned and replied: "It's blood, and the blood is soaked through the strip of cloth." ”
This surprised everyone again, there have been no dead people in the surrounding villages recently, that is to say, these graves are all old graves, how can blood seep out of the old graves?
When everyone was surprised, Bai Wei threw down the strip of cloth and said: "It seems that my guess is really right, keep looking, there must be more than one grave that has soaked the strip of cloth in red, and I must find it all for me......"
Hearing this, everyone hurriedly continued to look for them, and finally searched the entire cemetery, and found a total of three grave bags soaked in red and white cloth.
Bai Wei inspected each of the three graves, and then pointed to one of them and said to us: "I had to take the lead here last night, quickly, dig up the corpse inside for me......"
When Bai Wei spoke, I glanced at the tombstone in front of the grave, and there were six big characters written in the middle of the inscription - the tomb of the filial daughter Zhao Qian.