This means that someone came here to worship, and it was not so long ago. The roof of this tomb and the color of the stones are obviously newer than the other tombs, so I conclude that this small tomb was the last of the seven or eight tombs to be built.

This discovery made me a little excited, because since I arrived here, I have been puzzled by who the little boy led by the landlord is, and I don't know if I ask an old villager like Tian Deping. So at this moment I began to stubbornly think that the grave I found was the grave of the child.

In the countryside, there is a custom that if a child dies before he or she reaches adulthood, it is called "premature death". And children who die young are usually described by the elderly as not cultivating enough in the previous life, and they have not been able to fully cultivate into a human being in this life, so they will never grow up. So when dealing with children's funerals, there are a lot of bad habits circulating in the countryside.

For example, water burial, put on a bamboo raft and go down the water, and sink in the water is considered to be reincarnated, but everyone knows that this is extremely bad for the deceased, and a ghost is bound in the water alive, isolated from the world, and does not see the light of day. The reason why you want to be in the mountains and forests is also to see the light of day, and the graves in the mountains and forests are difficult to find, and it is not easy for the living to find the graves, so they gradually fade away.

and so on, and it is extremely unfair to treat the souls of children. And the tomb in front of him, although it is buried with other large tombs, but there is no inscription, which means that this child is a nameless person, even if such a child has a good grave, when he arrives at the city god, he can't find his name, the city god does not accept it, he can't go and go, he can't go back, naturally, he has become a lonely ghost, and he has been wandering around since then, until one day he has exhausted himself, and his soul has been scattered since then.

I asked Tian Deping, this small grave may be the grave of the child your daughter saw, do you know who is buried here? Tian Deping shook his head and said that he didn't know, he only knew that the landlord was the only son in the family, married a wife, and had children himself, but they left the village together, and the child was still alive when they left, and it was a girl. Long before the landlord left the village, this small tomb was already there, but we people in the mountains have little knowledge, only know that this is a tomb, but we have never thought about whether it is a man or a woman, whether it is old or young.

However, Tian Deping said that although this is the case, he can help me ask others, the farmland here is cultivated by a villager in the village, and he knows this villager, so he can call and inquire. I looked at the sky, the time was almost 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and there were still about two hours before it got dark, so I thought that this would be good, if this villager knew some information, it could save me a lot of time, at least save me the time to go to the trouble of investigating, so I promised Tian Deping and asked him to help me invite the villager.

While waiting for Tian Deping, I was the only one in the entire tomb complex and on the mountain. My terracotta incense has burned out, and the terracotta has completed its mission, bringing me to the next clue. There was no water source on the mountain, so I couldn't check the tomb with a bowl to see if it was the child's grave, so I had to walk around to pass the time.

Fortunately, the people in the village are relatively fast, and soon Tian Deping brought a slightly older villager over, although this villager is not young, but his body is quite healthy. Tian Deping gave a brief introduction, but he did not tell the villagers that I was a cultivator. So I asked about the small grave to see what the villagers knew, and the villagers told me that the grave here is usually helping to sort out the weeds and clean it simply, but in recent years, he has not had the time to do it, and the smallest grave, I have seen people come to worship on the first day of October every year.

On the first day of October, it was the Winter Clothes Festival. In some places, it is also called the "Winter Food Festival". It is the day of the year to send warm clothes to the deceased, because the weather is getting colder, and I am afraid that the deceased will have no clothes to survive the winter. The Winter Clothes Festival, along with Qingming and Zhongyuan, is one of the three major days of Chinese folk worship of the dead, and usually on this day, they will go to the tomb of the deceased and burn some paper-paste clothes, shoes and socks.

I asked the villager, is the person who came to worship from the village? Can you still find it? The villagers said that they were the widows of Tian's family, and before liberation, she and her husband were a groom who herded horses for the landlord, and a maid who worked in the landlord's house. Then I asked him, "Who is buried in this grave, the widow's husband?" The villager shook his head and said no, his husband was buried in another place, and in this grave, I heard that it was a half-old child.

In this way, the identity of the owner of the tomb was confirmed by me, and it was the child led by the landlord. Judging from the description of the Tian sisters, this child is dressed in tatters and is from a poor family, so why would such a child be buried with the predecessors of a large family like the landlord? The ghost of the landlord came to Tian Xiaofang for revenge, why did he lead the ghost of this child? This widow had only worked as a maid in the landlord's house, and there was no reason for her to come to the grave to worship, and since she had come, why did she only worship this one grave and ignore the other graves?

Although I am too young to see many of these parents, it is not difficult for me to imagine that, if I am not mistaken, the child of the grave should be the child of this widow. And this child's father should be the landlord!

Many of the landlord class in the old society would have a similar situation. Moreover, in that chaotic era, it was relatively normal for a rural landlord to have three wives and four concubines. Maybe this landlord will look at the maid at home one day, and then give birth to a child, but because of the family's face, he can't give the child the identity of the family, so he can only let the maid raise him as a child without a father. Later, the child died, but it was his own child after all, and he was a man, so he was buried with the predecessors of the family, but although the child returned to the ancestral throne, it was still nameless and undivided, so there was no tombstone carving.

In this way, everything makes sense. The ghost of the landlord has returned here, and has been hovering around this place all the time, and he must have cared about this child in his heart.

It's getting late, and counting the time to go up and down the mountain, it's almost dark when you get to the village. So I thanked the villagers, and went down the mountain with Tian Deping, first, I needed to confirm my suspicion, if the widow had come to worship the child last year, then she would have felt sorry for the child's ghost, let alone with a hanged ghost. The second is that even if I am bold, I don't dare to stay in the dark graveyard after dark, and I have already learned the quiet and strange atmosphere once when I first followed the master to dig the nun's tomb.

After descending the mountain, under the leadership of the villagers, he found the widow's home. It was an old lady in her sixties, and she was cooking as we approached. Tian Deping told me that the widow was surnamed Tian, so she also had the surname Tian, but no one knew what her surname was, and it is said that when she fled, she stayed in the village, and it was the landlord who took her in at that time. She has a son, who is also a farmer in the village. I suspect that this son must be the child of the widow and the deceased husband, and the half-brother of the child in the grave.

Everyone in the village knew Tian Deping, so he stepped forward to express his intention and briefly introduced me. Hearing me ask about the tomb, the widow was a little wary. I thought it would be better not to deceive her at this time, so I honestly told me what I was investigating and my profession, but I didn't mention what happened to the Tian family's daughter.

When I said this, the widow clutched the hem of her garment and did not speak for a long time, as if she was considering whether she should believe what I said. In order to stop her suspicions, I relayed the image of the youngest daughter of the Tian family to the child, and relayed it to the widow. When the widow heard this, her hands trembled slightly, and she began to wipe her tears silently. She said softly, no wonder I burned his clothes every year, he still often came to me in his dreams, saying that he was cold and that he was hungry.

Her words are equivalent to admitting that the child is her own son, and basically confirming that my speculation is correct.

This child was originally an untimely death, no name and no point has long become a lonely ghost, although the landlord should not have any malice towards this child, but the landlord is a hanged ghost after all, the two ghosts get together, in fact, will affect each other, this is also very bad for the child itself, because the landlord is a suicide and died, from the time of death, every 7 days will repeat the tragic situation when he died, over time, the resentment will become heavier and heavier, when the time is obviously harmless child, it is difficult to say.

If I want to take away this child's ghost, it's not that difficult, assuming that it won't resist itself, I only need one thing that belongs to it, and with a little more magic things, I can collect it as a soldier and horse, and from now on I can cultivate under my altar, and in time I can also transcend it. It's just that the ghost of this landlord may not let me do this. So I said to the widow, I have come this time to help you give birth to your child as soon as possible, do you still have anything from his life? The widow said that there was also a plain silver peace lock, which was sent by the landlord secretly when she gave birth to the child, saying that the child would take it so that he could grow up.

After saying that, she walked into the house, and after a while, she took out a piece of jewelry wrapped in a flower cloth, and when she opened it, she saw that it was a Ruyi lock hanging on the baby's neck, which was already yellow and black. I told the widow, please let me keep this thing for the time being, and I will return it when I have sent your child away. But the widow shook her head and said that there was no need to return it, and sent him away, so please help me bury this lock in front of his grave.

Saying goodbye to the widow, I can only stay at Tian Deping's house for another night tonight. After dinner, I was lying in bed and thinking about what direction to start solving the next day, and the situation in front of me was basically clear and complete, and I only needed to take the two ghosts away. After all, the ghost of the landlord is more difficult, so I decided to go to the grave the next day and lay out a town in advance to isolate the landlord from the children, so that I have time to take away the ghosts of the children. Although this will inevitably anger the landlord again, it is not so much.

After a tiring day, I quickly fell asleep. But in the middle of the night, I was awakened by a slight touch. It felt like a little bug crawling on the bridge of my nose. There were no windows in my room, but the light switch was on the wall next to the bed, so I turned on the light in a daze, and it didn't matter, it almost scared me out of my and pee.

A man with inverted triangular eyes, a blue face, and a landlord's small round hat on his head, with high eyebrows, squinted and showed a stiff smile, and the skin at the corners of his eyes showed many wrinkles because of the deliberate smile. His mouth was slightly open, and a long tongue was sticking out, licking the tip of my nose...