Chapter Seventy-Four. Bandit leader
After the girl said this, she suddenly paused, as if remembering the scene just now, and suddenly began to be afraid again.
Since Meng Dongxue and I could listen attentively, only the footsteps of the three of us walking on the mountain road could be heard in our ears at this moment. The scene that the girl said is really scary to think about. The mountain wind was very strong and cold at night, and I saw Meng Dongxue shivering slightly, so I asked her what's wrong with you, are you cold? She said no, she was afraid. Meng Dongxue asked me again, then why are you trembling, are you also afraid? I said no, I'm cold.
In front of little girls, I always have to pretend to be sophisticated.
Seeing that there were still a hundred meters to the house where she and Ji You'an lived, just because the mountain road was winding and the night was thick, although we walked not slowly, it still took a lot of time, and the girl then told us that after getting into the quilt, we saw those ghost heads, and their expressions were the same as those around the bed outside the quilt, and I couldn't stand this fright anymore, so I desperately began to struggle and scream.
It doesn't matter if this scream, Ji Youan was also on the verge of collapse, and the girl's cry completely collapsed her defense. So the two girls screamed like crazy in bed. He screamed and kicked his hands and feet, but no one dared to open their eyes. During this period, the girl herself struggled so violently that she rolled off the bed, and as soon as she was afraid, she wanted to run out of the house, but when she rushed to the door with her eyes closed, she found that the door that was locked when they entered the room was locked at the moment, and it was not opened at all, she turned her head and looked in the direction of Ji You'an, and found that the people around the bed, after she ran to the door, did not even look back at her, but still kept the posture just now, standing motionless by the bed, stared at Ji Youan, who was still struggling and screaming on the bed.
She said that at that time, she carefully saw the bodies of those people standing, all dressed in black, men, women and children, and from the position below the waist, they all looked a little transparent, and they couldn't see their feet, as if they were suspended two or three inches from the ground, so that she could even see Ji Youan on the bed through the bodies of these people. And he rolled under the bed just now, and he also penetrated the bodies of these people, because this circle of people in black had already surrounded the bed.
The screams of himself and Ji Youan alarmed the old couple in the house, worried that the two children had already rushed to check the old man at the moment, they were banging on the door outside, and the girl was also screaming against the door, she quickly took off the key hanging on the side of the door and opened the lock, and after opening the door, she suddenly threw herself into the arms of the old lady, cried bitterly, and then pointed to the house with her backhand, wanting to speak, but she couldn't stop crying.
But the old man said, what's wrong in this house? Why is Miss Ji kicking and screaming on the bed? The girl said that there were so many people at the bedside, and this place was haunted! But the old man said, where did the people come from, there is no one else in this house except the two of you.
So the girl looked back and found that none of the black-clothed people who were originally around the bed were gone, and she was too surprised, so she didn't continue to cry, only to see Ji Youan desperately kicking on the bed like crazy. After the old lady entered the house, she grabbed Ji Youan's hands and feet with the old man, comforted her softly, and tried to hug her. Ji Youan couldn't break free after being caught, so she could only slowly open her eyes, her eyes were full of tears, and when she saw that it was the eldest lady and her wife, she didn't hold back all of a sudden, and she cried in her arms, crying and saying, many people... A lot of dead people...
The girl said that the old man and the old lady had been accompanying them in the house, although she was also afraid, but compared to Ji You'an's collapse, her situation would be slightly better. After telling the two old men about the situation he encountered, the old man said, it seems that when our family lived in this house in the early years, the words of the bandit leader have now come true.
I asked, bandit leader? What's going on? The girl said that she was flustered, and she didn't ask at the moment, so the old man told herself to come to Aunt Xu's house early tomorrow morning to find me, saying that I was the only one in the village who knew these things, and I was a good person, and I would help. The girl said, but it was still so long before dawn that she couldn't wait any longer, so she resisted her fear and ran to me.
I asked her, did you encounter anything along the way? Because a person who hits a ghost will have a slightly greater chance of hitting a ghost again than others, thinking that her psychology is full of fear at this moment, which is easy to give the surrounding beings who were originally alive and have never even been aware of it a chance to take advantage of the void. The girl said that the road was actually fine, but because she had been too frightened before, so that when she came along the way, she was a little suspicious, and it was possible that she was scared to cry and cry when she came to Aunt Xu's house to knock on the door.
As we spoke, we hurried downstairs to the old father's house. I've lived in the village for about a year and a half, and I know every family, but I don't go to their homes very often. I have passed by the old couple's house countless times, but I have never been there. I know that they have two sons, but they are not in the village, they are all married in the next door Tianjia Village, which is the village I went to before, and they have settled there. However, the children of both brothers are taken care of by their grandparents.
Every time I passed by their house, those two little naughty ones always liked to make faces at me, so I used to tease these two little ones a lot. It's just that at this point in time, the two little things should have gone to bed a long time ago. The girl took us up the small stairs behind the cowshed to the second floor, the door was wide open, the lights were on, and when we walked to the door, we saw that the old lady was holding Ji You'an's shoulders and coaxing the child to comfort her, while the old man was squatting outside the door and smoking a dry tobacco. When he saw me coming, the old man hurriedly put out the dry smoke on the soles of his shoes, and then said to me, you are here, if it weren't for the two girls making a fuss tonight, I would have forgotten about it, and our house is probably also a wicked place!
Since he said so, I also saved myself from detours. So I asked him, "This girl said something to me on the road just now, and that sentence was what you said to her, what kind of bandit leader, what kind of words have come true, why have you never told any of us about it?"
The old man patted his thigh and said that this was all decades ago, and he had forgotten it a long time ago. In those years, there were bandits in the village, and after the troops suppressed the bandits, they left a few houses in the bandits' dens that were relatively sturdy, and distributed them to the nearby people. My room was one of the ones that was assigned at that time. Originally, there were some other people living in this area, but because it was a little far away from the land that his family planted, he didn't live here, and then there was no one to live, so he simply demolished the house and opened the land.
Listening to the old man's meaning, it seems that he does not suspect that the two girls are bumping into ghosts today, but thinks that the ghosts they bumped into are the bandits at the beginning. So I asked him, when the bandits were suppressed, did the bandits kill a lot? The old man said yes, because this place is a small hill, the so-called occupying the mountain is the king, the house where he lives now is the bandits' den back then, the troops surrounded the mountain for nearly half a month before they were beaten down, and more than 30 bandits were caught inside and out, and the cowards surrendered, and the remaining 20 or so hard-mouthed ones all stood in a row and were killed by a machine gun.
After speaking, he pointed to the cowshed below, and said that that place used to be a large courtyard of the bandits' den, which was used to train the bandits in martial arts and bayonets, and when those people were executed, it was in this place that in order to establish prestige and make an example of the monkeys, and when these bandits were still executed, the whole village was called over to watch!
I have the impression that I was not born when the bandits in Sichuan were at their worst, and the reason why my father's generation later joined the Sichuan Army to resist Japan was precisely because my father was the leader of the Pao Ge organization, but because he was in the city, he was not called a bandit. Most of those Pao brothers in the countryside and in the mountains are gathered together because of righteousness, and the Pao Brother organization that survives in the form of a family may not have an incense hall, but the rules are almost the same as those of the Pao Brothers. They are robbing the rich and helping the poor, they will rob on the official roads, and even loot other villages, but they are still very good to the people in their own villages.
The old man said that many of these bandits were originally villagers in the village, who were born in a bad year, poor, and forced to become bandits, and they did not oppress the villagers too much, but everyone was afraid of those knives, guns and sticks, so they didn't interact much if they had nothing to do. I asked him, then why did this house go to you and not to anyone else? The old man said that because his old house was originally not far from here, and the land he helped the landlord plant was also near here, and he had a little friendship with the bandit uncle here in his early years, and would help transport some tobacco or food, so when the people of the bandit suppression army asked who had no house to live in, I stood up.
I snorted coldly in my heart, are you a friendship? You're just trying to get a little cheap, but now it's comfortable, something happened.
But I still don't understand, why this bandit, who has been dead for so many years, would come out at this time to make trouble? And Ji Youan has been living here with this girl for several months, so why is it now? Is it because the two of them don't sleep at night to tell ghost stories, which attracts these guys to stop and listen?
The old man said, you don't know this, when I was delivering goods to this bandit leader, I once found a particularly strange thing.