Holy Bone

Chapter 884 The Cause of the Old Village
The candidates for entering the mountain, besides Jin An, the old Taoist priest, and the seamstress, were accompanied by some villagers.

The mountain road is difficult to walk, and the bushes are overgrown. Some villagers are needed to help open the road, mainly the parents and relatives of the three lost children.

When he came outside the village, the mortician blew his whistle, and several big dogs that had gone out for food at night came running with their green eyes.

So such a temporarily formed team officially set off.

The mortician took out the clothes worn by Da Mao, put them in front of the dogs and smelled them, and then several big dogs ran wildly towards the mountains.

The team followed the big dog to the foot of the mountain. Looking at the silent mountain, their expressions changed: "Da Mao and the other three boys have returned to the mountain as expected!"

The deep mountains and old forests at night are not easy to walk, not only because of the rugged mountain roads, but also because of the poor vision at night. Even with a string of torches lighting up, the ordinary villagers are still frightened and nervous when they hear the wild beasts and night owls in the mountains and forests at night.

The only good thing is that the continuous drought after entering the summer makes the mountain road not seem muddy and difficult to walk.

"It has been 30 or [-] years since our Xicai Village moved away from the old village. Maybe that's why Da Mao saw his grandmother in the old village. When people get old, they have the idea of ​​returning to their roots and losing their homeland."

Along the way, the mortician walked and talked, not only to keep the team from getting too tense with his voice, but also to briefly introduce the old village to the outsiders.

"The old village is unknown, but we have to start with the Niangniang Temple, which is the temple that Da Mao saw in the old village."

"Daoist Jin'an, Daoist Chen, do you believe that the empresses in the empress temple will come back to life? The empress statues in the old village came back to life. After that, there will be no peace in the village."

"This story started with an alcoholic husband. It's been too long, and I don't remember the specific name. I only know that the alcoholic husband beat his wife all day long, and every night he could hear his wife crying miserably. But No one in the village dares to provoke alcoholics, and occasionally someone can’t stand it and comes to persuade them a few words, but the alcoholic husband will chop his head to pieces with a hatchet, and over time, everyone chooses to be numb.”

"That day, when her husband fell asleep after drinking, she sneaked out of the house and asked the villagers for help. At this time, everyone discovered that the wife was pregnant with a big belly. And the amniotic fluid broke, and she was about to give birth. , maybe this is the mother's love for her child, she sneaked out from home to ask for someone to help her deliver the baby."

"People's hearts are fleshy after all. Some villagers hid pregnant women at home and called midwives to deliver them. However, because their wives were often beaten and weak, they could not give birth to children. At this time, the alcoholic husband woke up and found His wife disappeared. He knew that a pregnant woman was not far away in the mountains. He began to knock on doors from house to house with a hatchet in his hand. Anyone who didn't open the door would barbarically break in... The memory of the year is too far away, and many details can't be remembered clearly. He only knows about the alcoholic husband. He's just a lunatic, and the strength to initiate a drunken madness is stronger than that of a cow, and the villagers dare not provoke him."

"Seeing that the alcoholic husband was about to find someone, the wife sneaked away and hid in the temple of the empress. She gave birth to a baby, but it was a stillbirth. The wife was malnourished for a long time, coupled with frequent domestic violence, resulting in the birth of the baby. There will be no life."

"The wife couldn't bear the blow and went crazy in the Empress Temple. Since then, everyone always said that every night, they would see the black shadow of a long-haired woman standing outside the window, as if staring at a sleeping child on the bed. Some people boldly go out but there is no one outside the window. It can be said to be hallucination once or twice, but after everyone has a similar experience, it is no longer as simple as hallucination. During that time, people were panic, and some people said that the black shadow outside the window looked like a temple Some people say that the dark figure outside the window looks like the crazy wife of the alcoholic husband."

"Anyway, during that time, the village was very peaceful. The children kept crying at night, and they were too scared to fall asleep. Not to mention the children, even the adults were too scared to close their eyes."

"During that time, because of the dark shadow outside the window, everyone was nervous. They didn't notice that since the wife went crazy and was brought home by her alcoholic husband, it had been a long time since she heard the cry of her wife being abused by her husband. It's been a long time since I saw my alcoholic husband go out to buy wine, go hunting..."

"It was too late when everyone noticed the strong stench of corpses. When everyone rushed into the house of the alcoholic husband, they saw that the alcoholic husband's forehead was almost cut in half with a hatchet. There were many human bones scattered in the house. The wife used the husband's corpse as a gift every day. Even if the corpse is highly decomposed, it is still eaten raw and swallowed... I did not see the scene at that time, and it is said that people who saw that scene vomited on the spot, and never dared to eat meat again."

"Seeing my wife going crazy and eating human flesh raw, to be honest, everyone was very scared, so they locked her up, and someone delivered food on time every day, but the nightmare also started at that time. Every once in a while, there would be cemeteries in the village being dug up. Open, the corpses inside were missing. In the end, the lost bones of the ancestors were found at the home of the crazy wife, but the corpses had been eaten to the bone. The woman not only went crazy, but also got pica, no one knew. How did the crazy woman who was locked in the house come out to dig graves and eat dead people, but the black shadows outside the window still appear every day after nightfall. There is a saying in the village that when the crazy wife gets tired of eating dead people, she will start Eating living human flesh, let’s start with eating children..."

Hey, at this point, the mortician sighed.

"There were too many strange things happening in the village at that time. Frightened and uneasy, a few villagers did something stupid and muddled, and buried people... alive."

Hearing this, both Jin An and the old Taoist frowned.

"By the time the village knew about it, it was too late. The catastrophe was imminent. People died every day. Every household had new coffins. Some people's entire family died. That's why there was the subsequent family relocation. , the old village was abandoned."

Since the relocation of the family, no one in Xicai Village has ever returned to the old village. The mortician led the way according to his memory, and took a few diversions along the way. Fortunately, under the sensitive nose of the dog, a group of people saw an abandoned village beside a dry valley. village.

When he saw the abandoned village, the old Taoist was surprised. He didn't speak, but was meditating as he walked, looking very preoccupied.

The village has been abandoned for a long time, and most of the buildings are made of rocks. Walking in the empty and deserted village, I always feel that the surrounding temperature is very low, as if a chill is climbing up the back of the head to Tianlinggai.

When passing through an intersection in the village, I encountered several collided scooters with damaged and overturned scooters, and now they are covered with thick dust.

From the collision of these scooters, it can be seen that the villagers left in a hurry and were in a hurry to escape.

Jin An lightly squeezed the wooden handle of the cart, click, the wood has already been brittle in the wind and rain, and it will break when touched.

Because it has been abandoned for too long, the wooden doors of many stone buildings have decayed and fallen off, revealing dark door openings, which look very gloomy in this quiet and deserted old village, giving people a strong psychological hint, and always feel that they are behind the door openings. Hiding a pair of bloodshot, cold and numb blue eyes.

How about Jin An being courageous, he walked into one of the stone houses with a torch in his hand, and the first thing he saw was a black wooden coffin as soon as he entered the house, which brought a strong visual impact.

After that, I went to several houses, and every house had a black wooden coffin, without exception.

"Hey." The mortician sighed, saying that there were frequent strange things back then, and if too many people died, everyone would not have abandoned their family business and moved with their families.

Jin An didn't say that there was no joint cadaver, so he glanced at the old Taoist priest who looked a little bit wrong along the way out of the corner of his eye.

The expression on the old Taoist's face changed very slightly. If one was not familiar with the old Taoist's character, he would never have noticed such a subtle difference in his expression.

The old Taoist must have discovered something.

I haven't said it now, maybe the time hasn't come yet.

Jin An withdrew his eyes from the corner of his eye, and continued to lead the families of several missing children, looking for someone in the village. Now that there are so many people, he was not in a hurry to ask the old Taoist priest.

The mountain village was desolate and dead silent, and no disturbance could escape the eyes and ears of a few people. However, this deserted village was so quiet that it didn't look like there were children hiding here.

"Strange, even my dog's nose failed when he entered the village. After sniffing the air for so long, he couldn't find the three children." The mortician said in surprise.

Indeed, as said, those big dogs sniffed the ground for a while, and they were always wandering in place, as if they lost their way.

"Could it be that...there are so many dead people in coffins here, which interferes with the dog's sense of smell... I always feel that there is always a strange smell in the air after I entered the old village. In short, it makes people feel uncomfortable all over." A villager said Said in a trembling low voice.

His words were immediately echoed by several other villagers. They all said that they smelled a strange smell in the old village, and everyone was frightened.

"The Empress Temple, the home of an alcoholic husband, and the place where crazy women are buried alive, do you remember?" Jin An pondered for a moment, then looked at the mortician.

The mortician nodded and pointed in one direction: "If I remember correctly, there is the Empress Temple not far away. Let's go to the Empress Temple first. If there are no clues to the three children, we can only search house by house."

The deserted village is not big, and soon came to the Niangniang Temple.

According to what the three children said before, there is a grass theater troupe here in the Niangniang Temple, and many villagers sit and listen to the opera.But when they came to the Niangniang Temple, they found that there was no stage here, and the front of the gate was open and open, with only one hundreds-year-old tree.

The old trees grow luxuriantly, shaded by trees, and cover the Niangniang Temple.

Looking at the temple and the old tree, Jin An frowned slightly.

From the perspective of Fengshui, it is good to enjoy the shade under the big tree, and building temples under the shade of trees to worship ancestors or righteous gods can bring prosperity and vitality to the population.

But this must be based on the premise of righteous gods.

Like people, wood also has yin and yang.

If the village is deserted, no one worships, and the righteous gods do not come, the snakes, insects, rats and ants that love the shade will easily breed evil spirits, attracting wild gods, ghosts and gods to move in, and then the yin will breed the old trees, which grow taller and bigger, and the canopy is like an umbrella Covered to cover the sky and the sun, it becomes wild gods and ghosts hiding under the big tree to enjoy the shade.

Therefore, the old trees at the entrance of the village are fragrant and pleasant, making people feel friendly and comfortable; while the old trees in the deep mountains will give people a gloomy feeling, the yin energy is very heavy nearby, and poisonous snakes gather together.

The century-old tree in front of him gave Jin An the feeling that it was the latter.

I'm afraid there has been a change in the Niangniang Temple.

The Niangniang Temple is not very big. A group of people hold torches and enter the Niangniang Temple, and they can see everything at a glance. No one has come to offer incense for decades. The temple is old and dilapidated, and there is only one statue of the Niangniang.

The most eye-catching thing is the bones in the Niangniang Temple.

They are all animal bones.

As soon as they entered the Niangniang Temple, they disturbed a big blue and white snake to sleep. The big snake came out from behind the statue and tried to attack the nearest mortician. Bitten to death, the blood that flowed out was extremely stinky. Seeing that there was no clue in the Niangniang Temple, everyone walked out of the Niangniang Temple covering their noses.

Then, at Jin An's suggestion, the corpse seamstress led the way to the alcoholic man's house to find the whereabouts of the three children.

As soon as the group arrived at the place, the big dogs raised by the mortician suddenly barked wildly, which seemed harsh and empty in this quiet and deserted village, and spread far away.

After the mortician yelled a few words, the big dogs quieted down whimpering.

"Is there really... really something in here?" Some villagers said nervously and fearfully.

"Master Cai, when you were in Niangniang Temple just now, those big dogs you raised were not afraid of even such a big boa constrictor, and they were torn to pieces when they went up, but now they are barking at an empty room... Didn't you say that the Has the mad woman been buried alive by the older generation of villagers?"

The villagers were all afraid to look at the seamer.

After calming down the dog, the mortician also looked surprised, looked solemnly at the room in front of him, and said: "The alcoholic husband was eaten, and even the man and three souls and seven souls entered the wife's stomach, and the wife was buried alive in another place. There is no such thing as an alcoholic husband who lingers after death, it is possible that he has been wandering around the house!"

"It's really weird here. After so many years, it's the first time I've returned to the old village. Could it be that the story back then was wrong? After so many years, has something happened in the old village that we don't know about?"

After hearing what the mortician said, the villagers swayed and huddled together into a pile, and said nervously: "Master Cai, don't scare us. I think we should not go in. The doors and windows of this house are sealed by wooden boards and have not been pried." Traces, I think Da Mao and the others are definitely not in it."

"Yes, yes, I also think it is impossible for three children to be here."

On the contrary, the family members of the three children turned to the mortician for help. They searched all over the village but could not find the children. This was their last hope.

Jin An just glanced at the mortician indifferently, without expressing his opinion, and then continued to turn his head to look at the building in front of him.

He noticed that many black marks were splashed on the outer wall of the alcoholic man's house, and it was covered with badly damaged and faded talisman papers. After the mortician explained, he found out that those black marks were the blood of black dogs spilled by the villagers to ward off evil.

Even the door of the house was crucified by the villagers with wooden boards, as if what was sealed inside was not a poor crazy woman, but the fear of the whole village.

In the end, the mortician gritted his teeth and made a decision to let the villagers break the door. Anyway, they have already come to the old village. No matter what, they must try their best to find the missing children.

Other villagers did not dare to go forward to break the door. The father of the three children grabbed the pickaxe and hoe and smashed it when he went up.

call--

As the air circulated, there was a dark wind blowing from the house, and a smell of rotting meat that seemed to have been dusty in a closed space for decades gushed out. The stench was so bad that the villagers turned pale with fright.

(End of this chapter)