Snake Tangled Three Dreams

Chapter 6
The fence gate of the farmhouse was open to the outside, and the neighbors gathered around the gate to look in, pointing and discussing the family's affairs, but no one dared to step into the courtyard gate in front of them.

Sure enough, the person who had an accident in the Liu family was really Aunt Liu.

Aunt Liu died on an old jujube tree in her yard, her hands were tied with a dirty hemp rope, her face was facing the back door of her house, and she was hung on the branch of the old jujube tree.

Her disheveled head was drooping, and her tattered clothes were stained with congealed blood, clinging to her skin that had begun to rot, and her whole body was covered with countless snakes of various shapes, just like the old king's head after his death.

Those snakes had already eaten her bones and flesh, and they were still burrowing into her stomach, the smaller snakes couldn't squeeze the bigger snakes, and they fell from Aunt Liu's body to the ground in a rustling manner Numb.

There was that disgusting smell in the air again. Fortunately, I didn't have breakfast before I came, otherwise I might have to vomit even the yellow bile.

Aunt Liu's daughter cuddled in her son-in-law's arms and wept out of breath. The youngest son, who was still in junior high school, was calmer, leaning against the door with his head down and not speaking.

Granny Mei stood in the door and looked at the corpse hanging on the tree, her cloudy and old one eye showed a sharp look, the hand holding the cane trembled a little, and a few withered veins stretched out on the back of the thin hand.

I'm not very good at comforting people. Seeing that Granny Mei kept silent with a sullen face, I took out a tissue from my pocket and handed it to Aunt Liu's daughter, and said softly, "Sister Ling, wipe your tears first."

Aunt Liu's daughter glanced at the paper I handed over, but didn't reach out to take it. She straightened up from her husband's arms, sobbing and said: "Grandma Mei, my mother just went to Lao Wangtou's house yesterday, but she followed those The bad-mouthed neighbor said a few bad things about Bai Tingyue, and the person who got up this morning in a good manner said nothing, and he left in such a horrible way..."

She wiped her tears with her hands, and stared at me resentfully with red and swollen eyes, "A few people died in the village because of the snake trouble before, and they all said it was the fault of the white snake girl, mother-in-law, please tell me the truth , did Bai Tingyue harm my mother and the others?"

My outstretched hand froze in front of me, not because of anger or embarrassment, but because I noticed the sentence that Aunt Liu went to Old Wangtou's house yesterday.

According to this, Aunt Liu also went to see the old Wang when he died yesterday, and the next day, she died in the same tragic situation in her backyard.

So is there any connection between these two people?Or what did Aunt Liu do to be harmed by those snakes?

I can't... Is it really because of those few gossips that I was killed by those snakes in the back mountain...?
Granny Mei turned her head and looked at Aunt Liu's daughter quietly, with a serious expression on her face: "It's up to one's mouth to spread rumors. If Liu Yingzi really died because of speaking ill of Ting Yue, then you should also worry about your own life."

Aunt Liu's daughter was frightened, her crying was stuck in her throat, her shoulders shivered silently, and she looked panic-stricken.

I sighed, and handed the tissue to her again: "Don't be nervous, mother-in-law scared you." Seeing her accepting the paper hesitantly, I said, "Let's talk about it first, what happened after Aunt Liu came back yesterday behavior?"

Aunt Liu's daughter thought about it, then suddenly raised her head and said, "Yes! She kept getting up last night, and I was woken up by her several times in the middle of the night, so I got up and asked her if her stomach was uncomfortable."

"At that time, my mother was in a trance, and she kept saying that she heard someone calling her outside. I thought she was dreaming and talking nonsense, so I didn't pay much attention to it. Who knew that when I woke up this morning, I saw my mother when I opened the curtain... Woo..."

The daughter of the Liu family covered her face and burst into tears as she spoke.

When Granny Mei heard this, a bright light flashed in her eyes: "You mean, Liu Yingzi said that she heard someone calling her in the middle of the night last night? What about you, did you hear anything?"

The daughter of the Liu family covered her mouth and shook her head: "No... that's why I thought she fell asleep and was talking in her sleep..."

Granny Mei's brows became tighter and tighter, and the wrinkles on the corners of her mouth formed two gullies. She looked sideways at Aunt Liu's body, and said pointedly: "It is impossible for a person to tie himself up like this and hang himself on a tree like this. Come on, it seems that last night, that thing came here."

I suddenly turned my head to look at Granny Mei, with amazement on my face: "Grandma, you mean... old, old Wangtou?!"

Old Wangtou's body was found missing this morning, and Aunt Liu heard someone calling her in the middle of the night last night.So, the person who came here to harass Aunt Liu last night was probably the old Wangtou who was dead? !

Then, how did the old Wangtou's body move?Could it be... is it really a fraud?
Granny Mei suddenly remembered something, and asked Liu's daughter: "Has Liu Yingzi been to the mountain behind the village these days?"

The daughter of the Liu family thought about it for a long time and said that she didn't know very well.

At this time, the youngest son who had been silent for a while suddenly raised his head and said to us: "Go, she found out that I was absent from class a few days ago, and my mother chased me to the back mountain with a broom."

Why is it the back mountain again?

Not only did Old Wangtou go to the back mountain in the days before his death, but even Aunt Liu did the same.

Looking at the densely packed snakes on the corpse, I think the matter is already very clear, and it is definitely inseparable from the troublesome things on the back mountain.

In addition, there was indeed a problem with old Wangtou's style of work during his lifetime. I also caught him several times lying outside my bathroom door and eavesdropping on me taking a shower...

And Aunt Liu, she spread rumors in front of so many people yesterday that I would let snakes kill people, but today, she herself was bitten to death by snakes...

All this happened so strangely, for some reason, I suddenly thought of Liu Wangzhi.In addition, all of this happened after the snake bead appeared, so it is really hard for him not to be suspicious, right?

"These evil beasts are really rampant. When I finish dealing with these things, I will have their good fruit to eat!"

Granny Mei stomped her crutches angrily, took a deep breath to calm down her emotions, and turned her head to explain to the Liu family what they were going to use to dispose of Aunt Liu's body.

As before, he bought a live rooster first, killed the rooster on the spot to get its blood, and then mixed it with realgar to break the surface of the corpse.

When the snakes on the corpse were completely dead, she ordered Liu's son to find a red thread and wrap it around the family's iron scissors, and then asked the child to climb up the old jujube tree to cut off the hemp rope in Aunt Liu's hand.

The withered woman fell to the ground like an empty skin, making a muffled "pop" like smashing pork.

Granny Mei beckoned to me, and told me to go to the kitchen to find a rice bowl, and then follow Liu's daughter to get some incense ash from the incense table dedicated to his ancestors.

The incense ashes should not be new ones on the top, the lower the better, this kind of thing that carries the blessings of future generations is precisely the best accumulated over the years.

By the time I returned to the back door with the rice tube, Aunt Liu's body had been dragged out to dry in the scorching sun at noon.

"Grandma, the incense ash you want."

As soon as I passed the things over, Granny Mei stepped aside from the corpse, "Tingyue, come here."

it's me again?There was something wrong with feeding Old Wangtou last time, how could my mother-in-law dare to ask me to come this time...

"Grandma, I can't do it..." I muttered softly while rubbing the rice tube, trying to change Granny Mei's mind.

"Don't be afraid." Granny Mei patted my head, then lightly hit my leg with a cane, "It's been so many years, you should have grown a bit. Go, put incense ash into her eyes and ears Nose, seal her seven orifices."

People who die tragically in their own homes usually have such a strong obsession with that place that they still want to stay at home after death, and even go crazy and mutilate their relatives.

Especially when the deceased is a woman of the yin genus, the situation is even more difficult to control. It is necessary to seal her seven orifices with the old incense ashes enshrined by her ancestors to paralyze her five senses so that she cannot see, smell, hear or find.

In this way, her obsession after death will be broken, and her family members who are still alive will be protected.

The climate in June is getting hotter and hotter, and the scorching sun at noon is even more vicious.

I stood under the sun holding the rice tube and hesitated. Seeing that Granny Mei didn't change her mind at all, I looked down at the incense ash in my hand, and sighed in compromise: "Okay, I'll come if I come."

(End of this chapter)