Paper horse incense shop

Chapter 52 Thick Smoke
  I staggered out of the cave and looked up to see my second uncle looking into the dark night.

He looked very serious, looking far away, as if he had seen something extremely serious, which made his whole person extremely upright.

There seems to be something different from the second uncle I knew before.

But I was so shaken by the conversation just now that I had no time to tell what was wrong with my second uncle. I staggered a few steps and almost fell down.

The second uncle came back to his senses when he heard the voice, and immediately returned to his former kindness:
  "Abai, are you done talking? Your mother, I'm so good, are you going in to chat? Is this a war?"

Before I entered the cave, I had some old injuries on my face from when I was almost kidnapped two days ago. After I came out, my fingernails dug into the flesh, and blood started to flow out of my hands. I looked really embarrassed. No wonder my uncle. A look of fuss.

I shook my head repeatedly to express that I was fine and wanted to talk, but I was worried that this was the entrance of a cave and I was afraid that my mother would hear it, so I quickly took my second uncle's hand and walked home.

On the way back to the village, you have to pass through Shibi Village.

But before I entered the village, I saw a group of people surrounding a courtyard with water, and faint cries could be heard inside.

I immediately recognized the voice of the village chief who had previously made things difficult for me. His wailing voice reached my ears through the human wall:

"Cuifen! Cuifen, what are you doing? Why can't you think about dying? What will I do if you die!"

"Didn't I just say a few words to you! I haven't put you in the box for all these years. Isn't that good enough for you?!"

I was stunned and walked a few steps, then I saw a rickety figure hanging high reflected in the familiar window light.

The old woman who had just spoken for the abducted women went home and hanged herself!
  Is this because another tragedy has happened and there is no way to bear it anymore?
  I was stunned and couldn't help but take a few steps forward, but this movement disturbed the villagers in front of me.

All of a sudden, all kinds of unkind eyes kept scanning my second uncle and me, as if they wanted to devour us both.

If looks could kill, my second uncle and I would have died tens of thousands of times.

I no longer felt nostalgic. It wasn’t until I took a breath and returned home that I relieved myself of my strength. My heart was filled with mixed emotions. It took me a while to remember what I wanted to say:
  "Second uncle, I, I want to find my biological father. I want him to pay for what happened back then."

The second uncle seemed to know what happened back then, so he was not very surprised:
  "Okay, my second uncle will support you no matter what you do."

"Didn't you work for the Zhu family and get a house in the town? It's hard to stay here anymore. After you finish handling the things here, you can move to the town. There is signal traffic and it is easy to find people. "

What's going on here?
  I couldn't remember it for a while. After a long while, I turned my now almost frozen head and thought of the mountain of baby skeletons in Wanyao Cave.

Babies, not to say 10% are born to abducted women, but definitely 89% are.

Now the whole line is very clear, those innocent babies should indeed be sent to be reincarnated.

And what the second uncle said is right. Now that we know that these kind villagers in the past are all a bunch of snakes and rats, what are they still doing in the village after solving the last problem?
  After figuring out the key, I nodded heavily:

"Okay, when this matter is over, we will move to the town, and we will never come back except to worship our mother and ancestors!"

The second uncle shook his head helplessly.

I remembered something again and asked quickly:

"Second uncle, there are quite a few ghost babies under that bowl of kiln mud pit. Can we do it with just the two of us?"

The second uncle's smile suddenly dropped, and he looked at me with a strange expression, which made my heart tremble:

"Who said we were alone? It's just you."

I was stunned, pointed to the tip of my nose and asked:
  "Me? But I've read it once on paper, but I don't know anything else?!"

This is like the Nine-Headed Insect in Journey to the West asking Benboerba to get rid of Tang Monk and his disciples. Isn't this a joke?
  The second uncle patted me on the shoulder, his expression was 80% serious and 92% coaxing:
  "You didn't know it from the beginning. Your second uncle didn't have a master back then, so he was just figuring it out on his own!"

"And don't be afraid, you still have your second uncle who can teach you!"

"There are two ways to send souls. One is to let them take revenge. After they take revenge, their resentment dissipates, and they are naturally willing to reincarnate."

I thought about it carefully:

"No, it's inappropriate. Although I also hope that they can take revenge with my own hands, they died too long ago, many of them are over a hundred years old. It's hard to find them. If you find them, you can only dig their graves and whip their corpses, which is not a lot." I'm happy, because I guess I've been reincarnated a long time ago." The second uncle smiled and narrowed his eyes. A feeling of uneasiness surged in my heart, and sure enough, I heard the second uncle say:

"Then the second way"

"'Influence'. Children all long for their mothers, let alone these children who have never left their mothers."

This, this shouldn’t mean that you want me to be a mother, right? !
  My scalp felt numb.
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  The next day, after a restless night, I was picked up early——

Hoe the ground!

I raised my hoe and dug hard into the ground. Perhaps because I moved too much, the sweat on my forehead immediately entered my eyes, causing pain. I put my face close to my sleeves and wiped it randomly.

Just as I was about to continue working, I turned around and saw my second uncle standing under the shade of a tree not far away, munching on twists and turns, with a bright smile. I was a little angry:

"Second Uncle! How many years has our land been barren? Why are we still hoeing it? Didn't we say yesterday that we were going to convert the ghost babies!?"

After listening to my words, the second uncle took another bite of the crispy and sweet twists and said vaguely:

"This is work! Under this ground are the women I buried twenty years ago. Those men harmed them and refused to pay for the coffins, so I collected them and carried them here to bury them."

"These poor women must also miss their own children. Anyway, they just have to bury the ghost baby, so why not restrain the women too."

"When the time comes, you take the mother to Wanyao, ask if there are any of her children, and coax her a few words: 'Mom doesn't want them, it's just that she can't find them if she dies.' The child will definitely cry loudly. I’m going to follow my mother when I get up——”

"Even if you haven't seen your mother, if you see other families reunited, you will definitely long for reincarnation and the warmth of family."

"Wouldn't the resentment disappear now?"

When I first heard it, I was still nodding my head, but as I listened to it, I felt more and more something was wrong:
  "Second uncle, were you also a playboy when you were young? Otherwise, how could you still coax people and ghosts like this?"

The second uncle was holding a piece of mahua and chewing it. When he heard what I said, he didn't pay attention and almost choked to death:
  "Hey, you dare to tease me, your second uncle!? I'll dig your dirt!"

I smiled and dug two more times with my hoe, and sure enough, within two clicks, I saw the stark white bones.

I leaned over and brushed off the dirt on it, but when I saw it was another corpse with only half an arm, my heart suddenly sank.

After hesitating for a few seconds, I fiddled with the soil a few more times, and more bones and limbs were revealed next to my arm.

No wonder the second uncle used the word ‘search’!
  With so many stumps and broken arms, let alone now, even back then, it would have been difficult to distinguish and piece together the original appearance of the corpse.

I put aside the hoe, which was taller than me, and shouted to my second uncle at the edge of the field:

"Second uncle, throw me a pickaxe that you usually use to dig herbs in the mountains -"

The second uncle was also unambiguous. He threw a small pickaxe, wiped the debris around his mouth, and said casually:
  "Everything is left to you."

"You go ahead and get busy, I'm leaving too."

This is another time to be lazy!
  The second uncle ran away in a hurry, and I didn't care to look at him. I picked up the small pickaxe and gently pushed aside the soil around the bones. I carefully collected the bones that had been broken into different degrees, and then placed them on the edge of the field. Waiting for the next round of sorting under the shadow of the trees.

I have been busy in the fields for most of the day, and have collected a total of sixty-four heads and torsos, as well as many times the number of severed limbs.

I reluctantly pieced together the two corpses, and was about to stand up and rest for a while. When I looked up, I saw a few people standing on the edge of a field not far away, pointing at me.

My eyes are pretty good, but I actually saw something in these people’s eyes——

gloat?

Before I had time to think about it, I saw something on the horizon in the distance seemed to be on fire, and thick smoke billowed out.

And that is the direction of home.

(End of this chapter)