Taoist temple in the mountains

Chapter 498, Heart Ghost

The corpse has long been dilapidated, and the flesh and blood have been eroded by the years. The most conspicuous thing is that this corpse of white bones is not complete, and the bones of the left hand are obviously missing, and the emptiness is very conspicuous.

"Ye Layman, this is the 'ghost' in the small river, the source of your uneasiness. Poor Dao is right." Li Yun took out his folding fan, covered his face and said indifferently: "Is it very similar to the ghost in the legend? Punishment, what about soaking in a pig cage? Put a person in a pig cage and then sink it into the bottom of the river. It used to be used to punish those who went out of the wall. Also, as a sacrifice.”

Ye Weiguo looked a little unnatural when he saw this boneless corpse, and the old lady of the Qian family was even more excited and wanted to pounce on it, still muttering "live, live, live".
Almost everyone was nervous and disturbed by the corpse that came out of the cage. It is a proper murder case to have a corpse in the village. How have the simple villagers seen such a battle?
"Is this an evil spirit? But even this corpse can't make the old lady of the Qian family look like this. She was driven crazy by this ghost." Ye Weiguo came out to argue, "Maybe this corpse fell into it before. Yes, there is no way, our ancestors punished adultery by soaking pig cages, and it is normal for corpses to appear in it."

The punishment method of soaking pig cages was found in ancient times and even in modern rural areas, especially in villages with poor information. The village head basically acts as a court to pronounce a person's crimes. Soaking pig cages is a kind of punishment Not uncommon.

"Forensic doctors don't lie. If you call the police, you can quickly find out the age of the corpse, but even if you can find out the year, it won't do anything. For so many years of unsolved cases, all the clues have long been Cut off, maybe the murderer from back then is gone, isn’t it?” Li Yun looked at Ye Weiguo indifferently, and then looked at the boneless corpse.

Qian Kai stared blankly at the corpse, wanting to say something, but couldn't.
This corpse seems to have something special to him
Ye Weiguo's wife came out excitedly and said: "You dead Taoist priest, someone made such an unlucky thing, you go, the village doesn't welcome people like you."

At this moment, Su Li slipped out of Li Yun's embrace, and everyone noticed the suffocatingly beautiful little fox. The little fox rushed to the old lady of the Qian family and bound Qian The old lady's rope was bitten open.

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After biting it open, it slipped back into Li Yun's arms with lightning speed, poking out only a small head to observe secretly.jpg.

"Survive, survive, survive." The old lady of the Qian family rushed out. Everyone thought that the old lady of the Qian family was going to rush into the river, but they didn't expect that the old lady of the Qian family rushed in front of the cage.
"You have to. survive."

Ye Weiguo hurriedly asked people to pull the old lady of the Qian family away, and the young and middle-aged people also followed suit. What does it really look like to hold the bones.

"Quickly pull the old lady of the Qian family away. What does it look like? There are outsiders here."

However, I don't know where the old lady of the Qian family got her strength, so she refuses to let go of the dry bones in her hands.
Now everyone is in a difficult situation, and they dare not use too much strength, for fear of throwing the already frail old woman, that would be putting the cart before the horse
"Hey, you should know who this corpse is, otherwise, what do you mean by asking me to fish it up? Tell me." Qian Kai came to Li Yun with an excited face and questioned him, not caring about his wet body.

Li Yun closed his folding fan, pointed lightly at the corpse held by the old lady of the Qian family, and said flatly, "The name of this corpse is Zhong Wei."

When the name Zhong Wei was mentioned, Ye Weiguo's face froze suddenly, and he looked at Li Yun in disbelief, as if saying "How do you know?"
At this time, Ye Weiguo looked at Li Yun pleadingly and said.

"This is a matter in our village. You don't need to mix it up. We will take this corpse and bury it, so that this corpse of unknown origin will return to its roots."

Ye Weiguo's attitude changed so much that people around him became suspicious for a while, and some people noticed that something was wrong.

Could this corpse be related to Ye Weiguo?And that Ye Weiguo who always thinks about the village?
[Could it be that Ye Weiguo, who looks kind and kind, is actually a murderer? 】

The peasant women and men who were just standing beside discussing how to exorcise ghosts all quietly moved away from Ye Weiguo, fearing that they might have something to do with the murderer, and their eyes became unlucky.

Ye Weiguo didn't care about the attitude of the people in the village towards him, he just continued to step forward, looking at Li Yun with a pleading face, as if you would kneel down if you didn't agree.

"You've already received the money, and the ceremony is over, so you have no reason to stay anymore. It's not good for everyone if you speak up."

"Well, the poor Taoist priest has indeed done it, and he has done it very seriously, but the poor Taoist's duties have not been fulfilled." Li Yun looked at Ye Weiguo calmly and said, "You asked the poor Taoist to come, not to let the poor Taoist do it." Did Pindao come to exorcise ghosts? The ghost was not expelled, and the poor should be ashamed of the money."

Ye Weiguo pointed at Li Yun excitedly and said.

"There is no ghost at all. Where did the ghost come from? It's just a rotting corpse! If there is a ghost, we will invite another person to expel it. You don't need to be so concerned."

Li Yun walked slowly in front of Ye Weiguo, pointed the folding fan at Ye Weiguo's heart with a smile on his face.

"Of course there are ghosts, but this ghost is a ghost of the heart, a ghost tormented by the nightmare in the heart."

"Heart ghost." Ye Weiguo murmured, lowering his head.

Li Yun continued to stare into Ye Weiguo's eyes and said.

"Let everyone see it, your heart ghost, your heart ghost."

A round of illusion appeared in front of Li Yun and Ye Weiguo.

The smoke was everywhere, it was a war-torn era, and it was still the same place.

As always, a poor village that is no different from now——

The scene in front of me is like a silent film, there is no sound, no earth-shattering movement, I can only see the poor village in front of me, so poor that there is nothing in front of me, just like this silent film.

Li Yun felt that, in fact, at this time of the year, there was no sound at all.
And the center of this silent film is a group of shabby young men in ragged clothes, who are carrying a person to the small river in the way of carrying a pig cage, but what is contained in the bamboo cage is not a pig, but a person. A thin middle-aged man drooling from the corner of his mouth. This middle-aged man is stubborn and thinner than the young people around him. Unlike the young people around him, this middle-aged man has a smile on the corner of his mouth and a silly smile , talking silly
And behind this group of young men in ragged clothes, there is also a young girl following. This young silly girl just chases the pig cage, trying to stop people's footsteps, but it is useless, a silly girl is impossible Stop the team of teenagers in the village.

In the pig cage, the demented Zhong Wei was chanting words to the young old lady of the Qian family in front of him.

There is no sound, but you can easily identify what the mouth shape represents from the mouth shape.

【survive】

The infinite loop of these three words is the last words left by Zhong Wei, who was dumbfounded, to his daughter.

The illusion was broken, and Ye Weiguo was pulled out of the illusion.

"You told Poor Dao that the old lady of the Qian family became crazy because of fright and dementia. The real situation is that the old lady of the Qian family has been crazy like this from before to now. This is a genetic disease, and it is precisely because of this that you choose Zhong Wei's family as a sacrifice." Li Yun looked at Ye Weiguo indifferently and said, "The person who killed Zhong Wei was not you, not someone else, but all of you present except the old lady of the Qian family. For these reasons, these old people dare not let their grandchildren approach this place, and dare not approach this place where their own sins are buried."

Just when Ye Weiguo's wife was about to speak evil words to confuse people and slander others, Ye Weiguo himself stopped her and took the heaviest step in her life.

He knelt down facing the pig cage.
"That's right. I admit it. It's what we did back then."

"There was a famine in the village and there was no harvest for a year. At that time, many people starved to death, including our parents. The only food was left to us young people. At that time, we made a plan to use living sacrifices to the river god. Let the river god come to save our fields. We selected by lottery. Zhong Wei from the Zhong family. Let him serve as a living sacrifice to worship the river god."

The air was quiet, and almost all the younger people were stunned for a while. They didn't expect that there was such a dark history in the village. Even if most of the people present were not well-educated, they all knew the ignorance and cruelty of living sacrifices.
Qian Kai finally knew why he had a strange feeling about this corpse.

This corpse is his great-grandfather, a family member connected by flesh and blood.

"It's not a lottery, because it's a stupid patient. If he is sacrificed alive, he won't have any follow-up troubles. At least that's how he looked at it at the time. It's a pity that even if he is sacrificed alive, the famine is still famine, nothing has changed, or Many people died, and only you survived." Li Yun said indifferently: "This is your ghost, the nightmare that has plagued you for many years. In the continuation of the famine, you know the so-called A living sacrifice can’t change anything, and in the end only some people, including you, have lived to this day with guilt and remorse.”

Ye Weiguo lowered his head with a heavy face, and didn't deny it any more. The old people around him also did the same. Ye Weiguo admitted it, and he had nothing wrong with admitting it.

There are also some elderly people around who are not very cold, and the law does not blame the public. It has been so many years, and there is no criminal record. What if it is exposed now?
Looking at the faces of these old people, Li Yun knew what they were thinking now.

"You must be thinking that the law does not blame the public. Now that things have come to an end, there is nothing that can punish you. You are wrong, very wrong." Li Yun pointed to the people present and said lightly: "My heart Ghosts are born from the heart, and if the heart ghost does not fall, it will follow the person for life, and you will live with this pitiful guilt for the rest of your life. Isn't it?"

heart ghost
Everyone was silent, and Qian Kai came to his grandma, watching her frantically hugging the skeleton that lost one hand, muttering to live, to live, to live.
"Why... my great-grandfather's hand bones will disappear." Qian Kai was silent for a moment, then said: "Even if we can't do anything now, let him be buried in peace, our family can't make trouble like yours After all, we also want to live in the village.”

The incomplete skeleton was lying there, some old people did not know why, and suddenly vomited on the spot, looking at the incomplete skeleton seemed to recall the nightmare of the year, lingering in their hearts, unable to get rid of it for a long time.

"Didn't Pindao just say that?" Li Yun looked at these old people, they all turned their heads away, even the most stubborn Ye Weiguo's wife lowered his head, pointing at the An incomplete skeleton said: "Back then, there was a famine in this village. Even though Zhong Wei was sacrificed, the famine still existed. People didn't have enough to eat and clothing, but some people survived in that environment. Survived the famine by eating turf, but there are still some people who have to rely on more extreme methods to survive."

There was a famine.
lost a hand
Qian Zanqi pointed at Ye Weiguo and the others with disbelief on his face and said, "Could it be you?"

In the end, Qian Zuanqi still didn't say those two words, the word that represents the devil.

"You are simply not human." Qian Kai looked at these old people with chills all over. At first he thought that the unemployed vagrants playing cards and gambling at the entrance of the village every day was too much, but he did not expect to see something even worse today.

"What can we do? We are also very desperate! At that time, we wanted to survive, but there was no other way. What did we do wrong? He wanted to live, and we also wanted to live!" Among them An old lady danced excitedly, waving the cane in her hand, without admitting her mistake at all.

The old lady's family members, including her grandson, quietly walked a few steps away from her. Li Yun could imagine that the old lady would probably be alone after returning home.

"The next thing is up to you laymen to decide. Whether to expel the ghost? Or just let it go and let the rest of your life live in a nightmare. It's up to you to decide."

Li Yun smiled calmly, and left here slowly, leaving only the villagers who had ghosts in their hearts and no ghosts in their hearts. The scene was stalemate for a while, and they didn't know what expression to use to face each other.

Ye Weiguo knelt on the ground, looked at the corpse in front of him and murmured.

"If you don't get rid of the ghosts, how can our lives be peaceful?"

(End of this chapter)