Black Cat Mansion: Book of Paranormal Events

Chapter 266
The villager was terrified, but when he saw the water, he felt thirsty again. He took a bowl and filled it with water to drink. The heat dissipated all at once, and he immediately knelt down facing the ghost.

"Grandpa Ghost, I will burn incense for you every day. Please save our village. As long as you can save our village, our village will be willing to worship you and regard you as a god from generation to generation."

The villagers kowtowed repeatedly, but the ghost stood there indifferently. He looked at the village name in front of him with confusion in his eyes. He seemed to have slept for a long time and woke up without remembering anything.

"Save you, how can I save you?"

Instinctively, he felt that enshrining was a good thing, so he asked a question.

"Water, we need water, as long as there is water in the river, our village will not die."

The name of the village pointed to the dry river outside. The river bed was dry and cracked due to the sun all day long, and it couldn't be seen that it was a river at all.

"Okay, remember what you said, and offer it to me."

The ghost was a little weak, and after agreeing to the man's words, he floated directly into the river bed. When the villagers woke up the next day, they saw that the dry river was filled with clear water, which was even stronger than the previous river. When he was a little older, the villagers jumped into the river excitedly to play, while the man from yesterday knelt down on the ground. He told the villagers what happened yesterday, and the villagers immediately placed incense candles by the river to worship.

After the war broke out, the villagers begged him to move the village to the mountains to avoid the war. The villagers became more and more dependent on the ghost. Shi Chang made some demands, but later the ghost appeared and said that he was about to disappear and could no longer help the village.

The villagers had already depended on him very much. When they heard the news, they were very frightened. Seeing that his weak appearance did not seem to be fake, they thought that they had indeed troubled him to do a lot of things recently. Although they were reluctant, they There seems to be no way.

The news spread all over the village at once, and the villagers were very sad, but they didn't know whether they were sad because the ghost was going to die, or whether they were sad that no one would help the village in the future.

An old man in the village heard the news and gave everyone an idea. He said that there are records about ghost marriage in ancient books. Marrying a living person to a ghost and sharing the life span of the husband and wife is a kind of sacrifice.

As soon as he said this, everyone was naturally unwilling. Whose daughter is not a doll in the palm of my hand, how can she marry a ghost? This proposal was rejected by the villagers, and everyone looked at the river. Less and less, just like that ghost is getting weaker and weaker.

In the years of war, when more people died, there would be a plague. The people in the village who went out to buy the disease got infected back, and soon almost half of the village was infected, and the villagers all lived in fear. At this time Someone thought of the ghost they had kept in the back of their minds. At this time, if someone mentioned the matter of living sacrifices, no one would object.

The first girl was put into the coffin and pushed into the river. The weak ghost directly sucked the girl dry, leaving only a pile of dry bones to sleep in the mud at the bottom of the river. The ghost regained its strength and dispelled the plague in the village. From then on, this custom of living human sacrifices has remained, but later on the villagers were reluctant to part with their own children, so they began to find ways to get some girls from outside to perform sacrifices, and each generation will have a person in charge of these, that person is Known as the servant of the river god.

(End of this chapter)