folk legend

Chapter 27 The Strange Hanging

The person in charge of the house didn't respond, but Han Wangsheng's daughter-in-law suddenly had a bad premonition, and hurriedly moved the ladder from one side.Climb up the tree along the ladder, and pull the body of the head of the house to have a look.She was so frightened that her soul lost half of her soul. As soon as her legs became weak, she rolled down the ladder with a murmur.

It turned out that Han Wangsheng's head was tightly covered by a noose, and the other end of the noose was tied to a tree branch with a crooked neck, and the rope connected in the middle was stretched straight.A tongue, which had already turned purple, was drooping on the chin.His eyes were wide open, bulging out from their sockets.

Han Wangsheng's daughter-in-law has never seen this with her own eyes since she was a child.She was so scared at that time that she forgot to cry out for the pain, and ran to the street, yelling and shouting.

When the people in the village heard Han Wangsheng's daughter-in-law screaming out of fear, they all rushed over to see what happened, and they frightened people like this.

When the people in the village followed the direction of Han Wangsheng's daughter-in-law's finger and saw Han Wangsheng hanging from the tree, they were also anxious and ran over there.When I hurriedly put the person down, I found that the person had been dead for a long time, and the corpse was quite stiff.

When Han Wangsheng's parents heard that their son had hanged to death, they were so anxious that they leaned back, couldn't catch their breath, and passed out.After waking up, I was also sad and cried sadly, but after all, people cannot be resurrected after death.The people in the village also followed suit, saying that you should bury the child as soon as possible. The person is already dead, so don't delay the child's journey.

In this way, under the guidance of the village chief Han Gui, a Mr. Yin and Yang named Zhang Rui was found nearby, and Han Wangsheng was simply buried on the mountain on the left side of the village.

After burying Han Wangsheng, the helpers from the village got together to chat and discuss.You said that this Han Wangsheng, who had only been married for three months, left such a beautiful daughter-in-law and hanged himself just because he had a few words with his daughter-in-law!
But this is not the focus of everyone's discussion. The focus is why Han Wangsheng climbed on the tree when he hanged himself.And when everyone got his body down, they had to use ladders to climb to the top of the tree.Then how did Han Wangsheng get on the tree?This thing is too evil!

The reason for this, everyone racked their brains and couldn't figure it out, let alone guess it.After all, the person involved has already gone to that world, so all this has become a mystery, and it has also become a topic of conversation for the villagers lying in bed.

Just when everyone's speculations about the cause of Han Wangsheng's death had not completely dissipated, Han Jiade from the village hanged himself again in his cowshed.

As for Han Jiade, his human nature is not very good on weekdays. He did many bad things in the village, such as sneaking around, kicking the widow's door, and molesting the young daughter-in-law.He was even more unfilial to his parents, beating and scolding every day.

Even once, this beast even scolded his own father and said, you were born a few years earlier than me. If I was born a few years earlier, maybe I would still be your father.It was precisely because of his virtue that his own parents made him pissed off.

Alas, as the old saying goes, raise a son to guard against old age, but there is such a son...

Han Jiade, who was a widow, was found hanged by the villagers, and they all felt that such a big disaster was missing in the village, and it was really a happy thing.He didn't even do the funeral ceremony, just found a wooden box, put his body in it, found a shady valley, and buried it all.

However, what happened next cannot be described simply by the word evil, or even terrifying.

What's going on?It turned out that on No. 20 eight days after Han Jiade's death, another big and strange thing happened in the village. Han Delin, the only big fat man in the village, hanged himself to death on the window hook of his house.

What are the window hooks?In fact, it is a short hook made of tree branches, about a foot long.One side of the cut is long and the other is short.The short side is used as a hook, and the long side is tied tightly with a piece of hemp rope, and hung in the middle of the front roof of the house.

What is the use of this thing?This is also related to the old house structure in the paddock.

During the winter in the paddock, the whirling white wind, mixed with snow, whizzed by.A large handful of padded jackets that can't be squeezed through are blown by the wind, as if they were not worn.

In such weather, the people in the village naturally want to make their homes warm, surrounded by a brazier, and the cat winter is also comfortable.

So the old houses at that time had earth walls half a meter thick. This kind of earth wall was very warm and windproof.The window lattices made of wood are pasted with wool paper, and even the window seams are tightly pasted with paper strips, so that no wind can get in.

Everything is like this, if there is an advantage, there must be a disadvantage, and if there is a good side, there will naturally be a bad side.The old house with this structure is naturally the same.

Turning back to the next year, everything will return to spring, the spring will be warm and flowers will bloom, and the weather will heat up.At this time, if you stay in an airtight room, it will naturally become redundant. Of course, there are some people who continue to stay in such a room, and those are those who have children and confinement.

As a result, the villagers opened the tightly glued windows, and the inside of the house became cooler.The opened windows were hooked with window hooks and hung under the roof, and the provincial people stood there and supported them all the time.

The wooden windows in the village only weigh about twenty or thirty catties at most. One can imagine the weight that a hook of this weight will bear.

Therefore, when the people in the village heard that Han Delin had hanged himself from the window of his house, they were all taken aback. They all wondered if it was someone making a rumor and cursing the fat man.Some people even opened their mouths to scold the street: "This is too fucking nonsense, how is it possible. Besides, Han Delin is about 1.8 meters tall, like a fat fat pig, and can reach the roof with just one hand."

Such a character, not to mention a window hook, two window hooks can't kill him.

But the fact is that, when everyone rushed to Han Delin's house to have a look, they knew it was true.This big fat man really hanged on that little window hook.

A red string as thick as a little finger was tied into a noose, with window hooks hanging on it, and Handelin's fat head under it.The toes are only one stroke high from the Kang surface, and even the legs are slightly bent.

This... This can also be hanged!
More than a dozen young and strong men struggled for more than 20 minutes before removing Han Delin from the window hook.The corpse was put on the ground of the outhouse, and when they were making arrangements for the funeral, the big guy realized that Han Delin's wife and his children were not at home, and they didn't know where they had gone.

Later, I heard from people in the village that yesterday evening, I saw Han Delin's daughter-in-law, carrying a small bag, leading the child towards the east of the village.

Along the road to the east of Hanjiawopu, walk about seven or eight miles, it is Han Delin's daughter-in-law's natal home, so everyone thinks that she has returned to her natal home.Such a big incident happened at home, and someone had to send a letter to Han Delin's wife as soon as possible, so he sent a young man with fast legs to report that the big guy was at home to talk about the coffin shed.

But as soon as the young man who reported the letter left, a villager quietly pulled aside Han Gui, the head of the village, and told him a strange thing.

It turned out that it was this person who found Han Delin hanged himself, that is, Han Delin's next-door neighbor.And according to him, Han Delin's daughter-in-law didn't come home at all, because in the middle of the night last night, when he went to the room to relieve himself, he heard Han Delin and his wife arguing.Not only were they quarreling, the couple even started pushing and shoving, because through the open window and the light in the room, he could clearly see two people standing on the kang.

It's just that the two couples had been arguing for a long time, but they couldn't hear a single word clearly.

It is also for this reason that after breakfast this morning, he went directly to Han Delin's house, and wanted to ask why the two couples had such a good time. After all, I am older and want to talk and make peace.As a result, as soon as he entered the yard, through the open window, he saw Handelin who had hanged himself.

At that time, he was so frightened that he didn't even dare to enter the house, he turned his head and ran, and only when he reached the street tremblingly shouted for someone.

After all, Han Gui has been the village head for so many years, so he is relatively more vigilant. When he heard that this kind of situation still exists in the village under his jurisdiction, he quickly called the person who said he saw Han Delin's daughter-in-law returning to her natal home. He asked him cautiously, did he see Han Delin's daughter-in-law walking towards the east of the village?

The man saw that the old village chief asked himself so seriously, although he didn't know what happened, he knew it was a big deal, so he immediately raised his right hand and assured the boss that he was absolutely not lying.In order to prove his innocence, he even told in detail where he met Han Delin's wife and what kind of clothes she was wearing at that time.

Han Gui felt that he was not lying, but the person who found Han Delin hanged himself was his uncle and brother, so he would not interrupt him with this matter.For a moment, he couldn't make up his mind.

At this time, there was a burst of crying in the village, which made the whole thing even more weird.

The crying person was Han Delin's daughter-in-law who ran back to attend the funeral after hearing that her head had hanged herself.

And according to the person who reported Xin'er's return, today is Han Delin's father-in-law's [-]th birthday, and Han Delin's daughter-in-law took the child back to her mother's house last night.And when I went by myself, the whole family was preparing lunch.

This time, the person who first discovered Han Delin's hanging was dumbfounded. He saw it with his own eyes, so there must be no mistake!But how can Han Delin's daughter-in-law, who is howling outside now, explain it.

At this time, he suddenly thought that last night, Handelin turned his face inadvertently, and he saw a long tongue drooping in front of his chin.It's just that at the time he thought he was blind and didn't pay much attention.

(End of this chapter)