Onmyoji's Secret

Chapter 3
Hearing what grandpa said, I was a little confused.

Qiang River, I do know that the Qingyi River that passes through the city at the foot of the mountain seems to be called the Qiang River.This river is nearly [-] kilometers long and irrigates a large area of ​​Xichuan, and the section where it flows through Leshan is called "Pingqiang River". "Ping Qiang" in "Liu" refers to this river.

It's just that I can't figure out what the relationship between this river and my family is.

"Okay, go to bed soon, baby." Grandpa said to my dad, and at the same time glanced at me intentionally or unintentionally.

Immediately, I was alert, and trotted into the bed in a few steps. The feeling of eavesdropping on adults talking in the middle of the night is quite exciting.However, children are very forgetful, and when they closed their eyes, they quickly fell into a dream.

In my dream, I seemed to see a graceful woman. She wore clothes embroidered with various rare birds and animals, and wore a strange bronze mask on her face. The eyeballs on the mask protruded in a cylindrical shape. Waving to me, I saw her and stretched out my hand...

Dream, broken.

I opened my eyes and found that the sun was shining on my buttocks, I rubbed my eyes, got dressed and got up.I have some doubts in my heart. Although I don’t have to go to school in summer vacation, my mother usually wakes me up very early and doesn’t let me sleep in. But today she let me sleep until the sun is high, which is really strange.

I entered the main room wearing slippers, and there were two steamed buns left alone on the table, probably for my breakfast, but the strange thing was that there was no one at home. I called a few times, but no one responded, so I just took it He took a steamed bun and walked out while eating.

As soon as I went out, I saw the neighbor's Ermao running back from the back of the mountain. His face was a little pale, as if he had been frightened.

"Ermao, what's wrong with you, why is your face so white?" I asked vaguely with a steamed bun in my mouth.

Ermao glanced at me, pointed towards the direction of the back mountain, and said tremblingly: "There is a dead person at the old temple, alas, you can go and see for yourself."

I'm a bit curious, and when I heard what Er Mao said vaguely, I felt like being scratched by a cat, itchy, and ran away to where the original Snake Temple was.

I ran very fast, trotting all the way, and soon arrived in front of the Snake King Temple. Because the temple was demolished, the place seemed a little wider. Noisy and chaotic.

After a long distance, I saw my father and my mother standing outside the crowd. My mother squatted on the ground, her face was a little pale, and there was a pool of vomit under her feet. It seemed that this was my mother's masterpiece, and My dad stood behind my mom, patted her on the back, and said something in a low voice.

I hid behind a few men and squeezed into the crowd, deliberately avoiding my mother and father outside. I was afraid that they would not let me go in to watch the excitement if they saw it.

I shuttled back and forth among the crowd, and because of my small stature, I moved very nimbly, and I quickly squeezed into the inner circle.I bumped into a few men on the way, they were a little annoyed, and when they were about to yell at them, they realized that the one who bumped into them was the grandson of Chen Youcai, the patriarch of the Chen clan, so I could only give up resentfully, I made a face at them, and then walked into the crowd Keep squeezing.

As soon as I squeezed into the innermost side, I saw my grandfather standing inside, his waist straightened, standing upright like a pine.I ran over quickly, took his hand, and called "Grandpa".

When grandpa saw that it was me, he showed a bright smile on his face and said, "My dear grandson, you also came to see the dead man. Your mother was so frightened that her face turned pale just now."

"I haven't seen it before, and I'm so courageous." I hugged my grandpa's hand and acted like a baby, and then looked in the direction grandpa's eyes pointed. I was shocked, and the blood on my face faded instantly. I was trembling with fear.

In the middle of the crowd, where the white coffin was yesterday, there were more than a dozen people kneeling on the ground. They were wearing gray-blue uniforms, which were exactly the same as those of Li Daoba's men yesterday.

The most frightening thing is that these people kneeling on the ground have no heads, no, to be precise, their heads are held by their hands. The joints of the necks that originally had heads are uneven skin and cartilage, and some people's trachea The esophagus and esophagus were ripped out, and they were hung in front of the chest, as if their heads had been twisted off alive. There was blood red all over their bodies, and the scarlet blood almost converged into a pond, which was dazzling. The stench was overwhelming.

These headless corpses form a circle, and in the middle of them kneels a fat corpse, which is no different from the surrounding people, but I recognize the head he is holding in his hands. The twisted left face on the head has a A slanted scar looked particularly ferocious in the sunlight.His eyes were wide open, his eyes were protruding, and his eye sockets were almost torn apart, filled with fear.

He is Scar Li!It was Li Daoba who claimed to have smashed the head of a Bodhisattva yesterday!
"vomit……"

All of a sudden, I just felt a storm in my stomach, churning endlessly.I let go of Grandpa's hand, squatted on the ground, and vomited out the steamed buns I just ate. My body twitched and my hands were cold.

This was the first time in my life that I saw a dead person, and what I saw was the most terrifying and tragic death. This scene has always left an indelible shadow in my childhood.

"Haha, you son of a bitch know how powerful you are, really think you're not afraid of anything?" Grandpa laughed when he saw me, and he put a big hand on my back.

I suddenly felt a burst of warmth from my grandfather's hand, the churning in my stomach subsided, and my body felt much more comfortable.

I wiped the stains from the corners of my mouth with my sleeve, and when I looked at the group of headless corpses, although I was still a little scared, it was not as strong as before.

"Grandpa, why did they die? Didn't they be fine yesterday!" I raised my head and asked Grandpa.After all, Li Dao Scar and his group of younger brothers were still a group of living people yesterday, but it turned into a circle of cold headless corpses in one night, which is really puzzling.

Grandpa looked at the ferocious head held in the hands of Li Dao Scar's headless body, and said with a sneer, "Didn't he say yesterday that he would turn his head off and kick it as a ball?"

I nodded half understanding, but actually I just wanted to watch the excitement, and I didn't care how these people died.After all, a ten-year-old child is still very afraid of these bloody things.

"The police are here!"

There was a shout from the crowd, and the crowded people immediately gave way to a small path, and a few policemen came out of it.

The leader of these policemen was a middle-aged fat man, his small eyes were squinted together, and there was a smile on his chubby face, which looked like a smiling Buddha.

Behind him are two young men, a man and a woman. The man wears a pair of glasses and has a mole on the corner of his mouth. He looks quite elegant, while the woman is dressed in a police uniform and has a pretty face. The cold piece made people feel that she was like an iceberg, inaccessible.

"Uncle Cai, this is Police Officer Lin from the County Public Security Bureau." A middle-aged man trotted over and said to my grandfather. My grandfather's strength in this village, he is very aggrieved as the village chief.

Grandpa responded softly, and waved to Chen Dafa, indicating that he could go.Chen Dafa was a little embarrassed, glanced at my grandfather, lowered his head and walked away quickly.

"Chen Youcai, the patriarch of the Chen family in Tsingyi Village, right? I'm Lin Yaowu from the County Public Security Bureau. This case will be taken over by our County Public Security Bureau." The police station above came to solve it, but now it was people from the county public security bureau. It seems that the leaders of the county government attach great importance to this matter.

When I heard the fat man's name, I suddenly thought of an idiom taught by the teacher in the school, and couldn't help muttering: "Lin Yaowu, show off your might."

puff!

The four-eyed policeman behind Lin Yaowu couldn't help laughing, and even the frosty-faced policewoman turned up her mouth and curled her eyebrows.My grandpa even touched my head and laughed loudly.

Lin Yaowu looked at me with some embarrassment, and said, "The kid is very smart, he should be among the best in school."

I blushed a little, pursed my mouth, and was embarrassed to say that my grades in the class were counted backwards.

After my interruption, the atmosphere became more relaxed.Although the horror of the dozen or so headless corpses made these policemen unable to bear to look directly at them, they calmed down quickly with their good professionalism.

Fatty police officer Lin Yaowu asked my grandfather some questions, nodded, and then asked me some details. After all, only my grandfather and I survived the demolition of the temple yesterday, and they may think that what children say is more horrible. Believe it.

I glanced at my grandpa, who had a very calm expression, and said to me, "Just say what you see."

Since Grandpa opened his mouth, I said everything I saw yesterday like pouring beans.When I finished speaking, the three policemen in front of me were all stunned, with expressions of disbelief on their faces.

"You mean that a white coffin was dug out under the temple, and then the woman in the coffin turned into ashes, and the coffin turned into a white snake's skin?" the policewoman said, the frost on her face had disappeared.

"Yes!" I nodded, and gestured to her with both hands to look like a big coffin.

The three policemen looked at each other, Lin Yaowu shook his head, as if he didn't believe what I said.He asked my grandfather again: "Uncle Cai, how do you think these people died?"

Grandpa took out the tobacco stick and took two puffs, then said slowly, "You ask me how they died, how would I know?"

After a pause, my grandfather said again: "But look at their skulls, even the trachea has been torn out, do you think it was done by humans?"

Lin Yaowu's face turned pale when he heard my grandfather's words. He hesitated for a moment and said, "You mean, they were killed by monsters?"

Grandpa let out a smoke ring and said, "This is about your police, don't ask me."

Lin Yaowu didn't speak this time, he whispered something to the four-eyed policeman behind him, as if asking him to record something.Instead, the female policewoman who was silent all the time spoke up. She said, "Chen Youcai, what you took out of the coffin yesterday may be an important clue, and you have to hand it over to us."

The policewoman's voice was quite pleasant, so I couldn't help but take a few more glances.

"Yes." Grandpa said calmly.

When I heard that grandpa promised to turn in the mask, I was in a hurry.Although I'm not interested in that weird thing, after all, grandpa said it was for me, and now I'm showing it to those policemen, I feel really bad.

I took my grandfather's hand, hoping that he would refuse, but my grandfather bowed his head and smiled at me without saying a word.

I saw a sly look in his eyes.

(End of this chapter)