Chapter 30 The past of the cliffs, people are sinister
Yashan Village.
The old man could not kneel down because Xin Quan helped him.
"Old man, please sit down first. Don't be impatient. Speak slowly."
The old man calmed down after a long time under Xin Quan's comfort.
And a dusty past event also surfaced.
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The old man's name is Lin Asan.
Sixty years ago.
A knife dealer came to Yashan Village.
The whole body is covered with sackcloth and his face is full of vicissitudes of life.
People in the village avoided him.
People who borrow knives on credit are not kind people.
According to ancient rumors, this profession is very strange.
Don't interact with them if it's not necessary.
However, the silence was broken because of a kitchen knife.
For the villagers of Yashan Village, it is already a very valuable property.
Made of fine iron, it is used for chopping bones and cutting vegetables. Except for a few wealthy families, ordinary villagers have almost no kitchen knives.
Many villagers are extremely poor, and many of them use stone blades.
It's just a matter of picking the right stone and grinding it to look like a knife edge.
Kitchen knives can be used as family heirlooms for the poor.
The person who borrowed the knife said that he didn't want any money, he was just making a prediction, and when the prediction came true, he would come back to collect the money.
Ten times the price, based on the price of fine iron kitchen knives that will be collected in the future.
At that time, some villagers were still hesitant.
After all, people who borrow knives on credit are very evil.
When the creditor told him his prophecy, the villagers looked at him like a fool.
It rained heavily and the river in Yashan Village dried up, so he came again to collect money.
How can the rivers dry up when it rains heavily?
Although the villagers did not study, they were not stupid.
Most people just took his knife.
Except for a few villagers who are afraid of the profession of credit knife dealer.
They have always been afraid of the legends handed down from the people.
Don't get involved with people who borrow money from you.
But there are only a few such sober people.
The person who borrowed the knife didn't say anything about it.
After firing the knife in his hand, he turned around and left.
He didn't seem to worry that the villagers would default on their debts.
Lin Asan, he is also one of the few people who does not hold a knife.
He calculated carefully and found that the credit card holder had issued a total of 108 knives on credit.
No more, no less.
After the person who borrowed the knife left
The first year was uneventful.
The next year, it was still the same.
Until the ninth year.
The weather is still good in Yashan.
Even those who felt uneasy about taking the knife before have already forgotten about it now.
That year.
The second day of February.
The dragon raised its head.
That day, there was heavy rain and strong winds.
But on days when the dragon raises its head, this kind of weather is considered common.
However, the river on which Yashan depends for survival unexpectedly rose upstream. The mountain road collapsed, rocks collapsed, and the river was blocked for several miles.
The water actually poured into the river.
Wait until the rain passes.
The river dries up.
The villagers did not expect a drought to come.
Even the sun is quite hot.
But at the beginning, no one realized the seriousness of the matter.
Nine years.
They have long forgotten the bet they made back then.
But here comes the credit card holder.
Just like ten years ago.
Wearing linen clothes and carrying a basket.
It can be said that Yashan Village has experienced bad times and even more changes.
According to the original agreement, that would be repaid ten times the amount of money.
Even if the villagers are not affected by the disaster, it will be difficult for them to get this money, let alone now?
Some people begged hard and did not want to pay back the money.
Wealthier families are advised to pay it back slowly in the future.
Everyone who wanted to borrow the knife shook their heads and refused.
"This is an agreement, and heaven and earth are watching."
That night, the lights of the village ancestral hall flickered all night long.
Xiandao and the villagers were in the ancestral hall, and finally seemed to reach an agreement.
Anyway, early the next morning, the person who borrowed the knife disappeared.
Lin Asan didn't have the knife on credit, so he didn't know what the outcome of the discussion between so many villagers and the knife lender was that night.
Afterwards, everything was business as usual.
Lin Asan thought that the person who borrowed the knife left after getting the money.
Yashan Village has also returned to normal and is making every effort to deal with the drought.
However, that year, Yashan Village had no harvest.
There were also people who wanted to report to the official, but were blocked by Muramasa.
People like Lin Asan who did not have credit for their knives were even monitored by the villagers and were not allowed to leave the village.
Even Muramasa is like this.
He also took the knife from the person who gave it to him on credit.
Then every day, villagers in their prime carry their elderly parents into the mountains.
Lin Asan knew why.
This is an opportunity to sacrifice the elderly, save food rations, and keep the young alive.
That year, all the elderly people in the village who were over fifty years old died.
Later, when Lin Asan went into the forest to hunt, he would still vaguely see bones.
There are jackal's teeth marks all over it.
Those are the bones of the old people who carried them up the mountain.
His back felt cold.
From now on, there was no need for him to go up the mountain again.
Lin Asan could only pretend that he didn't know about this and pretended to be dumbfounded.
To live, sometimes you need to be confused.
The next year, the river miraculously recovered, the weather was good, and the harvest was good.
A villager got drunk after a good harvest.
Said some nonsense.
“The knife dealer was right, this year has been really good.
It seems that we have to go to the mountain to find soil to bury the body tomorrow, otherwise they will hang the coffin and bury it as the knife owner said."
As soon as the drunkard finished speaking, Muramasa asked someone to help the drunkard down.
Lin Asan still pretended to be dumbfounded.
In the next few days, the villagers who had originally credited the knife to the knife frequently went into the mountains and came down with their luggage on their backs.
Lin Asan kept paying attention to their reactions. The luggage seemed to be filled with mutilated bones.
Lin Asan secretly saw that these bones were thrown into the river.
He didn't understand why.
Muramasa also specifically mentioned a clan rule.
In order to commemorate the sacrifices of these elderly people, the descendants of Yashan Village must not be buried with hanging coffins.
No one knows why, but it has become an ironclad rule.
Until ten years later.
When Muramasa was seriously ill, Lin Asan stayed by his side and served around him.
On his deathbed, Muramasa was confused and finally told the truth about that year.
That night, the villagers and the knife loaner actually agreed to his request in the ancestral hall.
When drought comes, the old man is abandoned and left to sleep in the mountains and forests, where he dies of hunger and cold.
Otherwise they have to pay back the money on the spot.
Muramasa finally made up his mind.
When drought comes, there will definitely be no food left.
In years of famine, it is an unspoken rule to abandon the elderly.
However, the credit card holder has another additional condition.
If the weather is good in the coming year, he will come back to hang the coffin and bury the old man's bones.
All expenses will be borne by the credit holder.
At that time, in order to avoid the pressure of the knife dealer, they agreed at that time.
It's a pity that the hanging coffin was buried in a luxurious manner, and the person who borrowed the knife had to spend the money himself.
They can't trust people who lend money to knives on credit.
Being a knife dealer is a taboo profession, how could they still dare to trust him now?
So they discussed among themselves in the coming year, made their own decisions, and threw their bodies into the rivers.
The credit card man actually came once.
It's just that only Muramasa received it, and no other villagers knew about it.
The person who borrowed the knife repeatedly betrayed Muramasa, which was actually a curse.
When the hanging coffin comes out of Yashan, Yashan Village will have no descendants.
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Lin Asan's narration makes people unable to help but get goosebumps.
Back then, such a tragedy happened.
Tiger poison does not yet eat seeds.
But people abandoned their parents, leaving them hungry and cold, and even suffered from jackals and wolves after death.
Worse than animals.
Xin Quan's face looked ugly.
At this time, Muramasa also looked ugly.
He never knew that Yashan Village had such a history.
However, now is not the time to think about this.
The important thing is the curse of the credit card holder.
The hanging coffin came out of Yashan Village, with no descendants left.
In this era, the most unacceptable thing for a clan is to cut off its descendants and lose its incense.
Lin Asan was already in tears at this moment.
"Sir, you must save Yashan Village.
Even though we are guilty, today's children are innocent.
We old people shall bear all the sins ourselves.
Even if we go to hell, it is all our own fault."
Xin Quan's expression was complicated at this time.
Finally, he sighed and helped the old man up.
The most terrifying thing in this world is the human heart.
However, when I think about the knife dealer, he has been laying it out for sixty years, and yet he is still standing with his coffin hanging at this time.
It will definitely not be as simple as letting Yashan Village die off its descendants.
What exactly do you want to do, the credit knife man?