Dong Laosan's expression doesn't look like he's lying, but is Mr. Dong really paralyzed and unable to move?
"I heard that your father was paralyzed last year. Is this true?" I wanted to confirm what I was thinking, so I asked Dong Laosan.
"Yes, I'm paralyzed. I have to be cared for by someone to eat, drink, and relieve myself. I can't move by myself. Even turning over has to be helped. To be honest, it's really frustrating. It's also because of this that we three brothers don't make much noise.
Pleasant." When Dong Laosan saw me asking him, he didn't shy away and said to me.
"That's strange. Did you just say that your father wrapped himself in a quilt, doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire?" I asked him again, wanting to confirm again.
"Yeah, what's wrong, little master? You still don't believe me? I didn't say it before because I was afraid of making everyone laugh, so I just said that I didn't know what caused the fire. After all, my father's self-immolation is easy to talk about or not.
Don't let the scandal of the family be publicized, for fear of gossiping behind the backs of the neighbors. To put it bluntly, my father just wanted to have more children, and one of them was waiting for one. True to his words, one monk carried water to eat, and two monks carried water to eat.
Three monks have no water to eat, this is what happened to my family..."
Dong Laosan kept talking endlessly. He may not have thought about how his paralyzed father set himself on fire until now!
"How did you know about your father's self-immolation? Did you see it with your own eyes?" I interrupted Dong Laosan's self-pleasure and asked.
"That's not true. I heard this from my wife. I went to the market that day to buy new year's goods, and I wasn't here. Isn't this the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month? Originally, it was my father's turn to serve at my eldest brother's house that month.
It's time to catch up with my daughter-in-law to give my father some fried cakes and other New Year's food. It's a show of filial piety. I happened to meet my eldest sister-in-law and second sister-in-law on the way to my father's place. Her sister-in-law
The three of them went there together with their companions. Who knew that as soon as they entered the door, they smelled the smell of chewing barba. They quickly ran into the house and saw that my father was on fire. At that time, he was wrapped in a quilt.
There were several floors on the left and one on the right. They said there was a strong smell of gasoline in the room, and then they found out that my father had set himself on fire. When they went there, he was already burned to death, and they saw the fire starting.
, it couldn’t be destroyed at all, and in the end, even the house was on fire..."
"Since we know that your father was burned to death a long time ago, why are you still clamoring to put out the fire to save your father? Are you just pretending to show others?" I recalled the scene of putting out the fire that day. To say that it was just a pretense would be a bit too realistic.
"No, we found out afterward that my daughter-in-law and the others were so frightened at the time that they ran to our house to hide. After they recovered, they told my brothers and me."
Dong Laosan spoke in great detail. I didn’t interrupt this time because I wanted to hear if there were any loopholes in the details.
"Have you ever thought about a question? Your father has been paralyzed for more than a year. How did he wrap himself in a quilt, pour the gasoline on himself, and light a fire to set himself on fire?"
"Huh? What do you mean... Hey... Damn it! That's right, my dad is paralyzed and can't move! Damn it! What's going on! This is wrong!"
Dong Laosan jumped up from the edge of the kang, ran to the ground, slapped his forehead hard, with a look of surprise on his face!
Judging from his reaction, he must have just remembered this issue. Sometimes a person's first reaction cannot be faked, unless that person is too scheming, but I can guarantee that Dong Laosan is not one of those people.
"Young master, you are right! My father has been paralyzed for so long. It is impossible for him to wrap himself in a quilt, pour gasoline on himself, let alone light a fire! There is no way for his family to have gasoline! Also,
, My father is such a strong-willed person. As long as he can move, there is no way he will let others carry his shit and urine. I thought he set himself on fire because he didn’t want to cause us any more trouble. Hey, what the hell am I doing?
I didn’t expect this!”
Dong Laosan looked very depressed. He seemed to be very worried about the cause of his father's death and couldn't figure it out.
"Little master, you are so smart, please help me think about it, what is going on? How did my father die?"
Dong Laosan tilted his head and said to me, not daring to turn around and look at me, and quickly wiped his eyes with the back of his hand.
In fact, I have already seen tears shining in his eyes. I didn't expect that he would shed tears over the cause of his father's death. It seems that others said that he was unfilial, which is not necessarily true. Maybe he was suddenly touched.
There is nothing more regrettable than this in the world, but what can we do? Many people have parents who are not filial when they are alive, but are filial when they are dead. There is a grand funeral, the roaring of salutes, and...
The troupe plays and sings, these are all for the living people to watch, and they are just things to fool ghosts. If you really want to be filial, you might as well buy whatever you like while your parents are still here!
Haha, that’s a bit far-fetched.
Dong Lao San doesn’t need to ask, I also want to know how his father died. I don’t dare to take action rashly because I don’t understand the cause of death. I still can’t tell what caused the troubles in his eldest and second brother’s family.
If what Dong Laosan said is true, then his wife should be the only witness at the scene of his father's death. If he wants to know the cause of death, he must start with his wife.
But his wife is so crazy that she probably won't be able to ask anything.
I racked my brains to think of a way, and suddenly I had an idea and came up with a trick.
I fumbled for a bunch of yellow talisman paper from my pocket, twisted an "awakening talisman" and held it in my left hand. I pinched the seal in my right hand and recited the incantation. The talisman paper suddenly caught fire with a faint yellow flame.
There is also a faint blue light.
I burned the talisman paper out of thin air, which really shocked Dong Laosan, and he looked at me with much more respect than before.
The talisman paper disappeared in an instant and turned into a handful of talisman ashes.
"There is a bowl in the outer room. Go and scoop out half a bowl of water from the water jar. Feed the talisman ashes and water to your wife to drink."
I gave instructions to Dong Laosan, and he quickly obeyed without saying a word.
His daughter-in-law is still acting crazy right now, crying and laughing sometimes, startled and nagging at other times, which seems abnormal at first glance. It is estimated that the trouble between the two families has stimulated her a lot.
Dong Laosan was quick with his hands and feet, mixed the talisman water and fed it to his wife. Looking at the half bowl of talisman water in front of him, his wife had a look of fear on her face, as if she had seen something scary. She was shaking her head and refused to drink it.
The TV series was playing the part about Water Margin telling Wu Dalang to give him medicine. I wanted to laugh while watching it. It really matched the scene.
In the end, it was Dong Laosan who screamed, frightening his wife, took the opportunity to hold her down, opened her mouth and poured it in.
"Ah... get out! Get away! You all get out! Don't catch me... ah... it's not me... don't strangle me to death, please..."
After half a bowl of the Awakening Talisman was in the water, Dong Lao's third daughter-in-law was seen shaking violently, crying, shouting, and laughing. She was even crazier than before, twitching and spitting white foam from her mouth.
Seeing that his wife was doing so hard, there was a layer of fine sweat beads on Dong Laosan's face on such a cold day, and he was wiping the sweat away, fearing that something might happen to his wife.
"It doesn't matter, just let her finish the trouble." I looked at Dong Laosan's frightened face and said lightly.
Sure enough, after struggling for a while, Dong's third daughter-in-law convulsed violently again, fell to the ground, rolled her eyes, foamed at the mouth, and passed out.
Dong Laosan was so frightened that he hurriedly stepped forward and pinched the person, and scratched his heart. He didn't mind burying him, and even gnawed his heels and bit the soles of his feet. It opened my eyes to see that he was really a master among the people.
I helped his wife lay flat on the earthen bed.
After a while, the old woman woke up on her own without making any fuss or fuss. It seemed that she was cured of her madness.
Dong Laosan was overjoyed and hurriedly praised me, bowed and bowed, and was so impressed that he was so impressed. Looking at him like that, he would probably believe whatever I say now.
"It's not over yet. We can only save it for a while now. It will become more serious when night falls. We have to find out what's going on quickly so that I can take appropriate measures!"
I waved my hand and said to them both.
"Now that you're awake, let's talk about how Mr. Dong died!"
I looked at Dong's third daughter-in-law with disheveled hair and said.
"The old man wrapped himself in a quilt, poured gasoline on it, and committed suicide."
As expected, Dong's third daughter-in-law insisted that this was how Mr. Dong died.
"Come on, look me in the eyes and say, I will give you one last chance. If you don't tell the truth, you will die on March 7th. Think about what happened to their two families, that will be your fate!"
I didn't scare her, I just told the truth. I had already seen that she was surrounded by death energy, especially Yintang, which was already completely dark.
"It's true...it's true that he burned himself to death. I...I told the truth..."
Although Dong Lao's third daughter-in-law looked at me, I could tell that her eyes were a little evasive and unnatural. It seemed like she had something up her sleeve and lacked confidence.
But the question is, what secrets does this woman hide and refuse to tell?
Did Mr. Dong really set himself on fire? How did he die?
It seems like she won’t say anything unless I use some means!