But the gray-haired old man said respectfully: "Master He, look at this..."
The third uncle said: "Don't worry, old man, I'll pack up my things and go there right away."
The old man was overjoyed and said, "Thank you, Master, for your generous action. Don't worry, we understand the rules."
He took out a thick stack of banknotes from his bag and placed it directly on the counter.
The third uncle didn't even look at the banknotes, and said to me: "Xiaojiu, put down the courtesy and follow me out to do some errands, and I'll pick you up in the evening."
I hurriedly put the salute behind the counter, and then I saw my third uncle take out a box from the corner and said, "Lock the door and let's go!"
I asked my third uncle: "Where are we going?"
The third uncle said: "The girl died on the mountain."
My heart skipped a beat and my expression immediately changed.
I have read in my grandfather’s notes about the mountain where women died. The mountain where women died is not a specific mountain, but a back mountain specifically for women to commit suicide.
In the feudal era, women's status was very low. They followed their father at home, followed their husbands when married, and the three obediences and four virtues, all of which restricted women's freedom.
There are even some families where women are born to be used in marriage.
Under this kind of oppression, women could not resist, and the only relief was to commit suicide. These women who committed suicide were either buried in mass graves or thrown into a barren mountain.
Such a barren mountain is called the Mountain of Women's Death. It is said that the mountain is extremely dark, and if a living person accidentally enters it, he will often encounter ghosts breaking the wall, get lost in the mountain, and eventually lose his life.
It has been so many years since the establishment of the new society, and the female death hills spread across various places have either been bulldozed and renovated, or have been gradually forgotten. Why is there still a female death mountain in this stall?
The third uncle saw the change in color on my face, raised his drooped eyelids slightly, and seemed to look at me again. Then he urged me a few times, pulled down the rolling door, and got directly into a Grand Cherokee.
The Grand Cherokee belonged to an old man. After seeing us packing our things and getting into the car, he drove away without hesitation. I felt sorry for the 30,000 yuan hidden in my bag and said, "Uncle San, you won't let me in the store."
A thief?"
The third uncle glared at me and said, "The Pentagon in the United States has been robbed, but my store will not be robbed!"
I was bragging in my heart, but I also made up my mind. If I lost my money, I would have to ask for it from my third uncle. Seeing that the old man just gave me a lot of money, my third uncle should not be short of money.
After I figured it out, I asked again: "Third Uncle, are there still women dying in the mountains these days?"
The third uncle nodded and said: "Wherever there are bad habits, there will be women who die."
I asked again: "Then why are we going to Numu Mountain?"
The third uncle only replied with two words: "Collect the body."
Whose body was collected? Of course it was a woman’s body. And it was a woman’s body who had hanged herself.
If it were an ordinary female corpse, there really would be no need to hire someone from the provincial capital to collect it. The main reason was that this corpse was almost mutated and no one in the village dared to touch it, so I collected tens of thousands of dollars and came to invite my third uncle to come over.
Speaking of the female corpse, it can be regarded as a person with a story. Her name is Xiao Yaner, and she was married from the next county town.
Xiao Yaner's life was miserable. Her family had always favored sons over daughters since she was a child, and treated her as a loser. After graduating from elementary school, she was asked to work in a nearby factory, and she got married before she was twenty.
It would be one thing if Xiao Yan'er married into a good family, but when she got married, her family asked for a heavy gift from her husband's family, probably more than 100,000 yuan.
In that era, a betrothal gift of more than 100,000 yuan was indeed a sky-high price.
The bride price was too much, and her husband's family was naturally dissatisfied. So after Xiao Yaner got married, she was scolded by her mother-in-law and scolded by her husband all day long. This husband was not a thing. Not only was he violent, but he was also an alcoholic. Every time he got drunk, he would press the button
Xiao Yaner was beaten severely.
If you fight too much, your life will naturally turn gray. Living a day-to-day life for several years is really miserable.
Later, Xiao Yaner couldn't bear the beating anymore, so she changed into a bright red dress in the middle of the night, took a rope and secretly ran to the cemetery in the back mountain. She found an old tree with a crooked neck. As soon as the rope was hung, she stretched her neck.
Hanged.
This incident caused a great sensation in the local area. People said that Xiao Yaner's husband's family was not a thing. But this family was also very thick-skinned, and the mother-in-law was even more unruly. She stood on the street and cursed, saying that it was more than 100,000 yuan.
The money was wasted, and now you want me to collect the body? There is no way!
Some kind-hearted people in the village wanted to get it for Xiao Yan'er, but someone quickly tried to persuade her, saying that the real owner didn't even confiscate the body. If you touch the body, I'm sure they won't find the pants you ripped off.
That's right, Xiao Yan'er's mother-in-law is a very unruly mother-in-law. No matter whether Xiao Yan'er is dead or alive, she is her daughter-in-law after all. If you touch the body of someone else's daughter-in-law, you will be blackmailed for money.
So the villagers left the corpse hanging on the crooked old tree for four or five days.
Logically speaking, the corpse should be almost rotten after five days. At the very least, the neck cannot withstand the force of the fall, so it should fall off anyway, right?
But then someone passed by and took a look, and almost peed his pants in shock, because not only did Xiao Yaner's body not rot, but the teeth, nails, etc. were still growing slowly.
The people in the village were now panicking. They all said that Xiao Yaner had lived a miserable life and was unwilling to accept her death, fearing that she would turn into a corpse. If there was a fuss, whoever was unlucky might be killed.
So the villagers went to talk to Xiao Yan'er's in-laws, who were also panicked and asked their alcoholic son to get the body. Unexpectedly, after her husband passed away, he went crazy for some reason and insisted on killing her.
He was killed by the crooked old tree.
The two men who went with him couldn't stop him. The drunkard's head was bruised and bloody on the spot, and his brains almost came out.
Then the two men dragged the drunken man and fled. Halfway through, the drunken man died. When he died, he said in horror, "I was wrong, Xiao Yan'er, I was wrong!"
When I heard my third uncle talking about this, his face turned a little pale, so I asked: "Is the tree where Xiao Yan'er hanged herself a willow tree?"
Third uncle glanced at me and said, "That's right."
There is a record in the book my grandfather read to me that it is a great evil for a woman to hang herself in red. The resentment of the deceased will condense on the soles of her feet, and the color will be dark.
Therefore, if a person who hangs himself digs down from the place where he was hanged, there will often be a mass of dark soil three feet away. This is where the resentment of the deceased has been transformed.
If this mass of dark soil is not dug out, this house will become a haunted house, which is most likely to attract lonely ghosts.
The willow tree is yin in nature, and is best at absorbing resentment and evil spirits. When the willow tree absorbs the resentment, it will be a trivial matter, and it will become a demon tree at best.
But if the corpse remains hanging on the tree and is not taken down, the resentment will follow the branches of the willow tree and re-enter the corpse.
Needless to say, it would be weird if Xiao Yaner didn’t transform into a corpse!