Longhu Mountain is a tourist attraction and is relatively prosperous.
However, the prosperous place is limited to the small town.
In fact, here, surrounded by mountains, forests and fields, is actually very poor.
Su Jiu followed the aunt and walked a long distance.
It was estimated that it was seven or eight miles before we arrived at the aunt's home.
The house in my aunt's house is an old red brick house. At first glance, it looks a bit shabby.
There is an open space in front of the house. In the open space, a few native chickens are lazily looking for food.
Auntie and Su Jiu followed the shop owner and just entered the house.
"Mom, where did you go? Why did you come back?" The voice came from the back room.
A middle-aged man, with a sallow face and thin face, his eyes were deeply sunken, and his speaking voice seemed a little weak, not loud.
"My son! You can be saved, you can be saved!" the aunt said excitedly. After speaking, she pulled Su Jiu through the door.
"Young man, this is my son. Please see if you can save my son. I am only one son. He is already sixty-eight years old. My son has not even had a family in these years, so I am counting on him to support me in my old age.
! Young man..." The aunt said, her cloudy eyes shed tears again.
"Auntie, don't worry, tell me what's going on." Su Jiu said comfortingly.
"My son encountered something dirty! Young man, look..." The aunt spoke tremblingly.
"This is what happened..." The shop owner who was following from the side saw that the aunt was too excited to speak, so he immediately started talking to Su Jiusu.
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In fact, due to the prevalence of Taoism in Longhu Mountain, various customs and habits are also very popular in the countryside.
Speaking of this, we must first talk about this village.
The village my aunt lives in is called Xianmei Village. The name is very common, but to the local people, this village is an abandoned village.
To be more precise, it is the village abandoned by Longhu Mountain.
Logically speaking, life in the villages around Longhu Mountain is incredibly happy. At least, there should be no problem in living a well-off life.
As we all know, generally speaking, villagers in tourist areas have a better life than those working outside.
However, because something happened in this village decades ago, the people of Longhu Mountain abandoned it.
Back then, Xianmei Village was not as poor as it is now.
There were several young men in the village who were selected to enter Longhu Mountain. However, after these young men completed their studies, they betrayed Longhu Mountain and became traitors, causing huge losses to Longhu Mountain. This led to the current situation.
The entire Xianmei Village was abandoned by Longhu Mountain.
All the young people in the village who were able to go out have already gone out.
Those who stayed in the village were almost all old people, children and women.
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Hearing this, Su Jiu thought secretly in her heart.
"I'm afraid, it's not just as simple as being abandoned. Not many of these Taoist priests in Longhu Mountain are simple things."
Of course, Su Jiu did not interrupt the shop owner's narration.
…
Looking back, the cause of the incident should be three years ago.
Three years ago, a severe drought hit this area. For two or three months, there was not a single rain star in the sky.
Because of the influence of Longhu Mountain, the village did not receive assistance from the outside.
The crops in the entire village were almost exhausted and dead.
As the saying goes, because of poverty and backwardness, those who stay in the village are all old people who believe in Feng Shui very much.
So, the old people in the village secretly thought of those crooked things.
"Drawing bone stakes!"
Folks also call it Drought Demon.
Originally this custom spread in the liberated areas, but in the Central Plains area, it spread more widely.
Originally, when the village encountered such a thing, it was natural to approach the government and Longhu Mountain.
However, because of Longhu Mountain, searching in the village was of no use.
Coincidentally, Xianmei Village's underground wells are unable to produce water, and droughts in other villages are not so severe.
Naturally, driving a dry bone pile is not just about finding a place to drive the pile. You must find a drought demon before you can drive it.
However, the only people left in the village were a group of old people, so how could they know where Hanbao was?
In other words, some things are so coincidental when you tell them.
Just when the people in the village were struggling with this matter.
Someone in the village remembered that there was a barren grave at the end of the village. This barren grave had been around for some years, and the old people in the village had an impression of it. Logically speaking, such a grave without descendants to take care of it would have long been overgrown with weeds and razed to the ground.
, However, after decades, there are no weeds on this grave at all, as if someone specializes in taking care of it every year.
Normally, no one would be surprised when they see this tomb. Now, under such circumstances, it is natural that the elders in the village feel surprised.
So after everyone discussed it, they all just went ahead and started digging the grave.
Dig the grave.
Reveal the coffin.
A few slightly younger middle-aged men opened the coffin and only smelled a fishy smell, like the smell produced by a large pile of smelly fish after being exposed to the sun. It was as unpleasant as possible.
A few bold ones and those who were not afraid of death pinched their noses and came closer. When they looked inside, they were immediately startled.
And this aunt's son is one of these people.
There is a female corpse lying in the coffin. The jewelry on her body is very well preserved and looks like new. However, looking at the clothes, they are definitely not from this era. This is an ancient corpse.
However, something strange happened in this scene.
Looking at the clothing and jewelry of this female corpse, it is obvious that this is at least an ancient corpse from the Qing Dynasty.
The clothes and jewelry were as good as new, but the body had just rotted, as if it had been buried for only a few days.
Everyone in the village knew that this barren tomb had existed for at least several decades.
The oldest man in the village has memories of this deserted grave when he was a child.
Therefore, this female corpse could not have been buried recently. It was at least several decades old.
What time is it now, the new Chinese century, the new millennium?
It can be inferred based on the clothing of this female corpse.
At least for hundreds of years.
However, hundreds of years of corpses have been buried for such a long time.
Not to mention the condition of the clothing and jewelry, the female corpse itself had just begun to decay.
Anyone who sees this scene only needs to think about it for a moment.
You can feel the weirdness in this.
When a few brave people came to their senses after seeing this scene, they suddenly broke out in cold sweat from their backpacks.
Although it was a June day and I was sweating coldly, my whole body was trembling as if I had walked out of an ice cave. (To be continued.)