This middle-aged man who suddenly found himself in the village and claimed to be the old man's son has been staying in the old house where his father lived since he came to the village. It did not last more than three days, but it was such a short period.
Three days later, when I saw him again, he had turned into such a miserable appearance.
No one has ever seen this middle-aged man before, and when the middle-aged man came here, he was alone. No one knew how he came here, and no one knew whether he was the old man's son.
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But the situation in front of them put everyone in a dilemma.
what to do?
A man of this age, whether he is the son of an old man or not, should already have a family. Should he inform his family?
It makes sense, but no one in the village recognized this middle-aged man. They only knew that he had the same surname as the deceased old man. But in such a big country, there are too many people with the same surname. Looking for this middle-aged man?
For the village at that time, it was impossible to find the man's family, even if it gathered the strength of the whole village.
And the most important thing is that the death of this man is too horrific. The old people in the village can be regarded as experienced in the world. They have seen all kinds of death situations. Some people were hit by carriages and some died of starvation.
Yes, they have seen some people who fell to death from cliffs, were even bitten to death by wild beasts, or were beaten to death by bandits.
But the situation of the middle-aged man in front of me is different from the situation of those people who died.
To be precise, this middle-aged man seemed to have been bitten to death by some wild beast. Moreover, when the village chief came, he asked the neighbor and his wife. They said that the door was ajar at that time. It may have been when the man was sleeping at night.
I forgot to close the door, and some wild beast broke in through the door in the middle of the night.
Then he bit the middle-aged man to death in the room. However, during the past three days, the couple lived next door. They did not hear any sound from the room, even if they were attacked by wild beasts.
Logically speaking, there should have been screams.
The village chief asked several times, but the only conclusion he got from the couple was that they had never heard anything. In the first two days, the couple thought that the middle-aged man was staying in the elderly room.
, I was sad enough, so I came out.
After all, it took so much effort and time to finally find the relatives.
But when he finally found it, he discovered that his father had passed away. Maybe this middle-aged man had spent ten or twenty years, and had never given up searching even since he became an adult, but now he had such a result.
Anyone can imagine it and look forward to it
After more than 20 years of things, when he finally found some clues and learned that his father was in this village, this man must have been so happy at that time.
As the saying goes, the greater the expectations, the greater the disappointment. The villagers can imagine that when this man walked into the village, his face was full of expectation, but after he learned the news that the old man had passed away
, and how shocked he should be in his heart, it was a feeling of years of hope being shattered with one move.
"What a sin!"
Several elderly people in the village sighed, feeling sad for the father and son's experience, and waved to everyone.
Although the people in the village are relatively poor, in the face of such a situation, whether it is for the child who has spent more than ten years looking for his biological father, or for the sake of the middle-aged man and his father, it is impossible to
The body of this middle-aged man is left here alone.
However, the people in the village did not have much money, so they hired carpenters from the village. Together, they built another coffin for the middle-aged man, and did not build a mourning hall. After all, this family no longer had one in the village.
He was no longer a relative, so it was not right to place the body of this middle-aged man here.
After a hasty cleanup, the village chief found a few people to carry the middle-aged man up the mountain, preparing to bury the middle-aged man next to his father's grave. The father and son could not get together during his lifetime, so they could be buried next to his father's grave.
Being together is a kind of reunion.
However, the matter is far from over.
At that time, the village chief took seven or eight men up the mountain to bury the middle-aged man. However, when he walked to the old man's grave, he couldn't help but be shocked when he saw the scene in front of him.
Previously, the villagers chose a fairly good cemetery for the old man. They not only buried the old man, but also erected a tombstone for him. However, when the village chief and his party came here again, they found that this place was unknown.
Someone destroyed it.
The tombstone fell to one side, and the old man's grave collapsed. Behind the tomb, there was a big hole. From the outside, it looked as if the old man's grave suddenly exploded.
The old man was quite old, so when he died, he was buried peacefully. A solitary cry could also be said to be a kind of happy mourning, but now the old man’s grave has become like this. I have to say that the village chief who saw all this
The group of people were all frightened.
When people in the village die, they are usually buried on this mountain. This has never happened before.
Someone's grave had been thrown away before, but after investigation, it was found that it was not humans, but wild beasts who dug up the grave.
None of the people in the village are rich.
, it can be said that they are all a bunch of civilians, and there are no rare objects that can be buried with them. The only thing that is worth some money is the shroud that the old man wore before he died.
The tomb is also very simple. It is to dig a big hole in the ground, then put the coffin directly into it, cover it with soil, and then set up a tombstone in front of the tomb. Those who have money will set up a stone tombstone, and those who have no money will just set up a tombstone.
We can only find a piece of wood to carve the name of the deceased and put it there so that people can know who is buried here.
If after many years, no one takes care of it, the wood rots, or is dragged away by some wild beast, the grave will look like a lonely mound of soil.
Creatures like wolves sometimes bury some food in the ground. Occasionally when there is nothing to eat, they will go to the graves and dig up the graves of dead people. However, this kind of thing is not very common. After more than ten years,
In fact, people in the village have never encountered such a thing.
Of course, even if you encounter it, you can't say anything. After all, the beast doesn't understand words, and you can't reason with it.
But the situation in front of me was different. The old man's grave was not digged out by the wolf. It really seemed to have been exploded from the inside. Although the grave pit had been filled with a lot of soil, there was still a lot of dirt on the ground.
The depression allows one to stand next to it and see the coffin in the pit.
And the most important thing is that the old man's coffin was not complete. The coffin boards were broken into several pieces and scattered around. At first, no one paid attention to it. After noticing this situation, the village chief's face changed.
It sank instantly.
"Damn it, some wicked guy did this?"
The village chief was quite young. When he saw this scene, he immediately puffed up his beard and glared. If he knew who did this, he would definitely beat him into a ball.
Needless to say, the situation in front of us is definitely not the work of some wild beast. The wild beast digs the grave because there is nothing to eat, or it has some other purpose, and at most it is digging a small hole behind the grave. But the situation in front of us,
Rats and wolves simply cannot do this.
Unless it is a blind bear, but this person who lives in the forest of Laoshan has never heard that a blind bear has a hobby of digging graves.
Then there was only one possibility left. This was done by people. That was what the village chief thought at the time, but by that time it was already too late to say this.
"You two go and see what happened to my brother's body. If nothing happens, put the coffin boards together and cover it. Then go back and find the carpenter to make another one."
The village chief waved his hand, and several people placed the middle-aged man's coffin into a pit that had been dug aside. Two people came out, hesitantly preparing to go down to the old man's grave to take a look.