Another day later, Uncle Wang and others, I took a car to Jiangdong Village in Tengchong, which is only a few dozen miles away from the volcanoes, because I got some news here.
This is a story told to me by an old man in his seventies. The old man’s surname is Fang, and his name is Fang Zhenhai. He is a native of Jiangdong Village and heard such a story when he was a child.
Speaking of this village near Jiangdong Village, a very strange legend once circulated: "During the Anti-Japanese War, I can't remember whether it was 1941 or 1942. I just remember that there was a Japanese army that came from the mountains. They have been stationed near Jiangdong Village. According to the Japanese army organization during the Anti-Japanese War, there should be a squadron stationed here, about 180 people."
"At that time, some mountain people still lived in Jiangdong Village. When the Japanese invaders came, the mountain people all panicked. They all knew that the village was going to suffer. They hid in groups deep in the mountains and prayed for the Japanese. Not here to kill anyone."
"But that night, some villagers discovered a strange thing. More than 180 Japanese soldiers disappeared for no apparent reason. There were still a lot of weapons and ammunition left in the camp where the Japanese soldiers camped. But there was no trace of them.”
"This kind of scene is a bit strange, and it immediately makes the mountain people feel very puzzled. What did the Japanese do all night after abandoning the camp? Why didn't they take away these supplies? But if you look more carefully, the situation seems extremely paradoxical. The reason is paradoxical. , are the three wolf dogs left in the camp.”
"The military dogs raised by the Japanese are extremely ferocious and cruel. These dogs are the kind of vicious dogs that can tear people alive. But the three wolf dogs left in the camp were kneeling on the ground neatly on their hind legs and did not even dare to move. , I knelt for several days and nights, and finally I knelt down and died there alive. What on earth could make three man-eating vicious dogs so frightened that they didn’t dare to move, and knelt down to death from starvation?”
"At that time, some people were wondering, what happened on the night when the Japanese disappeared? It scared the three dogs like this. In the days after that night, the Japanese squadron completely disappeared from the world and never appeared again. "
"No one has ever seen them. Is this a legend or a story? In fact, there is a very solid basis for it. When people in the county compiled the county annals during the Anti-Japanese War, they included this strange incident."
"However, in the local county annals, there is no mention of the reason for the mysterious disappearance of this Japanese squadron. In such official historical documents, it is impossible for those messy things to appear. After all, the reason for the disappearance of these Japanese is absolutely terrifying. matter"
"At that time, as soon as the Japanese left, the villagers who had hid in the mountains began to return to the village. After the Japanese squadron arrived, they disappeared before they had time to harm the village, so the villagers felt lucky when they came back."
"To be honest, the people at that time were extremely afraid of the Japanese. They hesitated for several days before approaching the empty camp."
"Some people tried to move the military rations left in the camp, and others found three dying dogs still kneeling on the ground. That kind of scene is difficult to predict and imagine, and most people were stunned."
"It was only then that the truth about the disappearance of the Japanese came to light. A farmer named Chow Tai Fook seemed to be frightened and told others that he saw with his own eyes the whereabouts of more than 180 Japanese soldiers."
"Villager Lao Zhou is a man in his forties, his name is Zhou Dafu. He suffered some injuries when he was young, which caused some problems with his legs. When the Japanese came, everyone else fled into the mountains, and he ran away too. It’s not easy to move, and I don’t dare to move after nightfall.”
"Because it is very dangerous for people with weak legs and feet to walk on mountain roads at night, so Lao Zhou hid in place and planned to wait until dawn the next day. But who would have thought that he would see some original things while hiding there? Things you shouldn’t see”
"He said that these more than a hundred little Japanese were all taken away by a carriage. It was a very strange carriage. The horse pulling the carriage was only as big as a dog, and half of the horse's body was covered in black. Half of them were covered with snow-white fur, and the carriage was pulling a box covered with black cloth."
"He led the way slowly and quickly, and the more than a hundred Japanese soldiers lined up behind the carriage. It suddenly looked like they were marching at night, but Chow Tai Fook could see clearly from hiding in the dark."
"Those Japanese chasing the carriage didn't even wear shoes, and their soles were bruised and bloody by the sharp gravel in the mountains, but they didn't stop and ran forward following the strange little carriage. "
"When Chow Tai Fook told this story, some people were dubious and doubted whether what Chow Tai Fook said was true. Chow Tai Fook became anxious at that time and swore that he was actually very honest and not very good at lying."
"As soon as he swore, everyone believed it. They all said that it was the retribution of Little Japan. It was the mountain god who sent people to take them away. As for the deeper questions, these mountain people couldn't figure it out. Logically speaking, It should come to an end”
"But just a few days later, Chow Tai Fook, who had escaped the disaster, died. He strangely knelt at the door of his house and died. The appearance of his death was a bit strange and terrifying. His mouth was wide open, and the tongue in his mouth seemed to be stuck. Something bit off half of it.”
"Even his belly was opened with a big hole, and a large amount of greasy intestines coiled around Chow Tai Fook's neck several times. His wife was so frightened that she fainted next to Chow Tai Fook's body, crying and vomiting."
"This thing is really scary, but no one knows how Chow Tai Fook died. This gruesome way of death makes the rumors of the disappearance of Japanese people more real and more evil."
"What's especially scary is that after Chow Tai Fook died and was buried, someone actually saw him crawling out from under the cemetery in the middle of the night, wandering around, and doing weird actions, that is, kneeling on the ground wearing a shroud. Kowtow to the west"
"I was only ten years old when the incident happened," Old Fangtou said, "I was treating illnesses in a neighboring village. After I returned to Jiangdong Village, I heard someone tell me about this strange incident." I was a child at that time, and I was also the most curious person, but I didn’t witness it with my own eyes, so I couldn’t be sure whether it was true or not.”
"I asked my parents at home whether this rumor was true. My father even criticized me, but my mother didn't answer. I was still skeptical at the time."
"I still didn't dare to fully believe this strange thing. It wasn't until seven or eight years later, when I was about seventeen or eighteen years old, that I saw the strange little carriage with my own eyes. That's when I learned about Japan. The disappearance of people and the tragic death of Chow Tai Fook are just scratching the surface."
"This weird little carriage is the scariest thing in the world. It's really scary, and there's no one like it. Before I saw the little carriage with my own eyes, something was actually slightly wrong. It was just that there was something wrong about the atmosphere. It’s very hidden and very natural, so natural that I didn’t notice it at all.”
"A few miles away from Jiangdong Village, someone died in the village over there. Something happened to the body while it was being parked, and the dead body was raised. There are people in that village who can handle the body, but I have never met him. After a corpse transformation, the small village where the corpse transformation occurred is the same village where Chow Tai Fook died tragically for no reason."
"Although several years have passed since the tragic death of Chow Tai Fook, and everyone has gradually forgotten about it, unless some villagers occasionally see Chow Tai Fook crawling out of the graveyard late at night and wandering around in the woods, they will still do something like this. His strange behavior, that is, kowtowing to the west, caused a heated discussion."
The person who died this time was a native mountain man in this village. His name was Hu Dazhuang. He was only in his thirties. He was almost 1.9 meters tall and looked like a black iron tower. His arms and thighs were also thick and powerful, and his body had always been They were all in good condition. The cause of death was probably sudden illness and death.
"I had dinner at home at noon and went to the fields to do some farm work. But it didn't take long for him to die. He died shortly after being carried back by the villagers. However, the appearance of the deceased was very strange. He had been dead for less than half a day, and his head was full of hair. All turned red”
"At that time, such a thing happened. It was a very sensational thing. Even Jiangdong Village knew about it. I also liked to watch the excitement, so I pretended to be brave and went to that village and came to the home of the deceased Hu Dazhuang."
"There are yellow talismans posted outside the yard of the deceased Hu Dazhuang. The coffin is placed in the middle of the yard. The lid of the coffin has been removed. Several wooden stakes have been temporarily set up around the coffin, and ink lines are tied between the wooden stakes."
"The Hu family must have hired a corpse exorcist who can handle this matter, because when there is a corpse, these things can only be handled by the corpse exorcists, or they can hire some experts with Taoism."
"However, this magic expert is very difficult to find. Fortunately, there is a corpse exorcist who can handle this matter, because at a glance, you can tell that this is the handiwork of an expert. The Yin wood ink line is used to draw gossip, specially used to surround the corpse of the corpse."
"An ugly old man, holding a bunch of hay in his hand, was walking around the coffin outside the ink line, mumbling something."
"This is the corpse driver invited by this village. People call him Second Master. When he was young, he saw some things outside the mountains and learned some skills in corpse driving. He is considered a very capable person."
"Just as he was doing this to lay down the corpse, suddenly a very strong night wind whizzed past everyone's heads. The wind blew the wooden piles and creaked, and the whole coffin shook several times as if it was about to fall apart."
"I saw Hu Dazhuang's body in the coffin. It was just like what the villagers said. The hair of the deceased had turned blood red and was blowing up and down with the wind at night. It looked very scary."
"And there was a strange smell, a kind of burning smoke, as if it came from a very hot place. Since I was there at the time, I immediately smelled the smell, and it drifted away from the corpse along with the wind."
"The smell was very unique, as light as an invisible wisp of smoke. My body trembled, and I looked at the red-haired corpse that was temporarily blocked by wooden stakes and ink lines, with its wide, pale eyes. , there was a chilly air that suddenly penetrated from the soles of the feet to the top of the head, making people feel like they had fallen into an ice cellar from beginning to end."
