This is the second time I have seen him today!
In the morning, he sang folk songs in front of Widow Liao's house, saying that the widow had a lot of troubles.
Now he was worshiping my father, and I immediately felt that he was uneasy and well-intentioned! I pulled out my legs and chased him.
It seemed like there was only a small distance, and when he chased him down the bridge and under the willow tree, the fool from the Wang family had disappeared.
The thing on the ground made my pupils constrict.
There are golden patterns of dragons and phoenixes on the red candles, and the faint fire light flickers on and off.
In addition, the sculpture is placed in front of the red candle, which is a lifelike face.
The Xiuhe uniform with phoenix crown and Xia pei, gold pattern and red bottom, looks extremely festive. The half of the face exposed under the hijab, a touch of red lips, and fair skin make it look even more delicate.
The red paper money on the ground has been almost burned away. There was an unpleasant smell of paste, and what weighed more heavily on my mind was the thing that the fool from the Wang family was worshiping...
I stamped out the red candle with my feet and picked up this man. It felt cold as soon as I took it, giving me goosebumps all over my body.
Looking around, I didn't know where the fool from the Wang family was hiding, or he had really run away.
At this moment, Liu Wensan had already fished my dad out of the river.
I hurried back toward the bridge shore.
Liu Wensan shook the water off his body before putting on the coat he had taken off.
My father's body was wrapped with ropes. In addition, peach wood nails were inserted into the top of his head, cheeks, and shoulders!
His bluish face and tightly closed eyes looked extremely cold.
I even have a feeling that my dad will open his eyes at any time!
"The resentment of the deceased was very heavy. Even after the corpse was exhumed, he was still so angry. I'm afraid it had something to do with his grave being dug up."
"Sixteen, what did you just run away to do?"
Liu Wensan asked me doubtfully.
It was obvious that he didn't see the Wang family fool in the water just now.
With a slightly uneasy look on my face, I recounted what had just happened and handed the dough to Liu Wensan.
After Liu Wensan took it, he smacked his mouth and said, "Is this fool from the Wang family really stupid or pretending to be stupid? His heart is not very good."
I actually had some guesses in my mind, but I didn’t understand the details, so I asked Liu Wensan what he meant.
Liu Wensan pondered for a moment before answering, saying that the worship of the fool of the Wang family was also called the marriage of the river corpse.
If you really encounter a river corpse with lingering resentment, if you can't retrieve the corpse, redress the injustice, and suppress the corpse, you can use this method to send him a bride.
In this way, the river corpse will never come ashore.
Even if it is dangerous, it will only stay in the water, and at least it will not harm people on the shore. The miraculous effect of this method covers sinking corpses, floating corpses, and dead corpses. It can work on any corpse.
Many years ago, people along the Yangjiang River did this for a while.
The body of a good-looking woman, or a living person, must be sunk into the river.
Because the female body must be fresh and fresh, or the body must not rot, and the living body must be a young girl.
This custom first came from Xuanhe, one of the two mother rivers.
This was not only a waste of people and money, but also a bad custom. After that, it was slowly banned and resolved, and the number of people collecting corpses increased accordingly.
I felt a chill in my heart.
Liu Wensan didn't know about my father's affair with this idiot from the Wang family. For that era, women did not have much freedom and were still half accessories. To him, my father had taken away his wife, but to my mother, it was like being able to live a normal life as a woman.
I also told Liu Wensan the whole story.
Liu Wensan nodded, and then he reassured me that this river corpse had not completed the process of sending off his bride.
Logically speaking, the ritual must be completed by sinking the female corpse or girl into the water. At this moment, he was interrupted just as he was burning the noodles. Besides, my father's body was already on the shore, so he could only make empty plans.
The tone in my heart did not relax. If this process is completed, my father will have no choice but to stay under the Xiaoliu River. He will definitely be remarried. For my mother, the connection between the two will be considered severed.
I already feel that this fool in the Wang family has a big problem.
Liu Wensan reminded me to carry my father home first. If anything happens, I should let Blind Chen see the body first. After the body landed on the shore, it was considered a matter on the ground and Blind Chen could take care of it.
I carried my dad on my back, and the cold and hard touch made me feel depressed.
When I returned to the yard, I discovered that several men from the village, the same men who had carried Widow Liao before, were carrying the coffins of Qing'er and Chen Yuangui's mother and son into a room, with my grandma watching beside them.
As for the black coffin and the death knell tied with paper, they were no longer in the yard and had obviously been thrown out.
The wolf mastiff didn't come back, and Blind Chen wasn't even there either.
I called my grandma, and she came over in a hurry. She looked at my dad’s body and shed tears.
Several other men finished placing the coffin, said hello to my grandma, and left in a hurry. It was obvious that they were afraid.
"Po Liu Yin, where is Blind Chen?" Liu Wensan asked first.
I placed the body on the floor of the main room, and grandma replied, saying that just now blind man Chen suddenly said that he wanted to go out to have a look, and left for fear of any accident.
Liu Wensan nodded and told me to take a nap first and have a good rest.
Wait until Blind Chen comes back to check. The bodies are all here, and something must come to light.
Grandma got a white cloth and covered my dad, but her tears kept falling.
I nodded, having no intention of looking for the old widower at the moment.
It seems that there is a high possibility that the fool from the Wang family is the murderer. Once Blind Chen sees the body and gets clues, I can find him!
No matter he is an old widower or a fool from the Wang family, he will definitely not be able to escape!
Of course, it would be less troublesome if he wasn't an old widower.
These two days and one night have already made me exhausted, and now I feel like my head is spinning.
"Uncle Wen, these are the only rooms in my house. Do you want to deal with them together with me?" I asked.
Liu Wensan lit a cigarette, took out half a bottle of wine, took a few sips, and said OK.
Grandma opened the door ajar, and Liu Wensan and I returned to the room.
I lay on the bed, tossing and turning, and it took me quite a while before I felt sleepy. But Liu Wensan, on the other hand, drank and fell asleep soon after.
Maybe it was too depressing, too many things happened, and I kept dreaming.
This dream was very strange. I dreamed of an old man wearing a Tang suit, with his back to me, sitting on the bridge of Xiaoliu River and looking at Xiaoliu Village.
I was standing at the entrance of the village.
The entire Xiaoliu Village looked smoky and sneaky, and the villagers walking back and forth stared at me fiercely.
Not only is it xenophobic, but it's like that's what they really mean, that's how vicious they are.
It is true that poor mountains and bad waters bring out unruly people.
After that, the dream took another shape.
I was still standing at the entrance of the village, and the ground under my feet turned into concrete.
On the bridge of Xiaoliu River, the old man in Tang suit is gone.
Only an empty piece of clothing was left, propped up by a branch and swaying in the wind by the river.
The villagers walking by were much brighter and brighter in their clothes, and they also had a divine light, but there was still a bit of ferocity hidden under their expressions.
I was very depressed, and I kept crying and shedding tears in my dreams.
Suddenly a bit of cold wind blew through my body. I trembled slightly and opened my eyes.
The light in the room was dim, but there was an unpleasant burnt smell between the nose.
My heart trembled, I quickly got up and ran outside the house.
When I opened the door, what I saw in front of me was a scene that made my scalp tingle.
In my yard, that dark coffin is back again! It was covered with pale plaster, and two big red candles were lit in front of the coffin.
My father's corpse was placed in front of the coffin, standing upright and looking extremely strange!
His eyes had been opened, and the eyes were sunken deep in the dark sockets.
Water is still seeping out of the eye sockets, and the water streaks across the iron-green skin, under the swaying candlelight, it seems like crying...
