Weiyang Nancun, located in Shaanxi Province, is an agricultural production base with the Wei River in the south.
The fields there are fertile, the people's living standards are relatively well-off, and the houses maintain their former appearance, almost like farmyards. A few families built two-story buildings, but that was only because of the large population in the family.
But I don’t know when a strange “double death phenomenon” began to appear in the village.
It occurs once a year on average, and the cause of death is not surprising, so it is ignored by most villagers. Only a handful of five elderly people in the village pay attention to it.
About ten years ago, 85-year-old Lao Wang from the south of the village passed away at home.
The time of death was around 2 p.m., and he passed away peacefully while taking a nap.
But at the same time, 73-year-old Mrs. Liu from the north of the village suffered a heart attack.
At that time, her son, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren were not at home, and her neighbors were not at home working in the fields. There were no passers-by. Old Mrs. Liu screamed at the sky and the earth, and died of illness.
At the end of the same year, 71-year-old Da Zhangtou from the north of the village died of illness at home. The time of death was around 3 a.m., and his family found him dead around 6 a.m.
The second person found dead was 80-year-old Sun, who lived in the southwest of the village. The cause of death was sudden myocardial infarction, and the time of death was about 3 o'clock in the morning.
In the next six years, every time an old man died in the village, someone else would die soon after.
Some were caused by illness, some were logical accidents, and some were natural deaths. In short, the causes of death were not easy to associate.
Although the time of death differed by a few minutes to ten minutes, in the eyes of people who didn't care much, it was considered the same time.
It's okay if it happens once or twice, but it's such a coincidence every year, which is theoretically questionable.
However, those who have died all the time are elderly people with some hidden health problems, and even if they suddenly die suddenly, the villagers will not be surprised. Moreover, only two people die every year, and only two pairs die in one year, which is not a large number. They all died under logical circumstances, not bizarre at all.
People regard it as a coincidence and forget about it as soon as it happens.
Except for the five elderly people in the village who have been keeping careful records, they do not think that the "double death phenomenon" is a simple coincidence.
Although they are ordinary people who suffered during the Anti-Japanese War, they have received ideological education in recent years. However, no matter how much we are nurtured, there will still be some remnants of the old society's customs, especially the feudal superstitions that are deeply ingrained.
Four of the five elderly people are male, and none of them are native villagers. They moved here when the production team was transferred when they were young, but they are all from Shaanxi Province.
Uncle Wang and Old Li Tou thought that the head of someone's tomb (grave) was touched by a local master (grave robber), which woke up the powerful master and caused trouble in the village. Nowadays, only the old people die because their family members do not have enough Taoism. When they have cultivated, it will be the turn of the little ones (children or young people).
Old Zhaotou said that it was because he did not ask for land when digging the ditch seven years ago, which was due to Tai Sui.
Zhao Laosi said that the river god of the Weihe River comes up every year to take a breather. Now that the river water is polluted, the river god becomes angry when he sees it and spits out a bad breath every year. Therefore, the old people who died couldn't help but were sprayed to death by this evil spirit. The theory is quite outrageous.
There is a saying among the people that bad things can't help but be said, and the more you say, the more likely they will come.
In the eighth year, the second daughter-in-law of the Chen family gave birth prematurely one afternoon. She had no time to send her to the hospital and had to deliver the baby at the village health center.
The delivery went smoothly, but unexpectedly the baby never cried and had difficulty breathing. The reason was that there was fluid in the throat that caused blockage.
Due to poor medical conditions at the time, there was no professional equipment for suction, and the village doctors had limited experience. They tried many methods but failed. The baby suffocated and died in just two minutes.
On the other side of the village, Wang Dabai has been enjoying the shade under the big tree in front of his house since noon, while watching the villagers play chess. After watching it for a while, he fell asleep, but what was unexpected was that he passed away in his sleep around the time the baby was born.
The reason why he was so sure that it was at that time was because when Wang Dabai was about to die, a whirlwind of sand suddenly blew across the chessboard. The wind was filled with cool air, and it felt as if something had touched the back of his hand. , suddenly startled the two of them.
Then the two heard Wang Dabai's strange breathing.
I saw Wang Dabai sitting next to the tree, looking at the sky and breathing hard. The two of them walked forward in unison. Before one of them could speak, Wang Dabai took a deep breath and closed his eyes. He tilted his head and died!
That's how it is in rural areas, you can't hide things. When a couple quarreled in the northern part of the village, the southern part of the village knew what the quarrel was about.
The two people playing chess talked to each other, and the people watching the lively delivery also came to talk, and the time was right.
In the ninth year, misfortune befell Lao Litou.
The person died in an accident. Judging from the circumstances, there was nothing sinister about it, but upon closer inspection, it was still Old Li Tou's own fault.
It rained that day and the ground was already slippery, but he insisted on going to the fields, and his daughter-in-law refused to listen no matter what he said. This was great, one foot stepped on the wet mud, and the old bones fell apart in a somersault.
About two minutes after his death, the naughty second son of the Liu family climbed up to the roof to watch the rainbow. He slipped and fell down, with his head facing down and a stone pile underneath. As a result... he died on the spot.
In the tenth year, he became involved with outsiders from the village.
At that time, farmers came to the village to collect agricultural products. After a few days, they loaded a full cart, but when they were about to leave the village, the left wheel got stuck in the wet mud.
At that time, the car body was tilted and it looked like it was about to fall over at any time. But the farmer and businessman didn't pay attention at all. It was also because he had a drink before leaving and was so drunk that he was in a daze. When he went to see how deep the wheels were, the car collapsed. The weight of several tons weighed him down. It was impossible for the man to survive.
At the same time, Lao Zhaotou was watching sketches in the room.
Next to him was a box of milk candies specially given to him. There was a hard candy in the box. It was the hard candy that Lao Zhaotou gave to his great-grandson not long ago, and the great-grandson treated him to it. Lao Zhaotou easily got stuck in his throat when eating hard candies. At that time, he didn't dare to eat them and put them in the box. He later forgot about it.
At this moment, I saw the amused person reaching for the candy. By accident, he got the hard candy and stuffed it into his mouth without even looking. With a smile and a twitch, the piece of hard candy got stuck in his throat, choking him so hard that he couldn't breathe and beat his chest violently. In the end, he was lying on the ground and trembling with his feet.
Fortunately, the piece of candy was coughed out.
While Old Zhao was feeling refreshed, he suddenly stood up and stood up in a hurry. His blood pressure suddenly rose, and due to the lack of oxygen in his brain, his vision went dark and he fell to the ground. He died of shock, only five minutes after the tragic death of the farmer and businessman.
At this time, even though many coincidences occurred, the villagers still did not take the old people's words seriously.
Maybe the way of death was not bizarre, it was an accident that people could accept, and no one thought about it that much.
Among the four elderly men, only Zhao Laosi is left. Afraid of the next time it would be his turn, he moved to the city to live with his children, and is said to be still alive today.
Therefore, the only person in the village who knows the phenomenon of double death in detail and holds an opinion is the native Grandma Sun.
When Grandma Sun talked about this, it could be traced back to the Huangpizi (weasel) beating incident decades ago.
Grandma Sun was eight years old at the time, a time when weasels were rampant, and the chicken coops in every household were not infested one night.
The head of the township gathered the villagers to hunt yellow skins. In less than ten days, more than 20 of them were killed. Only then did the village have a peaceful night.
But not long after, the chickens were stolen again. Judging from the traces left behind, they were made by yellow leather, and there could not be more than three. Therefore, the township head did not call in any personnel this time, but only led three experienced villagers to fight.
That night, the moonlight was clear, and the four of them set a trap and ambush at a high place.
After keeping watch until late at night, the sentry noticed two red lights rushing out of the darkness and immediately called everyone to be on guard.
Only when I got closer did I realize that the two red lights were emitted from a pair of eyeballs. What’s even more embarrassing is that the person with these eyes is actually a red-skinned yellow man!
It was very agile and ran to the chicken cage as a bait as fast as lightning. But it didn't take action immediately. It seemed that it sensed something was wrong and cautiously circled around the chicken coop. After turning twice, he suddenly stood up and looked around, his little nose trembling slightly, and finally he stared at the hiding place of the mayor and others!
The mayor and others were so shocked that they shrank their necks and secretly thought that this yellow man was really shrewd.
When I looked at it again, Huangpizi was gone!
People with sharp eyes spotted it running towards the village, and the four of them immediately chased after it.
When they found it, the four of them couldn't believe their eyes. Huang Pizi was actually digging at the keyhole of the lock with the tip of his claws!
What's even more outrageous is that Huang Pizi immediately gave up picking at the door when he noticed someone was coming. He actually bit off a wooden stick as thick as a baby's leg in one bite, took apart a chicken coop in twos and twos, and picked up two chickens in the blink of an eye. He had easily jumped over the one-meter-high fence and slipped away like a fly! Two red lights were left in the darkness, and they disappeared very far away.
It is said that at that time, the mayor picked up the crossbow and loaded the arrow, and he could kill a life with just a hook of his finger.
Unexpectedly, the other three people stopped him and said that the yellow-skinned man had become a spirit and could not be killed, otherwise he would be killed.
The mayor didn't believe in ghosts and gods and wanted to get rid of it, but the three of them refused to give way and could only watch Huang Pizi run away.
Later, when the news spread, the mayor could not find anyone to deal with the yellow-skinned creature. He was also afraid of its mouth and teeth and did not dare to go alone. So he came up with a way to wrap arsenic in dough and feed it to the chickens. The chickens would digest the dough slowly and not be poisoned prematurely. At that time, Huang Pizi managed to get Huang Pizi to take away the chicken. As long as he ate the arsenic dough in the chicken intestines, he would be poisoned and die.
The mayor was afraid that one chicken would not be enough, so he added two more chickens.
It didn't work at first. Even if they were released outside the village, Huang Pizi would not touch these three poisonous chickens. It wasn't until the township chief discovered that Huang Pizi picked the fattest hens in the village that the township chief's plan succeeded.
After the three poisonous chickens were taken away, something terrible happened.
At dawn, a very strange sound came from the woods at the north end of the village.
Sometimes it sounded like a wild boar's neighing, sometimes like a rat's squeaking when it was scared, and sometimes like an old lady's cry, accompanied by a rattling sound, like an old man coughing up phlegm.
The sound was not very loud at first, but everyone in the village could hear it and felt that the sound was coming from behind their houses.
After three sticks of incense, the sound gradually grew louder and more miserable, and it sounded like the person making the sound was suffering great pain. By the end, the sound was ringing in my ears, as loud as a frog croaking.
The adults were flustered by the fuss, the children were so frightened that they hid in their beds and did not dare to come out, and the babies cried hard.
The livestock in the whole village were screaming and running around in panic, as if they knew the crisis was coming and were desperately looking for a place to hide. Even the dogs were very frightened and hid in the corner, covering their heads and shivering.
Even the mice felt unsafe in their holes and ran out of the village en masse!
