Then, as the village chief narrated, the dark history of Xiaoshijian Village slowly opened.
His voice is hoarse and has the flavor of opening up the dust of history.
Compared with the hearsay from the hotel owner in Anping Town, the village chief's account was more detailed. He could even tell the names of some of the tragic women and the stories that happened to them.
Although these things have been in the past for a long time, they still sound harsh. People who live in the sunshine of a civilized society simply cannot imagine the torture of women imprisoned in a dark dungeon.
"So..." Li Lu said cautiously: "It's the women who died with hatred who turned into ghosts and came back to take revenge."
It's not a questioning tone, it's an obvious question.
The innkeeper confirmed this.
But what he didn't expect was that the village chief shook his head with a strange expression, "It's not those women," as if he recalled something, his lips trembled suddenly, "It's her!"
"Who is she?" Chen Xiaomeng leaned forward and asked.
"It's... the woman who was beaten to death by the parents of the abducted woman!"
As the memory went on, Jiang Zhongyi's expression gradually became strange. He stared at the village chief and asked doubtfully: "The main criminal caught by the police? Is that a woman?"
The village chief nodded, his pupils became slightly unnatural, but he still said: "She deceived all the women in the village from outside. She is very young and can easily gain the trust of the deceived women."
"what is her name?"
"Zhao Xiangmei."
"You mean it was the main culprit Zhao Xiangmei who turned into a ghost, and it was this Zhao Xiangmei who killed so many people in the village?" Yu Man's eyes widened.
The village chief sighed, "That's right."
"But... why do you say it's her?" Yu Man continued to ask, "Couldn't it be those women who died of injustice?"
Not just her, everyone couldn't figure this out.
What kind of truth is it that the person who turns into a ghost to take revenge is not the victim who died out of hatred, but the perpetrator who deserved his crime?
The village chief naturally saw the doubts in everyone's eyes, and explained: "It's really not those miserable women. Although they have committed many crimes,... none of them died after all," he spread his hands. , said with a bitter face: "There is no way that this person who is not dead can become a ghost."
Zhou Rong stared at the side face of the village chief, for a long time, and then said cautiously: "Are you sure no one died?"
"I'm sure," the village chief nodded fiercely, "when the police came to count, a total of 29 women were kidnapped. In addition to the 21 imprisoned in the village, there were 6 resold to other places, and 2 were living in Wen's house waiting to give birth. No one is missing, all are alive."
Later, he explained with a strange expression: "After all, in the eyes of the villagers at that time, they were also an asset, and it took a lot of money to..."
After hesitating for a while, Penfolds asked: "When did that ghost...appear?"
The village chief saw what he was thinking at a glance and sighed: "After the villagers discovered that people were being killed one after another, they immediately suspected that a woman could not bear the painful memories and committed suicide after being rescued. Revenge for the evil ghost’s return.”
"But we later confirmed that they are all alive," the village chief looked at everyone and nodded: "All 29 of them are."
"So the ghost can only be the only woman who died, the main culprit Zhao Xiangmei," Zhou Rong said.
The village chief seemed to have thought of something, and his voice gradually became quieter, "This can be confirmed," his eyes kept flickering, and the occasional wind noise outside would make him nervous, "We...we A stone tablet was found where Zhao Xiangmei's body was finally found, with a line of blood written on the back of the stone..."
When he said this, he suddenly stopped talking. Jiang Cheng tilted his head and glanced sideways at the dark man who looked particularly strong. He found that he had also become rickets unconsciously, with a very frightened expression.
"Is there a curse on it?" Jiang Cheng raised his triangular eyes and pursed his lips, "It's like slaughtering all the chickens and dogs in your village, opening instant noodles without seasoning packets, giving birth to a son without a baby, etc... .”
The village chief, who was immersed in fear, couldn't follow Jiang Cheng's thinking for a while, but when he heard the word curse, he began to nod, "Yes, it must be a curse! It must be!"
Others were already immune to what Jiang Cheng said. Even Benfu was looking forward to the few flirty words from Jiang Cheng from time to time, which led him to open the door to a new world.
"Where is the stone tablet?"
"By the deep pool in the back mountain," the village chief paused and added in a low voice: "Zhao Xiangmei's body was finally thrown into the deep pool."
Chen Xiaomeng stared at the village chief and asked abruptly: "I remember you said that Zhao Xiangmei was snatched away by the angry women's parents and then beaten to death. If this is the case, how could she have the chance to be on the stone tablet? Leave a curse?"
Everyone's eyes were focused on the village chief's face, waiting for his explanation.
The scene became deserted for a while.
"It's true that Zhao Xiangmei was snatched away," the village chief said, with a hint of inexplicable sadness in his tone, "but she was not beaten to death on the spot, she was only severely injured and passed out."
"She actually struggled to wake up after her angry parents left."
"In the evening, some villagers discovered that she was still alive. She stretched out her severed hand, trembling, and begged the villagers to save her, but no one wanted to have anything to do with her. Everyone just watched indifferently, although... although Some people just bought women from her.”
"It is said that her painful wailing lasted all night, and she died early the next morning." The village chief pursed his lips. "She died with her eyes open, her pupils almost bulging, and one eye was blinded." It looked like a bloody hole, the whole face was scratched with broken tiles, and the limbs were broken by huge force."
"No one knows how she wrote that line of blood. Her arm... her arm was obviously broken, but she did it, and..." The village chief suddenly raised his head. , the pupils trembled suddenly, "The curse has come true!"
After listening to the whole story, the ins and outs of the matter are very clear. From Zhao Xiangmei's perspective, the villagers who refused to save them are indeed hateful, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they deserve to die.
The villagers welcomed her with a smile when they needed her, but at the most critical moment, they decisively abandoned her. They even worried that she would bite them out alive and chose to watch her die of pain.
"Her body..." Li Lu bit her lip.
"Her body was thrown into the deep pool by the villagers the next day," the village chief said, looking at Li Lu who asked the question: "She was completely dead by then."
"By the way, there is another name for the deep pool in the back mountain. It was passed down very early. It's called Hanzhentan. Before liberation, it was a place in the village where women who violated women's morals were executed."
"Once such a woman is discovered, she will be stuffed into a pig cage, then tied with stones and sunk to the bottom of the pond in front of the whole village."
