I was shocked by this idea of mine, because if this were really the case, wouldn't my grandfather's murder count be significantly increased?
I didn’t dare to think about this aspect in detail, and I didn’t even have the courage to continue the conversation. So much so that I didn’t dare to ask Xie Bugui who the key person he mentioned was.
Finally, Zhang Hazi spoke, asking if he had returned, and asked, "Who is so capable that he can kill all the masters in your Xiejia Village with one person?"
Hearing Zhang Hazi's words, I suddenly became energetic. Yes, even if my grandfather is said to be the best craftsman in hundreds of years, he is only a flesh-and-blood person after all. No matter how powerful he is, he can't possibly slaughter all the elites of Xiejia Village, right?
Besides, if it was really my grandfather, the people in Xiejia Village were not vegetarians. They had more than three months, wouldn't they be able to detect that it was my grandfather who was doing this?
You know, the Xie family is the best at spying on other people's luck. If my grandfather really manipulates them, then my grandfather's luck will naturally change. It is impossible for the Xie family not to notice it, but they have to wait until after the incident. Only when the disk detects the abnormality.
It has to be said that Zhang Hazi is the one who sees the problem to the point. No matter how bizarre things are, in Zhang Hazi's eyes, he can find the most critical point.
I looked at Xie Bugui, waiting for his answer.
Xie Bugui said that it was impossible for one person to massacre our Xie family village, but this person did not know what method he used to trick the village chief, my grandfather, into going to an unknown place.
But no one knew about this at the time, not even my father. He only knew that my grandfather came back one night. For some reason, he was in a state of excitement. He had never seen it before. My grandfather had never shown that expression before.
My father asked him if he had encountered anything happy, and my grandfather only replied, "The people in our village have been saved." After finishing speaking, my grandfather summoned the good players in the village to go to other places.
The people we left behind at that time didn’t know where they had gone. It was only after a review that we found out that they should have gone to the place where my grandfather went for the first time. Moreover, they had been away for more than ten days. When they came back, everyone was so thin that they were almost unrecognizable.
When he said this, Xie Bugui paused, as if he was in mourning because of recalling the sadness of the past.
I couldn't understand his feelings because he was not yet born at that time and had no interaction with his grandfather at all. Everything he learned was from his father's mouth. But I can understand his father's mood at that time. It must be the same as the heartbreaking feeling I felt when my grandfather died.
Fifty-five years ago, his father must have been a child. He was so young, still physically disabled, and lost his father. I am afraid not everyone can bear this kind of experience.
So I think Xie Bugui is just grieving for his free and miserable father.
After a while, I saw that he had almost recovered, and then I asked him, so after those people came back from that place, they started to die one after another?
Xie Bugui shook his head and said, if this is the case, then it will take someone from the older generation to review the situation to find out the key figure?
I think so. If the cause and effect are closely related enough, even people who have never studied logic can easily find clues from it. Since no one in the village thought of this incident at the first time, it means that the connection between them is deeply hidden.
Let me tell you, when did the seniors in your village die mysteriously?
Xie Bugui looked at me with burning eyes and said word by word, ten years later!
To be honest, when I heard these four words, my heart was in turmoil.
Ten years is not a long time, but it is definitely not a short time in a person's life. If it really started to happen ten years later, who would have thought that it would be related to what happened ten years ago? After all, so many things have happened in the past ten years, and any one of them is much closer than it was ten years ago.
Zhang Hazi spoke at this time and said, so the person who came to see your grandfather was actually sixty-five years ago?
Xie Bugui was stunned for a moment, and then realized that he seemed to have missed this key information. After being pointed out by Zhang Hazi, he immediately nodded and said, yes, I forgot to mention it.
After hearing this conversation between the two of them, I had even less doubts about my grandfather. Because sixty-five years ago, that is, in 1956, my grandfather had just debuted at that time, and he probably did not have the strength and influence to do this.
After I felt much more relaxed, my mind became more active, and it has been ten years since I thanked you. How did you find out that there is a connection?
Xie Bugui said that when someone in the village was renovating the main house, they found a very strange pattern on the beam, which was next to the Bagua of the town house.
Friends who have watched the first film will know that in the upper room of wooden houses in rural areas, every household will engrave the house gossip and the sword on the beams to symbolize the health of the family and the prosperity of both civil and military affairs.
Moreover, these things on the beams are carefully engraved. Except for professional carpenters, others cannot carve them casually. Therefore, if there are extra symbols next to the Zhenzhai Bagua, it is definitely abnormal.
So I asked him, what kind of symbol is it?
He said that it was a rectangular fence with a phoenix living inside, a bit like a red bird among four elephants. And when that family was still young and strong, when the family was eating around the table, their whole bodies suddenly burst into flames and died, and in the end they were burned to the point where no bones were left.
When I think of that scene, I can't help but feel scared. Burning to death in front of his family like that, how much psychological shadow would this leave on his relatives?
Xie Bugui continued to say that it was precisely because of this connection that the renovation of the main house was immediately shelved, and the news that there were abnormal images on the beams quickly spread throughout the village. Every household is setting up ladders to climb up to the beams of their houses to see if there are any strange patterns on their beams.
It doesn't matter if you don't look for it. After a search, it was found that the beams of the halls of the 108 families who died all had such a rectangular fence carved on them, but the images inside were almost completely different.
I asked, why is it almost completely different? Are there any similarities?
Xie Bugui nodded and said, although every household is different, as more and more villagers find patterns, we find that these patterns are not completely different, but basically the same pattern, and can be found in four households. Corresponds to the beams of Ditang House. Of course, except my house.
Xie Bugui's words completely attracted me. I could never imagine how the carvings on the beams caused the people of Xiejia Village to die one after another.
Moreover, what is different about the home he refuses to return to?
Xie Bugui said that the roof beams in my hall were also sudden, but under this pattern, there were two smaller patterns, located on both sides of the rectangular frame, with six dots on one side and four on the other. Dots, when added up, are exactly ten, so we think of ten years ago.
He continued to talk, and my father once again thought of what my grandfather said to him, so everyone followed the clues. Many people stood up and quoted, and soon the matter was temporarily cleared up. As for whether those ancestors were dead in the beginning, it has always been a mystery until now.
Zhang Hazi, who had been listening quietly without speaking, suddenly frowned and spoke. I thought I might know the other party's trick.
