Changxi Village.
This small mountain village got its name because it is backed by a stream.
In the lower reaches of Changxi Village, there is another village called Guoxi Village.
Changxi Village and Guoxi Village share a stream, and the source of this stream comes from the mountain spring.
However, with the addition of hydropower stations on the mountain more than ten years ago, the flow of streams has decreased year by year, and the income of farmland farmers and orchards has decreased every year. Conflicts frequently broke out.
In June, the summer melons and fruits were about to ripen, but the ditches were dry and there was a lack of water. The melons and fruits in Guoxi Village were not growing well, which caused many people to complain.
So, just a few days ago, someone from Guoxi Village took the lead and blocked Changxi Village overnight. They insisted that Changxi Village intercepted the river and only focused on irrigating their own farms, completely ignoring the life and death of the downstream villages, and then regained the water source.
How could the people in Changxi Village admit such a thing.
One party accuses the other party of damming the stream, but the other party denies it, saying that their farm is not doing well this year. If you don’t believe it, you can go to the field to see it.
Money drives people crazy.
For the sake of profit, a conflict broke out between the two villages, and this year it turned out to be a big one. That night, more than a dozen people were injured and one person died.
A villager in Guoxi Village accidentally drowned in the stream due to untimely rescue.
People died, which alarmed the whole town. In the middle of the night, a long line of police cars and ambulances drove into the village, took away the corpses and wounded, and took the first few who led the disturbance back to the police station for questioning.
Originally, this should have ended here.
However, this matter began to develop in a more and more evil direction.
Ever since a villager in Guoxi Village was killed in the conflict that night, Changxi Village has become less and less peaceful.
On the second night after the death, someone said that when a bucket of well water was drawn from the well, a human face was seen in the floating well water.
The man was so frightened that he overturned the bucket, and then that face, like egg white, flowed into the sewage pipe along with the water.
Of course, no one believed this at first.
However, on the third night after the drowning of the villagers in Guoxi Village, that is, the second night after the faces were seen in the well water, people in Changxi Village died.
The person who died was the villager who claimed to have seen a human face in the water, and he drowned in the water of his own well.
At this time, the villagers didn't notice the abnormality, and just regarded it as an ordinary falling well drowning incident. But on the fourth night after the death of the villagers in Guoxi Village, another person died in Changxi Village, this time by drowning by the river.
But the blame is here, the person who died was an old man who lived alone. That night, after the old man finished chatting at the entrance of the village, many old people from the same village saw the old man go back to the house. locked inside, forming a typical secret room environment.
But the old man's body was found on the bank of the river a few miles away the next day.
The police came, but no results came out of the investigation. The doors and windows were locked to form a secret room environment. Except for the traces of the old man's life, no traces of other people were found, such as the traces left by the murderer. I don't know yet.
But just today, another person died in Changxi Village.
Early in the morning, some villagers who got up early to work in farming found a dead body floating in the stream.
Suddenly, there was a commotion in the village.
This was the third person in Changxi Village to die in a row.
Changxi Village seemed to be under a curse, and at the rate of one person dying every day, it quickly caused panic in the village.
At this time, a large number of villagers had already gathered by the stream.
The whole village, men, women and children, all gathered here, looking at the ups and downs of the corpses in the stream, with fear and uneasiness in their eyes, no one went down to salvage the corpses.
Because a few old people in the village were leaning on crutches, and they were preventing several strong men from the village from going down the river to salvage the corpses.
"This corpse cannot be salvaged!"
"The corpse in the water cannot be salvaged. It is a corpse that died in vain. If we salvage this corpse, the whole village will suffer disaster!"
Those old people tried their best to prevent the villagers from trying to salvage the bodies in the water.
Although everyone in the village respects the elderly, some people stand up and say, "Whoever can drown in the water is not a person who died young and died in vain."
"In the past, when we salvaged corpses from the water, we never heard of any taboos about not salvaging corpses that died in vain. Several grandpas and uncles didn't stop everyone from salvaging corpses. Why did they stop us from salvaging corpses this time? We are rude people, Dropped out before finishing junior high school, I don’t understand the basic principles, but we all know the most basic conscience that the dead are the most important, and people who die in the ground can be safe, we can’t let the corpses in the water just keep soaking like this, right?”
Immediately, several farmers stood up and echoed, saying that the dead are the most important.
And this person has been floating in the water, it is not a problem, this stream is the life water for the whole village, the villagers have to pass through this stream every day when they come in and out.
Don't say that adults look shabby, if it scares children, no one can take responsibility for it.
Who doesn't protect their children like a calf.
Those old people stomped heavily on the ground with their crutches, panting, "Confused! Confused!"
"Look at the corpses floating in the water, how are they different from those who fell into the water and drowned before?"
After being reminded like this, the surrounding villagers all looked at the corpse in the water. They always felt that something was wrong when they looked at the corpse floating in the water, but they couldn't tell what was wrong for a while.
An old man sighed and reminded: "Let me ask you, are the corpses you saw before either floating on their backs or with their backs facing the sky?"
"Has anyone of you seen the corpse with its head down and its feet floating, with only a pair of feet floating?"
After such a reminder, everyone looked again, and suddenly a cold air rushed from the tailbone to the head of the forehead. It was sunny and the sun was setting, and I felt cold all over my body.
The corpse in the water was indeed floating head to foot, no wonder they always felt that something was wrong, but couldn't tell for a while.
It was the first time for them to see this kind of death.
"Then what should we do? Do we just let the corpse soak in the water?" A villager said with a trembling voice.
At this moment, don't care about whether you believe in Feng Jian's superstition or not, this is the first time you have suffered such a strange death, even if you see it, you will feel chills in your back.
"Only one person can save our village. He has seen more corpses than the whole village."
"This method of death on the head and feet was told to us by a few old men when we were young. People who die violently can't hold a breath, and the resentment is stagnant in the throat, so they will float head to foot in the water."
"Hurry up and send someone to find Wang Laoliu at the west end of the village, he has a solution."
Wang Laoliu
Isn't this Wang Youcai's grandfather
"I, I heard from Wang Youcai that his grandfather has left the village for several days and hasn't come back..."
Among the surrounding villagers, a child who was the same age as Wang Youcai shouted loudly in the crowd.
(end of this chapter)