After hearing the man's words, Lu Chu not only didn't stay away, but took a step forward without any trace, wanting to continue listening to what the mad middle-aged woman was still saying.
A villager just now said that the woman went crazy twenty years ago...
This one corresponds to the clue again.
This "game", the clues and hints are too concise, and no useful information can be analyzed just literally. Now, I first heard the old man tell the story of snake beheading in this village, and met someone related to the timeline of "twenty years ago". On the surface, things seem to have made a lot of progress.
Lu Chu was trying to get close to the middle-aged woman, but the woman was dragged by a few strong men who came from nowhere and walked towards the first thatched cottage in the village. While dragging, they finally cursed and said, "Usually keep it there for a long time. , why did you run out today? This lunatic will cause trouble for us, and he can't blame the man who came outside and doesn't want her even if he dies!"
Other people in the know also echoed: "That's, that's..."
Afterwards, the crazy woman was stimulated by what they said, and suddenly began to struggle desperately. She lay on the ground and rolled over with all her strength, trying to break free from the pull of the strong man. The sloppy face becomes more messy.
That is, in the woman's frantic movements, Lu Chu finally saw her muddy cheeks covered by her messy hair. It was an ordinary face, not good-looking, and it cannot be said to be ugly. In short, it is hard to remember after seeing it.
The woman screamed as if she was on the verge of death, her sharp voice made the ears ache, and at the same time she was struggling desperately, her red eyes made the people who had gathered around her disperse in fright, for fear that she would jump out of excitement. Come up to bite like.
"It's him who deserves to die!!" After the woman screamed sharply, her eyes widened, with an extremely crazy expression in her eyes, she shook her head and kept shouting, "I'll die! I'll die! You guys It’s hard to die!…”
The crazy appearance of the woman frightened the onlookers. Several elderly women simply muttered and cursed a few times, turned around and hurried back to their home, and patted their arms hard before leaving, as if they were really stained Bad things like that.
No matter how crazy the woman is, she is not as strong as a few peasants who often go to work in the fields, and she was restrained again after a while. This time, she was really dragged all the way back to her small courtyard, and the soil on the ground printed A trace of a heavy object being dragged.
The troublemakers left, and the rest of the theatergoers dispersed. Only Lu Chu was still standing there, thinking about something.
At this time, the voice of the old man came: "Good grandson, what are you doing, let's go home for dinner!"
Lu Chu immediately put on a gentle smile, waved back and said, "I'll be right back."
While eating, Lu Chu asked curiously: "Grandma, just now I saw a lot of people gathered outside, so I went up to have a look and saw an aunt, everyone said she was a crazy woman, and she has been crazy for a long time look..."
Hearing this, the old man immediately put down the bowls and chopsticks in his hands, and said with a serious expression, "Don't join in the fun with this matter."
Lu Chu became more and more curious, put down the bowl and chopsticks, and asked, "But grandma, why is that?"
Seeing that he was so curious, the old man could only sigh, and said: "Forget it, I didn't plan to talk about this matter with you younger generation, but seeing that you are so caring, I'd like to mention it to you, lest you The young man's heart attack, hit the mold."
"Do you still remember the story about beheading a snake I told you just now?"
Lu Chu nodded: "I remember."
The old man continued: "Snakes are spiritual things. Here, we always respect them as ghosts and gods."
"Actually, I don't know very well about those things twenty years ago. After all, they didn't happen in my own home, so I didn't care that much. I just remember that a man from the city came to our village at that time and said he was going to kill us. I used to be a teacher here for a while. This man is so handsome that many young girls of good age in the village are willing to sneak outside the classroom to look inside—they are classrooms, but they are just a few big mud houses with air leaks and wind. Leaky."
Lu Chu added food to the old man's bowl, and urged like a curious young man: "What about later?"
"The crazy woman you saw just now is called Wei Rong, who is also one of those little girls, and the male teacher is called Guo Jianping. I don't know much about their previous affairs, I just remember that Guo Jianping liked another girl in the village. The girl who looks better. Later, something happened to the young teacher and he broke his leg, which was basically disfigured. Many girls gave up on him, and only Wei Rong was left by his side, serving tea The water is delivered and taken care of in every possible way.”
"Then they're not together?" If what happened later was a natural liking for each other, Wei Rong shouldn't be so crazy now.
The old man lovingly added food to Lu Chu, shook his head and said, "Of course not. Later, the teacher went back to the city and said that he was going back to treat his legs, and he would come back later. Wei Rong also stood at the entrance of the village and waited every day. Finally, one day, she waited for Lu Chu. Guo Jianping returned intact, with all the injuries on his legs and face healed. However, less than half a year after Guo Jianping came back, he proposed to the girl he liked before."
Lu Chu was surprised: "Why another girl, did Wei Rong treat him badly?"
"It's not something you can control if you like this kind of thing." The old man sighed, "Actually, we don't know much about it, but we outsiders just watch other people's affairs, and we thought it was over like this Unexpectedly, another year later, the little girl who married Guo Jianping ran away and never recruited anyone. It is said that she ran away with a richer man outside. side, finally moved him, and they were together."
"After two years of peace, Wei Rong was pregnant with a child, but Guo Jianping began to run to the city frequently, and sometimes he would not come for a long time, and he became lukewarm towards Wei Rong. From then on, Wei Rong began to The woman who was startled and said that she ran away with the man came back again and wanted to snatch Guo Jianping from her. Guo Jianping ran to the city because of her, and the two got into a fight afterwards, and they just lost the child so abruptly. After the miscarriage, Wei Rong's spirit became even more abnormal. She ran to the house of the village dance master Wang's mother-in-law all day long, and when she came back, she kept saying that her child was still in the belly, and there would be retribution... "
"Then—" At this point, the old man's expression became serious, "Guo Jianping died suddenly at home. Wei Rong was at Wang Po's place at that time. Hearing the news, he rushed home, only to see that Guo Jianping was completely dead, covered in blood, and his face was pale. Purple and swollen, with a painful and ferocious expression.
In the room, there were no fewer than hundreds of snakes densely packed, each of which had been cut into seven sections, and the smell of blood wafted far away.
Seeing this, Wei Rong yelled "Retribution, retribution", and has been completely crazy since then. "
After hearing this story, Lu Chu thought for a while. Although the old man did not tell him the scene in detail, he seemed to be able to imagine that hundreds of snakes with different patterns were crowded together, and their bodies were broken into countless pieces. The floor was covered, and Guo Jianping died brutally and brutally.
"Snake cutting, in the eyes of the older generation, means revenge." The old man touched his head with a gentle tone, "What happened back then scared the whole village for a long time. Twenty years have passed, and everyone This matter was buried in the bottom of my heart, and no one explored it. In the end, I didn’t know if the child in Wei Rong’s belly came for revenge. I tell you this matter to let you remember, the matter of gods and ghosts , even if you don’t believe it, you must remain in awe, you know?”
Lu Chu nodded.