Su Xin was dragged away by the village head's wife, and before leaving, she gave Mu Qi a look and asked her to take good care of her younger brother at home.
"His health has not been getting better, the more it drags on, the worse it gets, the worse it gets worse. Now I can't hold it anymore, and I don't know what to do. He looked at me today as if he was about to confess his last words, and asked me to get you out of here quickly. Find it, he wants to see you even before he dies."
The village chief's wife spoke quickly and urgently. She walked while talking, and couldn't help wiping her tears with her hands.
"It's okay, grandma, don't cry, don't cry, let's go quickly."
The village chief really liked the original owner, Tong Ning, because he thought Tong Ning was an obedient and sensible boy who respected his elders very much.
When they arrived at the place, the wife of the village head opened the curtain of the house.
A dull and unpleasant smell came, Su Xin's expression remained unchanged, and he walked in quickly.
"Grandpa, here I come."
The village head seems to be in good spirits now, and he has a feeling of returning to life.
"A-Ning, come here, the old woman is going to pour some water, I'll talk to A-Ning."
"good."
The village chief's wife wiped her tears, wiped her hands on her clothes, and let out a sigh.
"A-Ning, is my aunt dead?"
The village head asked, his attitude was very urgent.
"Yeah, I've been there for a few days."
Su Xin nodded.
The village head turned pale and nodded helplessly.
He is the person who knows the most things in the village. The village head is very popular, especially with women, but this kind of popularity with women is different from the kind of big girls who cling to him. Those people like to treat him like a girlfriend. I would tell him anything I was afraid of. Because he was the village head and he traveled a lot, he knew many secret things that others didn't know.
The village head told Su Xin a story, which was recorded in the village annals about Empress Yun, but what he said was after that record.
The village chronicles only vaguely record that Yun Niangniang passed away due to overwork, so everyone built a temple to commemorate her.
But what happened later was not written in the village chronicle, but was recorded elsewhere.
It was another very old book that the village head got. The author of that book was a very talented person, and it recorded some things at that time. That book also existed like a confession.
The village head knew the truth from that book, but he was not sure whether it was written by Du for fun or if it was true, until one day, my aunt came to her.
The village chief kept many people's secrets. He was a tight-lipped person, but he wanted to reveal it before he died.
Those who asked him to keep the secret had died one after another, and now he is almost dead.
From what the village chief said later, Su Xin felt the greed and ugliness of human nature.
It is true that there was a girl named Yun who saved people in this village with healing herbs. At that time, the village was bigger than it is now, and there were many people, but no one could heal the disease. wait to die.
After Yunniang saved everyone in the village, she worked hard and was warmly received by the villagers who had recovered. After resting for a while, she was ready to leave.
The villagers knew that she was going to leave, and tried to persuade her to stay, but Yunniang had made up her mind to go. She said she wanted to go to other places to treat the sick, and she couldn't stay in this village.
The people in the village panicked. If Yunniang left, what would they do if they got sick again? Otherwise, no one would save them, and they would have to wait to die like before.
The people in the village locked up Yunniang. Yunniang was very scared and very angry. She didn't know why the people she saved treated her like this, locked her here and didn't let her leave. She blamed everyone , but those people just waited in silence.
The village head of that term begged Yunniang to stay and be a doctor in their village, because once they got sick, they would have to wait to die.
Yunniang had no choice, she said that she couldn’t be locked up here forever, if so, she wouldn’t save people, but she could teach someone medical skills, and then the people in the village let her go, the village chief agreed up.
Yunniang chose a woman to teach her the knowledge of herbs, decoction, and pharmacology. Yunniang didn't teach her thoroughly. In just three years, she had taught her all her medical skills. At this time, she was going to pack up her things and leave. After spending three years here, she is already very unhappy. Her wish is to travel around and help the world.
But on the night when she was packing her things, a drunk man broke into her room and took her by force.
The next day, no matter how much the man apologized, Yunniang still looked indifferent.
When the people from the village came, Yunniang didn't want to show off and wanted to leave quickly, so she said goodbye intentionally, but the man said at this time that Yunniang and him were married, and they were people from their village, so they couldn't leave up.
Yunniang was angry at him for being unreasonable, but found that the people in the village really helped the man to surround her and prevent her from leaving.
Now Yunniang realizes that she believed wrongly, it turned out that they had no intention of letting her go at all.
Yunniang looked at her apprentice asking for help, hoping that she could come out and say something, but the girl turned her head away. Later, Yunniang learned that the man who raped her was the girl's brother.
Yun Niang was imprisoned because she tried to escape.
In the process of being imprisoned, she was humiliated many times. The man said he wanted to marry her, but Yunniang slapped her hard.
Maybe the man didn't get a response, so he caught up with another girl and wanted to marry another girl.
Yunniang is still imprisoned, but has changed from private property to public property. Even an old man who lives alone dares to enter her room and do things to her.
The resentment in Yunniang's heart is already overwhelming. She originally saved everyone here with good intentions, but she was revenged for her kindness.
One day, Yunniang finally broke through her own chains and walked out of that room. At this time, she had given birth for six months, her belly was bulging, and she didn't know who the father of the child was.
Yunniang was covered in dirt, she didn't run away, but called a passerby to call the whole village over.
Yunniang held an unusually sharp stone in her hand. It was the result of grinding for a long time. She endured the pain and cut open her stomach in front of everyone. Everyone was frightened by her and dared not go forward. .
Yunniang abruptly pulled her already formed child out of her stomach, it was bloody and still connected to the umbilical cord.
"I was blind to believe you bastards, and now I swear on my children and my soul, I want all of you to die!"
Yunniang cursed with hatred, and she died not long after she lost a lot of blood.
Everyone panicked. Someone tried to bury her in a coffin and nailed a few more coffin nails so that she would not be reborn. Let's see how she would take revenge on them.
People at that time were in awe of ghosts and gods.
"But this method didn't work. Instead, it stimulated Yunniang's madness and launched even crazier revenge."
The village chief sighed, it was all a crime.
Yunniang massacred most of the village, and was discovered by a passing Taoist priest, who spent a lot of effort to stop it.
The Taoist wanted to save Yunniang, let her die, dismantled the coffin, and let her be reburied in a place with good geomantic omen, but Yunniang still refused to give up.
The Taoist had no choice but to ask the villagers to build a temple for her. Yun Niang was pressed in that temple, offering sacrifices and burning incense every day to resolve grievances, and then suppressing ghosts with anger. The incense must not be broken, otherwise there will be chaos.
Therefore, the people in this village have a custom, that is, the most important thing to do during the New Year is to worship the Empress Yun.
"There are fewer and fewer people in the village, and there are fewer and fewer incense sticks. She can't be suppressed anymore, so she came out to take revenge."
The village chief's face was sad. It was the chaos caused by the ancestors hundreds of years ago. What does it have to do with their generation
Su Xin's heart became heavy, and now he knew the reason for this confusion. After hundreds of years of baptism with incense ash, perhaps Yunniang's mind has become clear, otherwise she should have slaughtered the village as she did back then, instead of What kind of obstacles are set up to trap people here.
Or maybe it's because of her weakening power, otherwise don't rely on the formation eyes to support this confusion.
"It's just a pity that you children are still so young."
The village chief shook his head and coughed violently. The village chief's wife must have been waiting outside for a while, and hurried in with water.
"Ah Ning, my old man is dying, you go back and take care of your brother, stay for as long as you can."
Maybe it was because the matter was finished, the spirit of the village chief was sluggish, and the wife of the village chief anxiously let him go.
"Grandpa, I have something else to do. Do you know who put the sickle on the edge of my house before?"
"That... was released by my aunt. She was the one who guarded the Yunniangniang Temple. She was the first to feel something was wrong and knew a lot of things. She had no way to tell you directly to let you go. She could only scare you and tell you to hurry up." Take your brother out of here, you put the knife away, you didn’t stretch it, but you didn’t leave, then it’s too late, the village has already been sealed.”
The village chief closed his eyes, and seemed to be having difficulty breathing. He firmly held his wife's hand and went into her arms.
Tong Ning in the system space covered his face, it turned out that it was a reminder, not a threat.
"Old man..."
The bowl in the village head's wife's hand fell to the ground, and she yelled the name of the person in her arms in some embarrassment.
They are all at the age of dying, and they have been ups and downs for decades, and they have never done any romantic affairs, only their parents are short-lived, trivial and real.
"Old man... why did you leave me behind first, and went without saying hello, and I was counting on you to recover from your illness and cook for you, making your favorite pork knuckle, I will give it to you." You are stewed badly, you are old and your teeth are bad, I promise you two, okay..."
Su Xin closed her eyes and didn't know how to comfort her. She knew that the old lady didn't need comfort at this time.
The village wife was still nagging and saying something, but Su Xin opened the curtain and stood outside, already knowing the result in her heart.
"Old man, don't go too fast."
There was a high-pitched sound, followed by deathly silence.
Su Xin lifted the curtain and walked in, preparing to bury the two old people together.
The ordinary life and death go hand in hand, there is no vigorousness, only a long stream of water.