When I visited the third mother-in-law's house, I learned from her that there was a hidden cave next to the pine forest. The villagers called it the "Dragon Palace", and there was a statue of the Dragon King enshrined in it. Every year, young women in the village go to the Dragon Palace to worship the Dragon King and drink a mouthful of water from the underground river in the cave. I suspected that the strange disease suffered by the villagers was related to the river water, and it was necessary to investigate in the Dragon Palace, so I wanted to find out the exact location of the Sanpo Dragon Palace.
However, for my inquiry, the third wife seemed to be in a bit of trouble. The wrinkles on her face were so wrinkled that flies could be caught: "Dragon Palace never allows men to enter, and no outsiders have ever entered..." She obviously didn't want us to go to the Dragon Palace, she should be afraid Will harass the so-called Dragon King!
I persuaded: "Sanpo, people in your village go to worship the Dragon King every year, but why doesn't the Dragon King drive away the mountain ghosts for you? Instead of waiting for the Dragon King to bless you, it is better to take the initiative to investigate inside, maybe you will be able to catch the mountain. ghost."
She was silent for a moment and sighed: "Well, I won't tell you anyway, you can find it with a little more time." Then she told us the exact location of the cave, and repeatedly urged us to catch the mountain ghost as soon as possible. live.
When I was about to leave, I found a middle-aged man sneaking in outside the door to peek at us, so I rushed out and caught him. Who knew that as soon as I caught him, he shouted: "The mountain ghost wants to catch me, help! The mountain ghost wants to catch me, help..." He kept repeating this sentence, squatting on the ground and holding his head in his hands, shrinking his body. into a ball, and his body was still shaking.
The third woman came out in a hurry with a cane, if it wasn't for Zi Die to help her, she would definitely fall. She walked over and glanced at the middle-aged man, then pushed me away and grabbed his arm, and said anxiously, "Don't scare him, he was scared crazy by mountain ghosts, and as soon as she saw people rushing towards him If he was caught, or someone caught him, he would keep screaming."
I let go of my hand in confusion, and he didn't bark, but he was still trembling on the ground. I took a serious look at him. He was about forty years old, and his whole body was dirty, especially his hands, which were almost completely covered in mud. Although there is a lot of mud on his face, I can still see his appearance clearly, and it feels like I have seen him there, but I can't remember it for a while. Because the third woman said that he was frightened by the mountain ghost, I wanted to know about his situation, but no matter what I asked him, he would just smirk.
"He won't answer you." The third woman said and waved at him, "Xiwen, find a place to play by yourself, don't come here to make trouble with the third woman, go quickly." He smirked and didn't seem to mean to leave. The third woman said again: "You greedy cat, do you want to beg food from the third woman again?" He still smirked. The third wife returned to the house with a cane and brought out an apple for him. He immediately took it with a pair of black hands, and then ran away. The third woman looked at the distant figure and said, "This greedy cat knows how to eat."
After he disappeared from our sight, I asked the third woman, "Who is he?"
"His name is Xiwen, and he is from our village. He was originally a pretty smart boy, but unfortunately he scared the mountain ghosts crazy." The third woman looked at the direction Xiwen was leaving and shook her head again and again.
"Has he ever seen a mountain ghost? Do you know the situation at that time?" I asked again.
"That makes sense, oh, he was the first to discover the mountain ghost..." The third wife invited us to the house again and told us about the fine text—
Xiwen is a hard-working child. He has an older brother named Dawen. The two brothers are twins, the sons of Fucai. There used to be no hospital in our village, not even a health station, and Mrs. Fucai bleed a lot while giving birth to them. Fu Cai raised them both as father and mother, but they died when they were fifteen or sixteen years old.
The two brothers are very smart. They have always ranked first and second in school, but Fucai died, and they depended on each other for life. They had to rely on themselves to earn a living and could no longer study. But in a place like ours, if you don’t read, you won’t be successful, so Xiwen asked my brother to continue reading and find work to earn money for my brother to complete his studies.
Seeing that Xiwen is so sensible, the people in the village will help him if they can help him. At that time, people in the village began to know that rosin could make money, so in summer, when rosin could be cut, they had to find people to take turns to watch the night in the pine forest to prevent the rosin from being stolen by outsiders. Every time he was looking for someone to watch the night, the village chief was the first to look for him, but he didn't expect that this would actually harm him.
In the first few years, Xiwen did a good job. When he was on the vigil, he never came to steal rosin, and once caught a rosin thief. No one expected that such a thing would happen later.
On the night of the accident, Ah Quan and Xi Wen were supposed to watch the night together, but sister-in-law Quan was going to have a baby that night. Although it was the second child, the first child was a girl, so Ah Quan was still very nervous. He said hello to Xiwen and ran home, leaving Xiwen to watch the night alone.
In the second half of the night, Xiwen suddenly ran back to the village, covered in mud, door by door and shouting that there were mountain ghosts in the pine forest. Everyone thought he said someone was stealing rosin, so they let the men in the village go into the pine forest with torches. Everyone searched in the pine forest, but the thief couldn't find it, but found that a new grave had been dug.
It turned out that Xiulan was lying in the new tomb. She only visited Jianjun three months ago, but after the couple quarreled a few times, she couldn't read it for a while and drank the whole bottle of pesticide. On the night of the accident, she was only buried for two or three days. What a sin!
When everyone found that Xiulan's grave had been dug up, her body was lying on the tomb, her clothes were torn to pieces, her body was covered in mud, and her eyes were still open. It must have been raped by someone, everyone was very angry when they saw it, especially Xiulan's family, who was even more angry and cursed. So, everyone divided into several groups and scoured the entire pine forest, but they found nothing until Tianliang was found.
There was no way to find it, and everyone had to go back to the village to find Xiwen and asked him if he had seen what the corpse traitor looked like. But Xiwen only kept saying that the mountain ghost was going to arrest him, and it was only at this time that everyone realized that he was crazy.
When Xiwen went crazy, Dawen was still doing an internship outside, and he was about to finish his internship. His college tuition was borrowed from people in the village, and he usually saved every cent for his life and sent it to him. If he was told that his brother had an accident, he would come back to take care of him, and he might not be able to get his diploma. Seeing that the two brothers were pitiful without a father or mother, everyone kept the secret from him and took turns taking care of the fine text until he came back after graduation...
"Xiwen's brother is a doctor in the hospital?" I finally remembered that there was a doctor in the hospital who looked very similar to him.
"Well, Dawen works as a dentist in the hospital. In fact, before the hospital was built, he had already seen our teeth. Although the conditions were a bit poor at that time, his skills were quite good. The teeth he filled are very strong, but unfortunately he is old now, and all his teeth are lost." The third wife sighed, and there was not a single tooth in her slightly open mouth.
Xiwen was the first person who discovered the mountain ghost. If he could understand the situation at that time from his mouth, it would definitely be of great help to the investigation. It's a pity that it's in a remote place, otherwise, you can ask Xiaona for help and use hypnotism to tell him about the situation at that time.
Originally, I wanted to find the Dragon Cave to get the underground river water before the sun went down, so that I could take it with me for testing tomorrow. But it took a lot of time to ask the third woman about the fine text, and it was already dark when she left her house.
Rural areas are just different from cities. As soon as it gets dark, the lights are dark and the lights are dark, making me almost unable to find my way. Even so, in order to avoid an extra trip, I decided to go to the Dragon Cave now. Anyway, the so-called Dragon King can't eat people. To put it bluntly, the so-called Dragon Palace is just an alternative temple.
The location of the dragon cave, the third mother told me in detail, I thought it would be easy to find, but it is not easy to find. I took a powerful torch and followed Zidie to search for the edge of the pine forest for an hour before I found the hidden entrance to the Dragon Cave in a place overgrown with weeds. In fact, the entrance to the Dragon Cave is quite large. Although it is not too high, it should be no problem to stuff two Hummers side by side. However, such a big hole was covered by a large part of the cluttered vegetation, otherwise we wouldn't have to find it so hard.
I used a flashlight to look inside the cave and found that it seemed to be a karst cave. The cave extended downwards, and there was a relatively flat road on the ground. This road should have been opened by the villagers, or else the three-step-one-kneeling ceremony will be performed on the uneven stone, and the horror will see King Yama before reaching the Dragon King. A strange thought flashed in my mind. Judging from the width of the road, it would probably allow five or six young women to kneel and walk side by side. If I followed them, I could see a row of hips rising. Ups and downs, the scene should be spectacular! Too bad I couldn't see it.
After entering the Dragon Cave, my first feeling was "black". Although the outside of the cave is also very dim, there is still the faint light from the bright moon and the stars, and the inside of the cave is a completely dark world. The light beam emitted by the powerful torch is as small as a fluorescent light here. The light of the torch illuminated a small inch of the cave, and the colorful and peculiarly shaped stalactites appeared in front of me. However, the cave was much drier than I thought, and there was no sound of dripping water, perhaps because of the season.
Zidie suddenly leaned towards me, almost walking side by side with me. Since the chest attack in the afternoon, she has deliberately kept a distance from me. The reason why she is approaching me at this moment is probably because she is afraid! Anyone who is in a dark hole will instinctively feel fear. Darkness is one of the sources of fear, and the ground is also the source of fear. Because most of the things related to the ground are not good things, and at this moment in my mind, except for snakes, insects, rats and ants, they are rotten corpses.
"Do you think there will be zombies suddenly jumping out here?" I said to Zi Die yin and yang strangely.
"You, you are crazy, there are zombies in this world." She stuttered even when she spoke. I don't believe that she would not be afraid of a zombie suddenly jumping out.
Since she's afraid, I might as well frighten her, as it will set her spirits down. I suddenly pointed nervously at the place beside her, and exclaimed in surprise, "There seems to be something moving there!"
"Wow!" she yelled, leaning on me, hugging my arms tightly, and burying her face in my chest. It feels so good to sink my arms deep into my soft chest, I wish time could stop at this moment forever. But that's impossible, she's only frightened by me because she didn't react for a while, and she'll soon find out that something is wrong. To avoid being charged as a pervert, I had to expose the lie myself before she realized I was frightening her. So, when she timidly wanted to look back at the place I was pointing, I immediately lit it with a flashlight and said first, "It turned out to be a mountain mouse, and it ran quite fast, which surprised me a lot. "
She looked around and sighed in relief after confirming that there was nothing strange. Her mind is actually quite flexible. As soon as the fear subsided, she immediately realized the problem, and quickly let go of my arm and asked me like a question: "Is there really a mountain mouse? Why didn't I hear a mountain mouse? cry."
Rats generally scream when they're startled, just like people do when they're startled, and if there's a mountain mouse in the area I'm referring to, it's sure to frighten it and run away screaming when a flashlight shines through it. However, none of us heard any animal calls.
"Maybe it's not another small animal! It runs very fast, and I can't see it clearly. Let's hurry up and get the water from the Dragon River!" Do not want to be slapped, acting is very important. Although my acting skills are not as good as Fage Xingye, in this dark environment, it is not difficult to fool a little girl. Although she stared at me suspiciously, which made me shiver, but I was able to put on a sanctimonious model, and I finally got through.
When moving on, Zi Die seemed to want to protect the distance from me, but she didn't dare to get too far away from me, and walked side by side with me. Maybe she thinks it's much better to be with me, a pervert in human skin, than to meet a zombie!
Although the ground of the cave is relatively flat, the top of the cave is undulating, and it is easy to touch the head in the lower part. I suddenly wondered if the ritual of three steps and one bow would not be so easy to touch the head. Many traditions or rules handed down in the past, although full of superstition in interpretation, actually have some truth. For example, the legend of water ghosts, to put it bluntly, just persuades people to be careful about drowning.
When I was thinking about the legend, I suddenly heard Zidie screaming "Be careful", it was too late, it was fast, a "bang" sounded, and a string of twinkling gold stars appeared in front of my eyes - I touched my head. .
Ouch, how come the stalactite sticking out from the top of the cave is as hard as a hammer, it almost pierced my head, and the pain caused me to squat down with my head in my arms. Zidie stretched out her soft and smooth jade hand, rubbed my forehead a few times, and scolded me with concern: "I told you to be careful, but you still touch it, stupid! Are you okay?"
"Fortunately, I didn't break my head, it can still be used." I smiled bitterly and took a look around. It is much narrower than the entrance of the cave, and the stalactites are blocked in the middle. To continue, you can only bend over to avoid it.
"It would be nice if it was damaged, at least no mountain mice would run out for no apparent reason." She looked at me with wide eyes, as if she was treating me as a prisoner. I think she must have figured out that I just deliberately frightened her, but there was no evidence to expose me.
For my own safety, I had to change the subject immediately, and then I said generously: "If my head is really broken, I can only rely on you to catch the mountain ghost!"
"That's not good, even if your head is broken, it will not break until you catch the mountain ghost. Give me the flashlight..." She said and took the flashlight from my hand, "I'll go ahead, just follow me, I I'm afraid you'll really break your head." I smiled bitterly, this time is embarrassing enough, 囧!
After she pulled me up, she bent over to avoid the stalactite that had just greeted my head. However, when she straightened her waist again, she let out a terrified scream. I hurriedly bent down to stay and drilled forward, and a terrifying picture appeared in front of me—under the strong light of the torch, there was a human head suspended in the air in the dark hole!
It was a rotten human head, and the facial features were indistinguishable, but the long loose hair let me know that she was a woman, maybe a villager who was desecrated by mountain ghosts after her death, a soul full of resentment... I think, we are probably Heck!