"Squeak!"
This voice was very similar to Wang Jialiang's father, and You Xiaoqing and I couldn't help being taken aback, and You Xiaoqing clenched my wallet even more tightly.
When it came to this, Wang Jialiang deliberately paused when he lifted up, and I hurriedly urged him to ask: "And then the door, what happens after the door opens?"
Wang Jialiang's father told this story.
After the door was opened, Ergou saw his daughter-in-law walking out of the room holding the stone for giving birth, singing a little song to put the child to sleep while walking. At this time, Ergou was still The cry of the child could be heard, still coming from inside the house.
Ergou couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart. Could it be that his daughter-in-law threw the child into the house and came out with the birth stone
Seeing his daughter-in-law come out, Ergou also asked his daughter-in-law, "what are you doing, what are you doing with your son-in-law? What about our Shisheng?"
Ergou's daughter-in-law looked at Ergou and said, "It's in my hands, you're blind, and today this child doesn't know if he's smashed, but he's crying so hard, is he sick? I don't want you to invite a husband. "
Seeing that Ergou had a different explanation from his daughter-in-law at this time, he hurried to the house, and as a result he found that his child was placed in the place where the stone of birth was enshrined before, and there were two new incense sticks in front of him.
Seeing that Ergou was anxious and angry, he rushed over to hold the child in his hands and rushed out of the room with his wife: "You are holding Shi Sheng, what am I holding in my hand?"
Ergou's daughter-in-law took a look at Ergou and said, "What, giving birth to a son, Shiba, what are you doing in the middle of the night?"
Seeing that Ergou couldn't make sense, he asked his wife, "Why are you here in the middle of the night? Burning incense for the birth stone?"
Asked by Ergou, Ergou's daughter-in-law suddenly froze in place, and after a moment of stunned she suddenly turned around and said, "I dreamed that our child became a monster, a terrible monster, growing out of it. Bull tail, bull horns…”
Ergou was stunned for a moment. He didn't understand what his daughter-in-law was saying. He walked over with the child and pulled his daughter-in-law, "What's wrong with you?"
Ergou's daughter-in-law was pulled by Ergou like this, and suddenly picked up the "birth stone" in her hand and smashed it at the child in Ergou's arms.
"What are you doing!?"
Ergou was so frightened that he quickly stretched out his hand to push his daughter-in-law away, but he pushed his daughter-in-law staggeringly to the ground, and at the same time threw the child-bearing stone in his hand high, and then the child-bearing stone went free. Falling down, it just hit Ergou's daughter-in-law's forehead.
And this scene happened to be seen by Ergou's father-in-law and mother-in-law.
Ergou's daughter-in-law is a woman, so it stands to reason that the stone can't be thrown very high, but tonight I don't know the strength from her, so she threw it dozens of meters high, so when the stone falls again, she will throw her The brain was smashed to a pulp.
Zhang Ergou's father-in-law and mother-in-law were stunned when they saw their daughter being smashed to death by the stone they threw up. When they reacted, they screamed and rushed towards their daughter, and Zhang Ergou also returned. After passing God, holding the child also rushed over and burst into tears.
Ergou's father-in-law was crying and asked Ergou why. Ergou told Ergou what happened just now. Hearing Ergou's words, the distraught Ergou's father-in-law pointed to "Having a child" Shi asked Ergou, "To be honest, where did this stone come from?"
At this time, Ergou's father-in-law had completely forgotten the goodness of the stone, and all he thought was that the stone killed his daughter.
Ergou told his father-in-law, "This stone was picked up under the ancient bridge on my back platform..."
Speaking of Ergou, he recounted the process of picking up the "birth stone". After listening to Ergou, his father-in-law said angrily: "You picked up a monster, hurry up and throw it back under the bridge, he If it were left in our house, there might be some trouble."
Ergou didn't even think about it, throwing the pain of his wife being crushed to death, he hugged the stone and ran to the ancient bridge at the rear platform, and then threw the stone directly into the tributary of the Laozhang River.
At the moment when Ergou let go, he vaguely heard a child's cry "wow", Ergou stretched his head to look under the bridge, and found that there was a stone falling, but his family's The boy's "Stone".
The two dogs were confused and jumped down quickly.
The water in the tributary of the Laozhang River is not deep, it can only reach the waist, but after Ergou jumped into the water, a fierce man plunged into the water and did not come out.
Something happened to the Zhang family, and the neighbors knew about it that night. Many people were very surprised when they heard what happened to the Zhang family. In particular, Ergou ran to throw stones and did not return, which made the villagers suspicious. heavier.
So a few daring people teamed up to look for Ergou at Houping Ancient Bridge. After a long time of searching, they finally found Ergou in the tributary of Laozhang River.
At this time, Ergou was lying on the bottom of the river, holding the son-born stone in his hand, his eyes were wide open, and his expression was even more frightened, as if he had seen something terrifying before he died.
Two people in the Zhang family died in one night, and they all rose because of the birth of a stone, so the stone was thrown under the bridge and no one dared to touch it again. They just carried Zhang Ergou's body back.
The Zhang family's daughter died and the son-in-law also died, which made the Zhang family's old couple fall into unspeakable grief for a while.
Fortunately, Ergou's child "Shi Sheng" is still there.
The fact that the birth stone brought bad luck to the Zhang family soon spread in the front and back platform villages, as well as the county town. Those who had borrowed the "birth stone" to get children were also panicked for a while, for fear that something major would happen to their own family. Son.
At that time, someone counted and found that in less than a year, more than 70 households had borrowed the birthstones that Ergou had brought back.
Fortunately, other people didn't have any trouble, so this matter just passed.
Having said that, Wang Jialiang's father stopped, and I asked him curiously, "Will the story end here, and there are still problems that have not been explained clearly?"
Wang Jialiang's father nodded and said, "It's almost over. As for the things I haven't explained clearly, I can't help it. That's how the story is told. If you don't make it clear, you will find out."
I smiled and let Wang Jialiang's father finish the rest of the plot.
The rest of the story is very simple. It is said that the group of children who were born using the "birth stone" died of a plague when they were about nine years old. Most of them were wiped out by the plague.
As for the seed stone, some say it was washed away by a flood later, while others say it sank at the bottom of the tributary of the Laozhang River, but it was impossible to tell which of the stones was the real seed stone.
And the story ends here.
Hearing this, I was still a little unfulfilled. I always felt that the story could not end so easily. After I received this case, I also checked the county annals of this county. There is no record of the plague in the county annals.
There must be something else going on here, what is it
Thinking of this, I asked Wang Jialiang's father: "When did this happen? Are there still people of that generation?"
Wang Jialiang's father said: "It should have happened at the end of the Qing Dynasty. The person who lives now is almost a hundred years old, and he may have just been born at that time. Even if he is alive, he probably doesn't know anything, let alone us The oldest person in the village is only in his eighties."
Well, it seems that I have no hope of finding those parties.
At this time, You Xiaoqing asked me, "Xiaoyong, if this story is true, is it the 'born stone' that caused the chaos at the ancient bridge on the rear platform?"
I nodded and said, "It's possible, but now there are a few questions. First, how did the child-birth stone come into being; second, after so many years, is it really still in the tributary of the Laozhang River under the bridge? Three, this son-in-law is so strange, after all these years, has no one ever looked for him again?"
I asked three questions in one go, and You Xiaoqing shook his head. He was an outsider like me, so it was impossible for him to know more details than me.
Wang Jialiang's father was silent for a while and then said, "I don't know the first two questions, but I can answer the last one. Over the years, some people have really taken some compasses and the like to look for things under the bridge, but they didn't. We don't know who gave birth to children, and we don't know if they find it or not."
I nodded to Wang Jialiang's father and said, "Thank you, Uncle Wang, the story you told us is very swimming."
The people Wang Jialiang's father said were probably here to catch ghosts, or they might be looking for the "born stone". As for what they were doing, I have no idea.
We have been listening to this story for a long time, and through this story, the estrangement between us and the Wang family was broken, so we also talked about a lot of other small legends here in the Wang family, but those made up myths that we knew by listening to A short story, it doesn't help much about the ancient bridge on the rear platform, so I won't go into details here.
In the evening, after dinner, I was going to go to the ancient bridge on the platform to find out. After all, the yang energy is still too heavy during the day, and the yin energy is rising at night. If the ancient bridge on the platform is really dirty. something, then I'll see it more easily.
Before I went, I asked for a few steamed buns for the Wang family, mainly for tribute. If I went there to open an altar, I would save my own blood.
As for You Xiaoqing, I also took it with me after thinking about it. After listening to the story Wang Jialiang's father told me, I immediately felt that the whole Houping Village was not safe, so I would still be more at ease with You Xiaoqing by my side. .
As for You Xiaoqing, of course she was very happy, because she couldn't wait to be like me and solve a case with me.
On the trip to the ancient bridge tonight, will we meet the Lord!