Chapter 228 He Village Past
I was going to look back, but Ouyang Xuanzi pulled me, but I didn't look back.
When I walked to the front of the old lady's house, the old lady walked to the door and opened the door. Ouyang Xuanzi and I followed in. The old lady entered and turned on the lights inside the house.
This room is a two-bedroom house, and one of them is a large one. Although I didn't go to see it, I could see it.
I took a closer look at this room outside. There were places for eating and chatting, including tables, chairs, TVs, etc. When I went in, I saw it. It was a place for cooking.
Although the house is small, the place is still clean and spacious.
The old lady entered the door and said hurriedly: "Don't be polite, sit down, I'll pour you some water. It's dawn and I can't sleep either. If you're sleepy, you can sleep for a while."
The old lady couldn't tell anything else, she was pretty good.
I first found a place to sit down, and unconsciously put my hand on the table. Ouyang Xuanzi was watching in the room and talking to the old lady.
As he was talking, I felt something pulling me under my feet. It was cold and I was busy taking my feet back, but I couldn't speak, so I had to go and see Ouyang Xuanzi.
Fortunately, Ouyang Xuanzi turned around.
He watched me, Ouyang Xuanzi, come and said, "Is it cold?"
I nodded, hoping he knew what I was talking about.
Sure enough, he said, "It will be fine in a while."
After saying that, Ouyang Xuanzi sat down with me, faced me, and put my feet outside my feet. As a result, I finally felt a little more at ease.
But I was still a little curious about what the thing under the table was.
I was curious, and the little hand under the table touched me. I was busy looking at it. There was nothing under the table, but I felt that I didn't run away and was still under the table.
The old lady came over not long after, holding two glasses of water in her hand, put them down and said, "Drink some water, look as it's going to dawn."
"Thank you." Ouyang Xuanzi said. The old lady went to the opposite side politely, sat down and asked us: "Are your friends here for sightseeing?"
"No, I'm here to do something. They said that Hejia Village was haunted, so they came. They haven't returned for a few days. My family is worried and asked me to come and have a look." Ouyang Xuanzi said, and the old lady opposite was stunned for a moment, and then said, "It turns out that you know the haunting, which means that the haunting here is very serious."
The old lady looked helpless, and Ouyang Xuanzi followed the old lady and asked, "I don't know why."
"This matter is a long story, and it has to be said decades ago. At that time, we were still a village that admired ghosts and gods very much, and several very powerful ghost-exorcist soldiers have emerged."
The old lady seemed to have many helpless things as she spoke, but she stopped talking as she said.
Ouyang Xuanzi didn't ask her what she was. The old lady sighed, and later she said herself: "This has been happening for many years. In fact, we all know about it, but the younger ones don't believe in it, so they all ignore it."
As the old lady looked inside the house, she talked about the incident many years ago.
According to the old lady, the entire village of Hejia Village had a surname of He decades ago, and these people belonged to a group of people. They were originally descendants of a monster catcher and a ghost exorcist. Later, the two of them combined to create this Hejia Village, which has taken root here since then.
At that time, many people came here to find their father to catch monsters and exorcism, and Hejia Village was also very prosperous.
However, there are very few people who can drive away ghosts and catch monsters, and there are generally more than a dozen.
These people are also divided into high-level and low-level.
The higher ones collect more money and go far. However, few of these people come back after leaving. Most of them either die outside or take the money to live the life they want.
Hejia Village is a very special place. The people here have been living outside by relying on a few ghost-exorcist masters. The people in the village are also hardworking, resting at sunrise every day until the night decades ago.
A very rich man came to the village. The man was covered in illness. After coming, he said that his family was haunted. He hoped that the people from Hejia Village would come and take a look and that the money could be given to them.
So, the exorcist masters from Hejia Village united to the rich man's home. After arriving there, several people subdued the demons and brought the money they received back to Hejia Village with the money they received.
But on the night when I returned to Hejia Village, the ghost-exorcist masters died.
I heard that I died of being poisoned by others, and as for the money, I stopped flying. Later, I heard that I found the money underground and the money was a lot. The villagers thought about it and built a ancestral hall for the exorcist, and then divided the money. Everyone had a share. This was the case.
After the old lady said that, Ouyang Xuanzi and I looked at each other, and Ouyang Xuanzi said, "I heard that, what happened to your Hejia Village haunted is related to those ghost-exorcist masters?"
"It can be said that our village was very good in the past few years. Since the old ghost exorcist died, the village has always been in a state of peace. We all think that this may have something to do with those ghost exorcist who should not die. They should be very resentful in their hearts, so this kind of thing happened.
Think about it, if those ghost-exorcist masters were killed by others, they would definitely turn into ghosts and come to us for revenge after death. No matter what, we also used their money.
But the old ghost-exorcist was not dead at that time. The old ghost-exorcist was their mentor. Of course, they could not come out to cause trouble. In this way, they ended up ending. Later, the old ghost-exorcist died and no one could suppress them. Then they had no reason to endure it anymore. It was certain that they would come out to harm people."
It makes sense for the old lady to analyze this way, so I glanced at Ouyang Xuanzi, and Ouyang Xuanzi said, "So, do you know about those ghosts?"
The old lady thought for a while: "I know a few years ago when I was out, I passed by the places where people died. I walked over there. After I got there, I did hear someone talking inside. There were still many people. It was daytime at that time, and I didn't think much about anything, so I went in and looked. I thought there were people inside, but after I went in, it was cold and no one saw it. I was surprised. Maybe I heard it wrong and I came out of it.
After that, I went home and fell seriously ill. At that time, my old man was still alive. He felt that I didn’t seem to be sick. It was so good that he stood up chopsticks for me.
Do you know how to stand chopsticks?”
The old lady asked me and Ouyang Xuanzi, and Ouyang Xuanzi said, "I know something, it is a custom of exorcising ghosts in the north, which is specially used to stand chopsticks to drive away evil spirits.
Most people, if someone suddenly gets sick, has dizziness, fatigue, and has weak limbs, they will stand chopsticks to solve the problem.
Standing chopsticks asked if it was a ghost and which one of them was. If so, the chopsticks would stop, then grab a handful of white rice and hit it on the chopsticks, send it away, hold the bowls and chopsticks, and put them outside the house. In this way, the ghost will be sent away.
Some ghosts are prone to come back, but they still have to come back when they go out. Even if they hold the broom in their hand and sweep the way they come on the ground, they can find them back and continue to harm others.
Put the bowl and chopsticks outside and tell the ghost that you are not welcome here. You are a guest, a passing ghost. When you come, you have already brought it to you. After you have been entertained, don’t be ungrateful and come in.
Ghosts are also reasonable. When they see bowls and chopsticks outside, they will naturally leave."
After Ouyang Xuanzi finished speaking, the old lady nodded repeatedly and said that it was like this. Then the old lady continued, "Yes, my old man did this later. No matter how the chopsticks stood, I didn't stand, but I felt so uncomfortable that I sweated all over my body. I didn't know what was going on. Later, I told my old man that I had been to where I was, so my old man tried it and asked if it were those ghost-exorcist masters. As a result, the chopsticks stuck. My old man immediately threw a handful of rice and sent them to the original place. Then he swept back.
I slept at home and sweated a little, and then it was fine.
I told people later about this, but no one believed it, but my old man and I would not go to such places anymore. We all think that this matter is not fake.
After more than a year, we started to hear about this, but we still lived our lives and had never been there.
But in recent years, we have heard such rumors becoming more and more serious. Some people who have been there are either seriously ill or die. In short, our place has become a veritable disaster village. Many young people do not come to us, and it is not easy to get married.
Some girls can't get out, and those who marry outside are sick, and they will die outside soon, as if they are cursed.
Later, we invited some masters to come over, including Taoist priests and monks, but later they all died of madness.
A village chief died some time ago. He was 60 years old. After his death, the coffin lid fell off the coffin at night. After covering it, the coffin was turned over by itself. Many of us said that the village chief told people that the money was distributed to everyone. They all thought that the evil spirits of the ghost exorcist came back to find him."
After the old lady finished speaking, she sighed, as if she was sleepy and yawned. At this time, the sky outside was indeed dawn, and at this time the old lady said, "That's how it is."
"Since your village knows where there are ghosts, why are there still people going in?" Ouyang Xuanzi asked. The old lady sighed and said, "This is a bit annoying. It's not the young people in the village. They don't believe in ghosts or haunted people. Some go there at night and run in to take a look when they hear someone talking inside.
It was nothing at that time, but when I got home, I was either crazy or dead!”
After the old lady finished speaking, the naive outside was dawn, and she said, "I'm going to cook, you guys sit down."
Chapter completed!