Chapter 84
You know, just now Lao Luo tried to use a kitchen knife for a long time but it didn't work. I just touched him with my bracelet and he fainted. This made Buffalo's parents believe that I could cure him.
Buffalo's father carried Buffalo to the bed, and I put the bracelet on his wrist.
Now Buffalo's parents looked at me respectfully, as if they were looking at a god. I couldn't stand their gaze and said, "Uncle, aunt, don't look at me like that. I'm just an ordinary person who has learned these things."
No matter what I said, they both treated me with great respect. They stopped calling me "little girl" and started calling me "little master".
This is such a long-lost name.
"My bracelet can't cure the buffalo. The most important thing is to find out why he is possessed by a ghost," I said.
"Yes, yes, little master, what do you think we should do?" said Buffalo's mother.
Actually, after listening to what the buffalo said, I had some clues, so I asked, "Are there any graves flooded in your river?"
They thought for a while and said, "There are no graves in the river, but there is a circle of graves not far from the river."
I heard that no graves were flooded, so I must be wrong.
"Take me to see it," I said.
Buffalo Dad took me to the cemetery.
He said the graveyard was quite old and not from his village, and he had no idea how it was originally formed. When I got to the graveyard, I noticed something strange: a depression, which had become a puddle due to the heavy rains. It was easy to deduce that the coffins in the graveyard must have been flooded, which was why the buffalo was possessed by a ghost, constantly saying, "The house is flooded."
My guess was pretty accurate, so I said to Buffalo's father, "To solve Buffalo's problem, I'm afraid we'll have to rebuild this graveyard."
"Build this grave circle?" his father said in surprise.
"That's right. This graveyard is probably flooded, and a wild ghost has attached itself to the buffalo. Once it's repaired, the wild ghost will naturally leave."
"Okay, young master, I'll go back and call someone."
Shuiniu's father returned to the village and quickly gathered a dozen or so men. With shovels, they drained the silt and began digging. After digging more than a meter, they began to see broken coffins. The more they dug, the more coffins appeared, until they finally revealed more than twenty.
The coffins were soaked in water, and the decaying bones floated on the water, emitting a foul odor. They pinched their noses and collected the bones. I reminded them: "Collect them one by one, and be sure not to put the bones in the wrong place."
What I said is not nonsense. If the bones of this corpse are collected and put into that corpse, it would be fine if it is reincarnated, but if it is not, it will cause even greater trouble, and then the loss will outweigh the gain.
They heard what I said and carefully packed up each skeleton. When they were all done, I roughly counted them and found there were twenty-three skeletons in total.
They were asked to pack up the bones, choose a new piece of land, bury them there, and build a new large tomb.
This job is not easy and takes a whole day.
They worked until the moon climbed above the treetops and they had just finished.
"Lao Yang, I've worked for you all day. No matter what, I have to have a drink at your house tonight." Someone joked.
Lao Yang is Shuiniu's father. He smiled and said, "Don't worry, I've already asked my family to prepare dinner. Let's go, don't leave anyone behind, and have a drink at my house."
"Young Master, do you think this is right?" Lao Yang and a group of villagers looked at me.
"Okay, no problem." After I said that, everyone smiled and followed Lao Yang to his house for dinner.
As soon as I entered Old Yang's house, I saw several women. These should be the wives of those people, who came to help with cooking.
Everyone sat in the yard and various dishes were served.
"Oh, Old Yang is bleeding. Even the pork elbows we eat during the New Year are served here." A villager joked.
"Old Li, just eat it, so you don't have to go without it during the New Year." Someone said something bad to that person, and everyone burst into laughter.
This kind of atmosphere is something I have never felt in our village. Looking at the simple smiles of the villagers, I feel very satisfied in my heart.
As they were talking and laughing, Shuiniu suddenly came out of the house. He rubbed his eyes and said, "Mom, I'm hungry too. Why didn't you call me when you made something delicious?"
Buffalo's current condition is just like he just woke up, but his consciousness has been restored.
When the mother of the water buffalo saw that the water buffalo was well, she hugged him and cried with joy, saying, "Son, whatever you want to eat, I'll get it for you."
At this time, someone next to him said, "Come and eat the pork elbow quickly, or Lao Li will eat it all up in a while."
Everyone burst into laughter when they heard this, and Lao Li laughed too, but his chopsticks didn't slow down at all.
Perhaps because Shuiniu was better, the dinner was a joy for both the host and the guests. They drank until midnight, and Shuiniu's mother helped the drunken Old Yang to bed. A yellow light bulb was on in the yard, and she was there cleaning up the dishes.
Shuiniu looked energetic and was helping his mother clean up, but his mother told him to go home because she felt sorry for him and wanted him to rest. I ate a meal and felt bad for her cleaning up by herself, so I went over to help.
When Buffalo Mom saw that I wanted to help, she quickly said, "Little Master, you don't need to, I can clean it up."
"It's okay, it's okay. I can't sleep anyway, so I'll help you clean up." I said with a smile.
Seeing my firm attitude, she no longer refused.
As we cleaned up, we chatted about family matters. She asked me, "Thank you so much, little Master."
"It's okay, I just happened to catch up."
"Young Master, why are you going out alone? You don't look that old."
"I'm already in my twenties."
"I really can't tell at all. I think you're only about seventeen or eighteen."
"Auntie, has anyone ever drowned in your river?"
"That's not what I've heard of. The kids in our village often play by the river. If someone drowned, we wouldn't let them play there anymore."
I was a little confused when I heard her words. Those fish that seduced the buffalo were definitely looking for him to be a scapegoat.
Seeing that I didn't say anything, Buffalo's mother asked, "What's wrong? Is there something wrong?"
"In fact, the buffalo didn't simply drown today. He was possessed by that thing from behind, which is different from drowning."
When the water buffalo mother heard this, she asked nervously, "Will my water buffalo be caught by that thing again?"
"That won't happen, but if we don't deal with that thing in the water, I'm afraid it will be dangerous for children in the village to play there in the future."
"Little Master, do you have any ideas? Even if we don't let them go out to play, they will sneak over on their own and we can't keep an eye on them."
"Let me think about it."
Buffalo Mom didn't say anything else, she was worried. I also fell into deep thought, thinking about how to deal with it.
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