Chapter 71 Wedding and mourning (2) (2)
You ask for help. "
"After the incident, I thought of you first, but you were not at home at that time and my phone was unreachable. I had no choice but to wait and pray that you would come back soon, but as time went by, I found that Hua'er's condition was getting worse and worse. One day, after I came home from the breakfast stall, Hua'er suddenly stopped having nightmares and stopped pointing to the corner of the house and saying that her sister was standing there watching her."
"She asked me, 'My sister doesn't know how I died, don't you know? Have you never thought of helping me in all these years? Have you forgotten what you said when you asked me to help you take my sister away?' She also said that if I couldn't fulfill what I promised her, she would take the flowers away as punishment for my breach of contract. Because of this, I didn't dare to look for other masters, and later I hesitated whether to ask you for help."
Yan Shixun understood what happened in his boss's home recently, and said calmly: "Since it is a dead person's spirit that has appeared, and she has clearly stated her demands, then you only need to satisfy them and send her away. You just said that your wife's sister has been dead for decades? She has been alive for decades and has the ability to possess living people, which means that she had grievances before she died. She will not leave until this grievance is dissipated."
"What was it that you promised her that year that made you afraid that she would really take your wife away but you didn't dare to ask for help, but you didn't do it?"
The cycle of cause and effect never requires anyone to interfere.
If it is true as the boss said, that what is happening now originated from the promise the boss made to others decades ago, then this is the karma of the boss and his family, and he will not care.
The boss obviously saw Yan Shixun's refusal and suddenly became anxious: "Yan, Mr. Yan, it's not that I don't want to finish it, it's just that I can't finish it at all!"
"As you know, Hua'er and I are both from the village in the south. Although we both have the surname Yang and are from the same clan, we are from the neighboring village, separated by a mountain. Because a road was built in front of our village, outsiders often come here to repair their cars and settle down, so many of our habits have been subtly influenced. But Hua'er's village is in the mountains, which is relatively closed, and the customs are still very different."
When talking about the past, the boss's expression was very painful, as if just the memories could cause him great harm.
"In Hua'er's village, the idea of favoring boys over girls is very serious. Especially since Hua'er's family only gave birth to two girls, they had a hard time in the village. The clan leader also said that it was because Hua'er's family had done something wrong that made the land god angry, which made their family have no sons. He said that only by letting these two girls offer sacrifices to the land and appease the anger of the land god, their family can give birth to a son."
"At that time, Hua'er and I had already fallen in love with each other and wanted to get married in the spring of the following year. I learned from the village chief that since Hua'er had already reached adulthood, their village decided to sacrifice Hua'er to the earth in exchange for a boy. I hurried over the mountain to find Hua'er, wanting to take her away overnight, and asked Hua'er's sister Yang Duo to help cover for us so that we could escape smoothly and not be discovered by the villagers. Because Yang Duo is several years younger than Hua'er and has not yet reached adulthood, her situation is relatively much safer than Hua'er."
"Yang Duo agreed, but she made a request. She said that after I took Hua'er out and settled her down, she wanted me to go back and take her away with me. She said that she felt that the tribe leader looked at her strangely recently, which made her very scared. After listening to what I said about the tribe's arrangement for Hua'er, she was afraid that she would end up like that, so she wanted to escape from the village as soon as possible."
"I promised Yang Duo that night, I took Hua'er and left under the cover of darkness. We headed north and escaped from the village where our people lived. We didn't dare to stop until we reached Binhai City to rest for a while. I thought that in a big city, even if we met our people who wanted to arrest us and take us back, we could call the police for help. I didn't forget what I promised her. After settling Hua'er down, I quickly rushed back alone, wanting to take Yang Duo out of the village as well. But..."
The boss's expression became sad and upset at that moment. The fear and hatred in his eyes were not directed at his wife and sister, but at the village of that year and the scenes he saw.
"Yang Duo is dead."
The boss said softly: "The little girl who was not yet an adult, only fourteen years old, is dead."
That year, Yang Guang rushed back to the village, but he did not rashly enter the village because he knew that the villagers had overly closed and traditional customs.
He hid in a shabby woodshed in his village, and found his childhood friend at night, wanting to know what had happened since he left with Yang Hua.
But the friend angrily hit Yang Guang and said that he had brought great harm to Yang Hua's family.
Yang Guang was shocked, and then soon learned from his friends that after he and Yang Hua escaped, the village in the mountains soon discovered the incident.
The angry clan leader believed that this was blasphemy and disrespect to the land god. The anger that could have been appeased by just one person offering sacrifice to the land might now require more sacrifices.
So, under the order of the clan leader, Yang Hua's grandmother, mother, and sister, the remaining three women in their family, were forced to the ancestral hall by the equally angry villagers.
After confessing their crimes to their ancestors and asking the land god to appease his anger, these three women, without exception, were all put into coffins and buried alive under the ground in the ancestral hall as sacrifices to the land god.
After hearing his friend's story, Yang Guang rushed into Yang Hua's village like a madman and sneaked into their home under the cover of night.
However, the empty house was silent.
Every time he came before, he would laugh and tease his grandmother. The house had been empty for a long time. All of Yang Hua's mother's belongings were thrown in the yard, half burned, leaving only some debris, emitting a bad smell.
And Yang Duo, the little girl whom he had promised to take away, disappeared without a trace.
In the empty house, there was only the sound of a man's snoring, which echoed loudly in the night, making Yang Guang's heart even heavier, as if it was weighed down by a lead block.
According to the location his friend told him, Yang Guang went to the ancestral hall. As if he couldn't wait to catch some miracle, he frantically searched with his bare hands within the range his friend told him, trying to rescue Yang Hua's family.
However, the newly turned soil had not yet been compacted, so it was easily dug up by Yang Guang. Inside were three coffins that were nailed tightly with long nails, and there was no sound from inside.
Yang Guang cried and tried to smash the coffin with the farm tools beside him. However, with the help of the faint moonlight, he could only see the body of Yang Duo, who died with her eyes open, in the coffin.
She was wearing a red wedding dress and beautiful jewelry on her head, dressed like a bride for the god of land.
However, all these things that are beautiful and desirable to the bride mean suffering and death to her.
Her hair and jewelry were disheveled, her clothes were covered in blood and looked messy and dirty.
The inside of the coffin was covered with scratches from fingernails. Yang Duo's ten fingers were rubbed to a bloody mess, with bones visible.
Even when Yang Guang smashed the coffin open, Yang Duo still maintained a desperate upward posture, trying to open the coffin and escape.
However, her eyes, which were wide open, had long lost their vitality. The eyes that used to be beautiful and full of spirit had turned into cloudy and dim glass balls.
Only resentment remains clear.
Yang Guang couldn't stop crying. He originally wanted to take Yang Duo's body away. Even if he couldn't take her away alive, he couldn't leave her to suffer in a place she didn't like.
However, the sound of Yang Guang smashing the coffin alarmed the villagers, and they came out to check.
With no other options, Yang Guang had to leave on his own.
"After I came back, I didn't want Hua'er to know about her sister's death, but Hua'er dreamed that her sister said goodbye to her. I had no choice but to tell Hua'er that there was a serious illness in the village and her sister died of it."
The boss held his head in pain and said to Yan Shixun: "Hua'er knew the customs of their village, so she never mentioned going back to visit her sister's grave. I lied to her. She didn't know how her sister died at the time. She just thought her sister died in her sleep... Beasts! Those people are uncivilized beasts!"
"Mr. Yan, tell me, how can I fulfill my promise to Yang Duo now? I, I can't take her away from the village."
The boss burst into tears.
Yan Shixun listened in silence, then came up with an idea: "Let's go to your house to check on your wife's condition. I'll help you. I'll accept your commission."
"Where is your wife's village?"
"It's Wangzi Village. Our village is on the other side of the mountain. It's called Jia Village."
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com