Chapter 146
"Besides that sentence, is there anything else you want to tell us?"
Green asked.
"Actually, these seven days are the time for the Ghost Festival. The light will get later and later in the morning, and the darkness will get earlier and earlier at night. You'd better come back an hour in advance.
That way it's not easy to run into the night on the road, otherwise you may get lost and never come back."
The innkeeper said with a smile.
"Then can you tell us something about the Ghost Festival?"
Craig asked.
"There are many versions of the story of the Ghost Festival, but I still have to open my business, so I can't spend a long time telling you stories. If you want to know, you can ask the village chief at the head of the village."
The owner said.
Green and Craig left the hotel and went to find the village chief.
"Are you the outsiders who have come recently?"
The village chief asked, puffing on a bag of cigarettes, looking at the two of them with squinted eyes.
"Yes, can you tell us something about the Ghost Festival?"
Green nodded.
"Of course we can.
It is said that a long time ago, our village was once a big town. There was a family in the town that was well-off, but they had few children, so they only had one child.
Everyone called that child the Little Prince.
The Little Prince was very smart at a young age, so he studied hard and went to Beijing to take the exam. However, before the exam, he suddenly met a bandit and was robbed because of his beauty.
The foundation rescued him from the mountain bandits, but they suspected that he had some connection with the bandits, so they locked him up. He was unable to take the exam and had to stay in prison, which was very regretful. The
prison guards knew that he had been going to take the exam, so they gave him a paper to write. After he wrote it, the prison guards took the paper away.
After a while, the man came back and asked him, "Why do you remember these?" ? He said he had taken tutoring classes before and he didn't remember clearly.
The man left.
The foundation issued an order saying that he could leave as long as he got the consent of a certain prison guard.
He got the consent of that person, but that person suddenly fell and broke his leg and needed to go somewhere else for recuperation, so he had to leave the prison and could not continue to guard, so he lost the opportunity to leave.
He felt regretful . , but he didn't force it. But soon an accident happened in the prison, and the place was in chaos. Two prison guards, a man and a woman, held him and didn't let him run around.
The female guard saw that the scene was busy, so she went to help and left. Only one man was left.
The man handcuffed him and himself together, took him on a motorcycle, and crashed into the wall. Before he died, he laughed and said to him, "It's really pitiful." It's a pity that you didn't die. You can't get rid of me.
That feeling was like being forced to undergo a conjoined twin surgery. The feeling of being inseparable from another person will drive a person crazy, and the young master really went crazy.
He staggered off the car and fell to the ground. He ran and crawled, shouting for help to people on the road, but no one looked at him, as if they felt that he didn't exist at all.
Until he reached the door and saw two strangers, a man and a woman.
The female stranger saw how miserable he was, and said she was going to find a doctor and walked away, leaving him and the male stranger to wait there.
But the male stranger was old and sick, and he was about to die while waiting. He hugged the person and cried, begging her not to die. The man barely held on and waited for the female stranger to come back.
The female stranger brought a doctor and someone he knew, a family member. There was an elderly woman who took care of him before he went to prison and found him a cram school.
After he went to prison, the woman would ask someone to visit him, give him things, and even try to help him leave the prison.
However, with the male guards around, he could never get close to the things the woman gave him.
He didn't think there was a problem at the time, until the male guard turned into a ball of meat sauce, tightly attached to his body . On the other side of his body, that half seemed to be flattened, numb and painful.
After that, he could not feel that half of his body, but he could feel the bloody body of the male guard tightly huddled with him outside of his body. It was no wonder that he went crazy.
The doctor treated his body, and the body finally fell off his body, just like a peanut shell being peeled off and fell to the ground. He breathed a sigh of relief.
The female elder took the opportunity to treat him to get close to him and told him that the injury of the guard who had agreed to let him leave was not an accident, and it was not an accident that the male guard wanted him dead now.
He realized that someone was setting him up.
The female elder asked him what he had done to make someone want to kill him and silence him. He recalled that before he went to prison, he was at home. It was a sunny afternoon and many people were in the house.
Someone died at home, but everyone was in a hurry to do their own things and no one cared. After dealing with the body, he was very hungry and was eating. A man came over with a message.
The man told him that there was a very special message here and asked him if he wanted to read it. He didn't have any interest, so he didn't read it.
But now recalling the expression of the man when he gave him the message, he thought he should take a look, so that his fall into prison would not be undeserved.
But now he has fallen to this point because he was framed by someone, and he wants revenge.
No one knows what he did, anyway, everyone he came into contact with died unexpectedly.
After those people died, he also disappeared. People usually thought that he was dead or turned into a ghost. He still wanted to take revenge, but he had no target.
In order to ensure their own safety and appease his desire for revenge, the young master's parents decided to hold a huge memorial for the young master, inviting monks and Taoists to burn incense and worship Buddha. There were
also a lot of believers who came to participate and pray for the young master, with the goal of letting the young master ascend to heaven as soon as possible.
In order to make more people, more pious, and better help the young master, the couple also spent a lot of money to set up a buffet and invited all the locals who were willing to come to eat.
Therefore, the number of people at the gathering was unprecedented, almost all of the city.
Who knew that something went wrong at once.
Everyone who participated in the meeting died.
No one knows how he died, but they all think it must have something to do with the young master.
So that day was designated as Ghost Festival.
People would hold the Night Parade of One Hundred Ghosts on this day. The reason they dressed up as ghosts was because the young master would not like people.
If they turned into ghosts, the young master would not care, and accidental death would be avoided. "
The village chief said and drove them away.
They left the village chief's house and suddenly saw a little boy who was eavesdropping and ran away.
They stopped the little boy.
"Were you eavesdropping there just now? Why did you run away?"
Green asked.
"I didn't eavesdrop. You looked so scary. You actually asked such a thing and wanted to stop me. That's why I ran away."
The little boy shook his head.
"Then you have to go home. Tell me where your home is? We will take you back. After all, it is always unsafe for a child to play outside the home. "
Craigie said with a smile.
The little boy shrank his neck and was a little scared, so he had to take them back to his home.
If the village chief's house was at the entrance of the village, then the little boy's house was at the other end.
They walked along the only straight road in the village for a long time.
The little boy pushed open the shabby door and suddenly ran away.
"Who did that annoying kid offend again? Did he lead me here?"
A blind old woman came out with a cane and asked in a bad mood.
"That child has nothing to do with you, right?"
Green asked.
"It's hard to say. The child is an orphan, but he insisted that he had a mother and said he was my daughter, which means that according to his logic, he is my grandson.
But I don't think so. I think he is more like a madman, because I am also a madman in the eyes of others, so he may have been fooled by others and believed the nonsense that others said casually.
He always comes to me after making trouble, as if I can solve all problems. I am not a treasure box. I have everything when I open it with a key.
I am so poor that I have nothing.
I think he may be taking revenge on me or something else. "
The old woman was a little impatient.
"If you have nothing to do, please go away."
The old woman said.
"We have something to ask you about Halloween."
Green said.
"Halloween? I know a little bit, but it's different from what others say. They don't believe me. Even so, do you still want to listen? "
The old woman asked.
"Just in case, if you are willing to tell us, we would like to know."
Green replied.
"Well, I will tell you again.
But every time a stranger comes, I will only tell you once. If you have other companions who want to come and ask me, tell them not to come, because I have already told you this time."
The old woman said.
"I know."
Craigie said.
"It was a long time ago.
This place was once very rich.
A rich place will have rich families. The rich family picked up a child and raised him as their son. Others called him the little prince.
The little prince knew that he was an orphan and asked them, but they did not admit it and locked him up.
The young man studied hard and left home to take the exam. He was captured by bandits and put in prison. He went crazy in prison and escaped. He started revenge and killed many people.
In order to commemorate the dead, people captured and killed the young man and called that day Ghost Festival. They dressed up as ghosts and held a night parade of a hundred ghosts, hoping that the dead would rest in peace.
It's that simple. "
The old woman said.
"So that's it. Is that all?"
Green said.
"You should go."
The old woman urged.
They went outside and saw the little boy again. He was being beaten because he stole a little girl's lollipop.
They saved the boy.