Death is not uncommon.
People die every day in this world.
Low mortality rate,
But once the population base increases, the number will naturally increase.
But Nanchuan County is not a big county.
The entire county has a population of no more than three or four hundred thousand.
The population within the county town is only about 20,000 to 30,000.
With such a small population, any death in a family would stand out.
Especially when the number of abnormal deaths increases, it will attract more attention and be enough to cause panic and talk among people in the entire county!
Nowadays, such a situation has occurred in Nanchuan County!
At first, an old man named Zhang from the slums came home drunk and fell asleep. When he woke up the next day, he was found lying on his back on a torn mat with his hands crossed in front of his chest. He had a strange and creepy smile on his face, and his whole body was stiff and lifeless.
People who saw it at first found it a little creepy.
But after all, they are all untouchables making a living in the slums. They have already used up all their strength just to survive and have long been numb to life and death.
There is simply not enough energy to care about other things.
What's more, Old Zhang is a drunkard. Not only does he steal things all the time, but I heard that someone saw him and a group of friends running to a mass grave late at night to make money from the dead.
To the neighbors on the street, it almost looked like a pile of shit.
then,
The people around rolled up Old Zhang's body with the tattered mat that he was lying on, and three or five people carried him to the mass grave and dumped him there.
Not even digging a hole.
Naturally, there will be wild dogs, wolves and other wild animals roaming nearby to take care of the aftermath.
This is not because the neighbors are cold-hearted.
But poor people have no choice.
Again, for them, just being alive is already their best effort.
Digging a hole requires a lot of strength.
It also takes a lot of time.
It takes most of the day to dig a hole, and if the work is delayed, the whole family will go hungry.
Old Zhang was very poor, lived in a thatched hut that leaked air during the day, and had no property, so naturally no one was willing to spend too much energy on his funeral.
Besides,
Given the conditions in the slums, it would be difficult for three or five families to even scrape together an iron hoe.
Why bother digging?
The correct thing to do is to get rid of the body and then go to work to earn money for food.
It’s not that the poor don’t have compassion and kindness, but real life does not allow them to have that kind of kindness!
Anyway,
The body was thrown away.
No one cared that one person was missing.
This kind of thing happens a lot in the slums.
It's just that no one noticed.
Not long after that, people nearby also died in the same strange way.
Those dead people with strange smiles on their faces seemed to be mostly friends of Old Zhang who often hung out with him.
Some people murmured that it must be that group of people had done too many immoral things and were here to collect their debts.
after all,
Someone once said that those guys who often steal and rob people would run to the mass graves with hoes in the middle of the night to make money from the dead.
God has mercy on them. Those who were thrown into the mass graves were all poor people. How could they have a single copper coin? All they had was a piece of rag to cover themselves, a torn straw mat, and perhaps a few copper coins as burial objects.
Such behavior is really like scraping off the fat from the bones of a poor guy!
Letting people die without peace is naturally despised by others.
It’s no wonder that the neighbors were too lazy to deal with Old Zhang’s funeral and simply rolled up a mat and threw him into the mass grave.
In conclusion,
In the beginning, not many people cared about this.
Everyone thought that it was because Old Zhang and his gang had done too many evil things, so they were entangled by unclean things.
The poor ghosts don't have the money to invite monks or Taoists from the temple to come and exorcise the ghosts. At most, they just bypass the places where the ghosts usually live, or pull out some mugwort, sweep it, fumigate it, and use folk remedies to drive away the evil spirits.
As for how much effect it can have, it mainly provides psychological comfort.
If the family of the deceased or nearby residents were in better financial condition, they would, under the leadership of the leader, burn those strange corpses with smiling faces with a litchi wood fire.
During this period,
Another strange thing also happened.
Probably one of them was with Old Zhang and his group.
Perhaps it was because he saw his companions die one by one.
I can't bear it.
He was crazy! After waking up, he was terrified as if he had seen something. He held his head with both hands and shouted, "I was wrong, I was wrong, I won't do it again."
When others asked him, he didn't answer, but just kept shouting that I was wrong.
He hid in a dark corner with a look of fear on his face, as if a bucket of ice water had been poured over his head in the dead of winter. His whole body was trembling and his face was as pale as paper.
When the people around saw this scene, they didn't dare to get close, or even to watch, and dispersed early.
Only a few old men with some reputation were left. After discussing it fearfully, they decided to pool some money and go to the temple to invite a wizard to come and exorcise the evil spirits.
After discussing it, the group acted quickly.
About half an hour later, they brought the senior monks from the Fahua Temple near Nanchuan County over.
But when everyone gathered at the man's hut again, lifted the half-covered weeds and saw the scene in the dark corner, at that moment, a chill ran straight into the heads of everyone present.
The sun was shining brightly overhead, but everyone present felt as if they had fallen into an ice cave, unable to move a single finger!
All I saw in that dark corner was a corpse lying straight, with its hands crossed on its chest and a very weird smile on its pale face!
The person who just a moment ago had a look of extreme fear on his face, as if he had seen something terrible, and was trembling all over.
At this moment, he died with a strange and happy smile on his face! That day, everyone quickly dealt with the funeral.
They quickly found a pile of lychee wood and made a fire, burned the strange corpse into ashes, and then gave it to the monks of Fahua Temple to take it back to the temple to suppress it.
Until all of Old Zhang and his group of people who often got together to steal and rob were killed.
Several more days passed.
No one died anymore.
The people around them calmed down a little from the lingering fear, and it seemed that the matter would just pass like this.
until,
Seven days later, another person died! Every person who died had the same movements and the same weird smile!
One, two, four, eight In just a few days,
Dozens of people died! And the disease is spreading outward!
panic,
It also began to sweep across the entire Nanchuan County,
People in the entire county began to panic.
The government dispatched a large number of yamen runners to blockade the civilian area.
The people in the upper echelons were looking for information everywhere.
The people at the bottom suddenly didn't know what to do !
This was also the reason why Yang Qingyun felt that the atmosphere was wrong after entering Nanchuan County.
(End of this chapter)
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