Chapter 19 Burning Paper
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The old woman was muttering something to the fire as she poured the strange-looking paper into the fire.
Her voice was small, muffled, whimpering, and I couldn't make out what she was saying.
I subconsciously wanted to get closer, but at this moment, the old woman suddenly raised her head.
Seeing her face clearly, I felt as if I had stepped on an electric door, and my whole body trembled.
The old woman's withered face was actually crawling with maggots, and with her movements, the maggots and the rotten flesh on her face kept falling down and fell into the fire in front of her!
"Xu Xu?" Gao Zhan's voice suddenly came.
I was excited, and the next second, I saw that the old woman had disappeared.
Not only was the 'person' gone, but the courtyard door in front of him was still locked, as if it had never been opened.
"Malegobi's, if you die, you won't let people stop, and if you deserve to die, no one will collect the body! Die, die, the whole family is dead! โ
In the courtyard behind him, the old man's unbearable scolding voice was heard.
Gao Zhan frowned and turned his face to look at it, then turned around and asked me, "There is no one in this family, what should we do now?" โ
I reacted, and my breathing couldn't help but become heavy, "Go to the village council!" Be sure to figure out what's going on in this household! โ
The courtyard door has been locked, and I can't see ghosts now, and the paper-burning old lady I saw just now can only be an illusion seen through spiritual sense.
The old woman's face was rotten like that, and of course she wasn't human.
But what made my heart beat even more was not her, but the weird pile of tied paper......
When we came to the village committee, we were greeted by a young village party secretary in his thirties.
Gao Zhan went straight to the point and asked him about the status of the 'Bobotou' family.
When the village party secretary heard this, he first sighed, and then told us: The family's surname is Wei, and the old man Wei who is in charge of the family died of illness three years ago, leaving only Mrs. Wei and a granddaughter to rely on each other.
The name of the bob we are talking about is Wei Wei. Because of her poor family background, my grandmother has a disabled leg and has difficulty moving. In order to take care of his family, Wei Wei was admitted to college but was not willing to go, and after graduating from high school, he went directly to the city to work.
Speaking of this, the village party secretary picked up the cigarette case on the table for me and Gao Zhan to smoke, and when he saw that neither of us answered, he lit one himself, took a puff, and then said:
"Alas, for more than two years, the children have come and gone in the wind and rain, and no matter how late it is, they will rush back to take care of the old lady. In fact, Wei Wei is really a filial child, recognized by the head of the village. But as the old saying goes, there is no filial son in front of the bed for a long time...... Around the beginning of August this year, the villagers had not seen the child again. Some people say that she has a boyfriend in the city, and she is afraid that the other party will dislike her grandmother, so she ...... Alas, who is right and who is wrong in this kind of thing? โ
Thinking of the old woman who burned paper, I asked, "What happened to Mrs. Wei?" โ
"Dead." The village party secretary snuffed out the cigarette he had smoked a few times, shook his head and said: "I died at the end of September, because there was only one person, and when I was found, the body was rotten, and I had to die for four or five days, and I died in bed." โ
"What about Wei Wei? Didn't contact her? Gao Zhan asked.
"At that time, they all called the police, but the police couldn't contact her." The village party secretary frowned and looked at me and Gao Zhan, "You guys are coming...... Isn't there any news of Wei Wei? โ
Seeing Gao Zhan looking at me, I asked the village party secretary, "The lock on the door of her house was locked later, right?" What about the keys? โ
"The lock was added by the village, and the keys are here." The village party secretary said as he pulled out a bunch of keys from a drawer.
I got up and said, "Take us to her house." โ
When I came to Wei Wei's house again, the old man opposite was still scolding the street in the courtyard.
Gao Zhan asked the village party secretary if they had a conflict with the two families.
The village party secretary grinned and said that there was any contradiction. This old man was not a good stubble in the early years, because he had been in prison several times for theft and molestation, and none of his relatives and children cared about him. He was jealous that Mrs. Wei had a filial granddaughter. As the old saying goes, he's a devil.
The lock on the door probably hasn't been opened in a while, and it's a little rusty. The village party secretary twisted back and forth for a while before opening the lock.
As soon as the door opened, except that I didn't see the old woman who burned paper, the situation in the courtyard was exactly the same as what I had seen before.
After entering the house, the village party secretary pointed to the wooden bed in the corner of the wall and said that Mrs. Wei died on that bed.
I looked left and right, walked straight to the chest of drawers, and picked up an old-fashioned picture frame with photos stamped on it.
Gao Zhan walked over, pointed to a photo in the lower left corner and asked me if this was the bob head I was talking about.
I nodded.
It was a color photograph of a girl in a black and white striped tracksuit with mushroom-like hairstyle smiling brightly.
Looking inside and outside the house, my brows tightened.
No matter how you look at this yard, no one has lived in it for a while, but I ...... yesterday and the day before yesterday Obviously, I sent Botou back for two nights in a row.
If she didn't come home, then where did she go?
When I walked out of the courtyard, there were already some villagers at the door.
I didn't bother to pay attention to these people, and just as I was about to leave, a child with a clear nose suddenly pointed at us and said, "They came out of the ghost mother-in-law's house, and the ghost mother-in-law wants to pull out their hair and eat his brain!" โ
"Don't talk nonsense, hurry home!" The one who dragged him home was the same woman who showed us the way when we entered the village.
The village party secretary dispersed the onlookers, and said with some surprise: "Ignore them, the countrymen are superstitious, and when they know that there are dead people, they spread false rumors, saying this and that......"
My mind was already confused, and I thought of the strange reaction of the village woman when I entered the village, and blurted out, "What did they say?" โ
The village party secretary obviously didn't expect me to ask such a question, so he was stunned for a moment before unconsciously lowering his voice and saying: "Supposedly, I shouldn't have said this, but in fact, since Mrs. Wei died, this courtyard is indeed a bit weird." โ
Seeing that he was a little stumbling, I accentuated my tone: "Tell me specifically." โ
The village party secretary looked at me and hesitated, and said, "A few times, several villagers returned to the village late, and when they passed by their door, they all said that they heard someone talking inside; And say...... I heard Mrs. Wei crying inside. โ
Seeing that he was a little sloppy, I simply got to the bottom of the 'official' tone: "What else?" As a village cadre, you haven't taken care of these things? โ
"Take care of the ......" The expression of the village party secretary was a little worried, and there was a trace of horror in his eyes, "I came to see it twice in the evening, but I didn't hear any movement. But...... But as soon as I approached the courtyard at night, I smelled the smell of burning paper. โ
"Burning paper?" I frowned: "After Mrs. Wei died, did someone burn paper for her?" โ
"Yes, why not?" The village party secretary glanced behind him, coughed twice, and said, "As a village cadre, I don't believe in ghosts and gods. I can't stop the stupidity of the villagers. This makes people panic, and they all say that Mrs. Wei's ghost will not disappear after her death, so we can't think of ways to appease the people. For this, our village has paid a lot of money to burn paper figures, paper horses, and large villas for the old lady......"
After getting into the car, Gao Zhan asked me, "What do you think about this?" โ
I arched my cheeks, looked at him and said, "Do you believe that ghosts can burn paper?" โ