Chapter 287
Chapter 287
The head of the village shook his head and sighed: "some people who died suddenly said that they had seen the boy before they closed their eyes. They were holding the spirit calling banner in their hands, and they were laughing at themselves. Their mouth was black and had no teeth. It was frightening."
"Ha ha, your village is vast and sparsely populated, and is free from worldly strife." Shangguang shook his head and asked, "there have been no wars and natural disasters in these years, and there are no people who have died. How can there be children with resentment?"
"Shitong was originally in our village, which was caused by too many evils committed by our village!" The village head said, old tears, can not stop shaking his head and sigh, finally staggering kneeling in front of the ancestral tablet, sobbing.
After crying for a long time, he began to speak slowly: "this xiangjiaoshui village is too remote. There are few outsiders. In those years, the government army and the Kokang army fought. In order to escape from the world, Murakami used homemade earth explosive mines to blow up the only suspension bridge connecting the outside world. After that, the endless time, I don't know the sky and the earth, and the time flies for decades."
"In order to survive, and do not know science, they only have inbreeding. This has been going on and off for more than ten years. Many families have had abnormal babies, such as long short legs, twisted faces, half head, and limbs."
"Naturally, the families in the village are not willing to support such disabled babies, so they go to the village heads to discuss a solution. Finally, the clan association decides to kill the deformed children and ensure the healthy blood supply."
Shangguang and Junlin love to listen to this absurd event which is almost a ghost story. Facing such a barbaric and uncivilized moral problem, they feel heavy as if they are oppressed by a big stone.
"The way to kill abnormal babies, ha ha ha, is not afraid of criticism from outsiders. The South man is deep in the forest, damp and cold, and it is also the place where witchcraft prevails in southern Yunnan. The village was also afraid of ghost babies seeking revenge, so they poured boiling water into the children's throat, scalded them alive, and blocked the resentment. After killing them, the corpses were turned into ashes. Over the decades, there were 19 dead babies. "
Shangguang is helpless to shake his head about such stupid folk customs.
"Is resentment extinguished by boiling water? What is the end of the fire is pitiful." King Lin Love said, as a doctor, heard such superstition, can only sigh.
"Why, did you believe it?" Shangguang asked Junlin love in a funny way.
"I've been to Tibet before. I've been to the desert plateau, and I've met with more weird things than this." King Lin love light said: "on the theory of ghosts and gods do not go on the study, the world has an invincible natural force, people must respect, that is for sure."
Shangguang nodded when he heard this.
The village head went on to say, "all the deformed babies who were killed were put into the incinerator for refining. We all tried to find a way to deal with the ashes." The village head said, pointing to the gray wall behind the memorial tablet of the temple.
"The ashes are mixed with glutinous rice paste, painted on the wall, and then suppressed by the ancestral Lingpai. For decades, it has been peaceful."
"Now that he comes out of the sky, he is retaliating for the infanticide in Shanyang village, xiangjiaoshui village."
Shangguang and junlintian were both shocked. Looking at the four gray walls, they couldn't help imagining the ashes of the babies on them....
the village head said, pointing to the ancestral tablet, "it's been calm all the time, but since Princess lingfu was hanged on the tree of Xiangjiao water village, it's a bad omen."
The village head began to wipe his tears.
"That night, in the ancestral temples and ancestral halls, all the ancestral tablets for suppressing abnormal babies and evil spirits fell to the ground without any sign. Alas... That night, the evil spirits of Shitong broke away from the suppression of the ancestral tablets and was born out of the sky...
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