When Fang Yutang first received this commission, he inevitably had some doubts in his heart.
The other party offered a very high price, but they found an ordinary private detective like herself, and made a necessary requirement. Fang Yutang had to go to the place designated by her for interviews.
That place was a small village, and Fang Yutang had never heard of it.
After getting off the train, I had to transfer to a bus to the county town, then take a local bus, and finally have to walk another seven kilometers of mountain road.
It was spring when he went there. It was obviously a warm and humid season, but the whole village was lifeless.
The farmland has long been abandoned, and every house looks dilapidated and uninhabited.
But when Fang Yutang listened carefully, he could hear vague sounds similar to those made by humans.
squeak-
Fang Yutang was startled by the cry, and a huge rat scurried past his feet.
It's so strange. It looks like an uninhabited village, but the mice are so fat and big that they can even match the size of an adult cat.
Apart from the oppressive silence, what made Fang Yutang most uncomfortable was the stench in the air.
The smell was not like the stinky smell in a garbage dump, but rather like one of his own internal organs was rotten, and there was a faint rotten smell coming from the inside of his body.
He finally found the hut according to the house number given by the other party.
Before he reached out to push the door open, an old and weak voice came from inside the house, "Is it Mr. Fang? Please come in. The door is unlocked."
The room is not big, only about ten square meters. There are no electric lights or candles in it, only the sunlight shining through half of the glass.
His client, Granny Hua, was sitting in the rocking chair by the window, and Fang Yutang realized that she was blind without eyeballs.
The strange thing is that although she should be unable to see anything clearly, she is no different from ordinary people.
She can even use Fang Yutang's laptop without any assistance and can also use modeling software.
Fang Yutang admitted that his previous impression of her was that of an old lady who lived in seclusion in a rural village, had little education, and received demolition funds.
Seeing him in person this time really shocked Fang Yutang.
"Mr. Fang, you should have discovered that what I asked you to do is something that ordinary people cannot do, and may even be life-threatening." Granny Hua said slowly, "This is why the price I gave is so high. But few people are willing to accept the commission.”
She said that their village used to be very prosperous. As early as the 80s, at least % of the families in the village had savings of hundreds of thousands.
At that time, households worth ten thousand yuan were synonymous with wealth, which was enough to see the wealth of the village.
Although the villagers' wealth cannot be separated from their own efforts, it mainly relies on a little "opportunity".
If someone has the ability to predict the unexpected, he can seize business opportunities one step ahead and become successful.
The opportunity for their village came from the "Flower Asking Ceremony".
The flower-asking ceremony appeared very early. According to records in ancient books in the village, someone had already created the flower-asking ceremony as early as the Jin Dynasty.
At that time, there were endless wars and the population plummeted. The function of the flower asking ceremony was to keep the children alive.
If the flowers and leaves are luxuriant but the roots are sluggish, it means that although the child is smart, he is not in good health and needs to be sent to a medical clinic early for recuperation;
If there are red spider mites on the flowers of a house, it means that the child will catch a cold in the future, so it is best to stay indoors and keep warm;
Even their future character, what kind of disasters they will encounter, and how many children they will have can be seen from the flowers.
Around the time of the Song Dynasty, a flower-asking ceremony was held, and one of the girls said she saw her grandfather who passed away a year ago.
Her grandfather told her that if she wanted to start a wine business in the future, it would be best to do it in the south. The bigger the store, the better.
She didn't know what it meant at the time, but she did it.
After all, he is his relative, so he will not harm himself, right?
Who would have thought that three years after she opened her business, she would directly become the richest man in Hangzhou.
Since then, the villagers have realized that the flower-asking ceremony can not only prevent disasters, but also make people rich.
Of course, all this comes at a price, but Granny Hua is unwilling to tell Fang Yutang what the price is.
All he knows is that if the puppet is left out, the entire village will be cursed.
"Go and have a look, Mr. Fang. Once you have seen it clearly, you can then consider whether to accept my commission." Granny Hua seemed to have some deep meaning in her words. "I won't let you make this trip in vain. These will be yours." Travel expenses.”
She took out a simple and exquisite small box from under the chair and placed it on the table, but did not open it.
Fang Yutang couldn't help but guess that what was inside was probably not banknotes, but some kind of valuable jade jewelry?
According to Granny Hua, every household in the village is open and he can go in and check out more.
After leaving Granny Hua's room, Fang Yutang found a deserted courtyard.
He pushed open the door and entered. At first, he saw no one, until he heard a weak sound of retching.
The people in the village were actually buried deep in the soil!
There are a total of five people in this family. Regardless of whether they are male or female, old or young, their lower bodies are buried firmly in the ground. The elderly are buried deeper, with the soil already up to their chests, while the children's are just up to their waists.
Fang Yutang did not dare to step forward to save people because the villagers buried in the ground no longer looked like living people.
Their skin was completely rotten, exuding a lifeless green color, and their facial features were covered with various bugs that were eating their eyeballs, noses, and lips.
There was nothing left on the old man's face, only a few eerie blood holes were left, with black mud oozing out.
This is true for every family, every household, and every person, from the gray-haired old man to the young child who is only three or four years old.
Before Fang Yutang became a private detective, he studied forensic medicine. He was used to seeing all kinds of miserable corpses, including those that had been broken into thousands of pieces, and some that were fished out of the sea and looked like giants...
However, the shock of the corpses he saw in the first half of his life was far less than the shock of the villagers he saw today.
Because they are all living people, but they can only be trapped in the soil, watching themselves gradually rot, waiting for their five senses to be eaten by insects and rats, and enduring the pain day after day...
This is a curse that has no end, they are not dead and they never will be.
When she returned to the house, Granny Hua laughed twice strangely, "Have you seen it clearly after being here for so long? But don't worry, this is a curse of our village and it will not affect outsiders."
After saying this, she suddenly coughed, and black water gushed out from her empty eye sockets, mouth and nose.
"It's getting worse again." She sighed in a low voice, and then waved to Fang Yutang, "Come here."
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