Strange Records of Mountain Ghosts

Adults always tell children what children know about adults.

So at this time, Zhang Xiaotong didn't understand what these usually amiable villagers were doing around him.But he could understand old man Mao's words, he said he didn't lie on the ground, he had legs, how could he crawl in?

Fu'er's mother, Mrs. Li, rushed forward and grabbed Zhang Xiaotong's shoulder: "Little boy, where is Fu'er? Tell me where Fu'er is!"

Everyone else looked at him.

Zhang Xiaotong said that he and Brother Fu Er got separated.When he said this, his eyes flicked to the ground.

Mrs. Li took his hand and said eagerly: "Little boy, quickly take me to the place you walked by."

Zhang Xiaotong staggered a few steps, and Aunt Si Yue and Uncle Zhang followed behind.

Mrs. Li wanted to leave full of hope, but was blocked by the villagers of Dayang Village.

"Let us go there quickly!" Mrs. Li stared fiercely at the middle-aged people in front of her. They were all people with the right to speak in the village.

"Sister-in-law Li, you know that children who have disappeared from the mountains have to check whether they are true or not."

Sister-in-law Li broke down and shouted, "But my Fu'er is still in the mountains!"

The headed village head was unmoved: "Try it, it doesn't take time."

"I'm afraid that even if I'm late, I'll lose him!"

The village chief said: "50 years ago, a child who had been missing for five days came back and hacked his parents to death in his sleep; 40 years ago, a girl who had been missing for more than half a month came back and killed ten young adults in the village. I took them to the mountain to look for my younger brothers who disappeared at the same time, but this group of people never came back," the village chief said slowly, "Two of them are my elder brothers."

Several voices rang out from the crowd: "There are still 67 years ago...", "The one 20 years ago..."

"Children tend to mess with unclean things," the village chief didn't look at Mrs. Li when he spoke, but at Zhang Xiaotong, with a sense of inquiry, "They wear an iron bead on their left wrist from birth. They cannot be picked off until they reach adulthood, just to protect them from being invaded by evil spirits in the village."

The child who ran into evil, the beads on his hands are also covered with unclean things.

Sister-in-law Li slowly slumped on the ground.

Zhang Xiaotong seems to understand but not understand.

So under the escort of everyone, or more accurately under the monitoring, Zhang Xiaotong followed Mrs. Si Yue to the ancestral hall.On the way, he stretched out his hand to hold A Niang's hand, but was pushed away by Aunt Niu next to him. He was a little aggrieved.

Sister-in-law Si Yue didn't look back, her palms were sweaty.

And Mrs. Li was biting her nails nervously in the crowd.

The village head stood in the center of the hall, facing the ancestor's spiritual tablet, asked someone to fill a copper basin with water, put it on the ground, then took out a key, walked to the back of the ancestral hall, opened a dark room that was never open to the public, and entered.The crowd surrounded Zhang Xiaotong, a half-old child, who was completely covered by their shadows.When the village chief came out again, he had a handful of ashes in his hand.He sprinkled the ashes into the basin of water on the ground, and it quickly dissolved.

The village head asked Zhang Xiaotong to put his left hand into the water.

Zhang Xiaotong obediently put it in, and everyone's eyes were fixed on his hand. To be precise, it was a small bead on his wrist.

Nothing has changed.

Sister-in-law Li was even more excited than Sister-in-law April: "The water hasn't turned black!"

The village chief's face sank like water: "Wait a little longer."

Sister Li's voice was sharp: "Can't wait, can't wait!"

No one listened to her, and several people came up at the same time to restrain the crazy Sister-in-law Li.

When the village chief said yes, Zhang Xiaotong's left hand was already wrinkled.During this period, under the gaze of dozens of pairs of eyes, the basin of water was as clean as ever.

Sister-in-law Si Yue let out the breath that was constricting her chest, and hugged Zhang Xiaotong tightly, tears burst out, and she couldn't help choking.Uncle Zhang's eyes were also red, and he wiped the corners of his eyes.

The villagers also breathed a sigh of relief.

Sister-in-law Si Yue cried until her eyes and nose were red, and she resolutely refused to let Zhang Xiaotong go up the mountain again. The dozen or so people could only follow Zhang Xiaotong's description and follow the deliberated route to continue looking for Fu'er.

In the evening, Zhang Xiaotong was lying on Siyuesao's lap, a little coquettish, but Siyuesao held his head.

Mrs. Si Yue hugged him, and said seriously but in a low voice: "Did you really get separated from Fu'er? Tell me the truth."

As Zhang Xiaotong's mother, Aunt Si Yue knew clearly that he lied and looked at the floor.

Sure enough, Zhang Xiaotong subconsciously looked away, stared at the ground and nodded.

Si Yue's heart skipped a beat.She whispered a lot of whispers to Zhang Xiaotong, and finally under her guidance, Zhang Xiaotong finally shared a secret with her secretly.

Zhang Xiaotong whispered: "Don't worry, Brother Fu'er will come back." His eyes were bright when he spoke.

"He hid it on purpose?"

Zhang Xiaotong closed his mouth and refused to speak.

Aunt Siyue suspects that the two children are playing games: "Where did you meet Brother Fu in the end, tell me the truth."

Zhang Xiaotong shook his head hastily, saying that he could not speak out.

"Why?"

"Brother Fu'er won't be able to come back if you tell me." Zhang Xiaotong covered his mouth after speaking.

Aunt Si Yue carried him to the ground and handed him a small piece of charcoal: "It's okay, if you don't tell me, let's draw it together."

Adults always have a way to deal with children.

Zhang Xiaotong thought about it and found it very reasonable, so he concentrated on creating.

The immature lines formed a rough stick figure on the ground, and when the picture gradually took shape, Mrs. Si Yue pointed to a place: "Is that a tree?"

Zhang Xiaotong nodded.

The little person standing in front of the tree is you? "

Keep nodding.

"That big piece behind is a mountain?"

Zhang Xiaotong's eyes are as round as a cat's.

Sister-in-law Si Yue pointed to the line drawing on the ground, and continued to ask: "The round piece in the middle of the mountain... is it a hole?"

Zhang Xiaotong didn't shake his head or nod.

Mrs. Si Yue continued: "The black, slender thing hanging down from the tree is a branch?"

Zhang Xiaotong pursed his lips, shook his head slowly for a long time.

Aunt Si Yue lowered her head and looked carefully, but she still couldn't see it, so she asked Zhang Xiaotong to draw the area a little bigger.

Zhang Xiaotong took charcoal and drew a circle on the ground, tapped two dots on the upper part of the circle, and drew a vertical line under the big circle...

Sister-in-law Si Yue hesitated: "Is this a person?"

Zhang Xiaotong is very serious about every stroke.

"Fuer?"

Zhang Xiaotong raised his head and looked at Aunt Si Yue with amazed eyes.

After finishing the last few strokes, Si Yuesao's face turned pale.

He drew a hanging man.