[Bottle Evil] The Old Mansion's Strange Story

More than forty years ago, that is, the period when the fourth old man mentioned the destruction of the four old houses. At that time, some people in the village did break into the old house, and people did die, but the actual situation was not as simple as what the fourth man said.

After the old man said the words that seemed to be repentance, he was silent for a long time, and he almost finished smoking the whole cigarette, and he was also in a very sad mood, so he looked up at us.I promised not to tell others again, and I talked about how deep my friendship with the fourth child was, and then the old man began to talk about the dusty past. Speaking of it, it can be described as a tragic story.

This village is called Liujia Village, a very common village name, probably because the earliest people in the village were mostly surnamed Liu, and they were more or less relatives, and the relationship between the villagers was very harmonious.Everyone in the village knows that there is an old house hidden in the mountains on a piece of land behind several hills. This house has a long history, and the oldest generation in the village has an impression of it when they were young.

Originally, this old house was nothing to the villagers to be curious about. The villagers only regarded it as a deserted house, and usually they would not go that far to farm or pick wild vegetables and mushrooms.Until the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, a movement to destroy the four olds was set off across the country. At that time, people were almost crazy, and many temples, ancestral halls, and ancient tombs were destroyed.Although the village where the old man lives is remote, the young people at that time were also involved in various "movements". I don't know who brought it up. A group of people in the village classified the old house as a symbol of the "Four Olds" that must be destroyed. The village organized a mighty team to go to the old house, which was bound to be destroyed.

The old man was also one of them. According to his recollection, there were more than 20 people who went up the mountain at that time.At that time, the mountains had not been reclaimed into arable land, and the trees were so dense that there was no way to go. A group of people walked and opened the road for a long time before reaching it.

According to the old man's description, the old house seems to have always been in that kind of dilapidated state. I guess it's not much better than when Poker-Face and I saw it, although there was an interval of more than forty years.

The team leader who led the team proposed to gather up the weeds in the yard and simply burn down the house, so everyone started mowing and piling up grass, but the mowing caused problems.

When the old man mentioned this, Poker-Face and I guessed that the grass had been cut and the tunnel in the yard had been discovered.

At that time, most of the people who participated were men in their 30s and [-]s from the village. They were young, vigorous, and curious, so the group simply sent a few to go down to investigate.Like me and Poker-Face, they found the tomb door very quickly.

In fact, no one knew that it was the tomb door at the time, but seeing the pattern on the door meant so much. This is a house that is barely considered to be the Four Old Houses. When they found the real Four Old Houses, everyone was only excited, so the original plan to burn the house was changed. Plan for the break.

When the old man said this, he paused for a long time, obviously unwilling to recall what happened next.I presumed that they accidentally touched the mechanism in the ancient tomb, causing serious casualties, but the remorse and fear in the old man's eyes hinted that things were not as simple as I imagined.

The old man drank a few more sips of tea, and then said that because the tools they brought were inappropriate at the time, and the space in the tunnel was small and they couldn’t use them at all, so they fiddled with axes, sickles and chisels at the door of the tomb for a long time, No corner was cut, only the pattern on the door was damaged.

After the door-smashing team came up, they told the rest of the situation. After they calmed down a bit, they began to search the entire house, and soon discovered many secret passages in the house, under the cabinet, and in the kang cave.

One of these people was older and, of course, dead by now.The old man remembered that his surname was He, he was the third eldest in the family, and everyone called him San He. At that time, compared with this group of hot-blooded, impulsive and reckless young people, he was calmer, and soon discovered the problem of the house.

The structure of the house is simple, and the furnishings inside are very simple. Even if the people who used to live in it have moved all their belongings, it will not be so "clean".Compared with the house, the tunnel under the house can be described as exquisite. This house appeared again and existed inexplicably.

The group of people had never touched the ancient tomb, so what He San said made sense, but no one knew how to break the ancient tomb.Some people suggested reporting the situation, but more people insisted on overcoming difficulties and resolutely destroying the remnants of the old society and old culture.

The door of the tomb could not be opened, so He San led several people to explore the tunnel, trying to enter the door through the tunnel.And this method was quickly verified to be effective. They found that the tunnel under the Kang cave led straight to the back of the tomb door.

However, things also turned here. He San climbed in with a few people, and after arriving at the tomb gate, he saw several dead people.Of course it was not the zongzi in the coffin, but a group of people who broke into the tomb earlier.

The old man also climbed in. According to the old man's recollection, the skin and flesh of those dead people had rotted away, leaving almost only bones. They had obviously been dead for many years.And those dead people had all kinds of grave-digging tools on their hands, including Luoyang shovel and so on. (This is what I inferred from the shape of the shovel described by the old man)

There is no doubt that these dead people can basically be concluded to be a group of tomb robbers who built houses to cover up people's eyes and ears and actually came to rob the tomb.

But there is one puzzling thing, in front of these dead people, there are piles of funerary goods, which have been packed and piled up together.For unknown reasons, these people all died at the entrance of the tomb after they finally got through the tunnel and got the artifact.

No matter how brave and fanatical the mind was, He San and the old man were surprised for a long time to see a row of dead people.People's instinctive reaction is also very wonderful. The old man recalled that when he saw the row of dead people, although his consciousness was clear, he already felt uncomfortable all over his body.And he found that everyone felt the same way, people looked at each other, but no one could understand.It seemed that they had entered a special space and were affected by a special magnetic field, and there was no sound or momentum for a while.

After several people came up again to explain the situation to the others, they began to discuss how to dispose of the corpses of the tomb robbers and the funerary objects in the tomb.As for this question, the people in the team had considerable differences.

Most of the people headed by the team leader insisted on taking out the funerary objects and destroying them collectively, as well as destroying the tomb.However, the people headed by He San went underground and saw the corpse of the tomb robber, but they began to fear entering the tomb again. He San suggested that the tunnel should be blocked and the old house burned down, but the team leader disagreed, It had to be cleaned up thoroughly, so I simply took a group of people down again and brought up all the funerary objects.

I am very curious about what those funerary objects look like, because the tomb door that Poker-Face and I saw was destroyed by the old man and the others, and the lines can no longer be seen, and the remaining characters cannot be recognized for a while. out.However, if the old man can describe the appearance of the funerary objects and other details, he can roughly deduce what era and type of tomb it is.

It's a pity that the old man can tell the shape of the shovel. After all, there are shovels he usually used for comparison, but he can't tell the characteristics of those funeral objects.In the eyes of the old man, it was just a pile of bottles and cans, and he couldn't remember the shape or material.

I had to say to continue listening to the story, but the old man fell silent again, and this time there was more fear in the old man's eyes.What happened next, for the old man, was a lifetime of secrets and sins.

After all the funeral objects packed by the tomb robbers were brought up by the tomb smashing team, everyone had a small meeting, which roughly meant that the organization decided to implement this operation, and then the team leader took up the ax and smashed it open. a jar.

The jar was smashed, and something inside the jar rolled out. It was a small and delicate bronze bell.

I sighed, thinking of the cemetery, I knew that there would be a scene of tragedy after that.

The team leader picked up the bell and looked at it, but before he could say anything, another person raised the axe, but this time it was He San who swung the axe, and the object he split was not the jar, but the team leader's. head.

The team leader died on the spot, blood spattered three feet, and after a few seconds of silence, the first wave of people who descended into the tomb waved their axes and sickles and began to chop the rest of them. The massacre, the old house instantly became a Shura field.

The old man said with a rather painful expression on his face, and muttered that he didn't know what was wrong at the time, his hands seemed to be out of his body's control, and he chopped off people whenever he saw them, and the people in front of him didn't look like people, they were more like a group of people monster.

I don't know how long it took, after the feeling of being manipulated by something disappeared, of the twenty or so people who came to the old house this time, only seven or eight were left alive, and the rest died tragically at the hands of their companions.

The old man didn't even remember how many people he had beheaded, but he only remembered that he saw monsters that seemed human but not human. When he regained his consciousness, he saw corpses and blood all over the place.

The few people who were still alive were all terrified when they woke up, and then returned to the village in a daze, and confessed everything that happened in the old house to the whole village. After all, so many people died at once. Can't hide it.

The relatives of those who were killed naturally couldn't accept it, and the whole village returned to the old house to collect the corpses.However, what was unexpected was that when everyone returned to the old house again, they found that all the corpses had disappeared.

To be precise, it's not missing, but it's not in the old house anymore, and they were all moved to a mountain not far from the old house by some force.And from that night onwards, the few survivors began to be haunted by nightmares, or they often experienced auditory and visual hallucinations, and their mental condition became worse and worse.

When the matter developed to this point, everyone had to admit that this was a mystery that the little red book in their hands could not solve.Some old people in the village didn't dare to say it before, but now they finally dare to mention the theory of ghosts and gods, but no one has a position to criticize and criticize this mention.

There has always been a very famous fairy girl in the village, who is said to have "boundless magic power". After the movement to destroy the four olds rose, she was even criticized and criticized. That fairy girl hid in the mountains because she knew she would not escape.The old people had to rely on the fairy girl to talk about it, so the villagers found the fairy girl again and invited her back.

Speaking of which, this fairy girl didn't hold any grudges, and she performed three days of rituals in the old house, commonly known as the great dancer.I came to the conclusion that the murderer was possessed by those tomb robbers at that time, so he killed. The old house and the ancient tomb below are extremely vicious, so we can't go any closer.

The villagers hastily cleaned up the "murder scene", and sealed off the secret passage leading to the tomb, that is, the one in the kang cave, and built it again.As for the corpses of the deceased, Xiangu claimed that the souls of the deceased were still wandering around the old house, so they could not be buried too far away, so she chose a place not far from the old house, and the whole village contributed to build the cemetery. The dead were buried.

Including the corpses of those tomb robbers, because Xiangu said that these people are also dead, and if they are not buried, they will definitely harm others.

After burying all the dead, Xiangu performed another ritual of summoning the soul, and finally recited it on each grave.It's strange to say that since that night, the old man and the others who killed relatives and friends have never had that kind of nightmare again, and their mental condition has improved.

The matter came to an end temporarily, and the old man and the others were not held accountable. First, the era was turbulent, and the law didn't care about it at all. Second, the "murderer" and the deceased were mostly relatives.Although more than a dozen people died in the village within a day, everyone finally agreed that it was a natural disaster, not a man-made disaster.

After that, the people in the village almost cut off contact with the outside world, and returned to their previous lives. People gradually came out of grief and fear. The village is probably rare in the whole country, and it became more peaceful in those ten years. A calmer place.