[Folk Horror] Ten Days of Mourning

……what happened?

The scream is still on your tongue, your teeth are biting the flesh on the inside of your mouth, and it even smells bloody.

what to do?what to do? ?

Various thoughts flashed through your brain: Regret, maybe it would be better to let more people help you; Confusion, why Goddess Zhao would suddenly treat you like this; Fear, will you die here; Unwilling, You still have a lot of things to do, you haven't told your friend that you like her, you haven't reached the future you dreamed of with your friend... All kinds of senses stimulate your mind in an instant, allowing you to make a decision at the fastest speed .

Call for help, no.This place is outside the village, across the forest, it is impossible to say whether anyone can hear your call for help except your friend, and because of his upper body, my friend has been weak all day today, and it will take a long time to come here. What can I do to help? It's hard to say that she's busy, and it's even possible to involve yourself in it. You can't put her in danger.

Escaping is not feasible.You are in a one-meter-deep pit, and with your ordinary female college student's skill and the condition that your left arm can't be used, it is impossible to quickly get out of the hole. Besides, trying to get out means that you There will be a whole period of time turning your back on Goddess Zhao, which is almost tantamount to death.

Picking up the shovel and fighting back is not feasible.A shovel is a long tool, and it may not be as good as a claw hammer in a small space. Besides, this old-fashioned iron catalpa is very heavy. How long can you use it with one hand?

It's too dangerous to snatch a claw hammer.Regardless of your strength and that of Goddess Zhao who has been doing farm work for a long time, you only have your right arm that can move freely. Can one hand win two hands?

Persuading Goddess Zhao...

She said it was too late.She just attacked so decisively, can you really say a complete sentence before she hammers you to death?She only needs to put this force on your head again, and you probably won't have the ability to organize logical language.

So in the end, after thinking for half a second, you almost tried your best to slam into Goddess Zhao!

You gave up your balance, held her waist with one hand, exerted all your strength, weight, and all your motivation to survive, and slammed her into the direction of the coffin!

Yes, the soil is soft, but the coffin is hard!

Goddess Zhao was caught off guard, her back and the back of her head hit the coffin in one breath, and under the gravity, she seemed to scream.You've heard that old people always have bad bones, and old people can't wrestle... Now is not the time to think about these things, no matter how sentimental Goddess Zhao is, she is an ordinary person, and you are also an ordinary person, no one wants to die, no People are willing to die for others, as long as they can survive, they can accomplish more and more things, they can see their own future, and they can see the people they love!If Goddess Zhao is trying to save her life, you don't blame her—but you also want to survive!

So you didn't hesitate, taking advantage of the moment Goddess Zhao cried out in pain, you grabbed the claw hammer with your right hand!

hands up, hands down

scream

Your tiger's mouth is split open, and the blood soaked into the wooden handle of the claw hammer, but your brain has gone blank, forcing yourself to forget that you are beating a joint of a living person. Maybe everything in front of you is not real. I saw it in the supermarket when I was a child. A doll that talks when you touch the button on its belly.So you're not hurting people, you're just pressing buttons that make people howl.

If you don't think so, you're probably going crazy yourself.

Finally, you were out of breath, the claw hammer dropped from your hand, and fell into the blood on the ground, your eyes were dim, dizzy, and the smell of blood came from your hand.

Fortunately, Goddess Zhao is still awake, but she is covered in cold sweat and her consciousness is a little fuzzy.You just hit her on the arm to make sure she won't have the strength to fight back.

"Hey!! What happened?!" The friend stumbled over when he heard the movement, and was shocked when he saw this scene.

"Me too..." You found your voice getting weirder and weirder, and the sharp pain in your left shoulder finally left the cover of adrenaline. , retched a few times, "vomit... cough, cough, I don't know... Goddess Zhao suddenly attacked me..."

Grandma Qian's books were thrown on the ground.

You finally have time to glance at your phone, it’s already 58:[-], and it hasn’t been too long just now

You briefly explained to your friend what just happened.

My friend was surprised, but you picked up the two books on the ground, one of which is the notes you just saw half of, and the other is some years old, it is the village chronicle of your village, rebuilt in 85, a purely handwritten version .

You wanted to read these two books first, but it was too late for Goddess Zhao to say that, and you always wondered what she was thinking of. Your friend volunteered to help you to ask, and you went up the pothole with her help, Continue to look at the book in your hand.

The pain in your left shoulder is almost useless, you are sweating like rain, panting and sitting on the ground, gently turning the pages of the book with your right hand.

The first is the village chronicle.

This is an easy-to-read book in the form of various short stories, written in traditional characters and somewhat difficult to read, and two of them have traces of cropping, respectively in the 11th year of Jiaqing and the 12th year of Jiaqing.

After hesitating, you turn to Grandma Qian's notes.

Grandma Qian's handwriting is neat and beautiful. She wrote this notebook in traditional Chinese characters. The earliest content is probably some of the Taoism methods she usually studies. Occasionally, there will be daily records of exchanges with Goddess Zhao, an apprentice, arranged in chronological order.Unexpectedly, Grandma Qian seems to have received a certain amount of education, at least considering her age, it is surprising that Grandma Qian can read and write.

Goddess Zhao is her apprentice, so she obviously understands the date arrangement of this notebook, so she turned to the important part just now.This page fell to the ground in Fang Gang's conflict, and it was covered with mud.You pat it, and use your flashlight to watch.

The folded pages are like newspaper clippings, with all kinds of paper strips pasted on them, including the content cut out from the village diary.All kinds of small random comments, words, and short sentences are stuffed between the lines.At the top of the page it says:

"Ten days of mourning, how could it happen to me?

No, no, this can't be the Ten Days of Mourning

Sparrows, fish, what's next?

I, Qian Guihua, are not so easy to wait for death!

Speaking of which, I only know about the ten-day continuous mourning, when did the heart-picking and coffin pressing start? "

It seems that with this problem as the source, Grandma Qian (also known as Qian Guihua) started to collect information.On the right side of this passage, there is a small vertical bar, read it from right to left, it briefly introduces the content of the ten-day mourning of a filial son, which is no different from what Goddess Zhao told you.Grandma Qian wrote, full of puzzlement: "Family troubles should start at home. Even if I annoy him and die at worst, it shouldn't happen to me for ten days. I'm not a descendant of the Yin God!"

Further down, there are two short stories cut from village chronicles, the first is "Village Chronicle River God", and the second is "Village Chronicle Family Trouble". It's easy to post.

You barely read the two stories.

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Village Chronicle-River God

In the 11th year of Jiaqing, a man from the village met a scholar in green shirt in the forest.His speech is refined and extraordinary, and he claims to be Tian Gong, a person from Jinling, and they get along very happily, and they swim together with each other.Tian Gong said with a smile: "Is there a Bodhisattva in the village?"The villagers answered yes.Tian Gong asked again, are there any bodhisattvas who are efficacious?The villagers didn't answer, and led him to the Ksitigarbha Temple.Tian Gong asked, "Someone can make the Bodhisattva come true."The villagers didn't believe it. They saw a spirit snake appearing on the ground, possessing the flower spirit of a small dragon, and reflecting the cold light of a green front. When visiting the temple, they suddenly devoured the hidden head of the ground, swallowed gold and chewed iron, but Tian Gong didn't see him.In the next ten years, people often heard people talking and laughing in the river, but no one drowned. The village called it a miracle, so the plastic river shrine

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Village Records - Home Trouble

In the 12th year of Jiaqing, an old man in the village fell into the water and passed away. His son was unworthy, and he died for 20 days. There was no coffin, and the flies were like a black canopy.The trees in his house withered and the grass fell, and then the chickens, dogs, and pigs died, and his heart did not know where to go.Ten days later, his son died of vomiting snakes.That night, the tomb of the old man suddenly rose up, and a wooden box was pressed on the bottom of the coffin, and it was sealed with "here is the unworthy son"

Grandma Qian annotated words such as "Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva", "Amulet", "connection", "connection", "detour", and "closer" with unclear meanings.

Some drops of blood were splashed on this page, I don't understand what happened, at least it seems that there is nothing here that makes Goddess Zhao go crazy.

Turning to the next page, a note fell out, and there was still a long page of content, Grandma Qian’s handwriting, but more impatient and frantic, for the convenience of writing, I changed to simplified characters, and I couldn’t even find a single punctuation mark .

It is very long, you can roughly guess what is written.

You opened the note first, and on it was a dialogue formed by two interlaced handwritings.

You have seen both handwritings. Handwriting 1 is crooked and written in simplified characters. You have seen it on cigarette packs. It is your grandfather's handwriting.Your father told you that he has no education and can read, but he learned to write with his son later, so his handwriting is crooked.

Handwriting 2 is Qian Lao.

(Handwriting 1) Ten-day mourning appeared in 12 years, after Yinshen

(handwriting 2) yes, and related to snakes from the very beginning

From this point of view, the Ten Days of Funerals does look like family troubles, filial sons and daughters, etc., but it probably only looks like this at the beginning. In reality, it may be closer to such a thing

Through ten days, keep getting closer to the target, establish a connection with the Ksitigarbha Buddha through the villagers, enter your family blood through the invitation, and keep changing the things to kill, and finally lock on the real thing to kill.

(Handwriting 1) Why did he stare at me?

(handwriting 2) it's not important anymore

The important thing is that I will try my best to find a way to kill him before I die. If he doesn't die, I will continue to do what I want.But if I die, it means that this matter is difficult to solve through human means, so just accept your fate and don’t tell your family members, so as to avoid this situation from deepening the connection between Him and your family members.Also, no matter what happens, don't continue to ask the Yin God

The Yin God will definitely do various things to lead you to seek his help, but never, never give him any offspring.

The content of the note ends here.

Your gaze turns to the page.

This is the last content of this notebook, and your vague guess at the beginning is not wrong.

This is Grandma Qian's suicide note.

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