Chapter Five: The Mysterious Case of Xikou

  The auspicious day has arrived, but this phrase feels a bit out of place here. Is it an auspicious day to dig graves?

  A few young and vigorous men with pickaxes came to the side of this tomb, standing at the edge of the tomb looking down, all the villagers in the village were within sight, without a single exception.

  The soil on the tomb is dark and gloomy, with a few blades of grass drooping on the tomb head. These plants seem to be dying. However, there is one kind of plant that grows very luxuriantly on this tomb, which is black peony.

  This thing can't survive in ordinary places, it can only grow in extremely humid environments, and this humidity is just yin energy. Everyone started digging the soil, looking soft and loose, but one shovel was so hard that it shocked the five-foot-tall man's tiger mouth numb, thinking he had dug into a stone. But when he leaned forward to take a closer look, there were no stones, the mud seemed to be stuck together like black concrete.

  "Oh, big brother, why is this thing so hard to dig? If we keep digging like this, I'm afraid we won't be able to get it out before nightfall." The village chief stomped his foot anxiously.

  I rubbed some dirt on my hand and smelled it with my nose, a pungent stench that made me feel sick, I don't know how this picture got stuck together.

  Heaven and earth unite to give birth to the myriad things, yin and yang interact to generate change. Yin gives birth to yang, yang gives birth to yin, they mutually overcome each other. Since this thing belongs to yin, so many big shots, one by one urinate on it, try it out.

  He said, and then he was the first to take off his pants and pee on the grave. The others also came up one after another. The village chief smiled at me while peeing, and sprinkled urine on someone's grave with such joy.

  As expected, the hardness of the soil collapsed instantly.

  "Great brother, you are really amazing!" The village chief's excited emotions could no longer be suppressed, and he hugged me and kissed me on the cheek.

  My god, how many years hasn't this smoker brushed his teeth? Ugh, disgusting!

  As soon as the body was exhumed, a loud cry scared even me, and Village Chief Ren Guoxiang was so frightened that he urinated in his pants. The other grave diggers also retreated in haste.

  It turned out that there was a nest of black snakes living under this grave.

  Rural people often say, white snake is immortal, black snake is evil.

  And on the black snake, which was curled up right on the corpse's belly, I, as a Taoist priest who helps others with their troubles, couldn't help but vomit, spewing it all over the village elder.

  The snake seemed to be unafraid of humans, sticking out its head to take a look and staring fixedly at the grave diggers.

  Suddenly this happened, I'm also confused. They say snakes have a strong revengeful heart, if I provoke it, my Taoist temple

  Never mind, the donkey has already climbed halfway up the mountain, can it still come down?

  "Beat him to death, lying on that woman's body, nothing good will come of it." He then wanted to use an iron shovel to slap him back to life.

  I stopped him with one hand, "Before things are clear, you can't kill indiscriminately. Snakes have spiritual connections, if you let his relatives know, they'll come back to avenge him, and I won't be able to help."

  "Oh, it's like this, don't take pictures anymore, let Daozhang come."

  I'm thinking I'm just a half-baked guy, what's the point. Forget it, who cares about face or not, let's just flip through the book.

  He pulled out "Luan Shan Secret Method", "Quickly, big brother has found a solution, everyone don't disturb." The village head was the first to get excited.

  As expected, there is such a move in the Lushan Secret Method. The pregnant woman died, and the child was buried along with her, but the child's soul had already taken shape. This soul is blank and can be used by anyone, whether it's an old mouse, a fox, a snake, or anything else.

  "I understand now, this black snake is the widow's difficult child. What a sin, what a sin, I almost made a big mistake just now."

  "Get some eggs." I ordered the village chief. Before long, a bag of eggs, both raw and cooked, "Big brother must be hungry, eat one first."

  The village chief started eating first.

  I used the egg to lure it, and sure enough, the black snake slowly crawled over under the temptation of the egg. "Get a bag." I lured the black snake into the bag and tied it up. "Release it far away, and sprinkle salt around when releasing it, so that it can't come back."

  The widow's corpse was exposed next.

  The corpse's belly was not as big as it used to be, but it was still bulging, clearly a pregnant woman. The corpse was dark and shiny, with hair that had grown into a large bun, and the body hair had grown as long as a horse's mane. The nasal hair had grown down to the feet, and the ear hair had grown out of the ears. The fingernails and toenails were over a foot long, and it was unbearable for ordinary people to see this corpse that had been dead for three years.

  "This is called corpse smoking. After a person dies, due to the continuous supply of earth energy to the body, the dead person does not die, and all hair will grow, including fingernails and toenails." The village chief shouted, holding my theory, comforting the villagers.

  Wrapped in a blanket, the body arrived at the market, everything was set up below, only the cremation was missing.

  "All the women with children, and those who avoid giving birth to certain animals, all go home, don't come out. No matter what you hear or see, don't intervene. Come out when the village chief notifies." Village Chief, please tell everyone.

  "Wait, I'll go to the village committee's loudspeaker."

  "Attention all villagers, attention all villagers, I am Village Chief Ren Guoxiang."

  It's hard for me not to become famous.

  Everything is ready, "ignite." With a single order, the torch was poured on, and the fire burst forth.

  "Oh my, I've finally finished this task. After I get paid, I'll head back to the temple and enjoy a comfortable life." At this moment, I feel delighted in my heart. "The sky of the Liberation Army is bright, the people love the Liberation Army, the democratic government loves the people... the kindness is not yet repaid."

  "Hey, big brother is in a good mood and even started singing. Tonight, you're not allowed to go anywhere, let's drink." You know what, Comrade Ren Guoxiang can really hold his liquor, two and a half kilos of Erguotou (a type of Chinese liquor), my god! Last time if I didn't have something else to do, he would have definitely drunk me under the table. Today it seems like I'm doomed to get drunk."

  Just when things were going well, something unexpected happened.

  The sky suddenly thundered, and the raindrops fell down, at first no one noticed, thinking it was just a loud thunder with small raindrops. But this guy's situation got bigger, the fire gradually subsided, I'm going to be burned to death, that would be a big deal. Seeing that black kid's father's evil smile started again, saliva slowly dripped out.

  "Hurry up and get some oil." The village chief saw that I didn't look well and ordered someone to fetch some oil.

  At this time, the sky turned dark, everyone wanted to leave, they were all afraid of getting in trouble, but I still had to watch the scene, and something even more couldn't happen here.

  The village head is a timid guy and has been scared stiff, "Big brother, what's going on?"

  "Hmm, right, the town house symbol, try it out, maybe it's useful." Quickly drew a symbol, "Urgent as the law, the 169th generation of the Kunlun School, Niu Yun specially invites the ancestors to bless." A symbol was stuck on the village chief's head, turned three circles, I personally took out the village chief's cigarette and lit one for him, the village chief was like a Daoist priest, and he went home in a hurry, bringing back two buckets of diesel oil from the tractor.

  A few people scooped water to put out the fire, but it spread quickly and burned with a crackling sound. At this time, Hei Wa's father seemed normal again, until the black smoke dispersed. This widow could have been spared, but she was obstinately ignorant. I represent **, representing the Party Central Committee, representing thousands of millions of laboring masses, sentenced her to death by fire.

  At night, everyone came to see me, this little Taoist priest, even people from the neighboring village came. Some girls specially rode their bicycles to take a look at me. This made a big fuss, and the village head, with his big mouth, was delighted, but didn't know whether it was good luck or bad luck.

  In the evening at the village head's home, people from all sides came to drink wine.

  Those dishes on the table are all rare and precious delicacies from mountains and seas, which cannot be bought with money nowadays.

  A table of game meat, if there were bears, they could even be served on the table for you.

  "Listen to me, everyone! Niushan Yun, Niudao Chang, he's my big brother. When I went to Luan Mountain to invite him, I took one glance and knew he was a capable person. My eyesight isn't bragging, let me tell you. Take our village's Erxiao for example, when we were young, I saw that kid had a white light on his forehead, and I said, 'Kid, you'll do great things in the future.' Now look at him, all of you take a look, isn't it accurate?"

  "Oh my, Ren Dabai, stop bragging, who doesn't know you? One day you said Li Erwa from the neighboring village had good luck, and the next day he rode a bicycle into a ditch and broke both legs."

  "Hahaha...". A burst of loud laughter.

  "That doesn't count, how can that count? I've always thought Li Erwa had bad luck since he was a kid, I'm just encouraging him by saying this." "Hahaha..." Another burst of laughter.

  "Alright, alright, you've been talking nonsense for half a day, don't you know to let everyone toast Brother Niu with a glass of wine?" Dog Egg's mother had always wanted to find an opportunity to thank me.

  "Right, right, right! Niu Dadao Chang, Niu Brother, he's our benefactor in Xichuan Village!" I'm all confused by their honorifics, so many titles, which one to use.

  In the east, they pulled one sentence, in the west, they pulled another sentence. The village head's family drank until they were dizzy and confused. Hei Wa's father hugged Gou Dan's mother and called her daughter-in-law, but in the end, Liu Lao Er's family took their daughter-in-law back home.

  These four days in Xikou Village, everyone treated me really well, sometimes I was so touched that I wanted to cry.

  "Big brother, if you don't leave now, take a look at our Da Lin, if you like her, I'll marry her off to you." At this time, Da Lin was standing on the side, her face red like a persimmon, "Dad, what are you talking about? I won't get married!"

  "Look, look, our Dalian has a crush on you. Haha, if you don't mind, take my Dalian, and from now on, you can call me Dad."

  At this time, I have already vomited three times. "I said, Village Chief Ren, how can you be so cruel? How can your family push their daughter into the fire pit? I am now homeless and don't know what will happen in the future. Stop it, stop it!"

  "Big brother is a good person, alas."

  "Oh no, why are you crying again? We don't do this."

  "I think Big Brother is great, but I have to leave tomorrow and it's hard for me to bear." "My dear Big Brother."

  "Alright, big brother, here's 3,000 yuan, don't think it's too little, okay."

  Once a person gets drunk, he does whatever he wants and says "Oh dear, you're my brother, how can I take money from my brother?"

  "Big brother, if you don't take this money, it's like slapping me in the face."

  "Want or not, want or not." He said and slapped himself. "Alright, I'll take this money, our learning environment isn't bad anyway, you just treat it as a donation to build dormitories for the kids."

  "Oh, big brother!" He wailed and burst into loud sobs.

  So it was like that, pulling the bull all night, and when I woke up the next day, it was already afternoon. Hei Wa rode a motorcycle to send me today, and the village chief hasn't woken up yet.

  Along the way, Hei Wa and I chatted. "Shan Yun Ge, you are one year older than me, so I'll call you brother. You made a lot of money this time, didn't you?"

  "Alas, I wish I had some money. Wait, where's my money?"

  "Oh dear, I'm so anxious, it's finally time for me to go to college, this is such a big deal. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear." He silently slapped himself twice.

  "Shan Yun Ge, what's wrong with you?"

  "It's okay, it's okay, hurry back."

  A motorcycle's butt emitted a wisp of blue smoke, mixed with yellow dust, and returned to Yangcun Lianshan Temple. That day, Daling sent me off for a whole mile before leaving, and before she left, she gave me a sachet, which smelled nice. Is this still a token of love?

  The strange case of Nishikawa has come to an end. Next up is "Stinking Corpse", please enjoy the story of Gyokuryu Kumo.

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