As the saying goes: Good things never go out, but bad things spread thousands of miles.
This statement is true. The news that Han Dashan's house was haunted last night had already become a household name in the village before eight o'clock in the morning.
Some people who had a good relationship with Han Dashan's family went to Han Dashan's house after breakfast. Of course, they wanted to see if the rumors were true, and if they were true, they could comfort them.
The people who came out of Han Dashan's house were whispering to each other, their faces full of panic.
Soon, the newly reported rumors continued to spread rapidly in the village.
According to people who have been to Han Dashan's home, Han Dashan's wife looked like a fool. She was sitting on the bed, shivering, and mumbling, "What a sin, don't touch me. I'm still here."
Your money..." and so on; Han Dashan sat on the sofa without saying a word, smoking cigarettes, looking very bad; the eldest son Han Kuisheng and his daughter-in-law Huaixiu kept comforting each other in the house with worried faces.
As for the second son, Han Fusheng, who was lame in one leg, he stayed in his room and continued to play on the computer, with no intention of visiting his parents at all.
Some villagers went to Han Fusheng and asked him to comfort his parents, but Han Fusheng said: What a ghost, weird, superstitious!
This kid went out to play last night and didn't come home at all.
"Hmph, their family deserves to be haunted by ghosts. They should scare Han Dashan to death." After Xu Zhengyang's mother came back from listening to the gossip on the street with a bowl in hand, she gloated about the village rumors to her husband and son, and then continued
Cursing hatefully.
"Don't be fooling around outside. After all, we are all neighbors. You can't see them when you look up but not when you look down. It's unlucky to have such dirty things happen to their family. Don't make sarcastic remarks outside." Xu Neng complained.
With his wife.
"I'm not that wicked." Yuan Suqin rolled her eyes at her husband, then looked at her son who was eating rice and said, "Zhengyang, why don't you go out to do business today? I cooked noodles for you early in the morning..."
Xu Zhengyang grinned and said: "I overslept, haha, I'll be out in a while, I'll be out in a while."
"Well, if we don't take a day off, I think it will be sunny and hot again today." Yuan Suqin said distressedly.
"It doesn't matter, since it's hot outside, just find a place to rest in the shade." After Xu Zhengyang finished eating, he wiped his mouth, stood up and said, "Okay, dad, mom, I'm going out!"
"Well, be careful out there and don't cause trouble." Xu Neng repeated what he had been told every day.
"Eat your food!" Yuan Suqin tapped her husband's bowl with chopsticks, "I'm going to find the construction team today, just in case they need people. I sit at home every day, and I'm not old yet, so I just hope
Let Zhengyang feed us?"
Xu Neng smiled and stopped talking, lowered his head and continued eating.
Xu Zhengyang scratched his head and walked out with a smile. He tied the bag of millet to the back rack of his bicycle, took the scale beam, grain bag, and water bottle, and pushed the bicycle out the door.
On the street, villagers in twos and threes gathered together with their rice bowls in hand and whispered about the rumors in the village.
Xu Zhengyang whistled and rode his bicycle leisurely down the street. The villagers standing on the street looked at his back with a thoughtful look as he walked away...
The villagers have all heard about it. Last night, the ghost who went to Han Dashan's house said, "God is watching what you do. Han Dashan has done a lot of bad things. Even the gods in the Earth Temple in the west of the village can't stand it. So,
Only then could the ghost appear in front of people and frighten everyone in the Han Dashan family." It is said that the ghost was a man named Wang who had just died in Wangjia Village a few days ago. Han Dashan owed him 10,000 yuan.
It has been more than ten years since I paid the money, but I insist on not paying it back, and I will default on the debt.
The reason why the villagers pay attention to Xu Zhengyang is actually because: didn’t the land god give Xu Zhengyang a dream a few days ago and asked him to send a message to Zhao Laoguang’s family?
This time the ghost only appeared in front of Han Dashan's family after listening to the land god's words.
Superstitious legends such as ghosts and gods, which have disappeared from people's consciousness for a long time, once again appear in real life in a strange and terrifying way, which is absolutely shocking to people and has strong impact and deterrence.
The first time the Earth God made its existence known was through Xu Zhengyang.
Therefore, with such a big incident happening to Han Dashan's family this time, the villagers naturally regarded Xu Zhengyang as the only spokesperson of the Land God in this world. Some suspicious people have even begun to speculate that Han Dashan's family and
Xu Zhengyang's family has had conflicts in the past two days. Then the land god sent ghosts to Han Dashan's house to make trouble. With such a coincidence, how can people not suspect that there is something fishy in it?
By four o'clock in the afternoon, rumors in the village already had a version that Xu Zhengyang asked the land god to help him take revenge.
Xu Zhengyang and his family were too lazy to pay attention to this. Even if villagers who were really curious and had good relations with Xu Zhengyang's family came to inquire, Xu Zhengyang would shake his head and deny it with an innocent face, explaining: "I don't know the land at all.
God, I don’t know why I had a dream last time. Anyway, the land god gave me a dream two nights in a row, but he didn’t look for me again after that.”
A certain aunt asked again: "When the land god gave you a dream, besides asking you to send a message, did he say anything else?"
The implication was, of course, that they wanted to get close to each other, exchange feelings, make friends, etc. Xu Zhengyang smiled slightly at this, and said with an enigmatic look: "No, no..." After a pause, he continued cautiously.
Said: "There are certain things that cannot be said, and secrets cannot be revealed."
A certain aunt deeply believed it, and nodded as if she had some understanding, but she did not dare to ask any more questions, for fear that she would know the secret of heaven and make the gods dissatisfied.
Before dark, rumors about the relationship between Xu Zhengyang and the Land God escalated again in the village. This time it was not Xu Zhengyang asking the Land God to help him get revenge, but the Land God seeing Xu Zhengyang's family being bullied and insulted, so he took it upon himself to defend Xu Zhengyang.
It is said that the earth god has only one mortal friend like Xu Zhengyang in the human world.
Good guy!
We are friends with gods! You must not provoke them, you cannot afford to provoke them!
Naturally, this kind of rumor reached the ears of Madam Wang and Widow Liu. The two of them were very frightened. After dinner, they hurriedly asked villagers who had a good relationship with Xu Zhengyang’s family to accompany them to Xu Zhengyang’s home.
, apologized to Xu Neng and his wife with sincerity and trepidation, and prayed to Xu Zhengyang and the Land God to say hello and not to be in the same boat as them. As the saying goes, the person being coerced is not guilty, and the counterattack will be successful...
Of course, Han Dashan's family members have also heard about it, but Han Dashan has been thinking about it all day, and now that he thinks about what happened last night, there is nothing terrible about it! The ghost just comes out to scare people. In addition to saying a few harsh words, he also
He didn't actually beat anyone, which shows that there is nothing terrible in essence. So when his wife and eldest son Han Kuisheng suggested that they should quickly pay back the money they owed to Wang Zhu's family and go to Xu Zhengyang's house to apologize, Han Dashan stared and stopped the family.
He spoke loudly and scolded them sternly that no one of them was allowed to go out and talk nonsense, let alone be subdued!
Han Dashan made up his mind that if Wang Zhu's ghost comes again tonight, he will beat Wang Zhu's ghost and cursed: "That fucking coward Wang Zhu was a softie when he was alive. When he dies,
If he turns into a ghost, he will have no future. Otherwise, why didn't you beat me last night? Will I be afraid of him? "
Han Dashan was really right. Apart from scaring people, things like ghosts really can't touch a hair on people's faces.
The problem is... Han Dashan is not afraid, which does not mean that his family is not afraid.
So in the second half of that night, just as the villagers had guessed, a shrill and piercing scream came from Han Dashan's house again, and it was even worse than last night.
Because last night, Wang Zhu just went to see Han Dashan and his wife. After going there tonight, he found that except for his wife who was frightened again, turned pale and trembled and screamed, Han Dashan was not afraid at all.
He angrily slashed at him with a kitchen knife.
Of course, the kitchen knife cannot hurt Wang Zhu.
Wang Zhu was so angry that he turned around and rushed into Han Kuisheng's house, scaring Han Kuisheng's family of three. Han Fusheng, who was sleeping on the third floor, heard what was going on downstairs. After he hurried down, he saw that there was really a ghost.
, I was so frightened that I screamed. The lame leg seemed to return to normal in an instant. It ran faster than a normal person. With lightning speed, I rushed out of the house and sought refuge at a friend's house.
Except for Han Dashan and Han Fusheng who ran away, the whole family fainted one after another, and then woke up and screamed. Anyway, the screams kept ringing, and the house turned into a mess. In the end, even in the early stage, it was a mess.
Han Dashan was scared, and he was also scared. Well, ghosts can't hit people, let alone hurt people's bodies, but they can't hurt ghosts even with a kitchen knife. Looking at the family now, they are all going crazy because of the torture.
It fell, and Han Dashan was scared, really scared.
Finally, seeing the whole family kneeling in front of the ghost in tears, Han Dashan also knelt down with regret, pretending to cry and wiping his tears, begging Wang Zhu to let their family go, and tomorrow, tomorrow I will owe you what I owe you.
The money is sent to your family.
Wang Zhu's ghost sneered and said: "God is watching what you do, you have done too many bad things! The land god outside the village has been staring at you for a long time, hum!" After saying that, Wang Zhu drifted away.
Go through the wall.
Han Dashan's family hugged each other and cried for a long time in fear.
Huaixiu was the first to wake up and said in a panic: "Father, mother, let's go to the Earth Temple to kowtow as quickly as possible. Why don't we accompany you? It will be a long time in the future. If the Earth God is looking for ghosts to cause trouble every day,
How are we going to spend our days?"
The family suddenly recovered from their fear, and then fell into even greater panic.
Han Dashan remained silent, shivering, lit a cigarette and smoked vigorously. His wife nodded repeatedly, took his daughter-in-law's hand and ran to the kitchen to prepare meat and fruits. He was determined to go to the Earth Temple to pray for atonement immediately tonight.
.
After everything was prepared, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, sobbing while carrying the basket, returned to the living room and persuaded everyone else to follow them to make atonement. Except Han Dashan, Han Kuisheng and his son Xiao Han Xin would certainly not have any objections.
, and Han Dashan, after struggling for a long time, finally lost his face, and for the future safety of his family, he had no choice but to go to the Tutu Temple.
The family never expected that although it was already past two o'clock in the middle of the night, the streets would be filled with neighbors in small groups.
They are all curious to see the excitement.
However, unlike watching the excitement on weekdays, this time the villagers were all frightened and anxious. No one dared to approach Han Dashan's house, let alone knock on the door and go in to say a few words of comfort.
Not to mention how embarrassed Han Dashan and his family were, it was so embarrassing!
In the past, Han Dashan's family always walked sideways in the village with their faces upturned. Now, not to mention being laughed at by the villagers, the whole family mobilized to go to the Tutu Temple in the middle of the night to make offerings... It was a huge loss of face.
ah!
Seeing Han Dashan's family going out, a villager who had a good relationship with their family and was very courageous suddenly came forward and asked Han Dashan what he was doing in the middle of the night? Han Dashan couldn't wipe it off his face, forced a smile and pretended to be indifferent.
: "Women are timid. No, I am so scared in the middle of the night. I have to ask for God's blessings unless I see a ghost..."
"Then you really saw a ghost?"
"There's no such thing as ghosts, it's just women's nonsense..." Han Dashan shook his head and denied it.
…
Xu Zhengyang never thought that he could communicate with ghosts while lying at home.
After Wang Zhu's ghost came out of Han Dashan's house, he went to the Earth Temple to kowtow and pray, asking the Earth God to allow him to meet his family. He said that he was worried about his sick wife and unmarried son at home, and
She cried bitterly and said that she felt that after tonight, she would have to enter the underworld.
Xu Zhengyang, who had just fallen asleep, was awakened by a comfortable feeling rushing straight to his forehead. He waved his hand and took out the local book. Only then did he find Wang Zhu's ghost kowtow in the Tutu Temple to worship and petition. Xu Zhengyang thought about it for a long time and thought that he could not agree to him after all.
, after all, humans and ghosts have different paths, and it is already bizarre and scary for him to appear in front of Han Dashan’s family. Let him go home and appear in front of his family, although it is reasonable, but if he scares the family, it will be more than worth the loss.
Already.
Xu Zhengyang said to himself in front of the video on the local record: "Wang Zhu, Wang Zhu, don't blame me. People and ghosts have different paths. It's good enough for you to pay back your debt. Don't worry about it."
If I stay in this world and enter the underworld, I will go and be reborn as soon as possible..."
Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking, the ghost in the Earth Temple over there was startled, and seemed to have heard what Xu Zhengyang said. He immediately kowtowed and begged the Earth God to help him, crying bitterly.
He was so excited and panicked that he even thought of bribing the land god. He said: "In the past few days after death, I was afraid of the sun during the day, so I hid in a stagnant puddle among the salt-alkali grasslands east of Wangjia Village.
, buried under the old locust tree to the north of the stagnant pit, are two clay pots, which are probably cultural relics and very valuable..." At this point, Wang Zhu seemed to have realized something, and quickly kowtowed a series of times to apologize, saying: "The land
God, please forgive my sins, I should not use worldly money to blaspheme God...".
Xu Zhengyang ignored Wang Zhu's apology. When he heard that there were cultural relics, he immediately became energetic and asked: "Are you sure it is a cultural relic?"
Wang Zhu was stunned for a moment, then said with a grimace: "I guessed it, I don't know if it is true or not."
Xu Zhengyang immediately lost most of his anger, but then he thought about it, maybe it was really a cultural relic. He knew the stagnant water pit to the east of Wangjia Village and often passed by it when buying millet. The old locust tree to the north of the stagnant pit had a trunk diameter of about 10 meters.
The rice is thick, which means it has been there for a long time. The thing buried under the tree... must also be a few years old?
Thinking of this, Xu Zhengyang thought about agreeing to Wang Zhu's request, but then he thought about it. If a ghost petitioned him in the future and he agreed, wouldn't it be chaos? Although I don't know if this is in line with the rules of an earth god.
But Xu Zhengyang still felt uneasy. After all, humans and ghosts have different paths. If he doesn't follow the rules, in the future, some meritorious master comes to inspect and finds out that he has done such a thing. If he is punished and punished, the gain will not be worth the loss.
However, Xu Zhengyang felt a little sorry for rejecting Wang Zhu's request, so after thinking about it for a long time, he said: "You can't let your family see you, just go back and see them. If, if you really have anything to leave them, I can entrust you with it."
Someone sent a message to them."
Xu Zhengyang thought that it was not possible, so he once again said that he had been entrusted by the land god with a dream, ah, that is, for the image of a spokesperson, he went to Wang Zhu's home in Wangjia Village.
When Wang Zhu heard what the Earth God said, he didn't dare to argue anymore. He quickly lowered his head and thought about what he should say to his family. After thinking about it for a long time, he found that he really didn't have anything important to say, so he could only hesitate.
: "Thank you to the God of Land, and I don't have anything to say to them. Well... tell my wife that she still owes fifteen yuan to Zhang San's small shop at the entrance of the village, and pay it back immediately; and, and
Let my son be good in the future, don’t fight and cause trouble, and be filial to his mother... Let his mother, his mother, not remarry. With a bad reputation, it will be difficult for my son to find a wife in the future..."
"Fuck, how are you going to let someone carry you through this?" Xu Zhengyang was furious. After the experience of sending a message last time, Xu Zhengyang was extra careful now. There are some words that you really can't just pass along as you will get stabbed.
ah.
"Ah? This..." Wang Zhu was so frightened that he hurriedly kowtowed several times. After thinking about it, he quickly said: "Tell me to be filial to his mother and sell the wheat in the West House at home quickly. The weather is not good in May when the farming is busy.
, I didn’t dry it in the sun very much, because I was afraid that it would become moldy if it got damp..."
Xu Zhengyang was completely speechless. He couldn't bear to listen to Wang Zhu's nagging about some trivial matters, and then impatiently asked Wang Zhu to go to hell and be reincarnated.
Wang Zhu naturally did not dare to say anything, and after kowtowing again in gratitude, he drifted away.
Xu Zhengyang enjoyed that inexplicable feeling of comfort, so beautiful that he fell into a drowsy state and was about to fall asleep.
When I was half asleep, I was awakened again by a strong sense of comfort. I called out the local record and saw that it was Han Dashan's family who had mobilized to kowtow, burn incense, and petition for atonement in the Tutu Temple.
After the previous conversation with Wang Zhu, and thinking that Zhao Laoguang's daughter-in-law seemed to have heard what he said when she went to the Tutu Temple to burn incense a few days ago, Xu Zhengyang coughed twice skillfully, and then said to the local record seriously
: "You have done too many bad things these days. You spread rumors to slander Xu Neng's family, especially Xu Rouyue, and ruin their reputation. This is an unforgivable crime..."
Han Dashan, his son and grandson didn't react at all, but Huaixiu's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law trembled violently. They seemed to have heard Xu Zhengyang's words, and quickly admitted their mistake with tears in their eyes, saying that they would go to Xu's house to apologize and accompany them.
Restore the reputation of the village...
Xu Zhengyang took back the local record with satisfaction, lay down and enjoyed the comfortable feeling, and fell asleep beautifully.
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This chapter, ahem, is over 5,000 words, hmm~~~
I’m scratching my head. I’ve always been very slow in typing, so it’s not easy. Then, with a shy face, I reached out to ask for recommendation votes and favorites. The more I type, the more motivation I’ll have. Bow~~~~