Chapter 68 Section five

One day, Xiao Ma didn't come home from get off work on time.Granny Ma went to the food store to find her, but the people in the store said that Xiao Ma didn't come to work at all.A few days later, the pony still didn't come back. Granny Ma went to ask Tianxiang, only to find that Xiaoma's change of clothes and the remaining 600 yuan in the box were gone. Until the Spring Festival, the pony still did not come back.Granny Ma began to hate the woman in front of her who was neither human nor ghost.After her son left, Granny Ma was no longer afraid of offending the witch doctor and his wife, cursing them as liars every day.

"Everyone said how much money your dowry gave, who saw it? Who used it? Damn it!" Granny Ma cursed so loudly that everyone in the nearby streets and alleys could hear it. Tianxiang had no choice but to take his several-month-old daughter back to the witch doctor's house. Tianxiang fell ill when she returned to her mother's house. She was a little strangely ill, half crazy and half stupid. Sometimes she held her daughter in her arms and searched for her in the yard, and sometimes she sat on the kang with a pillow in her arms.The witch doctor gave her a lot of medicine, and her madness was somewhat effective, but she was so weak that she was already lying on the kang and could not get off the ground, and she was losing weight day by day, until she was so thin that she lost her shape, like a skeleton. There, the appearance is even more frightening.

In the spring of 1966, Tianxiang, who had been lying on the kang for more than two months, walked out of the house.Her originally thick hair had lost a lot, but she still wore it, but without the black luster, it was sparse like a handful of dead grass in late autumn. It was a sunny noon, and there were a few peach blossoms blooming coquettishly on the street, like clusters of flames.Tianxiang walked out of the witch doctor's yard. She didn't cover up as usual, nor did she wear a veil, but looked up at Kazuki's peach blossoms, exposing the scars on her face to the sun.Then she walked up and down the street with her dress fluttering, and finally disappeared.

Tianxiang disappeared from the county town like a mystery. When the peach blossoms withered, the witch doctor asked Xi Po to send Tianxiang's daughter back to Grandma Ma's house. Just in the summer of this year, whether it was the witch doctor and his wife who made a fortune for themselves or heard some rumors, they both hanged themselves under a locust tree on a dark and windy night in a certain month. All the bad luck that can be brought to them when the "Great Revolution" that overthrows all monsters and monsters comes. Although people went to the hospital, the "Great Revolution" in Ping'an County did not let the witch doctor go.People with various thoughts rushed into the witch doctor's yard one after another, turned upside down inside, and found nothing extra except for a few empty porcelain jars and the special smell mixed with traditional Chinese medicine that lingered for many years. , So I found a few people who had been treated by the witch doctor before and couldn't draw a clear line. Finally, I went to the pharmaceutical company to investigate and found out that the raw materials used by the witch doctor for dispensing medicine are nothing more than hawthorn, Cynomorium, chrysanthemum, licorice, etc., which can be found everywhere. looking for something.Can this formula also treat intractable diseases?The awakened masses feel that they have been greatly fooled. Even if the witch doctor is dead and their daughter has escaped, they still have to give the family the name of a bad element. Of course, their suicide by hanging has an obvious element of fear of crime. Cut off from the people.And those ordinary people who have been cured by the witch doctor and have not yet fully awakened can't help but rejoice in private: hawthorn can also cure evil diseases, and the witch doctor must have cast a spell in the medicine.Thinking about it further, fortunately I never offended the witch doctor, otherwise I would have been murdered by them long ago, right?

Therefore, five people actually died in the "Great Revolution" in Ping'an County in the summer of 1966: Luo Chongwen and Sima Xunxin, Mai Sanniang, and the witch doctor and his wife.This is the number secretly calculated by Liu Yingchun, a Henan woman who needs to go to the streets to sell tofu every day.