Chapter 360 Chapter 28 No facial features

And grandpa seems to have been waiting for the day when he screamed from the night when the wild ghosts came into the house. Grandpa said that the man screamed on a scorching summer afternoon, every household had just finished eating or was eating, and many children had just laid down on bamboo beds and were about to take a nap.The sound of cicadas rises and falls in all directions of Huamei Village like a wave after wave. That day, grandpa had finished his lunch, but abnormally, he didn't immediately lie down on his old-fashioned bamboo chair and take a nap.Grandpa sat quietly at the dining table, motionless.At that time, my grandfather's original partner was still alive. She had already cleaned up the leftovers on the dining table and was squatting in the kitchen washing the dishes.The swishing sound she made as she rubbed her chopsticks seemed to be accompanied by the sound of cicadas.

"Ma Xintong! Help me drive that female ghost away! She gave birth to a child without facial features!" The man who once begged his grandpa to bring wild ghosts into his house begged his grandpa again. "I told you earlier, it's much more difficult to drive away than to take in." Grandpa said with a blank expression. It turned out that the female ghost gave birth to a child for him that afternoon, but the child's head had a strange shape, no nose, eyes, eyebrows, ears, etc., like a wax gourd growing on its neck.That scream came from the man after he saw the newborn with no facial features.

"No! She gave birth to such a child, how can I bear it? I'm afraid I will have nightmares every night from now on! Please, since you can take her in, you can drive her away again! Please! She is a ghost, staying in the village will inevitably be a hidden danger. Take precautions before it happens! Please!" The man knelt down and bowed to his grandfather.Grandpa hurriedly stepped forward to help him up. Grandpa couldn't stand the man's repeated entreaties, so he had to agree. That night, my grandfather scattered a basket of paper money from the door of the man's house to the small locust tree in advance, and then told the man to hold an axe.

Grandpa and the man waited until it was dark, waited for the lights of Wanjia, and then waited for the lights of Wanjia to go out, and then saw the female ghost gradually approaching from a distance, still giggling while picking up money.Grandpa couldn't bear to hear it, but the man next to him urged him not to soften his heart, as if he was an outsider. Grandpa saw that the female ghost was getting closer, so he patted the man on the shoulder and ordered: "You wait until she comes under the locust tree, and immediately cut down this locust tree. Don't say anything, what else is there?" Don't do any movements, and then go home directly, close the door and go to sleep." After the grandfather finished speaking, he lowered his head and walked away.

Grandpa said, this is the method with the help of gelding.At that time, capon makers, pig cutters, and ox makers were still everywhere.Because normal roosters and boars are not as strong as castrated ones, and normal bulls are not as focused as gelding ones, so this barbaric and effective castration method was maintained in the countryside at that time. But gelding is different from castrated chickens and pigs.In order to completely make the cow work hard and stop doing other unreasonable thoughts, after cutting off the cow's reproductive organs, the cowboy smashed the thing with a sledgehammer in front of the cow.This is a more brutal method than castration, but also a more effective method.The cows that have been treated in this way have been honestly plowing the fields and pulling the grinder, their eyes have become hollow, and they will no longer call "moo" affectionately when they see cows.

The man would know what the little locust tree meant to him and the female ghost. If the little locust tree was cut down in front of the female ghost, the female ghost would definitely understand what the man meant. Grandpa didn't see how the female ghost reacted after the man cut down the little locust tree, and neither did Uncle Mian, and the man himself didn't want to tell anyone outside, so grandpa had no way of knowing. What grandpa knew was that the man wanted to throw away the child without facial features the next day.That day, an unknown beggar happened to pass by, snatched the child from the man and ran away.Instinctively, the man chased the beggar for a long distance. When he was about to catch the beggar, he stopped and watched the beggar run away.

Not long after, that man married another woman from far away. Naturally, that woman didn't know about his past.The villagers kept a consistent silence about the woman who came from afar.Later the woman bore him a son. It was only when his son was able to speak that he realized that his son's hearing, vision, smell, and taste were all terrible.Every time his mother called his name, she would open her voice and yell desperately; the big calligraphy could not be seen in front of her eyes; Everything has a taste. The people in the village, as well as himself, could secretly feel that this child was a retribution, but they dared not speak out.

The child died in his twenties.Then he and his wife sent the white-haired man to the black-haired man, crying very sadly.On the way to the child's funeral, he suddenly found a man with a head like a wax gourd standing by the old river, looking towards the funeral procession.He raised a bamboo pole and rushed towards the old river bank.When he got to the old river, he found nothing.When he came back, he saw the man without facial features again.He rushed to the old river again, but that person disappeared again... After repeating this several times, he finally yelled wildly, and became insane from then on.The woman who married from afar cleaned up briefly, bid farewell to a few acquaintances in the village, and returned to her natal family in a distant place to take care of her.

A few years later, the man's house collapsed in a thunderstorm night due to disrepair.The man ended his life in a pile of ruins. "No wonder you didn't go to Zhang Jiu's house." I said thoughtfully and lost. Grandpa smiled lightly and said, "The story is not over yet." "It's not over yet?" I asked surprised. Grandpa nodded, rubbed his hands together, and said, "It's not over yet. Since the man didn't leave any savings and he had no heirs, his funeral became a problem. At that time, the chaos had already begun, and everyone in the village There was no savings, and no one had enough money to hold his funeral. So, several old people in the village got together and discussed a decision: the whole village pooled their money and bought him a piece of land to bury him. The next day, a group of people came to the village, all dressed as robbers and bandits. Everyone in the village was terrified. Who would have thought that group of people did not rob anything but came for the man's body."