This time, when I entered Taihang Mountain, according to my previous experience, I was afraid that I would have to toss and turn in the mountains. People who have never been to such vast and dark mountains will never know how bad the environment is in such deep mountains and old forests. If you are not well prepared, it really depends on luck whether you can get out after entering.
To live is luck; to die is fate!
I don't want to be trapped in Li Cunshi's tomb like last time, because of the incomplete preparation of supplies, I had to drink dirty water full of leeches and eat compressed biscuits. That taste is enough, and I don't want to experience it again in this life!
So, after Zhang Bowen and I left the office that day, we bought everything we needed to buy in the supermarket, and then sent Heizi to Uncle Li, asking Uncle Li to help me raise him for a while, and then I parted ways with Zhang Bowen and went home to rest at night.
Since I accepted my father's business and started this life of walking between the Yin and Yang worlds, my work and rest schedule has been completely reversed. Basically, I work at night and sleep during the day. So I couldn't sleep when I was free at night. I lay in bed all night. The next day, I set out with Zhang Bowen with two big dark circles under my eyes.
From Taiyuan City to Taihang Mountain, you have to take the Luliang Road. The road is not easy to walk. There are coal trucks everywhere, so Zhang Bowen drove very slowly. I simply put down the seat and slept. We finally arrived at the foot of Taihang Mountain in the afternoon.
To be honest, although I am from Shanxi, it is my first time to come to the foot of the towering Taihang Mountain. It is really spectacular at first glance. It is boundless, and there are gullies and gullies made of loess everywhere. The terrain is extremely dangerous.
Zhang Bowen drove us straight into the towering mountains. The roads in the mountains were even more difficult to walk on, much more difficult than the last time we went to Guancen Mountain, so we walked very slowly, and finally arrived at Shigu Village in the evening. When I first saw this village, I was also shocked by the poverty and backwardness here. This is a small village in the corner of the mountain. The houses in the village are all cave dwellings, and there is no electricity. The windows are paper-pasted, just like the ancient villages hundreds of years ago. The dirt roads in the countryside are only a few meters wide at most. The poverty looks even shocking. I really don't know how such a village can get 7,000 yuan.
Because there is no signal in the deep mountains, when the village chief called the phone number left by my father, he walked forty or fifty miles to use a public phone to call out, so our mobile phones have become completely waste after coming here. There is no way to contact the people in the village, so we can only drive into the village rashly.
As soon as I entered the village, my heart was suddenly stimulated by the scene here.
Corpses!!
All of them are corpses!!
There are 40 or 50 corpses along the road. These corpses are not even buried. They are just covered with straw mats on the ground, and then the corpses are placed on the straw mats and covered with a white sheet. In fact, this is completely understandable. I know that it is not that the family members of the deceased are indifferent to the deceased. It is that in this bad year, prices have skyrocketed. A coffin costs several thousand yuan. How can the people in this village afford it? Usually, when someone dies, they go to the mountains to saw wood and make a thin coffin. Now that so many people have died at once, where can they get so many coffins at once? I am afraid that after the accident, all the carpenters in the village have been busy, but they still cannot supply them!
It is not the coldest time of the year yet, so the corpses cannot be preserved for too long. In addition, the village cannot afford to buy refrigeration plates to store corpses, so the corpses placed outdoors have already stank. As soon as we entered the village, we immediately smelled a pungent corpse odor!
How can this be called the human world? It is clearly purgatory!
Seeing this scene, even if I am strong, I still have tears in my eyes. Maybe some people will say that there must be something hateful about pitiful people. As long as you are willing to work hard, you will not be afraid of having no food to eat. Who can you blame for having no money? In fact, this is completely bullshit. The good and bad life of a person in this life is half acquired and half innate. Born in such a place, even Jack Ma is afraid that he can only accept his fate! ! ! How did Liu Wen, a college student who finally got out, leave the mountains? It was the whole village who tightened their belts to support her! ! ! Want to go out to work? Can you go out without a thousand or eight hundred yuan for travel expenses? You will starve to death if you go out! ! ! !
"Damn it, what kind of filth is causing trouble!"
Zhang Bowen couldn't stand it anymore, his eyes turned red, he gritted his teeth and turned his head to look at me and said, "Xiaotian, can we discuss something? I don't want a penny of the mission reward this time, just return it all to them, it's too miserable, I can't take this money!"
I nodded silently, this money, really can't be taken, it's painful to take it! !
At this time, the villagers in the village saw the car coming in, and all came out, pointing and talking around our car. After a while, an old man in his sixties who seemed to be the village chief came over, knocked on our car window, and asked us in a dialect: "What are you doing..."
I got out of the car and walked over to the old man, saying: "Old man, we are here to help you solve the problem!"
"You?"
The old man looked at me suspiciously: "Why is it not the man who came to us ten years ago?"
"He is my father."
I sighed softly and said slowly: "It's just that my father passed away more than half a year ago. I have taken over his business now, so I came here to help you deal with this matter."
Speaking of this, I thought about it and took out 20,000 yuan of spare cash from my backpack and handed it to the old village chief, saying softly: "I am also very sad that such a thing happened in the village. This is a little money. Take it and distribute it to those families who have lost their relatives. " "When the old village chief heard what I said, turbid tears rolled out of his eyes, and he refused to take my money no matter what I said: "Little kid, you are here to help us. We are so poor that we have nothing to thank you for. We are already ashamed. How can we ask for your money?" "The village needs money now! ! " I frowned, pointed at the corpses on the street, and sighed: "The corpses can't be left like this. They have to be dealt with quickly, otherwise they will rot and plague will spread. By then, I'm afraid that people will die in the village again. So you should keep the money, old village chief. Do you want to see more people die? "
It would have been fine if I hadn't said this, but once I said this, the old village chief finally couldn't stand it anymore, and he opened his mouth and cried "wow". At this time, the remaining 200 people in the village had all come out. The old village chief kept shouting "benefactor" and then knelt down. The 200 villagers behind him also knelt down to me...
This scene made me feel even more bitter and uncomfortable. I stuffed the money to the old village chief and then went to help those villagers.
These villagers are old and young. What virtue do I, Ge Tianzhong, have? I can't bear their worship!
I waited until the villagers calmed down a little before I finally pulled them up from the ground. I couldn't care about the ghosts and monsters at the moment. The first priority was to let the villagers dispose of the bodies. If they were left outside, something would happen. If there was a plague, judging from the current situation in Shigu Village, I'm afraid the villagers would just have to wait and die. There were hundreds of lives at stake!
I don't know what the hell those policemen do. Since they have been here, it's understandable that they can't take the bodies away, because there are no big cars in the deep mountains and old forests, and it's difficult to take away fifty or sixty bodies, but they can always suggest these villagers to deal with the bodies! The villagers don't understand science and don't know that the rotting of corpses will cause plague. Don't they know? This is simply a disregard for human life!
Maybe what I did before was completely recognized by these villagers, so after listening to me, these villagers cooperated very well. The old and young in the village started to get busy, collected the bodies, and then went to chop wood.
Yes, I want to cremate these bodies!
All of these people died suddenly, and there are adults and minors. The resentment is accumulated. Burying the corpses in the Taihang Mountains is definitely not a good idea, because there are too many foothills, which block the spread of resentment. Once the wild beasts in the mountains eat the corpses, they may rise up or become evil spirits!
After thinking about it, the only choice is cremation!
After cremation, the ashes are scattered. They were born in this land, and their ashes are scattered on this land. Maybe they can rest in peace after death.
I have also seen these corpses. Most of them are men. They were all stabbed to death by weapons. I don't know what kind of ghosts actually hurt people with weapons. However, there are also a few old ladies among the dead. They are not young. After they died, their feet were all gone. Judging from the wounds, they should have been chopped off alive! ! !
This discovery made me feel confused, and then I asked the old village chief about the old ladies. After listening to the old village chief's story, I found that these old ladies whose feet were chopped off had one thing in common - they were all elderly women, born before liberation, when women still had the custom of foot binding, that is, they were all old ladies with bound feet! !
So, was their feet chopped off related to their foot binding?
I was also a little confused, and I was busy in the village until the evening, and I was relieved after the villagers cremated all the bodies. There is a time limit for burial, but there is no time limit for cremation, so I cremated the bodies at night, and then Zhang Bowen, Zhou Jing and I all lived in the old village chief's house. After dinner, I went to bed early and planned to go to Liu Wen's house early tomorrow morning. After all, her family was the first to have an accident, and the only witness who survived the disaster was Liu Wen's grandmother. Going to her house might find some clues.