smuggler

Chapter 322
I frowned, my expression was not quite right, this village looks peaceful on the surface, but there are deep and treacherous mysteries hidden everywhere!
Nursing home?

Is that the place of the funeral?

There was no logic in what she said.

The horse-faced woman then lowered her head and thought for a while, and said to the black-faced man: "How about this, when someone asks, just say that she is my relative and comes here to play?"

The black-faced man frowned: "Your relatives can't do it either. Hurry up and get out while there is no one outside, and don't implicate us."

As he said that, the black-faced man issued an order to drive me out.

He obviously knows about the nursing home, how could I let go of this rare opportunity.

My face darkened, and I was aggressive: "Don't be sneaky. I advise you to tell the truth as soon as possible. What's wrong with the nursing home? I warn you that the relevant departments will intervene later. Don't regret it then."

The horse-faced woman was timid, and her neck shrank in fright: "Then you still have to go to jail?"

I nodded: "It depends on what you have done."

At present, we don't know anything about the situation in nursing homes, so we can only make it up to scare them.

These people are obviously acting guilty, and a fool can see that something bad must have happened in the nursing home.

When they heard that they were about to go to jail, the two of them were too frightened to say anything, and they gritted their teeth. After a while, the horse-faced woman whispered to the black-faced man:
"Or, let's talk."

The black-faced man didn't speak.

The horse-faced woman took a while before she said, "Actually... there are no nursing homes at all."

"The nursing home you've heard of is actually a tradition of ours, old man's kiln, have you heard of it?"

My scalp exploded. I read a piece of news before, and I heard of suicide kilns. In some remote villages, elderly people will be sent to suicide kilns, where they will fend for themselves.

This terrible habit is still preserved in a few rural areas.

I never dreamed that the nursing home that the old woman talked about turned out to be a kiln for the elderly hidden in the deep mountains and old forests!
In this Niujiao village, its feudalism has been distorted to the extreme, not only using living people to sacrifice to the mountain god, but also sending the elderly to the kiln for the elderly.

The most frightening thing is that when you think about it carefully, there doesn't seem to be much difference between the two. To a certain extent, the same is true for nursing homes. There have been a lot of news about beatings and abuse of the elderly over the years.

The horse-faced woman told me that as long as the elderly in their village are over [-] years old, regardless of their health, they will be sent to the kiln for the elderly.

That kind of cave dwelling is somewhat similar to the kiln houses in the northern countryside. Independent small caves are dug on the mountain wall. After the elderly live in, the family members provide enough food for three days.

Let the old man fend for himself in it.

On the inner walls of both sides of the cave entrance, there are two groove marks, one long and one short.

After sending the old man in, close the door from the outside and put the bolt on it, and there is no escape.

It just so happened that today the black-faced man's father had his [-]th birthday, and they were preparing for the funeral tonight and sent him into the kiln.

After listening to his narration, I felt chills in my heart, so that means, the lamp that the old woman wants is in the old man's kiln.

Many people must have died in the old man's kiln for so many years. What kind of terrifying scene will there be?

"He is your father. If you treat him like this, can you live with your conscience? One day when you are old, will your family treat you like this?" I pointed to the old man on the kang and looked at the two of them.

The horse-faced woman's lips trembled twice: "I don't want to, but every household in our village does this..."

The more I listen, the more I feel something is wrong. This horrible bad habit has long been abolished, and the ancient times praised this creepy bad habit.

It is because of the lack of food, people over 60 years old lose their labor force, in order to allow those who have labor force to survive.

But now Niujiao Village is remote, but there is no shortage of food. This kind of bad habit should no longer exist.

After all, who wants to send the family members of the grace of nurturing to hell alive.

"Has this custom always existed in your village?" I stared at the horse-faced woman.

"About five or six years ago!" the horse-faced woman said timidly.

I was stunned for a moment: "Who taught you?"

The horse-faced woman bowed her head in silence for a while, and said something that surprised me: "Daoist Yin!"

"Daozhang Yin?" I widened my eyes.

The horse-faced woman nodded, and replied: "He claims to be a Taoist priest of Laoshan Mountain, and he likes to travel around. He was seriously injured while slaying demons and demons, and came to our village to cultivate. Daoist Yin is a master. People see things, people get better when they get old."

I froze for a moment, it seems that Taoist Yin had some malicious intentions and made it out on purpose.

That Daoist Yin must have other purposes to confuse the villagers and build an old man's kiln.

"At first, the villagers were reluctant. She said that doing so would be of great benefit to the village. This is a feng shui arrangement deliberately arranged by him. As long as the cave dwellings are built, it will ensure the safety of the family and the prosperity of the population."

"He also patiently worked for us. Human life expectancy is fixed. In ancient times, people lived a long life when they lived to 30 years old. Now that the material conditions are better, many old people live to [-] years old, but they don't know it. It is a great crime against the heavens. Going to the underworld in the future will not be conducive to reincarnation."

"From a practical point of view, the 60-year-old has lost the ability to work and can only become a burden on the family. Instead of this, it is better to build a home for them, so that people can integrate with nature, and finally form a true unity. Many Beasts will choose before dying, go to a secluded place, and wait for death quietly, this is the reason."

These words made my heart skip a beat. Thinking of the scene where Daoist Yin said these words in a dignified manner, I was so disgusted that I wanted to retch.

It's unexpected that a person can be so bad.

The horse-faced woman thought for a while and added: "Anyway, Daoist Yin called all the villagers that day and said a lot of great truths. I didn't understand some of them, so I didn't remember them. He was very prestigious in the village at that time. He usually not only Looking at Feng Shui, people in the village would look for him whenever they feel uncomfortable, he is very skilled in medicine, if he just gives a few pointers, the disease will be cured immediately, so everyone believes in him."

"Everyone go back and think about it carefully. I feel that although what he said is extreme, there is some truth to it. It is indeed the case. Our location is remote, and there is no road repair. Tourists don't come at all, which makes our life very difficult. Yes, after everyone made up their minds and decided to do what he said, guess what, not long after the cave was built, gold began to come out of the old earthen mine at the west end of the village..."

"What the hell, that old earthen mine was abandoned decades ago, how could there be gold in it?"

The horse-faced woman talked endlessly, from the beginning to the end when the villagers discovered the gold and started to share the spoils.

I listened absent-mindedly, and suddenly thought of something, and immediately interrupted her: "Is it also after Daoist Yin came to offer sacrifices to the mountain gods in the village?"

"Sacrificing mountain gods is passed down from ancestors." When the horse-faced woman said this, she didn't know if she had thought of something, and she added another sentence casually: "But before Daoist Yin came, we used grains and livestock to worship mountain gods."

Hearing this, my heart skipped a beat.

I asked repeatedly: "It was after Daoist Yin came that you used living people to sacrifice to the mountain god?"

The horse-faced woman nodded: "The year that Daoist Yin came to the village to sacrifice to the mountain god, strange things happened in the village not long after. All the poultry died inexplicably, several villagers died in the village, and monsters appeared. That monster It’s so old and frightening, it’s exactly like a human, but with black hair all over its body!”

(End of this chapter)