From Jiu Shu's world

Chapter 187 The Weird Customs of Xiaoping Village

Henry Zhang bit his fingertips, dripped a drop of his own blood on the child's eyebrows, and then chanted the spell, something seemed to stick to his fingers.

He began to pull hard, and for a full minute, with the cooperation of Henry Zhang's fingertip blood and spells, he pulled a black baby phantom from the eyebrow inch by inch.

The eyes of this baby's soul are closed tightly, but the expression is no longer the serenity of the corpse, but a distorted appearance close to suffocation.

Henry Zhang and Ren Tingting were stunned when they saw that the baby turned out to be covered with countless vine-like black strips, from hands and feet to limbs, and finally tightly wrapped around the neck, which looked like a chain.

Henry Zhang used spiritual power in his hand to untie the weird rattan, but after pulling it slightly, he discovered that the rattan was so tightly entangled with the baby, as if it had grown together.

Henry Zhang just wanted to use more power, but Ren Tingting suddenly reached out to grab Henry Zhang's hand and said, "Brother Xuan, don't, look there."

Ren Tingting looked solemn, and pointed at the baby ghost's heart, good guy, there is actually one end growing directly from the heart under the cover of the rattan, if you pull it out with all your strength, won't it also destroy the soul body?

Henry Zhang had no choice but to give up, and took out a bamboo tube to temporarily put the soul in. The soul was trapped in the body like this, I am afraid that there is really a problem behind Xiaoping Village.

Ren Tingting was thoughtful, and suddenly she had a flash of inspiration. How could the appearance of this baby tied up by vines be so similar to what Ding Fuxing described in his nightmare?
She said: "Brother Xuan, could it be that this infant spirit is causing trouble, you can see that the appearance just now is similar to Ding Fuxing's nightmare."

When Henry Zhang was reminded by Ren Tingting, he also thought of this joint, but then he shook his head again: "No, if it is really the infant spirit who resents being restrained by others, I am afraid that there are not many people who are sick in Xiaoping Village. .”

Henry Zhang paused for a while, and then said: "Besides, the baby was tied up by this weird tree vine just now, and it has been trapped in the body, and it can't get out at all."

Henry Zhang and Ren Tingting faintly grasped the clues of the matter. The nightmare in Xiaoping Village seemed to be related to the custom of hanging tree babies, but how much it was related, and why there were baby ghosts trapped in the body, it was still a fog.

Henry Zhangdao: "Let's bury this baby for the time being. There are some questions. I guess we will only know about them if we ask Brother Ding tomorrow."

Under the strange tree, it has been ten days since Henry Zhang and Ren Tingting finished burying the baby, and the crowing of chickens in Xiaoping Village has been faintly heard.

When the two of them got down the hillside and rushed back to Xiaoping Village, it was already daylight. As soon as they approached their temporary house, they saw Ding Fuxing and Ding Fusheng already waiting in the house.

When they saw Henry Zhang and Ren Tingting coming in, they stood up, greeted them and said, "Doctor Zhang, Miss Ren, you are back. We brought you breakfast."

As they spoke, they welcomed Henry Zhang and Ren Tingting to the dining table, and handed the bowls and chopsticks to Henry Zhang and Ren Tingting.While serving the porridge, they smiled and said, "Breakfast is millet porridge, which is a bit simple. Forgive me, Doctor Zhang."

"Brother Fuxing, Brother Fusheng, wait a moment, we have something to ask you."

Henry Zhang stopped their movements, and then asked.

The two brothers Ding Fuxing turned their heads and saw the serious faces of Henry Zhang and Ren Tingting. Realizing that something was wrong, they put down the bowls in their hands and said, "Speak, Doctor Zhang."

Henry Zhang didn’t talk nonsense, and asked straight to the point: “What happened to the hanging baby tree and the baby on the hillside behind?”

When Ding Fuxing and Ding Fusheng heard the words, their expressions suddenly changed, and they fell silent for a long time before they said, "Dr. Zhang, have you seen everything?"

Henry Zhang nodded, and told about the encounter with a couple last night, but the ghost matter was temporarily kept secret.

"Oh, it's Ding Wang and his wife." Ding Fusheng sighed and said, "A few days ago, the second child of their family fell ill. He was afraid that he would die at home and be unclean, so he reluctantly hung the child on the tree according to the way the old man stayed behind. Come on. Poor man too."

Ding Fusheng shook his head while talking, but Ding Fuxing looked sad and said, "Oh, poor family is not like this, my boss, isn't yours the same?"

Ding Fusheng smiled miserably, with tears in his eyes. It seemed that Ding Fuxing's words touched his heart. He wiped away the tears and said, "I scared you. This is our custom, nothing else. It's just that this mountain and wild place, The child is too young, it is really..."

During the period of the Republic of China, the probability of this baby dying prematurely was terrifying, not to mention that in this mountain village, the medical conditions and sanitation conditions were really poor, there were many poisonous snakes and monsters, and children were more likely to die young.

Henry Zhang heard something was wrong, and asked quickly: "Brother Ding, you also have children who died early? What about those who have had nightmares?"

When Henry Zhang asked, he stopped Ding Fusheng and Ding Fuxing.After being stunned for a long time, their expressions changed. After careful consideration, there were babies who died prematurely. They asked, "Doctor Zhang, did those babies do it?"

As they asked, their hands clenched on the table showed that they were not calm, and guilt arose in their hearts, thinking that this custom caused the resentment of baby ghosts.

But Henry Zhang said: "Not necessarily, but I suspect that even the custom of hanging baby trees is a scam."

The coincidence of the matter is that Henry Zhang has to suspect that every child who has a nightmare and strange disease has a child who dies prematurely, and they all use the funeral custom of hanging tree babies, I am afraid they are all like last night like a baby.

All the clues pointed to the hanging tree baby, and Henry Zhang even suspected that these babies might not have died naturally.

So Henry Zhang also told about the tree vine trapping the baby ghost. After the two brothers heard it, they were stunned and didn't know what to say.

After a long while, Ding Fusheng asked in a crying voice, "Doctor Zhang, are you saying that these children may have been killed by ghosts?"

"I don't know, but something must be staring at the child's ghost." Henry Zhang paused, and then asked: "Brother Fusheng, do you know where these babies were buried in the end? I want to see the situation. "

Babies hanging on the tree will be re-buried after seven days and seven nights. This is the general practice of hanging tree babies, and it is believed that babies will have great resentment after death, so they are generally not buried in ancestral graves.I just don't know that each family in Xiaoping Village is buried in secret or in a centralized way.

Ding Fusheng said in a deep voice, "It's buried in the valley behind the mountain. I'll take you there. I want to find out about this too."

Other families may just have a child who died young, maybe the eldest or the second child, but after all, the wife is still there, and most of them have surviving children, accompanied by family members.

But because of the premature death of his child and the nightmare, even his wife died.When I suddenly heard that something might be behind the scenes, the longing and sadness in my heart may now turn into an attachment to find out the truth.

Henry Zhang and Ren Tingting looked at each other, and then said: "It's not too late, let's go and have a look."

(End of this chapter)