cloudy day

Chapter 17 The Dragon King's Wife

Back in the village, I had mixed feelings in my heart. This 60 check was paid by Mr. Jiang with his life.

I came to the wing room where my adoptive father lived, and seeing his sickly appearance, I really didn't know whether I should tell him about Grandpa Jiang.

But to my surprise, when my adoptive father saw me coming back, he asked indifferently: "Changsheng, is your grandpa Jiang dead?"

"Father, how do you know?" I looked at the small wooden table in front of my adoptive father, on which there were many toothpicks, and I understood it all at once.

The adoptive father used to be a famous fortune teller. He didn't use tortoise shells, copper coins, or compasses. He only relied on ordinary objects such as stones and branches to predict good and bad fortune.

"You shouldn't have provoked the Ghost Dragon King, and you shouldn't have fished up that incorruptible female corpse. You've all been used by that old woman." The adoptive father said coldly.

"What do you mean? Dad, do you know something?" I asked in surprise.

"Tell dad first, what happened to you today?" asked the adoptive father, and I told the whole story about it.

The adoptive father snorted coldly after hearing this, "This non-rotten female corpse is the wife of the Dragon King. It is true that she was treated as a living sacrifice, but she is old enough to be the mother of that old woman."

"What!" I exclaimed in surprise.

"This incident happened during the period of the Republic of China, around 1915. At that time, there were frequent floods, and the villagers were ignorant, so they threw a young girl in the blooming season into the river as a living sacrifice. Also, this female corpse was almost a hundred years old. The reason is not because of the Ghost Dragon King, but because of the stagnant water called Ruo Shui!"

"Then... who is that old woman, why did she lie to us, she... what does she want this incorruptible female corpse?" I asked suspiciously.

"I don't know the details of the old woman, but once this incorruptible female body is salvaged, it will definitely bring disaster. Maybe not only the villagers of this village, but even our father and son will be implicated in it." Adoptive father Said seriously.

"Why...how did this happen? I was wrong. I killed Grandpa Jiang." I regretted and said dejectedly.

"You don't have to be too guilty. Whether it is Sun Xingwang or Mr. Jiang, you just let the person who should have died return to death. In fact, two days ago, I calculated that Mr. Jiang's life was exhausted. He can live for half of his life That's enough for now."

I heaved a long sigh, and when my adoptive father said this, he suddenly smiled wryly, and said to himself in a low voice: "Why not myself."

Hearing this, I suddenly remembered something, and couldn't help asking: "Father, when Mrs. Jin got the female corpse, the shackles on her body disappeared, and she is exactly the same as you...Father, are you What are you hiding from me? Or should I say, how many things have you been hiding from me? "

My adoptive father, like me, has a secret that has been hidden for more than ten years, that is, he has no shackles!
When I asked this question, my adoptive father frowned, and the expression on his face became uncertain. After a long time, he said: "The time is not right now, I will definitely tell you in a few days."

The adoptive father coughed a few times and fell asleep again in bed. When I thought of Mr. Jiang's death, I didn't have the mood to ask any more questions.

I buried Mr. Jiang's pipe pot in the yard, and went to find someone to make a tombstone.As for the check for 60 yuan, I will take a bus at the entrance of the village early tomorrow morning, go to the bank in the county to exchange it, and then buy some supplements for my adoptive father.

In the evening, I came to the kitchen alone, opened the refrigerator to find a piece of meat, and wanted to make a meat dish for my adoptive father.

But when I cut the meat, I found a terrible thing, the meat on the cutting board was not pork, but human flesh!I found several human hairs and nails in the flesh...

Sure enough, the body that Mr. Jiang chopped up with a hatchet was not burned that day. When I thought of every meat dish I ate during this period, I couldn't help feeling sick and retching.

In the evening, I made some simple vegetarian food, and my adoptive father fell asleep after drinking a few mouthfuls of porridge.And I went back to the room with a lot of thoughts, and many things lingered in my mind, which made me unable to fall asleep for a long time.

Mr. Jiang was gone, and my adoptive father was sick all day long in bed. I suddenly became even more lonely, and there was no one to talk to.

I'm a little homesick. Although I hate the people in the village in my heart, I still have some good memories after all.

I didn't know how long I was immersed in the memories, and suddenly at this moment, the moonlight outside the window gradually dimmed, and the surrounding air seemed to become a bit cold, and I vaguely saw two dark figures Into the yard...

(End of this chapter)