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Chapter 20 Bizarre Disappearance
Xiao Fang is my classmate in elementary school and junior high school. He is very optimistic. He is very straightforward and even feels a little silly because of his sincerity. Of course, Xiao Fang is just his pseudonym.Because I had a bad habit of telling ghost stories to scare my classmates since I was a child, so I told him horror and ghost stories I heard from my family and neighbors when I was free, which scared him so much that he could only sleep with the light on every night.

Because of my curiosity and the fact that there are always ghost stories to finish, I am also particularly keen on collecting supernatural and ghost stories when chatting with my classmates, so I really heard many stories that I dare not Imagine things, and then know many strange legends.

Regarding the stories I learned from Xiaofang, I will mention them in turn in these chapters.The world is huge and endless, and the unsolved mysteries are like the water in the vast sea and the stars in the sky, which cannot be investigated one by one. But for such incidents, I think it is necessary to write them down for the experts to answer , and let the general public know the truth.

Xiaofang's village is called Hongxing Village, which is far away from the town, but because I want to get a better education like me, I went to the town's primary school.

So, I was destined to become a classmate with him, and then became a good friend who talked about everything. I would tell him first if there were any new and strange stories. Every time I saw the frightened expression on his face, I would always remember it in my heart secretly happy.

I don't think I'm an evil person, but I seem to be particularly interested in strange ghosts and the like since I was a child.And just like a preacher, there are always some strange theories that can convince the students to believe it is true. However, although there are many stories that are purely nonsense to scare people, there are still many true stories.

These true stories are still deep in my memory, and I still tell them to people around me from time to time, hoping to get more useful information about souls, reincarnation, etc. from them, to prove my belief that there are other lives in the world The fact that the form exists.The stories told in this book are selected from those real cases, and they are written as a kind of commemoration.

Xiaofang's village is also a large village with a relatively large population, so they are relatively well-informed in the dissemination of news. Whoever finds something strange in any family will spread it to everyone's ears as soon as possible.On the one hand, it is due to the credit of those women who have broken mouths. On the other hand, it also fully shows that people at that time did not have much entertainment and were more keen to talk about these anecdotes after dinner.

Their village has the layout of an ordinary village. In front of the village is a weir pond, and in front of the weir pond is a threshing ground. Our place is also called a rice field.It is usually an empty place where debris is piled up, and it is also a square where big dramas are sung and movies are played in rural areas, but this square is full of uneven dirt.Even if it is just a simple dirt field, it is also a place for children to play.There is a road in front of the threshing floor. This layout is very common, and almost every village in our area is like this.

Because there are many mountains and trees, the back of the house is almost all hills and hills, and it looks like a lush green in summer.As I said before, no one knows how many strange and ghostly things are hidden in the mountains. Of course, the coffin stone cannibalism also happened in the mountains this time.

The day when Xiao Fang told me about this incident seemed to be in the evening. I vaguely remember that the sun was shining on half of the sky. Under the towering fir tree in the school, he was reminiscing while telling me, his tone was plain and slow, like It is very difficult to search for the ins and outs of this matter in my memory, and I am afraid that I will miss a little useful information.

It was the season of falling leaves, the two of us just sat on the grass under the tree and talked about stories and heart-to-heart conversations. The warm and comfortable orange sunlight shone through the leaves above his head and sprinkled sparsely on his clothes, like a dense brocade. The dark embroidery turned his unremarkable black dress into a beautiful mottled picture.These situations left such a deep impression in my mind that I was surprised when I told this story. I deeply thought that those beautiful years had already passed away with time, but I didn’t know that there are still some things that stay once they stay. decades.

I listened attentively and didn't interrupt him because I had never heard this story before.Unlike those legends about gods and ghosts, the fact that this stone can eat people and grow into a coffin really shocked me like never before, so much so that it is still fresh in my memory.Although I didn't experience it personally, I almost figured out the cause and process of the whole incident and the general situation.

The origin of the incident is that several cattle herders mysteriously disappeared after herding cattle on the mountain one after another, and even the bones were not found.At that time, every family or several families in the southern rice-growing areas would raise cattle to help with farm work and reduce people's burden.So basically the adults have gone to the fields, and the older children will lead the buffaloes that are not working, to the river beach or where there is grass on the hillside to graze.

Generally speaking, the task of herding cattle is not too tiring, so many playful children tie the cattle to a tree and go to other places to play for a while with other friends.Because cattle like to eat tender grass, the hillsides where cattle are herded are generally places where the grass grows abundantly.Of course, there are no tall and dense trees growing, because there are no wild animals in the wide land, so the parents are quite at ease with their children.

In the countryside, it is common to see a five or six-year-old child grazing on a hillside with a strong cattle, whose small body is not as tall as the cow's leg.When encountering a disobedient cow, as long as it sees grass on the ground, it will not move a step no matter how much you pull it, until it eats up all the grass that can be seen within the range of its eyes.The face of the child who was pulling the cow rope desperately turned red and had a ferocious and helpless expression, which is really funny and interesting.

Children today may not be able to imagine it, but at that time it was quite normal in the eyes of adults. "The shepherd boy rides the ox, and the sound of singing inspires Lin Yue..." The shepherd boy in the ancient poem seems to be at ease, but he is really helpless. Children in places with limited living conditions are laborers.But fortunately, farm cattle are generally mild-tempered and will not hurt people for no reason unless wearing red clothes will make the cattle easily angry and attack people.

As Xiao Fang spoke, his expression was a little painful, as if he was about to say something he couldn't bear, tears flickered in his eyes.It turned out that in addition to the few children who started missing, his family's cattle also disappeared.It was just because he was playful for a while and forgot to tie the cattle rope to a fixed place, so that the cattle later climbed up the mountain and disappeared like those young children.

He said that the cow was a very valuable property of his family, and the family spent a lot of money to buy it back.At the same time, he also watched the cow grow up. It can be said that he grew up with the cow from a small calf to a big buffalo, and there is an indescribable relationship between them.He also said that the cow is very docile. When he was very young, the cow would lower its head because it was too short, so he could easily climb along the cow's head and neck to sit on the cow's back.

"My cow doesn't need me to graze at all. He will carry me to find a place with grass and then graze obediently. There is no need to tie the leash. When he is full, he will moo~ I heard a few times. So I went home with it directly. So I don’t feel tired at all when shepherding the cow, and I still have a lot of time to play with the children. I like that cow very much. Unfortunately, I have been used to not tying the rope and finally lost it... ..." On Xiao Fang's 11-year-old face, there was the pain and regret of losing a loved one.

It turned out that at the beginning, the children disappeared one after another, and everyone in the village thought it was the work of wild animals.They speculated that the wild dogs or wolves that hadn't appeared for a long time had returned to the nearby forests, so they told their children not to go too far to herd cattle, and they were not allowed to play hide-and-seek on the densely forested mountains. game.From the loss of the first child and the bones were not found by the family for half a month, to the disappearance of the second and third children on the way to herd cattle, the villagers mobilized all relatives and friends to go up the mountain to look for them, but I've been searching the surrounding mountains for several months and have found nothing.Good people don't just disappear, there's definitely something they're missing.Apart from wild beasts, the villagers really couldn't think of anything else that could snatch children away.

People in that era were still hardworking and simple, and there were not as many human traffickers in rural areas as there are now, so it cannot be man-made, but what exactly took the children away?The perplexed villagers even invited witches and ghosts to do the calculations. As a result, those who had hoped for the child's survival felt hopeless, and their hearts were shrouded in great loss and bitter chills.Because those people said that the children were all dead, but they learned from the children that they were all swallowed by an unknown object, and there were no bones left when they died.

"From the mouths of those children, aren't they all dead?" I couldn't help interjecting curiously.

Speaking of Yincha and the sorceress, Xiaofang's eyes revealed an inconceivable miraculous look, which also eased his sadness just now. "Those witches don't know what strange abilities they have. They just burn some paper money and yellow paper with cinnabar symbols on them, and make some gestures that I haven't seen before. They dance and dance while reciting spells that I don't understand. After a while, he stood straight on the ground and began to speak in the tone of those children. At that time, most people in the village were present and saw that scene. I won’t lie to you. At that time, my grandma didn’t let me see it, but because of curiosity I also secretly hid in the crowd and saw it."

"It's really the same as the tone of the three missing children. Her tone of voice started to become the first child, then the second child, and then the third child. Except for her appearance, even her demeanor is different. It seems to have changed into the usual appearance of those children, and the tone is the same. After telling the whole thing, the sorceress fell to the ground and did not move. It took a long time to wake up and her face was as pale as dead. I was scared at the time One jump, but the grown-ups said that it was because she wasted mana that she became weak and said that this witch is so powerful that she can talk to three people in the underworld one after another." Xiao Fang explained to me impatiently.

"What is that unknown object? It can swallow people alive without leaving any bones. It's too scary!" At that time, I felt as if I had heard the Arabian Nights, which was unbelievable.

"It seems that those children just cried and complained but didn't explain the thing that swallowed them clearly, and the witch was so weak because of this incident that she couldn't even get out of bed. I think she seems to be sick, although she herself said It’s not a disease, but anyway, she said that she can’t go to the underworld, or she will be killed.” After a pause, Xiao Fang continued, “That’s why the villagers invited another errand, and the errand looked just like me. The same as ordinary people, but he is really capable, saying that the unknown object is an evil stone, which looks like a coffin, and it may really be a coffin made by Shenmu. It has become a fossil of an evil spirit. Just like what the sorceress said, the coffin fossil is on the east mountain."

(End of this chapter)