Chapter 4

This woman died very strangely.

Later, according to the woman's husband Martin, that day she and the child back to sleep well, in the middle of the night, I heard a movement in the yard, but during the day to do a day of farm work, tired to death, even the eyes can not be opened, vaguely as if someone shouted her wife's name, he did not know if he was sleepy. After not long, his wife suddenly climbed out of bed, Martin turned over and asked what she went to do. Martin's wife did not respond, he thought she was going to the outhouse, did not ask more questions, and went straight to sleep. Woke up the next day, but found that his wife was not in bed, and could not be found anywhere, so they greeted a few neighbors to look, full of what the village was looking for, froze to find people, and finally launched the whole village to look for, the results in the back of the mountain to find her body.

When the crowd saw the body of Martin's wife, everyone was too scared to come close.

The villagers have not seen such a tragic death, the body does not know what was bitten are bloody mouth, a foot was gnawed only white bones, the most terrible thing is that the corner of this woman's mouth is still with a trace of bizarre smile, the eyes are still open. Martin hugged his head and cried, and the village helped him put the body at home.

According to the tradition of the village, the body should be parked at home for three days before burial.

Being neighbors in the same village, my father bought some paper money and went to offer his condolences to Martin's wife.

When the woman's coffin was in front of the fire pot to burn paper, a weird thing appeared, other people burn paper well, not a general effort to burn clean, only a pile of ashes, but my dad bought yellow paper thrown into the fire pot, froze not burn, to the top of the high number of white wine poured on the top, but also burned only a small amount of half, and soon extinguished to go.

I do not know where to blow a strange wind, the fire pot of paper ash is blown out of the basin, and my father will get dusty. This fire paper can not be burned, on the three incense, but this burning incense just lit not long, there are two incense sticks broken, the middle of the incense burner is intact, the two sides of the incense but from the middle of the broken, this is the so-called three long and two short. The surrounding people see this situation, and all change their faces, burning incense like the deceased come to the incense people have grievances.

My dad was also very frightened, a person hurried back home and told my grandfather about this matter.

Grandpa sighed, knowing that this matter was not simple. A person who understands, that Martin's wife's death has something to do with me. Because I gave his son a little fat drink blood thing, Martin's wife beat me, and then she had an accident at night.

At first, the Taoist priest said that I have a robbery every three years, either I die or someone else dies, and now Martin's wife is dead, which is exactly why I should be robbed.

And Martin's wife on the body of those large and small wounds, obviously beasts to gnaw, look at the teeth marks, very much like weasels and foxes to bite out. The whole village knows, that the day I was born, hundreds of weasels and foxes around the door of my house kowtow, and every day there are weasels and foxes to send me wild animals.

Now everyone in the village began to talk, saying that I had killed her.

At first, the people in the village were only skeptical. But the next day, the matter was confirmed.

Because on the night my dad came back from mourning Martin's wife, my whole family had a horrible dream, except me. In the dream, Martin's wife came to my house, tiptoeing on one foot, the other all white and bony, with a sinister smile on her lips. Telling my family that it was I who had killed her, that she wanted me to go and pay for her life, and that she wanted my family to kill me, or else our whole family would be buried with her. That night, Martin also had a dream that his wife came back and cried in front of him, saying that it was me who killed her and asked him to go and kill me, only then could she leave in peace. Early in the morning, Martin found my house, looking at me with a murderous look in his eyes, and my family to ask for an explanation, with a machete in his hand. My parents were very panicked, did not know what to do, and finally my grandfather stepped in, pushed me out, and said to Martin with a cold face: "If you think that this child has harmed your wife, you can kill him to pay for your wife's life. If you have the guts, do it now." Martin how dare he do it, if he kills me, he will also be shot, and in the end, he can only leave.

The coffin sat in Martin's house for three days before it was finally buried. On the day of the burial, the whole sky was grey, without any wind. The village found a few young men to carry the coffin, but when the coffin only reached the door of the house, the rope suddenly broke. This is a very bad omen, there is a saying in the village, the coffin out of the door, until the cemetery, the coffin can not fall to the ground, but this just out of the door, the coffin rope broke, the coffin fell to the ground, this is very inauspicious, it is going to be a big thing.

Martin sees this situation, lying on the coffin crying bitterly, while crying while saying: "Dear, I know you died unjustly refused to go, if you have any grievances in your heart, find the person who harmed you to go ...."

When Martin was hugging the coffin and crying bitterly, a sound suddenly came from behind him. Just like the day I was first born, hundreds of weasels and foxes appeared all at once near Ma Laosan's front door.

Among them was a surprisingly large weasel, with white fur from the top of its head to its back. This huge weasel led hundreds of weasels and foxes to the front of the coffin. The people around it were scared and backed away, and some of the less courageous ones were too scared to run with weak legs and sat down directly on the ground.

The weasel with white hair on its back came to the coffin of Martin's wife, walked around the coffin three times, stretched out a furry paw, and slapped the coffin three times in a row, emitting a dull sound of "dong dong".

Afterward, the big weasel left quickly with a group of animals. As soon as the weasels and foxes left, the young men who carried the coffin tried to lift it again, and this time, the coffin could be moved. After the weasel with white hair on its back slapped the coffin three times, the coffin was finally buried successfully.

But the day after she was buried, people found that her grave had been dug up and her body had disappeared.

On the night of Martin's wife's burial, the body had broken out of the coffin, because she had come to my house at midnight.

At that time, our village (Huangshan Village), was impoverished, the village had not yet been connected to electricity, and every family lit candles and paraffin lamps.

Even so, people in the village didn't bother to light them, so they went to bed early.

In the middle of the night, my parents were sleeping soundly when they suddenly heard a "thumping" sound coming from the bedroom window, very rhythmic, three long and one short.

My parents were very tired after a long day's work on the farm. At first, they thought it was the wind or bats banging on the window, and didn't pay any attention to it.

But after a while, the knocking sound was still there, and it was getting increasingly urgent, still three long and one short.

My dad crawled up in a daze and opened the window, wanting to see what was banging on the window outside.

Never thought that when this window was opened, firstly a putrid smell greeted him, and then he saw a big puffy face full of corpse spots, which was the dead Martin's wife.

The corners of Martin's wife's mouth still had the same kind of weird smile that she had when she died.

As soon as he saw this big face, my dad instantly came to his senses, and let out a terrified scream, dropping his bum to the ground. The scream woke up my sleeping mother and me.I can never forget the horrible face of Martin's wife, which used to give me many nightmares in my sleep. After my mother saw Martin's wife, she was so scared that she couldn't make a sound at all, she just hugged me tightly and shivered all over.

At this time, Martin's wife suddenly opened her mouth and spoke, she first let out a burst of oozing laughter, and her eyes looked straight at me, "There are still four days, there are still four days ..." Father's screams, woke up the grandfather sleeping in the east room, he rushed in carrying a snowy big knife, glanced at his father who was sitting paralyzed on the floor, and his mother who was shivering, and followed their gaze in the direction of the window, which also made him shiver with fear.

The old man, after all, was a veteran who had served in the army and killed Japs, and although he was also panicked in his heart, he was much more calm than the two of them.

"Martin's wife, I know you have grievances in your heart, this is all fate, no one else can blame you, old man I advise you to hurry up and leave, or else this big knife in my hand will be impolite to you, I don't know how many Japs have died under this knife, can you be any more ferocious than that little brat? I don't care about one more of you." Grandpa shook the snowy big knife in his hand.