Demon husband's exorcism

After four o'clock in the afternoon, Zong Wangchuan finally sorted out the files in Wang Jing's mobile hard drive, and copied all the parts related to the human trafficking activities in Lijia Village, and the two went to Widow Cai to settle the bill together.

Widow Cai was sitting by the bed and folding clothes at this time, when she saw the young man walking towards her, she quickly put the clothes aside, and asked with a smile: "Xiao Zong, Xiao Xiao, are you okay?"

"It's really troubled you these few days."

Zong Wangchuan took out [-] yuan in cash and stuffed it into the hands of Widow Cai: "You take the money."

"Didn't you say you would stay for seven days? Why did you—"

Widow Cai was puzzled.

Xiao Ming lazily said: "If it weren't for Darling's insistence, I would never have thought of staying here for a day if you gave me 100 million, let alone—"

"If you can't speak, don't speak!"

Zong Wangchuan gave him a harsh word, and said to Widow Cai: "There is an urgent matter at home, let me come back overnight."

"Evening? Are you leaving tonight?"

Widow Cai was surprised.

Zong Wangchuan nodded.

Xiao Ming said: "There's no way, I might not see the old man for the last time if I go late."

"It turns out that something happened to a family member, so we really can't delay."

Widow Cai said politely, counted the money, and put the extra five hundred back into Zong Wangchuan's hands: "Xiao Zong, you gave too much."

Zong Wangchuan insisted that he would not accept it, and said, "Sister-in-law has been giving us delicious food and drink in different ways these days, and the extra five hundred is our kindness."

"It turns out that this is the case, then I will accept it with the cheek."

Upon hearing this, Widow Cai accepted the extra 500 yuan with peace of mind, and warmly greeted her, "If you go back overnight, you will definitely be hungry on the way. How about I steam two baskets of meat buns for you to eat on the way?"

"Sister-in-law, you are so kind."

Zong Wangchuan said politely.

According to the agreement with Li Xiaohong, they had to leave Lijiacun before dark, so he spoke as politely as possible at this time, answering every question, not wanting to make troubles.

Seeing his perfunctory attitude, Widow Cai thought he was eager to go home, so she put 500 yuan under her pillow and said, "Okay, you go back to your room to collect your luggage, and I'll go to the kitchen to steam steamed buns."

"Thank you sister-in-law, let's go back to the room first."

Zong Wangchuan pulled Xiao Ming to get out of the room. At this time, there was a "oh -呖 — 呖--" suona sound from outside, and his ears were painful.

"This is--"

Zong Wangchuan looked at Widow Cai.

Widow Cai was also surprised, and said, "This, this, this is too exaggerated."

Zong Wangchuan heard the words, realized that Widow Cai knew the meaning of the suona sound, and asked: "Sister-in-law, can I take the liberty to ask..."

"I know what you want to ask."

Widow Cai sighed, and said, "I'm not going to hide it from you, this kind of suona sound only means one thing in our ten towns and eight villages - whipping corpses to drive away evil spirits."

Hearing this, Zong Wangchuan immediately forgot his original intention of "don't cause extraneous problems", and asked Widow Cai: "Whip the dead body to drive away evil spirits? Whose dead body will be whipped, and what evil spirits will be driven away?"

"I don't know, but [-]% of it has something to do with Li Xiaohong, oh, what a pity!"

Widow Cai sighed and went out to inquire about the situation.

Xiao Ming took the opportunity to ask Zong Wangchuan in a low voice: "Honey, your face suddenly looks so ugly, is it possible that whipping corpses is too much in your concept? Speaking of which, I used to hang a whole forest in the abyss The corpse, whenever the wind blows, the corpse dangles, and it will make a very beautiful... cough, cough, I said it casually, don't take it seriously."

"Don't worry, I don't take it seriously!"

Zong Wangchuan rolled his eyes at him, and explained solemnly:

"Corpse whipping to exorcise evil spirits has appeared as early as primitive times, and it originated from human beings' fear of the unknown, especially the fear of the afterlife.

At the very beginning, the "evil" of whipping corpses to exorcise evil spirits was limited to bizarre deaths, such as mass deaths of livestock and plagues in villages; A natural phenomenon that affects crop yields.

Whenever there was an 'evil', which was believed to be caused by evil spirits, new burials were excavated, fresh corpses were dragged from the graves, flogged publicly, and then dismembered and burned.

They firmly believe that after the corpse is whipped, the "evil" will disappear, the plague will stop, and the rain will come. "

"What if the plague doesn't disappear after the corpse is whipped, and the drought continues?" Xiao Ming asked with a half-smile.

Zong Wangchuan said: "Then dig another grave and carry out a new round of whipping corpse exorcism rituals until there are no graves for them to whip corpses, or the plague disappears and the drought ends."

"How stupid."

Xiao Ming showed disdain.

Zong Wangchuan said: "But the necessary superstition can alleviate people's panic about the unknown and maintain local order and stability."

"At the end of the day, I just don't want to be responsible."

Xiao Ming finished his evaluation calmly, and was about to say a few nasty words when Widow Cai came back.

Her look was very heavy.

"They are going to dig up Li Xiaohong's body, and... and..."

"Whose corpses are there?" Zong Wangchuan asked.

Widow Cai did not speak.

Zong Wangchuan looked out the window and found that the procession of flogging the corpses led to the mass grave. He immediately had an answer in his heart, and said calmly, "Whose grave they dig, it has nothing to do with us."

"Yes, we will return to the city after collecting our luggage."

Xiao Ming and Zong Wangchuan sang together and left Widow Cai's room.

Widow Cai watched them go out, and then she also left the room.

……

……

After Widow Cai went out, she turned and walked into the room of her daughter-in-law Zhou Xiaoxia.

She walked lightly, and she deliberately didn't knock on the door before entering the house. She walked behind Zhou Xiaoxia who was packing things in front of the cabinet, and coughed forcefully.

"Cough! Cough!"

Zhou Xiaoxia's hands trembled in fright, and she hastily closed the cabinet door: "Grandma, what's the matter?"

"I can't come to your house if I have nothing to do?"

Widow Cai's eyes fell on a certain piece of clothing caught in the gap in the cabinet door.

She walked forward with a smile, opened the cabinet door, picked up the caught dress, and said admonishingly: "Zhou Xiaoxia, you have been a wife in our house for so many years, why are you still so careless when you take care of the clothes?"

"It was you who suddenly appeared behind me and frightened me..."

Zhou Xiaoxia complained in a low voice, her voice was so soft that she could hardly hear it.

Widow Cai was not angry either.

She folded the caught clothes in front of Zhou Xiaoxia, put them on a pile of clothes, closed the cabinet door, and said slowly: "Xiaoxia, tell me the truth, you suddenly straightened the cabinet, do you want to sit down?" Mr. Zong's car back to the city?"

Her tone was very gentle, but what she said made Zhou Xiaoxia feel chills all over her body.

"...I'm not...I didn't...I...I never thought...I just..."

"Stop pretending, I have traveled more than you have eaten rice!"

Widow Cai sat down, crossed her legs, looked at Zhou Xiaoxia, and said word by word, "Since my son died, you have been restless and always wanted to live a good life in the city. Today is your chance."

"……you you……"

Zhou Xiaoxia took a breath, and asked with her head held high, "What do you want!"

It was a matter of the future, and she no longer had the submissiveness of the past, and her tone was so tough that it was almost domineering.

Widow Cai didn't speak, but kept tapping on the table.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

……

Every knock made Zhou Xiaoxia frightened.

She dared not speak, and did not know how to speak.

The two of them froze for about 5 minutes.

Finally, Zhou Xiaoxia couldn't hold back anymore, gritted her teeth, and knelt down with a "plop".

"Let me go! When I return to the city, I will ask someone to return the 1 yuan you bought me back then! If you feel that [-] yuan is not enough, I will pay you back [-] yuan! It doesn't matter [-] yuan! Let me go I'm still young, I don't want to waste my good youth in this poor place!"

"You are right. This is a broken place, poor and backward. Even the locals who are born and bred will definitely leave if they have the chance, let alone a bought daughter-in-law like you."

Widow Cai laughed at herself, and her tone was suddenly severe: "But there is one thing that I can't figure out. Since you always wanted to leave, why did you betray Teacher Wang! She originally wanted to take you out of here!"

"Because...because..."

Widow Cai's words made Zhou Xiaoxia choke up for a while, and she held back for a long time before she spoke the second half.

"Because... because I don't believe that they will succeed... I believe that someone will inform this matter, just like I did... I fled halfway and was chased back by the villagers. I came to be that informer...to please the people in the village, maybe they will let me go to the county by car, and then...then I will..."

"Then you can never come back, right!"

"Yes, you are absolutely right!"

Zhou Xiaoxia stood up from the ground, straightened her waist, and looked at Widow Cai.

"I know you look down on me, you think I'm restless, full of scheming, and a murderer!

But Cai Siya, if you hadn't bought me from the traffickers, if you had allowed me to use 1 yuan to redeem me, if you had let me go after your son died...how could I have done such a thing!

It's you who made me what I am today!You ruined me!You killed Wang Jing and the others!It's you!It's you!It's all about you! "

"I see……"

Widow Cai sighed, stood up, and said, "I have something to go out for a while, steamed buns are being steamed in the kitchen, you can go and see the fire."

"...?!"

The sudden change of topic made Zhou Xiaoxia feel confused. Just as she was about to ask, Widow Cai had already left the room.

Zhou Xiaoxia, who was already uneasy, became even more uneasy now.

After some thought, she walked into the kitchen.

The author has something to say: the ancient superstition of whipping corpses to exorcise evil spirits is still quite deep-rooted.

The ancients believed that if the corpse does not decompose, it will become a monster that harms people, such as drought demons and vampires. Whenever strange things happen, they will dig graves and dig out those corpses that have not decayed, beat them, dismember them or even burn them. .

If you want to know more, you can watch the BBC documentary series "A Horrible Truth"...

As for Zhou Xiaoxia, her behavior can be explained by the Stockholm Syndrome. After several failed escapes, she firmly believed that escape was impossible. In order to live better, she voluntarily succumbed to the tyranny of the village and flattered the dominant village chief and others. , assist them, and hate those who can really save her as enemies...

She hates her mother-in-law, looks down on her mother-in-law, but what she does is no nobler than her mother-in-law...