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Chapter 186: The murderer who cursed for fifty years
The secret was soon revealed.

Xiaohong was put into a pig cage and buried in the ancient river.

From that day on, the young man Chen Lao fell into endless nightmares. As long as he closed his eyes, he could hear Xiao Hong repeating the vows he had made in his ears, and then demanding his life.

Perhaps it was because he had just died, and the seventh day had not yet passed. Even if the little red ghost held a grudge, it could not seek revenge immediately. It could only continue to weaken the magnetic field of the young Chen Lao, patiently waiting for the moment when its strength grew enough to kill the other party.

Eventually the young man Chen realized something was wrong and fled the village in a panic.

However, the strange things did not end there, and Xiaohong's vengeful spirit continued to haunt him.

Lu Yue followed the young man Chen Lao like a shadow.

Witness the other person come up with various solutions to what happened to them.

The young Mr. Chen really was as he said, he had quite a few connections outside and his family was well-off. After all, in that era, it was not an ordinary family to be able to use a phonograph.

In order to get rid of Xiaohong, the young man Chen Lao looked for an expert everywhere.

Finally found a monk who charged a high price.

This monk was completely different from the Master of Ten Commandments that Lu Yue had met before. He looked greasy and fat. In that era of material scarcity, it was amazing that this monk could live so well.

This fat monk really had some skills. He could tell at a glance that Xiaohong died with resentment, and all her flesh and blood had been eaten away, leaving only a skeleton. Even a river could not wash away the resentment in her.

The fat monk asserted that once the first seven days were over, even the gods would not be able to save the young Chen, and some ordinary methods of salvation would be ineffective for Xiaohong, who was full of resentment.

But finally, driven by money, the fat monk came up with a solution. He asked people to go down to the river to salvage Xiaohong's body. Just like how Lu Yue had saved the soul of the little spirit in Changshan Village, the other party also planned to solve the problem through physical salvation.

However, in the end only a headless skeleton was salvaged.

Seeing that the skeleton was incomplete and physical salvation was hopeless, the monk came up with another plan.

Using some means, the skeleton was made into a crutch, claiming that as long as Xiaohong dared to show up by holding the crutch, she would be hit with the crutch, the heavier the better, and the pain caused to the crutch would be transferred to Xiaohong a hundred times or a thousand times.

Just like training a dog, let the other party know who is the master.

This way Xiaohong can't hurt him.

Lu Yue stood unsteadily, his chest heaving, and his eyes becoming increasingly gloomy.

He recalled that when Examiner Zhong used magic to scare Mr. Chen, he tried to help him with good intentions, but the other party held on to the cane tightly. It turned out that this was the truth.

Using this unorthodox method, the young man Chen managed to survive the seventh day.

The memory doesn’t end here.

In the next few days, the young man Chen Lao, who was holding Xiaohong's skeleton crutch, found that although Xiaohong could not hurt him directly, he could not leave the village.

This time, the fat monk performed a ritual directly in the teacher's room, leaving behind some Sanskrit cloth strips and other items to ward off evil spirits. He also used a phonograph to play the Great Compassion Mantra day and night, in order to liberate the resentful soul of Xiaohong, hoping to break this bondage.

This approach obviously doesn't work.

So the fat monk came up with another cruel trick.

That is to change the name of the village.

Buddhism often says that the sea of ​​suffering is boundless and that turning back is the shore.

But the sea of ​​suffering is boundless and no one has ever been able to reach the shore.

The opponent's most important skull is still in the river. As long as the Guhe Village is changed to Kuhai Village, the power of cause and effect of heaven and earth can be used to suppress the evil ghost, making it fall into an endless reincarnation and never be able to come ashore.

Maybe the other party will give up revenge.

In order to save his life, the young man Chen Lao spent a lot of money to change the name of the village.

But the result was once again unexpected. Xiaohong experienced betrayal, deception, torture, and painful reincarnation... Despite all these injuries, she did not give up. Instead, her resentment became stronger.

Even if it couldn't get ashore, it would drag the young man Chen into the water.

As a result, the corpses that were once buried at the bottom of the river were affected by Xiaohong's resentment and began to slowly revive, rushing to the shore again and again.

Some skeletons washed ashore with only one finger.

Some were just a tooth washed ashore.

Some bones are even incomplete.

They rushed to the shore again and again, and although they were covered with wounds, they gathered in more and more numbers, and finally pieced together to form a complete skeleton.

They have only one target, and that is the young man Chen Lao.

The depth of the resentment shocked even the monk. A ghost that had just died and revived was so terrifying and difficult to deal with that he even backed off.

However, under the plea of ​​the young man Chen, who was willing to sell everything he had just to save his life, the monk came up with one last idea. He planned to use the Buddhist law of cause and effect to save the teacher's life.

Buddhism emphasizes cause and effect.

Sow good causes and get good results; sow evil causes and get bad results.

The cause and effect of Xiaohong's death is mostly the teacher's fault.

But the fact that Xiaohong was adopted by a wealthy family and avoided starving to death was also a good result. We just need to transfer the good result of that wealthy family to the young man Chen, so that the young man Chen can offset some of the bad results.

Then find a way to make others share the rest of the consequences.

Thus, under a series of arrangements by the monk, he began to confuse right and wrong, and transferred Xiaohong's resentment towards the young man Chen Lao to the entire village.

Let the entire village bear Xiaohong's curse on behalf of the young man Chen.

The plan was very successful. From then on, people began to die in the village one after another. The first to die was the wealthy family that adopted Xiaohong.

At this time, some villagers thought of Xiaohong before her death, and a feeling of fear surged in their hearts. They wondered if this was Xiaohong's revenge.

For a time, the whole village was in panic.

Then, under the monk's instructions, the young man Chen Lao made up a so-called "River God" legend. The villagers of Guhe Village had little education, and coupled with the strange things that happened in the village, they all believed the lies made up by the teacher.

For a long time afterwards, the whole village gradually calmed down.

The village population has remained at 177.

At this time, Lu Yue finally understood what this number represented.

The human body has 206 bones.

But only Xiaohong's skull was still in the river.

The remaining 177 bones were made into crutches by monks, and they were subjected to continuous torture for fifty years.

This 177 represents Xiaohong’s curse!!!
In the following decades, the villagers of the village, which was renamed Kuhai Village, became more and more convinced of Old Chen. They felt that if it weren't for Old Chen, everyone would probably have died under Xiaohong's curse.

As for the pig cage scandal, that generation of villagers chose to keep it secret. They did not know that Old Chen framed Xiaohong in order to save his own life, nor did they know about the vicious things Old Chen did later.

The villagers of that generation believed that they had committed sins that brought the curse upon themselves.

Thus far, this vicious conspiracy spanning fifty years had proceeded smoothly, with two or even third generations of the entire village shrouded in this curse.

But the real culprit... Old Chen, who was respected by all the villagers, remained at large from beginning to end.

Thanks to the protection of the cane and the good karma, he was able to cleverly avoid every curse and transfer the curses to the villagers.

In order to survive, he is using Xiaohong's curse to kill people! ! !

This is a dead end!!
Good people don't live long, and disasters last for thousands of years.

The final result is that Mr. Chen will enjoy his old age in peace. As for the impact caused by his death... Lu Yue remembered a saying, I don’t care about the flood after I die.

The memory scene receded like a tide.

Lu Yue's vision gradually became clear and he returned to the real world.

Only this time, when he stared at the torn pieces of Sanskrit cloth and the phonograph that emitted distorted sound, an indescribable complex emotion surged in his heart.

Old Chen ruined Xiaohong's life and the entire village. The curse even passed down through the bloodline to the descendants of this village.

The bad things that the other party has done cannot be atoned for by simply posting some Sanskrit cloth strips or reciting some scriptures, not to mention that this kind of hatred will continue to linger in the sea of ​​suffering for fifty years.

The accumulated resentment is unimaginable.

Now that I think about it, that "meddling" grassroots worker a few days ago and the skeleton ghost who just came to Wang Laosan and his sister, these things were all controlled by that old Chen.

He was worried about it all being exposed.

They were also worried that Lu Yue and the other man, disguised as Wang Laosan and his sister, knew something.

Thus killing people to silence them.

In the house, Lu Yue saw some bloodstains again.

But Mr. Chen’s body was never found.

But with the house full of river water, there's no chance of survival.

There is another question, why did Mr. Chen, who has been lingering on for fifty years, get visited by Xiaohong tonight?

Because the so-called good results have been used up?
Lu Yue didn't think so. It was too much of a coincidence.

The problem of the bitter sea has not been solved. Even if the patchwork skeleton controlled by Xiaohong comes ashore, it will not be able to deal with Old Chen who is holding Xiaohong's skeleton crutch, and may even be used by him in reverse.

So... the problem is with the crutch?

Is it broken... or lost?
Lu Yue recalled the figure of the villager he had caught a quick glimpse of earlier, but due to the darkness of the night and his unfamiliarity with the people in this village, he was unable to identify that person.

The problem with the crutch must be related to that villager.

What role did the villager play in this incident?
Who is he?
and many more! ! !

Could that villager be a ghost painter?

Lu Yue frowned and began to make a bold guess. If the other party was really a ghost painter, it would be entirely possible that he killed a villager and made him look like the evil star Li Hu and disguised him in the village in order to achieve his own ulterior motives.

And this also explains why the newborn was born smoothly.

Because he had killed one villager, the numerical balance was not broken.

But why did the ghost painter help Xiaohong?

The other party must have his reasons for doing this.

Just as Lu Yue's thoughts were in a mess, a strong murderous intent suddenly erupted from afar. Lu Yue was shocked and immediately realized that something had happened in Wang Laosan's family.

Could it be that the ghost painter has appeared?
Lu Yue retreated decisively and headed straight to Wang Laosan's house as fast as possible.

As soon as he stepped into Wang Laosan's yard, he saw the female college student holding the bronze axe in both hands, slashing at him fiercely, gritting her teeth and roaring: "You bad man, how dare you pretend to be my brother Lu Yue to tease me, and you even want me to have a baby with you."

"If you dare to pretend to be my idol, I will never coexist with you!"

Lu Yue clasped his hands together and caught the bronze blade with his bare hands.

The bronze axe also sensed its master and submitted like a good child.

After taking back his bronze axe, Lu Yue walked around the room with a serious look in his eyes. He did not find anything unusual. He turned around and saw the confused female college student and asked her what happened.

"You...are you really Brother Lu Yue?"

"Would you like me to tell you a story about a shrimp?"

"No need, you are Brother Lu Yue." The female college student finally woke up from her dream, her eyes flashing with excitement, and she talked about what had just happened.

It turned out that shortly after Lu Yue left, a person who looked exactly like Lu Yue but was wearing different clothes suddenly broke in. As soon as the "Lu Yue" entered the room, he stared at her with lustful eyes and made some moves on her.

Finally, when he saw the bronze axe in the female college student's hand, he reached out for it. The female college student did not think much about it at the time and handed the bronze axe to him.

As a result, the moment that "Lu Yue" came into contact with the bronze axe, the bronze axe suddenly burst out with a strong killing intent...

Lu Yue recalled that the ghost painter behind the scenes once pretended to be him and killed the evil star Li Hu, and now he was using the same trick here again.

Sure enough, the information provided by Erbi was quite reliable.

The other party is in Kuhai Village.

"Oh, right." The female college student suddenly took out a piece of skin from her pocket, "I cut off a piece of that fake Lu Yue."

After the female college student realized that the person in front of her was not the real Lu Yue, she took decisive action and chopped the fake Lu Yue with an axe.

Lu Yue took the piece of skin handed to him by the female college student.

I found that this was the skin at the base of the thigh.

If the female college student swiped a little higher, it would be the fake Lu Yue's life. Of course, the premise is that the fake Lu Yue really has a life.

(End of this chapter)