Haunted?
Ye Qiu was dumbfounded when he heard these two words.
In ancient times, many bizarre phenomena that people couldn’t explain were attributed to being haunted.
But in today’s society, where science was developing at a high speed, most things could be explained by science, so how could they be haunted?
It seems that this place is still too backward, and the people are relatively ignorant.
Of course, Ye Qiu couldn’t say these words, or else Qin’s father would get angry.
Ye Qiu followed Father Qin’s words and asked downwards, “Uncle, what do you mean by haunted?”
Father Qin said, “I heard from my relative that the so-called infectious disease actually appeared suddenly a week ago.”
“Before the infectious disease appeared, a big event happened in the village.”
“It was because of this big event that caused Mogan Village to be in a state of unrest and panic now.”
Ye Qiu’s curiosity was aroused and he pursued, “What big event?”
“Do you know why it’s called Mogan Village?”Father Qin asked.
I’m not from here, how would I know?
Ye Qiu spat in his heart and politely shook his head, saying, “I don’t know.”
“Then I’ll tell you about the origin of Mogan Village.”Father Qin pulled out a cigarette and asked Ye Qiu, “Do you smoke?”
“I don’t smoke.”
Ye Qiu hurriedly picked up the lighter from the coffee table and helped Father Qin light the cigarette.
Father Qin took a drag on his cigarette before slowly saying, “This cigarette tastes pretty good.”
Grandpa, quickly tell me about Mogan Village.
Ye Qiu was in a hurry in his heart, but he smiled on his face without losing his politeness.
Father Qin took two more puffs of his cigarette before he narrated.
“Mogan Village is deep in the mountains, surrounded by mountains on all sides, almost isolated from the world, hundreds of years ago, it was a piece of wasteland.”
“In the Republic of China, the warlords were fighting, the world was in chaos, and the people were not happy, at that time, people didn’t have anything to eat, and there were refugees everywhere.”
“I don’t know where some refugees came from, but they stopped at the location of the current Moganshan Village, opened up land and planted there, and have been rooted ever since.”
“Over time, the village was formed.”
When Qin’s father said this, he picked up an orange from the fruit plate and handed it to Ye Qiu, saying, “It’ll take a while for the wife to cook, so Xiao Ye, you have an orange.”
Grandpa, can you tell the story properly and not interrupt?
Ye Qiu was speechless.
However, this was Father Qin’s intention, he couldn’t refuse it, and after receiving the orange, he couldn’t wait to say, “You’d better tell me about Mogan Village.”
“Don’t be in a hurry, let me slowly tell you.”
Like a storyteller, Qin’s father said, “It is said that people’s hearts are unpredictable, but in my opinion, the most inscrutable thing is God’s mind.”
“Before the founding of the country, Mogan Village had abundant rainfall all year round, so at that time, Mogan Village was called Multi-Water Village. However, since from the year of the founding of the country, Mogan Village not only had less rain, but also suffered great droughts every year.”
“The most serious time, three years did not rain a grain of rain, crops are sweating to death, the villagers to eat water has become a problem, need to pick water from more than ten miles away to eat.”
“A month or two months everyone still bear, but after a long time, everyone thought, this is not the way to go on.”
“By then, I’m afraid that if we don’t starve to death, we’ll die of thirst first.”
“Then there is really no way out, the villagers looked for a feng shui gentleman to calculate a fortune, you guess what the feng shui gentleman said?”
“What did it say?”Ye Qiu asked.
Father Qin said, “The Feng Shui gentleman said that it was because the village name was not well acquired, and that there used to be a lot of rain, which is why there is a drought now, it’s called the opposite of what’s right, so he personally gave a new village name to Doshui Village.”
Ye Qiu guessed it at once and asked, “This new village name is Mogan Village?”
“That’s right, you melon child brain is so smart.”Father Qin spoke in dialect and then said, “Mogan Mogan means I hope this place won’t be in a drought anymore.”
“The name of the village was changed, and the people waited with bated breath for the heavens to send rain.”
“Waiting and waiting, waiting and waiting, waiting for half a month, not a single grain of rain.”
“The villagers felt that the people had been cheated by the Feng Shui master, and collectively went to the Feng Shui master to settle the score.”
“The feng shui master told everyone that since the heavens don’t send rain, they should find their own way out.”
“The feng shui master took a compass and searched inside and outside of Mogan Village for three days, and finally, marked nine places.”
“Then, he asked the villagers to dig water wells according to his marks.”
“Not to mention, this time, the Feng Shui master was very reliable, the nine places he marked, all of them appeared underground spring water.”
“From then on, these nine wells became the foundation of Mogan Village’s survival.”
“Later on, although Mogan Village had plenty of rain, there were no long droughts, and the state also installed running water for the villagers, these nine wells, however, have always remained.”
Ye Qiu suddenly realised something was wrong.
He was asking about the haunting, and Father Qin had spoken for half a day about the past of Mogan Village, which had absolutely nothing to do with the haunting.
“Uncle, what exactly is that haunting all about?”Ye Qiu asked.
Father Qin said, “It’s going to start from those nine water wells, a week ago, a child accidentally fell into a water well, and the person drowned in it, and I heard that he was still only a few years old.”
“A young man who was good at water went down to retrieve the body, and the next day, he died at home.”
“It is said that the young man died with his eyes wide open, as if he had seen something horrible before he died.”
“The young man was the first to die, and several others died one after another behind him, and they all died in the same way as the young man, with no external injuries on their bodies.”
“That’s why the villagers suspected an infectious disease.”
“The town sent a doctor to investigate a few days ago, and he also died.”
Father Qin reminded Ye Qiu and said, “Therefore, Mogan Village must not be visited.”
Ye Qiu was recalling what Qin’s father had just said, and what made him feel rather strange was that Qin’s father lived in the town, so how did he know so much about Mogan Village?
Even if he had relatives in Mogan Village, it was impossible for him to grasp the situation so clearly, right?
Unless it was
village cadres!
“Uncle, what exactly is that relative of yours?”Ye Qiu asked.
“That relative of mine is the village chief of Mogan Village and my distant cousin.”Qin’s father hesitated for a moment and said, “That cousin of mine told me about Mogan Village because he wanted me to give a word to Wan’er to see if he could ask for Wan’er’s help to hire a few experts from Jiangzhou to go to Mogan Village to take a look at it.”
“Wan’er’s former man, who runs an ambulance at Jiangzhou Central Hospital, knows quite a few experts.”
“It’s just that, when people leave, not to mention that Wan’er’s man has been dead for several years, how could other experts give Wan’er face.”
“So, I didn’t tell Wan Er about this matter.”
So it was like this.
“Based on this, you can’t conclude that Mogan Village is haunted, right?”Ye Qiu laughed.
“Of course it’s more than that, there’s also a weird thing that happened in Mogan Village.”
Qin’s father said mysteriously, “Those who died, after they were buried, their graves were ploughed up the next day and their bodies were gone. You say, what is this if not haunted?”
