Chapter 5: Putting the Shoes in Their Place

There are no entertainment projects in the countryside, so the village became quiet early, so quiet that even if a pin dropped on the ground, you could clearly hear it.

Li Mazi was really scared. After squatting in the corner for less than half an hour, he broke out in a cold sweat, his face turned rosy, and his hands started to tremble.

"Brother Zhang, are we not in danger now? And how sure are you that you can cure this thing? Tell me everything first, otherwise I will be very panicked."

In fact, I'm more nervous than Li Mazi. If this trick doesn't work, I'm really at my wits' end, and it's very likely that I'll get tangled up in the embroidered shoes.

But in front of Li Mazi, I had to stay calm and just said lightly: "90% sure."

The old broken clock in the hall ticked every second, which made me feel guilty. Time passed very slowly. Only one hour passed, and I shivered three times.

Moreover, the village was very dark, there were no street lights, and even the moon was half-covered by dark clouds. Thinking that there was only a wall between us and that horrible embroidered shoe, I felt all sorts of twitches in my heart.

The yard next door was extremely quiet, so logically speaking, something was wrong!

Because there are no rats or snakes in the deserted houses in the countryside, which is unreasonable. I thought about it, I'm afraid this is the result of that shoe.

After all, that embroidered shoe is too fierce, and animals that cannot see light, such as snakes and rats, have the strongest sense of evil...

When the clock struck twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, all the nerves in my body became tense. If nothing else happened, the embroidered shoes should also have moved.

Sure enough, there was movement coming from the other side.

It seemed like a slight gust of wind blowing into the yard next door, accompanied by the sound of stacked benches falling down.

Li Mazi instantly fell on me and started twitching. I cursed in vain.

Soon, the slight wind stopped, and the dust in the courtyard was flying all over the sky. We were all covered with dust, and we could even breathe in a lot of pot ash. It was really disgusting.

I tried not to sneeze.

Boom, boom! Gradually, footsteps began to be heard in the yard.

The sound was vague at first, but as the footsteps got closer, I could hear it clearly.

It was like a man walking lamely in the yard.

I tried not to let my thoughts wander, but my mind still couldn't help but picture a woman in white clothes with disheveled hair looking for shoes everywhere in the yard.

But when the footsteps approached us, they stopped suddenly. Li Mazi began to twitch again, and my heart was pounding and thinking.

Damn it, could it be that he was discovered?

Li Mazi looked up at the wall unconsciously, which made me very uncomfortable. I began to imagine the long-haired woman climbing up the wall and looking down at us.

Just when I was thinking wildly, bubbles began to bubble in the ancient well, as if the well water was boiling. The sound was very loud, and it was particularly abrupt in this quiet night.

Vaguely, I seemed to hear a woman's miserable cry coming from the ancient well.

The thumping footsteps sounded again, and they reached the well very quickly.

There was a huge sound of jumping into the well, and the boiling well water finally calmed down, and the whole world returned to silence again.

After waiting for another half an hour, there was no further movement.

I just wiped the cold sweat from my forehead and said it's done.

Li Mazi had been so frightened that his whole body was convulsing. When he heard what I said, he took a long breath: "Brother Zhang, please rub your legs for me. My legs are cramping so much..."

I carried Li Mazi to the room and survived this difficult night.

As soon as it dawned, we quickly rushed into the yard.

When the door opened, Li Mazi and I both had goosebumps. The willow branches in the courtyard were well arranged, but the ash from the pot bottoms was blown away. There were two large and small footprints composed of pot ash on the ground, covering the entire courtyard.

And the embroidered shoes I left at the door last night also appeared inexplicably at the edge of the well.

I know that the other embroidered shoe must be in the well. But, how to fish out the shoe underneath?

In the end, Li Mazi, who had rich life experience, found a craftsman in the village who was "drilling wells and fishing for pumps", and used iron hooks to scratch around in the ancient wells.

What we caught at first were all messy debris, aquatic plants, garbage, etc.

But soon, the iron hook hooked a heavy object. The craftsman tried his best to pull it up, but he couldn't pull it up.

Li Mazi and I simply went up to help, and finally pulled the thing out bit by bit.

And when this thing came out of the well, everyone was dumbfounded.

That was actually a broken cabinet!

The cabinet was of an old style, the red paint on the surface was soaked, and the two cabinet doors were tightly locked.

I found an iron bar and finally pried the lock open.

The moment the lock was pried open, the steel rod in my hand fell to the ground with a clang, and Li Mazi next to me screamed and ran away.

A white skeleton huddled ferociously in the cabinet. The coarse clothes on it were not completely rotten, and it could be barely recognized that they were a set of clothes from the Manchu period.

On the skeleton's feet, there was also a blood-red embroidered shoe.

Although the other clothes were soaked, only the red embroidered shoes were still as brand new.

I carefully observed the abdomen of the skeleton and found that there was a small skeleton among the bones in the abdomen. Needless to say, she was pregnant at the time of her death.

All signs indicate that what I encountered was the flesh mark of mother and son.

The neighbor's uncle sighed, squatted aside, lit a cigarette, and started smoking quietly.

I knew that the uncle must know something about the story of this embroidered shoe, so I squatted next to the uncle and asked him to tell it to me.

The uncle obviously didn't want to mention this matter more, and just said a few words: "During the Qing Dynasty, there lived a wealthy family here. The young master of his family was so charming that he made a maidservant pregnant. The maidservant didn't want to She had an abortion, so the young master simply put the maid in a cupboard and sank to the bottom of the well. The pair of embroidered shoes was the only gift the young master gave to the maid, and she cherished it..."

After finishing speaking, the uncle stood up and said, "I'm going to tell the village chief that the whole village will pool some money tomorrow to buy a coffin for her to bury."

And I took off the embroidered shoes on the skeleton's feet when no one was around.

According to the agreement between Li Mazi and I, this embroidered shoe belongs to me. This guy is quite good at getting things done. Not long after he got home, he brought a lot of things in large and small bags to thank me.

He stayed at my house to drink in the evening. After drinking too much, Li Mazi asked me in a daze, why do I accept these things that others see as unlucky? How much can a pair of worn-out shoes cost?

I can’t say much. If I meet someone who knows the ropes, it’s only a few hundred thousand.

Li Mazi immediately spat out the sip of wine he had just drank. I guess his intestines turned green with regret. But he didn't ask me for a share of the money. He still wanted the face.

However, he asked if he found any negative objects in the future, could he split it 50-50?

This was a good thing that could not be found even with a lantern, so I immediately agreed.

After that, I spread the news about the mother-child flesh seal in the circle through my channels. Within a few days, a beer-bellied man with an official accent came to my door. After a brief greeting with me, he proposed the idea of ​​seeing the flesh marks of the mother and child.

Although the mother-child flesh seal is an unlucky thing, as long as it is placed in pairs at home, it can bring good luck in officialdom.

The other party was in the officialdom, so my tone was as respectful as possible, and I praised the mother-child seal to the sky.

The beer belly is quite refreshing, but I just asked, are there any side effects? After getting my absolute approval, he took away the mother-child flesh seal for 800,000 yuan.

Those who make antiques will not open for three years, and they will last for three years after opening.

As for us femininity merchants, we don’t open for ten years, and we only open for ten years!