C2 Evil Breaking

After a long while, his grandfather finally calmed down. He looked at his second uncle and asked, "What is going on? What are you planning to do this time?"

The second uncle said, "There must be a reason behind this. These four children have not rotted for many years, so there must be a reason."

"What reason?" His grandfather stared at his second uncle and asked.

"Maybe..."

The second uncle stopped halfway through his sentence and changed the topic, "I can't make a conclusion before I know the truth. I came back this time to investigate this matter. Don't ask anymore. Just do as I say."

Grandfather had always thought that it was the will of the heavens that the Jiang family was destroyed. He was powerless to do anything about it. However, after hearing what Second Uncle said, it didn't seem to be what he had thought. He became excited and asked Second Uncle what he could do to help.

The second uncle asked his grandfather to prepare a large jar, 36 Blind Snakes, 36 Five Flowered Cocks, and a sack of Mount Tai stones. He had to prepare them within seven days. He would use them on the night of the fifteenth full moon.

A large jar was a good thing. Every household in the countryside had one. It could store food, water, and insects. It was made of white ash, so it was big and heavy. Even a hammer would not be able to break it. Although the Five Flowered Cocks were not ready yet, it shouldn't be a problem for the villagers to gather them. As for the Mount Tai stones, they could just pick them up from Mount Tai. But what was a Blind Snake? A blind snake?

Second Uncle told Grandfather that the so-called Blind Snake was a snake that lived underground since birth, and fed on eggs and larvae. Because it had never seen the light, its eyes had already adapted to darkness, and its vision had already degenerated. It could not see, so it was called the Blind Snake.

After hearing Second Uncle's explanation, Grandfather was stumped. That thing lived underground, so where could he find it? He couldn't dig it out, right? Besides, there was still half a month until spring, and the snakes were still sleeping underground. He couldn't possibly dig out one and wake it up, right? He couldn't tell whether it was blind or not! Moreover, 36 was not a small number.

Second Uncle said that he had to dig it out, and there was no other way. However, Second Uncle provided a clue for Grandfather, saying that the Blind Snake had its own habits of living. It ate, drank, and pooped in different places, and there was a place for it to eat and sleep, as well as a place for it to excretate. When it excreted a lot of things, it would form a kind of fungus. After a long time, the fungus would break out of the ground, and the ground would produce the "Snake Head Mushroom". Digging down along the Snake Head Mushroom, he would be able to find the Blind Snake.

Grandfather recognized the Snake Head Mushroom. It was a kind of ugly fungus on the mountain. Its stem was cylindrical, and it was as tall and thick as a chopstick. It was twisted, and its cover was bright red. There was a sticky spore at the top that had a stinky smell. Looking at it from afar, it looked like a red-headed and white body poisonous snake. It was said that the Snake Head Mushroom was extremely poisonous, and if a person ate it, they would die. However, it was also a good medicine to cure snake poison. If a poisonous snake bit it, it would open up the spores at the top of the Snake Head Mushroom, and there would be a milky white liquid that would flow out, smearing on the wounds. The poison would immediately be cured.

However, the Snake Head Mushroom was a rare item. It grew in the depths of the mountains or on the cliffs. It was not easy to find it, not to mention this season where the grass had not even sprouted.

Later on, it was Second Uncle who suggested that they dig it out and give it to three hundred.

At the beginning of the 1990s, in the remote mountain village, three hundred yuan was not a small amount. Since Grandfather could not afford it, it was fortunate that Second Uncle did not seem to be short of money, so this matter was entrusted to him.

Just like that, that night, Grandfather and Second Uncle took out a large jar and placed the four corpses into it. Early the next morning, Grandfather went to the village to find people to dig out the Blind Snakes.

Under the temptation of three hundred yuan, the entire village, except for the old, weak, sick, and disabled, almost all of them moved out. That large group of people, with their hoes and shovels, almost turned the entire mountain village upside down.

With so many people, they actually gathered all thirty-six Blind Snakes in less than three days. Grandfather also prepared thirty-six five-legged roosters. He even asked someone to go to a quarry in town and brought back a sack of Mount Tai stone that was specially used to carve the tombstone. Second Uncle had everything he wanted. However, because of this, the news of Second Uncle's return also spread.

Our family was the most talked about family in the village. With such a commotion, it aroused everyone's strong curiosity. They all asked Grandfather and Second Uncle what they were looking for.

Grandfather did not know what Second Uncle was going to do, but he subconsciously thought that this matter had to be kept a secret. After all, it was too strange that my brothers did not rot after more than ten years. If the villagers knew about it, they would not know how to discuss it. Therefore, he wanted to find an excuse to cover it up, but he did not expect Second Uncle to open his mouth first. He said, "Evil Breaking."

The moment the two words “Evil Breaking” came out, it caused a huge commotion. That night seven days later, when Second Uncle “Evil Breaking”, our family's small courtyard was filled with people. A large portion of the people had not been able to squeeze in, so they had to climb up the ladder and stool and climb up the wall. They chattered and talked like they had taken stimulants.

However, the atmosphere quickly calmed down when Second Uncle and Grandfather brought out the big jar. When everyone saw what was in the big jar, they quieted down.

At that moment, everyone in the courtyard took two steps back at the same time. They cleared a space in the middle of the courtyard. The big jar was placed on the empty ground. The courtyard was not lit, and under the pale moonlight, the big jar emitted a strange qi movement. The courtyard was so quiet that even a pin drop could be heard. The air froze at that moment, and it was terrifyingly quiet. The temperature seemed to be a few degrees lower than usual. Everyone stared at the big jar and Second Uncle who was standing beside it. They did not know what he was going to do next.

After that, Second Uncle did something that would make everyone remember it for many years, and it would still make their hair stand on end!

Second Uncle first took out the corpses of my four brothers from the urn and placed them on the ground in order. Then, he went into the house and took out a chopping board and a kitchen knife. In front of everyone, he picked up the corpses and placed them on the chopping board. He chopped off a small thumb from each of the corpses and threw them into the urn.

Then, Second Uncle found a thick and big stone stick that looked like a mallet. He threw thirty-six Blind Snakes and thirty-six five-legged roosters into the big urn and used the heavy mallet to smash them.

The dogs were desperate, and the chickens were alive. How could they obediently let Second Uncle smash them? They all ran out with all their might, and the whole scene was like a chicken flying and a dog jumping.

Second Uncle asked someone to help him hold them down so that the chickens would not fly out. When the people in the courtyard heard Second Uncle's words, they all took two steps back. No one dared to go forward. In the end, Grandpa picked up a broom and held the chickens that were flying out.

The Blind Snakes and the chickens could not get out, but they did not give up on struggling before their death. The noise was so loud that the chickens screamed with their throats hoarse. The mournful scream was especially tragic in the silent night. It was mixed with the unique hissing sound of the Blind Snakes. It was like an invisible blade ripping through the night sky and stabbing into one's eardrums. It went straight to the heart, and the sound made one's hair stand on end. Goosebumps rose all over one's body.