Chapter 017 Retribution

Li Daming quickly covered the child's mouth and said, "Okay, okay, it's just an Apple phone. I'll buy it for you."
Cai Youshan's eyes rolled around: "Place your order now!"
Li Daming took out his cell phone and spread his hands: "The store is closed tonight, I will buy it for you tomorrow morning." I almost laughed out loud. Cai Youshan took it seriously and rolled his eyes: "Don't lie to me."
Li Daming said, "We have bought all of them for your brother, so how can we miss your share? Don't worry, we can drive one sheep and tie two sheep."
Cai Youshan and Cai Youhai led us into the yard, repeatedly telling us not to make any noise, and they led us to sneak along the wall. The yard was dark at night, with no chickens crowing or dogs barking, and only the occasional sound of crickets coming from outside the wall. We sneaked to the backyard, and Cai Youhai pointed to a lighted window and whispered, "My dad is there."
We slowly crept over and looked through the window. It was a typical rural room with bright red and green peony paintings on the wall and an old-fashioned wall clock ticking. Cai Cheng was the only one in the room, sitting cross-legged on the kang with a small table in front of him, on which were fried peanuts, green onions dipped in soybean paste, and a bottle of cheap white wine. He drank until his face was red, but he was not drunk at all. He ate peanuts and hummed a little tune.
Uncle Zhong gestured for us to disperse. He took out a piece of red paper and a pair of scissors from his bag. His fingers were as fast as butterflies as he cut the paper into the image of a little girl. It was a silhouette with a ponytail. It looked simple, but it was indescribably vivid.
A few of us were hiding behind the debris in the backyard and saw Uncle Zhong put the paper-cut on the ground not far from the window. He squatted there, pricked his finger with something, squeezed out the blood, and smeared it on the paper man. Then he took out a long incense stick, lit it, and turned the incense head upside down to burn the hands and feet of the paper man.

It's strange, in the dark night I saw the paper man seemed to move, I thought I was dazzled, and looked carefully, it was too dark, the details were not clear, but I felt that the paper man was indeed moving.
Uncle Zhong stood up, pointed the incense stick at Cai Cheng's rear window, and shouted, "Shh!"
The incense stick broke off and he flicked it with his finger. A streak of light appeared in the darkness and hit the window with a "click" sound. There was an immediate reaction in the room. Cai Cheng yelled, "Who?"
Uncle Zhong retreated immediately, came to our side, and hid behind the sundries.
The back window was open, and Cai Cheng poked his head out to look, but he saw nothing, so he cursed and closed the window. Just then, moonlight came in and shone on the back window, and suddenly a shadow appeared on the window, clearly visible on the window, and it looked very much like a little girl.
We all stared with eyes wide open, especially the brothers Cai Youshan and Cai Youhai, who stared with their mouths wide open.
I suddenly realized that this shadow was projected by the paper man. The image was so realistic.
I don’t know if it’s a psychological effect, but the more I look at the shadow of this little girl, the more it looks like Wang Yue.
The shadow was on the window, her shoulders trembling, as if she was crying, and her expression was so realistic that we seemed to really hear her crying. The window was pushed open, Cai Cheng stuck his head out, and looked around in horror.
Cai Youhai covered his mouth and laughed “Hehehe”, Cai Youshan’s eyes were full of hatred, and the two children’s chests heaved violently as they watched.
Cai Cheng yelled, "Who? I'm not afraid of you. Damn it, why don't you ask other people who I am and what kind of female ghost dares to mess with me!"
He closed the window with a clang. The girl's shadow was projected on the window again, this time more realistically, and her shape was changing, as if she was crying from a distance and slowly approaching, her shadow growing from small to large, and her body twisting and turning.
Although I knew this was some kind of magic trick by Uncle Zhong, it still felt spooky in the middle of the night. The back door suddenly opened, and Cai Cheng rushed out, holding a flashlight in one hand and a shovel in the other. His face was pale, and he leaned against the back wall, trembling and saying, "Don't try to fool me, I'm not afraid."
The flashlight swept across the entire yard, and when we saw the debris, we quickly lowered our heads.
He said to the darkness, "You, who are you?"
Then he was silent for a long while, and suddenly said, "No, no, you can't possibly know me. It was so dark that night. Impossible! Impossible!"
It seemed as if someone was really talking to him.
I don't know why, but the temperature in the yard is also dropping, it's very cold, this kind of cold is different from ordinary cold, it's chilly. Maybe it's my psychology, goose bumps stand up on my back.
Cai Cheng leaned against the wall, gasping for breath as if he had a heart attack. The roar he had just had disappeared, and he was extremely scared.
Uncle Zhong was next to me, and I asked him puzzledly, why was he so scared?
Uncle Zhong smiled faintly: "You can only see the shadow on the window, but he can hear the sound and feel the coldness of the dead. Not to mention him, even the bravest person can't stand it."
Cai Youshan cursed fiercely beside him: "You deserve it! Why don't you die!"
The child's hatred for his father has reached its peak.
At this moment, Cai Cheng suddenly rushed towards us.
I was shocked, and the two children turned pale. Although they hated their father, they were also afraid of him.
The two children subconsciously tried to run, but were held back by Uncle Zhong on the left and right. The old man's hands were like iron pliers, holding the two children so tightly that they could not move.
Cai Cheng ran over and didn't notice us, but rushed out directly to the outside of the yard. Uncle Zhong said, "Follow me!"

We all got up and chased after him. Cai Cheng ran very fast, heading out of the village. We followed him panting.
After leaving the village and entering the mountain road, Cai Cheng was still running up the mountain. Uncle Zhong looked up at the mountains behind him. At this time, the moonlight was like water, reflecting the darkness of the mountains and forests. Thick black fog was lingering in the mountains. Uncle Zhong took a breath and said, "What a fierce feng shui, what a strong resentment."
Cai Youhai said: "The back mountain is the graveyard of our village. I don't know how many people were buried there in the past. In recent years, it seems that burials are not allowed and the only options are burning. We don't dare to go to the back mountain to play casually."
His brother Cai Youshan said viciously: "You are just cowards. I went to the back mountain and dug a grave and found a few bones."
After hearing this, we adults fell silent. Li Daming looked unhappy and exchanged glances with me.
Cai Cheng was no longer visible, so we hurried to catch up with him. It was a long mountain road with forests and weeds on the side. It took more than ten minutes to reach the real foot of the mountain. We saw Cai Cheng standing there, staring blankly at a large patch of grass.
Uncle Zhong sneered: "The more noisy a person is in life, the more he fears ghosts and gods. Just a little trick will bring out the deepest secrets in his heart."
Cai Cheng knelt on the grass, his shoulders shaking at first, then he started crying, and he seemed to be saying something.
We walked slowly towards him, getting closer and closer, but he didn't react at all and just kept crying.
Uncle Zhong stood behind him and said in a deep voice, "Cai Cheng, more than a decade ago, you raped a little girl here."
"I, I was wrong." Cai Cheng cried loudly: "Please, don't bother me. I had nightmares after that and even went to the mountains to worship Buddha."
Uncle Zhong's paper-cutting tonight was just a prelude. Cai Cheng had actually been suspicious for a long time. I was a little suspicious, maybe Wang Yue had cast a spell to punish him before.
"Then why are you still so stubborn and have not changed?" Uncle Zhong asked.
Cai Cheng did not answer, but kept kowtowing, his face covered in mud, a grown man crying out of breath. Uncle Zhong took another step closer and repeated in a harsh voice: "Why are you so stubborn and have not changed until now?!"
Cai Cheng got up and walked into the bushes step by step, looking for something with his eyes wide open. We followed him. The temperature was very low at night and the bushes were very dense, making people uncomfortable.
Cai Cheng suddenly stopped and stared at a big tree. As he stared, he fell to his knees, howling and kowtowing.
I felt sad, as if I saw Wang Yue coming out of the mountain more than a decade ago and meeting Cai Cheng. Seeing that there was no one on the mountain road, Cai Cheng was so bold that he grabbed the little girl's arm and dragged her deep into the grass. It was in front of this big tree that Cai Cheng committed a crime. His momentary lust brought the little girl a tragic life.
Wang Yue's eccentric personality was closely related to two major events in her childhood: the death of her father and this incident.
At this moment, I really couldn't bear it anymore, so I went up and kicked him in the butt. Cai Cheng stumbled and hit his head against a tree. When he raised his head, his face was covered in blood.
He looked sad, like a timid child. At this time, his two sons, Cai Youshan and Cai Youhai, found their father so cowardly, and they rushed over without hesitation and beat up their father.
The two young boys beat up their own father, and they killed him. Cai Youshan, in particular, pinned Cai Cheng to the ground, kicked him, and even jumped up and stepped on him. Cai Cheng did not resist, but rolled on the ground holding his head, crushing the surrounding weeds.
Although I hated this man very much, this scene was really infuriating. It was really against human ethics for a son to beat his father. I was about to step forward to stop him, but my arm was grabbed. I turned around and saw that it was Li Daming.
"This is retribution." Li Daming said calmly under the moonlight.

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