When I was a child, I heard my parents tell the real story of what happened to the neighbor's daughter Shufang, who was married, which sounded really unbelievable.
Shufang just arrived at her in-laws' house for more than a month, about one night in November, she washed her feet and went to pour foot wash water outside the courtyard dam, the family thought she was chatting with the neighbors and did not find her in time, but after a long time, she did not return, the family began to panic. He began to call out her name, only to see the foot wash basin being thrown on the slope outside the courtyard dam, but he did not see her figure, nor did he hear the answer.
Soon, it alarmed the surrounding neighbors, and everyone took a flashlight to help find it. The shouts spread farther and farther away, and the whole team, large and small, young and old, panicked. In front of her house is a big weir pond, behind the house is a mountain, they all think that Shufang jumped the weir pond, but her family said that they did not have a conflict, the family was happy to have dinner together at night, there was talk and laughter, there was nothing unusual.
Everyone looked around the weir pond several times, but did not see a sample, and began to look for it separately. Some people continue to look for it along the usual road to catch the market, some people look around their own contracted land, and some people run to her mother's house to find it...
After a long time, everyone wanted to give up, and it was estimated that she had fallen into the weir pond and was ready to wait for dawn to find it, when her husband said that he heard a noise on the mountain behind her house. Several strong men pulled wild grass tree vines and climbed up the mountain with rocks, only to see Shufang dancing around with branches in both hands, whipping herself. "Shufang, Shufang," several people shouted together, and shone flashlights on her in unison, before she stopped dancing her hands. Her husband hugged her, and she collapsed in her husband's arms.
Shufang slept at home for two days before waking up. When the family asked her what had happened, she said she only remembered that someone had tied her up and walked away, and if she didn't leave, the people would beat her, and then she heard someone say that she had been caught wrong, and she didn't know anything. Shufang later returned to her mother's house, and I saw her as if she had a serious illness and didn't say anything.
This scared everyone. For a long time, everyone got up very late in the morning and closed early in the evening. We are even more afraid to run around at night to watch movies or watch TV at other homes. When I grew up and returned to my hometown, I didn't dare to go to the courtyard dam alone at night to rinse my mouth and pour foot wash water.
Until now, I didn't understand what really happened that night to make Shufang behave so strangely.