Chang Wei raised a hand to interrupt me, "When you mention such a little boy, I think I also saw a little boy last night." ”

"You? You saw the little boy last night? No way, it's three o'clock when you come here, how can there be a little boy except hell!"

"No, there's another possibility, that little boy might be my target. ”

I was momentarily speechless, "Little boy, what else can you remember now?"

Chang Wei grabbed his hair, closed his eyes and thought hard, "I seem to have seen a little boy, and this little boy should be quite normal except for the time monster that appeared, otherwise I would definitely be vigilant." Yes, like you said, it seems to be a well-dressed child. Crying on the side of the road, yes, he's crying. So I went up and asked him what was wrong. ”

I was stunned when I heard it, this scene is so familiar.

Chang Wei continued to state, "The child didn't speak, I remember, the child was very delicate, he reached out and took my hand, and I led him away." After leaving, send... Where's it going? Strange, where did you send it? Out of the road to rejuvenation? No, I didn't take him out, so I had to go inside, go inside... That... That is..."

"Fukuzawaen!" we both said in unison.

Chang Wei looked at me directly, I thought about it and asked him, "Old Chang, I'm afraid we have met the same master, you tell me, do you have any impression of that child? Except for what I just described." ”

"It's too dark, and my current memory is incomplete, many of them are deduced by me, if you have an impression... Think about it. The boy kept holding my hand, and by the way, he had a red handkerchief tied around his hand, just like the kind of turban he had. ”

The kid who took me by the hand and led me to the little black house just now also had a red handkerchief on his hand! But with him dressed as a little cowboy, a red handkerchief was not eye-catching at all, and the western cowboy dress also had a red handkerchief around his neck.

"It's the same person who led me to your child, and he has a red veil on his hand. Now that I think about it, you and I have seen him, which means that he is not an extraordinary person. And there is another point I just overlooked, it is a red veil, no matter how lacking my parents are, it is impossible to take the child to worship the deceased, tie a red veil to him, this child is very strange, but I still can't compare him with the previous horizontal fish. ”

"It's hard to say, but it's possible. According to what you said, the crossfish is also a monster when it is not in the state of a fish. And this one looks like a little boy. If he escaped from the mysterious organization, then it is impossible for him to be indifferent when he is in the mysterious organization. They dressed him up like an ordinary little boy, and that made sense. ”

I just wanted to reason with him, the shopkeeper came in with a few bags of things, Chang Wei and I got up to say hello, and the boss spread out the things, which were three boxes of lo-mei, including braised beef, pig's head and duck claws and duck neck. The bag also contained a bottle of Rongshan Daqu, which should be the local liquor of Rongcheng.

"I brought some lo-mei back first, and three hot dishes will be delivered later. ”

I helped clean up the table, and the boss brought a few cups, "I don't know if you young people are used to drinking, I'm quite proud of this." ”

"Come, do as the locals do, try the local tastes. ”

Chang Wei took a glass of wine and drank it all, then took a piece of beef and threw it into his mouth, without the reserve and elegance of the eldest young master in the past, obviously hungry. That's right, he was told last night, if he had eaten early, he would have been toothless for almost a whole day.

I picked up my cup and touched one with the boss, thinking about the little boy I had just mentioned. Suddenly thought of something, Chang Wei's fragment, it started from meeting the little boy. If I'm not mistaken, what kind of ability should that little boy have, and the shopkeeper said before that Chang Wei was poisoned by the corpse, that is, the corpse qi entered the body, and eighty percent of it had nothing to do with him.

Thinking of this, I asked the shopkeeper, "Boss, I heard you say that my friend was poisoned by corpses, and he really woke up after we used home remedies." I'm still curious, what kind of poison is this corpse poison?"

The boss grabbed a chopstick and bean curd, and when he heard me ask, he said with a smug face: "Seriously, before your friend woke up, I didn't dare to say that he was really poisoned, or I wasn't sure if there was such a thing as corpse poison at that time." But since we solved it by mistake, I think some of what the old man said may be true, but not necessarily all stories. ”

The shopkeeper took another sip of wine, and then told the story that the old man told him. The shopkeeper's surname is Liu, and the hero in the story is the grandfather of the shopkeeper Liu, who is the head of the family and is known as the fifth master of Liu. Listening to the shopkeeper Liu, their family has been doing this business since the Qing Dynasty, although it is evil, but after all, it is just needed. What age is not the dead, right, cremation is now popular.

And although the coffin shop shopkeeper sounds very unlucky, he is always doing a good thing and serving his life, so even if people are not close to their family on weekdays, they are quite respectful. Moreover, Liu Wuye inherited the good craftsmanship of his elders and lived well, which naturally made people value him. Just like Shopkeeper Liu said, the coffin that his grandfather beat can be used as a sealed box without nailing.

It is said that Liu Wuye was in his early forties that year, that is, in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, just after the troubled times, the people were recuperating. Liu Wuye relied on his family handiwork, and his life was okay. Once Liu Wuye took over a job, it was a family in the countryside, and asked him to go to the house to give his old man a deputy longevity material, and the person who invited him was the old man himself.

Doesn't it sound a little scary, but it's actually a very normal thing, in the countryside, it's not uncommon to prepare life materials for yourself in advance. We often hear some slang now, saying that it is to save some coffin books for yourself, and you have to use them if you save them, and some old people will ask someone to give them a pair of longevity materials when they reach a certain age, and keep them for backup, so as not to catch their children blind when they get it.

I've seen this thing since I was a kid, and when I was young, everyone was crazy about playing on weekdays, so they liked to hide and seek. The place is an old mansion, which is said to be the house of a large landowner back then, and later fought the local tyrants to divide the land, and many people lived in this house. But living in such a house is always better than your own, as the residents have built houses one after another and moved away, there is only one uncle left in the old house.

Uncle is not young, I heard that he is almost eighty. It doesn't matter where he lives at his age, so he doesn't have the heart to move. He was also happy to let our children run to the empty old house to play, saying that it was good to have a group of little boys around him.

I was in charge of arresting people that time in hide and seek, and it was limited to the old mansion, and I entered the house when I counted enough. The old man went out for a walk that day, and I dangled to the edge of his bedroom. It was a utility room, usually locked, but this time it was probably forgotten by the uncle, and he saw that the lock was hanging and not locked. I thought there must be some friends hiding inside, so I slowly pushed the door open.

Then I was stupid at the door, the room was quite empty, except for some things on the shelves on the left and right, and there was a coffin in the middle of the room with two stools, and I had to look up when I looked over, and I could see the word Shou in the coffin. There were also a few rays of light leaking from the window opposite the door, which sprinkled on the coffin, revealing an inexplicable weirdness.

I closed the door almost mechanically, and then walked out of the old house in a daze, and then crouched in the sun and gasped. Later, when they saw that I was not looking for me, they came out and saw me squatting on the ground and the dead dog, so they asked me what had happened. I lowered my voice and told them what I had just seen, and a few of the children reacted similarly to me.

But there are also older children who don't think so, they already know that there is a coffin in the uncle's utility room, and they have specially asked the uncle. The old man didn't hide it, saying that he felt that it was a hurdle when he was seventy-three, and he was afraid that he would not be able to step on it, so he asked someone to beat such a coffin, and when it didn't work out one day, he went directly to lie down inside.

But the uncle's body is very good, there is nothing wrong, and the coffin has been lying with ashes. And this kind of coffin has a characteristic, like the coffin at the time of the funeral, which is basically lacquered, but this good coffin prepared in advance is not painted, and it will not be lacquered until the main owner has swallowed his breath. I thought about it carefully, and it seemed that the coffin was really wood-colored.

Of course, there are many doorways here, and they are not absolute, after all, the customs are different from place to place. For example, in some places, the longevity materials prepared in advance are painted, and they have to be used every year, so let's do a lot more. Turning back and talking about Liu Wuye, he also responded to the deal this time to help the old man fight for longevity. It's not a particularly rural place, but it's just not easy to walk. The old man was afraid that if he left one day, his family would be blind, and it would be troublesome to order a coffin from outside and send it back, so he asked Liu Wuye to go to the house to help take a bite.

Liu Wuye was familiar with the way, so he brought an apprentice to help, and his family was naturally delicious and hospitable. There are rules here, but all carpenters and the like have to be hospitable, because carpenters in those days were more or less tired of winning. What is the meaning of being tired of winning? It is a means of avoiding evil and praying for good fortune among the people in the old days. It is the use of spells to curse or pray for the purpose of defeating a person, object, or monster that you hate.

Carpentry is a more typical one, let's go back to the carpenter, that is not just a cabinet to make a chair. In the early years, the houses we lived in were mostly wooden structures, so building a house in those days was also considered carpentry. Naturally, although beating a coffin is considered an evil act, it cannot escape carpentry work. Legend has it that there are many records of disgust in the "Luban Sutra".

The host has prepared cypress wood, the coffin material is exquisite, and the good one has nanmu, but that is too precious, and ordinary people use pine and cedar cypress. That is, to see what wood he can have, relatively speaking, cypress wood is relatively good, some people think that the coffin is made of a whole material, that is, they want to be blind. Let's not talk about where to get such a big material, if you really dare to do it, it is easy to be struck by lightning.

There is no mistake