Chapter 5: The parked coffin is gone

Tying a red turban and hanging iron and copper pieces around his waist, Zhangjiacun was indeed quiet for three days, but on the night of the fourth day, these ghosts began to make trouble again, and the more they made trouble, the more fierce they became.

Zhangjia Village has almost become a "haunted village": no matter day or night, there are no people in the alleys and alleys of the village, in front of and behind the houses, but there is a terrible howl. Zhang Tieta's family of three often heard a knock on the door at night: three times light, three times heavy, three times lighter, three times heavier, no more, no less, a total of 12 times, repeated every other night, and then silently after the knock. The sound of "tuk tuk tuk" seemed to ring in my ears, and I was so frightened that I didn't dare to close my eyes, and I didn't fall asleep until three or four o'clock in the morning of the next day. Zhang Tieta called everyone to ask about it, and almost eight out of ten families had a similar situation.

However, Zhang Tieta is relieved that at least so far, there has not been a single incident of physical assault on a villager, which is a great blessing in disguise. But he still thinks that he should find some young and strong villagers, investigate secretly, and take the lead himself, so that he may be able to find some solutions to the problem, and at the same time, it will not make the whole village feel that they have done nothing at a critical moment. Before the end of the night, a total of 18 young people who were openly described as the most capable of carrying the beating in the village appeared in the office building of the village committee. Zhang Qi, who usually likes to practice a few times, couldn't bear it for a long time, if it weren't for his mother's disagreement with him going out to find trouble, with his blood, he was really not afraid of these troublemakers. As soon as he arrived at the village committee, he shouted loudly, and waved his powerful arm a few times, as if he would never give up until he killed these troublesome ghosts.

Zhang Tieta is quite optimistic about his performance, although he personally led the team out, but he still explained before leaving, mainly to let everyone pay attention to safety, and stay cautious, do not make a sound. He himself took a spare steel knife and a flashlight at home, and a group of nineteen people set out quietly in the night, sneakily patrolling the outskirts of the village.

It is also strange to say that a group of 19 people set off at 00:30 in the hour, not only did they not find anything when they were ugly, but even the howls and knocks that appeared on time in the past were not moved at all, which made Zhang Tieta and others wonder if these ghosts were collectively discussed. Until about 4 o'clock in the morning the next day, everyone, including Zhang Tieta, was dizzy and couldn't open their eyes. At this time, the youngest Zhang Wangyi suggested that he could go back to sleep, because so far, nothing had been found. Zhang Tieta also felt that this was the case, and was about to let everyone disband and go home to sleep, at this moment, there was a sudden whimper of a gust of wind at the head of the village, and the sound was weak and strong, straight to the eardrums.

Everyone almost ran more than twice as fast as usual to reach the barnyard, but they didn't find anything abnormal, and the surroundings were quiet. Zhang Tieta turned on the flashlight and illuminated every angle of the threshing field, but he was stunned by the scene in front of him, his face turned pale, the corners of his mouth trembled, and he was speechless for a long time: The day before yesterday, Zhang Zhen, an 88-year-old man in the village, passed away, and yesterday afternoon, his relatives parked his coffin in the right corner of the threshing field, ready to be buried on a certain day, but at this moment, how can there be a coffin in the right corner of the barn? On the ground, it is as if it has been washed, so clean that there is not a trace of garbage to be seen.

At this time, everyone also reacted, "Mom!" I don't know who screamed, before Zhang Tieta could say anything, everyone turned around and ran, much faster than the speed that ran over just now, in the blink of an eye, Zhang Tieta was left alone in the barnyard, he shivered a few times, and his body suddenly felt a coldness, as if penetrating into the bone marrow. After a while, he came back to his senses and shook his head vigorously, he knew that he had to stay calm at this time. There was no panic, but ran to the village committee office building, not once, the loudspeaker in the village came out of the sound of Zhang Tieta's emergency notice, and in an instant, the whole village was brightly lit, old and young, everyone gathered in the barnyard, the whole scene was a mess, everyone was talking about it. The cries of Zhang Zhen's children and grandchildren were even more hysterical.

The parked coffin turned out to be missing, and who would be a normal person to touch this coffin, which was regarded as an unfortunate thing?

The whole village focused all their attention on the goblins. Everyone is also looking forward to the appearance of the mage invited by the sixth child soon.

At 8 o'clock in the morning, Yang Mei received a call that Pastor Li and some of the brothers and sisters in the church had already set off, and it was only half an hour to Zhangjia Village. I couldn't help but be happy, so I told Zhang Tieta the news. Zhang Tieta smiled bitterly after hearing this, and did not object, the pastors and Christians of the church came to the door kindly, and they couldn't refuse, and at the same time they were thinking about how to send Pastor Li and them back as soon as possible, just kidding, this is not a matter of praying a few times to solve the problem. At the same time, he also greeted the village cadres, after all, the town church came for the safety of their village, although it was in an extraordinary period, but at least there was still to be hospitality.

Half an hour later, Zhang Tieta met with Pastor Li and his entourage in the office building of the village committee, and also described all the details of the haunting in the village.

Zhang Tieta knew that the ritual of Christian prayer was to kneel, so he turned around and told the deputy village chief to open up and prepare some mats, when Pastor Li waved his hand and said, "No need, let's go." ”

When they heard that pastors and Christians had come to the village to pray for the removal of ghosts, most of the villagers also consciously flocked to the barn. At this time, 33 Christians from Zhangjia Village also came. Pastor Li circled around the barnyard, and finally stood at the position where the coffin was fixed in Zhangjia Village, his eyes swept coldly over this place that discouraged ordinary people, and thought for a while, and then lowered his head and closed his eyes, and only slowly opened his eyes after a long time, looked back at the nervous Yangmei, and said with a smile: "In front of the Almighty Lord Jesus, what is the game of Satan the Devil, God's servant is coming, and power will appear in your home." Then he called all the Christians together, crossed his hands on his chest, and led him to finish the ritual and then knelt down and closed his eyes in prayer. About an hour later, at the end of the prayer, Pastor Li declined the invitation of Zhang Tieta and the village cadres to dinner, and before leaving, he said to Yang Mei with a little seriousness, "Sister Yang, remember my words, power will appear in your home, remember, everything will be natural." Yang Mei nodded and looked dazed.