Chapter 153: Transparent Coffin (First Update)
Not long after the courtyard was built, there were more than a dozen new tiled houses, and the courtyard walls were all fences made of tree branches, and the head of the village to which it belonged said that they could live casually. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
So some people rushed to bring the covers to the new house and built a fire in the middle of the house to keep warm.
An old man who was cooking followed into the new house, the old man who had died, and he looked around and told the boys to move out at once. Everyone was very strange and didn't want to move, so they all asked the old man why he moved out.
The old man asked them to look at the main beam of the house, and everyone found that there were seven knife marks carved on the beam!
There is a local custom that if someone hangs himself in the house, he must cut a mark with a knife on the beam of the house, and there are seven knife marks on the beam of this house, apparently seven people hanged themselves in the house, which is really the most murderous house.
Everyone was immediately frightened and hurriedly moved out.
Later, when I inquired, it turned out that a family of seven had hanged themselves in the room, including a newlywed. The family had lived in harmony and happiness elsewhere, but only a few days after moving into this new house, this happened, and no one knew why.
The old man felt that things were too strange, where did the whole family hang themselves?
Besides, everyone is from a nearby village, and they have never heard of such a thing here? Besides, newlyweds are the strongest at blocking evil, and it is rare for them to be haunted by ghosts and the like when they get married, otherwise there would be no such thing as chongxi.
How could a hanged couple hang themselves inexplicably for fear that such hanged ghosts would not be able to avoid them?
This bizarre suicide, coupled with the inexplicable screams of workers at the bottom of the riverbed, soon spread across the banks of the Yellow River, causing panic among people.
So the local government and government specially sent a folk expert to check and explore the truth to appease the people.
The peasants also spontaneously organized some goddesses and sorcerers to exorcise evil spirits.
But before we could figure out what was going on, something even weirder happened!
On the afternoon of the arrival of folklore experts, a sensational news came out of the river: while the workers were working at the bottom of the river, they had dug a huge coffin in the mud, and it was a transparent coffin.
When folklore experts and some well-informed old people arrived at the scene, there were already many onlookers.
The old man also went to see it, and witnessed it the whole time.
I saw that it was a very strange coffin, the top cover had just been dug out, the mud on it had been wiped off, and the coffin looked crystal clear. But what is strange is that looking into the coffin from the transparent coffin lid, you can clearly see that the coffin is filled with water, there is a corpse floating in the middle, and there are many small fish swimming back and forth next to the corpse, but you can't see the specific appearance of the corpse, only vaguely it seems to be wearing a double shroud that can judge that you have no children before death.
According to common sense, it is impossible for any fish to survive in a closed coffin for a long time, so the airtightness of this coffin is definitely not good.
But contrary to common sense, if the coffin is really not closed well, the shroud should have been corroded by water a long time ago, and the corpse may be difficult to leave even half a bone, not to mention that according to local customs, the depth of the coffin burial is generally not more than three meters, and here is the already deep bottom of the river, which was submerged after the diversion of the Yellow River.
According to local funeral customs, if there are no children before death, all funeral goods are doubled, except for coffins, of course.
Generally speaking, the deceased should be buried with gold in his mouth, wear a silver ring in his left hand, and hold a dog cake in his right hand.
Dog cakes are dry food steamed with cornmeal and stubble, and are used to deal with vicious dogs when they are in the way of the underworld.
However, the coffin of the corpse should be divided into three, six, nine and so on.
The corpses of the poor and lowly people are also made of thin coffins with three-inch thick plates, and they will almost rot in two or three years.
Wealthy or high-status people should use a thick coffin with a nine-inch board to house the corpse, and it is made of hard wood such as camphor wood and sandalwood, and a poplar coffin should be set on the outside of the thick coffin, which is called a poplar coffin, so as to be blessed with thick yin.
But the transparent coffin is indeed unheard of by anyone, and I don't know what kind of person will be in the corpse, so everyone is naturally very curious, and at the same time, there is a faint chill in the bottom of the heart, feeling inexplicably afraid.
People who live in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River know that the Yellow River often digs up things, and there are many legends about chaos in various places.
People. At the time of the country, I heard that in Henan and Gansu, a kind of crystal coffin was dug up, but such a huge transparent and obviously not crystal coffin dug up today is unheard of and unseen by anyone.
The old man is very superstitious, and they all say that this transparent coffin is a dragon coffin, and the corpse floating in the water is the body of a dead dragon, including this old man who also thinks so.
But the corpse was too vague to tell what it was, and many people said it seemed to be a person, while others said it was not a person, it was a big fish.
The workers continued to dig down the transparent coffin, but the old people, who were considered well-informed, did not let them dig anymore, and also asked the upper part of the coffin to be re-buried, saying that it would invite unfathomable disasters and may affect children and grandchildren.
However, some young people are curious and do not believe in evil, so they insist on digging out the transparent coffin to see what is going on, and some people say that if they dig up some gold and silver treasures or something, won't they just send it.
Folklore experts also have a curious attitude and let them continue digging.
The old people couldn't stop it, so they burned incense and prayed beside them, and the gods babbled about some children's ignorance, please bear with the gods and so on.
How exactly was this transparent coffin dug up?
It turned out that in the afternoon of the same day, when more than a dozen workers were dredging at the bottom of the river, one of the workers' shovels accidentally dug into a hard object, thinking that they had touched some gold and silver treasure buried in the silt, so they hurriedly dug down desperately. When other workers heard the news, they also rushed over to dig together.
However, after digging for a long time, they did not find any gold, silver and jewelry, but they dug up a huge transparent coffin.
At first, the workers only dug up a coffin lid, and when they saw that the hard object that the shovel touched was not gold and silver treasures, but a coffin, they were both a little frightened and disappointed, but seeing that the coffin lid was transparent, they couldn't help but be curious, and wanted to see it, so they continued to dig down together.
By the time folklorists and well-informed old people arrived, they had been digging for hours.
(To be continued.) )