After the entire coffin was revealed, Gong Feng shouted: "Children and grandchildren kneel and worship, and the ancestors see the sky!" Open the coffin! At this time, the people of the Zhang family fell to their knees one after another. Another person walked up to the coffin with a red umbrella and covered it. Someone else took a large piece of red cloth and spread it next to the coffin.

Tanzi couldn't understand what they were doing, so he asked me. I told him that the red umbrella was used to shield the sun from burning the bones of the ancestors, and that the red cloth was used to wrap the bones. Put the bones in a red cloth and then put them in a new coffin along with the red cloth.

"In fact, the so-called relocation of graves is actually a secondary burial."

"Second burial?"

"It's the second burial. For some reason, the body is removed after the first burial and then buried for the second time. There are generally two reasons for secondary burial, one is relocation, as it is now, and the other is bizarre funeral customs. ”

"And such a custom?" Tanzi swallowed, "Sounds pretty crazy." ”

"It sounds horrible to the way we can accept it. But for those who follow the customs, it is very common, after all, they have been educated like this since childhood. I said, "The other day, I saw a report that there is an ethnic minority in Indonesia and they have a 'zombie festival' there." On the day of the festival, the corpses of deceased relatives are exhumed, redressed and dressed in new clothes, and reburied after a deliberate ceremony. They thought it would bring good luck to future generations. In our country, until now, there are still some ethnic minorities who follow the custom of secondary burial. ”

After listening to my words, the altar was also eye-opening and nodded again and again. And Uncle Xu, who was behind me, also nodded slightly towards me.

The young men who had gone to the grave threw down their shovels and replaced them with hammers and chisels, and went to lift the lid of the coffin. Just as they were about to pry back the lid of the coffin, the originally clear sky gradually became gloomy. Just as they lifted the lid, something unexpected happened.

The four blocks in front and back of the coffin, left and right, actually fell down at the moment when the coffin lid was lifted, some leaned on the dirt slope outside, and some smashed directly on the bones in the coffin, and at the same time a large amount of foul-smelling muddy water gushed out of the coffin, like the water tank shattered, and the muddy water rushed out instantly filled the entire grave, and this water seems to have been accumulated in the coffin for so many years......

When the people who opened the coffin saw this, they didn't know what was happening, and they immediately scattered in fright. They have never seen this formation since they started this business.

"Daddy!" "Grandpa!" The Zhang family exclaimed loudly.

Gong Feng stopped everyone: "Don't panic! He trembled forward to take a look, let out a long sigh of relief, and turned back and said, "Don't worry, it's just that the coffin is falling apart." He picked up the red umbrella that had been thrown on the ground and said to the fleeing man, "What are you afraid of?" It's not a corpse! Come and hold an umbrella! "Dig a drainage ditch and draw the water out of the grave." Gong Feng arranged everyone's work one by one, in an orderly manner.

The purpose of opening the coffin with a red umbrella is to prevent sunlight from shining on the bones, because moving the grave will inevitably involve changing the coffin, and the bones of the deceased will be seen again. The bones are the remains of the dead, which belong to the yin and cannot withstand the exposure of the sun, so you must use a red umbrella to block the sun, and at the same time, moving the grave is also a happy event for the dead to move to a new home, which is also a happy event, so you need to use a red umbrella to block the evil spirit.

After more than half an hour, the water in the pit was finally drained.

At this time, Gong Feng told the Zhang family that they could pick up the bones. So, the men of the Zhang family all put on red gloves and prepared to pick up the old lady's bones. But when the coffin board smashed on the old man of the Zhang family was lifted, everyone present was stunned - because they all saw the scene inside the tomb.

The old man of the Zhang family has been dead for nearly thirty years, but at this time, his body has not decomposed at all, and his face is serene, no different from when he was alive, as if he was asleep. It's just that the color of his skin is blue and purple, indicating that he is no longer a human being.

"It's weird! People who have been dead for decades are not rotten at all! "I said that the Zhang family has always had bad things lately, and it all comes from their old man!" "I've heard that if people don't rot after death, it's a precursor to turning into zombies!" "That's it, it's all played in those zombie movies, this must be a corpse." "If this becomes a zombie, will it harm our village?"

The crowd of people who came to see the excitement chattered and talked a lot, saying everything. Don't talk about them, it's the Zhang family's own people, seeing this strange scene, they also felt a burst of scalp tingling.

"If something like this happens to your Zhang family, will it affect our entire village?" Someone directly stood up and questioned.

"That's it, don't really cause trouble at that time, and let the whole village suffer with your family!"

When encountering such a strange thing, no one can help but think about their own safety first.

The Zhang family knew that they couldn't provoke the anger of the people at this time, so they asked Zhang Dongwei to explain to the villagers and find a way to calm everyone's doubts.

"Everyone, be quiet, be quiet!" Zhang Dongwei walked to the villagers, "Actually, there is nothing to be afraid of. The corpse does not decompose, it is not necessarily a corpse, and there have been similar examples in our country. For example, the wet corpse unearthed in Mawangdui and the dry corpse of the Loulan beauty unearthed in Xinjiang will not rot. My grandfather's situation must have been due to the fact that after being soaked in water for a long time, a thick layer of corpse wax formed on the outermost part of the corpse, so it would not decompose. Don't worry. "Zhang Dongwei is an antique, and he also knows a little about wet corpses and dried corpses.

"How do we know if what you're saying is true? Maybe you made it up? ”

"If you don't believe it, you can check it on the Internet!" Zhang Dongwei said, "By the way, Mr. Xu is also here." He is a man who has seen the world. Mr. Xu, please explain to the villagers to see if what I said is correct or not, whether it is made up. ”

Uncle Xu stepped forward slowly and said to the villagers with horror and worry on their faces: "What Zhang Dongwei said is indeed right! It is rare for corpses not to decompose, but it is not impossible. The examples of Ma Wangdui and Loulan beauties he just talked about are also real. For example, the mummies of ancient Egypt are not rotten, but they are man-made. ”

Although Uncle Xu is an entrepreneur, he seems to have a lot of prestige in this village. Hearing him say this, most of the people in the village believed it. But I was still worried in my heart. If it is really as Zhang Dongwei said, it is the corpse wax that causes the corpse not to decompose. Where's the corpse wax? The old man of the Zhang family had a clear face, except for the water stains on his face, he couldn't see the existence of corpse wax at all. If there is no corpse wax, there is another reason why the old man's body does not decompose.

"Look at Grandpa's body!" Zhang Dongwei's lobby brother Zhang Donghai suddenly shouted, "Why is that shape so strange?" ”