I didn't care about the old man Zhou who seemed to have lost his soul, and caught up with Fa Ying in a few steps.

"Master! You've known my uncle for a long time! ”

Fa Dian just lowered his head and walked forward, and replied casually: "Song Jianmin! is also a well-known figure in the circle, but I don't know that he is your uncle. ”

When I went back to lie on the bed, I always felt weird when I remembered the conversation between my uncle and Zhou Laohan again.

I can hear it. Uncle and Zhou Laohan don't deal with each other very much, it seems that the uncle is very disgusted with Zhou Laohan, and Zhou Laohan is very afraid of his uncle.

Isn't it awkward to live in the same village?

Why is that? Uncle should be a few years older than Zhou Laohan, and he can be regarded as the same generation......

What about the village they mentioned? I thought of Zhou Laohan letting people pretend to be ghosts to scare me, and an idea unconsciously popped up in my mind: Will there be a relationship between the two things!

I couldn't figure it out, and I didn't know when I fell asleep in a daze.

The next day, the village was busy frying the pot, and Lao Xue's family and Lao Lu's family called for a corpse truck early in the morning, but unfortunately there was only one in more than a dozen nearby villages, so there had to be a succession. Originally, the relationship between the two families was not bad, but the matter of the corpse made people panic, and in the face of jealousy and fear, the two sides chose to tear their faces without hesitation and without hesitation.

I followed the sound of the argument to the street, and I saw a scene that was both strange and ridiculous.

The Lu family and the Xue family blocked in front of the corpse transport vehicle that had just entered the village, refusing to give in to each other.

"My father died first, he should be sent away first........."

"It's the car I contacted first, there should always be a first-come-first-served car!"

The two sides argued, and many neighbors were attracted by the noise like me, but others couldn't persuade them to do this!

Zhou Laohan and I arrived in front of and behind us.

"The two of them are buddies, and they have encountered misfortune at the same time, so let's just let them go on the road together!"

Hey? It turns out that Zhou Laohan is so eloquent!

Both children nodded in agreement, but the driver of the corpse truck quit.

"This ...... This won't work! ”

Old Man Zhou glared at him: "Why not?" ”

The driver scratched his head, a little embarrassed: "Originally...... Originally, I could have earned two shares, but now it's more troublesome, and the money is ......."

These words caused the surrounding neighbors to scold.

"How can you say that! Do you only have money in your eyes? ”

"Make a fortune from the dead! Retribution......

"Isn't this blackmail?"

The driver's uncle looked at his fifties with a scruffy beard, he glanced around the crowd, and swallowed: "I just eat this bowl of rice, and it's not easy to make money." ”

Zhou Laohan waved his hand: "Just rest assured, no one will pay you a lot of money from the two families!" ”

There was such a big event in the village, it was haunted and zombies, and a few old people who spoke with weight discussed it, and felt that there were so many strange things, maybe it was the work of the river god, so they held a ceremony to sacrifice the river.

Seventy or eighty-year-old people in the village still remember the process of the river sacrifice ceremony, and there must be a general person in charge first, and the local older generation is called the high priest, but unfortunately there are very few people who know how to worship the river now.

There is an uncle, it is said that he should be the best candidate for the high priest, but everyone in the village knows the uncle's temper, and no one wants to take the initiative to touch this nail.

"Brother, I have to trouble you to persuade your uncle."

I frowned: "Uncle Zhou, it's not that I don't want to help you, the relationship between me and my uncle is very complicated, and I can't say it clearly in a few words, in fact, I am not as familiar with him as you are with him." ”

After some persuasion, one of the old men seemed to be a little angry, and rolled his eyes at me: "It's not like he hasn't done this before!" I forgot to ...... for my sister back then."

Before he finished speaking, he was stopped by Zhou Laohan loudly: "Uncle Zhang, don't talk about it......"

I just felt like I was being electrified, and my brain was buzzing, uncle's sister? My uncle has only one sister, and that is my mother! Could it be that the old man meant that my uncle had done something disgraceful for my mother?

"What do you mean? What did my uncle do for my mother? You guys...... You've got it all said! I asked anxiously.

Maybe the old man also realized that he said something he shouldn't have said, and waved his hand: "It's nothing, it's all in the past, don't mention it!" ”

From Old Man Zhou's panicked expression and the old man's dodging eyes, I could tell that there must be something wrong here.

Eventually, we agreed that if I persuaded my uncle to preside over the ceremony, they would tell me everything about my mother.

"A word?"

"It's a deal!"

After Zhou Laohan and the others left, I immediately ran to my uncle's house.

The uncle still sat in the courtyard drinking tea as usual, looking leisurely and complacent.

"Uncle!"

My uncle looked up at me, pointed to the seat opposite, and didn't speak.

"Uncle, I want to ask you for a favor!" I sat across from him and got straight to the point.

"You say!"

"I want you to ...... Please preside over the river worship ceremony in the village......"

Before I could finish speaking, my uncle shouted: "No! ”

"Why! You...... You don't want to do something for the village? ”

"I don't want to! Most of them are bastards. ”

I was choked up for a moment and hurriedly changed the subject: "Actually...... Actually, I helped them to persuade you that you were conditional, and they promised to tell my mother about it......"

"Do you need them to tell you?" The uncle's face changed, and he seemed to be very angry, "I didn't tell you, when the time comes, I will tell you everything." ”

I wanted to ask something, but my uncle waved his hand, and his voice instantly softened: "Go and see your second uncle!" ”29GG

I had to swallow back the words that came to my mouth, and I nodded and followed my uncle to the date grove behind the house again.

The second uncle is still unhuman, and there is not an inch of intact skin everywhere he sees, just like a snake that is shedding its skin, although it is my own uncle, but it also looks disgusting.

There was a faint fishy smell in the house, unpleasant and pungent, and the second uncle couldn't speak, so the uncle only let me say hello, and the two of them left after a few words.

"Uncle, what did the second uncle do? Why did it hurt so badly! As soon as I walked out of the date grove, I asked softly.

Uncle turned to me and smiled slightly: "I can tell you, then it can be regarded as an advance payment for you to help me retrieve the corpse!" ”

"Ahh That's not going to work......"

I mainly don't want to waste this opportunity.

"If you can't do it, it's too late!" The uncle replied coldly, and there was no room for negotiation in his tone.

"This ...... This doesn't make sense! ”

Uncle gave me a blank look: "Reason? There is no reason in this world. ”

I was so choked that I didn't know what to say for a while, so I simply stopped talking.

Uncle said slowly......

If we have to trace back to the source, the source of this matter has to start from a hundred years ago, it was still an era of famine and people's livelihood.

One year there was a severe drought, and there was almost no rain from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, and before the beginning of spring the following year, several nearby villages discussed dredging the Yellow River to make it easier to divert water for irrigation. At that time, there was no mechanical equipment, and this kind of work relied on the strength of people's arms.

On the third day of digging, a blood-red coffin was dug on the beach, and even the soil around the coffin was red.

No one had ever seen such an evil thing, and they were all panicked, and some people mentioned the white blind man.

At that time, there was an old man in the village who squinted all day long, and it is said that when he was young, he was a river bandit who traveled hundreds of miles, proficient in yin and yang, and could also pinch and calculate, and when he was old, he lived alone in Donghu Village, and lived in a small dilapidated house on the edge of the village.

At that time, no one knew what the old man's name was, only that his surname was Bai and Li Bai's white, so people called him white blind behind his back.

In that era when the average life expectancy was not long, it was rare for a white blind person to be able to move freely at the age of 90.

Because the white blind man is too old to work, he relies on fortune telling people to eat, which can be regarded as barely surviving!

The village chief called the white blind man to the river.

The old man, who had been staggering when he walked, approached the red coffin, and suddenly came to his senses.

The white blind man first sniffed the smell of the red coffin in front of him, and then opened his eyes suddenly, and everyone present was shocked, they saw that the white blind man's eyes were whites at this time, and he looked extremely terrible.

After circling around the big red coffin, he narrowed his eyes again, raised his left hand in the shape of an orchid, and said something in his mouth, then suddenly opened his eyes again, turned around and pointed to a place behind him, asking people to dig down a meter.

As a result, two snakes, one white and one red, were intertwined, each as thick as an ordinary rolling pin.

The white blind man walked over and stretched out his hands to grab the necks of the two snakes, and the snakes instantly wrapped around the two arms of the white blind man, causing everyone to take several steps back.

The white blind man, as if nothing had happened, turned around and walked to the red coffin, and then stretched out his arm.

Seeing that the two snakes did not bite the white blind man, but quickly climbed onto the coffin, and what was even more strange was that the two strange snakes more than one meter long disappeared under everyone's noses.

At this time, people believed from their hearts that this seemingly ordinary old man in front of them really had two brushes!

The old man told everyone to go back first, and not to go out that night, no matter what sound they heard.

The villagers didn't know what he meant, but they did it.

At the beginning of the evening, almost the whole village was awakened by a strange cry, this sound is like a cow's bark, but it is higher than the cow's bark, the cry lasts almost from midnight to the early morning, intermittently high and low, hearing people's hearts tremble, most of the villagers have not slept all night.

Finally stayed up until dawn, the village chief took people to the small dilapidated house outside the village to find the white blind man, but found that there was no one at home, and it was a cold pot and cold stove, and the bedding on the small couch was also neatly folded, and it could be seen that the white blind man had not slept last night.

Several people were very puzzled, on the one hand, they hurriedly sent people to look around, and on the other hand, the village chief rushed to the Yellow River beach with people.

From a distance, I saw something on the red coffin dug up yesterday, and when I walked in, I saw clearly that it was neatly folded clothes and shoes, at first I just looked familiar, and I didn't recognize it until I got closer, it seemed to be the clothes that the white blind man wore yesterday, especially the pair of catfish-like broken shoes, except for the white blind man, I really haven't seen anyone else wear it.

They saw a brown paper envelope on their clothes, opened it, and there were a few lines:

The tomb of the god is now, the Yellow River is in chaos, the blood coffin is dripping, the living are embedded, and after a hundred years, there are people in charge.

Behind it is an address where the village chief must bury the red coffin.

The villagers were very scared, and the village chief was also scared enough, so he looked for a lot of Mr. Yin and Yang and the master of exorcism, including the grandfather of the eldest uncle and the grandfather of Shen Guts, and the two of them lived in Donghu Village from that time.

The uncle is not very clear about the rest of the matter, only that many people died, and then the red coffin disappeared, and the village chief made all the villagers silent about this matter.

Time passed, and soon a hundred years passed, that is, more than 20 years ago, this area was developed, and a big boss from the south contracted hundreds of acres of river beach land on the bank of the Yellow River, thinking that the Yellow River was fertile with silt, what to plant, and how to plant, build more than 100 vegetable greenhouses, and engage in ecological vegetable planting, as long as it could be rented out, the rent alone would make a lot of money every year.

For a while, the roar of the machine resounded all around, and on the fourth day of the project, a strange red coffin was dug up on the river beach......

When my uncle said this, I think I probably understood, but the matter was far more bizarre than I imagined.

After the appearance of the red coffin, there were many strange things, first the livestock of several nearby villages neighed all night long, especially the chickens, the old people in the village said that "the chickens called the ghosts in the middle of the night", and the more evil ones were sheep and cows, these originally very docile domestic animals suddenly became extremely violent, and people were bitten one after another, and the cats in several villages were also frightened to climb the trees, meowing and not daring to come down, because they were scared by mice......

At that time, river transportation was still a relatively important mode of transportation, and for people living on both sides of the Yellow River, the boat as a means of transportation was no more important than the bottom of the car.

At that time, there was a tourist boat, carrying more than 30 people, which happened to sail here, who knew that it sank inexplicably, and none of the people on board were spared, and not even a single body was recovered.

I could hear it in the clouds.

"Uncle, what about the lipstick coffin, how did you deal with it?"

The uncle sneered and did not answer.

I finally hoped that my uncle was willing to speak, and I didn't want to miss this opportunity, so I hurriedly asked, "That...... What is the injury on the second uncle's body? ”

The two of them said that they had returned to the uncle's small courtyard, and after sitting down, the uncle did not say in a hurry, but made a pot of tea again.

The second uncle is not an ordinary butcher, to be precise, he is called a ferryman for the soul of domestic animals, as for what this profession does, I even asked several times, but my uncle didn't say.

Twenty years ago, the whole society had a poor sense of cultural relics protection, and only a red coffin was dug up on the construction site at that time, and there was nothing else, and the cultural relics department at that time was too lazy to take care of it, and the villagers had to deal with it themselves.

Sacrifice to the river! This thing has to be sacrificed to the river!

At that time, almost all the old people said this, and as the head of the village, they had to do it.