I wondered why these people would carry a coffin into a tent in the middle of the night.

Where did that coffin come from, could it be the one I dug up from under the arrow stele?

I quietly left there and went straight home. I wanted to go to the dam immediately, but at that time, everyone in the rescue team was asleep, and it was not good for me to go there and hang around.

After dawn, I went straight to the dam.

The coffin on the dam is gone.

I thought to myself, the coffin that those men carried into the tent last night was the one I dug up.

I asked two people who lived on the dam, and they both said that they had seen a coffin there when they first arrived, but they didn't know when the coffin had disappeared.

Since this coffin was dug up, it was pulled by Wang Dacai to the dam and others to collect it. But after Li Erheng died inside, everyone in the village regarded it as a murderous coffin, and everyone stayed away.

Two days ago, the villagers wanted to burn Liu Ruoxue to death, so they used the coffin.

When I got home, Liu Ruoxue was cooking, and after she woke up yesterday, she was very energetic and insisted on cooking.

I asked the question that I wanted to know again, but Liu Ruoxue never told me.

"Xiaoxue, what is the connection between you and the coffin I dug up under the arrow stele?"

Liu Ruoxue said: "Didn't you say, when the time is ripe, I'll tell you!" Why did you remember to ask again. ”

I said, "The coffin is gone!" ”

When Liu Ruoxue heard this, she suddenly stopped what she was doing, her expression changed, and she said, "Then let it be, a coffin, and it's not an auspicious thing." ”

I was a little anxious, and just said, "I dug up that coffin and met you." I'm afraid that the coffin is gone, what will happen to you. ”

Seeing me say this, Liu Ruoxue couldn't help but smile.

"Thirteen, don't be afraid. Even if the coffin is gone, I'll be here. ”

I looked at her in disbelief and said, "That's good." ”

I thought about it right now, and I would wait until it was dark, and then I would quietly investigate.

After breakfast, I went to the big locust tree under the pretext of learning about the disaster situation in our village.

I wanted to use the daylight to go there and take the opportunity to see what was going on inside their tent.

There were three tents under the locust tree, and the group was four men and one woman.

I actually met them again after entering the village the night before, when they happened to be pitching their tents.

At this moment, outside the largest red tent, there was a bearded man stir-frying.

I walked over slowly, smiled at him and said, "Big brother, thank you for coming all the way to help us with the disaster!" ”

The man was stunned, his expression changed, he smiled reluctantly, and said, "Your village is in such a big disaster, let's do our best to help." ”

"We're grateful for you to come." I say.

After some politeness, I asked him how long the rescue team would be stationed here.

He thought for a moment and said, "It depends on the situation, judging from the current progress, it will take three to five days at the shortest to complete the work that requires a professional rescue team to do." ”

I don't really care how long the rescue team stays here, whether it's three days, five days, or ten and a half days, for us villagers, it's actually the same, it's all helping us.

The other four, I don't know where they fell asleep or went, anyway, I didn't see them outside the tent.

That would be fine, I could take advantage of the man's stir-fry and take a turn around their tent.

One is to see if you can find a chance to take a look inside the tent, especially the one where they put the coffin last night.

The second is to see what they did last night on the side of the locust tree.

I took a general look and saw that the door of the tent they had carried the coffin into last night was tightly drawn, and I couldn't open it.

I had no choice but to wander around the dry well as if nothing had happened, looking east and west as if nothing had happened.

When the stir-fry man was not paying attention, I suddenly turned to the back of the tent closest to the big locust tree. What I saw in front of me made me wonder a little.

I saw that there was an incense stick left behind after the burning of the three-pillar incense stick in the soil near the locust tree, and there were traces of burning paper money next to it.

As far as my eye could see, I found a bronze dagger stuck in the soil in the west, south, and north of the locust tree. The handle of the dagger looked old, and the bottom of the handle was still tied with a red cloth security guard.

"What are you doing standing here?"

A hoarse voice suddenly came from behind me, and I was taken aback.

I quickly turned around and saw a middle-aged man in his forty-five or so standing there.

The man had a scar of about two centimeters on his face, and he looked particularly terrible. At the moment, he was staring at me with a gloomy face.

I was calm and calm, and said without changing my face: "This is the treasure tree of our village, and I have come here to make a wish." ”

The man was still expressionless, and said in a hoarse voice: "You can come back in a few days, it is very inconvenient for us to live here now." ”

I pretended to think for a moment and said, "Oh! Good! ”

Immediately, I left there as if nothing had happened. As I passed by the tent in the middle, I noticed that the door was not fully drawn, and there was a hole the width of an adult's palm.

It was such a wide opening, and I took the opportunity to quickly glance inside.

I caught a glimpse of a man lying in the tent, with a scar on one of his hands, as if he had been bitten by something, and half of his hand was jet-black.

"What are you still looking at, don't leave quickly!" , the scar-faced man looked a little angry.

Reaching out to not hit the smiley man, I smiled at him, turned around and walked out of the place.

Judging from the way I saw them carrying the coffin into the tent last night, to what I saw behind the tent just now, and the man's reaction, I had a vague feeling that there should be something wrong with these people.

They came to our village as a volunteer rescue team, not to participate in the rescue at all, but to have other plans.

I have a peculiarity that if I have a question about something, sooner or later, I always want to figure it out. This can be a plus, but it can also be a big disadvantage.

It was because of this characteristic that I almost lost my life that time.

I hurriedly went back and told Liu Ruoxue what I had seen and heard, and after Liu Ruoxue heard it, her face was not good-looking.

She said on the spot: "Thirteen, no matter what those people want to do, you just don't get involved." Listening to you, I also feel that there is something wrong with them. ”

"No, they took the coffin from the dam and put it in their tent. I had to figure out what they were going to do under the big locust tree in our village. ”

Liu Ruoxue looked at me with a worried look on her face, and stopped talking.

I said, "It's okay, I'll be careful that they won't find out!" ”

In the evening, at about the same time as the night before, I crept up to the big locust tree again, trying to hide in the shadows and observe their movements.

I saw that the door of the tent in the middle was wide open, and the dim light was still on inside. In this way, I can see the situation inside the tent relatively clearly.

I saw that some white paper cut into wide strips hung inside the tent, on which something was written and drawn with a brush. However, at my distance, I couldn't see the specific content.

As I was concentrating on the inside of the tent, a man leaned out and grinned at me.

I couldn't help but be stunned, and before I could come back to my senses, suddenly a hand put on my right shoulder.