Chapter 268: The Willow Coffin Locks the Soul The Bronze Coffin Locks the Corpse
Night, late at night.
The night sky was dark, covered with white fog and drizzle.
The silent mountain villa has no popularity, like a fierce beast lurking in the dark, which is terrifying.
After all, Huang Jinquan had never experienced such a thing, and although he disguised himself with strength, he was still scared in the end.
Step by step, the three of them walked towards the big black room.
There are a lot of fallen leaves and dead branches on the ground, and when the wind blows, the fallen leaves spin and fly, and they make a strange sound when they rub against the bluestone ground.
We came all the way to the door of the big black house, and found that the big house in front of us was generally a brick and stone structure, usually with wooden beams and pillars, and tiles, and the overall look was quite in the style of the seventies and eighties.
The whole house is only two floors, but the height is 17 or 8 meters, which looks magnificent.
Although dilapidated and desolate, it has not collapsed and is very well preserved, at least not a dilapidated house.
In addition to the dead branches and leaves on the ground in front of the gate, there are also a lot of dead money paper money, although these dark money paper money are wet with rain, but they still look very new, it should have just been scattered here not long ago.
There is a wooden sign on the door, and under the beam of the flashlight, it can be seen that the wooden sign is hung with the white ribbon used for the funeral, which is the same as the stele we saw outside the door before, with three bloody characters written on it - Guardian Pavilion!
That's right, the three words written on it are the Guardian Pavilion!
There were several white lanterns hanging on both sides of the door, the lanterns had been extinguished, and when the wind blew, the white silk fluttered in the wind, grinning, like a human cry, and it was strange and scary to hear.
The door was not closed, it was open to us, and there was a lot of space inside the house.
The three flashlights shone together towards the gate, and they saw that there were mourning objects hanging everywhere.
The room is very deep, and there is a dark green coffin in the center of its depth, which is a little far away, and I don't know what kind of coffin it is. It's dark green, which is really rare.
Behind the coffin, there were rows of wooden signs, and it was estimated that there were at least hundreds of them.
The interior of this big house is properly arranged as people usually do funerals.
True to its name, the Guardian Pavilion is a spiritual hall!
A wake, a folk custom, is a kind of memorial for the living to the deceased.
Because the living believe that although their relatives are dead, their souls are still on earth, and before going to the underworld, they will return home to have a look. Relatives are afraid that the soul will get lost on the way home, so they will light a lamp and put it next to the deceased, fearing that the lamp will go out and the soul of the deceased will not find a home, so the family will sit next to the body all night to ensure that the lamp will not go out, so it is called "wake".
However, the wakes are only needed for a while, and no one has ever built a big house to keep the vigil like in front of them, as if the person who repaired the house wants to keep it here for the rest of his life, which is unreasonable.
"The funeral items in the house are all new, could it be that someone died here not long ago?"
"It shouldn't be possible...... I've never heard of people living here...... If there is no one to live in, how can anyone die? β
Huang Jinquan glanced at the situation in the room, and was so frightened that he didn't dare to look at it anymore, and when he heard Yan Xiaoying's words, he couldn't help but retort.
"I'm afraid that the old fat is playing tricks, right? Or maybe this village is his former relative, and he makes these things just to commemorate the people who have died. β
I muttered: "It's like being away from home for many years, no matter whether you are out of the scenery or down, you have to bring some gifts when you go home, but there are no living people here, so Lao Fei can only bring these things......"
"If that's the case, that guy has a heart." Yan Xiaoying said.
"Although Lao Fei usually looks improper, sometimes he is quite reliable." I said.
"What's the matter with you, aren't you here to catch that fat man? How can I listen to what you mean, and that fat man seems to be friends? β
"Yes, we are indeed here to arrest him, damn it, let Lao Tzu catch him, we have to screw his head off and use it as a stool." I deliberately raised my voice and shouted into the big room.
"Hey, aren't you plainclothes policemen? How can you just screw off the prisoner's head? Huang Jinquan listened to my words and asked even more strangely.
I said, "This man is a heinous and bad man, not only stealing, but also committing adultery and plunder, and we have been instructed to shoot him if we can't get him back alive!" Well, right! That's it! β
"No, no matter how bad he is, doesn't the state stipulate that lynching cannot be abused? Don't bully me for not reading well and not knowing the law! β
"Then you are still too young, I ask you if you go to catch the fugitive, the fugitive resists with a weapon, or even wants to kill you, in that case, you decisively shoot him to death, do you say you are guilty or not guilty?"
"I don't know ......"
"Shh
There was movement in the room, and when I was talking to Huang Jinquan, Yan Xiaoying suddenly made a silent gesture and glanced at me.
Seeing this, I cursed in my heart, and said in my heart: "This guy is really pretending to be a ghost!" I must be hiding in the house at this moment! β
At that moment, I didn't pay any attention to the golden spring, and walked quickly into the big house with Yan Xiaoying.
"The movement just now was too small to hear where it came from inside the house."
After approaching the house, Yan Xiaoying looked around and said in a deep voice.
I couldn't care so much, so I opened my throat and shouted, "Old fat, get out of here." What the hell does it mean that you tricked us into coming here and hiding from anyone? β
I suddenly shouted loudly, and instead of calling out the old fat, I startled the golden spring that was tiptoeing behind me.
She said to me in horror: "You are crazy, shouting so loudly, what if you really attract something?" β
I paid attention to the golden spring, and Yan Xiaoying and Yan Xiaoying were looking for Lao Fei in the house.
The hall of the house is very wide, at least the size of a basketball court, and there are rooms on both sides of the hall.
At this time, I came to the wooden staircase extending to the attic, and was just about to step up to the attic on the second floor, when I suddenly heard Yan Xiaoying call me over.
I walked in the direction of her, but when I turned around, I collided with someone. Weichang
I was held up by the golden spring that I had knocked backwards, and said speechlessly, "What are you doing with me?" Like a tail. β
Huang Jinquan rubbed the hem of his clothes, and said with the appearance of a little girl: "I'm a little scared!" β
"Afraid of what?"
As I spoke, I pushed her aside and looked in the direction of Yan Xiaoying, and found that she was standing next to the dark green coffin at the moment, staring at the spiritual position placed behind the coffin, as if she had discovered something.
"What's wrong?" I walked over to her, Golden Fountain still trailing me like a tail.
"Look for yourself the names on these tablets." Yan Xiaoying said to me in a deep voice.
I came to Yan Xiaoying's side, and before I had time to take a closer look at the dark green coffin, the latter asked me to see the name on the spiritual seat.
"It's all the people who have died, is there anything strange about their names?"
As I spoke, I looked in the direction of the spiritual table, and when I saw the name engraved on the spiritual table, I couldn't help but be stunned, and felt a little incredible.
The reason why I reacted this way was because I found that the names on the spiritual throne were all people with the surname Lao, and they had the same surname as me.
"If my guess is correct, these on the spiritual throne should be the names of the people who died in the village twenty years ago, and they are all with your surname, which means that this is the village of your Llowe family."
I muttered, "Although the surname Lao is a partial surname, there are quite a few people, and it is not strange that there is a Lao-style village here, I don't know these people." β
"You're right, there are many people with the same surname in the world, and they don't necessarily all come from the same origin. It's just that what makes me strange is that if the people who lived in this village before were all surnamed Lao, what does it have to do with Lao Fei? You must know that his surname is Liang. β
"When you talk about this, you remind me of something!" I said.
"What's the matter?" Yan Xiaoying asked me.
"Didn't I tell you before that I had a very strange dream on Heavenly Mountain?"
"Well, you told me, so what?"
"In the dream, the mysterious woman with a grimace mask called Liang Qingying, she once said that she and I were cousins. I guess if she's really the old fat sister. Do you think the mothers of the two of them will be from the Lowe clan? I mean, the Lloys are the family of Lao Fei's grandmother......"
Before I could finish my sentence, I was interrupted by a strange sound from the dark green coffin in front of me.
There was a lot of movement in the coffin, which startled Yan Xiaoying and me, who were unprepared, and Huang Jinquan was even more frightened, and he almost jumped on my back.
"This ...... Won't it be a corpse? β
Golden Spring hid behind me, staring at the dark green coffin, his face full of horror.
I squinted my eyes, took a closer look at the dark green coffin in front of me with a flashlight, and couldn't help but sigh lightly, and said to Yan Xiaoying: "This ...... Is it a coffin made of bronze? β
"Yes, it's a bronze coffin!"
Yan Xiaoying nodded and said, "The bronze coffin was difficult to see in the heyday of ancient bronzes, and I didn't expect that there was one in this deserted village. My grandmother once told me that ordinary people would not use bronze coffins to hold corpses, and the corpses used in this kind of coffins are murderous corpses. In fact, it itself is used to lock corpses, which is similar to the soul locking coffin. The only difference is: the copper coffin locks the corpse, and the willow coffin locks the soul. β
"Do you mean that a corpse that is contained in such a coffin has a good chance of being transformed?" I asked.
"It's not possible, it's 100% corpse. It is a coffin at best, but it is a cage for corpses. If there were corpses in this bronze coffin, it would have turned into a zombie! β
"You're not plainclothes cops, are you? How could you know so many strange things......"
Huang Jinquan looked at Yan Xiaoying in surprise and began to be a little suspicious.
"I didn't say I was a plainclothes policeman." Yan Xiaoying replied lightly.
"And what do you do?" Huang Jinquan asked curiously.
"The one who made the coffin!" Yan Xiaoying replied.
"Huh?"
Huang Jinquan was stunned, full of disbelief: "You are a girl who actually makes coffins, this is ......"
"What? You don't believe it? Yan Xiaoying sneered.
Huang Jinquan shrunk his neck, suddenly remembered something, let go of my clothes, took two steps back and looked at me with a look of jealousy, and asked, "Then you...... What do you do? It can't be a coroner, right? β
"No, I'm different from Yan Xiaoying, I'm just an ordinary person, just like you, I travel all day long and have nothing to do." I replied.
"Oh, that's fine......"
Huang Jinquan stretched out his hand to hold his chest, breathed a long sigh of relief, and suddenly asked, "Then what is the real purpose of your coming here?" β
"Is it really a purpose?"
I groaned for a while before I replied, "It's hard to say, if I have to, we were tricked by a fat man who stole my things." β
"How do I feel like I'm on a thief ship...... You don't seem to be good people......"
"We're not good people, but we don't agree with you when you say that you got on a thief ship, and besides, you jumped on this ship yourself, so we didn't force you." I laughed.
"This ......"
Yan Xiaoying glanced at Huang Jinquan, as if she intended to scare the latter, and said in a low voice: "You have to be careful, I told you before that there is a little ghost lying on your back, that is not a lie." And also...... Now I'm going to open this bronze coffin, in case the zombies inside jump out and suck human blood, we don't care about your safety, you can do it yourself. β
"Huh? Didn't you say that the corpse inside the coffin had become a zombie? Why do you have to open the coffin when you know that there are zombies inside? Golden Spring was frightened and took a few steps back again.
"Heyβ"
At this time, a strange voice came from inside the bronze coffin......