Chapter 42: The New Ghost in Yizhuang
Walking out of the dilapidated house, I came to the courtyard where the coffins were piled up.
It's a lot like the layout of the Far North, with a lot of coffins.
Some are painted, some are not, but as far as I can see, many are discarded.
For example, the coffins of the two husbands and wives were destroyed, and when they fell, their bones were destroyed.
It was said that this was a place to put coffins, but no one would have thought that there were actually several coffins with corpses in them.
There may be more than just the two broken.
I didn't dare to go any deeper.
The fog was heavy in the early morning, the air was damp, and I yawned.
"It's been a long time since I've gotten up so early." I stretched and went back to the house.
"You say that there are no people in this village, let alone human voices, and I haven't even heard a rooster crow." I opened the door and walked out.
Damn, this is really a righteous village, selling coffins!
I said how the bar is so high.
"Ghost, ghost!"
While I was watching at the door, a good head appeared around the corner next to me.
This is really human, it's past six o'clock, and there are still ghosts hanging outside.
But the man showed a frightened expression and ran away.
Hearing the movement outside, the fourth brother and they also walked out.
"Who's talking!" The fourth brother watched left and right.
"Let's go, go over and have a look." I pointed around the corner, "Someone was over there." ”
"Let's go, I'll just say there's no one here." So, the three of us went to find someone.
There was an old-fashioned telephone pole around the corner, and on the edge of a field was a slope that obscured the view, and beside it was a pile of dilapidated houses, with collapsed beams and tiles, and a little further there was a forest.
We climbed up and walked through the grove to find that there was a small village at the bottom of the slope!
The tattered appearance we saw here was all true, but it wasn't that there was no one, but that everyone had moved to the bottom of the slope behind.
"Damn, are we going the wrong way?" It's heaven right in front of you.
Concrete roads more than a meter wide, small bungalows scattered together, large fields, and farmers are busy.
"I don't know, but what happened to the roads we've walked..." The fourth brother touched his hair, "The address we saw is the place just now, and the money was paid in advance..."
"Could it be that our peers deliberately tricked us?" I thought about our experience along the way yesterday and it felt like a dream.
"Forget it, let's go, let's go down and ask." The third brother slapped his thigh, "Fourth, you go back and tell the boss about them, and we'll bring someone here." ”
So, I went to the road below with my third brother.
Not long after I walked, I saw that many farmers in the fields had stopped their work and were talking to the old farmer who saw me.
When they saw us walking past, their faces were not very good-looking.
"Where are you, people, how did you come down from the grave mountain?" The villagers gathered around.
"Grave Mountain?" The third brother took out a cigarette from his pocket, "A few fellows, it's like this, we are Taoist priests under the mountain, and we were entrusted to do things here, and it was getting late, so we spent the night in the dilapidated house above, and there were several of our partners above, and all our outfits were still there." ”
"It turned out to be a Taoist priest, so I said how could someone appear there, and I thought it was the ghost of the baby who came back." The old man emerged from the crowd.
"Fellow, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, we're outsiders, and we're not familiar with this side." The third brother handed over the cigarette and lit it, and the big men sat on the edge of the field and smoked.
The machines all stopped, except for one or two peasant women watching, and the other four peasant women were still cutting the grain.
Since the death of my parents, my family has no labor, my grandmother just grows some small vegetables, I have never done these heavy work, and the millet at home depends on my uncle every season or every year.
My family's fields were contracted to those bosses, and cash crops were planted, and the rent was several thousand yuan a year.
It's hard work early in the morning.
I wanted to help, but I stepped on it, but I didn't expect the soil in the field to be soft, and it sank in.
Frightened, I quickly pulled out my foot, the side was covered with mud, and I stood on the edge of the field, a little embarrassed.
"Hahaha, young man, how did you come here to work with such a delicate appearance, let's rest by the side." Several aunts laughed at me, I thought no one saw it, but I didn't expect them to see it.
I had to smile awkwardly and go back to the fourth brother.
"But no, we have a child who is ignorant, went over the mountain to play, but fell into the ditch and died, and the adults looked for a long time to find it, crying and crying, and the body still had to be buried."
"But, the child's head doesn't know where to go, this is very incredible, I found a Taoist priest to see, said that it was a big murderer, and it could not be carried down the mountain, but it should be placed in the righteous village on the mountain, and I would talk about it after the fifteenth day of July." The old man took a puff of his cigarette and his eyes narrowed.
"Today is the fifteenth day of July, according to what the Taoist priest said, the body can only be carried down tomorrow, this big summer, it has rained for so many days, how can there be a complete corpse, the child's mother is angry and anxious because of this incident, and has been in the hospital for several days, and is still recuperating at home."
"You haven't invited other Taoist priests to come and see it?" The third brother handed over the cigarette again.
"That's not it, in this village, in other villages, in short, the Taoist priests who can be invited around here have been found, and some are bold, but when they go to Nayizhuang, they pack up their things and leave, hey."
"However, a few days ago, it seems that a Taoist priest came with a young man, but both of them were wearing Taoist robes and hats, and they came down from that mountain just like you." A middle-aged man pulled a towel over and wiped his face.
"When it happened, I don't know."
Another man threw the cigarette butt on the ground, "You don't tell the big guy about this kind of thing." ”
"Hey, it's not like I'm busy working, I didn't find the right time, I almost forgot about it, but I remembered when I heard that." The middle-aged man patted his knee, "Anyway, it's early, and it's not very bright yet." ”
"You're not a ghost, it's been a ghost everywhere in July, and there are ghosts in the toilet." One woman quipped.
"There are feet, I watched them walk down, how could it be a ghost." The man laughed.
"Then where do you say they went?" Another woman asked.
"I don't care what they do, I'll just watch them come down, and then I'll do my own thing." The man took off the towel on the back of his neck and wrung out a handful of sweat.
"Just rub it together and get to work." The woman next to him grabbed him, apparently it was a couple of two.
"We came this time to solve the problem of Nayizhuang, but I didn't expect that there was really a new soul in that old place." The third brother stood up.
"Okay fellow, the matter is roughly understood, let's go up and have a look first, and I hope you will give it a convenient time, we haven't eaten since we came over last night, can we..."
"No problem, at first glance, you are a powerful Taoist priest, it is great to solve the problem of the coffin shop, that place has become a forbidden place in our village, and I have to trouble you, if you need help, just say it."
The middle-aged man also stood up, "Today, my family threshed grain, half a table, if you can do it, come to my house for dinner." ”
The woman next to her also nodded, "Master, a few of you, I'll go back and plan." ”
"Well, there are six of us, if it's troublesome, we can give money." The third brother had an honest smile.
"Speaking of these, Wang Wu's family spent a lot of money to hire Taoist priests for this matter, and none of them succeeded, so don't charge a high price." The middle-aged man pointed to the small house next to the electric pole, and the door was closed.
"Don't worry, someone has already paid for the money, we are solving the matter of Yizhuang, the one you said, we respect their choice." The third brother walked to the road, "Then we'll go first." ”
"Okay, master, you go slowly," the villagers all stood up.
"I'm sorry for you." I followed my third brother to bid farewell to the villagers and returned to the mountains.
Unexpectedly, Wu Qian and the others were no longer in that house.
And from the courtyard, there was a thumping sound······