Chapter 10: Opening the coffin
At this time, the feng shui snake had just crawled in front of the grass, and its head poked into the grass.
Its body was more than a foot long, and it still crawled forward in a meandering way.
At the same time, the squeaks were louder, and one by one the black, more than a foot long rats jumped out of the grass.
As if they had a grudge against the feng shui snake, they swarmed up and surrounded it, and immediately the flesh and blood flew sideways, and half of the feng shui snake's body was covered by rats.
Chen Bo shouted at Liu Dehai, "Get them away!" ”
The feng shui snake is the patron saint of the ancestral tomb of the Liu family, if the feng shui snake dies, then the Liu family will have bad luck and will never be able to turn over again.
Liu Dehai's eyes were red. The guys in everyone's hands frantically threw at the rat.
It's just that the rats are like crazy, the front ones are killed, and the back ones are still coming out of the grass.
Everyone was surprised to find that the entire cemetery was full of such rats.
The feng shui snake was rolling on the ground, and its entire body was covered in a colony of rats.
Liu Dehai and the others were in a hurry and sweating profusely, but they still couldn't stop the crazy rat swarm.
Looking at this scene, Uncle Chen said helplessly, "These are all doomed, and no one can change them!" ”
His face turned dead gray and he sat down on the ground at once.
I whispered to him, "The Liu family will only get into trouble if they do bad things." None of this has anything to do with us. ”
Uncle Chen shook his head and said, "Now it's not just the Liu family's own business, it is estimated that no one in the entire village can escape." ”
"So what are we going to do?" That's when I realized the seriousness of the matter.
Uncle Chen suddenly seemed to be dozens of years old, and said, "I can only go with the flow." Your grandfather had been worrying about the day and it came anyway! ”
My grandfather didn't let me go into the water, and let me study hard, just to let me leave the village and escape this catastrophe. Now it seems that grandpa's intentions have been in vain.
"Are we just waiting to die?" I then asked.
Chen Bo looked up at the sky and said, "It's not time yet, let's see the situation first." ”
At this time, the villagers finally drove the rats away, leaving a layer of rat carcasses behind.
The bodies of the feng shui snakes are coiled together, and the flesh on their bodies has been gnawed away by rats, leaving only a long snake skeleton.
Liu Dehai sat on the ground and kept saying, "It's over, it's all over!" ”
The feng shui snake has lived for hundreds of years and feeds mainly on rats, which of course the rat colony hates immensely. It's just that the place where the feng shui snake hides is very secret, and the rats can't do anything about it.
Now that it has appeared, the rat colony will certainly not let go of this opportunity.
Liu Dehai got up from the ground in frustration and ordered someone to put the coffin in the grave and bury it quickly.
His heart was dead. Liu Yuanhua asked, "Dad, what should I do next?" ”
Liu Dehai seemed to have made up his mind and said, "Let's deal with Yuanshuang's aftermath first, and then find Yuancai." I really had no choice but to ask my ancestors for help. ”
Watching everyone put the coffin into the grave, Liu Dehai breathed a sigh of relief. He commanded, "Fill the grave!" ”
Just when everyone picked up the shovel and was about to fill in the grave, Chen Bo suddenly seemed to think of something, he waved his hand and said, "Don't fill it yet!" ”
I don't know what's going on, Liu Dehai looked at him suspiciously.
Chen Bo pointed to the snake bones of the feng shui snake and said, "The feng shui snake is responsible for guarding the cemetery, and it usually does not appear. It was kept in the grave to prevent burial. In this way, there must be something wrong with the corpse in the coffin, and it is because of this breath that it appears, and it turns out that it has taken its life. ”
After Uncle Chen's reminder, Liu Dehai also understood a little. The feng shui snake is just like the ancestor of the Liu family, and it only appeared when it found something wrong.
Liu Dehai wiped the sweat on his head, he was really worried about anything. He meant to bury the corpse in the ground as soon as possible, but now it is a branch of the extraneous branch.
He frowned and asked, "What then?" ”
Chen Bo stared at the coffin intently and said, "If you want to understand, you have to open the coffin!" ”
"Open the coffin?" Liu Dehai's eyebrows were twisted into a caterpillar. He gritted his teeth and pondered for a while, then said, "Okay, Brother Chen, do as you say." ”
Uncle Chen nodded and said, "I did this for the sake of your Liu family. In case of a confused burial, if something goes wrong, the consequences will be unimaginable. ”
Liu De said, "Brother Chen, I understand what you mean. Do what you want. ”
Uncle Chen had an awning built on top of the grave, and for corpses, being exposed to the sun was the most taboo thing.
After the awning was set up, Uncle Chen said to me, "Chao'er, let's go down together." ”
He didn't wait for me to answer, but jumped into the grave. Seeing him jump in, I couldn't excuse myself, so I jumped in after him.
The water in the grave had been cleaned up, but there was still a layer of mud on the ground, and my entire shoe had sunk into it.
Uncle Chen asked people to hand over two claw hammers, one for each of us. The coffin was sealed tightly, and a total of six coffins were nailed.
The coffin nails are quadrangular and more than half a foot long. Uncle Chen and I worked together, inserted the claw hammer under the coffin nail, and then pried it upwards vigorously.
With a creaking sound, the coffin nails were pried up one by one.
It wasn't until all the coffin nails had been pried off that Uncle Chen waved his hand at me and motioned for me to open the coffin.
Although it was broad daylight, looking at the dozens of people gathered around it, they all looked at me and Uncle Chen with serious faces. I was also a little nervous.
The scene was unusually quiet, and only the sound of the wind blowing through the grass could be heard.
Uncle Chen pointed to my chest, he was telling me that with Gu Yu to protect me, even if I did it, it would be fine.
I nodded, mustered up the courage to grab the side of the coffin lid, and lifted it upwards with all my might.
With a creak, I lifted the lid of the coffin, and a thick smell of blood came to my face.
I held my breath and pushed the coffin lid aside. The inner walls of the coffin were stained with blood, and it was no wonder that blood was oozing from underneath the coffin.
The deceased seemed to have been thrown into a coffin alive, blood splattering everywhere as they struggled.
But there were people standing by the coffin all the time, and no one heard a noise from the coffin. This is really a bit unbelievable.
The coffin was covered with a cloth sheet, which was bulging, and it could be vaguely seen to be a human shape.
The man was hunched, more like a prawn. This is quite normal, because when Liu Yuanshuang died, his body kept kneeling.
Later, it took a lot of effort to straighten his body, but it was still a hunchback.
I bent down and leaned half into the coffin to lift the sheet.
My hands trembled slightly, and I gritted my teeth to lift the sheet, then quickly retracted my hand.
The body lay sideways in the coffin, and when I saw the clothes on his body, I felt that something was wrong.
Because I have seen Liu Yuanshuang wearing a black old clothes, while the person in the coffin is wearing a white half-sleeved, and even his clothes are stained red with blood.