Chapter 13: Collecting Corpses
I sighed slightly and led Kuroko out of the room.
When I walked to the gate, I looked back, and Cao Xi was still standing at the door looking at me, her expression a little complicated.
The next morning, as soon as I got up, I saw Uncle Chen waiting for me at the gate. I asked him, "Uncle Chen, why are you here so early?" ”
Uncle Chen said with a calm face, "Things are getting more and more troublesome. Let's go to Liu's house to have a look. ”
Hearing him say go to Liu's house, I hesitated. Cao Xi told me not to contact the Liu family as much as possible, otherwise the same thing might happen again.
Chen Bo pulled me and said, "Let's go." ”
Uncle Chen has been taking care of me all these years, and I don't want him to take risks alone. I still followed him to Liu's house.
As soon as Uncle Chen and I entered the house, Liu Dehai said, "I thought there would be no more accidents in the village, but Liu Cong said that he saw a terrible thing last night." ”
Hearing his words, I thought that Liu Cong saw that I was hooked to the river by the carrion, so I turned my head to look at Liu Cong.
Liu Cong's face was pale, as if he had been frightened enough. Judging by his expression, it seems that this matter has nothing to do with me. The less daring he was, the more terrible things became.
Uncle Chen's brows furrowed, and he asked Liu Cong, "What did you see?" ”
Liu Cong said, "I haven't gone fishing for many days, and my family is about to be unable to open the pot." Because nothing has happened in the past few days, I am a little bolder. Yesterday after dark, I rowed to the river to fish......"
Before he finished speaking, Liu Dehai glared at him and said, "Don't you think the village is chaotic enough?" ”
Liu Cong was very afraid of Liu Dehai, his head was full of cold sweat, and he said, "I can't help it, the crops are so waterlogged that there is no harvest, I can only take advantage of the fish in the river to catch some and exchange them for money." ”
Uncle Chen comforted him and said, "You don't have to worry, tell me what you saw." ”
Liu Cong glanced at Uncle Chen, then at Liu Dehai, and said in a voice that everyone could barely hear, "I...... I saw Yuancai! ”
Although his voice was not loud, everyone could hear it very clearly. Liu Dehai's eyes immediately widened, and he said angrily, "You are not allowed to talk nonsense!" Yuan Cai has already settled in the ground, how can it appear again? ”
Liu Cong knew that Liu Dehai would be angry, so he continued, "Uncle, don't be angry. I thought I was wrong at the time, so I took a closer look, and what I saw was indeed Yuancai! ”
Liu Dehai knew Liu Cong's character very well, he took a deep breath, and then asked, "Why did he appear by the river?" ”
Liu Cong said with a bitter face, "I saw him rowing a small boat towards the side of the river. When he was about to reach the stone pillar, he sank into the water with the boat. ”
At this time, not only the people present, but even Uncle Chen's face became ugly.
According to the village rules, when marrying the river god a long time ago, the bride was carried in a leaky boat and allowed to sink to the bottom. Most of them also sank near the stone pillars.
This is exactly the same as the process of marrying the river god, it is simply terrifying. It's just that Liu Yuan is a man, and he has been dead for several days.
How could he have rowed there on his own?
Liu Dehai stared at Liu Cong viciously and said, "If I find out that you are lying, see how I punish you!" ”
Liu Cong said with a bitter face, "What he rowed was the small boat he used for fishing." ”
Hearing him mention the fishing that day, everyone's hearts rose to their throats again.
Liu Dehai snorted and said, "Whether what you say is true or false, let's go and see." ”
Liu Dehai glared at Liu Cong, and Liu Cong was so frightened that he shrank his neck. Liu Dehai said to Uncle Chen, "Brother Chen, let's go to the river and have a look." ”
Everyone came out of the house, and dozens of people kept walking towards the river. In fact, not only Liu Dehai, but even his three sons did not believe Liu Cong's words. They were always ahead of the crowd.
When they reached the river, they saw a row of small boats neatly tied to wooden stakes.
The boats of the Liu brothers were all tied together. Liu Yuanhua walked to the place where the boat was tied first. When he got there, he was immediately dumbfounded.
The five brothers, together with his father Liu Dehai, had a total of six boats, and now there are only five boats left. Liu Yuancai's boat is really gone!
Liu Dehai looked down at the wooden stakes used to tie the boat, and then looked at the five tall stone pillars in the distance.
His face sank like water, and it seemed that Liu Cong was not lying.
But he would never believe that Liu Yuancai, who had been buried in the grave, could actually crawl out of it!
He smoked several cigarettes in a row. After a while, he said with a blushing face, "The boat is gone, so it can't mean that Yuan Cai rowed away." There is only one way to know whether this matter is true or false. ”
In fact, listening to him here, I can also guess what he is going to do.
Sure enough, Liu Dehai continued, "Let's go to his grave and have a look, and the truth will be revealed." ”
He led the people towards the cemetery, but Uncle Chen was in no hurry to leave. He stood by the river, looking at the five stone pillars around the eye of the river.
Chen Bo shook his head silently and said, "It seems that this catastrophe is inevitable. ”
I was puzzled and asked, "Could it be that the five brothers of the Liu family are going to die?" ”
Chen Bo nodded and said, "Didn't you see that there were five stone pillars there?" Each of the five brothers had exactly one stone pillar. If the Five Ghosts Split Body Bureau is broken, the people in the village will suffer. ”
Only then did I realize that the other party didn't just want to punish the Liu family. Their purpose was actually the Five Ghost Splitting Bureau that had existed for hundreds of years.
This reminds me of what Cao Xi told me, in order not to get into trouble, I didn't bother to ask.
Uncle Chen and I followed the crowd and walked towards the cemetery.
As soon as they heard that they were going to the cemetery, many villagers immediately retreated. In the end, there were only a dozen people who went with Liu Dehai.
The familiar hillside came into view again, and as we got closer, I felt a chill enveloping the graveyard even though it was summer.
Liu Dehai walked to the mound in three or two steps, although he was mentally prepared, he was still taken aback, stumbled twice, and almost sat on the ground.
Uncle Chen and I walked over closely, only to find that the mound had been dug up and the coffin was exposed.
Liu Dehai rubbed his eyes, still a little unable to believe the scene he saw. "How is that possible?" ”
I took a closer look at the marks left behind, and the ground was full of furrows, more like someone had dug them out by hand.
Because it had just rained and the soil was very loose, it was not difficult to dig up the mound.
Liu Dehai walked to the coffin in person, and he still had a glimmer of hope.
He gently lifted the lid of the coffin, but everyone guessed correctly, the coffin was empty, and Liu Yuancai's body was gone!
Looking at the coffin, Liu Dehai's body trembled slightly, his eyes were red, he suddenly walked up to Uncle Chen, reached out and grabbed his collar, and said angrily, "Old Chen, didn't you say that you can suppress the evil spirit of the carp?" How could such a thing still happen? ”
Uncle Chen shook it several times in a row, but he couldn't break free.
He said with a calm face, "Lao Liu, don't go too far!" I've tried my best, isn't it because your Liu family has done too many bad things and caused trouble? ”
The two of them are-for-tat, and neither of them will budge.
Liu Dehai said angrily, "Lao Chen, I know what you think. Our Liu family doesn't have a good life, don't think about it! Don't you want to see the excitement? I won't let you get it! Since I can't let you do your best, then I can only ask the ancestors. ”
Hearing him mention the words Old Ancestor, Uncle Chen's face twisted slightly. I've never seen what the ancestor of the Liu family looks like.
I only know that Liu Dehai has a total of four brothers, and as for any elders, I have lived in the village for more than 20 years, but I have never seen him.
Uncle Chen sighed and said, "Old Liu, don't use your ancestors to suppress me. The evil qi in the feng shui array is too heavy, and with my ability, I can't suppress them anymore! If this continues, the consequences will be unimaginable. ”
Hearing his words, Liu Dehai let go of his hand, and he squatted on the ground like a deflated ball.
He was also a little confused. After a while, he instructed Liu Cong, "Don't care so much for now, you can start filling in the grave." ”
Of course, Liu Cong didn't dare to slack off, and the four or five of them worked together to bury the empty coffin in the mound.
Liu Dehai stood up, gritted his teeth and said, "I don't care so much." Since the bodies of Yuan Shuang and Yuan Cai are near the stone pillar, no matter what, I have to fish them up! No matter what the cost! ”
Chen Bo shook his head silently, he knew very well in his heart that not only was the underwater undercurrent very fast, but ordinary people couldn't get close to it at all.
What's even more terrifying is that the evil qi there is very heavy, and no matter how good the water is, people will lose their lives due to the erosion of the evil qi.
Liu Dehai doesn't care so much, anyway, the Liu family is rich and powerful, as long as the money is spent properly, there is nothing that can't be done.
As soon as he returned to the village, Liu Dehai began to prepare for the recovery of the corpse. Of course, everyone in this village knows that this matter is difficult, and no one will be willing to take this risk.
Liu Dehai contacted people from other villages through connections, and he raised the remuneration to 100,000 yuan.
This is indeed a heart-warming figure, considering that the villagers' annual income is only 18,000 yuan. With this money, life will be much more comfortable later on.
Just when Liu Dehai was in full swing preparing to retrieve the body, an unexpected thing happened again.