Chapter 20: Guarding the Corpse (1)
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, evening comes.
I was sleeping all day, and the sloppy Taoist priest was preparing things for his own use.
In the evening, the sloppy Taoist priest woke me up and left, leaving me with a lot of charms, and a mahogany sword, and told me a lot of words.
After the sloppy Taoist priest left, I looked at the talisman and the peachwood sword in front of me, and I hesitated whether to go to Mrs. Li's house.
To be honest, I really hate the Li family, but thinking about what the sloppy Taoist priest said before, I don't think it's okay not to go.
I thought about it for a long time, and then I slowly stood up and looked out the door, by this time it was already completely dark, I sighed helplessly, picked up the mahogany sword and charm, and walked out of the house.
As I walked towards Li's house, I said to myself, "But you must burn the body." ”
Thinking like this, I came to the gate of the Li family, and I always had a sense of foreboding when I looked at the closed door.
"Bang...... Bang bang. ”
I knocked on the door, and in a few moments the door slowly opened.
"Squeak......
A housekeeper poked his head out of it, saw that it was me, and asked, "Fool, why did you come by yourself?" ”
I glanced at the family and said, "That Taoist priest went to look for the corpse, he asked me to come over first, and he came over after he finished dealing with it." ”
"Hurry in." After hearing this, Jia Ding hurriedly pushed open the door and said.
The moment he opened the door, I saw the coffin in the courtyard at a glance, and the coffin was quietly placed in the middle of the courtyard.
Then I looked at the family and asked, "Why hasn't this body been burned yet?" ”
"The old man didn't let it burn, saying that he was just this one son, how could he not have a whole corpse when he died." Jia Ding said helplessly.
It can be seen that the family is also a little scared.
When he saw that I was still standing there, he looked at me and said, "Come in quickly, don't talk here." ”
After hearing this, I walked slowly towards the courtyard, and when I passed by the coffin, my pace couldn't help but speed up a little, and the family next to me was almost the same as me, and the pace was not slower than mine.
When he walked into the house, Mrs. Li was sitting in the seat of the head of the house, and his face looked better at this time.
"Where's the royal chief?" Mrs. Li looked at me and asked.
"He went to look for your granddaughter's body, and he asked me to come first." I looked at Mrs. Li and said.
"You sit down first." Mrs. Li greeted me.
I sat on the chair for a moment and said, "Master Li, burn the corpse quickly, that Taoist priest specially told me that the corpse must be burned." ”
Mrs. Li replied directly and loudly: "No, the corpse must not be burned, you also know, I am such a son as him, I can't let him not have a whole corpse, you are still a child, you don't understand my feelings as a father at all." ”
As soon as I heard the old man say this, this burning of corpses must be no fun.
Time passed minute by minute, and the Li family was talking there, basically related to their granddaughter's corpse, and I was completely ignored by the Li family, and then I felt how redundant I was.
After a long time, Mrs. Li slowly got up and said, "It's not early, let's rest early." ”
After speaking, Mrs. Li turned his gaze to me again and said, "You can rest early, and I'll find you a room." ”
I glanced at Mrs. Li and said, "I can't rest, the Taoist chief said, if you don't agree to burn the corpse, let me guard here." ”
"What can you do as a child, you better go to bed early." My sister's mother looked at me and said.
"No, I'll keep watch here." I glanced at Mrs. Li and said.
"You two stay here with him, don't make any trouble." Mrs. Li glanced at the two family members beside him and said.
"Yes." The two families replied in unison.
After hearing this, Mrs. Li turned around and left, and the rest of the Li family also left, leaving only me and the two family members.
When Mrs. Li left, I asked Mrs. Li for some glutinous rice, and I sprinkled the glutinous rice around the coffin according to what the sloppy Taoist priest said.
As for Mrs. Li leaving these two family members, I naturally know what it means, I think he is afraid that I will steal their things, I am a cheap life, he doesn't care about my life or death at all.
"You said you, let you sleep, you can sleep, you have to involve our brothers to accompany you." A family member looked at me and said helplessly.
Another housekeeper chimed in: "Not really. ”
I didn't take the two of them to heart, my attention was always on the coffin in the courtyard, and I was afraid that something unexpected would happen.
The minutes ticked by, and soon it was midnight, when both of them were sleeping on the table and napping, and I was a little sleepy at the moment, but I tried to keep myself awake.
I don't know when it started, it actually started to fog in the courtyard, and from the inside of the house, the courtyard seemed to be covered with a layer of white gauze.
The candlelight kept beating in the house, and everything in the courtyard was so quiet that not a single insect could hear it.
"Squeak...... Squeak......"
Suddenly, my eyes widened at the sound from the direction of the coffin, and my heart beat sharply, as if it was about to jump out of my chest.
I turned my head to look at the two of them, who were already asleep.
I turned my head to look at the coffin again, and finally gritted my teeth, and I began to move slowly in the direction of the coffin.
"Squeak......
The sound in the coffin continued, and I courageously approached the coffin step by step.
Just as I had reached the edge of the coffin, I saw a completely swarthy mouse suddenly burst out of the coffin, and I was so frightened by this mouse that I retreated and screamed.
"Ah......h
The two family members woke up suddenly, and then shouted, "What's the matter? What's wrong? ”
When the two of them came back to their senses, they saw me standing stupidly next to the coffin, and the mouse that had just jumped out of the coffin.
"Haha...... A rat scares you like this. One of the housekeepers looked at me and laughed.
I steadied my chest, which was still heaving violently, and then looked into the coffin, only to see that there was nothing abnormal in the coffin at the moment, and the sound just now was made by the mouse.
I shook my head helplessly, it was really scaring myself, and then I turned and walked towards the house.
When I went back to the house, I inadvertently looked up at the moon in the sky, due to the fog, the moon looked hazy at this time, and what was even more strange was that the moon was actually a little faintly red.