Chapter 19: The Corpse Keeper
The people in a village, whether they come and go on weekdays or not, who has a few cows, a few pigs, and a few chickens are clear.
But no one in the meeting knew that there were still Yin guards in the village, and they were all curious to make all kinds of guesses.
Xie Guangcai and Liu Erbo began to arrange manpower, preparing to pick a day to send Uncle Liu up the mountain. When I heard this, I told them not to put the body in a coffin, and to remember to put it on their heads and feet when they were buried.
The Liu family was a little puzzled, and I couldn't explain it, but the second uncle buried his grandfather and Chen blind Zhang Tiande like this.
Of course, Uncle Liu may not be buried like this, because the grimace in his body has been caught by me and Li Lin. And the grimace in Grandpa's body was sealed, and they are still in the corpse.
A thought crossed my mind at the thought of my grandfather's corpse, but it was quickly suppressed by me.
It's not that I don't think about it, but it's something that can't happen in my mind.
I saw that Xie Guangcai had been busy going in and out, and in the afternoon, he still had to entertain people from the township, and it was estimated that he would not be able to go home for a while.
greeted Li Lin, sneaked out of Liu's house, and then went straight to Xie Guangcai's house.
Xie Guangcai's wife died early, leaving him a son, who entered the city a few years ago, and never returned to the village later. It all happened before I can remember, and Xie Guangcai never mentioned this son, these are all things I heard from the villagers.
Li Lin and I arrived at the door of Xie Guangcai's house, there was a lock on the gate, and there were seven or eight sheep in the yard gnawing a bundle of dried bales of grain and grass.
The walls in the countryside are not high, and the main function is to prevent livestock from running out, so Li Lin and I easily climbed in.
The courtyard was full of sheep dung, the door of the hall was locked, and the windows on both sides were open, but the walls were inlaid with thumb-thick steel cages, and it was impossible to get in.
The sunny side of the second floor is a bamboo fence, and the door at the staircase is also very simple, except for a latch, and Li Lin pushed the door open as soon as he pulled it.
At the entrance to the staircase above, a black cloth hangs like a curtain.
Picking locks will be discovered, and now is not the time. Li Lin and I touched the second floor, Li Lin pushed down the black cloth with his hand, there was no door in the back, but it was pitched inside, and nothing could be seen.
Fortunately, the flashlight I brought last night was still there, and when I turned it on, the tulou was empty, only a black coffin was parked in the middle, which should have been prepared by Xie Guang for himself.
Seeing that it was not a red coffin, I was a little disappointed, and I was about to go downstairs after seeing it, but Li Lin grabbed me, took the flashlight from my hand, and the probe shone it, and the cat's waist got in, and I could only follow.
I couldn't see the entrance of the building clearly, and I found that the bamboo fence was covered with a layer of black cloth inside, so that the entire second floor was not transparent, and the black cloth at the door fell down, and the inside was not visible.
Li Lin clasped his hands before he entered, kept rubbing his arms and said, "It's so cold, how can it be so cold." ”
Cold? Why don't I feel it?
In just a few seconds, Li Lin was shivering with cold, and the breath he spit out was white mist under the flashlight.
I frowned slightly, I didn't feel cold at all, why did Li Lin feel cold?
A flash of inspiration flashed in my mind, and I hurriedly said, "I'm afraid there is yin qi here!" ”
I was sucked by my daughter-in-law's yang energy, and the yin energy in my body was heavy, and I couldn't feel cold when I was in the yin energy. But Li Lin is normal, he was rushed by the yin qi, and naturally felt very cold.
Li Lin shuddered and shone his flashlight on the coffin.
From a distance, the coffin was nothing special, and when I got closer, I saw that the coffin was sealed by coffin nails. Li Lin's family made coffins, and he recognized it at a glance as a peach wood nail, pulled me back two steps, and exclaimed, "This is a murderous coffin." ”
For people who die normally, the coffin nails are all iron nails or copper nails, but if they die unexpectedly or die before the age of 50, it is a vain death, and the clothes on the deceased cannot have metal buttons and zippers or anything, and there can be no metal on the coffin, and the coffin nails will be replaced by wooden nails.
But with peach wood as nails, I'm afraid the corpse inside is not simple.
We've all seen grimaces and corpses, and we're not afraid of a sealed coffin. It's just that I'm very curious, how can there be a murderous coffin in Xie Guangcai's house?
And who's in it?
After Li Lin approached, he covered his flashlight with his clothes, and as soon as the light weakened, a net-like line appeared on the black coffin, which was slightly darker than the color of the coffin.
"This is a chicken blood ink bucket line!" Li Lin was shocked, and then said: "Xie Guangcai, this old thing, this is raising zombies at home?" ”
When I heard it was a zombie, my scalp tingled.
There is a big difference between a corpse and a zombie, a corpse is just a walking corpse, which will attract people and pinch people. Zombies are different, they want to drink human blood, they pounce when they see people, their strength is still great, they can jump out of five or six meters in one step, and the old stiff body of the old man is as hard as copper and iron, invulnerable, and the Taoist priest will have a headache when he encounters it.
I remembered that Uncle Li mentioned the corpse keeper when he told me about the corpse, and at that time he also said that there were no corpse keepers in the village, and now it seems that Xie Guangcai is probably the corpse keeper, and he still raises zombies.
Li Lin and I didn't dare to mess with the coffin, if we accidentally released a zombie, the whole village would suffer.
Although the red coffin was not found, the discovery of Xie Guangcai's identity made me feel more and more that Niuxin Village is not simple, so many strange people gather here, and some are incognito, are they all for Yin Village?
What is in the daughter-in-law's village?
There was nothing on the tulou except a coffin that did not dare to move. Li Lin and I quietly retreated after reading it, and cleaned up the footprints by the way.
The red coffin was not found, and Xie Guangcai could not be found now. But knowing his identity, I'm sure the red coffin is in his hands.
As soon as Li Lin and I arrived downstairs, before we got out of the eaves, we saw a person on the wall turn in, Li Lin opened his mouth and was about to scream, I hurriedly covered his mouth and quickly hid in the compartment at the bottom of the stairs.
It was none other than Liu Guozhu, who escaped in Qingshui Village.
He looked around and saw that the door of the tulou was open, and he did not suspect it, and went up to the second floor in a flash.
Liu Guozhu's footsteps entered the tulou, and Li Lin whispered, "What is he doing here?" So many people died in the Liu family, why don't he go back and take a look? ”
I also think it's strange that I won't say what he did to me in Qingshui Village if I don't say it in advance, and even if I say it, at most, it's a fight between two families, and it's not a big deal.
After thinking about it, I said, "I'm afraid he knows that Xie Guang is the murderer, and he wants to take revenge in secret." ”
There was only a coffin on it, and Liu Guozhu, like us, went downstairs in a few minutes.
I thought he would pick the lock, but he hurried out over the wall without even looking at the door.
Liu Guozhu left for a while, and Li Lin and I came out and were about to leave, but we had just climbed out of the cubicle when we heard the sound of a knock coming from the tulou on the second floor, as if someone was jumping around on it.
Li Lin and I changed their faces all of a sudden, Liu Guozhu released the contents of the coffin?
The second floor is not transparent, and Lao Zhuang can come out of the coffin at any time, and Liu Guozhu has every reason to do this kind of thing in order to retaliate.
The knock sound resounded back and forth for about ten seconds before stopping, Li Lin and I didn't dare to go up to see, if it was really stiff, we would go up and be a sheep into the tiger's mouth. I don't think that with my current skills, I can deal with a zombie with a jade lamp.
After thinking about it, I pulled the deadbolt that Liu Guozhu had inserted, pushed the door open a crack, and then came out of the wall with Li Lin. When I went outside and looked at the sun hanging in the sky, I said to Li Lin: "We have to let Xie Guang know about this matter, otherwise it will be really stiff out of the coffin, and when it gets dark, the whole village will suffer." ”
Li Lin said: "Won't we be exposed? Even if it is not exposed, this old guy will probably be wary. ”
I said, "Naturally, we can't expose it, but the fact that someone has entered his house may make him anxious to deal with the red coffin, but it will let us know the whereabouts of the red coffin as soon as possible." ”
After speaking, I thought about it, looked at Li Lin and said, "Aren't you on a good relationship with Fang Xiaotian?" Her house is next to Xie Guangcai's house, and you will call her out later, and ask her to tell Xie Guangcai, just say that you saw someone climb over the wall and enter his house. ”
Fang Xiaotian is the same age as Li Lin, before he saw Chen Xue, Li Lin talked all day long about marrying someone else as a wife, but as soon as Chen Xue appeared, he didn't mention Fang Xiaotian anymore.
Childhood admiration is innocent, but it is also the most beautiful thing. is like Li Lin's admiration for Chen Xue, maybe he himself knows that it is impossible to do it with the age difference.
It's just that before the bubble bursts, it's all beautiful.
Li Lin was reluctant, I pushed him and kept instigating him, so he reluctantly knocked on the door of Fang Xiaotian's house.
Fang Xiaotian's parents were all helping at Liu Guozhu's house, and she and Grandma Fang were the only ones at home, but I still didn't show up and hid in the distance.
After a while, Li Lin came back, and Fang Xiaotian went out to Liu Guozhu's house.
We didn't follow, but hid in the valley outside Xie Guangcai's house. More than 20 minutes later, Xie Guangcai hurried back.
As long as he returned home and saw that the door at the entrance of the building was open, he would definitely check the coffin as soon as possible. What I'm worried about is that Liu Guozhu really let the old zombie out, and Xie Guangcai can't deal with it.
We were worried, but in broad daylight, we didn't dare to hold the wall. After Xie Guangcai went back, his house was also very calm, and he went out with a cold face in about ten minutes, and still went to Liu Guozhu's house. I guess someone from the countryside came, otherwise he wouldn't have left in such a hurry.
When I saw that he came out safely, my hanging heart fell. After about ten minutes, we also went to Liu Guozhu's house, the second uncle had already returned, a group of villagers in front of the Liu family's hall were looking forward to it, and Liu Erbo was nervously standing at the window waiting.
The Yin Keeper was invited by the second uncle?
Li Lin and I squeezed to the front, holding the window to peek, but Liu Erbo pushed back, saying that children can't look around, and it won't work when they see the yin.
He didn't let him see it, and Li Lin and I couldn't do anything, but our hearts were like cats. Ask the people around you who the second uncle invited to walk in the yin is.
As a result, the villager said that the person invited by the second uncle was very mysterious, with a hat and a veil, and he couldn't see his face, but judging from the clothes, he should be a girl.
When Li Lin heard this, he whispered in my ear: "Brother Ding Ning, could it be your mother?" ”
I glared at him and told him not to talk nonsense. We waited at Liu's house for more than half an hour, and went back and forth to Xie Guangcai's house for almost an hour. If it were my mother, the second uncle wouldn't have to go for so long.