Chapter Ninety-Three: Retribution
After his father succeeded, he took his men and horses and the loot he had dug out, and he did not know where to go to the procession. Due to the failure of the grave protection operation, the whole village fell into a very dull atmosphere that night.
As much as I didn't want my grandmother to worry, I couldn't hide it anyway. The father's crazy behavior made the grandmother cry again.
And just when I thought it was almost over, the catastrophe had just crept in.
That morning, when the village chief knocked on the door of my house again, I knew something was wrong.
Sure enough, when he saw me, he didn't say anything else, but grabbed me and was about to go out. As he walked, he shouted, "Boss of the Guan family, come with me!" Something is wrong! ”
Seeing the village chief's eagerness, I couldn't cry or laugh, "Village chief, no matter how big something happens, you have to let me take the guy!" ”
The village chief shook his head after hearing this, "No, no, not for the time being." It's not anyone's white thing, it's a strange thing! ”
"Strange things?" I didn't know why, so I took Jiang Yifeng and left the house in a hurry with the village chief.
The village chief led the way, and the two of us followed behind at a gallop all the way to follow, but the direction was like a grave mountain.
On the way, I asked the village chief several times for news, but the village chief shook his head and said that he couldn't explain clearly for the time being, and he had to wait until he got to the place.
I had to suppress the doubts in my heart and follow him closely.
On the side of a small road, a lot of villagers gathered. Since there had been a fight the day before, almost everyone had injuries on their bodies. The village chief pushed aside the crowd and brought me and Jiang Yifeng to the center.
The place fenced by the villagers is a path with a relatively gentle slope, and a person is lying prone on the side of the road, sprinkled with dark coins and paper money.
Since the other party was prone on his stomach, although I looked at his back and felt a little familiar, I didn't know who he was.
was hesitating to turn people over and take a look, but Jiang Yifeng over there was already surprised: "Isn't this the person from yesterday?" Hit me twice and I remember him! ”
I took a closer look, and it was really.
Only then did the village chief speak: "Isn't that the person from yesterday?" I didn't expect retribution to come so quickly! He loves money so much, he loaded so much yesterday. This is not? He was found dead here early this morning, with no injuries on his body, and paper money was scattered all around. ”
"It's really retribution." I can't help but agree with the village chief's statement, how can this kind of thing be possible if it is not retribution? However, in the end, I am a coffin bearer, and I will never feel good when I see someone exposing the corpse in the wilderness, "Or, let's help him restrain it?" After all, it's a human life. ”
When Jiang Yifeng heard my words, he was like seeing a ghost alive, and exclaimed, "You still want to help him do white things?" I think you're too kind, right? You see, this is not a good person! For his funeral, aren't you afraid to go out and hit ghosts? ”
Many villagers around him seem to have the same idea as him, everyone hates such people, let them help with the funeral, I guess I really can't even get together the eight immortals.
It's not that I don't hate him.
It's just that the ancestors often said that people die and their debts are gone. It's a big mistake, and it's dead. After all, a man is dead, so why should he not be at peace?
Of course, no one here agrees with me, and I have to follow the crowd.
Seeing that I no longer insisted, the village chief said to me: "Boss of the Guan family, we came to you, in fact, we just want to know how this person died." You see he didn't have any injuries on his body, how could he suddenly die here? Besides, all he took away was something valuable, how could it be turned into paper money? ”
The things of the gods and ghosts are the most incomprehensible, and it is natural for the village chief to be curious.
In fact, I was just as curious about the cause of his death, and when I saw that everyone was looking at me, I stepped forward and approached the man who was lying on the ground.
But it wasn't until I took a closer look that I finally realized that this person actually died unjustly. He didn't die of disease, he wasn't beaten to death, and it was impossible that he was bitten to death by zombies, but he was scared to death alive.
I really don't know what he went through at night to be scared like this.
I told the villagers what I had discovered, and the village chief was silent for a while, and then suddenly proposed that everyone go and see the ancient tomb that had been dug up yesterday.
Yesterday my father took all the remains and burial stuff from the tomb, so when we arrived at the tomb, all we saw was an empty coffin and loess that had been lifted everywhere.
"Nothing has changed." Jiang Yifeng looked around, shook his head and said, "It doesn't look like this ancient tomb is a ghost." ”
I don't agree with Jiang Yifeng's words, because in the process of observing around, I saw a place that he probably didn't notice.
I squatted down next to the loess that had been thrown at random, and gently flipped it with my hands, and soon, I just saw a very small side of something that I found out, and it turned out to be a piece of paper money.
"No one has been passing by here lately, has it?" As a coffin bearer in the village, of course, I am very clear about this, but what makes me wonder is this, "When I came here yesterday, there was no paper money here." Where the hell did this come from? ”
The village chief listened to my words and came forward. He looked at it, and his face became a little solemn.
After a while, the village chief proposed, "Boss of the Guan family, why don't you carry the coffin again." ”
"What?" I didn't react for a while, thinking that he had figured it out and wanted to restrain the man who died on the side of the road.
But I soon realized I was wrong.
The village chief said to me: "People have been buried here for so many years, and suddenly their graves have been dug up, and of course there is resentment in my heart. Otherwise, let's give him another funeral and give him a good burial, so that he won't be restless below. What do you think? ”
Although I still don't understand it, I'm a little disappointed in my heart. But I also feel that it is more important to rebury the owner of the tomb and appease the dead spirits. Immediately, he agreed. But then, I realized the problem again.
"There must be a corpse in this burial, and if there is no corpse, there should be clothes to carry with you. There's nothing, what can I do? "Don't say it's me, even if my grandfather is here, I'm afraid there is no way to re-lift the coffin of the tomb owner.
Now the coffin can basically be regarded as empty, and sending it back again, in addition to giving yourself some psychological comfort, has no effect on the owner of the tomb at all, which of course cannot achieve the purpose of appeasing him.