Chapter 1 The Coffin Boy

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There is a custom in our place that if the body of a person who dies before the age of fifty is not cremated, a boy must be found to sit at the head of the coffin on the day of burial until the coffin is buried in the ground.

Grandpa is a Mr. Yin and Yang, and nine times out of ten he is invited to the white affairs of several villages around him, and I have also been a coffin boy a few times.

As soon as I got up this morning, my mother muttered that Liu Degui in the village had died.

Liu Degui is a tuberculosis ghost, in his early thirties, as thin as a hemp pole, and he is still a lonely.

As soon as he died, the funeral had to be done by the village.

They were all village and township neighbors, and after dinner, my grandfather took me to help. I heard the village chief say that it was originally going to be cremated, but Liu Degui seemed to know that he was going to die, so he prepared a coffin in advance, and he could only get his wish.

Burial, then there must be a town coffin boy, grandpa took Liu Degui's eight characters and counted, coincidentally, there are seven boys in the village, but with my eight characters do not rush, the town coffin boy naturally has to be done by me.

On the day of the funeral, my grandfather put a red cloth on the coffin, pressed some straw paper, and carried me to sit on it.

The people who carried the coffin were Uncle Li from the neighboring village, all of whom ate white rice and made a living by carrying the coffin, all of them with big shoulders and round waists. Uncle Li smiled and said to me, Tong Wazi, hold on steadily.

I hurriedly grabbed the rope of the coffin, so as not to sit unsteady and fall down when I walked.

Grandpa said at this time that the time was up, and Uncle Li immediately opened his throat and shouted, Liu Degui, on the road. Eight people worked together and easily got up in the coffin.

Hearing the coffin call, the village chief lit a cannon at the door, and after the coffin went out, followed by the people in the village, all of whom came to help, and no one cried and mourned, which seemed a little deserted.

Nothing happened along the way, it went well. But just after the coffin fell into the well, something happened.

The coffin was stained with soil, and the coffin was over, and I was about to get down from the coffin, but my whole body became weak when I moved, and my buttocks seemed to be glued to the coffin lid, and I couldn't get up at all.

Uncle Li looked at the joke next to me and said, look at your doll, your body is really weak. Saying that, he stretched out his hand to pull me, but I was only forty pounds, but I almost dragged him into the coffin, so frightened that Uncle Li hurriedly let go of his hand, and turned around and called my grandfather, Zhang Sanye, you come over and take a look, Zhang Tong is afraid that he will fall into the coffin.

When I heard about the coffin, my face turned white.

I haven't met my grandfather, but there was an incident in the neighboring village, and the main family invited Wu Laogou from our village, who miscalculated the eight characters, and the town coffin boy couldn't get up when he was buried.

Wu Laogou didn't want to crack it, but forcibly pulled the coffin boy out, and within a few days, the little baby died.

Grandpa said that Wu Laogou only pulled out people, and the three souls and seven spirits of the little baby had already fallen into the coffin, and people naturally couldn't live.

After that incident, Wu Laogou's reputation plummeted, and few people were inviting him, and he was also very hostile to his grandfather.

However, the Wu family is a big surname in our village, and they have a big voice, and grandpa usually doesn't conflict with him.

In private, I also asked me to stay away from the Wu family, for fear that they would do something behind their backs.

Grandpa was looking at the grave, and when he heard Uncle Li shouting, he hurriedly ran over.

When the people around heard that the coffin had fallen, they all gathered around.

I thought about the little baby, and I was afraid to die like him, so I cried and told my grandfather to hurry up and find a way.

Grandpa was also in a hurry, so I asked me not to move. The messenger went back to the village to catch a rooster that had just crowed, took the blood of the chicken, mixed it with cinnabar and drew a talisman on the coffin, and then asked Uncle Li to try it on me.

As a result, I still couldn't move.

At this moment, my ass was cold, like sitting on a piece of ice, and my ass was so cold that it hurt.

Grandpa hurriedly called the village chief over and asked him if he had misremembered Liu Degui's birthday. The village chief said, impossible, when Liu Degui was born, his wife died on the way to the health center, and I still helped carry the body back, so I will not be mistaken.

Uncle Li listened to the words of the village chief, looked at his grandfather with strange eyes and asked, Third Master, could it be that there is a problem with the corpse?

Grandpa said it was possible and asked him to quickly carry the coffin up.

After the coffin was brought out, my grandfather took an ink fountain, tied the thread to my thumb, and hung it on the coffin.

With the thread tied, my feet could move, and I wiped my tears and hurriedly jumped off the coffin. It's just that the matter hasn't been solved yet, and the ink fountain line is stained with black dog blood.

The black dog can see the yin and evil things, between yin and yang, and the thread stained with the blood of the black dog can pass through yin and yang, and now grandpa just built a yin bridge and temporarily let me get down from the coffin.

When Uncle Li saw me coming down, he hurriedly asked someone to pry open the coffin. The moment the lid of the coffin was lifted, the onlookers all took a breath of cold air.

It was not Liu Degui inside, but a female corpse wearing a red wedding dress and a red hijab.

The village chief's face turned white all of a sudden, and he stammered, when I took someone to collect the corpse yesterday, it was clearly Liu Degui who put the coffin, how could it ...... How......

Several old men who followed to collect the corpses also came out to testify.

Grandpa had a calm face and didn't talk. Let me lift the red hijab from the female corpse somewhat, but not completely.

I shuddered, pinched a corner and lifted it carefully, the female corpse showed her chin, and grandpa and Uncle Li shouted in panic, baby, put it down quickly.

As soon as they shouted at me, I let go, but I don't know what's going on, the red hijab stuck to my hand, and as soon as I withdrew it, I took it with me.

Grandpa's face turned pale, and he didn't wait to see the appearance of the female corpse, grabbed the red hijab from my hand and threw it at the female corpse's face.

Uncle Li turned his back and whispered, Third Master, this is the corpse of Shiao Mountain, and it is obvious that someone is trying to harm you.

Grandpa snorted, and said with some concern, it's okay to target me, but I'm afraid I have ulterior motives.

Uncle Li's face changed, and he said in a lost voice, no, who has the guts.

Grandpa didn't take Uncle Li's words, turned his back to the coffin and asked me if the red hijab was covered.

Just now he lost his head, and the female corpse's chin and mouth were still exposed.

Her chin was round and white, but her lips were frighteningly red, like smeared with blood, and it made people panic when they looked at it.

I glanced at it and said it wasn't covered. And as I spoke, I seemed to see the female corpse move, and the corners of her mouth raised a curved amplitude, as if she was looking at me and laughing.

I shuddered, shrank behind my grandfather, and stammered, "Grandpa, grandpa, she seems to be moving."

Grandpa comforted me and said, don't be afraid, grandpa is here, you pull up the hijab and cover her face.

How dare I reach out and pick up a small branch from the ground, and pick off the red hijab from a distance to cover the face of the female corpse.

Uncle Li and Grandpa heard me say that they were covered, so they turned around and stared at the corpse in the coffin for a long time. Grandpa turned around and said, the people present today, go to a few to find hemp rope, the more the better. The rest are looking for each other, and Liu Degui's body must be found before dark, and I am afraid that something will happen if it is late.

When the villagers who came with them heard that something was going to happen, they were all panicked, so they dared to say more, and hurriedly went their separate ways.

Uncle Li just said about Shiao Mountain, I heard my mother say, the mountain is strangely tight, there are many ancient tombs on the top of the mountain, every year in the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, the mountain is full of frost, no one will go at all, how can the dead people inside run into Liu Degui's coffin?

After a while, the person looking for hemp rope came back, and my parents heard that I had fallen into the coffin and followed me.

When the grandfather saw them, he said, "It's just right that you and your wife go and lift the woman's body up from the coffin, tie your hands and feet with hemp rope, and wrap the rest around her, the more the better."

The peach willow fights the ghost, and the hemp rope binds the corpse.

There is a custom in the countryside that when the morgue is mortuary, the toes of the corpse will be tied together with hemp rope, just to prevent the corpse, and the grandfather now uses so much hemp rope to tie the female corpse, then she is 100% going to cheat the corpse, or rather, she is a zombie in the first place.

My dad usually objected to my grandfather letting me be a coffin boy, but now when he saw that something was wrong, he said a few words to my grandfather with a cold face.

Grandpa squatted aside and smoked, raised his eyelids and said, let you do it, then there is so much nonsense, Tong Tong is my grandson, can I still hope that something happens to him?

My mom tugged at the corner of my dad's shirt and told him to say less.

Quarrel after quarrel, things still have to be done, after all, I am still connected to the coffin. My father glared at me and said in pieces, I will run after your grandfather in the future, see that I don't break your legs.

I blinked and didn't dare to reply. My mother came next to me before she reached out to help the female corpse in the coffin, and my father stopped glaring at me, pulled up the red hijab, tied the hands and feet of the female corpse with hemp rope, and wrapped the rest around her body.

When Grandpa saw that it was done, he came over and cut the ink fountain line. Uncle Li also beckoned his people to close the coffin. But he didn't go to the ground, saying that he was waiting to find Liu Degui's body and bury it together.

After getting it done, grandpa asked Uncle Li to take a step to speak, the two turned their backs, and they didn't know what to mutter, I could just see Uncle Li's face, he seemed to be very embarrassed, but in the end he nodded at grandpa, as if he had promised something, and the person who called him left when he came back.

After talking to Uncle Li, my grandfather seemed a lot more relaxed, and asked my mother to take me back first, boil a pot of water with peach branches to bathe me, and he and my father went to find Liu Degui's body.

After my mother bathed me, she carried me to the yard to bask in the sun, and asked me how there was a female corpse in Liu Degui's coffin.

I told everything I knew, and when I heard that the female corpse was from Shiao Mountain, my mother's hands trembled, and she didn't know how to cry out for pain when the needle was pierced into the flesh.

I felt like there was something terrible in Shiwa Mountain, but when I asked, my mother looked panicked and said, You are a doll's house, what do you do when you ask so much.

In the evening, my father came back, went to the kitchen to drink a scoop of water, and came out to say that Liu Degui's body was found, and he also found the tools to dig the grave in his house.

When my mother heard this, she also scolded Liu Degui for deserving to die. My father told my mother again that the baby was burying Liu Degui with the female corpse, and it would be fine when the soil was filled.

Grandpa also came back after dark, looking very tired. But the matter was settled, let me go back to the house and sleep.

After a nervous day, I was also tired, but I couldn't sleep in bed, I felt that this thing was a little strange, but there was something strange and indescribable, thinking about it, I fell asleep in a daze.

In the middle of the night, I had a dream that the female corpse came and knocked on my window, with blood in her mouth and a weird smile on her face, staring at me through the window.

I woke up from my dream in fright, and it was already dawn outside. I rubbed my eyes and got up, and when I went outside, I opened the door of the hall, and I saw the village chief coming in from the gate in a panic, shouting, third master, something happened, something happened in the village.

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