Chapter 5: The Headless Coffin
"Master, it's okay, the nail awl has been ordered by Lao Bai to be removed in advance, and now it's just that the coffin is a long time old, and the face and the board are glued together, and you can open it by cutting it in the seam." Takeshi explained beside him.
I really want to ask me now if I'm okay if I'm not doing it, but in the end I still didn't ask, although I have been in China for a few years, but that's because I haven't gone out to hang out abroad, maybe I'm not familiar with the world, but it's not a lack of heart;
So many people take care of you as a baby along the way, the purpose, do you really want to treat me as a master?
It's nothing more than because my grandfather passed on this so-called Faqiu seal to me by name, so they had to pinch their noses and admit it, and then treat me as a mascot.
I don't think they want to have much contact with me either, so if I cooperate with them to finish this ceremony, maybe they won't bother to contact me again, and my life will resume at that time.
Although the hair seal was handed down to me by my grandfather, I really don't have the idea of defending my grandfather's glory and inheritance, perhaps, for many young people in the real city, boring life is a kind of torture, so many want to try the stimulation, I was the same before, but really let me stand in the tomb The tip of my nose is the smell of rot and a coffin with rotten skin in front of you, you will suddenly feel that the life of ordinary people in the past is really fucking beautiful.
I stabbed the tip of the tool into the crack of the coffin, I didn't know it before I used it, it felt so convenient when I used it, and when I was ready to use it, I found that the grooves suitable for your hand grip and lift were designed very accurately.
I pressed slightly, the coffin didn't react, I took a deep breath, this time with all my strength.
"Click......"
I lifted the lid a little bit, it's like some lock box, even if the button is unbuttoned, but because of the air pressure, you still have to peel it off the edge little by little if you want to open it.
Mengzi and Bai Wenliu stood next to me and watched me do it, it felt like watching me enter the cave room, which made me feel indescribably tired, but I didn't dare to let them go, joke, if I was the only one left in this tomb that had been cleaned up by the professional archaeological team, I would be able to scare myself into a mess.
The corner of the coffin has been lifted by me, and the coffin lid needs to be pushed open, I reached out and grabbed the small cross hanging on my chest, which was a gift from a Swedish girl, a girl with a very temperament, but she was terminally ill, and I was just a stunned young man, and I didn't communicate much with the local classmates, I found her sitting in front of me in class, I took the initiative to talk, and I got acquainted with it, and then she gave me this cross, After a while, her condition was too uncontrollable to go to school, and she was transferred to the hospital, and then she was soon gone.
I didn't have much affection for her, and I didn't even develop to hold hands, but her death made me feel that life was so boring, and finally prompted me to go out of school and go out to wander like a fool and be in the company of homeless people on the streets of various European cities, just like the European helmsman liaison of the beggar gang.
I didn't dare take out the cross and kiss it and say a prayer, and anyone can see that these people are actually a little superstitious, but their superstitious things have absolutely nothing to do with the cross, and they may even be very disgusted with it.
With my hands on the edge of the lid, I slowly gathered strength, and then pushed the lid outwards until I pushed the lid completely down, making a concussive sound in the narrow, sealed area.
Mengzi and Lao Bai both have that kind of searchlight in their hands, when I am busy with work, they are watching from the side, and by the way they bring me lighting, to be honest, when I just pushed the coffin lid, I was closed, I was really afraid of pushing some of the dead faces directly, if it was a skull I could still accept it, my Twitter avatar was also a skull, but if it was a dead face that was not rotten or completely rotten, I felt that I would be scared.
As for corpses, zongzi, black donkey hooves and even candles and other things, I'm sorry, I really didn't think about it that far-reaching at the time, besides, this tomb is the tomb of a rich man in the late Qing Dynasty, Bai Wenliu has already asked people to come down and take care of it, there shouldn't be any problems, I've been silently reciting to myself in my heart that I'm just visiting the museum, but there is no glass lid to stop you from touching it yourself.
I have to say that even if Bai Wenliu and Mengzi don't go to rob the tomb, it is absolutely no problem to work as lighting engineers for the film crew, because when I heard the impact of the coffin lid being pushed down by me and then opened my eyes, I found that there was enough light everywhere I looked.
Fortunately, I wasn't scared, it's not that I'm bold,
But because I was standing at the end of the coffin, I was not facing the face of the owner of the tomb, but his feet, a pair of boots with a little high bottom, to be exact.
With a long sigh of relief, I supported the edge of the coffin with both hands, stood up straight, and found that Mengzi and Lao Bai were very close to me, and my courage was not so empty, so I set my eyes on the head of the coffin, but then, I was stunned, because I didn't see the head, it's not that the corpse has been corrupted, but no matter how corrupt it is, there should be a skull, but the position of the head is very clean, not even a hat, only an empty pillow.
The corpse was wearing a dress similar to the official robe of the Manchu Dynasty, but the reduced version, the middle and late Qing Dynasty began to sell officials and lords, as long as he became a landlord and then had some savings, he always wanted to spend some money to donate an official to himself, which is also a kind of "custom" among the people, and the rich people in the nineties did not feel embarrassed when the whole big brother went out.
When Sun Yat-sen went to Nanyang to raise donations, even many old men of Chinese families in Nanyang had titles in their hands, as well as a set of official uniforms issued by the Qing government and the government.
"There's no head." I asked, a little puzzled, wondering if this was the funeral custom here. Or was the person buried in it beheaded? But didn't Bai Wenliu say that this is the tomb of a rich man in the late Qing Dynasty, could it be that the rich man committed something during his lifetime and was beheaded and his family put his body in it?
It's not right, the eunuch enters the palace cleanly, and when he leaves the palace when he is old, he has to bring his baby back and sew it up again after he dies, and bury it "perfectly".
But when I looked at the fierce son and Lao Bai beside me, I suddenly found that the two people who were standing next to me just now and lighting me suddenly disappeared, and I was the only one standing by the coffin in the entire tomb!
"Mengzi, hey, Bai Wenliu!" I tried to shout twice, but my voice just kept echoing through the burial chamber.
It's not a deliberate play to train me, is it?
I immediately took a few steps back, intending to go back the way I came, but when I turned around, I was dumbfounded, and the downward hole I had come from was gone, and the walls of the tomb were full of blue bricks on all sides.
Impossible, impossible, absolutely impossible, how could this be............
I felt like a person who had been sunk into the deep sea and desperately swam upstream, but didn't know when it would surface, and the whole person was completely buried by an emotion called "despair".
In the burial chamber, the only thing I could hear was the sound of my own breathing, and I knew that something must be wrong, this problem should not be deliberately played by those people, they had no reason to play with me like this, and the cave I just walked down is now gone, and it is definitely not something that can be done by human beings to restore it to a wall.
It can't be that the people who didn't come down when I pushed the coffin were all masons and ran here to reseal the cave.
I subconsciously put my hand into my satchel, but I couldn't touch the cold thing, what about the hair mound print, where did the fat mound mark go?
"Squeak............ Squeak............ Squeak............"
There was a crisp grinding sound on the other side of the coffin, very similar to the sound of human fingernails rubbing, and I subconsciously turned my head to look there, feeling that the next moment a headless corpse would sit up from the coffin.
People who like to watch horror movies should know that the most terrifying plot in the film is not after the ghost comes out, but before the ghost comes out, with the depressing sound effect and some hints, I was in this process of being tortured, and my ears can hear the friction of the nails and the wooden board in the coffin getting clearer and louder, it seems that the corpse may come out at any time, but the corpse has not come out, I feel that this depression is about to suffocate me.
"Smack!"
I felt a hard blow on the head, and the whole person suddenly became a little dizzy, and then it was like something was splashed on my face, hot, sticky, and then I felt a terrible stinging pain, as if someone had splashed sulfuric acid on my face alive, and I immediately covered my face and screamed.
My body kept rolling on the ground, but I felt like there were things blocking me, so I could only keep rolling left and right and back again, and I couldn't get out of the way at all.
"Master, master, wake up, wake up!"
I heard someone calling me, and with this voice, I felt the pain on my face seem to decrease a lot, and slowly become more than I can bear.
I opened my eyes, and my vision was blurry because I had a layer of blood on my eyes, and I looked at my hands again and saw that there was blood on both hands as well, and a smell of blood and stench came over my face, making my stomach cramp and almost throw up.
"It's not your blood, it's the blood of a black dog, master, remember, when you encounter a broken coffin, don't say what is missing in front of him, otherwise ............"
I didn't continue to listen to what Bai Wenliu was saying, because I found that Bai Wenliu was talking to me through something, I looked down,
I found out that I didn't know what I was lying in the coffin by myself, and I was wearing the burial clothes that the dead man had just wore!