According to the funeral customs in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, on the day of the funeral, the funeral time is basically around noon, but it is just over ten o'clock at this time, how can there be a funeral procession?

In the blink of an eye, these people in mourning clothes have already walked over.

"Lao Huang? You are ......."

After seeing these people, the dozen or twenty people who were originally pulling the coffin up also seemed to pause, and dozens of pairs of eyes looked at this group of people in unison, and after recognizing the appearance, one of the gray-haired people shouted.

At the forefront was a black-faced man about fifty years old, and he was the "old yellow".

Lao Huang walked towards us and replied, "The rain god has reappeared!" We're here to greet you! ”

Rain God? Everyone present was blindfolded, a river god came out before, and now there is a rain god, where is the rain god?

Soon these dozens of people had already walked to the edge of the collapsed pit, and after Lao Huang glanced at the coffin in the pit, he knelt down, and then all the people who followed him knelt down.

After kneeling, there were three rings in succession, and the first few people were still muttering something in their mouths, using a very old local dialect, to the effect that: rain god, rain god quickly bless us, let the nectar spread to the world, let the rain and dew moisten all things......

After reciting it twice, everyone slowly stood up.

"Old Huang...... What are you doing here? ”

The man with the cable in his hand asked again, apparently the two knew each other.

I only learned afterwards that the person who helped pull the black coffin for questioning was called Zhang San, who was from Xiaohe Village, and had been working in other places before, and then I heard from the villagers that something big had happened in their village, and many people had died, and many people had gone crazy (misinformation), so I made an appointment with a few people from the same village to rush back.

The man he called Lao Huang was from a nearby village, which was eight or nine miles away from Xiaohe Village.

Lao Huang looked around and saw that there were many people in police uniforms in the crowd, and he saw a few police cars not far away, and he was also stunned. He pointed to the pit and said: "There is a legend in our village that has been passed down for 100 years (and it is also recorded in the village genealogy) that there is a rain god buried in the dam, and with the rain god, the water of the Yellow River will not dry up, and with the rain god, the earth will not be dry." ”

At this time, an old man beside Zhang San let out a "hmm" and asked in surprise: "Are you talking about the great drought that lasted for five consecutive years a hundred years ago?" ”

Lao Huang glanced at the old man and nodded slowly.

Their one-on-one answer was very tacit, but we didn't understand it at all.

Lao Huang turned around and glanced at the neighbors who came with him, and shouted, "Help pull the rain god up first!" ”

Soon, these dozens of people surrounded them, two or three people pulled a cable, Lao Huang raised the wooden stick in his hand, and shouted the most familiar Yellow River horn in this area.

"One is one, everyone is working hard, two is also two......"

Zhang Kailong and Lao Guo became two "idle talents", so they had to stand aside and watch obediently.

"There is great strength in the number of people, and there is a lot of firewood and high flames." I saw this huge black coffin slowly rise, and the cable was also stretched straight!

Speaking of which, I have to interject that I later learned that there are many boat-pullers in this area, and they are used to this kind of work, and there are a few of them in these neighborhoods.

The coffin was pulled up, and everyone was talking about how to open it, when suddenly the sky was cloudy, followed by a few lightning bolts, followed by rumbling thunder, and then heavy rain as if pouring down from the sky.

"Guys, let's find a place to hide from the rain first!"

Zhang Kailong saw that the rain was so heavy, and hurriedly shouted.

In addition to a few police cars, there is also a "dam house" on the side of the embankment a few hundred meters away.

"Dam House" was originally the place where the people who watched the embankment lived, generally two houses in one mile and one outside, but later with the changes of the times, this kind of occupation disappeared, and these small houses on the Yellow River embankment were gradually abandoned.

"Xiao Zhen, go to that hut to take shelter from the rain!"

Zhang Kailong shouted, and the person quickly ran to a police car.

Because there were too many people, there were seven or eight people crowded into each police car, and the remaining thirty or forty people all ran to the "dam house" - including me, Uncle Shi, Chen Laosan, and Li Xiaobai.

My uncle and I stood at the door, and my uncle pinched his fingers and staggered.

"It shouldn't be raining!"

There is a "heavenly hexagram" in the Yellow River Sutra, which can be deduced from weather changes, I just memorized the mantra and method, but I don't know how to use it, but Uncle Shi understands! According to the calculation, it was sunny all day today, and the most recent rain was also three days later.

While listening to what Uncle Shi said, I looked at the place where we had just stayed, I didn't know if I didn't know, I couldn't see it, I saw that at this time, there were eight people standing around the huge black coffin, these eight people stood motionless around the coffin, their bodies were slightly bent, because the rain was too dense and too big, it took me several seconds to identify that these eight people were Lao Yu and the seven assistant policemen.

It must have been the heavy rain just now, which made us too hurried to notice that these eight people did not take shelter from the rain at all.

At this time, Uncle Shi and several other villagers also saw these eight people and pointed and discussed.

After looking at it a few times, Uncle Shi sighed in his throat.

I turned my face to the side and whispered, "Did you find anything?" ”

Uncle Shi replied: "Before, Chen Laosan and I just guessed that these people have turned into zombies, and now it should have been confirmed.

"What do you mean by that?"

"You pay attention to the legs of these people, although the rain is so heavy, their upper bodies are obviously bent, but the legs are straight, these people's legs should not be able to bend!"

I understood what he meant in seconds, normal people's knees can bend, but there is only one type of people who can't, and that is zombies.

The voice of our conversation is very low, and it is also to prevent others from causing chaos after hearing it.

The pouring rain continued for half an hour, and suddenly the sky remembered a few loud thunders, and then the rain gradually subsided, and after less than five minutes, it slowly stopped.

I stared at the front almost without blinking, the crater that had collapsed was already filled with water, and the coffin was still there, and they barely moved for half an hour.

Everyone in the room has long stopped talking, and they are still discussing: Is this old Yu crazy! It's raining so hard, what kind of handsomeness is it! But after a long time, people who are not stupid have felt that this old man is not normal!

The rain hadn't completely stopped, and the people on our side and the people in the police car rushed out almost at the same time.

"Brother Long! Don't go near them! I'm afraid these people are already ...... I'm not a normal person anymore! ”

I yelled.

The people in the police car should have also seen the eight of them, and when they heard me shouting like this, they didn't dare to get too close.

"What do you mean by not being a normal person?"

Zhang Kailong asked me with a puzzled face.

"It's hard to put this into words, they've turned into zombies!"

As soon as I finished saying this, I saw Lao Yu suddenly move, his body straightened up, and then the seven little assistant policemen also moved a few times.

Everyone present heard me shout that they were no longer human, although they didn't necessarily believe it, but when they saw these people suddenly move a few times, they were so frightened that they hurriedly took two steps back.

Lao Yu actually raised his head and glanced at me, and his expression at that time is still vivid, his whole face was blue, and there was an indescribable strange look in his eyes.

Didn't Lao Yu completely turn into a zombie? I wondered.

In this trance, Lao Yu suddenly raised his head and screamed a few times, then turned around and jumped into the puddle behind him, and then the other seven people also raised their heads and screamed a few times, and jumped down.

There were seven consecutive "plopping" sounds, and the person never showed up again.

Strange to say, the water was later drained by a water pump, and no corpses were found that were older than them, and the case is still an unsolved case to this day.

At that time, the incident happened too suddenly, Lao Guo hurriedly took a few policemen to the town's police station to find Director Sun's idea of finding a pump, while Zhang Kailong took other policemen to deal with the huge coffin.

The development of things was unexpected, after all, the interlacing is like a mountain, and the opening of the coffin and the autopsy belong to the forensic doctor's work, and it is the archaeologist's business to open an ancient coffin that is at least a few hundred years old, but at this time it is impossible to wait, because this huge black coffin is slowly cracking on its own, and it seems that it will not take more than ten minutes for the entire coffin to crack.

Among the people around, only Uncle Shi knew something about this, so the task of "commander-in-chief" was naturally handed over to him.

After a few minutes or so, the crack in the coffin was cracked enough to reach my fingers, and through the gap, I saw as if a person was lying inside.

There was someone in the coffin, which was normal, but I could vaguely see that this person did not look like a highly decomposed ancient corpse, but like a sleeping person.

At this time, we didn't know how to intervene, so we had to wait for the coffin to completely crack on its own. The waiting process was quite long, and at first everyone did not speak, but slowly the voices of discussion gradually began to spread.

"What is the rain god like? Could it be that he is also a person who looks like us, with two ears, a pair of eyes, and a mouth? ”

"Is it true that the genealogy of our village is recorded......

"What's in here...... It doesn't seem to be rotten! ”

Suddenly, there was a "pop" sound, and the black coffin completely cracked, revealing the yellow stone bed inside, as well as the people lying on the bed.

As soon as I saw this person's appearance, Li Xiaobai and Chen Laosan and I almost turned our backs. This person didn't have the slightest trace of decay, the facial features on his entire face were clearly outlined, and even the hairs could be seen vaguely, looking at the clothes, like the clothes of the Qing Dynasty, the whole forehead was bald, and a braid could be seen wrapped around the neck.

But the most difficult thing for us to accept was not the integrity of the corpse and the costumes, but his appearance, and I trembled when I looked at it, this man turned out to be an antique Li - to be exact, he looked eight or nine points similar to the antique Li.