Chapter 15: The Funeral Affair

According to the local funeral customs, there needs to be a filial son to guide the way in front of the coffin, Wang Jiliang asked Li Xiaobai to show the way to Aunt Li, and Li Gui's guide is naturally his quasi-son-in-law I Chen Xiaozhen (women can only be sent to the edge of the village, and cannot be called filial piety).

When the group arrived at the entrance of the village, they parted ways, and Uncle Hao and I led the person carrying Li Gui's coffin to his family's cemetery.

The grave was just dug yesterday, and the soil was still wet, because my eyesight was super good, and from a distance, I looked at the new soil around Li Gui's grave a little abnormal, as if it was not the same as when I left yesterday.

As I got closer, I kept my attention on the area around the grave, and when I was about a thousand meters away, I could vaguely see that the newly dug soil was full of fine marks, as if someone had scratched them.

At that time, I wondered to the extreme, could someone really be so bored and run to the cemetery to play pranks, it can't be a baby herding sheep, right?

After walking a few hundred meters, I could see more clearly, those marks were very messy, and the lines were irregular on both sides, which didn't look like artificial.

What the hell is going on! Although these traces are very shallow, there is no pattern to the mess, and it can't be blown out by the wind, right? It's impossible! No matter how strong the wind is, it can only blow out patches of traces, not lines.

Walking to a place five or six meters away from the grave, I stopped, and the people behind me also saw the traces of the messy network around the grave one after another, and the sound of discussion stopped.

Uncle Hao, who had been following me, took a deep breath and muttered, "This is ...... This is the trace of the snake aisle! Where are so many snakes! ”

Snake? As soon as I heard the word snake, I looked around, but fortunately there was not a single snake around.

Although I'm not afraid of snakes, I always find this animal slippery and disgusting.

Uncle Hao walked around the grave, and his mouth was amazed, but except for these snake-like traces crawling, he didn't see a single snake!

Because the body of the deceased must be buried before twelve o'clock, Uncle Hao immediately made a decision and shouted, "The ancestors are buried and return to their hometown!" ”

The person carrying the coffin immediately took small steps, leaned towards the grave step by step, and carried the coffin directly above the grave.

Uncle Hao looked around and shouted, "Slow down!" A few people gently loosened the rope and dropped the coffin into the grave.

"Xiao Zhen, can you come over and see if the coffin is properly placed?"

As I walked over, he whispered in my ear again, "Say ...... right."

I understood, took a symbolic look, and shouted, "Right! ”

After I finished shouting, Uncle Hao asked several people who carried the coffin to pull out the rope, and then pressed a thick stack of burning paper onto the lid of the coffin. After that, they helped to fill in the soil and build a grave.

After the new graves were piled up, I finally breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to say a few polite words to Uncle Hao and help, when suddenly I felt the feeling of oppression in my chest again!

This is not a small surprise! At the same time as this feeling appeared before, it was always accompanied by a terrifying thing, not to meet a cat-faced old lady, but to see a human-faced tanuki, what would it be this time?

I'm thinking about it! I felt something in the bag I was carrying on my body move a few times, which scared me.

In addition to the ancient books left by the master, I had a few thousand yuan and bank cards in my bag, and so on - it seemed that there was a small bottle, which was given by the senior brother, and it said that in order to solve the affairs of the village, I had to carry this bottle, and I didn't take it seriously at the time, so I put it in my bag casually.

Oh my mother! How did I forget, but the red centipede that crawled out of Aunt Li's mouth was in this bottle! Senior brother said to nail it, could it be that it has woken up again?

I hurriedly opened my bag and took out the little purple bottle. As soon as I held the bottle in my hand, the contents moved again.

The loss is that Xiao Zhenye, I am bold, and if I am timid, I am afraid that I would have thrown the bottle out a long time ago.

Seeing that the bottle lid was tight, but there was a small hole the thickness of a needle in the center of the lid, and the centipede would never crawl out, I was relieved and quietly put the bottle back.

As soon as he put down the bottle, an even more strange scene happened.

The grave was piled up, and Uncle Hao first pressed a few pieces of burning paper (the locals called it "grave paper", meaning to tell passers-by that this was not a wild grave), and then burned some paper in front of the grave.

As soon as he stepped back, I saw that the mound seemed to move a few times.

My first reaction was that I was dazzled, to put it bluntly, this is just a bulldozer, how can it move!

As soon as this thought came to mind, the mound moved a few more times. At this time, I saw clearly that it was not the whole mound of graves that was moving, and the soil on the mounds of the mounds was moving.

The others saw it too, exclaiming, pointing to the mound and shouting, "Alive!" It's alive! It's moving...... "When you shout, everyone sees the grave that is constantly moving.

"Stand back, step back!"

Uncle Hao hurriedly shouted, and as he shouted, he stretched out his arm and drove the people backwards.

At that time, it was actually a matter of a moment, and everyone was curious! The moment they saw the mound moving, they all wanted to understand why it was moving, but they forgot about being afraid and running away.

Hearing Uncle Hao's reminder, everyone woke up like a dream and dispersed in a hurry.

After running for dozens of meters, they all stopped again, turned around and looked at the grave in amazement. Uncle Hao and I also retreated a few dozen meters, and psychologically we probably felt that this was a safe distance!

The dirt on the mound rolled down little by little, and if you just looked at the mound of soil, you thought it was an earthquake!

Suddenly, a small stick in the shape of a thumb protruded from the mound, followed by a second, then a third......

I'm wondering what this is! I saw one of the "thumbs" pop out suddenly, and I saw it clearly in an instant, this is a snake! In a moment, all the "thumbs" popped out, and in less than a few minutes, the entire new tomb was wrapped in snakes of various colors and sizes.

"O snakeβ€”" I don't know who was the first to shout, and everyone ran to the village with the shout, not even their own sticks, shovels, and ropes.

Uncle Hao and I were also scared (I think it was mainly madness), but when we saw countless snakes just crawling around the grave, they didn't mean to rush towards us, so we naturally slowed down.

At the entrance of the village, I met Wang Jiliang and them, who were also out of breath, and when I asked, I realized that it was similar to our experience, they were all scared back by snakes crawling out of the grave.

A bunch of people returned to the village committee with a lot of chatter, and found a place to sit down in shock.

Seeing us like this, Yanli hurriedly grabbed my arm and whispered what was going on. I kept it simple and told her not to worry, it might have happened to dig into the snake's nest.

In fact, I probably know in my heart what is going on, what dug into the snake's nest! There is no such coincidence in the world. Both teams dug up the snake's nest at the same time? Combined with the previous events, I can almost conclude that today's events are also related to the evil of the Yellow River that Old Man Sun said!

None of the neighbors in Laomiao Village have ever seen so many snakes at one time! And it came out of the new grave, and everyone rested for more than half an hour, and the room gradually began to talk.

"This is a bit of an evil sect! Where did such a snake come from? ”

"Yes! We don't seem to have ...... in our area."

"I also saw a few colorful snakes, could it be poisonous snakes? We've never had a poisonous snake in our area! ”

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Seeing this situation, Wang Jiliang was afraid of causing a storm in the city, so he hurriedly explained: "It is really possible to dig a snake nest, and the geological experts who came to our village to investigate said that when the Yellow River floods, all kinds of snakes that rush down will regroup. Don't guess, let's go and see again in the afternoon, the snake nest is destroyed, the snake may leave, and the time will bring the guys back. ”

With that, he winked at me.

An old man was a little unconvinced, and grinned and asked, "It's really fake!" Secretary Wang? ”

"You don't believe what my old king said?"

"Faith! Why don't you believe it! ”

After saying that, a group of people scattered in all directions.

At noon, Yanli and I were having dinner when we suddenly heard shouting from the west side of the village.

"O serpent! So many snakes......"

This was followed by several dog barks.

As soon as I heard this, I had a premonition that something was wrong, could it be that the snakes had crawled into the village?

"Yanli, you wait at home, no matter what happens, don't go out, I'll take a look!"

After saying that, he put down his chopsticks and rushed out.

"Be careful! Don't ......be reckless," Yanli shouted.

I said "um", and the people had already run out into the street.

Before I reached the west entrance of the village, I saw Lao Hu and a few neighbors in the village, who were standing in the middle of the road and looking backwards at the ground in the distance outside the village. Look at where they look, damn it! Just one glance, I feel itchy all over my body! That's a lot of snakes!

Snakes of various colors joined together and moved in the direction of the village with their heads raised and spitting letters.

It's hard for me to describe the scene in words, at least tens of thousands! It's scary enough, it's terrifying enough, and if you have a dense phobia, you may have to faint on the spot.

Seeing me standing behind them, Lao Hu hurriedly shouted at me: "Xiao Zhen, go and inform Wang Jiliang, let him snort in the loudspeaker, and inform everyone to hurry up and prepare for snakes!" ”

I was about to turn around and glance at the snakes in the distance, something strange happened, the snakes that had been moving slowly like a tide just now stopped, just looking up at the few of us.

What's going on? Don't...... Could it be that the cat-faced old lady is afraid of me, and this snake is also afraid of me? At the same time, the hot sensation in my chest gradually came to light.

"Uncle Hu, go back to the village and tell Secretary Wang first! I have realgar powder on me, which is specially used to prevent snakes, and I don't dare to approach them for a while. ”

Lao Hu looked at me, and then at the motionless snakes, some of them seemed to understand or not, but they still touched the back of their heads and ran back to the village.

After they left, my heart was crossed, and Hu Jin came up, and secretly scolded, "Grandma, if you have the ability, come here, see if I can't kill you!" ”

I didn't move, and neither did the snakes, and they were about five hundred meters apart.

After a few minutes of stalemate, I felt like there was a door! It seems that the dragon eggs I eat are really good things, is it that in the future, I will not be afraid of all poisons and beasts!

Thinking so, I tried to walk forward for more than ten meters, observing the movement of the snakes as I went, and if the snakes still did not move, I stopped; If the snakes retreat, it means that they are really afraid of me; But if they come at me, I'll run away.

Sure enough! After I walked more than ten meters, the snakes began to turn their heads and crawl back. I rub! This proves that I am indeed very good now!

I advanced more than ten meters, and the snakes retreated more than ten meters, and the two sides always maintained such a distance.