Chapter 237: Smoke Billowed Billowed Away
When the eyes of Liao Yuting's corpse were completely closed, the sound of the old wizard chanting the spell also fell abruptly, and at the same time, the thin body shook, stumbled under his feet, and the thatch fell off his hand and fell into the coffin.
I couldn't help but change my face, and I hurriedly wanted to go up and help him, but his eldest son moved faster, and as soon as his feet moved, he had already taken the first step to support him.
"Alright, don't delay any longer, let's move the corpse quickly......" The old wizard said exhaustedly after waving his hand to break free of his son and stand on his own.
Seeing that he was on the verge of collapse, and his hands and feet were shaking, I couldn't help but look sideways.
Unexpectedly, it is such a kung fu that can chant and chant spells, and the consumption of the old wizard's physical strength is so great, it seems that the old man's body is really very poor, and he is completely supported by a breath of heart, and he goes up the mountain to preside over the opening of the coffin.
"Duke Pan, are you okay?" Thinking of this, he couldn't help but blurt out the words of concern, and at the same time reached out to help him to the side to rest.
"It's okay, leave me alone, let's get down to business." The old wizard waved his hand to stop me from helping him, and spoke to me for the first time in a few days.
I was slightly stunned, and then I reacted, and quickly put away my mind to prepare.
No matter how much you do to bury the corpse in the corpse breeding place, the step of turning the corpse is essential. Only by turning the corpse over can the corpse be completely cut off and absorb the yin qi, just like weeds, no matter how the knife cuts and burns, it cannot really be removed, and only by pulling it out and putting it in the sun can it be completely eradicated.
The old wizard has already dispersed the yin qi gathered on Liao Yuting's corpse, but if it is not turned in time, the corpse will absorb the yin qi from the ground at a faster speed.
After summoning Liao Shangzhou's family and briefly explaining to them, the eldest son of the old wizard also beckoned people, and moved the new coffin placed on two benches, and a door panel covered with a white cloth that was temporarily used to hold the corpse, and arranged it next to the tomb, and let people pull a circle of white cloth around it, forming an excessively high curtain and isolating the tomb from the surroundings.
At this time, there were not many people left in the curtain, except for Liao Shangzhou's family and his two younger brothers, there were only four old people, including the old village chief, and two old women who had spent a lot of money to help Liao Yuting's body change clothes, as well as the old wizard, his eldest son and me.
After pulling up the sheets above the tomb again and blocking out the sun, the four old men and Liao Shangzhou and his wife began to prepare to move the corpses, which can usually only be done by immediate family members and elderly people.
The sunlight was a little dazzling before, and it was not very clear to see, but now with the bedsheet shading, the details in the coffin suddenly became extraordinarily clear.
Although a large amount of yin qi has been gathered, and some of it has been exposed to the sun for a period of time, the moisture in the coffin is not very heavy, and it can even be regarded as dry, only on the coffin wall near the mouth of the coffin, there is a layer of fine water droplets.
As for Liao Yuting's corpse, the face is abnormally completely dry, without a trace of moisture and signs of imminent decay, it seems that there is almost no inherent stiffness of a dead corpse, and the eyebrows and eyelashes are still exceptionally clear, except that it looks a little pale, as if it is asleep.
There is no doubt that this is extremely abnormal for a body that has been buried for more than a month, but it is also expected.
Although before I came, I had already told the old village chief who needed to do it about the condition that the body was still intact, and I was prepared in my heart, but when I really saw such a situation, several old people still muttered to some extent.
Liao Shangzhou and his wife, on the other hand, looked at their daughter's face as if they were just asleep, and fell into a burst of sadness.
In the end, it was the old village chief who took the lead and took out the most superficial layer of longevity, and the others reacted and followed together.
After a short time, the entire nine-layer quilt covering the corpse was taken out of the coffin, and I tried to touch it with my hands, and sure enough, it was basically dry.
At this point, several people gradually let go of their hands and feet, and after glancing at his daughter's face again, Liao Shangzhou knelt on the ground, leaned into the coffin, stretched out two songs to hook Liao Yuting's neck and lifted it gently, and then changed to the shoulder to hold it steadily, and began to lift it up.
Liao Yuting's upper body was suddenly lifted up, and seeing this, the others hurriedly joined hands together.
Judging from the extent of the bending of the corpse when they were carefully lifted outside after several people were completely stabilized, it was indeed relatively soft.
Soon, though, I was attracted to the belly of the corpse.
Although she wore nine sets of shrouds inside and out, she looked extremely bloated, but judging from the position of the bulge in her abdomen, it didn't look like she was pregnant in October.
You must know that when she was buried, the dead baby was left in Liao Yuting's belly and was not taken out at all.
"It seems that the souls of their mother and child were able to separate, and there was a reason why they suddenly appeared that night and caught me off guard and almost died, and the dead baby was probably no longer in the womb......"
When I found out about this, the others naturally found out quickly, and they all frowned and looked puzzled.
After holding hands together and placing the corpse on the door panel next to it, Liao Shangzhou reached out and pressed it on the stomach of Liao Yuting's corpse in order to verify the doubts in his heart.
With his press, the bloated shroud suddenly sank sharply, and it took a while to let go of his hand before rebounding.
In this way, it is basically certain that the dead baby is indeed not in Liao Yuting's belly.
"This ...... What's going on? What about the dead doll? Liao Shangzhou muttered softly, a little dignified and gloomy in his doubts.
Before the words fell, Liao Yuting's mother was on her corpse for a while, and after a while, she suddenly withdrew her hand like an electric shock, and said with a pale expression: "The girl's crotch ...... There seems to be something. ”
"What?" Hearing this, everyone's faces suddenly changed.
There is something that needs to be verified, and then there will naturally be no further delay, so after bringing the new pajamas that need to be worn, our man took up a circle of white cloth, turned his back, and asked Liao Yuting's mother and two old women to start removing the shroud from the corpse.
Two minutes later, I heard an old woman come and say, "Mom! With an exclamation, when they temporarily covered the corpse with their faded shrouds, we were able to turn around and look, only to see a mass of flesh at the corpse's feet, covered with blood and faintly reddened skin.
It was the dead baby in Liao Yuting's womb.
After she died, she "gave birth" to the child?
I couldn't help but shake my body, and then my face changed slightly.
In medicine, there is a phenomenon called postmortem delivery, which is caused by the putrefaction gas in the abdominal cavity of the corpse after the death of the pregnant woman, which pushes the fetus out of the birth canal.
But Liao Yuting's situation is not quite the same, after her death, she stopped for three days, if such a thing happens in those three days, people will definitely notice, not to mention that when the burial is carried out, the coffin still needs to be cleared, and the family will carefully clean up the debris in the coffin, and rearrange the remains of the deceased before the coffin is covered.
What's more, the two families had a dispute at that time over whether to take out the dead baby in their wombs and then cover the coffin, so it can be determined that when the burial was made, the dead baby was still in Liao Yuting's womb.
That night, Liao Yuting's resentful return with a big stomach also proved this point.
After the burial, Liao Yuting's body stopped decaying, and even under the nourishment of a large amount of yin qi, it was much better than before the burial, and now it looks like she is asleep, so basically, there will be no more medical postmortem delivery.
In this way, it is basically certain that Liao Yuting's body was indeed "born" a dead baby.
After taking a closer look, it confirmed the conjecture.
I saw a dead baby, bigger than any full-term baby I had ever seen, with thicker hair, and the fingernails of the hands and feet had extended slightly beyond the fingertips.
This dead baby...... Sure enough, it's growing.
"Huh? Does this dead doll look a bit big? At this moment, I don't know who whispered a word of underestimation.
"Don't delay the time, it may be the day of the burial, when the coffin was carried up the mountain, it shook out, and I didn't find it when the coffin was cleared, the corpse will rot and swell, and it is normal to be bigger." Seeing that sentence attracted everyone's attention, the eldest son of the old wizard also spoke softly, and said: "It's okay to shake it out, save any more trouble, hurry up and get dressed, if you delay any longer, the sun will go west." ”
As soon as I heard this, I knew that he had also discovered the fact that the dead baby was still growing, and it was only in order that other people would not find out and become more timid, so he deliberately spoke to divert their attention.
A few minutes later, Liao Yuting's mother and two old women put on the innermost shroud for Liao Yuting, and with the help of Liao Shangzhou and two brothers, it took nearly twenty minutes to put on nine sets of new shrouds, and shou hats and shou shoes again.
And the dead baby was taken aside by the old wizard's eldest son before.
Next, the white cloth covering the surroundings was removed, and after another round of cannon fire, everyone worked together to bury Liao Yuting's body in a new coffin and cover the sheets.
At this moment, the inner wall of the coffin, which had been relatively dry in the tomb, began to volatilize a large amount of water vapor, and within a few clicks, the things left in the longevity pillow mattress were completely soaked.
After a few more minutes, a layer of water gathered at the bottom of the coffin, completely soaking the mattress underneath, and it was still increasing little by little at a rate visible to the naked eye.
Although it looked a little weird, when I saw the scene of water starting to bubble in the coffin, the eldest son of the old wizard and I looked at each other and breathed a sigh of relief.
The fact that the coffin remained dry before was entirely because Liao Yuting's corpse had absorbed a large amount of yin qi and was rapidly transforming into a shadow corpse, isolating the water vapor from the outside of the coffin and unable to penetrate into it. At this time, water suddenly began to bubble in the coffin, which meant that the connection between the corpse and this fierce place had been completely broken, and it would no longer absorb the slightest trace of yin qi.
The corpse had been successfully moved out, and the remaining things naturally had to be destroyed, so after pulling all the items such as the shroud quilt taken off from the corpse into the waste coffin with a bamboo pole, the old wizard's eldest son and I each took out a bucket of prepared gasoline, dumped it completely into the coffin, and lit the last fire.
As the coffin lit a raging fire and thick black smoke rose, the people who had always been hanging in their hearts gradually became more steady, and the tense and solemn atmosphere disappeared little by little in the bursts of firecrackers and thick smoke.
At this moment, the eldest son of the old wizard grabbed another hoe and was about to burn the white cloth door panel into the tomb with the dead baby, but I hurriedly stopped him.
"Although he didn't have a mother's womb, a person who didn't have a mother's womb is also a human being, and even if he wants to burn it, take it to his mother's grave, burn it and bury it around, but he can't stay in this place anymore."
The old wizard's eldest son was slightly stunned, and then readily agreed, wrapped it in a white cloth, and put it in the coffin for the time being.
It wasn't entirely because of soft-heartedness that stopped him, but that this place had become a place of outright murder, even a place of death, and it was only temporarily dispelled by me that the yin qi would reconverge before long.
Although the soul of the dead baby has not yet been fully formed, it has been liberated with Liao Yuting and is about to return to the underworld, but if it is not completely burned to ashes, there is still the possibility of "resurrection" in such a fierce place.
After that, I relented, and I didn't want it to be burned to ashes like garbage on the fire in front of my mother.
The body has been successfully moved out, and the next step is to carry it to the new cemetery for burial, tie the coffin and fix it, and after some rituals, the men of the two families will work together again and prepare to carry it down the mountain.
At the same time, the haze began to re-emerge in the hearts of the people of the Pan family, especially the old village chief.
Because the deadline given by the Liao family is that Pan Guanghai must be seen before dark, otherwise Liao Yuting's body will either be pulled back directly, or buried in the only remaining hall of his family.
At this time, it was already more than three o'clock in the afternoon, but Pan Guanghai still hadn't found it.
"Xiao Nian, what should you do, the surnamed Liao still thinks that we hid the white-eyed wolf, if I wait for the wood (coffin) to be carried to the road, if I can't find it, I really can't help it......" With the crackling sound of firecrackers and the clear and pleasant reeds, people shouted the number to lift the coffin, and the worried old village chief also walked to my side, sighing and saying.
Although I don't want to see another dispute between the two families, but at this point, I have nothing to do.
Liao Shangzhou has already said that, even if it is hindered by the fact that I helped his family, it is impossible to regress.
So after a moment of silence, I said to the village chief, "Then why don't you ...... If you really can't help it, why don't you just let them transport the body back? ”