Chapter 20: The Phantom of the Bronze Coffin

The second uncle said that the place where he grew up is called Taigu, which is the hometown of Kong Xiangxi among the four major families of the Republic of China.

Taigu County, as one of the birthplaces of Jin merchants, was once known as the land wharf, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, equivalent to China's Wall Street, rich merchants and giants gathered, trading all over the country, salt tea, silk, medicinal materials, horses, can be much more spacious than Suzhou and Hangzhou at that time.

When the second uncle was young, he was just in time for the Cultural Revolution to break the four olds, smashing and looting everywhere, all the feudal remnants, temples, yamen, ancient houses, etc., all had to be destroyed and demolished. Taigu did a good job in this regard, even the ancient city wall was demolished, the second uncle said, the city wall of Taigu back then, was much more magnificent than the ancient city of Pingyao.

It happened when the city wall of Nanguan was demolished, and a vertical copper coffin was dug out of the thick wall!

Although the coffin full of patina is mottled, but on the coffin board, there is also a pattern of an ancient general with a Fang Tian painting halberd and a purple and gold crown on his head, which is majestic and murderous, looking at that appearance, it looks like Lu Bu's shape in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"!

Everyone was stunned! People are talking about it, and some say something, some say that this is an ancient general, in order to protect the city of Taigu, he has to bury himself in the city wall when he dies.

Some people say that Jin Kemu has never used metal as a coffin! Unless it's a burial of something bad, there may be something bad in this coffin......

But anyway, after all, it's an antiquity, and more people are wondering in their hearts, is there anything valuable in it?

According to common sense, in this case, the county cultural bureau should be notified first, and then a professional archaeologist should be sent to identify it. But at that time, all the experts and professors were locked up in the cowshed, and what professionals were there?

The workers reported to the Revolutionary Committee, and a few rebel leaders discussed, fuck it! Open the ball and see if you know.

Under the frantic chiseling of several strong men, the greenish patina fell to the ground, and the heavy coffin board was pried open a crack.

A strange smell of flesh wafted out, the smell... It's like who's family is stewing braised pork, it's very tempting, and in that era of material scarcity, this smell is really making people laugh.

But reason told everyone that this is the smell of death, and I can't help but feel disgusted and frightened, people can't understand, what is in this? How can there still be the aroma of stew?

When the coffin was opened, there were no bones and carrions inside, no burial goods such as gold, silver and jewelry, and only a large mass in the center of the bottom plate... It's white, and resembles a dough-like existence.

The smell is what it comes out, and after the board is uncovered, the meat is even more fragrant, and there is a strong aroma all over the county.

People are even more confused, no one knows what this is? An old man said that it may be that a saint has become an immortal, and the things left behind after the autopsy must not be neglected, so he must quickly find an excellent place for feng shui and bury it.

In those days, saying such things was purely not sick and looking for typhoid fever, and at the moment this guy was slapped by the officials of the Revolutionary Committee.

Seeing that there was nothing valuable, the rebel leader was also very disappointed, and ordered his subordinates to find a place to bury it, and continue to demolish the city wall, so as not to delay the construction period.

However, at this time, people found that the "white face", under the irradiation of the sun, began to slowly ooze fine "sweat", the same as human skin, and then, the original attractive meat aroma turned into a monstrous and pungent stench, the smell of stinky fish and rotten shrimp mixed with the smell of stinky feet and "very noisy", for a while, it was simply a stinky atomic bomb!

It seems that this thing is a yin thing, and it can't see the sun, and after opening the coffin, it is directly exposed to the sun, and it immediately dies and rots!

The boiling stench smoked people's brains hurt, everyone dispersed at once, and they stopped doing their work, and the rebel leader scolded his mother angrily, and asked someone to get gasoline immediately, pour it in a copper coffin, and burn the dog's day!

However, when people held their breath and prepared to pour gasoline into the copper coffin, the white "dough" was long gone, and only a pool of slimy, glue-like stinking liquid remained at the bottom of the coffin. The people who worked didn't care about the three-seven-twenty-one, just poured gasoline into it, and then lit a fire.

This can cause trouble, the raging flames burn, emitting thick black smoke, before it just stinks, but not choking, after this, the spicy and pungent smoke people are dizzy, coughing violently, people run out in tears, and soon the construction site is empty.

After a while, the entire Taigu County was filled with smoke and fog, which did not disperse for a long time, and the effect... It's like setting fire to a huge garbage heap.

In the next few days, almost everyone had diarrhea, and the thinning of the pullout was also black, and the smell was unbearable......

In the months after the bronze coffin was "properly disposed of", people in the county disappeared one after another, and no one was alive or dead.

At first, people didn't associate the disappearance with the copper coffin, but after a long time of public security investigation, there was still no result, and people began to discuss, saying that it was estimated that something bad was released.

For a while, people were panicked, and everyone dared not wander around at night, and at six o'clock in the evening, everyone closed their doors and stayed at home, but despite this, some people continued to disappear.

The second uncle's home is in the village in the countryside of Taigu, during this time, the news of someone missing in the county town has been spreading, and different versions have been derived, which are both exaggerated and evil.

Rather... The disappearance of someone in the county town does not seem to affect the countryside, and the village has not heard of anyone who has lost their family, but despite this, people are still cautious, closing their doors at night, and no one dares to walk at night.

One night, the second uncle's mother was sick, with a high fever and no energy, the second uncle felt sorry for his mother and wanted to go to the next village to find Tulangzhong to prescribe some medicine.

But his mother definitely won't let him go, saying that it's a big night, there are unclean things outside, and his mother is fine, it's just fine.

However, in the middle of the night, the second uncle's mother became even more sick, hot and scary, delirious, and began to talk nonsense, the second uncle was frightened, and regardless of his mother's admonition, after locking the door, he felt bold and walked to Langzhong's house in the next village.

At that time, he was poor, and there was not even a flashlight at home, and the second uncle was twelve years old at the time, a child, walking on the empty village road, trembling with fear at every step, looking back from time to time, afraid that something scary would follow him.

Fortunately, the moonlight was enough that night, and he could illuminate the road ahead, and the second uncle walked faster and faster, and he couldn't wait to get to Lang Zhong's house all at once.

When he walked to the entrance of the village, he suddenly heard a hoarse voice next to him, and the frightened second uncle almost didn't kneel, his legs were weak, and goosebumps rose layer by layer all over his body.

"One, two, three, four......"

The second uncle was dizzy with fright, and he only heard it when he was a little clearer, it was someone counting!

Looking around, there's no one around? However, the sound of counting was still there, and the sound was hoarse and unpleasant, like the "creaking" of the broken door in the old house.

The second uncle was scared and cried, and wanted to run, but his legs were weak, and he couldn't take a step. It came from the well at the entrance of the village.

The well at the entrance of the village is the place where the whole village takes water, what is in it? Why are people still counting? The voice was weird, not male or female, not like a human voice.

Desperate fear devoured the second uncle, time passed by second, and nothing scary came out, the second uncle stared at the well, trembling and moving his steps, little by little......

When he was far away, he ran away and ran to Langzhong's house in one breath.

The second uncle wanted to run away from home, but his mother's illness made him worried, afraid, anxious, and worried...... A series of negative emotions drove the second uncle crazy.

After knocking fiercely, Lang Zhong opened the door, and was shocked to see a child running over so late with tears on his face, and after asking what was going on, he hurriedly grabbed medicine for the second uncle.

This Langzhong is a good person, after listening to the description of the second uncle, he felt that his mother's illness was not light, and decided to go to the second uncle to see it himself.

With an adult following, the second uncle felt much more down-to-earth, wiped his nose and tears, and bowed to others vigorously, thanking him a thousand times.

The two went out and walked all the way to the second uncle's village, but the second uncle was weak and didn't dare to tell Lang Zhong about the number of people in the well at the entrance of the village.

When I walked to the entrance of the village, I heard the hoarse and ugly counting voices: "One, two, three, four......"

The voice was strange and gloomy, and there was an echo, and the listener was furious, Lang Zhong stopped, looked around in surprise, and also found that the sound came from the well not far away.

After all, he is an adult, unlike the second uncle, who lost his soul in fright, turned on the flashlight, and curiously went to the wellhead to take a look, wanting to see what was going on inside? Why is it that at night, there are still people and cats counting in the well?

The second uncle didn't dare to go over, standing in place nervously watching, the flashlight went down, and the counting stopped abruptly, Lang Zhong took the flashlight and looked at it for a long time, but he didn't find anything strange, and shook his head in confusion.

However, just as he was about to turn around, suddenly, from the well, a big hand covered with white hair reached out like lightning, grabbed Lang Zhong's body and dragged him in.

didn't even have time to scream, the whole process took less than a second, and in the flash of light, Lang Zhong was gone! I only heard a dull sound of falling water at the bottom of the deep well, and the second uncle's frightened heart was about to vomit out, and he sat on the ground and shook like an electric shock!

His pants were already wet, and he couldn't breathe under the pressure of infinite fear, and the only reason he had left drove the second uncle like a worm... Climb back little by little.

"One, two, three, four......" The sound of counting came again, and the thing seemed to be at the mouth of the well, not far from the second uncle, and he stiffened and didn't dare to move.

What made the second uncle even more frightened was that before, he had clicked that the sound in this well was counted from one to nine, and the cycle was repeated in turn, and this time, the hoarse strange sound was from one to ten!

How much psychological capacity can a twelve-year-old child have? The second uncle finally couldn't bear it anymore, and fainted in front of him.