The familiar knock on the door made Zhao Ke's eyes stare at the door behind him.

"Who!"

A knock was heard at the door, and the woman stepped out of the house.

"Me! Lao Wang! ”

I only heard a shout from behind the door, and I shouldn't be very old when I heard the voice.

"Open the door, old man!"

The woman looked at Zhao Ke, who patted the dust on his body and stepped forward to open the door.

After the door was quietly opened by Zhao Ke, he saw a person behind the door suddenly stretching out his hand and pushing the door in.

A middle-aged man in his early thirties, but his face is sallow, his body is emaciated, and he looks malnourished no matter how he looks at it.

It was Wang Yu in the village.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw Wang Qi, and his eyes first swept over the coffins in the courtyard.

He immediately turned back to Zhao Ke and said, "Old man Lou, I'll order a coffin." ”

Zhao Ke glanced Wang Qi up and down, and nodded: "It's time to book early." ”

Wang was stunned when he heard this, and before meeting, Zhao Ke stared at him, and his face suddenly changed angrily: "Go, go, not for me, but for my wife." ”

"Oh, Mrs. Wang!"

When he said this, Zhao Ke was stunned in his heart, because although these words came from his own mouth, they were not what he wanted to say.

Instead, it's more like his own body, and he can't help but speak.

I saw Wang suddenly nod and took out a heavy bag of money from his pocket.

When I opened the money bag, I saw that it was heavy broken silver and some copper coins.

After weighing it a few times in his hand, he saw Wang Qi stuff the money bag in his hand into Zhao Ke's hand.

"You are an old craftsman, the materials must be done, and the thicker the coffin, the better."

Seeing this, the woman on the side took the money bag from Zhao Ke's hand and weighed it, but her eyes were about to squint and she couldn't see them.

Manchu said: "Okay, good, you can rest assured that when the time comes, you will be satisfied with the old lady." ”

Although on weekdays, when the old lady of the Wang family is mentioned, everyone hates her for three points.

Don't look like a woman, but she is a well-known evil woman.

Because his nephew is a local prefect, it has fueled the arrogance of this old woman, even if she has a powerful mouth, she is not ambiguous when she does it.

Many people in the village have been beaten by her.

But if that's all there is to it, that's it, it's a big deal to hide.

I just heard that this old lady knows evil methods, and the means of rectifying people are also powerful.

Wang Yu's daughter-in-law just had a few words with the old lady.

As a result, it didn't take long for the daughter-in-law's mother's family to be restless, and I don't know what the means were.

In the middle of the night, the family always heard the rooster crowing outside, and when they went out, they could see that their chicken coop was full of blood.

In the end, it was the daughter-in-law who cried and begged Mrs. Wang, so she was safe.

I think about it, I will be so ruthless to my own daughter-in-law, let alone someone else's family.

However, as the saying goes, if you don't look at the face of the monk and look at the face of the Buddha, such a big bag of silver in your hand can be worth the coffin money of a large family of ordinary people.

"Don't worry, old man Lou, come out with me, I have a request for you!"

saw Wang Yu stretching out his hand and pulling Zhao Ke out of the door, and seemed to be particularly shy of the old woman behind Zhao Ke.

Pulling Zhao Ke out of the door for a moment.

Only then did I hear Wang Yu whisper: "I want to be in a hurry, tomorrow night at the latest." ”

"The day after tomorrow!"

Seeing the old man Lou counting the days with his fingers, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly, and said in a low voice: "What, is the old lady already gone?" ”

The local people pay attention to the third day of death, and then bury.

It is commonly known as "service three", also known as "round grave" and "base three grave".

But if it is a bad day on the third day, the day of this day is not counted and the fourth day is changed.

At the moment, Wang suddenly wanted to be so anxious.

I'm afraid that this old lady Wang is no longer good.

"It's coming, it's coming, but I have one more thing, you have to promise me!"

After Wang Yu casually responded to two sentences, his eyes suddenly widened, and he reached out and grabbed Zhao Ke's arm.

Zhao Ke subconsciously waved his hand to shake it off, but found that his strength couldn't shake off Wang Qi.

Thinking about it again, too, he is not himself now, but the coffin craftsman, the old man Lou.

Naturally, his strength is not comparable to that of a man in his early thirties like Wang Qi.

I saw Wang Yu's eyes looking left and right vigilantly, and he took out another money bag from his arms and stuffed it into his hand.

The heavy money bag made Zhao Ke frown, although he was not a real old man Lou.

But Wang Qi had obviously given money, and at this time, he gave himself a money bag.

To say that there is no cat in it, it is impossible.

Sure enough, I saw Wang suddenly lower his voice and said in a low voice: "Old man Lou, you want to ...... my coffin."

As he spoke, Wang suddenly stepped forward and whispered in Zhao Ke's ear.

It's just that Zhao Ke listened carefully, but he couldn't hear anything, just waiting for Wang Qi to finish speaking.

I couldn't help but nod my head, indicating that I could.

"Then it's decided!"

After Wang Yu finished speaking, he let go of Zhao Ke's arm, turned around and left quickly.

"How's it going, old man!"

I saw the woman come out from behind the door, leaned forward and asked, just glanced at Zhao Ke, but saw that the woman was suddenly stunned.

Zhao Ke didn't care, he just said that it had already been negotiated, although he didn't know what Wang Qi's request was.

Step into the courtyard.

After the woman waited for Zhao Ke to leave, her mind couldn't help but flash the look on Zhao Ke's face.

It was hideous and gloomy, and his eyes were full of fierce light, as if covered with a layer of dark clouds.

The thought of it made the woman suddenly shudder involuntarily.

Pushing open the door, I saw Zhao Ke walking into the courtyard, but one foot stepped into the door.

As soon as Zhao Ke raised his head, his expression was stunned for a moment.

When I looked back at the door, I found that the woman was gone, and there was a black hole outside the door, and from time to time I could hear the barking of dogs from the village.

"This??"

When I walked out, it was still daytime, and now when I walked in, it had become night?

It's no wonder that Zhao Ke couldn't adapt for a while.

"Hurry up, old man, close the door."

I only heard the woman in the house urging, and sighed to herself while urging: "Hey, this old lady of the Wang family is really uneasy, you said that everyone is dead, and they are all buried today, and the coffin suddenly jumped, and the people in the village were almost scared to death." ”

"Already buried??"

Zhao Ke pondered, and then he pondered, and he walked in with one foot, but the coffin had already been completed, and everyone had already been buried.

As for the day and night in between, the process of how to make this coffin seems to have been cut off a page out of thin air.

The woman in the room continued to mumble.

"You say, this is all said to be in the ground, just this old woman, she is still not alive when she dies, but she is dead, Wang Su's daughter-in-law, not to mention how happy, this daughter-in-law has finally survived, otherwise the old woman, I don't know how many years she will live."

The woman muttered a lot of things.

In particular, Wang Yu's daughter-in-law has a large crescent-shaped birthmark on her chest.

When Zhao Ke heard this, a smile suddenly appeared on his face, and he asked, "How do you know that there is a birthmark?" ”

"When she was breastfeeding, I saw that the children of Wang Su's family were all three years old and still had to breastfeed, which was really ......"

When the woman said this, she couldn't help laughing, and immediately urged, "Hurry up, the bed is made, hurry up and go to bed." ”

As soon as he heard that he went to bed, Zhao Ke almost didn't slip.

The thought of the old woman's figure, which looked like a water scoop, twitched the corners of her mouth, and her eyes suddenly saw that the door of the front hall was still closed.

His eyes flickered, and he hurriedly said, "You go to sleep first, I haven't cleaned up the materials for the coffin before." ”

After speaking, Zhao Ke pulled his legs and ran.

"Alas, tomorrow ......"

The old woman poked her head out of the window, and when she saw this, she hurriedly waved her hand and called Zhao Ke.

But when Zhao Ke saw this, he sped up his steps and rushed into the front room with an arrow step.

"your dead ghost."

Seeing this, the old woman couldn't help but curse, turned around and blew the lamp to go to bed.

"Hum~"

Zhao Ke gently pushed the door open.

The empty vestibule is covered with wood chips.

In addition to sawdust, there are also bits and pieces of stuff in a mess.

The reason why Zhao Ke noticed these things was because these things looked like they had nothing to do with the coffin.

For example, chicken bones, a great sorrow mantra, copper wire money, and so on are piled up on the table in a mess.

"Peach?"

Zhao Ke pinched a pinch of sawdust on the table with his fingers, put it on the tip of his nose and sniffed it, and found that it was actually peach wood powder.

Pick up the line bucket on the side, there is a fishy smell in it, it seems to be pigeon blood, but it is a little different.

"Strange, what kind of coffin did he make?"

Zhao Ke remembered that in the notes, the old man Lou seemed to grit his teeth with hatred for this old lady Wang.

I plan to make a coffin in particular.

As for how it was made, I didn't have time to see it, but the crow knocked on the door and interrupted me.

At present, I still don't know what kind of secret this coffin has.

Just when Zhao Ke was puzzled, he heard a shout suddenly come from behind him.

"Is Brother Lou there?"

Listening to the voice, the people have already entered the courtyard.

Zhao Ke walked out and saw an old lady who looked to be about eighty years old standing in the courtyard.

"Are you??"

Zhao Ke glanced at the old lady, and saw that the old lady's eyes lit up, and a smile couldn't help showing on her face: "My family is doing business today, and I will send you a piece of pork as usual, but there are too many people to send it, and it is a little late, don't be surprised." ”

When the woman said this, she lifted up the piece of meat in her hand and made a gesture.

Because of the lack of two days, what happened during the two-day gap was not clear to Zhao Ke.

It's just that whose family has done nothing, and I didn't care at first.

Just look at the piece of pork.

Zhao Ke's eyes suddenly widened, although it was not summer now, and the night was still a little cold.

But when Zhao Ke took a closer look at the so-called pork, cold sweat rolled down his cheeks from Zhao Ke's forehead.

I saw that on the white and tender pork breast, a crescent moon birthmark became clear in the moonlight.

Looking at the old lady walking in front of her, the old lady walked in the moonlight, but there was not even a shadow under her feet.