Huzi's family has already arranged the mourning hall, the coffin in the mourning hall has not been closed, Huzi's father and some relatives are kneeling on the ground wearing white cloth and crying, seeing the old man and me come in, all the eyes of everyone are afraid, in their cognition, the profession of digging corpses is ominous to deal with corpses all day long, and no one wants to approach this kind of person.

The old man also saw a lot, opened the sack and walked forward holding the tiger's head, and the tiger snatched the tiger's head from the old man's hand with a calm face, and then put it in the coffin.

"Shut the coffin!" Father Hu said in a deep voice, with a little tremor in his voice.

The four stout men were too low to close the coffin lid gently, the old carpenter in the village put nails on the coffin, the old carpenter knocked on the coffin for a long time and finally set the coffin to death, Huzi and his family also invited an old monk to pray for Huzi.

And the old man and I seemed to be transparent people, standing aside and no one paid attention, but Huzi's father called the old man aside, and I wanted to go with him but was dismissed by the old man.

After a while the old man returned, and the expression on his face did not change in the slightest, as if nothing had happened.

"Let's go." The old man whispered softly in my ear.

"The tiger..."I looked at the portrait of the tiger, the tiger in the photo smiled stupidly, looking at it is gratifying, in the words of the old man, it is a standard fat boy.

"The matter of the tiger is over, now it's time to take care of ourselves."

"Oh." I naturally know what the old man said, the blood on my body has not disappeared, and the old man wants to take me to find a way to relieve my troubles.

The old man took me away, and the people in the village saw me and the old man and avoided it, for fear of getting bad luck, which made me feel very uncomfortable, and now I am afraid of us, and when someone in the family has an accident on the river, they cry and shout to find us, how can they not be afraid of bad luck?

The old man took my hand and said earnestly: "Little baby, don't worry that they don't understand, the older generation in the village knows our business, we are not harming people but saving people!" ”

"Don't you think it's dangerous to do this, old man?" I asked.

"What about the danger? Someone has to do this work, and you and I are the chosen ones, and when I can't do it anymore, I can enjoy my old age in peace. ”

I was silent, I didn't know what to say, but the old man stopped, "It's here!" ”

Arrived?!

As I was watching, the old man actually arrested me to the house of the king butcher in the village, the only butcher in our village, who began to do this business when he was more than ten years old, and he did not know how many living creatures he had slaughtered, and the cold air around his house was so cold that even the worst dog in the village did not dare to approach.

The old man didn't have any taboos, opened the door and walked in, just after entering the door, a smell of raw meat came to his face, which made people sick.

Seeing me and the old man, Butcher Wang came out of the house and beckoned to the old man, "Old Wangtou, I haven't seen you for a long time." ”

The old man went up to greet the butcher for a while, and finally got to the point, the old man said: "Wang Er is stunned, do you have a big black dog, the more fierce the better." ”

Wang Er was stunned is the nickname of Wang Butcher, when he was young, Wang Butcher was stunned, whoever wanted to provoke him dared to fight with others, and the people in the village gave him such a nickname.

Wang Er was stunned and took out a pack of red double happiness from his pocket and handed one to the old man, lit a cigarette and said: "There is no fierceness, but there is a wilting stupid dog, except for eating and sleeping, is this okay?" ”

The old man took a sharp puff on his cigarette, then threw the cigarette butt and said after stepping on it, "Take me to see it." ”

Wang Butcher entered the house and took out a cage, I leaned over to take a look, and in the cage was a small black dog a few months old, less than twenty centimeters, it was quite fat, round, and when I saw the sun, I just opened my eyes and fell asleep again, a standard lazy dog.

"Wang Er is stunned, this dog is not sick, it looks like he is going to die." The old man stabbed.

"Brother Wang, I can't guarantee anything else, but I can guarantee that I will definitely not have any sick things!" The king butcher thumped his chest and said.

The old man said directly: "Okay, how much is this dog, you can make a price." ”

Butcher Wang thought for a while and said, "We've known each other for so many years, I'll give you a discount, and you can take 100 yuan." ”

The old man was a little dissatisfied, and said with a straight face: "I said that Wang Er was stunned, you still want to fool me, this earth dog is not worth this amount when he grows up, who are you fooling, I took 20 yuan." ”

"Brother, you're a little ruthless, I can't even recover the cost."

"That's 25 yuan, no more, you can't sell it."

Butcher Wang also knew the old man's temper, once the old man decided that the nine cows could not be pulled back, 25 yuan was also a considerable price, so he simply agreed to do a favor: "Cheng, take the 25 yuan dog away." ”

The old man didn't say much, he took out a stack of red tickets from his pocket, at least more than a dozen, I was very sure that the old man definitely didn't have any money in his pocket before going out, and he knew where the money came from - Huzi's corpse fishing fee!

The transaction was completed, the old man took me and the little black dog out of the boat, the river was cloudy and windy, although it was daytime, but the river was like black ink, I subconsciously looked at the old man, although the old man was paddling but his eyebrows would show a worried look from time to time.

I also had a bad feeling in my heart, my heart was pounding, but the little black dog who fell asleep in my arms fell asleep without a heart.

The boat sailed across the river, but when it came to the place, I was stunned, wasn't this the same place I had been yesterday, and there were still footprints of me and the old man on the mud on the shore.

"Old man, what are you doing here?"

The old man said solemnly: "I thought that the blood on your body was because of Huzi, but Huzi's matter has passed, and it is only because of that clothed mound, there is resentment on the clothed mound, and you are favored by this resentment." ”

"I... How could it be me? ”

"Because you are yin and the five elements belong to water, for those who drown in the water, as long as you weaken your spirit and spirit, they can take advantage of the void and thus..."

"So what," I asked nervously.

"So as to achieve the purpose of occupying, in layman's terms, your soul is dead, and they will live in your place!"

I was so frightened that I fell to the ground, my eyes couldn't help but burst into tears, death is a great threat to me, I should have stayed at home with peace of mind, and I would never have been exposed to these things for the rest of my life, but now my life is threatened, I panicked!

"Little baby, this is something you are destined to encounter, and besides, those wandering ghosts are not impossible to deal with, as long as you find a good way." The old man patted me on the shoulder and said.

Although I don't know if what the old man said is true or not, but the old man's words still made me feel refreshed, just like a person who fell into the water grabbed a life-saving straw, I looked at the old man with burning eyes, since the old man brought me here, it means that the old man has a solution in his heart.

"According to what you saw in your dream, the heads of the three people have been thrown into the river, and the coffins have also been thrown into the river, the three of them can't vote because their souls are incomplete, no one has been here for a hundred years, just because the flood of the previous year woke them up, and because of the people from the Jiandian station, their ghosts hurt people and made them really resurrect."

"And then?" I listened carefully to what the old man said, and memorized it all in my head.

"So they shouldn't have a clothed mound, maybe their family members later learned about the matter and built a cloned mound for them, and there were thoughts of their relatives on that mound of clothes, which also indirectly weakened their resentment, but weakening is not the same as calming down, and there has never been a big chaos here in the past hundred years, which means that there must be a wandering master who sealed it, otherwise they would have cultivated into demons a long time ago."

The more I listened, the more energetic I became, the old man's story was more interesting than the "Journey to the West" told by the storyteller in the village, and I couldn't help asking: "Then we are here today to do the right thing for heaven and save the common people?" ”

The old man talked about a brain collapse on my brain: "Your little life is about to die, and you still want to save the common people, your heart is really big enough." ”

The pain was dying, and the old man's hand really didn't give me the strength to say, which made me hurt for a while, "Then what are we here for?" ”

"Dig a grave!" The old man said indifferently.

"What? Dig a grave! "I was shocked and said, I heard the old people say that digging graves is immoral, and there will be retribution after death.

The old man glanced at me and said, "Why, if you don't dig up the grave, you won't survive, I won't survive, and the people in the whole village and even the whole village around the river won't be able to live." ”

"Old man, you'll be caught digging graves." I whispered dissuasion.

"Then do you say it's better to be caught or die?"

"I—" I choked up, yes, if my life was gone, I wouldn't have a chance to get into the game.

"What are you doing in a daze, hurry up and dig it." The old man took out two shovels out of nowhere and threw one to me.

I picked up the shovel and followed the old man to dig down the grave, if anyone saw us two would definitely be scared to pee, the old man and I stood on the grave and dug the grave, very strange.

After digging for a while, I wiped the sweat from my forehead, leaned on the shovel and said, "Old man, how long are we going to dig?" ”

The old man said as he digged, "Dig up the tombstone!" ”

"How long will it take to dig up, and who knows if the tombstone has been washed away." I cried out.

"Dig hard."

I exhaled a long breath and continued to dig, but I ran into a hard thing when I went down with a spade, I leaned over and looked at the dirt, and there was a rotten wooden box buried in the soil, and I knew very well that I had dug something terrible, and hurriedly shouted: "Old man, old man, I have dug something." ”

"Hey, you kid really have shit luck!" The old man laughed and cursed, and then shoveled a few shovels to set aside the dirt around the wooden box.

The old man and I crouched in front of the wooden box, looked at each other, and I reached out to open it.

"Don't touch it!" The old man suddenly stopped me, and I quickly stopped the movements in my hand and looked at the old man blankly.