Chapter 1531: The Coffin Shop (3)
casually found an inn to live in, Shi Yueying asked for a two-person room, saying that she would be afraid.
"Since it's a couple, what's there to be shy about." After the girl checked out, she grinned and took my hand and walked into the inn room, which looked fairly clean.
This act caused both of them to spend the whole night tossing and turning. At seven o'clock the next morning, I couldn't help it, got up and washed up and took her out the door.
"Where are we going?" Shi Yueying ordered fried dough sticks and soy milk, and by the way, she also asked for a bowl of rice noodles with western Sichuan characteristics, and she was very happy to eat.
"Let's go find the coffin shop first." I pondered, flipped out the photos from more than 100 years ago on my phone and said, "The coffin shop is not difficult to find." It seems that the pattern of the wreckage town has basically not changed, and in such a small ancient town, there is usually a coffin shop. Just ask the old man. ”
After eating in a hurry, Shi Yueying and I found an eighty-year-old man who was sitting at the door and asked for the address.
"What are you looking for a coffin shop, it closed more than 50 years ago and became a household." The old man knocked on the dry tobacco pouch on the unique dry edge of western Sichuan: "That place is very gloomy, don't go." ”
"We're looking for folklore stuff, so we're going to take a few pictures outside." I laughed dryly twice, and was about to pull Shi Yueying away.
The old man looked at us with a strange expression, obviously wondering where we had heard about the coffin shop. But as soon as he heard that we were going to take pictures, he was immediately shocked: "Don't! The coffin shop has been terrifying since ancient times, and anyone who has taken pictures there will all die! ”
"Died unexpectedly?" Shi Yueying and I glanced at each other and frowned at the same time. The coffin shop in the ancient town of the case is really something. Could it have something to do with that weird photo?
More than 100 years have passed, and although the layout of the town has not changed, the purpose of the store has really changed. The blacksmith shop next to the coffin shop is a ten-yuan specialty store that can be seen everywhere, and the original location of the coffin shop, the coffin-like moire on the door is gone, and the wooden frame on the top has obvious scratch marks. There is also an old couplet on both sides of the door.
The black calligraphy on the couplet has long been indistinguishable, and the red paper is swaying violently in the wind, making a swishing sound from time to time.
There was hardly a single person on the entire street. This ancient ancient town with a long history is dying with the movement of people, and all that remains is desolation and loneliness.
Suddenly, Shi Yueying was taken aback, pointing her finger at the door number of the coffin shop, and her face turned pale.
I looked at her and shuddered. I saw a line of address written on the house number:
No. 102, Phoenix Road, Crime Town
"How can this be, isn't this the address of Zhou Yu's home?" The girl touched her forehead, she felt too much information, and her head hurt. Zhou Yu, who painted murals, worked as an art teacher in Niuniu, and died tragically in a rented house, actually lived in a former coffin shop. Could it be that she went to school in Jiangling City because she had premeditated and wanted to get Niuniu.
But Niuniu is only six years old, and Zhou Yu is already in her twenties. I can't say anything about it!
In the face of more and more confusing things, I also frowned. Your sister, she was still wandering a few days ago, and Gu Ying felt sorry for her amnesia. I didn't expect to be picked up by a family, and I actually picked up so many things. What is Niuniu's origin, and the current development is obviously aimed at her. And it has been premeditated for more than several years.
Maybe since before she was born, there was a hidden black hand, quietly lurking, waiting for her birth!
I didn't say a word, and looked down at the doorknob. The handles were already covered with dust, and apparently no one had lived in them for a long time. Turning his head and looking around, there was no one around. Only then did he slowly take out a wire and fiddle with the old keyhole a few times.
There was a dull thud from the lock, and the door opened.
"Every time I see you picking locks like a thief, I think you are very handsome." Shi Yueying's eyes were full of little stars and looked at me with adoring eyes. This beautiful girl's three views seem to be a little distorted, what is there to worship if she can pick a lock with wire?
"Let's go inside." I wasted no time and pushed open the door of Zhou Yu's house.
The inside of the door was pitch black, and the furnishings were very shabby. What used to be a large coffin hall is now full of miscellaneous items, and the only place in the back room for unused coffins is an empty bed. Zhou Yu mentioned in her diary that she was a single-parent family and lived with her father, who drank badly.
I just don't know where her father has gone, and he hasn't been home for at least a few months.
"I can't find anything, where is Niuniu?" After Shi Yueying looked through the entire room, she sighed dejectedly.
I touched my chin and my mind kept thinking. Suddenly, it seemed like something had come to mind.
"Remember the two famous folk tales of Casewreck Town that I told you?" I asked abruptly.
"The first one is a fisherwoman." Shi Yueying didn't know what I wanted to express, and when she saw that my face was serious, she had to nod.
"Then I'll tell you the second story that was interrupted!" My eyes wandered around, searching for something suspicious.
My voice echoed throughout the empty room.
Legend has it that after death, people are reincarnated, either as a human or as a horse, because the cultivation in the previous life is different, the next life after reincarnation is also different, the previous life has done a lot of evil, the next life will be a cow and a horse, the previous life has more goodness, the future life will enjoy a lot of blessings, as they say, good will be rewarded, evil will be rewarded. Legend has it that there used to be a well in the ancient town of the wreckage, and the name of that well is very strange. Call for Isai! It is said that if you go to the well and take a photo, you will know your future life.
The allusion to that well is very interesting.
A long time ago, there was a poor family, by the rich man as a long-term worker to support the family, one day, the long-term worker came to the rich man's house, said that he would be a long-term worker for the rich man for a year, the rich man gave him 10 loads of grain, the honest long-term worker believed that it was true, in the rich man's house to work very hard, every day at sunrise and sunset, hard work until the end of the year, thinking, hard work for a year, after 10 loads of grain shipped home, the whole family for a few months of rations is not a problem.
But when he asked the rich man for the grain, the rich man only said that the agreement was 10 catties of clear oil, and the long-term worker argued with reason, but the rich man was so powerful that he not only failed to get 10 loads of grain, but was thrown out of the door by the rich man. Changgong was grief-stricken, thinking: After a year of hard work, there are only 10 catties of clear oil, how to go home to face his wife and children, it is better to die.
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