When Daoist Hong was about to leave, a person ran to Li Sihai's house in a panic and said, "Daoist Hong, it's not good, the coffin containing Ruan Qixing's body is gone!" ”

According to this person, after Ruan Qixing was drowned in the Minjiang River, his family invited a local Taoist priest to do the funeral. Ruan Qixing's body was already buried in a coffin painted black and shiny, and his filial son and grandson guarded it at night. When the helpers came to his house the next morning, they found the watchman lying asleep on the ground, the coffin parked in the hall was missing, and the body of Nguyen Qixing was abandoned on the side of the road in front of the house.

Hong Daoshi hurried to Ruan Qixing's house, investigated the scene, and learned that last night, after the helpers left, there were only two tables of people in the courtyard who were concentrating on playing mahjong, and they did not notice the movement in the hall. The watchman may have been knocked unconscious by something unknown in the hall, and the coffin was missing.

Master Hong Daoist found someone to bring a bowl of water, lit three sticks of incense, chanted words in his mouth, and shook the incense ashes into the bowl. He did not encounter any obstacles in turning water this time, and according to the Brownian motion of incense ash, he found out that the coffin and the female corpse were in the Minjiang River. Hong Daoshi held the ancient knife, and the two young men followed him and went out to find Ruan Qixing's coffin.

They walked for more than ten minutes, and when they came to the river, they saw a dark and shiny thing floating in the river, looking like a buffalo from a distance. Master Hong guessed that this thing was the coffin they were looking for, and he didn't know why it appeared in the river.

The coffin seemed to have eyes, and when it saw the Hongdao Master coming, it actually moved in the water, as if it was about to escape. The three of them walked along the riverbank and followed closely behind the coffin. The coffin is like a boat floating on the river, unmanned, but moving forward. The river was relatively wide, and the Hongdao Master could not intercept it, so he had to follow behind and act at the opportunity.

After about half an hour, the coffin floated to a narrow river, and the Hongdao Master picked up a stone and threw it at the coffin, which kept dodging. The two young men also threw stones at the coffin, and in a three-pronged manner, the coffin was hit several times, and there seemed to be several terrible screams coming from inside.

The river in front was narrower, and the Hongdao Master waited there early, piled up the stones by the river, and made something like an eight-array diagram. The coffin floated here, as if pulled by something mysterious, unable to move forward, jolted a few times, and ran aground in the rubble.

The three of them ran, pulled up their trouser legs, jumped into the river, and pushed the coffin to the shore. Hong Daoshi guessed that the hundred-year-old female corpse should be lying in the coffin, and the reason why she stole the coffin was because she wanted to find a place to stay.

"You two young men, open the coffin! I will protect you! "Hong Daoshi stood next to the coffin with an ancient knife, if there was really any evil in the coffin, he would inevitably eat him.

Although the two young men were very bold, they were also trembling with fear at this time. They gritted their teeth, stood at the ends of the coffin, lifted the lids, and then tentatively looked inside the coffin, where there was nothing. Suddenly, the coffin turned into a puff of black smoke and disappeared without a trace in an instant. It turned out that this coffin was a blindfold used by the female corpse.

"It's not good, this female corpse is really very cunning, we fell for her trick to divert the tiger from the mountain!" Hong Daoshi said.

"The female corpse lured us this way, then she could be in that direction." A young man said.

"That's a good point! Let's look in the opposite direction! Hong Daoshi said.

They walked in the opposite direction for about an hour when they saw an orchard in front of them. This is a mountain land contracted by a family in a nearby village, and fruit trees have been planted. There is a simple brick house in the orchard, and two old people guard it, one is to take care of the fruit trees, and the other is to prevent thieves from stealing the fruit.

Master Hong found that there was a faint black gas above the orchard, and there must be something strange here. Master Hong came to the brick door and knocked on it, and an old man greeted them and warmly invited them into the house.

Hong Daoshi took the initiative to talk to the old man, and learned that the old man's child started his own business and opened an online store on Taobao to sell fruits grown at home. Customers have taken a fancy to the quality of his fruits, which are pure natural and organic, delicious, juicy and sell well. Many left-behind elderly people and children in their hometown are reluctant to buy fruits, and their children buy them through online stores, and the old man's children receive orders and deliver them through online stores, and business is booming. The old man said that the various costs are not low, the commission of the Taobao website is high, and there are many broken fruits, so it is not so easy to make a lot of money.

"I'm sorry I forgot to pour you tea after talking for so long. Old woman, pour three cups of tea for the guests! The old man shouted into the room.

After a long time, there was no response in the house, and the old man went into the bedroom to look, and saw his wife dressed up, dressed in a new dress, and holding a strange bun on her head, not like the modern one, and not like the ancient one, which looked nondescript. She tied a strip of white cloth to the roof beam, tied it in a knot, and was stretching her neck inside, trying to hang herself.

The old man was so frightened that his face turned pale, and he hurriedly ran over, and with the help of Master Hongdao, he saved his wife. His wife was delirious and muttered, "My lord, the concubine has served you for so many years, why don't you think about the love between us, why do you want me to die?" ”

Hong Daoshi hurriedly pinched her human acupoint, and pasted a few pieces of rune paper on her, and she gradually came to her senses. Hong Daoshi said: "It seems that the eldest sister has hit an evil spirit, this evil spirit hanged herself to death, and she is looking for a substitute." If we were one step late, the eldest sister would not be able to save us! ”

Daoist Hong told the old man about the disappearance of Ruan Qixing's coffin and the black gas coming from the orchard, and the old man trembled with fright, and said in a slur voice: "You mean to say that the female corpse and the missing coffin are in my orchard?" ”

"There's a possibility, we're going to find out." Hong Daoshi said.

They searched around the orchard and found nothing unusual. Master Hong saw an iron gate in front of him, and next to it was a garbage heap, which was full of all kinds of household garbage. Asking about the smell of fermented fruit and rotting fruit and fruit wine in the air, Master Hong asked the old man, "What do you do with the rotten fruit in the orchard?" ”

Speaking of the rotten fruits in the orchard that could not be sold, the old man felt bitter, it was not the fruit that was rotten, but their hard-earned money. The old man opened the iron door, pointed to a pit in front of him, and said, "All the fruit that has fallen is in this pit." Some of the meals we usually don't finish and meat, and the internal organs of killing chickens and ducks are also dumped inside. ”

Hong Daoshi looked into the earthen pit, which was simply a grave of fruit, and there was a foul smell coming from it, flies and mosquitoes flying all over the sky, and some white maggots were constantly wriggling inside.

Master Hong calculated the hexagram, discovered the secret in the earthen pit, returned to the house, and whispered to them: "That hundred-year-old corpse is lying in the missing coffin of Ruan Qixing's family, and this coffin is in the earthen pit outside the old man's iron gate. There are fruits, microorganisms, mosquitoes, flies and maggots, leftovers, carrion, and animal entrails. ”

The two young men were skeptical and said, "What if the female corpse and the coffin are not inside?" Do you need to verify it? ”

"It's very risky, if we alarm the female corpse, we're probably no match for her." Hong Daoshi said.

"It is better to believe what you have than not to believe what you don't. So what to do? The old man asked.

"Before the corpse knows that we have found her, burn the coffin!" Hong Daoshi said.

"I think it works! Even if the woman's body and coffin are not in the pit, it is okay to burn the debris inside, and we should burn the garbage. The old man said.

Once they had agreed with each other, they went into action. In order not to arouse the suspicion of the female corpse, the old man, as usual, killed two chickens and threw them into the dirt pit, and threw into them the leftover meat and rotten fruit of the house. The two young men put dry wood in the pit again, poured gasoline on it, and set it on fire.

Suddenly, the contents of the pit burst into flames. Amid the crackling of firewood, they heard a terrible cry. Immediately after, a black cuboid-shaped thing stood up, and it was the missing coffin containing Ruan Qixing. Gasoline had soaked into the coffin, which was burning in the raging fire.

A black thing that looked like both a mummy and an old stump also ignited, and it was the female corpse. In order to lure away the Hongdao Master, she used the blinding method to make a coffin floating on the surface of the river, and then hid in the earth pit in a vain attempt to cultivate a human form. As a result, she still did not escape from the hands of Hong Daoshi, and was reduced to ashes in the raging fire, and could no longer plague the village.