Chapter 1: Digging a grave
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By the time I typed those words, I was already dead.
That's right, I'm a dead man, a dead man in the truest sense of the word.
Since it's a dead man, why write this?
emm…… Because I heard that writing books is very profitable, and my mother is poor...... I want to make money to buy things for my ghost doll......
Without further ado, be patient, and let me type slowly into the text to tell you what really happened......
My name is Lan Yannuan, 19 years old, a sophomore.
During the winter vacation of 18, I took the train back to my hometown with my uncle Lan Tingjun for the New Year.
My uncle is a professor at our school, and he is only ten years older than me.
Because of my uncle's work, the day we went back, it was already the twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month, and there were only ten days before the New Year.
Recently, the hometown has been demolished, and the nearby mountains and forests have also been expropriated.
My hometown village is surrounded by mountains, and the mountains are full of graves, and in response to the government's call, the ancestral graves of several nearby villages had to be relocated to the cemetery.
However, our Lan family is different.
Our Lan family is a big family, and almost the entire village is our Lan family.
However, our Lan family has a very strange ancestral teaching.
"People and ghosts" live together, and people can't leave the village.
In other words, after death, a person cannot be buried outside the village, but can only find an open space near the deceased's house and bury it on the spot.
Moreover, burial is mandatory, and the deceased wears a mask when buried.
I don't know why, it's been like this since I was born, even my mother's grave is buried at the back door of my house.
It is rumored in the outside world that there are bones in our Lanjia Village, there are ghosts in the ditches, the dead souls can't get out, and the ghosts can't come in.
I scoffed at it and just laughed at it.
However, there is another point that has always made me haunted, that is, the relationship between my uncle Lan Tingjun and the rest of the Lan family is very bad.
Except for me and my father, everyone else is extremely unkind to see my uncle.
As for why, I didn't know until a long time later, so I won't mention it here for the time being.
On the morning of the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, our whole clan went out to worship our ancestors and dig graves.
Although the family is large, there are only three people in my family: me, my father and my uncle.
The only thing that needed to be dug up was the mother's coffin.
However, just as my father and uncle were carrying out my mother's coffin, the grave suddenly collapsed, revealing a huge snake pit.
At a glance, it was full of sticky and squirming back and forth, stirring up a ball, hissing big black snakes, densely packed, at least more than a hundred.
I was so frightened that my legs were weak and my scalp was numb, and my father and uncle were shocked.
Dad asked me to hurry up to find the patriarch Lan Sanye, I didn't dare to slack off, so I hurriedly found the third master.
When the third master saw it, he was surprised.
"It's weird, how can there be so many snakes?"
The third master and his father decided to bury the snake.
However, just as Dad picked up a shovel and dug up a pile of soil and sprinkled it into the snake pit, the big black snake huddled together seemed to be splashed with sulfuric acid, and the snake's skin made a loud sound and emitted bursts of black smoke.
As if in pain, the big black snake began to stir wildly, and the snake hyacinth vomited, and the hissing sound made people's scalps numb, and the scene was really scary to watch.
The third master hurriedly shouted to stop, his white brows twisted, he thought for a moment, and suddenly said to his father.
"Guosheng, look, these snakes are entrenched together, and they don't even climb up?"
Hearing what the third master said, I noticed that none of these snakes had any movement to swim up until now, and they were all crowded together.
It seems like...... Is it circling around something?
The third master and his father naturally saw that there was a doorway inside, and the third master immediately called the only barefoot doctor in the village, Zhang Cripple.
Zhang Cripple brought a bundle of dried snakes to extinguish the door, crumpled them into a ball, lit them, and threw them into the snake pit.
For a while, the smoke was billowing in the snake pit, and the big black snakes that were originally hugging together smelled the smell of tobacco, and swam out of the snake pit one after another, scurrying into the ground and grass, frightening the soles of the villagers' feet and fleeing one after another.
Half an hour later, the big black snakes were all driven away by the snake extermination.
I endured my nausea, stepped forward to take a look, and immediately gasped.
Inside the snake pit, there was a corpse.