When we left, Zhou Wanguan found the best carriage, and then Zhou Wanguan and the old housekeeper sent us far away before going back, and we let the driver go in the direction of the coffin shop, and we saw the black smoke rising from a village far away, and the driver told us that the coffin shop was on the smoking village. When we arrived at the village, the driver said, "Oh no, the coffin shop is on fire." ”

We hurriedly looked out of the carriage, only to see that we were burning in front of our eyes, the whole house was burned down, the strange thing is that only this one house was burned, and the others were very close to this house, we quickly got out of the carriage and walked towards the coffin shop, and we saw a group of people around us, and when we came to the front, we heard someone in the crowd crying: "Retribution, retribution, this is all my sin, only this retribution." ”

I looked at the person sitting on the ground, his face was like black charcoal, and the clothes on his body seemed to be smeared with ashes at the bottom of the pot, I looked at the person sitting on the ground, and knew that he was the shopkeeper of the coffin shop, so I said contemptuously: "Yes, there should also be this retribution, although you saved Ma Xiaoer's life, but you sold Ma Xiaoer's life." ”

When the coffin shopkeeper heard that he had seen a ghost, he suddenly stood up from the ground, his eyes were round, and he looked at me in a panic and said, "You, how do you know?" ”

I said: "If you don't want people to know, unless you don't do it, I still know to let Ma Xiaoer accompany the funeral, but you didn't know at first." Later, I found out, but because of the power and money of the Zhou family, I didn't dare to tell the story. ”

When the shopkeeper of the coffin shop heard this, he was deflated, and he said: "Xiao Er, this child is a good boy, smart and capable, if I had known earlier, I wouldn't have let him send a coffin to the Zhou family." The Zhou family's wealth is big, I don't dare to say it? ”

I said, "Now that Zhou Da is dead, the little five and six who came to you to buy the coffin have also been sent to the government, you can tell everything you know." ”

The shopkeeper of the coffin shop heard this and said, "Really? No wonder I dreamed that Xiao Er came back and said that his great revenge had been avenged, and he could leave without worry. Xiao Er, even so, doesn't hate me, I'm sorry for Xiao Er. ”

I said, "Tell me what happened, what happened, and why did the coffin shop catch fire?" ”

The coffin shop shopkeeper sighed and said: "This matter has to start a long time ago, we do the coffin shop business, is to eat the dead, earn the dead money, so I have been very bold, in fact, before I met Xiao Er, I was a person to make coffins, never accept apprentices, that day it snowed, I went to send a coffin to the family, on the way back, I saw a person in the snow, these years everywhere are fleeing the famine to eat, there are often starving people on the side of the road, I looked at it a few times, just shook my head, ready to bypass by, At this moment, suddenly the man on the ground moved, and I saw that the man might not be dead, so I hurried over to look, turned over, and saw that the man on the ground was a child, his face was purple and purple from the cold, and the clothes on his body were almost strips of cloth, and the black cotton inside was exposed, and then the child saw me, and opened his mouth and said, "Hungry, I am hungry." ”

I hurriedly said, "I'm hungry, my uncle has something to eat, I'll take you home." ”

So I took the child home, returned to the house and put it on the kang, slowly warmed up, and then got some food, and saved the child's life, this child is Ma Xiaoer, I sometimes treat Ma Xiaoer badly, but Xiao Er said that he is better than his parents and brothers who starved to death.

That day, the people of the Zhou family came to buy the coffin, and then asked Xiao Er to send the coffin to the deceased's hometown, I think it was a maid who died, the Zhou family may take care of face, so let an outsider send it, and the people of the Zhou family were generous, so I asked Xiao Er to send it, and afterwards the housekeeper Zhou Da sent a sum of money, I said that it would not be so much, Zhou Da sneered and said: "This money is not coffin money, and your coffin shop guy's life money." ”

As soon as I heard it, I said, "Xiao Er is just a guy, why are you killing him." ”

Zhou Da said viciously: "The more you know, the faster you will die, either take this money and keep your mouth shut, or be a dead man like your buddy." ”

In this way, I chose to take the money and not speak, in fact, my heart is extremely guilty, just last night, when I was making a coffin, I dreamed that Xiao Er came with a woman to say goodbye to me, he said thank you for my kindness to save him back then, I can only repay each other in the next life, after speaking, I quickly got up, wanted to drag Xiao Er, at this time Xiao Er's face changed greatly, and said: "Hurry up, it's on fire." ”

I woke up in a panic and found that it was a dream, and then I found that when I was dreaming, I knocked down the candle next to me, and the candle ignited the shavings on the ground, and then caused a fire, don't you think this is retribution? ”

I said, "Don't be too sad about this matter, Ma Xiaoer seems to have forgiven you, you can do everything for yourself." ”

After I finished speaking, I got into the carriage, and the two junior brothers also followed the carriage, such a thing, no one can help, we took the carriage back to the Three Treasures, as soon as we arrived at the Three Treasures, we saw the chief of the village was anxiously waiting for us at the door, as soon as we went back, the chief of the guard greeted us, and said to us: "Bold you can come back, if you don't come back, we really don't know what to do." ”

I said, "What's the matter with the security chief?" ”

The chief said: "There are monsters in the village, we are all scared to death, and we are looking forward to your return." ”

I looked at the panicked chief and said, "What kind of monster is there in our village?" ”

The chief said, "There is a pig demon." ”

I almost laughed out loud when I heard the pig demon, and I said, "If you are frightened by other monsters, it is understandable, but if you are scared by the pig demon, it is really a bit ......."

The chief said: "Bold, this is not an ordinary pig demon, Shun Ye said that it was a red-eyed pig demon." ”

When I heard the red-eyed pig demon, I was stunned, we have a legend about the red-eyed pig demon a long time ago, the legend is that the red-eyed pig demon is a strange beast, its body is huge, about three feet to one zhang long, with a pig's head, but a dog-like body. The red-eyed pig demon has thorny hair, several sharp teeth in its mouth, and is as greedy as a pig. Its eyes looked red at night, like demons.

Red-eyed pig demons like to live in shady places and eat corroded corpses. Due to staying in a gloomy place for a long time and eating carrion, its teeth are stained with cold poison. It is said that when there is no food around, the red-eyed pig demon will often rush out and attack human villages in search of prey. People who have been bitten by the red-eyed pig demon will die within three days if they are not treated in time.

Master also said that this kind of pig demon, there are poisonous insects in the body, this kind of poisonous insect is also called corpse worm, after the pig demon bites people, the corpse worms will follow the teeth of the pig demon, enter the human body, and then multiply in large quantities in the body, people will be very painful at this time, this is not the most terrible, after the pig demon bites people, it will turn people into a pool of blood.

There is a pig demon temple at the east end of our village, the temple is not a statue of a human god, but a pig, the pig's blood-red eyes, sharp teeth in the mouth, the pig's head and dog body, people look very disgusted, but this pig demon temple, there are people who continue to burn incense and make wishes, there is such a saying in the village, saying that a long time ago the pig demon appeared several times a year, wandering in the village, sometimes it will hurt people secretly. Later, people thought of a compromise solution, built a pig demon temple, and molded a statue of the pig demon, whenever the pig demon came out, people put delicious food in front of the pig demon temple, so that the pig demon was full, and did not hurt people casually, and then suddenly did not appear, so I always thought it was a legend, but I didn't expect that there was really such a thing as a red-eyed pig demon.

Thinking of this, I quickly asked, "Did you hurt anyone?" ”

The chief said: "Fortunately, no one was hurt, but the calf of the old Song family was bitten by the pig demon, and now it is almost turned into blood." ”

I said, "Let's go, let's go and see." ”

When the chief heard this, he said: "Okay, I'll take you to see, now the people in the village are scared, some people have already taken tribute, to the pig demon temple to make offerings, this red-eyed pig demon scourge we are too bitter here, bold you better get rid of this scourge." ”