Chapter Ninety-Four: The Man Who Sleeps in the Coffin
it! I touched my face again, is this still me Yang Xiaoxi?
"Little evil, you won't encounter dirty things, right? - You shouldn't be afraid of these things! โ
"I ...... I ...... "I hesitated, embarrassed to say what I had just said.
"I always feel that Sister Tao is weird, this place is also full of weirdness, let's leave quickly!" Wang Qianmo said in a trembling voice. Wang Qianmo has a relatively docile personality and rarely takes the initiative to express any opinions, but once he expresses it, he must be deeply touched.
I nodded, but at the same time, I thought of the words of Tuoba Zhenye and Sister Tao before-no one can leave the village these days...... Whether their words are true or not!
"Shall we go and find him?"
Just when my mind was full of entanglement, I suddenly heard Liu Ruyan whisper.
"Looking for whom?"
"Have you forgotten what Brother Xue Chunshan said? If you get into trouble in this cottage, you can go to his friends! โ
It dawned on me that Sister Tao had deliberately stopped me under the willow tree this morning, just to prevent me from going into that yard.
Wang Qianmo and Liu Ruyan also wanted to follow me to find Xue Chunshan's friends, but I stopped them: "You two forgot Sister Tao's words?" These three days are the gestation festival here, women are the prey of men, which of you two wants to be the prey? โ
The two looked at each other and shook their heads together.
"That's good! I'll go and come back quickly, you guys get ready, and if you can leave, we won't delay for a moment. With that, I ran out the door. I was trotting all the way, on the one hand, I really wanted to meet Xue Chunshan's friends quickly, and on the other hand, I knew that women were slow to take a bath, and Sister Tao should not have finished washing at this time, otherwise if I found out that I left after taking a bath, I might chase me out.
I ran under the willow tree in one breath, looked at both sides, and found no trace of Sister Tao, so I took a deep breath and walked into the yard.
The yard was very desolate, except for a blue brick road directly opposite the door, and there was sparsely grown half-meter-high thatch on both sides, and I wondered if there were still people in the house after this yard had been abandoned for a long time.
The door was old-fashioned wood, worn, cracked, and closed.
"Anyone?" I was a little confused, and I didn't dare to knock on the door directly, but stood in the middle of the courtyard and shouted.
Unexpectedly, as soon as I finished shouting, there was a coughing sound in the room, and after more than ten seconds, the door creaked open a crack, revealing a wrinkled face.
"Who are you?" An old voice came from the room.
"I ...... I'm a friend of Xue Chunshan, and he asked me to come to you......"
"Oh? You...... Did you see her? โ
I was stunned for a moment, a little bit confused, I don't know if the "he" the old man said is Xue Chunshan or someone else, if it is Xue Chunshan, this sentence is nonsense, since Xue Chunshan asked me to come, I must have seen it!
"Who are you talking about?" I had to ask the people in the room.
"Humph! Look into your eyesโyou must have seen itโand you'll still be alive to find it in her hands...... and a door opened. As the door opened, I saw a hunchbacked old man with a wrinkled face, less than 1.5 meters tall, and at least 80 years old.
"You...... Come in first! You're absolutely safe in my yard, just rest assured! โ
The old man's eyes were squinted, and I couldn't tell if he was open or closed. He spoke in a low and hoarse voice, and when he said the second half of the sentence, I had already looked at his mouth, but to my creeping, there was a voice, but I didn't see him open his mouth.
To be honest, I think this old man in front of me is stranger than everyone else, and in this valley, the feeling of oppression caused to me is second only to the previous pubic skin.
The old man looked very similar to the evil old man in the horror movie "The Deserted Village Refiner" that I skipped class last year and went to see with my classmates......
The old man let me into the house? I was a little hesitant, at this time, I didn't dare to believe Xue Chunshan's words anymore, and I even regretted coming to this courtyard alone - in case I was stolen to death by the old man, it would be better to die in Sister Tao's bed!
"What are you stunned about! If you want to live, come in quickly......" the old man urged.
My heart is horizontal, and if it comes, it will be safe, so let's gamble! So I walked over in a few steps.
The old man gave me a vacancy, and as soon as I took a step closer to the door, I smelled a faint smell, this smell?? This smells of rotten meat! Almost at the same time, I saw a scene that would scare the faint of heart on the spot.
I saw a huge black coffin across the door in the room, and the coffin lid was still open.
it! The tight string in my heart suddenly broke, and I couldn't care so much, and I turned around as if I was running out, but before I could go out, my left wrist was grabbed by someone.
"What are you panicking about? Isn't it just a coffin! Lao Li, I don't have a bed to sleep, and I have slept in this coffin for the past few years. โ
The old man who called himself Lao Li was extremely strong, and I struggled a few times, but I couldn't break free.
"I ...... I don't run, you ...... You let go first......"
The old man whimpered, and let go of his hand. It's not so much a laugh as a strange sound coming out of the throat that makes people shudder to listen to.
"Young people don't have the courage to be so small!"
"Uncle! It's not that I'm cowardly, you...... Why are you sleeping in a coffin? It's a ...... that would have scared anyone."
"People? Woo woo woo - Lao Li, I haven't been in this yard for more than ten years......"
As soon as I heard this, my scalp was numb! Decade? Another decade! Could it be that Xue Chunshan has never stepped into this courtyard? He made it very clear that it seemed a bit contradictory for me to come to my friend who lives under the big willow tree! Unless every time the two of them meet, they are outside the courtyard.
"If you don't believe it, come and have a look!" The old man let go of my hand and paced to the black coffin.
At this moment, my heart is hanging in my throat again, and there is a similar scene in the movie "The Deserted Village Corpse Refiner": the old man tricks people into a large water tank, makes people see the contents of the water tank, and then quickly cuts off the person's head with a knife......
Thinking of this, my heart fluttered, I didn't dare not go over, but I didn't dare to get too close to the old man.
There was no dead man in the coffin, but a dirty bedding that could no longer be dirty, apparently where the old man slept.
I breathed a sigh of relief and looked around the room.
"Look what! Lao Li's house is surrounded by four walls, and there is nothing to see. โ
I said "um", and then I remembered to ask the right thing: "Lao Li...... Uncle Li, right? Brother Xue asked me to come to you...... "I told him briefly about meeting Xue Chunshan and his wife and wanting to get out of the valley as soon as possible.