Chapter 14: The Past of the Hanging Coffin

The old man Huang Fang's eyes were red, he took a few puffs of cigarettes, and he was not in a hurry to answer me, so he took out a ball of tobacco from the cigarette pouch and stuffed it into his pipe, and took a few puffs before squinting his eyes and recalling.

Because I saw it with my own eyes, I advised him not to go at the time, but he said that this kind of water level is rare in a hundred years, and if you don't go, you won't have a chance, and no one dares to hang a rope to the hanging coffin, a cliff of more than 100 meters. Or is it easier in the water. Your grandmother came in a hurry to tell me that when I caught up, he had already rowed into the guillotine cliff on a raft, and I stood on the hill and shouted for him to come back, but he didn't seem to hear it at all, and he didn't look back at me, and I saw it with my own eyes......"

"See what?" The mayor was nervous.

He opened the lowest hanging coffin, and then slowly climbed in, a dried corpse wearing the imperial robe of the Qing Dynasty sat up and held him, lying in the coffin, and the coffin lid that fell in the water suddenly left the water......" At the critical moment, the old man Huang stopped and smoked with a serious expression, the room was silent, everyone held their breath and waited, even the second aunt stopped eating melon seeds, but I didn't expect the old man Huang to spit out a puff of cigarette, and his mouth suddenly "slammed ......", which scared everyone, the bear and the tiger were going up to beat people, this old guy was like jumping a big rope, Telling a ghost story is also up and down, with a low tone and a dubbing, and my legs are shaking. β€œβ€¦β€¦ Covered on the coffin, tightly covered. I waited on the shore until it was dark, and he didn't come out. ”

After Old Man Huang finished speaking, he knocked on the table with his pipe and sneered: "Hmph, I thought you weren't afraid." ”

The mayor was also frightened just now, the tea in his mouth rushed to the table, he took out a pack of tissues from his pocket and wiped the table, the atmosphere was very embarrassing.

"You old thing, you tell stories to fool children, you stand so far away, can you hear it? Also bang...... Fuck you! The second aunt scolded, and the human flesh shelling machine started again.

"But my grandfather has a grave!" I say.

"That's a well-dressed mound, your parents all died in the pond, maybe it has something to do with this."

"Fart, why is his grandma okay?" Xiong Lao Liu roared.

"His grandmother is not related to Lao Jiang." Old man Huang said.

"You are really old and confused, how did his mother die, is his mother also surnamed Jiang?" Xiong Hu also shouted.

"You have fucking brains? His mother was pregnant with him at that time, isn't he the blood of the Lao Jiang family? Old man Huang's teeth were all gone, he couldn't control the wind, and his saliva spurted far away when he spoke, and the mayor hurriedly moved the cup, for fear of spraying it into his teacup.

Xiong Hu was stunned for a moment, then his mind finally turned around, and he asked again: "Then why didn't this kid die?" ”

"How do I know? You go into the pools of water to see if you die. Old man Huang stared at him with dim red eyes and yelled, Xiong Hu was enraged and wanted to get up and beat someone, but Huang Xuan didn't stop him.

"If there is no royal law, sit down for me." Mayor Mare yelled as he slapped the table.

The amount of information is very large, I sat on the side in a daze, Jiang Chumei looked at me, his eyes were full of sympathy, as if to say: You are so pitiful! But when my mother was born, my grandfather had been dead for more than ten years, and I didn't have any impression at all, and the word grandpa was just a concept in my mind, not as kind as my grandmother.

"Grandpa Huang, are you dazzled? How could there be an emperor of the Qing Dynasty in this hanging coffin? Isn't that scientific! Jiang Chumei asked, it seems that her book was not read in vain. I also had the same idea after listening to it, but I was wondering why my grandfather didn't hear Old Man Huang's shouting at that time, and I didn't expect to ask this question.

"I don't know, anyway, I won't be mistaken, because at that time it was dawn, Ji Yi Guan, Yellow Dragon Robe, what is not the emperor? The hanging coffins of the guillotine cliff are all cursed coffins, people must die in the earth for peace, and the soul returns to the earth, but these coffins are erected on the guillotine cliff, exposed to the wind and sun, and the corpse demons in the pool of corpses are companions, and the resentment is very big. None of the corpses were buried by their descendants, they were all buried by enemies, and the hanging coffin was not a tomb, it was just a corpse inside, and the corpse could be stolen. After speaking, Old Man Huang stood up with difficulty, rubbed his waist, and his face was full of exhaustion, "If you want to send you to death, go ahead, I heard that the hanging coffin is opened, the Yin soldiers rise, the person who opens the coffin, and the head falls to the ground." ”

"Don't you know how to do it? How many imps are you afraid of? Xiong Lao Liu sneered.

"Little ghosts are easy to descend, evil ghosts are difficult to deal with, not to mention the ghost king who has been resentful for hundreds of years." After Old Man Huang finished speaking, his face was full of sadness, and he glanced at me, then patted me on the shoulder and said, "What's the matter with you, I don't know, I've never seen you, but you look quite like Lao Jiang." ”

I watched him walk to the door and suddenly a question came to mind, "Who was the man who encouraged my grandfather to open the coffin?" ”

"Xiong Jiu, Xiong Lao Liu's father." After Old Man Huang finished speaking, he limped away.

I looked at Xiong Lao Liu, and he also looked at me with a very unfriendly look in his eyes, as if he was asking me what I dared to do with him. But his eyes proved one thing to me, that is, what Old Man Huang said may be true, as for whether my grandfather's body is in that coffin, it is difficult to say.

But the fact that the Xiong family has not been a good thing for generations is confirmed, what do they want to do? My grandfather risked his death to inform the whole village, and his father fooled my grandfather like this? Xiong Jiu is still in prison, otherwise I would have to ask him what is going on in his dog's head.

The mayor of the town was very frustrated, the meeting was fruitless, I listened to ghost stories all night, and the struggle of various forces in the village, I don't know why they are for, the Xiong family wants to take the hanging coffin, the meaning is obvious, the old man Huang is not happy, but Huang Xuan still does not express his position, and the second aunt beats soy sauce and eats melon seeds to listen to the story.

Jiang Chumei looked at me with her chin in her hands and frowned, she felt unprecedented pressure, and finally knew how naΓ―ve she was.

If Old Man Huang is afraid of ghosts, it is understandable not to let the coffin be taken, but why does the Xiong family support the coffin, his father tricked my grandfather to open the coffin, do they really think there is any treasure in the coffin? Why don't they dare to go themselves? What do they know?

"Disperse, Charles, you guys let it go, if this matter of Guillotine Gorge is not resolved, there will be no development here." After the mayor finished speaking, he followed the driver, who was drenched in blood.

"Let's throw the detector down tomorrow and try it?" Mr. Sun asked Charles. "Although the power of that sonar is relatively small, you can try what else is in it first."

"Didn't you see that the hanging coffin was scattered and blocked the route?" Charles said he hadn't talked much and that he should have been the most active.

"It's very simple, add a rope on the opposite side and pull it." Mr. Sun said.

"If you don't move the coffin, you won't be able to go into the water, for fear that your belly and back will be attacked." Huang Xuan said. It seems that he is also in favor of taking the hanging coffin.

"What do you mean? Will the person in the hanging coffin come out? Mr. Sun said.

"The first barrier of the Deadhead Cliff is a natural hazard, but you are all good at flying cornices and walls, so it doesn't matter. The second barrier is the hanging coffin in the middle, according to what the old man of my family said, there is a ghost king in it, so it is even more difficult to deal with, more than a hundred coffins, it is difficult to deal with. Huang Xuan finally said something, and he kept his mouth shut before.

"Isn't it easy to burn directly? Drizzle with gasoline. Xiong Lao Liu asked.

"It has to be burned, I went to buy a telescope the year before last to observe, and the cliff inside the coffin seems to have been burned, but the coffin is intact." Huang Xuan replied.

"Then let's try it!" Charles also got up and left.

Huang Xuan and Xiong Lao Liu walked out together, Xiong Lao Liu said: "Let them do it, they will leave after they finish it, we will watch the excitement, we live here, if something happens, we will suffer." ”

Xiong Hu also said: "I don't believe that Charles took the coffin and went abroad, and the ghost king could still go abroad to find him." Can you find it? ”

There is some truth in this guy's words, but the question is, if the ghost in the hanging coffin comes out to make trouble, can't get on a plane, can't go abroad, then who will suffer in the end? It's not just us villagers who live on the edge of the Guillotine Gorge.

I smoked a cigarette and walked out of the village branch, thinking that the scale armor on my back would grow to nineteen pieces in a month, and that I would not be able to survive in a crowded place like the city except to stay here and wait for death. If they fool around, anger the things at the bottom of the pond, and affect Angelica Village, where should I go? Looking for a seclusion in the mountains and old forests?

Jiang Chumei caught up and asked, "What are you thinking?" ”

"I didn't think about anything, I was worried that they would anger the ghost king and the people in the village would suffer." I say.

"I still want you to help me, I didn't expect you to be so superstitious." She pouted, unhappy.

"Chu Mei, why were you afraid of me when you were a child? And now you forgot? Actually, you don't know me at all. I said.

"I'm not afraid now." She said.

"Then come to my house tomorrow morning, and I'll give you something."

"Okay!" She laughed.

The second aunt walked over, a mouthful of melon seed shells sprayed on my shoes, disgusting, she pulled Jiang Chumei and left, scolding along the way. I'm used to that, it doesn't matter. It's this Jiang Chumei, who is good-looking and educated, there is no need to waste her youth in this ghost place, I will show her my snake scale back tomorrow, and promise to scare her to go to the big city to create a better life.

On the way home, it was pitch black, I went up the mountain, and when I looked back, the village was darkly lit and everyone was sleeping. When I entered the grove, I couldn't help but think about all kinds of terrible things in my mind, the big fish seemed to arouse the fear in my heart, its eyes, and the long hair and mysterious smile of the female ghost under the water, did I fall into evil?