Chapter 27: Burning the Coffin
Jiang Chumei knew that I was staying in the old house, so she asked the second aunt to watch the excitement first, and she boiled two eggs and sent them over for me to eat. I remember sitting in the corner of the gate every day, watching her play with the other children, she was the bride every time, and I didn't even get a chance to participate.
"What do you think?" Jiang Chumei asked.
"It's okay, when will your dad come back?"
"I'm going home soon, what's the matter, you don't want me to go?" Jiang Chumei said playfully, this woman actually picked me up.
I neither denied nor admitted it, but said, "Let's go to Guillotine Mountain to see the excitement first, and see what they do." ”
There wasn't much in the house either, so I didn't bother to lock it. I don't plan to live here, just keep it for a thought, although the cabin is smaller, but it is complete, I have done it very well in the past two years, or more comfortable.
I reminded Jiang Chumei not to get close to the edge of the cliff, I have been injured recently, and I am afraid that I will not be able to save her if I am in danger. She was very obedient and nodded obediently. I deliberately kept my distance from her, and she was afraid that others would tell her mother and mix with me again, so she walked ahead.
In the distance, a man with a canvas bag on his back and his head down walked towards the village, that person was Jiang Chumei's father Jiang Bin, he was an honest man, he loved Jiang Chumei very much, the second aunt was doing farm work at home and couldn't make any money, he was working outside the construction site to earn money for Jiang Chumei's university.
Although he is also surnamed Jiang, he has nothing to do with my family and Angelica Village, he moved here more than 20 years ago, and it seems that he was introduced by his cousin to live, otherwise his village may not accept him, and the second aunt married him the next year.
Jiang Chumei naturally saw it too, and ran over like a little girl. Although Jiang Bin's hair was a little gray, he still showed a doting smile.
"Dad, let's go see the excitement of Guillotine Mountain." Jiang Chumei said.
"They're going to get it again?" Jiang Bin asked, his face full of worry.
"Yes, it's crowded, it's okay, mom is already there. The weight of the bag is not heavy, I will help you. "Jiang Chumei is quite filial.
"It's not heavy, I can do it myself, you go ahead."
When he spoke, I happened to pass by him, he glanced at me, and didn't say anything, maybe he didn't know the relationship between me and Jiang Chumei. Naturally, I pretended not to know each other and passed by.
"Hey, Jiang Shuisheng, it's not big or small, it's called uncle!" Jiang Chumei shouted instead.
I looked back at her, with a confused face, Jiang Bin was also stunned, probably in his impression, these children don't play with me.
"Silly?" Jiang Chumei glared at me and said.
"Uh, Uncle Jiang, hello!" I said that this kind of awkward conversation overwhelmed Uncle Jiang, and he also smiled awkwardly and nodded at me.
Jiang Chu burst out laughing, and then went up the mountain by himself, and I waited for Uncle Jiang to go up before I followed. Jiang Chu held Uncle Jiang and chattered there, and looked back at me from time to time, Uncle Jiang was not stupid, and he also looked back at me, but there was no trace of joy. This look is meaningful, I can't imagine that the second aunt has already told him about me and Jiang Chumei.
"Shuisheng, you still live in that cabin, right?" He asked.
"Yes." I nodded.
"I brought a bottle of good wine, and I'll come to your house to drink when I'm free in a few days, let's talk." He said with a smile, Jiang Chumei was so smart that he naturally saw the clues, pursed his lips, bit his lip, and couldn't laugh.
"Okay!" I smiled and nodded.
There are at least 200 people on Guillotine Mountain today, the scale is unprecedentedly large, these people are not here to make money now, just to watch the excitement, in the memory of the villagers, no one dares to move the hanging coffin. Jiang Chumei and Jiang Bin squeezed towards the second aunt, who was standing next to Huang Xuan, and was so frightened that she hurriedly came over from the crowd.
Ouyang Xiong sat on a folding chair and watched, while Zhang Peng drew talismans with cinnabar on the table. Charles instructed his teammates to set up their equipment, and a total of eight ropes were thrown down. There are many small jugs of gasoline on the edge of the cliff.
"Remember, don't touch the hanging coffin, and stay away from the coffin when pouring gasoline." Charles exclaimed.
"Charles, I give you so much money, you have to do a good job, you can't be greedy for life and afraid of death." Ouyang Xiong said dissatisfied.
"Mr. Ouyang, no matter how much money you give, you have to let our brother have a life to spend." Charles laughed, he was so angry.
At this time, Old Man Huang walked over with a cane and said to Ouyang Xiong: "Boss, you can't do this, how many times have I told you, if you anger the ghost king, everyone in the village will suffer." ”
"Old man, you'd better go home and hide, don't stay running for a while." Ouyang Xiong said unhappily.
"Didn't you see the burn marks on the cliff? You can't burn these coffins. ”
"How do you know if you don't try?"
At this time, Mr. Sun came over and dragged Old Man Huang to the side, and Old Man Huang was so angry that he stomped on his feet. At this time, Huang Xuan took out a stack of yellow talismans and said to everyone: "This is a peace talisman, everyone take it and stick it on the beams of the front and rear doors, two hundred yuan a set." ”
"Huang Daoist, you are crazy about money. Can't you send it to the folks in your hometown? Two hundred dollars more. Someone shouted.
"Nonsense, I don't have to work hard to draw talismans with the old man? Love or not, when the ghost knocks on the door and cuts off your head with a ghost head knife, it will be 500 yuan a piece. Huang Xuan said.
"Oh, you sold it for ten yuan a piece, and the most important thing is to keep everyone safe." Old man Huang said.
"Shut up, you eat me and drink me every day, and you haven't asked you for money yet. Don't spoil my good deeds. Huang Xuan scolded. This guy is really a rebel.
"I'll buy two sets." Xiong Lao Liu stretched out his head after speaking, and Huang Xuan handed him two. "Don't forget the money!"
"Get me a set too." The second aunt also said that Huang Xuan handed it to her, but she didn't remember to collect the money. Uncle Jiang didn't seem to care about the ambiguity between the second aunt and Huang Xuan, and looked at Charles and them.
"Huang Xuan, who is so powerful between you and that little Taoist?" Someone shouted.
"Nonsense, in this matter, it must be my strength."
Zhang Peng heard it, handed the talisman in his hand to the salvage team members, walked up to Huang Xuan, picked up a talisman and looked at it, then sniffed it, looked at Huang Xuan with a strange expression, and then looked at the old man Huang Fang, then nodded and said, "This talisman is worth two hundred!" ”
"See? Hurry up and buy it, if you don't buy it, it's gone. ”
When I heard Zhang Peng say this, I also wanted to go forward and buy it, but he might not sell it to me just after a fight with someone. Two hundred yuan is actually affordable for every family, but they are reluctant, Huang Xuan's talisman is not easy to sell, until the team is ready to go into the water, only sold more than a dozen sets, and all on credit, Huang Xuan is not worried, after all, he is the only Taoist priest in the village, if anyone has something, they have to find him.
When the show started, he stopped shouting, everyone was in no mood to pay attention to him, and Ouyang Xiong also walked to the edge of the cliff to watch. I saw that Zhang Peng actually spent money to buy a talisman from Huang Xuan.
Charles brought eight team members, went down the rope, and poured gasoline on the coffin at a height of one meter from the hanging coffin, and threw the oil-soaked Dao Fu down, and the Dao Fu slowly and leisurely fell on the coffin lid, one person is responsible for more than a dozen coffins, so someone on the shore has to pull it, otherwise it will not be taken care of.
Originally, everyone was chattering, but now all the two hundred people became quiet, and some people began to be timid and moved to the back.
Half an hour later, basically all the coffins were taken care of, the team members slowly came up, at a distance of about ten meters from the coffin, they took out gasoline lighters from their pockets, and threw them down, hundreds of coffins soon ignited a raging fire, billowing smoke, and it looked like half a fire ring from a distance. Ouyang Xiong was holding a telescope to observe carefully, and within a few minutes of the team going ashore, they found that the fire was getting smaller and smaller, the cliff was blackened, but the coffin did not seem to be burning.
Ouyang Xiong's mouth twitched when he saw it, but he still handed the telescope to Zhang Peng as if he had nothing to do, Zhang Peng also looked at it and shook his head, it seems that this coffin is really not something that can be solved by fire, Old Man Huang is right again.
When Ouyang Xiong walked up to me with a cane, the flames were almost extinguished. Zhang Peng looked at the cliff and pondered, playing with the yellow charm in his hand.
He walked up to me and asked, "Aren't you going back?" ”
I nodded and left. In order to avoid accidents, Charles had more than a dozen cameras installed around the Guillotine Cliff, and the flames had all been extinguished, except for the cliff wall being blackened, there was no movement at all in the hanging coffin, which prompted Huang Xuan to sell another twenty sets of talismans. Everyone returned to the village one after another, not daring to stay here any longer, and even the team members brought by Charles frowned and became a little timid. The coffin was made of wood, and it was impossible not to burn.