Chapter 23: Opening the coffin

I have a strong interest in Zhang Peng, probably because he doesn't hold it like Charles, doesn't say any polite words, and is calm and casual, so I suddenly feel like a friend I haven't seen for many years. Come back to it, I've never had a friend.

"How do you achieve the effect of reciting sutras in a three-dimensional circle?" I asked.

"This needs to be practiced more, the speed of knocking on the wooden fish, the size of the strength, and the control of the rhythm when reciting the scriptures, the resonance of the chest, anyway, it is very complicated, freezing three feet, not a day's cold. Brother's musical accomplishment has been tempered a lot. Zhang Peng said, picking a dog's tail grass and holding it in his mouth.

"It's so complicated to recite a sutra?" I don't understand, Huang Xuan's chanting is really ugly, and occasionally he is interrupted because of excessive smoking, coughing non-stop, and even spewing out a mouthful of thick phlegm, if Zhang Peng lives in Angelica Village, Huang Xuan will definitely have no business.

"Nonsense, chanting scriptures must also pay attention to forced qualifications, otherwise where will you get the master's demeanor." He retorted.

"Why does that Sun always call you a thin monkey?"

"Because that dog-legged man was scolded by me, Lao Tzu learned from the sea and worked hard, he was a sycophant, and he dared to yell at me."

"What did you study?"

"Miscellaneous arts, no sects, no rules, what's fun."

"Won't your master hang you?" I'm more curious, although I don't know much Taoism, but I know that they have various sects, for example, Zhang Tianshi seems to be the founder of a sect.

"There are no two ways in the world, and there are no two hearts for saints. I don't pay attention to that, I just like to delve into it. It's just that the technology is not yet at home. ”

"Then you can't be a master."

"Actually, it doesn't matter, claiming to be a master is to raise the price, what did TVB say? As a human being, happiness is the most important thing. ”

We seemed to have a lot to talk about, and soon we walked to the mountain behind my house, where the graves of my grandparents, mothers and fathers were all together, but my grandfather and father were all clothed and had no coffins, so dig a pit and throw a few clothes into it, even if it was a grave.

"There is no clever Taoist master to pull the soul back to its place, and the mound is just to have peace of mind." Zhang Peng looked at my father's grave and said.

"His body is in a pond of ponds, and after so many years, it is estimated that it will be long gone." I said, I really don't want to mention this sad thing, I pointed to my mother's grave and told Zhang Peng.

He nodded, then looked at the old house down the hill and asked, "Is that your house?" ”

"It used to be, but now it's occupied by my second uncle."

"Go steal the shovel."

"What?"

"Dig a grave!" He said lightly.

"Dig ...... Whose grave is dug up? "I don't understand.

"Your mother's."

"Nope." I exclaimed, especially with his indifferent appearance, as if it wasn't a big deal like eating and. "I don't do anything like digging my mother's grave."

"Look at you, you're superstitious." He said, "It's hard for me to believe that a guy who claims to be a master tells me about superstition.

"You're a charlatan, and you're actually discussing superstitions with me." I'm a little upset.

"I'm a charlatan, that's true, but I learned my skills from the age of three. Lang Lang Qiankun, whether it is a multi-dimensional space, or the five elements of yin and yang, it is a science, we have to talk about logic in what we learn, if your mother comes out of the mass grave, what does it mean? He asked.

"What do you think you can say?" This guy is so good at fooling, what can I say.

"This means that someone has moved your mother's corpse away, and the corpse souls I recruited behind your wooden house are all in the vicinity, and it is impossible to recruit them here. Don't you understand? He glared at me and asked, looking at me like a fool.

"Who would do such a lack of virtue?" For the first time, I heard that there were still people in Angelica Village who dared to dig up other people's ancestral graves and move corpses.

"I'll tell you, Monkey Master, I'...... Oh, Zhang Ye, I have been in the rivers and lakes for more than ten years, but if there is such an evil thing as Guillotine Gorge, there must be a bunch of bad seeds in the nearby villages, Feng Shui is like this, there is no way. If there is a thousand years in the Gorge of the Broken Head, then the heart of the people will be bad for a thousand years. ”

He was right, there are a lot of bad seeds in Angelica Village, but it is indeed a little difficult for me to accept that I want to dig my mother's grave. "What do you say if my mother is in there after the dug up?"

"It's inside, it's inside, let's go to the mass grave again to find the reason. Otherwise, what do you want, who makes your own bullshit not know, and you don't even know your own mother. ”

I didn't speak, lit a cigarette and smoked it, then looked at him and said, "When I was born, my mother was dead." ”

Zhang Peng was stunned for a moment, and then asked, "So, what they said is true?" ”

"I don't know if it's true or not, anyway, when my grandma was chatting with my father, I overheard, it should be true, but when I was a child, my grandmother coaxed me and said that my mother went to heaven."

"If you can't go to heaven, it's not your grandmother who has the final say, if you fall into a pool of water, I'm afraid it will be difficult to be reincarnated. Don't waste time, the boss will be looking for me later. As he spoke, he took out a mobile phone from his pocket and looked at it, it was cheaper than my mobile phone, and it was estimated that it was only three or five hundred yuan for the elderly, this guy should make a lot of money!

I crept to the back of my cousin's house, leaned on the window and looked, there was no one inside, and there was no movement, probably I went out to work. Just in case, I knocked on the door, and there was no sound of a dog, and the dirt dog went out to play.

This used to be my house, I know how to get in, whether it is the gate or the back door is the old-fashioned wooden shaft door in the countryside, there are no hinges, the old door is easy to disassemble, as long as the hand is stuffed into the crack of the door below, lift it up and shake it a few times, and repeat the operation a few times, you can lift the door shaft, and then remove the wooden door.

I opened the wooden door and saw that there was no movement inside, so I was relieved, and after entering, I took a hoe and a shovel in the side house where the firewood was stacked, and carried it up the mountain. The thin monkey has always regarded himself as a master, and was reluctant to help, but when he saw me hand him the hoe, he reluctantly helped dig it.

"Do you remember when you were a kid and the grave was renovated?" He asked.

"I don't know, I was too young at that time, only four or five years old, and my dad often carried a shovel up the mountain to clean up, saying that the money had been used to treat me, and I couldn't afford to repair the tombstone, for fear that I wouldn't find it if the mountains and rivers rushed in the future." I said, thinking of this, not only did I feel sad, at that time I dragged my father down, he was very depressed, often went up the mountain to talk to his mother, sometimes brought me here, sometimes did not let me follow, now that I think about it, maybe I don't want to hear him complain!

"That's right, you were young at the time, and you probably couldn't tell the newly renovated grave, if it was a stealing body, it was probably after your father's death, otherwise your father would come often, and he would definitely find out." Zhang Peng analyzed.

"If someone really stole my mother's body, then it's not difficult to guess who it is, it must be my cousin and second aunt, this grave is the closest to them, and my cousin occupies my house, so naturally I can't sleep soundly."

"Hurry up and open the coffin and take a look."

Twenty minutes later, we saw the black coffin, Zhang Peng stood on the coffin, knocked, and then looked at the sealing nails on both sides, he looked at me, meaning that I should understand, I nodded, and the sealing nails were all removed. Then he asked me to help open the coffin, if I were alone, I would definitely not dare, but he was like nothing at all, very naturally, and somewhat calmed my fear.

When the coffin was opened, it was wet, the white lime had long since deteriorated, it was very hard, and other than that, there was nothing.

I clutched my shovel tightly and trembled with anger, and at this moment I wanted to cut someone. Zhang Peng walked over, patted me on the shoulder and said, "Don't get excited, do something serious, and go to the mass grave to find your mother's grave." After that, I don't care who you want to settle accounts with. ”

After saying that, he pinched a little lime powder, rubbed it on his hands, and then put it in front of his nose and sucked it violently, like taking drugs, which still shocked me a little. "Let's go, hurry up, or you'll forget the taste later."

I took a shovel and trotted with him all the way up the hill, and it took me half an hour to reach the mass grave, and he went to the top and looked at it, and said, "You were just five years old when your father died, so the age of your mother's grave here should be about thirteen years, and I have to look for it, there are too many lonely graves." Damn, there are more than a hundred years of graves. ”

He observed for a long time before he came to a small hill, sniffed against the grave, then shook his head, sniffed three in succession, and then said, "That's it, dig!" ”

The hillside was very small, not at all like a grave, and it was overgrown with weeds, probably old, and the soil was very strong, and the roots of the little trees were intertwined, and I was sweating profusely, and he went to answer the phone.

"Didn't you say let me take care of that little ghost? I'm helping him now, and I'll go over there in the afternoon to see what Deadhead Gorge is. Zhang Peng hung up the phone after speaking, probably from Ouyang Xiong.

"You'd better not go down, it's dangerous." I say.

"Guillotine Gorge?" Zhang Peng also came over to help shovel the soil with a shovel.

"Yes, I've seen three cases with my own eyes, and if you go in, you'll die inside." I know everything about him, and I don't know what his role is, but don't fool me.

"Don't worry, I won't send you to death if you can't do it, but you can still fish out the two corpses from it, and the three souls of these two people are all there, you are indeed wonderful." Zhang Peng is small, and naturally he doesn't have much strength, so he is too tired to do hard work.

"I don't understand what you're talking about."

"Didn't you let me see if your Uncle Liu had been reincarnated? I don't think there's a problem. You can snatch the corpse from the water ghost to prove that you are indeed hanging, and if you don't know it, you are the game-breaker. ”

"What game-breaker?"

"Guillotine Gorge!"