My surname is Lu, and I am a coffin shopkeeper, in a small county town and a gangster. This is not better than the city, people are far away from the hustle and bustle, enjoy the years, how to give up the world? The coffin sells three or four pairs a month.

Do what we do, eat the luck of death, enjoy the blessing of death, and nature and ghosts are inseparable.

In addition to selling coffins, I also keep Yizhuang, but not Yizhuang in the general sense. I can store corpses here, the kind of corpses that are not ordinary.

Seeing that the weather is getting warmer and the rain is continuous in March, the coffin is particularly prone to mold at this time. I spread a thick layer of moisture-proof felt in the shop, but it was still wet everywhere, and I couldn't bake it in the oven, and the dead couldn't help it.

"Boss Lu!" A loud call scooped me out of my lethargy, and I rubbed my eyes and got up from the wicker chair, fumbled to light the oil lamp, and opened the door. It was still raining outside the door, so I muttered a few words and welcomed the visitor into the house. He is a businessman in the town, who opened a teahouse, called Gu Shun. In his thirties, widower. I'm tired at the moment. No wonder, it's time to go to bed. As soon as he entered, he put the umbrella in the corner of the room, sat down on his own, and groaned.

I poured him a cup of tea and asked, "You weren't looking for me, were you?" He smiled, took a sip of tea, and said, "I'm the only one left in my house." If I look for you, I'll be a corpse. After speaking, he smiled again, and found that I was not smiling, so he said seriously: "It's Li Erjia." His grandmother has passed away, and she is too busy to do anything, so she asked me to tell you that the coffin will be brought later. I sneered: "I'm afraid I'm going to send trouble, right?" Gu Shun was stunned, a little sneering, "Well, Lao Lu, you also understand." If something hadn't happened, I wouldn't have come to you. I lit a cigarette, "When will it be delivered?" Gu Shun didn't expect me to ask anything, and frowned for a long time before replying, "It's already on the road." The day after tomorrow was buried. I raised my eyebrows, "In such a hurry?" ”

Gu Shun nodded, "I heard that the corpse of Banzhu Xiang changed just now." It didn't work to do a dojo, and Li Er didn't dare to stop at home at all. I was preparing incense and candles at home, and I couldn't pull out my body to entrust me. Lao Lu, I won't embarrass you, right? ”

I was just about to speak when there was a hasty knock on the door. "It's coming!" Gu Shun stood up, wanted to get up and went to open the door. I stopped him, motioned for him to come to the side, and said yes, "Wait!" Then he went straight to the back room and took out a white cloth, a red rope, and three bells. I held one end of the cloth and asked Gu Shun to help me hold the other end and stretch the white cloth apart. I saw that on this white cloth two meters wide and one zhang long, a black totem was revealed. I threaded one of the bells to the red rope, and asked Gu Shun to hold the other end of the rope, and then asked him to stand on one side of the gate while I stood on the other side. After doing this, I shouted out the door, "Let the coffin in first." ”

I only heard a noise outside the door, someone shouted hello, I pulled the latch of the door, and said to Gu Shun: "As soon as the coffin comes in, spread the cloth on it." He nodded, and I opened the door.

The voice suddenly amplified, several shouts of "be careful" entered the ears, and a black coffin poked its head out, and the people outside the door were stunned when they saw our staff. I nodded at Gu Shun, and he raised his hand nervously. We worked together to cover the coffin with a white cloth, and the people outside the door also cooperated with us to slowly let the coffin in. When the coffin is fully in the store, the white cloth also completely covers the coffin. I motioned for them to stop, and then I tied the red rope along the four corners of the coffin with Gu Shun, and the bell was tied to the center of the coffin lid.

When they saw that I was done, a short man who was drenched hurriedly asked, "Boss Lu, where to put it?" "The tiredness on his face should be Li Er." "I'm not busy," I said to the eight people carrying the coffin, "You go around three times in place." Gu Shun nodded to Li Er, and the eight people snorted and turned three times in place.

The crisp sound of the bell coincided with the night rain outside the door, and the crisp rhythm shook everyone's heart.

When the toss was over, I motioned for them to carry the coffin inside. When everything was arranged, the rain outside stopped.

Li Er sent away the eight people who carried the coffin, sighed, sat down at the table, took out a bag of things from his arms, and said to me, "Boss Lu, I'm sorry for your trouble." Gu Shun gave him a cigarette and looked at me too. I didn't speak, I took out a bell from my arms, tied it with a red rope, made a chain, and handed it to Li Er: "Take it, don't leave the coffin before burial." Li Er looked at me puzzled, took the bell and wanted to stop talking. Gu Shun spoke: "Old Lu, what did you mean by that tossing just now." ”

I strung the last bell with a red string and hung it at the door, saying, "That piece of cloth has a reincarnation mantra printed on it, and it is covered with a coffin to suppress the corpse's qi." The red rope's special four-cornered tie is a kind of requiem array. The three bells are psychic to each other, and if the corpse changes, it will sense each other. Turning around the door three times to cover the ghost's eyes will prevent its soul from leaving the shop. Of course, none of this is of any use if you meet a powerful Lord. ”

Every time I said a word, Li Er's face turned pale. In the end, he almost trembled a little, held the bell tightly, as if he was afraid that it would make a sound, and said slowly: "Boss Lu... Should.. Should... Nothing will happen, right? You see, you... Do you want to draw a talisman for me? I've got all the money ready. Gu Shun also looked at me with a nervous face. I couldn't help but laugh, "Master Li, I'm not a Taoist, I don't know how to draw talismans." These are all taught by friends, and I only scratch the surface. However, you have to believe that the yin and yang balance of the world, the rebirth and the death are destined to go anywhere. If you want to stay in the world after death, you must commit the taboo of reincarnation. Ordinary souls don't have this power. So you can hardly afford to worry. Unless...."

"Unless what?" They both asked almost at the same time.

I took a puff of my cigarette, "Unless this person dies extremely unwillingly, and the death coincides with a different moment, and the time and geography are also in an extraordinary state." Moreover, there must be a living soul who happens to be unable to come to the world smoothly, such as a pregnant woman who has a difficult birth or miscarriage. Personally, though, I don't think it's possible to meet these conditions. ”

As soon as the words fell, the bell at the door suddenly moved, and the bell of Qingsu was not loud, but it filled the entire store. It rained again, and I don't know when.

Gu Shun inhibited and couldn't help but glance inside. Li Er held the bell in his hand tightly, looked at me with a pale face, and only said a sentence after half a salary: "Boss Lu, I... I... Daughter-in-law, she gave birth, it's been a day... The midwife said, I'm afraid it will... Dystocia. ”

I looked at Li Er and didn't speak. Gu Shun was about to jump up, and it could be seen that he wanted to leave this oppressive environment.

The bell rang again.

But there was no wind outside. The bell at the door stood quietly, and Li Er's bell was also held in his hand. That smart voice can only come from within. Gu Shun couldn't help but tremble, "Old Lu, this... This..."

I snuffed out my cigarette, exhaled the mist in my mouth, and stood up. They both looked at me, and I walked to the window and looked up at the night sky. The moon is blurred, and the stars are empty. At some point, a mist arose. I said slowly: "Boss Li, if you have something to hide, I'm afraid I won't be able to help you." ”

Gu Shun looked at me puzzled, then turned his head to look at Li Er, who smiled unnaturally: "What do you mean?" ”

I looked directly at Li Er, "I'm afraid the cause of her old man's death is not simple, right?" As soon as these words came out, Li Er was like being punched head-on, and his facial features were tangled, and he almost immediately said: "It's sick and dead..." As a result, I fell down when I woke up last night, and I just..."

Gu Shun probably saw that my face was not good, and hurriedly interrupted Li Er, "I said Li Er, Boss Lu is not an outsider, he really wants to help you before he asks you, if there is anything, don't hide it, I think this time the matter is very tricky!" Li Er didn't argue, and I didn't speak, and the atmosphere suddenly became weird, and the whole room became silent.

Suddenly a bell sounded, Gu Shun and Li Er both trembled, looking at each other, Li Er immediately looked at the bell that was held hotly in his hand, and then the two of them looked at me at the same time, but I looked inside, with a sneer on the corner of my mouth.

Again, this time anyone could clearly discern that the sound was indeed coming from the inside, and the bell in Li's second hand fell to the ground with a loud bang, and the sharp crisp sound once again broke the silence of the rainy night. He quickly picked up the bell, Gu Shun had already stood up, and they almost ran away to say goodbye to me. I only sent them to the door and told Li Er not to lose the bell.