Chapter 369: Yizhuang's coffin
Yonghe Yizhuang is an old building in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, with gray bricks and gray tiles, extremely inconspicuous. In the history of ancient Chinese architecture, the Ming Dynasty architecture inherited the tradition of the Song Dynasty to build the French style, and the Qing Dynasty official engineering practices, most of the momentum is grand and majestic, and the style is rigorous, but most of these architectural forms are reflected in the palace buildings or large civil buildings, and there are no traces of the buildings in the middle of the Ming Dynasty in this little-known rural cottage style.
At this time, it was dark, but the gate of Yizhuang was open, and there were three or four oil lamps lit inside, as bright as day. There is no courtyard courtyard in this village, so when you step into the threshold, you will find a hall where corpses or coffins are parked, and there is an inner room on the west side at the end of the hall, where Shigong Gushen rests.
Wu Zhiyuan turned his head to look at Yu Yisu who was standing aside, with a gloating smile on his face, stretched out his hand and made a gesture of invitation towards Yizhuang, and said, "Uncle Shi, I guess my old man can't think about it, please hurry." ”
Yu Yisu pursed his lips, squeezed out a smile at Wu Zhiyuan, and whispered, "Don't forget what I told you when I was on the road." After speaking, he stepped over the threshold and walked into Yizhuang.
Wu Zhiyuan naturally understood the meaning of Yu Yisu's words, that is, let Wu Zhiyuan say a few kind words for him in front of his master, so that he could be punished less. Wu Zhiyuan shook his head helplessly and followed.
There is a large space in Yizhuang, and eight bed boards are placed on both sides to house the coffins or corpses entrusted to Yizhuang, and at this time, four black lacquered coffins are placed on each side, and the rest of the bed boards are empty.
Looking at it, there was no figure in the hall, Wu Zhiyuan shouted loudly: "Shi ......" Unexpectedly, the word "Shi Gong" was only half shouted, Yu Yisu suddenly turned his head, stretched his fingers to his mouth, and made a silent gesture towards him. Wu Zhiyuan immediately realized and quickly shut up.
"No noise is allowed in Yizhuang." Yu Yisu said softly.
Wu Zhiyuan didn't know the rules in Yizhuang, so he nodded, stopped making a sound, stretched out his hand and pointed to the inner room, indicating that the master might be in the inner room, Yu Yisu nodded, and Wu Zhiyuan walked straight towards the inner room.
There was no door in the back room, only a curtain. Lifting the curtain, Wu Zhiyuan looked inside, only to see that the bedding on the wooden bed was neat, and there was an oil lamp on the table next to it, on which were placed pen and ink and a few pieces of unused rune paper, and the furnishings were exactly the same as when he left last time, but there was no one inside, and the master was not in the inner room.
Wu Zhiyuan was about to put down the curtain, and suddenly saw several wine jars placed under the bed, he had a flash of inspiration, walked directly to the bed, squatted down and grabbed one of the wine jars, and with a strong hand, he found that the wine jar was very light and should be empty, so he went to grab the second one, and the same feeling came from his hand, until the last wine jar, Wu Zhiyuan was happy, because this wine jar was very heavy, and he knew that it was full of wine when he thought about it.
Wu Zhiyuan dragged the wine jar out from under the bed, opened the wooden stopper at the mouth of the altar, and a strange fragrance came to his face, Wu Zhiyuan's heart moved, closed one eye and looked carefully into the altar, the oil light line was weak, and naturally it could not shine into the narrow wine jar at the mouth of the altar, but Wu Zhiyuan could still see the sparkling silver light flashing at the bottom of the wine jar, others may not understand what this silver light was, but Wu Zhiyuan recognized it at first sight that it was the scales of the giant python's tail in the Five Elements Phantom Array that emitted a sparkling silver light against the background of the wine.
Wu Zhiyuan smiled proudly, covered the cork, and pushed the wine jar under the bed again.
From this point of view, Yu Yisu who met in the woods that day was really pretended to be his master, maybe he met Wu Zhiyuan and others by chance, so he came to the rescue, maybe he calculated that Wu Zhiyuan encountered a catastrophe and went to rescue him purposefully, or maybe he had been following Wu Zhiyuan's side at all, waiting for an opportunity to protect.
If it's the first two inferences, it's fine, but if it's the last inference, wouldn't it be that Wu Zhiyuan has been by his side since he left Yonghe Yizhuang that day? His every move was under his nose. Thinking of this, Wu Zhiyuan's heart couldn't help but gasp. This strange old man can definitely do such an unreasonable thing, now that he thinks about it, it may have been his plan to drive the corpse to Liuyin Village in Yidu County, otherwise why did Wu Zhiyuan arrive at Liuyin Village without anyone answering at all, and even the entire village was empty?
"Senior nephew, no one?" Wu Zhiyuan's thoughts were interrupted by Yu Yisu's voice, and when he looked up, he saw Yu Yisu lifting the door curtain, looking towards the inner room with ejaculated eyes.
Wu Zhiyuan hurriedly stood up and walked out of the back room. The two of them stood in the center of the hall, looked around, and indeed did not see the shadow of Shigong. There is an eerie silence in Yizhuang, and although the hall is brightly lit, it gives people an indescribable sense of gloom.
"It's okay now, Master, his old man is estimated to have gone out to travel, maybe when he will be able to come back." Yu Yisu sighed exaggeratedly and glanced at Wu Zhiyuan with slanted eyes.
How could Wu Zhiyuan not understand the little calculation in his heart, he didn't say anything when he heard the words, just looked at the door quietly, he knew that the master would never go far, it was possible that it was near this Yizhuang, and he would come back in a while.
"Senior nephew, you see it's not too late at this time, why don't we go back to the city first, have a meal and drink a few cups, find an inn and sleep well, and come to Yizhuang early tomorrow morning?" Yu Yisu looked at Wu Zhiyuan tentatively and smiled.
Wu Zhiyuan sneered in his heart, but he didn't make a sound on his face. Seeing this, Yu Yisu rubbed his hands and said with a smile: "Your Moon Shadow girl doesn't know what's going on now, this world is not peaceful, she lives in the inn by herself, you should also go and comfort others." ”
Wu Zhiyuan glared at Yu Yisu, who realized that his trick had been discovered, and sighed boringly.
The two were speechless for a while, and there was a dead silence around them.
At this moment, a coffin near the door on the east side suddenly made a "creak" sound. This sound was actually not loud, but in this silent Yizhuang hall, in the eerie atmosphere, it was as shocking as thunder on a sunny day, Wu Zhiyuan and Yu Yisu were both startled, and at the same time turned to look at the coffin that made the sound.
It was also a wooden coffin with black lacquer, which looked no different from the other seven coffins, and the coffin was lying quietly on the bed board near the doorway, without making any abnormal noise.
"Is that the coffin?" Yu Yisu stretched out his hand and pointed to the black lacquered wooden coffin at the door, although his question was not comprehensive, Wu Zhiyuan still understood that he was asking if it was the coffin at the door that made the sound just now.
Wu Zhiyuan nodded, in fact, he was not very sure, but following the sound to distinguish the position, it should be the coffin at the door.
Both of them have learned the Maoshan Dao technique, so even if there are Yin Soul Corpse Monsters, they are not afraid. Sure it was the sound of the coffin at the door, and the two of them walked quietly towards the coffin.
The coffin is used to store the corpse, and the corpse must be a dead person, and the dead person naturally cannot move, so this coffin can make a "squeak" sound, which must be something else.
Wu Zhiyuan pulled out the wooden sword on his back and walked to the door with Yu Yisu, and the two stood still by the coffin and glanced at each other. Yu Yisu did not move, and glanced at Wu Zhiyuan, which meant to let Wu Zhiyuan open the coffin lid.
Wu Zhiyuan didn't mind, Yu Yisu was his uncle in terms of seniority, and he should naturally be the first to charge forward when he encountered danger, so he didn't hesitate, and reached out to lift the coffin lid.
At this moment, the coffin body suddenly shook.