Chapter 42: The Second Coffin

I was so embarrassed by them that I turned around and wanted to leave. But Uncle Zhao stopped me: "Come on, come on, there is a way, it's just right, your master has something to say to you." ”

My master glared at Uncle Zhao: "Why are you ......?"

"Alas, anyway, you can't accompany Youdao tomorrow," Master Zhao said as he stood up: "You should tell him some things earlier, don't make any mistakes at that time." ”

After speaking, Uncle Zhao trotted out of the guest room.

When Uncle Zhao left, my master faced me alone, and he actually became hesitant.

It was the first time I had seen my master like this, and when he looked at me, his eyes were full of guilt, as if he had done something sorry for me.

I was vigilant at the time, my master wasn't planning to sell me, was he? Of course I knew it was impossible, but I couldn't help but think so.

I looked at Master like this, and both of them had very unnatural expressions.

After a while, my master lit a dry cigarette and said very heavily: "There is a way, since I accepted you as an apprentice, I am very happy in my heart......

"Master, you want to expel me from the master's door!"

I don't know what I thought, but I was stunned and shouted like this.

My master glared at that time: "What! What is going on in your head all day, kid? ”

Hearing Master say this, I felt a little relieved, but then I thought, no, Master is like this today...... You can't really want to sell me, do you? But I didn't dare to say that.

My master suppressed his anger and said to me in that heavy tone, "Tomorrow is the day when you plant your coffin for the second time, and I have something to tell you." Tomorrow morning, I'll take you to a place that might make you feel uncomfortable. But no matter what, you can only go in by yourself, and after you go in, you don't have to talk, no matter what you encounter, you have to take a deep breath and not make a sound. ”

Seeing that I nodded seriously, Master continued: "After entering, you will see a coffin, sincerely kowtow to the coffin three times, remember, you must be sincere." After kowtowing, put on a stick of incense again, this time, you have to put the incense on your own, you must insert the incense into the soil, and the incense will be strong......"

Master's words are very long, first of all, when I take the incense, I must handle it gently, don't accidentally break the incense; He also said that he must light the whole handful of incense. Before the incense burned out, he also instructed me to kneel in front of the coffin honestly, calm down, and silently recite the three corpse tips.

As I spoke, my master began to tell me again, no matter what I encountered, I must not make a sound, not even kowtow or incense, and not make too much noise. I told it over and over again.

In the end, my master asked me to memorize the three corpses again before I went back to sleep.

Originally, I was going to sleep in a room with Master at night, but Master said that he still had a lot to prepare, and that I would disturb him when I was in the room at night.

I had the feeling that my second coffin planting seemed to be a terrible thing for my master.

Early the next morning, my master led me to the basement of the hotel.

The basement here was very large and deep, like a small underground palace, and the Master held a candle in front of me to illuminate the long staircase, and I followed behind the Master, and my heart was inexplicably nervous just by seeing the fluttering firelight.

All the way to the bottom of the staircase, I was greeted by a rusty iron door. By the candlelight, I saw that there were still many talismans on the iron door, which were years old, and the yellow on them had receded, revealing a large expanse of miserable white.

The door looked thick and heavy, but when Master pushed it open, it didn't make a sound.

There was a black hole on the other side of the door, and I couldn't see it clearly, and I didn't dare to go in.

But at this time, my master handed me a candle and a handful of incense, and said to me, "Go in, I am at the door." ”

I really want to go in alone!

I looked at the black door frame and felt that my blood was about to freeze, and timidly said to my master, "Master, I'm afraid. My master didn't say a word, but pointed to the door and motioned for me to enter, squinting his eyes.

I'm most afraid that my master will squint, and when he squints, my heart trembles. There was no way, so I was bold and walked in with a candle held high.

But as soon as I entered the door with my front foot, my master slammed the iron door behind me shut.

This time, my feet were weak, so I thought about knocking on the door and asking my master to let me out. But I still remember what my master said to me last night, no matter what happens here, you can't make a sound.

The candle flame fluttered, and I could faintly see a little red, blood-red, not far ahead.

I don't know why, when I saw this red, I was not so scared, but I felt very kind.

I took the candle and walked forward slowly, and gradually, the red became a large patch, and on top of this red, there were large clumps of black.

It was a large coffin, all blood red, and on top of the coffin, there was some black water surging, like living asphalt.

Isn't this the black water corpse coffin on my back?

From the coffin, there is a burst of coolness, and this coolness will not make people feel uncomfortable at all. On the contrary, when I feel it, it is as if a sweet spring water flows through my throat, and when it is poured into my internal organs, even my state of mind becomes extremely calm.

I seem to have the illusion that I have seen this coffin a long time ago, not on my master's back, but in its original form, and I have touched it, and I have felt the roughness of the coffin, and the slippery black water.

There was a force that pulled me and made me put my hand on the lid of the coffin, so rough, and the feeling of the black water covering my fingers, it was exactly the same as I imagined.

At this time, Xian'er's voice echoed in my ears: "Don't ...... Don't touch it, I always feel like it's not quite right. Hurry up and kowtow, incense, by the way, and incense, hurry up, I don't want to stay here! ”

Xian'er's tone was very anxious, as if this coffin was a very terrible thing, but how do I feel that the more I look at it, the more kind it feels?

I couldn't bear that Xian'er kept urging me, so I could only take a step back, and was about to kneel down and kowtow, but just about to kneel, my legs didn't obey the call, and I couldn't bend down.

I tried to take two steps, no problem, and tried to kneel again, but my legs froze again, and no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't bend even a small arc.

The black water corpse coffin in front of me didn't seem to want me to bow down to it.

Since I can't kneel, I put on incense, but when I use the candle to light the incense, the incense seems to be damp, and I can't light it.

The coffin doesn't seem to want me to incense it.

But my master said, I can't go out until this incense is burned. At the same time, I could feel that Xian'er was afraid, although she didn't speak, but I could feel that she was afraid. But what is she afraid of?

I tried to light the incense a few more times, but I didn't expect it to be lit, so I squatted down and firmly planted the incense on the ground as the master instructed.

When I squatted down, my legs and feet could move normally, but when I planned to use the squatting posture to kneel down and kowtow, my legs would not obey the call again.

I couldn't kneel, and I couldn't kowtow, so I could only fold my hands and bow a few times to the black water coffin, and then began to silently recite the three corpse tips.

While reciting the Three Corpse Formulas, a cool breeze blew from the coffin, and the gust of wind blew over my head, as if someone was gently scratching my hair, and the feeling was so comfortable that I fell asleep unconsciously.

In my sleep, I seemed to see a kind old woman, who came out of the coffin and blew on the lit incense, which burned even brighter, and before I knew it, it was half shorter.

My grandmother came to me and said to me with a smile, "Don't sleep, it's cold on the ground." "As she spoke, I noticed a lilac birthmark on her left cheek. As she said this, she grabbed a handful of hair in front of my forehead and pulled it out.

I felt a sudden pain in my forehead, and then I woke up.

At this time, I realized that I was lying on the ground on all fours, and I glanced in the direction of the incense, and the large handful of incense was almost burned out.

And I really have a small handful of hair missing from my forehead.

I looked at the coffin not far away, and at this time, it was lying there quietly, the lid of the coffin was firmly closed, as if it had never been opened, and no grandmother had ever come out of it.

I don't know why, I suddenly didn't want to leave, I just wanted to stay here and spend a little more time with it. I think it must have been lonely and needed someone to accompany it after sleeping in this dark place for so long.

But Xian'er began to urge me again at this time: "The incense is all burned, let's go, I really don't want to stay here!" ”

I felt that she was about to cry when she spoke, although I still felt inexplicable in my heart, but I, the person who couldn't see a girl crying, could only leave helplessly in the end.

At the moment when I pushed open the iron door, I looked back again, in this dark environment, I could no longer see the black water corpse coffin, but I could feel it, it was still lying there very quietly, and a cool breeze continued to blow from it, blowing on my back, telling me to leave quickly, and not to be nostalgic anymore.

When I pushed the door open, my master looked at me nervously and asked, "Why did you come out so quickly, has the incense burned out?" Do you feel uncomfortable right now, do you see anything? ”

Master's words were a bit incoherent.

I closed the door and said to my master, "The incense is finished, just now, an old woman came out of the coffin and blew on the incense, and the incense burned all at once, and she plucked a handful of hair from my head." Master, why don't you tell me that there is a grandmother living here? ”