The Land of Yelang Chapter 10 Riding a coffin across the river

The whole person was rolled, stirred together with the broken bricks and tiles in the water, the broken rafters and the broken beams, and some of them didn't know whether they were human or animal corpses, and suddenly touched it softly, and before they could distinguish clearly, they disappeared, and I don't know how far the second master is from me, and I don't know where to be washed away.

With such a large current, I can't surface to breathe at all, I can only close my eyes, feel the water, and hurriedly open my mouth to inhale deeply, but usually I don't wait for the full sucking into a mouthful of muddy water, my limbs struggle in vain, desperately trying to grab something, and nothing around is stable, during which I actually grabbed a handful of hair-like things, scared I quickly let go, up and down, suddenly the clothes on the shoulder were grabbed, a huge force lifted me up, I hurriedly grabbed the hand on the shoulder, closed my eyes, regardless of the three-seven-twenty-one climbing.

When I touched the trunk of the tree, I opened my eyes, and found that the second master was like a fat monkey holding a big tree, he pulled me with one hand, and shouted at me with his big mouth open, but I couldn't hear anything except the rumbling sound of water in my ears, I didn't have time to think about it, so I quickly learned from him, hugged the trunk tightly, he saw that I was hugging tightly, and began to climb up, my head was on his ass, and the two of them climbed to the top of the branch, before letting go of their hands, riding on the branch, looking at everything below in horror.

With the continuous lightning, I saw that in all directions, a piece of yellow water rushed, Xiajiang County has long disappeared, the ruins and broken tiles in the water with the continuous increase of the water potential, become less and less, our one-person thick tree, also gradually tilted into the water, we hurriedly spread our limbs, dead hold the trunk, for fear that the tree will be uprooted.

I don't know how long I hugged the tree, the sky began to brighten, the lightning became less and less, the thunder became farther and farther away, the rain gradually changed from the heavenly river to a drizzle, and the speed of the water slowed down.

Loosening the trunk, a burst of soreness was quickly transmitted from the limbs, and the two people grinned at each other, barely squeezing out a wry smile, which was a celebration of another catastrophe.

A hundred meters away is a dirt slope, but there is not even a straw on the water under my feet, which reminds me of the weak water of the Styx River that can swallow everything in the temple of Yemo, looking at the opposite bank that is close at hand, and then looking at the turbulent flood, there is really no better way than to keep shaking my head and sighing.

The second master stretched his neck unwillingly, looking at the upstream of the flood like a stone, hoping to rush down a wooden board that could cross the river, etc., and I don't know if it was a fulfillment of the sentence that the emperor lived up to his wishes, and actually floated a black thing from far away from the upstream, coming straight to us, looking at the size is not small, and I don't know whose pillar collapsed.

The second master excitedly slowly climbed to the position of the waterline, intending to stop it alone, I looked at the size of the thing, and couldn't help but sweat for him, and I wanted to help, but I couldn't accommodate the two of them, so I could only look at it anxiously and expectantly.

The black thing floated at a very fast speed, and there were still dozens of meters away, this thing was bumped, and suddenly fell off, and a big white seal body Shou character appeared in front of me very eye-catchingly, and we shouted in unison: "Fuck." ”

There should be a lot of sediment under the water near the big tree, I saw that this huge black coffin gradually slowed down, constantly bumping up and down, the second master looked up at me, I shrugged helplessly, at this time, let alone a coffin, it is a dry corpse, and we have to ride over.

He lowered his head in understanding, shook off the rain on his face, and stared at the coffin firmly, I simply measured the volume of the coffin, estimated the approximate weight, and the heart instantly sank to the bottom, wanting to tell the second master to give up, but before the words were spoken, the coffin had come to the front, the second master stretched out his hand towards the head of the coffin, a little bit worse, seeing the coffin slowly floating past him, but saw the second master's legs coiled around the tree, and the whole body leaned back, "Hey! With a bang, he pressed the coffin with his backhand.

The coffin stopped on the water in response, but it became a stalemate, although the second master held down the coffin, but because it was a backhand, he was unable to pull it over, I saw him tremble gently, like this, it must not last long, I was anxious like a fire burning my buttocks, scratching my ears and cheeks, anxious but powerless.

The second master was shaking more and more, I could already hear the sound of his teeth chattering above, I measured the distance between me and the coffin, and I couldn't care so much about life and death, so I stabilized my mind, jumped down from the tree, and threw myself towards the coffin.

This has to be said to be a big gamble, if it is not accurate, fall into the water, according to the turbulent water, who knows where it will be washed away, even if it is accurate, only the force of the fall, the second master will definitely not be able to bear it and let go, that will go down the river, if I am lucky, after floating out of a section, I can run ashore, but in that case, the second master will have to stay here and wait for death, the only way is to smash the coffin into the mud and sand at the bottom of the water to stop, and then pull the second master up, but I don't know how deep the water isThis jump is completely a shot with your eyes closed.

Sure enough, the moment I landed on the coffin, the second master let go, and before I could stabilize my body, the coffin made a "bang" and slid forward a few feet, I secretly screamed in my heart, followed by a "bang", the coffin stopped suddenly, it didn't matter, it almost shot me out, I tightly grasped the edge of the coffin lid raised in front of the coffin head, lay on it, and didn't dare to move.

Lying on his stomach for a second or two, making sure that the coffin stopped, he turned back to look for the second master, he was holding the big tree, looking at me in shock, I nodded at him, he puffed out his cheeks, grew a sigh, and shouted at me: "Don't move blindly, I'll leave two branches to go", said to the top of the big tree and climbed hard, judging from the action, he was also almost to the limit.

After waiting for a long time, he broke off two wrist-thick branches from the tree, and threw them high above me from the tree, I hurriedly grabbed them, simply broke the branches, and inserted them straight into the water in front of the coffin head, so I dared to sit up gently, this coffin has been buried in the soil for many years, the lacquer on it has long been mottled off, and the damp environment has given birth to a thin layer of moss on it, which is not obvious, but it is extremely slippery.

I swayed left and right a few times and almost fell, but I could only pick the lid of the coffin, and ride carefully like walking on thin ice, the coffin was hit by the water, and slowly began to change direction, little by little.

I was anxious to look back for the second master, at this time he was dragging a branch into the water to swim towards me, because it was swimming along the water, the speed was extremely fast, just when the coffin made a "creak" sound, he had already climbed up with the coffin lid.

He rode behind me, nodded at me, I pulled out the branch of the coffin head, and hurriedly inserted it to the side of the coffin, the coffin began to accelerate the horizontal swing, when the head pointed to the opposite bank of the hillside, the second master put the branch into the water, because of the flow of water, the coffin began to tilt to one side, we grabbed the branch, and pressed down with all our might, fortunately, the rain weakened, the water flow was not as rapid as before, plus the strength of our two people, there was no rolling.

Stopping the coffin, the two began to push towards the opposite bank, and every time they pulled out the branches, the coffin would float a distance downstream, not only to stabilize their bodies to prevent them from slipping, but also to use all their strength to support the coffin, and the dripping on their foreheads had long been unable to distinguish whether it was sweat or rain.

When there were still dozens of meters away from the opposite bank, the coffin was tripped by something and couldn't hold it at all, so the two of them roughly measured it, simply jumped into the waist-deep water, and walked towards the shore step by step heavy and difficult.

The silt at the bottom of the river did not reach the calf, and I fell deep into it with one foot, and then pulled it out with great effort, and the shoes and socks fell off without taking a few steps, and I could only continue to move forward as carefully as possible with my bare feet.

Dozens of meters away is the time to walk a cup of tea, the two of them just walked to the shore, just sit in the water regardless of the ass, while panting, while pulling up their feet to check, the soles of the feet are all large and small, after washing off the mud and sand, it is still bleeding, I endured the pain and pulled out a small piece of porcelain stubble from the mouth of the largest blood, it is estimated that it is a broken plate and rotten bowl brought down by the flood, the second master is more miserable than me, even the foot and neck are broken, but fortunately the wound is not deep, simply don't care.

The two of them moved hand and foot together to a big stone not far behind them, this place is about 100 meters away from the hillside we saw before, the second master took out the cigarette box, and a stream of yellow water flowed out of it, I took out mine, and it was the same, the two smiled bitterly, leaned on the stone and looked at the coffin on the water, silent.

The coffin had not drifted far before it was stopped in the middle of the water by the broken branches at the bottom of the water, and had been swept sideways by the current, and now the rain began to increase gradually, and the water flow also increased, and the coffin began to tilt to one side, and it seemed that it would not be long before it was going to roll.

Sure enough, as soon as the two of us gasped, the coffin tilted in the direction of the downstream, only to hear a bang, the coffin board opened, and the coffin was not nailed? Could it be that the old man prepared the longevity materials? Or is it the old bottom of the coffin shop? I remember that the lacquer on it has been mottled for some years, and I am sure it is some years old.

But the next scene really scared me, the coffin without a lid continued to tilt, when the bottom of the coffin was about to be erected, a dead body was poured out of it, this dead body with big braids, wearing Manchu Qing Dynasty clothes, crawling in the water, I said casually: "Yo, still an official." ”

The second master squinted and looked at it for a long time and said: "What is the official, there is not even a product", he looked at me with a puzzled face, and explained: "Look at the crown of the dynasty, it is also called the top wear, the size of the official depends on what is inlaid on the top, you take a closer look, there is nothing on the top of this man, either eight or nine products, and you look at his court belt, black and not slippery, that is the silver rank black horn, the nine grades below make this thing, the second master I don't need to look at his complement to know, it is estimated that this master died when he was not even mixed with the county lord Bo." ”

As if in order to verify what he said, the water rushed the dead body on his back, and the second master said proudly: "You look, you see, it's Huang Li, what's I said, I didn't mix a string of pearls when I died, hey, no, there is something wrong with this man."

Before I could show the admiration I deserved, he said this, and hurriedly squinted his eyes and looked at the dead body lying in the water, this corpse was black and purple from face to hand, although the face could not be seen clearly, but it was certainly not rotten, the purple nails on the ten fingers, reflecting the water, looked longer than the hand, the second master asked me suspiciously: "Damn, it won't be black hair." ”

As soon as the words fell, the coffin that was blocked in front of him slipped to the other side, and floated away along the river, leaving only the dead body lying in the water at a glance, depending on the situation, it may be that the clothes on the body were hung at the bottom of the river, and the dead body was lying on the water, up and down, constantly swinging, strange to say, since the dead body fell out of the coffin, the sky was more cloudy, the rain was getting heavier and heavier, and even faintly could hear bursts of thunder, we couldn't take care of it at this time, and hurriedly looked around for the guy to take advantage of, just in case, but in addition to the mountains and rocks and weeds around, There was nothing, helplessly, and picked up the previous branch again, and looked at it quietly for a few minutes, the second master couldn't help but say: "In this way, I'll see if I can poke him open, look at it and really respond." ”

I looked at the sky and said, "Forget it, he won't get up, and besides, look at this rain, it won't be long before the water will rise, and it will rush down in a while, let's withdraw when we have rested enough." ”

The second master scolded unhappily: "Damn, you can hit Lao Maozi wherever you go, what's this called?" ”

Listening to the thunder getting closer and closer, we supported each other and slowly stood up, just about to turn around and walk in the direction of the hillside, only to see a lightning bolt in front of us, straight on the dead body, and then a thunder, shocked us with both hands to cover our ears, squatting on the ground, buzzing in our ears, things in front of us are a little blurred, followed by another lightning, still hitting the dead body, and then another, two thunderbolts sounded almost at the same time, we opened our mouths wide, leaned against the stone, felt the sky shake, and our eyes were pierced by lightning A white light.

I don't know how long it took, I slowly opened my closed eyes, and I could barely see the surroundings clearly, although the rain was still falling, but the sky was much brighter, and the thunder had stopped, and I turned to look at the dead bodies in the river, but they were long gone, only a piece of black logs that seemed to be charred, drifting out along the water.

The two looked at each other dumbfounded, stunned and didn't know what to do, but a female voice came from the mound behind them: "A hundred years of scourge, and finally punished by God, hey, I said you two have seen enough?" ”