The coffin was just about three feet below the roots of the tree, and the lid was already covered with a lot of dust, and there were some rotten cracks. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info From the crack in the rift, it can be seen that there is indeed a corpse lying upright inside.

However, due to the limitation of the viewing angle, only one leg and two pairs of shoes can be seen, the shoes are not on, and the body inside is lying barefoot. He Wei raised his head in surprise, hurriedly pushed away the old ghost cha beside him, and exclaimed, "Wait a minute, don't push it away yet, there are people inside." ”

"Are you talking nonsense, of course the old man knows that there are people inside, so he has to push it away." The old ghost said a few words to him, and continued to crawl into the hole, trying to remove the lid of the coffin from the top.

He Wei was so nervous that he continued to go up and completely press the coffin lid with his entire body, and looked back at the old ghost, and said, "Wait a minute, I mean, there is a living person inside, and I see his legs moving." ”

The old ghost let go of his hands and lowered his head to carefully observe the situation inside through the crack. After looking at it for a while, he raised his head in a panic, pressed the coffin lid on it with his whole body, and couldn't say a word.

He Wei turned his head and said: "You believe it this time, I always thought this big tree was quite strange before, and now that a corpse is suddenly buried underneath, I feel even more unbelievable." ”

The old ghost almost put his hands on the gap between the sides of the coffin, and replied through gritted teeth: "You resist here first, and the old man will find some grass to cast a spell to completely seal it." ”

He Wei suddenly jumped up and lay directly on top of the coffin from head to toe. Leaned over and said, "Try to be as fast as possible, I already feel this coffin shaking faintly." ”

The old ghost quickly let go, got up and jumped out of the hole. Rushing into the dense grass, he pulled out several handfuls of yellow weeds, split them in two, tied them in a dead knot, and connected them into a string of slender yellow lines.

The old ghost stretched out his index finger to his mouth and dipped the saliva on his tongue, his left hand pinched one of the yellow lines, and his right hand kneaded the middle part of the line into a moist part. Finally, he wrapped the whole thread around his wrist and blew hot air on it.

The old ghost almost retreated to the edge of the pit step by step, and jumped down with his back to the black coffin below.

He Wei looked up and said, "What are you doing here?" The body is motionless. ”

The old ghost said: "I can't turn around now, I can only turn my back to the coffin, if I turn around, the living corpse inside will definitely jump out." ”

He Weidao: "Then what now?" ”

The old ghost said: "Now you stretch out a hand, pull down this yellow thread from my wrist, and tie it to the top of the coffin, remember that you must not face the coffin, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable." ”

He Wei stretched the yellow line on his wrist into a three-meter length and circled it back and forth several times. He could feel that the line made of straw was very hard, and even if he pulled hard, he couldn't pull it anymore. He raised his head and faced the sky, and his palms were facing the lid, and he wrapped it back and forth, tying the whole coffin lid firmly.

He Wei turned around and said, "Senior, I've already done it all, what should I do next." ”

The old ghost immediately crouched down and picked up a small round pebble from the ground. After stuffing it in your mouth and chewing it with your teeth, when you spit it out, your palms are already stained with red powder.

At this time, the old ghost turned around and sprinkled the powder in his hand on the coffin lid, and took off his robe to cover it completely.

The old ghost bit his finger again, squeezed out the blood and drew a red spell on his robe, and wrote five big characters from top to bottom: He, Fox, Er, Qi, and Xiao.

"Do these five words have any special meaning?" He Wei asked.

The old ghost said: "These five words are the names of five people, and two of them are you and me." ”

He Wei was puzzled and asked, "Why do you want to write our names on it?" ”

The old ghost laughed and said, "Hey! You don't understand this, and even if I tell you, you won't understand. Anyway, there won't be any problems with the wife, you can rest assured. ”

The old ghost looked down at the bottom of the coffin, and saw that it was still shaking faintly, and the living corpse in the coffin seemed to be trying to escape from the coffin floor. He looked panicked and hurriedly said, "Not good! The old man had just forgotten something very important. ”

He Wei replied, "What is it?" ”

"There is one more thing you need, that is the boy's urine, the head of this matter is all up to you, the old man can't do anything!" The old ghost shook his head slightly and sighed.

He Wei moved his mouth in embarrassment, and said with a red face: "But I'm not a boy either, I have been ruthlessly robbed of my most precious innocence by a young girl in the flower season a long time ago!" ”

The old ghost almost glared at each other and exclaimed, "You! All right. With that, he took out a tattered porcelain bowl from his pocket, turned around and spilled a soak of urine and filled it in the bowl. As soon as he turned around, he handed the porcelain bowl in his hand, which was still hot to the touch, into He Wei's hand, and said, "Quick, sprinkle this bowl of urine on the bottom of the coffin." ”

He Wei was stunned for a while, raised his head and looked at the old ghost in front of him stupidly, a wicked smile was revealed at the corner of his mouth, and he blinked his eyelids and said happily: "Old ...... Old-timer, you're still a child. ”

The old ghost frowned, and replied angrily: "What are you doing with so many long-winded questions, without further ado, hurry up!" ”

He Wei's demeanor changed and nodded hastily. Pinching his nose, he threw the hot porcelain bowl in his hand under the coffin, and then he rolled over and jumped straight off the coffin lid. When he shifted his gaze to the bottom of the coffin, he was surprised to find that a bloody palm suddenly drilled out of the crack at the bottom, and the black nails were three centimeters long, standing vertically upside down in the center of the coffin.

He Wei's legs were weak, and he hurriedly threw out the porcelain bowl, his palms supporting the loess on the ground, and moved back.

The old ghost turned around and said, "What's wrong with you?" A look of shock. ”

He Wei pointed to the bottom of the coffin and said in a lost voice: "Look at that hand, a hand has come out from under the coffin." ”

When the old ghost heard this, he quickly squatted down and looked down at the bottom of the coffin. He sighed and said, "Also, I thought why was it so panicked, it's okay, if it really comes out, we can't stop it, if it doesn't come out now, it proves that it can't come out." ”

He Wei breathed a sigh of relief and explained: "Actually, I wasn't scared just now, but my heart was a little bad, since we have found the culprit, let's quickly call someone to carry the coffin back." ”

The old ghost said: "No, this coffin can't be carried away, once it is moved, the old man's previous spell will be in vain." And the dead and alive inside the coffin will also crawl out of it. ”

He Wei said: "Okay, then we have to call someone to guard it, and burn the previous big tree with fire, so as not to resurrect it again." ”

"Hmmm! I think that's all I can do. ”

After saying this, the two of them crawled out of the hole, and dragged the big tree that they had cut down to the dock and burned it to ashes.

When they returned to the town, they brought three or five ghosts from the town, fenced the hole with a line, and looked for someone to watch over it day and night, and sprinkled the coffin with child urine once a day, so that no accident would happen again.

When he returned to the town, He Wei immediately found Zhang Qi and told him that the murderer was a dead and alive person buried in a coffin under a tree.

After hearing this, Zhang Qi believed it, and immediately mobilized several soldiers from the military camp near the town, surrounded the black coffin on the pier, and was strictly guarded every day and night. And asked He Wei to investigate the reason as soon as possible.

But today, strange things always happen one after another, and many ghosts on the dock are still fine at night. But as soon as it is daytime, there are often people who disappear inexplicably, and the number of people decreases every day. But nothing could be found, and the bodies of the missing people could not be found.

Many ghosts were afraid of the coffin, and in order to cope with the errand, they ran to the other side of the dock at night and hid, and only dared to go back during the day. Over time, the color of the coffin became more and more yellow, and the wooden lid on it gradually decayed.

When Zhang Qi learned about this, he was very angry and ordered the coffin to be burned. But things were not as expected, when the ghosts burned it with fire, they found that although the coffin was made of wood on the surface, there was a layer of stiff stone slab in the middle of the mezzanine, which could not be burned at all.

Moreover, the group of ghosts who went to burn the coffin have disappeared one after another, and no matter how you look for them, you can't find any trace of them.

When the news reached the hall, Zhang Qi called He Wei over and asked him what was going on. He Wei just dealt with two sentences casually, and he didn't know what was going on.

During this time, Zhang Qi slept alone in his room, having strange nightmares every night. In my dreams, there was always an old man in white standing straight in front of his bed, holding a sharp dagger in his hand and threatening to cut off his head.

Every time Zhang Qi woke up from a dream, he would break out in a cold sweat. From that day on, he could not sleep every day and every night. In order to sit back and relax, he called the two female guards from before to stay by his bedside every night, protecting him at all times, and waking him up from his dream in time if there was any trouble.

One night, Zhang Qi met the old man in white again in a dream, but this time on the dock. There were many ghosts around him who followed him, and the black coffin happened to appear in front of him. An old man with blurred flesh crawled out of it, holding a dagger in his hand, dragging his stiff body towards him step by step.

Zhang Qi panicked when he saw this, and hurriedly ordered the ghosts around him to step forward to stop him. But the ghosts beside him all fled one by one, and soon disappeared without a trace.

Seeing the old man approaching him, Zhang Qi walked up to him, frightened and depressed, and hurriedly begged: "Please don't kill me, I will give you as much money as you want." As long as you're willing to spare me a way out! ”

The old man in white was indifferent when he heard this, and only said one sentence: "Blood!" All I need is blood! Hot blood!! ”

As soon as the words fell, the old man raised the dagger in his hand high and quickly stabbed it into his chest.

Zhang Qi screamed, clutched his teeth and fell to the ground clutching the hole in his chest, his body kept convulsing, and he fell in a pool of blood.

The old man in white smiled sinisterly, and plunged the sharp dagger in his hand straight into his neck. A series of screams echoed through the space, and his eyes were red.

Zhang Qi screamed again, and suddenly woke up from his dream, cold sweat all over his forehead.

Seeing this, the two female guards beside him hurriedly rushed up, looked left and right, and comforted: "My lord, are you okay?" Is there an assassin! ”

Zhang Qi wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and when he came back to his senses, he realized that it was a dream before. He breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's okay! Get out of the way, you all go down. ”

The next day, Zhang got up and went to the front of the hall, and in a fit of rage, he ordered the remaining ghosts on the dock to be withdrawn, and put them to death.

When the ghosts heard this, they were so frightened that they knelt on the ground and begged for mercy: "My lord, we are not guilty, why should we be executed?" ”

Zhang Qi slapped the handsome case hard, and scolded: "You still say that you are not guilty, why didn't you save you when you saw death yesterday, and you couldn't kill this official." ”

When the ghosts heard this, they didn't know what he was talking about, and they kept begging for mercy that they were not guilty.

But Zhang Qi insisted on putting them all to death, leaving no one alive, and although He Wei kept pleading, it still had no effect.

In this way, these ghosts were dragged by Zhang Qi to the entrance of the vegetable market in the town, and they were executed one after another by swords and axes on the charge of not saving them.

A few days later, the old ghost found Zhang Qi in the hall and told him that he could avert the catastrophe by finding seven hundred and forty-nine boys and girls to sacrifice their blood to the living dead in the coffin, sealing the coffin with yellow grass and burying the coffin with the bodies of the boys and girls.

After hearing this, Zhang Qi did not hesitate to adopt the idea of the old ghost, and asked He Wei to send someone to catch forty-nine boys and girls from the town. Break into every house and arrest people from inside.

He Wei refused the errand at that time, and said, "Master Zhang, I can't do this kind of thing, you go find someone else." ”

Zhang Qi was even more furious after hearing this, and directly dismissed He Wei from his post and put him in prison.

Zhang Qi asked the old ghost to do this errand, and told him to carry it out as soon as possible, otherwise the matter would have bad consequences.

In less than three days, he took forty-nine boys and girls from the town, dragged them to the entrance of the vegetable market, and executed them one after another.

Then they gathered their blood together and sprinkled it on the coffin. And buried their bodies with the old man in white.

After the deed was completed, Zhang Qi did not meet the old man in white from his dream.

Not only that, but Zhang Qi's luck is getting better and better. How to say, he can pick up steamed buns on the street every day, two or three a day when he is less, and four or five when he is more.

It's the same with gambling money, you can win a lot of money back from someone else's hands every time. It's like having a little ghost at home, everything is smooth and there is no obstruction.

After the old ghost cha was happy, he pardoned He Wei from the prison, and the official was reinstated, so that he could continue to lead the ghosts under him.

After He Wei came out of prison, he didn't say anything, just returned to the grass house before.

When the beggar met him, she asked, "What are you?" Aren't you happy to be released? ”

"Of course I'm not happy, I'm so miserable, how can I still be happy."

The female beggar smiled and said, "Hey, hehe, you are much better than me, do you know what the prison is like, the prison here is a heaven and a earth compared to that." ”

He Weidao: "What? Prison? Where have you sat before? ”

The female beggar nodded with a smile and said, "Of course I have sat in it, that day the prison was full of blood and water, and there were no meals a day, which was terrible." ”

He Weidao: "It's the first time I've seen you laugh, really, you're laughing at one, let me see." ”

The female beggar stopped laughing when she heard this, but turned back to the bedroom and took out a steamed bun and asked, "Are you hungry?" Eat when you're hungry. ”

He Wei smiled and said: "Hey, I'm not hungry, I'm already full in prison, I'm saying that this steamed bun is a priceless treasure, I can't enjoy it, so you should eat it yourself." ”

The female beggar said, "If you don't eat, then I won't eat either, although it is a priceless treasure, but people have to eat when they are hungry." ”

He Wei sighed and said, "Hey, pitiful, so many lives were ruthlessly executed, it's really pitiful, pitiful, regretful." ”

The female beggar asked, "What?" ”

He Wei continued: "Do you know that Zhang Qi executed the lives of many children in order to ensure his own life, which is really bad. ”

The female beggar said, "How so? ”

He Weidao: "I'll ask you now, if I leave, will you follow me." ”

The female beggar said, "Of course, I will go wherever you go, and you have picked up my life, and if it weren't for you, I would have died a long time ago." ”

He Wei smiled: "Thank you for believing in me so much, I will definitely not disappoint you, let's pack up and hurry on the road." ”

The female beggar said, "Aren't you going to talk to Master Zhang?" ”

He Weidao: "I understand Lord Zhang's character, his personality is changeable, once he regrets it, he will immediately send someone to chase and kill us, let's not startle the snake." ”

The female beggar said, "Okay, I'll go clean up, there are some steamed buns hidden in the well, let's take them with us." ”

After saying that, the beggar went back to her room to clean up, and took only some simple supplies and food. When the two of them walked out, they suddenly met an old ghost at the door, and there were more than a dozen ghosts beside them.

The old ghost looked at him with a wicked smile and asked, "Head?" Where are you going in such a hurry? ”

He Wei felt that there was something wrong with the old ghost's words, so he said, "What? What do you tell me? ”

The old ghost smiled and said, "I asked where I was going in such a hurry, did I escape?" ”

After listening to this, the female beggar came up and scolded violently: "You are presumptuous! Do you know who you're talking to, he's your boss? ”

The old ghost squinted at the female beggar, and said happily: "Ouch, who is this, it's really not a climate, in this case, the old man is inconvenient to ask, if the head is really leaving, then please leave the steamed bun." ”

He Wei looked at him in surprise and asked, "What?" Steamed bread? What do you want steamed buns for? ”

The old ghost suddenly couldn't help laughing, and said, "Haha, do you still need to ask me?" Head you don't know yourself? Of course, this steamed bun is a priceless treasure, if I don't have him, what can I do with my old life. ”

He Weidao: "But I don't have steamed buns." ”

"Who are you fooling, the old man saw that Lord Zhang rewarded you with a box of steamed buns before, you still want to fool me, the old man has a lot of mouths, if you say something in front of Lord Zhang, don't blame me."

The female beggar on the side felt that something was not right, and hurriedly pulled He Wei's sleeve and said, "Let's give them the steamed buns, it seems that they are no longer your subordinates." ”

After hearing this, He Wei glanced at the old ghost with a smile, and said, "Okay, since you want it, I'll give it to you, the steamed buns are hidden under the well, if you want to get them yourself." ”

The old ghost glanced at it suspiciously, and hurriedly asked several surrounding ghosts to climb to the bottom of the well to find steamed buns. In less than a moment, they brought out a wooden box.

When I opened it, it was full of steamed buns. The old ghost was also very satisfied after seeing it, and said, "Okay, since the head insists on leaving, the old man can't force him to stay, so you can go." ”

He Wei squinted at the old ghost, pulled the female beggar on the side, and walked out of the grass house in a panic.

He Wei and the female beggar came to the dock before, and they both sighed. He Wei turned his head to the female beggar and said, "Hey, there's really no way, the steamed buns are gone." ”

The female beggar smiled and said, "It's okay, I still have two in my pocket." ”

He Wei said: "Oh, I can't see it, you girl is quite clever." ”

After they finished speaking, there were a large number of footsteps behind them, and when they turned around, there were shiny torches everywhere, all shining on their faces, He Wei took a closer look, and it turned out that the old ghost had brought someone again.

He Wei immediately shouted loudly: "Old man, what are you going to do, didn't you say that you wouldn't report us?" ”

The old ghost smiled and said, "Hahahaha, the old man has no choice, on the orders of Lord Zhang, all of you will be executed, and now the old man has the final say, and the brothers will give it to me." ”

He Wei was startled, hurriedly took two steps back, and said: "Wait a while, wait a while, let's discuss something, how big is it, it has to be unpleasant, to be honest, I still have two steamed buns left, if you want it, I'll give it to you, and you will treat it as if you didn't see anything today." ”

The old ghost laughed again and said, "I said that you are not stupid, if you want to bribe the old man, you have to bribe in private, everyone here is in full view, how dare the old man take your money." ”

After the old ghost finished speaking, his face changed, and he hurriedly shouted at the voice beside him: "Brothers, give it to me, what are you doing in a daze." ”

But none of the people around him stepped forward, turned their heads to look at each other, and whispered one by one: "It was good to us before the head, we can't be like this." "Yes, yes, although people are a little stupid, but after all, they are not bad-hearted, and they are all affectionate and righteous to us, so we can't do this."

The old ghost heard the voice behind him, suddenly turned around, pointed at their noses and said angrily: "What are you doing, take a closer look at who has the final say now, he is no longer your head, do you understand, let the old man go up and kill the two of them, this is also what Lord Zhang meant, why do you want to disobey Lord Zhang's orders?" ”

The fat brother in the crowd suddenly walked out, and said with a sad expression: "Old fox, I think forget it, the head is good for us before, if we fall into the well, it seems unrighteous, it is better to act as if nothing happened today." ”

(To be continued)