Chapter 5: Zombie Removal
My uncle took the lead and walked out of the door, and Zhang Min smiled at me and nodded. I smiled wryly and walked out briskly after my uncle. When we came to the door, the people standing in the courtyard "hula" and surrounded us.
Zhang Min stood behind his uncle and asked, "Master Liu, what do you think?" The uncle frowned slightly, nodded, and said, "Fortunately, it's just a white murderer, and it hasn't become a climate, otherwise it will be difficult to keep the body." โ
Saying that, my uncle took a few steps forward, stood in the courtyard, and said to everyone, "When the sun is big at noon, everyone will carry the ice coffin to the courtyard." Now let's find another bag of glutinous rice and divide it into four parts. Find four more young and bold young men, and when the time comes, each take a bag of glutinous rice and stand at the four corners of the coffin. When I shouted, I sprinkled all the glutinous rice I had been allocated into it. Also, pigs, snakes, horses, and the three zodiac signs go back first! Do you understand? โ
"Understood." The only people who answered and understood were a few members of the Zhang family and a few people who belonged to pigs, snakes, and horses. Several young men, including Zhang Xiaojun, looked at each other and did not speak. There are actually a lot of Zhang's family, but now at this time, some people have gone out to work, and the really younger ones are also studying in school. Now all the people here are the old people of the Zhang family, and the Zhang family has just begun to sum up, let them be busy with their own affairs, after all, no matter what the funeral is or what, the old people must know more than the young people, and the young people can't help much, and a few old people are enough to preside over here. But who would have thought that would happen?
Before his uncle could speak, Zhang Min said with red eyes, "Brothers, we have been neighbors for so many years, and now that my father has this incident, I hope you can help!" When this is done, I will thank you for two hundred dollars! โ
As soon as Zhang Min's words were finished, Zhao Xiaojun scratched his head, sighed and said, "Brother Min, it's not a matter of money or not. Like you said, who can be okay with the folks in the big hometown? A few of us don't have to memorize (pronounce bรจi) old men. But now that the old man is like this, I, even if we have the heart, we don't dare! As soon as Zhao Xiaojun's voice fell, several other young men echoed.
At this time, the uncle smiled and said, "Don't worry, everyone! There will be no danger today, because today is only the eighth day! And I'm not here, am I? Can't you even believe me? After listening to the words, everyone pondered, indeed, Lao Zhangtou's will was to bury him after nine days. But who can be sure that nothing will happen today? But thinking of his uncle's words, Liu Guang has been in the village for many years, and now he is a fairy-like existence in this area, how can he harm everyone?
The young men glanced at each other, nodded to each other, and then they began to get busy one by one.
My uncle was sitting under the shade of a tree, leisurely drinking tea. Looking at the people who were busy working, I stood next to my uncle and couldn't help but secretly ask, "Uncle, is it really not dangerous?" After listening to my words, my uncle looked at me like a neurotic and said, "How do I know!" I was stunned for a moment, and then I said with a little cry and laughter, "Then you" At this time, my uncle took another sip of tea and said, "But as long as there is no accident, it should be fine for the time being." I glanced at the old man, a little speechless.
"But something is going to happen later, you kid get out of here, I told a few people from Lao Zhang's family, if things don't go well, let the villagers run outside the yard, and then lock the yard." You go out with them then, you kid can't learn at home now, and you can't help me. Uncle said slowly with his eyes closed. Although even if something happens, there is not much threat to him, but for these villagers, it is different, since he promised to be fine, he can't let these villagers have trouble. I glanced at my uncle, who was there, smiled, then nodded and agreed.
Uncle looked up at the sun in the sky, nodded slightly, stood up and shouted, "The hour has come, carry the ice coffin to the courtyard!" Under the hands and feet of everyone, the coffin was carried to the courtyard, and four bold young men carried glutinous rice in their hands, each standing in a corner of the ice coffin, including Zhao Xiaojun. Several people's eyes were staring at their uncle, as if looking at their uncle could calm their nervous and scared moods.
The noon sun was scorching, and everyone was very nervous, but my uncle said very casually, "The other people who don't have a task are standing outside the courtyard!" Hearing my uncle's words, everyone consciously came outside the courtyard. Only my uncle and I were left in the courtyard, one person who opened the coffin, and four people who sprinkled glutinous rice. The uncle nodded and shouted, "The hour has come, open the coffin!" "The coffin lid of the ice coffin is relatively light, and the person in charge of opening the coffin pushed the coffin lid open, and no matter what the situation, he walked directly to the outside of the courtyard, which was also ordered by his uncle.
At this time, the coffin lid was pushed open, and Zhao Xiaojun and the four of them grabbed the glutinous rice and sprinkled it wildly into the coffin, only to see that after the glutinous rice was sprinkled into the coffin, there were bursts of black smoke.
"Roar!" At this moment, a roar came from the coffin that made the hairs stand on end. "Not good! Corpse Roar! It's time to get the corpse up, everyone hurry up! Uncle took a few steps to the middle of the courtyard and shouted at the frightened and panicked Zhao Xiaojun. Hey, hey! Zhao Xiaojun and the four hurriedly agreed, and then ran towards the outside of the courtyard. Huoyi, follow them out! Hurry up! Uncle shouted at me, who was still stunned. I came back to my senses and nodded vigorously, "Uncle, you must be careful!" "Got it, stinky boy, don't be numb, go quickly, I don't care about this little white murderer." As I came to the outside of the courtyard, the gate of the courtyard was locked, and everyone looked nervously into the courtyard.
For a time, the yard was empty. "Whew~" A gust of wind blew, and the leaves on the ground fluttered with the wind. The uncle reached out and took out the peachwood sword from the treasure bag, staring straight at the coffin. "Whoa~" and the corpse stood up from the coffin. The corpse twisted its neck, its movements stiffening. Then, he turned around slowly, and saw that the old man's originally fat face was now rotten, and the skin on his body was shriveled, and he looked extremely disgusting.
Uncle took out a red rope about 2 meters long from the bag, and before the zombie could react, the uncle quickly tied one end of the rope to the middle and lower part of a small tree next to it, and held the other end in his hand, and then found an adjacent tree, counted his breath, and made a red net between the two trees, and then fixed it.
I heard my uncle say that zombies exist by breathing sensing living creatures. He sensed his uncle's position, so as soon as he bolted the rope, it moved. It's not jumping like in the movie, it's walking, and although no one walks flexibly, it's fast.
When it was about to reach his uncle's side, he stretched out his shriveled hand with long nails and pounced on him. Uncle bounced, jumped over the red net, and took a few steps back. At this time, the zombie was empty, but his hand was grasping the net, and the zombie's hand holding the red line was emitting black smoke, "Heh~" only heard the zombie roar in pain, and spit out a breath of black gas from his mouth.
I stood outside the courtyard and was a little surprised to see this scene, I didn't expect this thin red rope to be so powerful. Later, my uncle told me that this is a red rope soaked in incense ash and chicken blood, which is still very effective against ordinary zombies and evil spirits.
Taking advantage of the fact that the zombie's hand was entangled in the red net, the uncle seized the opportunity to take out the corpse suppression talisman from the treasure bag, and then quickly stepped forward to paste the talisman paper on the zombie's head. The zombie was stuck by the corpse charm, motionless, the uncle picked up the peachwood sword and stabbed the zombie's heart, only to see the zombie spit out a puff of black gas again, and fell straight to the ground. With a "click", the uncle broke the peachwood sword, and part of the bottom of the peachwood sword was still inserted into the zombie's heart.
The uncle raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, and glanced around the courtyard, and there were no other problems.
The uncle nodded slightly, looked at the group of people who were stunned outside, and scolded with a helpless smile, "Okay, it's been solved!" Come in! At this time, everyone woke up like a dream. I saw that Zhang Min's hands were trembling when he opened the lock, and some old people were also lamenting that it was the first time they had seen such a thing after living for such a long time.
After the courtyard door opened, I ran into the courtyard, came to my uncle's side, and said, "Uncle, are you okay?" Uncle smiled, touched my head and said, "It's okay, stinky boy, don't believe in my ability?" I coughed dryly. Alright, it's okay, let's come in! Uncle waved his hand to the people gathered outside the courtyard and said, and everyone walked into the courtyard cautiously.
The body was carried back into the coffin. Everyone cleaned up the yard again, and soon it was evening. Hearing that the matter had been resolved, the surrounding neighbors came to Zhang Min's house one by one to help, and the whole yard became lively again.
"Have you chosen a place to bury your coffin?" Uncle looked at Zhang Min and asked. "Not yet, I planned to call your ...... tomorrow when the coffin is raised," Zhang Min replied politely. Well, then follow Lao Zhang's last wish, and be buried tomorrow, that is, on the ninth day, and I will come over tomorrow morning. Uncle nodded and said.
"Well, Master Liu, you see that you have been busy for a while, these are not respectful, let's go back after dinner!" As he spoke, Zhang Min handed over a red envelope with both hands. "Well, it's okay to eat, this is free!" Uncle said lightly.
"Master Liu, this is just a little meaning, you must accept it!" Zhang Min begged. "Huh? Can't you hear what Lao Tzu said? Your father's death has a lot to do with you, think about your mother left a few years ago, and your father became a father and a mother! I worked hard to pull you up, but you always followed your father to do it! From today onwards, I hope you can do a lot of good deeds for your father, so that he can be reincarnated as soon as possible. And not to do something useless here! After finishing speaking, the uncle waved his sleeves and walked towards the wine table without looking back.
Hearing his uncle's words, he would think about his father's kindness to him when he was alive and his love for himself when he was a child, Zhang Min knelt in front of his father's spirit with a plop of tears, slapped himself fiercely and said, "Dad, woo woo!" I'm sorry for you! I'm really not human! Woo woo woo I will definitely accumulate virtue and do good! So that you don't have to suffer anymore! โ
Looking at my uncle who was happily playing fists with others at the wine table, at this moment, I was proud to be his apprentice, and I was moved!
May the children and adults of the world remember the saying, "The tree wants to be quiet but the wind does not stop, and the child wants to raise but does not wait!" โ