Chapter 18: The Coffin Is Opened
The rain gradually became smaller, then slowly stopped, and the surroundings were once again filled with the earthy aroma of the rain, which biologically seemed to be the smell of actinomycetes.
It's still quite cold, after all, in a cemetery after the rain, whether it is the surrounding environment or people's psychology, it can reveal a chill at this moment.
It may be that the group of people brought by the little Buddha did not adapt to the weather in Guiyang, and they sneezed not long after they started digging, and it seemed that they had a little cold.
"Why the hell are you like me now, pulling out a gun at every turn!?" Little Buddha handed me a cigarette, lit a cigarette himself, took a puff, and scolded angrily.
I was stunned and shook my head: "I don't know. ”
Although my words seem perfunctory, but it is indeed my truth, I really don't know why I suddenly pulled out the gun, it was completely subconscious, and the action is so skillful, many times just reacted, and the grab has been pulled out.
"A word of caution, go over there, don't just pull out a gun in front of my brother." I thought he was warning me when he said the truth, after all, it was his eldest brother, and wouldn't it be a mockery to pull out a gun in front of that person?
It was a long time before I realized that he didn't mean what I thought, and that it was indeed a warning, but not the kind of warning I thought.
What he means is: If my brother thinks you are in danger and will do anything with us at any time, then he will get you into some kind of game, and you may die unexpectedly outside one day.
In fact, the little Buddha is really interesting, as long as he recognizes you as a friend, many times he will protect you more or less, but this grandson's temper is a bit fucked, this is a fact.
"Buddha, I saw the coffin cover." A guy ran over and said to the little Buddha.
The little Buddha didn't say anything, and looked at me, meaning to wait for me to arrange the tasks later.
"Take a shovel to shovel out the soil on it, and the coffin doesn't need to be unearthed, as long as the lid can be lifted." I said, and then I said uneasily: "Remember, don't hurt the coffin, don't get even a scratch out for me." ”
The man nodded cautiously, said a few words of relief, turned around and ran back to the grave, and continued to work on the project.
"My brother is talking about today"
The little Buddha seemed to remember something and reminded me, but he didn't finish the words.
"Tomorrow, send my daughter-in-law out of the city tonight, and tomorrow you can find a face-to-face driver to pick me up." I frowned, not wanting to continue the topic.
The little Buddha snorted, raised his head with a cigarette in his mouth, looked at the cloudy sky and did not speak again.
After a while, most of the soil above the wooden coffin was shoveled out by the guys, and some of the soil on the side was also dug out, so as not to get stuck when the lid was opened.
After all the preparations were done, the guys shouted and called me and the little Buddha over.
"The grave digging skills are good, and the ability to pry the coffin nails is also quite good, it turns out that he went to the grave, right?" I looked at the square openings on the grave with satisfaction, glanced at the rounded openings on the coffin lid, and smiled.
Several guys nodded, saying that they had all been under the same line, but there were only two of them who had really learned this trade.
"Routine, routine" I took out the incense, lit it and inserted it in the soil of the grave, bowed with folded hands, and waved my hand: "Get on the rope and open the coffin." ”
After half a ring, seeing that the rope was tied, I picked up the incense and patted it on the palm of my hand, and in an instant sparks splashed everywhere.
"Open the coffin~~~"
With my shout, a few men pulled the rope and walked a few steps forward, and the lid of the coffin opened.
At the same time, a special fragrance suddenly leaked out of the coffin and entered our noses, without the slightest smell of ordinary corpses, which seemed to be the smell of sandalwood.
"Is this your wife?" Little Buddha glanced at Zhou Yujia curiously: "You look good, and your figure is also"
"you, don't be blind." I glared at him and scolded, but I was still very happy, after all, he was praising my girlfriend, Lao Tzu and Yourong.
Yujia is still the same, and there is no change.
At this time, her skin was only slightly sickly pale, not the kind of pale after death, which should be due to our Yi family's extremely special method of preserving corpses. Although the face is painted with makeup, it is not thick, to put it bluntly, it looks like it is not painted, it looks very pleasing to the eye, just like the previous without makeup, quiet and quiet, the wind gently brushes her cheeks, driving her eyelashes, as if she is asleep.
The corners of her mouth turned up slightly, as if she was smiling at me, and as if she was happy that I had come to pick her up.
"Go down, and leave it to me."
As I spoke, I pulled out the small glass bottle in my pocket, and the powder inside was very striking and the color was different.
If people in the industry see these powders, most of them will think that this is a unique thing in Xiangxi, commonly known as soft corpse powder, but this is an improved product, to be precise, this is something copied from the "Tao Ji".
Don't look at the color of the powder, it's almost the same as the soft corpse in Xiangxi, but the content is very different.
"Three coins of cinnabar, one penny of realgar, two coins of soapberry, and one penny of peach kernels."
"Put the embers into medicine and grind them with stones."
"When the fire touches the medicine, it burns, and the smoke nourishes its corpse, so that it is soft, like a living person, like a yang person."
Although there are several kinds of soft corpses in Xiangxi, they are much the same, after being used once, the time for the corpse to become soft is only three months at most, even those things of the Yi family can only keep the corpse for half a year at most.
But what Zuo Ci made was different, it was done at one time, as long as the corpse did not decay, it would not harden, but it would be the same as a living person.
"Hiss"
When the flame of the lighter touched the mouth of the bottle, a wisp of flame suddenly burst out from the top, and then, a smell with a special Chinese medicine fragrance slowly came out.
Seeing that the white smoke began to rise out, I hurriedly stepped forward and stepped on the edge of the pothole, bent down and gently placed the bottle in the coffin.
The smoke, like a conscious living thing, did not drift away with the evening breeze, but slowly drifted to Yujia's mouth, and then disappeared.
After about half an hour of the powder in the bottle burned, the little Buddha was a little impatient to wait, and urged me to hurry up.
This person just doesn't have any patience, how old a person is, and he's still in such a hurry.
"Yujia." I bent down, reached out and grabbed Yujia's cold palm, and said with a smile, "Brother Yi is here to pick you up." ”
With a slight pull, Yujia's body was taken up by me, I have to say that this girl's weight is really light, and I really don't feel too much weight just by pulling it like this.
I smiled happily when Yujia was held in my arms, but everyone around me involuntarily took a few steps back and distanced themselves from me.
Maybe they thought I was a little scary.
"You two are a good match, husband and wife." Instead of backing down, the little Buddha smiled and gave me a thumbs up.
"Thank you."
I nodded to the little Buddha sincerely: "I have a black cloth in my bag, you can help me take it out and spread it on the ground here." ”
"By the way, remember to pad some newspapers below"
"There's no newspaper, why do you have so much to do?" Little Buddha looked at me helplessly, and pointed to the two guys in their coats: "Take off your clothes and put them on the ground." ”
A few minutes later, Yujia was lightly placed on the black cloth by me, and then I surrounded her body with incense and candles, and inserted a circle on the ground, every half a foot is a stick of tribute incense, and every three feet is a candle.
After lighting these things, I took out the jade pendant that the old man had given me, gently broke Yujia's mouth, and put it in.
"Get out of the way, don't get in the way of the girl." I said.
A few of the guys shuddered, and without saying a word, they ran to the side, as if they knew what I was going to do.
"Burn incense and worship God three times, and the ghost valley is secluded."
"Taoyuan Immortal Palace, Sanqing nourishes his body."
"The five treasures are really heavy, and Tengyun sends three souls."
"Let the yin wind be settled, and the seven spirits will return."
When I was holding the talisman paper that I had prepared and chattering around Yujia, all of a sudden, a terrible yin wind began to blow on the grave, blowing goosebumps on everyone's body.
"Heavenly spirits, earth spirits."
"Yuqing Dao Ancestor, fix his body."
"Shangqing Dao Ancestor, return his original life."
"Taiqing Dao Ancestor, protect your gods."
"I am in a hurry as the Patriarch of Guigu !! order"
"Boom !!!"
With the non-deafening explosion, the rune paper in my hand suddenly burned out of thin air, and Zhou Yujia's eyes suddenly opened, and his lifeless eyes had a little brightness at this time.
I didn't dare to make any other moves, let alone get close to Yujia, for fear of destroying this soul-raising formation.
But I really want to hug her now
The look in her eyes told me she was alive!! She didn't die!!
Zhou Yujia's slightly opened lips showed no signs of moving, but there was a sound from her mouth, a voice that only I could understand.
She said that it was Lu Suiwen.
"Brother Yi"
Listening to the sound that resembled coughing and wheezing, my body trembled violently, and then I replied.
"Yujia, am I okay with you?"
The girl was silent for a while, and then she was halfway through.
"Brother Yi, I miss you so much"
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I got up late today, three minutes late, is it really dangerous?
The boss said that even if I was late, he would never kill me to sacrifice to the sky, but I obviously saw the watermelon knife pinned to his waist, so should I consider reporting it before I die. Police or something