05020101010101 in order to confirm that I really didn't have worm Gu, after breakfast, I walked out of the village from the east exit dressed neatly. Then walk through the woods to the Valley of the Snakehead. Although the wind in Taniguchi was very strong, I seemed to have developed some tolerance for the cold after last night's toss, and I didn't think it would be anything when the wind blew on my face.

I walked through the valley in the wind, and I still felt good all over my body when I walked outside. Nowhere does it hurt and nowhere does it feel bulging.

The guide's eldest brother made an appointment with me to come and pick me up tomorrow afternoon, and I didn't think that if I continued to stay in the village overnight, I would fall into the Gu, so I turned back to the village the same way.

I discussed it with Wei Wu, and then decided to go to the cemetery in the west of the village again. Originally, I was expecting to find some people from the village to help, but when the people in the village heard that we were going to dig the grave of the old lady, their faces showed fear, and in the end, only Cao Yuan was willing to come with me.

The three of us went to the grave of the old black lady again.

The sun is not very abundant in winter. However, it can still dispel the miasma of the entire graveyard. I went down to the grave and pried open the old lady's coffin with the shovel I had thrown here yesterday. As the lid of the coffin was opened, a stream of black ash erupted from it. I choked and coughed.

I waved my hand to fan the cigarette away, then leaned over and looked inside the coffin. Inside lay a dried corpse. The clothes on the corpse were already in tatters, but these were normal, and there was really nothing unusual about the bones on the surface.

Yesterday a large number of snakes appeared in the coffin, this is certainly not an accidental phenomenon, even if there is no problem with the bones, there must be articles in this coffin.

So Wei Wu and Cao Yuan, the three of us got the old lady's coffin out of the grave, and then dismantled the whole coffin into pieces. When the coffin opened, a stream of black ash spread out, accompanied by an indescribable stench.

Cao Yuan's nose was very smart, and as soon as the smell came out, he immediately pointed to the corpse's hand and said, "Where the smell comes from!" "

I hurriedly dragged Cao Yuan back two steps and handed over the rest to Wei Wu, an expert, to deal with.

Wei Wu put on his gloves and walked over to the old lady's dried corpse and gently pulled her fingers away. The bones of her hand were already brittle, and I felt that Wei Wu didn't exert any strength, and her fingers snapped and snapped, and then a black object fell out of her hand.

Wei Wu didn't go directly to get the thing, but first took out a glass bottle, then used tweezers to pick up the black thing, and then put it into the bottle, acting carefully as if he was doing something chemical.

"What's that?" I asked from afar.

Wei Wu picked up the bottle and looked at it carefully, then said to me, "It seems to be a bone." "

"Bones? Black? I asked.

"Hmmm! It should be a bone that has been soaked in poison. Wei Wu replied.

"Did this old lady poison herself before she died?" I continued to ask.

"No, this looks more like it was used to prevent insects and rats from eating corpses, and I think it may have been put in her hands by the descendants of this old lady."

"Oh, that's not dangerous, isn't it?" I breathed a sigh of relief, and then leaned over to look at the black bone inside the glass bottle.

It looks like a phalanx and a tail tip. I didn't study seriously when I was in school, and I didn't know what the snake's body structure was, but if there were bones in the snake's body, I would rather believe that the black bone was the snake's tailbone.

Wei Wu put the black bone away, and then went to check if there was anything else in the old lady's clothes, and after checking it, we removed the bones and looked at the coffin board under her, but we didn't find anything else except the black bones.

When I had found nothing, I went down again to the old lady's grave and dug deep with my shovel to see if there was anything hidden underneath. However, these attempts did not pay off, and our exploration of the cemetery ended there.

Back in the village, many people looked at us from afar, but none of them dared to really come and ask. I didn't bother to ask them about the situation, so I went directly to the old black man's house with Wei Wu.

The old black man was still sitting on his rattan chair today, and Wei Wu walked over and showed the bottle to the old man, and asked him if he knew about the bone in the bottle.

The old black head tilted his head sideways, stared at the bottle with one eye and looked at it carefully for a long time, but finally shook his head and said that he had never seen this thing, and he had never heard of the family using this kind of thing for embalming. However, the old black man gave me a clue, he said that when his aunt was buried, his family invited someone from another village to make the coffin, which seemed to have been arranged by his aunt before her death.

I hurriedly asked where the village where the coffins were sold.

The old black head told me that the village was called Fangjia Village, and then he said the approximate location, but he was not sure if this village was still there, after all, he had not been out of this snake head valley for a long, long time.

I am the only one in the whole village who can go out, but I am not familiar with the road outside, and there is no transportation, rather than I go out to try my luck by myself, it is better to wait for the guide brother to come over tomorrow, and I will ask him to take me to that Fangjia Village.

Nothing happened for the rest of the day, and in the evening I went to the end of the village to take a look, and the old black lady did not come. I went to the grave again, and the old lady was in front of her grave, standing motionless. I went over and asked her what she was doing, but the old lady ignored me and continued to mumble about the snake god and so on, and I was too lazy to waste time with her, so I went back to sleep.

The next morning, I checked my whole body again, and there were no insect sores on my body. In the afternoon, I met with the guide brother on time outside the Snake Head Valley.

The guide's eldest brother still came in a carriage, and when he saw me, he asked me if anything strange had happened.

I told him that I didn't have anything to do, but I needed him to take me to Fangjia Village.

Coincidentally, the eldest brother of the guide said that he himself was from Fangjia Village, and his parents had been living in the village, and if I wanted to go, he could take me, and he happened to go home to see his parents.

Continuing north from Shetou Valley, the carriage ran for about an hour and we arrived at Fangjia Village. The size of the village is not large, not much more than the houses in the Snake Head Valley, but the houses are much better than the wooden houses in the Snake Head Valley.

On the way, I told the guide that I wanted to find someone who made a coffin 50 years ago, so after entering the village, the guide immediately asked someone he knew to help me inquire. Soon, the result I wanted was there, there was a family surnamed Zhao in Fangjia Village, 50 years ago their family had a coffin maker, and now most of the family members have gone to the county to do funerals, only the old man Zhao himself is at home.

This is actually exactly what I want, and only an old man can know about it 50 years ago.

The eldest brother of the guide took me to the family surnamed Zhao, and after knocking on the door, a so-called old man came out.

He does look quite vicissitudes, the skin on his face is dry and a little cracked, and his brain is full of wrinkles, but people who live in the countryside often do farm work, feng shui and sun, so they all look older, so I estimate that this "old man" is only 60 at most, and it may be more than 50 if he doesn't get it right.

The elder brother of the guide waved his hand at the "old man", and then asked politely: "Uncle Zhao, I heard my uncle say that your family made coffins a few years ago?" "

"Ahh The old man nodded at the elder brother, and then looked at me strangely.

"He's from the city, he has some real skills, he lived in the Snake Head Valley for two nights, and now he came out without anything." The guide said.

When Old Man Zhao heard this, the expression on his face was even more surprised, he stared at me for a long time, and then beckoned me to come over.

I walked up to him, and he reached out and grabbed my arm, rolled up my sleeve, and glanced at my wrist. Then he pointed to my stomach and said, "Let me see your belly." "

Obviously, this old man knows a little about the Snake Head Valley, and he is looking to see if there are any insect sores on my body. So I didn't ask this or that, I just pulled my shirt up and showed him my belly. The old man took a breath of astonishment, then waved his hand to signal that I could put my clothes down, and said, "Come on, come into the house." "

After the guide's eldest brother finished guiding the way, he went back to his parents' house first, while I followed Old Man Zhao into the house.

There are a lot of strange things hanging in the old man's house, some of them are gossip mirrors, bronze charms and other things I know, and I don't know the purpose of some strange pendants. However, these things are not piled together, some of them are hung in the east, some are hung in the south, some are high and high, some are low, and some are hung on the ceiling, so it can be seen that these things should be exquisite.

"You should be an expert too." I asked behind the old man.

The old man looked back at me, then at the things hanging in the house, then smiled, and said, "It's nothing, it's just some earthwork handed down from our ancestors, after all, in our business, we have more dealings with the dead." "

"Really?" I stared into the old man's eyes suspiciously, "I don't see it. "

"Why doesn't it look like it?" The old man immediately asked rhetorically, frowning at the same time.

"I know a lot of people who deal with the dead, including myself. Before I came over, I heard from the people in the village that your family is doing funerals now, and since it is for ghosts, are you afraid that the ghosts will not be able to find it again? "

"Are you doubting our family's craftsmanship?" The old man seemed a little upset.

I quickly explained: "It's not that I doubt the craftsmanship, but I suspect that what you just told me is incomplete." "

"What's wrong with that?" Old man Zhao crossed his chest with both hands, and continued to stare at me with displeased eyes and asked.

I smiled at him, and then I took out a small bottle from my jacket pocket and threw it to Old Man Zhao, which contained the black bone.

"You're not new to this, are you?" I asked.

After the old man took the bottle, his eyes did not take away from the bones in the bottle, and a large pimple broke out in the center of his eyebrows. Obviously, he knows what this thing is about, and it seems that I have found the right person in the right place this time. Indulge in the remnants of the country.