Chapter 7 Thousand Coffin Plank Road (4)

(There are classes in the afternoon of the fortnight, sorry for the late.) Tomorrow afternoon will continue to be more. ）

"Didn't come up after going down?" I was stunned for a moment, and then asked Ah Fa. "And what will they do when they get down there and bury the people?"

"Their task was to carry the coffin down for burial." Ah Fa said, "After the coffin is buried, their mission is over. ”

"Task? Come to an end? I asked, "Wouldn't you be able to come back when the mission is over?" ”

"It's not as simple as you think." Ah Cai behind him suddenly interjected. "The two people who mourn will stay down until they die when the coffin is placed."

"That"

"The mourners only brought a small amount of food and water with them to ensure that they could carry the coffin down smoothly."

"Then why didn't they come up?" I asked.

"It's a rule handed down from the village." "And in order to prevent the people who go down in the village from having the idea of escaping, every mourner's food and water will be mixed with a ********." ”

"Holy." I took a deep breath, "The one who sends the funeral will die when he arrives below, what is the difference between holding it and accompanying the funeral?" Ah Caigang behind him wanted to speak, but I interrupted him and continued to ask, "Didn't you think about resisting?" - I mean, it's okay to go to the funeral, but at least you have to come back, right? ”

"Do you think no one is resisting?" Ah Fa sneered, "Those who resisted have disappeared for various reasons. ”

I was stunned again. Recalling the hospitable appearance of the three aunts and six mothers-in-law to me when I first entered the village, I didn't expect that there was such a dark side hidden on the back.

Ah Fa ignored my silence and continued: "Do you know why Ah Cai and I found you and took the initiative to take you down?" ”

"Huh?" I came to my senses.

"And not just because of helping you find your father."

"So for what?"

"Ah Cai and I are the next batch of mourners." Ah Fa said coldly.

I was a little surprised and asked, "Then you should get out of the village!" Why did it come down? ”

Ah Fa swept the bottom with a flashlight and said, "There are not only people buried here, but also a secret. ”

"Secret?" I'm confused. "How can there be a secret?"

Ah Fa didn't answer me, but pointed a flashlight ahead and said, "When you get there, you will start resting." I'll tell you when the time comes. ”

I followed the beam of light from Ah Fa's flashlight and found that there seemed to be a rectangular hole in the rock wall of the plank road more than 100 meters away. However, the distance is too far to visually see how big it is. According to the feeling, there may be a length of about three meters and a width of about two meters.

My curiosity has been piqued by the two brothers. So I don't care about the distance of more than 100 meters. So he nodded and quickened his pace.

A distance of about a hundred meters will not take long. It wasn't until we got to the place where I could see the hole clearly.

The length and width are not much different from what I just estimated. But what made me feel the pores of my whole body was slightly open, and there was a coffin in this hole!

"Ah Afa, are you sure you want to rest here?" I asked, trembling. I saw Ah Fa holding the coffin and looking at it, and then reaching out to wipe the dust on the coffin lid.

I watched Ah Fa wipe the dust, and said in my heart that this kid still respects the deceased. But before I finished boasting, I saw Ah Fa put his right hand on the coffin lid, and jumped directly onto the coffin lid and sat down with a "hey".

"I said, just now I was praising you in my heart for being sensible and knowing how to respect the dead." I said, "Come down, come down." ”

"What are you afraid of, are you still afraid that he will get up and reason with me?" Ah Fa patted the dust on his hands and said. After a pause, he said to Ah Cai: "Ah Cai, you go to explore the road first." At the end, he added: "Don't go far." ”

Ah Cai answered, turned around and was about to leave. I hurriedly stopped and said, "We've all been walking for so long, let's rest first." After speaking, he pulled Ah Cai to sit on the ground. I was going to pull Ah Choi to sit against the wall. But as soon as I looked up, I saw the coffin on the wall, and I thought about it.

Choi shook his head, smiled at me, and walked forward.

I tried to stop him again, but I heard Ah Fa say, "No need. That's where it goes. After a pause, he said, "We have a lot more training than this." ”

After listening to this, I went to see Ah Cai and found that he had already gone away, so I had to give up.

I sat on the floor, pulled out my dry food and started nibbling. While gnawing and looking around, I was surprised to find that starting from the place where we were resting, there was a coffin on the wall every other meter as we walked forward!

I suddenly got up from the ground, pointed to the neat street-lamp-like coffin in front of me and asked Ah Fa, "Ah Ah Fa, what is the situation?" Didn't you say that the coffin would be carried down for burial? Why is there also here? I looked at the coffin in front of me and my back began to chill. scolded in his heart, how can these funeral mourners be lazy.

Ah Fa jumped down from the lid of the coffin and looked ahead in the direction I was pointing.

"Oh," Ah Fayun said softly. Then he jumped on the coffin lid and sat down. Only then did he say: "Have you seen the picture of the country's leaders welcoming the troops when they inspected the troops? ”

I looked at Ah Fa with wide eyes and said, "Damn, people are welcome to welcome the leader to check." This is a welcome to death, right? ”

"Just kidding, don't take it seriously." Ah Fa smiled.

To be honest, I don't seem to have seen him smile all the way through.

"It's filled with ordinary people." Ah Fa said.

"Ordinary people?"

"That's right." Ah Fa jumped down again, walked next to me and looked at the coffin in front of him and said. "Only a few people who have contributed to the village can be buried here," Ah Fa said as he stomped his feet and gestured to me where he said. "And here," Ah Fa said, kicking the coffin next to him, "it's full of mediocre and mediocre people. After a pause, he said: "Only those who are buried at the bottom are eligible to have a mourner to accompany the burial." And these people are often gathered in batches outside, and then sent inside. ”

Suddenly I made up a picture in my mind of going to the bank with a piggy bank to deposit money.

"By the way," I suddenly remembered that there were so many things I hadn't asked him before. So I took advantage of the time now to ask. "About my grandfather, you said my uncle was lying to me. Now you can tell me why, right? ”

Ah Fa obviously didn't expect me to remember this question. He glanced at me and seemed to be organizing the language. "What do I want me to tell you?"

I was a little anxious, and hurriedly said, "It's okay, you just say it directly." No embellishments are required. ”

I saw Ah Fa groaning for a while, until I was a little impatient. Then he said slowly: "Let me tell you this." Your grandfather's thing is true, and that's because it did. said it was fake, and your uncle lied to you. That's because I was there that night and I saw it. ”