Chapter 23: The Corpse Descends
When I arrived at the funeral home, it was just eleven o'clock. Li Yang and Hong Chen spoke on the phone.
Through the car window, I saw an Audi driving into the funeral home at night with its lights on.
Li Yang said: "That's my aunt's master, she asked us to follow behind her car." ”
The two cars drove quietly in the thick night of the funeral home. There are no street lights around the funeral home, and it is frighteningly dark at night. Especially now, close to midnight, the mountain wind is whining, and there is a dead silence all around. Infected by this atmosphere, Li Yang and I did not speak. It didn't take long to drive to the morgue of the crematorium, and Hong Chen's car in front of him suddenly turned around and continued to drive along the side of the road. I saw Lao Tiantou standing on the side of the road, dressed in dark overalls, gesturing for us to drive the car to a secluded place inside.
The headlights shook his face as white as paper, and this man's eyebrows were particularly thick, which looked particularly terrifying at this time. The car finally stopped, and Li Yang and I got out of the car. A gust of mountain wind blew, cold and biting, the funeral home was already cloudy, and it was late at night in winter, and it was shivering cold. Out of nowhere, there were a few night owl calls, and my scalp tingled when I heard it.
Lao Tiantou shook his flashlight at us a few times and motioned for us to come over. When I got there, I saw that the back carriage of Master Hongchen was open, and there were many black bags inside, and I didn't know what they contained. Hong Chen said: "Help with things." ”
Li Yang and I approached, and one of us took a black bag and followed Lao Tiantou to the morgue. The place where the car was parked, there was still some distance from the morgue, and the cold wind made my hands stiff, and I couldn't stop complaining: "Master Tian, why are you letting our car park so far?" ”
Lao Tiantou was impatient: "Stop at the door, what if you let the night patrol see it?" ”
Li Yang snorted: "In the middle of the night, who didn't wander around the funeral home." ”
Lao Tiantou said: "I'm not afraid of 10,000, I'm afraid of what happens, last time there was Peng Liang's incident, our curator held a general staff meeting, and it is strictly forbidden for idle people to enter and leave the funeral home at night, and call the police if they find out, which is not polite at all." It's better to be careful, what we're doing tonight won't see the light of day after all. ”
Li Yang and I glanced at each other, and it was not difficult for him.
When we all entered the morgue, Lao Tiantou looked left and right, and then closed the door of the morgue with a "clang" and turned off the lights in the hall. Suddenly, the entire hall was plunged into darkness.
I was so cold that I couldn't say what I was feeling, and I said a little irritably, "What are you doing with the door closed?" ”
"Just in case. Don't let outsiders see, how the morgue hall is still lit up in the middle of the night. From now on, everything has to be careful and careful. Lao Tiantou said.
This old field, once it comes to the rice bowl, is less bold than the eye of a needle.
He walked in front with a flashlight and a black bag, and the three of us followed. Walk through the hall and you'll find the morgue inside. The last time I visited, it was the same place, with several fluorescent lamps hanging from the ceiling with large watts, and rows of huge white freezers stacked on the floor of artificial stone, lifeless.
Li Yangha was so angry that he shivered and said, "This place is really cold." ”
Hong Chen looked around the morgue, took out a small compass from his pocket, turned it around briefly, and then pointed to an empty space in the southeast direction and said, "That's how to do it." You carry the old man's body out, and I'll prepare the things. ”
Lao Tian led me and Li Yang to an iron cabinet in the middle of the third row, pulled the handle with his hand, and pulled it out, "Bang La" crisp sound, the big freezer was pulled out, and a white cold air visible to the naked eye rolled out.
Li Yang and I couldn't help but take a step back.
In the freezer lay the corpse of my grandmother, her body stiff, her face was pale, without any expression, her eyes were closed, and her withered white hair was knotted with layers of frost. White cotton is stuffed in the nostrils, mouth, ears, etc. It looks lifeless.
Lao Tiantou looked at our faces and showed a mischievous smile: "The corpse is here, you two will carry it out." I'm going to push the corpse cart. With that, he swaggered away.
Li Yang and I have never done this work, he looked at the position, frowned and said, "I look up and you lift your feet." I couldn't help it, waved my hand, and said anxiously, "Hurry up." ”
Li Yang walked to the freezer, took a deep breath, gritted his teeth and put his two hands in, grabbed his grandmother's shoulders and began to pull it out little by little. The corpse looked quite heavy, and it was very difficult to lift it out, and the cold air blew on his face, and soon a layer of hoarfrost formed. As soon as I saw that it was not good, I pointed at him and dragged it out like this, and it had to be dragged out until the Year of the Monkey.
I also went over and dragged my grandmother out with me. Finally, the upper body of grandma came out of the freezer, and then pulled out as if it was stuck by something, we took a closer look, the sleeves of the shroud somehow rolled into the gap between the opening and closing of the freezer, this should not be noticed, with brute force to pull hard, the clothes have to fall apart.
Li Yang and I glanced at each other, our expressions were very bitter, I was really afraid of something. He carefully tugged at the jammed clothes, managed to get them out, and when he looked up again, I was so frightened that I almost screamed.
This kid's head was covered with that kind of hoarfrost, and his face was as white as paper, like a dead man with white makeup. Look at me straight and up, and the back of my spine is cool.
At this time, Lao Tiantou pushed the corpse cart over, frowning and shouting: "You children, you must have grown up pampered, and you don't do any work at home, all pointing to your parents to serve." Is it so hard for you to carry a corpse? Go, go, all on the side. ”
Li Yang and I stepped aside. I took out a small mirror to show him, and he was also taken aback by his own image, and quickly rubbed his face with his sleeve.
Lao Tiantou deserved to do this, two hands reached under the armpit of his grandmother's corpse, and as soon as he lifted it vigorously, the corpse got up, pulled out, and dragged the whole corpse out of the freezer. He flew up and kicked the freezer back with a loud bang. Drag the corpse to the corpse bed, push it and leave.
Over there, Master Hongchen has everything ready. She changed her outfit, from her top to her pants, it was dark red, and the shading was round flowers one after another. I swallowed, it was a dead man's shroud.
She saw the corpse push over, took a white cloth, and put it over the corpse. On this piece of white cloth is written "mourning its mourning" with a brush, and there is also a big word "lay" written below. Through this white cloth, it is the concave and convex shape of the corpse, and it sends chills down the spine to see.
Hong Chen asked Li Yang to help, and placed an incense burner on the ground in front of the corpse, with three long yellow incense sticks inserted in it. On both sides of the incense burner, two ever-bright lamps were placed, lit with fire, and a flame the size of a bean was burned. There are also some offerings, fruits, pig's heads, smoked fish, etc., and the seven plates and eight bowls are also neatly poured.
Hong Chen looked at me and said, "Xiao Liu, don't be idle, help me take out the things in the black bag." ”
I walked over, opened the black bag on the ground, looked inside, and was too scared to sit on the ground. There were actually two people in it! When I looked closely, I realized that it was a paper man who was tied up, his mother, and his heart almost stopped. The bag was filled with black and white impermanence, one was pitch black, the other was miserable white, and both stretched out their long blood-red tongues and dragged them to the ground. The eyes are also dotted with cinnabar, a piece of red, not to mention this penetrating strength.
I took out the two paper figures and sent one to Hong Chen in one hand. Hong Chen put the two paper figures standing against the corpse bed. Seeing the effect, he nodded and said, "Okay, almost." ”
Li Yang rubbed his hands and asked, "Auntie, please God in a while, do you still use us to do anything?" ”
"No, I don't. Just think about it for a while and ask the old man questions. Hong Chen said.
Li Yang was extremely excited, and suddenly thought of something: "Auntie, master, my grandmother's god will come in a while, who can I go on?" ”
Hong Chen looked at him, then at me, and then at Lao Tiantou. Lao Tiantou almost knelt down, crying with a face: "Don't look at me, I can't do it." ”
Hong Chen smiled: "After a while, the old man's bardo body will come back, and she will be on her own body." As he spoke, he pointed to the corpse under the white cloth with his hand.
As soon as this sentence came out, we all felt a piercing chill. What does it mean to put on one's own body? Could it be that the corpse is still alive?
Staring at the corpse on the corpse bed, my whole body trembled, and my teeth gurgled: "Master, this, this is a corpse, right?" ”
Hong Chenha laughed strangely, and his face sank suddenly: "With me, what are you afraid of?!" All stand back, I'm going to do corpse surrender. ”
She pulled a cigarette and a lighter out of her pocket. Slowly swiped the lighter, a blue flame came out, and the cigarette in his mouth was ignited. She took a deep breath, tilted her head, and spat a large puff of smoke into the sky. Then step by step, I walked to the incense burner, leaned over and pinched the cigarette tail, leaned over the cigarette butt, and lit the incense one by one.
As soon as the incense was lit, a thin greasy fragrance suddenly filled the air, which smelled a little like roasted pig's head.
She took the cigarette in her mouth and took another big puff, her cheeks bulging. Slowly walked to the corpse bed, lifted the corner of the white sheet, and revealed the lifeless face of his grandmother underneath. Hong Chen pulled out the cotton stuffed on his grandmother's face one by one, then slowly leaned down, made a blowing mouth, and spit out a puff of white smoke from his lips, which was full of smoke and covered the corpse's face, and slowly drilled into it along the corpse's ears, nose, mouth, and holes.
I was completely stunned to see this! This one...... The modus operandi of this spell...... Why is it so familiar! Blowing smoke in the face of the corpse, who did this? I racked my brains, desperately recalled, and suddenly remembered.
At that time, when Brother Peng died, on the corpse truck, Ma Danlong was the person who was saved by this method!
It turns out that this is the corpse. Ma Danlong once said that he studied in Southeast Asia, and the name corpse itself has the flavor of descending the head. How did Master Hong Chen know this kind of evil Nanyang spell? It's completely inconsistent with her style of the Northeast Jumping God.
It was as if I had spied on some extremely secret secret, and my heart was so frightened that I didn't dare to say anything, so I could only wait and see what happened.
Finished blowing smoke. Hong Chen put the white sheet away and covered the corpse's face. She walked to the incense burner, meditated cross-legged, her eyes slightly closed, and began to chant. None of us dared to speak, and watched quietly.
As the scriptures were recited faster and faster, suddenly a dark wind blew in the morgue.
The wind came from a strange source, it was a completely enclosed space, and it didn't come from in any direction. The fluorescent lamp above the head "hissed", the current was unstable, and the light flickered and flickered. There are two ever-bright lamps next to the incense burner, and the flames are flashing, as if they are blown by the wind, and they are suddenly extinguished.
Lao Tiantou couldn't help but lean between us and lowered his voice: "Isn't it, it's coming?" ”
As soon as the words fell, I saw the white sheet on the bed move slightly. Li Yang grabbed my arm tightly, and his eyes looked at me without blinking. My feeling at this time is even more indescribable, I am so nervous that my whole body is trembling, and I am very excited, all of them are talking about zombies and zombies, and today I am alive.
The amplitude of the white list is getting bigger and bigger, and everyone can see it, grandma - alive!
At this moment, the corpse suddenly sat up, and sat upright on the corpse bed. The white slip floated off her body and fell to the ground.