Chapter 1: The Child Born in a Coffin (Part I)

In the summer of 1946, the international situation was complicated, the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union had begun, and shortly after the end of World War II, the world was once again shrouded in the clouds of war. While most countries are busy rebuilding their homes from the ashes, true peace is far from coming. In that year, China's civil war broke out, and for the first time, Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang army began to go head-to-head with Mao Zedong's communist army. The whole of China was enveloped in the sound of rumbling artillery fire.

However, Kyushu is a vast territory, with only a handful of major battlefields, and in many small villages in remote mountainous areas of China, life is still uneventful, and it is not even known that China has entered a turning point in history.

Lijiayingzi, a small village, is located in the northeast of Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia Province, and the whole village is only a few dozen households. The village was full of low, low-sand houses made of loess, and in those days, food was more important than anything else, and no one cared too much about their shelter or the shabby clothes they were wearing.

Most of the people in the village are families of four, two old people, a daughter-in-law and a grandson, and the men have gone to fight in the army. They just know that there is a war going on in the country, but they don't know how far this war has got, whether it is fighting the Japanese or a civil war, they don't even care, they just hope that the group of young men in the village can come back safely as soon as possible, the family is happy, and they live a dull life, and there is nothing else to ask for.

Of course, there were not a few people who died of hunger and disease in that era, and there was occasionally a lonely old man, and there was nothing to help take care of the neighbors.

Li Wala is such an old man.

Li Wala is the nickname given to this old man by the people in the village, because no one knows his real name, and he happens to be a mute, he either doesn't speak on weekdays, and when he speaks, he is "Wow Wow Wow", with sign language blind gestures, the people in the village can barely understand what he means, and over time, everyone calls him Li Wala.

It's strange to say, Li Wola is also seventy and three this year, and there are many old people in the village who are of the same generation as him, but no one can tell Li Wola's family affairs. No one knows who Li Wala's parents are and where his ancestral home is, he seems to have come to Li's camp when he was a teenager, no one knows where he came from, and when everyone saw him, he was a mute. When a well-wisher in the village gave him food, he ate it, and after eating, he helped people work, and over time he settled in Li's camp.

To say that this old man Li Wala, although he is thin, he is kind, always with a kind smile, and if something happens to the neighborhood, he will always be the first to arrive when he can help. The people in the village also respect Li Wola, and seeing that this old man has always been a bachelor, they discussed finding him a wife to take care of each other.

Mrs. Wang is the first choice of the people in the village, she is more than ten years younger than Li Wala, her husband died when she was young, and she has lost the reputation of a kefu, and she has been widowed for decades, and she is also a lonely old man. The people in the village tried their best to match these two old men, and Mrs. Wang really admired Li Wala's personality in her heart, thinking that people must always have a companion when they are old, and Fangxin, who has suffered for decades, is also a little commotion. Although the concept was still relatively old-fashioned at that time, the new ideas have gradually spread among the people in the village, coupled with Li Wala's character, most of the people in the village are still very supportive of this marriage.

However, I don't know if this Li Wola is taboo about Mrs. Wang's reputation, or she doesn't like Mrs. Wang at all, and she always shakes her head about this marriage, saying that she refuses to marry Mrs. Wang. Mrs. Wang was disheartened and no longer mentioned this matter, but her love for Li Wola never halved.

It is said that human life is seventy-three and eighty-six, and after these two hurdles, it is not a problem to live a long life. Although Li Laohan has a strong body, but in that era of lack of nutrition, he was unable to survive this hurdle after all, and in the summer of four or six years, seventy-three-year-old Li Wala died at home.

When Li Wala's body was found by the villagers, it had been dead for two days, and the inside of the original simple house had become stinking. Everyone told Mrs. Wang about this, and Mrs. Wang cried bitterly, saying that she wanted to go to see Li Wala.

When they saw Li Wala's corpse, everyone felt that something was wrong with this corpse. When Li Wala was alive, his body was thin and thin, but after his death, his body was unusually fat.

That's right, after death, the internal organs produce some gases and liquids, which make the surface of the body swell. However, this Li Wala's corpse is different from other corpses, his body is not swollen, but fat, really fat, especially Li Wala's belly, bulging, it is almost like a pregnant mother-in-law.

The people in the village were superstitious and thought that this was a precursor to Li Wala's corpse, and discussed digging a pit early to bury Li Wala. However, Mrs. Wang always stopped everyone and didn't let everyone touch Li Wala's body. Mrs. Wang was infatuated with Li Wala, shouting that the corpse was only three days old, and she couldn't say anything about it. It was useless to persuade the people in the village, so they had to let this old lady Wang keep a vigil for him in Li Wala's dilapidated house. But the villagers asked Mrs. Wang to assure that no matter what, early tomorrow morning, Li Wala's body must be buried.

The people in the village admired Li Wala's personality, and worked together to make him a coffin that was not very good, and carried Li Wala's body inside.

That night, Mrs. Wang was alone guarding Li Wala's body. She kept wiping her tears, she didn't know whether Li Wo La didn't take a fancy to her, or was afraid that she would be Kefu, Li Wala's corpse reminded her of her first husband, she felt that her life was miserable, and the tears couldn't stop flowing.

She was wiping tears from her eyes when suddenly, there was a movement in the coffin. Although the movement was not loud, it was extremely clear in the silent night.

Mrs. Wang screamed, and suddenly sat down on the ground and ran straight into the corner of the room.

Mrs. Wang was born in a mountain village since she was a child, and she has always believed in ghosts, to be honest, she is also very scared to keep a spirit here alone, but when she thinks that Li Wola has done a lifetime of good deeds in the village, and there is not even a person who guards the spirit when she dies, her heart is a little uncomfortable.

She forced her composure and gasped, looking at the tattered coffin, and the brazier and candle that burned paper money beside the coffin, feeling frightened in her heart, and at the same time reassuring herself that she must have heard it wrong.

She approached the coffin little by little, and muttered, "Brother Li, I am sincere to you, I came to guard your spiritual skills for your good, don't harm me." ”

The coffin did not move, and she secretly breathed a sigh of relief, saying that she must have heard it wrong. But at this moment, another voice came from the coffin, this time, louder, and more real, it was a sound of tearing the skin, accompanied by the fact that all the candles around the coffin were extinguished at once, and suddenly an evil wind blew outside and slammed the door of the house tightly.

At this moment, Mrs. Wang was directly frightened and cried, her scalp was flashing, and the whole person jumped to the corner, closed her eyes, and muttered: "Ah, Taishang Laojun is as anxious as the law, help me quickly, Wong Tai Sin, Fox Fairy, I have never done anything bad in my life, you come to save me, I will definitely burn incense to worship you in the future." ”

She prayed uselessly while trying to settle herself down quickly in this way. It took a long time for her to calm down a little, but the next thing she heard was even more unbelievable - the sound of a baby crying came from the coffin!

"Oh, my living bodhisattva," Mrs. Wang's nerves almost collapsed, and she trembled as she re-lit the candle, muttering in her mouth, "Even if you are reincarnated, you don't have to be reincarnated so quickly, and you don't need to be reincarnated in a coffin." ”

She prayed bitterly, for a long, long time. It's not that she doesn't want to run away, it's just that at this time, her legs are as soft as tofu, which makes her unable to move at all.

However, after a long stalemate, she found that she was not harmed, everything was normal, and the candle she had relit was not extinguished for no reason, but the cry that came from the coffin never stopped.

Although the baby's cry seems a little strange in the dark night, if you listen to it for a long time, you find that it is only because of the psychological effect of environmental factors, in fact, it is just a very ordinary baby's cry, and there is no difference.

Probably because Mrs. Wang is kind by nature, she thinks that even if Li Wala's corpse changes, it should not hurt her, or she has been a widow for most of her life, and the baby's cry has an extraordinary impact on her, awakening the most primitive maternal love in her heart, which is a baby's hungry cry and longing for warmth.

Mrs. Wang couldn't hold it anymore, she knelt and moved her body to the coffin a little, first kowtowed three times, prayed to all the gods and bodhisattvas she could name, and then pushed open the coffin lid in fear. Pulling the light to shine through, she was shocked, only to see that there was a newborn baby lying in the coffin, and then looked at the baby's side, it turned out to be a complete human skin with a certain thickness, and the human skin was Li Wala's.

Mrs. Wang was dumbfounded, but she couldn't think of any demons and monsters when she looked at the healthy and active baby, and for a moment the mother's love outweighed the sense of fear, and Mrs. Wang boldly picked up the little baby from the coffin.

The little baby was picked up, feeling warm and safe, Mrs. Wang hugged him, leisurely him, unconsciously hummed a small tune, accompanied by a small tune, the baby fell asleep quietly a little bit.