Chapter Twenty-Nine: Li Damin's Head
The woman was completely stupefied. You can imagine the scene at that time, let alone her, I could pee my pants on the spot.
Somehow, in a trance, the woman entered the coffin. As soon as the lid of the coffin was closed, it was cramped and cramped, and it was pitch black.
When she was extremely frightened, she suddenly felt that there was someone else in the coffin besides herself.
The man was in the dark, puffing softly into her earlobe.
Li's mother was frightened and struggled desperately. The man in the darkness seemed to have his arms wrapped around her tightly, unable to move.
The sound of breathing in my ears made it impossible to tell if it was a man or a woman. Mother Li cried: "Who are you? Can you let me go, I'm going home! ”
The man didn't speak, just hugged her tightly.
At this time, the coffin was swaying and swaying, and she immediately realized that it was four little ghosts carrying the coffin. Where are they taking me?
She struggled in the coffin, kicking and kicking, but the arms of the man behind her were firmly wrapped like two thick ropes. Coupled with the narrow space, the left and right movement is limited, and it is useless to do all the work.
How strong can a woman be, tossing for a while, and her forehead and back are covered with sweat. The coffin was airtight, very hot, and the only strength was exhausted.
She was so tired that she simply didn't move. His eyelids became heavy, and he fell asleep at some point.
I don't know how long, when I woke up, I found myself in a strange place. This is a relatively common farm yard in rural areas of western Liaoning. On the edge of the courtyard is a cattle pen with two donkeys. Under the eaves outside the gate, there are bunches of red and red peppers, yellow and yellow corn, full of strong local customs.
There are several big black pots in the courtyard at this time, which are steaming, and I don't know what kind of meat is cooking, and the aroma fills the cold air, and I drool when I smell it.
Mother Li stood in the middle of the courtyard and looked around, feeling that this place and this scene seemed familiar, but she couldn't remember it.
The atmosphere here is eerie, there are donkeys and pots, but there are no people. I don't know who the meat in those pots was prepared for.
She walked across the courtyard and down the stairs to the front of the house. The door was wide open, and it was gloomy and poorly lit, but she walked in anyway.
Inside is the hall, and in the center is an incense stand with an enlarged black and white portrait on it. Seeing this posthumous portrait, Li's mother let out an "ah" and remembered it all.
The portrait shows a kind-faced grandmother, with gray hair, a wrinkled face, and kind eyebrows. This old grandmother was an aunt of Li's mother when she was a child, and she was only seven or eight years old when she left. At that time, she followed her father back to her hometown for the winter vacation, just in time for the sudden death of this aunt and funeral.
The child was naughty, and the adult couldn't stand it for a while, so he slipped into the room and stared at the portrait of his aunt. At that time, it was dusk, the night covered the earth, and in the blurred light, the remains were smiling like an aunt, as if they had come to life.
Li's mother has a special memory of this scene similar to the old burnt yellow photo, which has been engraved in her mind for a long time.
I didn't expect that after a few decades, I actually returned to this scene.
Her memory was slowly awakening, and she remembered that she had been carried by a coffin. Why did you come to this place? She subconsciously felt that all this had a deep meaning.
The deceased is the greatest, no matter how strange what happened, she still walked over, in front of the incense platform, and offered three long incense sticks. After paying the incense, she saw the two ever-bright lamps in front of the statue, the flames were faint, and they seemed to burn and extinguish.
That's not good. There is such a rule in her hometown, the deceased will be at home for three days, during these three days, the everlasting light cannot be extinguished, once extinguished, it is said that it is very unlucky, and the whole family may not be safe.
She picked up the wax skewer on the incense stand and gently picked the wick a few times, and the flame was indeed much brighter.
She let out a long sigh of relief, turned her head, and saw the bed of corpses.
Since the mortuary is parked at home, there must be a bed where the corpse is parked, the so-called corpse bed. After the corpse is buried, relatives will frantically grab the sheets and mattresses on the corpse bed, and it is said that taking the used things of the corpse home can be blessed by the deceased and the whole family is healthy.
At this time, the corpse bed was very strange, and there was no corpse on the bed. Just put a small mahogany box at the head of the bed.
The outside of this box is carved with dragons and phoenixes, and the patterns are all ancient wood and pine, which looks like it should be an urn.
Mother Li walked over, sat on the bed, and held the box in her arms.
She had a very special premonition that this box was closely related to herself, and it seemed that something very important was in it.
Sure enough, there was a special sound from the box, "gurgling" and "hehe", like teeth hitting and hiccups.
The lid of the box was stretched up and down, and she gently grabbed the small handle on the lid and slowly pushed it up.
A pale face was revealed in the box, and it was actually a human head! Mother Li hugged the box, and there was no fear or fear, because the head inside was Li Damin.
Li Damin's face was as white as a piece of paper, his lips were sickly red, his eyes were confused, and the focus of his eyes was always drifting, as if he was seriously ill.
Li's mother dreamed of her son in this urn, and this scene was really weird and suffocating.
The woman cried suddenly, tears fell on Li Damin's pale face, he suddenly blinked, and said a word: "Mom...... Save me. ”
Li's mother held the urn and burst into tears: "Damin, mom will take you away." She took the box in her arms and walked outside.
As soon as I arrived at the door, I saw a person coming to the center of the yard at some point.
The man was wearing a white practice uniform, with a flat head, and stood with his back up. His hands were arched in a bowing shape, his head hung slightly, and he looked a little strange.
Mother Li was just about to cross the threshold and go out, when the man suddenly moved and began to circle around the yard. Mother Li saw clearly that this person was holding three incense sticks in his hand, and the cigarette was insignificant, and with his movements, three thin lines were pulled out in the air.
At this time, a group of people came to the black pressure outside the hospital. I saw that there were crowds, crowded with people, and I don't know how many there were. The men were all ragged and crowded into the courtyard.
Don't look at the number of people, but everyone is unrecognizable, as if hidden in a thin mist. After a short time, the courtyard was crowded with people, these people were confused, their bodies were shaking, and they looked quite weird.
The strange man in the white practice uniform held up the long incense and chanted words in his mouth. The other people in the courtyard seemed to have suddenly opened their minds, and they rushed to the black pots, and they didn't care about the boiling water in them, so they put their hands directly into it to catch food.
I don't know what is boiling in the pot, but when I take it out, it is black and black, of different lengths, and it looks like a sausage and a sausage. Those people didn't know that it was hot, so they stuffed it directly into their mouths and chewed it up.
So many people were eating around the black pot, and the sound of chewing was incessant, and it sounded like a pigsty.
Mother Li hid behind the door, wanting to go out but didn't dare. At this time, the head of the box spoke: "Mother...... Help me. ”
Li's mother cried and said, "I will save you, and my mother will save you no matter what the price is." ”
"Mom...... Take me away. The head said.
Mother Li took a deep breath, mustered up her courage, and grabbed the small box and walked out of the door. Going down the stairs, you will find an overcrowded courtyard.
She walked cautiously down, and the sky was dark, the night wind was rising, and the chill stretched down her body to the depths of her heart. She finally came to the edge of the courtyard, and not far away was the crowd of people eating around the black pot.
She subconsciously felt that these people were very dangerous, but if she wanted to get out of the yard, she had to go through it, and she couldn't avoid it.
Just as he was hesitating and afraid, the head in the box suddenly cried: "Mom...... I'm in so much pain, I'm so uncomfortable, help me. ”
Dang Ma gritted her teeth, continued to walk forward, and soon came to the first pot. Those people ate with relish, and no one bothered to look at her.
The rich fragrance permeated the air, and it produced a drunken effect, smelling the smoke and getting drunk, and the brain was confused for a while.
Mother Li was both scared and a little curious, even if this pot looks quite big, it can't stop so many people from eating like hungry wolves, what is in it?
She walked slowly over and stood at the back of the crowd and looked inside.
I saw through the cracks in the people that there were several people floating in the boiling water in the pot. They are half-sinking and half-floating, revealing only one face on the surface of the water, and their bodies looming underwater. And the gluttonous crowd outside actually fished out the internal organs of these people, torn off from their bodies alive.
Far from being pained, the expressions of the people in the pot showed smiles. Watching others eat their own internal organs with a smile on their faces makes people hairy.
Even if Mother Li is a female man, she can't stand such a terrifying scene, she suddenly screamed.
All the people in the courtyard stopped, and they all looked back at her.
The strange man in the white practice uniform, although he couldn't see his facial features clearly, felt that he was very angry, and his brows seemed to be furrowed. Shouted: "Go back!" ”
Li's mother was so frightened that she was about to run into the house, but as soon as she went up the steps, she heard Li Damin talking in the box, and the voice carried an extremely sad and mournful voice: "Mom, Mom, don't go back, take me away." ”
Li's mother stood on the stairs, in a dilemma. At this moment, the crowd in the courtyard began to rush towards her, and as they went, a gray mist visible to the naked eye also shrouded her.
The strange man in white stood in the courtyard, took out a flute from his bosom, and blew it gently, the sound was melodious, but the tune was very strange, and it sounded twisted and twisted, very much like the music of a funeral in the countryside.
With the sound, the crowd turned around, staggered back to the black cauldron, and continued to eat in an orderly manner.
"Mom." Li Damin's head in the box spoke, and Li's mother looked down.
Li Damin's expression suddenly became extremely hideous: "Why don't you take me out of the city?" Stinky woman, you die! Then, the head rattled and laughed, the facial features were distorted, and the expression was extremely vicious.
Accompanied by laughter, the woman woke up in her dream.
She sat up from the bed and saw her husband stunned, sweating all over her body and wet sheets.
"What's wrong with you? Having a nightmare? Li Damin's father asked.
"I dreamed of our son." Mother Li's lips trembled, trying to control her emotions.
Li Damin's father sighed, he gave birth to such an unconscious son, who can stand it if he plays missing for you at every turn.
He gently stroked his wife's back, and suddenly Li's mother said, "Does our son have a friend named Liu Yang?" ”
Li Damin's father blinked and thought for a while: "It seems that there is, I have come to our house to eat before, I remember that it was still your cooking, what's wrong?" ”
"I dreamed of him too."
Hearing this, I almost snapped: "Ah...... Auntie, did you dream of me? Why didn't you say it when you were talking about your dreams just now? Why is there still me in here? ”
Mother Li looked at me and said word by word: "I said it." You are one of those people who are boiled in a black pot, and your internal organs are taken out and eaten. I see you, and I'm smiling and laughing all the time......"