The reason why it was seen as a coffin fragment was because there were faint traces of paint painting on the periphery of the rotten wood.

In ancient times, the coffin was painted, mainly to prevent moisture, the larger the family, the thicker the paint brush. The coffin is four-sided and two-ended, that is, four sides, up, down, left and right, two heads in front and back, a total of six plates. Ordinary people can brush a thin layer of lacquer, and some wealthy households will go three times with eighteen lacquers, but this method is rare after the Republic of China.

I flicked the broken wood with my hands, and found that the inside of the wood block was corroded, as if it had been soaked in some water, and the color of the lacquer was black. My grandfather wrote about these in his work notes, and he was also particular.

Our common coffins are generally red lacquer or black lacquer, these two, and black lacquer is more, black represents tranquility, only people who die will use red lacquer, used to ward off evil spirits.

What is in front of me should be the mouth of the mouth of the mouth of the mouth ×of the mouth

I chuckled and felt that something was wrong.

How to bury the coffin is actually particular.

The burial of our ordinary people is to ask Mr. Feng Shui to find a suitable place for burial, dig a grave pit after finishing, put the coffin on it, and then seal the soil, and the matter is done, which is called a tomb.

So what is a tomb?

It has certain specifications and exquisiteness, one of which is obvious, that is, the coffin is not directly connected to the soil. Even for smaller tombs, after digging the grave pit, they will build tomb bricks around it, lower the coffin, and then use the tomb bricks to cap it, and finally cover it with earth.

So, in the mushroom digging industry.

It is not a good thing to dig the soil and see the coffin, which means that you are digging the graves of ordinary people, and there will be nothing good. And any tomb with bricks will not be bad.

It stands to reason that although he is a civil official, he will not be buried in a humble manner, and I dug up the coffin at once, which is too unlucky?

Who belongs to this coffin?

Could it be that Hu Lao deceived me again, this is actually not a big tomb, but a poor tomb?

I'm a little unsure, but it's come to this, and there's no reason to give up halfway, this coffin is in front of me, blocking my way, and I need to clear it out.

I looked at the watch on my wrist, and it had been half an hour since I got off the ground, and it was five o'clock in the morning, and it was almost dawn. My waist bones were sore and swollen from the long bending, and my muscles were a little unbearable, so I thought to myself, and I withdrew with the coffin blocks.

Tofu was letting out the wind outside, with a somewhat anxious look on his face, and when he saw me come out, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Why did you go down for so long this time, I said that I would change shifts in twenty minutes." ”

I threw the piece of wood in my hand to him and said, "Look, what is this?" ”

Holding the tofu in his hand and looking at it a few times, the second monk was puzzled and said, "It's a lump of rotten wood, let you dig mushrooms, how did you dig out a piece of wood?" I said in my heart that this kid didn't open his mind, and he couldn't see such an obvious coffin wood, so he told him what had happened, and Tofu suddenly showed a suddenly realized expression, and said with a tangled expression: "Could it be that the first time we dug a mushroom, we dug up a meatless enoki mushroom?" This luck is too bad. ”

I said, "I'm not sure if it's enoki mushroom or big-headed mushroom, the coffin is a little strange, so I'll be here first tonight." I'll clean the coffin out tomorrow night and see what happens. With that, we moved the bed, covered the pit in the shaft, stuffed all the tools under the bed, cleaned the dirt in the room, took a random shower, and fell asleep.

I slept until noon the next day, although it was daylight, but the floors of the old alley building were too low, and the surrounding buildings were all high-rise buildings built in the later period, and the sunlight was blocked. The windows were always closed in our room, which made the light even more dim, and when we opened our eyes, there was a deathly silence around us.

This kind of environment is a little uncomfortable, and I was about to wake up the tofu next to me to get up and prepare to eat, when suddenly there was a sound of footsteps outside the door.

The person who came should be wearing leather shoes and walking loudly, as if he was a behemoth.

It's just me and Tofu living in these three buildings, who will be outside the corridor?

Because I was doing something shady, I was a little vigilant and pricked up my ears to listen to the movement outside. At this moment, the sound of footsteps came from far and near, clattering, clattering, as if it was coming towards where we were, and then, at our door, the sound stopped.

The next moment, there was a banging knock on the door, accompanied by a loud voice: "Open the door, open the door!" "It's a woman's voice.

This voice is very unfamiliar, I don't remember knowing such a woman, and there is a menacing smell in the voice, damn it, it can't be a strip, right? Could it be that something has gone wrong with our actions and has been discovered?

Tofu was woken up, listened with his ears for a while, poked my waist with his foot, and said, "Could it be your second grandmother who came to the door?" ”

I said, "What a second wife, I haven't even landed a second wife." Don't say it, the women outside are not good, I'll take a look, you should be vigilant. With that, I walked over and cautiously opened the door.

In the gloomy corridor outside the door, there was a fat middle-aged woman standing with a waist as thick as me, wearing a yellow cheongsam, which looked particularly incongruous.

The woman had a sideways face, triangular eyes, thin lips, and sparse hair tied back her head, and she looked like a difficult person to get along with. When I saw that it was not a strip, I was not afraid, and frowned: "What knock, who are you?" ”

The woman's triangular eyes hung upward, she snorted heavily in her nose, and scolded harshly: "You poor outsiders, why did you move into my building without my consent?" ”

"Your building?" I felt that this woman was a little unreasonable, and was about to speak, Tofu also rubbed her eyes and walked over, yawned, and said in a respectful manner: "Auntie, what is your building, we have paid the rent." ”

The woman probably hated being called aunt, so she was immediately furious, pointed to Tofu's nose and scolded: "Pay the rent? You're in it for the ghosts! I'm the landlord of this building. You live in my house without permission, don't say it, and now you dare to cross with me, believe it or not, I'll call the police immediately! ”

This thing is a bit weird, I'm not sure what this woman is about, but it is absolutely impossible to call the police, and once the police are called, the burglar hole in the room is absolutely impossible to cover up. I wanted to scold her, but when I heard her say this, I could only suppress my anger and said, "Eldest sister, don't get excited, let's dissipate your anger first." Before we came to live here, we did pay the rent, and the housing contract was there. How can you say that we live in private life now? ”

The woman's face suddenly revealed a suspicious look, and she took out a large bunch of keys from behind her waist and twisted them in front of the two of us. The copper key jingled, and she said, "See, I have the key to every room here, and I am the landlord here." I don't know what the housing contract is, and I haven't confiscated your money. If you don't make it clear today, let's go to the bureau and talk. ”

When I looked, sure enough, the bunch of keys in her hand had numbers on them, and mine happened to have these numbers on them.

What's going on?

Could it be that when I rented this house, I was cheated?

Tofu also looked suspicious and said to me: "Have you met a liar and the rent is wrong?" ”

"Impossible." I immediately vetoed it, saying, "The key here is the one that gave me the key." ”

At this time, the fat woman seemed to think of something and said, "What does that person look like?" Also, take out the housing contract you said and take a look. I ordered Tofu to go and dig out the contract in my bag, while describing the man to the fat woman.

I didn't think there was anything wrong with it before, but now I think about it carefully, and I feel a chill in my heart while describing it.

The person who rented my house at the time was a Cantonese guy, and I found him in the security room of Building 3. He was about forty years old, thin, bald, and sitting alone in a security room.

Looking back at this moment, it was pitch black in the security room and the computers were not turned on. Why is he sitting there alone?

When I think about it, I can't remember what he looked like, but the clothes he was wearing at the time were very strange, a bit like the white sweat coats worn by the old men in the past, and the kind of gowns that my grandfather also wore, but now few people wear them.

When I think about it, it seems that when I rented a house at that time, it was completely wrong.

At this time, Tofu suddenly came out of the room, his lips were a little pale, he was holding a stack of things in his hand, he barely squeezed out a smile on his face, and said to me: "Comrade Chen Hang, you kid is teasing me again?" There is nothing else in your bag, only this. ”

He handed it over and looked at it, and I was shocked. It was a stack of yellow papyrus, the kind of paper that had been burned for the dead in the past.