Chapter 24 The coffin of the mourning hall cannot be suppressed
Zen Master Yongxiang rushed to Leijia Village, but he didn't come alone, and he brought a little monk with him.
The little monk looks very similar to Shi Xiaolong in "New Oolong Courtyard", his little black eyes are very smart, turning slightly, and his name is also very similar, he is actually called Shi Xiaohu.
This name reminds me of the little tiger in Xiangxi Miao Village.
We went out with Lei Gang and his party to greet him, Yongxiang Zen Master and Lei Gang and others had a brief chat, let them mourn and change, looked at me and Ma Yiao, folded their hands and saluted, and then said: "Two donors, I hurry up here, I thought it would be faster, but I didn't expect to fall behind you." β
Ma Yiao greeted him, and then explained: "Originally, there were some things at hand, but compared to other things, this side was more anxious, so I put other things on hold and rushed over to take a look." β
A few people chatted and walked towards the mourning hall.
After a brief speech with us, Zen Master Yongxiang went over to put a stick of incense on his lay disciples.
He folded his hands for a long time, then sighed and said: "I told him at the beginning, with his blessing, he will not be able to accept such treasures, and he should send them out as soon as possible, and he also promised to do it well, saying that he would dispose of it when he returned, and only after I received this bad news did he think about it - things, he should not have sent them away at all, right?" β
Yongxiang Zen Master has a respected status, and there are not many people around him, so he didn't beat around the bush and talked to Lei Gang directly.
Na Lei Gang hesitated for a moment, and said with a long sigh: "In my father's life, he was most obsessed with cultivation, almost obsessed, and that thing was said to be able to change his understanding of the roots, so how could he give it up?" β
Zen Master Yongxiang said, "Where is that thing now?" β
Lei Gang shook his head and said I don't know, since my father died, no one has seen me, and I have found someone to rummage through the entire courtyard, and all possible hiding places have been rummaged several times, but nothing has been seen.
Zen Master Yongxiang asked again, "How did your father die?" β
Lei Gang said slowly, as just now.
Repeatedly talking about his father's death, his mood was a little low, his face was depressed, obviously very uncomfortable, Yongxiang Zen Master sighed and said: "If this is the case, I am afraid that he has fallen into the evil magic - is the place still preserved?" Take us to see it. β
Lei Gang said: "It should be like this. β
He took us to the backyard, and in addition to me, Ma Yiao, and Yongxiang Zen Master and apprentice, he also brought Lei Gang's son Lei Meng, and a seventeen or eighteen-year-old nephew. β
Lei just nodded and said yes, the county public security bureau came that day, and after a preliminary examination, it was an acute myocardial infarction and gallbladder rupture and died, and they planned to take it back for autopsy, but I refused.
Zen Master Yongxiang nodded and said that there is indeed no need for dissection, your father was scared to death alive.
Lei Gang was a little puzzled, saying that my father locked him in the cellar by himself at that time, and there was no one in it, how could he be scared to death?
Zen Master Yongxiang sighed and said that there are too many ways to do this in this world......
We came to the mouth of the cellar in the backyard, which had been built with a cement cover, but because it had been forcibly opened, it had blown a gap in it, and then people came and went, and the bodies were transported, and the mouth was a mess, and there was a wooden ladder on the side for going up and down.
Zen Master Yongxiang looked at the pile of rubble at the mouth for a while and asked, "This place is very soundproof, how did you hear the screams?" β
Lei Gang pointed to his son Lei Meng and said, "His ears are sharp, he heard, he told us." β
Zen Master Yongxiang looked at Lei Meng and said What did you hear?
Lei Meng said: "It's a cry for help, and then there are screams and so on, not only I heard it, when I called my dad and the others over, at the mouth of the cellar, everyone heard it." β
Zen Master Yongxiang nodded and said to us, "Go down and have a look?" β
Ma Yiao nodded and said okay.
The group followed the wooden ladder and went down to the cellar one by one, and found that the cellar was quite wide, about one hundred and thirty-four square meters, and it was full of miscellaneous items, and some grains and the like, and in the middle of the open space, a compartment was made, in which a lot of mahogany furniture and the like were placed.
Ray just told us that his father died on that mahogany chair.
When he died, his whole body was curled up together, sweating like pulp, his eyes rolled white, saliva flowed out, and there was feces and urine in his crotch, and the death statue was quite ugly.
At that time, several people who poured into the cellar vomited, and Lei Gang's nephew vomited the worst, and he did not recover for several days.
And it is so miserable, as children and grandchildren, Lei Gang and others felt more and more humiliated, suspicious in their hearts, thinking of all kinds of possibilities, trembling, and on full alert, so they felt our suspicion just now, and brought a large number of people to come over to ask for an explanation.
Zen Master Yongxiang asked, "Have you searched this place?" β
Lei Gang nodded, and said that he must have searched it, and all the places were rummaged, otherwise it would not be so messy, but ...... In the end, there is still no trace of the murderer - Mage, tell us, what is the situation, can this be so?
Zen Master Yongxiang said: "The methods of the cultivation world are so strange that you can't find them, and it's normal for you to find them - think about the previous owners of that hoodoo, and you will know that your father is nothing." β
Lei Gang said, "What do you mean, is that the disaster that that thing brought to my father?" β
Zen Master Yongxiang shook his head and said that I can't determine the current situation.
Ma Yiao said at this time: "Brother Lei, you don't mind if we look around in the cellar, right?" β
Lei Gang said that he naturally doesn't mind, but if you want to search for any clues, I'm afraid you will be disappointed, and we have checked many times before this.
Ma Yiao got permission, and didn't argue anything with him, and began to search around the cellar.
Zen Master Yongxiang also followed and searched everywhere, looking very carefully.
I'm the least good at this kind of thing, so I can only follow Ma Yiao, watch him rummage through it, and occasionally help move some things and fight them.
About a quarter of an hour later, Ma Yiao noticed that something was wrong, and went to move a large jar of pickled vegetables, and moved it to the side, revealing a hole two fists large, and he asked me, "Is there a flashlight?" β
I took out a flashlight from the gossip bag and handed it to him, and Ma Yiao looked inside, and found that the hole was very deep, and I didn't know where it leads.
When the rest of the people saw movement here, they all came over and asked, "What's wrong?" β
Ma Yiao let go of his position and looked at others, Lei Gang glanced at it and said, "This is a mouse hole, right?" Although our cellar has been renovated, it is certainly not guaranteed that there will be no rats, after all, it is a rural area, and there is no way to do it......"
Zen Master Yongxiang shook his head, pointed to the cave and said, "Ordinary mouse holes are not so big. β
Indeed, the entrance to the cave is about the size of two fists of an adult, how big can a rat be able to enter and exit?
"Is it a snake?" Lei Gang's nephew asked.
Ma Yiao stretched out his hand, touched the entrance of the cave, shook his head and said, "It's not a snake...... Hey, what is it? β
He fumbled around and picked up a golden hair.
Ma Yiao put it on his nose and sucked, shook his head and said, "There is no smell of rats, this, what kind of animal hair is this?" β
Zen Master Yongxiang stretched out his hand and said, "I'll take a look." β
Ma Yiao handed it to him, and Zen Master Yongxiang took it, looked at it with light, shook his head, and said that he had not seen it.
He said to Ma Yiao: "I have a junior brother who has a lot of research on this animal, if it is convenient, I will bring it back and let him help take a look, right?" β
Ma Yiao nodded and said that this is the best.
After searching for a while, everyone gathered in the middle of the cellar, and Ma Yiao said: "There are many doubts about Mr. Lei's death, but the suspicion of that small hole is very great, if it is possible, it may have a miraculous effect if it is possible to grope along that placeβit's just that this thing is easier said than done." β
Indeed, the Lei family's cellar was reinforced with reinforced concrete pillars and concrete, but it was really strange that such a rat hole still appeared.
And we want to dig up the past, which is a big project.
Unless......
Zen Master Yongxiang offered to have his disciple Shi Xiaohu send Mao back to Inner Shaolin and give it to his junior brother.
His younger brother knows the language of beasts, can communicate with animals, and has a lot of pets, maybe there will be some unexpected methods.
We nodded and said that it was just right, that was the trouble.
The group walked out of the cellar and walked to the side of the hall, and a half-old man with a mustache and goat's beard came over, bowed his hand to Zen Master Yongxiang and said, "Master, meet again." β
This person is the master invited by the Lei family to do things.
Zen Master Yongxiang obviously knew him, and after a brief salute, he asked him about what he had done in the past few days, and the man was very respectful and answered one by one.
He answered probably well, and Zen Master Yongxiang couldn't find fault with it, nodded and said, "My apprentice is a blessed man, it's a pity." I may live here today, so I will recite the scriptures for him all night, and help him to do so. β
Lei Gang and the magic stick were very excited, and hurriedly agreed.
After Zen Master Yongxiang sent off his apprentice, he recited the scriptures and guarded the spirit in the mourning hall, and Ma Yiao and I naturally accompanied him.
In the meantime, Lei Gang ran before and after, busy entertaining, and he was also very troubled.
Sitting so peacefully, I also had a meal in the middle, and before I knew it, it was evening, and when it was almost eleven o'clock, the guests of the Lei family were all gone, and they would be buried tomorrow, and everything was busy, and the Lei family also went to rest one after another, and in the mourning hall, only Lei Gang and Lei Meng's father and son were left.
I was sitting on the futon, a little drowsy, and at that moment, suddenly, I heard a strange "knock, knock" sound from the coffin.
At first I thought it was a delusion, but when I pricked up my ears, the sound was very distinct.
Knock!
Knock, knock!
Knock, knock, knock......
Be......
Inside the coffin!
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