Huang Yixian shook his head and replied very resolutely: "No! His resentment before his death was too heavy, and when he was dying, he also used evil magic on himself, plus he had been raised in this blood layer for decades, if he didn't cremate the corpses, he was afraid that a corpse would change! So, not only to be cremated, but also as soon as possible! But after all, he is from your Li Village, and you have to make your own decisions about this matter. ”

Hearing that there might be a corpse transformation, Li Changshui's face suddenly turned pale, and he didn't speak for a long time, and the others also looked at each other one by one, although they didn't necessarily know what the corpse transformation really meant, but these two words were enough to touch the fear in their hearts.

After a while, Li Changshui turned his head to an elder and asked, "Third uncle, does Li Fangtian have any descendants in his family?" ”

"Their family has been passed down for several generations, and he was only eighteen or nineteen years old when he died, and he was not married, where did he come from." The elder, known as the third uncle, replied.

"That's fine! I'll take charge of this, get his body out and cremate it! When the time comes, find a new feng shui treasure place to place his ashes, which can be regarded as letting him be buried in the ground. ”

As soon as Li Changshui finished speaking, Huang Yixian said: "I'm afraid he won't be able to enter the soil for peace!" After being cremated, his ashes had to be scattered into the river, so that there would be no future trouble. ”

"What!? Does it have to be so thorough? ”

"It has to be so thorough!"

Huang Yixian's tone was very resolute, Li Changshui was a little helpless, and sighed: "Alas, since Master Huang has said so, let's do what Master Huang said." ”

Since we still have a burial policy here, there is no crematorium in the county, so we have to build a special firewood stack by ourselves to cremate. Huang Yixian said that he was still particular about building this firewood stack, so he asked Li Changshui to find a pen and paper, drew a pattern, and asked Li Changshui to find someone to build the firewood stack into the shape shown in the pattern.

Li Changshui quickly summoned a group of young and strong boys, led them to find a vacant land about ten meters away from Fangkeng, and began to build a firewood stack. And Huang Yixian was not idle, he took out a few yellow flags from his backpack, inserted them in the four corners of the square pit, and took out a stack of paper talismans and a few copper coins, leaned over, first laid the paper talisman flat in the center of the square pit, and then used those copper coins on the rune paper to pose the shape of a Big Dipper.

I know a little about the knowledge of copper coins to ward off evil spirits, and there is a record in "Yin and Yang Mysticism", which says: The shape of the copper coin is the outer circle and the inner square, the outer circle represents the sky, the inner side represents the earth, and the emperor's year name in the middle represents the person, gathering the essence of "heaven, earth, and people" as a whole, so it can dispel evil and ward off evil spirits.

However, copper coins can only be regarded as inferior objects to ward off evil spirits, and their effect is not even comparable to that of a fresh, hot child's urine, so they are generally not used as ritual instruments. However, Huang Yixian used copper coins, and he also put them in the shape of the Big Dipper, and I don't know what is special about it.

Out of curiosity, I quietly leaned over under the cover of the crowd, stood behind Huang Yixian, stretched my neck, and stared at it wide-eyed, but found that the words "kill ghosts and drive away evil spirits" were engraved on those copper coins, which couldn't help but make me a little puzzled. Because copper coins are generally engraved with the year name of a certain emperor, for example, the copper coins of the Qianlong period are engraved with Qianlong Tongbao. How can there be an engraved "slashing ghosts and driving away evil spirits", is this still a copper coin?

Just wondering, Huang Yixian suddenly stood up, startled me, hurriedly took a few steps back, and hid behind the others, fortunately, Huang Yixian did not turn his head, he said to a young man next to him: "Go to your Uncle Shui, let him get a big rooster that crows, and ask for a big red crown!" ”

The young man said "um" and ran away quickly. Not long after, Li Changshui personally brought a big rooster. The feathers of this big rooster are bright and shiny, and the cockscomb on the top of his head is really not ordinarily big, it looks like he is wearing a blood-red crown, and he looks energetic and vibrant.

Huang Yixian took the rooster from Li Changshui's hand, held it high above his head, and after chattering in his mouth, he took out a sharp knife from his waist and wiped it lightly on the rooster's big red crown, and the rooster immediately struggled, but because a pair of wings were held by Huang Yixian, he couldn't break free, and soon gave up resistance, allowing Huang Yixian to grab its big red crown and drip the blood from the rooster's comb on the paper talisman spread in the square pit.

It is recorded in the book that the rooster comb blood is very masculine, Huang Yixian used it to sacrifice the paper talisman, but it was an ingenious method, I secretly wrote it down in my heart, thinking that after I went back, I could also draw a gourd in the same way, and use the rooster comb blood to sacrifice those paper talismans drawn by me and the cheap, maybe it will have an effect.

After a few drops of cockscomb blood were dripped on each piece of paper, Huang Yixian handed the big back to Li Changshui, and then took out a two-foot-long peachwood sword from his backpack and began to wield it.

While he was wielding a peachwood sword, he was chanting words in his mouth, and he was wearing an earthy yellow robe, this jiashi immediately reminded me of Master, who was often dressed like this back then, and there was an inexplicable sadness in my heart.

After dancing the sword, Huang Yixian bent down to put away the copper coins, and picked up the paper talismans that were dripping with chicken blood and lit them, and when the paper talismans were fully burned, he looked up and said to Li Changshui: "Now you can find someone to dig up the blood and soil layer and get the coffin out." ”

The young men who were digging the ground just now were quickly called over by Li Changshui again, and they all had sad faces, and they were probably very depressed, but they just took a hundred yuan of digging money, and now they still have to lift the coffin. However, as the so-called "eating people's mouths are short, taking people's hands is short", since they received the money from Li Changshui, it is not easy to shirk it, but they are a little reluctant, after all, the coffin is not as good as ordinary physical work, it is a very bad thing. So Li Changshui added another fifty yuan to each person, and several people carried hoes to dig.

After digging for a while, he heard a crisp sound of "click", and a rotten wooden board was dug out. Slow down! Don't dig up the corpses. ”

Several young men immediately slowed down the speed of digging, and Huang Yixian stepped forward, picked up the excavated plank, and held it in his hand to examine it carefully.

This wooden board must be part of the coffin, according to Niu Fatzi, he did not prepare a decent coffin for Li Fangtian at that time, but just made a simple coffin that could just put his body in, not only the size is very small, but the plate is also very thin, so it will be dug up so easily. But the strange thing is that the coffin planks have been dug up, but instead of smelling the rotten smell of the corpse, there seems to be a faint aroma.

Li Changshui also noticed this aroma, and asked Huang Yixian in confusion: "What kind of wood is this, how can there be a fragrance?" ”

Huang Yixian's gaze did not leave the wooden board in his hand, and replied with a frown: "It's just ordinary fir wood." ”

"How can a cedar give off such a fragrance!?" Li Changshui didn't believe it.

Huang Yixian said: "That's because it has been mothed by the fragrant corpse maggot, and the feces of the fragrant corpse maggot will exude a peculiar aroma. ”

"Fragrant corpse maggots? What is it? Li Changshui asked.

Huang Yixian didn't answer, but with a slight force of his two hands, the wooden plank, which was already seriously decayed, was easily wrenched in half, and immediately several white maggots fell out of the cracks in the plank, fell to the ground, struggled desperately a few times, and soon stopped moving. I took a closer look, and it was the big maggot crawling with mouse carcasses before, but I didn't expect it to be on this coffin board.

"This is the maggot?" Li Changshui was a little surprised.

Huang Yixian nodded.

Li Changshui asked puzzledly: "Since the feces of this thing can exude fragrance, why is it still so stinky when there are so many crawls on the pile of mouse corpses just now?" ”

Huang Yixian smiled: "Hehe, the feces of the fragrant corpse maggot have a fragrance, but it never poops where it eats, and its saliva can speed up the decay of the corpse, thus becoming more rancid." "It turned out that the pile of rat carcasses was just food for the maggots. It's just that why those rat corpses appeared there is still a mystery.

At this moment, a young man boldly stepped forward and gently picked up a fragrant corpse maggot with a wooden stick, but the fragrant corpse maggot did not move at all.

"Why didn't it move? Is it dead? ”

"That's right! Incense maggots can only survive in the shadows of the earth, and once exposed to sunlight, they have no signs of life. ”

After listening to what Huang Yixian said, I couldn't help but become more and more curious, and secretly thought: "I must get a few fragrant corpse maggots back later, and study them well." ”

I was thinking about it, but suddenly I screamed, "Mom! ”

Everyone was startled, and before they could figure out what was going on, all the young men who were digging the coffin threw away their hoes and crawled out of the pit.

Looking again, it turned out that a large piece of the coffin's cover had been dug off, and they must have seen the inside of the coffin, so they were frightened.

Li Changshui grabbed the arm of one of the young men and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"Yes...... There are ghosts ......," the young man looked horrified.

"Don't ...... Don't talk nonsense, what is the ...... in broad daylight Where the hell did ......" Although Li Changshui said this, his face instantly turned pale. After all, this place is originally evil, and now that it is said that there are ghosts in the coffin, anyone who hears it will inevitably get angry in their hearts.

The crowd of onlookers immediately stirred up and retreated.

Although I was a little scared in my heart, I felt that this matter was a little unreliable, because according to the book, ghosts are evil things that can't stand the sun, so they usually don't appear in the daytime, not to mention that it's noon in the scorching sun.