Since ancient times, the folk have preserved the custom of burying the deceased in the earth.

Speaking of burials, it is impossible to mention the coffin bearers, who are an indispensable role in burial customs.

Regarding this industry, there are different names in various places, some are called coffins, some are called lifting, and the industry is called the Eight Immortals, and I, as a waste youth, came into contact with this industry completely by accident......

My name is Chen Shisan, and after graduation, I stayed at home, gnawing at the old people, and living in a mess. Surfing the Internet, reading books, eating and sleeping, eating and eating, full of despair about the future.

One night I was asleep and suddenly I was woken up by a sound outside, so I put on my coat and walked out.

When I walked to the yard, I saw a little girl sitting on the threshold, her head bowed and her little feet flailing, one foot bare, and a tiger head shoe being kicked far away.

I took a closer look, it was Zhao Di, the daughter of the old Li family at the entrance of the village.

The little girl looks like she is seven or eight years old, her eyes are big, she is very cute, I hugged her when I was a child, but I rarely see her now when I am at home, I don't know why she sits alone on the threshold of my home in the middle of the night?

I went over and told her to go home quickly, or you would have to kill your parents.

Zhao Di didn't reply to me, just pointed to the front and said childishly, "Big brother, shoes." ”

I couldn't laugh or cry, and went out to pick up the tiger head cloth shoe for her.

Zhao Di sat on the threshold and looked at me, with a strange smile on her pale face.

I was about to put it on her, but suddenly there was a sticky and wet feeling on my hand.

When I looked down, I saw that those tiger head shoes were constantly oozing blood, and they were all over my hands.

I screamed in fright, closed my eyes, and found myself in bed.

I breathed a sigh of relief and stroked my chest to comfort myself, it's okay, it's just a dream.

I was not small in my guts, and I was so frightened that I thought I had hit an evil spirit, tossing and turning, and I fell asleep until almost dawn.

I woke up at noon the next day, to be exact, I was woken up.

When I went out, it was the sixth master of Duangongqi in the village, who was standing outside the threshold and chatting with my father.

It turned out that he came to 'pull Zhuang Ding' to carry the coffin, and it usually took eight people to carry the coffin, mainly young and middle-aged. Now there are basically few young and middle-aged people left behind in the countryside, so Qi Liuye took a fancy to me.

I saw that there was a big red envelope to receive, and I agreed, and after washing up, I followed the host's house.

It was a makeshift mourning hall with a small coffin propped up by four stools. The parents of the deceased are not there, I think it should be a child who died young, because you can't send a white-headed person to a black-haired person, this kind of scene will be avoided by parents and elders.

After Qi Liuye did the rituals, he picked up the mallet and drove the iron nails at the four corners of the coffin, and then asked people to set up a rope and pass through two thick logs.

"Lift the coffin!"

Qi Liuye lit a firecracker and threw it at the door, and suddenly there was a burst of red paper.

The eight of us shouted, and when we got up, everyone's faces turned red, and we only heard the crunch of the rope, but the coffin did not move.

Qi Liuye's face suddenly sank, and he scolded us: "You rabbit cubs are not like words, you have received all the red envelopes, and you are reluctant to make some efforts." How much can a child weigh? Can't afford it? ”

I smiled bitterly and said, "It's not that we don't help, it's that this coffin is too heavy......"

Qi Liuye was stunned and didn't believe it, but he found out that this was indeed the case.

I saw him pinch a few times, and his face changed greatly: "Oh no, return to the soul and press the coffin." ”

I said, what do you mean?

Qi Liuye said that if the deceased had an unfulfilled wish before his death, or suffered an unfair grievance. His coffin will be particularly heavy, which is a bad omen, and it will bring blood and light to his master's family!

I asked a lot, whose child is this?

Qi Liuye was so annoyed that he scratched his head, paced back and forth, and casually replied that I was Zhaodi, the daughter of the Li family.

I suddenly remembered yesterday's dream, and a wave of horror hit my heart.

So, it wasn't a human being who came to me yesterday, it was a ghost!

She must have something to say to me, something to ask me, right?

I begged the sixth master to let me open the museum to see Zhao Di's body, sealing the coffin and restarting it is a very unlucky thing, the sixth master hesitated, and finally agreed.

When the coffin was opened, one foot of Zhao Di's body was bare.

Suddenly, I noticed that Zhao Di had red spots on the exposed skin on her neck that resembled pinholes.

Looking at her pale and immature face, I whispered to the ghost, Zhaodi, you can go with peace of mind, if there is anything unfinished, the big brother will help you complete it.

This time, the coffin was sealed and lifted again, and a miracle appeared, and the coffin, which was originally sinking to death, was lifted all at once.

Qi Liuye was dumbfounded, but he was afraid that the night would be long and dreamy, so he immediately ordered us to carry the coffin up the mountain and hastily lowered the coffin into the ground.

It wasn't until he came back in the evening that he stopped me and asked me what was going on and what I had said to the deceased.

I told it truthfully, Qi Liuye sighed while smoking a dry cigarette, "This dead man's thing can not be agreed to easily, if you can't do it, you will be the one who suffers." ”

I smiled bitterly and said that it was a waste of food for me to live, and if I could do something, it would be considered a contribution to society.

"By the way, Sixth Master, how did Zhao Di die, a good girl, why did she suddenly die?" I suddenly remembered to ask.

Qi Liuye shook his head and sighed, lit a cigarette on the cigarette mouth, took a sharp puff and exhaled the cigarette, and then slowly said the reason.

It turned out that recently, there were chattering homeless people in the village, who seemed to have nervous problems, and usually picked up garbage on the side of the road to eat. One day, I don't know what he started to go crazy, and he hugged Zhao Di, who was playing at the door of the house, to the back mountain, and when people found Zhao Di, she was already dead, disheveled, and blood flowed from her lower body, and the angry villagers rushed up and accidentally beat him to death.

I heard a burst of fire, fuck, such a little girl didn't let go, she deserved to be killed.

If you think about it carefully, what's wrong, if the homeless man is dead, report it back, what else can't Zhaodi let go?

Or is there another hidden reason for Zhao Di's death?

I looked at Qi Liuye, Qi Liuye put the dry smoke aside, and exhaled a puff of smoke: "It's useless to look at me, although the dead are big, but the old man's ability is limited, he can only say that he does his best." Go to Li's house and ask, maybe there are any clues. ”

At noon the next day, I helped Qi Liuye to Li Fucheng's house at the entrance of the village.

When someone in the family dies, they usually hang white lanterns, but the Li family is very strange and actually hangs a blood-colored red lantern at the door.

knocked on the door, and it was Li Fucheng's wife who came out to answer the door, with a big belly and a sad face.

I couldn't speak, so I asked Qi Liuye to step forward.

After a couple of condolences, Qi Liuye asked about Zhao Di, and said in a tentative tone whether there would be another hidden meaning in this matter?

Zhao Di's mother's face froze, her lips moved, and suddenly the sound of smashing things came from the house, accompanied by a vicious voice: "Ugly mother-in-law, where are you dead, don't you come back quickly, you have to lose money again, see if I don't strangle your mother and daughter to death......"

Zhao Di's mother smiled awkwardly, and her eyes showed pleading embarrassment.

Qi Liuye lived to this age, and he was also a human spirit, so he smiled dryly at the moment: "I think Lao Li is in a bad mood and drinks too much, you should hurry up and serve him, we won't bother much." ”

The door was closed, and the more I looked at the red lantern hanging on my head, the more unpleasant it became, and the Li family couldn't ask anything.

For a while, the old and the young were at a loss.

"Sixth Master Qi, why don't we go and see Zhao Di's corpse?" I said boldly.

Qi Liuye coughed and smiled bitterly: "I regret this now." As he spoke, he slapped my leg with a cane a few times in dissatisfaction, and said, "Why did you say that you had nothing to do with the dead man, isn't this looking for a pump for yourself." ”

That being said, Qi Liuye still followed me up the mountain on crutches.

It was very unlucky to disturb the coffin and disturb the deceased, but I still did it in order to promise Zhao Di's promise.

Qi Liuye watched the whole process from the side, and I was tired of the dirty work on my shoulders, and to my surprise, the soil was loose and loose, and it was not very difficult to dig.

Soon the coffin was lifted, but when the coffin was opened, we were all completely dumbfounded.

The coffin was empty, there was nothing......

I gasped, this isn't going to be a corpse, is it?

Qi Liuye's face was solemn, he stepped forward and pushed me away, used his cane to push away the soil, squatted down and touched it with his hand, and said for a long time: "I don't have any knowledge, it's not a corpse, it's a corpse that has been stolen." The soil was loose and loose, with several colors mixed together, and it was obvious that someone had touched the soil. ”

I breathed a sigh of relief, and I couldn't help but be angry, who would do such a thing that lacks morality?

Qi Liuye squinted his eyes and said, I can't say, it may be that it was stolen to marry the underworld, or it may be that someone wants to destroy the corpse.

I sat down a little dejected, so that all the clues were broken.

Because Qi Liuye is old, many things are not done by him, so he hasn't seen Zhao Di's corpse much.

Qi Liuye suddenly remembered something, "I said no, didn't you see Zhao Di's corpse, you didn't find anything abnormal at that time?" ”

I thought about it for a while, and I didn't look at it carefully, but I was impressed by one thing, that is, there were many red dots like pinholes on Zhao Di's body.