Chapter 2 The Chilled Coffin
The third uncle had a gloomy face, and said that if you take it off, what nonsense! I looked at his expression and knew that things might not be simple, so I didn't hesitate anymore, and I removed the skirt from the outside of the corpse in three or two clicks.
After peeling off the skirt, there was no more clothing in it, and there was a bare body.
This is a bit of a counterintuitiveness.
The third uncle stared at the corpse, and his face became even more ugly. When I came back to my senses, I noticed that the little girl's snow-white body had a circle of stitches on her neck, as well as a circle of stitches on her arms and thighs.
In this way, the head and limbs of this corpse were actually sewn with needles and threads?
It's the first time I've seen anything so weird. The third uncle told me not to stare at it, and quickly put the clothes back on for others. I was about to crawl out of the coffin after skillfully cleaning it up, when suddenly my scalp was numb. The eyes of the female corpse, I don't know when they opened, the white swaying eyeballs, staring straight at me!
I crawled out of the coffin, knelt down in front of the coffin, and kowtowed to her a few times. This is the rule of our business, if you encounter something weird, you may accidentally offend the corpse, and you must quickly make amends.
I also took off her clothes just now, which is already a big disrespect. The third uncle was so nervous that his forehead was sweating, and when he saw me climb into the coffin again and close the eyes of the female corpse, he scolded "damn it" in a low voice and breathed a sigh of relief.
After this experience, we didn't dare to stay any longer, and quickly closed the lid of the coffin. The third uncle was about to re-tie the ink fountain line when he heard a "bang" knock on the door outside, which startled us.
I went to open the door, it turned out to be Aunt Lin from our village, her face was full of anxiety, and when she saw me, she grabbed my hand and asked if she had seen her daughter.
I was scratched a little by her, and I took a breath and said I hadn't seen it since yesterday.
Aunt Lin's daughter's name is Lin Wenjing, and she is a classmate of mine. Speaking of her, she still has a little relationship with me. At the beginning, Teacher Tian arranged for her to sit next to me, but Aunt Lin was killed into the school and pointed at Teacher Tian's nose and scolded for a whole afternoon.
Although I didn't make it to the same table with her in the end, this little girl has a gentle personality, and she doesn't avoid me like other children, and sometimes she can talk to me a few words.
Because the little girl is so smart, I still pay attention to her. However, I haven't seen her at school since yesterday, and I thought she was going to relatives with Aunt Lin and them. Aunt Lin said that her daughter went to deliver eggs to her aunt early yesterday morning, but when she asked today, her aunt didn't see the girl go over at all.
Aunt Lin and her family were in a hurry at that time, and they hurriedly went to find someone. But I searched inside and outside the village, but there was no trace of her daughter. Immediately afterwards, all the relatives of the Lin family and the neighbors in the village mobilized and helped them search for more than ten miles together, but there was no news.
I really had no choice but to come to our house and ask me if I had seen her daughter.
I was also very anxious when I heard it, in our village, the Lin family girl is the only peer who can talk to me a few words. The third uncle closed the door and took me with everyone to look for it.
In the countryside, people are affectionate, and they basically help each other, and almost the whole village is mobilized without the village chief to speak. In the middle of the night, we children and women went home to rest first, while a group of men such as the third uncle continued to look outside.
When I got home, I locked the door, went into the back room, climbed into bed, lay down and fell asleep quickly. Those who do our family's line of work usually see a lot of corpses, and there is a coffin parked at home, which is nothing special.
I tossed with the adults until midnight, and I was so tired. Not long after I fell asleep, I vaguely heard a "gurgling" sound in my ears. At first I slept in a daze, but I just rolled over and continued to sleep. Then the voice got louder and louder, as if it went straight into my bones.
I was suddenly awakened and sat up from my bed, surrounded by darkness. I called Uncle San a few times, and when I found that no one answered, I climbed out of bed and turned on the light. Looking at the time, it was already more than three o'clock in the morning, and the third uncle and a group of people who went to find the Lin family's girl had not come back yet.
The "gurgling" sound was still there, as if it had come from the hall. I lit the lamp and went over to see that the coffin was parked on two benches, and the "gurgling" sound turned out to be from the stools, as if it was overwhelmed by the coffin and was about to collapse at any moment.
I found something to reinforce the stool, bowed to the coffin, and then went back to the back room to continue sleeping. Since then, I have been tossing and turning and unable to sleep, and I always feel unsteady. After a long while, I fell asleep in a daze, and I had a dream in the middle, dreaming of the Lin family's girl.
In fact, it can't be said that it is the girl, but the clothes she wears are very similar to her, and she is draped in long hair, and her height and posture are about the same, and she runs towards me from a distance. When I got closer, I noticed that her head was turned backwards one hundred and eighty degrees, and her hands and feet were crawling upside down.
I woke up in a cold sweat. When I looked outside, the sky was already dark. Soon I heard the sound of the door opening, it was the third uncle and they came back. I got out of bed and asked, but the third uncle said that he didn't find it.
I felt sad and went back to bed. After that, I never fell asleep again, and I always thought about the dream I had before, and I always felt that something was strange.
By noon the next day, things were taking place. Someone picked up the corpse of a female baby in the pond at the east end of the village, whose face had been gnawed by fish and shrimp, and the corpse was already swollen. I heard that it was entangled in the aquatic plants in the pond and sank to the bottom of the water without floating.
Aunt Lin and her family collapsed at that time, rushed out of the crowd and cried and grabbed the ground, crying "girl", crying heartbreakingly. But later, Lin Wenjing and her aunt came to see it, and said on the spot that it was not right, it was not their family Jing'er who died.
One is that the drowned little girl was dressed differently from their Jing'er.
The second is that since their family Jing'er was born, there is a red birthmark the size of a fingernail on her buttocks, which this girl does not have.
When Aunt Lin heard this, she rushed over and turned the unrecognizable corpse inside and out.
In the end, it was confirmed that it was not their daughter, but a stupid girl with a brain problem in the next village, who somehow fell into the water and drowned in the pond.
The village chief led people to continue the search, especially focusing on the nearby ponds and rivers. The third uncle searched for the group of people in the early morning, came back and slept for a while and got up to help, and was busy until the evening. I stayed at home and cooked the food and waited for him to come back and eat.
I don't know if it's because of the Lin family's girl, which makes me feel a pimple in my heart, every time I see the coffin parked in the hall, I always feel panicked. So he took two white candles, lit them in front of the coffin, inserted them in front of the coffin, and bowed to the coffin with his palms together.
Just as I was about to go back to the back room, suddenly there was an inexplicable gust of wind in the room, and the candle flame was blown bright and extinguished, and I shivered from the cold. Then I heard a loud "clang", and one of the two benches collapsed, and the coffin fell, and even the coffin lid was thrown out.
The little girl's body rolled to the ground, her white face was pressed to the ground, and her hair was messy. With his eyes open, his white and dangling eyeballs seemed to be staring at me.
My scalp tingled, and I said a few sins, ran over and picked up the body, and stuffed it back into the coffin. The strange thing is that the corpse is unexpectedly heavy, and it doesn't seem to be the weight of a little girl at all. It took me all the strength to get her inside.
Later, I carried forward my professionalism and carefully combed her messy hair, smoothed out her wrinkled skirt, and groomed her.
But I just feel a little weird, and my heart is hairy. Later, after sitting in the back room for a while, I remembered that the female corpse just now fell to the ground and was dismantled, a bit like the girl of the Lin family who crawled towards me in a dream.
I waited for a long time, but I didn't see the third uncle and them come back, and I was a little restless, so I went back to the hall, knelt down and kowtowed to the coffin a few times, and then recited some Buddha blessings, there are no taboos or something. After that, three sticks of incense were burned in front of the coffin.
When the incense thread was halfway burned, I climbed the wall of the coffin and climbed into the coffin, carefully turning the female corpse over and making her turn her back.
Then lifted her skirt.
I had a creepy guess that I wanted to know if she had a red birthmark the size of a fingernail on her buttocks......