Chapter 6: Lies

I held my breath and couldn't keep my eyes open, and it was this fluid from head to toe.

I only heard the door slammed open, and my grandfather and Lao Li carried me out of the coffin.

I didn't have any strength, and my legs were weak and noodles.

Grandpa was ready to take out a clean towel to wipe my face, and brought wormwood water to rinse my mouth.

When I was dying, I glanced into the coffin, and the woman's body was so rotten that she couldn't see it, and she was covered in soup and water, and even her own father couldn't recognize her.

This pile of rotten meat had just been piled on top of me, and the smell of vomiting was stronger than that of a dry toilet pit.

I was confused, as if someone was carrying me out, and as soon as my body was hot, I was put into a bucket of hot water.

The water exudes the fragrance of mugwort leaves, and the smell and smell are mixed together to create a strange smell.

After changing the water three times, I felt like a living person again. The spirit is back.

But I will never forget that smell for the rest of my life-

It's a dead man smell thrown into the pile of dead people, and the ghosts can't find me.

The grandfather took the small sarcophagus away, and the ghost of the female ghost was held in the coffin.

At dawn, the strange screams of police cars sounded at the entrance of the village, and the police found the missing body, and finally found it.

I got dressed, Old Man Li sat in the main room of my house, waiting for me, Li Tianfang stood beside his father, and his son Xiao Li Zi was also there.

When the three men saw me appear, they stood side by side and bowed to me in unison.

I was stunned, to say that I was still a little sulking and wronged, I would have been completely dispersed by this time.

"Alright, don't give him such a big gift. I saved your grandson, son. In return, you'll have to tell me the truth. ”

Li Tianfang knelt down for my grandfather in front of his son and father, and kowtowed a few times.

"Master Fang, my father doesn't know about this matter, don't embarrass him. I swore I didn't kill this girl, I don't know why she was pestering me. ”

Li Tianfang's expression was very complicated but also very sincere, and his grandfather nodded and didn't ask any more questions.

"The person who taught you to use cinnabar to exorcise evil spirits can't tell me?"

Li Tianfang still kowtowed and didn't answer, grandpa sighed and waved his hand, "Forget it, I'm done with Lao Li's favor." Let's go. ”

After they left, I told my grandfather that I heard the female ghost say that it was Li Tianfang who killed her, and Li Tianfang was definitely lying.

Grandpa lit a pot of cigarettes, and instead of following my words, he asked me, "How does it feel to be a little pressure officer this time?" ”

"It's done without embarrassing grandpa." I smiled, the look on my face already speaking for itself.

"Good boy, yes, the teeth are still for me." He held out his hand.

I'm stunned, teeth?

"What is stuffed in your mouth is a dead man's tooth, which is used to suppress your yang energy. Give it to me. ”

I bent over and started vomiting, and the sour water came out, and there was no trace of the tooth.

"Alas, forget it, the next time I help someone do a white thing, I'll look for it."

As soon as Grandpa opened his mouth, I started throwing up again.

"Yu'er, that sarcophagus grandpa tied you to your body in the past two days, and you can't take it off, do you hear?"

"Why?" I wiped my mouth and asked my grandfather, isn't this the end of the matter?

"The real danger isn't this female ghost, you know?" He smoked a cigarette and stopped talking.

"Grandpa, why did you make the female ghost treat me like a little plum?" I'm curious.

"Simple, I wrote his eight characters on you, and I drew a talisman covering yang energy on you. Let you bite a dead man's tooth again. ”

A big part of the job is to hide, to disguise me as a dead man.

changed the eight characters again, and what the ghost saw was the person her grandfather showed her.

It's a simple idea, but don't miss a single point when drawing a symbol.

It is not difficult to recognize the characters, and my grandfather dipped his fingers in water and drew them on the table to show me.

"Remember?"

It's strange to say, it's so difficult to memorize texts in class, and these symbols seem to have a pattern to follow.

The charm is the same as the one in the coffin, smart and vivid, and you can remember it at once.

Grandpa was very surprised, and praised me for being smart, and I was very happy when I was so big for the first time for people to praise me for being smart.

"Fang Yushuo, from today onwards, you will officially inherit your grandfather's craftsmanship and become a pressurized official."

I saluted my grandfather. Grandpa smiled reluctantly, sighed, and said that he had something to do. I want to play at home by myself.

Grandpa came back late.

Although my grandfather said that the dangerous elements have not yet appeared, I don't see it that way, I think Li Tianfang is the murderer from the bottom of my heart.

The ghosts have said so, can there be a mistake?

I lay down steadily, exhausted by a series of strange events.

In my sleep, I heard the sound of suona. There are still people crying.

Someone is singing.

There was a knock on my door.

The dream was long and chaotic, and when I opened my eyes at dawn, my grandfather was wearing dark clothes, which he wore to the funeral.

His bed was cleaned up, and there was a suit of the same clothes as him, several sizes smaller.

"Get up, change your clothes, and attend Lao Li's funeral today."

I didn't move and looked at my grandfather, I didn't understand.

"Lao Li was gone last night." Grandpa didn't seem surprised at all.

"However, I took in the female ghost, why is Grandpa Li gone?"

I asked in a daze, yesterday their grandfather bowed to me, and it was in this room.

"This female ghost, we shouldn't have taken it when we pressed the official. She was murdered, you remember, it's the rule. ”

As a pressure officer, there are three kinds of work that cannot be accepted-

The dead ghost who has been murdered can only be suppressed alive after seven days of suppression, and everything that happens in seven days has nothing to do with suppressing officials.

"This time we took it, and there was a reason for it. First, I owe Lao Li affection, and second, I think that ghost has found the wrong enemy. Remember, rules are dead, people are alive. ”

"But a woman died, and the Li family was implicated, and the Li family had to take a life, and I discussed it with Lao Li when I took the life."

Grandpa explained lightly as he dressed me.

I looked at my grandfather in a daze, Grandpa Li knew yesterday that he would die at night?

He's so calm?

I followed my grandfather to Lao Li's house like a dream, and the mourning hall was set up.

Li Tianfang's eyes were red and swollen, and she came out with a little plum to pick it up.

The two of them saluted my grandfather, and we went in to offer incense.

Lao Li's coffin has been occupied by a female ghost, so I hastily bought a new one, and Shuzhi's coffin and Lao Li's coffin were parked in the house.

The family had two funerals in such a short period of time, and the whole village was dispatched.

In the house was Li Tianfang's younger brother in a wheelchair, he was lame, a pair of trousers was empty, and it was a hot day, with a blanket on his legs.

He was well-mannered, with a pair of glasses on his white face, and he looked young, but too thin.

Everyone who has put on incense, he returns the gift in a wheelchair.

In the year he returned, I had hardly seen him in the village.

Occasionally, he rolled away in his wheelchair as if he didn't see anyone.

Never greet people.

At this moment, he lowered his eyes, and there was no joy or sorrow on his face, and mechanically returned the salute to the comer.

The stage outside the door sang lively, as if all this had nothing to do with him.

I circled around the coffin, and Grandpa Li was wearing new clothes, but his face was covered and he couldn't see death.

Those of us who die badly here have to "hide their faces".

The incense lit in the room made me uncomfortable, and the moment I stepped out of the door, I felt like a pinprick in my back, and I turned my head to meet the eyes of the person peeking at me.

It was Li Tianwei, the cripple, he quickly lowered his eyes, but that look still scared me.

It's cold and cold, and it's full of resentment.

The sun slowly rose, getting hotter and hotter, and the villagers crowded into the yard gossiping.

I was playing with other children in the crowd and heard someone say, "It's a shame for Tianwei." ”

"If it weren't for the car accident, he wouldn't be able to even get a daughter-in-law now."

"Isn't Li Tianfang panicked if he has money to burn, see if he burns it or not, hum."

"It's just that if it weren't for him, my brother wouldn't have had a car accident."

They were discussing when Li Tianwei was in college, when Uncle Tianfang's business was just beginning to flourish.

There are two boys in the Li family, Tianwei is extremely good at learning, and Li Tianfang loves this younger brother very much.

The first money I made bought my brother a 250 motorcycle, and I was going to die.

Li Tianwei was going to college in a big city at the time, and Uncle Tianfang consigned the motorcycle to school as a birthday gift and gave it to his younger brother.

When he went out to play with his girlfriend, he collided head-on with a large car, and his girlfriend died on the spot.

He was in a severe coma and lost an entire leg.

Li Tianfang lost a lot of money, went to the city again and again, and persuaded his younger brother to go home to help him do business.

Li Tianwei only came back this year, and it was Uncle Tianfang who brought him back in a luxury car.

He lives like a shadow in the village.

I hid in the crowd and peeked at Li Tianwei, he was like a paper man, without a sense of existence.

His house was close to Li Tianfang's house, and the lights in his house were always dark when the accident occurred, and he was indifferent to the affairs of his brother's house.

At noon, Li Tianfang said that he would be buried now, and the heat would not stop.

The rules of the village elders stopped for at least three days, and as soon as Li Tianfang announced, everyone began to gossip again.

Grandpa stood by the altar, swallowing clouds and mist, one hand behind his back, frowning.

In the afternoon, the two members of the Li family were buried in the ancestral grave, and Li Tianfang held a night banquet to thank the villagers for coming to attend his father's funeral, so that the old father could leave with dignity.

Before the feast was over, my grandfather took me away quietly.

We walked along the path of the noon burial to the Li family's ancestral cemetery, where a new grave was still wet in the soil.