Chapter 5 The small coffin
"I'm scared, Brother Fang, I'm really scared."
"This is the birth of the soul, the female ghost forcibly snatched my soul out of my body, let me follow her and watch her harm my grandson."
His eyes were red, "My Lao Li has never lost his heart in his life, I beg you this time, for the sake of me carrying you, save my son and save my grandson." β
Grandpa bowed his head gloomily, and for a moment, only said one word, "Okay." β
"Do you really agree?" Lao Li's eyes lit up.
"But?" He turned his gaze to me with some hesitation, and a hint of pity flashed in his eyes, "Yu'er is still too young." β
I was so shocked by his gaze and this sentence that my hairs stood on end, one by one.
The two old men looked at me like two wolves.
I shrunk my neck, "Master, I'm hungry, I'll go out first." β
"Don't go, Yu'er, haven't you kept asking grandpa what kind of official he is?"
I was just about to leave, but when my grandfather said this, curiosity took hold again and I stopped.
"The suppressor is the official who suppresses evil spirits in the world!" Grandpa looked majestic and upright when he spoke.
Pressing the official is actually a homonym for pressing the coffin.
Because the coffin does not sound auspicious and catchy, it is called the person who is in this way the official.
"Coffin" means "death", and pressing the coffin means to suppress the dead people and evil spirits in the coffin.
"How do you suppress the demons?" I was so excited at the thought that my grandfather could drive and suppress ghosts.
"Do you want to learn?" He looked at me happily.
"Can I learn?" If I had learned to suppress evil spirits, the children at school would worship me!
"Yes, the pressure official is passed down from father to son, if you don't have a father, grandpa can pass it on to you directly."
"Is it hard to learn?" I was a little hesitant.
At the age of eight, I couldn't learn anything in the first grade, but I guess my brain wasn't particularly smart.
"It's not hard." Grandpa smiled and stroked my hair, "If you want to learn, do Grandpa and Grandpa Li a favor." β
Looking at the expectant eyes of the two old men, a sense of pride arose from the bottom of my heart, and I puffed up my chest and nodded.
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By the time I knew what the two old guys had asked me to do, I was half gone.
Grandpa wants to lure my soul as a lure to a female ghost and put her in a "coffin".
He pushed open the west door of the hall, and inside there were two benches with a coffin.
This coffin is not plain black, but bright red.
The lid of the coffin is uneven, as if carved something, and the coffin is slender, several circles smaller than an ordinary coffin......
It seems to have been specially made for me.
Although the coffin is brightly colored, you can tell that it is very old at first glance.
"This is a treasure that has been passed down from generation to generation, and it is the same as the coffin offered outside." Grandpa caressed the coffin lovingly.
He brought the small sarcophagus from outside.
The appearance of the two coffins includes the carvings on the lids, and even each nail is exactly the same.
This thing is so delicate that my grandfather handed it to me, "This is called a coffin, and the person who has this thing is the real coffin." βγ
"This is different from the talismans in those temples and Taoist temples."
I took it, it was cold to the touch, it was still very heavy, made of red jade, about the same length as my palm.
"The Tao is fierce, it is like a golden light at night, all evils are avoided, the coffin will not be opened, and the ghost cannot see it. But it's going to hurt you, and it's going to make it regret it. β
Grandpa put away the sarcophagus, "Now listen to grandpa, what do you need to do." β
After speaking, I cried with a sad face, "Grandpa, in order to save other people's grandchildren, you don't care about your own grandchildren?" β
"You're not an ordinary child, you're a little boss." Grandpa spat on my cigarette and laughed.
"Scared, aren't you? It's no wonder that Fang Leizi was a teenager when he went on a ghost business trip for the first time, Yu'er was only eight years old, and children at this age were still with urine and mud. Lao Li sighed infinitely.
"Our Lei Zi was a rare official seedling for decades, this kid ......" Grandpa looked me up and down.
I didn't want people to be underestimated, and my chest was straightened, "I dare." β
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On the day I collected the ghost, I was so scared that my legs cramped, but it was too late.
My grandfather made me strip naked, wrote and drew all over my body with ink, and wrote eight words behind my back.
The skin on my body, including my head and face, was covered with handwriting, and my grandfather had dried up before I was allowed to put on my clothes.
He wrapped the sarcophagus in a piece of cloth around my abdomen and drew a red path on my forehead with Yangjing red sand.
Now that I'm terrifying, there's no difference between a terrifying appearance and a ghost.
When the big red coffin opened and Grandpa told me to lie down in it, I stopped doing it.
I am a living person, how can I lie in a coffin? When the lid closes, it's so small and dark inside that I'm scared to death.
Grandpa tapped the position of the headrest with the cigarette pouch, "Silly boy, there is a gap here, enough for you to look outside." β
I took the lamp and looked carefully into the coffin, and sure enough, there was an inconspicuous slit on the right side of my head, so I could look out.
Lao Li looked at me expectantly, his waist slightly bent and his attitude humble.
My heart softened and I agreed.
It was night, at about eleven o'clock, I lay down in the coffin and faced up, my grandfather's eyes seemed to become very deep, "Don't embarrass us." β
This sentence made me arrogant and nodded, "Grandpa, don't worry, everything you taught me is remembered." β
Grandpa didn't say much, he asked me to open my mouth and shoved a round, stone-like thing into my mouth and pressed it under my tongue.
When you're afraid, bite it.
He put a piece of white rice paper over my face.
I opened my eyes under the paper, and I saw a shadow slowly cast and cover me little by littleβthe lid of the coffin fell.
I knew that the coffin was not nailed, and Grandpa and Lao Li were guarding the door, so I was not very afraid.
Not far from the coffin, there was a thin wax, and my grandfather said it was to leave me a message.
When the ghost comes, the wax will be extinguished, so I have a good mental preparation.
I lay bored in the coffin, and I didn't dare to vent my anger for fear of blowing the paper away.
But my grandfather said that no matter how hard I tried, the paper wouldn't run.
I tried, let out a sigh with my mouth, and strangely enough, the piece of paper just floated on my face, tickling my cheeks, but it didn't fall.
This is used to shield the spirit of the living, and it is the same as the dead.
Since there is a nose on the top, there is a certain distance between the eyes and the paper, and you can still see it.
I looked out through the crack in the coffin, and the wax fire swayed, and the shadows swayed with it.
A gust of wind rose on the ground, and the wax fire was extinguished.
I rolled my eyes, thinking that the door was not closed, and I was regretting it, when I suddenly felt a chill.
Here she comes.
There was a sound of footsteps rattling, banging, banging, as if someone was wading through the water.
The goosebumps on his body stood up one by one, his eyes were sour, and his mind was blank.
Under the attack of fear and curiosity, I looked out through the crack in the coffin, and a slight sigh came.
A woman stood at my feet and sobbed softly, crying in small pieces, sad and mournful, and her liver and intestines were broken.
I was on the verge of tears.
But I didn't make a sound, I couldn't make a sound, this is what my grandfather told me to remember, and if I broke the spell, I would die.
"The grandson of the Li family? Where are you? I know you're hiding in a coffin, I can smell you. Her voice was soft, and she called out to me.
Like a feather tickling the tip of my heart, I bit down on the hard pebble without squeaking.
"Don't be afraid, I'll take you first, and then ......"
She suddenly raised her voice, and her voice was sharp and vicious, like a knife into my ear, "Your father, your grandfather will come to you!! β
I began to tremble, and a shadow fluttered towards the coffin's head.
I couldn't help but look out, two thin feet standing half a meter away from me, the female corpse wrapped in a white cloth, only the head was exposed.
Her eyeballs turned grayish-white, about the same color as the whites of her eyes.
I was thinking about it when the female ghost slowly bent down and leaned in through the coffin with a pair of translucent eyes.
I closed my eyes tightly and didn't look at her, "Sure enough, it's a kid from the Li family." β
The lid of the coffin was lifted violently, hit the wall and fell again, and I shuddered and swallowed the round stone into my stomach.
The female ghost pounced in front of me, a scream stuck in my throat, and didn't come out.
The shroud fell to the ground, and her lower body was covered with wounds, all sorts, deep and shallow, one on top of the other, so that people didn't dare to look at it again.
I would love to ask who beat her, sank her in a pond, and drowned her.
She grabbed the paper off my face, and the paper burned in her hand, and she screamed and shook her hand but couldn't shake it off.
The female ghost jumped into the coffin in anger and put her hands on my neck.
A cold light flashed from my chest and wrapped around her arms.
"Li Tianfang, you kill me, you dare to plot against me!!"
She screamed and jumped out of the coffin, which was covered with a layer of red light like a net.
The female corpse fluttered desperately like a fish caught in a net, but as soon as it collided, it flashed a red light.
The blow caused her to burst out a cloud of black smoke and an extra burnt wound on her body.
She looked back in anger and saw me lying on my back, and yelled viciously, "Even if I die, I have to take you with me." β
She opened her arms and pounced on me, like a snake wrapped around me.
The sarcophagus in my abdomen exuded a comforting coolness that enveloped me and her.
The female corpse pressing on my body suddenly became lighter, and a puff of blue and white smoke wafted out of the female corpse, and a stream of smoke burrowed into my belly.
The body instantly softened on top of me, and a stream of wet juice poured down my head and face from all over my body.
The smell of rot exploded through the room.