The geographical location of the village is to look at the mountains and rivers at the back, to the mountains at the back, and by the river in front, and the village has only one main road covered by piecite stones, connecting the county seat hundreds of miles away.

To the north of the main road is a series of houses, to the south is the choppy Lanping River, and the location of my house is at the "D" junction leading to the river road.

Halfway through with the village chief and Liu Daxian'er, looking from a distance, the door of his house above the slope was overcrowded, and the black crowd blocked the door tightly, and he didn't know what was going on.

I wondered, could it be that the contents of the coffin had escaped out?

Looking back at Liu Daxian'er, who was hunched over, his little eyes squeezed, and he frowned, and a tongue full of white moss stretched out from the corner of his shriveled mouth and licked it.

When we walked outside the house and saw the village chief and me, Wang Laosi hurriedly ran over, knelt down in front of the village chief, grabbed his trouser leg and said, "Village chief! Village Chief, you have to call the shots for me! ”

The village chief looked puzzled, bent down and wanted to help him up, but Wang Laosi refused to get up, and shouted to let the village chief call the shots for him.

Slowly the crowd gathered around, and I noticed that everyone looked at me with fear, contempt, and even hatred, like a weasel that had smashed a chicken coop.

"What the hell is going on!" The village chief was getting impatient.

Wang Laosi cried and couldn't speak, his mother-in-law squeezed out of the crowd, twisted her big fat ass and was full of anger, strode over, and slapped me in the face!

My eyes widened, my cheeks were hot, and I didn't even say half a word, completely confused.

"Xu Sanhuo! It's all a good thing done by your family, you have to pay for my son's life! She screamed and ran at me again, her nails almost scratching my face.

The people around me couldn't watch her pull her away, the village chief was in front of me, and I listened to the whispers of the people around me and the scolding of the Wang family's mother-in-law before I understood what was going on.

Wang Laosi has a son, the neighbors of the village call him "Little Four", twenty-seven or eighteen years old, has been wandering in the big city outside, just returned to the village a few days ago, wearing a suit and speaking foreign languages, at that time provoked the whole village to come out to see. Last night, Wang Laosi didn't go to the next village because his mother-in-law was sick, and the village chief went to pick up Liu Daxian'er by himself, and in the middle of the night, Wang Laosi and his son drank together and talked about my family.

Xiao Si has been wandering in the city for many years, and he doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, so he told Wang Laosi to come and see me after drinking, and Wang Laosi also asked him to bring two handfuls of incense to his dead mother-in-law, but this time Xiao Si didn't go home again.

Wang Laosi and his mother-in-law thought they were staying at my house, but this morning the two of them came to see us with dinner, but they found... His son died in the courtyard!

I looked at the wailing Wang family couple, tore through the crowd and rushed into the courtyard, only to see that the coffins in the mourning shed and the coffins next to the ancient trees were lying quietly, not relatively erect like when I left last night.

Next to the coffin of the ancient tree, the flower quilt was covered with a human-shaped protrusion, I had the courage to lift the flower quilt, and a terrifying face appeared in front of me, and suddenly I couldn't suppress the churning in my stomach, turned around and ran away, holding the severed ancient tree and began to vomit non-stop, until the yellow water in the stomach was vomited clean.

I can't believe it's Xiao Si's face, it's so miserable, the whole face is sunken into the skull, the skin is like ravaged toilet paper, covered with black corpse spots, the eyes are bulging out of the sockets without the support of skin and flesh, and they may fall off at any time, the teeth are no longer covered by the lips, and the tongue is shrunk into a ball...... I really don't dare to think anymore, what kind of death can make people like this?

The village chief persuaded the people to go home, Wang Laosi's mother-in-law fainted after a while and was carried away, the deceased is dead, the living still need to be taken care of, under the guarantee of the village chief, Wang Laosi also followed the mother-in-law to the village clinic.

There were only three of us left, and I looked at the village chief and didn't know what to say, and I could even see a hint of doubt in his eyes, but he didn't say it explicitly.

"Old Liu, you see... I've been in my village for 50 years, and I've never seen ......."

Liu Daxian'er shook her head, and without waiting for the village chief to finish speaking, she walked to the corpse alone, raised her hand and laboriously turned over the flower quilt, Xiaosi's body was exposed in the yard, and the moment the village chief saw it, he also covered his mouth and fled to the side like me.

The food in my stomach has been vomited, and I am mentally prepared to look at Xiao Si's corpse again, and I still can't help retching.

Liu Daxian reached out and touched Xiao Si's withered face, squeezed deeper and deeper between his eyebrows, slowly stood up and walked towards the coffin, and circled it four or five times, or knocked and beat, or put his ear on the coffin to listen to the sound, and after a long time the village chief vomited his stomach clean, Liu Daxian returned to us, squinted his eyes and said, "The coffin is empty." ”

"Empty?" I blurted out.

The village chief was also shocked and asked Liu Daxian'er what he meant.

Liu Daxian'er didn't say much, just glanced at the corpse on the ground and said, "This guy is innocent of death, and the one in the coffin was released by him." ”

"How is that possible?"

Liu Daxian'er pointed to Xiao Si's corpse, "You see that his pocket is bulging, it must be that the kid is obsessed with stealing the funeral items of the one in the coffin, don't you believe you are going to rummage through it?" ”

The village chief was naturally reluctant to approach, and signaled to me, there was no way that the matter happened in my house after all, so I had to pinch my nose to endure the fishy smell of the corpse and the smell of vomiting in the yard, and took it out of Xiao Si's pocket, and sure enough, a jade wrench and a few gold and silver artifacts fell to the ground.

Now we all understood what was going on, and the village chief said, "Old Liu, what should we do now?" You must help our village! ”

Liu Daxian was silent for a while, and said in his hoarse voice: "I'll try my best, every family needs to be closed tonight, and no one is allowed to come out, by the way, I want to bring this dead kid and his father." ”

After speaking, Liu Daxian was about to leave, but as soon as he raised his head and took a step, he stopped, turned his head to look at the coffin in the mourning shed, and asked, "Who died?" ”

"It's my mother-in-law."

Liu Daxian's eyes suddenly widened a lot, "Oh, I remembered you, boy, if it wasn't for your mother-in-law last night, you would have died." ”

"Is it really my mother-in-law who is blessing me?"

Instead of answering my words, he muttered, "I remember that this old lady had a cane, is it still there?" ”

As soon as I heard the crutches, I immediately remembered what happened last night and said, "No, my mother-in-law lost it after she died, and I don't know who took it." ”

"It's a pity." Liu Daxian's eyelids drooped again.

"What a pity?"

Liu Daxian stopped talking again, turned his head and walked outside the house.

I didn't want to stay in the yard with the village chief, the three of us went to the village chief's house together, during the day, Liu Daxian lay down and slept, the village chief told the neighbors the cause of Xiao Si's death, because it was true that valuable utensils that should not appear were found in Xiao Si's pocket, and even the Wang family and his wife had nothing to say.

Wang Laosi didn't believe the words of the village chief, but as soon as the village chief said that he would not believe it, he would go with Liu Daxian at night to have a look, Wang Laosi was immediately unhappy, and said that he was not willing to go with Liu Daxian at all, no matter how the village chief persuaded him, it was useless, and finally had to give up.

And Wang Laosi, no longer mentioning that the village chief should be the master, took a few people to carry Xiaosi's body away, and buried it during the day without a funeral.

I didn't think it was wrong at first, but it wasn't until later that I realized why Wang Laosi didn't even hold a funeral and hurriedly buried his only son.

But that's another story.

Liu Daxian woke up at about nine o'clock in the evening, and the village chief's family didn't eat a bite of food, but drank a bottle of small roast liquor, and I was stunned.

After Liu Daxian drank the wine, he asked the village chief's mother-in-law to find a big rooster and a hemp rope, and after killing the rooster and soaking the hemp rope in blood, it wrapped around his wilted body. Then he asked someone to get some yellow paper and a knife for killing pigs in the village, and then he began to scribble on the yellow paper, and I couldn't understand what he was writing.

Finally, after I sprinkled a splash of urine in the basin and put it on, Liu Daxian heard that Wang Laosi was reluctant to come, so he had to ask me and the village chief to accompany me and run to the T-junction in the dark night.

On the way, I asked Liu Daxian why he wanted me to pee, and he said, "Look at your appearance, you have touched your mother-in-law, you must be a child." ”

The solemn atmosphere was broken by his words, and the village chief couldn't help but smile.

When we arrived at the door of the house, we found that the door was closed, Liu Daxian asked me to open the door, I had a feeling of being used as cannon fodder, but when I pushed the door, I found that the thin and dilapidated stone door was like a thousand pounds of boulders, no matter how hard I tried it it would not move.

Liu Daxian said "good guy", and then took out a talisman for me to stick on the door, I just took the talisman into my hand, and suddenly a hot feeling came from the palm of my hand!