I trembled and pressed my hands into the dirt, the ancient tree in front of me was split by last night's lightning, and the broken trunk turned out to be hollow and square, and a red coffin appeared in it, as if the key was inserted into the keyhole and embedded in it, just right, the red lacquer was like blood, and it seemed to flow slowly in the sun... No, that's blood, dried blood!

I looked at the scene in front of me in disbelief, this... How could there be such a big coffin in the ancient tree that I grew up playing with? And who is buried inside?

The people in the village were frightened when they saw the coffin, and they said everything.

"I've long heard that Old Lady Xu is engaged in witchcraft, maybe it's the little ghost she raised, don't move, Old Lady Xu Bacheng was cursed to death by the things in this coffin, otherwise how could the coffin be rushed together with her death?"

"I heard that someone in his yard heard crying last night, maybe it was the sound of the ghost in this coffin."

"Old Lady Xu's death is too strange, their family is evil, you see that Sanhuo has no parents since he was a child, maybe it was Old Lady Xu who died, and he was buried in this coffin."

"She's probably not Sanhuo's grandma at all!"

“......”

All sorts of words scraped through my ears like knives, and I stood up with a hot head and yelled at the villagers in front of me, "Shut up, all of you! ”

When the villagers saw that I was angry, their whispers disappeared, and they looked at each other, and their eyes were very complicated, including contempt, horror, disgust, and pity...... When my mother-in-law was alive, no one dared to say anything bad about my family, and as soon as she died, everyone changed their faces.

The village chief thought for a while, and said to everyone: "Don't move the coffin in the ancient tree, Wang Laosi, you go to the next village to find Liu Daxian'er to come over, what to do about the funeral of Mrs. Xu, everyone change the place to support the funeral, don't talk nonsense." ”

In the village, where the mountain is high and the emperor is far away, the words of the village chief are the truth, and no one dares to object, so everyone began to get busy again, and I was taken back to the house by the village chief, and he walked back and forth in the house with a gloomy face, and left without talking to me. I sat on the kang and looked at the crowd in the courtyard outside the window, angry and sad.

There is such a strange thing at home, I don't know what to do, Liu Daxian'er is a famous Mr. Yin and Yang in Shili Eight Villages, and I have to wait for him to solve it.

When my mother-in-law died, my backbone was gone, and I sat on the bed for a whole day without eating, and in the evening all the people in the village were gone, leaving me alone in the courtyard to guard my mother-in-law's funeral shed.

The coffin was pulled by the village chief from the county seat more than ten miles away, and the crimson coffin was placed in a gloomy mourning shed, surrounded by sixteen oil lamps, and I added some oil to it every once in a while. The old people in the village said that these sixteen lamps were to prevent the yin qi from leaking out and being seen by the little ghosts in the underworld, and once the lights were all extinguished, Hades would send impermanence to seduce the souls of the dead.

In the early hours of the morning, my tears had dried up, and I knelt alone in front of the mourning shed, with the wind gusting, surrounded by the crawling sounds of snakes, insects, rats, ants and wild beasts in the mountains and forests.

I didn't rush out after putting on my coat, the lamp oil just added and wouldn't go out for a short time, I went to my mother-in-law's room and sat down, my mind was full of her kind smile yesterday, how could she say that she was dead? I carefully recalled the events of last night, could it be that I was frightened by the thunder outside the window? My mother-in-law's death always made me feel a little different from her usual appearance, as if something was missing......

Crutch!

I stood up abruptly, looked around and saw no sign of crutches, my mother-in-law never left her hand on it, and she would press under the pillow when she slept, but when Zhao Shouquan and I ran to this room last night, we didn't see crutches!

I began to search in my mother-in-law's house, rummaging through boxes and cabinets, tossing and turning for more than an hour, and I almost dug up the ground to see, but I still found nothing.

The crutches were lost... It was my mother-in-law's favorite thing when she was alive, did I remember it wrong, or was it secretly taken away by the villagers?

After thinking about it for a long time, I returned to the courtyard and walked towards the coffin with the lamp oil, when a special sound suddenly came, like a knock on the door, but it was thick and hollow.

I looked at the coffin in front of me in amazement, and the voice... It looks like someone is banging on the coffin board!

Mother-in-law alive? Mother-in-law is not dead?

My mind was in turmoil, and I quickly approached the coffin in the spirit shed, only to realize that the voice was not coming from the spirit shed, and for a moment I suddenly thought of something, my body tensed, my eyes widened, and cold sweat ran down my cheeks.

I slowly and mechanically turned my head to look at the broken old tree in the yard, and the sound came from the direction of the old tree—could it be the coffin!

I wanted to run away and call someone, but I hesitated when I remembered the cold words of the people in the village during the day, and I didn't know what else they would say if they knew about it.

I plucked up my courage and dared to approach the ancient tree, I didn't believe that there were any ghosts in it, but as the distance got closer, the strange sound became louder and louder, and faintly, I saw that the coffin seemed to be moving!

It was originally a coffin embedded in a hollow tree trunk, but at this time its head was exposed, and it... Seems to want to escape from the trunk!

The coffin board rattled, my eardrums ached, my back was cold, and I watched the coffin move upwards little by little, knowing that I couldn't let it go on like this, no matter what was inside, it would definitely not be a good thing for it to come out.

I gritted my teeth and threw myself at the broken place of the old tree, pressing the coffin tightly with both hands, desperately trying to stuff it back into the trunk, but the coffin was much stronger than mine, as if there was a car pushing it underneath, and I was lifted up on the coffin.

In a few moments, the coffin was halfway out, and I knew I couldn't stop it, so I jumped down and fled back into the house, locked the doors and windows, and looked out carefully.

It was like standing on the edge of a cliff and watching the rocks collapse, cracking and spreading to my feet, and soon, with a "bang", the rocks and soil under my feet shattered! The coffin in the ancient trunk was "spit out", rolled twice on the ground, leaving a trail of blood, and then stood up and stood in the courtyard!

My fingernails were bleeding from my palms, and I gritted my teeth to keep myself from screaming, and my nerves tensed, and I didn't know what to do.

For half an hour, sweat soaked through my clothes, but the contents of the coffin seemed to be quiet, and after escaping from the trunk of the tree, there was no sound, and my state of mind was close to collapse, and it was too terrifying to stay up all night face to face with a coffin. I slowly pushed open the door, and with a "squeak-" sound, a yin wind hit, and suddenly the feeling of shade and coolness spread all over my body.

The coffin, not moving!

I decided to leave the house, as long as the village chief invited Liu Daxian to come early tomorrow morning, no matter what demons and monsters he would definitely be able to accept.

I quietly walked around to the base of the wall, and inadvertently turned around to find that the oil lamps in the mourning shed were all extinguished, and there was no light, and the coffin of my mother-in-law inside was also standing, red like blood, and the coffin in the courtyard was opposed! I looked at the coffin in the mourning shed in amazement, what was going on? I didn't dare to think of anything else, and I hurriedly ran out of the house, stumbling until I reached the entrance of the village, and then I sat down panting and collapsed, my heart wanting to jump out of my chest.

There was a small light at the entrance of the village, which was set up for pedestrians who hurried in the middle of the night and villagers who returned to the village, and I leaned under the lamp and waited for the dawn. Thinking back to the scene in the yard, I thought to myself, could it be my mother-in-law who is blessing me? Was it her ghost who suppressed the contents of the coffin and saved my life?

I thought wildly, and after a while I fell asleep against the lamp pole.

Early the next morning, I was found on the way back by the village chief who went to the next village to invite Liu Daxian'er, and then woke up, and before he could ask questions, I hurriedly told the strange things at home last night, and the village chief was shocked after hearing it.

At this time, I saw behind the village chief an old man dressed in linen, who was over the age of six, full of white hair, and carrying a broken bag on his back, which seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, pressing his back into an arc. The small eyes are squinted, the bridge of the nose is collapsed, and the facial features are different from ordinary people, I think he should be Liu Daxian'er.

The village chief helped me up, turned around and said, "Uncle Liu, what do you think can be done?" ”

Liu Daxian'er leaned over her waist, slowly approached me with her hands behind her back, her eyes were cloudy, and she opened her mouth to make a hoarse voice: "Boy, you said that the two coffins are erected, do you see animals such as cats and dogs?" ”

I replied truthfully, "No, I was alone last night." ”

Liu Daxian'er's chapped lips trembled, "It's not easy to do, it's not easy to do." Take me to your house first. ”

After speaking, his slightly squinted right eye picked up, and slowly walked towards the village, I looked at his haggard figure, thinking to myself that this Liu Daxian was half buried in the soil, can it work? Don't do anything else, it's bad if two coffins become three.