Chapter 220: Broken Coffin
When I saw that the horse's face was red and looked like it was about to have a seizure, I said, "Let's dig a little more and then we will know whether it is a small coffin or a sitting coffin." ”
Ma Yan snorted angrily and said, "Lao Tzu doesn't have the time to fool around with you here!" If this matter weren't related to the entire Kangping Town, Lao Zili wouldn't have bothered to pay attention to it! ”
"Do it!" Listening to his order, Huang Heguan and his group of lantern-lit disciples took a step forward, and the white-skinned lanterns in front of them also moved forward, and the formation suddenly shrunk. There were even several disciples wandering in the lantern array, holding several talismans in their hands. Chen Lin secretly told us that the spirit beast resentment used in the "Sky Lantern Array" of the Heavenly Master Dao can not only be used to suppress evil, but also to kill.
The horse's face seems to be impatient to wait, and is going to use it against us.
"This is our yard, and I can't help you guys here!" Chen Lin stopped in front of the coffin. After all, she is a member of the Qingwei faction, and Huang Heguan didn't dare to force herself forward for a while.
I lit three incense sticks, inserted them into the soil of the burial pit, and whispered to Old Man Zheng: "Sacrifice three pure altar talismans!" ”
Old man Zheng said suspiciously: "This is ......" Seeing my solemn face, he immediately swallowed back his doubts, took out the three pure altar talismans from his talisman bag, and shook his hand, and the three talismans spontaneously combusted without wind and floated in the air in unison. Although the yellow rune burned, it burned extremely slowly, and the three rune flames hovered in the air, which immediately provoked a burst of exclamations from the onlookers.
I stared at the three pure altar talismans for a while, then immediately walked to the south of the iron coffin, took another half step back to the side, and reached out to pick up the dirt on the side of the short coffin. The tentacles of the earth were cold and hard. I only heard the horse's face shouting: "You kid is looking for death!" Then I saw a figure flash in anger.
I said coldly, "Don't move! If you move again, you will have to break the coffin! "The so-called broken coffin is the term in our industry. Since ancient times, in addition to being used to hold the body, the coffin also has the function of sealing the town, so that the deceased can be buried in the ground and not cause further incidents. And the broken coffin refers to the corpse breaking out of the ground.
"Those few people, what are you doing in a daze, hurry up and shovel the soil!" I didn't look back, and shouted at the few Yellow Crane Guan disciples who were standing aside with shovels.
The men were stunned for a moment, and then went to see the horse's face. I said with a cold face: "I have already moved the soil, and if I don't dig it, I will break the coffin immediately!" ”
Ma Mian naturally knew what the consequences of breaking the coffin at this time would be, so he let out a rough breath and waved his hand to let those disciples die quickly.
The men answered and immediately rushed forward. I scolded: "What are you doing in a panic, you want to die!" You, dig here, go in from this angle, and only shovel three inches! You, wait for him to shovel first, and then you shovel down to this position......"
I instructed a few people to do it, and the old man Zheng was in a cold sweat when he saw it, he had studied the funeral technique by himself for so many years, of course he knew what the consequences would be if the coffin was really broken. The horse yelled with his face outward, causing the crowd of onlookers to step back.
I kept a close eye on the movement of the short coffin, and from time to time I glanced at the three Pure Altar Talismans thrown at the slow burning.
"Stop!" Until a certain moment, I immediately called out to a few people, asked them to push away, took the shovel from one person's hand, started from the east side, began to shovel counterclockwise, and then removed a layer of dark soil, then put away the shovel, and stepped back, and cold sweat was already oozing from his forehead.
Old man Zheng squatted on the edge of the pit and looked at it carefully, "Ah", and shouted: "It's really a coffin!" Hearing him say this, the horse face and Chen Lin also stepped forward to take a closer look. I threw the shovel back to the disciple and crouched on the edge of the pit to carefully examine the structure of the short coffin.
At this time, a large amount of dirt has been cleared, and you can see it very clearly. Although the coffin is short, it is obviously at least half the height of an ordinary coffin, and the vertical coffin has still not been dug to the end, as if only part of the soil is exposed.
"In this way, this short coffin is taller than an ordinary coffin, and this vertical coffin is longer than an ordinary coffin!" Old man Zheng muttered, a look of surprise on his face.
Chen Lin said suspiciously: "What's going on?" ”
I glanced at the horse's face, and the bull's nose calmed down at this point, frowning thoughtfully. Although this person is short-tempered, since he can preside over the Yellow Crane Temple, he must also have his advantages, and he has already seen the problem at this time.
"Are you sure to open the coffin?" The horse asked me with a face.
I took a closer look at the two coffins and said, "You set up a formation and wait, I'll open the coffin, in case something goes wrong, you hurry up!" ”
Ma Yan snorted coldly, didn't speak, just agreed.
The two iron coffins were all rusty, and there were no patterns on the coffins, and there were no coffin nails. But on the side of the coffin, an iron lock is hung, which is different from the ordinary method of nailing the coffin, and the lock coffin method is used here.
I carefully looked at the structure of these two iron locks, spread my hands towards Old Man Zheng, and said, "Give me a harrier." Old man Zheng didn't hesitate, and immediately found a small iron drill made of pure gold, which was more than three inches long, which was much thicker than an ordinary three-edged needle, and the drill body was densely engraved with concave and convex carvings. This kind of thing is commonly known as the harrier in our industry, and it is a necessary thing in our industry, but not many people really know what this thing is used for.
Old man Zheng was obsessed with burial techniques, so he naturally carried this thing with him, and hesitated: "I never know what this thing is for." ”
I held the harrier in the palm of my hand, let it roll, then looked closely at its carvings, and said, "That's how it works." He took out a five-emperor coin from his pocket and flicked it on the coffin lid, only to see the copper coin turning steadily, and immediately inserted the harrier into the iron lock, his eyes stared at the copper coin that was turning rapidly, and his fingers twisted the harrier and slowly rotated.
After a long time, I heard only a slight click, and I immediately pulled out the harrier, and saw the lock open with a frightened sound. I did the same, and opened the iron locks of the coffin.
Handing the harrier back to Old Man Zheng, he was stunned for a long time and didn't answer, his eyes lit up, and he said continuously: "So that's it, so it's like this!" ”
I said to the horse's face, "Pick a few clever disciples and come to the coffin." ”
The horse's face snorted coldly, and then he ordered to go down, and saw four young Taoists rushing out of the group. I stepped aside and said a few words about the essentials of opening the coffin, and the four of them nodded in response, parting their corners, ready to move. The horse's face looked solemn, and he gave an order, and all the disciples who presided over the Sky Lantern Array were nervous.
I stared at the three incense sticks in the soil, and when I saw that the smoke was rising straight up, condensing and condensing, I immediately shouted in a low voice: "Open!" The four Yellow Crane Guan disciples moved their hands together, grabbed the four corners of the coffin lid, and their movements were neat and uniform, and they were really well-trained. Hearing a bang, the lid of the coffin was raised, and then a pale gray smoke overflowed from the coffin.
Although the neighbors of Kangping Town withdrew from the distance, they were troubled by curiosity, and when they saw that there was nothing abnormal, they slowly leaned up again, and when they saw the gray smoke coming out of the coffin, they immediately screamed in surprise.
Old man Zheng shouted: "It's okay, it's just an ordinary miasma, it's okay!" After saying that, he looked at me again, probably asking me if he was right. I nodded at him, and Old Man Zheng suddenly raised his eyebrows.
When the gray smoke cleared, there was another exclamation. It was Chen Lin and Old Man Zheng who exclaimed this time, and even the horse's face changed. Although I had a suspicion, I actually saw what was going on in the coffin, which was beyond my expectations.
In this short coffin sat two people, one tall and one short, with lifelike faces. It's just that his face is pale, his lips are black, and he is lifeless, which makes people see at a glance that the two are just two corpses.
But these two, one is a middle-aged man with thick eyebrows and thick lips, sitting cross-legged in the coffin, and the other is a one- or two-year-old child, sitting in the man's arms. The horse's face changed greatly, and he shouted: "Open the coffin!" ”
The four disciples of the Yellow Crane Temple received the order, the lower part of the coffin was still buried in the soil, and it could only be used to draw the method, and the four of them grabbed the coffin lid and lifted it up. When the lid of the coffin was opened, I saw an extremely strange scene. Two more people were buried in this coffin.
The two men were also like life, a man and a woman, the man was below, kneeling on the ground, and the woman was on top, but kneeling on the man's shoulder. The two of them stood in a coffin in a bunch like rock sugar gourds.