Uncle Li's words made me numb, I have been thinking about this problem, but Aunt Li did come to our house at the beginning, my father was also at home at the time, and I didn't see anything wrong with her at all, and then I saw her two or three times, and I felt that she was normal, but this Uncle Li was a little weird.

I asked tentatively, "You said Aunt Li is dead?"

Uncle Li continued to cry, and it took a long time to calm down, and his tone became much gentler.

"Your aunt has been gone for a few days, but you said she went to see you, I don't know what's going on, but she comes back to me every day, and I know that. ”

"Then why don't the people in the village know, why are you still keeping this secret, none of us have a funeral. I said.

Uncle Li was embarrassed: "Actually, she died of a strange disease, I used to go to the city to find Lang Zhong to show her, there is no cure, and when she died, the death was particularly ugly, and when Lang Zhong left, he also told me to be buried as soon as possible, her disease is likely to be contagious." ”

"So you want to keep this matter under wrap and deal with it on your own?"

"Yes, that's why I drove you away, for fear that you, too, would be infected with her strange disease. ”

When I heard it, I felt that the whole thing was really strange: "Then can you take me to see Aunt Li's grave?"

"This ...... Okay, but you have to stay away from me. ”

I chuckled: "It's out of the way, we're two young, and it's not our turn to get sick." ”

The atmosphere has eased temporarily, but I have always been skeptical of Uncle Li's words, after all, I will not believe anything he said until I saw Aunt Li's body, including the words of Aunt Li's before.

I don't know why, I was a lot more rational at this time, and I followed him with Wu Shu for a long time, and went straight to the end of the cemetery, and found that there was really a new grave bag under a locust tree.

At that moment, I had a lot of trust in Uncle Li's words.

"Come and see, this is your aunt's grave. ”

Until this time, I felt that Uncle Li was a bit human.

He spilled the wine in his hand on the ground: "Old woman, after drinking, let's leave with peace of mind, don't come back, you see what you have tossed the young men in the village into." ”

It's strange that by the moonlight, a gust of wind swept by, and the wine on the ground instantly evaporated.

Uncle Li shook his head and burned some paper money, he was going back, but he turned his head and fell headlong.

"I'll go!" Wu Shu and I immediately helped him up, pinched him, and pressed the inner pass, so as to wake him up.

When he woke up, he nodded to us, said thank you, tilted his head, and stopped breathing.

No matter how much we try to save him, there is no way to revive him.

When we looked at the grave of Aunt Li, we found that Uncle Li and Aunt Li were waving their hands at us, and then turned around and left.

Wu Shu's face was dazed, and I was also full of mush, as if I had been forcing Uncle Li to go with my aunt these days.

But at this time, I suddenly felt a sour smell coming to my nose, and when I followed the smell, I found that it was emanating from Uncle Li's legs, at first I thought it was the smell of his feet, and when I lifted his trouser legs, I was stupid all of a sudden.

The flesh on Uncle Li's leg was completely rotten, revealing the snow-white leg bones, and at the base of his thigh, there was still a little feces-like sticky.

Wu Shu covered his nose: "Little Yak, it's too disgusting." ”

I suddenly realized that this matter was far from being so simple, and this might be just the beginning: "Didn't Uncle Li say just now, Aunt Li's strange disease may be contagious." ”

"What, let's go quickly!" Wu Shu was a little anxious, his face even paler in the night.

I hesitated: "No, if we just leave, the poison on their bodies will definitely be brought to the village, or rather, we are actually infected with the poison now, and if we go back, I am afraid that the village will suffer." ”

"You!" Wu Shu also stopped: "Why did you say you let me come, now it's okay, our brothers are really going to die together." ”

"It's not that absolute, but before we die, I want to see if they all die of a disease. ”

"What do you think?"

"Open the coffin for autopsy!"

As soon as I said this, Wu Shu popped, and almost didn't spit out all the eggs he ate during the day: "Digging graves again?"

"No way, let's do it, if we can find the cause, maybe we still have hope for life. ”

In the face of life and death, who is willing to choose to die, Wu Shu and I are the same, we didn't dare to delay for half a time, and it didn't take long to dig out the coffin of the Li family's aunt.

Because it was a new coffin, and the uncle of the Li family himself was infected with a strange disease, the coffin was buried very shallowly, and the nails of the coffin were not snapped up.

"Open it and take a look. ”

Wu Shu returned to normal, and casually took out a small shovel and pushed the coffin away.

As soon as the coffin opened, I immediately covered my nose: "This smell is stronger, what kind of disease is this?"

I was just about to look at it, when I suddenly felt someone behind me pull me: "This is corpse poison, I can't see such a simple thing, I read the book two days ago?"

As soon as I heard my father's voice, I hurriedly looked back, and he was carrying a small cloth bag in his hand, and two handfuls of white things were taken out of it and rubbed on my and Wu Shu's bodies.

"What is this?"

"Glutinous rice noodles, you are really bold enough, you dare to open the coffin casually without any protective measures. "Father's words were very intimidating, and Wu Shu and I were dumbfounded for a while.

After his father wiped the side of his body with glutinous rice flour, he wrapped his hands in a linen cloth and covered his face again, and then he set out to check Aunt Li's situation.

I also followed the probe, and my father, like me, first looked at Aunt Li's calves, and her degree of decay was far greater than that of Uncle Li, and a large piece of rotten flesh had appeared on Aunt Li's face.

"I said I saw her the night before, and I had to talk to me with my face covered. ”

"That's right, all the old people who want to return to their souls will appear at night when they are her face after death, and when they appear during the day, they will be the image she once left in the hearts of the living, so ......"

I said, "So even you didn't see that Aunt Li was dead?"

"I didn't pay attention at the time, but after I entered the city, I suddenly remembered that her hand holding the egg basket was wrong, and it was a little cold and terrible, so I rushed back from the city overnight, for fear that something would happen to you, but in the end something happened. ”

My mind kept recalling what I had read about "Returning to Tibet".

"Boy, it looks like we're in big trouble this time. Father said earnestly.

I followed closely, and my father pointed to Aunt Li and Uncle Li's legs and faces, as well as the roots of their thighs: "Let's talk about the extent of their decay, it should have begun to rot when they were alive, and their secretions should be a virus that irritates people's stomach, causing them to have continuous diarrhea, so that Uncle Li has lost weight like this in a few days." ”

"Oh, I said that Uncle Li is always crying and howling at night, and he is still knocking on things, could it be that he can't stand the pain?"

"There is a possibility, but these two corpses, as well as this coffin, cannot be kept, they must be burned. ”

"Burn it now?" Wu Shu asked.

Father nodded: "Of course we will burn it now, we still have something to do after burning, hurry up." ”

At this time, the sky was gradually brightening, Wu Shu and I hurriedly picked up firewood on the hillside, put Uncle Li's body into the coffin, filled it with firewood, and Wu Shu immediately lit the fire.

It was one morning, and a fire broke out in the cemetery, and the men, women, and children of the village thought it was a mountain fire and carried buckets up the hill.

And my father had thought of this a long time ago, so he first asked Wu Shu to stop him at the entrance of the cemetery, so as not to let these villagers also be infected with the virus.

After the corpse was burned, we buried the bones of the second elder of the Li family very deeply, and then followed my father to directly seal all the doors and windows of the Li family.

"Brother Liu, what's wrong?" Most of the people in the village didn't know what happened to the Li family.

But in order to avoid panic among the villagers, we still didn't tell them what really happened.

It's just that the second elder of the Li family is temporarily out of the house, and let's help seal the house, because Wu Shu is present, everyone knows that the only carpenter in the village is his family, so they didn't ask any more.

On the same day, we each burned all the previous clothes, prepared a large amount of glutinous rice, and took a glutinous rice bath.

In the evening, we went out again.

Because the old couple usually live by raising chickens and the land in the back mountain, we didn't go to his yard and went directly to the vegetable field in the back mountain.

The greens in the vegetable field are growing very well, but unfortunately the two of them are no longer there.

"It's strange!" I walked over to a vegetable patch and noticed that there was a leaf that was different from the food elsewhere.

The leaves were yellow, and the roots were rotten, and a small part of it seemed to have been raised in the ridge next to him.

"It's not the season to harvest the vegetables, why are you cooking so early?" I couldn't help but wonder in my mind.

At this time, I found Wu Shu squatting next to the vegetable patch, constantly scratching his calves, looking at his extremely itchy appearance, I only felt as if he had been tricked.

"What's wrong with you?"

"I don't know, I was fine yesterday, I'll ...... today," he lifted his trouser leg.

I looked down and was shocked: "Oh my God, why did you scratch off the flesh?"

The father immediately rushed over: "He is poisoned, this bag of glutinous rice is mixed with cinnabar, now I will wrap it for you, don't take it down at any time, until he is well." ”

Wu Shu's legs were entangled, but my father and I were stunned at the same time as the rotten vegetables on the ground that had been raised.

After a while, our father and son almost said in unison: "I thought of it!"