Chapter 6: Stealing the corpse on a moonlit night
"According to what you said, you arrived at a place similar to a bazaar and met two ghosts, and then they confirmed that there were no souls of Liu San and the others."
"That's right, although I'm not sure it's a ghost market, but it's definitely not people around." Li Tai'an said firmly.
"It stands to reason that ghost markets are generally opened in places like mass graves and cemeteries, and there are plenty of customers, if you really go to the ghost market, it also shows why this house is sold so cheaply." Yellow Dog said as he made his rounds of the room.
Li Tai'an looked at the sky outside that was gradually darkening, "Did something happen in Xingxian today?" ”
The yellow dog who had walked around lazily lay on the ground again: "It's lively, those missing people have been found in Yizhuang, but all of them are corpses. ”
Hearing this, Li Taian shook his head regretfully: "It seems that it is impossible for us to get new clues in Yizhuang." ”
Yellow Dog nodded and continued, "There is one more piece of news, you must be interested! ”
"What's the news?"
"Liu San, Xu Yong's bodies are gone!"
"Gone?!"
"Yes, rummaging through Yizhuang, I didn't find their bodies. So the last person to see them was our neighbor, Xu Ping! ”
"Looks like we're going to visit our neighbors anyway."
As soon as Li Tai'an got up, he saw the yellow dog walking in with a pot of wine and a bag of meat in his mouth.
"Xu Ping has no hobbies, and his only hobby is drinking. The last time Xu Ping said that he leaked his mouth, it was also because he was drunk. So these things, while you're unconscious, are ready. ”
Yellow Dog handed over two things to Li Tai'an.
Li Tai'an looked at the yellow dog in surprise, "I finally understand, why did my grandfather take me to subdue you first before he died, and you can do it right-hand!" ”
One person and one dog rushed to Xu Ping's house while talking.
"Is this still beef?! It's illegal to kill cattle! ”
"What a crime! In the east of Xingxian County, a ploughing cow was killed by lightning, and the opportunity was rare, and I waited in line for a long time to buy it. Without this thing, how can Xu Ping speak! ”
In the north of Xingxian County, on a lame hillside, several graves are piled up haphazardly.
A little better, there are tombstones; But more than that, it's just a bare dirt bag.
There are a few poplar trees growing around, and when the wind blows, the lush and vigorous leaves instantly rattle, because the leaves are like ghost hands.
Therefore, when the wind blows, it is like a hundred ghosts clapping their hands.
And in customs, the reason why poplars are not treated well by the common people is the same.
When the wind is blowing, the ghost is clapping!
In addition to the poplars, every now and then one or two huge rats run by.
Mass graves, such shady animals, are surprisingly robust.
In front of one of the deserted graves, three incense candles were burned, and a lot of paper money was scattered.
Fresh earth kept flying out, and little by little, the grave was slowly getting smaller.
"Huang San, is this really the grave of the young grandmother of the Li family? You're not going to lie to me, are you? One of them, a thin man dressed in coarse linen, said.
"What am I lying to you about, the Li family was defeated two years ago, and the reason for the defeat was because they married this woman, so do you think they will bury this woman well?" The sturdy Huang San stopped, took a breath, and said to Chen Mao.
Chen Mao looked at his surroundings fearfully, listening to the rustling of poplar leaves, he was already a little timid, but now he was even more afraid.
"And what good things can be in her grave? Or let's go! ”
"Hey, it's obvious that you don't have any money, so you asked me to take you to do it, let me tell you, although the Li family doesn't want to see this woman, but there must be a lot of things to give, and the dead are the greatest! And I'm telling you, if you want to make a quick buck, that's the best way to do it! Huang San stared at Chen Mao and said viciously.
And under Huang San's encouragement, Chen Mao also put away his fear, and quickly waved the shovel in his hand again.
Soon, the grave bag was dug up, and the coffin inside was revealed.
"Black, black!"
And the moment he saw the coffin, Chen Mao, who was relatively timid, was directly frightened and sat on the ground.
In addition to the shape and materials used in the coffin, the painting is also very particular.
Red is used for the elderly over 80 years old, meaning joy and mourning.
Yellow is used in most poor people, because they can't afford to buy lacquer, so most of them are just a straw mat or a simple coffin.
White is used for women who have not left the cabinet or teenagers who have died young.
Gold was intended for emperors.
At this moment, the black coffin that Chen Mao and Huang San saw was used for people who died unnaturally, died in battle, committed suicide or died early!
Chen Mao looked at the black coffin that was exposed, and his legs were already starting to tremble uncontrollably.
knelt in front of the grave and kept chanting: "It's strange, it's the villain who is ignorant and disturbs you, don't be angry, treat me as a fart." ”
Huang San slapped Chen Mao hard and said sharply: "What are you afraid of, the young grandmother of the Li family was originally born early, is there anything unusual about using a black coffin?" ”
But after Huang San took a closer look at the exposed coffin, he was also taken aback, not only because of the color of the coffin and the strange burial method, but also because Huang San cared.
It is not an ordinary flat burial, but a vertical burial used to suppress murder.
And inside the exposed end of the coffin, a huge iron nail can also be seen.
In normal burials, iron nails are not allowed, because people feel that "nail" is an ominous word, so most of the coffins are mortise and tenon structure.
If iron nails are used, most of them are because they want to suppress the people in the coffin, so that he can't do harm to the world.
Black coffin, vertical burial, iron nails!
The combination of these three things made Huang San, who had succeeded many times, break out in a cold sweat at the first time.
"Don't read it, pay attention to the surroundings, don't let the black cat come, and at the same time, don't let the moon shine on this coffin for a long time, let's bury the soil quickly and stop digging!" Huang San said decisively.
But looking at Chen Mao, who was still worshipping, Huang San flew up with a kick and roared angrily: "Can't you hear it? If you don't want to die, hurry up! ”
Chen Mao, who was kicked awake, hurriedly waved the tools in his hand to refill the grave.
Huang San looked at Chen Mao, who was trembling, and he was also angry, so he could only take off his clothes by himself to block the moonlight above the coffin, and at the same time pay attention to the surrounding situation.
A corpse thief like Huang San is also very familiar with some taboos.
In many cases, the dead can get up with the help of the yang energy of the living, so when carrying, the living must not directly touch the dead body.
And the moonlight itself is rich in yin energy, plus the person who dies horizontally, with resentment in his mouth, it is difficult to swallow, if the two meet directly, it is easy to deceive the corpse.
At the same time, black cats, weasels, foxes, old dogs are the same.
That's why Huang San reminded him.
Soon, the grave bag was filled in, and the newly exposed coffin was buried again.
Huang San had just breathed a sigh of relief when he saw a black cat running over to catch a mouse.
Huang San immediately walked in front of the black cat to prevent the black cat from rushing over.
But what he didn't expect was that the black cat happened to look up, saw the moon in the sky, and changed direction in an instant, and rushed straight towards the grave.
Fortunately, Huang San was prepared, and kicked the black cat that pounced directly away.
The tragic cat meow once again paralyzed the timid Chen Mao, trembling all over, and couldn't hold the shovel at hand.
Huang San was still paying attention to his surroundings, so he didn't pay attention to Chen Mao behind him.
Huang San's kick just now was extremely heavy, not only kicking the black cat away, but also kicking the black cat to death.
But Huang San didn't notice that before the black cat died, two bright lights came out of his eyes, and the target happened to be Chen Mao behind Huang San.
And the moment Chen Mao heard the cat's meow, he happened to turn his head and made a look at the black cat.
Chen Mao quickly stopped trembling, then put the index finger of his right hand into his mouth, bit it off directly, and then took advantage of Huang San's inattention, and directly buried the broken index finger into the soil.
The location is right above the coffin!
Without waiting for Huang San to react, Chen Mao left everything behind and staggered away.
Looking at Chen Mao who had escaped, Huang San couldn't help but take a sip, turned around and looked at the almost buried grave bag, and didn't stay for long, leaving quickly.
Soon, calm returned to here!
Xingxian, Xu Pingjia.
Li Tai'an and Yellow Dog glanced at each other, looking at Xu Ping, who was already drunk, and they finally revealed their original purpose.
"Uncle Xu, I don't really understand, why are the houses here sold so cheaply?" Li Tai'an did not directly ask about Liu San and Xu Yong, worried that Xu Ping would react.
But Li Tai'an was obviously too worried, Xu Ping had already drunk under the double temptation of beef and wine.
"Why?! Because this was a cemetery before, and later because of the planning of Xingxian County, it became the current housing, but you kid also saw it, there are two families around, one is me, and the other is you. ”
Xu Ping, whose face was flushed, looked at Li Tai'an and said in a daze.
"Moreover, Uncle Xu, let me tell you, if you are seriously ill, you must leave this room quickly."
"Before this, there were a few poor families in Xingxian County who wanted to find a spacious and cheap place to recuperate."
"So I moved in, but within a few days, all of them died, all of them died violently, and they were extremely weak, and I can't analyze the specific reason."
"So, there are fewer and fewer people who dare to live, and they all say that there are unclean things in the room."
Li Tai'an and Yellow Dog glanced at each other again, and it seemed that Xu Ping already knew everything about them, and he had nothing to say.
Li Tai'an asked cautiously, "Then what happened to Liu San and Xu Yong?" ”
"The two of them, it's really retribution! That's the young grandmother of the Li family, who came to ask for their lives! ”
Xu Ping did not mention the death of the two, but said.
"The Li family? Young grandma?! ”
Although Li Tai'an and Huanggou have just come to Xingxian County, they still have a deep understanding of Xingxian.
But in Li Tai'an's impression, there doesn't seem to be a big family surnamed Li in Xingxian County!
Xu Ping took another sip of wine, and then said: "People who have only come to Xingxian in the past two years don't know that two years ago, the most generous family in Xingxian County was the Li family, not the Zhang family!" ”
"At that time, the Li family was very prestigious in Xingxian County, and many Xingxian people had been helped by them, so the Li family's reputation in Xingxian County was also excellent."
"Later, the Li family and the Jiang family in Lingxian County married, and the two best young people of the two families came together."
"But at this time, a middle-aged Taoist priest wearing a shabby Taoist robe appeared, he said, the daughter of the Jiang family is a disaster, and if the Li family marries into the door, there will be a disaster of annihilation!"
"At first, no one believed it, after all, except for the middle-aged Taoist, everyone else had counted the birthdays of the two people, which was a special fit, and the daughter of the Jiang family had the appearance of a prosperous husband."
"Coupled with the insistence of the young master of the Li family, the Li family still married the daughter of the Jiang family."
"And just two months after Grandma Li entered the Li family, people in the Li family gradually began to die violently, and the way of death was exactly the same as that of Liu San and Xu Yong."
"The whole family, more than 40 people, five days, in just five days, all of them were exterminated and died."
"Alas, if it weren't for the demise of the Li family, how could there be such a thing as a foreign family like the Zhang family."
Speaking of this, Xu Ping also drank a glass of wine angrily, and it seemed that he was particularly indignant about the demise of the Li family.
Li Tai'an asked again: "Then Uncle Xu, what is the retribution you just said?" ”
"Because of the demise of the Li family, it is directly related to Liu San and Xu Yong!" Xu Ping slapped the table angrily, "If it weren't for the two of them, the Li family wouldn't have perished at all!" ”