Chapter 6: Chen's Shroud Shop
I felt like my whole body froze at this moment, because I wasn't sure if the thing behind me that put my hand on my shoulder was a human or a ghost.
"What are you doing?"
It wasn't until Zuo Daoyin's voice came from behind me that my nervous mood finally relaxed, I turned my head, and saw Zuo Daoyin looking at me with an angry face, and his anger suddenly made me feel a creep.
In the face of this indescribable weirdness, although I was a little panicked, I still wittily explained that I was in urgent need of urine just now, and I couldn't find the toilet everywhere, so I wanted to look upstairs.
"The toilet isn't upstairs." Zuo Daoyin replied to me expressionlessly, and his tone was as cold and cold as he was.
Looking at Zuo Daoyin's reaction, I always felt very abnormal in my heart, I subconsciously wanted to look back at the room in the attic again, but after coming into contact with the strange look in Zuo Daoyin's blue eyes, I consciously turned my head back.
I followed Zuo Daoyin downstairs, then went to the toilet in his backyard and pretended to pee, and then returned to the hall, at this time, any noise on the upper floor disappeared without a trace, and I would still glance quietly in the direction of the attic from time to time, and I always felt that there was some secret hidden in the room in the attic.
At this time, Zuo Daoyin had been sitting in front of the Eight Immortals table in the hall and drinking water, his face did not look very good, and his whole body was wet, and his body still exuded a smell of earth that seemed to be emitted from a stinky ditch.
I asked Zuo Daoyin a little nervously where he had just gone and why he was so embarrassed.
After a long time, Zuo Daoyin put down the water glass in his hand, he first wiped off a trace of water stains left at the corner of his mouth, and then took out a piece of something wrapped in a yellow cloth from his arms and stuffed it into my hand.
This yellow cloth looks very shabby, and there is some dirt on it, as if it has just been dug out of the soil, I don't know what is wrapped in it, it feels soft in my hand, I just wanted to open it, but Zuo Daoyin immediately stopped me.
"Wu Dao, immediately take this thing to a place called Chen's Shroud Shop in the county seat, give it to Boss Chen there, and ask him to go back to Baijie with you."
"What's in there?" I kneaded the yellow cloth bag back and forth and asked curiously.
"You don't have to worry about this, and you must not open it, do what I say, set off immediately, you must rush back before dawn, remember, before the rooster crows, whether Boss Chen is willing to go back to Baijie with you or not, you must rush back, otherwise you will bear the consequences!"
Although I didn't understand why Zuo Dao wanted me to do this, but looking at his 100,000 anxious appearance, I didn't dare to continue to ask what was in this yellow cloth bag, but said that it was early in the morning, and it was strange outside, so I could go after dawn.
Zuo Daoyin suddenly glared at me, and replied that if you don't go now, you won't have to wait until dawn, and then added a word of reassurance, you go out now, that woman can't hurt you, but you must rush back before dawn, remember not to open this yellow cloth bag.
After I went out, I saw that my small truck delivering the coffin was parked at the door of Zuo Daoyin's house, and it seemed that he had just gone to my coffin shop to help me drive over.
I didn't think much about it, I got into the small truck as soon as I could, and drove directly in the direction of the county seat.
Because I remembered what Zuo Daoyin told me to rush back before dawn, I set the time when I set off, and set an alarm clock an hour before the rooster crows at about five o'clock, so that I could return to White Street on time.
The county seat is not far from our white street, and it is only half an hour's drive by car, and when I came to the county seat, it was less than two o'clock in the morning, so I had plenty of time.
But it wasn't until I drove the car to the county seat that I realized a very serious problem, I was in too much of a hurry just now, so I didn't ask Zuo Daoyin about the specific location of the Chen family shroud shop, and I didn't have Zuo Daoyin's phone, what should I do now?
I originally wanted to go back and ask Zuo Daoyin, but after thinking about it, it would take more than an hour, and I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to catch up with some urgent things at that time, so I gave up this idea.
Fortunately, this county is not big, and I am familiar with this place, so I drove and searched around in this county, and finally found the Chen family shroud shop at about three o'clock.
After getting off the bus, I didn't delay, I went directly to knock on the door of the shroud shop, and it took about a minute to knock before the door of the shroud shop was slowly opened.
When the door opened, I saw a wrinkled, sunken-eyed old lady standing across from me, looking at me strangely and suspiciously.
I was furious with her staring, and before I could speak, the other party asked me in her hoarse and old voice, who I was, and what I was doing.
I hurriedly asked the old lady, is the owner of the Chen family's shroud shop there?
The old lady replied that she was, and at first she thought that I was a dead family member who was coming to her to make a shroud, so from time to time she still had a smile on her face, although it seemed as weird as it seemed to me.
However, when I explained my intention, saying that Bai Jie Zuo Daoyin asked me to come to her, the old lady's face sank suddenly.
I vaguely realized that something was wrong, and immediately took out the yellow cloth bag that Zuo Daoyin handed me.
When I saw the yellow cloth bag in my hand, I could clearly see that the old lady's pupils contracted suddenly, and then she closed the door without warning, saying that you had found the wrong person.
I hurriedly supported the door with my hand, and looked at the old lady's reaction, I was sure that she knew this thing, so I definitely didn't find the wrong person, I hurriedly said Old lady, something big happened in White Street, and people's lives were at stake, Grandpa Zuo asked me to come to you to go to White Street!
The old lady suddenly looked me up and down for a while, and then asked me if my name was Wu Dao?
I wondered why she knew my name, but I nodded subconsciously.
After that, the old lady stopped closing the door, but took the yellow cloth bag in my hand and turned around and walked into the shroud shop, she didn't let me in, just asked me to wait at the door, she went to the house to clean up, and then went to the white street with me in a while.
I finally breathed a sigh of relief when I heard this, originally I thought that I would invite the owner of the Chen family shroud shop to go back to Baijie and spend a while, but I didn't expect it to go so smoothly and the other party agreed to me.
After that, I went back to the pickup truck and lit a cigarette, ready to wait for the old lady to come out, but I smoked several cigarettes in a row and didn't see any movement there, and I couldn't help but become a little helpless.
But I didn't think too much about it, anyway, I just waited here, but I didn't expect it to be close to an hour.
It was almost four o'clock when I finally felt that something was not right, and that even if the old lady had to dress up, she couldn't have stayed in it for so long, right? I began to wonder if the old woman was playing with me, and she had no intention of going back to White Street with me.
Seeing that there was not much time left before dawn, I finally couldn't sit still, so I got out of the car and walked into the shroud shop, trying to urge the old lady.
This shroud shop is the same as Zuo Daoyin's house, it is eerie everywhere, especially the black and white shroud hanging on the hanger, which gives people a creepy feeling, fortunately, my house also opens a coffin shop, so I was not frightened in this environment.
I called out to the old lady, but no one answered, and there was no light on inside, so I could only look at the surrounding environment by the moonlight outside, but there was nothing famous around me except for all kinds of shrouds.
Soon, I touched the light on the wall, and the moment I turned on the light, I almost collapsed to the ground in fear when I saw the scene in front of me.
About a meter or so in front of me, there was a neodymium alloy stick hanging from the shroud, and there was a row of shrouds hanging from the stick, and the old lady, who was now wearing a brand new shroud, with a rope around her neck, hanged herself on the stick.