Chapter 106 Strange Coffin

As soon as the villager finished speaking, the onlookers roared and opened it. Zhou Xirui and the others squeezed in desperately and saw a very strange coffin in the middle. It seemed that the top cover had just been dug out, and the mud on it had been wiped away. What is strange is that many small fish swimming around the corpse can be clearly seen, but you can't see the appearance of the corpse. Only the general outline and wearing a double-layer shroud can judge the childlessness (local custom).

But it is impossible for fish to survive in a closed coffin for a long time, which is common sense, so the tightness of this coffin is definitely not good, but if the tightness is not good, the shroud clothes should have been gone long ago. I'm afraid it is difficult to leave even bones, but now the shroud and the body are well preserved.

The old people around are talking about it, saying that they have never heard of the local custom of burial with transparent coffins. What's more, this is the bottom of the river, which was submerged after the diopation of the river. The depth of burial will not exceed 3 meters. The strange thing is that the coffin has not been washed away.

The funeral custom there is that if you have no children, all funeral items are double, except for coffins. Generally, when buried, you have gold in your mouth, wear silver with your left hand and a dog cake in your right hand. Dog cakes are corn cakes steamed with corn flour and stubble, and there are vicious dogs blocking the road to deal with it.

The coffin should be divided into three or six or nine grades. The thin coffin is a 3-inch board, which is estimated to rot in two or three years. The good thing is the 9-inch board, and it is made of hard wood such as camphor wood and sandalwood. Then put a boxwood coffin outside, which is called a boxwood coffin. But the transparent coffin is indeed unheard of, and the onlookers are vaguely cold at the bottom of their hearts.

At this time, the onlookers had been divided into two groups, led by some old people who insisted on not digging, and buried the cover exposed on it for fear of affecting their descendants. Young people insist on seeing what's going on. If they don't believe in evil, some people may dig out some gold and silver treasures, won't they send them out? Zhou Xirui and the others didn't plan to leave in a hurry. They wanted to figure it out and stood by and watched.

Folk experts also came and took a curious attitude and asked them to continue to dig. So the old people burned incense and prayed beside them, saying that some children were ignorant, please forgive me and so on. The young men dug out the mud around the coffin with a shovel and shovel. The coffin is exposed 1 meter, but there is still no bottom. Generally speaking, the coffin is about 1 meter high at best, so that the surrounding atmosphere gradually becomes solemn. What's more strange is that the coffin lid and the coffin seem to be connected without any gap.

The villagers put their hopes on the bottom of the coffin to open, but which coffin is opened at the bottom? Inexplicable fear spread in everyone's hearts. Some people regret and think that it may be right not to dig, but now that they have dug, they can't give up halfway.

Everyone had to continue to dig and dig while getting the muddy water out. In the river, a pit 2 meters deep and 40 meters in diameter has appeared. The coffin has been exposed 1.5 meters, but it still hasn't been seen to the end. The mud dug out is already glue, that is to say, it is more difficult to dig down.

Everyone has always been strange. Xiaoyu can see so clearly, but why can't he see anything else clearly? How tall is this coffin? What kind of coffin is it? No one spoke. There was only the sound of shovel dredging at the scene, accompanied by the occasional sound of touching the coffin. It doesn't feel like glass. Maybe it's because of the bottom of the river. It feels particularly cold. Although the sun is good during the day and the temperature is more than 10 degrees, I still feel chills.

Some people say who knows the texture of this glass? It's not as smooth as glass, and the texture is so hard and transparent. Is it jade? Someone replied, "Don't joke. How can there be such a transparent jade? And it's so thick?

Someone couldn't calm down and gathered more than a dozen people to stand on the side of the coffin and push hard, trying to make the coffin move. The coffin did not move at all, indicating that the part buried in the mud was much deeper than people thought.

Dig! Can you still see ghosts under the bright sun? What's there? Isn't it just a coffin? Dig! How deep can it be? Then dig. It's strange that such a big coffin is filled with water to push. Don't think nonsense and keep digging! Folk experts encouraged everyone. This is indeed a very laborious job, and the people have been changed three times!

The coffin exposed to the ground is higher than the person, and the light green light is reflected under the sun. What's more strange is that people see the body floating in the middle, always in the middle. When he dug out 1 meter, he came out 50cm, and when he was 2 meters high, he was 1 meter high from the ground!

What exactly is in it? It's not like water, but not water. How can fish swim in it? It seems that only when it is completely dug out can there be an answer to this question. Someone proposed to try how deep it is with an iron bar.

At this time, someone invited the most famous local feng shui gentleman. This Mr. Fengshui has a high reputation. The fortune-telling was passed down from his ancestors, and his eldest son and grandson passed it on like this. His uncle now learns fortunes from him. He first gave fortune-telling when he was 15 years old. There is a local who doesn't believe setting up a stall at the market. Who has ever seen such a young gentleman?

A man wanted to try him, so he asked him to show it. As a result, the gentleman didn't look at it. He just said, "Your life is too hard. You were forced to be born. When you were born, you didn't cry because your family was poor." This man lost his color at that time, because he was born without crying. Later, only three people knew about it. Grandma, his mother, and later his mother told him.

And he is even more powerful in feng shui, including Yin Zhai and Yang Zhai. He will never do things that make people cracks and seek huge profits, such as a bag of cinnabar for 100 yuan (which is often done by fortune teller) and so on. So it is very respected. It is said that his father is more divine and can pull a grass on the grave to know the gender and age of the deceased.

In this place, Mr. Fengshui also has a role to find ancestral graves. Before liberation, people often went out to break into Kanto at the age of 16. When they came back, their parents had passed away, and their kind neighbors buried them. As a result, when the four old and feudal superstitions were broken, the grave was flattened.

Some are due to economic development, the widening of roads, the changes of arable land, etc. Some marks that were originally used as symbols (big trees, temples, etc.) have disappeared, and the old man only has a general orientation left in his memory.

If the children and grandchildren want to be buried again, they should ask Mr. Fengshui to help find the ancestral grave. Mr. Fengshui holds an iron stick in his hand, which is about half as thick as his little finger. According to the position, he can find the ancestral tomb. And the direction of the head and feet can be determined. Generally speaking, the burials are all buried in the north and south, with the head north and feet south, and a tile pot will be buried in the grave. The locals asked Mr. Fengshui for general these reasons.

Mr. Fengshui came to the coffin and was very surprised, but he didn't say anything and looked at the coffin carefully. After looked at it for half an hour, and then asked the folk expert (at the scene, he was the biggest leader from the county): "Do you have to dig?" Dig!" Folk experts have been immersed in the joy of archaeological discovery. Of course, he did not forget to ask, "Is there any harm?"

He doesn't believe that fortune teller will understand this thing at all. "No," the fortune teller said lightly, "But according to this method, I'm afraid it can't be dug out for a month!" People stopped. The fortune teller walked aside and whispered something to the local village head and some old people. After a while, the old man came over and said, "All those born in the year of the dragon and those born in December left the bottom of the river and went to the shore." Acuo and Xiaopei had to go back to the car and wait. She happened to be inside.

"There must be a white snake within five steps," said the fortune teller, walked to the southeast of the coffin, stopped four or five steps away from the coffin and said, "Find two people to dig three feet down with a wooden shovel", and several people ran back to the village (Note: the wooden shovel is a kind of farmer who uses wind to separate wheat grains from wheat bran. It is similar to a shovel, but it is made of mulberry wood.

The sun's eyes are getting weaker and weaker. The fortune teller said, "I may not be able to dig it out today. Take something to cover it. Don't let it rain!" After a while, the farmer came with a wooden shovel and dug down the designated place as instructed? White snake? That's a fairy! The old people are muttering in their hearts.

There is indeed a small white snake, but it is extremely rare. As soon as the old ladies see a small white snake (about the length of chopsticks), they will kowtow, find a plate covered with red cloth, invite the white snake home, and burn incense. Strangely, the white snake always obediently climbs to the plate, and then enjoy the incense for a few days. It disappeared silently.

The fortune teller drew a circle of about a foot, and the two began to dig with a wooden shovel. Indeed, the mud here is obviously better than other places. In a short time, a man shouted: There are a bunch of frogs! Don't dig!!" The fortune teller hurriedly stopped it. Everyone was strange. It was normal to dig frogs in winter. What's the fus? Everyone saw more than a dozen frogs crowded together. How can there be snakes where there are frogs?

The old people began to pray again. For nothing else, who has seen such a big coffin, not to mention that it shocked "people" anyway? In winter, the fortune teller sweated. At that time, he almost ran back. The fortune teller took out the frogs one by one. There were no white snakes, nothing but frogs!

It shouldn't be. The fortune teller doesn't know what he did wrong. That's what his father told himself. Why is there no white snake? He stood up and asked loudly, "Are there any people born in the year of the dragon and born in December who have not left?" If you find out, you will bear the consequences!"

A few onlookers left embarrassmently. No wonder this kind of thing. Who doesn't want to look closely? The old people vaguely understand that it is not that white snakes are afraid of them, but that they are not beneficial to these people.

At this moment, someone was shouting: "Snake! The snake is on the shovel!" Isn't it? In the mud on the shovel, a little white snake exposed its body. Unlike usual, this white snake is not all white, but with some spots (no one says what color spots). What else is different from what you have ever seen, it exposes its head and spits out letters frequently. It is very alert in winter. Snakes should not be like this.

The fortune teller carefully put the little snake next to the coffin, to be precise, the bottom of the coffin. The little snake quickly drilled down and disappeared in a short time.

When he saw the little white snake drilled under the crystal coffin, the timid man began to scream. Oh, my God? Where did it go? How come? It's true that snakes drill holes, but snakes themselves can't make holes. Most of them use yellow eel holes. What's more, on such a cold day, the little snake can still be so active that the nerves that have been tense for a day can't bear too many strangeness.

Most people kneel in the mud and worship in the most traditional but also the most respectable way of worship - 24 worship, which is an extremely complex way of worship, including gossip orientation. It is generally the most grand kowtowing method when their closest relatives pass away. There are elders to take the lead, step by step. Step by step, kowtow!

The 24th worship was over, and everyone knelt on the ground and was overwhelmed! Yes, according to common sense, it is time to cry now. For example, if the deceased is the uncle of the kneeling, he should cry! The crying master of the younger generation, and so on. But no one knows the name of the kneeling this time. What's the name? What if this is not a human? Will heaven and earth people be angry if they don't use people to worship? At this time, the fortune teller said, "Well, just kowtow. It's late. Let's go back to the shore and rest. It will be ready early tomorrow morning."

Zhou Xirui and others have been watching and were surprised. After discussing it, they decided to stay overnight in a nearby village to see the development of the situation and find out what was going on?