It’s so nice to be in the new house. There’s a fire in the middle of the house and it’s warm.~
But at this time, an old man who was cooking also came in. He looked around and asked the young men to move out immediately.
No one knew what the old man saw, but they knew it was definitely not a good thing.
Later, after the old man pointed it out, someone saw that there were seven knife marks on the main beam of the house!
There is a local custom that if someone hangs himself in a house, a mark should be cut on the beam.
This house is the best among haunted houses: seven members of a family hanged themselves in the house, including a newlywed couple.
The family was living in harmony, but something like this happened a few days after moving here, and no one knew why.
Friends in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River should be aware of this kind of thing. Every time the Yellow River is dredged, some strange things happen. I think the hundreds of people mentioned earlier roared together. This is not the first time it has happened.
Ordinary people don't know much about these things, but people like Han Peacock, who belong to the ranks of strange people, naturally know very well what happened there.
Whether it was hundreds of people roaring in unison, or a newlywed couple hanging himself on their wedding day, they were all abnormal events. Without a reason, such a thing would not have happened, and subsequent events also proved this.
Later, three or four days after hundreds of people roared, the workers were already demoralized and strongly demanded a stoppage of work. The old people always felt that things were too strange.
Imagine where a whole family hanged themselves?
What's more, everyone is from a nearby village and has never heard of such a thing happening here.
Newlyweds are very capable of blocking evil spirits. It is rare for them to be haunted by ghosts right after they get married. Otherwise, there would be no such thing as happiness.
How could something like this happen in a place like this that hanged people are afraid to avoid?
So the only possibility is that there is some reason for this. It has caused this place to become a place of resentment, and it is the strongest kind. No matter how to resist the evil spirit, it cannot be resisted.
When something like this happened, the above (county) specially sent a folklore expert to check it out and appease the people. The farmers spontaneously organized some witches and elders to perform appeasement rituals similar to those in a dojo, but strange things still happened.
On the afternoon when the folklore experts arrived, news came out from the river: a transparent coffin was dug!
"Transparent coffin?" Jiang Shitou asked in surprise.
Ma Jifang affirmed: "It's a transparent coffin. I think this kind of transparent coffin should be rare, right?"
Jiang Shitou said: "Of course it is rare. Just like the transparent coffins here, they are not transparent originally. They are only formed by being nurtured by the Azure Dragon Ancestral Dragon Vein for countless years."
"I thought so too, so a transparent coffin was dug out from under the Yellow River. The matter is very serious." Ma Jifang continued.
When the old people rushed over, there were already many people watching. This was a very strange coffin. The top had just been dug out and the mud on it had been wiped off. What was strange was that the surroundings of the body could be clearly seen.
There were many small fish swimming around, but the body could not be seen, only the general outline.
The corpse is wearing a double-layered shroud. It can be judged that the body was childless (local custom is that only those who have no children will wear a double-layered shroud).
It is impossible for fish to survive in a sealed coffin for a long time. This is common sense, so the airtightness of this coffin must not be good, but if so, the shroud should be gone long ago, and it is difficult to even leave the bones.
Because the old people have never heard of any circumstances where a transparent coffin would be used for burial. What's more, this is the bottom of a river and was flooded after the Yellow River changed its course. The strange thing is that this coffin was not washed away. Because of local customs
, the burial depth is only about three meters.
The funeral custom there is that if there is no child, all funeral objects are doubled, except of course the coffin. The mouth is filled with gold, the left hand is pierced with silver, and the right hand is holding dog cakes. Dog cakes are corn cakes steamed with cornmeal and hair stubble.
There are evil dogs on the road to the underworld to deal with.
Coffins are divided into three, six, and nine grades. Thin coffins are three-inch boards, which are estimated to rot away in two or three years. Good ones are nine-inch boards, and are made of camphor, sandalwood and other hard woods, and then they are covered on the outside.
A poplar coffin is called a poplar coffin.
This coffin is obviously the best nine-inch board, and it also has a coffin on the outside. But a completely transparent coffin is really unheard of. No wonder everyone is particularly curious.
At the same time, the people who saw it felt vaguely chilly in their hearts. At this time, they were divided into two groups. Those led by some old people insisted on not digging anymore and buried the exposed cover for fear of harming their descendants.
The young man insisted on seeing what happened, and if he didn't believe in evil, he might dig out some gold and silver, wouldn't he be rich?
The folklore experts also had a curiosity-seeking attitude and asked them to continue digging. So the old people burned incense and prayed beside them, saying that some children are ignorant and please forgive them.
The young men dug away the mud around the coffin with spades one by one. One meter of the coffin body was exposed, but there was still no bottom underneath.
At this time, everyone was already a little regretful. It was said that the coffin was only about one meter high at best. Now it was dug up to one meter, but before it was even to the bottom, the atmosphere at the scene gradually began to become solemn.
What's even more strange is that the coffin lid and the coffin seem to be connected together without any gaps.
Everyone places their hope on the bottom of the coffin being able to be opened, but which coffin can open the lid from the bottom?
Inexplicable fear spread in my heart, maybe it was right not to dig.
But such a thing is absolutely not allowed in that era. After all, all ghosts and monsters are paper tigers!
Everyone continued to dig, getting out the mud and water while digging.
In the river, a pit two meters deep and 40 meters in diameter has appeared. The coffin has been exposed for 1.5 meters, but the bottom is still not visible.
The excavated mud is already clay, which means it will be more difficult to dig further. Everyone has always been surprised that the small fish can see so clearly, but why can't they see other things clearly?
How high is this coffin, and what kind of coffin is it?
No one spoke. There was only the sound of shovels digging dirt, accompanied by the occasional sound of coffins being touched. It didn’t feel like glass. Maybe it was because of the winter. It felt very cold to the touch, even though it was daytime and the sun was very bright.
Well, the temperature is also over ten degrees, but there are still bouts of chill.
Can anyone understand the texture? It's not as slippery as glass, it's hard and transparent.
Jade? Don't be kidding, how can jade be so transparent? And still so thick?
Someone lost their temper and gathered more than ten people to stand on one 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 see ghosts under the bright sun? What is there? Isn’t it just a coffin? Dig! How deep can it be?
Just keep digging. It’s strange that such a big coffin can be pushed by filling it with water. Don’t think too much and keep digging!
Someone is encouraging, this is indeed a laborious job, and the number of diggers has changed three times!
The coffin, which was exposed above the ground, was already taller than a person. It reflected light green light under the sun. What was even more strange was that people saw the corpse inside floating in the middle. It was always in the middle. When he dug out one meter, he was five
At ten centimeters, at two meters he is one meter high from the ground!
What is inside? It doesn’t look like water, but how can fish swim in it if it’s not water? It seems that only by digging it out completely can this question be answered.
Someone suggested using an iron rod to test how deep it was. At this time, someone invited the most famous local Feng Shui master.
This Feng Shui master has a very high reputation, and fortune telling is passed down from ancestors to his eldest son and grandson.
The first time he told someone's fortune was when he was fifteen years old. He was setting up a stall in the market. One local didn't believe him. Who had ever seen such a young gentleman?
I asked him to show it, but the gentleman didn't look at it. He just said: "Your life was too hard. You were forced to be born. When you were born, you didn't want to cry because your family was poor."
This man was ashamed at that time, because he did not cry when he was born, but later he cried with scallions. At most three people knew about it, Po Wen, his mother, and later his mother told him.
This Feng Shui master is very good at Feng Shui, including the yin house and the yang house, but he will never do the kind of things that make huge profits for others, such as charging a hundred yuan for a pack of cinnabar (a fortune teller often does this), etc.
Therefore, he is very respected by people. It is said that his father is more powerful and can pull a piece of grass on the grave to tell the gender of the deceased inside, his age, whether he died a good death, etc.
In the local area, another role of Feng Shui masters is to find ancestral graves for people. Before liberation, people often went out to Guandong at the age of 16. When they came back, their parents had passed away and they were buried by kind-hearted neighbors.
As a result, when the Four Olds were destroyed and feudal superstition was eradicated, the tombs were flattened. Some of the reasons were due to economic development, widening of roads, changes in cultivated land, etc. Some of the original signs (big trees, temples, etc.) that were used as symbols disappeared.
The old man only has the general location in his memory. If his children and grandchildren want to bury him properly, they must ask a Feng Shui master to help them find their ancestor's grave.
The Feng Shui master holds an iron rod in his hand, about half as thick as his little finger. According to the direction, he can find the ancestral grave and determine the direction of the head and feet.
I don’t know how to do it specifically, but generally speaking, burials are done from the north to the south, with the head in the north and the feet in the south, and an earthen jar is buried at the head of the grave.
This is the reason why everyone invited the Feng Shui master. The Feng Shui master came to the coffin and was very surprised, but did not say anything and looked at the coffin carefully. He never used a handmade iron rod.
After looking at it for half an hour, I asked the folklore expert (he was the biggest leader at the scene, he was from the county!): "Do I have to dig it?"
"Dig!" Folklore experts are already immersed in the joy of the archaeological discovery.
Of course he didn't forget to ask: "What harm could it do?"
He simply didn’t believe that this fortune teller would know this Lao Shizi. (To be continued, please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!