Qin Nan listened carefully to Zeng Li's words and found them very interesting. However, the rumors heard by Wu Haotian and Mo Dan were somewhat different from Zeng Li's, but they were generally consistent.
"Do you know why, except for the family who carried the red coffin, everything was fine, but something happened to the family who carried the other coffins?" Zeng Li looked at Qin Nan and said.
Qin Nan originally thought that Zeng Li wanted him to refute the feudal rumors, but she went on to say:
"Red coffins are used for 'happy funerals', that is, they are specially used to bury old people who have passed away without illness. There will be some carvings on the red coffins, and the word 'longevity' will also be written on them.
Black coffins are used for people who died abnormally, such as being killed, car accidents, fights, etc. These people use black coffins.
Because these things are more or less unlucky, they are painted black. This is why the corpses open their eyes and pretend to be dead. People who die normally use black coffins, which is equivalent to taking the soul of the corpse to the eighteenth level of hell.
,
Therefore, there is a phenomenon of "fraudulent corpses", and the golden coffin is the coffin used to bury dignitaries. It is not something that ordinary people can use casually. In the past, it was used to bury emperors and generals.
Therefore, the family that took away the golden coffin became poorer and poorer, and everything they did was not going well. And the colorless coffin, which was a thin burial, would not enter the ancestral grave.
That’s why the souls of the dead give dreams to their families.”
"Haha..." Qin Nan looked at Zeng Li with disbelief. It did sound interesting, but to him these were just feudal superstitions.
"Do you know why I know so clearly?" Zeng Li looked at Qin Nan and asked.
Qin Nan smiled and shook his head to express that he didn't know.
"That's why people in the village especially trust our family, because those who brought the wrong coffin asked my grandparents for help and they all solved the problem." Zeng Li said with a smile, making him feel as if she had solved those problems.
"Nan Nan, Zeng Li, Haotian?!" Grandma's voice came from the yard, seeming to be looking for the two of them. Qin Nan and the others secretly said something bad, and then said to Zeng Li:
"Hurry, wherever that place is, grandma will be here soon."
"Follow me." Wu Haotian took Qin Nan's hand and jumped off the field below, and then several people disappeared nearby.
Grandma also came to the back door. After seeing several people running in one direction, she couldn't help but sigh, and then walked towards the yard.
"Where is that place?" Qin Nan gasped.
"Hey, it should be around here, how could it be missing?" Zeng Li scratched her head in confusion, as if she didn't know very well.
"Have you been here before?" Qin Nan didn't want to leave, so she squatted on the ground and said.
"No, but I heard my grandma tell me before. She pointed here and told me not to come here, otherwise I would be eaten by tigers in the mountains, so I have never been here before." Zeng Li observed.
He said while looking around.
"I bet you haven't been here before, that legend seems to be 80% false!" Qin Nan waved his hand and said.
Just when Zeng Li wanted to refute, Wu Haotian pointed in one direction and said:
"Look at that..."
The two of them looked in the direction of Wu Haotian's finger, and the three of them saw a very magical scene.
I saw a dense forest not far from the direction of Wu Haotian's finger. To be precise, it was a forest without snow cover. It looked like a boundary in a movie.
It was a sharp contrast to the white snow time here.
"It's so strange, what's going on over there? A different world?" Zeng Li scratched her head and said, then walked in that direction, followed closely by Wu Haotian and Qin Nan.
The three of them stepped into the "enchantment". It was like another world, giving the three of them a feeling of traveling through time.
"Why does it feel like spring here? Look, there are actually snails here." Zeng Li grabbed a snail and said.
Qin Nan found it very strange. There were vegetation covered with snow all around, but here it was full of life, like spring.
The group of people walked about a hundred or two hundred meters and saw a two-meter-high wall in front of them. The wall was covered with ivy, and moss grew on the wall due to moisture.
"I found it, it should be here." Zeng Li said with a smile.
"Hey, this place is really weird." Qin Nan said with a frown, thinking about why this place has such a scene.
"Come, come with me to find out and start your journey to Wonderland." Zeng Li looked at Wu Haotian and Qin Nan with a smile and said.
The two looked at each other, shook their heads helplessly, and then followed Zeng Li to the gate of Lao Lao Temple.
At this time, the courtyard gate of my grandma's temple had already fallen to the ground, and the fallen door was still covered with moss. There was also some moss on the steps of the courtyard gate, but not as much as on the wooden door.
It seems that no one has been here for a long time. It can be seen from the threshold that if someone has been here, they will definitely leave some footprints on those one or two steps.
"Be careful, there is a lot of moss here, don't fall down, the yin energy here is a bit heavy." Zeng Li said with a frown.
"I'm afraid it's not just the yin that's heavy here, it's also damp." Qin Nan said.
At this time, light snow began to fly in the sky. The snow fell on the ground and soon turned into water droplets.
Qin Nan couldn't help but frown. He squatted down and stuck his cold fingers into the soil. Suddenly, his brows relaxed, his eyes looked at Zeng Li inside, and the corners of his mouth raised.
"That's true, but why is the soil here warm?" Qin Nan stood there and began to think.
"Cousin, come and take a look, this is wrong!" Zeng Li shouted from the yard.
Qin Nan hurriedly stepped forward, and Zeng Li came to Qin Nan, pointed at the coffin in front of her and said:
"Cousin, the number of coffins is wrong. There are obviously eight coffins, why are there only six now?"
"After all, it's a rumor, so it's normal to have some discrepancies." Qin Nan said.
"Impossible. Everyone in the village knows that there are eight coffins in the courtyard of the grandma's temple. Since the eight coffins in the house were taken away, so many strange things have happened.
No one in the village has been to this place anymore. Even if someone comes to move the coffins here, they will be discovered as long as they move to the village. But why are there only six coffins here?" Zeng Li scratched her head.
said.
Qin Nan didn't know what to say. These things were originally rumors among the villagers. A story told by everyone would be different.
What's more, a story is told one by one in the village. It is inevitable that such a story will be a bit mythical.
At this time, Wu Haotian looked at the room directly opposite the courtyard gate. In that room was a one-foot-tall doll.
"No, I heard from my grandpa that the statue in my grandma's temple is three feet high, and it's still in a sitting position, with a wooden walking stick in its hand. How come it turned into a doll about one foot long, covered with yellow linen cloth?
?" Wu Haotian said.
Zeng Li and Qin Nan looked over at the same time and couldn't help but take a few steps forward. Zeng Li frowned even more tightly. She looked at Wu Haotian with a puzzled face and asked:
"Brother Haotian is a one-foot-long doll. Who did you hear that it's three feet tall?"
"My grandfather said that he heard it from the old village chief, but he never came in person," Wu Haotian said.
"Listening to what you said, it seems that there is such a saying. The older generation in the village said it was a three-foot statue, but our fathers did say it was a one-foot-tall statue. So what's going on?
"
Zeng Li said to herself, goosebumps appeared on her body as she thought about it. She was not afraid of dead people, but she was afraid of those "lonely souls and wild ghosts" hiding in the dark.
Qin Nan also looked confused after hearing this. He raised his head and looked at the ordinary wooden plaque one meter long and one foot wide above the door, with the three words "Grandma Temple" written in black ink on it.
The plaque was affected by moisture, and there were a few moss growing on it.
Zeng Li also looked up at the plaque above. She was even more confused when she saw the three words "Grandma Temple". He said with some uncertainty:
"No, why is this in black font? I heard my grandma say it's not in red font?"
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(The events of this chapter take place on the third day of the Lunar New Year)