As soon as Fang Ming finished speaking, several of the relatives of the deceased suddenly changed their expressions and quickly ran towards the coffin and pushed the coffin away.
The moment the coffin was pushed open, everyone present saw clearly what was going on inside the coffin, and an uproar broke out.
Inside the coffin, an old man was lying on his side, his face pale, and the oxygen mask that was originally sucked into the water fell aside. The old man's trembling hands tried to grab the oxygen mask, but he failed.
"dad!"
The children of the deceased looked nervous and quickly helped the old man up.
"He actually didn't die."
"With oxygen bottles, isn't this fake death?"
These villagers looked angry, feeling that the Zhang family was deceiving them and that the old Zhang family was not dead at all.
"What did this family do? This old man is still alive and put him in the coffin?" Chen Ze was also happy. This was a situation he had never encountered before.
"I have heard of a situation where there is a custom in some places, that is, when some elderly people reach a certain age, in order to allow the elderly people to continue to live, they have to stage a fake burial custom, so that the ghosts in the underworld will be confused.
Thinking that the old man is dead can deceive him into living longer."
Hua Mingming was talking about what his father Hua Borong had seen. When he was young, Hua Borong collected antiques. He traveled to many places and saw many special customs. This fake burial was one of them.
"Zhang Laoer, aren't you guys fooling around? Pull Uncle Zhang out quickly and find a doctor to see if there is anything wrong."
Wang Guodong didn't know whether to cry or laugh. The Zhang family had abandoned the whole village. Fortunately, he helped the Zhang family organize the funeral.
"Village Chief, there is nothing we can do."
Zhang Laoer also looked helpless, "We did this because we don't want my dad to suffer... It will be my dad's turn soon, and the village chief and we have nothing to do."
After hearing Zhang Laoer's words, Wang Guodong's expression changed, and then he sighed heavily, "Okay, stop talking and take Uncle Zhang back."
The Zhang family took the old man back. Although the villagers were dissatisfied, they dispersed one by one. However, at the intersection not far away, a rickety figure stood there, seeing everything clearly, and finally turned around
Leave slowly.
"Guodong, we have a guest at home. Do you remember that girl Erniu?"
After Wang Guodong heard what his wife said, he noticed Fang Ming and others, and finally his eyes fell on Zhang Shuqi.
"That little girl from Yapa's family?"
"Hello, Uncle Wang."
Zhang Shuqi smiled sweetly and stepped forward to say hello.
"It's true, girl, this is a woman's 18th transformation, I almost can't recognize her."
Wang Guodong laughed, and when he saw his wife winking at him, and then when he saw his son peeking at Zhang Shuqi, he knew that his son was attracted to Zhang Shuqi, and his mother-in-law also had the same idea.
"Come on, come on, everyone, come inside, it's too hot outside."
Wang Guodong greeted everyone into the courtyard, but Fang Ming directly asked at this time: "Uncle Wang, why did this family let the old man fake his death? I think what they said before seemed to have something unspeakable."
Wang Guodong looked at Fang Ming. He had a deep impression on Fang Ming. It was this young man who opened his mouth just now that exposed the affairs of the Zhang family. And if it hadn't been for this young man, Uncle Zhang would have been suffocated to death in the coffin.
.
"this……"
But even so, Wang Guodong still didn't want to tell anything about the Zhang family, because it related to a huge secret of their village.
"Who knows, every family must have some unspeakable secrets. As the village chief, I don't care about so many private matters."
Wang Guodong didn't mention it, and Fang Ming smiled and didn't ask further. Moreover, he didn't tell Wang Guodong that it was not an accident that the coffin fell to the ground, but someone did it deliberately.
The Wang family has two houses, one is this old house with a yard, and the other is a new house. In the afternoon, Wang Tian's mother went to the new house to make the bed. She was extremely enthusiastic and made Fang Ming wait.
People play for a few more days.
…
In the evening, by the island, Fang Ming and Ye Ziyu were walking on the beach while enjoying the sea breeze.
"Fang Ming, I always feel that something is wrong with the villagers on this island, as if there is some big secret."
Ye Ziyu is not a talkative person, but she is a person who likes to observe. Everything she saw on the island today told her that the island may be hiding a secret.
"A castle called Sin City. With such a castle, this village must have some secrets that outsiders don't know. Moreover, the coffin falling that happened during the day was not an accident, but man-made.
That person’s purpose was either to let people discover that there was a living person in the coffin, or to kill the old man so that the other person would change from fake death to real death.”
Fang Ming's words made Ye Ziyu look surprised. If you want to put it this way, then this island is really not simple.
The sea breeze came out, carrying the sound of waves, but Fang Ming's ears suddenly stood up at the next moment, revealing the sound of listening carefully. After a moment of doubt, Ye Ziyu's movements became the same as Qin Yu's.
In the sea breeze, there was a crisp singing voice.
"Sister Ocean is so beautiful, with crisp bells, beautiful shells, and beautiful children sitting in rows."
Childlike nursery rhymes sounded, and Ye Ziyu wondered, are there still children singing on the beach so late? Which adult has such a big heart?
Fang Ming's eyes were staring in one direction, and his pupils shrank. In his sight, he could clearly see a figure standing on the beach in front of him.
"We held hands together, counting shells and watching the waves. The child in white socks walked into the sea, and the child with the doll on his back was buried in the sand."
"One, two, three, four, five, six, spinning in circles, clapping hands, hey, hey, hey, three more fell down."
"One after another has been sent away, one after another has been locked up, and another one has come back, is back..."
The sweet and innocent girl's voice, but the content of the lyrics made Ye Ziyu a little scared. Fang Ming frowned and ran forward the next moment. However, when he ran to the figure he saw earlier
From the standing position, there is nothing there.
The sound of nursery rhymes also disappeared, and only the sound of waves was left on the entire beach. If it were anyone else, they might have thought they were hallucinating.
"Fang Ming, was a little girl singing just now?"
Zi Yu caught up and asked uncertainly, but Fang Ming shook his head, "I'm not sure either, but now I'm sure, this village is definitely not simple."
Because of the appearance of this nursery rhyme, Fang Ming and Ye Ziyu lost the mood to continue walking. They walked back towards the Wang family's new house. However, midway, they saw many villagers suddenly running in one direction.
This also includes Wang Guodong.
"Fang Ming, something seems to have happened at the old man's house who faked his death during the day. Let's go and take a look?"
Among the crowd, Chen Ze and the others were also there. When they saw Fang Ming and Ye Ziyu walking back, Chen Ze briefly explained the situation. It turned out that not long ago, someone came to the Wang family's new house to find Wang Guodong, saying that something big had happened to the Zhang family.
"Walk."
Fang Ming nodded, and the group followed the villagers and walked towards Zhang's house.
The Zhang family was in a corner of the village. The lights were brightly lit at the moment, and many villagers gathered around the door. However, when Fang Ming and the others arrived, these villagers were still talking around the door of the Zhang family, with expressions of fear on their faces. But
But no one dared to come close.
After squeezing through the crowd, Fang Ming looked inside the Zhang family's gate. When he saw it, his pupils shrank. Inside the Zhang's family's gate, the old Zhang family man who had faked his death during the day was sitting upright on the ground, soaked to the skin.
The weirdest thing is that the old man is wearing a pair of white socks on his feet.
The old man's eyes were wide open and his face was extremely distorted, as if he had seen a scene that made him extremely frightened and collapsed.
"Fang Ming" Ye Ziyu who was standing next to him suddenly pulled Fang Ming's corner, and then said softly: "Do you still remember the nursery rhyme we just heard at the beach?"
Fang Ming's eyes narrowed, and he quickly recalled the lyrics of the nursery rhyme in his mind: "We held hands together, counting the shells and watching the waves. The child wearing white socks walked into the sea, and the child carrying the doll on his back
The child was buried in the sand."
The kid in white socks walked into the sea!
The old man was wearing white socks, and the clothes on his body were soaked, as if he had been soaked in water. This was exactly the same as the sentence in the nursery rhyme, the only difference was that the child turned into an old man.
"This...how could this happen?"
"Why can't you hide away?"
The Zhang family had painful expressions on their faces and murmured to themselves. At this moment, Wang Guodong walked into the Zhang family's gate. Fang Ming hesitated and followed.
"What's going on?" Wang Guodong asked.
"Village Chief, my dad was sitting alone in the yard enjoying the shade after dinner in the evening. We didn't pay much attention to it, but only ten minutes later, my dad became like this."
Zhang Laoer's face was pale and his eyes flickered, "Village Chief, my dad told us when he came back today that he can't escape this time."
"Stop talking nonsense!"
Wang Guodong interrupted Zhang Laoer, but at this time Fang Ming's voice rang out, "We held hands together, counting the shells and watching the waves. The child in white socks walked into the sea, and the child with the baby on his back
The child was buried in the sand."
The moment he heard the lyrics of the nursery rhyme recited by Fang Ming, Wang Guodong's face changed and became extremely ugly. He stared at Fang Ming, but Fang Ming didn't care and just said: "This is what I just said.
I heard it at the beach, Uncle Wang, I think you should tell everything, because it is very likely that someone will die."