"Right here!" Li Hao was standing at the front when he was carrying the coffin. He pointed at a corner of the coffin with trembling fingers.
I quickly ran to Li Hao's position, and then looked where Li Hao's hand was pointing. Sure enough, in the corner where Li Hao was lifting, bright red Xue Zheng was gurgling out.
Others gathered to look at the blood flowing from the coffin.
The other coffin bearers couldn't help but change their expressions when they saw this scene.
"Dongfang, why is this happening?" Uncle Li asked me nervously, "Is it true that Qiangzi is really trying to swindle corpses here?"
Then Uncle Li pointed at the coffin bearers and yelled, "I told you to be careful, but you just didn't listen. Now something has happened, are you happy?"
Uncle Li roared like an angry lion. The veins on his neck popped out and he looked quite scary!
I was also shocked by Uncle Li's appearance. He has a good personality and usually gets along well with people in the village. He rarely gets angry.
The coffin bearers all lowered their heads silently. Although Uncle Li scolded them fiercely, they did not dare to refute. After all, they did do something wrong.
Seeing that the current situation was a bit tense, I quickly spoke up to calm down the tense atmosphere. "Uncle Li, let's go back and talk about other things! Don't forget, our top priority is to cremate Brother Qiangzi's body as soon as possible!"
Uncle Li slowly calmed down and nodded to me, "Dongfang, you are right. I was too impulsive just now, but now blood is flowing out of Qiangzi's coffin. What should we do next?"
I looked at the coffin on the ground. The corner of the coffin was still bleeding. We didn't know what was going on inside. There would inevitably be certain risks if we lifted the coffin again.
After thinking for a while, I said, "Let's not lift the coffin for the time being. Let's open the coffin to see what's inside, and then make other plans."
Because this was not the first time I had seen such a weird thing, so even though blood slowly flowed out of Hadron's coffin, after a short period of panic, I slowly calmed down.
But others obviously can't be like me, they are still looking panicked.
When I propose a method, no one will object, and everyone will nod in unison.
Then with the help of others, we slowly moved the coffin lid to the side.
When the coffin was opened and I saw clearly what was inside, I took a deep breath.
In the coffin, Qiangzi was lying quietly inside. The strange scene was that Qiangzi's eyes were slowly bleeding. The yellow talisman that grandpa pasted on Qiangzi's forehead had fallen to one side.
And the blood flowing out can be said to be "blood pouring out".
There was a lot of blood flowing out of Hadron's eyes, otherwise it would not have penetrated through the coffin to the outside.
Suddenly I felt a cool breath blowing on the back of my head. Qiangzi, who had kept his eyes tightly closed, suddenly opened his eyes, emitting a breathtaking light.
Qiangzi's hand also suddenly stood up.
I shouted in my heart that it was not good, and then with quick eyesight and quick hands, I grabbed Grandpa's yellow talisman and put it on Qiangzi's forehead again.
After the yellow talisman was attached, Qiangzi, who had originally planned to move, fell silent again.
I stuffed Qiangzi's outstretched hands into the coffin again.
After doing all this, I took a few deep breaths and then asked others to close the coffin again.
Others were not hesitant and immediately started to cover the coffin again.
When the coffin was closed again, I slowly recovered.
I said to Uncle Li, "Uncle Li, let's not waste time here. This is not far from the open space next to my cornfield. Let's go there quickly and burn the corpse of the hadron."
Uncle Li nodded, "Okay, I listen to you, let's go there quickly."
Because of the incident where the coffin hit the tree just now, we were very cautious when we were on our way, for fear of hitting the coffin into the tree again.
Fortunately, it was peaceful and nothing happened, and we arrived at the open space next to the cornfield without any danger.
A lot of dry firewood has been piled up in the center of the open space. There is a big white bucket next to the dry firewood. It probably contains gasoline. Needless to say, Uncle Li has prepared all these dry firewood and gasoline in advance.
After arriving here, we didn't dare to waste any more time. After putting down the coffin, we took action.
The coffin was opened again, and then several of us slowly lifted Qiangzi's body and placed it on top of the dry firewood.
When carrying Qiangzi's body, each of us walked on thin ice and took every step carefully. If someone accidentally slipped on his sole at this time and dropped Qiangzi's body to the ground, it would be great fun!
Without even daring to breathe, we placed the coffin on dry wood.
We had just put Qiangzi's body on the dry firewood. Uncle Li, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately took the white bucket and poured all the gasoline in it onto the dry firewood.
Then Uncle Li put a handful of burning straw on it, and the fire immediately started.
Uncle Li and several of us hid far away, and the fire became more and more intense. From time to time, "cracking" sounds could be heard from the fire.
Looking at the raging fire, my heart that had been hanging around finally slowly dropped. After such a fire, there should be nothing left in Qiangzi's body, and Qiangzi would no longer be able to cheat.
Corpse.
However, although Qiangzi's body was cremated, this does not mean that everything has come to an end.
There are still many mysteries waiting for me to figure out. For example, why did the ghost of Hadron come to me that night?
Who took away my yellow cloth bag and lightning-struck mahogany sword while I was sleeping?
There is also the death of Hadron, why did Hadron's tongue suddenly become so long, so that in the end he could not breathe because his tongue was too long and was suffocated to death.
Who can do this? Did Qiangzi eat the wrong thing or was he plotted?
These puzzles are like mountains weighing on my heart.
Then we waited until the fire burned out before we turned around and left.
Those who helped carry the coffin had other things to do, so they decided not to go back with me and Uncle Li.
Uncle Li didn't force it. He took out his wallet and stuffed a few Mao Zedong cards into each of those people. "Thank you for your hard work today. This is a little bit of my gratitude. I invite you all to smoke and drink tea. Please don't be polite!"
Li Hao pretended to be polite and said, "Uncle, tell me what you are doing. You are my uncle. Why should I pay you? I am doing something for you. Isn't that what I should do?"
I curled my lips, this Li Hao was just polite and polite, and he said some polite words, but his hands were very honest, and he put the few Mao Zedong pictures that Uncle Li had given him into his pocket.
Uncle Li smiled and said, "These are all things that should be done. Brothers have to settle accounts clearly! Although you are my nephew, I can't let you go through this hard work in vain!"
After saying a few polite words, those people left. Uncle Li and I walked and chatted slowly towards his home.
"Dongfang..." Uncle Li suddenly spoke while walking on the road.
"What's wrong?" I turned my head and looked at Uncle Li in confusion. Qiangzi's body had been cremated. What else could he do?
But Uncle Li looked hesitant, obviously he had something to say but he didn't dare to say it.
"Uncle Li, just say it directly if you have anything to say. You have watched me grow up, what else are you embarrassed about?" I said with a smile.
My words gave Uncle Li courage. He swallowed and said firmly, "Dongfang, I have something to ask you for help."
"Is it about hadrons?" I raised my eyebrows.
"How do you know?" Uncle Li asked in surprise.
I smiled and looked mysterious.
Isn’t this obvious?
Hadron is your biological son. Although his body has been cremated now, there are still many mysteries about him. You said you want my help with something, isn't it definitely about Hadron?
Although he thought so in his heart, he asked, "What about hadrons?"