Luo Tianbao's face flushed with anger and he glared at me fiercely.

I was also extremely aggrieved and said, "Second brother, I swear I didn't peel back the window paper. Last night, a pair of bloodshot eyes appeared on the window paper. I was almost scared to death. How could I have the heart to watch the fun?"

Luo Tianbao hesitated for a moment and said, "You really didn't peek at the situation in the morgue?"

"If I had seen it, I would have been given the car immediately..."

"Don't say any more, just don't read it." Luo Tianbao nodded slightly when he said this.

I looked at the snake corpse drooping on the coffin and the blue-gray female corpse lying on the ground and felt it was very weird . I couldn't help but feel a little creepy and subconsciously moved closer to Luo Tianbao.

The funeral procession didn't run far. Some hid behind trees, others behind bushes, peering out from behind. Seeing the man and the snake already dead, they bravely approached. A middle-aged man with a pipe tucked into his waist said, "Damn it! You almost scared me to death! Isn't that a zombie ?"

Luo Tianbao sighed and said, "This is fate. Old Wu can't blame us."

The middle-aged man also sighed and said, "He has done a terrible evil."

Luo Tianbao said nothing more after that. He picked up a few branches and inserted them around the snake and human corpses. He also covered the branches with a layer of black cloth to block the direct sunlight from the corpses . Then he saw a man in his fifties hurriedly running over with a crew cut. He said from a distance, "Something happened. It really happened."

He stumbled to the dead body , fell to his knees and said with a sad face: "Wife, I'm sorry for you. Even if I die, I can't let you rest in peace." After that, he slapped himself in the face repeatedly.

Everyone rushed forward to persuade him, but Old Wu was very excited and then fainted. Everyone was in a panic until someone drove Old Wu away and things calmed down. Luo Tianbao took me away.

Walking on the silent path, I asked, "Second brother, why was Old Wu's wife buried with a snake?" I know there are many strange things in the mountains, but this is the first time I have seen a snake buried with a dead person.

"Because the deceased was previously in the stomach of a snake, this is called a Mountain King Burial. The Mountain King is the beast that ate the human. The human corpse has been digested beyond human form. If the corpse is taken out, it would be too traumatic for the relatives. Therefore, the killed man-eating beast is buried in place of the human."

I shuddered and asked, "Was Old Wu's wife eaten by that snake and then spit out?"

"The snake was not completely dead when it was put into the coffin, so it broke out of the coffin. After eating, the python's movements slowed down. If it sensed danger, it would vomit the food in its stomach and escape."

I used to think that after death, the body was simply placed in a coffin and buried in the ground. But after only a few days in Longhua Village, I've already witnessed two completely different funeral methods: "planting a life base" and "mountain king burial." Thinking of this, I sighed and said, "Being swallowed by a snake—how tragic!"

"Misery?" Luo Tianbao shook his head thoughtfully.

"Brother, is there something else going on here?" I couldn't help but feel curious.

Luo Tianbao hesitated for a moment and said, "I shouldn't tell you this, but you should also know that the phrase 'karmic retribution' isn't just feudal superstition . Everyone in our family must believe in it."

He pointed to the construction site behind us and said, "Linlou Village wasn't like this two years ago. This flattened land was originally a dirt mountain, and that dirt mountain is quite famous in the surrounding area. The soil is so fine that it even has an oily sheen when viewed from a distance in the sun, like a giant piece of topaz. When I was very young, my grandfather told me that Linlou Village was a place of great feng shui, and that Topaz Mountain was the key to its feng shui."

"So when Village Chief Wu led people here to dig the earth mountain, my grandfather said something big was going to happen. Sure enough, a few days after work started, the excavator driver dug up a huge flower snake with a fleshy crest that was more than ten meters long. The snake scurried away at full speed, and in the blink of an eye, it jumped out of the ground and into Bat Mountain a few hundred meters away. The driver was scared to death on the spot. That night, a heavy rain fell, and the unfinished Huangyu Mountain was washed away by the rain. Then the next day, Village Chief Wu's wife, Fang Qinsao, was strangled and swallowed by the giant python while drying salted goods at home . When Village Chief Wu returned home, he saw the giant snake swallowing a pair of his feet. The snake didn't run away when it saw people, but stood with its head held high and its tongue sticking out, confronting Village Chief Wu."

I got goosebumps when I heard this and asked, "Could it be that the old snake has transformed into a spirit and is here to take revenge?"

Luo Tianbao said, "All life in the world is spiritual. Animals know how to repay kindness, so they will naturally seek revenge. This is nothing strange. That's why Village Chief Wu suffered retribution for digging up the feng shui eye of Duanlinlou Village on Huangyu Mountain. If his wife can't be buried properly, Village Chief Wu and his family will be in big trouble in the future."

"Then we have to wait until he repairs the coffin?" I said.

"Repair the coffin?" Luo Tianbao shook his head and said, "If it were that simple, nothing would have happened today. When I took this job, I knew that this coffin would not be so easy to bury. I wanted to use the evil spirit in your body to suppress the evil spirit, but now it seems that it still cannot be done." As he spoke, he walked to the cemetery where I slept the night before yesterday.

"Second brother, that stone coffin is where the snake corpse is buried, right?"

"This is called Mountain King Burial. We must never say the wrong thing in our line of work." Luo Tianbao said seriously.

I knew very little about this business and was afraid of getting into trouble again, so I kept my mouth shut all the way back to Longhua Village. When I got off the bus, the villagers were just setting up a meal.

These days, in order to entertain the construction team I brought with me, we have set up a banquet every day.

A banquet means eating and drinking outdoors. The difference from a buffet is that the dishes are not changed during a banquet, and the food is considered as finished as much as the food on the table can be. After three rounds of drinks, I suddenly felt the urge to go to the bathroom, so I went out of the yard and went to the toilet at the back of the house.

Although every household in Longhua Village is rich, farmers still maintain the tradition of farming, so every family has a dry toilet, which is a simple little house built with red bricks, with a pit inside connected to the round manure pit outside. Since the toilet space is not large, only one person can enter at a time. I walked to the door of the toilet and vaguely saw a person in white clothes standing in the dark toilet.

Since there was someone there, let's wait for a while, so I stood at the door for a while, but the man still stood there motionless and had no intention of coming out. I couldn't hold it any longer, so seeing that there was no one around, I went around to the manure pit and waited for a while.

After feeling relieved, I walked back to the toilet and said with a smile, "Your pee is really long-lasting."

The man in white in the toilet did not respond to me and continued to stand motionless in the toilet.

Now I feel something is wrong. I have been here for at least six or seven minutes. Is he dehydrated because he hasn't urinated in such a long time?

Thinking of this, I stuck my head into the bathroom and took a look.

Just with this one glance, my head suddenly stood up and an intense feeling of fear instantly spread throughout my body. If I hadn't just "let go", I would have wet my pants.

I saw a man standing in the toilet wearing a snow-white robe and a white pointed round hat. What was even more terrifying was that there were four big words "I'll wait for you" written in red cinnabar on the robe behind him.

The red words on a white background were extremely obvious in the dark space, giving people a bloody stimulation. It was clearly a ghost. I was so scared that I turned around and ran, rushing into the yard where the banquet was set up and found Luo Tianbao. I pointed outside the yard but was too frightened to speak.

Everyone around me noticed something unusual in my expression and facial features, and the originally lively chatter suddenly quieted down. Luo Tianbao handed me a cup of hot water and said, "Drink it before you talk."

After drinking this glass of water, my panic finally calmed down. I took a deep breath and said, "There is a White Impermanence in the toilet outside the yard."

After hearing this, Luo Tianbao was not surprised, but instead smiled.

I said, "It's true. I saw it clearly."

Luo Tianbao laughed and said, "Why did you go out to use the dry toilet? There is a bathroom in the house ?" I couldn't explain why I went out specifically to experience this stimulation. I guess it was because the evil spirit in my life had not been completely cleared away.

Luo Tianbao stood up and said, "Let's go, let's catch ghosts and exorcise demons." After that, he took a group of onlookers to the " haunted dry toilet."

As I got closer, I could see a white outline in the toilet. Even though Luo Tianbao was there, I still felt a little uneasy. I walked to the dry toilet and Luo Tianbao pointed at the white shadow inside and said, "You shouldn't come to this place when you're eating, but Xiao Zhen will definitely be scared if I don't explain clearly , so let's talk about what this White Impermanence in the toilet is all about."