Volume 1: Die with Unclosed Eyes 9. Hitting the Immortal
The rest of the rat's body was twisting vigorously, and soon blood flowed out of Village Chief Wu's mouth and covered the rat's body. He didn't feel disgusted and swallowed the rat in no time, without even a hair left.
Then he did the same thing and caught two more mice and ate them alive. I had never seen such a thing before. I felt my stomach churning. I quickly found a tree, went behind it, opened my mouth and vomited, vomiting out the bitter gallbladder in disgust.
When I went back, Village Chief Wu was lying on the ground. His limbs were twitching and foaming at the mouth, just like he was having an epilepsy. All of us could only watch from afar and no one dared to approach him.
" A spirit has appeared. Village Chief Wu has appeared." Dingzi whispered. He was from Northeast China. A spirit has appeared is what we call "a spirit possessed by a great spirit or a spirit that has encountered an immortal." It seems that the old snake demon not only "sent a killer" to devour Village Chief Wu's wife, but he himself did not intend to let her go. The pair of red dots on the window that night must have belonged to the old snake demon. It actually came to the scene of the body.
Thinking that I might have to spend the whole night separated from it by a wall, I was so scared that I couldn't help but vomit a few mouthfuls of bile.
However, to my surprise, Luo Tianbao was helpless at this point, so he called Wu Tianxiong, who was also his uncle.
Wu Tianxiong is the eldest grandson of the eldest grandfather's family. He is almost forty years old and is tall and strong. The most obvious thing about him is that he has a pair of straight eyebrows on his forehead. They are black and thick, like a black sausage hanging on his forehead. His facial features are extremely ferocious, and you can't tell that he is related to us by blood.
Since Wu Tianxiong is much older than us and looks fierce, I instinctively don't want to have any contact with him. I have only spoken to him three sentences in the days since I came to Longhua Village.
I always thought Luo Tianbao was the most capable of us brothers, but I didn't expect the real deal was the fierce Wu Tianxiong. While waiting for him, I said, "Second brother, if you can't handle this, what will the eldest brother do when he arrives?"
Luo Tianbao said: "We each have our own responsibilities. I am the funeral director, responsible for burials and relocation of graves. Your eldest brother is the minister, responsible for rituals . When encountering a situation like this where a great immortal is possessed, it is natural for him to handle it." I thought to myself that my eldest brother is really awesome, and I will definitely learn more by following him.
However, there were people who arrived faster than Wu Tianxiong. They were the developers of the villa area. They got the news from somewhere and rushed over. When they saw Village Chief Wu lying on the ground twitching, they got a stretcher and carried him away.
Luo Tianbao said: "You can't carry the person away, the matter here is not over yet."
"What else is there? You gravediggers, why don't you just bury the coffin and be done with it? Why are you doing all this?" A young man in a black suit who looked like a tough guy said to us fiercely.
"This man has encountered a spirit. If you take him away like this, you will get into big trouble." Luo Tianbao said.
"You country folks just love to engage in those feudal superstitious things. If someone gets sick, they won't take medicine and just drink incense ash like you do? Hurry up and do your job. Old Wu will be taken care of by us."
I also understand what these people do. They build projects here because they hope that there will be fewer strange things. If things like the old snake spirit causing trouble in the local area were to spread, it would definitely have a negative impact on real estate sales, because those who can come here to buy real estate are all rich people, and the richer people are, the more superstitious they are. Therefore, the developer must hope that this matter will be resolved as soon as possible.
We couldn't stop these people from taking Village Chief Wu away, so we could only call Wu Tianxiong to tell him not to come. The boss asked, "Boss Luo, what do you think we should do?"
Luo Tianbao sighed and said, "Since they don't believe in it, there's nothing I can do. Let's just leave it to fate and bury him." So the coffin bearers lifted the wooden coffin and carried it to the cemetery .
On the way, I asked him, "Second brother, where is the body of the python ?"
"The mountain is buried."
"Mountain burial?" I asked curiously.
"Simply put, it's thrown into the mountains. These old creatures live in deep mountains and old forests and won't easily see people, so the only way to deal with the old creature's body is to carry it into the mountains. The mountain gods will bury it in the most appropriate way. People can't easily interfere, otherwise they will bring trouble. The ancestors of our industry set many rules, and none of these rules can be broken, otherwise there will be endless trouble."
I just heard the boss shout, "Lift up the dragon coffin." With the shout, eight people lifted the black lacquered wooden coffin. I led the way to the cemetery. After entering the cemetery where the stone coffin was stored, I shoveled three shovels of soil and threw it into the tomb. The coffin bearers had already set up the bracket for lowering the coffin. After fixing the coffin in the air, they controlled the pulley to lower the rope little by little, and placed the black lacquered wooden coffin steadily in the stone coffin, and then sealed the coffin with the soil.
"Is this the end?" I asked before walking out of the woods.
Luo Tianbao subconsciously glanced in the direction of Linlou Village and sighed, "I hope so."
The first thing you need to do when you return to the village is to wash your hands with the hand-washing talisman. If you have attended a funeral, you must wash your hands before entering the house, otherwise you will bring bad luck into the house, which will seriously affect the feng shui of the house.
After seeing Wu Tianxiong, he asked, "Has the grave been dug?"
"Yeah, there's no way to reason with those people."
Wu Tianxiong nodded and said, "If something really happens, it will be the fate of the people of Linlou Village. There is nothing you and I can do about it."
I was a little skeptical. Village Chief Wu had already been in bad luck, so what else could happen? Could it be that the old snake demon would really unleash his magical powers and kill every inhabitant of Linlou Village?
However, I am still very concerned about the news of Linlou Village, if for no other reason than to prove that what Wu Tianxiong said was false.
The source of information about Linlou Village is actually very simple. I just need to ask my family. Longhua and Linlou are neighboring villages, so the information can be obtained quickly.
After spending the first day without any incident, I received news on the second day that something big had happened in Linlou Village.
Of course, to be precise, this incident has nothing to do with the "old snake demon". There was no natural event at the temporary resettlement site for the villagers of Linlou Village. Instead, the plague suddenly broke out. At least dozens of villagers, including the construction team members brought by the developer, were infected with the plague. The temporary resettlement site is said to have been blocked, and a large number of medical staff entered the scene to treat the plague patients.
As for how many people died in this epidemic, I still don’t know the exact number, but it is said that more than 20 people died, seven of whom were children. The plague must have been brought back by Village Chief Wu who ate rats, so if those people had not transported Village Chief Wu back, we would probably be the unlucky ones.
According to Luo Tianbao, this was the inevitable fate after committing a sin. Even though Fang Qinsao was buried, the villagers of Linlou Village and the construction team who destroyed the local feng shui for profit were still punished.
Of course, you can also say that this is just a coincidence and has nothing to do with retribution. I generally don’t argue with people on such things. “If you believe it, it exists; if you don’t believe it, it doesn’t exist”, no matter what you think, it’s not an exaggeration.
I never thought that a funeral could have such a tortuous process. People are curious about mysterious and unknown things, and they won’t think too much about them unless they have the opportunity to come into contact with them. However, the people living in Longhua Village are all my closest relatives. The knowledge, behavior, and abilities of these people seem to be completely different from what I understand as "Earthlings". Naturally, I am curious about them and the funeral industry they are engaged in.
For this reason, I asked Luo Tianbao more than once whether he had any strange and bizarre encounters like Village Chief Wu in any of the jobs he had taken on before. Luo Tianbao told me that a job is a job, not a story, so the past is the past. Later, he got tired of my questions and told me that the prerequisite for doing this job is to respect the dead , otherwise the ancestors would let the earthworkers encounter strange coffins and evil corpses, so the buried dead must never be told as a story, otherwise you might meet him one day.
At this time, I had already realized the importance of "obeying the rules", so I did not ask any further questions. After more than ten days, the renovation of the fifth old man's house was completed. It was more than a month before his birthday, so I went back first.
Everything happened just as Luo Tianbao said. Although my family survived the crisis, my business was completely ruined. I could no longer get any decoration business from shopping malls. I had no choice but to do residential decoration business to make a little money.
In August of 2007, during this extremely hot summer, Li Zhao took on a job to renovate his cousin's old house.
The old house of Li Zhao's cousin's family is an old bungalow in the alley. His cousin's family conditions are not good, so they can only get married in this old house. After we went to the site for inspection, we were ready to go back to the company to discuss the plan. After getting on the bus, I let Li Zhao go in first, and I followed after buying the ticket. There were not many people in the car at that time and everyone was sitting. I clearly saw a clear "clear spring" flowing from Li Zhao's crotch as he was crossing the aisle, and a long "wet mark" had been left behind him.
Everyone in the car was staring at this adult who was openly peeing his pants in the car, but he was completely unaware.