Zhentian coffin

The reason why Liu Laodao was able to take this matter in front of the Chen family was mainly because he knew a strange man. This strange man was a tailor, but he was not the kind of tailor who made clothes. He sewed flesh and blood for the dead. For the seamstress.

In ancient times, corpse tailors were also one of the low-class professions, and they were extremely partial. They were engaged in tailoring or knitting jobs that were basically impossible to get along with, and their customers were prisoners who were killed by the government.

There are many kinds of punishments in ancient times, such as beheading and beheading, and the ancients paid attention to complete burials, so after those people were killed, the family often hired a mortician to sew them up.

However, not everyone can be a mortician. First of all, the meal for the dead is not so delicious. Most people can’t stand it. Second, it’s a matter of craftsmanship. It is said that a good mortician can take the heads of those beheaded Go back, and there is no trace, and you can't see it from the outside.

And the mortician that Liu Laodao knew was a bit interesting, because they were not professional cadavers, their main job was a cobbler, but she got such a nickname because she really sewed corpses.

Liu Laodao told me that more than 30 years ago, Qinghe Town built a reservoir. At that time, building a reservoir was not like it is now. It was very simple to build a variety of large-scale machines together. At that time, [-]% of it was done by manpower. Moving out little by little, the most tools are all kinds of small carts.

Once when the mountain was blown up, the cannon went silent, and then when someone went up to check it suddenly exploded, killing several people on the spot, and the worst one was blown to pieces, and the corpses could not be picked up completely.

At that time, there was no cremation at all, all burials were done in the ground, and that era happened to be the end of the four old eras, so I didn't think too much about it and buried people directly.

But within a few days, a strange thing happened. The people working on the construction site collectively had the same dream. It was the dead person who came to them, walked up to them, and didn’t speak, and then his face, arms, etc. began to fall off. In the end, there was only a pool of rotten meat on the ground.

They had this dream for several days in a row, which frightened everyone, and they didn't even dare to go to work. The leaders at the time had no choice but to hold a meeting to study the solution.

At the meeting, someone talked about the mortician, and advocated finding a tailor to sew the person together, but this was met with unanimous opposition from all the tailors at the time. Three dare not.

Later, the leader got advice from some expert, so he went to another place to invite an old lady back. It is said that the old lady was born as a cobbler, but she knew how to sew corpses. The leader served delicious food and drink for a day, and then A room was prepared, and the coffin was dug out and brought in. The old lady stayed in the room for one night, and everyone was shocked the next day.

Because the old lady put the body back together in the coffin, and there was no trace of stitching on the surface, and even the expression was lifelike, as if she was asleep. Everyone was impressed by the old lady's craftsmanship. Thumb, even the good tailors were astonished, and said they would be out of a job if the old lady started tailoring.

"Master, you don't know how to tease me. I was an old lady more than 30 years ago. It's two different things to go to see her at this time."

But after listening to it, I was not happy. Liu Laodao is not kidding me. How old is the old lady more than 30 years ago?

"You know what a fart, this craft is not easy, and it will be passed down in all likelihood, and at that time she brought a young girl with her, she looked quite fancy, anyway, you must go there "

When Liu Laodao heard it, he glared at me and began to scold me, but he didn't have much confidence in this matter. More than 30 years have passed, things have changed, and who knows what the result will be.

"Okay, you are the uncle, you have the final say, I will go"

I curled my lips, Old Taoist Liu said so, it’s okay to go there, if the person is not there, it’s just a waste of time, but if you really come back, then there will be some bragging, I listen to Old Taoist Liu’s storytelling There are quite a few, but I have never seen such a strange person.

"Wait a minute, you can't go like this, you don't seem to be begging for help"

"That's right, why don't you bring more money and give me the money that Mrs. Chen gave you?"

I stared at Liu Laodao's pocket and said, Mrs. Chen didn't just invite us to dinner tonight, the main reason was to reassure us. Before leaving, she stuffed Liu Laodao with a lot of money.

"Good boy, I'm thinking about the old man's money now, it's a good idea"

Liu Laodao cursed, and finally only took out two pieces of money from his pocket.

"Old man, you are kidding me, two hundred is not enough for the fare."

I was so angry that I didn't even call Master anymore. Two hundred is enough, not enough for the fare.

"You think too much, the fare is only fifty or sixty for a round trip, and the rest is for buying gifts. Don't worry, you boy, listen to the old man for your advice. I remember that little girl loved the three kinds of snacks in Qinghe Town back then. The first one is mung bean pancakes from Lao Li’s family, and the other is meat buns from Lao Zhang’s family. Tsk tsk, I saw the little girl eat five of them in one go, and the local fried spring rolls. You can buy these. Definitely come in handy”

I looked at Liu Laodao's expression of recalling the past, and I suddenly became suspicious. This guy, he doesn't have a story with that old lady's little girl, right?

"Old man, you were a young man more than 30 years ago, you don't know that..."

"Get out, talk nonsense, I'll kill you"

Liu Laodao yelled loudly, which made my guess even more solid, and let me ridicule him. You still call yourself a Taoist, so there will be such things in the world of mortals.

Early the next morning, I went to Qinghe Town to buy a large bag of the snacks that Liu Laodao said, mung bean cakes, meat buns, and fried spring rolls. The meat buns were specially packed in an insulated bucket to keep warm, and then I took a big basket to go. .

Before leaving, Liu Laodao did not forget to give a few words. These things are just stepping stones. If you really want to hire someone to do something, you need real money to show your sincerity, so there is such a bottom line problem.

Afterwards, I left by car. The strange old lady Liu Laodao mentioned was in a small town dozens of kilometers away from Qinghe Town, called Xuangu Town, but that town was under the jurisdiction of another county, and there was no direct bus. , transfer is very troublesome.

So for a distance of tens of kilometers, I sat in Xuangu Town for more than three hours. Xuangu Town is bigger and more prosperous than Qinghe Town. After I went there, my eyes were darkened, and Liu Laodao didn't know the exact address. , what I told me is probably, how the hell can I find this?

"Boss, do you know that there is an old lady named Gu in the town..."

"There are thousands of people surnamed Gu in the town, and hundreds of aunts, who do you find?"

"That's the one who can sew corpses"

"What, say it again"

"Sewing a Corpse"

"Go away, it's broad daylight, what are you talking about?"

I even asked a few people to inquire about it, but it was all a mess, which made me very depressed, but thinking about it, it is not a good reputation for sewing corpses. If someone has this, the child must be lonely, because no one dares to touch it. It's not that there is no way out, who would do this business.

I wandered around Xuangu Town all afternoon, and my heart became more and more anxious. The key is that Chen Menghan told me when I came here that I must find Mrs. Gu so that her father can be buried in peace. I have already blown out the cowhide. He said that he would definitely do it, but this time he might break his promise.

I was bored sitting on the steps by the street, thinking about how to find someone, but after much deliberation, there seemed to be no way out.

I was about to go back disappointed, when I looked up, I saw a little girl in school uniform standing in front of me with a lollipop in her mouth.

"Brother, I heard that you are looking for someone who can sew corpses"

"Ah, little sister, you know?"

Hearing what the little girl said, I was overjoyed immediately, it wouldn't be another village.

"Yes, but you have to buy me lollipops, five, no, ten"

The little girl stretched out her hand and said.

"Buy, buy, buy, buy all twenty"

I laughed and said, twenty lollipops are gross, buy them.

There is a school not far away, and there are small shops next to the school. I immediately led the little girl to buy twenty lollipops, which was a big box.

"Well, the person you are looking for should be my grandma, but she is dead"

The little girl holding a box of lollipops almost narrowed her eyes into a line, but she said something casually that made my face collapse, I'll go, am I being tricked by a girl who looks like seven or eight years old? Am I so easy to cheat?