Snake Tangled Three Dreams

Chapter 65
There are tea fields outside the stockade, and the women who have been farming all year round have strong hands. Now they twisted my arms and pressed me on the table. I couldn't move at all.

"What are you doing! How can you be so barbaric!" My face was pressed against the table, my arms were buckled behind my back, and I felt severe pain in my shoulder joints. If I tried harder, my arms would be dislocated.

"Don't scream! Be honest!" The woman holding me down had a straight face, seeing me struggling, raised her hand and slapped me on the back.

"Hiss!" There was a hot spot on my back, I gasped, tears almost burst out, "What are you doing, you have to give me a reason!?"

A bunch of people rushed in out of nowhere and held me down for no reason. I didn't do anything with them, and I had no grievances or enmities with them. How did you offend them?

"Don't touch her." Liu Juanzhi was still sitting on the seat, pinching the rough tile teacup with his white fingers, drinking tea with downcast eyes calmly.

Those women raised their heads one after another, and the moment they saw Liu Wangzhi's face clearly, they all froze for a moment.

"Yo, what a handsome baby."

"Yeah, it's even prettier than Dafen's boy."

"I don't know if he begs for a wife, our girl... ouch!"

Before the women could finish their idle chatter, a burst of coercion suddenly surged in the air, instantly overturning these middle-aged women who were holding me down.

Liu Wangzhi's eyes were like sinking pools, he put down the teacup in his hand, raised his eyes and said calmly: "I said, don't touch her."

With my hands freed, I hurriedly got up by supporting the table, resisting the grievance in my heart, and hurriedly stood behind Liu Wangzhi.

"It's unreasonable! She killed our Congzi, and you help her beat someone!" A woman got up from the ground cursing, and shouted at the men crowded outside the house, "Come here quickly! People, foreigners beat people!"

The men waiting outside immediately swarmed up, but when they rushed to the door, they were stopped by an invisible barrier. No matter how they hit or beat with the tools in their hands, a group of people would not be able to break through the door.

The women also became anxious when they saw this, but they dared not touch me again.Holding the little girl in her arms, Ayun pointed to Liu Wangzhi and said to them, "That's a monster! Don't come here, everyone, beware of monsters eating people!"

When those men heard this, they smashed the door even harder.The women got together and cursed at me and Liu Wangzhi.

The clothes on my body were stained with oil from the three-color fried rice on the table, and the noise around me made my temples throb.

Liu Wangzhi stood tall and stood in front of me, with a cold face and said nothing.

I knew that he was on the verge of forbearance, so I simply took off my coat and threw it on the ground, then stood in front of him from behind him, and said loudly to those people: "Be quiet! I'm not a savage, if you have anything to do, just call me!" Can't you just say it?!"

"Hmph! It's you, a witch, who will harm people as soon as you come!" The woman who accused me earlier stood up, sat on the ground and began to cry, "It's you, who ran to the ancestral hall in the middle of the night to touch my mother-in-law's coffin, which hurt everyone. The mother-in-law can't go back to the house, so she took my wife's life, you were cut with a hatchet, why didn't you go underground..."

She cried out of grief, her rough hands kept beating the ground, her body fell on the ground and got up again with her emotions, her whole body swayed like a dead leaf.

It was only then that I noticed that her coarse cloth shirt was pure black, with a paper white flower pinned to her chest, and her black hair coiled up on her head was neat and tidy, without any silver ornaments.

"What did you say? Who's dead?" I'm not very familiar with the dialect here, and I only understand half of it.

"She, Congzi." Another woman stood up and pointed to the woman on the ground, "She died at the gate of the ancestral hall this morning. Ah Yun said that we went to the ancestral hall yesterday and touched Grandma's coffin, so Something happened."

Then he pointed at me, with an angry expression on his face, "Especially this girl, women are not allowed to go to the mourning hall, she will go, she will be responsible for killing Ren Liao."

I understand now, the grandson of the old lady in the coffin seems to be dead, it just so happened that Liu Wangzhi and I went to the ancestral hall last night, this matter was stabbed by A Yun, now people from the village came to the door , to punish me.

I turned my head to Ayun, looked at her coldly and said, "You and Hu Yuzhi planned this, right? You guessed that we would definitely go to the ancestral hall last night. Even if we didn't go last night, we would go this morning. So you We told them about this in advance, so no matter when we go to the ancestral hall, we will take the blame for it."

I just said that this family is so weird, why did they invite us to stay so warmly? Isn't this the same as throwing their secrets in front of others?
It turned out that he joined hands with Hu Yuzhi and was waiting to trip me up so that he could hold Liu Wangzhi back and let Hu Yuzhi run farther.

The little girl might have heard their plan, so she secretly tipped me off just now, wanting me to leave Wujiazhai as soon as possible.

I looked at the child hiding in the woman's arms, and my mood was once complicated.

Seeing me staring at the little girl, Ayun hurriedly hid her behind her back, showing a look of fear and self-blame, crying and saying: "This girl found out about my mother and insisted on going to the ancestral hall." Look, I can't stop her, so she will go with this man. It's all my fault, I knew I wouldn't keep her overnight..."

The other women began to comfort her, saying that it was all the fault of us foreigners, and told her not to blame herself.

I raised my hand to my forehead, only to feel a headache.

Although Liu Wangzhi and I did go to the ancestral hall last night, I didn't touch the blood coffin, and we just wanted to find something, and we left if we couldn't find it, and we didn't intend to interfere in their affairs at all.

Now it suddenly bites us and makes it so ugly, if it really offends this snake king, what good will they get.

Congzi's mother was helped up, wiped her tears indiscriminately, pointed at me and cried, "Anyway, it's her mistake, she doesn't want to run away!"

Liu Wangzhi kept his brows cold and silent, but when he saw my frown and distressed expression, he suddenly said in a deep voice: "If you want to accuse her, at least you have to be at the scene of the incident."

As he spoke, he walked around the women with long legs, "Let's go, confront the ancestral hall."

Those people were also going to arrest me and go to the ancestral hall, but when they saw this, they stepped aside, stared at me fiercely, followed Liu Wangzhi and me around, and "invited" us to the ancestral hall like this.

Many people came to the courtyard, people in black shirts and white flowers were kneeling and weeping outside the mourning hall, several men with cloth scarves wrapped around their heads were discussing something inside.

"Come on, that foreigner girl is here!"

I don’t know who yelled, and all the family members kneeling outside the mourning hall looked back at me, and began to curse in dialect. The emotional ones even wanted to rush over, but they were stopped by others.

Those men with cloth headscarves came from the side, and the leader was an old man in his sixties. He walked up to me, looked at me a few times, squinted and said, "I just ask you, last night, did you come here?" Is there a shrine?"

"Come here." I straightened my back, neither humble nor overbearing, "but I didn't touch anything inside."

"Nonsense!" the old man yelled angrily, pointing his finger into the mourning hall, "You have to see for yourself! It's because you touched the coffin, which caused old lady Lan to go back in time and kill her grandson!"

The crowd dispersed to both sides after hearing the words. I walked through the aisle made by the family members and saw that the mourning hall was in a mess.

The tribute candles were in a mess, the brazier for burning paper money was overturned on the ground, and the blood coffin was still placed in the middle, and the color of the coffin was very red in the daytime.

Beside the dark red wooden coffin, there was an obvious piece of white cloth, with a bulge under the cloth, which was obviously the outline of a person.

I didn't have a real sense of this matter at first, but seeing with my own eyes that it was indeed a dead person, the seriousness of the matter overwhelmed me, my expression changed slightly, and I turned my head to look at Liu Wangzhi helplessly.

Seeing that I stopped talking, the old man in the lead suddenly snorted coldly and said, "Did you see anyone on the ground? There's no need to quibble, right?"

I was about to open my mouth to explain, when Liu Huangzhi suddenly came forward and stood behind me, watching the leading old man condescendingly, and said in a cold voice, "I also came to the mourning hall last night, and I opened the coffin. But are you sure about this matter?" Is it the person's fault, not the coffin itself?"

"That's for sure! How could it be a problem with the coffin!" The leader seemed a little excited when he heard someone questioning the coffin, "Whenever someone dies in our Wujiazhai, he must first lie in this coffin for seven days. If the magic is successful, the dead will be resurrected, not only retaining the memories of life, but also returning to the original family! We have been doing this for so many years, and there has never been an accident. It is this girl who broke the rules when she went to the mourning hall yesterday. Startled the old lady Lan's soul, and killed more people!"

There is such a thing?Can the dead be brought back to life, retain their memories, and even return to their original families?

Ayun and that little girl flashed through my mind. If this blood coffin really has such a function, then the weirdness of the mother and daughter seems to be explained.

But... This way of resurrection is obviously not right, it's like two souls in one body, competing with each other and coexisting with each other, can this also be called "resurrection"?

"You keep saying that I broke the rules, so tell me what the rules are, so that I can clearly understand my grievances." I was accused of being blamed for no reason. It's okay for these people to be unreasonable, at least they have to make it clear. ?
"Hmph! After the deceased is put into the blood coffin, women are not allowed to enter the mourning hall! Otherwise, when the two Yins collide, they will become evil!" After the leader finished speaking, he looked at Liu Wangzhi with a dark face, "You man It's useless for the baby to argue for her, only when a woman gets close to this coffin will something happen, she absolutely shouldn't, and the last thing she should do is to be close to this coffin!"

"Come on! Tie her up!"

When the leader gave an order, the women who had gone to Ayun's house surrounded me again, and one by two grabbed my arms and held my body.

"Let go! What are you going to do!" I twisted my body and struggled, staring at them fiercely.

The leader took advantage of the large number of people, and was not afraid of Liu Wangzhi, who had a frosty face, and scolded me: "Since you caused the matter, you have to solve it. You have angered the coffin woman, so what?" I'll take your sacrificial coffin!"

(End of this chapter)