Snake Tangled Three Dreams

Chapter 69

"You mean, the woman who brought someone to Ayun's house to tie me up that day?" I felt my arm hurt when I thought of that woman, but I was a little puzzled, "Why did you go to her? Shouldn't you go to the leader of this village?" person?"

At the time of the confrontation in the ancestral hall, the people in the village obviously listened to the leader. If there is a way to explain to him that there is indeed a problem with the Yinhuai blood coffin, let him believe this fact, and then talk to other people. When the villagers explain it, their level of conviction will be greatly improved.

"Don't worry, they have been enshrining the blood coffin for so long, so they won't shake their faith so easily." Liu Wangzhi walked on the empty village road with me in his arms, and explained to me slowly, "So we have to put Lao Lan first. If the matter of Tai is handled well and her family members become witnesses, even if everyone cannot accept it, they will have certain doubts and fears about the blood coffin."

Once such seeds are planted, they will soon take root and sprout in their hearts. No matter how unwilling they are to believe the facts, they will be defeated little by little by the fear in their hearts.

Only by making them believe that the blood coffin will not bring them any benefits, will they have the idea of ​​digging and abandoning the blood coffin, and my charge of rushing into the blood coffin to anger the coffin woman will be easily resolved.

"Oh, that's it..." I nodded with comprehension, and then remembered something, "What happened to Mrs. Lan, she was still lying in the coffin last night, why did she suddenly kill her grandson? "

Liu Wangzhi didn't stop, raised his eyelashes to look at me, and said calmly: "If you want to know, I can show you."

I met his eyes and suddenly stopped talking.

I don't understand what this snake is thinking. I just crawled out of the bloody coffin, and I finally managed to stabilize my mind. Now she wants to take me to see the old lady who was in the same coffin as me?
Seeing that I didn't say anything, Liu Wangzhi raised his eyebrows, with a look of laziness in his eyes, he took one of my hands and put it on his shoulder, while the other hand held my palm, and the fingertips moved back and forth gently Mo Shu: "Stop talking, are you scared again?"

My palms were cold, and it was a little itchy from his fingertips, so I closed my palms and held his fingers, looked at him and said, "So what if I'm afraid, anyway, I'm going to lie in the same coffin she used to lie in, so it doesn't matter what I say." It's a bit of fate, maybe you still feel kind when you see her, don't you think?"

Hearing that I was torturing him with this matter again, Liu Juanzhi slightly curled the corner of his lower lip, and said without emotion: "It's hard to say, you are a coffin woman now, and everyone in the village has to respect you." Your three points are amazing."

"..." I admit that I am not as good at choking people as I am, so I can only stare at him with my mouth flattened, withdraw my hand from his, and turn my head to ignore him.

Liu Wangzhi gave a rare smile, took me to temporarily change the route, and flew directly to the southwest corner of the village, and landed in the courtyard full of lanterns.

It doesn't feel good to look at the black tiles and white walls during the day, but at night, the two colors form a strong contrast, and when illuminated by lanterns, it reveals a gloomy visual sense.

The doors of the three rooms were all closed tonight, I followed Liu Wangzhi and went to the one on the right first.

The houses here have two floors, the first floor is used to hold coffins for funerals, and the second floor is used to place ancestral tablets.

As soon as he entered the door of the room on the right, he saw an ordinary black wooden coffin parked in the middle. The tribute candles placed in front of the coffin were all new, and the tabletop was not even stained with ashes.

Liu Wangzhi walked forward with normal expression, raised his hand to remove the coffin lid, glanced back at me, and beckoned me to go and have a look.

I rubbed my arms, walked to him and stood still, my eyes slowly fell into the coffin, only to find that it was not the old lady lying there, but a young man.

The man's face was blue, his mouth was wide open, his lips were bloodless, the collar of the black shroud could only cover half of his neck, and there were obviously a few purple fingerprints on the exposed neck, obviously he died of suffocation.

"This is... Grandma Lan's grandson?" I covered my mouth, unable to hide the surprise in my eyes, "He was strangled to death by the old lady?"

During the day, I only caught a glimpse of his body covered with a white cloth from a distance, but seeing his appearance with my own eyes, I was surprised and only felt a chill.

"Yeah." Liu Wangzhi closed the coffin with no expression on his face, "Let's go and see Mrs. Lan again."

I nodded, and while thinking that Mrs. Lan was probably a fraudulent corpse, I followed Liu Wangzhi back to the main room where I visited last night.

But as soon as he opened the door, he saw a black coffin overturned on the ground. The hemp rope tied around the coffin was broken by the coffin lid that was forcibly lifted. The coffin was empty, and the surroundings of the mourning hall were even messier than during the day. .

"What's going on here..." My eyes narrowed to the ground, and my pupils suddenly shrank, "Liu, Liu Wangzhi, the coffin is empty, where is Mrs. Lan...?"

Naturally, Liu Wangzhi also saw the empty coffin, moved his body, wrapped his arms around my waist, and said with a serious face, "Let's go and find her daughter-in-law immediately."

I didn't ask much, and followed him straight to a house.

On the way, Liu Wangzhi explained a few more words to me, and then he hid himself, pretending that I was alone.

There was also a lantern like that hanging in front of Old Madam Lan's house. It was already midnight, the lantern was dimly lit, and the room was pitch black.

I knocked on the door and waited quietly for a while before the door was opened by Mrs. Lan's daughter-in-law.

"In the middle of the night, which one..." The woman with her hair disheveled, her red and swollen eyes half asleep, saw that it was me standing under the dim light outside the door, and immediately backed away a few times in fright. Stepping forward, he fell to the ground and shouted in panic, "I've bumped into a ghost! Come on, there's a ghost!"

I was startled by her stress reaction, I tried to stay calm, took a step forward and looked at her, pointing my fingers up to signal her to be quiet: "Stop screaming, I'm a human, not a ghost."

"Nonsense, you, you, you, you were taken to the sacrificial coffin..." The woman shrank, her face pale with fright.

"Yes, but the coffin lady asked me to come back so I can give you a message." With my hands behind my back, my back was straight, and I looked like Old Chen was serious.

"Coffin lady?" The woman was stunned for a moment, with surprise in her eyes, "Have you seen the coffin lady?"

"Of course." I took out my hand and showed her the healed palm, "The coffin mother refused to take my life, so after the sacrifice, she sent me back."

Seeing that the wound in my palm had completely healed, the woman showed an incredulous expression, then got up from the ground and walked towards me, took my hand and looked at it again and again, until she saw the pattern drawn by Liu Juzhi on the tiger's mouth with magic, His eyes suddenly lit up.

"This flower is the same as the drops on the lantern. It really is the spirit of the coffin lady." The woman rubbed the pattern with her hand and confirmed that it could not be rubbed off, which dispelled her suspicions. What's the matter?"

"She said..." I saw that the woman had begun to believe, cleared her throat, and tried her best to imitate the vicissitudes and anger of the old man when she spoke, "You idiots have been enshrining me with evil mouth coffins, do you know the red Coffins can eat souls, and in the end they will be returned to you as lonely souls and wild monsters, not your relatives."

When the woman heard this, her eyes widened immediately, and she said excitedly: "Really? What the coffin mother said is true?!"

I recovered my tone and nodded at her: "Well, the coffin lady also said that your old lady didn't become evil, but was taken away by wild ghosts in advance. If you don't believe me, wait, your mother-in-law's body has already escaped from the mourning hall Now, I will come to your house to look for you later, when you see her, everything will be clear."

In fact, Liu Wangzhi taught me to say these words, and he also specifically pointed out what tone my old man should use, and emphasized the need to use some of their dialect vocabulary.

I also practiced it a few times in a hurry while on the road. Although my words were awkward, I managed to deceive the woman.

Liu Wangzhi stood silently beside me with one hand in his pocket, watching how I pretended to be a ghost with his eyes down, and there was a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.

When the woman heard that her mother-in-law was coming back to look for her, she was so frightened that she hurriedly pulled me into the house, then quickly locked the door, and checked several times before leading me upstairs.

I told her not to be nervous, and the coffin woman would follow me. If her mother-in-law came back later, the coffin woman would clean her up.

Once the woman changed her bad attitude towards me during the day, she brought me tea and water, and made a bed for me in the guest room, telling me not to leave with the coffin woman, and to rest at her house overnight.

After being tormented so much, I was indeed a little tired, after getting Liu Wangzhi's consent, I lay down on the bed without taking off my clothes, hugging the quilt and falling asleep.

Seeing that my eyelids were fighting, Liu Wangzhi pulled the quilt over me, lay on his side with his head propped up and looked at me, his tone was very calm: "If you want to sleep, just sleep for a while, I have everything to do with me."

I sneered in my heart, thinking that this person will set rules with me for a while, so that I can only trust myself and not rely too much on others, even him; for a while, I hope that I will ask him for help in advance when I encounter danger, and always like to say anyway Having him around suggests that I can let my guard down.

But I have a long memory about the sacrificial coffin, and I understand that this snake is far more ruthless than I thought, so at any time, I still have to keep a certain amount of precaution and vigilance against him. Even if he won't hurt me, it doesn't mean he will take pity on me. I.

My mind has been clinging to the roots, I was thinking, while hovering on the verge of lethargy.

After an unknown amount of time, a sound of going upstairs suddenly came from outside. The steps were heavy on the stairs and the interval was very slow.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

The footsteps stopped on our floor, then seemed to hesitate for a while, and finally approached my door.

I noticed a burst of Yin Qi drifting in from the crack in the door, I opened my eyes suddenly, and tried to get up from the bed with my body propped up!

"Shhh, don't move." Liu Wangzhi pressed my shoulders and told me to lie down again, "Close your eyes and pretend to be asleep."

I looked at him silently in the dark, thought about it, nodded, and did as he said.

The thing standing outside the door seemed to be sticking its body against the door panel, listening to the sounds in the room with its ears up.

Liu Wangzhi and I lay quietly together, our eyes were tightly closed, and we didn't make any sound except our breathing.

With a "squeak", the door was pushed open.

The cold air poured into the room, causing my pores to tighten suddenly.

I held on tightly and didn't dare to move. I felt a dark shadow hovering around my bed, stood and stared at me for a few seconds, then bent down to get close to me, sniffing around me.

When he smelled his ears, he stopped suddenly.

"Hu-hu-"

The cold Yin Qi swept across my cheeks, and my whole body tensed up suddenly.

This, this thing... is actually blowing into my ear...? !

(End of this chapter)