Forbidden City

Chapter 8
The second uncle looked stern, lifted one end of the coffin, and at the moment when he was about to straighten the lid of the coffin, he suddenly muttered: "Who is in this coffin?"

It seems that my second uncle and I have inherited a family trait—curiosity.

I looked closely at my second uncle, trying to judge from the look on his face whether he was alive or dead.

The second uncle slowly lifted the lid of the coffin and looked into the coffin.Suddenly, his eyes sank, and his face suddenly became very ugly.My heart also jumped up, obviously the second uncle had found the body in the coffin.He looked at the corpse in the coffin for half a minute, and the corner of his mouth twitched, appearing in great pain.

"What's in there?" I asked intentionally.

"It's nothing." The second uncle replied lightly, then gently closed the coffin lid, bowed three times, and said to me: "Come here, pay homage to... the ancestors."

I thought to myself, isn't the second uncle in this coffin?If a person saw his own body lying in a coffin, his reaction would never be as calm as that of the second uncle. Otherwise, he knew that he was dead.

"Let's go, get that coffin up first, and this one later." The second uncle said as he walked towards the translucent amber coffin.My heart tightened again, I still want to get this coffin?I hurried to catch up and asked, "Are you going to get all these coffins up there?"

The second uncle looked back at the seven coffins, pondered for a while and said, "Maybe."

I really don't understand what the second uncle is going to do. If he took a fancy to the value of the amber coffin and got it up, I can understand it, but why did he also get the seven ordinary coffins up?

When I came to the amber coffin, the second uncle brought a thick hemp rope in front of me. After I took it, I suddenly found that my palms were full of sweat.The second uncle grabbed the other hemp rope and pulled it hard, and the amber coffin moved.I thought to myself, forget about it for now, let’s get this coffin up.

So, my second uncle and I pulled the rope together, the coffin was very heavy, and after a lot of effort, we finally pulled the coffin up, but it was blocked at the entrance of the cave, and my second uncle handed me another hemp rope, telling me to hold on tight, Don't let the coffin fall down, I'm already holding on to a hemp rope with great difficulty, and I may let go at any time, how can I bear it if I hold two hemp ropes?I'm afraid that the coffin will hang me up instead.

"I can't hold it," I said with puffed cheeks, "the coffin is too heavy."

"Just hold on for a minute or two." The second uncle said as he quickly stuffed the hemp rope into my hand, then ran to the right, jumped up and grabbed a branch and jumped on it.

The coffin was so heavy that I couldn't hold it at all. As soon as I let go of my hands, the coffin fell a little.I shouted with difficulty: "Second uncle, hurry up, I can't stand it anymore!"

"Hurry up, hurry up! Be sure to hold on!" The second uncle said as he quickly climbed up the tree pole.

I clung tightly to the hemp rope and arched my body. Just when I couldn't bear it, suddenly, a strange voice came from my ear, "Come on, Dad! Come on, Dad!" I was taken aback. The voice heard was exactly the same.Could it be an illusion this time?I looked around, and a small black thing slowly came out of the darkness, with a pair of eyes staring at me with a faint light.

It's the civet cat.

How did it come out again?

The civet cat came to a stop two meters away from me, and looked at me for about two or three seconds, then suddenly jumped up and rushed towards me. As soon as the ground fell, my body was immediately hoisted up, and I was in mid-air in a flash.

"Bang!" There was a loud noise from below.The coffin fell.

I was still in shock, and suddenly I heard my second uncle ask: "You...how did you come up?" I found out that my second uncle was holding a tree root in both hands, opposite me, less than half a meter away, staring at me with big eyes. With a bitter face, he said: "The coffin is too heavy, I can't hold it, and a civet cat attacked me."

"Ah! Not enough to accomplish, but more than to fail. If the coffin is smashed, I will never end with you." The second uncle said as he slid down, and then said: "You can stay on top. When the coffin comes up later, you can take it Pull it to the ground, don't let it fall, it will hit me." I had to remind my second uncle: "Be careful, that cat is very fierce!" The second uncle didn't answer me, it seems that he either Believe me, either he is mad.

I climbed back to the ground along the roots of the tree, a gust of cold wind was blowing, refreshing and pleasant, I breathed a long sigh of relief, it was dark and stuffy down there, and I really didn't want to go down anymore.

After waiting for about four to five minutes, there was a sound from the bottom of the cave. I shone it with a flashlight, and the amber coffin slowly rose up.There was a faint figure of a person inside, and my heart became more and more excited. I wanted to know if that person inside was Ling Ziyao.

The coffin finally reached the entrance of the hole and was blocked by the crossbar.Looking at the huge coffin, I felt at a loss as to what to do.

I heard the second uncle ask from below: "Is the coffin up?" I replied loudly: "It is up!" The second uncle shouted again: "Get it out."

"How do you do it?" I asked in a low voice.The coffin was too big for me to hold, and it was too heavy for me to hold.

In the end, I took a look at the thick hemp rope tied to the head of the coffin, grabbed the hemp rope and dragged it up vigorously. I dragged it a few times, but I didn’t drag it. Just when I was about to give up, I suddenly heard another sound in my ear. Voice: "Come on, Dad, come on, Dad..." My heart was shocked, and I sat down on my buttocks, and this time, the coffin moved up a little. I was worried that my second uncle would not be able to hold on for long, so I grabbed the hemp rope again , It feels strange that this time the coffin was dragged to the ground without much effort.

Not long after, the second uncle climbed up, wiped the sweat from his forehead, stroked the amber coffin with both hands and said with a smile: "I finally got you up." Then he said to me: "Quick, get it back! "

I swallowed and asked, "Second Uncle, did you hear a sound when you touched this coffin?"

"Sound? What sound?" Second Uncle looked at me inexplicably.

"It's like a little girl shouting, come on daddy, come on daddy..."

"Cut!" The second uncle sneered: "What dad, come on? It should be uncle! Come on, uncle!"

I said seriously: "What I said is true, not a joke!"

The second uncle said impatiently: "Okay, come help and lift it to the cart."

My second uncle and I hugged the head and the other tail, and struggled to lift the coffin onto the cart. The second uncle clapped his hands and pushed the cart to leave. I blocked him, and the second uncle looked at me and asked, "What are you doing? Do you want to push? Come on, Second Uncle appreciates your strength."

"It's not Second Uncle." I said heavily, "Second Uncle, don't you think it's strange? This coffin should be made of jade or something, and it weighs at least five or six hundred catties. How could we get it so easily? Is it up? How did you lift it onto the cart so easily? Is there... is there something wrong?"

The second uncle looked at the amber coffin, frowned and thought for a while and said, "Don't worry about it, just take it back!" He pushed the coffin and walked forward.After pushing for a while, out of breath, he asked me to push again.We worked together to push the coffin into the second uncle's main room. As soon as we entered, the second uncle closed the door tightly and told me: "Remember, no one can say anything about this. If Wu Banxian asks, don't mention a word. Understand?"

"Understood." I said as I looked into the coffin.

Although there is light in the room, the coffin is translucent, and the person inside is still unclear. However, judging by her figure and face, she does look like Ling Ziyao, because she is lying on her back, and her stomach Slightly convex, like a pregnant woman.

I couldn't wait to say to the second uncle: "Second uncle, open the lid, maybe the person inside is alive."

The second uncle looked at the person in the coffin and slowly shook his head, "No, the lid cannot be opened."

"Why?" I was anxious.

The second uncle said: "You have no common sense at all. Look at the person inside. It is very well preserved, just like a living one. This is because the inside is sealed. If you open it casually and let in the air, the people inside will die." will rot, and even be reduced to ashes at once."

"What now?"

The second uncle said: "Don't worry, there are still seven coffins down there... By the way, we have to go back and get the seven coffins up."

(End of this chapter)