Forbidden City

Chapter 9 A thief?
As soon as my second uncle said that I would go down to make a coffin, I immediately shook my head and said, "I won't go, even if I'm beaten to death." The second uncle put on a straight face, staring at me, as if he didn't know me , a trace of haze floated in his eyes.I felt uncomfortable being stared at by him, and hurriedly explained: "I'm...too sleepy, I'm going back to sleep." The second uncle took out his mobile phone to check the time, and cursed: "Damn, it's four o'clock, it's dawn !” Then he waved his hand at me and said, “Go back to sleep, remember, don’t tell anyone what happened tonight, and don’t mention me to anyone, if Wu Banxian asks, just say you haven’t seen me .”

I glanced at the amber coffin, I really wanted to take a closer look at the person inside, so I said to my second uncle: "Second uncle, you are tired too, how about this, you go to sleep, I will guard the coffin for you... ..."

"I'm not dead yet, I want you to guard the coffin!" The second uncle glared at me and cursed, "Go back to sleep!"

I opened the door resentfully, and as soon as I got outside, my second uncle closed the door immediately.

There was a lot of mud on my body. I took off my clothes and took a shower. I habitually picked up my phone to check what time it was. I found a message on my phone: Are the baby’s clothes ready?The baby is about to be born.

It's that number again!I was about to reply a message to remind the other party that I sent the wrong message, when I suddenly remembered the protruding belly of the woman in the amber coffin, my hands shook, and the phone fell to the ground.

I remembered, this number is Ling Ziyao's number, because the last number is 4, when I saw this group of numbers, I thought, Ling Ziyao is a girl, how can I get such an unlucky mobile phone number, then I remembered In rural areas, many people's mobile phone numbers end with 4, because such numbers are cheap.

Could this be from Ling Ziyao?And the one in the coffin is her?She's pregnant, is that our baby?

But I thought about it, and thought it was impossible, how could Ling Ziyao run into the coffin for no reason?Moreover, even if she was pregnant with my child that night, it is impossible for her to give birth so soon. How many days have we been pregnant in October?

I was about to reply to the message who the other party was, when the door was pushed open suddenly, my second uncle rushed in, walked straight towards my bedroom, came out after a while, and rushed into another room, I was inexplicably, hurriedly chasing after him. I went up and asked, "What's wrong, second uncle?" The second uncle stopped and stared at me and asked, "Where's that woman?"

"She...isn't she in the coffin?" I was taken aback by the second uncle's appearance, and quickly asked: "She...is she gone?"

The second uncle pointed at me and asked, "Are you sure you didn't bring her over?"

"No, I just took a shower..."

Before I could finish speaking, my second uncle turned around and rushed out.

When I came to my second uncle's house, I looked into the amber coffin, and sure enough, it was empty.

"Why is it gone? How much work is this?" I looked at my second uncle.

The second uncle walked up and down restlessly with his hands on his hips.

"I just went into the house to drink some water, and when I heard the door open, I thought it was you who came in, so I yelled, but no one answered, so I came out, and the woman in the coffin disappeared!"

I'm dubious about my second uncle's words.This thing is too unbelievable.

"Did someone come in and steal someone?" I asked.

"Impossible!" said the second uncle, "It took less than a minute or two for me to go in, and I closed the door from the inside. If not, the woman would have left by herself."

My heart tightened, and I stammered, "This...is this impossible?"

"Do you have a better explanation?" Second Uncle looked at me and asked.

I thought to myself, could it be that someone hid in the second uncle's house, sneaked out while the second uncle entered the house, and got rid of him?But I also felt that this was unlikely, because the coffin was tightly sealed, and it was impossible for one person to open the coffin in such a short period of time.If it is not artificial, is it true that the woman in the coffin ran out by herself?If so, is she alive?But in that sealed coffin, how could she breathe?
Otherwise, she is a walking corpse.

"Are you sure she's not in your room?" I looked at my second uncle and asked.

"No." The second uncle said, "I've searched all over, but she's not there, and the door is open, so she must have left!"

"How can a dead person leave? Could it be a ghost?" I blurted out.

The second uncle also looked at me, rolled his eyes, and said decisively: "It doesn't matter if she is a human or a ghost, let's chase her back!" She said, grabbed the flashlight on the table and rushed out.I quickly followed.When he rushed out the door, the second uncle didn't forget to close the door, so it seemed that he was not messed up.

"Wait for me, I'll go and close the door too." I said as I walked towards my house, the second uncle immediately shouted: "Don't close it, you don't have a coffin in your house!"

What do you mean there is no coffin in my house?I always felt that this sentence was weird, but I stopped. There is nothing valuable in my house, and there is no need to close the door. Even if a thief comes, the old bed in my house will be moved at most.

We walked towards that piece of land. As for why we went there, I don’t know why. Maybe in our subconscious mind, if the woman in the coffin really left by herself, she must have returned to the bottom of the hole. went.

However, we had only walked less than twenty steps, and suddenly a woman's scream came from the village, the voice was very shrill, and my second uncle and I stopped at the same time.

"Who is it?" I asked.

The second uncle said: "It's the daughter-in-law of the pole. She is pregnant and probably about to give birth."

I casually said, "It's not that exaggerated, is it? She's screaming terribly, as if she's seen a ghost."

The second uncle thought for a while and said, "There is something wrong, go and have a look."

My second uncle and I hadn't arrived at Ganzi's house when we heard another scream from Ganzi's daughter-in-law. When he got out, he saw us and immediately called out: "Uncle Erqiao, hurry up, help me drive, my wife has a miscarriage."

"Abortion?" My second uncle and I hurried over to help Ganzi carry her daughter-in-law onto a tricycle, and Ganzi said, "My wife woke up from a dream and saw a woman standing in front of the bed with her belly outstretched towards her." Laughing, the woman suddenly stretched out her hand to grab my wife's stomach, my wife woke up with a start, and then..."

"It's a ghost, it's a ghost," Ergan's daughter-in-law said in horror, "She's a ghost...she stole my child..."

My second uncle and I glanced at each other, a layer of shadow and uneasiness inexplicably welling up in our hearts.

The pole said to the second uncle: "Uncle Erqiao, please help me drive, I want to hug my wife." Well, however, he glanced at the painfully moaning wife of the pole, moved his heart with compassion, sighed softly, and said to me in a low voice: "Go to the village to look for it...be more flexible." After speaking, he jumped on the tricycle, Started the car immediately.

After the second uncle drove away in the tricycle, I looked towards Ganzi's house. I suspected that the ghost Ganzi's daughter-in-law saw was the woman in the amber coffin.But if it was really that person, how could she get into Ganzi's house?In our rural areas, the door is always closed when sleeping.

I searched the village for a while, but found nothing except for a few dogs barking. Instead, a few people who woke up very early cast vigilant and suspicious eyes at me. They must have regarded me as a thief.

The sky was getting brighter, and I subconsciously came to the door of my second uncle's house, wanting to go in and see the amber coffin, maybe that woman went in again?
We are always delusional.

However, the second uncle locked the door and I couldn't get in.

My house and my second uncle’s house are opposite each other. I was looking in the direction of my house and thinking about countermeasures. I accidentally found a person standing behind the window of a room in my house. That person seemed to be staring at me. When I looked at her, she Immediately flashed in.With a heartbeat, I stepped up and ran towards my house.

Because through the glass, I didn't see the man's appearance clearly just now. I wondered if there was a thief in my house.

In order to prevent that person from escaping, I closed and bolted the door as soon as I entered the room, and I picked up a hatchet behind the door and walked cautiously towards the room where the person appeared just now.However, when I got to the room, no one was found.I was about to go to another room to look for it. Suddenly, a cold voice came from behind: "Where are the baby's clothes?"

(End of this chapter)