Chapter 10 Chapter Nine Poisonous: Witchcraft from the Ancient Baiyue Tribe

I was terrified. When did this strange old man come behind us? It seemed to be silent.I secretly blamed myself for being frightened by the yellow skin just now, but I didn't notice a big living person appearing behind us.The third fat man next to him was also very frightened, almost jumped up, and scolded: "His grandma is really scary, fat man, I finally understand this truth today. Hey, who are you, old man, how did you get in?" Why don't you say a word?" The old man took a deep look at me and the third fat man with his cloudy eyes, but didn't speak.On the contrary, Shuanzi at the side called out joyfully first: "Ah, it's Lord Lame, Lord Lame is here."

Xiaomei was so excited that she almost cried: "Master Lame, we have been trapped here for a long time, and we are almost scared to death." This lame old man turned out to be... the old lame Wang who guarded Yizhuang. Fatty Three and I looked at each other, feeling the surprise in each other's hearts.As soon as there was an accident here, the lame Wang appeared over there, which is too coincidental. "Hehe, you bastards. I told you not to run around, don't run around, you have suffered a lot now." Old Wang lame grinned. "Well, it's our fault this time, so we won't run around again next time. Lame man, take us out quickly."

Shuanzi scratched his head in embarrassment, then pointed at me and the third fat man, and said, "Look, this is an educated youth from our village who went to the countryside. Brother and Fatty Brother will go up the mountain to help you watch the night, and by the way, bring you food for the next few days." "Master Wang, take us out quickly." Xiaomei who was on the side was obviously familiar with the old lame Wang, and immediately warmed up. Old Lame Wang didn't answer but just smiled, looking a little gloomy. I don't know if it's an illusion, but I seem to see a flash of green light flashing from the old man's cloudy eyes, and I always feel a little monster.It seems... It seems to be somewhat similar to the old yellow leather on the coffin, so I feel a little vigilant subconsciously.

At this moment, I heard the old man's eyes sweeping over the faces of several of us one by one, and suddenly let out a soft snort.I heard him say: "Xiaomei, Shuanzi, you two turn your backs first." We were all surprised by this strange request of the crippled old man Wang, but out of enough trust in the crippled man, Shuanzi and Xiaomei just hesitated for a moment and turned their backs.Although the third fat man and I felt strange when we saw this, we didn't have any reason to stop it, so we just waited to see what the old lame man wanted to do. Immediately afterwards, he saw a weird expression on the face of the lame Wang, he suddenly took a step forward, raised his right hand, and without hesitation, patted Shuanzi and Xiaomei lightly on the backs of the heads.

I didn't see how he used his strength, Xiaomei and Shuanzi just let out a muffled grunt and collapsed limply.Although the old man seemed to be handicapped and leaning on a walking stick, his attack speed was not like that of an old man, fast and ruthless.Fatty Three and I watched Xiaomei and Shuanzi collapse in front of our eyes, and we didn't even have time to stop them. Seeing this sudden change, we all opened our mouths in surprise, and hurried forward to hug Xiaomei and Shuanzi.The third fat man carried Shuanzi's body on his shoulders, and couldn't help asking loudly, "Hey, old man, are you crazy? Well, what are you doing knocking the two of them unconscious? Could it be that you want to seek money and kill them?" Huh? I have to ask the fat man first whether I agree or not." While speaking, before the cripple Wang could answer, he rolled up his sleeves and went forward to argue with him.

I quickly stopped the third fat man, looked back at the opposite side, and found that the crippled old man Wang still didn't seem to notice, so I asked him: "Old man, what are you doing? We are new here. If there is any offence, please Haihan." Old Lame Wang laughed and said, "Young man, don't worry, I didn't have any malice in doing this. On the contrary, it was to save the lives of these two boys, to prevent their qi and blood from running too vigorously, so as to slow down the attack of poisonous qi. Time. You two will recite the two of them out of this Yizhuang later. I will explain to you later. "

"Poison gas attack?" I looked at him a little puzzled. The old man said: "That's right. Traditional Chinese medicine focuses on looking, hearing, asking, and cutting. I just watched Shuanzi and Xiaomei. Their anger dissipated, and there was a cloud of black energy lingering between their eyebrows. They must have been poisoned by some evil method. That's why I knocked him unconscious, it's an expedient measure, you don't need to panic..." The three fat man shouted: "You old man, you want to trick us again, what a fucking fool (teng) Gu ah. Fat man, I will not be fooled by you, so be sensible and wake them up quickly, otherwise don't Blame me, Fatty Three, for disrespecting the old and caring for the young." This kid has been terrified recently, and he doesn't believe what Old Lame Wang said, so he wants to start again.

Seeing that we didn't believe what he said, Mr. Wang snorted coldly, took a step forward, and pulled the unconscious Shuanzi out of the hand of the third fat man.Seeing this situation, the third fat man was about to go up to stop him, but I stopped him and motioned to see what kind of tricks the old man was playing. To the surprise of the three fat men and I, the old cripple supported Shuan Zi's body with his left hand, stretched out his right hand to press Shuan Zi's abdomen, and slapped him hard. "Crack!" "Crack!" "Crack!" Lame Wang's technique was very special, as if he was playing Tai Chi, he drew a half-arc on Shuanzi's abdomen, and then slapped him down palm by palm.

His strength was not very strong, but it made Shuan Zi, who had been unconscious all this time, start to tremble non-stop. The third fat man and I looked at each other in blank dismay, neither knowing what kind of medicine this old man was selling in his gourd.Do you really want to rescue Shuanzi, or are you going to beat him to death? After more than a dozen slaps in a row, Shuanzi's face began to twitch, and the third fat man was in a hurry.He himself had a bad impression of the old man, and thought he was taking personal revenge, and finally couldn't hold back anymore, so he was going to step forward to teach this bad old man a lesson.

I looked at it from the side, and felt that there was really no need for the lame Wang to do anything harmful to Shuanzi, so I stopped the third fat man again, and told him to stay safe and not to be impatient, and wait for a while. "Bang bang!" Old Lame Wang seemed to turn a blind eye to me and the three fat people who were next to me, and suddenly hit Shuan Zi with two heavy fists in the abdomen, and Shuan Zi, who was in a coma, spat out a mouthful of black blood from his mouth with a wow. Now even I can't stand anymore, so I have to go forward to see what's going on.The third fat man next to him was even more indignant, and he rolled up his sleeves to show off to Old Lame Wang.

The lame Wang seemed to have anticipated the current situation, and ignored us at all. Instead, he picked up the walking stick beside him on the coffin board, and punched the black blood spit out from Shuanzi's mouth, " There was a muffled sound, as if something had been crushed. We finally saw clearly that there was something wriggling in the black blood spit out by Shuanzi.Taking a closer look, the third fat man and I couldn't help opening our mouths.It turned out that what spit out from Shuanzi's mouth was a hair thick and thin, about an inch long, and covered with fine scales, like a small golden snake. At this moment, it had been cut into two by Wang Laozi's walking stick, and it was very fast. Soon there was no movement. Looking back at Shuanzi again, the blackness on his face has gradually subsided a lot, and there is also a tinge of blood on his cheeks. In the current situation, even the third fat man knew that the lame Wang was indeed saving someone. "Damn it, what the hell is this? Why did you vomit blood and even spit out a snake?!" The three fatty exclaimed. Old lame Wang ignored him, just asked the third fat man to help Shuanzi, and then stood there with a gloomy face and didn't speak. I could feel that, looking at the lame Wang, it seemed that Shuanzi's situation had not been completely resolved, so I continued to ask: "Old man, what happened to Shuanzi, Xiaomei, and such a small golden snake like an insect?" thing?" Old Lame Wang glanced at me, was silent for a moment, and then slowly said: "If my guess is correct, he was entered by a demon insect and poisoned by a snake." "What? Monster insects entering the body?" "Where did this come from?" He didn't answer our question immediately, but fumbled around the collar of the bolt, and pulled out a golden pupa-like thing tied with a red string. The words of Mr. Wang's cripple aroused the curiosity of me and the third fat man, and we immediately leaned over: "Hey! Why is it this thing?" "Damn it, isn't this the gold pendant we found in the interlayer of the coffin boards we salvaged from the mud beside the ancient ferry of the Yangtze River a few days ago?" the three fat men shouted. "Hmph, this is not a gold pendant. It is a cocooned pupa of a very powerful demon insect. It is only because the pupa shell is dense and heavy that people mistake it for a gold pendant. This is actually a golden pendant. It is a chrysalis cultivated by Guiliao people in the southwest region. It is a witchcraft and sorcery that uses certain snakes and insects in nature to put people to death. It is very vicious. The ancient Baiyue people liked to put golden pupae in the coffin In the middle of the interlayer, to prevent someone from robbing the tomb and digging the mound. The 'lichi' in these golden chrysalis can enter the human body from the seven orifices, swallow the nutrients in the human body to survive and grow up, and release a small amount of Snake venom, the accumulation of a little makes a lot, people will be unknowingly ill, and when they are discovered, the medicine will be useless." "What the old man means is that the coffin board we dug in the mud by the river was the coffin of an ancient Baiyue who was good at using the chrysalis. Shuanzi and Xiaomei didn't know why, so they wore the golden chrysalis on their chests Instead, use body temperature to wake up the two 'Lichi' that have been dormant at the bottom of the river, so they were possessed by the snake and poisoned by the 'Lichi' poison?" I was startled, and I understood everything at once. "Although this kind of monster worm won't kill people all at once, it's better than making people sick without making a sound. Even a real doctor who doesn't have such experience will never be able to find out anything wrong with it." The three fatty scolded: "Damn it, this thing is too poisonous. When this 'lichi' absorbs good nutrition, it will burst out, which is when people die in pain. The ancient people studied these evil things. What are you doing?" "Old man, according to your opinion, as long as Shuanzi and Xiaomei can be saved if the larvae are extracted from their bodies before the 'lichi' grows into adults, will they be saved?" I still hold a trace of luck in my heart. "The lure in Shuanzi's body has been pulled out. The actions I did before were just to convince you. As for Xiaomei, after I go out, I will prepare a potion for her to drink to force the larvae out of her body. But As for whether their lives can be saved, I don’t know. I’m afraid they’ve been poisoned so deeply that they’re powerless to recover. Now we can only do our best to know the destiny, go out first and then figure out a way.” Old Lame Wang said with a cold face and half-closed his eyes. Fatty Three and I felt a thump in our hearts when we looked at me and I looked at you. We were about to make another sound, but we heard another sneer behind us.My heart couldn't help sinking, thinking that it's broken now, how could I forget about the yellow skin. Moment and the third fat man didn't care about the crippled old man behind them, so they quickly turned their heads to look. We are not allowed to make any further plans, and the old Huangpi who has skinned and disemboweled the big snake in the coffin can't wait.There was a sinister grin grinning, and with a kick on the furry hind legs, he jumped to the ground like lightning, turned several somersaults in a row and rushed over, looking extremely excited! I shouted to the three fat guys: "Shoulder to kill this bitch." The two gradually narrowed the encirclement, preparing for a left and right pincer attack.Who knew that this beast jumped off the coffin board, with a jump of more than two meters, bypassed us in three or two strokes, and swooped at the feet of the lame Wang. "Zhi Zhi Zhi Zhi" jumped up and down for a while, it didn't seem to be malicious, but like a domestic cat or dog. Old Lame Wang kicked up and kicked Old Huang Pizi's side.Immediately, he kicked it two or three meters away, causing the beast to scream and scream. Lame Wang scolded with a smile: "You salty bastard has been with me for so long, and you still can't change the animal habit of wet and scaly hair. You just have to look at the coffin carefully, but you pretended to be a ghost and killed a Yinlong again. .Now I don’t have time to take care of you, so please give me a good reflection here.” "Squeak, squeak..." Old Huang Pi was obviously kicked hard by this kick, and he was reprimanded by the lame Wang. He stood there screaming again and again, and gave me and the third fat man a gloomy look. into a half-open coffin. The third fat man and I were still in shock, and wanted to stay away from the yellow man, but our feet didn't listen, so we had to stand where we were.Seeing the interaction between Wang Laozi and Huang Pizi, he couldn't help being a little shocked. What kind of place is this Yizhuang on Qinglong Mountain?Why is it full of weirdness everywhere? The three fat men were eager to know the life and death of Xiaomei and Shuanzi, and they had been restless for a long time, so they pointed at the crippled old man Wang and shouted: "Fuck you old man, you still dare to come out to pretend to be a ghost. The highest instruction tells us to wipe out all ghosts and snakes, be careful of the fat man I'll shoot the first bird, and I'll deal with you now. I tell you to wake me up quickly, otherwise we will never end this matter." Old cripple Wang was not angry at all, he just kicked his cloudy eyes and snorted coldly: "This little friend's words are also interesting. Old cripple, when I traveled north and south in the past, you, a junior, might not have been born yet. Why? It is said that the old and the young are in order, you little fat man eats a dead old man, if you put the temperament of the old man back then, you will definitely not be able to bear it. Cough, it’s just that today’s matter is urgent, so I don’t care about you just now. Shuanzi and the others What they said is extraordinary, if I wait another ten and a half months, I'm afraid it will be too late for me to save them." The third fat man couldn't bear it anymore, and was thinking of throwing the old guy who relied on the old and selling the old into the coffin. I thought to myself that the time has been wasted too much now, and it will not do us any good to tear this old cripple away.If what this old guy said is true, then we will be in big trouble. And I don't think the old cripple Wang looks like a fake, so stabilize him first, if there is any problem, wait until the old guy wakes up Xiaomei and Shuanzi.Then he stopped the third fat man, and said to him: "Our brothers didn't mean to offend the old man. Please forgive me for offending you. It's just that everything you keep saying is too bizarre, so we can't help but doubt it. Since the old man has already With a plan, it probably won't be bad for Shuanzi and Xiaomei, the younger generations. Why don't the old man take us out of this coffin first, and then we can discuss the future." The lame Wang glanced at me with his cloudy eyes, and said with a smile: "It's still this little friend who understands etiquette. The world has always been obsessed with the quickness of the tongue. Look at it, didn't you just use your emotions? Well, it's strange." The old man appeared strangely, it's normal for you to be suspicious, I'd better lead you out first and then talk about it." After finishing speaking, regardless of the snake corpse still lying on the vermilion coffin, he took the lead and walked towards the direction when he came in with a walking stick go. Fatty Three and I glanced at each other, not knowing what to do.The third fat man asked me, "Er Ba Ye, what do you think we should do next? Do you want to believe what this old guy says?" "Let's go and have a look first." I shook my head and said to the three fat guys, "It's useless for us to discuss these useless things now. We'd better carry Shuan Zi and Xiaomei on their backs and get out of here as soon as possible. If it's really because What accident happened to these two children because of the two of us, it is difficult for us to explain to the old village party secretary and the people in the village." The third fat man said: "But I always feel that this old guy is a bit abnormal. After this matter is over, we have to find a way to find out the details of this guy. Maybe we can find something tricky." After finishing speaking, he pushed Me, "Hey. I said Lao Lin, how does it feel to hold a beautiful woman in your arms? Is there a feeling of warmth and nephrite?" I knew this kid was envious of the person I was hugging was Xiaomei, so I laughed and cursed a few times, and kicked him on the ass.After talking and discussing with each other, the two followed Mr. Wang lame towards the entrance of the coffin. Passing through a gloomy and dead corridor, the two followed the shambling back of Mr. Wang to the front hall where the coffin was stored.The front hall where the coffins are kept is very quiet. Looking around, we can see a series of old coffins neatly arranged in front of our eyes. The paint on the coffins has peeled off, and the surface is covered with dust. Obviously, they have been parked here for many years. . Although I just passed by here just now, I couldn't help but sigh when I looked around.The people of Sri Lanka have passed away, and the world is impermanent. These are travelers who died in other lands. They left their hometowns, either to make a living, or to avoid debts, or to make a fortune. "Why are young people sighing? Could it be that they felt the desolation in the coffin. In fact, life and death, it doesn't matter if you get used to it." He is very old, as if he is used to seeing the impermanence of the world. I couldn't help being taken aback, I didn't expect the old cripple's ears to be so sharp, and he could still hear my subtle movements from such a distance. "Oh, my husband must have experienced a lot when he was young." I expressed my feelings. "When you get old, people will talk too much. We know you two boys have some questions in your mind, so let me ask you while I'm in a good mood." Old lame Wang didn't answer my question directly. He was silent for half an hour, and suddenly Said. "What is that yellow skin?" The three fat guys and I were overjoyed, looked at each other immediately, and asked in unison the knot that had been pent up in our hearts for a long time.After all, the series of situations encountered before are really weird.Especially the yellow-skinned one that is so old that it loses its hair, it can be said to look like a ghost. "Hey, that's peeling yellow. It's an assistant and pet in the craftsman's trade, and it's also the manager of this coffin in some unclean corners. Only by being selected by it will it become the owner of Yizhuang!" said the lame Wang . The third fat man and I looked at each other in dismay when we heard it, but we didn't expect that this gloomy coffin was really the lair of that old wretch.The pet of the guardian of the tomb looks so sinister and paradoxical?But when I thought of the wickedness and weirdness of that yellow skin, I couldn't help shivering.Especially for its move against the piebald python, the name Peeling Yellow is quite appropriate. "What else can it do besides skinning?" I continued. "It can do a lot of things, but those things are not very clean. But Peeling Huang is old now, and this coffin may be its resting place. If you are really interested, I can tell you later .” "Okay, no problem." I thought to myself: "People often say that ghosts are old spirits, and people are old spirits. This old cripple is really a master of oil and salt. You have to break a sentence in half, his mother , It's nice to say, isn't the pet in the craftsman's business just a thief who digs graves and breaks people's Feng Shui? This yellow skin is probably the same as the pangolins that the old Changsha Tufuzi and his party trained to dig thieves. But it's more evil, with a bit of ability to confuse people's hearts. It's better to be able to listen than to be able to speak. Others don't know this, but the three fat people and I played together in Liulichang in the capital since we were young. Craftsmanship, but there is a lot to hear in the industry.” The little goodwill I had just established for the old man was gone, but I didn't let it go, so I asked casually: "The name of Peeling Yellow is not bad. I didn't see the piebald python before. I gave it to him alive." Is it skinned? But old man, I still don’t quite understand why a snake suddenly came out of this coffin?” Elder Wang lamely smiled and said: "You don't have to worry, don't worry about how it got here. It's a Yin dragon, locked in the coffin for town house and exorcism." He stopped talking , It made me and the third fat man stare with big eyes, the last sentence was choked in our throats, and we almost suffocated to death. Many years later, because I was involved in a mysterious incident, I saw the record about Yinlong in an ancient book. The place where I jumped in the queue in the mountainous area of ​​western Hubei was poor and remote, but it also preserved many stories. Some folk customs and mysterious culture.The shape of the so-called coffin snake is more like the worship of the "Dragon King of the Yangtze River" by the ethnic minorities living next to the Yangtze River and their instinctive fear of birth, old age, sickness and death in the world. It is said that when a person stops breathing after death, the soul will be drawn into the bridge of Naihe.It is said that when the dead come here, the guilty ones will be pushed into the "Blood River Pond" to be tortured by insects, ants and poisonous snakes, while the dead who have done good deeds cross the bridge, but it is very simple.And the word "naihe" also happens to have the meaning of helplessness and helplessness in Chinese.But Dayan fifty, its use forty-nine, will always leave a glimmer of life in everything.Qianlong Shengtian, the only way to avoid catastrophe and eternal suffering of samsara is to rely on the help of Long Shengtian.Therefore, emperors have always built large-scale construction projects during their lifetimes, looking for people to find dragon acupuncture points, in order to ascend to heaven after death and not fall into the misery of samsara. But among the folks, especially in the areas adjacent to the Yangtze River and the Yellow River Basin, snakes have always been regarded as dragons.There are centuries-old snakes, thousand-year pythons, and ten-thousand-year dragons. The giant boa constrictor is also called a big dragon. It is the most worshiped among the people and should not be killed indiscriminately.Therefore, in some mountainous customs, if someone in the family dies, a big snake will be placed in the coffin. According to legend, the soul of the deceased can ride on the power of the big snake to ascend to heaven and transform into a dragon, so as to avoid falling into the pain of reincarnation. Later, according to my guess, the giant python in Yizhuang's coffin must be the eye of a certain feng shui formation. After we broke it by mistake, the old yellow man killed the python first to prevent it from accumulating. Some changes in the coffin.Of course, this is just my personal speculation. As for the situation of the whole matter, only the person involved, the lame Wang, knows. At this time, the three fatty saw that I was chatting endlessly with Mr. Wang, so he also wanted to come over to join in the fun. Who knew that everyone stopped talking after a few words, and only this kid was left scratching his head in embarrassment.And at this time we have reached the end of the coffin. I looked around the situation, couldn't help but thumped in my heart, and said, "Old man, what's going on?" The third fat man also squinted his eyes and turned to the crippled old man Wang, with a bad attitude, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense . The cold iron fence at the end of the coffin still ruthlessly sealed off the exit of the entire corridor without leaving a single gap.Except for coffins and coffins around us, it is hard to imagine where this lame old man came from and where he is going to take us.Could it be that this old thing is really not a human being, otherwise it would be difficult to explain how he entered the closed coffins from outside the Yizhuang. Lame Wang obviously sensed the doubts in our hearts, he smiled and said: "Relax, old man is not a ghost or evil spirit, nor does he know how to escape through walls. It's just a dying old flesh and blood The body, the old man can come in, naturally there is a reason to come in. I will take you to take a look." The old man led us to one of the coffins with a walking stick, moved the coffin board aside, and then groped around the four walls of the coffin board for a while, the bottom board of the coffin suddenly sank, revealing a A black rectangular hole. Fatty Three and I looked at me and I looked at you, I couldn't believe my eyes, there was such a place in the dignified Yizhuang's coffin. The third fat man almost jumped up in shock, and said, "His grandma is dumb. How could there be such a secret passage in this coffin?" Old Lame Wang laughed proudly and said, "This cave has been excavated long before the construction of Yizhuang." "Did you dig this out?" I felt a little surprised, the whole Qinglong Mountain Yizhuang seemed to be shrouded in a layer of evil all the time, full of weirdness everywhere.I don't know what kind of medicine is sold in this old lame gourd. Old Lame Wang smiled strangely, but didn't answer.I only heard him continue to say: "Follow me closely, I will lead you down to have a look." The entrance of the black hole extends straight down, and the trapezoidal steps go deep into the shadows. The three fat guys and I carry Shuan Zi and Xiaomei on our backs respectively, and we follow the crippled Wang with one foot deep and one shallow foot down. go. The sound of everyone's footsteps resounded in the deadly dark cave, and the atmosphere was tense. I could even hear the heavy panting of the three fat men beside me. Walking down the authentic bluestone steps for a distance of about ten feet, there is a faint light ahead.When we came to the light, we found that a kerosene lamp was placed in the hollowed out wall, reflecting the surrounding scene. The tunnel extending from the coffin was in the center, and the passages on both sides A "T" shape is formed. The walls on both sides of the tunnel are made of blue bricks, nearly two meters high, solid and thick, and seem indestructible.The blue brick wall is old and mottled, as if it has gone through many years.The soil leaching on the walls further proved some of my guesses. I couldn't help but said: "It seems that this place has existed for at least hundreds of years. It is not possible to excavate and build such a large-scale building underground. It will take a lot of manpower and material resources. It is conceivable. On the contrary, it is the tunnel that led to the coffin, which seems to be artificially excavated by later generations to enter here." After finishing speaking, even the third fat man couldn't sit still, and he stared at the coffin without blinking. The surrounding brick walls changed for a long time, and his face suddenly changed. Elder Wang lamely said: "Ahem, the kid really has some sharp eyesight. The previous tunnel was just a kidnapper's hole dug by craftsmen decades ago. Naturally, it looks a bit rough. But it's still solid, so it's okay. Use it." "Ah, I really hit the spot. This...is this really a tomb?" My eyes widened, and the horror in my heart couldn't be added.The so-called Kidnap Hole is actually an incision in the four board business, referring to the meaning of robbery hole.In ancient times, when the Luoyang shovel had not been invented, tomb robbers in the Laoshan area of ​​Western Hubei needed something called a kidnapper's leg to investigate the geology, which could be inserted into the ground to measure the direction of the veins, hence the name. "Naturally, this is the reason. Otherwise, who would live underground." "Damn it, it's no wonder that there are weirdness everywhere in this Yizhuang. The entire coffin was built on top of a tomb. Doesn't this invite evil?" The third fat man felt a little cold on the back of his neck, and couldn't help but shrink back. "When the Yizhuang was built, I discovered this robbery hole under the coffin. Who would have thought that there would be a tomb of a prince from the Han Dynasty 30 meters underground? So the old man let nature take its course and did that. It's about the dove occupying the magpie's nest." I took a deep look at him again, and I always felt that there was something wrong with this crippled old man, a certain temperament, which was somewhat similar to the old yellow leather man in the coffin before.