Chapter 7 Chapter 6: The Man Who Doesn't Want to Die

"Stop thinking about it!" Wang Jiwei scolded, "You still want someone to pull your foot? Why don't you say it, because you tripped and broke his hand?" When Wang Jiwei said this, I was not only relieved, but where is such a sorcery?Presumably the second fat man was flustered just now, and accidentally tripped over the white paper man lying on the ground, and then not only broke one of the white paper man's arms, but also fell himself. But this explanation seems a bit far-fetched. After all, the white paper man is still a paper man, so there will be such a strong pulling force that it can trip a fat man who weighs two hundred catties?

"Look..." Wang Jihong suddenly whispered. I was taken aback, and followed the beam of the flashlight in his hand to look over. There was a large wooden box in the Wang Family Ancestral Hall. The surface of the wooden box was painted with black lacquer. Facing the door, there was a big "Fu" character. "What is this?" The second fat man asked first, and after talking, he spat on his hand, wiped it, and said with a smile, "Is there any treasure in it?" "There's a lot of evil here, don't mess around!" Wang Jiwei shouted hastily. However, he still said it was a little late, the second fat man had already collapsed in, and was about to touch the big black wooden box with his hand.

"Don't move, that's a coffin!" I said hastily. Among the three people that Village Chief Wang found for me, brother Wang Jiwei really had nothing to say and was calm in his work, while Wang Jihong was even more taciturn. When he was silent, he could almost be forgotten.Wang Jiwei is bold and careful, steady and composed.But this second fat man is really unreliable. "Doctor Xu, don't scare me. I've seen this coffin a lot, but I've never seen one like this. It's so small, how can a person fit in it?" The second fat man didn't believe me at all.

"This is sitting in a coffin!" I glanced at the second fat man, and explained in a deep voice, "It means that after death, people are buried sitting down instead of lying down." It's so evil, I've only heard about it, I didn't see it with my own eyes, but I didn't expect to meet it here today.The ancestral hall of the Wang family really had a sinister aura, no wonder people in the village dared not come here easily. "Ah..." Suddenly, Wang Jihong exclaimed. "What's wrong?" I asked hastily. "I saw a black shadow just now, and it went over there..." Wang Jihong said with obvious tremors in his voice, pointing to the side room next door.

I took a look at the sinister sitting coffin, frowned and said: "Since it's here, let's be safe, let's go to the side room to have a look." Wang Jiwei had no objection, and nodded immediately. The second fat man chuckled, and couldn't help but glance at the sitting coffin again. I warned in a low voice, "Don't touch that! Don't even touch it." "Hey..." Er Fatty laughed, "You are a scholar, and you also believe in this?" Wang Jiwei snorted and said angrily, "If you dare to touch it, I'll cut off your hand!" The second fat man seemed to be terribly afraid of Wang Jiwei, so he shrank his neck and dared not make a sound.Wang Jihong walked in front, holding a flashlight to open the way, and walked towards the side room of the ancestral hall.

It was also a dilapidated wooden door. Wang Jihong pushed hard, and the dust fell down immediately. I was afraid that the dust would dazzle my eyes, so I instinctively closed my eyes.The moment I opened my eyes, a vague black shadow quietly flashed in front of me. I almost screamed out, and bit my lip desperately to control my emotions.On the altar in the side room, there are densely packed spiritual tablets, and naturally, without exception, they are all people surnamed Wang... This is indeed the ancestral hall of the royal family, but I don’t know why it is deserted, and what puzzles me even more is that these spiritual tablets should be placed in the main room, but why there is an evil sitting coffin in the main hall.But these spiritual positions are instead placed in the side room?

I don't know why, after I walked into this side room, I always felt a pair of eyes staring at me in the dark—I was sweating profusely from my back, this is really an evil place. "It's really strange, why are these spiritual places here?" Wang Jiwei asked in a low voice. "These spiritual seats should be placed in the main room!" I frowned and said, "This place—" I swallowed the following words in a daze, but I didn't say anything, the two brothers of the Wang family knew it well , only the second fat man seemed to be missing a muscle, and he was about to ask with his eyes wide open.

"Huh..." I was suddenly attracted by the two names on the spiritual tablet, and my face changed drastically. "Doctor Xu, what's the matter with you?" Wang Jiwei noticed my abnormality. Following my gaze, he was also stunned, and suddenly made clay and wood sculptures. On the densely packed spiritual seats, spider threads entwine, but I still clearly see two names——Wang Jiwei, Wang Jihong... The two big living people standing next to me, but their spiritual seats are placed in the ancestral hall of the Wang family.Next to the two brothers of the Wang family, there is another spiritual tablet, which clearly says - Wang Erhe!

If I remember correctly, when Village Chief Wang introduced Er Fatty to me, his name was Wang Erhe! "Why did this happen?" Wang Jiwei's voice was hoarse, worse than crying. I looked at the cobweb-entangled and dust-covered spiritual places, and whispered, "Maybe they have the same name and surname. Look, these spiritual places are obviously old." "But, it doesn't mean that all three of our names are here?" Wang Jiwei said hoarsely. The sound of "pa" hit the hearts of the four of us heavily, and we all shuddered involuntarily like frightened birds.

"What sound?" I asked. "It seems to be outside!" Wang Jiwei said. "Let's go!" I gritted my teeth and said, "I don't believe in this evil anymore!" As I said, I tightly held the medicine shovel in my hand and walked outside to the main hall. The moment I walked out of the side room, I was so frightened that I almost fainted on the ground. The two white paper figures that were originally placed at the door are now placed upright in front of the coffin, and even the broken arm that was tripped by the second fat man , all picked up. Could it be that the white paper man walked in with his long legs?No... that's absolutely impossible.What made my liver and gallbladder tear apart was that the door that was originally opened was now closed.

"Then...that...what is it?" Suddenly, the second fat man huddled beside me, pointed to the side of the coffin, and asked in a low voice. Since two white paper figures were added beside the sitting coffin, half of the sitting coffin was blocked, so a blind spot was formed in the corner of the sitting coffin——Wang Jiwei, Wang Jihong and I took a flashlight and shone in the past, vaguely , a black shadow could be seen, curled up in a ball, curled up beside the coffin. "Like a person..." Wang Jihong whispered. "Who is pretending to be a ghost, come out!" Wang Jiwei shouted, "If you don't come out again, I will shoot!" The black shadow sitting next to the coffin didn't move at all. I wondered in my heart. Could it be that it was just another paper figure?There is also an evil spirit in this place, how did the door close?This white paper man, who moved them inside?Who made this white paper man? I bravely walked forward, but my calves were shaking. Wang Jiwei hurriedly followed beside me, and said in a low voice, "Doctor Xu, be careful!" I gritted my teeth and nodded, walked around the white paper man, and the beam of flashlight in my hand fell on the side of the coffin.In the dark, a person was sitting quietly beside the coffin...but she was facing us sideways. From the thin white hair hanging down from her head, one could tell that it was an old man. I was surprised, where did this old man come from?When we came in just now, we didn't see such an old man at all, did we? "Old man, who are you?" Because the old man's appearance was really strange and inexplicable, Wang Jiwei did not dare to relax, pointed a gun at the old man's head, and asked.I moved my steps lightly and turned to the front of the old man. After seeing this, I couldn't help yelling "Ah", and at the same time couldn't help taking a big step back. Fortunately, the second fat man was behind me and helped me out. I give it a go.But at the same time, Er Fatty's hands were constantly trembling. I am a doctor. I only took one look. The old man is still alive, definitely alive. Her chest is still rising and falling slightly.However, the muscles on her face were all withered and firmly attached to the bones. At first glance, the bones were covered by skin, like a skeleton.It is said that skinny and skinny, but that is just an adjective.But this old man is really skin and bones... Ethics, a person who is so thin and weak will never survive, but she violated all survival concepts and survived. Her chest is still rising and falling slightly, and in her eyes, only A piece of yellow and white, no pupils... I suddenly remembered that Master once said that through the efforts of the patriarchs, I came to a conclusion that if a person does not have any diseases, the normal life expectancy is 400 years.However, as long as ordinary people live to the age of seventy or eighty, all the tissues of the body will decline, and then even if there is no disease, they will still die of old age.It is undoubtedly a kind of happiness to be able to die of old age! However, I still remember Master once said that the decay of the human body mechanism exceeds a certain period of time, and if a person has not died, it is definitely not a kind of happiness.First of all, the human eyes, the pupils will completely degenerate, the muscles will dry up, and the skin will form brown hard spots, which will undoubtedly look like ghosts and ghosts... It is said that it takes 180 to 200 years for a person's pupils to completely degenerate-could it be said that this old man lived in such pain for 200 years? Of course, when a person's organization decays to a certain extent, her stomach and intestines no longer have the function of digestion, and are no longer able to absorb the nutrients needed by the human body, so it is absolutely impossible for a person to decay like this and still be alive... Although , theoretically it exists.But a theory is a theory after all, but now I have seen such a person with my own eyes. "Is she a human or a ghost?" Er Fatty asked me tremblingly. Wang Jiwei and Wang Jihong also stared at me with wide eyes. Suddenly, my heart moved. Could it be that this old man's decay and withering was man-made?While thinking about it, I handed the medicine shovel in my hand to Er Fatty, and said in a low voice, "I see, she's still alive..." "This is too scary!" The second fat man trembled, "If it were me, I would rather die!" Without making a sound, I reached out and touched the back of the old man's head tremblingly. Sure enough, I found a silver needle in the old man's jade pillow point, and I pulled out the silver needle vigorously. Suddenly the old man let out a breath, his body went limp, and he fell to the ground. His yellow and white eyes, which were originally wide open, suddenly closed. Sure enough, this is man-made, but who is so vicious, actually doing such a conscienceless thing?Under the light beam of the flashlight, I carefully looked at the style, length, and thickness of the silver needle in my hand, and even whether there was a rice carving logo on the silver needle, etc.? Looking at the style of the silver needle, I couldn't help feeling suspicious, could it be that... I don't dare to think about the following things. "What is this?" The second fat man asked in a low voice. "Eh?" I hurriedly put away the silver needle, frowning, "It's a silver needle for acupuncture. Someone used this silver needle to make her live until now." "Really?" The second fat man asked in surprise, "A single silver needle can prolong a person's life, that's really great, Doctor Xu, do you know it?" "Yes!" I nodded and said, "Old Chinese doctors know how to do it—but generally speaking, we use silver needles to prick acupoints at most to stimulate a little bit of potential life energy in the human body, and to hang his breath is just to delay death. Time is enough for the deceased to give his last words." "That's amazing!" the second fat man said enviously. "But like this—" I pointed to the old man who fell on the ground, and sighed, "Life is definitely not a kind of happiness." When I spoke, I was infinitely suspicious. Some legendary magic medicines are used to maintain immortality, but, according to her atrophied muscles, she definitely does not have the slightest ability to move. How did she come to this barren ancestral hall? What's more, she was obviously not there when we came in just now—if all my inferences are correct, it proves that when we walked into the side room just now, someone quietly brought this old woman in, including two white The paper man moved in, and even repaired the white paper man... Just, who is this person?Why did he do this?In other words, are those ghost flowers in the back mountain also related to him? "Tomorrow during the day, you bring a few people over to bury this old woman!" I said in a low voice, and I bowed to the old woman, anyway, the dead are the most important! But the moment I lowered my head, I suddenly saw a roll of white paper under the coffin, beside the old woman.I frowned endlessly, held up the flashlight and shone in the past... "Doctor Xu, let me do it!" Wang Jiwei also saw the roll and hurriedly said. As he said that, he had already picked up the roll with the barrel of the shotgun and unfolded it on the ground.The second fat man shone it with a flashlight and asked, "What is this? Words are not like words, and pictures are not like pictures." It turned out to be an old roll of parchment. It looked a little old, and it was already showing a faint yellow color, and the handwriting on it was obviously in ancient Chinese—the two brothers of the Wang family and the second fat man couldn't read much, let alone such ancient Chinese. Even if it is written seriously, they may not be able to know much. Curious in my heart, I leaned over and looked carefully—— "Doctor Xu, what's on it?" Wang Jiwei asked in a low voice. "It's nothing, it's about some old things about the Wang family's ancestral hall—probably recorded by this old man, she is a guardian!" I frowned and said, "Because I couldn't find the next guardian, she has been holding on and refusing to accept it." Die. In the daytime tomorrow, you find some people to come over and bury the coffin in the main hall in a sunny place, and this old man... burn incense in front of the coffin inside, and this place will be peaceful in the future." I said with a low voice. The soundtrack, and the rest, I don't want to add more. "Oh?" Wang Jiwei agreed. "Let's go, let's go to the back mountain to see! The right way is to eradicate all the ghost marrow and demon flowers as soon as possible!" I said. "Yeah!" The second fat man nodded repeatedly, "I can go back to sleep after I finish my business, yawn..." I first walked towards the door with a flashlight, but my heart became more and more surprised. This old man refused to die, and he had to be helped by someone with superb medical skills.Moreover, like her, the stomach and intestines have long been unable to digest, and naturally they cannot absorb nutrients to supply the body's needs. Then, she must have survived by relying on some legendary pills... Thinking of this, I couldn't help but shudder, those medicines... do they really exist?Using the medicine for raising corpses to control the living, this person - his heart can be punished! I don't know why, but I always feel that there is a pair of eyes in the dark, staring at us. Leaving the Wang Family Ancestral Hall and going out the door, the fog outside became thicker. When I looked back, I felt a strange aura emanating from the entire Wang Family Ancestral Hall... I often go to the mountains to collect herbs, but strange to say, I have never been to this mountain.Hmm... By the way, the route I used to collect herbs was basically arranged by Master, and Master explained clearly where and what medicinal materials are available.Usually I don’t have that much free time, so I go wandering all over the mountains and plains. "By the way, the back mountain is a small forest, where is it?" I asked. "It's right behind, let's go there, everyone be careful. This damn fog!" Wang Jiwei cursed in a low voice, leading the way ahead.