Chapter 18 Chapter Seventeen

But I have always admired natural science, so naturally I don't believe in these absurd superstitions.The guy next door said, "Why don't we open it and see what's inside? Maybe it's someone's prank?" I thought about it too, and secondly, I was also curious, what to do with a small coffin and hide it in the bricks of the wall, is it uncomfortable to eat? Hearing that I have no objection, the young man was convenient to open the coffin, but unexpectedly the coffin was sealed, Zhang Tiehan frowned and said: "Don't move around, I'll go back and find my old man to have a look, he has a lot of experience, he can probably see something It’s best if there’s nothing wrong with it, so we can continue to build the wall!”

When everyone heard it, they all said it was reasonable, and Zhang Tiehan ran home immediately. Not long after, he invited his old man, Village Chief Zhang, to come over. I once heard my grandma say that Village Chief Zhang is just a bricklayer. Well, he has seen the world, has been to big cities, and can read a few words - so he is very respected in the village. "Grandpa Zhang, I'm looking for you for nothing else, just for this!" I hurried over, helped the village chief Zhang and said, pointing to the small, completely inconspicuous coffin on the ground . "Where did you get it?" Village Chief Zhang asked with a frown after just looking at it.

Immediately, Zhang Tiehan told what had happened, and pointed to the place where the small coffin was just unfurled to show Village Chief Zhang.Village head Zhang walked around the coffin, then squatted down, sat down on a green brick, took the small coffin from the ground, looked at it carefully, and then said: "What a vicious evil technique!" !" "Grandpa Zhang, what the hell is this?" I asked, but I didn't think so in my heart. Isn't it just a small coffin, can it turn the sky upside down? "Look at this nail—this is an authentic seven-star nail, and the person who did it is probably not an ordinary person." Village Chief Zhang sighed.

"Seven Star Nails?" This is the first time I've heard of such a weird name. Village head Zhang ignored me and asked Zhang Tiehan to open the small coffin, and repeatedly told him to be careful not to break it.It's funny in my heart, it's just such a thing, why should I be careful?If it is according to my intention, just find something to break it open if it is sealed. After Zhang Tiehan heard this, he found a tool and drove out all seven nails. Then he opened the coffin, and there was a puppet inside, naked all over, obviously a female puppet. "Bad luck! Bad luck!" Village Chief Zhang shook his head and sighed when he saw it.

"Grandpa Zhang, I don't see anything wrong with this, why don't you just throw this away, and quickly build this fence for me is a serious matter." I laughed hurriedly. "Xiao Xu, don't worry!" Village head Zhang shook his head, greeted Zhang Tiehan, and asked him to move a ladder and go up to the roof to have a look. Zhang Tiehan asked wonderingly: "What are you looking at on the roof?" "Go up to the roof and see if there are any weird things. If it's just on the fence, it's fine!" said Village Chief Zhang. "Okay!" Zhang Tiehan agreed, moved a ladder, and swished up to the roof of my house. After all, he was a bricklayer, and he was on the roof as if walking on the ground. He immediately rummaged on the roof ridge. Woke up, I was terrified to see.

I asked Village Chief Zhang, "What if there is something on the roof?" Village head Zhang looked up at me for a moment, then took out a cigarette from his pocket, and a young man next to him hurriedly handed him a cigarette. Village head Zhang took two deep puffs of the cigarette, and then said: "In conscience, I don't want you go!" I was stunned. To be honest, my grandma has gone, so I don't need to stay in this poor mountain village anymore. I'm going to the city to find my parents, and I'm also going to find a good doctor to treat my illness.As for my own corpse poison, now it is urgent. If I can't find a good doctor to treat it, I'm afraid that I will really be terminally ill and there is no cure.

But mortals are greedy for life and afraid of death, and I am no exception. Seeing that I didn't speak, Village Chief Zhang took two puffs of cigarettes and said: "But if there is something on the roof, it proves that there is something under the house. In this way, it will definitely not be easy to break this feng shui situation. The only way is for you to go far away to avoid disaster." I froze for a moment, actually want me to go far away to avoid disaster? After the village head smoked his cigarette, he sighed and said, "You have been in the village all these years, and whenever anyone in the village has something to do, the big guys have something to look forward to. Although you are young, you are a very good person. The medical skills are good. If I don't tell the truth, my old man will die in a bad way in the future."

"Grandpa Zhang, you know that I don't believe in these things at all." I hurriedly said with a smile. "You're young, it's normal to not believe it!" Village Chief Zhang said, and then sighed, "Son, do you know how your uncle's family died?" I shook my head, how did my uncle die?At the beginning, I only vaguely heard the old people in the village say that it seemed to be bewitched? "Your uncle's death is so bizarre!" Village Chief Zhang sighed, "Your aunt is a girl from Wangjia Village next door. The mother is also very good, but her life is miserable! Just after you got married and had a child, your uncle fell ill—this is a very strange illness, lying in bed during the day like a living dead, and getting up at night, outside Do something weird..."

"What weird things are you doing?" I asked in amazement, but I began to analyze in my heart, what kind of illness is uncle suffering from? "It's just saying something that no one can understand, and it's always wandering around a big locust tree at the door..." Village head Zhang shook his head and said, "Please ask the doctor to take the medicine but it doesn't work, please ask the gentleman to come and see , said that he was entangled by the locust tree spirit, and asked to burn five-color paper money—” Village Chief Zhang stopped at this point, and didn't want to continue. My heart suddenly moved. Could it be that my uncle is suffering from intermittent sleepwalking?

Sleepwalking is not a rare thing. Patients often do things at night that they would never do on weekdays, and the repetitions are severe. I once heard from Master that he had a case before—the patient was a Young people, when they get sick at night, take a shovel to the cemetery at the entrance of the village to dig up the corpses and eat them... The people in the village didn't know it at first, but when they saw the graveyard being dug up later, they just thought it was the tomb robbers, and they just repaired it, and the matter passed like that.But the illness was intermittent—after two years, the young man started to fall ill again, and went to dig graves in the middle of the night.At that time, there happened to be a girl in the village who fell into a well and drowned, and was also buried in a mass grave. The young man ran to dig the grave and ruined the body.

All of a sudden, the people in the village were enraged. That night, the village chief found a few strong young men and ambushed them in the cemetery, waiting for this conscienceless tomb robber. Unfortunately, that night, the young man fell ill again, and ran to dig the grave again. As a result, he was naturally caught by the people who had ambushed in the grave early. The young man was awakened from sleepwalking by an abnormal method, and suddenly became a little crazy, so The old man in the village judged that this person must be possessed by a ghost to do such weird things.At the last consultation, he was burned to death. I heard Master say that when the young man was burned to death, he was sober—this is undoubtedly a tragedy in the world.However, the dangers of sleepwalking can also be added. It's just that I heard the master talking about it at the time, and the only depressing thing was that this young man ran to dig the grave, why didn't he get infected with the corpse poison?I was just hiding from the rain, and I was covered in dead bodies and poisoned, in great pain. "Grandpa Zhang, what happened afterwards?" The young man next to him asked anxiously. "After burning the five-color paper money, your uncle was safe and sound all night, but fell ill again the next day, so your grandma invited the gentleman over again, and the gentleman invited him to have a look, then took out some magical artifacts, muttered, and said yes If the dryad took money, it shouldn't be pestering people, and wanted to give the dryad a taste, so he stabbed the tree with a sword." Village Chief Zhang said. "Then did he stab that dryad to death?" Before I could speak, I heard a young man who asked for help eagerly ask. Village head Zhang shook his head: "That night, Mr. hanged on the locust tree! When your grandma woke up and opened the door in the morning, she was almost scared to death. I saw this with my own eyes." "Why haven't we heard of it?" Someone next to him interjected. "Shut up!" Village Chief Zhang scolded, "What are you asking about such evil things?" "And then?" I asked. "Everyone in the village thought that the locust tree was the root of the harm, so after a discussion, they picked a sunny noon and called a few young men who didn't have wives to cut down the tree. Under the sun, it was burned on the spot!" said Village Chief Zhang. I nodded, noon is the time when the yang energy is the most abundant, and the young man has not married a wife, and the pure yang energy is still there, so it is also the most effective for warding off evil spirits. The village chief Zhang said again: "At first, I thought that I would be fine if I cut down the tree. Unexpectedly, two days later, your uncle hit his head on the wall in front of his house at night and died. Your family is crying like something. The funeral was held. Then, your aunt's belly got bigger and bigger, and when she gave birth, it was a dystocia, and she died twice!" Speaking of this, not only the village chief Zhang sighed, but even the young men next to him shook their heads and sighed, looking at me with sympathy. "Looking at it now, it should not be that locust tree that happened frequently in your family, but this feng shui evil situation!" Village Chief Zhang sighed, "Women are safe in this evil situation, mainly men!" Although I don't really believe in these things, when I heard it, I couldn't help asking in surprise: "Why?" "The puppet in the coffin is a naked woman, and the target is naturally a man!" said Village Chief Zhang. "Father, I found it!" Suddenly Zhang Tiehan shouted on the roof, and shook his hand at us on the roof. I looked up, and sure enough, Zhang Tiehan was holding a palm-sized coffin in his hand. It is exactly the same as the one that was removed from the wall. Soon, Zhang Tiehan quickly opened the coffin, and inside was still a naked female doll. "Son, there's no need to repair this fence anymore. Find a sunny place and bury these things, and then quickly pack up your things and leave here!" Village Chief Zhang said, "The farther away the better, don't come back." Although I don't really believe in these things, but I was going to leave, so I didn't say anything, just asked: "Is there no way to crack it?" "Even if you dig out the foundation and find the other thing, you still can't solve this pattern! The person who set up this pattern is a master, and my ability is limited." As he said, Village Chief Zhang shook his head again, calling for Zhang Tiehan to join everyone leave. I stood there in a daze, and for a moment, I only felt that the world was so big that there was no place to stay... Just when I was in a daze, someone suddenly shouted: "Doctor Xu, Doctor Xu—" "Eh?" I turned around in a daze, only to realize that Niu Zhenhua had come again at some unknown time. "Why are you here?" I asked, frowning. "Is your house repairing?" Niu Zhenhua asked after looking at the mess of the fence around my house. "No more repairs!" I sighed, I'm about to leave, what are you doing repairing this house?Thinking about it, it's true, I have nothing to worry about, my grandma has passed away, and I will leave sooner or later, what is there to do to build this fence, and I am full of unhappiness? Niu Zhenhua laughed and said, "It's best not to practice. My grandfather's illness has improved. You said you'd go in three days. Why didn't you go?" "My grandma passed away!" I said indifferently, my grandma passed away, so I don't remember anything about the old man of the Niu family. Niu Zhenhua shook his head and said, "Why don't you send someone over to deliver a letter? How about I kowtow to the old man?" "Forget it, the villagers are helping with the cooking. Your grandfather's illness has not been repeated?" Where is the time to take care of others when you are so busy? "It's not very good!" Niu Zhenhua frowned, "If it's good, I don't need to bother you, Doctor Xu. I took your medicine and it was fine at first, but it didn't work after two days. My father went to the city for a meeting again. No, there is no one to take care of me at home.” "Where's your wife?" I asked in surprise. Niu Zhenhua just frowned and didn't say anything. When I saw this, I naturally wouldn't ask any more questions. "Let me pack my things and go with you!" I said, I got up and went back to the house to get the medicine box, and followed Niu Zhenhua out the door.