4,04 Guest in the Coffin(1/2)
After listening to Bai Yutang's ghost story, Zhan Zhao left the noodle shop with his little fourth son in his arms and walked towards Yuxin Mountain in the western suburbs.
Zhan Zhao sneezed twice in succession. Bai Yutang silently stretched out his hand to pick up the fourth son, while looking at Zhan Zhao - Do you have a cold? Carefully pass it to the fourth son.
Zhan Zhao rubbed his nose and looked around, saying to himself, "Oh, why are there such dense woods on both sides of the official road? It's so gloomy and gloomy. I have a bad feeling about it."
The fourth son and Bai Yutang looked at each other. The fourth son asked Bai Yutang in a low voice, "Could it be today?"
The fifth master raised his face and looked at the sky. The sun had risen just now in the morning, but now it was gloomy. He nodded to the fourth son, "Maybe..."
"What today?" Zhan Zhao was curious.
The fourth son and Bai Yutang stared at Zhan Zhao for a while. The fourth son covered Bai Yutang's ears and asked, "Bai Bai, how much did you pledge?"
The fifth master extended a finger to him and gestured.
The fourth boy tilted his head, "One hundred?"
Fifth Master: "One thousand."
"Oh..." The fourth son nodded, "Yin Yin, Xiao Liangzi, I bet five hundred taels together, but we bet ninety-nine. Yin Yin said there must be a lot of people betting on cats, and if you win, you won't make any money."
Money. But Zunzun pledged two hundred taels for Maomao, and they also pledged Maomao for ninety-nine."
The Fifth Master smiled slightly and said, "I'm keeping your father in custody."
The fourth son held his chin, "Well... I felt a little regretful when I found out in the morning that daddy was going to dig a grave. If I had known, daddy would have staked half, and Jiujiu would have staked half."
The two were chatting when Zhan Zhao squinted at them and asked, "What secret do you two have?"
The whole family shook their heads at Zhan Zhao, "No..."
Zhan Zhao stared at them in disbelief...
At this time, there was a ringing sound in front of them. The three of them looked up and saw a carriage approaching. The driver seemed to be in a hurry and flew past Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang at an extremely fast speed.
Bai Yutang subconsciously stretched out his hand to help the fourth son block the sand and dust raised by the carriage and horses. Zhan Zhao also looked back.
Although it was an official road, the road was not very smooth. The carriage was going too fast. When it turned a corner, it bumped into a protruding stone. The carriage bumped up, fell heavily, and was thrown out of the carriage with a "bang" sound.
A wooden box.
The wooden box rolled three times on the road, hit a tree on the roadside, and fell apart with a crash.
"Hey! Something has fallen!" Zhan Zhao shouted quickly when he saw that something had fallen.
But the carriage had already turned quickly through the woods, and Zhan Zhao quickly chased after it.
Bai Yutang also followed the little fourth son in his arms.
But when Zhan Zhao turned around through the woods and looked forward, he was dumbfounded - there was no one on the long official road ahead.
Guard Zhan couldn't believe it...so fast? That was a carriage! It's impossible for anyone to just turn a corner and fly so far away and disappear.
Zhan Zhao scratched his head, what kind of carriage is this weird? Recall the appearance of the driver who was driving the carriage just now. He was wearing a turban and a hat, so his appearance was completely indistinguishable.
"Cat."
At this time, Bai Yutang called Zhan Zhao.
Zhan Zhao turned around.
Bai Yutang pointed at the box that had just fallen and motioned for Zhan Zhao to take a look.
Xiao Sizi was also standing next to the box, with his head bent and shaking his head. Xiao Wu squatted beside him, wagging his tail, and also tilted his head to observe the box.
Zhan Zhao walked over and took a look, and saw that the wooden box was scattered, and a large amount of white sand-like stuff leaked out of the box.
Zhan Zhao knelt down and studied it carefully, frowning, "Is it salt?"
Fifth Master gently raised his hand and swept away the wooden planks covering the salt pile. He saw a curled-up human figure in the salt pile, wrapped in cloth. No matter how you looked at it, it looked like a corpse.
Zhan Zhao stared at it for a while, then raised his face to look at the sky - Wow! The sky is blue and white! Master Mao's method of picking up corpses is really innovative! Who would have thought! I picked up a box on the road and asked for gold.
No money, but Mr. Cat! There are corpses in every box you pick up! Just ask who else is there?!
"well……"
Xiao Sizi and Bai Yutang on the side sighed helplessly... Oh! One thousand five hundred taels are gone!
Zhan Zhao looked at the dejected adults, one big and one small, and said, "Hmph," "Please don't hold me captive!"
The fourth child pouted - that's the baby's lucky money!
Zhan Zhao touched his chin, "Let me know if you open a gambling game again in the future, and I will buy myself a thousand and eight hundred taels. This is the road to wealth!"
Bai Yutang asked the fourth son in a low voice, "How do you say that sentence?"
The little fourth son understood it clearly, "A dead pig is not afraid of being scalded by boiling water!"
Fifth Master couldn't help laughing.
Zhan Zhao picked up a snowball on the side of the road and threw it at two people.
…
At the entrance of Yuxin Mountain, not only Gongsun saw the coffin move, but Tianzun and Yin Hou also noticed it. There was indeed something in the coffin knocking on the lid, and with a "dong" sound, the coffin vibrated.
Lu Lin took a few steps closer, squatted down and took a closer look, shaking his head, "This coffin is so small..."
"Yes! It's so small, you have to curl up to put it in, right?" Tianzun asked.
Yin Hou nodded, "Is there someone inside? It's too crowded and I can't lie down, so I'm scratching the coffin board?"
Everyone looked at Yin Hou with complicated expressions - why is your statement so terrifying?
"This coffin was placed here recently."
Lu Lin pointed to the coffin and said, "There is dirt around the coffin. Judging from the wood and shape, it is indeed an ancient coffin."
"But why is it placed at the entrance of the cave?" Gongsun asked, "Has someone already gone in and moved the coffin?"
Lu Lin circled around the coffin, but there were still intermittent banging sounds coming from the coffin.
Tianzun and Yin Hou both nodded - this scholar is quite courageous.
"This coffin board has been pried open." Lu Lin pointed at the gap between the coffin board and the coffin.
"How long has it been since the entrance of this cave was blown up?" Gongsun frowned, "Isn't it true that some big living person was pretended to go in?"
Lu Lin was about to open the coffin, but was stopped by Yin Hou. Tianzun blocked Gongsun with one hand and waved his other hand upwards... and the coffin boards flew up.
In the distance, everyone heard a "bang" coming from the cave.
A group of children in Taixue started talking about it.
"What happened?"
"Are those coffin boards flying?"
"Is it an open coffin or a fake corpse?"
The Demon King shook his head helplessly, "Oh, why is Xiaoyou so rude!"
Contrary to everyone's expectations, when the coffin lid was opened, there were no zombies with white, red, and black hairs flying out, and there was no mummy, skeleton or spirit lying inside.
The four people at the entrance of the cave stretched their necks and looked into the coffin, and they were all dumbfounded.
Tianzun and Yin Hou pointed to the "thing" slowly crawling out of the coffin and asked Lu Lin, "Is this common?"
"Uh..." Lu Lin thought he was familiar with various funeral cultures and had entered many ancient tombs and new tombs, but the current situation was really the first time he had seen it.
At this time, all the talented scholars in Taixue couldn't bear it anymore and all ran to the entrance of the cave.
They saw Tianzun and the others making way for them. When everyone lowered their heads, a huge turtle was crawling out of the coffin and crawling out of the cave in front of everyone's attention.
"A... turtle?!" Pang Yu, the young marquis, raised his voice a little higher, "Is there a turtle in the coffin?!"
"It looks quite rare. Is it a tortoise?" Xiao Baoyan squatted down to study.
The Silver Demon King went up and picked up the big turtle by its shell.
"This is a land turtle, also called a four-clawed turtle." Gongsun pointed to the turtle's paws stretching outwards. "Look, it has four toes instead of five, and it has no webs. This turtle can only live in the sand."
"The four-clawed turtle is quite rare. This is the first time I've seen it." Xiao Bao Yan counted the lines on the turtle shell, "Wow! It's over a thousand years old!"
"real or fake?"
A group of talented people, big and small, no longer cared about being afraid, and gathered around to watch the "magical turtle".
"This kind of tortoise does not exist in the Central Plains." Gongsun reached out and touched the shell of the tortoise. "They all live in the northwest Gobi. They bury themselves in the sand to sleep when it is cold or hot. They grow very slowly and live very long.
"
Everyone took another look at the coffin and saw that it was indeed filled with sand.
"There is still grass!" Pang Yu saw a few bright green dandelions above the sand pile.
The concubines of Taixue patted their chests, almost thinking that it was a fake corpse. It turned out to be a tortoise hitting the coffin board. Who could be so wicked as to seal the tortoise in the coffin.
The Demon King looked at the turtle with a smile, "Who locked you up here?"
The turtle raised its head high, stretched its neck and closed its eyes, as if it was smelling the smell of the forest.
"Does this turtle bite people?" Tianzun asked.
To be continued...