I looked at him in disbelief with my mouth wide open.
"I'm a living person, how can I sleep in a coffin?"
"If you want to survive, just listen to my arrangements!"
"Okay...okay..."
Looking at the unquestionable look in his eyes, I shrugged helplessly, thinking that the matter had come to this anyway, and I didn't care whether it was auspicious or unlucky. The most important thing was to save my life.
So I walked slowly to the coffin and raised my legs to go in.
"Wait a moment…"
Uncle Huo said something, then took out the little straw man from his backpack, strung a long red thread on it, and finally hung it around my neck like a necklace.
"You have to sleep in the coffin until night. Remember, no matter what happens, this stand-in doll must always be hung around your neck. The red thread must not be broken, otherwise..."
He didn't finish what he said, but I could guess the result.
I responded, turned over directly into the coffin, adjusted my posture slightly and lay down straight.
People only have one chance to lie in a coffin in this life, but I hope this is not the last time.
I don’t know why, but as soon as I lay down in this coffin, I remembered my past inexplicably. From the beginning of my memory to the time I graduated from college, each event flashed through my mind like a movie.
I hurriedly shook my head to stop myself from thinking, and then put my hands on my chest and gently covered the scarecrow. After a while, sleepiness came over me, and I fell asleep without knowing it.
I don’t know how long it took, but I was woken up by the sound of a gong in my daze. I suddenly opened my eyes, sat up reflexively, and looked around in horror, but I didn’t see even a ghost.
.
But the gong still kept ringing...
"Don't panic!"
Uncle Huo walked out from the shadow of the trees nearby, looked at the village not far away and said:
"This is a custom in nearby villages. At the alternation of Youxu and Youxu, the villagers will beat the gong, which is intended to tell the nearby ghosts that they are ready to rest and not to approach casually."
I nodded suddenly and looked at the dusk in the distance. I didn't expect that modern society still has such weird customs.
"Okay, it's almost nightfall. Lie down quickly and don't miss the important event!"
Uncle Huo reminded.
I hurriedly lay back in the coffin, but this time...I couldn't fall asleep anymore. I stared blankly at the sky, only to see the sky as big as the mouth of the coffin slowly change from orange to dark and deep...
The surrounding environment also became quieter as night fell. In the small space of the coffin, I could only hear the sound of my own breathing, but could not hear or see anything else.
I even wondered for a while whether Uncle Huo had quietly left while I wasn't paying attention...
Just when I was thinking wildly, my body suddenly shivered unconsciously. I shrank my neck and felt waves of cold air flowing down the collar of my clothes and going straight into my body.
Suddenly, another gong sound came. The difference from before was that this time the sound of the gong seemed to be right next to my ears.
"Bang...bang...bang"
My heart skipped a beat, knowing that the old guy was coming!
Looking up, I saw two dry hands slowly grasping the edge of the coffin, and then with a "pop", an old face full of wrinkles poked in!
Even though I was prepared, I was still trembling with fright because today she looked different again!
It was a face with many wrinkles and no facial features, like a wrinkled braised egg, indescribably disgusting and horrifying.
Her neck was stretched very long, and she was rubbing my body back and forth as flexibly as a dog, as if she was looking for something.
I hurriedly covered my mouth with my hands to prevent myself from making any sound, but anyone who saw such a face beside the cemetery at night would probably not be able to help but scream.
My breathing started to become rapid. Just when I wanted to close my eyes and not look at her, a strange scene appeared...
I saw that wrinkled face suddenly twitching, as if something was wriggling and trying to get out from under her withered skin.
I took a closer look and was surprised. A mouth suddenly appeared on her face, and then a nose and eyes grew!
With her chapped mouth, deep-set eye sockets, and aquiline nose, she looked exactly like an old lady’s face. This was her true face!
The old lady put her head forward and sniffed me with her nose, especially when she stayed back and forth between the Scarecrow and my neck for a long time, with a puzzled look on her pale and wrinkled face.
"snort!"
The old lady snorted coldly, put her withered hands into her red floral shirt, pulled out an iron chain, tied it around my neck and pulled me out of the coffin!
I staggered and almost fell to the ground, and I couldn't help but said in shock:
"This old ghost is so strong!"
Without waiting for any reaction from me, the old lady grabbed the chain, locked me, walked around the cemetery towards the mountains not far away with strange little steps, and murmured in a sinister voice:
"I'm getting older and can't tell the difference anymore... let's just burn them together..."
"Burned?!"
My heart tightened, this old lady was going to sacrifice me alive!
I originally wanted to resist, but my neck was tightly hooked by the old lady's chain, and my other hand had to protect the scarecrow on my chest, so now I was being led by her like a donkey, with no way to fight back.
force.
My ninja chain was bitingly cold, so I glanced back and found Uncle Huo following us leisurely, with a piece of yellow paper taped to his forehead, which looked like a Taoist talisman.
The moment I saw him, I immediately felt relieved...
Ten minutes later, the old lady led me and stopped in front of an old tomb halfway up the mountain. She walked behind the tombstone and found a brazier, then placed it in front of the tombstone and blew it gently, and the brazier immediately lit up green fire.
flame.
The green firelight shone on her pale face like chicken skin, which made my heart tremble...
With a ghost cry of "Wow", the old lady suddenly knelt down in front of the grave and started crying loudly. In the silent graveyard, this hoarse cry seemed particularly miserable and sad!
"Ghosts crying in the grave?!"
I finally couldn't help but scream.
The old lady turned back suddenly, staring at me angrily with her blood-red eyes, and tugged hard on the chain in her hand, and I was immediately pulled in front of her.
"Be buried with me!"
The old lady squeezed out these three words with a cry, and then with both hands, she tried to push my head into the brazier! Unfortunately, I was chained by the iron chain, and my body became limp, and I was unable to resist at all.
At this critical moment, a rough, big hand stood between me and the brazier, forcibly supporting my sinking head!
I looked up and saw that it was Uncle Huo who took action.
He slapped the chain with a strange gesture, and the chain trembled violently. The old lady immediately let go of the chain with a groan.
