Chapter 1069: Tomb of Tusi King (23)

The main hall of the Li Family is a bit darker than the main hall of the Tujia A-mei B&B, and there is no fire pit - in other words, the Tujia A-mei B&B is more like an improved special B&B used for tourist reception, while the structure of the Li Jia Sanheyuan is more simple and authentic .

The Li family hall is very spacious, and the four walls are covered with various yellowed and black newspapers. Occasionally, there are a few paintings depicting colorful statues of gods, which cannot be seen clearly. There were four skinny men wearing linen and mourning standing in front of the shrine in the middle of the hall, looking at them quietly. The most eye-catching thing is the black wood coffin placed on the wooden platform in the middle of the hall.

"You are here."

The leader, Li Jun, is taller than the others and wears a longer white filial piety belt than the others. He should be the eldest son of the deceased and the current head of the family. There was no expression on his blue-grey face, and he raised his hand to welcome An Xuefeng and the others to the left. Everyone who was attracted by the coffin and the Li family looked to the left and discovered that there was a wooden bed in the left corner of the main room, and a corpse was lying on the wooden bed without any protection.

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Miao Fangfei breathed out secretly to calm down her nervous mood. The hall was so quiet that it was scary. There were so many people here that they could only go to the wooden bed in groups of two to express their condolences. An Xuefeng and Wang Pengpai were the first to come forward. The wooden bed was covered with a mat, and the dead old man was lying on the mat. The old man has already changed into his shroud and bright red shoes. He has a bundle of white gauze wrapped around his waist, an oil lamp lit by his feet, and a round black iron plate on his chest with a small raised ring in the middle. Like the lid of the hanging pot they used to stew chicken last night.

The old man's face was covered with white paper, and his face could not be seen. But judging from his body shape, he must have been extremely tall and strong, at least two meters tall. An Xuefeng also noticed the old man's hand on his lower abdomen. The skin of the big hand was wrinkled like a leaf and was as rough as dry tree bark. The fingers are green and black, with thick joints and a cold light. They look more like black iron bars. Sharp nails protrude from the ends of the iron bars. They are at least as long as two knuckles and do not look like human ones. Rather like the nails of some wild animal.

There was only a few seconds left for everyone to observe. After a brief condolence, An Xuefeng and Wang Pengpai were led to the black wooden coffin in the middle of the hall.

"Please put the ashes in."

Li Jun whispered, and the other three Li family members quietly gathered around, staring at the clay pots in the hands of An Xuefeng and Wang Pengpai. Each of them is over 1.8 meters tall, and they are like several walls surrounding them. They should be invisible but put a lot of pressure on people. But An Xuefeng and Wang Pengpai were taller than them, and their mentality was very stable. They were not frightened, but waited a few more seconds.

"Why pour the ashes in?"

A few seconds later, Wang Yushu, who was second in line to express condolences to the deceased along with Mao Xiaole, came to the coffin holding up his mobile phone for live broadcast.

To be honest, live broadcasting a funeral is really a hellish experience. To speak in such a solemn and solemn atmosphere requires not only courage, but also a thick skin. Fortunately, Wang Yushu has both of these things. The 'Mountain Cult Live Broadcast' is currently the most advantageous privilege for them to collect clues, and it is also the safest way to communicate with these Li family monsters. But they can't hold back because of pressure. Even though he was stared at by four pairs of black eye sockets, Wang Yushu held up his mobile phone and squeezed to the side of the coffin without giving an inch.

After one of them jabbered a lot of dialects that they didn't understand, Wang Yushu would calmly say: "Please speak Mandarin, the audience doesn't understand the dialects."

"Fire ashes have masculine power and can cover up... Abba's (Abba) aura."

In the end, it was Li Jun who spoke, his voice hoarse and his face expressionless: "Let dad go up the mountain smoothly."

"Usually fire ashes can drive away evil spirits."

Wang Yushu asked: "Do we have this kind of feudal superstition?"

This time Li Jun just stared at him, and the black and red worm pupae protruded from the sunken eye sockets, like black and red protruding eyeballs. He remained silent, and Wang Yushu and the others understood.

This was the tacit understanding that there was indeed something wrong with the old man's body.

Putting it away when it was ready, An Xuefeng took the lead in pouring the ashes from his clay pot into the coffin. In order to prevent the ashes from rising up and making a mess, the height of the pouring should be as low as possible. An Xuefeng's hand holding the clay pot to pour the ashes had already reached into the coffin, and his eyes quickly scanned the inside of the coffin. , then straightened up and walked to the side. Behind him were Wang Pengpai, Wang Yushu... After everyone poured the ashes into the coffin, the four Li family members surrounded the coffin.

Normally they can completely block the coffin, but An Xuefeng and his group of tourists are surprisingly tall. Except for Mao Xiaole and Miao Fangfei, as long as they lower their heads, they can see clearly what the Li family is doing - each of them has a coffin in their hands. They all held a teacup, used the teacup to smooth the fire ashes on the bottom of the coffin, and then used the rim of the cup to make circles on the fire ashes. The movement was very slow. It took a few seconds each time before picking up the teacup. The circle will be repeated three times until it is clear enough.

"Why use a teacup to make circles on the ashes?"

Wang Yushu raised his cell phone and asked again, and it was Li Jun who answered.

This is their custom. Depending on the age of the deceased, a teacup should be used to print a certain number of circles on the ashes, so that the foreign fire ashes at the bottom of the coffin can establish a connection with the deceased.

"It was supposed to be nine neighbors who brought ashes from their homes."

Li Jun said slowly: "But they broke their promise and did not come to express their condolences."

The ashes from different neighbors are equivalent to gathering the positive energy of several families, but now the situation has changed. They can only use the ashes from Tujia Amei B&B. Although this can also be considered as brought by "different people", it is essentially from the same fire pit.

According to the original plan, the positive energy in these ashes may not be enough to suppress the old man's body.

"Alas, this is really unfortunate. Why did they break the contract?"

Wang Yushu was still asking questions diligently. At this moment, in addition to the Li family, only Wang Yushu, Mao Xiaole, Wang Pengpai, Bai Feibai and Tong Hege were around the coffin. The others took advantage of the opportunity when the four Li family members occupied their hands to spread out in the hall and quietly collect clues.

An Xuefeng's eyes fell on the shrine behind the coffin. There is also a wooden shrine embedded in the wall in the middle of the Li family's hall. In the middle of the shrine is a tablet with a black background and gold edges. On the wall above is a plaque, which has been smoked black and it is difficult to see what is written on it. The couplets on both sides of the shrine and the horizontal scrolls on them were all covered with white paper.

On the left side of the main shrine, there is a smaller shrine embedded in the wall. It is only half the height of the main shrine and one-third the width, and a wooden sculpture is enshrined inside. The carving is too simple, with only the shape, and An Xuefeng can't tell whether it is a tiger. The small shrine also has left and right couplets and horizontal scrolls, but they are smaller. The red paper has faded and almost turned white, but there is no white paper on it.

However, the handwriting is so blurred that An Xuefeng can only make out a few words. The couplet on the left is "loyalty... biography...", and the couplet on the right is "...returning home".

Returning home, isn't this their hometown?

An Xuefeng had something flashing through his mind, but he suppressed it for the time being and continued to observe. Under the main shrine is a two-layer cabinet-style shrine with wooden carvings. On the shrine is a square copper incense burner, which is filled with incense ash and inserted with more than a dozen thin incense sticks. There is only a bench in front.

Several large wreaths were placed next to the shrine. They were not the usual colorful ones, but pure white like the door. As An Xuefeng looked at them, his eyes fixed. In the middle of these wreaths was not the usual "Dian" character, but the thick black "Zhen".

"Make way, it's time to bury the body."

He only had time to observe so much. Li Jun and his family had already covered the teacup rings and laid a mat on the ashes, and they were about to bury the body. I don't know what happened. Wang Yushu and the others who were guarding the coffin looked a little strange, but Wang Yushu was still professionally holding his mobile phone and chasing after the wooden bed, hesitating whether to ask a few more questions about the deceased. Li Jun and his friends looked very ugly, which was really a bit suicidal.

But he was safer than his other companions to live broadcast with his mobile phone! Wang Yushu made up his mind and was about to continue asking questions, but the next second something unexpected happened-Li Jun and another member of the Li family couldn't lift the old man's body together! Judging from their arms and bulging eyes, this should not be fake, but the old man was as still as if he was cast in iron on a wooden bed. Even if the other two Li family members came to help carry the body, the four of them were exhausted and panting, but they could not move the old man's body.

After several unsuccessful efforts, the Li family members lowered their heads and muttered in their dialect for a while, and then Li Jun walked towards An Xuefeng.

"Do you want us to help carry the body for burial?"

After listening to Li Jun's plea, a dark light flashed in An Xuefeng's eyes, and he exchanged glances with Wang Pengpai. After Wang Pengpai nodded solemnly, An Xuefeng understood.

"The coffin should be your family's business. We are outsiders. It's against the rules to interfere in such an important matter."

"It doesn't matter... It doesn't matter, it's not against the rules..."

"So, the Li family has accepted us?"

"..."

"Not accepted? That's difficult."

An Xuefeng played with some of Yi Ling's usual tone. When he spoke in a more oppressive tone, it seemed particularly difficult to deal with: "Then we will take a big risk if we take action."

"Not too much risk..."

Li Jun muttered, but when he saw Wang Yushu live broadcasting, he swallowed the rest of his words. The worm pupa in his eye socket was squirming anxiously, protruding and staring at An Xuefeng deeply, like the retractable eyestalk of a snail, which was very disgusting. But An Xuefeng just raised his eyebrows, his eyeballs turned into tiger eyes, and he confronted Li Jun coldly. The atmosphere in the main hall of Li gradually became sinister. Miao Fangfei and others stood beside An Xuefeng vigilantly, ready to take action at any time.

"Is it your custom to attack guests in front of the mourning hall?"

Wang Yushu was still holding up his mobile phone to live broadcast and stir up trouble. He said rudely: "If you want to help, show some sincerity. Do you want to rely on words? Please, adults, be practical. We are Director Zero's family."

"You are threatening Captain An, whom Director Zero admires the most. Director Zero's worms must have heard it!"

The author has something to say

Wang Yushu [Threat]: You dare to threaten Captain An! That is Director Zero's favorite tiger. Director Zero is standing on the old crooked tree in front of your house, staring at you every day!

Li Family: ! !

Director Zero:?

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