Under the eyes of the whole village, the pile of thick paper money was finally about to burn out, and the wax dripping from a few pairs of red candles in front of the grave had already dyed the small piece of ground red. ()

"Old man, it's not that my son is unfilial, but if you become that thing, you will harm the whole village! This is a rule handed down from the ancestors, and the son has to follow it. However, old man, don't worry, if you are wronged, your son will do his best to get justice for you. Meng Dawei shouted these words almost hoarsely, and all the villagers present heard them clearly.

But no one spoke, and the silence on the scene was terrible, which was not easy to accept on anyone, and if you were wronged, it was normal to ask for justice.

Gao Yan silently helped Meng Dawei up, the two stood aside, around 11 o'clock, they will start digging the grave, the time to open the coffin is generally at three o'clock in the afternoon, that is, 11:45, at that time the yang energy is the most vigorous, after this time, the yang energy will suddenly turn yin, and there will be terrible consequences at that time.

At this time, the worship was completed, but it was a little past 10 o'clock, and everyone waited silently, although this thing does not happen every year, but in many villages in this area, which one will not do this once in 2 or 3 years? It was nothing new to the onlookers.

Today, almost no one works in the fields, because the rules are set for those over 5 years old, and men under 70 years old must come and use yang energy to calm the field, so naturally no one will work.

Gao Bin is Gao Yan's younger brother and Meng Dawei's brother-in-law, he is also at the scene at this time, he is a person who has seen the world, when the construction worker ran to several cities, it was not easy to come back for vacation, just catch up with this file, it is also unlucky, the important thing is that wait for the next eight coffin openers, one of them has him, who called him Meng Dawei's brother-in-law?

Seeing his sister and brother-in-law's sad look, Gao Bin was a little irritable, took out a red plum cigarette from his pocket and lit it, he ran through many cities, and gradually felt that the rules of the village where he was born were really a little unreliable, in other places, I can also hear about the burning of corpses, but it is far less frequent than here, even children here know zombies or something, with some knowledge, Gao Bin often thinks, is this a false rumor? It's a little bit of a thing that makes people so suspicious, and it makes people so sad.

At this time, Daoist Yuan happened to come over, handed Gao Bin a small cloth bag and a mask, and said, "You know the rules, right?" Don't be careless for a while, be careful to let the corpse rush away, that's going to be difficult. ”

Gao Bin took these things a little impatiently and said, "You know, put this small cloth bag in the mask, cover your mouth and nose, don't worry." ”

Daoist Yuan stuffed a handful of glutinous rice into Gao Bin's chest pocket and said, "You have to do it well, you can't rest assured, do you know the old man Wang in the next village?" He was just stubborn, and when he opened the coffin, he refused to cover his mouth and nose with a cloth wrap, and had to smoke his dry tobacco, but he was washed by the corpse, and when he went back, his whole body was blue and white, his face was black, and it was too late to send him to the hospital, and then he had to burn and could not be buried. ”

Gao Bin had heard of this, Gao Bin was still a child at that time, not only Old Man Wang, such a person who was rushed by the corpse, I heard that there were several people in these ten miles and eight villages, all of them were careless, unlike Old Man Wang, who was a gun in personal arrogance.

Thinking of this, Gao Bin was a little convinced of the rules handed down by his ancestors, he pulled Daoist Yuan over, handed him a cigarette, and said, "Daoist Yuan, are you done?" When you're done, blow it with me for a while. ”

Daoist Yuan took the cigarette and looked at it, the red plum cigarette was very good, he smiled slightly and put away the cigarette, and said: "Immediately, there is still the last person who has not received anything, and when it is finished, I will tell you." ”

After a while, Daoist Yuan squatted down next to Gao Bin and asked, "What are you looking for me to blow?" ”

Gao Bin took a puff of cigarette and asked, "Brother Yuan, you have been a Taoist priest for so long, you tell me the truth, have you ever seen zombies?" ”

"Zombies, where can I see them? Anyone who could see it was dead! Isn't it nonsense with me when you ask this? Daoist Yuan lit a cigarette and took a puff, obviously, Gao Bin's Brother Yuan was used, and his speech was not chattering, but very real.

"Since you haven't seen it, why do you want to burn the corpse? Isn't this a bit sorry for the ancestors? Gao Bin actually couldn't bear to see his sister and brother-in-law like that.

"You're not right, you grew up here, haven't you heard much? Animals that died inexplicably, and people who were bitten to death, do you dare to say that you didn't see them when you were a child? "Daoist Yuan doesn't like to hear this, as a Taoist here, as a native here, although he has not seen zombies with his own eyes, he has heard a lot of things.

Gao Bin was silent, he did see a tragically dead cow when he was a child, the death was inexplicable, the whole body was full of wounds, and the feeling of being shriveled was not the feeling of a dry corpse, or there was a feeling of shriveling and shriveling.

Later, after the cow died, there was a family in the village that heard the movement in the middle of the night, and then got up to see that the old sow in their pigsty was also dead, and the matter was quite big, until a corpse was burned, and it was not solved until a corpse was burned, at least there was no so-called zombie in the village.

I heard that when the trouble was the biggest, there were some scientific researchers, and they told everyone in vague terms what kind of infectious disease of livestock, cattle had wounds, but pigs did not, because cattle had struggled or something before they died.

Just when Gao Bin thought of this stubble and pondered, Daoist Yuan had already roared urgently: "Gao Bin, you are also a man in the village, not to mention anything else, you have always seen the corpses dug up, right?" In the 70s, when the situation was so grim, the corpse was also burned in the village, and the corpse was famous, Li Huaili's corpse, do you still think about it? ”

Gao Bin's face turned pale, the scene he didn't want to recall for the rest of his life, when the coffin was opened, Li Huaili's body was dragged to the sun to be exposed, the claws, the teeth, and even the dark red stains on his body, some people said that it was the traces he left behind after sucking the blood of the animal!

Someone even turned over the coffin board and saw that there were unclear traces on the coffin board, saying that Li Huaili had planed it with his claws!

The rumor that Li Huaili has become a powerful zombie has almost spread all over the ten miles and eight villages here.

Gao Bin also remembered that when he burned the corpse, there were two strange screams inexplicably, a bit like a toad, and a little like someone shouting, this memory was a little terrifying, Gao Bin has been reluctant to recall, due to instinctive evasion, he almost forgot it, or has begun to become unreal.

At this time, Daoist Yuan mentioned this stubble, he finally remembered it, and scolded fiercely: "Hammer (Sichuan scolding dialect, widely used)!" Gao Bin stopped talking.

Seeing that Gao Bin was convinced, as if he had completed a major event in his career, Daoist Yuan nodded with satisfaction, and was about to leave, after all, it is still extremely difficult to persuade a person who has seen the world to believe in the set of ancestors, isn't it?

Seeing that Daoist Yuan was leaving, Gao Bin was reluctant, he still had one of the biggest questions, he pulled Daoist Yuan over, and said with some eagerness: "Brother Yuan, I just want to understand one thing, why are we so noisy zombies in this area?" There are very few such statements in other places? ”

This question is really too tricky, Daoist Yuan scratched his head a little embarrassed, thought for a long time, and then said: "I haven't been to other places too much, anyway, many rural areas are also noisy, regardless of the south or the north!" Our area seems to be a more troublesome place in Sichuan, and I think there can only be one way to say that there are many places to raise corpses in our area. ”

"What is the place where corpses are raised?" Gao Bin really doesn't understand this concept.

Yuan Daoist squatted down again, and then said: "The corpse raising place is particularly easy to produce zombies, but I don't know why, this is not only related to the corpse raising place, but also related to the various taboos of burial, what is the relationship, anyway, you also know, once the corpse is raised, those zombies have eaten enough livestock, if you want to eat people, the first person to find is your loved ones!" Don't feel sorry for your sister or brother-in-law, it's for their good. ”

Gao Bin nodded a little heavily, the question in his heart has not been completely answered, but with the level of Daoist Yuan, it is not bad to be able to answer to this level.

Suddenly, Gao Bin remembered a question, this brother-in-law's father, the place where he was buried is very close to the place where Li Huaili is buried, and his brother-in-law has made an awkward fuss about it!

However, almost all the ancestral graves surnamed Meng in this village are concentrated in one place, and seeing that the ancestral graves are getting smaller and smaller, and there is a lot of arable land, it is helpless to choose this one

Gao Bin felt uncomfortable again, and at this moment, the elders in the village shouted: "When the time comes, everyone will start digging graves." ”