C205 Carpenter Wang

This was a very ordinary night. However, those who had evil thoughts in their hearts always felt that tonight was different from usual.

I am the one who has a guilty conscience.

I picked out a carrying pole. On both sides of the carrying pole hung a basket which was densely packed with paper money. It was probably around a hundred kilograms.

I walked the streets of the town. The street was empty, and half the lights in the houses next door were out.

I sighed. There have been too many people in town lately. The guide child had harmed many people. Some of the families worshipped the guide child, and in the end, all of them died. The town seemed empty now, and it had a lot to do with the disaster.

The dead would no longer appear. The living did not dare to appear again. It shocked a lot of people, but to my surprise, the police were the only ones who didn't move.

I saw it with my own eyes, so I walked through the empty streets with a lingering fear in my heart. I couldn't help but look back. I was worried that there was a vengeful spirit following behind me.

But no, not even once.

It's the cleanest street I've ever walked through. It was the quietest night I had ever walked.

I sighed. "That day, those unfortunate souls were all destroyed by the lightning strikes. Nothing was left behind. How could there be a soul following me? "

I shook my head, picked up the burden, and continued walking forward step by step.

A hundred pounds is nothing to me. But the point is, I've picked my way for a long time, and I feel my shoulders swell.

All I could do was keep shifting my shoulders, my left shoulder to my right, my right shoulder to my left. The interval was getting shorter and shorter, and I was about to collapse.

I raised my head to look. Mr. Zhao and Xia Xin were getting further and further away from me, and the two of them had no intention of waiting for me. I could only clench my teeth and follow along.

A dozen minutes later, I followed the address to a deep alley. Mr. Zhao and Xia Xin were already waiting for me at the door.

I saw that the door of the house was closed and that there were two white paper lanterns hanging on the doorstep. By the light of the lantern, I saw a couplet hanging on the door: PLEASE ENTER THE LIFE; THE DEAD DON'T ENTER.

This couplet was written very straightforwardly, and it could not be considered as literary talent. The key point was that there was another "take responsibility for the consequences" above.

I said to the Mr. Zhao, "This is it?"

Mr. Zhao acknowledged: "Carpenter Wang's house."

Before we came here, we already asked around. Carpenter Wang is the best carpenter in the town. Such a good carpenter would not make tables, chairs, or cabinets. He would make coffins. So this was a coffin shop.

It was said that the craftsmanship of Carpenter Wang was inherited from his ancestors. In the beginning, the Wang family also made furniture for others, and they carved it beautifully. But in addition to furniture, sometimes also make a coffin or two, rural people poor, poor people less taboo.

When it reached the generation of Carpenter Wang, something happened in the town.

At that time, they were still unreleased. They said that there was a widow who was twenty years old and had stayed there until she was forty years old. The people were ready to set up her chastity memorial archway. Who would have known that after suffering bitterly for twenty years, she finally could not hold on any longer and fell in love with an honest and friendly bachelorman of this village.

There were many troubles in front of the widow's door, and this matter somehow leaked out. Soon, the entire village knew about it. The people in the village locked up the widow and interrogated her in detail.

In the end, they came to the conclusion that the widow and the bachelor had a good impression of each other and were thinking about each other in silence. But there was no physical intimacy, not even a handshake.

But the clansmen still felt ashamed. Besides, how could he explain such a thing? If you say that you didn't have an affair, then would others believe it? In just a few days, the entire town's story had been clearly spread. No matter what kind of romantic words they spoke in the evening, they were able to come up with.

Later, the clan began to hint to the widow to kill herself to prove her innocence.

Suicide may not prove one's innocence, but it could stop the villagers' mouths. After all, they were already dead, so it would not be right for them to continue blabbering.

However, who would be willing to die for such a living person? The tribesmen were neither intimidating nor enticing. It was just that they had both distanced themselves from the widow.

Everyone the widow saw was kind to her, but there was a certain disapproval in the sweetness. In one night, she suddenly discovered that her friends had all become strangers. The way her best friend looked at her had changed. Her family disliked her even more than their enemies.

The widow was completely isolated. Then she could not bear it any longer, so she took out the red wedding dress she had worn when she was married, tied it to the beam, and hanged herself.

When the widow died, the villagers immediately shut up. Rumors were one thing, forcing someone to die was another.

The people in the village had finally quelled the public opinion, and they knew that the widow died unjustly. Therefore, in order to compensate her, he arranged for her funeral to be a huge affair. There were dozens of young men in the wake alone.

During the day, the bachelor also came with a stack of paper money. He said he would see the widow off. He was beaten out by the boys, but being single was really dishonest. When the widow was alive, she had tarnished his reputation, but now that the widow was dead, wasn't there still a need for her to commit adultery? How could a dead man close his eyes?

The bachelor silently left after being scolded a few times.

In the evening, the boys played cards and drank wine. In any case, guarding the spirit was that kind of thing. The form was greater than the meaning. Moreover, this kind of activity was conducive to bolstering one's courage. No one could stand to spend a night in silence over a corpse.

In the end, they started playing cards. No one knew who started to tell ghost stories first, but all of them were the story of swindling corpses.

Afterwards, everyone was scared and couldn't help but look towards the coffin. When he looked at it this way, it didn't matter. There was a crack in the coffin and the corpse inside had disappeared.

The youngsters relied on their numbers to search the yard, but they just didn't know where the corpse was.

Everyone said that this kind of thing was truly strange. How could a corpse be lost?

Afterwards, someone pointed at the corner with his sharp eyes and said, "Tell me, do you guys think there's something wrong with those two boys and girls carrying the wreaths?"

Everyone looked in that direction and was shocked.

The widow's funeral was grand, so the wreaths filled the yard, and the boys and girls filled the yard. Therefore, when they were looking for someone just now, no one paid attention to the two paper men in the corner.

However, when they saw that someone had suggested it alone, they realized that something was wrong with the paper man. Since they were paper men, they were light when they stood on the ground. When the wind blew, they would slightly sway, but these two were not.

There was wind that night, but they stood very steadily. More importantly, the child was leaning against the wall, her head hanging down. How could a piece of paper pierce a person like this?

The young lad pressed the flashlight on the wall, causing it to light up into a fan shape, which he fanned out towards Su Yun.

The still boy suddenly shouted loudly and threw the flower wreath at her. Then, he tried to run away, but not long after, he was kicked to the ground.

The boy fell. The girl could not hold on any longer, so she shook her body and fell to the ground with a thump.

Everyone looked carefully and discovered that this virgin was actually bachelorman, and this virgin was the corpse of a widow.

When bachelorman heard that the widow had died, he felt that the both of them had gotten better. Not to mention sleeping together, he didn't even hold her hand and felt that the widow's death was not worth it. So come and burn paper during the day and try to hold the widow's hand in the confusion.

Of course, he said it was to satisfy the widow's wishes, but who knows if he was trying to satisfy his own feelings?

During the day, he was scolded by the boys to leave, but he was not willing to give up. At night, the more he thought about it, the more he couldn't sleep. He simply sneaked in.

When he came in, he stuck a lot of paper on himself and dressed up as a virgin. Then he crept closer to the coffin and carried the widow out.

He was wearing the clothes of a virgin, and the wake was busy chatting, so no one noticed him.

He also pasted paper on the widow's body, making her look like a virgin. He planned to take her out quietly. Who would have thought that he would be seen through before he even reached the door?

bachelorman naturally received a beating. But this wasn't the end of it. Originally, it was shouldn't be disturbed after a dead person had laid down. bachelorman moved her and kissed her. The widow's corpse was faked.

Fortunately, there were twenty or so young men that night, and they held the widow down. He put it in the coffin and closed the lid. He nailed it again with the long nail.

As a result, the widow's cries and the sound of her nails scratching against the coffin could be heard throughout the night. The sound made people's scalps tingle, making them unable to sleep at night.

After the Widow's clansmen heard about this, they sent people to beat bachelorman up again before hurriedly going to put him in his grave.

Eight bearers were invited, but none of them were willing to carry them. This was because the cries and screams in the coffin could clearly be heard. What was the difference between this and burying a living person? It wasn't that the eight of them lacked courage, but that they couldn't get through the hurdle in their hearts. If they accepted this job, they wouldn't be able to rest in peace of conscience from now on.

Of course, after the clan had paid ten times the price, the coffin bearer gave up.

As they carried the coffin out to the funeral, everyone in the street heard the sound of crying. The villagers were all very kind, and constantly berated their own people.

The tribesmen were not to be outdone, and they cursed their countrymen. If they had not spread rumors, the widow would not have died.

The two groups of people cursed so much that it almost turned into an gang fight. Suddenly, there was a bang. The coffin broke and fell heavily onto the ground.

When the coffin bearer saw this scene, he took out the money he had just received and handed it to his people, saying, "We can't accept this job, no matter how much money we have to give us. Money is a good thing, but it's not as important as my life. "

It was only after the clansmen had asked around that they learned that the person who had tried to exorcise the corpse had to first exorcise her and calm her down before she could be buried. Since she was going to be buried, she wouldn't mind if her temper was a bit weaker. If he was stubborn, he would break the coffin rope as a warning.

If no one listened, all those who attended the funeral would die. Not only would they die, even their entire family would be implicated. A single sentence: kill them all, leave no one alive.