Yellow Spring Taboo

Chapter 6 The Chen Family Shroud Shop

At this moment, I felt like my whole body was frozen, because I was not sure whether the thing that put its hand on my shoulder behind me was a person or a ghost.

"what are you doing?"

It wasn't until Zuo Daoyin's voice came from behind me that I finally relaxed a little from my nervousness. I turned my head and saw Zuo Daoyin looking at me angrily. His anger immediately made my hair stand on end. .

Faced with this indescribable weirdness, although I was a little flustered, I still tactfully explained that I was urgent to urinate just now, and I couldn't find the toilet everywhere, so I thought of going upstairs to look for it.

"The toilet is not upstairs." Zuo Daoyin replied to me blankly, his tone was as cold as it was cold.

Looking at Zuo Daoyin's reaction, I always felt very abnormal in my heart. I subconsciously wanted to look back at the room in the attic again, but after seeing the strange eyes in Zuo Daoyin's glaucoma eyes, I felt very conscious. Turned his head back.

I followed Zuo Daoyin downstairs, then went to the toilet in the backyard of his house and pretended to take a pee, and then returned to the main room. At this time, any noise from the upstairs disappeared without a trace, and I would still do it from time to time. Glancing quietly in the direction of the attic, I always felt that there was some secret hidden in the room on the attic.

At this time, Zuo Daoyin had been sitting in front of the table of the Eight Immortals in the main room drinking water, his complexion didn't look very good, and his whole body was wet, and his body was emitting a smell like mud from a stinky ditch odor.

I was a little apprehensive and asked Zuo Daoyin where he had been and why he was in such a mess.

It took a long time before Zuo Daoyin put down the water glass in his hand. He first wiped off the trace of water stain left at the corner of his mouth, and then took out a piece of something wrapped in yellow cloth from his arms and stuffed it into my hand.

The yellow cloth looks very worn out, with some dirt on it, as if it was just dug out of the soil. I don't know what is wrapped in it, but it feels soft in my hand. I just I wanted to open it, but Zuo Daoyin immediately stopped me.

"Wu Dao, immediately take this thing to a place in the county called Chen's Shroud Shop, hand it over to Boss Chen there, and ask him to go back to Baijie with you."

"What's in it?" I kneaded the yellow cloth bag back and forth and asked curiously.

"You don't need to worry about this, and you must not open it. Do as I said, set off immediately, and be sure to come back before dawn. Remember, before the cock crows, regardless of whether Boss Chen is willing to go back to Baijie with you or not, You have to hurry back, or you will bear the consequences!"

Although I don't understand why Zuo Dao asked me to do this, but seeing his anxious appearance, I didn't dare to continue to ask what was in the yellow cloth bag, but said that it was early in the morning and there were strange people outside. Yes, can we go after dawn?

Zuo Daoyin glared at me suddenly, and replied that if you don’t go now, you will die until dawn, and then added a sentence of rest assured, if you go out now, that woman can’t hurt you, but you must come back before dawn, remember Don't open this yellow cloth bag.

I shuddered and didn't dare to ask any more questions. I took the thing and went out. After I went out, I saw my family's coffin delivery truck parked at the door of Zuo Daoyin's house. It seemed that he had just gone to My family's coffin shop opened it for me.

I didn't think much about it, I got into the pickup truck immediately and drove towards the county seat.

Because I kept in mind the words that Zuo Daoyin asked me to come back before dawn, I adjusted the time when I set off and set the alarm an hour before the rooster crowed at about five o'clock, so that I could Return to White Street on time.

The county seat is not far from our Baijie, and it takes only half an hour to drive. When I arrived in the county seat, it was just before two o'clock in the morning, so I still had plenty of time.

But it wasn't until I drove the car to the county seat that I realized a very serious problem. I was in a hurry just now, so I didn't ask Zuo Daoyin the exact location of the Chen family's shroud shop, and I didn't have Zuo Daoyin's phone number. What should I do now?
I originally wanted to go back and ask Zuo Daoyin, but after thinking about it, it took more than an hour to go back and forth, and I was afraid that I would not be able to catch up with some urgent matters, so I gave up this idea.

Fortunately, this county is not too big, and I am familiar with it, so I drove around in the county, and finally found the Chen family's shroud shop around three o'clock.

After I got off the bus, I didn't delay, and went directly to knock on the door of the shroud shop. After knocking for nearly a minute, the door of the shroud shop was slowly opened.

When the door opened, I saw an old lady with a wrinkled face and sunken eyes standing opposite me, looking at me with a strange and puzzled expression.

I was stared at by her for a while, and before I could speak, the other party used her hoarse and old voice to ask me who I am and what I want to do?
I hurriedly asked the old lady, is the owner of the Chen family's shroud shop here?
The old lady replied that she was, and at first she thought I was a dead family member who wanted to ask her to make a shroud, so she still had a smile on her face from time to time, although the smile seemed weird to me. How weird.

But when I explained the purpose of my visit and said that it was Baijie Zuidaoyin who asked me to come to her, the old lady's face sank.

I vaguely realized that something was wrong, and immediately took out the yellow cloth bag that Zuo Daoyin gave me.

When I saw the yellow cloth bag in my hand, I clearly saw that the pupils of the old lady constricted suddenly, and then she closed the door without warning, saying that you have found the wrong person.

I hurriedly supported the door with my hands, and seeing the old lady's reaction, I was sure that she knew this thing, so I definitely did not find the wrong person. I hurriedly said to the old lady, something big happened in Baijie, and human lives are at stake. Grandpa Zuo asked me to find you and go to Baijie!
The old lady suddenly looked me up and down for a while, and then asked me if my name was Wu Dao?

Although I was very surprised why she knew my name, I still nodded subconsciously.

After that, the old lady no longer closed the door, but took the yellow cloth bag in my hand, turned around and walked into the shroud shop. She didn't let me in, but asked me to wait at the door, and she went to the house to tidy up. Come with me to White Street in a while.

Hearing this sentence, I finally breathed a sigh of relief. At first, I thought that I would invite the owner of the Chen family's shroud shop to go back to Baijie to spend a while, but I didn't expect that the owner agreed to me so smoothly.

Afterwards, I went back to the pickup truck and lit a cigarette, preparing to wait for the old lady to come out, but I smoked several cigarettes in a row and saw no movement there, and I couldn't help feeling a little helpless in my heart. You have to make up and dress up when you go out. The old lady who has feelings is not old, so you have to dress up when you go out.

But I didn't think too much about it. Anyway, I just wait here, but I didn't expect that the wait would be close to an hour.

When it was almost four o'clock, I finally felt that something was wrong. Even if the old lady had to dress up, she couldn't stay inside for so long, right?I began to wonder if the old woman was teasing me. She had no intention of going back to White Street with me at all.

Seeing that it was not much time before dawn, I finally couldn't sit still, so I got out of the car and walked into the shroud shop, wanting to urge the old lady.

This shroud shop is the same as Zuo Daoyin's house, it is full of eerie, especially the black and white shroud hanging on the hanger, which gives people a creepy feeling. Fortunately, my house also runs a coffin shop, so in In this environment, he was not frightened.

I called the old lady, but no one answered, and the lights were not turned on inside, so I could only see the surrounding environment through the moonlight outside, but there was nothing to see around here except for various shrouds. What a name.

Soon, I touched the light on the wall. The moment I turned on the light and saw the scene in front of me, I was so frightened that I almost collapsed on the ground.

About one meter in front of me, there is a neodymium alloy stick for hanging shrouds, and there are still a row of shrouds hanging on the stick. A rope, hanged on the stick.

(End of this chapter)