Kowloon coffin

Chapter 6 The Village's Secret

I stared in fear, trying to escape, but my feet seemed to have taken root, and I couldn't move. I wanted to be born, but I couldn't make any sound.

Zhang Ming kept spitting blood out of his mouth, and just as he was about to crawl to my feet, suddenly a group of black shadows flew out of the grocery room and brought him back inside.

The door slammed shut, I trembled, and looked around, the crowd had already dispersed, and it was as if what happened just now had never happened.

"Xiao Li, the supervisor is here, let's go."

Jiang Tao didn't seem to have seen the scene just now. Am I the only one who saw it?
Is it a hallucination?

Zhang Ming's death cast a haze on my heart, which made me lose my mind to study.

Soon, it was the day of the college entrance examination. The examination was surprisingly quiet these days, and I thought this matter was over.

After the exam, I went home, but on the second night when I got home, something happened.

My home is in the countryside, surrounded by mountains. Because some strange things happened in the village in the early years, no one dared to go out at night.

In the evening, after the family had dinner, they sat in the yard to enjoy the shade.

As soon as the sun went down, my father said, "It's getting dark, go back to the house."

I thought it was cool in the yard, so I said I would go back later, thinking I should be fine.

As a result, it was a little late, and I ran into the strange things that happened in the village that year.

After I finished playing the game, when I got up and went back to the house, I saw someone walking towards me on the road carrying a red sedan chair. The person who carried the sedan chair had both feet hanging in the air.

ghost!
I turned around and ran into the house, but as soon as I turned around, I was pulled from behind by a force.

When I realized it, the person was already inside the sedan chair, and my intuition told me that it was the red sedan chair.

Turning around, I saw a man in a red hijab sitting motionless next to me.

She... is not human.

I suddenly thought of a plot in the movie. Could it be that the female ghost is looking for Ai Lang?

"Who... are you?" My heart almost jumped into my throat, and I was trembling even when I spoke.

She didn't make a sound, and the atmosphere became more and more weird.

I took a deep breath and bravely lifted the hijab, but when my hand touched the hijab, she grabbed it.

She was so strong that it seemed to crush my bones.

In the end, I didn't know what was going on, so I passed out.

When I woke up, it was already dawn, and I was lying on the road.

Surrounded by villagers, they all looked at me with strange eyes.

"Little raccoon, why are you sleeping here?" The person who spoke was my uncle.

"I do not know either."

When I was about to stand up, I realized that I was sleeping on a coffin.

Needless to say, the coffin also knew how unlucky it was.

"Little raccoon." My grandfather and my father hurried over.

Just as I was about to speak, Grandpa said, "We'll talk about it when we get home."

When I got home, I was still in a daze. I didn't know anything about what happened after I got into a sedan chair.

As soon as he entered the room, Grandpa patted the table and said, "What a crime!"

At this time, the uncle walked in with the same solemn expression on his face, "Dad, this kind of thing happened just after Xiaoli returned to the village. I'm afraid it's a bad omen. If it hurts everyone..."

The words are not finished, but the meaning is self-evident.

Grandpa glared at uncle, "As long as I'm here, nothing will happen to everyone."

"Dad, it's not like you don't know how many people Liu Ergou implicated."

Uncle's words reminded me of Liu Ergou back then. He also sat in that red sedan chair and died inexplicably afterwards, but my situation seemed to be worse than his.

Grandpa seemed to be irritated by the uncle's words, and scolded the uncle angrily. In the end, the uncle had no choice but to leave in despair.

I realized that this matter was not that simple, so I expressed my doubts for many years: "Grandpa, why are people in the village so afraid of that female ghost?"

"This matter has to start from a hundred years ago."

100 years ago.

There was a scholar named Qiu Sheng in the village. He was a well-known scholar within a hundred miles at that time, so he was favored by many girls.

But he has a very high vision, and ordinary girls can't catch his eyes at all.

Later, Qiusheng met a rich lady named Lian Yue, Lian Yue appreciated his talent, but he was only interested in her money.

One year, a plague suddenly broke out in the village. A Taoist priest passed by and said that the plague could be resolved by offering sacrifices to a young woman.

"Master, is this all right?"

The villagers did not doubt the priest's words at all.

"That young woman must be born in a cloudy year, a cloudy moon, and a cloudy day."

"Daozhang, where do you want us to find?"

There are very few people born in the cloudy year, the moon and the cloudy day, and the villagers don't know where to find such a young woman.

The Taoist priest kindly pointed out a clear path for the villagers, "Poverty Taoist knows where there is such a woman."

"where?"

"The daughter of the pity family was born in a cloudy year, a cloudy moon, and a cloudy day."

Hearing that it was the daughter of the Lian family, the villagers entrusted this task to Qiu Sheng.

Qiusheng was not sincere towards Lianyue, and he was also infected with the plague at the time. In order to survive, he tricked Lianyue into the village and watched her burn to death.

However, all of this is just the conspiracy of the Taoist priest. He also caused the plague in the village. He wanted to use Lian Yue's ghost to practice his evil skills. Unexpectedly, Lian Yue's resentment was too great. In the end, she failed to subdue Lianyue and was killed by her instead.

After the people in the village learned that it was the Taoist priest's conspiracy, it was too late, so they could only invite the Taoist monks to accept Lianyue.

Lian Yue was finally sealed under the ruined temple in the village.

"For the past 100 years, the village has been safe and sound. A few years ago, I don't know who broke the seal that suppressed Lianyue."

After listening to what grandpa said, I finally knew the origin of that female ghost.

In this way, she is also quite poor.

"Then why did she want to kill the people in the village? Even if she wanted revenge, she would go to Qiu Sheng and the villagers who killed her!"

Lianyue is pitiful, but she shouldn't harm people indiscriminately.

"The villagers who killed her back then have long since died, but their descendants are still in this village."

No wonder!
"So we're one of them?"

Grandpa shook his head, "No, our Jiang family moved to this village later."

"If not, then why did she want to kill me?" I asked puzzled.

Grandpa didn't answer my question, maybe even he didn't know why.

He patted my shoulder lightly, and said in a firm tone: "Don't worry, grandpa won't let you have an accident, come with me."

After the grandfather finished speaking, he got up and went out.

I didn't ask any more questions, and quickly followed.

Ten minutes later, my grandfather took me to the ruined temple in the village.

The dilapidated temple has been abandoned for decades, the surface has long been dilapidated, and the surrounding weeds are overgrown.

"Grandpa, what did you bring me here for?" Thinking that the female ghost had been sealed under this ruined temple earlier, I felt a chill creep up my feet.

"You'll know then."

Grandpa took out a wire from his pocket and walked over to unlock the door.

I think the lock buckle is rusty, and I guess it can be pulled off with a light tug.

"Master, wouldn't it be easier to just drag it down?"

My grandpa glanced at me, "Come and try."

I stepped forward, pulled it, and found that the lock did not move at all. I guess it was not strong enough, so I increased the force, but the result was still the same.

"Don't bother, it's useless, just stand aside."

My grandfather continued to open the lock with the wire, and after a few minutes, the lock was really opened by my grandfather.

I didn't expect my grandfather to have this skill.

Grandpa opened the door and walked in. Just as I was about to go in, a villager rushed up.

"It seems that you broke the seal that suppressed female ghosts."

The villagers who rushed up, indiscriminately, detained me and my grandfather for this crime.

"Don't spout blood." We didn't do this, so I wouldn't admit it.

"If it wasn't for you, why did you sneak up to the temple and tell me that you didn't know it was a forbidden place."

I really didn't know this was a forbidden area.

Grandpa heard the voice, walked out of the temple, walked to me in a leisurely manner, and explained: "We just came here to see if there is any way to suppress female ghosts again."

"It sounds good, even if you have, do you have the ability? Don't think that after being a Taoist priest for a few years, you can regard yourself as an expert." The villager said angrily.

Grandpa didn't quarrel with him either, but just said: "If you have a better way to subdue that female ghost, I won't reply no matter what you say, if you don't, please shut up."

"You...you wait for me."

The villagers left angrily.

I said worriedly: "Grandpa, is it okay for us to go in like this?"

"That female ghost has practiced Taoism for more than 100 years. Grandpa is not sure that he can subdue her. We can only come here to see if the eminent monk who attained Taoism left behind a way to subdue that female ghost."

I thought to myself: It seems that the female ghost is not so easy to deal with.

After following my grandfather into the temple, I realized that the Buddha statue inside was clean without a trace of dust.

Something is wrong!
It stands to reason that this place has been abandoned for so long, and the Buddha statue is full of dust.

"Grandpa, don't you think it's good here?"

I don't know if Grandpa heard me, but he looked for something with his head down.

I guess I was looking for a way to deal with the female ghost, so I didn't bother him anymore and started wandering around the temple.

The temple is not big, but the design of this temple is a bit different from the temples I usually see, but I can't tell what is different for a while.

"Little raccoon, come here." Grandpa called me.

I ran over quickly, "What's wrong with Grandpa?"

"What do you think this is?" Grandpa pointed to a slightly raised stone under the Buddha statue.

I took a closer look and didn't see anything unusual.

"Nothing special!"

(End of this chapter)