Chapter 0095: Nine Nails to Suppress the Corpse
Just as my collarbone was aching, I saw the magnificent coffin being slowly pulled out of the murky water.
The human heads nailed on the coffin lid slowly emerged.
The man's head was soaked in water, but it didn't swell at all, just turned slightly white.
His black hair was dragging on the sides of his face, and just as his head emerged from the water, the scales on my collarbone hurt even more.
I vaguely heard a low laugh, and the man nailed to the coffin seemed to open his eyes and stare at me from a distance.
I was far away, covering my aching collarbone, and took a step forward to take a look.
But when he looked more closely, he saw that the coffin had been pulled up a little more, the eyes were closed, and the body was slowly being pulled out of the water.
The fine scales on the collarbone hurt even more, and at this moment, the stone needle inserted in the Danzhong point seemed to be warm, suppressing the pain.
I couldn't help but touch my chest with my backhand, and quickly took out my cell phone to call Qin Mipo, asking her to come and take a look. Something was obviously wrong, and she definitely knew something.
Then he said to the car: "Uncle Li, tell them not to pull it first."
Uncle Li was originally holding Aunt Li in the car and watching. When he saw how gorgeous the coffin was, he kind of hoped that it wasn't Li Qian's.
But just when the head nailed to the coffin came out of the water, Aunt Li jumped out of the car, stood by the river, stared at the coffin and screamed "Ahhh" like a wailing female beast.
Uncle Li was not in the car at all. Instead, he was holding Aunt Li tightly by the river, fearing that she would jump over.
More and more people gathered on the shore, the discussions became louder, and some people kept taking pictures.
But I became more and more anxious. The coffin and the nailed person reminded me of the dead snake that was placed on the coffin in Huilong Village.
But when I called Qin Mipo, she never answered.
Just as I was about to stop them from pulling the coffin out, I heard someone shout, "Pull it up, pull it up."
I couldn't see clearly from the shore, so I ran to the bridge to take a look.
The coffin had been pulled onto the boat. The coffin was extremely huge, and Li Qian was tightly locked to the coffin with several chains.
Li Qian was wearing a bright red wedding dress, lying flat on her back with her limbs spread out, nailed to the coffin.
There was an extremely long copper nail nailed on each of the top of the head, both sides of the shoulders, the palms of the hands, the knees, and the soles of the feet.
But except for the place where Li Qian was nailed, the rest of the coffin was inlaid with gold and silver and various gems, and the whole coffin looked as if it was newly made.
People on the bridge were talking about it, and some were puzzled and asked, "Is this the old door-dagger?"
Nailing the door god is an old form of lynching. If a woman cheats too much and arouses public anger, her limbs will be nailed to the door and thrown into the river to be left to die.
It is generally known that no one will rescue them, and in the end both the person and the door panel will sink into the river, so it is also called a sacrifice to the river god.
Because Li Qian had nailed it to the coffin, even though the coffin was covered with jewels, those who were salvaging it did not dare to touch it.
They left the coffin wrapped in chains and did not even dare to sail the boat to the shore for fear of accidents, so they just let the big ship stay on the river.
Everyone on the boat rowed the lifeboat to the shore, and as soon as they got ashore they were surrounded.
The leader of the boat was a tanned young man in his twenties. He shouted at the crowd from a distance, "The coffin with the door god nailed to it has just been pulled up. You are all standing around watching. Don't mess with the dirty stuff. Disperse! Disperse!"
The onlookers then left and started discussing whose daughter had done something evil to be nailed to the door god, and what was in the coffin.
I lay on the bridge railing, looking at the coffin on the boat. I couldn't understand the carvings on it, but Li Qian's winding, wet black hair always reminded me of Fu Qian.
Moreover, she looked as if she had just been soaked in water; her facial features and body had not changed at all.
Just as I was wondering, I heard my cell phone ringing.
Qin Mipo called me back: "Did you find it?"
I hummed, "But she was nailed to a coffin?"
Qin Mi Po seemed to be silent, and whispered: "You can handle this matter yourself. Don't you want to know why the people in Huilong Village deserved to die? And the secrets of the Long family? The snake coffin was suppressed, and the things that were concealed by it slowly emerged."
I wanted to say something else but she hung up the phone.
This matter is indeed related to Huilong Village.
I was still trying to call back and I heard someone ask me in a deep voice, "Are you Long Ling?"
I turned around and saw the young man who was driving the boat. He looked at me solemnly and said, "I'm Xiao Xingye. Lao Li asked me to drive the boat to retrieve the body. He asked me to find you."
I looked at him in surprise, but he glanced at me.
Following his gaze, I saw Uncle Li looking at me with pleading eyes, and then he followed the ambulance to take the unconscious Aunt Li to the hospital.
I didn't expect that this matter would fall into my hands?
"He said you found the body, and you must have a way to get it down so his daughter can rest in peace." Xiao Xingye took out a cigarette, smoked one and put it in his mouth, and handed it to me: "Would you like one? To calm down?"
He is being very "gentlemanly". I shook my head: "I don't know what's going on."
"You don't know?" Xiao Xingye took a deep puff of cigarette, blew out a smoke ring and said, "That's right, She Jiulong only has you as his daughter, right? You are indeed a simple daughter of a rich family... You don't even know this. This matter is probably related to your Long family."
There was sarcasm, contempt and disdain in his words.
I turned and glared at him: "So I'm supposed to finish them off?"
Seeing me like this, Xiao Xingye seemed to be stunned for a moment, flicking the ash off his cigarette, leaning against the bridge railing, looking at the coffin on the boat: "Don't even mention the river in this town, even the minerals opened by the province and city, and those who dig for gold outside, the boss behind them is your Huilong Village, you know?"
"And you see, there are dozens or even hundreds of kilograms of gold on the coffin. As everyone knows, all the gold shops in the whole town, and even the whole city, are run by your Long family." Xiao Xingye took a puff of cigarette and pointed downwards: "It is said that the gold is mined from this river."
"So?" I looked at Xiao Xingye and said in a deep voice, "What does this have to do with Li Qian?"
"Huilong Village has suffered retribution?" Xiao Xingye blew a smoke ring at me and sneered, "You really don't know?"
I turned my head to look at him and snorted, "Speak to the point."
"It seems that in the past two years, the gold in all gold shops has suddenly turned into sand. Even the gold jewelry shipped in from outside has turned into sand." Xiao Xingye is a heavy .
After smoking, he lit another cigarette: "Rumor has it that the Long family was too aggressive in panning for sand, dug through the river bottom, and angered the river god."
"You must have heard of this nail door god, also known as the river god?" Xiao Xingye nodded his chin at me and said softly, "So what I mean is that this was done by your Long family. You should go and take down Li Qian's body and let Old Li rest in peace."
Xiao Xingye glanced down and said: "What a nice girl, she is about the same age as you, and she nailed the door god."
"You said that the Long family is digging sand all over the town? Even the river in the city is full of Long family dredging boats?" I seemed to think of something and smiled, "But now everyone in Huilong Village is dead, where are those boats? "
Don't the Long family have many other businesses? Why are they digging everywhere? What are they looking for? Snake coffins?
"I'm not a member of the Long family, how would I know?" Xiao Xingye shrugged and stretched out his hand to me: "I'll take you on board."
Just as I turned my head, I saw people around who were watching the fun turning their heads to look at me and whispering.
Xiao Xingye took me down the bridge. As soon as I walked over, everyone scattered away as if they were avoiding the plague god, and all looked at me vigilantly.
It seems like something will happen if you get close to me.
"Come on up." Xiao Xingye got on the lifeboat and glanced at me: "You can swim, right? Sit tight."
I looked at the swaying lifeboat, then at the onlookers on the shore who were looking at me with gloomy eyes, and then I stepped directly onto the lifeboat.
Xiao Xingye rowed the lifeboat and took me to the big ship: "If the coffin is really for offering sacrifice to the river god, don't move it. The body looks a bit strange, and there are runes on the copper nails."
"I heard that you and Qin Mipo were studying rice, so you should know something, right?" Xiao Xingye rowed the boat, turned his head and looked at me and said, "You are the only one alive in Huilong Village, so don't destroy the village on my boat."
I just stared at the boat. When I reached out my hand to get on board, Xiao Xingye saw that my arms were covered with cuts. His eyes flashed and he kindly reached out to pull me up.
As soon as I got on the boat, the cold air made me feel cold all over.
The coffin was half a person's height and was still dripping with water.
Li Qian's wet hair flowed down with the water and stuck to the coffin. She looked like the snakes wrapped around the coffin in Huilong Village.
What’s even more bizarre is that there seems to be a human-shaped hole carved out on the coffin lid, which fits exactly where Li Qian was.
Li Qian's hair was obviously dripping wet, but her red wedding dress was not wet at all and seemed to be still dry.
