Volume 1 Chapter 036: Tomb Raising
I was completely confused. My family is indeed in the funeral business, or you could say we bury corpses, but I had never heard of "Night Eyes" and shook my head subconsciously.
"No, forget it."
I said "Oh" and suddenly realized that I didn't say anything just now, I just shook my head, but the woman seemed to see it!
"Will the Five Emperors Fire?"
When I heard this, I was even more confused and could only continue shaking my head.
"Go and get those Five Emperors coins."
When she mentioned the Five Emperors' Coins, I suddenly remembered that I had placed seven ancient copper coins on the coffins of Liu Nan and Lin Wenjing because I was afraid that they would break the coffins. The so-called Five Emperors' Coins refer to ancient coins. In our industry, the Five Emperors' Coins are rare and valuable.
The Five Emperors' coins are divided into the Big Five Emperors and the Small Five Emperors. The Big Five Emperors refer to the Qin Ban Liang, the Han Wu Zhu, the Tang Kai Yuan Tong Bao, the Song Yuan Tong Bao and the Ming Yong Le Tong Bao. However, most of the coins we use in the industry are the Small Five Emperors, namely the Shunzhi Tong Bao, the Kangxi Tong Bao, the Yongzheng Tong Bao, the Qianlong Tong Bao and the Jiaqing Tong Bao.
The Five Emperors' Coins are very old, made of brass, widely handed down, and passed through the hands of tens of thousands of people, so they have extremely strong yang energy.
I didn't dare to touch the "Yi Zi Mei" on the coffin, so I took out the remaining Five Emperors' Coins on my body and was about to hand them to her, but I heard the woman's voice from my left: "You take it."
She also taught me a very short spell, less than five characters long, but the pronunciation was very strange and hard to remember. I recited it twice before I could barely remember it. Then I followed her instructions, holding one of the Five Emperors' coins between my index and middle fingers, silently reciting the spell I had just memorized, and flicking the Five Emperors' coins toward the ground based on my memory.
There is a crucial point, which is to shoot the Five Emperors' Coins onto human blood. However, there is blood all over the tomb now, so I don't need to aim.
There was a jingle sound, and the Five Emperors' Coins hit the rocky ground and bounced a few times, but the tomb was still as dark as before, without any change.
"Come again."
I had no choice but to hold another one. But none of them worked after another. Soon, there was only one left in my hand.
Qingzi asked me to hand the money to her. I couldn't see her, so I could only rely on her voice to hold the money in my palm and hand it over. I felt a cool breeze, and the last Five Emperors Coin had left my palm.
Before I could come to my senses, I heard a clang and a flash of light appeared in front of my eyes. I couldn't help but close my eyes. After I adjusted, I opened my eyes and saw that the tomb was brightly lit. A Five Emperors coin with a ball of blue flame was spinning on the ground stained with human blood.
I stared at it for a long time, but I saw that the Five Emperors' Coins were still turning without any sign of stopping. The originally dark brown bloodstains in the place where the flame passed seemed to be gradually fading.
"Go and carry them out." Qingzi's cold voice came, waking me up from the shock. Her face was originally too pale, without any blood, but now under the light of the fire, it was as if it was stained with a layer of rouge, making it even more beautiful. Not to mention, although this woman's personality is really bad, she is really beautiful.
"What are you doing?" Seeing that I was in a daze, Qingzi turned his head and looked at me.
When her eyes met my own, I lowered my head and said, "We can't open this coffin, or the corpse will rise again!"
Qingzi said coldly: "You do whatever I tell you to do!"
I had no choice but to bite the bullet and push the coffin lid. After a lot of gritting my teeth, the coffin lid didn't budge at all. I said, "I don't have enough strength to push it."
Qingzi walked a few steps forward, stretched out a pair of white onion-like hands from his sleeves, and pressed on the two coffins respectively. Suddenly, the two coffin lids were pushed out flatly and fell to the ground with a bang.
I was startled and quickly stepped back. Especially that devilish girl surnamed Liu, if she looked at me, I would be heartbroken.
"What are you afraid of?" Qingzi's face turned serious and he asked me to carry the person out quickly.
I closed my eyes, walked forward and fumbled around on the coffin.
"What are you doing!" Qingzi shouted coldly.
I was afraid and said, "You can't look into her eyes. If you look at her once, my heart will break into pieces!"
"Do you believe that I will break your heart into eight pieces right now?"
I had no choice but to open my eyes fearfully and looked at the two coffins. I saw Lin Wenjing and Liu Nan lying flat in the coffins. After so many days of running around, it seemed that there was no major change in the bodies of the two people. They were the same as before.
After waiting for a while, seeing that neither of them moved, he jumped into the coffin and took Lin Wenjing out first. This girl's appearance had not changed much except for her pale face and black lips. She was cold against me, but her body was still soft, not as stiff as an ordinary corpse.
I followed Qingzi's instructions, carried Lin Wenjing out, stood her on the ground, and then went back to carry Liu Nan. I had suffered a lot under the hands of this devilish girl, and I was a little scared when I saw her. Seeing that she showed no signs of resurrection, I reached out and put my arms around her waist, picked her up, and also stood her on the ground, face to face with Lin Wenjing.
"What is this?" Qingzi walked over to me and obviously saw the stitches on the necks of the two little girls.
I was sweating profusely as I described the method used by the dead face on the two people in a disjointed manner. However, I also emphasized that the person who did it had died tragically outside.
Qingzi didn't say anything, and asked me to stand opposite the two of them, forming a triangle. I didn't know what she was going to do, but I felt very strange standing next to Lin and Liu and smelling the cold air coming from them.
I stood there for a while and then I felt cold all over and got goose bumps all over my body. Just as I was about to speak, I suddenly saw Lin Wenjing and Liu Nan, who were standing nearby, open their eyes at the same time!
I was so frightened that I didn't even have time to scream when I saw a snow-white, slender finger pointing towards me. There was a scarlet blood on that finger, and it touched my forehead.
Immediately, a burst of extremely cold air penetrated into the brain from the forehead and spread to the whole body in an instant. The whole person felt like he exploded, his eyes went black, and he lost consciousness immediately.
When I woke up again, I opened my eyes and saw a bright light. It was already daybreak. I lay on the ground, feeling very uncomfortable with the cold rock against my body. I felt a little dizzy. I got up from the ground and looked around, but I didn't see Qingzi, the woman. Even Lin Wenjing and Liu Nan were gone. I went to the two coffins and looked, but I didn't see the two people either.
The Five Emperors' Coin that had been spinning non-stop last night also stopped spinning and lay there. More than half of the bloodstains on the ground had disappeared, leaving only faint traces.
When I came out of the tomb, I saw Qingzi sitting on the big rock, with his chin resting on his knees, sitting there in a daze.
I took a quick look and didn't find the bodies of Lin Wenjing and Liu Nan outside, so I asked, "Where are they?"
Qingzi ignored me and sat there for a long time before he got down from the stone, entered the tomb, and pointed to the two pools of ashes on the ground: "Here."
I ran over and saw two pools of ashes on the ground, exactly where the two people stood last night. I thought, what a joke, could it be that after I fainted last night, Lin girl and the ghost girl from the Liu family were burned to death by this woman? But even if they were burned, it is impossible to burn them so cleanly, right?
Qingzi said coldly: "Don't look for them, I planted them in your body."
I didn't understand what she meant at first.
"The Bai family has been guarding me for many years, I can't let them die out." Qingzi said expressionlessly: "I will use the corpse planting technique to plant the two people into your body, and when you are eighteen years old, they will leave your body."
I almost thought I was hallucinating. What kind of corpse planting technique is this? Planting corpses in my body? Corpses are not crops, so how can you plant them? This is even more unbelievable than a fairy tale!
"Don't worry, your life won't be taken. It's just that your fate will be divided into three, and your yang fire will be weakened. You will have to support three people by yourself." Qingzi said indifferently.
I was confused and lost in thought. I couldn't understand what she said. I couldn't help but touch my forehead. I remembered that the finger pointing at me last night should belong to Qingzi, and it was stained with her blood. But now there seemed to be nothing unusual on my forehead.
After Qingzi finished talking to me, he walked out of the tomb on his own and sat on the big rock in a daze again.
I stood in the tomb in a daze, and suddenly I felt a cramp-like pain in my stomach. It turned out that I was very hungry. Then I remembered that I hadn't eaten for a day and a night. I suddenly felt calm. I was trapped in this cave. Without food or water, I could only survive for a few more days at most, and then I would die. Why should I care about the corpse or after the age of 18?
I was stunned for a while, and I couldn't help but feel relieved. I saw the Five Emperors' coins scattered on the ground, and I picked up a few of them. I followed the method that the woman taught me last night and flicked the coins towards the bloodstains. But I didn't succeed even once until I used up all the coins in my hand.
I was a bit bored, so I ran over to pick up the coin. I accidentally saw a large pool of thick blood behind Liu Nan's coffin, which had turned dark brown, and seemed to be mixed with some blood and flesh, emitting a pungent smell. I looked at it for a few times, and suddenly I saw something, which seemed to be the edge of a piece of clothing, stained with blood and could not be seen.
I reached out and grabbed the edge of the clothes, and pulled it out. It turned out to be a whole piece of clothes. After looking at it for a few more times, I felt a chill in my heart. Although the clothes were stained with blood, the style was very familiar. It seemed to be the same as what my third uncle wore.
My heart was pounding, and my hands were shaking like a sieve as I grabbed the clothes, but I still refused to believe it, and I didn't dare to believe it! Maybe it was just a coincidence. This dress was not a special style, and others could wear it too. Until a "clang" sound, a small metal ring rolled out from the bloody clothes and fell to the ground and rolled.
As soon as I saw the ring, I was shocked and lost consciousness. After a long time, I picked up the bloody ring with trembling hands. It was a copper ring that my uncle had kept close to him. He never wore it on his hand. When I asked him for it, he refused to give it to me, saying that I should buy it myself.
"Feng Laosan, you're a liar!" I yelled, "You don't keep your word! Didn't you say you would take me back to build a new house and find me a wife? You forgot all that!"
"You old thing!"
"I'm going to scold you, you old liar! Old liar!"
"Uncle San, please come back soon! Where have you been?"
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I kept cursing until I finally fell to my knees and cried. I had no parents since I was a child, and I lived with corpses. People called me a freak, but I never cared. Because I had my third uncle, who played all the roles of a parent. With my third uncle, I had a complete family.
I never envy other children, nor do I envy other children's so-called parents. My third uncle's surname is Feng, and mine is Lu, but my third uncle is my only relative.
When I graduate, my third uncle will applaud for me with satisfaction in the crowd; when I get married, my third uncle will sit in the hall and drink our newlywed tea; when I have children, my third uncle will take care of them for me; when he is too old to walk, I will feed him and wash his clothes; when he is finally too old to leave this world, I will see him off and take care of his funeral affairs.
But this old man is gone now! Who will I serve tea to when I marry a wife? Who will take care of my naughty child when I have one? Who will take care of me in my old age?
I used to think I was just like any other kid. I had my uncle and my family. But now I realize that I, Lu Jing, am a wild child that no one wants!
I haven't cried since I was eight years old. Even if I was wronged, I just kept it in. But at this moment, I cried and rolled on the ground, venting all the sadness and resentment I had accumulated over the years.
I don’t know how long it was before my voice finally became hoarse and I could no longer make any sound.
"The person is dead, why are you still crying? No matter how much you cry, he won't know." Qingzi's voice came from behind.
I collapsed to the ground weakly. I have been dealing with the dead since I was a child, so I understand this sentence better than anyone else. Sometimes I followed my uncle to attend funerals. At that time, I was young, and I felt annoyed when I saw the family members of the deceased crying non-stop. I thought that since the person is dead, what's the point of crying? But when it happened to me, I really understood that some pains are difficult for others to understand!
After crying for a while, I calmed down, wiped my tears, and got up from the ground. It was just a bloody shirt and a ring, which didn't mean anything about my uncle. The old man was as slippery as a loach, I couldn't believe he died just like that.
I tried my best to comfort myself, but I knew in my heart that I was only deceiving myself.
After leaving the tomb, he fell on the ground with his legs up in the air, staring in a daze at the hole in the ceiling through which the light of the sky came.
"Bring the ring here for me to see." Qingzi's voice floated over.
I ignored her. After a long while, I finally got up, handed her the ring, and said hopefully, "What did you see?" But I cried so hard that my voice became hoarse, and I couldn't make a sound.
The ring was made of brass, with a slender body and intricate, ancient and crude patterns carved on it. The style was not very good-looking and was very different from the usual rings and jewelry that one usually sees.
Qingzi held it in his hand and examined it for a moment, as if thinking about something, and said, "It seems like I've seen it before."
I was a little surprised. This woman had been lying in the coffin for so long. If she had really seen it, it should have been a hundred years ago. I hurriedly asked, "What's so special about this ring?"
In fact, I have never known the origins of my third uncle. I only know that he brought me to our village ten years ago when I was two years old. As for what happened before that, I know nothing. When I ask him, he always gives vague answers and muddles through.
Especially with the recent events, I feel that my third uncle may not be as simple as he seems. If this woman can see the origin of this ring, it may help me understand my third uncle better.
I wondered where he was from and if he had any other relatives.
Qingzi said: "I don't remember exactly, but there should be more than one of this kind of ring."
I was very surprised to hear this. I thought this ring was a legacy from my third uncle, so I kept it close to my body. But looking at this ring, it doesn't look like a common currency that can be bought on the street.
Qingzi handed the ring back to me and said, "It might be some kind of identity mark." Then she ignored me.
I turned the ring over and over in my hand, but I couldn't see any spots on it. I cried a lot, and the depression in my heart was gone, and I felt a lot more relaxed. Occasionally, I thought of my uncle and felt sad again, but when I thought about my desperate situation, I could only endure a few more days, and sooner or later I would meet him in the underworld, so I felt relieved.
I collapsed on the ground like a ball of mud, watching the light changing in the sky above my head. I felt my stomach growling with hunger and cramping in pain.
I don't know how long I lay there, Qingzi came down from the big rock, passed by me, and said, "Have you laid there enough? Let's go."
I lazily got up and said, "Where are you going?" Seeing her walk into the tomb, I had no choice but to follow her.
Qingzi stood in the room, looked around the tomb, pointed at the coffin where she was lying, and said, "Go to the stone wall over there and see if there is a protruding stone."
I didn't know what she was going to do, so I just walked over. The coffin was filled with human heads, and the stench was overwhelming. I squatted down and touched the stone wall next to the coffin, and sure enough, I touched a protruding stone, and nodded to her.
"Go in a circle." Qingzi said.
I twisted my wrist hard and it worked, so I turned it clockwise as she said. Suddenly, I heard a loud bang, the tomb shook violently, and rubble fell like rain. I was startled and fell to the ground. Amid the shaking, I was stunned to see a big crack on the rock wall.
"Let's go." Qingzi walked in first. The tomb was shaking violently, and the roof began to collapse. I was almost hit by a huge rock, so I hurried in and saw the tomb was full of Qinglong evil-repressing nails, so I picked up one and took it out.
The crack was very narrow at first, just enough for one person to walk through, but it became wider as one went deeper.
