Chapter 36
There was a man in the crowd, one of the coffin bearers, named Shen Dahong. He was a big, strong man, and when everyone was asking Wang Sheng and the other two to help them, Shen Dahong looked disdainful. These two were obviously two pretty boys who knew some kind of ghost-catching technique, and it was just this group of brainless people who were making a fuss.
Shi Ye walked over here and glanced at the coffin made of extremely simple materials.
After finding nothing wrong, he decided to let these people bury him first, and then go back to the village with them to take a look.
Shen Dahong looked at people with his nose raised, and he knew that this pretty boy couldn't see anything. According to him, there was no ghost or god, he was just hanging on to his last breath.
The leader Pan De said, "Let's go first and bury the person first."
Everyone agreed one by one, and the four men carrying the coffin pushed up the bier on their shoulders, preparing to carry it directly to the burial place in one go.
They had just taken two steps when Shi Ye suddenly saw something and reached out to stop them, "Wait."
Shen Dahong already had some complaints, and now he was even more angry. He pointed at Shi and cursed, "Why are you telling us to stop and start? Who do you think you are to tell us to stop? Don't you know it's tiring to carry a coffin?"
Seeing that he was also scolded, Wang Sheng was not convinced. How could this scoundrel dare to act wildly in front of him? He put Chang Sun Yi down, rolled up his sleeves and stepped forward to scold him: "What are you doing..."
Before he could finish his curse, Shi Ye struck the numb tendon on Shen Dahong's hand. Shen Dahong immediately let go of the mourning bar, covered his elbow, and hunched his waist with a ferocious look on his face. "You pretty boy, why are you hitting me?"
The other members of the funeral procession also reacted. Pan De said, "Little brother, why did you suddenly hit someone?"
He walked around them and squatted down at the place where the coffin had just stopped.
Perhaps due to the thick fog in the forest, the ground was a little wet. He stretched out his hand and roughly measured the depth of the shoe prints. Then he stood up and asked Pan De again: "Is the coffin a man or a woman? Is it big or small?"
Pan De didn't seem to be looking for trouble, and was frightened by his aura, so he replied: "It's a man, it's a man, he's married, and his daughter is that big."
After getting the answer, Shi Ye went to the other three people carrying the coffin and asked, "Has this coffin always been this light since you set out?"
The three were stunned by the question, "Easy?" They were missing one person, but they still looked very relaxed.
Although the coffin is thin, it is still big enough, and there is a person lying inside. How could he be as calm as they are?
Shi Ye: "If there was a male corpse lying in the coffin, the shoe prints you left should be two fingers deep, but now there are less than half a finger. Are you sure there is someone in this coffin?"
The three of them looked at each other, and then someone shuddered and said, "It seems, it seems to be lighter than when it first came out, much lighter..."
What he said was a bit conservative. It was more than just a lot. It looked like there was no one in the coffin!
"I, I remember that at the beginning, Shen Dahong was lazy and didn't use all his strength. The weight of the front of the coffin fell on me. I scolded him, but now..."
Now the coffin wasn't even tilted.
Shen Dahong said with a red face: "How could I be lazy? Try to make up rumors about me again!" However, he also discovered the problem with the coffin, and his voice gradually became smaller.
These people quickly put down the coffin and hid far away. They were sure that there was someone inside before they set out. If they hadn't brought it up, they would have been kept in the dark until the burial.
Wang Sheng rubbed his chin and came to Shiye's side, looking at the coffin closely. "There's no one in this coffin. Don't these coffin bearers know this?"
Shi Ye: "I'm afraid they were bewitched by the ghost, causing them to ignore the weight on their bodies."
Pan De stepped forward and asked him, "What should we do now?"
"Open the coffin."
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Several people took handy tools and hammered on the coffin. After a while, they knocked all the nails out. However, they swallowed their saliva and no one dared to open the coffin.
Shi Ye glanced at Wang Sheng, and Wang Sheng knew what he was going to do. The two of them went over together and opened the coffin, revealing what was inside.
There was a layer of shroud at the bottom of the coffin, and inside that layer was a thin layer of skin-like substance, with a head of black hair hanging out on top. Wang Sheng gasped, "Human skin?"
He also called Pan De to come over and claim the body. Pan De was quite brave. He took a look and nodded, "That's him! Wu Lao Er."
Everyone was shocked. They had seen it before they set out. Such a heavy person had now turned into a piece of human skin. Who wouldn't be scared?
Pan De made a prompt decision and asked them to carry the coffin back the same way and took Shi Ye and the others back to the village.
Shi Ye followed them in a horse-drawn carriage, all the way to a village built along the mountain. Perhaps the men in the village had gone to attend a funeral, and the whole village was still brightly lit, revealing a dead silence.
They carried the coffin back to Wu's house and put it down at the door. Two women in mourning knelt in front of the mourning hall, and there were other people helping. When Wu Laoer's wife saw them coming back in the same state, she was stunned.
She stumbled out and asked, "What are you doing?"
Pan De told her everything. The pillar of the family had died, and now the woman could not bear it anymore. She threw herself on the coffin and burst into tears.
Wu Laoer's daughter came out with tears in her eyes, hugging her mother and crying together, which made everyone's heart broken and even more frightened.
Pan De: "Ah, the second brother also had a miserable life, and he couldn't rest in peace even after death. Oh, by the way, these two masters are here to help us, we don't have to be afraid, they are very powerful!"
Everyone looked at Shi Ye and the others, as if they saw hope, and said, "Great, now they are saved."
Wu Laoer's daughter, Wu Xiaoyu, looked up with tears in her eyes. She saw the two men Uncle Pan had described as masters standing at the front. She looked at Shi Ye, secretly amazed. Then she stood up, wiped her tears, and asked Shi Ye, "Excuse me, sir, do you know where the rest of my father is? I want him to rest in peace. If his body is incomplete, he will be whipped in the underworld."
This is what I heard from the older generation. The underworld will be very cruel to those whose bodies are incomplete after death, and they may not even be able to be reincarnated.
Although Shi Ye, as a ghost tamer who frequently visited the underworld, had never heard of this, he did not intend to refute her and simply stated the cruel truth: "Gone."
When Wang Sheng saw the girl was about to cry, he quickly bumped into Shi Ye and said, "Why did you just say it out loud? Her father just died. Why don't you just lie to her first?"
Shi Ye glanced at him with a sidelong glance and said slowly: "I don't have the patience to coax you."
"Hey, you, how can you not be gentle with women? How are you going to find a wife in the future?" Wang Sheng said with a sigh, "Look at me."
He turned around to comfort Wu Xiaoyu and said, "It's okay. Look at the man next to me. He's very capable and can definitely avenge your father. Besides, the underworld is not as scary as you think. I've been there."
Wu Xiaoyu looked at him and said, "Really? Have you really been to the underworld?"
"Really? If you don't believe me, ask him." Wang Sheng pointed at Shi Ye. Wu Wenxin also looked at Shi Ye and felt that what Wang Sheng said was right. He felt much better.
Unexpectedly, Shi Ye didn't give him any face at all. He snorted coldly and concealed their identities. "How come I didn't know there was such a place as the underworld? Have you been there?" Shi Ye looked at him with his arms folded.
When Wu Xiaoyu heard this, she immediately squatted down and hugged her mother and burst into tears.
Wang Sheng: ...
Everyone comforted the mother and daughter for a long time before they finally stopped crying and regained their composure.
Pan De asked Shi Ye with some respect: "Master, what should we do now?"
Shi Ye put down his hand, knowing that these people were very tired after tossing and turning for so long, and were very afraid. Most evil spirits love to absorb fear, so he said: "Please make room for us, and we will make plans tomorrow."
He took out some talismans and distributed them to Pan De, telling them to stick them on their doorsteps after returning home to ward off evil spirits. Pan De agreed repeatedly and distributed the talismans. Then he said sympathetically, "Xiao Yu, you and your mother will stay in one room first, and I'll make room for the two masters."
Pan De's original intention was to keep the mother and daughter safer.
Wu Xiaoyu was stunned, then her face turned red, and she replied softly, "Okay, I'll go clean the house right away."
After this was finalized, everyone carefully took the talisman paper painted with cinnabar back home, fearing that it would be useless if torn. One person did not leave, and that was the man who carried the coffin with Shen Dahong.
He came over rubbing his hands, not at all shy, and took Wang Sheng's hand as he was about to leave, saying, "Master, please come to my house to rest. My house is big, I guarantee you will be satisfied."
Wang Sheng couldn't hide the smile that spread across his face when he was called "Master." He tried hard to suppress it, and followed reluctantly, saying, "Hey, what's so scary about this? You're just too ignorant. Wait for me. Once we find that evil spirit, we can destroy it with just a wave of our hands."
His other hand was suddenly pulled hard by someone, and the two of them were stopped.
Shi Ye pulled Wang Sheng along, veins bulging on the back of his hand. He frowned and looked at the man, his tone filled with dissatisfaction, "No need to go through so much trouble. One room is enough for us."
For the sake of his family's safety, the man pretended not to understand Shi Ye's expression, "How big can a girl's bed be? There's also a child here. We can't let two masters sleep on the floor, right? Uncle Pan."
Pan De was also surprised. He thought it was his fault for not thinking carefully. How could he let them live in the same room? So he said, "Then how about this? This master will go to live with Mr. Zhou, and this master will live with Mr. Wu. Is that okay with you?"
Wang Sheng nodded in a profound manner. "Very good, very good. Thank you very much." He looked at Shi Ye and said in a deep voice, "Master, I will go and check on this Mr. Zhou first."
After that, he and Zhou Da left. Chang Sunyi stood beside Shi Ye, holding the peach wood sword and the puppet, looking at him. Pan De also planned to watch Shi Ye enter the Wu family before leaving, and he and Chang Sunyi also watched him.
The air around them seemed to freeze. Shi Ye stood at the door, silent for a long time before taking Chang Sun Yi into the Wu family.
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