The blood-red spider silk left a line of words on the door panel. Strangely enough, when the old man turned around to look, the words turned into blood and slowly disappeared.

"You have been looking for Sister Jiang Ling's body. Have you done anything to let her down?" Chen Ge heard a hint of guilt and self-blame in the old man's words.

"Come into the house first." The old man hung the lamp in his hand at the door. The secret hidden in his heart for many years was discovered, making him a little at a loss.

After seeing Chen Ge coming in, he stood in the second wooden house and sighed deeply: "Actually, I know who poisoned that couple."

"You know?" Chen Ge stopped at the door holding the skull crusher and did not go any further inside.

"I can probably guess some of it." The old man lifted the bed board and found a coffin hidden under the bed.

It is smaller than a normal coffin and pure black.

"Put the coffin under the bed?" Chen Ge became even more curious.

"The coffin is prepared for the eldest daughter of the Zhu family." The old man pushed open the coffin lid and took out an unfinished tablet from it. There were three words written on it - Zhu Xinrou.

"Why did you prepare a coffin for her? Is her disappearance related to you?"

"To really count this matter, it has to start from a long time ago." The old man stared at the tablet in his hand in a daze: "When I was a child, I heard from the adults in the village that there was a coffin village deep in the mountains of Jiujiang. The village never interacted with outsiders. The villagers looked strange and had many strange customs. For example, every household had a living coffin in their house, and no one knew what it was used for."

Chen Ge could understand the first half of the old man's sentence. The village was deep in the mountains and had no contact with outsiders. If close relatives married, the probability of deformities would be very high.

But Chen Ge didn't understand what the old man said next. What did it mean that every household had a living coffin? It was too unlucky to put the coffin in the house.

"Uncle, is the village still there?" Chen Ge closed the door and asked softly.

"At first I thought the village was just a legend, after all no one had ever seen it, but who knew something strange would really happen." The old man put down Jiang Ling's sister's tablet and reached into the coffin to look for something: "The coffin village in the mountains had a disaster more than ten years ago, and several families fled."

"Everyone who escaped looked like a normal person, and they didn't have the strange habits that were said in the legends, so the Baijia Village at the foot of the mountain took them in."

"But no one expected that in the same year, plague also broke out in Baijia Village." There was some regret in the old man's voice, as if someone was opposed to taking in those people at the time, but they didn't care.

"Did those people bring the disease out of the mountains?"

"Who can tell clearly now? All the capable people in the village have moved away, and nine out of ten houses are empty. Instead, those families who escaped from the coffin village took root here. Later they changed the name of the village, which is the Linguan Village you see now." Grandpa Bai finally found what he was looking for in the coffin, and he took out a black cloth garment from it.

"I made this coat for the eldest daughter of the Zhu family. People who die outside must wear black clothes when they are put into the coffin so that the blood will not be too conspicuous." The clothes in the old man's hand have another feature. There are four sleeves on the ribs and back that are only one-fourth the length of a normal sleeve.

"Do you think this dress is weird? The eldest son of the Zhu family looks like this." The old man's voice became lower and lower, and Chen Ge could hear the pain in his heart: "The child's parents escaped from the Coffin Village, and her mother was pregnant with her at the time. It can be said that this child is the last 'seed' of the Coffin Village."

"This level of deformity cannot be explained by inbreeding. There is something seriously wrong with that coffin village!"

Chen Ge didn't expect the answer to be like this. Looking at the black clothes made by the old man, he could imagine what Zhu Xinrou looked like.

"I don't know whether there is a problem in the Coffin Village. I only know that this child lives a very painful life, and her parents are very afraid that the villagers will see her. When she was a child, they wrapped her tightly no matter how hot the weather was. When she grew up, they could no longer hide her. So they locked the child in the house and did not let her go out." The old man folded the clothes and placed them on the coffin lid. Soon the clothes would be used.

"And then?"

"The truth cannot be hidden. The villagers finally found the eldest daughter of the Zhu family. What I can't imagine is that those who fled from the coffin village together not only did not speak up for the couple, but also prepared to kill the eldest daughter directly."

"They spoke fiercely, and in the end it was the people from Baijia Village who stepped in to stabilize the situation. Everyone decided to drive the couple out of the village."

"The father of Zhu's eldest daughter was a coffin maker and was very familiar with carpentry. After leaving the village, they settled near the peach forest and lived a very difficult life."

"As time went by, everything returned to normal. I heard that the couple gave birth to a second daughter."

"When everyone thought the incident was over, the couple ran back to the village and said their eldest daughter was missing and asked every household to be careful."

"You heard it right. They are not asking for help in finding their daughter. They are just telling all the villagers to be careful."

"A few days later, the eldest daughter of the Zhu family was found in the back hills. Her parents hung her up and beat her severely."

"After a few months of silence, the eldest daughter of the Zhu family ran away again. Every time she was found, her parents would beat her severely."

"You probably haven't been to the wooden house deep in the peach forest. That house is used to lock up the eldest daughter of the Zhu family. Her father even made a set of equipment specifically for it."

"The eldest daughter of the Zhu family was regarded as a monster by the villagers. Her own parents also disliked and hated her. Among all the people around her, only her younger sister treated her well and regarded her as a relative."

"The Zhu family's youngest daughter also has a strange part on her body, but it's not as obvious as the eldest daughter's. She has a cute face, is very likable, and is very sensible."

The old man sighed and said, "My land is right next to the peach forest. I usually have a lot of contact with that little girl. She is not afraid of strangers, so she became familiar with me after a few visits."

"Once when I was working in the fields, the girl came running to me crying and asked me to save her sister. I knew her family's situation, so I didn't go over."

At this point, the old man couldn't continue. He stared at the black clothes on the coffin with his cloudy eyes, and slowly grasped his knees with his hands: "I should have stood up and said something for her, even if she was a monster."

"The girl left crying, and I was worried, so I went to the peach forest to take a look around."

"I saw the eldest daughter of the Zhu family in the fourth room. That was the last time I saw her. Her body was stuck by a wooden board, and her hands were hung by hemp ropes. She had many scars on her body and was dying."

"I really couldn't imagine what she had been through. She begged me to save her, but I was so scared at the time that I just wanted to leave as soon as possible."

"A few days later, when I finally mustered up the courage to go there again, the couple told me that their eldest daughter was missing."