Black Cat Flies on Coffin
Yuanli touched the tip of her nose and said to him in her heart, "Your expression changes so quickly. Isn't it the Emperor who is asking for trouble by bringing up things that are not relevant to him?"
"If you deliberately want to piss me off, it's useless even if I don't bring up the issue. However, even though I'm jealous, I'm also happy. I'm happy that you understand that I like you, and I'm happy that you're willing to spend time thinking of words to piss me off." Heng Jin said through telepathy.
"How can you be sure that what I said to make you angry is not true?" Yuanli said in her heart.
"If you really wanted to get into Cha Suxun's bed, whether it was to take advantage of him or because you liked him, you would have succeeded long ago, right? According to Cha Suxun's wishes, you two would have been married long ago."
When Heng Jin said these words through telepathic communication, her tone was calm, but she was actually panicking and unsure in her heart.
"Emperor Hengjin, please examine my soul. After seeing A'cha's mark, won't he be able to confirm whether what I said is true or false?" Yuanli said in his heart.
His tone was calm, but Yuanli became uncontrollably angry after hearing it. Her wild thoughts were entangled in her mind, and she was speechless about her own frustration.
I was annoyed by the random thoughts, and glaring back at him made me even more annoyed.
She subconsciously spoke in a negative tone, "If the Emperor hadn't intervened and taken me to heaven, perhaps, as the Emperor said, Ah Cha and I would have been married long ago."
Heng Jin had seen the brand and understood what it meant. He only hated himself...
One wrong move and the whole game is ruined.
After a pause, he transmitted his thoughts through his spirit, "I know. I've seen it, and I've heard Cha Suxun say it himself. Cha Suxun is indeed a man worthy of admiration. He's always been considered the best among men. How could I not fall in love with him, spending my whole life with him? However, I think that wasn't the main reason I took you away. It was that you hid your feelings too deeply."
She was surprised and said, "This is the first time I hear you praise Ah Cha like this."
I was surprised at his unprecedented praise of Heng Jin, and also surprised at his ability to speak so clearly.
"He is a good person in himself. It's normal that I use compliments when describing him." Heng Jin said through telepathy.
Yuanli just smiled and ignored him, concentrating on watching the illusion of Guanshan Village.
The male corpse with a ripped stomach and intestines hanging out that I saw before talking to Heng Jin was still knocking on the door. As the door did not open for a long time, the male corpse's force in knocking on the door gradually increased. Now his hand was broken and the broken rotten flesh was still stuck to the door.
For the few households that had opened their doors, the zombies rushed in and tried to attack people. The living people fled to the streets and were frightened to death by the zombies in their own homes and other households.
All the zombies knocked on the door tirelessly and violently. Many neighbors or men in the deceased's family climbed up the courtyard wall and quietly poked their heads out to peek at what was happening outside the courtyard. Even if they were scared half to death, they didn't dare to scream.
In this way, almost everyone in Guanshan Town knew about the corpse knocking on the door tonight.
The ground beneath Yuanli's feet was spinning, and the zombies that were banging on the door all stopped at the same time. They fell silent and began to walk in the same direction.
Following closely, they passed through the rugged and winding forest mountain road of Guanshan Town and reached the highest point of Guanshan Village.
The place was in a mess, with many coffins placed randomly in the middle of an open space surrounded by trees.
Some of these coffins have become dilapidated and rotten due to being directly exposed to wind and rain for many years, some are covered with moss, and some are brand new, probably thrown here recently, but these new coffins look very well made and are not inferior to the coffins displayed in the store.
Thin wooden sticks left over from burning incense and candles were scattered around the coffin, as well as a pile of broken paper figures. Like the paper figures in the town's shops, the figures had no eyes painted on them.
Perhaps it was because the craftsmanship of the people in Guanshan Town was so exquisite, and the paper-made golden boys and jade girls they made were so lifelike, Yuanli always felt that these paper-made figures looked uncomfortable and she couldn't help but get goose bumps all over her body.
The corpses each walked to the newly made coffin, and repeatedly reached out to push the lid, which was not closed to begin with, until a small part of it was exposed. Then they crawled into the coffin and lay down. They reached out and grasped the coffin lid and struggled to pull it closed, leaving only an inch or so of a gap, and then returned to peace.
Yuanli approached the coffin and looked down. Through the gap that was not covered tightly, with the unobstructed moonlight, a pair of bloodshot eyes were wide open, staring straight up at the night sky.
If an uninformed mortal were to take a closer look at this, he would probably be scared half to death.
"Are all these coffins discarded? Or do the people of Guanshan Town have strange funeral customs, where the dead are not buried but simply placed in coffins here?"
Ah Xiang pointed to a dark area in the forest where dense trees obscured the view and said, "No, Ah Li, look, that's a grave. It's the same burial custom as the most common mortal burial."
Yuanli was filled with curiosity and wanted to ask whether there were other bones in the coffin and what its original purpose was. However, if she knew in advance, she would not be able to immerse herself in the scene, so she resisted the urge to continue looking.
Suddenly, a cat's meow was heard from the coffin that was the most rotten, and then many black cats came out one after another from the rotten holes in the coffin.
The black cat walked quietly with its back to the moonlight, jumping back and forth between the coffin lid and the ground. Yuanli counted silently based on the black cat's glowing eyes. There were eleven of them, which corresponded to exactly eleven corpses.
The black cats each jumped onto a coffin with a zombie lying inside, squatted down and looked at Yuanli, licked and scratched her back, and then jumped into the gap of the coffin and never came out again.
The ground beneath her feet spun again, and everything around her changed. Yuanli found herself in a temple.
The stone statues enshrined in the temple are unfamiliar. They are carved into a man and a woman wearing gorgeous clothes and holding strange magical instruments. They are surrounded by many stone sculptures of cats in various poses.
People sat in the center, their faces full of worry and their eyes filled with fear.
A white-haired old man said, "We'll all hide in the God of Wealth Temple tonight and return early tomorrow morning. The town's fearless men and the yamen constables will be on guard. If something as nasty as yesterday happens again tonight, we'll have to hold another grand ritual."
"Uncle He, this incident has caused such a big stir, it's unprecedented. I'm afraid that just performing a ritual and offering sacrifices won't be enough to suppress these vicious corpses!"
"Even if we can't suppress it, we have to find a way to calm it down. Last night alone, six people were frightened to death, plus there are eleven murderous corpses. And Hua Niang and her husband haven't returned yet. We can't afford such losses. Don't all just sit there and watch, thinking that since no one in your family died, it has nothing to do with your family. That's not doing your best. The night is still long!"
"Yes, yes, yes! Uncle He is right. We will naturally, naturally, do our best."
"No one knows who will be the next person to be frightened to death. We've all worked together for so many years, how could we just sit back and do nothing? Uncle He."
"Yes, yes."
Everyone put on a forced and hypocritical smile and echoed the sentiments.
Uncle He snorted coldly, "Don't think that the scandals that each family is covering up are airtight. Just because they have a few more cents in their pockets and live a comfortable and happy life, they can't wait to curse others to death! They provoke this and that, all because of wealth and money! On the surface, everyone is humble and sticking together, but in reality, it's rotten to the core! I'm old, and everyone respects me as an old man. I can't help but remind everyone more often that in critical moments, we still have to stick together to maintain the wealth in front of us. Don't echo my opinions, but think about the reasons why this may have become so pretentious!"
"Uncle He, do you think there's something wrong?"
Uncle He said, "Use your pig brains! If it weren't for a huge grudge that we couldn't close our eyes to, or if we had done something wrong to anger the God of Wealth and Goddess of Wealth, or if...something went wrong in the back mountain, we wouldn't have brought about today's disaster. Think about it carefully! Don't be afraid to speak just because others have your handle on you. Staying alive is more important than anything else. I'm already buried up to my neck in the earth, so whether I live or die is not a big deal to me."
After saying that, Uncle He closed his eyes.
"This month I often see Taozi coming back from the back mountain, always late at night when it's dark and windy, and... and..."
"Aunt Yu, why are you hesitating so much? Just finish your words in one breath. It's so frustrating to hear you say half a sentence."
Aunt Yu leaned in, looking around fearfully, and whispered, "I'm not afraid of Taozi's tragic death, but it concerns the innocence of a girl's family. How could I dare to tell so many people about it? It would inevitably arouse people's imagination and gossip! If Uncle He hadn't scolded me, I would never tell anyone about it. Every now and then, after Taozi returns from the back mountain in the middle of the night, men from the town also come back from the back mountain every few minutes. Moreover, the Hui people have different people from the last time, including the two dead sons of Zhang Mazi's family."
Zhang Mazi immediately jumped out and cursed, "Your husband has beaten you silly! You're talking nonsense and framing me! Are you trying to frame my poor son for going to the back hills late at night and having someone do something shameful with Taozi? Zhang Yuhua, you're too vicious! You're even going to damage the reputation of the deceased? Be careful not to ruin your good deeds, or your daughter-in-law will give you another good grandson!"
After hearing this, Zhang Yuhua also got angry.
"Everyone knows that your two sons can't control the itchy dicks in their pants! When they were little, they loved to sneak into other people's houses and watch the women in the town bathe through windows. You always took care of them. Taozi has always been very afraid to avoid your two sons. How could she know about their sexual nature and still go to the remote and quiet back mountain with them in the middle of the night? Taozi will die with regrets. If your two sons died like her, maybe Taozi is here to take her life."
"What nonsense are you talking about? They were both discovered on the same night. Our Guanshan Town has always been blessed by these two gods of wealth. How can you even say something as ridiculous as claiming my life?"
Aunt Yu said, "Why? I didn't say your son was a thief, but you, a good brother, are rushing to defend your brother! If you start scolding me, no one will be safe!"
Yuanli said, "The one enshrined here should be the same as the fake door god in Huamian Village, right? There is only one God of Wealth in Heaven, where did these two weird things come from? They worship everything, and they are not afraid of harming themselves."
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