The Li family is a big family nearby. According to legend, this clan has been reproduced here for hundreds of years. From the first generation of migrants, the genealogy has been recorded in the 17th generation. According to the village records, when the ancestors first settled here, there were only a few families, and later gradually developed to the scale of hundreds of families now.

As the population grew, there were more children. Later, the superiors felt that there were quite a lot of school-age children nearby. It was not a big deal to travel over ten miles to go to school in the countryside every day, so they simply built a primary school next to the village. They built a few tiled houses, wrapped a piece of land to make a playground, and then the tree roots and flagpoles were placed on the playground, and two private teachers were sent to work together.

The school is built at the foot of a dirt mountain outside the village. Forty or fifty children in a radius of ten miles are all going to school here. The school has two teachers, each with a class, one teaching Chinese, mathematics, music, and sports painting, and the other teaching Chinese, mathematics, music, and sports painting.

The school has only been around ten years since its establishment. It is said that it was very particular when choosing the site. I asked the old master to check Feng Shui. The address I chose was a cemetery. I don’t know which dynasty, which generation and which tribe it was. Even the oldest village chief didn’t know what the origin of this cemetery was.

In the north, many schools are built on cemeteries. Burials have been popular in ancient China for thousands of years. Where humans gather, after many years of reproduction and death, large cemeteries have gradually formed. These cemeteries occupy a lot of places. In recent years, people often dig soil and dig the ground to find some thick white bones.

Although many cemeteries have long been deserted and abandoned, and occupy a large area of ​​land, they have been empty and no one has moved. Everyone is more afraid of such places, which cannot be used as arable land or homesteads - only school is the right one.

Building schools on cemeteries is also an ancient custom. It is said that because the children in the school are all teenagers, they have strong yang energy and are easy to suppress evil.

Moreover, there is a saying among the people that graves are caves, and caves are knowledgeable and ceremonial. Therefore, it is a good omen to build schools on graves and it is easy to produce talents.

There is another saying that it is related to Wenquxing. Some people say that the cemetery is heavy and ordinary houses cannot be conquered, so they can only rely on Wenquxing Town. According to this statement, if it is a heavy resentment, it will have to be a military academy town.

The school playground is on a cemetery. I remember that when villagers dug soil here, they often dug out some broken bones and wreckage.

The news that Commissioner Zhang wanted to catch the "water ghost" spread like wildfire. Before a group of people arrived at the playground, they had already seen people standing around watching the fun. In such a small place, information transmission between people is sometimes faster than modern communication technology.

At this moment, the water in the playground was almost dry, leaving water nests of all sizes on the ground. There was a pit about a foot square in the center of the playground. According to the memories of several children, it was exactly where A Chong fell into it.

The villagers didn't dare to come forward and watched from a distance. Commissioner Zhang was very skilled and brave. He leaned forward to observe. He saw that the pit was only about a foot deep, and the bottom was blocked by sludge, and there was still a lot of water inside. He nodded and turned around and walked to the old village chief, muttering a few words in his ear.

The old village chief coughed, "Dig!".

A few young masters took out the hoes, shovels and other tools they carried with them, shoveling them and digging them up randomly. Soon, they dug a large pit that was 1 meter wide and more than 1 meter deep around the pit. A brave young master used a shovel to shovel the soil formed into pieces of soil at the edge of the pit. Soon, a shabby old coffin gradually showed its true form in the mud.

This coffin was buried in unknown times. The wood outside had rotten like soil. The coffin was very thick, and the inner layer still maintained the wood structure. There was a hole on the top of the coffin. I don’t know if it was originally there or it was recently stepped on. From the side, you can see a pool of green sewage inside, exuding a pungent fishy smell.

Commissioner Zhang was wearing a pair of water boots, a pair of rubber gloves, and holding an iron wedge to insert it into the joints at the bottom of the coffin. He gently tapped it with a claw hammer, and a turbid and smelly green water flowed out of the cracks of the coffin, slowly seeping into the soil under the coffin. Several young people next to him were busy climbing out of the pit, fearing that they would get some green water.

However, Commissioner Zhang seemed to have no mind at all. He took out a white handkerchief and covered it on his nose. He took a thin iron rod with a hook on his head more than one meter long from his entourage, carefully checking the things in the coffin. The surrounding villagers surrounded him stretched their necks several meters away to watch. Although he could not see anything, the crowd kept sighing.

Seeing that the crowd was getting tighter and tighter, the old village chief ordered a few strong young people to knock everyone away. Only a few middle-aged and elderly people with higher seniority and status in the village were left by the pit.

Later, according to rumors from the villagers involved in the excavation, the coffin had been buried for many years. Although it was rotten outside, it was as smooth as new as new. It can be seen that the coffin was made of a good wood. The strangest thing was that after draining the sewage in the coffin, there was a wet corpse inside, whose head and face had long decayed like rags, but the skin all over his body was still connected. There was a big hole in the belly of the corpse, and the internal organs inside had long been rotten like soil.

The most terrifying thing is that there are deep scratches on the inside of the coffin wall and the lid. The villagers all said that the coffin was buried with a living person!

The villagers are becoming more and more evil, and some people keep adding jealousy. Some people say that the coffin is buried by a lady from a wealthy family, so they use a good coffin board. This young lady is usually unpredictable and is pregnant before marriage, which is injustice. The landlord and wealthy are afraid of ruining their reputation, so they buried the young lady who is pregnant alive. The young lady in the coffin struggles desperately, so that the coffin is covered with ditches drawn by fingernails.

Some people also say that the coffin was buried not in the eldest lady, but a jealous little wife with her original wife. The original wife has not given birth to a child for a long time. She saw that her wife was pregnant with a six-game man, and the master had a successor. She was afraid that she would lose favor, so she was afraid that she would give birth to her courage and ordered someone to bury her wife alive.

What's even more weird is that the skin on the corpse is fine but there is a big hole in its stomach.

Some people inferred that after the eldest lady (sister wife) was buried alive, the child in her belly broke out. In the coffin that was not visible to the sky, she collected the essence of the sun and the moon. She had been practicing for many years and finally turned into a ghost... A Chong's arm was caught by this ghost. The fool was also sucked by the ghost... Alas, it was terrible to think about it. That ghost might be sucking people's souls everywhere...

Most villagers in the mountain villages have nothing to do outside of busy farming. They fully utilize their imagination for all kinds of gossip. With the creation of group wisdom, this story is constantly enriched and the plot is gradually improved. The "blazing coffin on the playground" incident is constantly processed and created by everyone's word of mouth. A panic spread among the villagers, and no one mentioned A Chong's life experience.

These are all later stories.

If the villagers' imagination and speculation components are removed, then this matter will be much simpler.

Commissioner Zhang signaled his entourage to take a few photos of the inside and outside of the coffin, then picked up a few pieces of things and put them in a small bottle. He ordered the old village chief to set up the remaining things and burn them. Some bacteria such as green water may be present. Infected with humans and animals, it will cause plague.

While the old village chief told someone to do as he did, he pulled Commissioner Zhang's sleeve and said, "You have to give us an explanation!" Did that child get into evil? When will the relief payment be distributed?

Commissioner Zhang said it was not a big deal, it was just an old coffin with an old body inside. The tomb collapsed when it rained. The child accidentally stepped on the coffin and then got stuck in the crack of the coffin. The plan was probably broken and the sewage was infected.

The old village chief said again that he was the fool uncle... Commissioner Zhang analyzed that he probably picked up something like a wild cat or a wild dog. He was frightened and scratched the fool. The fool may have had some congenital disease and could not withstand such shock and fright, so he went there all at once.

The old village chief was quite satisfied with Commissioner Zhang's explanation. He immediately found a few eloquent villagers and conveyed the meaning of Commissioner Zhang step by step. As for the extent that the villagers can convey it to, it is not something that human resources can control.

Next, the old village chief would treat guests to dinner and express his friendship with the landlords. Commissioner Zhang refused, "You must be polite, it is my job to explain doubts and doubts to the villagers. Now that the matter has been resolved, it is time for me to go back."

After that, he didn't say anything to everyone and hurried back to the county town. It is said that someone came from above and wanted to transfer him to the provincial capital.

Before leaving, Commissioner Zhang said that Achong's disease needed imported medicine and could only be cured in the provincial capital, so he had to take him away.

A Chong has been in a daze these days. Although his condition has not worsened, it has not improved. After Uncle Fool died, he had no relatives in the village. No one stopped him from taking him away. Only Zi Yang's parents were a little reluctant. But when he thought that Commissioner Zhang had to pack up a few sets of clothes for A Chong's sake, he sent them to the entrance of the village.

Zi Yang was picking herbs for A Chong outside. After he came back, he heard that A Chong had sent him away and cried loudly, but no one listened to him. He chased him barefoot and cried for a long time. In the end, Zi Yang's father rode his bicycle to drive him back.

Later, the adults advised him that this was for the sake of A Chong's good. Specialist Zhang said that he would treat him and let him go to a good school. It was better than our small mountain village. Many people wanted to send their children out yet, but they had no chance!
Chapter completed!