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Chapter 7 Picking Up Bones

The scene was as quiet as if waiting for an embroidery needle that fell to the ground. Everyone didn't even dare to breathe. Sure enough, within five seconds, the "click, click" sounded again. This time, everyone heard it really, and the sound was indeed coming from the coffin.

Panic was like a flood that broke the dam, and instantly flooded the place. Before these people could react, they were stunned and suddenly heard a "bang", as if something had exploded, and the movement was three more than the thunder that was released during the Chinese New Year.

I saw a stream of black smoke rushing towards Yunxiao. Although there was still a small wind, the smoke was not affected at all. It rushed up straight. From a distance, it looked like a black pillar standing up there, which immediately shocked everyone.

After a loud bang, when all these people realized it, they realized that the large coffin that was still straight there was missing.

A zombie fraud!

I don’t know who shouted this first, but there was a burst of ghosts and wolves howling at the scene. When someone ran away, the onlookers began to run around blindly. For a moment, people were overturned, and some corpse-scammers were scammers and haunted shouts came one after another, and the scene immediately became chaotic.

In a moment, the entire grave circle became empty and there were only a few people left.

Daya and I also ran with the crowd for a while. When I turned around, I found that my grandfather was standing there and didn't move. I didn't feel scared anymore. I stopped and thought about it, and ran back with Daya again.

The one who has not moved like my grandfather was Uncle Han, who always stood behind my grandfather. I guess it was because of this on the one hand because of his family, and on the other hand, seeing that my grandfather did not move, I insisted on not running away, but my face was obviously not very good-looking.

After the black smoke disappeared, my grandfather said lightly to Uncle Han next to me: "There is nothing else. I guess the coffin cannot stay after it is exposed. It collapsed. So many years have passed. Although the feng shui of this tomb has been broken, it is not a very bad place. There will be no white and evil black. I have been dead for many years and will not be "deceived". Just now, it was just the conflict between the yin and yang energy, and evil energy rushed to the grave. When I saw the sunlight, I had no ability."

After hearing my grandfather's words, Uncle Han was a little better. After nodding in a slight sense, he asked my grandfather what to do next.

Grandpa told Uncle Han that he would start to "picking bones" later, asking Uncle Han to open the reed mat first, and then spread it in the north. After he picked up the bones from the tomb, he told Uncle Han to arrange them in the position and in order. Never place the wrong place or make it broken.

Grandpa advised him several times, and then Uncle Han picked up the reed mat that had been prepared long ago and carefully spread it on the ground.

The mat is about one meter five meters wide and two meters long, which is an ordinary reed-woven cool mat.

After seeing Uncle Han laying the mat, my grandfather reached out and took out a large bag of incense ash from the cloth bag he carried with him, and then sprinkled it around the reed mat, deliberately leaving a gap in the southwest corner. After finishing these, Uncle Han had already put up the hood with plastic cloth, which just could cover the reed mat below. This was what my grandfather had told me before, saying that the bones after the coffin would not be seen again.

Seeing that all these were done, my grandfather carefully jumped into the tomb pit and carefully used a bamboo stick to clean up the debris pressing on the bones.

Grandpa later told me that when he looked at the coffin, he knew that the deceased master must have been an ordinary person during his lifetime, either rich or noble. But what he couldn't understand was that since he could afford such a good coffin, why did he have only a coffin but no coffin after death? I couldn't figure it out if it was a sudden death or other unknown reasons, but no matter what it was, the tomb was not simple.

The coffin is a box that holds the corpse, and the coffin is a large coffin that is placed outside the coffin. Generally, more burial objects are often placed in the coffin, and the coffin is generally not placed or placed less. Usually, "coffin" is always called "coffin". In fact, "coffin" generally refers to the coffin, and "coffin" refers to the coffin outside the coffin.

The system was formed by using coffins in the Zhou Dynasty, but there was a certain gap between folk customs and systems. According to the rituals of the Zhou Dynasty on funerals, the emperor had to use two coffins and five coffins, the princes used one coffin and three coffins, the doctors used one coffin and two coffins, and the scholars used one coffin and one coffin. The coffin and the coffin were generally not closely attached, and there should be a certain gap between the two to store some burial objects. Therefore, the coffin became a kind of room, which is the coffin chamber referred to in the usual archaeological terms.

When I ran back with my big teeth, the onlookers had almost ran away, so I ran closer, just three or five steps away from my grandfather. I stretched my neck and looked at the grave pit curiously. This scared me.

The dead man in the tomb was not rotten yet, with beautiful facial features and vivid eyes, as if he had just been buried. His skin was a little bit black and tight, and he had a big braid on his head, and he had several circles around his neck. He was wearing a costume that he wore during the opera, with long robe and big sleeves, loose.

At that time, I had no idea about history. When I grew up, I realized that the big braids and the so-called costumes were dressed in the Qing Dynasty, with standard long gowns and jackets.

Seeing that the dead people in the tomb were wearing such strange clothes, I quickly asked Daya to see it, but in the blink of an eye, the situation in the tomb changed drastically. The naked skin on his face began to quickly turn black and thin, his face and expression became grinning, gradually revealing his gums, and his eyes turned into two black holes, which were extremely terrifying, which scared me so much that I almost sat on the ground.

When the big teeth looked at me again, my skin was no longer visible, but was attached to the bones like a layer of black gray. The whole clothes became empty underneath, wrapped around the bones. After he looked at me, he looked at me again and asked me what was strange about me.

Grandpa was not surprised when he saw the sudden change of the person in the coffin. He seemed to have expected it. He waited until his skin turned black and gray, and then he gently removed the clothes from the corpse. The fabric looked solid, but when he touched it with his hand, it turned into pieces. It looked bad. After cleaning up the cloth, only a skeleton covered with black skin was left in front of him.

Grandpa nodded to Uncle Han, then carefully took off the skull first, and handed it to Uncle Han carefully. Uncle Han carefully took it over and placed it on the top of the mat. Then he took it off one by one with his left hand, body, right hand, left foot, and right foot in a very orderly manner and handed over. In a short while, only some broken clothes, hair, and some burial items were left in the coffin.

There were not many items buried with me, and I didn’t see any large items, all of which were bottles and jars of utensils.

Grandpa sorted out the burial items together, then stuffed all the fine items into a large jar, and rolled up the utensils in yellow cloth and carefully placed them in a prepared wooden box.

Uncle Han had already put his bones in a human form again. These black bones were lying quietly on the reed mat, which was very strange and a little scary. I don’t know if it was because of fear or nervousness. In such cold weather, Uncle Han’s forehead had already seen sweat.

At this time, the villagers who had just run away saw that there was nothing else to do, so they surrounded them in groups of three or three. When they saw the black bones placed on the ground, they were sighing, whispering, and whispering.

Grandpa seemed to be exhausted, and squatted on the ground for a while. After watching Uncle Han have done it, he took out another handful of copper coins. On the inside of the mat, one was placed in the north, two were placed in the southwest, three were placed in the east, four were placed in the southeast, five were placed in the middle, six were placed in the northwest, seven were placed in the west, eight were placed in the northeast, and nine were placed in the south.

After all these were done, grandpa was also panting, slowly straightening his waist and breathing a sigh of relief. Then he said to Uncle Han: "His nephew of the Han family, go back and take Xiaobao's child over. The following things must be done by the child himself. We can't interfere anymore. It's really hard for this child to do such a thing."

After hearing this, Uncle Han waved his hand to Grandpa: "Why are you so difficult? It's not because of our own business. I'm really troubled by Dad Hu's family. I won't say anything, nor do I say anything polite. When I look back, I will definitely go to my house to drink."

After saying that, he ran to the village. Because Xiaobao was still sick, he didn't come out with us and kept lying at home. Uncle Han saw that he had finished his work here, so he went back to pick Xiaobao up.

Grandpa was busy all the time, maybe he was a little tired. He sat next to the reed mat, skillfully rolling the dry tobacco in his hand, but his slightly cloudy eyes were staring at the grave, and he didn't know what he was thinking about.

Grandpa told us that we could only watch outside and not get too close, and I didn't dare to look for grandpa, but I couldn't help but be curious and slowly walked around the grave. Just as I was a little immersed in my sight, Big Teeth suddenly pulled me hard, which scared me.

I looked at Daya's gaze and was stunned. I saw that there was a hole in the front of the grave, which was facing the tombstone!

And the direction was obviously aimed at the hole that Xiaobao stepped on...
Chapter completed!
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