My name is Li Yang, born on October 15, 1987.
This day is the Xiayuan Festival, and Shuiguan is relieved of misfortune.
It was originally a good day.
But my dad said that day was the most painful and terrifying day he had ever experienced in his life.
The suffering was caused by my mother having a difficult delivery and howling from morning to night.
The horror is that a coffin rushed into the house for no reason.
To say there is no reason is actually not quite accurate.
Because it had been raining heavily since the morning that day, and by the evening, the river water had reached the doorstep of the house.
Everyone in the village had moved to the higher slopes early, but our family was the only one who was trapped because my mother had a difficult delivery.
Around ten o'clock in the evening, my mother's voice became hoarse. A midwife from a neighboring village came out to prepare my father mentally.
Just then, a bolt of lightning tore through the darkness, followed immediately by a crash of thunder.
As soon as the thunder fell, my cry came from the house.
However, before the whole family had time to be happy, the door was knocked open with a bang.
A dark coffin was washed in by the river and lay quietly in the yard.
Facing the sudden arrival of the coffin, my grandma was stunned for a few seconds. She yelled, picked up the pole in the yard, chased my grandpa and beat him.
The reason why my grandma chased and beat my grandpa was also very simple.
Because I wasn't supposed to be born on this day.
This matter should start from the early years.
My grandfather attended a private school. He was a rare educated person in that era and was recognized in the village as a promising young man.
But later, I don’t know where he got a book about Feng Shui and Numerology. Since then, Grandpa’s temperament has changed, and he carries the book while walking and eating.
The farm work at home was also lost, and it fell to grandma alone.
A few years later, my grandfather learned Feng Shui half-heartedly, and then he thought about reading Feng Shui and telling fortunes to people.
In today's terms, my grandfather is both good at food and fun-loving.
As you can imagine, the result was that within a few years he became notorious and even offered free help, and was avoided by villages and towns for miles around.
So my grandfather decided to move the Li family's ancestral grave eighteen times in more than a year, causing several uncles to cut off relations with him.
It wasn't until my mother became pregnant with me that my grandfather changed his gender and stopped reading Feng Shui and telling fortunes. He stayed at home all day long talking about things and had no idea what he was doing.
When my mother's due date was approaching, my family found out that my grandfather had been calculating my birth date and wanted to pick a good day for me to change the fate of Lao Li's family.
To this end, he asked someone to get two bottles of oxytocin from the city.
Although grandpa is a bastard and unreliable, he is still the head of the family.
Neither my father nor my mother could defeat him, so grandma chased and beat grandpa.
Fighting after fighting, trouble after trouble, the coffin in the yard had to be dealt with.
Since ancient times, there has been a saying: when a cat comes, a poor dog comes, a rich man comes; when a coffin comes to your door, it lasts for three generations.
Therefore, when the coffin is needed, the owner can pick it up himself.
Even if the coffin shop provides door-to-door delivery service, it can only be delivered to the door and will not enter the door.
Fortunately now, the coffin ran directly into the yard.
And that coffin seemed to be an ancient coffin washed down from the mountains.
Inside, it's not empty.
Just when the family was at a loss what to do, grandpa smiled and said that this was a gift from Shuiguan to his wife, and I would definitely be a rich man in the future.
In my father's words, my grandfather was already crazy at that time, and his mind was full of weird things, so that the whole family couldn't resist him, and finally kept the coffin and placed it in my grandfather's room.
Fortunately, nothing bad happened at home, and the existence of the coffin was gradually not mentioned.
But because of this incident, grandpa and grandma slept in separate rooms. When I was five years old, my father was planning to have a second child, so he let me sleep with my grandfather.
Only then did I realize that my grandfather would enshrine that coffin every day. And just a few days after I moved there, my grandfather coaxed me to hold a piece of candy on top of a red cloth and kowtow three times to the coffin.
I was young at that time and didn’t know what I was doing. I just thought it was fun and I could eat sweets.
By the time I realized how ridiculous this was, the die was already done.
In addition, grandpa also taught me things in his old book.
This teaching lasts for ten years.
This year, I am fifteen years old.
Grandpa is old.
His hair is gray and his eyes are cloudy.
I know his days are numbered.
As for why I know it, I naturally learned it from that book.
But I didn’t dare to talk about it and kept it secret from my family.
In his last few days on earth, my grandfather stayed alone in the house for a long time and said some strange words to the coffin.
It feels like I'm talking to someone.
But except for me coming in and out occasionally, the only thing left in the room was the coffin.
On the last day, I saw two lights, black and white, escaping from my grandfather’s forehead.
That is the dissipating soul light and courage. Once it dissipates, life will come to an end.
On this day, grandpa no longer spoke to the coffin, but called me to his side and told me two things.
The first thing is that after he died, he had to be buried in the coffin in the house. He also said that someone would come to snatch it when the time came, so I had to keep it.
The second thing is that I should treat my wife well and protect her.
The first thing is easy to understand, but I didn’t think the coffin would be so good that someone would come and snatch it. As for the second thing, even after so many years, I have never seen the contents of the coffin, so I am a little confused.
However, my grandfather didn’t allow me to ask any more questions. He grabbed my hand and kept asking me to remember it well.
Seeing that he was so excited that he could not take a breath at any time, I quickly nodded in agreement.
Just when I nodded, the two rays of light between my grandfather's eyebrows disappeared...
My father has been honest and filial all his life. After I told my grandfather’s last wish, he agreed and worked with my uncle to pry open the coffin in the house.
Before the coffin was opened, the family was well prepared. After all, it was known that the coffin was not empty as soon as it came into the house, so my father specially prepared a brand new coffin to contain the dead bones inside.
However, when the coffin was opened, everyone present was stunned.
Inside the coffin was not the expected dead bones, but a lifelike female corpse. Not only did the corpse show no signs of decay, it was also very beautiful, like Sleeping Beauty.
I took a look and felt a little confused. I thought that if she could breathe and marry such a wife, it would be worth losing ten years of her life.
Unfortunately, he is a dead man.
Thinking of what grandpa did, it was really ridiculous.
However, before I could think about it, a strange fragrance wafted out of the coffin, which lingered for a long time.
After a while, the whole village was filled with this fragrance.
My expression suddenly changed.
This is the corpse scent. Regarding this corpse scent, Grandpa’s old book records it very clearly:
The fragrance of corpses lingers for hundreds of miles, and demons compete with ghosts for thousands of corpses to worship.
It wasn't until this moment that I understood the two things my grandfather told me. The second thing was the most difficult.
