I looked in the direction Xie Bugui was looking and found that there was nothing under the eaves, and there was indeed no coffin placed. Could it be that, as Zhang Hazi had guessed before, what Xie Bugui saw at first was not a coffin at all?
This also explains why, in the dark, he was able to move the 'three coffins' to the back of the house so quickly.
But if it wasn't a coffin, what was it that Xie Bugui was carrying? Moreover, didn't Zhang Hazi just say that if we enter through the front door together, the three coffins placed in the main room will be our destination. This shows that Zhang Hazi also recognizes the existence of coffins in the main room.
But why is there nothing here? Is it because we went through the back door that we couldn't see the three coffins?
Zhang Hazi did not answer me, but asked Xie Bugui to point out to him the location where he had placed the coffin, and told him to tell the location accurately, otherwise it would be difficult to find the real coffin.
I didn’t know what kind of riddle Zhang Hazi was playing, but he still divided the work and cooperated with Xie Bugui, and quickly marked the location of the coffin that Xie Bugui thought was placed.
It's just that although I followed Zhang Hazi's request, in my opinion, it was a pure waste of time. After all, there is nothing here. Even if the location is marked, it will not help. It is impossible to let The coffin reappears before us.
But Zhang Hazi didn't think so. After we marked the location, Zhang Hazi took out three bamboo sticks from his arms, walked forward along the eaves, and stuck the three bamboo sticks in in the ground.
I looked at the position where Zhang Hazi tied the bamboo sticks. It happened to be in the middle of the marked position of each coffin.
Before I could ask Zhang Hazi what was going on, Zhang Hazi told me and Xie Bugui that if we dig according to the positions I marked, we should be able to dig out the three coffins without digging very deep.
To be honest, I am skeptical about Zhang Hazi's words. After all, Xie Bugui has only put these three coffins in this place for a long time. Even if the other party is extremely powerful, it is impossible for them to put them in such a short period of time. These three coffins were buried in the ground.
What's more, we have been around the house all the time. If the other party really digs the earth and buries the coffin, even if Xie Bugui and I can't hear it, Zhang Hazi will certainly be able to hear it. But from the beginning to the end, we didn't hear any sound of digging the soil, which means that no one came to dig the soil at all!
So when Zhang Hazi said that the three coffins were buried underground, I didn't believe it anyway.
And when I saw the expression on Xie Bugui's face, I realized that I wasn't the only one who had this idea.
However, Zhang Hazi's attitude was very firm, so Xie Bugui and I had no choice but to comply. What the two of us never expected was that when we first put the hoe down, we dug out a coffin! But the coffin was indeed, as Zhang Hazi said, not a regular coffin, but the size of a palm, and only one mahjong could fit inside.
Zhang Hazi guessed it right. There was really a coffin buried in the ground! And the material is not ordinary wood, but carved from stone. Although it is only the size of a palm, the lid and rim of the coffin are lifelike, as if ordinary pipes have been shrunk.
I looked at the small sarcophagus that was dug out with a hoe, then raised my head, smiled bitterly and asked if I would like to thank you, "Does your family still have the tradition of burying this thing in the backyard?"
This joke was obviously not funny, because Xie Bugui didn't laugh, but raised the hoe and dug hard at the second marked point, and then with 'one final word', the small sarcophagus was dug out with a single hoe.
The remaining coffin was quickly dug out, and it was just lying in the dirt. Apart from looking a little strange, there really was nothing special about it.
Three small sarcophagi were dug out at the positions marked by the three coffins. What this means is clear without me having to say more. Even if Xie Bugui's family really has a tradition of burying small sarcophagi in the backyard, they wouldn't be able to bury three of them at once, right?
Xie Bugui stared at the three small sarcophagi in a daze. After a long time, he asked Zhang Hazi, where did the three coffins I moved earlier go? How come there are only three small sarcophagi left?
Zhang Hazi said, the three coffins you moved before did not go anywhere, they were buried in the soil.
Xie Bugui obviously didn't believe this statement, so he asked again, what do you mean?
Zhang Hazi said, meaning, these three small sarcophagi are the same three coffins that you touched and moved before!
He knew that this would be the result, but when Xie Bugui heard the answer from Zhang Hazi himself, he kept shaking his head and said, "It's impossible!" I remember that what I touched was a large coffin of nearly two meters, and the other one was maybe a small sarcophagus as big as a palm?
Zhang Hazi did not answer him, but asked me to pick up the three small sarcophagi on the ground, and then placed them side by side on my arm.
I didn't know what he was going to do, but I just saw him letting Xie Bugui close his eyes, and then reaching out to touch the small sarcophagus on my arm. And when he asked Xie Bugui to move forward, he asked me to put the small sarcophagus that Xie Bugui had touched at the front again.
In this way, Xie Bugui could always keep a small sarcophagus in his palm when he was groping for it.
Xie Bugui only took three or four steps forward before he suddenly stopped, his eyes wide open and his face turned pale.
I didn't understand why he was so afraid, so I followed his example, closed my eyes and touched the small sarcophagus on my arm. I didn’t think much of it at first, but when I closed my eyes and touched the third one, I suddenly realized that the touch of this small sarcophagus was exactly the same as touching the real coffin lid!
In other words, as long as there was a small sarcophagus in Xie Bugui's palm for him to touch, he would definitely think that it was the edge of the big coffin. And as long as the small sarcophagus was slightly turned, Xie Bugui could think that it was the edge of the big coffin. The coffin is over.
This kind of blinding method in the dark is the easiest to implement!
I finally understood that Xie Bugui's face turned pale like that, because it made him think that what he was touching was a big coffin in the dark, which meant that there was someone else in the dark hall who had been controlling it. The positions of the three small sarcophagi moved forward and backward as Xie Bugui moved forward!
And this person, Xie Bugui, never discovered its existence from beginning to end!
When I thought of that scene, I was so frightened that dense cold sweat broke out on my back. I even thought that Xie Bugui's hand might have touched that person's head at that time, but because he couldn't see it, he didn't even know that he had touched that person's head, and thought he had touched the coffin lid. That arc!
And that person's eyes were probably staring at Xie Bugui's hand. He just waited for Xie Bugui to touch it slightly, and then bit his hand off!
I no longer dare to think about it any further for fear of scaring myself to death.
Before I could digest this fear, Zhang Hazi suddenly spoke to us again, don't you realize the key point here?
I quickly calmed down and asked Xie Bugui at the same time, "What's the key?"
He said that the key was that the guy who was hiding in the dark and manipulating the small sarcophagus should now be hiding in the main room!
