Not long after, Xie Bugui brought the village chief and several Xie family members over. Compared with the joy when they left, their faces were full of worry at this moment. It seemed that Xie Bugui had told them not to bury the body. thing.
Sure enough, when the village chief and others arrived, they directly asked Zhang Hazi with a sad face, "Mr. Zhang, are you really not able to get into the coffin?"
Zhang Hazi didn't say much, just said coldly, don't put people in coffins if you don't want to die again.
After saying that, regardless of whether the village chief or the others understood or not, they got up and walked out of the courtyard. When I saw this, I said hello to the village chief and others, and followed them.
I heard Xie Bugui follow me, but I just told them as I walked that I must not be buried. If there is anything I don’t understand, we can discuss it when we come back...
There were some words that followed, and they were spoken in too much dialect, so I really didn’t understand them. They were probably the words of the craftsmen from Xiejia Village, so it’s understandable that others couldn’t understand them.
After leaving the yard, I asked Xie if he was going back. They wouldn't mess around, right?
Xie Bugui nodded and said, all he talked about was this old man. If he messed up, he could only say that we deserve to be here.
Zhang Hazi nodded in agreement.
I was shocked when I heard this, and said, how about you go find that guy and I can stay here?
Zhang Hazi said angrily, just you? Hum, they really want to put the body in the coffin, do you think you can stop them?
I……
Forget it, I'd better go with you. Just die. No one has ever died since ancient times. It's better to die quietly than to watch them put the body in the coffin and then die again.
The two families were not far apart, and I encountered no strange things along the way. I quickly arrived at the door of Xie Bugui’s house, which made me breath a sigh of relief.
Pushing the door into the courtyard, Zhang Hazi walked straight into the main room. I was waiting for him to give orders and ask Xie Bugui to find the difference. I saw him put the bamboo strip knife into Xie Bugui's hand, and then pointed Take the beam in the main room and say, split it in the middle of the beam and get inside!
I was dumbfounded when I heard this. Didn't I agree that the different places Xie Bugui found were the guy's hiding places? Why did you point out the location to Xie Bugui as soon as you entered the door? Isn't this a slap in the face?
Besides, if you ask him to chop down the beams of your own house as soon as you arrive, no one would do this kind of self-destructive thing, right?
But what I never expected was that Xie Bugui, who didn’t know Zhang Hazi’s plan, would actually do it after hearing this! He didn't even move the ladder, he first handed Zhang Hazi's bamboo strips back, then took out a razor from his pocket, opened it and threw it towards the beam of the main room.
I had never seen Xie Bugui use a razor, and I thought he didn't know how to do it, but I didn't expect that he just didn't use it. Zhang Hazi is right, Xie Bugui is not as simple as I thought. After all, he is a craftsman. Whether he has a razor in his hand or not, his strength is completely different.
Just as I was in a trance, the razor had already made a cut on the beam, and there was also a sharp sound of metal and stone. It was obvious that the tip of the razor had scratched something.
Xie Bugui looked stunned, caught the falling razor, and then threw the razor up again without saying a word. I could see it clearly this time. It was as if the razor had eyes. It rushed towards the beam, and then accurately made another scratch two inches next to the previous scratch.
When the razor fell, Xie Bugui reached out to grab it, but instead of catching it, he flicked his finger on the back of the razor, closed the razor, and then flicked it out with another finger, flicking the razor back along the way.
The closed razor shot upwards and hit the middle of the two scratches without any bias. After making a dull thud, it fell vertically and was caught by Xie Bugui. And closely followed was the small piece of wood that it hit.
Xie Bugui ignored the wooden block and continued to look up at the beam. I also followed his line of sight and looked up, but I didn't see anything. I only saw a missing hole in the beam.
I glanced at Zhang Hazi and thought that he would definitely start his performance at this time, leaving Xie Bugui to play 'Let's find fault'.
Just as I was thinking this, I saw something falling from the beam. It was so fast that I didn't see it clearly.
However, Xie Bugui caught the thing firmly. It wasn't until he opened his palm that I realized that it was a small wooden coffin, the same size as the three small sarcophagi I saw in the backyard. Just the texture is different.
No wonder I hadn't seen it before. It turned out to be made of wood, the same material and color as the beams. Standing under the main hall, you couldn't tell it with the naked eye.
Xie Bugui held the small wooden coffin, his expression was full of joy, he couldn't help but said to himself excitedly, "My cousin is hiding in the beam, no wonder I can't find him."
After a long time, I heard Xie Bugui's mantra again, and I knew that he was really relaxed now and had really found himself.
I had never heard his catchphrase in the village before, so I must have been so worried that my temper became much more restrained. But things are different now. Finding the guy hiding behind the scenes means that things in the village can come to an end.
After Xie Bugui finished speaking, he held the small wooden coffin with his left hand and opened the razor with his right hand. With a quick stroke from left to right, the lid of the small wooden coffin was opened with a sound, revealing a pair of complete black fish bones inside.
Before I could react, Zhang Hazi stretched out his hand and patted the back of Xie Bugui's left hand. The small wooden coffin in the latter's hand was thrown up high. Then Zhang Hazi swung his sword and chopped it down hard from top to bottom. With a bang, the small wooden coffin and the black fish bones inside immediately broke into two pieces.
Listening to the sound, it seemed that the small wooden coffin was not made of wood, but rather seemed to be carved from stone. Just its color, why does it look like wood?
Before these two things landed, Xie Bugui took out a yellow talisman from his arms and threw them at them. With a bang, the green flames instantly enveloped the two things and burned them to the ground.
After all this was done, I saw both of them heaving a sigh of relief, but it was only temporary because the concerns between their brows did not seem to have completely dissipated.
As for me, I have so many questions in my mind that I don’t even know where to start asking them at the moment. I might as well slow down and sort them out myself first, and then I’ll ask again when I’ve sorted them out.
Moreover, the only question I am most concerned about right now is, after the small coffin made of unknown material is burned, will I survive tomorrow?
Hearing this, Zhang Hazi said angrily, "Your house is full of ancestors, and the mahjong table is covered by the two of us. Do you think you can live through tomorrow?"
After learning Zhang Hazi's answer, I was relieved, so I continued to ask Zhang Hazi, can we go back to Laosicheng at dawn tomorrow?
Zhang Hazi said, theoretically speaking, it can.
I was puzzled and asked him, theoretically speaking?
He said that because the manipulator behind the scenes was just a stand-in, the matter was far from over...
