There is a trick

Chapter 98 The Show Begins (4K, 2/2)

When midnight arrived, Zhou Chang sat up from the sheepskin mattress and woke up Yang Xifeng and the other two corpse drivers.

The four of them worked together to open the net on the bronze coffin.

Under the light of the lantern.

The corpse in the bronze coffin was covered with dense, five-colored hair.

Being close to the corpse hair often makes people feel hot all over.

"A corpse filled with corpse evil is what Yesmaoshan calls a 'zombie'. Zombies are hot all over because the corpse evil is too dry. Only human blood can quench their heat, so there are often rumors of zombies sucking blood." Yang Xifeng held a lantern and observed the corpse in the bronze coffin while telling Zhou Chang some common sense.

“The hair on the corpse is still growing.

On the seventh night, when the hair grows out an inch, you can cut it off and take it on your journey."

The copper coffin nails were faintly visible among the clumps of corpse hair.

Perhaps it was because the eighty-one coffin nails completely suppressed the corpse. At this time, the corpse, which was covered with corpse hair, was quiet and just like a dead body.

Zhou Chang took the basket of eggs from Mao Qi and, following Yang Xifeng's instructions, smashed the eggs into the coffin one by one.

One hundred eggs fell into the coffin, and the fishy smell of eggs began to mix with the stench of corpse.

Several people then closed the coffin lid and tied up the copper coffin with a red rope made of copper coins.

"Do you want to open that wooden coffin and throw some eggs in it?" Zhou Chang pointed at the wooden coffin next to him and asked Yang Xifeng casually.

Upon hearing this, Yang Xifeng, Mao Qi, and Chen Qing all shook their heads and laughed.

"Brother Zhou, you don't know this, right? The incorrupt corpse in the wooden coffin is now being refined by us. Once it is opened, all the efforts we have spent before will be in vain!"

"Just follow along and learn slowly, Brother Zhou.

When you join the corpse-carrying class, it will take you several months just to learn how to extract the evil spirit from a corpse.

Moreover, if the coffin is opened now, not only will the corpse poison spread, but the uncorrupted corpse will also easily rot once it comes into contact with the outside environment, so the coffin must not be opened now."

Mao Qi and Chen Qing smiled and took the initiative to respond to Zhou Chang's questions.

Zhou Chang nodded and asked, "Aren't you afraid that if there are too many corpse evil spirits, the corpses will be transformed into zombies that you can't control?"

"Afraid!"

The two said in unison.

"It's inevitable to be afraid of ghosts when walking at night." Yang Xifeng also said, "But after walking at night for a long time, ghosts are still scary, but people become braver - so they are both afraid and not afraid anymore."

So Zhou Chang said nothing more.

……

On the second day, Monk Shanzhi and Wang Tiexiong gathered everyone in the charity cemetery to discuss specific ways to escape from Qingyi Town.

Finally, it was decided that Yang Xifeng's corpse-driving troupe would take the lead and perform a "Lion Meeting". During the Lion Meeting, a corpse would be thrown out to attract monks from the Xielong Temple to snatch it, and everyone would take this opportunity to escape.

At midnight that night, Zhou Chang and the corpse driver poured cow blood into the bronze coffin.

……

On the third day, everyone in the coffin house officially began rehearsing the "Lion Club".

In Yang Xifeng's corpse-carrying troupe, there are three spotted lions as the 'head lions', a white lion as the 'lion king', and behind the head lion, there are seven or eight other lions.

All the "performances" of the people in the Lions Club revolve around these lions.

Zhou Chang was also assigned the role of a 'lion boy'.

At midnight that night, Zhou Chang sprinkled the ashes of paper money into the bronze coffin.

……

On the fourth day, everything remained the same.

At midnight that night, Zhou Chang poured a layer of Guanyin soil into the bronze coffin.

……

Day ...

Day six...

Seventh Night.

There was bright fire inside and outside the charity cemetery.

The strange rain that fell on Qingyi Town has long since disappeared with the passage of time.

But during these seven days, the entire Qingyi Town became increasingly quiet.

According to the people from Yizhuang who went down the mountain to explore the way back, it seemed that all the people in Qingyi Town were dead, and there was no one on the streets.

The sun shone through thousands of doors and windows in the town, and the brightly illuminated streets and alleys seemed as if thick fog was rising.

The fog cannot obscure people's eyes, but it can confuse people's minds.

Now, the hall inside and outside the charity cemetery, illuminated by firelight, was filled with people.

Several corpse drivers shuttled through the crowd, holding a tray piled with colorful paints. In their other hand, they held a brush. Every time they had not taken a few steps, they were grabbed by the people around them, and they would stop and paint facial masks for the people who blocked their way.

The 'Lion Club' is about to start, and most of the people present are 'lion boys' who lead the Taishi.

The facial makeup that the corpse driver drew for everyone was to match the clown facial makeup of the lion boy.

Those who had their faces painted gathered in the corner, talking in low voices.

Although the clown masks on their faces were funny, the deep worry revealed in their eyes diluted the funnyness of the masks and made the atmosphere somewhat solemn.

People frequently looked towards the central hall, where an important ceremony was taking place.

In the nave.

Between the two coffins, one made of copper and one of wood, there was another black lacquered wooden coffin.

There was a stove in the corner of the room, and someone was standing by the stove, boiling the pot, putting in handfuls of glutinous rice, and cooking it until it became thick. Then, all kinds of pungent medicinal herbs and powders were added into the thick glutinous rice juice.

In the middle, the lid of the bronze coffin was slowly lifted open.

A foul stench gushed out from the opened bronze coffin, causing everyone present to cover their noses.

Zhou Chang looked into the bronze coffin at this time, and saw that inside the coffin, there was a thick layer of dirt and ash of many colors mixed together. Some of the five-colored corpse hairs, as hard as steel needles, penetrated the layer of dirt and ash and were exposed to the air.

There was a terrible stench inside the coffin, and it was also chillingly cold.

In just the short time that the coffin lid was opened, a layer of fine water droplets had already formed on the inner wall of the coffin.

Those are water droplets condensed when cold air meets heat.

Yang Xifeng reached out and picked up a drop of water, then put it to his nose and sniffed it.

His frown relaxed: "Not bad, not bad! The corpse evil has been released - there is not a trace of corpse odor in the water droplets!"

"Bring the scissors!"

Yang Xifeng was in charge at the moment, and as soon as he gave the order, someone came over with a tray. On the tray were a pair of copper scissors and a bowl of steaming chicken blood.

Yang Xifeng dipped the copper scissors in the chicken blood so that the blades were stained with blood plasma. Then he grabbed the scissors tied with red silk cloth and jumped onto the edge of the coffin.

He waved his empty hand, and immediately someone handed him an open bag.

The pocket was not made of cloth, but more like leather, with some colorful patterns of unknown meaning painted on it.

Yang Xifeng held a pair of scissors in one hand and a bag in the other. Just as he was about to cut, he suddenly seemed to remember something and looked at Zhou Chang in the crowd.

A smile also appeared on the short man's serious face: "Do you want to stand by and watch?"

This was a special invitation to Zhou Chang to watch his skill of "cutting corpse hair".

Zhou Chang readily agreed and followed his advice.

He walked through the crowd and came to the bronze coffin.

Yang Xifeng then began to use the scissors in his hand to slowly cut open the layer of nearly frozen colorful soil in the copper coffin. He said at the same time: "The corpse evil is very hot. Living people will feel hot and uncomfortable when they get close to it.

During these seven days, negative objects will be thrown onto the corpse at the extremely negative hour of midnight every day. The things thrown during the seven nights are a gradual process.

The eggs thrown on the first night are not, logically speaking, feminine objects.

But every egg has the potential to grow into a chick, so they are destroyed and their life path is cut off, and naturally the balance of yin and yang is unbalanced, turning them into negative things.

The cow's blood on the second night was because cows have lived for a long time and are naturally spiritual. After they were killed, their blood naturally contained a dark nature...

In seven days, with the coordination of various thrown objects and mutual assistance, the evil spirit of the corpse can be driven out completely.

The water droplets on the coffin wall do not contain any corpse odor; they are just the first sign that the evil spirit of the zombie in the coffin has been driven out.

The second sign is that various thrown objects have frozen into shells on the surface of the corpse, and the third is that the corpse hair is as hard as steel needles..."

Yang Xifeng told Zhou Chang about the various experiences he had gained over the years. Zhou Chang listened with great interest and asked a question from time to time. His questions were always key and touched Yang Xifeng's heart, causing him to talk more unconsciously.

After he cut open the shell formed by the dark substance on the surface of the corpse, he asked Zhou Chang to help move the shell out of the coffin.

"Take this layer of mud shell to the stove and ask Mao Qi to add it to the glutinous rice juice." After Yang Xifeng gave instructions to a corpse driver, he still kept Zhou Chang by his side. He used scissors to cut off the hair on the surface of the corpse and told Zhou Chang the order in which to cut the hair in different areas of the corpse.

Clumps of corpse hair fell into the leather bag, colliding with each other and making crisp tinkling sounds.

All the hair on the corpse was scattered off, and its current appearance gradually became clear.

Compared to seven days ago, the corpse looked thinner.

The layer of skin as black as iron and carbon was tightly attached to its skeleton, and it had completely become a black skeleton covered with skin.

One by one, coffin nails covered with green rust pierced through its body and into the wooden boards beneath it.

Yang Xifeng called two corpse drivers to try to move the corpse out of the bronze coffin together with the wooden coffin board underneath. This way, they would not have to pull out the bronze coffin nails around its body, which would save a lot of trouble.

However, after several attempts, they found that the coffin nails were nailed too deep and had been wedged into the bottom copper coffin board.

In this way, Yang Xifeng had no choice but to remove the coffin nails one by one in order.

The corpse, with all the coffin nails removed, was still lying obediently in the coffin without any movement, which made everyone breathe a sigh of relief. They quickly moved it into the wooden coffin next to it, wrapped it with a layer of red rope dipped in cinnabar ink, and nailed it inside the coffin again with copper coffin nails.

Everyone worked together to seal the coffin lid, sealed the gaps on the coffin with glutinous rice juice that was mixed with many unknown things, and used cinnabar ink to fill the gaps, and then covered it with a layer of copper coin net...

After a busy period, the night got darker.

Two identical coffins were placed in the central hall.

In the coffin to Zhou Chang's left was the "uncorrupted corpse" that had never appeared, and in the coffin to his right was the newly moved corpse.

Zhou Chang Shixiang observed the two coffins. The aroma of the corpses in the coffins was tightly sealed inside the coffins by the corpse drivers using various means. Not a single bit of it leaked out. If one only looked at the appearance of the coffins, one would not be able to tell which coffin contained a corpse and which contained an incorruptible corpse.

At this time, leaders such as Yang Xifeng, Wang Tiexiong, and Shanzhi walked out of the central hall and stood on the steps.

The "lion children" gathered in the yard with clown masks on their faces, saw the few people walk out of the main hall, and all cast their eyes on them.

The various discussions that had been lingering in the yard suddenly fell silent.

In the dark night, the dancing firelight from the brazier shone on everyone's face, varying degrees of brightness.

Heavy pressure came as everyone's gazes gathered, and suddenly fell on Yang Xifeng, Wang Tiexiong and others.

Wang Tiexiong raised his head and grinned: "Everyone!
Whether we can get out of this hellhole Qingyi Town this time depends entirely on whether you guys work hard or not and whether you guys will be lazy or not!

——People will definitely die, even among so many of us present here, perhaps more than half will die!

If you don't want to die, then work your ass off and act with all your might - in front of those monks in the secret area and in front of those evil people, you will only have a chance to escape if you act well and don't reveal your true colors!
If you are unwilling to work hard, and just want to hide here and there, follow others, and take advantage of every opportunity -

Hehe, then you can’t blame others even if you die!
As a real man, die peacefully when you die, and don't go to Wang's bedside crying in the future!

Do you understand? Everyone! "

In the yard, only a few caravan brothers howled a few times: "Understood."

Not many others responded.

Wang Tiexiong didn't care and looked at Yang Xifeng and Shanzhi.

Zhou Chang, Shanzhi and Wang Tiexiong also had painted faces. In the lion show that was about to begin, the Taishi manipulated by the corpse drivers was the protagonist, and the others were all "lion boys" who led the lions and served as foils.

Yang Xifeng and Shanzhi both shook their heads, indicating that they had nothing to say.

Wang Tiexiong waved his hand upon seeing this.

Some brothers from the caravan immediately ran into the side rooms and moved all the coffins parked in the side rooms and placed them behind the carts and mule and horse carts.

Some of those coffins were exactly the same as the one in the central hall, while others were completely different.

There are so many coffins parked in one place that it is easy to get confused.

——This time, the lion meeting will be held with fourteen lions, each leading a team of lion boys and escorting a coffin. On the outskirts of Qingyi Town, they will stage a great show of a fight between lions!

"Let's get started!"

Yang Xifeng glanced at the many coffins in the yard and nodded.

As soon as he finished speaking, the guards on both sides of the main gate of the charity cemetery, which was facing the central hall, pulled out the bolts and pushed the door open!
"call--"

A gust of cold wind rushed into the charity cemetery from the dark outside, causing goose bumps to appear on everyone's necks!
"Boom boom boom!"

Drums sound.

People in the yard stuffed cotton into their ears and covered their ears with a layer of porcelain and pottery bowls.

——Zhou Chang also told everyone the pattern of Wen Yongsheng's distribution of death omens.

As long as those who are not officials do not hear Wen Yongsheng's questions, most likely nothing will happen.

“Boom boom boom!”

Amid the loud sound of gongs, a lion rushed out from the corner, shaking its head, baring its teeth and claws, stepping over the coffins one by one, running through the hall and the house, and finally rushing out of the main gate of the charity cemetery!
Immediately, a lion boy held up a torch and rushed towards the snow-white lion.
Several lion boys worked together to push the cart and followed the lion boy holding the torch.

Afterwards, a lion boy rang the gong to clean the streets.

Not long after, the second lion was driven out of the charity cemetery by the corpse drivers...

(End of this chapter)