Although these three copper coins looked very ordinary, not much different from those in the costume dramas on TV, but in this environment, the three dirty copper coins looked particularly strange. I was watching from a distance and felt that the copper coins were full of evil spirits, and I couldn't help but take a few steps back.
But Dong Ge and his friends were very excited. They immediately picked up the copper coin and examined it carefully. He wiped the dust off the surface of the copper coin with his clothes like an antique identification expert, and then said excitedly: "We really found a treasure! This thing should be able to sell for a lot of money!"
Although the captain and Xiaopang were very scared before, they became excited when they saw the three copper coins. Dong Ge looked at me and Monkey sarcastically and said, "See, I asked you to come over to dig together but you are cowards. Now that we have dug out something, how come you don't see any ghosts? There are exactly three copper coins. We three can each get one, but you two will have no share."
The monkey was a little envious and wanted to have a share of the pie, but was decisively rejected by Dong Ge and his two companions. After that, Dong Ge and his companions dug for another half a day but did not see anything. The treasure hunt lasted for nearly an hour before some people returned home happy and some worried.
Although I didn't get anything, I still remember the experience vividly. That's why I was so scared when Zhang Qishan and I went to dig the grave of Zhang Peng's mother under the jujube tree. That kind of unknown fear, the feeling of never knowing what we would dig out, still makes me shudder when I think about it now. I don't know what they did with the copper coins afterwards. In short, I have never seen those three copper coins again.
I saw the copper coin on the table again. Although copper coins look almost the same and it is difficult to tell the difference, I confirmed at a glance that this was the copper coin we dug up at that time. So I immediately asked the captain: "Why did you keep it? I thought you sold it a long time ago. But what does this have to do with the curse? It's been so many years since the incident."
The captain seemed to be very afraid of the copper coin in front of him. He took the pillowcase from the bed and covered the copper coin. Then he sighed and said, "This is what I find strange. If the person who digs up the copper coin will be cursed, why did it take so many years for it to come true?"
From the captain's tone, it seemed that the curse had already happened quietly. I immediately asked what was going on. He then told me what had happened during this period while drinking.
In fact, the three people who got the copper coins, the captain, Xiaopang and Dong Ge, did not sell them because they were not very old at the time and didn't know who to sell them to. Until they grew up, they no longer wanted to sell them, so they kept them with them as a souvenir.
It happened about ten days ago. Dong Ge came back first to prepare for the New Year, and the captain went out with Dong Ge for a good drink. But the next day, the captain heard that Dong Ge had been admitted to the hospital. The captain found it strange. He was fine yesterday, so how could he be admitted to the hospital overnight
So the captain took the things to the hospital to see Dong Ge, and found that Dong Ge had a lot of gauze wrapped around his head, and even traces of blood could be seen through the gauze. Fortunately, Dong Ge was not seriously injured and was still conscious. The captain immediately asked Dong Ge what happened.
After drinking with the captain that night, Dong Ge was walking on the way home. He didn't know whether he was drunk or it was too dark and he couldn't see clearly, but he seemed to see someone waving at him. Before he could see who was waving, he missed a step and fell into a drainage well whose cover had been stolen. His head hit the edge of the drainage well and he was bleeding profusely on the spot. If Dong Ge hadn't forced himself to climb out of the well and seek help in time, he would have been frozen to death in the well in such a cold weather.
After Dong Ge finished his story, the captain knew that Dong Ge was definitely not joking with him. He was horrified when he heard it and immediately asked Dong Ge who was waving at him. However, Dong Ge kept shaking his head and said that he didn't see clearly. When he climbed out of the well, the man had disappeared. However, he vaguely remembered that the man seemed to be wearing strange clothes, similar to those worn by landlords in the 1930s and 1940s, and looked a bit like a shroud.
Dong Ge himself did not believe this nonsense, and finally he simply said that he might have drunk too much and was hallucinating. Fortunately, Dong Ge only hit his head and needed to rest for a few days, so the captain and Dong Ge did not attribute the incident to the three copper coins.
About three or four days later, after Dong Ge was discharged from the hospital, the captain planned to call Xiaopang, who he hadn't contacted for a long time, to get together. When Xiaopang heard that Dong Ge was back, he naturally agreed. Coincidentally, Monkey also came back that day, so the four of them had another good drink at Dong Ge's house.
While drinking, Xiaopang was always unhappy, as if something was on his mind. The captain asked Xiaopang what happened, but he heard something even more bizarre.
Xiaopang's family was originally the richest among us, so he ate the most. His father opened a Jiangbei leather factory. Business had always been good and they lived a rich life. But I don't know what happened in the past few years, everything in business was not going well, and eventually Xiaopang's father's leather factory went bankrupt, and Xiaopang's father was heavily in debt, becoming penniless overnight.
Maybe because of his family's change of circumstances, Xiaopang seldom hangs out with us friends since then, so we know very little about his affairs. Xiaopang drank some wine and then told us what had happened to him in the past few days.
The family was very poor. When Xiaopang was tidying up the bookcase, he found the copper coin. He thought it should be worth some money, so he planned to sell it. It would be a good thing for him if he could get a hundred dollars.
The next day, Xiaopang took the copper coins to a second-hand shop in Chongzhou City to sell them. As expected, they were good things and he sold them for two hundred yuan. Xiaopang was very happy with the money. Although two hundred yuan was almost the same as two yuan to him back then, it could make him excited for a long time now.
After giving the money from the sale to his parents, Xiaopang no longer cared about the matter. But something strange happened soon after. The next morning, when Xiaopang woke up, he was horrified to find that the copper coin he had sold yesterday had appeared next to his pillow again!
At first, Xiaopang didn’t believe what he saw. He picked up the copper coin and looked at it carefully for a long time before he was sure that this was the copper coin he sold. At the same time, he began to wonder: could it be that when he went to the thrift store yesterday, he didn’t give the copper coin to the boss
Xiaopang was also educated, so he would not easily attribute such things to supernatural events. He could only explain that he did not give the copper coins to the boss at all. However, he was also very happy that this happened, because in this way, he could sell it again, but this time he had to change a store to sell it.
He sold the copper coin again and got two hundred yuan, but Xiaopang was not so happy. After all, he still felt that there was something wrong with the copper coin appearing again, but he just didn't want to think about it that way.
Another day passed like this. When Xiaopang woke up in the morning, he immediately looked next to his pillow. However, what horrified him was that the copper coin appeared next to his pillow again!
The day before, when Xiaopang was handing the copper coins to the thrift store owner, he made sure that the owner put the coins away before he left. But this thing appeared next to Xiaopang's pillow again. How can this be explained
This kind of thing happened twice in a row. No matter how much Xiaopang didn't believe in superstition, he had to consider whether there was something strange about this matter. Moreover, he also knew the origin of the copper coin, so he no longer dared to take it out to sell it easily. Instead, he found a secluded place and buried the copper coin. Although he could get another 200 yuan if he sold it again, if he sold such a weird thing again, who knew if something even more outrageous would happen
On the night when he buried the copper coin, Xiaopang had a strange dream. He dreamed that a skinny man was lying next to him, holding the copper coin in his mouth and seemed to be saying something to him, but Xiaopang could not hear what the man said. When he woke up from the dream in a sweat, he saw the copper coin appear next to his pillow again, where the strange man in the dream was lying. Xiaopang was so scared that he rolled off the bed, fled from the bedroom for his life, and never dared to go in again.
After Xiaopang told his experience, the captain and Monkey thought it was simply a fairy tale, but Brother Dong asked Xiaopang seriously what the person he saw in his dream was wearing.
Xiao Pang thought about it carefully and said, "It seems that he is wearing clothes from the 1930s and 1940s. It looks like a shroud."
After hearing what Xiaopang said, not only Brother Dong, but even the captain immediately stopped laughing, because the person Xiaopang dreamed of was dressed exactly like the person Brother Dong met at midnight! And they also had one thing in common, that is, they both got one of the three copper coins that year!
The captain was very worried and anxious because the third coin was in his hand. If the first two people who got the coins had encountered strange things, would he have the same experience
Dong Ge drank the wine in the cup in front of him with a sad face, and then said to everyone quietly: "In fact, I have studied this aspect over the years. In fact, there is a story behind the three copper coins we got back then. It is said that the copper coins are called "mouth-pressing money". They are placed in the mouths of the deceased by their relatives so that the deceased can have money to spend in the underworld. Think about it, after those people die, the only money they can spend is the copper coins in their mouths. Now that these copper coins have been taken away by us, can the souls of the deceased forgive us?"