I hesitated when I returned. Of course, I would not tell Mao Xiaoli, because she was afraid that I would be in danger. For her face painting, only the skin cut off by me, a very yin person, could be used. She had been taking care of me like this, or agreeing to some weird conditions for me. That was what she meant. She was still short of two face paintings. What would happen if there were thirteen? She was trying hard, as if for something. There were too many legends about Mao Xiaoli, all kinds of them, and it was hard to tell the truth from the false. When I asked her, she just smiled and never told me which one was true and which one was false. But she once said that there was nothing true in the world.
Mao Xiaoli can actually paint pictures from her heart. Look at the painting, it is born from your heart. Whatever your heart is, the painting is what it is. It is extremely weird, a bit like an abstract painting, but it is completely different. It is definitely a very weird painting.
It is not so easy to take down the ancient coffin, not to mention the huge stone across the mountain gate weighs at least a thousand pounds.
I asked Mao Xiaoli, and she just told me to tie a thick red rope in the middle of the stone.
On that day, the villagers of Mopan Village all stood at a distance and watched. They invited someone to use a crane to lower the stone. But when they looked closely, it didn't look like a coffin. This was a mystery. I don't know why this happened.
I really have no idea how many weird things there are in Mopan Village, but strange things always happen here.
So, it’s hard to say whether there will be any problems if I move this thing.
Regarding Zhang Xiaoxue, I always thought that she was hidden by someone, or it was Zheng Jun.
This Zheng Jun, who has changed his appearance, is still called Zheng Jun. Except for his appearance, nothing else seems to have changed. Everything is still the original Zheng Jun. This makes me feel out of place. Things like this always happen, and the person must be wrong.
After the ancient coffin was taken down from the shelf, I covered it with the shroud that I took out from the dressing room and pieced together. This is what Mao Xiaoli told me.
After the ancient coffin was taken down from the shelf, it was covered with a shroud and left there. I left Mopan Village and went home.
Yun Bai actually came to see me. I was very surprised. Yun Bai came to see me. She was the person who least wanted to see me. So, her sudden coming was something I looked forward to before. I was looking forward to her coming home one day. But now, she is the person I least want to see. Her behavior made me feel so shameless.
Yun Bai sat on the sofa and took out paper to spread it, which made me angry. However, I didn't say anything. She actually mentioned my father Ke Zuo.
As for the matter of Ke Zuo's sarcophagus, I will never tell her that the sarcophagus is in the puddle of red stone.
I don't want to mention that man. She asked me where the sarcophagus was. In fact, she had known about it for a long time, or she had been looking for it, but couldn't find it. She had been looking for it for decades, but she was still like this. She never said anything to my father, no apology. She thought it was her right.
I shook my head.
"In fact, you are wrong. You were wrong at the beginning and you are wrong now. You should go to my father's grave and apologize."
"No way, I hate him."
Yun Bai stood up and left. She walked out the door, and when I was about to close it, she suddenly turned back and said.
"Including you."
I was stunned for a moment. Sure enough, she hated me too. This didn't make sense. Was that man so important? What kind of man was he
I have never heard my father mention this, and neither has anyone else. It seems like it's not something that needs to be brought up.
The white cloth was on the sofa. I picked it up and lit it. She didn't have much stuff, and there wasn't much left.
That day, after I finished drinking the wine my father left behind, I entered my mother's bedroom. This was a place I was familiar with. I slept in her room before I was seven years old. After I was seven, I had my own room.
This room is warm to me, but now it seems that there is so much bitterness and so many tears.
At that time, my mother was always crying here. When I was six years old, I hated my father for a period of time and thought that he bullied my mother. In fact, it was not the case at all.
Mother Yun Bai is strong, a kind of silent strength, which is the most terrifying. It is a kind of strength that absolutely drives people crazy. But my father actually endured it. I don’t know why. Until my father died, Yun Bai never let go and never divorced him. This is really something that cannot be understood.
The next day at work, Zheng Jun was already in the dressing room. Looking at this misplaced cycle, I found it a little hard to accept.
"You'll get used to it slowly."
Yes, everything is a habit, getting used to death, getting used to loneliness, getting used to everything. Anyway, there is nothing that cannot be used to.
While working, I found that Zheng Jun's technique was strange, completely different from Master Zhao Juan's technique. I was stunned.
"There's nothing strange about this. There are many kinds of makeup. In fact, I know many, but I've never used them. This is live makeup. Master Zhao Juan didn't say it explicitly, but sometimes Master Zhao Juan would use a pen to point it out and apply a strange makeup method."
I didn't notice these, perhaps because I was too careless, but when I thought about how Master Zhao Juan would sometimes make empty strokes on the dead person's face when she was doing makeup, I thought it was just a habit, but in fact, it was not. Zheng Jun said this at this moment, and I don't think that is the case.
Yun Bai came to me and asked me where the sarcophagus was, but I didn't tell her. In fact, even if I told her, she wouldn't be able to take the man's bones out. I put them there remotely. If you break the coffin and smash the bones, then this man will never have a chance to reincarnate.
Yun Bai made me hate him so much that my teeth were about to break, but I appeared calm on the surface.
Yun Bai should hate me like this too, right
After she left, Zheng Jun asked me to go back to the office and she did the last makeup.
I was thinking about all kinds of messy things. It seemed that I had never been able to calm down since I came to the crematorium. It seemed quiet here, because all the people lying there were dead. But it was not quiet. The dead were even more noisy.
After get off work, I went to Mao Xiaoli's place, and Zheng Jun followed me. She was very angry and seemed to be about to lose her temper. I took Zheng Jun away. Mao Xiaoli told me not to bring people here, especially women. Why? I don't know, and I didn't ask.
In the evening, Mao Xiaoli actually called me and asked me to come over.
I went over and it seemed like I just listened to her, which I couldn't understand. It was like some trick. But it wasn't like that. I was just too curious.
Mao Xiaoli did not mention that I brought Zheng Jun here, but mentioned the ancient coffin.
"Tomorrow is the day to open the coffin. Remember, it looks like a big stone, but there is a hole on one side. Put your hand in there, and maybe your hand will break off inside, or maybe the coffin will open. Of course, don't be surprised by what's in there."
I was confused, and was thinking about how to open the coffin. Smashing it open? That would be absolutely unlucky. Now Mao Xiaoli enlightened me.
"Sister Mao, your temper seems to be..."
"It's okay. Is it because of my age?"
Actually, I was thinking that it was probably about the face painting. She was two short, but there had never been such an opportunity. Such opportunities are hard to come by. I don’t know when she started doing face painting, and there are only eleven so far.
The next day, when we went to open the coffin, all the villagers from Mopan Village came to watch the fun. The village chief whispered to me.
"Mopan Village has always been very strange, so you have to be careful, or you might get into trouble. Of course, I also hope that once this coffin is opened, all the strangeness will be gone."
The village chief focused his attention here, so if it was really because of the sarcophagus, then he did a good thing. Maybe it was really because the feng shui was bad, or there was something wrong, and the whole thing would change.
When the shroud was lifted, I was shocked and everyone was shocked. We exclaimed that the stone had turned green, the same color as grass. I didn't expect this.
I calmed down and saw the hole. It was only as big as my hand. I could reach in without any problem, but it was scary. I looked inside and couldn't see anything. It was pitch black. I took out my lighter, opened it and looked inside, but I still couldn't see the innermost part.
The village chief whispered.
"Brother, just play by yourself first."
I looked up and saw that this guy had already run more than 20 meters away. When the village chief ran, the other villagers ran even further away. I was the only one left. These bastards.
A man was walking towards this side from the path, and I could see from a distance that it was Zheng Jun.
She walked over here, smiled at me and said.
"I came to accompany you. I overslept this morning. I know you are going to open the coffin today."
"No, it's very dangerous."
"If it wasn't dangerous I wouldn't have come."
I took a look at the hole.
"Let me do it!"
"No, it's really strange that the coffin can only be opened if a man's hand is inserted into it."
"Yes, this kind of coffin must be at least tens of thousands of years old. It was originally made of two pieces of stone put together. After tens of thousands of years of growth, the stones have closed up."
"How do you know that?"
"Something strange happened in Mopan Village that year. Master Zhao Juan mentioned it."
Maybe that's really the case. No matter what, I have done it today. It is absolutely impossible to send the coffin back.
"Is it worth it for you to do this for Zhang Xiaoxue?"
"I love you. Of course, Zhang Xiaoxue has given a lot to me, and this is what I give back to her." I
I know that Zhang Xiaoxue and I are still destined to be together, but that is definitely not a good outcome, so I decided that even if Zhang Xiaoxue came back, we could not be together, no matter how much she loved me.
Zheng Jun smiled at me, and that smile was always so gentle, just like Yun Bai’s smile when I was four years old.
It's always at this time that I think of things I shouldn't think of.
I put my hand into the hole, and I started sweating and my legs were shaking. I pushed my hand in little by little, until my whole arm was in, but I still didn't feel the bottom, or anything.
"I couldn't feel the bottom, and I didn't touch anything."
"Just stay like this, don't move, or just can't touch the bottom."
When I felt the cold, my heart was startled. I felt something, and suddenly I heard the sound of rocks cracking, little by little, and it seemed to be slowly getting bigger.
"You get out of here."
I said to Zheng Jun.
"It's okay, I'm safe here."
There are cracks in the sarcophagus. As expected, this method of opening the coffin is really unique.
There are many strange coffins in China. In Chi County, there is a coffin that cannot be opened no matter what method is used. It is really strange. Later, someone said that it should be a dead coffin. It is a coffin, but it is a dead coffin. There is no hollow coffin at all. The whole coffin is solid. Maybe this is an explanation, but I have never thought so. I don’t think it is a dead coffin.
Suddenly, I felt my hand being grabbed, and I was stunned. (To be continued)