Folk Stories About Corpse Burning

Chapter 64: Coffin Road

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After the old man Du Ran came out of the old morgue, he walked out. Here, I saw Liu Xiaojing standing at the corner of the building, looking over here. When I looked over, she disappeared in a flash. I ran after her, but I couldn't find her. Was my eyes blurry? I don't know.

I'm back, old man Du Ran looked at me and said.

"Young man, seeing is the same as not seeing. If you don't see, you see it in your heart."

It sounds profound. I don’t understand what it means.

"Do you want to come back with me? Have a drink. It's been a long time since I drank with an old man like me."

I think I have to go! Otherwise, I won’t know how to save the master.

I followed the old man Du Ran back to his home. The big courtyard was really nice. It must be an old house that is more than a hundred years old. The old man prepared some dishes and brought some wine. I poured it for him and he raised his glass and said.

"Do one."

The old man drank it all in one gulp, making a "straight" sound, which made me a little stunned.

I didn't do it. I had to be very careful to drink the wine at that time.

"My master..."

"Don't worry, Master. I will find my own way."

It seems that the old man is relying on my patience. I can only wait. I can't take action, and action may not work.

"I burned dead bodies at RIBEN and learned a lot. When cremation was first introduced in our country, we had no experience, so I returned to my country. Falling leaves always return to their roots. I had wanted to come back a long time ago, but the person I loved was there. I didn't come back until she died and I burned her."

“Is she Chinese?”

"No, if it was Chinese, we would have returned together."

I don't want to ask any more questions. RIBEN's cremation system was earlier than ours, and by 1945, it had achieved 100% cremation.

Du Ran has been cremating the dead for decades, so he naturally has a lot of experience. I never thought that he would be my master's master.

Du Ran drank a little too much, but I could see that he was sad, so I didn’t want to ask too many questions.

"My apprentice, your master is an upright man, a good man, but he is too upright. He walked the coffin path this time because something happened. There is nothing I can do. I taught him to walk the coffin path, and I walked it once, but I almost died. After all, it is a different path. If you have never walked it before, you will go the wrong way at any time, just like when we walk into a strange place, we don't know when we will go the wrong way."

"Where is the coffin path?"

"That is another world. There are many worlds outside our world. Just like when a person dies, there is a world of souls. Souls are divided into several types, blue, gray, and black. They will go to different worlds and reincarnate endlessly. However, when you reincarnate into another world in each world, you will forget your previous life, unless you use a certain method..."

What Du Ran said made me feel scared.

"Where did my master go?"

"I don't know what he is going to do, so I don't know what he encountered. When Wuchang appears, he will take away a person. This person is not an ordinary person. It will take some effort for Wuchang to catch him. He can avoid Wuchang, but in the end there is no way. After seven days, if he is caught, he will die. If he is not caught, he can live for one or two years."

"Then how do I find my master?"

"Go into the coffin path, but I don't agree. The coffin path is not easy to walk on."

"But I have to save my master."

"You're almost dead, aren't you afraid?"

"No."

"Yun Zheng is content to have such a good disciple. We'll talk about this tomorrow. Go home after drinking and don't wander around. Tomorrow night after dark, wait for me at the crematorium."

That day I went home and returned to my room, but I couldn't sleep. I was worried that something might have happened to my master, so I didn't tell Yunbai.

The next day, I went to work and found nothing unusual. The ghost screams were still there. No one mentioned this matter. I noticed that the lock of the old morgue was locked. It seemed that something was wrong. Who locked it? I don't know. When I saw Liu Xiaojing, it was when I was about to get off work. She was in the old morgue. She flashed and I chased her. Liu Xiaojing hid behind the room and scared me.

"Liu Xiaojing."

"Yes, I am right."

"What's wrong with you?"

"Have you ever cared about me? Have you ever looked for me? I'm missing, and you're happy, right?"

Liu Xiaojing cried.

"I don't know what happened."

"It's all because of your master. If it weren't for him, nothing would have happened. Now that you're married, everything is over, but your master still won't let me go."

"What did my master do?"

"This has nothing to do with you anymore."

"Did you do what my master did?"

"This has nothing to do with you. I still have three months left. I didn't expect that this life would pass by like this. Ke Zuo, have you ever loved me?"

I looked at Liu Xiaojing blankly and didn't answer the question.

"Zheng Qing loves me, he would die for me, he would do everything for me, but you..."

"Because I don't love you."

Liu Xiaojing turned her head away, and I turned and left. All of this about my master must be related to Liu Xiaojing and Zheng Qing. This made me hate Liu Xiaojing. Am I going to kill Liu Xiaojing in this life? People say that when you reincarnate, you go back to your previous life and be with the person you loved in your previous life. Everything in your previous life will often repeat. This is what a person at the crematorium said. I don't know whether I should believe it or not. If Liu Xiaojing continues to do this, maybe I will really kill someone.

I went home and Yun Bai went to sleep after dinner. She is very happy now and I don't want anyone to hurt her. What I am most worried about is that Liu Xiaojing and Zheng Qing will hurt her.

After dark, I went to the crematorium and Du Ran arrived five minutes after me.

We entered the crematorium and saw the nanmu coffin again. We opened the lid and Du Ran jumped in.

"You can follow me if you like, of course, I will lead you on a safe path."

I jumped in without hesitation. What I saw was not another world, but a yellow world. Everything was yellow. There was a road, which was bending, and Du Ran was walking in front.

"This is another world. Not everyone can come here. Of course, there are various entrances to this world. Some people may take the wrong path and walk in. It's like a dream. Some people die because they actually walk into another world and can't get out. So don't be sad. He just went to another world and will only be missed by people in this world."

Du Ran walked slowly. The world here seemed no different from our world except for the special yellow color.

When we arrived at a river, Du Ran said.

"We can't cross the river. This is the boundary between two worlds. If we cross it, we will be in trouble. It is very likely that we will not be able to come back. Yun Zheng crossed it from here."

I saw a pair of shoes by the river. They were the master's shoes. He was not wearing any clothes, just shoes.

"what to do?"

"We came here today to pick up our shoes. It went smoothly. I thought we wouldn't be able to find them. Unexpectedly, I know my apprenticeship well."

I took the shoes and Du Ran took me back. When we came out of the old morgue, the ghost screams were much fainter.

"This is because the little ghost saw Wuchang, and Wuchang will also catch the little ghost."

I didn't know this and didn't expect it to be like this.

I took my shoes and followed Du Ran to his house. He took me into the backyard where there were several houses. When I opened the door, it was obvious that no one had been in for a long time. A smell of dust hit my nose.

When I turned on the light, I screamed in fright. Right in front of me, there was a bust. It looked like a ghost, just like a real person.

"Don't scream, it's okay, this is a ghost-human double."

"What's it for?"

"It is both a human and a ghost. It listens to human affairs, conveys ghost feelings, and puts shoes on."

I walked over there carefully, put it on, and took a few steps back.

"Just watch me and you may need it in the future. No one else knows how to do these things except your master."

Du Ran knelt down and kowtowed three times, making a loud "bang bang bang" sound that scared me. Then he pulled out a knife and stabbed my arm three times. Blood dripped into a black copper vessel the size of a bowl. The copper vessel actually became bright and there was a copper sound that was almost imperceptible.

Du Ran was listening with his eyes closed, and his ears were actually moving. I was sweating. This was a bit too much fun. Don't get too excited.

After more than ten minutes, Du Ran stood up, came out, closed the door, went into the front room, made some tea and started drinking it.

"Yun Zheng is fine, he's on his way. I'll keep you updated on the situation and help him if anything happens."

The bronze sound still exists.

"This is the sound of copper. It's the voice of ghosts. I can understand it. I will teach you slowly in the future. Of course, once you learn this, you will know what ghosts are saying and you can hear the voices of ghosts at any time. In our world, there are many ghosts. There are ghosts in every room and every home. They are just divided into evil ghosts, good ghosts, little ghosts, big ghosts, and old ghosts."

When I heard that, I thought, well, I won't learn it either. Seeing ghosts and listening to them talking every day, do you feel scared? Are you afraid? I don't dare.

Du Ran asked me to go back and would call me if there was anything.

When I got home, Yunbai was already asleep.

When I woke up in the morning, I wanted to go to Du Ran's place, but when I left yesterday, he told me that if he didn't call me, I shouldn't go. Today I was taking a rest, but Yun Bai pestered me to go to the movies.

The cinema was still in a mess. After watching for a while, Yun Bai got bored and went out to eat at the state-owned restaurant. Yun Bai's happy look made me feel that everything would turn out well. I hope the master is okay.

Yunbai went home to see her mother and said she wanted to stay overnight because she missed her mother. She asked the master, and I said I had gone out to purchase some supplies for the site and would be back in a few days.

I went home by myself and sat on the sofa thinking about all sorts of things. Someone knocked on the door. I opened it and it was Liu Xiaojing. I was a little angry, but I held it back. Maybe I could know something about the master.

Liu Xiaojing came in, looked around the house, and saw that their faces were gloomy. She sat down and said.

“Very happy.”

"Are you okay?"

"It's okay. I saw you came back by yourself. Actually, I just wanted to take a look. This was supposed to be where I lived."

"Liu Xiaojing, now that things have come to this, there is no point in saying anything else, so don't say any more."

"You want to know about your master's affairs. Your master's affairs were not done by me, nor by Zheng Qing. Zheng Qing is already dead. His body has been found and will be cremated tomorrow. It should be your shift tomorrow. You should be the one to do the cremation."

I was shocked. Zheng Qing was dead

"How did he die?"

"He fell into the river and drowned."

Liu Xiaojing said it so easily, I couldn't believe it, Zheng Qing was actually dead.

"I've always wanted to know, you want the bone ball to round out your body and get closer to humans, but what does Zheng Qing want the thousand-year-old finger bone for?"

Liu Xiaojing stood up, lit a cigarette, walked to the window, and remained silent for a long time. (To be continued)