I am used to flying now. I didn’t fly before because I was afraid of something going wrong, like a broken part. But now I don’t think so. In fact, airplanes are quite safe. I was afraid of flying before, but after I tried it, I fell in love with its convenience and speed. [,ka~ Text first release/Text first release//
Gong County, Sichuan is actually quite famous because the legendary human hanging coffins are in Gong County, Sichuan. Speaking of human hanging coffins, I guess everyone knows it, but now let's give a simple explanation. The human race is an ancient ethnic group living in southwest China since the pre-Qin period, and the hanging coffin is one of the burial styles of ancient ethnic minorities in southern China, which is a type of cliff burial. Several holes are drilled on the cliff and wooden stakes are nailed in, and the coffin is placed on it.
To put it simply, when a person dies, instead of burying him directly, a hole is dug on the cliff and the body is thrown in. This is actually a hanging coffin.
I arrived in Gong County at noon the next day. Mainly due to the transfers along the way, I will not go into details. Gong County is already a mountainous area, with an altitude of between 600 and 1,000 meters. It covers an area of 1,150 square kilometers and has a total population of 410,000. It is not small, but it is divided into many towns and villages.
The county town looks just like a second or third tier city, but when I walked out of the station, a breath of fresh air hit me. To be honest, the air here is really incomparable to those in big cities. I feel relaxed all over with every breath I take. I am not exaggerating. If you have friends who have lived in cities since childhood and don’t believe it, you can go to remote rural areas to play. It’s really nice. No wonder the heroes in ancient times liked to find a paradise to live in seclusion.
As soon as I got out of the station, I took out my phone and called Li Mingyao. When Li Mingyao answered the phone, I said, "Lao Li, I'm in Gong County now. I'm at the station. Please come and pick me up as soon as possible."
"Well, okay, there is a hotel next to the station. You go and rest for a while. I will be there in three hours." Li Mingyao hung up the phone. I looked around and sure enough, there was a Gong County Hotel nearby. I walked in and got a room. I was really tired after sitting in the car for a whole day, so I fell asleep.
I was woken up by the phone. I picked it up and saw it was Li Mingyao calling. When I answered the phone, Li Mingyao said, "Where are you now? Come to the front of the station." I hung up the phone, got up, put on my clothes, and walked out of the hotel. I looked and saw Li Mingyao standing at the entrance of the station.
It's been a long time since I last saw him. He was wearing a black T-shirt and jeans, standing there looking around. I walked towards him, and he seemed to see me, waved at me, walked over, looked me up and down and said, "It's been so long since we last saw each other, you've matured a lot."
I looked at the stubble on Li Mingyao's chin and nodded, saying, "You're pretty much the same. You didn't stay at Maoshan and came out to pick up girls. You're pretty cool."
"It's hard to put it into words." Li Mingyao sighed deeply. I saw that his eyes were full of vicissitudes. He was actually very tired. No one except Li Shigao was kind to him in Maoshan, where he had lived since he was a child. If it were me, I would probably go crazy.
"Let's go, follow me to Wangjia Town first." After saying that, Li Mingyao took my hand and walked to a van not far from the station, then pulled me into the van.
There is no public bus between Wangjia Town and Gong County, so the only way to get there is by van, and it is quite expensive, costing more than fifty yuan per trip. Many local people would rather walk than take the van.
The journey was quite bumpy. Li Mingyao and I were sitting at the back of the van. There were not many people on the bus, only four or five. Come to think of it, over fifty people are really not a small number for the people here.
There were three other people in the car besides me, Li Mingyao and the driver. We didn't seem to know each other very well. They all looked to be in their twenties. Maybe because they were bored, they were talking and laughing along the way. I don't know their names, so I will call them Passerby A, Passerby B, and Passerby C for now.
Passersby A, B and C were chatting about this and that along the way, and suddenly a topic that interested me came up.
Passerby A said: "Do you know? There are zombies in our Wangjia Town now."
"Huh? I heard about it some time ago, but is it reliable?" Passerby B and Passerby C asked Passerby A as if they hadn't heard about it yet.
Passerby A immediately showed an attitude of being the person involved and said, "Hey, buddy, you've asked the right person about this. Didn't the second brother of the Meng family die a while ago? The eldest brother of the Meng family came back to take care of his brother's funeral and even arranged a grand hanging coffin burial."
"Isn't hanging coffin burial prohibited now?" Passerby C asked curiously. Passerby A smiled and said, "You don't understand this, right? Although the government says it's not allowed, there are always countermeasures. Just do it quietly. If the money is in place, who cares if you put an extra coffin on the cliff? That's not the point. There's nothing strange about just hanging coffins. But what's weird is that he turned into a corpse!"
When I heard this, I turned to look at Li Mingyao, who also shook his head slightly at me, probably signaling me not to speak. The passerby continued, "The burial was about a month ago. It was a cloudy day with a cold wind blowing. The sun and moon were dark."
"Brother, just get to the point." Passerby C asked.
"Fuck, do you understand? This is called detailed description." Passerby A rolled his eyes at Passerby C and continued, "At the moment the coffin was put up, there was a loud rumbling noise and a bolt of lightning fell from the sky. The sky and the earth changed color and the sun and moon lost their light."
"You're exaggerating. That's not the truth." The driver in front smiled. He looked to be in his forties and seemed to be quite honest. He took a puff of a cigarette and continued to say to passers-by A, B, and C, "In fact, the situation at that time was more than just the sun and moon going dark. It was simply the collapse of the sky and the earth. At that time, it wasn't just one thunderbolt but a series of thunderbolts that hit the body. The body was baptized by thunderbolts..."
I listened to the driver's description, which was becoming more and more like something from a fantasy novel. I turned to look at Li Mingyao, and saw that he was covering his mouth as if he wanted to laugh. However, he perhaps felt that in the current situation, if he laughed, it would be too much of a blow to the driver's fantastic fantasy.
Then Li Mingyao whispered in my ear that in fact the burial was not that mysterious. The hanging coffin was actually hung five meters above a cliff, supported by two wooden sticks, and the one who rose from the body was the grandfather of Li Mingyao’s girlfriend Meng Ting.
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