Chapter 59: The Old Man in the Coffin Shop

  At this moment, I finally understand the true meaning of Wu Xian's five-year apprenticeship. The hearts of people in this world are treacherous and only through personal experience can one understand the bitter sweetness within. And at this moment, I feel a sense of confusion - is it really that there is no place for me to settle down in this vast world?

  Who can I trust from now on?

  As I walked, I unconsciously clenched my fists. Five years, now more than half a year has passed, and there are still four years left. I really don't know what kind of person I will become five years later. But I will definitely work hard to make myself stronger, and then follow Wu Xian's doctor to settle all the grudges.

  In the blink of an eye, another half year has passed. After leaving that village, I have been searching for the whereabouts of the Water Ghost Granny all along. However, after searching for a whole half year, I still haven't found her.

  Moreover, because I was penniless and had no place to turn to, I almost starved to death several times while searching for the Water Ghost Granny. In the end, I wandered into a small town, where I learned of the existence of such a thing as a small town for the first time.

  When I first arrived in the town, I was a bit curious and found that there were many more houses and people here than in the village. However, at the same time, I also found that the people in the town were much colder than those in the small mountain villages.

  At that time, I saw a person selling buns. I didn't know if I needed to pay for eating the bun. As a result, I ran over and told the bun seller that I was hungry, but he refused to give me any. He even scolded me as a beggar and asked me to roll away.

  I was puzzled and then saw a person next to me hand over a piece of paper to the bun seller, which made me realize. It turned out that this bun required something in exchange.

  I felt all over my body, and in the end, I only found a talisman. It was an evil-warding charm, which would ward off evil spirits if carried on one's person. Then I handed the evil-warding charm to the baozi seller, but unexpectedly, the baozi seller's face changed greatly, and he actually picked up a chair and smashed it towards me.

  I was stunned for a moment, I didn't expect this person's reaction to be so big.

  I didn't give him a chance, when he picked up the board and bench, I already knew he was going to harm me, so I rushed over and slapped the board into pieces with one palm.

  The man selling buns looked at me with a terrified expression, and a chorus of gasps erupted around us. In an instant, I was surrounded by three layers of people inside and out.

  At this time, someone suddenly squeezed in from the outside of the crowd. He took a look at the demon-expelling charm in my hand, frowned, and suddenly handed me two buns and told the boss that he would pay for them. The boss trembled with fear as he accepted the money, and then this person took me away from the bun shop.

  The person who bought me buns to eat was a middle-aged man of about forty years old, who looked somewhat ugly. During this half year, it was this person who took me in and didn't let me go hungry.

  After leaving the baozi shop, this person started talking more and asked me how I got that talisman paper and also asked how my strength could be so great. I remained silent all the way, occasionally responding to him with a single word.

  The middle-aged man in front of me invited me to eat baozi, but I still find it hard to believe him. Because I just went through that village thing, I feel that this world has no one to trust anymore. I even suspected Wu Xianyi, suspected my parents, and I'm afraid the whole world is deceiving me.

  It's actually a kind of fear, the fear after being deceived.

  The middle-aged man finally took me into a room, and I found out it was a coffin shop. From the middle-aged man's mouth, I learned that his coffin shop happened to be short of hands. Moreover, he saw that I was not an ordinary person, just right to calm down this coffin shop, let me stay and help him, he would pay me wages.

  So, during this half year, I started selling coffins. Through this half year, I learned a lot and knew that apart from the small town, there were also county towns, city districts, provincial cities, and big cities. To be honest, I didn't attend school for many days, and those few years of textbooks really didn't introduce these things.

  In the blink of an eye, half a year had passed. I searched for the Water Ghost Granny in vain, and my heart gradually cooled down as well. On one hand, I worked diligently at the coffin shop, while on the other hand, I seriously studied the Ghost Doctor's techniques.

  But that evening, I suddenly discovered that the middle-aged man who brought me to the coffin shop had a secret.

  That evening, the coffin shop was about to close when a young man suddenly appeared. He looked around 24 or 25 years old. As soon as he entered the house, he asked if the coffin owner was in. I took a look at this person's face and found it very unusual. This guy was shaking all over, his face was white and not normal.

  As soon as I heard the coffin shop owner, I knew who it was. It must be the middle-aged man who brought me into the coffin shop.

  "I see you're about to close up shop," I said to him. "The person isn't here, why don't you come back tomorrow? I'm getting ready to close up now."

  The young man was anxious: "I have an urgent matter, let me wait here for a while, I must find him today."

  I see young people like this and I feel like getting angry. I said to him: "You can wait here, but I have to close the door and go home. Do you want me to stay with you too?"

  The young man glanced at me and immediately pulled out a handful of money from his body and handed it to me: "I'll pay you, accompany me to wait together."

  Having money, I naturally want to earn more. I took a look at the money in my hand, this kid gave me a lot of money, estimated to be several months' salary for that middle-aged man. I couldn't help but turn around and sit back down lazily.

  After waiting for a long time, the sky was completely dark, and the middle-aged man really came back. The young man saw the coffin shop owner and immediately rushed up to shout: "Old coffin, save me."

  Guo Zhancheng was indeed the boss of a coffin shop. Seeing him like this piqued my interest, so I also went over to listen in.

  The old man on the coffin helped the middle-aged man up and said, "What's wrong, speak slowly."

  The young man immediately spoke up, saying that his old father had died recently and he had bought a coffin here to bury him. As a result, after his old father was buried, the coffin actually came back. It was buried three times in a row. After the first burial, his father's coffin appeared in the yard the next day.

  The second time he was buried, the next day his father's coffin appeared in the house. The third time after burial, things started to go wrong. His father's coffin appeared in front of this young man's bed on the second day, and the coffin lid had been opened, with the dead person lying motionless inside.

  The young man woke up on the second day and was almost frightened out of his wits. Having no other choice, he ran here to find Old Coffin.

  The coffin maker listened for a moment, and his eyebrows immediately furrowed: "You mean to say that there's something wrong with my coffin?"

  The young man immediately shook his head like a rattle drum: "Your coffin is no problem, I know you have great skills, that's why I came to ask for your help. You must help me, or else I'll really die."

  The coffin maker shook his head and said, "This is not a good thing to help with. I don't like to get involved in such evil things. If I do, it's easy to bring trouble upon myself and damage my own fortune. It will also lead to the five evils and three lacks: lack of money, lack of power, and lack of life."

  What the old man in the coffin said sounds somewhat familiar, as if I've heard it somewhere before.

  At this time, the young man saw that Coffin Old didn't respond, so he directly knelt on the ground. Coffin Old let out a long sigh and said: "If you really want to be in charge, I won't stop you. I'll just teach you how to do it, and then you can go do it yourselves."

  After finishing, the old man in the coffin was about to leave with the young people. At this time, I came back to my senses and became a little curious, wanting to follow them to see what would happen, so I closed the door. Then I followed the old man in the coffin silently, not making a sound, just walking quietly beside them.

  The coffin maker gave me a glance, but didn't say anything.

  The young man drove us to his car, and soon we arrived in front of a three-story residential building that was still quite good. The house is not bad, with the highway in front and the mountain behind. Although the location is a bit remote, the traffic is convenient.

  After getting off the car, Coffin asked the young man where his father's tomb was. The young man pointed to the mountain behind and said that his father was buried on that mountain.

  The old man with the coffin furrowed his brow and said he was afraid there was a problem with this mountain. Then, the old man took us around the mountain edge for a circle. He said that the yin energy on the mountain was a bit heavy, it was a bit late, and it wasn't convenient to go up the mountain to take a closer look. He said he would stay at the young man's house tonight and see how the coffin came back.

  So I stayed overnight at the young man's home with Coffin Old. Coffin Old let the young man go to sleep, and then the two of us kept watch in the courtyard all night.

  But strangely, nothing happened that night. As the day was about to dawn, I couldn't hold on any longer and dozed off for a moment. Just then, a loud howl startled me awake.

  I almost jumped up, and the coffin old man next to me also ran out. I followed the coffin old man and ran, just running to the door of that young man, saw the young man push the door and crawl out. He was scared, walking unsteadily, and could only crawl.

  We pulled him up and rushed to look inside the house, and my scalp instantly went numb. The room was pitch black, but I could vaguely see the outline of a coffin.

  Looking again at that bed, I saw a person lying on it. What's even more bizarre is that the person was lying on their side with their head facing our direction.

  Not only was I, but even the coffin maker's face changed greatly. He said that the situation was too strange and would come again tomorrow morning, taking me and the young man away from that room. We stayed in the courtyard until dawn, and the young man had been frightened to the point of being somewhat disoriented.

  After daybreak, I and the old man returned to the young man's house. As a result, we saw that the person lying on the bed was the corpse of the young man's deceased father.

  For a moment, I was stunned. Honestly, this is the first time I've encountered such a bizarre thing. Moreover, young Dad clearly had no signs of resurrection, how could he possibly run to the bed of a young man?

  What's even stranger is that I and Coffin Old were guarding the yard yesterday, but we didn't hear any noise at all. How did this coffin manage to run from the grave to the young man's house?

  What I couldn't have imagined was that the coffin suddenly circled around the house and said to us, "This is strange, it's probably under this house."

  We were all stunned and wondered why it was under the house

  The coffin maker said, "I see that the terrain here is very suitable for a burial ground. If someone were to be buried here after death, their descendants would surely become rich and noble. Unfortunately, he has built his house right on top of it, which clearly goes against the taboo."

  The young man woke up a bit and said what should be done. The coffin master said to dig, dig the floor open, there must be something underneath.

  The young man then went to find a group of people and started digging the floor. As a result, after digging down more than ten meters deep into the entire house's floor, they unexpectedly dug up a blood-red coffin.