Chapter Fifty-Seven: The Heavenly Master's Coffin Moves Again

  Liu Weimin said I was seeing things because the corpse had transformed. It's impossible for it to transform into a ghost again. To explain this in detail would involve many Taoist theories, which are too complicated, so Liu Weimin didn't bother explaining them to us.

  I still have some doubts, but I'm too lazy to talk to him more. What I've been asking all along is how Wenjing is doing.

  Liu Weimin told me not to worry. After opening the coffin, I can definitely see Wenjing jumping around alive. I said I hope you're not deceiving me. Although I'm no match for you, this world still has to follow a principle: people who do too many bad things won't have good fortune!

  Liu Weimin was shocked and didn't speak for a long time before muttering: "You've only lived for so short a time, what do you understand? You're actually teaching me about the great way!"

  Don't even dig out a small wooden stick from the willow stump. At this time, squatting in the corner, plucking hair from the chicken raised by Huang Jinbai, I don't know what to do with it. Taking advantage of this opportunity, I asked Liu Weimin, full of doubts, can you explain it to me?

  Liu Wei Min said it's okay.

  I asked him how Hsu Shu-lin, who was still in his 30s or 40s and a fellow disciple of the same master as Huang Lao-tou, could have become an old man.

  Liu Weimin smiled and said, "I won't tell you how Huang Jinbai became Xu Shulin, but I can tell you how I discovered it. It's the result of his cleverness being misled by his own cleverness. That night when you saw a dead chicken in my room, it was indeed because I had drunk chicken blood due to physical discomfort. Who would have known about this? At that time, Jiuxiang was at the reception hall, she might have known. Those chickens were stolen from Xu Shulin's house by me, he shouldn't have known, but if he was Huang Jinbai, my actions wouldn't have escaped him. After all, stealing chickens from an ordinary person's home isn't something I could have meticulously planned."

  This is what made Liu Weimin suspicious of Xu Shulin, it was the words spoken by the ghost that possessed Xu Shulin that I told him about that day.

  At dawn, the Day Star Officer among the Twenty-Eight Constellations was a large rooster, who helped Sun Wukong capture those scorpion spirits.

  There are three fires in a person, the yang energy on top of the head is the strongest. The life fire of a rooster also has very strong yang energy, so the blood of a rooster's crest has great destructive power against ghosts. The older the chicken, the stronger the yang energy. This is beyond doubt, but ordinary people only know that black dog blood can suppress ghosts, and they are not aware of the rooster's crest blood. However, many Taoist priests use this blood mixed with cinnabar to draw talismans.

  That ghost deceived me in front of dozens of villagers, with the purpose of making me distrust Liu Weimin. Liu Weimin also asked me why it dared to tell such a vulgar lie to my face?

  The answer is that the ghost knows I'm a water goods, it's convinced that I don't understand the true use of chicken crown blood, even if it says that King Yan is actually the lover of Jade Emperor, I have no evidence to refute, after all, different industries are like different mountains.

  At that time, only three people in the whole village knew I was a smuggler: Village Chief Xu Shulin, Deputy Village Chief and another village cadre.

  In other words, Huang Jinbai was among these three people, and he told Li Dazhuang that I didn't have any real skills.

  With this discovery, I thought of Ninth Brother turning into a zombie and following me back to the reception center, and the answer was clear.

  Jiuge's body was moved back by Liu Weimin and Xu Shulin from the village entrance, they conspired until dawn, but Huang Jinbai or his accomplices could learn about their plan, and also come up with a countermeasure in time, then steal Jiuge's body and disguise it as Kang Jiuxiang, from a time perspective, there are almost no people who can do these things.

  The only one was Xu Shulin, who originally had the body of Jiu Ge and also knew about this plan.

  It was precisely because of his own great suspicion that Xu Shulin played a trick on the second day, letting the male ghost possess him, but unexpectedly it backfired and he was instead seen through by Liu Weimin.

  After that, it's easier to explain. In the ancestral hall, You Wu and Xu Shulin were not burned to death because Xu Shulin couldn't have burned himself to death. Except for the two of them, there was no one else around, so they couldn't say that the ghost that possessed him killed You Wu but spared his own life.

  Liu Weimin couldn't find the ghost in the ancestral hall for a very simple reason.

  Humans have three souls and seven spirits, with the three souls governing good deeds and the seven spirits committing evil acts. Ghosts lack one of the good souls, and a person's body can only accommodate three souls and seven spirits. Therefore, when a ghost possesses a human body, it must push the original soul to the corner. If the ghost is malevolent, it will squeeze out some of the vital energy, and after the ghost leaves, if the vital energy does not return, the person will become stupid and dull-witted.

  Xu Shulin became stupid after getting up from the coffin, and Liu Weimin thought that the ghost had left, but Huang Jinbai was definitely not a normal person. His body could even hold insects, let alone ghosts?

  He pretended to be stupid and hid the ghost in his body, Liu Weimin didn't suspect him, he only checked the temple, of course, he couldn't find Li Dazhuang's ghost.

  This is how Liu Weimin discovered Huang Jinbo's true identity. There was no conclusive evidence, but people like him didn't need evidence anyway.

  But I still felt uneasy after listening, and asked: "But the ghost on Xu Shulin's body is not Li Dazhuang. The villagers said that he ate live chicken early in the morning, and later sang opera with a woman's voice. It should be a female ghost who possessed Xu Qi's body. Where did she come from? And who split open Laozu Gong's head? Besides, you said that Huang Jinbai let the zombie follow me as an absolute household plan. Xu Shulin forced him to give up Kang Jiuxiang, so he made Xu Shulin's nephew become a zombie and bite people in the village. But Xu Shulin is actually Huang Jinbai, isn't he going to exterminate his own household?"

  Liu Weimin raised a finger and said, "The first question, I don't know. The second question, go ask Nalan Yuqing, only he knows. The third question, you don't need to know. No matter where that female ghost came from or how dirty and polluted this village is, it all boils down to one principle."

  Liu Weimin grasped the whip and lashed out a few times, emitting an aura of unparalleled ferocity. He said proudly: "If people come to kill, ghosts will come to kill; if we kill them all, the world will be at peace. Yu Wu, stop! The time has arrived, let's head up the mountain!"

  After all, we have to dig up that Heavenly Master's coffin. I really hope the horse-faced monster appears again and slaps Liu Weimin into the mountain ditch with a big slap in the face.

  Lock the gate of Huang Jinbai's house, Liu Weimin did not leave immediately, but knelt at the door and knocked three loud heads. I thought this old man was really hypocritical, he got someone killed, now he pretended to be very reluctant.

  Liu Wei let us pay our respects, I said what are we paying respects to? A pile of bugs that were scalded to death by boiling water?

  From the bottom of my heart, I don't want to surrender. Although I feel sorry for Huang Jinbai's ending, I still resent him in my heart. If it weren't for this old man, how would I have gotten entangled with that old monster Liu Weimin? Every day, I get to be with my little cousin, who knows how happy I am!

  Liu Weimin said that they were bowing to the three corpses in the main house, namely Huang Cang, Huang Song and Xu Shulin's mother. These three people hanged themselves inside the house, regardless of whether they committed suicide or Huang Lao was unwilling to let them fall into Liu Weimin's hands and endured the pain of killing his relatives. In any case, it was because of us that they died. Bowing to them could alleviate their resentment; otherwise, they would become malevolent ghosts.

  As soon as we heard this, we quickly knelt down and kowtowed. San Shu was the most sincere, and she muttered many apologetic words, saying that it seemed that she had helped Liu Weimin because Liu Weimin had helped her husband with some difficulties.

  The village is as quiet as death. We climbed up the mountain, and on the way, we asked Liu Wei Min, where did all the villagers go? In just three short days, it's impossible for everyone to move away.

  Liu Weimin said that behind the village, the No. 6 archaeological team hired all the laborers in the village at a price of 300 yuan per person per day, as long as they were willing to earn this money, even if it was a 70-year-old old lady with bound feet.

  Three hundred per person, this is no joke. After working for a month, it's more than my salary. But what treasure is behind the village that's worth the No. 6 archaeological team coming to excavate?

  Liu Weimin said that there was a dinosaur egg, and the group of official tomb robbers usually used the method of finding dragon's pulse to find treasure. Huang Jinbai led a little bit of dragon's pulse to the village, and the archaeological team drove away two other families, and rushed over with a thud.

  There were still many problems, but after arriving at the foot of the mountain, Liu Weimin's breathing became heavy and his face showed a solemn expression, telling me not to speak, lest I stir up trouble.

  The mountain is not high, and the temperature difference is not great. However, after we walked to the middle of the mountain, the temperature suddenly dropped, and a white mist began to rise, making it impossible to see more than 10 meters ahead. The vague shadows made us feel very uncomfortable. Although I didn't know why San Shu kept following us, her face also looked terrible.

  As for Yu Wu and me, it's even more unnecessary to mention, with Liu Weimin sandwiched between us on the left and right, at this time we can only rely on him.

  "You really want to move that coffin, old man?"

  Liu Weimin nodded and said slowly: "But didn't you say that no one in the world wants what's inside that coffin?"

  "Did I say that?" Liu Weimin selectively forgot, and then smiled: "If I said it, I said it, but I didn't say wrong. I really don't want the things inside, but what I want, must be opened to see." Liu Weimin patted my shoulder and said strangely: "Wang Zhen, little friend, tonight's matter is entrusted to you."

  Is this what you mean by "opening a coffin"?

  Before I could figure it out, Liu Weimin picked me up and pushed me forward with force, shouting towards the misty distance: "Come out! I can smell the corpse energy on you from seven or eight miles away. Don't say you're hiding in the fog, even if you cover your face, I'll know it's you!"

  As soon as I finished speaking, a series of loud cracking sounds came from afar. Although I couldn't see anything, a scene appeared in my mind.

  An old tribesman with a sorrowful expression on his face was hurrying over with quick steps.

  But Liu Weimin behind me said something I didn't expect.

  "King Zhen's little friend, Nalan Yuqing and Wenjing, choose one of them. If you want to save your cousin, get rid of this lingering old ghost for me!"