Blood-red spider silk left a line of words on the door panel. Strangely enough, when the old man turned around to look, the words turned into blood and slowly slid off.

"You have been looking for Sister Jiangling's body. Have you done anything to disgrace her?" Chen Ge heard a hint of guilt and self-blame in the old man's words.

"Let's go inside first." The old man hung the lamp in his hand at the door. The secret he had hidden in his heart for many years was discovered, which made him a little at a loss.

After seeing Chen Ge come in, he stood in the second wooden house and let out a long sigh: "Actually, I know who poisoned that couple."

"You know?" Chen Ge grabbed the skull-crushing hammer and stopped at the door, without continuing inside.

"I can probably guess something." The old man opened the wooden bed board and there was a coffin hidden under the bed.

It is smaller than a normal coffin and is pure black.

"Put the coffin under the bed?" Chen Ge became even more curious.

"The coffin is prepared for the daughter of the Zhu family." The old man pushed open the lid of the coffin and took out an unfinished tablet from inside, with three words written on it - Zhu Xinrou.

"Why did you prepare a coffin for her? Is her disappearance related to you?"

"To really count this matter, we have to start talking about it a long time ago." The old man looked at the tablet in his hand blankly: "When I was a child, I heard the adults in the village say that there is a coffin village deep in the mountains of Hanjiang. That village has never existed since.

Not interacting with outsiders, the people in the village have strange shapes and have many weird customs. For example, every household has a living coffin in their house, and I don’t know what it is used for.”

Chen Ge could still understand the first half of what the old man said. The village was deep in the mountains and had no contact with outsiders. If close relatives married, the probability of deformities would be high.

But Chen Ge couldn't understand what the old man said next. What does it mean to have a living coffin in every household? It's very unlucky to have a coffin in the house.

"Uncle, is that village still there?" Chen Ge closed the door and asked softly.

"At first, I thought that village was just a legend. After all, no one has ever seen it, but who knows that strange things really happened." The old man put down Sister Jiangling's memorial tablet and reached out to look for something in the coffin: "The coffin in the mountains

There was a disaster in the village more than ten years ago, and several families escaped."

"All the people who escaped looked like normal people, and they didn't have the strange habits in the legend, so the Baijia Village at the foot of the mountain took them in."

"But no one expected that in the same year, a plague broke out in Baijia Village." The old man's voice sounded regretful. It seemed that some people were opposed to taking in those people, but they didn't care.

"Who brought the disease out of the mountains?"

"Who can tell clearly now? All the capable people in the village have moved away, and nine out of ten houses are empty. On the contrary, the few families who escaped from Coffin Village took root here, and later they also changed the name of the village.

, is the Linguan Village you see now." Uncle Bai finally found what he was looking for in the coffin, and he took out a black cloth from it.

"I made this coat for the eldest daughter of the Zhu family. People who die outside should wear black clothes when entering the coffin, so that the blood will not be too conspicuous." The clothes in the old man's hands also have another feature, the ribs and back

There are four sleeves on the back that are only a quarter of the length of normal sleeves.

"Do you think this dress is strange? The eldest son of the Zhu family looks like this." The old man's voice became lower and lower, and Chen Ge could hear the discomfort in his heart: "That child's parents escaped from the Coffin Village.

Her mother was already pregnant with her at the time, so it can be said that this child was the last 'breed' in that coffin village."

"This level of deformity cannot be explained clearly by intermarriage between close relatives. There is a big problem in that coffin village!"

Chen Ge didn't expect the answer to be like this. Looking at the black clothes made by the old man, he could imagine what Zhu Xinrou looked like.

"I don't know if there is any problem in Coffin Village. I only know that this child is living in pain. Her parents are afraid that people in the village will see her. When she was a child, they wrapped her up tightly no matter how hot it was. When she grew up, it was really hard.

They couldn't hide it anymore. They locked the child in the house and wouldn't let her go out." The old man folded the clothes and put them on the coffin lid. The clothes would be needed soon.

"and after?"

"The paper couldn't contain the fire. The villagers still found the eldest daughter of the Zhu family. What surprised me the most was that the people who escaped from the Coffin Village together not only failed to speak to the couple, but also planned to kill the eldest daughter directly.

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"They talked fiercely. In the end, people from Baijia Village came forward to stabilize the situation. Everyone decided to drive the couple out of the village."

"The father of the eldest daughter of the Zhu family is a coffin maker and is very familiar with carpentry. After leaving the village, they lived near Taolin, and their life was very difficult."

"As the days passed, everything became calm. I heard that the couple gave birth to a second daughter."

"Just when everyone thought this matter was over, the couple ran back to the village, saying that their eldest daughter was missing and asking every household to be careful."

"You heard that right, they are not asking anyone to help find their daughter, they are just telling all the villagers to be careful."

"A few days later, the eldest daughter of the Zhu family was found in the back mountain. Her parents hung her up and beat her severely."

"After a few months of silence, the eldest daughter of the Zhu family escaped again. Every time she was found, her parents would beat her severely."

"You probably haven't been to the wooden house built deep in the peach forest. That house was used to house the eldest daughter of the Zhu family. Her father even made a set of utensils for her."

"The eldest daughter of the Zhu family is regarded as a monster by the people in the village, and her parents also dislike her. Of all the people around her, only her younger sister is very kind to her and treats her as a relative."

"The youngest daughter of the Zhu family also has a strange body part, but it is not as obvious as the elder daughter. Moreover, she has a well-behaved face, is very lovable, and is very sensible."

The old man sighed: "My land is next to the peach grove, and I usually have a lot of contact with that little girl. She is not very afraid of strangers, and she gets familiar with her after going back and forth."

"One time when I was working in the fields, the girl came over crying and asked me to rescue her sister. I knew the situation at her home, so I didn't go there."

At this point, the old man couldn't speak anymore. His cloudy eyes stared at the black clothes on the coffin, and his hands slowly grasped his knees: "I should have stood up and said something to her at that time, even if she was a monster."

"The girl left in tears, which made me feel uneasy. Later, I ran to the peach forest and walked around in person."

"I saw the eldest daughter of the Zhu family in the fourth room, and that was the last time I saw her. Her body was stuck on a wooden board, and her hands were hanging by hemp ropes. She had many scars on her body and was dying."

"I really can't imagine what she went through. She begged me to save her, but I was too scared at the time and wanted to leave quickly."
Chapter completed!