C5 (2/2)

Is this the blood of a virgin? I couldn't help but think.

After finishing all this, Butcher Liu grabbed a rooster from my cage. The rooster was still crowing in Butcher Liu's hands, but after being placed on Second Uncle's coffin, he stopped screeching and shrunk into a ball, as if he was very scared.

Butcher Liu held the head with one hand and comforted the rooster with the other. He kept singing something, but I couldn't hear it clearly. After a while, the rooster raised his head again and became full of fighting spirit.

Slaughterer Liu quickly told the others to return to their seats, and the few youngsters started to raise their voices again.

Following Butcher Liu's order, the rooster began to crow.

”Arrest the coffin!”

At the command of Butcher Liu, the eight of them exerted all their strength. To my surprise, this time they actually lifted it up! Butcher Liu repeated what he said before and led the way out of the hall.

After leaving, Second Uncle really left us. Thinking back to the times when I was young and together with Second Uncle, I couldn't control myself and tears started streaming down my face.

”Hehehe, hehehehe …”

I thought it was Butcher Liu again, but when I came out of the house I saw that the rooster had actually jumped down from the coffin! As if the yard had gone mad, I immediately pecked at the people who had carried the coffin, and in order to avoid being pecked, they had no choice but to throw away the bars on their shoulders.

Dong!

The coffin fell to the ground with a dull thud.

Butcher Liu became furious and cursed loudly. He grabbed a knife and rushed towards the rooster. With a single slash, he chopped off the head of the rooster. Only after the corpse was separated from the family did the rooster behave.

The expressions of the few people in the yard were not good. Some of their pants had been torn by the rooster and were bleeding. It was obvious how fierce this rooster was just now.

The village chief's face turned ashen. He walked to the butcher Liu with a trembling body and asked him with a frightened expression, 'What's going on? Wasn't this rooster crazy just a moment ago when it just walked out?'

Butcher Liu sighed and threw away the chicken head, explaining to the village head that it was probably caused by the killing intent. For the time being, Second Uncle could not go to the grave and he would have to dry it for a few hours.

Butcher Liu told the village head to go back first. He would call them when the time came, but the village head stayed behind. He felt that his second uncle was too strange. Even if there were more people, he would still have more helpers.

Butcher Liu did not force the coffin to fall. It was taboo for the deceased to fall, but there was no chance of redemption since it had already fallen. All he could do was try his best to avoid contact with the coffin.

Butcher Liu took out the bowls from before. They were already a bit dark, so the light in the room was not too bright. When he took them out, it became a lot more obvious, as if they were black from the smoke.

Butcher Liu looked at the four black bowls with a serious face, but he did not say anything. With the help of the village chief, he placed the bowls on the four corners of the coffin and carried the coffins again.

After that, the coffin was exposed to the sun. Today's weather was exceptionally good, with no clouds, and it was summer. The sun was vicious, so we all went back to the house. Only Slaughterer Liu was sitting alone on the stone steps, smoking.

This wait lasted an entire afternoon. The sun had set and the temperature had dropped. However, Butcher Liu still had no intention of letting us up.

Butcher Liu walked in from the outside and told the village chief that he had no way to get out of the coffin today. He could only tell them to go back and rest tomorrow.

The village chief and the others could only go back. Before leaving, he was still worried, so he told butcher Liu to call him if anything happened.

After the village chief agreed, he left.

After Liu stayed at home for a while, his grandmother also let him go home. After a busy day, it was time to rest.

At first, Butcher Liu didn't want to leave, but after Grandmother said so, he even told us before he left that this coffin had been exposed to the sun for a long time, so it should be fine at night. However, for safety's sake, it was better to send someone to guard it.

I volunteered to shoulder this matter. Butcher Liu praised me a few times and left.

Gran and I stayed with her until late into the night. Gran yawned and yawned. She was already so old, but staying up late was really hard, so I persuaded her to go back to her room and rest for a while.

At my insistence, my grandmother gave in and asked me to call her at one in the morning. Then she would come and take my shift and I would go to bed.

I nodded in assent before returning to the house.

I was the only one left in the courtyard. The moonlight was very good today, and I could clearly see the surroundings. However, guarding a coffin was quite scary, especially after all that had happened today.

I shivered, but couldn't retreat. I could only put my hands together and pray that Second Uncle would behave tonight. Don't scare me, I'm a coward.

Perhaps it was due to my prayers, or perhaps it was because of Second Uncle's kindness that he found out that the coffin had always been quite stable and did not become a demon. Thus, I felt a lot more at ease.

Deep in the night, I couldn't stand it any longer so I slept for a while. Then, as I was half asleep, I heard a weird cry …