Here Lies The Wicked

My name is zhao xueming. I was born with only nine fingers.

His family lived in a remote village in Xiangxi. A few years ago, a cement road was just built in the village. The county chief said the country was supporting poor villages all over the country.

According to grandpa, in the ancient times before the reform and opening up, the phenomenon of private punishment and severe criminal law was very common.

Some of them died in the most evil ways, and the body was also the most resentful, and some strange things would often happen.

Like all five punishments, mincemeat, sawing, branding, bin, pig, cooking, peeling, sausaging, cutting, splitting, burying, cutting, riding a wooden horse, soaking in a pig cage... It was in grandpa's mouth, the most common method of death by torture in ancient times.

All five punishments were to chop off a man's hands, feet, eyes, ears, and finally his head, and then his torso into three pieces. Which is what people often say, "Big pieces."

The death penalty was a terrible death penalty. Each time, two people would execute the lingchi. Before the execution, they would cover their bodies with fishnet, then cut them from their feet. They would have to cut off a thousand pieces of meat before the prisoner could stop breathing. Grandpa said that someone had been cutting for three days and nights before he died.

Sawing is to cut a person to death with an iron saw.

These criminal laws, one by one, were worse than the other. At that time, I was only six or seven years old, so scared that I didn't dare to sleep alone for a month.

Now that I think about it, I can't help but rejoice that I was not born in the ancient times when torture and torture were rampant.

Grandpa said that these people were so painful before they died that they could not swallow their grievances after they died. In addition, their death was so miserable that strange things often happened. Generally, no one dared to approach these bodies.

Hence, there was the profession of the undertaker, which specialized in dealing with the dead.

Some people also call it the Xiangxi mortician.

Every industry has its own rules and regulations, and there are many taboos among the undertakers.

For example, grandpa once told me that a person who died from a waist cut must not bury the two bodies in one place. Usually, the upper and lower parts of the body are buried on both sides of a river or river or mountain cliffs, cut off with one knife, cut off with one knife, with three souls and seven souls incomplete, to prevent the death of the corpse.

Grandpa said that the people who cut their backs were usually just to find rivers and streams and bury them on both sides of the river. However, the more miserable, the more painful, the more hateful, the longer the person could not swallow the anger, the more serious the resentment after death, the place where the body was buried must be careful, often different places, with the help of mountains and rivers feng shui to cut off the resentment.

The reason why grandpa knew so much about the taboo of the undertaker was that his ancestors had been the undertaker for generations.

But after the reform and opening up, the law was enlightened, the country banned torture, local private torture, and the convenient transportation developed, slowly, no one found a zombie carpenter to carry the body.

In order to make a living, the undertakers began to disappear.

However, when I was nine years old, my father secretly hid it from my grandfather and carried a corpse that couldn't be carried. Half a month later, my father was skinned and bloody, hanging from an old tree at the entrance of the village!

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Du Feifei hurriedly withdrew from her mobile novel, feeling as scared as a kitten. When she saw that it was already dark at 8: 00 pm, she was the only one left in the company.

At this time, the office was empty, especially secluded, quiet, and the night sky outside the window was dark.

The quiet girl, who had just graduated from college in her twenties and had not completed her internship for three months, was on her first night shift in her life. She began to look behind her suspiciously and then at the direction of the hallway outside the office. She always felt that there was someone hiding in the empty office or outside the hallway. Only two cold eyes peeped at her.

Du Feifei's head was numb and her heart was beating like a drum. In fact, she knew very well that all of this was a shock to herself, because she was too afraid to imagine it out of thin air. But even if you know, you can't help but think of something terrible in your mind.

Du Feifei regretted that if she had known, she would not have taken the last moment to turn off her computer and read novels on her phone.

Patter, patter, all of a sudden!

The footsteps of men came from the empty corridor.

Du Feifei froze, his face flashing with panic and fear.

Patter, patter... The footsteps were slow and rhythmic, pounding on the heart, getting closer and closer.

He was approaching her.

"Who, who is outside!"

"Is it the building security guard who patrols the building?"

"Are you outside the corridor?"

Du Feifei was sweating and felt his voice shaking.

The man's footsteps outside the corridor suddenly stopped, and there was no sound at all.

Du Feifei was like a frightened bird, her body suddenly fell like the cold of an ice cellar. She pricked up her ears to listen, but could not hear anything. The corridor and the office seemed to be separated from each other and fell into a brief silence.

Only the whistling fan of the computer was still running at high speed.

Time passed slowly, and it was like years. Just as Du Feifei was about to lose his mental pressure, patter, patter, footsteps rang out again outside the corridor.

But this time, the footsteps seemed to be repeating the previous cycle, not around the office, but as the first time, from far to near, stepping on a fixed rhythm of footsteps, unhurriedly, still approaching the only office on this floor that was still lit.

Du Feifei's hair stood on end, his face pale with fear, and his eyes filled with fear.

Patter! Patter!

The man's footsteps were getting closer and closer, and when they approached the office, they suddenly disappeared again.

Not long after, the footsteps repeated for the third time, from the starting point again from far to near, stepping on a fixed rhythm of footsteps approaching the office, in the late night empty environment, especially harsh.

Play it over and over again like a tape.

Du Feifei was about to break down and cried out in fear, "Who the hell are you? No matter who you are, this kind of joke is not funny at all! Is the security guard patrolling the building outside?"

"If you keep scaring me like this, I'm really going to call the police in anger."

Patter, patter... The fourth cycle of footsteps outside the corridor, as if she had not been heard at all.

Du Feifei's face turned paler and paler, and she felt a chill in her body. The air behind her neck was cold and windy. She turned around in fear, but there was nothing behind her except the dark glass windows.

Patter, patter... The sound of footsteps continued to circulate.

Du Feifei's body trembled and she was so scared that she was about to cry. When the footsteps repeated a new cycle, halfway through, Du Feifei could no longer bear the psychological pressure and rushed out of the office angrily, trying to catch the prank in the middle.

The sound of footsteps suddenly stopped.

The corridor was empty, cold and quiet, like a closed space, with no one at all. Only a few fluorescent lights above the corridor could barely be used as lighting.

It was as if the footsteps were just hearsay.

The temperature in the corridor was very low.

There was no sound in the corridor except for the occasional cold wind pouring in from the end of the corridor.

Du Feifei's face turned pale.

Tonight's experience had already exceeded the psychological endurance of normal people, not to mention a girl who worked late at night alone. Du Feifei's body was trembling, and her high tension was on the verge of collapse.

At 8: 00 pm, the business building was empty and cold, as if the entire building had been squeezed out of the world, and only Du Feifei's office on the entire floor was still lit.

Du Feifei was so frightened that her hands and feet were cold that she dared not stay here for another second.

He turned around and rushed back to his office, ready to pick up his personal belongings and leave immediately.

But just as duffy turned around! Patter, patter... The footsteps came again, still in the same rhythm, coming from the corridor behind Du Feifei, as if they were right behind her.

"Ah!"

Du Feifei screamed in terror from the hallway, and her mind finally broke down. She ran away from the end of the other hallway in terror, no matter what cell phones and personal belongings were in the office, if the lights were not turned off, she would be punished by the supervisor the next day and her salary would be deducted. She did not dare to look back at the footsteps behind her.

Perhaps it was Du Feifei's screams, which were very harsh in the cold night. Soon, two security guards came running to find Du Feifei, who was already scared out of his wits.

Finally seeing someone, Du Feifei was so excited that she burst into tears.

When du feifei calmed down, she remembered the footsteps in the corridor behind her, but there were no footsteps in the corridor at this time. She did not know when they were gone.

Then, the two security guards with nervous Du Feifei behind them began to walk to the office, looking for the prankster Du Feifei was talking about, but they did not find the so-called perpetrator.

The two security guards began to think that Du Feifei was a timid girl. They were suspicious of working overtime alone at night, so they stopped taking it seriously. After packing up Du Feifei's personal belongings and turning off the office lights, he helplessly escorted the frightened Du Feifei down the elevator to the lobby on the first floor and took the initiative to call a taxi for her.

Her eyelashes fluttered a few times, and there were still tears in the corner of her eyes. Du Feifei turned to look at the city outside the car at night, trying to wrap his body in the taxi seat, trying to find a sense of security that was wrapped in it.

Tonight's strange experience made her shiver with cold.

Du Feifei's house was a bit remote, an old apartment rented by herself. After graduating from college, she stayed in Zhou city, a coastal city, to work hard.

As soon as Du Feifei returned to the apartment, he turned on all the lights in the room. Until then, the warmth of returning home gave her a sense of security and security. Du Feifei poured herself a cup of hot water.

Patter, patter... All of a sudden!

A man's footsteps came from the bedroom, approaching the door step by step!

Du Feifei looked into the bedroom in despair as the glass of water fell to the ground. She wanted to scream, but her heart felt as if it was a big rock and she could not say anything.

He's at home!

Why!

Why!

The cold swept through Du Feifei like a tidal wave, and his eyes widened in horror.

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