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Chapter 290 The Red Coffin and the Novel (Additional Update 1030)

Ye Chang suppressed his curiosity and followed Nan Yuke to his home.

What surprised him was that he didn't see many people in the village along the way.

People who happened to be seen were all in a hurry and I had no idea what was going on.

It was not until he followed Nan Yuke to his home and asked about what had happened during this period.

Only then did I understand why the situation in the village was like this.

Ye Chang thought that his joining the underworld was already bizarre, but Nan Yuke’s experience was even more bizarre.

This happened half a month ago.

At that time, Nan Yu Ke had just received 50,000 yuan in royalties a month and was in high spirits.

If a book can get 10,000 subscriptions, as long as he can keep writing, the money he earns in a year will be enough for him to work for 10 years.

This was definitely a proud thing for him, as he had stayed in the village to write novels after graduation and was looked down upon.

Afterwards, just as he expected, his family's attitude towards him changed drastically after his income was exposed.

When he was writing novels at home, his parents would always find all kinds of odd jobs for him to do.

Whenever he doesn't want to do something, they just turn up their noses at him.

On the one hand, they belittle the profession he uses to make a living, and on the other hand, they compare him with other people in other families and tell him to go to work.

But since he received his salary, when he was writing novels in his room, not only was no one disturbing him, but his old mother would also take the initiative to bring him meals at mealtimes, for fear that going out to eat would interrupt his inspiration.

This made him very happy, and he secretly vowed to write this novel well and become a great writer in the future!

But writing novels is not that easy. When his inspiration runs out, he can't even bear to read the shit he writes. How can he dare to publish it and expect readers to buy it?
Just when he was scratching his hair in anxiety, his old mother brought him food and told him something that happened in the village.

He was originally a little irritated, but after hearing what his mother said, he was stunned.

Inspiration came so unexpectedly!

In order to seize this inspiration, he took the meal to the table outside to eat with his parents and asked in detail what happened.

After asking, I found out that it rained yesterday and a red coffin was washed out on the mountain behind the village!

A red coffin, this is a rare thing.

Fukang Village is a traditional village. Even in today's technological age, almost every household with elderly people in the village has a coffin in the corner of the house.

The coffin is called longevity material, and in some places it is also called wedding material.

It is not unlucky to place funeral supplies at home. There are many reasons for this.

For example, the appearance of the coffin adopts the structural concept of "the sky is round and the earth is square".

The coffin lid is curved, like the sky; the coffin bottom is square, like the earth; it implicitly conforms to the eternal concept of "being in harmony with the virtues of heaven and earth".

Taoists also have the saying that "the body of a deceased person leaves behind a coffin as a transformation, which is called a longevity coffin", and regard it as a medium for the transformation of life forms.

In Feng Shui culture, there is also the concept of tombs, which emphasizes "storing wind and gathering energy." High-quality coffins are called "longevity materials," which means "nurturing the corpse, protecting the energy, and bringing blessings to future generations." For example, nanmu longevity materials can be kept from rotting for thousands of years.

Therefore, preparing a coffin for an elderly person over sixty is not generally associated with death. On the contrary, preparing a coffin for a person who is not yet dead is considered a means of prolonging life.

Preparing a coffin is called "adding longevity".

Some people who are particular about this will paint their coffins once a year, which is believed to "increase longevity."

But no matter how you paint the coffin, you will never paint it red.

Therefore, the red coffin that was washed out by the rain gave rise to many interpretations in the already traditional village.

Of course, there are many stories about ghosts and monsters, and as they spread, the topic became somewhat alarmist.

After hearing this, the village chief, in order to stop the news from spreading further, took people to dig a new grave at the place where the coffin was washed out, and prepared to put the coffin in it.

In order to prevent the coffin from being washed out again, the grave was dug very deep this time.

As luck would have it, when the coffin was being placed in the grave, the rope at one end of the coffin broke, causing the coffin to fall upright.

There were already two people in the grave holding the coffin, and this accident knocked them over.

Fortunately, he dodged in time and only suffered minor injuries and was not crushed.

Otherwise, if the coffin that requires eight strong men to lift falls on you, you will be seriously injured if not killed.

But that's not the point.

The key point is that after the coffin fell down, a large gap was opened on the coffin lid, revealing the owner inside the coffin.

When the shriveled corpse in the coffin, which had not yet turned into bones after who knows how many years, was revealed, all the people who were helping gave up their jobs and ran back home.

The village chief shouted at the top of his lungs, but was unable to stop the young men from escaping.

With no other options, he could only put the matter aside, pulled the two people out of the pit, and left in a hurry.

There was only a half-open coffin left standing upright in the grave.

Nan Yuke laughed on the spot after hearing his parents say this. His parents were so scared by the joy on his face that they thought he was crazy!

Fortunately, he explained that he had the inspiration to write a novel, otherwise his parents might have continued to stop him from writing a novel for the sake of his mental health.

After figuring this out, Nan Yuke went straight back to his room, closed the door and started typing frantically.

Once inspiration comes, it is unstoppable.

After writing for three consecutive days, Nan Yu Ke updated the content while saving drafts, and directly typed out the updates for the next five days!
In this way, in the next five days he won't be scratching his head as anxiously as he was in the past few days.

After three days of seclusion, Nan Yu Ke was naturally a little tired. For the first time, he took the initiative to walk out of the room and prepared to go for a walk in the village.

He thought that his behavior would make his parents smile. After all, his parents had always told him to exercise after writing and not to overwork himself.

But this time, when he was about to go out, his mother stopped him and wouldn't let him go out!

This strange reaction puzzled Nan Yu Ke.

After Nan Yu Ke asked why, he was completely dumbfounded.

His mother said that during the three days when he was in seclusion writing, someone died in the village!

Not one person died, but three, one a day!
The one who died was not an old person or a sick person.

All those who died were young and strong!

They were all the young and strong men who carried the coffin that day!

When he heard this, Nan Yuke already felt something was wrong. After he found out who had died, he felt numb all over.

The first two people who died were people who were injured in the grave that day, and the third person who died was one of the eight coffin bearers.

The frequency of death itself is terrifying enough, but the most terrifying thing is the way these three people died.

The first two people were only slightly injured and were found to be fine after going to the hospital for a check-up.

As a result, after returning home and sleeping for a night, the first person died in bed as if his chest was crushed by something.

The family of the deceased went straight to the village committee to make a scene, and the village chief was extremely upset.

But before the matter was figured out, a second person died one night later, in the same way.

This stirred up a hornet's nest. No one thought that this was a deliberate murder by someone. They only thought of one thing.

The thing in that red coffin on the mountain killed someone!

As soon as this statement came out, many people were afraid to go up the mountain, and those who lived at the foot of the mountain were even afraid to sleep.

The two families of the deceased naturally would not agree with this statement. They went to the village chief's house together and said that if he did not give an explanation and compensated several million yuan, they would call the police and sue the village chief.

The village chief would not let such a thing in the village spread out, as it would be bad for the village and him. But the village chief did not want to be responsible for the death, so the matter came to a standstill.

This situation continued until the third day, which was the day when Nan Yu Ke ended his retreat.

The third person died, hanged!
A young and strong guy, who had been dating his girlfriend for three years and was about to get married, hanged himself?
Less than half an hour after the incident, someone said something that made everyone shudder.

"That young man who hanged himself, he carried the red coffin!"

At this point, not to mention the other people in the village who were carrying the coffin, even the two families who were still making trouble didn't dare to make a big fuss.

For a while, Fukang Village became a place where no one dared to visit even in broad daylight.

As for the three families whose bodies had died, they were even more worried, not knowing whether they should hold funerals.

If I don’t do it, I will feel uneasy. If I do it, who will come to help me?
Most likely not.

This is what Nan Yuke’s mother told him.

But this is not the reason why Nan Yuke is dazed.

What made him dazed was not the strange events that happened in the village, but what happened in the village. It was exactly the same as the plot he wrote based on the "Red Coffin Incident"!
He had been in seclusion for three days and knew nothing, so why did this happen?
If what is happening in reality continues to develop according to the plot, it means that more people will die later!
Because in his novel, the eight people carrying the coffin will die one after another in the later period!
And this situation will continue until the village chief finds the 'protagonist' in his novel and lets the 'protagonist' solve the problem of the ghost in the red coffin!

Putting aside the question of whether there is such a person as the "protagonist" in reality, is it possible that there really is a ghost in the red coffin on the mountain?

How can this be?

Nan Yuke returned to his room in a daze.

In the following days, Nan Yuke became more and more frightened.

Because things have been developing along the lines of his plot.

The only difference was that the village chief ran out to find a fortune teller before the eight coffin bearers arrived.

This is different from the plot of his novels.

As a result, the doctor said the problem was solved on the first day, but another person died on the second day.

This made the village chief very angry and made the villagers even more panicked.

Some people are already fleeing Fukang Village.

But no matter whether they escaped or not, they were warned by the village chief not to call the police, saying that if the police came, the red coffin would be disturbed and more people would die!

In order to solve the problem, the village chief found another fortune teller.

This time, Mr. Kanshi gave a solution.

He said that he wanted the village chief and his men to finish the unfinished work on the grave, which was to put the coffin in place and fill the grave.

The village chief thought it made sense, so he called on the villagers to follow the trend.

But who the hell dares!

The people before them are not dead yet, but new people are dying behind them.

As a last resort, only the village chief and the remaining surviving coffin bearers and some people from their families went up the mountain to prepare for the work.

After learning about this, Nan Yuke secretly ran up the mountain without telling his family and watched the village chief and others do their work.

During this period, the village chief asked him to help, and he did.

Then he saw the condition of the body in the red coffin.

And because he saw it, he became even more terrified.

For the body in the coffin was, as he had written, nailed to it by seven coffin nails.

He even gave this nailing method a name.

It’s called the Seven Nails to Suppress Corpses!

The seven nails are: Tianmen nail (Baihui point), Dihu nail (Huiyin point), Siji nails (right upper limb, left upper limb, right lower limb, left lower limb respectively), and throat nail (throat).

The position and number of the seven nails that were used to suppress the corpse on the corpse in the red coffin were exactly the same as those he had scribbled on!
But in order to make the novel more interesting, Nan Yu Ke dug a "pit" here.

The seven nails that are said to suppress corpses are actually not seven nails, but eight nails.

The eighth nail is the heart lock nail (Tanzhong point)!

In the novel, the corpse in the red coffin became a mess because the heart-locking nail was not nailed in.

So after discovering this problem, he started yelling.

The village chief and other human rights officials thought he was frightened by the corpse in the coffin and ignored him.

But just as everyone had placed the coffins and were about to close the lids, Nan Yu Ke suddenly shouted, "We can't close it, it will turn into a corpse, and if we close it we will die!"

Nan Yuke's words made everyone stop what they were doing.

The village chief even took the initiative to ask what was going on.

Nan Yu Ke was unable to organize his words and started talking about the situation in his novel.

When the village chief heard Nan Yuke say that it was something from a novel, his face immediately turned dark and he told everyone to continue.

Nan Yu Ke wanted to stop it, but he was alone and weak, and there was no way he could stop those who wanted to end this.

In the end, Nan Yu Ke could only watch the coffin being closed and ran back home in embarrassment.

After lying in bed for several hours until dark, Nan Yuke suddenly sat up from the bed and looked at his computer.

He opened the draft box and opened the subsequent chapters that he had not yet published.

Since he can't stop the village chief and others, can he modify the content of the novel?

If the content is changed, can things in reality end?
Nan Yu Ke did what he said. He started a new chapter, wrote a few hundred words from the end of the previous chapter, and then typed the last line.

"Everything will be over once the coffin is buried!"

This is the ending that Nan Yu Ke gave to this plot.

Even if he would be scolded, even if he couldn't make any money, he didn't want to change.

After finishing writing, Nan Yu Ke was afraid that the longer he stayed up, the more trouble he would have, so he published the manuscript directly.

Looking at the notification of successful publication, he felt light all over and fell asleep.

I slept until the next day.

When Nan Yuke woke up from hunger and was about to eat, he heard his mother say... someone died again.

The people carrying the coffin are still dying.

But he had clearly changed the plot, so why did people still die?

He rushed back to his room and opened his novel.

After seeing the content, he took a few steps back, leaned against the wall, and looked at the computer screen with fear on his face.

Last night, he posted not one chapter, but three!

These are the three chapters that he deleted and will never be kept.

Seeing fellow readers urging for more updates in the comment section, Nan Yuke yelled and smashed his computer!
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