Kill That Man
Chapter 2 Reborn, Already in the Coffin
Yu Qing Yao wakes up from her drunken dream, opening her eyes, she finds her surroundings extremely black.
She wants to get up, but when she gets up, she b.u.mps into a hard object.
Yu Qing Yao falls back, she cries in pain, rubbing her forehead.
What"s going on here?
She feels around and finds herself in an unexpectedly narrow place.
It is less than two feet on the left and right and less than one foot tall.
All four walls are made of wood, touching it feels rough.
Yu Qing Yao is dumbfounded for a moment, it seems to be a coffin!
Am I in a coffin?
She is a little fl.u.s.tered. What"s going on? Aren"t I just drunk? Why are you going to bury me?
She feels something in her mouth, spits it out and touches it with her hands, feels like a copper coin.
She turns over, feeling her head very heavy, she touches her head full of hair, so long it reaches her b.u.t.t. There are some strange things in it.
Yu Qing Yao is a little dumbfounded, she pulls her hair, feeling pain in her scalp, she can be sure that its not a wig.
I wake up in the morning and find myself sleeping in a coffin, maybe it"s a joke. Short hair growing longer overnight, its absolutely impossible. This is not scientific.
She moves her ear sideways and listens outside. Its awfully quiet out there.
Suddenly hearing movement in the coffin, the person sitting outside the entrance is frightened. It"s strange to not be quiet!
Sitting on the doorstep, guarding the spirit Li Qi Shen stares in horror through the gap in the doorway, p.r.i.c.king her ears up and listening to the movements inside the casket.
Yu Qing Yao feels a stabbing sensation on her neck. When she twists her neck, her collar rubs against her neck, hurting her.
She reaches out and feels a circle of swelling, and she can"t help but suck in a breath of cold air.
She feels that this is not good, and that no matter what the situation is right now, its imperative to not to let anyone bury her.
She shouts, "Is there anyone?"
Unexpectedly her throat is so painful, her shouting is almost like the hum of a mosquito.
She slaps the lid of the coffin in horror.
"Pa, pa, pa!"
After a while, she doesn"t hear any movement outside. She also kicks with her foot.
"Bang, bang, bang, bang!"
However, she still doesn"t hear any sound, Yu Qing Yao is in despair.
She shouts wildly in her heart: G.o.d, who will save me?
Is there anyone? Come and save me, I don"t want to be buried alive!
Yu Qing Yao is tired, panting in the coffin, she feels that this body is now smaller than her own, and also very weak.
She lays flat and rests for a while, anyway, now there is no one, when she hears someone coming, then she will shout.
Li Qi Shen who is guarding the coffin, shouts out in her heart: F*ck, I heard about *corpse possession, but never thought I"d really meet one today!
She creeps out and walks outside under the sunshine, and then she shouts in a panic: "Help! It"s a corpse possession!"
The people outside the yard listen and think its ridiculous. Hearing Li Qi Shen"s panicked voice, its seems true.
Several bold young people peek their heads in to see, Li Qi Shen has already fled to the gate of the courtyard.
A young man pulls her and asks, "Qi Shen, what"s the matter?"
Li Qi Shen says in horror: "Inside the corpse, its suddenly knocking and banging on the coffin, go ask a Daoist Priest to come!"
Several young men do not believe, regardless of Li Qi Shen blocking, they break into the Yu family.
Going to the room, the crowd pushes the door in, a young man asks: "Isn"t the coffin fine?"
Yu Qing Yao hearing the sound of people, hurriedly slaps the coffin lid a few times.
Hearing a genuine sound in the coffin, several young men are so frightened, they want their mothers, they run out.
Legend has it that a man who"s corpse is possessed will have great strength, and will pounce on anyone and bite him to death.
Yu Qing Yao is very angry and bitter. From the bottom of her heart she is hoping for people to come, thinking she is gonna be saved, who would have thought that they"re all cowards, even scared away.
She began to think about how to help herself, touching around, she touched a bamboo pillow, a thin quilt, an iron hairpin in her hair, and some clothes.
In the dark, she finds a thin slit on the left. With her iron hairpin she explores, finding that the plank is not thick, less than a fingers width. This is a thin wooden coffin.
She leans sideways, with a hairpin in her left hand on the edge of the seam, and her right hand lifts up her pillow and smashes.
After a few blows, a hole the size of a cup appears.
Yu Qing Yao"s heart is joyful, my goodness!
What kind of board, so easy to break, if this girl wasn"t too weak, perhaps I could break it with one foot.
After a few blows, she is tired again, laying flat and resting, she decided to smash it again later.
At this point, there is a big commotion in Li Jia Village.
The news of the Yu families corpse possession grew wings and spread throughout the village.
All bold youths came, with their dung forks and hoes.
Yu Qing Yao takes an even breath, ready to smash the coffin board again, eyes to the hole, seeing the scene outside, she is dizzy. The memory of the little girl comes to mind.
This is Li Jia Village, Yu Qing Yao is the only daughter of a merchant in this village. Father Yu was a solo merchant. When he went out to do business the year before, he was killed by bandits. Yu Mother is not very shrewd, she was cheated of her money by relatives, furious she ran and hung herself.
Yu Qing Yao was only ten years old at the time and lived by tending the sheep.
While he was still living Yu Father arranged her marriage, and her fiancé was Li Huaide. Li Huaide"s family is very good. They have fifty acres of land.
Yu Qing Yao wholeheartedly hopes that in a few years, she can marry into the Li family and live a good life.
In fact, after the death of Yu Father, seeing the dest.i.tute Yu family, they thought about withdrawing from the marriage promise.
But afraid of being scolded by the other villagers for favoring the rich and disdaining the poor, coupled with their only child Li Huaide liking Yu Qing Yao very much, insisting on marrying her.
Yu Qing Yao looks good, cute, clever and hardworking. Li Huaide"s parents have been hesitant, until this year, the situation changed.
Li Huaide, who was studying in the city academy, went to Feiyun to go sightseeing and play with his cla.s.smates one day. However, he was seen by *Master Daoist w.a.n.g and was taken as an apprentice on the spot.
Daoist w.a.n.g is a famous man, known for thousands of miles, people say he is a Daoist Immortal.
At the thought of his son becoming a Daoist Immortal, Li"s parents feel that Yu Qing Yao does not deserve their son, want to withdraw from the marriage.
But Li Huaide still refuses to withdraw from marriage, and this has dragged on.
Not long ago, the City Lord Zhao sent a matchmaker to propose marriage, and they also got a letter from Daoist w.a.n.g, instructing his family to withdraw from marriage, and marry the Zhao family. Li"s parents finally made up their minds, the Patriarch invited Yu Qing Yao over to formally withdraw from marriage.
What can a lonely and helpless Yu Qing Yao do? She can only tearfully back off from the marriage.
Back home, the little girl is aware that she has no face* to see people, and feels that a person living alone is not interesting, so she hung a rope on the roof beam and hung herself.
In the evening, her little friend next door, afraid that she is too depressed, came to accompany her, only to find that Yu Qing Yao had hung herself.
The Li family pities her, calling for some people to cut two fir trees outside the village, making her a thin coffin, and planning to send her up the mountain two days later.
Figuring out her life story Yu Qing Yao cannot help but feel pity, thinking that this girl is truly pitiful.
She is not surprised that the Li family withdrew from the marriage. In modern society there are too many people who favor the rich and disdain the poor. Those who keep their promises are high-quality people. Wishing that ancient ordinary villagers have high moral values, isn"t that silly?
Li Huaide? Hearing this name makes her angry.
Retreat, very good, this girl can be carefree and live a good life in this world.
Well, why can"t she cross and be a princess? A n.o.ble young miss is not bad either! Even an ordinary village girl is okay. The start is a bit miserable.
Terms:
(1*) Corpse Possession - 诈尸 zhà shī -Superst.i.tion legend referring to the strange phenomenon of a dead man"s body suddenly moving. The ancients folks said that when people die, sometimes there is still a breath left in their chest. If they are met by cats, dogs and mice, (who carry evil residual spirits) they will be resurrected. But this breath does not support life at all, only like a resurrected corpse beast. In the end, the breath will be exhausted, it will fall to the ground and then it is completely dead. Zha shi is different from resurrection, a kind of disorderly state, but also different from borrowing the body to return the soul. At first I thought they were talking bout zombies but its different, literally translates to swindling corpse. Credits to Baidu.
(2*) Master Daoist w.a.n.g- He is actually referred to as w.a.n.g Dao Zhang. Dao Zhang meaning Daoist Priest, which is a t.i.tle, but I think Master Daoist is more apt.
(3*) Face- Honor; reputation; face (as in "losing face"); self-respect, dignity.