Hearing the man's inquiry, Liu Fan scratched his head, and then he decided to tell the truth, Liu Fan told the other party that he was instructed by Master Qihong, the host of Hanshan Temple, to investigate the ghost bride's soul case, and through some investigation, he had already learned a little about the inside of the case.

I thought that I would spend some time explaining the reason for the matter, but I didn't expect that after the other party heard Liu Fan's intention, instead of blocking it, he swept away the previous indifference, and instead showed a warm and cordial appearance: "So that's the case, it's nothing to examine the corpse, but there is one thing I have to make clear in advance."

According to the regulations of the Yamen Divine Capture Room, in addition to the officials who came to inspect the corpse with the documents of the Divine Capture Room, the people who came to contact the corpse had to pay a fee, including 10 copper coins for the corpse, 30 copper coins for the burial of the corpse, 50 copper coins for the corpse, 70 copper coins for the coffin, and 100 copper coins for accompanying the corpse. ”

After saying these price lists, the man began to introduce himself again: "My name is Feng Jincai, forty-seven years old this year, and he is a servant under the name of the Suzhou Mansion Yashen Capture House, entrusted by the prefect, my wife and I are responsible for taking care of this Yizhuang, little brother, since you are going to go inside to examine the corpse, brother, I highly recommend a few magic weapons." ”

When the words fell, the man mysteriously took out a pile of wrinkled yellow paper from his arms: "It's not my brother who scares you, it's very evil here every night, in order to avoid those unclean things from approaching, you'd better buy a few talismans to wear, this is a ghost exorcism talisman, this is an evil talisman, this is a transcendence talisman, this is a talisman, this is a ......"

Seeing Feng Jincai's chattering appearance, Liu Fan directly took out a silver ingot from his arms, this is all the belongings on his body, in order to let Feng Jincai shut up, he took out all the belongings on his body, and after stuffing the silver into Feng Jincai's hand, Liu Fan asked: "Brother Feng, what kind of service can these silver get?" ”

"It's a slot, big customer."

After taking the silver handed over by Liu Fan, Feng Jin subconsciously swallowed his saliva and carefully put away the silver, his face was full of smiles, remembering the question Liu Fan had just raised, Feng Jin pondered for a moment, and then replied: "Since the little brother is so bold, then I won't twist it, just do what you say tonight." ”

"Thank you, Brother Feng, then let's go in now." Liu Fan was a little polite, then urged Feng Jincai to enter Yizhuang, through the vermilion gate, only to see that there were four houses on the left and right sides of the entrance of Yizhuang, at this time the two houses on the left were lit with candles, the candlelight was reflected through the windows, and the houses on the right were all dark.

Yizhuang covers a very large area, its building structure is rectangular, the width of the east and west sides is more than 200 meters, the length of the north and south sides is nearly 400 meters, the middle of the yard is planted with tall and tall pine trees, in addition to the eight houses on both sides of the south side of the door, the main house on the north side and the side houses on the east and west sides are all coffins.

"Brother, did you come by yourself? Or did you come with someone else? ”

Hearing Feng Jincai's words, Liu Fan thought he was asking himself how he came to Suzhou? He replied casually: "I came with my brother, he was a little unwell and rested in the infirmary." ”

"Oh, that's the only one going inside to examine the body."

After listening to Liu Fan's answer, Feng Jin walked to the window, patted the window frame hard, and shouted loudly inside: "Son, come to business...... Ahem...... What's that...... When a guest comes, you quickly cut four pieces of shredded green onion and ginger, wrap them in thin thread, and then take two cloth covers. ”

"What guests are here at night? A copper coin wrapped in shredded green onion and ginger, and a pair of two copper coins covered with a mouth cloth, love to buy or not, refuse to bargain. An impatient voice came from inside the room, and as he spoke, the man inside pushed open the window, and it was a middle-aged woman in a burlap garment, with messy hair and dirt on her face.

Glancing at Liu Fan, the woman handed out a plate outside the window, which contained four rolls of shredded green onions and ginger tied with thin threads, and two strips of cloth next to them. ”

"Get out of the way, what's not money, what do you know about a bear girl?" Seeing that his daughter-in-law asked Liu Fan for money, Feng Jincai suddenly became anxious, reprimanded a few words, and after training his daughter-in-law in confusion, he casually took out the ingot of silver given by Liu Fan, and shook it proudly: "Our brother has already given money." ”

......Seeing the silver ingot in Feng Jincai's hand, the woman's eyes suddenly lit up, and she couldn't help but show a smile: "Oh my God, so much silver, daddy, who is this little minister?" Why are you here for you? You'll have to entertain your guests, and I'll clean up the room next door. ”

Seeing that his daughter-in-law saw the money, Feng Jincai also panicked, and then said Liu Fan's intentions: "This little minister was instructed by the host of Hanshan Temple to come to the suburbs to investigate the matter of the Hongyun Inn, it is the haunted inn, the little minister came here for an autopsy, and wanted to see the bodies of the deceased back then. ”

"That's all about Chen Sesame and Messy Grain, what's so beautiful? If you want me to say, if it weren't for the insistence of the shopkeeper Zhu Da to marry the Chunling girl home, his Hongyun Inn would not have these things, at the beginning, Zhang Banxian said that the two of them did not agree, but the shopkeeper Zhu Da couldn't listen to it, and it was a pity. The woman sighed.

"Dare to ask the eldest brother and sister-in-law, who is this half-immortal?" Liu Fan asked.

"Little brother, don't listen to her being a woman." Glaring at his daughter-in-law, Feng Jincai explained to Liu Fan: "That half-immortal is a Taoist priest in the Zhenjun Temple in the suburbs, because the reputation of the Zhenjun Temple is not as big as the name of Hanshan Temple, so it has been closed in the past few years, to be honest, the situation of the Zhenjun Temple is not as good as my Yizhuang."

I still have the government's money here to receive, but Zhenjunguan has no money over there, in order to make a living, Zhang Banxian came to the market to set up a stall to tell fortunes, and occasionally helped people to exorcise evil spirits, but the business is average, I heard that he is thinking about developing a new business these days, and plans to learn from the monks in the temple and go to those big families to turn their fortunes. ”

After saying this, Feng Jin looked at the time, and then urged Liu Fan to go to the back of the autopsy, he told Liu Fan that although it is not taboo to touch the dead corpse in their business, there are some rules that have been passed down from generation to generation, and it is best not to go through the coffin autopsy.

On the way to the coffin, Feng Jin stuffed the rolled green onion and ginger shreds into his nostrils, and tied the cloth strip to his nose, and then he told Liu Fan that although the location of the morgue was cool and cold, it was a place where the corpse was parked all year round, so there was a strong rancid smell in it, which could effectively isolate the smell of the corpse's rancidity.

Hearing Feng Jincai's introduction, Liu Fan also learned to do it, when he stuffed the green onion and ginger shreds into his nostrils, a strong and pungent smell filled his nostrils, coupled with the strip of cloth tied to his nose, he really couldn't smell any other smells, and the two walked all the way down the brick road towards the morgue.

At first, the two sides of Yizhuang were just towering courtyard walls, but when they walked dozens of meters, there were quaint houses on the east and west sides, all of which were decades old, many roofs had collapsed, some doors and windows were seriously damaged, the cold wind was dark night, and the dilapidated houses were in front, Liu Fan and Feng Jin carried lanterns and walked forward slowly.

On the north side of Yizhuang is more than 20 main rooms, in the middle is a room similar to a hall, and on both sides are all independent rooms.

This place is not afraid of being stolen, so the door is not locked, Feng Jincai walked to the door of the fifth house on the left, stretched out his hand and pushed open the wooden door, "sque......ak" With a muffled sound, the wooden door of the room was pushed open, Feng Jincai took the lead in entering, Liu Fan then followed into the house, as soon as he entered the door, Liu Fan was startled by the scene inside.

This house is almost more than seventy square meters, and there are five coffins neatly parked inside, the coffin on the far left is open, and the four coffins next to it are quietly placed on the wooden frame, Feng Jincai pointed to the five coffins, so as to introduce to Liu Fan, the empty coffin is Chunling's. The four coffins next to them were Zhu Zishan's wife, Zhu Zishan's eldest son, Zhu Zishan's second son, and the maid Xiaoping.

Liu Fan first came to the empty coffin on the left, those coffins made of ordinary willow wood, the whole body was blood red, at this time the coffin was empty, and there was a coffin lid erected on the wall next to the coffin.

The font is dignified and exquisite, looking at the eight oaths written in blood on the lid of the coffin, Liu Fan felt a trace of inexplicable jealousy in his heart, as if these eight blood words contained some kind of power, and looked at the handwriting intently, Liu Fan turned his gaze to the other four coffins, and after thinking for a moment, he said to Feng Jincai: "Open the coffin." ”

Hearing that Liu Fan asked the coffin to be opened, Feng Jincai was not verbose, pulled out the long nail that fixed the coffin lid, and he and Liu Fan together opened the coffin lid of Zhu Zishan's wife, and when the coffin lid was opened, a disgusting corpse smell came to his face, although the nostrils were stuffed with things in advance, but Liu Fan was still so smoked that he almost vomited.

Holding back the discomfort in his heart, Liu Fan pushed the coffin lid open and lifted it up under Feng Jincai's prompting, and put the coffin lid next to the shelf below, and Liu Fan and the others walked towards the next coffin.

The two of them opened all the remaining three coffins in one go, and after all four coffins were opened, a strong smell of corpse decay emanated from the room, Liu Fan retched a few times, and then began to observe the corpse.

Although he had prepared in advance, when Liu Fan saw the corpse in front of him, he still showed a shocked face. house