This night, Zhuo Datong tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, and his mind was full of the scene of seeing Jiang Guirong sitting in the courtyard in the early morning.

Sometimes he was frightened, sometimes he was flustered, sometimes he wondered if there was a person standing by the bed, and sometimes he seemed to hear someone knocking on the door outside the courtyard.

When I opened my eyes, I scanned the bedroom and there was no one else but myself.

Listening carefully outside, there was silence and no knocking on the door.

Tossed until midnight, I don't know what time it was, Zhuo Datong finally fell asleep in a daze.

He didn't sleep peacefully at all, as if he hadn't fallen asleep at all, and the whole person was sometimes awake and sometimes confused.

In the early morning, after the sky just dawned, Zhuo Datong simply sat up, sat on the bed and lit a cigarette for himself, just smoking while looking ahead with a dull gaze.

After smoking a cigarette, I got up from the bed groggily, ready to go to the bathroom to pee and come back to continue sleeping, to see if I could sleep.

Everything he had experienced yesterday now seemed to him as if it was just a nightmare, and it seemed less real.

Glancing out of the window, Zhuo Datong's whole person suddenly froze in place.

Looking out of the window, I saw that in the courtyard in the early morning, on the familiar wooden chair, Jiang Guirong, who was dressed in a colorful shroud, was still sitting there, and the tightly wrapped sheets and tied ropes on her body were gone.

But this time, Jiang Guirong's sitting posture is no longer so upright.

Her head was drooping and down to her chest, her face almost invisible, and her feet were crooked, as if she were going to slip at any moment.

Her hands were resting on the wooden armrests on either side of the wooden chair, which also looked loose.

And unlike yesterday, Jiang Guirong at this moment, there is liquid dripping all over her body, and it seems that the inside of her body has rotted even more.

Under the chair she was sitting on, there had been a puddle of liquid that seemed to be black, emitting a strong stench.

Zhuo Datong picked up the phone tremblingly and called the old man Ye in the coffin shop.

An hour and a half later.

Old man Ye had a serious face, standing in the middle of Zhuo Datong's room, looking at Jiang Guirong's corpse outside, which had been wrapped in broken cotton wool by his two apprentices again.

Wrapped in broken cotton wool in order to achieve the purpose of absorbing water, so as not to let the corpse water continue to flow out.

A layer of lime powder was also sprinkled on the ground in the courtyard to neutralize the foul-smelling liquid.

Retracting his gaze from the busy apprentice, Old Man Ye's face was still a little red at this time, but he had already woken up from last night's wine.

He looked at Zhuo Datong and asked solemnly, "Did you do anything to be sorry for Gui Rong?" ”

Zhuo Datong was stunned, and then shook his head into a rattle, "No, I, Zhuo Datong, swear to the sky, absolutely not!" ”

"Does she have any unfulfilled wishes?" Old man Ye continued to ask.

"No, she said she just wanted me to live a healthy life." Zhuo Datong replied.

Old man Ye lowered his head, thought about it carefully, and asked again: "Do you usually have any symptoms, such as getting up by yourself when you fall asleep?" ”

Zhuo Datong asked rhetorically: "You're talking about sleepwalking, right?" I don't, I usually sleep okay, I never go to the toilet in the middle of the night, except for getting up to take care of Gui Rong. ”

Speaking of this, Zhuo Datong suddenly reacted to why Old Man Ye asked so, and looked at the corpse that had been rewrapped.

He said with a frightened face: "You mean, I had a sleepwalking attack, and I went to dig up Gui Rong's grave in the middle of the night, and then carried her back?!" ”

"Just guessing." Old man Ye said: "After all, when Gui Rong was alive, the neighbors knew that you had a good relationship, maybe you were subconsciously reluctant to let her go?" Then he fell asleep and unconsciously took her home again. ”

"No, no!" Zhuo Datong shook his head vigorously, "Definitely not, I barely fell asleep last night, even if I may have slept for a while, but it will definitely not reach the point of getting up and going to the grave four kilometers away to dig up Gui Rong's grave and carry her back." ”

"And ......," Zhuo Datong pointed to the lime powder on the ground, "If I carry the corpse back, why don't I get any foul-smelling liquid on my clothes, it's clean." ”

Old man Ye nodded, looking at it this way, it was indeed not Zhuo Datong who carried it back.

At this moment, Qiusheng and Wencai tied up the corpses, and the two of them seriously washed their hands with hand sanitizer at the faucet in the courtyard, and came to Old Man Ye's side.

Qiusheng said: "Master, this matter is too evil! I discussed it with Wen Cai, and we thought it would be better not to touch this matter again. It just so happens that I have something to do at home in the afternoon......"

Before he finished speaking, Old Man Ye's face had become ugly.

Zhuo Datong hurriedly took out a thousand yuan and gave each of the two apprentices five hundred, and said, "I'm bothering you, I'm really in trouble!" ”

As he spoke, he quietly stuffed the last thousand yuan on his body to Old Man Ye.

According to yesterday's practice, even if the body was to be returned to the grave for reburial, it would not be until after evening, so at this moment we had to wait.

The two apprentices accepted the money, no longer offered to leave, and sat honestly under the eaves.

Old man Ye sighed, sat on the cloth sofa in the inner room near the courtyard, and Zhuo Datong hurriedly made a pot of tea for the three of them.

After the tea became warm, Old Man Ye picked up his teacup and took a sip, he had been thinking about the key to this evil incident just now, stood up and said, "I'll go around your house." ”

"Well, you can look at it." Zhuo Datong nodded.

Old man Ye looked at it and asked, "Are there any antiques in the house, I mean real antiques, the kind that have been dug out of the tomb for some years?" ”

Zhuo Datong shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Where can I buy that kind of thing?" ”

Because he didn't rest well, his two eye bags looked bigger at the moment, as if there was another pair of fleshy eyes under his eyes.

Old man Ye asked again: "Then you carefully recall, are there any things in the house that you just got back recently, but they didn't belong to this house before?" ”

At this point, Zhuo Datong was stunned.

"Like, there's really one!"

After a while, Old Man Ye took the mask wood carving that Zhuo Datong took out from the bedroom, and said in surprise: "You bought this thing for 10,000 yuan?" ”

"Well, although it's not an antique, I feel that this mask is very similar to Gui Rong when she was younger, and I can even feel that she is smiling at me." Zhuo Datong explained: "Because during that time, I knew that Gui Rong was about to leave, and in order to have a thought in the future, I gritted my teeth and paid the deposit, and I just got it back not long ago." ”

Old man Ye and the two apprentices looked at this mask curiously, but they felt ordinary, and they didn't feel like anyone the more they looked at it.

So they came up with a thought at the same time: this Zhuo Dahan must have been deceived!

……

Shen Xing, who was sitting in front of the workbench in the wood carving shop, suddenly sneezed twice in a row.

He tore a tissue and wiped his nose, crumpled it into a paper ball, and threw it in the garbage basket.

"Am I catching a cold?"

Shen Xing looked down at this body that was getting stronger and more perfect and perfect, since the strength of his body had increased, where did he ever think about what kind of cold he would get?

Looking at the pectoral muscles and biceps, the more I looked at it, the more I felt good-looking, and after almost a minute, I suddenly praised it from the bottom of my heart: "What a sense of strength!" ”

When the words fell, he suddenly had a sense, and when he looked up, he saw a male customer who had entered the store at some point was stunned, staring at himself with a "stay away from me, you dead gay" eyes vigilantly and nervously.