Chapter 33: Li Laosan is dead

"Great Immortal, Great Immortal" Ma Lin was still in a daze, and a green smoke fell in the hall.

Ma Lin shook his head and came to his senses, and saw that it was the immortal family sent to the twins' house in the morning to send money to Li Laosan.

"Daxian, Li Laosan is dead!" The immortal family walked two steps, arched his hand, and made a report.

Ma Lin's head was still a little muddy, and he didn't react for a while: "Who died?" ”

"Li Laosan!" The immortal family repeated.

Ma Lin "Teng" got up on the chair all of a sudden, took a step forward, and grabbed the arm of the immortal family: "How did Li Laosan die!" ”

The immortal family quietly broke free from Ma Lin's hand, took a step back, and said, "Hang yourself with his mother-in-law!" ”

Ma Lin's eyes were empty, and it took a long time before he sat back with a complicated face. Ma Lin looked at the immortal family in front of him and sighed: "Hey, let's go to Li Laosan's house and have a look!" ”

……

The gate of Li Laosan's house was strung with some stubby branches, and it was opening wide at this time, and several villagers were talking in circles in the courtyard with their hands behind their backs.

Ma Lin said hello casually a few times, and then went into the house to check.

When he entered the door, Ma Lin saw Li Laosan and his family lying on a broken mat on the ground, covered with a thick quilt.

Ma Lin walked to the mat, slowly squatted down, and lifted a corner of the quilt.

Li Laosan Tieqing's face was hung with a long tongue, and there were blood stains on his eyes, nose, and ears.

Ma Lin couldn't bear it, reached out and wiped it on Li Laosan's eyes, and closed Li Laosan's eyes.

Ma Lin turned his head and asked the immortal family who was following him: "Does the Li Laosan family have a prepared coffin?" ”

The immortal shook his head: "Li Laosan and his family are both in the prime of life, how can they prepare that thing!" ”

Ma Lin nodded after hearing this, looked at Li Laosan twice, and then said: "I'm sorry for you to go to the coffin shop in the town to buy two coffins and come back, it doesn't need to be too good, just fit them." ”

As he spoke, Ma Lin took out a few oceans from his arms and handed them to the immortal family. The immortal family took it, nodded, and disappeared into green smoke.

Ma Lin turned his head and closed the eyelids of Li Laosan's daughter-in-law, and muttered a few words before covering the quilt for Li Laosan and his wife, slowly stood up, walked out of the house, and walked to the yard.

This time, there were only three people left in the courtyard, chatting and laughing.

One is Mu Lao-Er, who came to inform yesterday, and the other is a watchman, and the other is a scoundrel who helps idle.

Ma Lin approached Mu Lao-Er, arched his hand, and said, "Second master, this old Li family is considered to be out of order, how to deal with this future!" ”

Mu Lao-Er saw that it was Ma Lin who came over, and he was more polite, so he slowly stood up and arched his hand: "Speaking of which, this Li Laosan is also unlucky, and it has only been a few years since he moved to our Mu family set, and his family is ruined!" ”

Ma Lin also nodded with feeling.

Mu Lao-er said again: "Originally, this child from his family was still from our village, and this happened to his family again, so it stands to reason that our village should take care of the aftermath for him!" ”

Mu Lao-Er's words changed, and he blurted out his words: "But, our village is not rich in the first place, who can give Li Laosan the money!" Besides, in a few days, it's time for the bandits to come and ask for confessions, so let's always prepare the money of those masters! ”

As soon as Mu Lao-Er said this, Ma Lin immediately understood, and Ma Lin looked at Mu Lao-Er in a daze for a while, and then said: "Second master, I will take care of this funeral of his family, but I hope that when his family carries the coffin, the village can come to help, after all, I can't do it alone!" ”

When Mu Lao-Er heard this, he immediately became happy: "This is easy to say, this is easy to say." It has to be the benevolence of your old Ma family, your grandmother was benevolent and righteous when she was alive, and now it has been passed on to you, you are still benevolent and righteous. ”

Mu Lao-er said compliments for a while, then patted his clothes and arched his hand to Ma Lin: "I still have some things, so I'll leave first, call me on the day of the funeral, I will definitely send a few young men to help!" ”

Then he turned and left with the two men.

Ma Lin watched the three of them leave, turned his head to look at the empty courtyard, and Ma Lin was the only one left, Ma Lin casually found a stone to sit down, lowered his head, and didn't know what he was thinking.

About an hour later, the immortal family who went to buy the coffin came back again.

Before the green smoke of the immortal family dissipated, he said in a slight panic: "Daxian, it's not good, the owner of the coffin shop in the town is also dead!" ”

Ma Lin stood up again with an "ah" sound, and hurriedly stepped forward: "Tell me quickly, what's going on!" ”

The immortal family took a breath: "In the morning, Daxian, didn't you let me buy a coffin!" I hurried to the town, and I had been to the coffin shop a few times before. The boss is a postnatal in his thirties, and the coffin shop is his family's ancestor! ”

Ma Lin listened to the chatter of the immortal family, so he didn't mention the business, and was a little impatient: "Let's talk about the point!" ”

Only then did the immortal family say: "Later, when I got there, I changed my appearance a little, and then I went to knock on the door." But I knocked on the belt for a long time, and no one came out. I wondered if someone had fallen asleep and hadn't gotten up yet, so I used a spell to go straight through the wall! ”

The immortal family paused for a moment and looked at Ma Lin's eyes: "Guess what I saw!" ”

Ma Lin was a little impatient: "What do you see, say it quickly, don't sell it!" ”

The immortal family was not annoyed, and said, "There is a dried corpse in the courtyard!" ”

"Dry corpse!" Ma Lin was startled and repeated in a low voice.

"Ah, no, I was shocked when I saw it, and then hurried over to check. The dry corpse was lying on the ground, and I turned him over, and then I recognized that it was the owner of the coffin shop. The immortal family said without hurry.

"Is there anything unusual in that yard?" Ma Lin asked.

The immortal family thought for a moment before saying, "Look at it like that, the owner of the coffin shop should be eating, and then suddenly encountered an accident. There were two pairs of chopsticks on the table, but I only saw the body of the coffin shop owner himself in the yard! ”

Ma Lin nodded: "In that case, there is the greatest possibility that the other person is the murderer!" ”

The immortal family also nodded: "I think so too, but I don't think the other one is necessarily human!" ”

……

By the time Ma Lin arrived in town, it was already afternoon.

Ma Lin has learned the lessons of the previous few things, so this time he not only brought Python Dali and Chang Ranran, but also brought more than 20 immortals. It's just that these immortals are temporarily attached to their clothes and are not revealed.

The coffin shop is also at the south end of town, not far from the old widower's paper shop.

When Ma Lin came to the outside of the coffin shop, there were already a lot of people at the door of the coffin shop, and Ma Lin squeezed hard before entering the innermost.

At the entrance of the shop, two security guards in blue uniforms with guns on their backs stood guard, and the pot-bellied security captain was walking around the shop with his hands behind his back.

Ma Lin wasn't sure if the security captain could still remember himself, so he didn't take the risk at the moment, so he covered his face slightly, pretending to be a melon-eating crowd watching the excitement on the sidelines.

After about a quarter of an hour, a pretending figure came out of it and muttered something in the ear of the security captain. The security captain looked around nervously, and hurriedly took the people away, but did not take the body with him.

As soon as the security captain left, the people who ate melons saw that there was nothing to do, so they also shouted and walked away. But no one has the courage to dare to go to the back to see the dried corpse by himself.

Ma Lin and the others were all dispersed, so they looked left and right, and saw that no one was looking at this area, so they quickly entered the shop.

In the middle of the courtyard, there was still the same table of dishes, which looked like they had been turned over. Next to the table lay the body of the coffin shop owner, but his clothes had been torn and thrown aside.

Ma Lin squatted down and pinched his nose. He turned the dried corpse over and looked up and down carefully, but found no external injuries. I just found something like rouge on the lips of the dried corpse.

Ma Lin dipped it a little with his hand, and his fingers were crushed, a little greasy. Ma Lin nodded, sure that this was Rouge.

When Ma Lin was inspecting, Python Dali and Chang Ran also appeared, squatting next to the dried corpse.

Ma Lin handed his rouge-stained fingers to the two of them, and the two of them also looked at each other.

Ma Lin said: "This murder should be committed by a woman. ”

The python had no objection and nodded, but he looked pensive and frowned.

As soon as Ma Lin saw Chang Ran like this, he knew that Chang Ran ran had a different guess, and immediately asked, "Run Ran, did you find something?" ”

Chang Ran frowned and said: "I can't say the specifics, but when I traveled before, I also heard people say that this situation is a kind of evil thing called 'wandering corpse'." ”

Ma Lin frowned and repeated: "Flowing corpses!" ”

Chang Ran ran nodded: "I don't know if there is one, the man said that the wandering corpse is a person who has died." But he can still maintain his body and wander the world. Every ten years, you must feed on the yang energy of the living and maintain your body! Anyone who has been sucked by the yang energy of the exiled corpse will eventually turn into a dried corpse. ”

Chang ran to look at Python Dali and Ma Lin, and said: "Let's see if the owner of this coffin shop is the same as the one who was sucked yang qi, so I suspect that it may be caused by a flowing corpse." ”

Ma Lin and the python looked at each other vigorously, Ma Lin had never experienced this kind of thing, and he didn't understand, so he didn't speak.

But the python vigorously disagreed with the inference of running and running, and retorted: "Run, even if it is a dry corpse, it can't be determined that it is a wandering corpse, like a ghost or something, sucking people's yang energy, doesn't it have the same effect!" ”

Chang Ran ran listened to the python's words, nodded his head, and said a little embarrassedly: "I just made a guess, what is it, I have to continue to investigate!" ”

The three of them looked at it for a while, but they were still unsure what it was. But there is no doubt that this must have been the work of an evil creature.

"Otherwise, let's send a breeze to the underworld to ask the owner of this coffin shop and see what he has to say!" The python thought vigorously for a while and gave an idea.

often ran and listened, and slapped his thigh: "This idea is good, you will know when you go down and ask, and it will save us from guessing." ”

Chang Ran paused for a moment and said: "But it's not possible to send a breeze casually, and other people's prefectures may not buy our accounts!" ”

"Then let Zuo Siliang go!" Ma Lin interjected.