Although Cui Rongguang is a cadre from the city and has always been submissive by the village chief, he also understands that in such a small place, if he can't persuade the people to help willingly, his work will be really difficult to carry out.

Just look at the villagers at the door of the village chief's house, even if Liu Mazi's death has nothing to do with the archaeological team, the archaeological team will not be able to stay in the village.

With Zeng Ruoke's previous incidents, Cui Rongguang is no longer so repulsive to ghosts and gods, he did not argue with the village chief whether there are ghosts or not, and no one is willing to let the archaeological team stay overnight, and no one is a guide for the archaeological team. Cui Rongguang has no other choice but to regress.

His tone softened, but he still said to the village chief: "Comrade village chief, I know that the entry of our archaeological team has brought great trouble to the village. I didn't have a good attitude just now, and I apologize to you now. Actually, we also feel very guilty when something like this happens. I can understand how you feel, and I can understand that you don't want to take any more risks, but I hope you can understand us. Now we still have a comrade trapped in the grave, not knowing life and death. Even if it is not for the development of the mausoleum, we have to rescue people, we must see people alive, and we must see corpses when we die! So, I hope to stay here and lend us a place to live. But I promise that if the people of your village don't want to, I won't force anyone to help me anymore. ”

The village chief hesitated.

If Cui Rongguang's tone was still as hard as before, then of course everything would not be discussed.

But now, under the pretext of wanting to get his teammates back, he wants to stay in the village. Then the village chief can't be unkind, but it's hard to refuse.

After much consideration, in the end, the village chief persuaded the villagers who were surrounding the house to return, and also found a place for the archaeological team to settle in the village. But they had to ensure that the archaeological team would not touch any more mausoleums at least until Liu Mazi was buried. so as not to cause Liu Mazi's soul to be uneasy and refuse to leave.

It's really strange to say, just after Cui Rongguang promised the village chief, and the village chief once again arranged a place for the archaeological team members to live properly, the rain that had been drifting in the sky gradually stopped, and the sky slowly cleared up a few hours later.

I don't have time to pay more attention to the weather, because Liu Mazi doesn't have a family, so I have other things to do. The family was supposed to clean his body, but now, it was only me, the coffin bearer, who could do it.

Since the body was so badly damaged, I had to find a way to restore the deceased's broken head before I could wipe his body and get dressed.

As for the joint he broke, I directly nailed it to him with a mahogany nail. One is to let him have a whole corpse, and the other is to be afraid that he will die too fiercely and will cheat the corpse.

That night, Liu Mazi's body was parked in the mourning shed set up in the courtyard of the village chief's house. In order to prevent accidents at night, I stayed with Jiang Yifeng at the village chief's house that night, and I sprinkled the liquid of cinnabar mixed with black dog blood outside the courtyard and next to the village chief's house.

The night passed quickly, and I slept surprisingly well this night, and when I woke up, the village chief had come to call me for breakfast. While eating, the village chief mentioned Cui Rongguang's matter to me again.

He said to me, "Boss of the Guan family, I know that you are still thinking about the mausoleum. But now that they're gone, I'll tell you that if they find you again, you'll turn them down. That mausoleum is by no means something that ordinary people can touch, and if you touch it rashly, it will be very dangerous. You still have family to take care of, so there's no need to go on adventures with them. ”

Hearing him say this, I couldn't help but ask, "Village Chief, do you know something?" Is there really a ...... in our village?"

"Well, I also heard about it from the old village chief." The village chief said to me, "Anyway, that's all I can tell you, and if you ask anything else, I don't know." Let's eat, Liu Mazi's affairs will be handed over to you. ”

After eating, I took advantage of the fact that it was not raining and went to the tomb mountain with Jiang Yifeng.

I don't know where Liu Mazi fell from, and I don't want to go out of my way to find that place. It's just that according to his birthday, he is counted as a good place. It can not only let him eliminate his resentment, but also allow him to die as soon as possible.

After determining the site of the tomb, on the way back, I paid special attention to the route up the mountain.

Because Liu Mazi was killed by murder and has no family, it is not good to stay in other people's homes for too long, so I can only find a date to bury him nearby.

But the weather has been very humid lately, and it has rained for so long before, the mountain roads are somewhat muddy and difficult to walk, and in many places it is even difficult to get down. In order to prevent anything bad from happening when carrying the coffin, I had to help the Eight Immortals find a path that is as easy as possible to walk, and then find a place to rest on the road.

When everything was settled, I arranged everything and stayed at the village chief's house. Until three days later, the village chief's family also helped to handle Liu Mazi's funeral.

I heard from the elders in the village that Liu Mazi has been an orphan since he was a child, and even the question of whether he is from our village is debatable. But the people in the village were kind-hearted, and at that time, although everyone was very poor, it was a bowl of rice from the east family and a piece of clothing from the west family that allowed him to grow up.

Since he was a teenager, he has been wandering around the nearby villages, idle, stealing chickens and dogs all day long, and his reputation in the surrounding villages is extremely bad, even to the point that everyone is beating. So much so that he couldn't marry a daughter-in-law in his thirties, and he was still lonely all day long.

But he has an advantage as a person, that is, he pays attention to rabbits and does not eat the grass around the nest. Although he is very casual to people in other villages, he often causes trouble. But to the people of our village, he always remembered his kindness, not only did he never cause trouble, even if the trouble really caused him, he just smiled stupidly and didn't care.

Such a person dies and feels happy, of course, there are many people. But for the people of our village, it is a pity that he died. Many people feel that his death is actually quite unjust.

It is precisely because of this that on the day of his funeral, most of the people in the village came. Some took the initiative to ask the young people of his family to help him make flags and break bowls, some took the initiative to help him scatter paper money and incense, and some took the initiative to help him dig graves and fill in the soil. As for the one who was not assigned to do the work, he also took the initiative to ask to follow the team to send him on his last ride.

At the village chief's house, after eating the banquet and seeing that the time was not early, I took out the yellow charm and put it on my shoulder, tied Liu Mazi's body with a corpse rope, and with the help of Jiang Yifeng, I carried him on his back, carried him all the way to the coffin, and then carefully settled him in the coffin.

As usual, he stuffed copper coins in his hands, and laid paper money under his body, so that he would not have any money to use when he went below. When I closed the coffin lid, I still silently said to him in my heart: "I will be reincarnated as a good family in the next life, but don't be as bitter as in this life." ”

The coffin was sealed, carried by the eight immortals to the bench that had been set up long ago, and the drummer was ready, and I was about to preside over the coffin, but something suddenly happened at the scene.

Just as I didn't say a word, more than a dozen people walked in from the gate of the courtyard, and the atmosphere in the courtyard suddenly changed.

"Captain Cui? What are you doing here? I couldn't help but exclaim.

At this time, the person Liu Mazi doesn't want to see the most may be Captain Cui and his party. So, they knew that today was a funeral for Liu Mazi, why did they come?