The Master did not answer me, but walked quickly to the door, looked at it, then walked to the front of the big shed and looked at it, then turned back, pointed to the door, and said, "Open the door!" "Hearing Master's words, I couldn't help but be stunned, the door was obviously locked from the inside, I should have knocked on the door and asked Mr. Yao to open it, how could Master let me open it with Tian Fatzi? I looked at Tian Fatzi, and Tian Fatzi also shook his head blankly.

But since Master said so, I had to go forward and push the door, and found that it couldn't be pushed, and the door was indeed latched from the inside, so I hurriedly knocked on the door and shouted, "Mr. Yao, is Mr. Yao here?" We are ......"

"What so much nonsense!" Master glared at me and said, "Just slam the door open!" ”

"Huh? Master, Mr. Yao is inside, it's not appropriate for us to recklessly bang on the door and go in, right? I looked at Master in amazement, when did Master become so violent? Hasn't he always been very polite? Why is it so bold now? Smacking my lips, I turned sideways and said to Tian Fatman: "Tian Fatty, you are big, you, you come and knock the door open!" ”

Tian Fatzi was stunned, and immediately took two steps back, and then rushed to the door, slamming the door open, but the door seemed to be too shabby, and Tian Fatzi was too hard, and he fell in with the door panel. At this moment, a musty smell actually blew out from the inside, I frowned, and was stunned: "What kind of smell is this?" Something looks moldy! ”

The master settled down and said seriously: "It's because the corpse is starting to stink, I'm afraid it's going to rot!" ”

"Huh?!"

Hearing Master's words again, Tian Fatzi and I both jumped up, daring to love, dare to love Mr. Yao, he is dead? No wonder Master asked us to open the door, it turned out that Master had just seen that there was a dead person inside, and Mr. Yao lived alone, and the dead person must have been Mr. Yao. But the master didn't explain it, so I thought that the master had become violent, but, but the news of Mr. Yao's death, how could the people in this Niutou Village not know?

The old men who were at the entrance of the village before also said that Mr. Yao had not gone out for a long time, and they didn't even doubt that Mr. Yao had an accident, really.

Tian Fatzi installed the door panel, and Master and I immediately walked in, the musty smell in this room was really terrible, the smell of food was stinky, and there were some stinking smells of paste, all kinds of smells were mixed together, and it was really a bit heavy. But if you smell it carefully, there is indeed a trace of corpse gas emitted from the corpse, but the corpse gas is not very obvious, how did the master smell it? But I think Master is more like seeing it.

As for how you see it, I don't know.

We went directly into the inner room, and sure enough, we saw a gray-haired old man, lying peacefully on the bed, covered with a futon, and walked up to me, I was stunned and said, "Master, look at this old Mr. Yao's corpse, how is it exactly the same as a living person?" My face is still red, and if it weren't for the loss of my forehead lines, I really can't believe it's a dead man! ”

"Don't move!" Seeing that I reached out, Master hurriedly stopped me, and said solemnly, "There is something wrong with Mr. Yao's body!" ”

"Uh......" I asked, stunned, "what's the problem?" ”

The master quietly observed Mr. Yao's corpse, then glanced left and right, and turned his head to Tian Fatzi and said, "Look at the food that Mr. Yao once ate, to what extent it has rotted, and how long ago it was." ”

Tian Fatzi agreed, turned around and walked to the outhouse, and after a while, Tian Fatzi came back and said to the master: "Mr. Yang, those foods are seriously rotten, but the moisture in Mr. Yao's house is not very heavy, it stands to reason that if it is not put for a long time, those dry foods will not be moldy to that extent, and a rough estimate should at least start to mold and rot more than a month ago!" ”

"This ...... What does this mean? I opened my mouth, and then said in disbelief: "If those foods began to mold and rot more than a month ago, that is to say, Mr. Yao has not taken care of what he has eaten for more than a month, and if people don't eat or drink, they will die in three days at most, then, it won't be that Mr. Yao died more than a month ago, right?" Master, but Mr. Yao's corpse looks ...... It doesn't look like a corpse that has been dead for more than a month! The ventilation of his house is not good, such a stuffy room, it would be good if the corpse could be put for a few days, and it was designated to rot and stink, but if Mr. Yao died more than a month ago, it is impossible for it to remain the same now. ”

The master nodded and said, "If it is according to common sense, it is true, but Mr. Yao's corpse cannot be extrapolated according to common sense!" ”

"Why?!" Tian Fatzi and I both asked in unison.

The master frowned, stretched out his hand to open Mr. Yao's mouth, then bent over to take a look, stood up, and said: "Sure enough, as I expected, you see what he is in his mouth, at first I suspected that Mr. Yao's body was treated with antiseptic powder, but now it seems that it is not, there is a bead in his mouth. The bead was not an ordinary product, it was a rarity! ”

I and Tian Fatzi came to the front one after another, took a closer look, sure enough, this Mr. Yao's mouth, is actually holding a crystal clear green bead, I don't know why, this Mr. Yao's mouth opened, not only can not smell any stench, but a strange fragrance wafted out, if it is not for what medicine he has taken, then it must be the strangeness of the bead!

"Master, do you know what kind of bead it is? How can it be so magical? "I was curious to take it out and take a look, but I guess if I took out that bead, Mr. Yao's body would definitely decompose immediately.

Master first closed Mr. Yao's mouth, then turned around and said, "This bead must be the legendary corpse bead. The corpse beads originated in the ancient Warring States period, when the development of medicine has reached a very heyday, but with the gradual deepening of the world's beliefs, the idea of evil death and good life is not only buried deep in the hearts of ordinary people, but also deeply rooted in the hearts of emperors. But only this one, after never making this kind of pill for anyone, the rarity of the corpse beads, it is rare that no one knows the secret method, and it is rare in the world, and some people use various secret methods to preserve the body, but there are not many results, and the one that can be kept unchanged for thousands of years has not appeared so far. As for how this corpse bead ended up in the people, no one knows, maybe it was done by tomb robbers, but this old Mr. Yao is really lucky to get such a rare treasure! ”

"yes!" I thought about it curiously, and then said incredibly: "It is difficult to produce a corpse bead for a thousand years, and it has been transferred to the people, and it is owned by an unknown person like Mr. Yao, which is really wonderful, but most of these folk craftsmen are powerful characters, especially this Mr. Yao, who is respected as Yao Qianshou, must have befriended people from various industries, so as to get this corpse bead, it can be said to be more or less." ”

The master frowned, and then said: "But since Mr. Yao uses the corpse bead on himself, he should know very well that this corpse bead is very valuable, he just locks himself in the house, sooner or later he will be discovered, if it is known that he has the corpse bead in his mouth, it is difficult to ensure that he will not be coveted by people, no, this is not a wise move, Mr. Yao is also a person who is well versed in the world, and he should be very thoughtful in doing anything, if it is according to common sense, he should not lock himself in the house, Just die in your own bed. ”

I was stunned and asked, "Master, what do you want to say?" It can't be that someone stuffed the corpse bead into Mr. Yao's mouth after his death, right? This is the only way to make sense, otherwise I don't believe that he would be so relieved to put his body on the bed, waiting for someone to take away the corpse beads. ”

"Alas!" The master sighed deeply, and then said: "I can't find a clue about this now, since I know that Mr. Yao used the corpse bead to keep the corpse unchanged for more than a month, that is to say, he has been dead for so long. This, this is even more wrong, Mr. Wang of Dongpo Village, his father obviously died last month, and he also asked people to come to the ** paper handicraft last month, now counting, it is at most a month's time, I can't stop it! ”

"Hmm!" I nodded heavily, and followed Master's train of thought and pondered: "Old man Wang bought the paper making craft a month ago, and Mr. Yao died more than a month ago, could it be that after Mr. Yao died, he could still get up from time to time to sell paper making skills?" ”

Master glared at me and said, "Nonsense, how can a dead man get up to sell paper and tie the craft?" However, as soon as Mr. Yao dies like this, the clue we are looking for is probably broken! ”

At this moment, I only heard Tian Fatzi's voice outside: "Mr. Yang! Come and see! ”

Master and I looked at each other and hurriedly rushed out. There is a door in this outhouse that leads to the outside of the oilcloth shed, come in and see, there are all kinds of paper crafts inside, there are high-rise buildings, there are gold mountains and silver mountains, there are fairy bridges, there are paper horses, there are paper people, etc., almost all the paper crafts that can be used in folk funeral customs, almost all here! However, Tian Fatzi didn't seem to let us see these, but those paper people, Tian Fatzi pointed at those paper people in a trembling voice and said: "Mr. Yang, look, here, the eyes of these paper people have been dotted with cinnabar!" ”