Chapter 103: Portraiture

Things have come to this point, and I don't know that the master dug a pit again and buried me. Don't look at my master playing chess and walking birds all day long, but the number of roads is wide, and it is no exaggeration to say that it is an ear to hear six ways and see all directions.

If you want to say that he doesn't know that there is a cat in this corpse robbery case, I don't believe it. It may be a fact that some dog brother came to me for help, but it is the reason why I was sent out.

Xu Cancan suddenly shouted, "How many bodies did you just say?" ”

"Seventy-seven! Is there a problem? This number can be checked, and the corpses parked at the funeral home every day are also recorded. ”

"Seventy-seven?" Xu Cancan shook his head, "No, no, no, we have counted, and there are only seventy-six." ”

Seventy-six? What kind of mystery should the remaining corpse have?

"Seventy-six or seventy-seven, when will your dad come?" I looked at Xu Cancan and said.

"He already contacted the police when I went out, and it should have arrived."

As soon as the voice fell, Wang Neng's phone rang. After just a few simple chats, he said, "Mr. Xu has arrived at the Jiangcheng funeral home, and those sufferers are coming to claim the corpses one after another." ”

My brow furrowed slightly, "So flamboyant? Not afraid of the funeral home's man running away? ”

Since it is so convenient to do things, there must be internal ghosts. I don't know how Xu Cancan's father intercepted these corpses, but one thing is worth affirming, it is definitely not in the Jiangcheng funeral home.

"You can put 100,000 hearts on this, and my dad will definitely think of what you can think of."

Also, they all say that ginger is still old and spicy, and I call it a blind worry. Old One-Eye closed the door of the shop, leaving his silly son behind to come with us. He was the only eyewitness and might be able to hammer it out.

In an independent morgue in Jiangcheng Funeral Home, there is no vacancy on the iron bed, and even some corpses can only be placed on the ground.

On such a hot day, the air conditioner was turned on to the maximum to prevent the corpse from decomposing. It's just that we living people don't feel good going in, and we shiver from the cold.

By the time we arrived, there was already a cry inside. Many family members of the deceased have come over and are claiming their bodies.

Brother Dog's hair was small and couldn't be calm anymore, and he looked for them one by one, like a crazy demon.

"It's a pity that Tetsuko's sister died." Brother Dog shook his head, "It's still a flowery age, I heard that I am still the top student in the class, and I just got a place in the insurance research institute." ”

I'll just listen to his feelings, I really can't interfere in other people's affairs, and I don't have that kind of fetish.

"Uncle Xu!" I said hello to the middle-aged man with a short beard next to Xu Cancan.

This is Xu Cancan's father, Xu Yang. Their family is an orthodox Taoist descendant. In today's China, Buddhism and Taoism are unified, and those of us can only be regarded as partial doors, and many things are mixed by Taoism, Buddhism, and even ancient witchcraft, and what we have learned is quite mixed.

It is also one of the important reasons why Xu Yang can stand out from the crowd and sit on the position of the leader of the alliance.

I have always suspected that Xu Cancan's intellectual retardation was not born to his father, look at Xu Yang, even if he is dressed in casual clothes, he can feel the dusty bearing.

"Huang Xin." Xu Yang smiled kindly, "Why don't you go to my house to play when you come back?" Your aunt still thinks about you a lot! ”

Xu Yang is a descendant of the Zhengyi Sect, so he is not afraid of marriage, otherwise there would be no Xu Cancan's birth.

"I just came back, and I'm going to accompany the old man for a few days, and I'll have to leave again after a while." I said as I touched my head.

Although I was often bullied by Xu Cancan, the whole Jiangcheng counted their family and our relatives, and Xu Cancan's mother treated me as a second son.

I wonder if Xu's mother often praises me, so Xu Cancan is panicked, so she keeps getting angry with me, if so, she will be a little wronged.

Xu Yang didn't say any more, but Xu Cancan said, "Dad! This look is the method of wrapping zongzi, and they can also take out the corpse exorcism charm from their mouths. ”

It is common sense that when people die, their souls will come out, and they will not be able to control their own bodies. The corpse exorcism charms used by those corpse chasers in Xiangxi are equivalent to forging the three souls and seven spirits of people, which is equivalent to programming the body, and because the corpse is stiff, it can only jump, and then through the special bell, the purpose of driving away the corpse is achieved.

But it is just an ordinary walking corpse, without any lethality, and it cannot achieve the effect of invulnerability.

"Uncle Xu, how many corpses did you find?"

Xu Yang was stunned and said, "A total of seventy-six bodies were intercepted at Ningdi Port." ”

The numbers don't match what Wang Neng said, and Ning Di makes people reverie. Because Xiangxi and H Province face each other across the river, walk from Ningdi, and the opposite side is Xiangxi.

"What do you think about this?"

I didn't expect Xu Yang to ask me in turn, I thought for a while, shook my head firmly, and said, "It's not Xiangxi's hand." ”

Xu Cancan shouted, "People have stolen goods, why aren't those people doing it?" ”

"Let you learn from your brother Xin." Xu Yang didn't say a word, he was a chestnut, "I haven't grown any progress." ”

I looked at Xu Cancan's eyes and felt angry, this hatred is pulled in this way.

"I'm similar to what you think, the group of people in Xiangxi haven't reached the point of being so frustrated."

"Then why do you insist that the corpse chasers in Xiangxi are the culprits?" This is also what I don't understand, Xu Yang has seen it more thoroughly than me.

"Hehe, if you don't take Xiangxi out of the top tank, what will others think of my Jiangcheng's art world? The main reason is that the evidence is all aimed at those guys in Xiangxi, if we don't do something, how can this matter be justified? ”

My heart is slightly cold, people live in the world, and they can't escape the words fame and fortune. Warlocks are quite a money-making business, so they value their name more than their lives.

As the leader of the Jiangcheng Warlocks, Xu Yang's consideration is not something that I, a hairy boy, can say in a word.

"I went and verified all the information again, seventy-seven, no more, no less." Wang Neng ran profusely sweating.

"Is there really one missing?" I muttered, watching my relatives busied themselves with identifying the bodies.

"This is the person who works at the funeral home." Wang Neng took out a few more pieces of paper.

Working at a funeral home is a very unfortunate thing, so the mobility is quite large. Some people didn't run away for more than two days, but the man who stole the body certainly didn't go.

"Could it be that the spearhead of this matter is aimed at Xiangxi? There must be a mastermind behind the scenes who is promoting the development of the whole thing, maybe the contradiction between H Province and Xiangxi is caused by him. "I still can't bear to see the battle between the two provinces happen, and it will even affect the whole country.

"Senior Zhou asked me to wait, so I'm waiting now. You know that the warlocks are all idle and scattered, and I don't know how long they can suppress it, and there are probably people who have enmity with Xiangxi in it, and they can't wait for a big battle. Xu Yang shook his head and sighed.

The water has been mixed, and the so-called alliance is not impregnable in the first place. Most of them are weirdos with strange temperaments, each doing their own thing. No matter how good the explanation is, it's useless if people don't listen to it, which is also Xu Yang's difficulty.

"Officer Wang, have these people been thoroughly investigated?" Xu Yang asked.

"I'm investigating, and I'll get the results soon."

"The man was supposed to be not young, hunchbacked, with an injury to his left leg, and walking with a lame leg. I don't see it very clearly. Old One-Eyed recalled.

Wang Neng explained all these characteristics, and after a while, he exclaimed, "I found it." ”

I saw him rummaging through a pile of papers and pulling out one, "It should be that he is right, Xiao Beiwang." ”

What caught the eye was an old man with thinning hair, a thin physique, and the photo was pale and white, and some people believed that he was a corpse.

Looking at the information again, he is from Xiangxi. It was the funeral parlor that came three years ago, and the old man who has been serving as a night watchman.

"Little brother, do you know this person?" I quickly asked a funeral home staff member on duty next to me.

He was slightly startled, "Isn't this an old boss?" He was a withdrawn man, and no one got along with him, and he threw away all the food we had brought him a few times. ”

Speaking of which, there are still some inconsistencies, and typical kindness is regarded as a donkey's liver and lungs.

"What about others?" Wang Neng asked.

"Should... It should be in the dormitory! I haven't seen him come out during the day. Anyway, he was a very strange old man, and if it weren't for the fact that no one dared to keep vigil, he wouldn't have been wanted. ”

He led us deeper into the house, pointed to a small dark room, and said with some fear, "He lives here, and I won't go there." ”

Wang Neng beckoned to the police officers who followed, as they had always done with criminal suspects, and vigilance was the top priority.

The doors were not closed at all, and the moment they were all opened, an indescribable unpleasant smell came over the nostrils, the most musty of all, and God knows how long it had been since the sun had been in the room.

"Dead," a police officer withdrew his pistol in a low voice and stood in the doorway.

In the pale golden light, all kinds of dust rose and flew in the air, as if to declare their freedom.

"Dead?" Wang Neng's throat felt something foreign that he couldn't swallow, and he walked inside in a daze.

An old man was lying flat on a small cot that could only accommodate his body, with his hands on his chest, and there was something like a piece of paper on his chest. The weirdest thing is that he has a smile on his face. It's the kind of smile that is very happy, very indifferent, and a kind of relief. It makes people look very unpleasant.

The area of the room is not large, and you can see an easel, I didn't expect this person to have such a Yaxing. But I was stunned when I found out that the stack of his paintings was all about a child and a woman.

"Xiao Wang, on-site autopsy."

Although Brother Dog kept slandering in his heart, he still did as his nephew's uncle instructed.

Brother Dog originally wanted to take down the things in Xiao Beiwang's hand, but he didn't pull it after a few pulls, so you can imagine how tightly he dragged it before he died.

"I'm coming!"

I am still very familiar with the structure of the human body, and I made a little trick to let the old man let go of himself.

I picked it up and looked at it, and I almost didn't throw it on the floor. The heart is pounding and pounding.

It's a very old, very old portrait of a woman and a child that I saw earlier.

The woman was about twenty or thirty, not very old, and the doll was only a little more than a year old, and she needed to be supported. Both of them have sweet smiles, and the portraits are very realistic. At that time, cameras were scarce, but this portrait freezes that moment, there is no beauty and no filter, there is that touch of innocence.