Chapter 104: The Old Woman
Half an hour later, an old woman with a wrinkled face came to Ma's house.
The old woman looked to be at least eighty years old, and she was stooping, but she was still strong, and she walked steadily, without the need for help. It is said that when he learned that the Ma family was looking for someone to wipe the body of the girl who died in vain, but no one dared to answer, he asked to come over.
It was a great thing to have such a kind and experienced old woman to wipe her body, so after preparing the supplies and new clothes and jewelry, we re-entered the mourning hall.
The temperature of this mourning hall has been much normal, and under the light of the chandelier in the hall, the light emitted by the Divine Monarch of the Four Directions is not conspicuous, and the old woman does not notice it. After helping her to sit down on a chair on the left side of the mourning hall, we prepared to open the coffin.
There are four gods in town, so we don't have to worry too much about what will happen, and after Luo Wen's belief moved the spell and removed the rune sword tokens one by one, they slowly opened the lid of the glass coffin together.
A faint yin aura emanated as the lid of the coffin was lifted, but it soon returned to normal.
Putting the lid of the coffin on the bench next to him, Luo Wenxin picked up the peach wood token again, and while dipping it in water and sprinkling it into the coffin, he recited the "Bathing Soul Spell".
"Towering moral respect, merit has been completed, descend to lead, master treasure self-lifting, compassion sprinkled with water, honest use of washing and indulgence, Yongdu Sanqingan, often say five turbid mud."
After reciting the incantation three times, Luo Wenxin put down the token and nodded to indicate that it was okay.
So I looked at Zhang Xiaowei, and after she said that there was no problem, we retreated to the side and turned our backs, giving up the space to Zhang Xiaowei and the old woman.
The old woman has obviously scrubbed the body of many deceased people in her life, although her hands and feet are somewhat inconvenient, but every movement is also orderly, while carrying out it gently, she whispered "order" Ma Xiaolu, so that she can go on the road with peace of mind and not let go of the house. The tone and demeanor seemed to be not facing a cold corpse, but a granddaughter who was about to leave the cabinet with makeup.
Although Zhang Xiaowei has no experience, she is inevitably a little restrained and panicked, but under the guidance of the old woman's soft voice, she gradually relaxed, gradually found the trick, and became more and more handy.
It didn't take long for the jewelry and clothes on Ma Xiaolu's body to fade off one by one. The old woman took Zhang Xiaowei's wrung out towel, carefully scrubbed Ma Xiaolu's body three times, and put on new clothes again.
Although the whole process is very slow, and when the corpse is supported and turned, it will inevitably bump against the coffin wall from time to time, making a low sound, but it is not chaotic at all.
When the old woman said that we could turn around, Ma Xiaolu had already put on another white gold-rimmed dress, a pair of high heels that sparkled like crystals, bracelets, rings, necklaces and other jewelry, which had also been put back on, and a slightly more traditional bun was re-coiled.
Because of the removal of makeup, Ma Xiaolu's face was like a blank piece of paper, and her eye sockets were also a little sunken, slightly blackened, and she looked a little crazy.
After working for so long, the old woman was inevitably physically exhausted, so she stood down along the side of the coffin and watched Zhang Xiaowei carefully re-touch Ma Xiaolu's makeup.
As the makeup was patched up little by little, our nervous mood gradually relaxed.
As long as you scrub and change your clothes, and turn the corpse without any movement, the possibility of an accident will be greatly reduced after that.
However, at this moment, Zhang Xiaowei, who was applying lip gloss to Ma Xiaolu, suddenly withdrew her hand with an "oops".
"What's wrong?" At this time, we naturally don't dare to really relax, any little wind and grass may be a precursor to the coming storm, seeing that her expression was a little panicked, I hurriedly asked.
Seeing that I was even more nervous, Zhang Xiaowei quickly calmed down and said softly: "It's nothing, it seems that something gently scratched my wrist, it should just be my illusion." ”
After speaking, he leaned down again, holding the coffin wall with one hand, and continued to apply lip gloss with the other.
Looking at her movements intently, and Ma Xiaolu's corpse, we didn't dare to come out.
"Huh?" Seeing that the lip gloss was about to be finished and the coffin could be re-covered, Zhang Xiaowei made a puzzled sound again, and her body followed suit, as if she had found something.
We hurriedly lowered our heads and looked at Ma Xiaolu's face, but we didn't find anything.
Just when I wanted to ask Zhang Xiaowei if she found something wrong, she said it herself.
She ...... in her mouth Something seems to be there? ”
Ma Xiaolu's mouth was originally closed, and when he turned the corpse just now, he opened a slit slightly, but because many people die for a period of time, their mouths will open a little, not to mention that Ma Xiaolu's body has been turned over, and it is normal to open a slit, so we didn't pay too much attention.
As Zhang Xiaowei talked about this, we noticed that Ma Xiaolu seemed to have something in her mouth.
Just on the tongue coating behind the upper and lower teeth, there is a white layer, translucent, which looks slimy, like a mouthful of phlegm.
It is impossible for a dead person to have phlegm, even if there is a foreign body in the mouth, the Ma family must have cleaned it carefully when they were buried. So what could this be a thing? And when did it appear.
Zhang Xiaowei, who was full of questions and had been completely attracted by what was in Ma Xiaolu's mouth, subconsciously put his hand on Ma Xiaolu's mouth, wanting to open it and see it clearly.
Seeing this, I quickly pulled her hand back and signaled her not to act rashly.
Realizing that his actions just now were too bold, Zhang Xiaowei's expression also changed slightly.
This Ma Xiaolu was originally restless, and she was scrubbing her body before, which was nothing. But if you try to get her mouth to open wider, it will seem offensive, and you have to be careful not to mess around.
But now that she's got something in her mouth, she can't figure out what it is.
"Let the old body come, this kind of thing, you young people can't do." As she was in trouble, the old woman spoke softly.
The old woman's eyes are not good, and she may not be able to see that there is a foreign object in Ma Xiaolu's mouth, but from our expressions and Zhang Xiaowei's movements, we can also see what the problem is.
"Girl, you have to be obedient, the old woman is not trying to harm you, she is helping you." It wasn't our turn to make a statement, the old woman leaned down against the coffin, stretched out her hands to Ma Xiaolu's mouth, and pushed it up and down, Ma Xiaolu's mouth was broken a little.
But this amplitude alone was not enough to see what it was, so the old woman simply put a few fingers into Ma Xiaolu's mouth, broke it between her teeth, and instantly expanded a lot.
In this way, we suddenly saw it completely.
I saw that Ma Xiaolu's miserable white tongue was indeed clinging to a layer of translucent liquid.
We couldn't help but frown.
The old woman's eyesight was obviously better than we expected, and before the answer was determined, she found something again, stretched out her finger and pulled out something after digging behind Ma Xiaolu's teeth a few times.
A curly hair.
No more suspicion and denial, it's that thing.