Chapter 3: Who's Doing the Trick?
Normally, the eight-month-old fetus has a preliminarily formed body with some sparse hair.
The fetus in the photo, other places are normal, but the fetus's head is too scary, with white hair on its face, a flat red nose, and two fangs extending down from the roof of the mouth.
Hong Wei told me that he and Hong Xin were actually Hong Yan's adopted children, and they were sent to the city to study after graduating from primary school, and at that time Hong Yan's husband was not dead, and he was still in love with Hong Yan, but since she had a cat, everything has changed, Hong Yan is addicted to cats, and her husband is allergic to cat hair, and the two often quarrel because of this.
Later, her husband took advantage of Hong Yan's outing to send the cat to the wilderness ten kilometers away, but when he came home, he found that the cat was napping in Hong Yan's arms.
The next day, he tied the cat's limbs and threw them into the wilderness, and strangely, when he returned, the cat was still lying on the bed, looking at him fiercely and screaming, and scratching his paws, and the husband was immediately furious, and managed to catch the cat and tie it to the board, and held its body to death, and picked up a kitchen knife and cut off its limbs.
During the whole process, the cat did not bark or make a fuss, as if it did not feel pain, the husband was covered in blood, put its limbs in a canning box and threw it into the trash, and then carried the cat by the neck and threw it into a snake hole in a nearby field, thinking that this time it would definitely die.
The terrible thing is that on the way home, he found a sharp pain in the palm of his hand, and when he looked down, the souls of the dead were rising.
Four blood holes appeared in the palm of his left hand, four fingers were cut off by Qi Gen, and Sen Senran's white bones were exposed to the air, and the person rolled on the ground in pain on the spot, and before fainting, he saw the cat that should have died squatting on the top of a tree not far away staring at him.
The husband's finger was found in the canned food box, it has been chopped to pieces, after the police and the hospital identification, it was confirmed that the husband was a self-harm without subjective consciousness, but he repeatedly insisted that it was the cat demon who caused it, and finally was forcibly sent to the psychiatric department for treatment, not long after, he died, jumped from the seventh floor of the hospital, and it is said that someone heard the strange cry of the cat before he died......
It was also after raising that cat that Hong Yan became eccentric, she was not a biological child, and she didn't live together all the year round, so the relationship naturally faded a lot, so they didn't feel pain about their mother's death.
The Hong Wei sisters and brothers didn't dare to disobey the will in their mother's dream, so they found a relationship to seal the doctor's mouth, bribed the staff of the crematorium, issued a fake certificate, and thought of finding someone to bury them secretly.
This kind of thing rarely happens in the city, but in the countryside, it is not uncommon, after all, there is a lot of wasteland here, and a few random digging is a pit, and the people above just turn a blind eye.
After the narration was finished, I looked around and asked him where the cat was, he shook his head and said that he didn't know, and asked me suspiciously if the cat would be a monster, I have seen a lot of dead bodies, but I have never seen ghosts and monsters, I have always felt that those are bluffing nonsense, but now all kinds of strange phenomena have refreshed the cognition of my world, is there really a strange spirit in this world?
"It's a corpse." I have to pretend to know very well, otherwise how can I get him to pay obediently?
In order to improve the credibility of the words, I gave them the example of the cat-faced old lady in Harbin in 96, which shocked the whole country and can be said to be known to everyone.
Legend has it that a local old woman died on the way home, and there happened to be a cat passing by, and it didn't take long for the old woman who had been confirmed dead to live again, but half of her face became a cat's face, and she would come out to eat children at night, and adults would become cat people if they were bitten, and then the local government was alarmed and the army was sent to exterminate it.
Many villages have a custom not to let living livestock approach the dead, for fear that they will use the breath of livestock to trick the corpse to resurrect the soul, if this statement is true, then the biggest possibility is that Hong Yan wanted to resurrect the soul with the help of the cat's breath after death, but failed, so it became like this.
But why did she have to give her dreams to her children and insist on burial? I was also told not to move the contents of my stomach, and I couldn't understand it even after thinking about it.
"Master Zhang, I'll leave the matter of burying my mother to you." Hong Wei's address to me has changed invisibly, and when I was about to agree, Wang Er Mazi pulled me aside, saying that this is a rare fat sheep, and it must not be slaughtered lightly, so this job was handed over to him to negotiate, and a dragon asked for 50,000 yuan, and my jaw was shattered.
In the countryside, the funeral dragon is generally more than 10,000, and 20,000 is considered expensive.
The children of the Hong family feel that they have been here for a long time, so let me speed up the process and finish it as soon as possible.
I didn't take people's money to eliminate disasters for others, and I recruited a few temporary workers to help with it.
In rural areas, the process of burial and cremation is much the same, and the first step is a small burial.
According to my request, let Hong Xin put her in a shroud, Hong Xin was timid and reluctant, and wanted to hire a foot washing girl instead, as soon as she finished speaking, the corpse's eyes opened, and it was a massage to soothe her "emotions", Hong Xin had to reluctantly obey and do so.
After putting on the shroud, I stuffed the copper coin I had prepared in advance into her mouth, and in the process, she seemed to lick the tip of her tongue on my fingertips, and the slippery touch made me shiver.
I forced myself to calm down, and stuffed a wad of nether coins into her left hand, which is the money for the ghost to buy the road in the underworld, there is a saying in the countryside, the ghost who guards the door is very violent, and if you don't buy the road money, you will be whipped;
She continued to stuff a bag of meatloaf into her right hand, which was a "ghost-beating cake" for dealing with starving ghosts and vicious dogs in the underworld.
Then, the body was covered with a quilt, the face was covered with a white cloth, the funeral bed was moved to the center of the hall, and an offering table was placed, and a bowl of medium-rare white rice was placed in the middle of the offering table.
"My dearest mother, you have a good journey, if there is anything you can't let go, you can tell the child in your dreams, but don't come often, the child is timid and can't bear it........"
Hong Xin and Hong Wei were not sincere and more perfunctory.
After the ceremony, the second step is to report the funeral, but his family has no relatives and friends, and the relationship with the neighbors is not good, so it was directly ignored.
A temporary worker of the set ran out of the hall with a crawl, and I hurriedly ran in.
On the spiritual bed, the corpse was still lying calmly on it, but the coin in her left hand was scattered all over the ground, the meat patty in the cake bag in her right hand was gone, and there was only half an offering fish left on the offering table.
If you look closely, the quilt on the corpse and the white cloth covering the face are stacked crookedly, and the corners of the corpse's mouth are obviously oily stains and minced fish.
There are all kinds of signs that Hong Yan really cheated the corpse!
The children of the Hong family turned pale, and they all looked at me in unison, and I scratched my ears: "This....... It may be that my aunt is hungry, and you ask people to cook more food, so you must be full. ”
The two of them went out to invite the cook with a confused face, and Er Mazi came over with bared teeth, and as soon as I saw him like this, I understood: "What did you do?" ”
"I recently talked to someone, I have to buy a house in the county to be willing to live with me, so I can earn a little more." Seeing that my face was not good, he stood on tiptoe and hugged my shoulder: "I have inquired, the Hong family's pair of dragons and phoenixes live very well in the city, and they don't have to run for two or three hundred thousand a year, and it is not unjust to catch him for another 50,000 yuan, it is better than being pitted by Master Yuan's dogecoin." ”
At this point, I don't have much to say, warn him that this is the peak, don't do it anymore, he nodded and said yes, but when he turned around, he suddenly exclaimed, I asked him what was wrong, he raised his trembling arm and pointed to the offering table, and the other half of the fish disappeared!
"This ...... It's not my work this time! "Er Mazi is also a little empty, at this moment, there is no third person in the hall.
I boldly stepped forward to check the plate containing the fish, there were traces of licking on the plate, I looked at the corpse, there was nothing unusual, what happened just now?
"His grandmother is a bit evil, let's solve it quickly......"
In the afternoon, Er Mazi negotiated the price with them, and the "corpse transformation" raised the price from 50,000 to 100,000.
According to the steps, the next time is the moment when relatives and friends wear linen and filial piety, Hong Xin's husband and Hong Wei's wife also rushed over when they heard the news, wearing large linen clothes, and after bowing a few times, they began to discuss the ownership of real estate and inheritance.
Hong Yan's small villa occupies a wide area, even in the countryside, it can be sold for more than 200,000 yuan, plus she still has seventy or eighty acres of land and bank deposits, and there are more than two million together, if you don't say it's fake, Hong Xin and Hong Wei both want a big head, and the two parties quarreled endlessly, and even quarreled with each other.
Hong Xin's husband Da Kui is a chess and card room, his temper is not very good, after a few words of scolding, he pushed Hong Wei's daughter-in-law, his daughter-in-law did not stand firm, and suddenly leaned on the spiritual bed and shook Hong Yan's body to the ground, the corpse landed on the ground, and the belly was pushed up by the ground, Hong Dawei was shocked, and respectfully carried the corpse back to the spiritual bed, turned around and slapped Da Kui in the ear,
The grumpy Da Kui took two or three seconds to react, and entangled with him with his fists, Hong Wei was not as good as him, and he suffered a lot of losses, or I and Er Mazi forcibly pulled it away.
"Phew~" The corner of Da Kui's mouth was scratched with a bloody mark, and he pointed at Hong Wei with an angry face: "Lao Tzu will send you down sooner or later to accompany your mother!" ”
Hong Xin couldn't stand it anymore, pushed Da Kui out, and when he was about to walk to the door, Da Kui suddenly turned his head, with a suspicious face, Hong Xin asked him what was wrong, he said that he heard someone calling his name, it was a woman's voice, but it was definitely not Hong Wei's mother-in-law, Hong Xin was a little stunned: "It won't be my mother, right?" ”
"Don't talk nonsense, the old woman is dead, how can she still be a corpse?" As soon as he finished speaking, Da Kui suddenly swayed, craned his neck and looked around: "Where did the air conditioning come from?" “
Hong Xin told him that the air conditioner in the villa was not turned on at all, and she was even more suspicious that Hong Yan was the ghost, so she asked Da Kui to kowtow to her and apologize, Da Kui scolded her for "neurosis" and shook her head and left.
"Could it be ......" I dragged my chin and thought for a moment, thinking of a possibility.