Chapter Seventy-Four: Night Burial
The funeral went on in an orderly manner, and it seemed that everything was so taken for granted that the town's police station had not examined the body at all, so it was judged to be a suicide and the body was returned to the family.
Wreaths were sent from all directions, and the body of Zhang Wenyi's sister Zhang Xueyun was placed on the mourning platform, lying there quietly and silently.
After a night of questioning, I figured out that Zhang Wenyi's family is the third sister, and the eldest daughter is really Zhang Xiuwen! The Zhang family is really a poor family.
Six years ago, Wenyi's father, the head of the family, died of illness, leaving only one mother to raise her three daughters, but now even her two older sisters are dead.
Of course, I wouldn't be stupid enough to tell her family about Zhang Xiuwen's death, but I just felt a little strange why the police hadn't sent Zhang Xiuwen's death and her death certificate here until now? What the hell are they doing? And the place where Li Shuren kept his things was actually in the B&B run by Zhang Xiuwen's family, so can it be suspected that they had some kind of relationship before?
Zhang Wenyi's mother, the beautiful young woman, dressed in white linen, sat beside the mourning platform, secretly sobbing tears. Since the Zhang family has always been very popular, most of the people in the town have put on a few sticks of incense, the goddess who threw the scarecrow by the river also came, and the boy who said that I was going to become a ghost for the dead and persuaded me to leave quickly.
I dragged him aside in anger.
"You're not gone yet?" The boy looked at me in surprise.
I snorted coldly: "You guy deceived me badly!" ”
"When did I lie to you?" The boy pretended to be puzzled and said confidently.
"You haven't lied to me yet?" I was so angry that I wanted to kick him, "You obviously know that what I saw downstream is Zhang Wenyi, the sister of the deceased Zhang Xueyun, and you dare to lie to me that she is a floating ghoul looking for a replacement for the dead ghost, and I will run away as soon as I see Zhang Wenyi, and I will lose my face!" ”
"What? Do you really run away as soon as you see Wenyi? The boy was stunned, and suddenly clutched his stomach and laughed, which was particularly harsh in the quiet spirit room, and immediately someone glared at him with murderous eyes, very unfortunately, that person happened to be his grandmother.
The goddess angrily smashed the boy on the head with a dry tobacco pipe, told him to apologize to the master, and asked him to kneel and kowtow to the deceased, saying that the child is not sensible, and there is no blame, don't blame him.
I laughed to myself, who doesn't deceive this kid, dare to deceive me, Tai Sui, so that I don't play you to death, I suddenly felt a pain in my thigh, and looked down to see that it was actually Zhang Wenyi, she stretched out her hand from the white linen mourning clothes and twisted my thighs hard.
"What are you doing!" I shook her off and rubbed the sore spot desperately.
Zhang Wenyi said in a low voice: "You deliberately made the little third son laugh, right?" ”
"What evidence do you have?"
I was embarrassed to be aware of the conspiracy, but I didn't show any forgiveness in my mouth.
"Stingy."
"I'm not stingy, it was that guy who lied to me first, everyone is still courteous, I don't say anything at night, and I'm never a lord who suffers losses and doesn't complain."
Zhang Wenyi snorted: "The little third son will not deliberately deceive people, it must be you who look down on his grandmother that he will make a harmless joke with you." ”
"That's a harmless joke too?" I almost cried out in exasperation, "I almost think you're a floating ghoul for the first time in my life." ”
"Hmph, stingy." Zhang Wenyi stretched out two white fingers and tried to pinch me again, but I jumped to the left and almost hit a person.
It was a man of about twenty years old, with a handsome and somewhat annoying face. He pushed me away in disgust, and patted the place where I had touched it with his hand, and his face was full of arrogance, with a look of contempt that looked down on everyone, what an unpleasant fellow.
As soon as she saw this person, Zhang Wenyi's face suddenly changed.
"Get out! You're not welcome here! She stood up and yelled at him.
"Hey, don't say that, how can I say that I'm still on good terms with this woman."
The man smiled flirtatiously, walked forward slowly, walked to Zhang Xueyun's corpse, and uncovered the white cloth sheet covering the corpse.
"Tsk, that's a pity. She was a great beauty when she was alive. I didn't expect to be so ugly when I died, but fortunately I never thought of marrying her. ”
"Bastard!" Zhang Wenyi's whole body trembled, she grabbed the broom next to her and hit the person fiercely, "Get out, don't touch my sister." You killed her! You must have killed her! You murderer! ”
"Damn, why are the women of the Zhang family so cheap, they deserve to be played! Tell you that your sister is a, and your mother is a. The man grabbed the broom and pushed her to the ground, "You think your mother is chaste?" Go to ******, how do you think your old man died? You Lao Tzu was to death, who in this town doesn't know, your mother is a rotten thing who hangs the sign of the hotel to do the meat business? ”
"That's enough, right?" I walked over with a calm face.
"Who are you kid?" The man gave me a sneer.
"I live here."
"Humph! Do you know who I am? You dare to take care of Lao Tzu's idle affairs. The man snorted.
I pointed behind him and smiled, "I don't know what you are, but I know you're going to be something if you don't leave." ”
As soon as the guy turned around, his face suddenly changed, "What are you doing, you want to rebel?" His voice trembled, and he shouted as he looked at the excited crowd behind him and gathered around him, "Damn, I want my dad to arrest you all." You untouchables......" shook his hand and couldn't help pressing on Zhang Xueyun's chest.
Suddenly, the crowd behind him seemed to be stunned by something, and the uproar stopped. I glanced curiously, and suddenly felt a chill run down my spine.
Blood, a large amount of blood flowed out of Zhang Xueyun's eyes, ears, mouth and nose. The eyes that had been closed were actually opened, and only the whites of her eyes were in them, staring at the man in horror.
"You...... You weren't killed by me, don't come to me! Wow! The man's frightened body stiffened, and he reflexively pushed forward, and ran out the door.
"You're alright?" I took a deep breath and reached out to pull Wenyi up, oh my! The scene just now was so terrifying, it felt like Zhang Xueyun's corpse would come back to life at any time.
The goddess who was sitting on the lower seat walked to the spirit platform, closed Zhang Xueyun's eyes with her hand, and said tremblingly: "Powerful ghosts and souls!" This body cannot be left and must be burned tonight. ”
Zhang Wenyi was stunned and didn't know what she was thinking, and suddenly she hugged Zhang Xueyun's corpse vigorously and shouted loudly: "Don't touch my sister!" My sister was miserable enough when she died, and I don't want her to die without even a whole corpse! ”
"Wenyi." The goddess gently stroked her hair, "Your sister is dead. I know she loved you the most when she was alive, but she's dead after all. The world of the deceased is different from ours, and there is no reason for them to do things. ”
"Nope! I don't want it! She threw herself into my arms and cried so hard that her tears almost wet my chest.
I couldn't bear to say: "I think it should be no problem to stay overnight, it's a big deal that I won't sleep tonight, stay here and watch the corpse." I don't believe she's going to be a ghost. ”
"Layman, do you know how terrible the ghost is, and how many people will die?" The little third son beside the goddess glared at me fiercely.
As soon as I saw him, I got angry and snorted, "Call me a layman, I think you are completely ignorant." Seven holes of bleeding is said to be a terrible ghost, have you read the book? Did you know that a corpse that has been soaked in water for several days will have blood and gas backflow when it is squeezed, and blood will come out of the eyes, ears, mouth and nose? It's just a natural phenomenon, so please check the library more often so that you don't lose sight here. ”
The kid was speechless by my refutation, and simply turned his head angrily and looked at me with disdain.
"What a wreck." The goddess sighed and said to me, "Young man, you can burn this corpse or not, but you must promise me three things. ”
"You say."
I can see that this goddess has a lot of prestige in the local area, if she insists on burning the corpse, don't say that I can't stop it, maybe the locals will be on fire, they will burn me together, so it's better to be smooth.
"First, put these talismans on all the doors." The goddess handed me some yellow runes with a mess of ghost drawings on them and continued: "Second, don't let animals in, especially black cats, and don't let them climb on the carcass. Third, you should look carefully at this oil lamp on the altar and don't let it go out. ”
"It's as simple as that?" I memorized it in my heart, nodded and smiled, "Don't worry, I will definitely do it." ”
Suddenly, I felt a chill rise from my back. Turning around violently, Zhang Xueyun's body lay quietly on the spiritual platform, silently. For some reason, I always felt that something was wrong, could something be happening tonight?
I shook my head and smiled wryly, I had been getting more and more suspicious lately.