Chapter 11 Three hollow graves
Lin Miao's second uncle is actually not a superstitious person, he doesn't believe in those gods and ghosts, and the reason why he will do the business of stealing corpses is also because this is a way to make money without money.
Especially eight or nine years ago, when this industry was just emerging, low-risk, experienced corpse thieves were rarely discovered.
And the reason why this industry has suddenly risen is because in some half-poor villages there is a saying that 'a dead bachelor cannot enter the ancestral grave'.
As a result, those who have a fairly solid family background will use money to exchange for female corpses, commonly known as marrying relatives, and those money are said to be dowry, but in fact they are money for buying and selling female corpses.
But with the comparison of people's hearts, the bride money for this yin relatives is also rising higher and higher, and in the end it is almost the same as marrying a living mother-in-law, and there are many singles in places like the countryside, how can there be so many female corpses?
However, if there is demand, there is supply, and I don't know which immoral person came up with the way to steal the corpse for money, the stolen corpse is naturally cheaper than the one sold by the family, of course, most of the stolen corpses are female corpses.
Lin Miao's second uncle is such a corpse thief.
That was many years ago, and this Second Uncle Lin had never been far away from stealing the corpse, just here, because he knew the root and knew the bottom line, and speaking of which, the time he had an accident was in the village next door to us.
The surname Sun in that village is a big family, and there is a cemetery for the boss in the back mountain, this cemetery Second Uncle Lin has patronized more than once, and the little daughter-in-law and wife have stolen a lot, and they have also exchanged a lot of money for him.
In the winter of that year, Second Uncle Lin contacted such a deal again, and it happened that the Sun family had just died and was buried at the front foot, so Second Uncle Lin went to dig it with his hind feet.
But he died of exhaustion, and at last he opened the brand-new tomb, but there was nothing in it, only an empty coffin, and there was a line of small words written in blood on the coffin bon.
"Find me, I'll go with you"
Second Uncle Lin wondered, he was watching the Sun family be buried, why is this an empty coffin?
felt that something was wrong, but because Second Uncle Lin was not a superstitious person, he didn't think about it, just thought that someone had found out that the cemetery was targeted by corpse thieves and played him.
Thinking like this, Second Uncle Lin was afraid of being caught, and he didn't dare to stay in this cemetery any longer, so he hurried home, but he still had to finish the deal, so the next night, he changed villages to steal the corpse.
The female corpse in this village is not newly dead, it has been buried for half a month, but this thing is not fresh, as long as you can tell whether it is a man or a woman.
In fact, Second Uncle Lin didn't want to steal the decomposing corpse, but he had no choice but to bite the bullet.
But in the end, Second Uncle Lin found out that he was busy in vain again, because the tomb was still empty, and what made his scalp explode was that there was a line of small characters written in blood in this empty coffin.
"Still haven't found it"
This time, Second Uncle Lin was really scared, the grave was not buried, so he ran home in a panic, and was so scared that he was sick for three or four days, so he thought about pushing the deal away, but the buyer didn't do it, saying that he had paid the deposit, and if Second Uncle Lin didn't give the female corpse, he would tell him about stealing the corpse.
Second Uncle Lin is also afraid, if this lack of morality is known by the people in the village, the heads of the surrounding villages who threw their bodies will not be allowed to beat him to death.
After pondering and pondering, Second Uncle Lin decided to go to a farther village to guard, to see which family had died, and he must watch the corpse go into the coffin and bury it, and then dig it out.
After making up his mind, Second Uncle Lin set off, he went for more than a week, and finally found a family to do the funeral, so he pretended to be a distant relative of the deceased, spent money on the account, and easily mixed into the funeral procession.
Everything went well, Second Uncle Lin watched the family put the female corpse in the coffin with his own eyes, and kept it until the coffin was buried, Second Uncle Lin went back to have a meal with the funeral team, and took the guy's business at night and touched the cemetery.
found the new grave head, opened it and took a look, Second Uncle Lin was happy, this time the grave was not empty, and there was a mother-in-law lying in the coffin.
Second Uncle Lin was so happy, he got the corpse out, didn't bury the grave, and ran home with it on his back.
But this village is far away from Linjiazhuang, and Second Uncle Lin has been driving for a long night with the dead corpse on his back, and he is really tired, so he put the corpse on the ground and rested for a while.
It didn't matter if he took a break, then Second Uncle Lin found that he was sitting on a grave, scolding angrily, and wanted to move the female corpse behind his back.
But when he looked back, there was no female corpse behind him, and there was a little paper figure thrown on the ground behind him.
Second Uncle Lin was frightened, stood up and looked around, and found that he had been running for a long time, and he was still in this cemetery, and the grave that he had dug up was not far away.
There was indeed a corpse in the coffin, Second Uncle Lin saw it so really, he couldn't care about being scared at this time, so he had the courage to go to the coffin in the pit and take a look.
At this look, Second Uncle Lin sat directly on the ground, and the coffin was empty, and there were a few words written in blood on the coffin.
"I found it this time"
Second Uncle Lin was scared, and he wanted to run when he touched the ground and even crawled, but this touch, the paper figure on the grave in the distance, I don't know when it was standing behind him.
At that time, Second Uncle Lin was so frightened that he fainted.
Lin Miao was shocked to tell me about this, and said that when her second uncle woke up, he found that he had fallen on the way home, and there was no graveyard around him, and there was no paper figure at all.
But after this incident, her second uncle no longer dared to steal the body, and lost three times the price of the buyer to settle the matter.
But maybe she was frightened, whether it was Qingming, Zhongyuan, or worshipping ancestors at the end of the year, her second uncle never went to the cemetery, and when he went out to see the cemetery, he also walked around.
I listened to Lin Miao's evil story, and I couldn't eat the whole meal, so in order to save a little face, I said that it must be her second uncle who added fuel and vinegar to scare her.
Lin Miao didn't argue with me, but it was strange that the child I buried was a boy, and the male corpse was very worthless in the eyes of the corpse thief, and her second uncle had never stolen the male corpse.
Hearing her mention this, in fact, I was also very strange, because this corpse thief was different from Lin Miao's second uncle, this person was obviously an expert.
He can draw charms and know how to deceive, that is, the clay figure used as a corpse stand-in.
If the soul of the corpse did not go to the underworld, with this clay figure, even the soul itself would not be able to detect that its body was stolen.
This will avoid being found by the ghostly spirit of the corpse.
Of course, I estimated that the child and Wu Lao Kan'er should have gone to the underworld to report, but I couldn't ignore this matter.
First, I have a great responsibility for the death of this child, and I don't want to go, and secondly, this corpse thief came prepared, and he can find the body I buried in the field, which means that he is here for this child, and it is definitely not as simple as stealing the body and selling it for money.
Finding a corpse is similar to a conjuring spirit, it's all looking for a needle in a haystack, and it's more difficult to find a corpse, if you want to find a designated corpse, you must have the birth date of the corpse, and even then you can only determine a general location, and it's not so easy to find.
You can't dig all the way through.
It can be seen that this corpse thief's ability is not small, but when he stole the child's body, he walked in a hurry, and the stall was not cleaned up.
After lunch, Lin Miao and I went around the field, put away the unburned paper work, and inquired about the wreath shop in the nearby villages and towns, and finally found the person who did the paper work when it was almost dark.
This is a seventy-year-old lady, listening to me ask about the person who bought paperwork, this old lady was quite angry, saying that the man had a big black dog, and he didn't know how to tie a chain, and when he left, the dog broke a lot of paper work.
The eldest lady asked the man to pay some money, but the man did not pay compensation, saying that it was broken by the dog, and asked the aunt to ask the dog for money.
For the big lady, I almost didn't faint on the spot.
I was sure that the lady didn't know the person, so I asked the lady if the person looked like any characteristics, and the old lady thought about it for a long time, but didn't come up with anything, and finally only said that the big black dog had a strip of cloth wrapped around the front legs.