Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Corpse

The road was unharmed, and when it was almost dawn, the old man stopped at the door of an inn, which was still wide open in the middle of the night, apparently for the corpse chaser. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The old man greeted the gong and walked in, and the leading corpse obediently followed him into the inn, and then walked directly to the back of the door, as if it had been arranged in advance.

Zhang Guan knew that this corpse chasing hotel could take in corpse chasers, but the corpses could only be placed behind the door, so Zhang Guan and several corpses stood side by side behind the door, according to the instructions of the old man, he couldn't sleep yet, just like that, he had to stay up until it was dark, and then continue to hurry.

During the day, people come and go, stay in the hotel to eat, but no one dares to stick their heads out to look behind the door, it seems that they are all warned about some taboos, and the locals dare not cross it at all.

Many years ago, these corpse inns were only for the dead, but now the corpse industry is declining more and more, and the shopkeeper has to open it to the public during the day in order to survive.

The tip of his nose was filled with a disgusting stench of corpses, and Zhang Guan felt a tumbling in his stomach, but he couldn't hold back the slightest movement.

Finally, at night, the population gradually thins out, and in this small village, it is difficult to see pedestrians outside at night. The old man began to strike the gong again, leading the group to start hurrying.

I didn't know how long I walked, but before dawn, I finally arrived at my destination, Jianglong Town.

It is strange to say that as soon as these upright corpses arrive at the door of the house, they will be paralyzed when they see their relatives and become an ordinary corpse that can no longer be ordinary.

In the old man's greeting of "I'm home", Zhang Guan seemed to see the lying corpse exhale a mouthful of turbidity, and his face, which had been tense, began to slowly become relaxed.

Soon, Zhang Guan was the only one left in the group led by the old man, and the old man took a deep breath and sighed lightly: "Finally hide from those yin si." ”

When the words fell, Zhang Guan's heart that had been hanging finally let go, and the soreness in his legs and the overwhelming tiredness and sleepiness in his brain told Zhang Guan that he was still alive, and it was good to be alive.

The old man took Zhang Guan to an acquaintance's house in the village, took off the clothes of the dead man, washed his face casually, and fell asleep on his back, which was a day and a night.

It was the hunger relief in his stomach that woke Zhang Guan up, and when he woke up, he smelled the aroma of food.

This family and the old man are old acquaintances many years ago, this time the corpse was driven to Jianglong Town, just settled here, during the meal, the family was very hospitable, so that Zhang Guan really experienced the enthusiasm and kindness of the Miao family.

However, when Zhang Guan and the old man thought that the corpse was successfully over, the family of one of the corpses came to the door.

The person who came was a hunchbacked old lady and a woman surnamed Wu in her forties, and seeing that the two of them were anxious with a hint of panic, the old man hurriedly let the two of them go to the house.

Said that the family is really miserable, the old man drove the corpse to send the woman's man, last month when he was working in the village accident, and the dead person did not stop, listen to the woman surnamed Wu whimpered and narrated, originally this woman gave the man a night of vigil, fell asleep in the middle of the night, slept until dawn, woke up and found that the coffin lid in the hall was opened, the woman was frightened at that time, hurriedly went up to check, but found that the man's body was well placed in the coffin, However, who has nothing to do in the middle of the night to open the lid of the coffin?

The old lady knew a little about the people here, so she checked the corpse's shoes, and the soles of the new shoes that had been replaced for the corpse were covered with mud.

It is a well-known fact that when the dead enter the museum, they wash their bodies and change into clean clothes and shoes.

This directly proves that the corpse opened the coffin by itself in the middle of the night and went out to wander around, but the corpse was not harmful, and it was strange that he finally returned to the coffin by himself.

Hearing this, the old man frowned, his face was a little solemn, he didn't think too much about it, stood up, and bluntly said Let the woman surnamed Wu lead the way, the old man was ready to go to see what was going on in person, Zhang Guan also felt that there was something strange in this matter, and he followed.

Before I arrived at the woman's house surnamed Wu, I saw a group of people gathered under a tree on the way, and I vaguely heard the sound of someone arguing.

When I got closer, I found out that the private money hidden under the tree by the leather in the village was dug up, and coincidentally, when the skin scolded the thief, a widow surnamed Wang in the village heard the words of the skin and went home to hold a porcelain jar to the skin.

Now it is impossible to tell, Pi Zifei said that the widow Wang stole his money, and the widow insisted that she saw it in front of the door this morning, and did not know who put it at the door.

The crowd also felt strange, if it was really the widow who stole it, then the widow would not be stupid enough to return the porcelain jar to the skin.

In the end, the daughter-in-law dragged the ears of the skin and dragged it home, scolding the skin for why he wanted to hide the private money to end this farce, seeing the widow Wang's face flushed with shame, Zhang was a little strange in his concern, looking at the appearance of the widow Wang, she didn't look like a person who did that kind of dirty business.

The old man stopped, stepped forward to check the pit dug by Pizi, nodded thoughtfully, and then didn't say anything, motioning for the woman surnamed Wu to continue walking.

On the way, the old man asked, "How did the man of the king's widow die?" ”

The woman surnamed Wu sighed lightly and said: "They are all hard-working people, Wang Camellia man drank too much and fell into the river and drowned, since then, Wang Camellia has no family, and lives alone with his son, his son is only fourteen years old this year." ”

So saying, the group arrived at the woman's house, and put some wreaths and paper at the door, and everyone went directly into the hall, and the old man walked to the coffin, and went up to check the shoes of the corpse, and found that there was indeed mud.

The old man stretched out his hand and lifted the dead man's eyelids slightly, and found that there were several very thick blood streaks under his eyelids, the old man frowned, his gaze moved down, and the deceased's hands attracted the attention of the old man.

The old man raised the corpse's hand, put it in front of his eyes and looked carefully, and found that the deceased's hands were also some mud.

The old man called the woman surnamed Wu and asked, "What did your man do when he was alive?" ”

The woman surnamed Wu replied honestly: "Carpenter work." ”

"Did the corpse be thoroughly cleaned after it was delivered, you look at this hand." The old man motioned for the woman to come.

When the woman surnamed Wu saw the dirt on the nails of the corpse, she said with a strange face: "I washed him, and I didn't see the nails so dirty when I washed them." ”

The old man nodded meaningfully and said, "Take me to the widow's house." Hearing this, although the woman surnamed Wu was a little puzzled, she didn't ask much, and walked in front to lead the way for the old man.