That day, I had nothing to do, I went to Bangkok alone to visit the belly clip market, and at dusk I was about to go to Pattaya to see Fang Gang, when a text message came from my mobile phone, and when I opened it, it was an MMS message sent to me by Lao Xie. Two pictures. The left and right sides of a metal knife are respectively. The accompanying text is: "Brother Tian, can you see the origin of this knife?" ”

I was very surprised, I have been doing cards for two years, because I rarely have direct contact with Long Po or Master Azan, so I go to ask Fang Gang or Lao Xie for a lot of business, and if there are things that need to be identified, I also send pictures to them. But today, Lao Xie actually sent me a picture for identification, doesn't this make my class get an axe? But since he did it, there must be some purpose.

After carefully looking at the picture several times, I replied to the text message: "Judging from the appearance alone, it should be Luang Pofeng's demon slaying knife, and the blade is made of coffin nails melted." "Servant Libera.

Lao Xie replied: "I think so too, but it's not, I've been cheated." ”

"Who was trapped?" I was very surprised, in my mind, only Lao Xie had cheated others, and no one seemed to be able to cheat him.

I called him: "What the hell is going on. You old fox also gets pecked by geese! ”

Lao Xie cried in a mournful voice: "Don't mention it, that guy almost gave up his life, and just now he called me to find him immediately, but I didn't dare." Do you think he's going to beat me? ”

I didn't understand: "Can you please stop saying such headless words?" Who's going to beat you, Fang Gang? ”

Lao Xie said: "No, it's a friend of mine, who works as a corpse burner in the funeral parlor of Khon Kaen Province...... "I asked you when you met such a friend, Lao Xie begged me if I could go to Khon Kaen, and then talk in detail after meeting, he really didn't dare to show his face, for fear of being beaten." Although Lao Xie didn't say the reason, judging from such eagerness, there must be something unusual. So we made an appointment to meet at the BRT station in Khon Kaen.

From Bangkok to Khon Kaen, it was already dark, and I saw Lao Xie running over in an old white shirt from a distance. I wiped my sweat with a handkerchief while running. I asked, "Why do you keep running instead of catching a train or plane?" ”

Lao Xie panted and said, "Xi, I'm used to it." Brother Tian, you haven't eaten either, have you? As soon as I heard that, I knew he was hungry. I admire Lao Xie's careful calculation, and I don't know with others, anyway, every time he meets me, it's basically at dinner, and most of them are my treats.

At a nearby restaurant, we each asked for a chicken fat rice. After I was full of wine and food, I asked what was going on with the Demon Slayer Knife, who were you pitted, and Lao Xie revealed a bitter gourd appearance: "Just like you, I was also pitted by that Sister Jiang!" ”

"What, I was cheated by Sister Jiang?" I hurriedly asked what it meant, and Lao Xie said to go to the funeral home first. His friend had already left work, but he didn't dare to go to the funeral home at night to talk about business, and hoped that I could accompany him. I was very unhappy, secretly thinking that good things would not be done without me, but I went to the funeral home at night and found me.

In this way, Lao Xie and I took a taxi to the funeral home in Khon Kaen. The entire city of Khon Kaen has a population of only a few hundred thousand, which is not as large as that of a large residential area in Beijing, and the scale of the funeral parlors is not large, and the business is deserted, which is in stark contrast to the phenomenon of Chinese urban funeral parlors queuing up day and night.

It was already dark, and many rooms in the entire funeral home were not lit, and there was no one. Lao Xie didn't dare to enter, so he called at the door and asked the corpse burner to come out to pick him up, this person was called Cha Nong, he was dark and short, and his body was very strong. With a gold ring on his finger and a gold watch on his wrist, it seems that he has a good income.

Cha Nong was on duty tonight, and as soon as he saw Lao Xie, he angrily grabbed Lao Xie by the collar: "What did you do, did you do it on purpose?" Do you want me to get you a skull and ashes in the future? I hurriedly pushed him away so that he could have something to say.

I can only be regarded as a medium size in the Northeast, but the height of Cha Nong is only about 1.6 meters, which is taller than me. Chanon looked at me, suppressed his anger for a few minutes, and turned to leave. Lao Xie and I hurriedly followed behind his ass. Passing through several rooms and halls, there is a hall with a lot of khaki cardboard coffins, this is a simple coffin, there are many Leshan Tang in Thailand that can donate coffins, and the donation is this kind of paper coffin, one is for the poor who cannot afford to buy a wooden coffin, and the other is for the deceased who are pulled from the hospital to the funeral home to prepare for cremation.

Don't look at the old Xie as a card dealer for several years, but he is as timid as a mouse, and he grabbed my arm tightly along the way. I glared at him a few times, Lao Xie pretended not to see, his face pretended to be relaxed, but his hand grasped it tighter. Chanon led us to his dormitory in the backyard, which was simply furnished, but I saw several valuable things± with a brand-new digital camera and the latest cell phone, and a gold necklace.

Cha Nong sat on the edge of the bed angrily and asked Lao Xie, "What's the matter with your knife?" ”

Lao Xie said: "If you have something to say, this is my friend Tian Qi, who is also Chinese, you tell him what happened, and when the time comes, we will find a way to solve it together." "I thought to myself, why did I let me solve your matter, and what can I solve?

Chanong looked at me, and Lao Xie and I sat on the chair opposite him, listening to Chanong tell us the truth.

Most temples in Thailand provide the function of cremation of remains, but there are also formal funeral homes in Thailand, but the fees are relatively high, and only the more affluent people will choose to send their deceased family members to the funeral home, while the poor and ordinary people go to the temple for cremation. Because of the popularity of Buddhist cards in Southeast Asia, many Buddhist cards Guman and even ghosts need a lot of Yin materials, such as Binling cards, which have to use skulls or other bones, and most of the Kuman Tong must be mixed with the baby's ashes. But the only people who can come into direct contact with the bones are the corpse burners. They would cremate the body marked "accidental death" in the death certificate, and leave the skull or the unburned grudge bone and quietly give it to Master Azan to make a yin card.

Of course, this kind of behavior must be carried out secretly, otherwise, not only the government will take care of it, but the family of the deceased will not agree. In addition, in recent years, Thailand has banned the use of human organs to make amulet cards, but the demand for amulets is increasing year by year, so the incineration has also become a profession with oil and water. Upstream dealers like Lao Xie and Fang Gang knew a lot of corpse burners, and as middlemen, they would sell the ashes and human bones provided by the burners to the Azan people to make some profits. Although the profit is not high, it often provides Yin material to the Azans, you can have a good relationship with them, and you can also give discounts or priority benefits when you ask for cards in the future.

Lao Xie is no exception, he usually lives in Khon Kaen for a long time, and knows the corpse burners of the Khon Kaen Fu funeral parlor and several major temples. There are several corpse burners in the Khon Kaen funeral home, one of whom is named Cha Nong, who is very familiar with Lao Xie, and sometimes encounters the cremation of the kind of corpse that has died horizontally, and will quietly get out the skull and resentful bones after the cremation is completed, and find an opportunity to sell it to Lao Xie.

But recently, the life of the poor farmer has not been very peaceful, he usually lives in the working dormitory of the funeral home, and since about half a year ago, various supernatural events have begun to occur in his dormitory. The symptoms are similar to the evil business I solved for the client before, nothing more than nightmares, strange noises in the middle of the night, body chills, frequent hallucinations, etc., the poor farmer thought that the funeral home was originally a place with heavy yin qi, and he was a little scared at first, but slowly he got used to it. After all, because the family is poor, otherwise who would choose to work in a funeral home.

But then an incident happened that made the poor farmer sure that these supernatural events were directed at him.

It was Saturday, it was raining heavily, and there was only one person alive in the funeral home, an elderly man in his eighties who had died of illness. There were dozens of family members and friends attending the funeral. The paper coffins used in Thai funeral parlors are generally earthy yellow, and there is a fist-high gap between the lid and the four sides of the coffin, so that the body can be identified without opening the lid. There is a label on the head, and the content is similar to that on the death certificate.

After the paper coffins were transported from the morgue, they were all stacked on top of each other in preparation for cremation that day. The old man I just mentioned was in second place, and a friend who attended the funeral was idle and bored, and used his mobile phone to record a short video of these paper coffins, about 20 seconds. At that time, Chanong and another staff member came out to carry the paper coffin, he first checked the label, then tore off the label and pasted it on the cremation record book, and then pulled out the paper coffin and placed it on an iron bed with wheels at the bottom. His actions were also recorded by the man. Chanon glanced at the man, but didn't care.