Chapter 22: The Funeral Home
"Something happened to the funeral home?" I asked.
"yes..."Boss Guo took a puff of his cigarette.
"Please Boss Guo tell us, how to have an accident?"
"Hey, saying it can scare people to death, probably..."Boss Guo nervously snapped his fingers, "A week ago..."
Boss Guo told us that that day, he was inspecting production in the factory when he received a call from the funeral home staff. On the phone, the man told him something was wrong. Boss Guo asked him what happened. The man said that the old man guarding the morgue at the funeral home had died. Boss Guo said, why are you calling me when the old man is dead? I didn't kill it. The man said, don't worry, listen to me slowly... The old man had been working in the funeral parlor for more than ten years, and his main task was to guard the morgue. It's not tiring, but it's an errand that no one wants to do. According to the rules of the museum, every night between sleeping, you should go to the morgue cold storage to check it, and then get up early in the morning to check it again.
In addition to the old man, the funeral parlor also has several employees, but the dormitory is quite far from where the old man lives. Early in the morning, an employee got up and was thirsty, so he went to the old man's house to ask for water, and found that the door was locked, there was no one at all, and the old man's house was only a few steps away from the morgue. The employee is usually very familiar with the old man, and often jokes with the old man or something. He thought that the old man must be in the morgue, so he wanted to play a prank and go in and scare him. The morgue contained both a morgue and a morgue bed. When the employee entered, he found the old man sitting on one of the morgues, his eyes fixed on the morgue opposite. The employee stomped his feet and screamed, seeing that the old man did not react, he felt that something was wrong, and he used to push lightly with his hand, and the old man 'fluttered' and fell off the bed at once, and after landing on the ground, he still maintained a sitting position. The employee found out that the old man was dead...
After a forensic autopsy, the old man was strangled to death, with a choke mark on his neck, and the forensic doctor extracted fingerprints. Everyone was puzzled, wondering why the old man was strangled to death in the morgue and remained seated after his death... Could it have something to do with the morgue? The curator's sudden words scared everyone present half to death. The morgue that the curator said was the one that the old man was facing after his death, and it contained Juanjuan's corpse. They opened the morgue and saw that Juanjuan was lying straight inside, looking nothing unusual, but after comparing the fingerprints, the forensic doctor found that the pinch marks on the old man's neck were left by Juanjuan...
"So, then Juanjuan cheated the corpse?" I asked.
"I don't know, the staff told me on the phone that although there have been a lot of evil things in their museum over the years, they are not as evil as this time. After the old man died, no one lived in the museum, and no one dared to live there. The meaning of the staff call me was to let me be accommodating with the family of the deceased and burn Na Juanjuan as soon as possible. But her family said that they couldn't find out the exact cause of death and refused to be cremated, and those old hats thought that Juanjuan's corpse strangled the old man to death or something, and I colluded with the people in the funeral home to make it up in order to cremate Juanjuan as soon as possible, alas, his grandmother's..."
Boss Guo sighed again and again and took a puff of cigarette angrily.
Yuxin and I glanced at each other.
"Can you take me to the funeral home?" I asked.
Boss Guo shuddered, and the cigarette almost didn't fall to the ground, "Look... What to see? Look at Juanjuan? ”
"Hmm...," I nodded.
Yuxin told Boss Guo that I was a researcher of supernatural events (which can be understood as the palace-style title of a magician), and the reason why I came to inquire about Juanjuan's death was because I heard that her death was unknown, and now I heard that Juanjuan strangled an old man to death after her death, so I naturally wanted to go and find out.
Boss Guo smiled, "Miss Bai has said everything, then what else is there to say, let's go, go to dinner first, and then I'll take you there..."
"Don't bother, we've eaten..."
"Why are you so powerful, then Boss Guo nodded when he saw you?"
On the way to the funeral home, I asked curiously.
"It's nothing..."Yu Xin stared ahead, smiling slightly, "I met him at dinner before, but I didn't know him well, and I didn't have any dealings." ”
"Oh..."
"Ah Leng."
"Huh? Say. ”
Yuxin scratched her head like a little girl, "I've always been weird, but I'm too embarrassed to ask..."
"What?"
"You say..."Yu Xin looked at me, "The child of Boss Guo's father who is pregnant with Juanjuan, what is the matter with Boss Guo and his family?" ”
"Hehe... You don't understand this, this is called borrowing seeds, then Boss Guo is infertile, if he wants to have children, he will either adopt or borrow seeds, instead of borrowing other people's seeds, it is better to use his father's seeds, after all, what Juanjuan is pregnant with is the blood and blood of their Guo family..."
"Then, when the child is born, does Boss Guo call him father or brother?"
"Of course it's called Dad, it's his child, if he cares about his father, he'll call him Grandpa..."
"It's so messy..."Yu Xin said with a smile crying and laughing, and then smiled, "It's still Master Leng who knows a lot." ”
"Hehe..."
The so-called funeral parlors are actually legendary crematoriums, most of which are built in relatively remote places. The funeral parlor where Juanjuan's body was stored looked quite large in a place close to the suburbs, with woods on both sides, a stinky river behind it, and only a waste recycling station nearby.
As soon as the car drove into the large courtyard of the funeral home, I faintly heard the sound of mourning music. There were two hearses that pulled the dead man parked in the courtyard, followed by several private cars. Look at this, there's a funeral going on here.
Getting out of the car, Boss Guo waved at us and walked towards an old white building first. Yuxin put on sunglasses, gently stroked her hair, and followed me a little nervously.
The funeral parlor looked quite old, with grass and mold growing in the bricks against the wall. In addition, there are two locust trees planted in the yard, a few green pines, and the branches and leaves block the sunlight, reflecting the whole yard gloomily. Listening to the mournful music coming from the back of the building, and smelling the smell of burning paper in the air, I felt as if I had come to another world.
Entering the old building, there was a large hall, dimly lit, very shady, and the skin of the people who wore through the hall was trembling. Feet on the concrete floor, echoes. Looking at the two sides, some of the windows are labeled 'Funeral Business Consultation Office', and some are labeled 'Urn Deposit Registration Office'... Wait a minute.
Passing through the hall and through a small door, the sound of mourning came from a building on the right, with a pail for burning paper and a row of wreaths against the wall. Along with the sound of mourning, there were bursts of crying, and then the sound of the loudspeaker 'bowing...'...
We followed Boss Guo to one of the offices on the left-hand side and met the director of the morgue at the funeral home.
"You want to see the corpse of the woman in Cabinet 14?" The director asked in surprise.
"Yes..."The director's reaction made Boss Guo a little nervous, and he smiled reluctantly.
After all, Boss Guo was one of the people responsible for Juanjuan's body, but it also took a lot of words, and the director called the curator to report, and finally reluctantly agreed. The director called several able-bodied employees with steel pipes and iron rods in their hands, and then led us to the morgue. Although I was calm on the surface, I was a little nervous inside, not out of fear of corpses, but because of the formation of the gang in front of me...
The group of people walked along the path like wolves to the backyard of this funeral home. As far as the eye can see, it is a fully enclosed bungalow. There was only one house with windows, which was supposed to be where the old man who died.
As I passed the room, I looked through the window and it was dark.
Coming to the door of a morgue, the director opened the door, and we walked in cautiously. It was cold inside, the kind of cold that drilled into the cracks of the bones, the light was very dim, and against the wall were rows of mortuary cabinets. Each cabinet has a serial number and is labeled with the deceased's name, gender, age, and cause of death.
When I came to the '14th' cabinet, I saw that there was no cause of death when it was written 'Li Juanjuan, female, 28 years old...'! … There is no morgue in front of this cabinet, and it looks like it has been removed...
The director opened the cabinet door, and the two employees pulled the body out with a squeak. Yuxin nervously hid behind me...
I looked in, and saw that the corpse lying inside was naked, very ugly, with a slightly open mouth, it had begun to shrink and oxidize, the skin was wrinkled, yellow and black, like two shriveled wilted eggplants... This is that Juanjuan, from the larynx to the perineum of the small belly, there is a long knife edge, stitched crookedly, it seems to have been dissected...
The atmosphere in the morgue was quite tense, and several people did not even dare to come out. That Boss Guo was like having a stroke, and he was swinging all over.
Suddenly, I noticed that there seemed to be something on the side of Juanjuan's thighs, and my heart moved... The light was too dim to see, so I took out my phone and looked at it, and with a hunched waist, I poked my head into the morgue.
"What are you doing?!" The director grabbed me.
"It's okay, I'm just going to see, don't worry, I won't touch her..."
I broke away from the director, poked my head in, and carefully discerned, only to see that it was not a tattoo at all, but a folded supermarket cash register!
"Hey, what are you doing, didn't you say you wouldn't move her?!"
"What is this?"
I took the list off the lap of the corpse, straightened up, and said coldly.
"This..."
The director was stunned, and everyone was stunned.
This list looks very new, carefully unfolded, and the first few words jumped into the eye, '×× shopping mall'... It's the largest supermarket in our city, and it's next to the KFC store where I stayed when I sent the two babies to reincarnation.
Below is the date of the purchase, '× × 2006...', the night before yesterday...
I hurriedly looked at the items on the list... It looks like it's all pregnant women's nutritious food... My heart was like being stuffed with a piece of ice, and I looked at the female corpse in the coffin in disbelief, and there was such a terrible scene in front of my eyes...
The night before, the female corpse, that is, Li Juanjuan, pushed open the door of the morgue, climbed out of it, and after walking out of the morgue, she put on her clothes and went to the supermarket in the downtown area. In the supermarket, she walked around like a living person and bought some nutritional supplements...
"Ah Leng." Yuxin said suddenly.
"Huh?"
"That's... That supermarket..."Yu Xin's voice changed tone slightly.
"What's wrong?!" I asked hurriedly.
"It's not open at 11 p.m. at all!"
It dawned on me that I looked at the cashier time on the list again, 23:15...