Chapter 51: Meat Selection
Are these your friends? I couldn't help but press my phone. There are no photos on the urns, they are spotlessly clean, and they are very neatly placed, which shows that people often come to clean them.
I didn't touch it, which was a very disproportionate behavior. But after waiting for a long time, the man didn't answer, just stared blankly at the antique shelf.
I took a picture of my phone and he pouted. I shook my phone and said I didn't know.
They all belong here, and now they're home. The man suddenly turned around and walked out, and when he came to the door, he said, "You belong here."
I was stunned for a moment, not immediately figuring out what the man meant. I'm immune to this confusing sounding thing now.
Bai Kai stared at the man out of the house, came up and said, Xiao Que, this is a death threat! Can you fucking not be so calm? I'm a little uncomfortable.
I don't think he meant it that way. I took a deep breath and tried to move the urn. To be honest, I don't know much about urns, and I don't know how much they should weigh. But the feeling in my hand told me that the box was much heavier than I expected.
Since you touched it, just be thorough. I'm going to have an accident. Bai Kai went directly to lift the lid of the urn, but did not open it.
I'm cāo! It's still a slide! Bai Kai changed the angle before opening the urn. I immediately surrounded it, and the urn was indeed full of ashes. I didn't seem to be going up the stairs outside, so I just went to drive the others. The urn on the entire antique shelf was quickly opened by more than half of us.
Looking at them one by one, I found that the ashes all had one thing in common, that is, they were all very wet. It is said that the humidity in this house is not high, not to mention that it is very tightly sealed with an urn, so that this will not happen.
Bai Kai boldly reached out and touched it, and many of the ashes simply condensed into lumps.
I asked, are these ashes or not? How did it make it look like the lime was damp?
Definitely! Don't believe you? Bai Kai carefully touched and sniffed the urn: "These boxes were added later, the ashes may have been salvaged from somewhere, they must have been blistered."
I was stunned when I heard this, and then I finally remembered what the man had just said. Damn, Bai Kai, could this ash be fished up from the Yin River?
Have you been fixing your brain lately? Bai Kai opened another ash and suddenly exclaimed, why is this box so small?
I looked at it, and saw that the ashes in this urn were obviously much less than the others, and it was almost at the bottom.
I said, could it be a child? There are no ashes after burning?
No, if you look closely, what is it? Bai Kai stretched out his hand and pointed.
I felt a chill down my spine instantly, and the ashes were so damp that any touch could easily leave marks on them. I saw that there were very clear marks on this ashes, which looked like they had been dug with a spoon!
I can't help but ask, damn someone digging up the ashes to eat!? It's a bone booster!?
Bai Kai dragged me and walked downstairs, Xiao Que I understood why I called us here.
The lights are still on downstairs, and walking down the stairs is a bit like coming ashore from the sea.
The man sat on the couch and didn't speak, but his eyes seemed to know what we had found.
Bai Kai was not ambiguous, sat down and asked the man, did you eat the ashes?
The man nodded very strictly, and Bai Kai asked again, then you need our help?
The man stood up, walked over to me, and said, "I just need this friend's help, to be exact."
Bai Kai looked at me, his expression was a little strange. Saying that we had to discuss it, he dragged me to a relatively remote room on the first floor.
The scene just now is a bit like my agent, which makes me want to laugh.
But after Bai Kai opened his mouth to tell me what the man needed my help with, my expression immediately froze.
Because Bai Kai told me, the man wanted me to help eat the ashes. This is called 'meat selection' in their magic, the meat of human flesh, and the choice of vegetables. It is easy to understand from the literal meaning, that is, to use the flesh to choose the right thing. This method was not originally used in magic, but came from the infirmary of the royal court. Although China's traditional Chinese medicine is broad and profound, it has gradually become profound after thousands of years of accumulation. Earlier, many prescriptions or medicines had not been discovered, but it happened that a member of the royal family had an undetected illness and was in urgent need of medical treatment. As a last resort, I can only choose many young and middle-aged people to make meat choices. The simple explanation is actually a drug test, which is similar to the clinical toxicity test that our modern drugs need to do before they are marketed.
With the passage of time, this method has gradually been used by many professions, although there will be some targeted adaptations, but the general concept is similar. Not only Fangshu, but also many craftsmen of three religions and nine ranks, will also use this method. For example, those who do carving will use meat to choose jade, those who raise spiritual objects or evil things will use meat to choose their masters, and even in the end, they will change to choose coffins with corpses, weapons with blood, and so on. This all falls under the category of meat selection.
And what that man is doing now is to choose the one he wants among the ashes of many people who can't tell who is who.
This ash is not like a corpse, even if it is soaked and rotten, it can be distinguished by the means of current DNA. Once the ashes are mixed together, there is basically no way to distinguish or classify them. Like the ashes burned in the crematorium, some of them are left in the incinerator, and they don't know who is who. Earlier, he also saw with his own eyes that a family's relatives died and burned the ashes out, because there were too many other people's ashes in it, and finally there was something in the family.
Bai Kai talked a lot, very detailed, and the meaning is also obvious, explain the reason for this matter clearly, and the decision is up to me.
I didn't intend to help, but I still wanted to know how to choose the meat after eating the ashes. So I asked a few more questions.
Bai Kai sighed and explained that this flesh and ashes are usually only found in old wars. They are usually the immediate family members of the deceased, and the closer the blood relationship, the better. If the ashes are eaten, what can be excreted is not the family's own, and what is absorbed or left in the body is the family's. When all the ashes have been eaten, the person has to fast for three to seven days, during which time he can only drink water. In the end, this person becomes a living urn.
Just now I just listened to a fresh, but when I heard Bai Kai explain this, I muttered in my heart.
It's good for the immediate family to eat it, I know who these ashes are? Why should I eat? Damn, my mom gave birth to an older brother or younger brother behind my back?
I said, that's not right! Our family is alive and well, and this ash has nothing to do with me!
"Since that person wants your help, he naturally won't mess around. I have no right to get involved in your family's affairs, whether the relationship between the two of you is a couple or a brother, you can only divide it yourself. Bai Kai looked at the door, but that person has a request for you, I think we can talk to him about the conditions.
On the condition that I tell you everything I know—about you. The man walked in through the doorway as he spoke. I couldn't see his expression in the dark, I just felt that his words were very strict.
What do you know? Damn, if I'm poisoned, where am I going to be reasonable? I turned my face to the place where the man was.
I can sue you for who I am, and, I can sue you for who you are.
I obviously felt that Bai Kai pinched me, and whispered, Xiao Que, promise him. I have a way.
I was completely hesitant at this point, I didn't know what the consequences would be if I agreed, but the thought of eating the ashes was already very unacceptable.
Then you sue me, who wrote the distress message in this house? Did the man get out? I'm testing this question.
Didn't go out. The man was silent for a moment and then said, I don't know, and there is no need to know. There are enough people dying for this thing, and I'm not interested in caring about them one by one.
His words were blunt, but they seemed to be the truth. I didn't know how to open my mouth for a while. I wanted to talk to him for a while, but I couldn't figure out what it had to do with him. So I had to ask, what about after the meat selection? Will you offer me up?
I'll take you to a place after the meat selection, a place where I was supposed to go. You'd better hurry, it's too late.