Chapter Seventy-Four. The strangeness in the Thousand Autumn Hall

After going out, Hu Zongren didn't say a word and walked directly to the place where I parked. After getting in the car, I said to him, "The sentence at the end of your game is so beautiful, and I immediately think that you are so charming, so handsome." Hu Zongren came up stupidly again, he grinned and said, In fact, these words were also told to me by my master, probably someone else told him, I knew that I was handsome.

I sighed because I felt that it would be humiliating for me to continue the conversation at this point. After starting the car, I turned on the air conditioner, and after waiting for the temperature in the car to drop a little, I asked Hu Zongren, what are your plans now? Hu Zongren took out the ashes certificate from his bag, and then said to me that poor people must have something to hate, and this sentence seems to be the other way around. But that Ma Dao man was right, when I faced this female ghost of Xie Dongmei, I really thought that if I destroyed it, there would still be a steady stream of new troubles, why not like now. This Xie Dongmei, although I don't know what kind of person she was in her life, a good person or a bad person, but this kind of death is not a happy thing in any case. Since Ma Daoren said that there can only be one left between me and her, there is no doubt that it must be me.

I said to Hu Zongren, of course it has to be you, no matter how Xie Dongmei died, no matter how tragic she died, but her subsequent revenge also killed two lives. Even if we living people can understand her reason for doing this, in their worldly realm, this is also a great evil, no wonder the anger is so uncontrollable that even the Ma Dao people who sealed her can't do anything. Hu Zongren said, this Ma Dao man didn't tell the truth, with his ability, I think it must be above the two of us, so he must have the ability to send this Xie Dongmei away, but I don't know what he strongly hinted that he wanted to fake my hand, if this Xie Dongmei's stay will become part of the Eight Pole Seal, I have to do it. Hu Zongren said to me with a smile, don't forget, what Old Man Situ said, there is a sword on this map.

Looking at the time, it was almost time for dinner, so we decided to go to Situ's house for a meal. When we arrived at Situ's house, Li Jia had already woken up, and we simply told Master Situ and Master Tie Songzi what had happened, and Li Jia struggled and said that he wanted to go back to his house to rest, so I had to tell him the truth. If he goes home at this moment, he may even be affected by his family, so let's stay at Situ's house for the time being, and then you go home after Hu Zongren and I have finished Xie Dongmei's affairs. To put it mildly, Li Jia finally reluctantly agreed. Situ told us to be careful the next day, because it happened that tomorrow was July 14, the first day of the Ghost Gate, and the three days were the most cloudy all year round, and he said that he and Tie Songzi would watch over the situation of this rice array and Li Jia for the past two days, and by the way, he also asked a friend to print out the photos in that film by himself.

After discussing the time of meeting with Hu Zongren the next day, we chose to meet at 1 o'clock at noon, because usually everyone had already had lunch at this time, so we didn't have to look for anything else to eat, and we all saved the trouble of paying. In addition, the weather in August, between 1 and 3 o'clock at noon is the hottest, even if there are other families of the deceased who go to the columbarium to mourn, most of them choose to go in the morning when it is cooler, at this time, even the staff are too lazy to go to the scorching sun, and our chances of being found are much smaller.

The next day, I asked Hu Zongren to take a car to this funeral home in the high-tech zone, and I picked him up at the door. In many shops outside the funeral parlor, there are my acquaintances, because these people are not good, they are doing the business of the dead, almost every one of them has Mr. Yin and Yang monks and Taoists attached to their stores, and usually when most people want to find people like me and Hu Zongren, in addition to repeatedly asking acquaintances to inquire, the easiest place to find people in our line is this kind of funeral dragon, of course, the price will be more chaotic, and occasionally bad luck will meet people who are indiscriminate. We bought money for writing incense and candles outside, and since we were running for one of the deceased, we had to have at least respect, and then we parked the car, climbed a high row of stairs with our things, and walked to the door of this columbarium called "Qianqiu Hall".

On a wicker chair outside the doorway, there was a security guard who was dozing off with a fan in his hand, looking about fifty years old. I went to his side and woke him up, saying that we were here to mourn and take the ashes, and at this time, a staff member in a white shirt sitting at the registration office in the hall put down the mobile phone he was playing with and said to us, please show me the ashes certificate. After hearing this, Hu Zongren planned to go to the inner hall to give him the ashes certificate, but was stopped by the security guard at the door, who said that there were urns all here, and things such as incense, candles, paper money, etc., which were easy to cause fires, were not allowed to be brought in. Despite this, we fully understood his work, so Hu Zongren said to the security guard, then I will put the incense candle paper money here with you first, and we will take it later, please help look at it. The security guard nodded, put down the incense, candles, and paper money, and then we walked into the inner hall.

Hu Zongren handed the ashes deposit card to the staff, the staff looked at us, asked what the relationship between us and the deceased was, this time Hu Zongren and I had no tacit understanding, I said brother, but he said classmates, but he quickly changed his words and said, we are all classmates, the relationship is very good, and we call brothers and sisters on weekdays. After saying that, he laughed stupidly. The staff member probably saw that we looked natural and harmless, so he didn't have any suspicions, but just told us to wait, and he said he was going to take the urn down for us. When I heard this, I hurriedly said to him, no need, let's go and get it ourselves, this is not the first time we have come, we know how to get it.

The staff agreed, because although there were few people, but when there were many people, such as Qingming and the Seven Festivals, there was an endless stream of people who came to mourn, and he couldn't take them one by one, just climbing the stairs would exhaust him. So we pressed the elevator and went upstairs on our own.

It's not the first time I've been to this funeral home, and I can't count how many times I've been. There is a chair covered with bright yellow silk in the elevator, but it is not for people to sit on, this is a custom, when you take the elevator after receiving the ashes, that position is specially prepared for the soul of the deceased, after all, the deceased is big. The number on the columbarium certificate indicates that Xie Dongmei's ashes are stored on the third floor, and the hall on the third floor is empty, except for a few camera probes, but I don't think many people have the courage to stare at the cameras that shoot the columbarium all day. Basically, this is a good place to start, quiet, no one comes, even if there is no staff to guard it, no one will come and steal anything from the dead.

Searching back and forth through the rows of stacked urns that looked like library shelves, it was easy to find the urn. I don't know if the urn is the location chosen by the Ma Dao people themselves, this position is placed relatively high, so it will not be covered by other shelves, if I am not miscalculated, the location of Xie Dongmei's urn, even in a fixed period of time every day, can also shine sunlight, which is also one of the ways to eliminate anger, which also shows that the original choice of this location, must have been exquisite.

Playing a compass in the columbarium, there is no doubt that you will find ghosts everywhere, the difference is that some of them are just watching the excitement, knowing that they are dead, and staying here all day with so many neighbors as companions, it is not lonely. But at this moment, I had to take out the compass, because we all knew that Xie Dongmei's ghost could almost be said to be different from all the other ghosts here, its anger was heavier, its resentment was stronger, and it had confronted us once before, so it is conceivable whether she was hostile to us, not to mention that her appearance this time was basically aimed at Hu Zongren.

Before entering the Thousand Autumn Hall, I used the compass to sneak a look at the direction of the south, south, west, and northwest, because considering that there must be many ghosts in this inner hall who have not yet been able to leave, it will definitely affect the magnetic field of the compass. But when I saw the compass now, it was quiet, and the hands only shook slightly, and that was because my hands were shaking due to my years of smoking. I hurriedly said to Hu Zongren, this picture doesn't look right, according to what the Ma Dao man said yesterday, this Xie Dongmei should be here, but why is there no movement? Hu Zongren jokingly said, do you think the two of us are too powerful to hide? His pretended calm sense of humor didn't make me laugh out loud, but it made me sense that something was wrong. So I hurriedly said to Hu Zongren, you go and push the ladder over there and climb up to see if her urn is still there.

Hu Zongren answered, and soon he climbed up like a monkey, but soon he was stunned, and I asked him what you saw, but you said something. Hu Zongren said, you'd better come up and see for yourself. The aluminum alloy ladder is relatively wide, and it is no problem for two people to climb up side by side, so I walked up step by step, without taking a step, the compass pointer shook slightly because of my stride, until I walked to the step where Hu Zongren stood, and there was a very obvious supernatural reaction on the compass, and the pointer began to turn in circles, the speed and way of this circle were familiar to me, which was essentially different from the situation encountered in the shoe store earlier, that time it was like a crazy turn, which meant that it was enraged and crazy at that time. And at this moment, although it is turning fast, it is obviously much more even.

My heart was pounding, and I looked up at the compartment where Xie Dongmei's urn was placed. The lattice was opened by two adjacent lattices, and there was a coffin inside, and the shape and size of the coffin were exactly the same as the coffin currently placed in Situ's house. And a few things in front of the coffin also surprised me:

A small wreath tied up with a silk bamboo stick, a spirit card engraved with "Xie Dongmei's Spirit Position", these two are leaning on the coffin covered with red silk, and a registration photo is placed in the photo frame on one side of the coffin, this is a very beautiful but very haggard woman, looking about 30 years old, belonging to the type that looks listless but barely squeezes out a smile. In front of the coffin, there was a small saucer, which contained a fake fruit made of plastic, and in addition to that, there were two wine glasses, one of which contained a bundle of hair, just like the one we found in the cloth bag, and the other contained something that seemed to have been embalmed, and which, on closer inspection, was a tongue.

That's right, the human tongue, and these two wine glasses are exactly the same as the ones we found in Hongya Cave.