Chapter 35: One Missing
Looking at the neatly assembled bones on the ground, I admired Long Xiaoman so much that I threw myself to the ground.
Those who can go up to the hall and get down to the kitchen can beat hooligans or something, they are simply weak in front of her, this woman is really able to smile and fall into the country, she can kill demons with a sword, and now she can roll up her sleeves and fight corpses, this is simply a goblin, she is so good, why can't she go to heaven!
After she had done all this, she looked extremely calm, as if she had just placed a bunch of ordinary building blocks, pointed to the corpses and said, "You count, how many bones are there here." ”
I nodded, "Twenty-three in all." ”
I think of the collective painting in Lei Chang's former residence, Lei Chang himself, plus his nine sons and one daughter, a total of eleven, plus their wives, and an old housekeeper, exactly twenty-three.
I heard the old man say in the teahouse before that the nine sons and one daughter of the Lei family have no heirs, and according to the ancient rules, concubines cannot be buried in the clan tomb, so the number should be correct.
"Count again." Long Xiaoman looked at the corpses on the ground and said again.
I wondered and counted again, it was still twenty-three, right?
It's just that I found that six of the twenty-three bones were incomplete, either missing arms or legs, and some were missing heads, and even one had no body, only limbs and a head, which looked strange.
I asked Long Xiaoman, is it possible that he was gnawed by some beast, but as soon as I finished asking, I didn't need Long Xiaoman to answer, I felt a little unreliable, if it was a beast, it would definitely dig out the bones, and I couldn't gnaw it and bury it again.
Suddenly, a thought flashed through my mind, six incomplete corpses, all with different parts, namely limbs, heads, and torsos, didn't they just form a complete corpse?
Thinking of this, I hurriedly carefully examined the complete corpses, and on the corpse of the old butler, I really saw the clues.
Although the old butler's body was intact, upon closer inspection, it was found that the limbs were somewhat uncoordinated, and the arms and legs were of different lengths and thicknesses.
Could it be a patchwork?
Long Xiaoman nodded, "There are actually only twenty-two corpses here, and there are no twenty-three at all!" ”
I wondered, what does this mean? No one can be bored enough to fight corpses!
I asked Long Xiaoman, where is the real twenty-third corpse?
Long Xiaoman frowned slightly and stared ahead, as if he was thinking about something, and after a while, he showed a worried look and walked in one direction without saying a word.
I didn't know what was going on, so I had to follow her in confusion.
Long Xiaoman walked and stopped, his pace seemed very strange, sometimes fast, sometimes slow, and he was turning around, as if he was calculating something.
After walking like this for a while, I suddenly saw a small mound of earth in front of me, and hurriedly ran over to take a look, and found that it was a tomb, the soil was still very fresh, and the neighborhood was very clean, it should have been buried for a short time, and there were people to take care of it.
Long Xiaoman didn't say a word, picked up the hoe and was about to dig it down, I hurriedly stopped her, "What are you doing, this grave looks like it's newly buried, and someone is taking care of it, so you can't dig it!" ”
Long Xiaoman pushed me away, his expression a little nervous, "What nonsense, hurry up and dig it!" ”
I looked at Long Xiaoman's appearance and felt that something might really happen, so I didn't continue to ask more, I reluctantly picked up the shovel, and kept silently reciting in my heart: no taboos, no taboos......
But when the first shovel went down, I suddenly felt a cold breath rushing over my face, mixed with a thick, somewhat like the smell of fresh plants.
This feeling is very familiar, I recalled that it was the same when I dug up Zhang Ya's corpse, and when I remembered the situation at that time, I couldn't help but feel a chill in my heart.
Sure enough, it didn't take long to dig up a thick layer of locust leaves, but the color of these locust leaves was a little peculiar, dark red and dark red, as if they had been soaked in blood.
I suddenly became a little scared, and tremblingly told Long Xiaoman about the situation when I first dug up Zhang Ya's corpse.
"This ...... Isn't there also a yin and yang pile buried underneath? I swallowed and instinctively took a few steps back.
"If only it were that simple!" Long Xiaoman muttered, his face becoming more and more ugly, and used his hoe to remove those dark red locust leaves, revealing a coffin board.
I was stunned, when I dug up Zhang Ya's body, it wasn't put into the coffin, what's going on?
What's even more strange is that there is a word on this coffin board that I don't know what material to paint on, and after careful identification, I found that it was a "Xi" word!
I vaguely felt that this scene was a little familiar, and suddenly remembered that I had once seen a coffin with the white word "Xi" under the bed of the village chief's house in the village.
When I was about to tell Long Xiaoman about this, I suddenly found that there was no movement next to me, and when I turned my head to look, I saw that Long Xiaoman's face was pale, and a layer of fine beads of sweat was faintly oozing from his forehead, looking very nervous.
I've known her for so long, and it's the first time I've seen her like this, and my heart has followed it, even Long Xiaoman is afraid of something, what could it be?
Long Xiaoman didn't speak, just stared at the coffin board, the two willow eyebrows were almost wrinkled, and after a while, as if he had made some major decision, he bit his lip and popped out a few words from between his teeth, "Quick, pry it open!" ”
Although I was a little scared in my heart, looking at Long Xiaoman's appearance, I didn't hesitate much, and quickly picked up the shovel and worked together with Long Xiaoman to pry it up.
The coffin board was so tightly sealed that it took a lot of effort to finally pry open a crack in it.
A strong smell of blood suddenly came out of the gap, Long Xiaoman's brows tightened, and with a hoe, the coffin board was overturned aside.
I looked inside and was dumbfounded!
I saw that the coffin was filled with bright red blood, a coffin full, and as soon as the coffin board was opened, the blood began to bubble.
Then a figure slowly floated out of the blood, until the blood was completely revealed, and I took a closer look and found that the person's facial features were particularly blurred, and his eyes and nose were covered with a transparent film, which looked smooth and greasy.
Long Xiaoman looked more nervous than me, and I was just about to speak, but she raised her hand to stop me, pursed her lips, and stared at the corpse floating on the surface of the blood.
I also looked at the corpse carefully, and found that the more I looked at it, the more familiar it became, and finally I suddenly found that this corpse with blurred facial features was a bit like the village chief!
I was taken aback, and before I could speak, I heard Long Xiaoman shouting urgently: "Quick, burn it quickly!" ”
After finishing speaking, she quickly reached out and wanted to drag out the corpse with blurred facial features, but before her hand touched the corpse, she suddenly quickly retracted, and her arm was raised, making a "jingling" sound of gold and iron clashing.
I saw a cold light flash in front of me, and landed at my feet, and when I looked closely, it turned out to be a slender cow hair needle!
"What people, come out!"
Long Xiaoman scolded, dragged me to the side, and quickly pulled out a light blue dagger from his waist and placed it across his chest.
A bush shook for a while in front of me, and a figure slowly walked out of it, and when I saw it, I suddenly froze, wasn't this the old woman I saw under the bed of the village chief's house with a cheeky face?
The old woman's face was crawling with earthworm-like wrinkles, her cheeks on both sides were deeply sunken, her whole person was thin and skinny, but her eyes were particularly bright.
"Young man, I advise you not to meddle in your business." The old woman's voice was hoarse, like the sound of newspaper rubbing, which sounded very uncomfortable, and her cheeks moved on both sides when she spoke, which looked very strange.
"Say, why are you refining the Heavenly Stake!" Long Xiaoman glared at the old woman, gritted his teeth and said.
The old woman smiled, but her smile was more ugly than crying, and the wrinkles on her face writhed like a living creature, "Is there anything wrong with my husband dying and I want to give him eternal life?" ”
"Nonsense!" Long Xiaoman shouted coquettishly, "I see that you are also a member of the Xuanmen, and you are not afraid of attracting the Heavenly Tribulation by ignoring the Xuanmen taboo to refine the Heavenly Pile?" ”
"Apocalypse?" The old woman suddenly let out a miserable laugh, "Hahaha, the catastrophe, my husband is gone, what about the catastrophe?" I would do anything to give my husband eternal life! ”
Long Xiaoman snorted, "So you designed to kill Lei Hanlin's family and fabricated a fictional story?" ”
The old woman looked at Long Xiaoman, "It seems that you are very smart, yes, the Lei family was all killed by me, and I made up that story." ”
"Why are you doing this?" Long Xiaoman asked sharply.
"Of course, it's to keep my husband alive!"
I've been stupid for a long time, the Lei family has been hundreds of years away from now, but the old woman in front of me actually admitted that she killed her, could it be that the old woman in front of me has lived for hundreds of years?
"Who the hell are you?" I asked this sentence, and I vaguely felt that there must be something hidden behind it.
As soon as I finished speaking, Long Xiaoman covered my mouth and stood in front of me intentionally or unintentionally to block me.
"Don't hide, I know who he is." The old woman suddenly smiled at me and said, "You are finally here, I have worked hard to bring you here, and since you are here today, my husband does not have to become a heavenly stake." ”
"Tell you, I'm here today, you don't want to touch him!" Long Xiaoman suddenly protected me behind her, but I listened to her tone of voice as she looked very nervous.
The old woman laughed bitterly for a while, and then said slowly, "Old man, he's here, you don't have to be a heavenly stake, you can live, haha!" ”