Chapter 21: Extinguishing the Flame
In the mourning hall, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
I looked at the two brothers who were kneeling on the ground and said, "You two, next, can you prepare for the white thing?" ”
Liu Zimin didn't say a word, nodded again and again, and said, "It's okay, little sir, please here!" ”
He got up in a hurry, perhaps the fear just now was not completely gone, and he stumbled under his feet and almost fell.
Liu Zidong on the side was still full of reluctance, but he didn't want to say anything, so he only dared to mumble in a low voice: "I haven't asked my father how he died!" ”
I heard him muttering, and I smiled and asked, "Why don't you do it again?" ”
Liu Zidong was so frightened that he waved his hand: "Forget it, I believe you are really capable." ”
Without the troublemakers, everything after that is naturally much more logical.
It's just that I want to take human skin corpse oil, and the family will definitely not know about it, so I asked them how the two old men were buried.
As a result, because of this, the two had another dispute.
What Liu Zidong thought was that let me choose a piece of feng shui treasure land and bury the old man to bless future generations.
And what Liu Zimin thinks is to keep everything simple, pull the old man to the crematorium and burn it, and bury the ashes.
Because of this, the two quarreled for several hours, and the afternoon was wasted.
By the evening, the brothers had not come up with a solution that would have the best of both worlds.
For this reason, they also came to ask for my opinion.
It is still difficult for a Qing official to cut off family affairs, not to mention that I am a duke.
So I asked, "Did the old man mention what method he wanted to use to bury him before his death?" ”
Liu Zimin said: "My father said that he had to listen to the government and use cremation. ”
"You!" Liu Zidong immediately retorted: "Why haven't I heard my father say this? This must have been made up by you, and Dad must have thought that the burial would be good! ”
"Are you embarrassed? Have you been home in the past two years? What did Daddy say, could you hear me? ”
"Dad told me before, he just wants to be buried, you dragged him to the crematorium and burned him, you are unfilial! It's to crush my father's bones and scatter ashes! ”
"Liu Zidong, I'm your uncle!"
The brothers, you didn't give in to each other, and they quarreled again, even to the point of making a move.
I heard it loud, so I interrupted: "What's so noisy, just ask the old man again?" ”
The brothers reached a consensus this time, and said in unison: "No! ”
"Then you two rock-paper-scissors, whoever wins will listen to whom." I said.
Both brothers wondered if it would be too hasty.
So it was decided to win two out of three games.
In the end, Liu Zimin won, and he will take the old man to the crematorium early tomorrow morning and burn him.
This is also the solution I want, if I am buried, I have to go to the cemetery to cut people's skins and burn the corpse oil, which is too troublesome.
Agreed on the time to be sent to the crematorium tomorrow morning and the burial place afterwards, and that night, I went to the crematorium on the outskirts of the city and stuffed a thousand yuan for the person in charge to ask him to do a favor tomorrow, and the other party agreed.
Out of the crematorium, Zhi Xifei took me to have a good meal, saying that it was to make up for her wounded heart during the day.
After eating and drinking, Zhixi chose a hotel that looked very high-end.
However, after all, it is a small county town, and no matter how high-end it is, how high-end can it be.
The front desk of the hotel thought we were a couple and recommended a double room for us.
Zhixi changed to a twin room, and the front desk didn't say anything, but we just checked in not long ago.
The receptionist knocked on our door, and when it opened, she handed over a basket of flowers, with heart-shaped candles and other things to set the mood of the couple.
It seems that there was a misunderstanding, and the front desk thought that we were an awkward couple, and they were still thinking about helping us get back together.
Zhixi was in a hurry to explain, but the front desk only left a meaningful look and went downstairs, making Zhixi blush.
The door closed, and she looked at me with a look of resentment: "Why didn't you explain it to her?" ”
I shrugged my shoulders and said helplessly, "I said earlier, let you sleep on the couch." ”
Zhixi threw me a roll word, took his clothes and went into the bathroom.
Listening to the sound of rushing water in the bathroom, my mind raced, and I remembered the scene I saw at Wang Hu's house during the day.
But I racked my brains and couldn't figure out what Wang Hu's purpose was.
It can't be that he really found out about Zhixi's problem and reminded me of it, right?
Thinking about the relationship between Wang Hu and my family, it is impossible.
I remember that when he was just released from prison, he was very arrogant, begging for protection money to Uncle Li's meat stall, and was chased down a street by Uncle Li with a pig-killing knife.
But until Zhixi came out of the bathroom, I still couldn't figure it out.
However, my staring at the bathroom door in a daze made Zhixi misunderstand.
She frowned slightly, and scolded me: "What are you thinking about? ”
I came back to my senses, shook my head and explained that I was thinking about the day, and asked Zhixi if she had told me everything she knew and didn't hide anything, right?
Zhixi glanced at me with disgust: "I'm full and hiding it from you?" When I'm sick in the head? ”
I thought about it for a moment and nodded seriously: "I don't rule out this possibility, what if you are stupid by him?" ”
"Get out!" Zhixi gave me a kick.
Since I had to wake up early the next day, before 10 o'clock, I turned off the lights and went to bed.
Zhixi also complained to me, saying that young people nowadays, the nightlife has just started at ten o'clock, how can they go to bed so early.
I shut her up with just one sentence: "You want to have a night life with me?" ”
I didn't pay attention to her, I didn't sleep last night, it would be too sleepy, I almost fell asleep as soon as my head touched the pillow.
When I got up the next day, Zhixi hadn't woken up yet, and I didn't call her, anyway, the check-out time was at noon, and it was still early.
So I went downstairs and bought her breakfast and put it on the table, and left a note for her to wait in the house for me to come back.
After going downstairs, I took a taxi to Liu's house, and the funeral process came down, and by the time I sent the old man to the crematorium, it was close to ten o'clock.
After the crematorium had greeted the crematorium staff in advance, and the cremator pushed away the old man's body, I made an excuse to leave, turned a corner, and met the cremator.
He pushed the old man into a separate room, took a knife, and asked if he was here or if I was coming.
I said I'll come, after all, I've been killing pigs since I was a child, and I make knives better than the average person.
After cutting off a human skin about the same width, I returned the knife to the cremator.
But when I turned my head to look, the burner was slowly putting his phone down.
I immediately became alarmed and asked him what he had just done.
The burner didn't hide it, but held out a finger to me.
"Brother, a thousand dollars, make a friend."
I immediately understood his intentions, and said coldly, "I have given money." ”
"That's for the director, I didn't take a penny."
"Then you're not afraid that I'll tell your supervisor about this?"
"Then you're not afraid that I'll show this video to my family?" The burner shook his phone and smiled.
"Brother, a thousand yuan is not much, it's not that you can't afford it, don't be so stingy?"
How can I not be angry, but I have no choice but to blame myself for being careless and falling into the hands of others.
"Mobile Transfer." I resisted my anger, took out my phone, and transferred a thousand dollars to him.
After collecting the money, the burner deleted the video on my phone in front of me.
Then he patted me on the shoulder and said with a smile: "There will be this matter in the future, you come to me directly, don't look for the supervisor, it's useless, you know?" ”
As a result, it was his action that reminded me.
I smiled and patted him on the shoulder and said yes.
Then, I watched him leave, and at the same time, I watched the fire on his shoulder, which I had just patted, extinguished!