Chapter 104: Cremation
Madame Baigu was meditating in her room, her room was simple, there was no partition or obstruction, she was sitting cross-legged on the bed, and the people outside the window could see it at a glance. They confirmed that she was in the house, lowered their heads and whispered a few words, and began to look around the house.
I guess they are looking for me and Yunzhou, and it is inconvenient for Lady Baigu to take me as an apprentice for the time being.
I deliberately avoided them and secretly laid a net of "qi", and poured "qi" into my body when they stepped on them.
Sensing that something was wrong and unable to find the problem, they vigilantly retreated to the position of the gate and came out through the wall like cooks.
At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, another short and fat man entered the courtyard through the wall, he wore an apron around his waist, and he looked like a cook.
The man entered the hospital trembling, looking left and right with every step, his legs trembling violently, his head covered with cold sweat, and terrified to the extreme.
He should know what his fate was when he came in, either there was a ready-made corpse for him to cook, or he was a cook.
The last cook who went out must have said that there are no ingredients in the kitchen.
The people who came to check this morning also found that there were no bodies in the kitchen.
Then he came here mostly to serve as a meal.
He walked to the kitchen step by step, and when he saw that there was no body inside, his legs suddenly weakened, and he sat on the threshold.
I wondered why he didn't run away, and just guessing why he didn't, he moved, stumbling in the direction of the main entrance.
I quietly followed him and found that he had hit his head against the wall and was not wearing out.
He pounded the wall, cried and howled, and tried to climb over the wall, but he obviously had no martial arts, the wall was smooth and there was no place to step on it, and he didn't climb up for a long time.
"Don't waste your efforts, you can't get out if you climb up." I showed up at this time and persuaded him to give up the escape.
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"Stop screaming, the person who is going to eat you sleeps, you wake her up, and she dies faster." I found out that the so-called rest of Mrs. Baigu is to sleep during the day, she turns day and night upside down, and the sun will not wake up until the sun sets.
The man hurriedly covered his mouth and controlled himself from making a sound.
"You're a cook?" I didn't step forward, for fear of scaring him, so I stood five meters away from him and asked.
He nodded vigorously, covering his mouth and unable to speak.
"I don't eat people, I'm trapped here...... Prisoner, calm down, let's talk."
The man seemed to have regained his ability to think at this time, and he looked at me seriously, probably realizing that I looked like a normal person, not like a man-eating monster, so his emotions gradually calmed down.
But he was so frightened just now, the whole person seemed to have collapsed, root
He sat under the wall, and I stood and talked to him.
A few hours before the sun went down, the man told me that his name was Ah Shun, that he was the owner of a noodle stall, that his wonton soup was so delicious that his neighbors knew that there were people lining up every day to buy his wontons.
The cook who ran out yesterday was his uncle, the master of the ramen restaurant.
The "monsters" in this house like to eat human flesh, so the government hires cooks to come in every day to cook food for the monsters.
It is easy to cook human broth, but there are not many people who dare to do it, and some cooks are frightened when they hear it, and they can't be sent in to do things.
And this "monster" is moody, and the cooks who come in often come and go.
At first, the government also hired serious cooks, but later felt that the consumption was a bit large, so they picked a small stall master like them to "please".
The government's order must be given or not, otherwise the whole family will be arrested and sent to the army.
Ah Shun's wife and children were held under the hands of the officers and soldiers, and he had to bite the bullet, because yesterday his uncle had escaped without permission, and the whole family had been imprisoned, and in a few days he was escorted to the border to repair the defensive wall.
Stretching out his head and stabbing his head, he had to bear the terrible errand, and there was a chance to go out when he came in, but if he didn't come in, their whole family would suffer.
Lady Bone
She has done a lot of evil, and since I am here, I will definitely stop her from eating people.
I told Ah Shun to rest assured, he came today to cook ordinary meals, but he may have to stay in the house for a few days.
The people outside didn't plan to let him out, so his ability to pass through walls was not working.
He had no choice but to believe me, he was going to kowtow to me, and I stopped him in time.
People in this world kowtow at every turn, but as a modern person, I have never been able to get used to it, and I always feel that I have to give red envelopes.
I took Ah Shun back to the kitchen, turned out the noodles and oil and handed them to him, he is good at making noodles, my cooking skills are too average, he can eat better in Yunzhou.
When Mrs. Baigu woke up in the evening, I waited at the door and told her that there was a new cook in the house, just in time to cook for me and Yunzhou, and this person had to be kept so that I could concentrate on practicing.
Mrs. Baigu nodded in agreement, she said that she didn't have a few days to live, and it didn't make much sense to eat or not.
Her body is different from normal people, and I have never seen her like this.
She was so anxious to pass on what she had learned to me that she had no intention of caring about anything else.
Ah Shun stayed in the house to cook, and Mrs. Baigu slept during the day and taught me to practice at night.
Yunzhou I handed over to Ah Shun to take care of, so that he could eat three meals a day.
After nine days of this, no one from outside came in to inspect it.
Mrs. Baigu finally wanted me to use Ah Shun to try the marrow sucking skill, but I refused, and promised to be her apprentice, but I never promised her to use this martial art to harm people.
She seemed powerless to argue with me, and looked like she had run out of oil.
She didn't eat people for nine days, which accelerated the process of her death, and if she ate every day, she would probably last for two months.
Now she had only lasted nine days, and on the evening of the tenth day, she was completely out of breath.
She taught me everything she had learned all her life, including more than just marrow sucking skills.
She saw that I had a knack for forgetting, so she decided to imbue me with everything she knew and knew.
Digestive problems can be left until later, and I slowly sort out and absorb them myself.
Mrs. Baigu swallowed, and Ah Shun breathed a sigh of relief.
Mrs. Baigu confessed that she would be cremated after she died, and she didn't want to be buried here, and she didn't need to be sent back to her hometown, just find a high place, catch up with a windy day, and raise her ashes.
She's going to go with the wind......
There was enough firewood in the kitchen yard, and I put her body on the pyre and poured oil, it was not easy to cremate with this earthen method, it would take a long time to burn.
There was smoke rising in the courtyard and drifting over the house, and I think people outside would be able to spot it.
But they never moved, and they didn't send anyone in to check on it.
Ah Shun began to worry again, and glanced at me with a wary look.
He was afraid that after we ran out of food, I would also use him as a ration.
I asked him if anyone had done anything to him before he came in, and he was able to get in through the wall, and he must have used a special method.
He said that the official sent him a small pill, and he took it and came in.
Two should have been given, one coming in and one out, but they only gave him one, so he expected that they didn't plan to let him out alive.