On the way back, I became more confused.

When the coffin was fished ashore, Officer Liu was also watching from the side, and if there were really valuable burial goods in the coffin, he would definitely notify the people from the relevant departments to come and take over.

Being able to hand over the coffin to Lao Song and them to dispose of it by themselves means that there should be nothing valuable in the coffin.

But what's the deal with those two antique jars?

Realizing that there was no simple thing behind this, I did not return to the shed, but took a taxi to the funeral home.

Lao Chen was the first deceased, after his body was fished ashore, it was transferred to the funeral home, counting the days, there should not be cremation today, I plan to go over to pay respects, just look at Lao Chen's body, maybe there will be a discovery.

When I arrived outside the funeral home, I heard crying from afar, and Lao Chen's family members knelt in a row in front of the mourning hall wearing linen and filial piety.

There were many people attending the funeral, so I found a secluded corner and waited until noon, when the banquet began, and then I had the opportunity to get close to the body alone.

The body was placed in the ice coffin, and the face of the corpse became much calmer than when it was first recovered, which should be the credit of the makeup artist.

Through the ice coffin, I looked at the body repeatedly, and soon fixed my gaze on the corpse's curled fingers.

I remember that when he was first salvaged ashore, Lao Chen's fists were clenched tightly, and his palms seemed to be holding something.

At that time, I wanted to open his fist to take a look, but I was stopped by the contractor Lao Song, urging me to hurry back to the shed to change clothes.

Now that he saw the body again, his fists had been broken and smoothed, but his fingers were slightly bent, as if they were showing signs of fractures.

Obviously, it was forcibly broken by force.

I was full of doubts, and just wanted to get closer, when a crying voice came from behind me,

"Young man, are you also here to pay tribute to my family's old Chen?"

When I turned around, I saw a woman in her fifties, wearing a filial piety cloth on her head, wiping her tears and walking towards me, who should be Lao Chen's daughter-in-law.

Maybe she thought my appearance was a little suspicious, but Lao Chen's daughter-in-law had some vigilance in her eyes and asked me to stay away from the body and not disturb the deceased's purity.

I had no choice but to go back and say, "Eldest sister, I am Lao Chen's co-worker, and after his accident, I salvaged his body." ”

Old Chen's daughter-in-law sighed, wiped her reddened eyes, and squeezed out two lines of tears.

"I remember, you are Zhou Xuan, when I went to the construction site to claim the body, I heard other people talk about you, thank you for helping to salvage the body of my old Chen."

Lao Chen's daughter-in-law knelt down to me while crying, and I hurriedly helped her, "Sister, you're welcome, I work at the same construction site as Lao Chen, and we've known each other for several years, so this little thing is nothing." ”

Lao Chen's daughter-in-law cried, wiped away her tears and said, "My old Chen is too unlucky, he called me a few days ago, and said that he received a fortune business, and he will soon make a lot of money, who knew that this would be the result......"

Wait a minute.

I thought of something, and hurriedly asked the eldest sister, "Did Lao Chen say on the phone what kind of business did he receive to make a fortune?" ”

The eldest sister was tearful, shook her head, and couldn't say clearly,

"Lao Chen has a bad temper and doesn't like others to take care of his work, I have been taking care of the children in my hometown and have not asked him about the construction site."

That's right.

With a look of regret, I pointed to the corpse under the ice coffin and asked about Lao Chen's broken finger.

The eldest sister still shook her head, saying that she had already done this when she first claimed the body, and it was not clear how his fingers were broken.

All right.

I couldn't find any valuable clues, so I had to ask my eldest sister for a stick of incense, bow to Lao Chen's body, and turn around and leave the funeral home.

But just as I was about to walk out of the door of the funeral home, I caught a glimpse of a familiar figure in my peripheral vision, and I unconsciously chuckled in my heart and immediately stopped.

At this time, just after lunch, many relatives and friends who came to the funeral home to mourn finished eating and planned to leave.

In the midst of the bustling crowd, I saw a guy in an overcoat and a hat on his head, standing suspiciously outside the funeral parlor gate, looking at the place where Lao Chen's body was placed.

Even though he wrapped himself well, I recognized it at a glance.

It's my contractor, Old Song!

He actually came, too.

I raised my eyebrows, and I couldn't wait to walk towards Lao Song, but as soon as I was halfway out, I stopped in confusion and found a place to hide myself.

Since Lao Chen's body was recovered, I haven't seen Lao Song again.

This guy seems to have evaporated from the world, and has disappeared for two whole days.

In the two days after he disappeared, two other dead people appeared on the construction site, and I also found the antique clay pot in Lao Song's house......

All kinds of signs indicate that Lao Song has something to do with this matter.

I hid myself, intending to find out the purpose of Lao Song's funeral home, but he just stood at the gate of the funeral home, as if he was afraid of something, and he never dared to enter.

It took two hours like this, and when there were few people in the afternoon, Lao Song walked into the funeral home nervously, but instead of going directly to worship Lao Chen's body, he carried a black plastic bag and walked to the back of the funeral home suspiciously.

I followed all the way, hiding not far from him, and saw Lao Song open the plastic bag, take out a large stack full of dark banknotes and ingots candles, light them in the direction of Lao Chen's body, and knelt on the ground and kowtowed, and said in a trembling voice,

"Lao Chen, it's not me who hurt you, if you want to find it, go find the person who harmed you, but don't pester me anymore."

Lao Song's voice trembled, his body trembled so badly, he couldn't even grasp the lighter with incense, and his trembling appearance seemed to have experienced something particularly terrible.

I couldn't help it, strode towards Lao Song, coughed and said, "Old Song, why are you ......?"

"Ahh Don't look for me, don't come to me, I'm innocent, I didn't hurt you. ”

Before I finished speaking, Lao Song trembled like a nervous body, his cheeks turned blue with fright, and he got up and ran towards the woods behind the funeral home.

"You wait!"

Feeling that this old boy's reaction was particularly strange, I hurried to catch up, shouting as I ran,

"What are you running, I'm Zhou Xuan, wait, I have something to ask you."

"Zhou, Zhou Xuan...... How are you? ”

Lao Song continued to run forward for a while, until he heard my voice, then he hesitated to stop, turned his head and saw that it was me, and immediately breathed a long sigh of relief, but his face still maintained that frightened look, and asked me what I was doing here.

I smiled and said, "I still want to ask you, since Lao Chen's body was recovered, you disappeared with it, and I have been looking for you for two days." ”

Lao Song was stunned for a moment, probably mistaken, wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead and said,

"Isn't it the 10,000 yuan salvage fee, I won't rely on you, send me the bank card number, and I'll give you money in the afternoon."

I still didn't move, with my hands behind my back, looking at Lao Song with a smile.

He was stared at by my eyes, and unconsciously took a step back, saying don't look at me like that, making me look like a criminal.

I smiled and got straight to the point, "I'm not looking for you for the 10,000 yuan salvage fee, I just want to find out what happened on the construction site." ”