Scripture Of Grave

The soil you stand on is not just soil. If you dig deeper, there are more mysterious stuff. But I would not advise you to do so unless you are ready to be dead.

Chapter 1 Pretentious Master Yuan

In Wangjiang County, more than 100 meters away from the Ximen Vegetable Market in Qingyun Town, there is a daily necessities store called "Yong'antang".

As if they were afraid of getting into bad luck, people would frown and involuntarily speed up their steps when passing by this store.

And I am the boss of Yong'antang.

At nine o'clock in the morning, I received a message from Wang Er Mazi while I was collecting money to buy fried dough sticks.

"Brother Jun, I have good news for you. The widow of the old Hong family is dead."

"Go away, you are just talking about virtue, what good news is this?" I scolded him angrily, but he didn't care and replied, "Isn't what you earn just money from dead people? I'll give you a clue. If you can take this job, it will cost you five thousand."

"That's great. If it comes true, you'll be part of it." I suddenly beamed.

Nowadays, after death, people are sent to the funeral parlor set up by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, which has led to a sharp decline in the business volume of our privately run wedding shops. , I couldn’t place an order in two months.

Wang Ermazi is the "know-it-all" in the town, specializing in matchmaking for various businesses in order to earn introduction fees.

His cousin also runs a white goods shop. Logically speaking, if such a good thing happens, why can't it be my turn?

I didn’t think much about it. After roughly understanding the basic situation, I rushed to Honggang Village with my toolbox.

The deceased was a woman named Hong Yan. She was a famous widow in Honggang Village. She was famous for two reasons:

First, she has a weird temper, rarely goes out on weekdays, and lives with cats all year round.

Secondly, she was relatively wealthy and built a small villa in the village, becoming the envy of the villagers. In addition, she had a good appearance, which naturally attracted many strong middle-aged men, but they were all rejected without exception. There were two types of people in the village. One theory is that she is still thinking about her deceased husband, and the other is that she doesn't like men at all.

Various rumors and rumors made her become a celebrity in three villages and five towns, but no one expected that she would die immediately!

When I arrived at her house, many people had gathered in the lobby on the first floor, including several of my colleagues. They dragged their chins and looked puzzled, which made me even more suspicious.

Wang Ermazi said hello to me, pulled me over to a man and a woman and started to introduce them. They were Hong Yan’s children. The eldest daughter was named Hong Xin, and the younger son was named Hong Wei. I wondered if their father was also Your surname is Hong?

"Is that okay?" Hong Xin and Hong Wei were both from the city. They were brightly dressed and quite fashionable. Their expressions were also arrogant. They looked me up and down with disdainful eyes.

"He is Zhang Dabao's son." Wang Ermazi reminded him. Seeing that the two of them were unmoved, he added, "He is Zhang Changsheng's grandson."

"Zhang Changsheng? Could it be... "

"That's him, our last underground burial master in Qingyun Town." Wang Ermazi answered first, and the surprise on Hong Wei's face flashed, "Okay, let him try it."

In this situation, I can't help but introduce myself. My surname is Zhang, a handsome guy named Jun. As Er Mazi said, my family's occupation for generations has been dealing with dead people.

My ancestors relied on a strange book called "The Book of Burial" to become famous local burial masters. They were responsible for helping dignitaries find suitable cemeteries and houses. Because they violated some taboos, my family was viciously punished. The curse has been passed down from a single line since my great-grandfather's generation. The pregnancy must be a pair of dragon and phoenix. A baby girl will die immediately after birth, while a baby boy will have a broken eyebrow. And once he practices the "Burial Sutra", his lifespan will definitely not be more than thirty. !

My grandfather was the last earth burial master in the family. Before he died, he finally found a way to avoid the curse, which was to give up the "Burial Sutra". As long as you don't practice this book, you will be safe and sound. Under his repeated instructions , my father had no choice but to change his career and open a white goods shop in the town. Originally, the family was relatively wealthy, but during the Cultural Revolution, he was overthrown due to suspicion of feudal superstition, and all the family property was confiscated.

My father was frail and sick since childhood, my mother passed away early, and the store's business was bleak. All these factors made him sick with worry. He passed away when I was twenty years old. It was natural for me to become the new owner of the store. After two years of operation, I still had no business. Getting better, eating has almost become a problem. I have made an agreement with my girlfriend to go to her city to work in sales after the summer vacation.

Until then, whatever you can earn counts.

Closer to home, Hong Wei led me to a bedroom on the second floor. The room was clean and bright, and there was a heavy smell of perfume in the air.

A large round bed was placed in the center, and the body lay quietly on it. The red quilt only covered her neck. Her pale face was exposed to the air, and her bloodshot eyes were wide and round. It seems like it will pop out at any time.

"My mother died suddenly of cardiac arrest due to flatulence. She was not found until two days after her death. There was a smell in the room, so I asked someone to cover it with scent." Hong Xin covered her nose and said casually.

I nodded, and my eyes fell on the abdomen of the corpse. The quilt there was bulging. I wondered, "Why don't you go to the hospital to get rid of the flatulence?"

"The doctor said it would take an operation to cure it. The person is dead, and I don't want to use a knife on her body." Hong Wei said in one sentence, telling me the main purpose of calling me here.

After Hong Yan's death, her body became heavy and hard. No matter how hard she tried, she just couldn't move it.

Also, she couldn't close her eyes and her eyelids couldn't close.

They invited several business owners, but they all ended in failure. They couldn't find anyone, so Wang Ermazi called me.

I walked over to the body, put on my gloves and touched her skin.

so hard!

"Ah!" I was suddenly startled. The people next to me asked me what was wrong. I shook my head and said nothing. The moment I looked at the corpse just now, I felt like I was being stared at. It must be an illusion. How could a dead person be possible? And the eyes, I must have made a fuss.

I tried to cover her eyelids with my hands, but failed several times, which puzzled me.

There are two types of sayings about not being able to rest in peace.

From a scientific perspective, this is just a physiological activity. It may be affected by a certain nerve. When a person dies, the brain does not have time to send the "eyes-closed" signal, so this scene occurs.

But from a folk perspective, this phenomenon indicates that the deceased has strong resentment or regret.

No matter what the situation is, usually you only need to touch the eyelids a few times to close them. Obviously, this trick is useless, otherwise those colleagues would not stand around and frown.

Just when I was about to change my tactics, my eldest daughter Hong Xin sneered, "The grandson of a ground burial master looks like an embroidered pillow. They are all a bunch of vain cowards."

I gritted my teeth in anger, and just as I was about to argue with him, there was a commotion outside the door.

Because the successive invitations to several business owners didn't work, they simply sent for a well-known mage in the town.

The Master's surname is Yuan. He has a bald head and looks quite secure. He looks like he is a master.

This person is a person who has become popular in villages and towns in recent years. I have also heard of him. It is said that he has solved many difficult problems and is almost always successful, but his charges are also ridiculously expensive.

Master Yuan was very impressive, and he was followed by a disciple who was carrying things. Hong Xin and Hong Wei respected him and welcomed him in politely. Before he could say anything, the disciple who was carrying things said arrogantly, " Do things first and push the rest later.”

Soon, Master Yuan came to the bedroom, or because he thought I was in the way, he glared at me and said, "Everyone else, please step aside."

I didn't get angry with this bastard, so I stood aside with my arms folded, wanting to see what master Yuan, who was said to be a god, was capable of.

Master Yuan circled around the bed and shook his head in confusion, "Grandma has been penetrated by a Yin spirit. She has to drive it out."

"How to drive?"

"With a radius of hundreds of miles, most people definitely don't have this ability, but I, Yuan, am not one of them." Master Yuan's words not only praised himself, but also slapped all the white shop owners present. His shoulders shook, and his cloak followed. After falling down, he shouted loudly towards the Tiwu disciple, "Take out the spirit-expelling holy water that is my master's."

"What? You actually need to use the Holy Water to Exorcise Spirits. This is the treasure you risked your life to get in Changbai Mountain, Master. If you sell it on the market, it will cost you at least one hundred thousand yuan, so you just use it like this?" The disciple's expression was exaggerated, and he was very dissatisfied. Give it up, Master Yuan shouted at him, "What do you know? If the evil spirits are not removed, the children of the Hong family will definitely suffer in the future. It's only 100,000 yuan, how can the Hong family not be able to afford it?"

As he spoke, Master Yuan glanced at the Hong family's children, "If there's no problem, I'll get started."

Now that the words have reached this point, Hong Xin and Hong Wei can only nod in response.

Then, Master Yuan started to perform like a great god, closed the curtains, turned off the lights in the room, and lit a row of large candles beside the bed.

Then, he sprinkled a bottle of unknown liquid on the body and muttered incomprehensible Martian language. This lasted for nearly three minutes before he stopped. Then, he waved his sleeve, and a blue streak appeared out of thin air. Master Yuan shouted loudly, "Monster, where can you escape?" Then, his mouth squirmed and spit out a ball of yellow flame, swallowing up the blue light. The series of performances attracted a burst of applause.

After taking a short breath, he took out a porcelain bottle from his chest, used his fingers to drain some sticky liquid into it, and was about to touch the eyelids of the corpse. I couldn't stand it anymore, so I shouted to stop.

"Boy, what are you doing?" Hong Wei stepped forward and grabbed my shoulder. I calmly pointed at Master Yuan and called him a liar.

Master Yuan was pretending to be a master and remained calm. His disciples started to attack me violently. I raised my voice and said that the liquid he squeezed in his hand contained mixed glue. He just wanted to use the viscosity of the glue to stick his eyelids together.

Master Yuan's face changed slightly, and he explained that this was special nectar. I exposed it on the spot, "If you have any idea, come with me to identify it."

The blue light should be a prop that Master Yuan had hidden somewhere on his body in advance. The effect is similar to that of a laser light, which is why he dimmed the light.

As for breathing fire, this is simpler. Put alcohol in your mouth in advance, choose the angle and spray it towards the flame of the candle to achieve the effect of amplifying the flame.

The reason why I know the inside story is because my father used the same trick to deceive others.

I didn’t expect that many years later, people would still use the same old tricks...

Chapter 2 What's in the Belly

Sure enough, he didn't speak harshly anymore, he just tilted his head and snorted, "Who are you?"

"This is the grandson of the underground burial master." Hong Wei's face didn't look very good. He was not stupid and probably guessed that Master Yuan was just a charlatan in name only.

"It turns out to be your grandson." Master Yuan did not speak, but his disciple sarcastically said, "If you have the ability, go ahead, if you don't, shut up."

"That's not good. If I succeed, where will your master's face be?"

"You are the only one who knows how to brag. If you can close her eyes without using external force, I can kneel down and kowtow to you. But the ugly words are ahead. What will you do if you lose?" The disciple's unbridled words It was like admitting in disguise that Master Yuan had borrowed external force. His face turned green and he squinted his eyes without making a sound.

"Let's do this. If I lose, you can do whatever you want. If I succeed, you don't have to kowtow to me. Just call me Master." I made a pun, and Master Yuan's face turned completely dark. , "Young friends are so arrogant. It's true that newborn calves are not afraid of tigers."

"No matter how good it is, it's not as good as Master Yuan. He puts a lot of money into his pocket just by pretending to be cool."

"You...let's see what you can do."

If Master Yuan left directly, he would be criticized, so he could only step aside for the time being and glance at the second-rate apprentice with gritted teeth.

"Xiao Zhang, don't be so pushy. I've been in this business for more than ten years and I haven't seen any kind of corpse. According to my experience, there may be something unclean in her body. Be careful of getting into trouble." A man with a mustache walked away. I came over and he was my dad’s best friend before his death, so he gave me a friendly reminder.

"It's okay, I know what's going on."

As soon as I finished speaking, I heard several other colleagues discussing right and wrong with half-smiling faces.

"I really don't know the heights of the world, I really think that I am a local burial master."

"Yes, today's young people love to show off. I'll see what they do when they can't stop it!"

"I heard that Master Yuan is not a good person. If this kid demolishes his stage, he will not get any good results. He is really stupid."

I was a little annoyed and turned back to stare at the three of them, "Since you think I'm showing off, let's make a bet. If I can close her eyes, each of you will give me a thousand yuan, and I'll give you money in return."

"What's the point of gambling for one thousand yuan? I'll pay ten thousand." A bald colleague doubled the price ten times, and the other two also increased it to ten thousand. They had checked it several times and couldn't close their eyelids at all. So I feel confident.

I became a little uneasy. To be honest, I do have a special method, but I have never used it on people, so I can't guarantee 100% success.

Perhaps sensing my embarrassment, Master Yuan, a villain, stretched out his right hand and said, "I will add 50,000 yuan, and you will lose the bet."

"Okay!" I gritted my teeth and made a decision in my mind. If I really failed, I would close the shop and escape to my girlfriend's place. I wouldn't be able to keep it open anyway.

"Don't even think about defaulting on your debt here, otherwise it won't be about money." Master Yuan warned sternly, as if he could read minds.

The children of the Hong family were not angry about this, they just urged us to hurry up. Is this the emotion that a person who has lost his mother should have?

I took a deep breath and recalled in my mind a special massage technique my father once taught me, which can soften stiff skin. I have used it on frozen dogs before, and it was quite effective. This is the main reason I dare to bet with them. Confidence.

They only gave me ten minutes, and I didn't dare to delay. I grabbed the corpse's hand, made a fist, and used knuckle massage to stimulate the Piangli and Yangxi points on her forearm and wrist. Both of these acupoints are connected. It activates the meridians and heals red and swollen eyes. After pressing for two minutes, her eyelids seemed to loosen a little.

I felt happy and pressed the button for another two minutes, but it had no effect.

Time was urgent, so I quickly moved my hands to the Chengqi point under the pupils of her face and the Sibai point next to the bridge of the nose. These two points have the most obvious effect on the eyes. As my strength increased, the deceased's eyelids began to slowly closure,

Great, it worked!

This magical scene made the onlookers widen their eyes. The three colleagues who placed the bets turned pale, and Master Yuan's face turned the color of pig liver.

Just when I was about to succeed, Hong Yan's eyelids suddenly lifted up and opened wider than before. This strange scene scared many people into exclaiming.

"Fake corpse?"

"Shit, I think it's this kid's fault."

Master Yuan winked, and his apprentice Xiao Hei stepped forward and grabbed my arm, fearing that I would escape. Three other colleagues also surrounded me, and I was afraid that I was doomed.

"You've lost, hurry up..." The little black man said halfway when Hong Xin's scream came from behind. She covered her mouth and backed away. I looked around and found that Hong Yan's eyelids closed automatically at some point. .

Maybe it was an illusion, but I seemed to see a faint arc showing at the corner of the corpse's mouth.

Is she smiling? !

I didn't have time to think too much. I glanced at my watch. It was exactly nine minutes and fifty-six seconds. Damn, it was really hanging.

I pretended to brag about my "special technique". Although I didn't know what was going on, the onlookers believed it and praised me for being the grandson of a ground burial master.

Seeing that Master Yuan wanted to leave, I blocked the door one step ahead and looked at him with a half-smile but not a smile. He couldn't hide his face in front of everyone, so he transferred 50,000 yuan to me using online banking, patted me on the shoulder, and said with the help that only the two of us can do. He heard the voice whispering, "Just wait for me, I will kill you sooner or later."

I was not frightened. I sneered and asked Xiao Hei to fulfill his promise and call me master. No matter whether he shouted or not, he was destined to lose his face. Master Yuan was decisive, saying "from now on he is not my apprentice" and hurriedly After leaving, Xiao Hei gave me a fierce look and followed me.

The other three colleagues playfully said it was a joke and told me not to take it seriously. I didn't give them face and forcibly took the money. After they left angrily, Hong Wei came up to me with fists in his hands and greeted me politely. Wang Er Mazi also flattered me. Flattery and hypocrisy to the extreme.

My eyes were closed, but my body was still stiff. I thought for a while and proposed the method of "hot springs to relax the skin." Hong Xin and Hong Wei discussed it for a while and nodded in agreement.

I sent someone to fill the bathroom bathtub with warm water of about 38 degrees Celsius, then soaked the body in the warm water, and then used the special massage techniques my father taught me to accelerate the softening of the skin. Of course, the body was wearing pajamas.

The toilet was very spacious. I sat in front of the bathtub, put my hand into the water, and pressed the acupuncture points on her feet with my fingers. As I pressed and pressed, my thoughts began to wander.

It is worth mentioning that Hong Yan, who is in her mid-forties, is really well-maintained. She looks like she is only in her early thirties. Her skin is as white as snow and is a bit abnormally white. Her figure is plump, especially in the water, which makes her look even more exquisite. The only flaw is her belly, which is big, round and bulging, as if there is a big balloon inside, which greatly affects the overall appearance.

As time went by, her body gradually softened. Before I could breathe a sigh of relief, my heart suddenly rose to my throat, because when I laid my hands on her, her stomach moved obviously. It seemed like flatulence was causing trouble, more like there was something hiding in her stomach.

The more I looked at him, the more I felt something was wrong. Why did I feel like I was fucking pregnant?

Isn't she a widow? Where did she get the child?

Coincidences became inevitable as soon as they happened. When I thought about the abnormal attitudes of the children of the Hong family, I felt that there must be something weird in it, so I pulled Hong Wei aside and tried to trick him. I deliberately said with a straight face to scare him , "You are It’s not like you’re hiding something from me, it’s best to tell the truth honestly, otherwise the consequences will be unpredictable.”

Hong Wei still trusted me who had "showed a few hands". When he heard what I said, his expression changed drastically, "Did you see that?"

I bluffed and replied that if others don't know, you can't do anything but yourself, but my light words revealed a big secret.

Hong Wei told me that his mother did not die of cardiac arrest at all. The real cause of death was dystocia!

On the eve of Hong Yan's death, Hong Wei and Hong Xin had the same dream. In the dream, Hong Yan was lying on her bed rolling back and forth in great pain. Her lower body was bleeding continuously, and finally she fell into a pool of blood. Then, Her soul floated out of her body and told her children to help her choose a good Feng Shui land for burial. She must not be cremated or touch the contents of her belly, otherwise she would turn into a evil ghost and come back to haunt them for the rest of their lives.

At first, they thought it was just a nightmare, but they felt it was too realistic, so they called their hometown, but no one answered, and they were a little worried. Later, when the two siblings talked, they learned that they had the same dream, and they were very upset. Shocked, they hurried back to the village. Unexpectedly, Hong Yan was really dead. Only then did they know that the dream was true.

Hong Wei and Hong Xin also lived in the countryside when they were young. They heard a lot of strange stories. They would rather believe that they were true. They did not dare to be careless. They first sent the person to the town hospital for an autopsy. After confirming the cause of death, they were shocked. Over the years, Hong Wei and Hong Xin were shocked. Yandu has never dated anyone again, so why did she manage to have another child?

Did she mess around with the men in the village?

Or did someone rape her?

The doctor saw that Hong Yan's belly was at least eight months old. If there was a miracle, the child inside might not be dead yet. He suggested taking a film of the body. When the film was taken, Hong Xin fainted on the spot. Hong Wei I was so frightened that I became impotent, and even the well-informed doctor took a Suxiao Jiuxin Pill.

When he said this, Hong Wei paused for a moment, as if recalling something terrible, and for the first time a look of fear appeared on his face.

"Is it scary?" I interjected curiously, thinking that at most it was a dead baby, and I had seen corpses that were beyond recognition, so what was there to be afraid of?

Hong Wei didn't answer. His facial features were twisted together with a complicated look on his face. He gestured for a long time without saying anything. Finally, he simply took out his phone and said, "I took a picture. You can see for yourself."

Just when I was about to open the photo album, he suddenly asked, "You don't have a heart disease, do you?"

I waved my hand angrily, clicked on the photo album, and saw a gray-white photo. I couldn't see it clearly at first glance. I put my phone in front of my eyes and zoomed in.

Even though I'm brave enough, I couldn't help but shiver and almost threw my phone away...

Chapter 3 Who is doing the trick?

Normally, the body of an eight-month-old fetus is initially formed and has some sparse hair.

The fetus in the photo is normal in other places, except that the fetus's head is too scary, with white hair on its face, a flat red nose, and two canines extending downward from the upper jaw. How can this damn face be human? , it is clearly a cat face!

Hong Wei told me that he and Hong Xin were actually Hong Yan’s adopted children. They were sent to the city to study after they graduated from elementary school. At that time, Hong Yan’s husband was not dead yet, and they were still in love with her. However, since she adopted a child, Everything changed after getting a cat. Hong Yan was addicted to cats, and her husband was allergic to cat hair. The two often quarreled over this matter.

Later, while Hong Yan was out, her husband sent the cat to the wilderness ten kilometers away. When he returned home, he found the cat taking a nap in Hong Yan's arms. He thought it was the cat that came back looking for odors. Yes, I couldn't bear to say anything in my heart.

The next day, he tied the cat's limbs and threw it into the wilderness. Strangely, when he came back, the cat was still lying on the bed, barking at him fiercely, and even scratched his paw. The husband He immediately became furious and managed to catch the cat and tie it to the chopping board. He held down its body and chopped off its limbs with a kitchen knife.

During the whole process, the cat didn't meow or fuss, and seemed to feel no pain. The husband was covered in blood. He put its limbs in a can and threw them into the trash can. Then he picked up the cat's neck and threw it into a nearby field. In a snake cave, I thought that this time it would definitely die.

The terrible thing is that when he was returning home, he found a sharp pain in his palm. When he lowered his head and looked down, he felt like he was dead.

Four bloody holes appeared on his left palm, four fingers were cut off at the root, and the thick white bones were exposed to the air. The man rolled on the ground in pain. Before fainting, he saw the cat that was supposed to be dead squatting. Staring at him from the top of a tree not far away.

The husband's fingers were found in the can and had been chopped to pieces. After evaluation by the police and the hospital, it was confirmed that the husband committed self-mutilation without any conscious intention. However, he repeatedly insisted that it was a cat demon that caused the trouble, and he was eventually sent to a mental institution. He received treatment, but he died not long after. He jumped from the seventh floor of the hospital. It is said that someone heard the strange sound of a cat before his death...

It was only after raising the cat that Hong Yan became weird. He was not his biological child to begin with, and since they didn't live together for many years, their relationship naturally weakened a lot, so they seemed to be indifferent to their mother's death.

The Hong Wei siblings did not dare to violate their mother's will in her dream, so they found connections to silence the doctor, bribed the crematorium employees, issued a false certificate, and thought of finding someone to bury them secretly.

This kind of thing rarely happens in the city, but in the countryside, it is not uncommon. After all, there is a lot of wasteland here. Just dig it a few times and it will become a hole, and the people above will just turn a blind eye.

After he finished narrating, I looked around and asked him where the cat was. He shook his head and said he didn't know. He asked me a little suspiciously if the cat could be a monster. I had seen a lot of dead bodies. But I have never seen ghosts and monsters, and I have always thought that those are all nonsense. But now all kinds of weird phenomena have refreshed my understanding of the world. Are there really supernatural beings in this world?

"Maybe it's a scam. "I have to pretend to understand, otherwise how can I get him to pay obediently?

In order to increase the credibility of my words, I gave them the example of the cat-faced old lady in Harbin in 1996. This incident shocked the whole country and it can be said that no one knew about it.

Legend has it that a local old woman died on her way home, and a cat happened to pass by. Not long after, the old woman who had been confirmed to be dead came back to life, but half of her face turned into that of a cat, and she would come out to eat children at night. Adults who were bitten would turn into cat people. Later, the local government was alerted and the army was sent to exterminate them.

There is a custom in many villages that does not allow living livestock to approach the dead, for fear that they will use the breath of livestock to fake the resurrection. If this theory is true, then the most likely reason is that Hong Yan used the breath of cats to revive after death, but failed. , so it ended up like this.

But why did she have to entrust the dream to her children and insist on being buried? He was also told not to move the contents of his stomach, but I couldn’t understand it even after thinking about it.

"Master Zhang, I'll leave it to you to bury my mother properly." Hong Wei's name for me changed invisibly. When I was about to agree, Wang Ermazi pulled me aside and said that this was a rare breed. A fat sheep must not be slaughtered lightly, so I left this job to him for negotiation. He asked for 50,000 yuan for the whole package, which shocked my jaw to the ground.

In rural areas, a funeral service generally costs more than 10,000 yuan, and 20,000 yuan is considered expensive. Er Mazi is really a big talker, but I like his shameless energy.

The children of the Hong family felt that it was bad luck to stay here for a long time, so they asked me to speed up the process and get it done as soon as possible.

I didn't take it lightly when I used people's money to eliminate disasters for them. I hired a few temporary workers to help with the work.

In rural areas, the processes of burial and cremation are similar. The first step is the small coffin.

According to my request, I asked Hong Xin to clean her body and put her in a shroud. Hong Xin was timid and unwilling, so she wanted to hire a foot-washing girl instead. As soon as she finished speaking, the eyes of the corpse opened, which caused me another shock. The massage calmed her "emotions", and Hong Xin had to obey and do as she was told reluctantly.

After putting on the shroud, I stuffed the copper coins I had prepared in advance into her mouth. During the process, she seemed to lick my fingertips with the tip of her tongue. The slippery touch made me shiver. trembling.

I forced myself to calm down and stuffed a bunch of ghost coins into her left hand. This was to buy money for the ghost to go to the underworld. There is a saying in the countryside that the gatekeeper ghost has a very bad temper. If he doesn't give money to buy money, he will be whipped. bitter;

Then he continued to stuff a bag of meat cakes into her right hand. This was a "ghost-fighting cake", specially used to deal with hungry ghosts and evil dogs in the underworld.

Then, the body is covered with a quilt and the face is covered with a white cloth. The coffin is moved to the center of the hall, and an offering table is placed. A bowl of medium-cooked white rice is placed in the middle of the offering table. On the left side of the rice is placed the favorite food of the deceased. A meat dish with a full glass of wine on the right, which means there is wine and meat.

"My dearest mother, you have a good journey. If you have anything you can't let go of, you can tell your child in your dreams, but don't come often. The child is timid and can't bear it..."

Hong Xin and Hong Wei were holding incense and talking to each other, not sincerely, more like perfunctory.

After the ceremony was complete, the second step was to report the funeral. However, his family had few relatives and friends, and the relationship with the neighbors and villagers was not good, so he was ignored directly. When I led people to arrange the funeral scene inside and outside the courtyard of the small villa, there was a message coming from inside. There was a scream.

A temporary set worker ran out of the hall in a rolling state, mumbling something about a corpse being transformed. I hurriedly ran in.

On the coffin bed, the body was still lying peacefully on it, but the ghost coins in her left hand were scattered all over the floor, the meat cakes in the cake bag in her right hand were also missing, and there was only half of the fish on the table.

If you look closely, you will see that the quilt on the body and the white cloth covering the face are piled up in a mess, and there are obvious oil stains and minced fish meat on the corners of the body's mouth.

There are various signs that Hong Yan really faked the corpse!

The children of the Hong family turned pale and looked at me in unison. I scratched my ears and said, "Well... maybe Auntie is hungry. You want her to cook more food. Make sure she is fed."

The two of them went out to ask for the cook with a confused look on their faces. Ermazi came over with bared teeth. As soon as I saw how mean he was, I understood, "What did you do?"

"I recently talked to someone who would only agree to live with me if I buy a house in the county. It would be nice to earn more." Seeing my unkind expression, he stood up and put his arm around my shoulders, "I've asked about it. , The couple of the Hong family live a very comfortable life in the city. They don’t have to run away with two or three hundred thousand a year. If they catch him for another fifty thousand, it won’t be an injustice. It’s better than being tricked by Master Yuan’s dog coins.”

Having said that, I didn’t know what to say. I warned him that this was the peak and he should stop making trouble. He nodded and said yes, but when he turned around, he suddenly exclaimed. I asked him what was wrong, and he raised his head tremblingly. The towering arm pointed towards the offering table, and the other half of the fish meat on it disappeared!

"This...it's really not my fault this time!" Er Mazi was also a little embarrassed. At this moment, there was no third person in the hall.

I boldly stepped forward to check the plate containing the fish. There were traces of being licked on the plate. I looked at the body and saw nothing unusual. What happened just now?

"His grandma is a bit evil, let's deal with it quickly..."

In the afternoon, Er Mazi negotiated the price with them, and the "zombie transformation" increased the price from 50,000 to 100,000.

According to the steps, the next step was for relatives and friends to wear linen and mourn. Hong Xin's husband and Hong Wei's wife also rushed over after hearing the news. They wore large linen clothes, made a show of bowing a few times, and then began to discuss the ownership of the property and inheritance.

Hong Yan's small villa occupies a large area and can be sold for more than 200,000 yuan even in the countryside. In addition, she also has 70 to 80 acres of land and bank deposits. Together, it costs more than 2 million yuan at least. She is not jealous. That was false. Both Hong Xin and Hong Wei wanted the big head. The two parties argued endlessly and even got angry.

Hong Xin's husband, Da Kui, ran a chess and card room and had a bad temper. After being scolded a few times, he pushed Hong Wei's wife. His wife didn't stand firm and leaned on the bier, knocking Hong Yan's body down. On the ground, the body landed on its front, and its belly was pushed by the ground. Hong Wei turned pale with shock. He respectfully carried the body back to the coffin bed, turned around and slapped Dakui.

Da Kuileng, who had a bad temper, took two or three seconds to react, and got entangled with him with his fists. Hong Wei was not as big as him, so he suffered a big loss, but it was Er Mazi and I who forced him away.

"Bah~" Dakui was scratched with a bloody mark on the corner of his mouth, and pointed at Hong Wei with an angry look, "I will send you down to stay with your mother sooner or later!"

Hong Xin couldn't stand it anymore and pushed Da Kui out. When he was about to reach the door, Da Kui suddenly turned his head and looked suspicious. Hong Xin asked him what was wrong. He said he heard someone calling his name, and it was a woman's voice. But it definitely doesn't belong to Hong Wei's mother-in-law. Hong Xin was a little frightened, "It can't be my mother, right?"

"Don't talk nonsense. How can a dead old woman transform into a corpse?" As soon as he finished speaking, Dakui suddenly shuddered and looked around with his neck curled up, "Where's the air conditioning coming from?"

Hong Xin told him that the air conditioner in the villa was not turned on at all. She even more suspected that it was Hong Yan's fault and asked Da Kui to kowtow to apologize. Da Kui scolded her as "crazy" and left shaking his head.

"Could it be..." I dragged my chin and thought for a moment, thinking of some possibility.