Chapter 9 Burning the Corpse
According to Zhang Guozhong's idea, the most important thing at the moment is to formulate a combat strategy to deal with Li Daming's intrusion. However, Ma Zhenren seemed to have never heard of this at all. First, he secretly stewed a big rooster from Captain Li's house.
After the tooth-beating ceremony, he wandered around the village aimlessly, unable to find anyone every day. This made Zhang Guozhong anxious, especially Captain Li who would come up to harass him from time to time: "Mr. Zhang, don't be too impatient about Ming Dynasty's affairs. Anyway,
The second girl has already fallen in love with you, and she will be yours sooner or later, why are you anxious?"...
That night, Ma Zhenren came back from strolling outside while humming a little tune. It was already the ninth day. He seemed to have forgotten about Li Daming. Zhang Guozhong couldn't help but said: "Master, Li Daming's body and bones can't bear it anymore."
If we don’t save people, then we won’t need to save them at all, right?…”
Master Ma seemed to have not heard anything. He looked around the house, then pointed at the roof, "Go, give me some soil to knock down." Zhang Guozhong had no choice but to find a ladder, went up to the room, dug out a lump of soil, and handed it to me angrily.
Ma Zhenren. "You little bastard has a bad temper. I know when to save people. Why are you so anxious?" As he said this, Ma Zhenren crushed the lumps of soil, spread them evenly on the ground, and then sprinkled them on the soil.
He drew a few strokes on the skin with his fingers. "Go, ask Captain Li to find all the young and strong people in the village, and bring the guys who dug the holes. Remember, if there are strangers like today, don't come."
Come on. We, the two of you, will save people tonight!"
Zhang Guozhong was overjoyed when he heard that he was going to save people. Captain Li was also happy and shouted directly through the village loudspeaker: "Today, Taoist Master Ma is going to cast a spell to save people. Except for those who have birthdays today, those who have the strength can do it."
Meet me at my house immediately, bringing ropes and shovels!" After thinking about it, fearing that there were not enough people, he added: "Everyone who comes will be counted as 5 work points! If it's not your birthday and you don't come, 5 points will be deducted!" (At that time, the commune allocation was based on
Workers were given food and money, seven cents per work day, and only five work points for a day's work.)
There was a group of educated youths living in the village, so he started shouting with a loudspeaker, and he kept shouting over and over again. Zhang Guozhong could only smile bitterly.
Within half an hour, a large group of people, less than 50 people, had gathered at Captain Li's house. Basically all the strong laborers in the village were present. At this time, Mr. Ma went up to the room and stood at a high place to start decorating. To put it bluntly,
This real man's ability to get into a house is really incredible. Even a young man in his 20s has to move a house on a ladder. He actually took two steps and ran straight up. Everyone, including Zhang Guozhong, was dumbfounded.
"The 20 people on the left will follow me, and the remaining people on the right will follow my apprentice. Do you understand?"
The villagers nodded and waited for the next instructions. Unexpectedly, Ma Zhenren jumped down and gave Zhang Guozhong a piece of broken jade. "Take someone to Li Daming's house, tie him up first, find someone to stand on the house and look at the river."
If a fire breaks out, put this in his mouth right away. If he doesn’t open his mouth, just pry it!”
Zhang Guozhong led his men and went straight to Li Daming's house with a rope. They met Li Erya running towards him, and the two of them bumped into each other. Li Erya's face was like a piece of red cloth at that time, "Mr. Zhang...Mr. Zhang"
, my dad...my dad...is...sick again, and this time is weirder than ever before, you...you...go and have a look..." The voice became smaller and smaller, and when he said the last few words, he said, just like
Like a mosquito, he pursed his lips and ran away after speaking. Captain Li behind him looked happy at this, "Mr. Zhang, look, I said that the second girl fell in love with you, wasn't it just to trick you?" The surrounding villagers were at this moment.
They also started to make noises together, Zhang Guozhong wanted to hang himself because he was a hard-working director, could take care of the family, and had a big ass. If it wasn't for saving people, he would have jumped into a well.
At this time, Li Daming's house was filled with a very uncomfortable smell. It was not smelly, but it was disgusting if it was smelled too much. And Li Daming was like a headless fly, bumping around in the house, but
What makes Zhang Guozhong feel strange is that Li Daming seemed to want to get out of the house. He banged around the door, his head was bleeding, but he would not open the door, crawled on the ground, and vomited some yellow mucus.
The disgusting smell comes from this yellow mucus.
A group of villagers rushed forward and tied up Li Daming. However, at this time, Li Daming did not have the same strong energy as before. His hands and feet were trembling, as if he was addicted to smoking. Looking at the villagers tying him up, he seemed to want to resist.
But there was no strength at all.
The villagers did not dare to be careless. Everyone remembered the moment when they broke the hemp rope. This time, Li Daming turned into a silkworm chrysalis, with basically no flesh left. The rope around him was probably a kilometer long after being untied.
, it’s so tight that it’s funny, especially the rope buckles on the body, which were all tied by Li Laimei, a sackmaker in the village. If you want to untie them, you can only use a knife to cut them.
Li Daming's face was full of snot and tears, and he lay squirming under Zhang Guozhong's feet, "Sir, please spare me! Xiang Zhang knows his mistake! I am wronged too! Have mercy on me!!..."
How could Zhang Guozhong pity him? At this moment, Zhang Guozhong was holding the broken jade in his hand and kept thinking, Li Daming suddenly lost his strength. The master must have done something these days, but he wandered around every day without holding anything in his hand.
Doesn’t it look like he’s doing something else? In Zhang Guozhong’s mind, he still needs a bunch of strange materials to cure ghosts.
As for Ma Zhenren, he led a group of strong laborers to the river embankment with shovels, pointed to an open space ten meters away from where Li Daming dug out the coffin, and contrary to his usual playful and smiling attitude, he shouted "dig!" with anger on his face.
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Labor force, as the name suggests, is the power of labor. The more people there are, the greater the power. In less than 15 minutes, more than two meters have been dug. At this time, a villager shouted, "Let's dig that!" (Local dialect: OK
, "hangyin", Xingzi = something or thing or person)" At this time, the villagers were like toads in the field who were frightened. They all dropped their shovels and ran away. In a few seconds, they were all jumping up and down.
When we arrived behind Ma Zhenren, who was five or six meters away, we found a large sarcophagus dug out.
Ma Zhen was so angry that his teeth fell out, "What are you afraid of when I'm here? Keep digging! Hurry!"
The villagers carefully picked up shovels and pickaxes and started digging again. In about 20 minutes, the large sarcophagus was completely dug out. When the lid was lifted, a wet corpse was found inside.
The so-called wet corpses are non-decomposing corpses with the same moisture content as normal human bodies, or even much higher than normal human bodies. Some wet corpses are simply soaked in water or look like freshly fished corpses. The moisture content of such corpses is suitable for the growth of microorganisms.
Conditions, but it does not breed microorganisms, and it does not rot or deteriorate. It is fishy at most, but it is definitely not smelly.
Until now, scientific explanations of wet corpses can only be vaguely explained by irrelevant reasons such as soil quality and climate. When many novels talk about wet corpses, they always use adjectives such as "lifelike" and "like a living person" to describe them.
In fact, it is just artistic processing. After a person has been dead for hundreds or thousands of years, he will turn white even if he is placed in a freezer, let alone soaked in a coffin? If a living person looks like this, then whoever sees him will
Is the person still alive?
Ma Zhenren walked to the pit and looked at the wet corpse in the coffin. He was wearing the official uniform of the Qing Dynasty, but there was a mark between the head and the neck. It was obvious that he had been beheaded and then pushed back and buried. Since he was beheaded,
, he must be a sinner, but looking at the burial objects in the coffin, it seems that he was buried according to Taoist standards to some extent. But what exactly happened is unknown.
At this time, Captain Li was leading two people to carry several large bundles of firewood according to Ma Zhenren's arrangement. Just in time, no one was willing to pick up the wet corpse. Captain Li became anxious and yelled: Isn't it just a broken corpse?
I'll give you five yuan if anyone comes over to help!
Five yuan! The work points for working in the commune for a month are only 10 yuan, half a month's work points! As the saying goes, even rich people can push the wheels, let alone people. When this price was announced, the villagers immediately started to work.
Seeing that everyone was loose, Captain Li continued to shout! "Four yuan!" At this time, two or three people from the villagers immediately stood up and volunteered. If you hesitate for two seconds, you will lose one yuan. If you hesitate any longer, you may not even be able to earn two yuan.
Already…
A bottle of lamp oil was scorched on the firewood. Master Ma gave an order, and the raging fire lit up the entire night. At this time, a loud noise suddenly came from the direction of Li Daming's house, which shocked people, some even timid ones.
Throwing away all the shovels in his hand, he asked, "Will the Ming Dynasty explode?" The imagination of the villagers is really boundless.
The fire started! The villagers on Li Daming's house shouted, but he didn't need to shout. There were no buildings in the countryside and the fire could be seen from miles away.
At this time, Zhang Guozhong took out the piece of broken jade, took Li Daming's head and stuffed it into his mouth. Sure enough, it was just like what Ma Zhenren said. No matter how weak Li Daming's body was, he still had the strength in his mouth. He clenched his teeth, but he just couldn't.
He opened his mouth and said, "Bring the shovel quickly!" It was the first time that he participated in a real religious ceremony. Zhang Guozhong's heart was in his throat, fearing that Yu Sai would be too late and something bad would happen.
Whether this piece of jade is big or small, it is impossible to swallow it, but it can fit into your mouth.
After the jade was stuffed into Li Daming's mouth, Zhang Guozhong and several surrounding villagers pressed his chin tightly to prevent him from spitting out the jade. They pressed it like this for about ten minutes before Li Daming finally stopped moving.
Just when Zhang Guozhong was about to let go of his hand and rest his arm, Li Daming suddenly spat out a mouthful of black water with jade attached to it. The black stuff was not blood, but it was so smelly that everyone in the room almost vomited along with him. Zhang
Chapter completed!