Volume 1 Chapter 003 Corpse Makeup
I lifted her skirt and looked down. There was indeed a birthmark the size of a fingernail below the waist and hips of the female corpse. The color and shape of this birthmark were exactly the same as what Lin Wenjing's aunt had described.
What a ghost! I crawled out of the coffin with cold hands and feet. I just mentioned that the girl from the Lin family had a birthmark on her buttocks, and this female corpse also had one on her buttocks. This is too damn coincidental!
An extremely absurd thought suddenly occurred to me: "This corpse...could it really be the girl from the Lin family?" But I can be sure that the face in front of me is definitely not that of the girl Lin. Although both of them are very good-looking, there is still a big difference in their appearance. The girl Lin has a slightly round face, which looks very gentle. This girl has a standard oval face, with small eyes and nose, and is very delicate.
This is more like... a composite of two people. It's like... the torso of the body belongs to the girl from the Lin family, while the head and limbs belong to another person!
I felt like I was falling into an icy cave, and I was shaking with fear. I have been dealing with corpses with my uncle for so many years, but I have never encountered such a weird thing.
It was not until midnight that my uncle came back from outside, looking exhausted. I heated up the food and brought it out for him to eat first. When he was almost done, I told him about my previous discovery with a pale face.
Uncle San's face changed drastically, he muttered a curse, and took me to see the coffin. This time he personally got on the horse and inspected it inch by inch.
"Fuck, they are two different people!" Uncle San cursed with a gloomy face. Because the seams were handled very finely and the skin color of the two people was very similar, we didn't notice it at first. Now after such a detailed inspection, we found something strange.
In addition, we also found a wound on the back of the female corpse's head. Judging from the shape of the wound, it should be caused by a blunt object hitting her hard, causing the skull to be shattered.
Uncle San arranged the corpse's appearance, closed the coffin lid, and tied the ink line again. He then asked me to burn three incense sticks in front of the coffin, while he went to the bookcase and took out a large stack of paper money and talismans.
These ghost money were colorful, and they were all those ghost money worth 100 million yuan on the market, nothing special. But the talisman paper was not ordinary, they were all made by Uncle San in his spare time, and he saved them for a long time.
This time, I really spent a lot of money. I mixed the talisman paper and paper money and burned them in front of the coffin. I was also asked to take some and sprinkle it around the coffin.
As far as I can remember, I have never seen Uncle San act so serious before, which made me feel that this matter might be really unusual.
Soon, the hall was filled with yellow talisman paper. The white smoke from the three burning incense sticks in front of the coffin rose straight up, condensing and continuous, which was quite strange.
I was just about to ask Uncle San what to do next when I suddenly heard a snap and the three incense sticks in front of the coffin broke at the waist! Then a whirlwind blew up in the room, and the talisman paper and half-burned paper money were blown everywhere.
I was so nervous that I was sweating. When I looked at Uncle San, his face was very dark. People in our line of work are used to seeing incomprehensible weird things, and we know that there must be something wrong when things are abnormal. This strange phenomenon just now can only mean one thing, there is definitely something wrong with the body in the coffin!
Uncle San locked the door and took me outside to talk. In our profession, this is done to stay away from the coffin and avoid being heard by the dead.
I was a little scared and wondered if we should call the police or notify Aunt Lin and the others to identify the body. Uncle San hesitated for a long time and told me to keep it a secret and not tell anyone.
I disagree. I said that the girl from the Lin family was probably murdered by someone, how could we conceal it?
"Stop talking nonsense. Just keep it a secret if I tell you to!" Uncle San interrupted me impatiently and urged me to go back to my room and sleep.
This old tyrant! But I don't bother to argue with him. People always become a little unreasonable when they get older, right?
Of course, the main reason is not this. My third uncle is usually very lazy and doesn't care about anything. Usually, I am the one who makes the decisions at home. But once this old guy starts to be authoritarian, I will definitely listen to him, which means something serious has happened!
When I returned to the room, I took a glance at the coffin, then climbed onto the bed with a trembling heart. Uncle San, however, showed no sign of resting. He packed up his things and seemed to be going out.
I climbed down from the bed and asked him where he was going so late. Uncle San said he would go around to ask around. I was a little worried and asked him if he could take it easy since he was old. Can't he go tomorrow?
Uncle San said that this matter was urgent and he couldn't sleep until it was resolved , so he asked me to stay at home and guard the coffin well and not to cause any trouble. Then I heard the door open, and the old man went out without looking back.
I went to the main room and carefully checked the coffin. After confirming that there was nothing wrong with it, I went back to the inner room to sleep. I was groggy the whole night and couldn't sleep well.
The next morning, I woke up feeling a little dizzy. Fortunately, there was nothing wrong with the coffin. Yesterday, the villagers searched all day, turning over all the ponds and rivers, but still found nothing. Aunt Lin fainted several times in anxiety. Her aunt had already called the police, and I heard that the police had just arrived.
I thought of the girl from the Lin family. What a pretty little girl. I might not see her again in the future. I couldn't help but feel sad. But I still had some illusions. Maybe this was just a coincidence? Maybe the girl from the Lin family just got lost and came back soon.
I asked my neighbor Uncle Wang and Teacher Tian to take a leave, and stayed at home all day to watch over the coffin. I didn't go out until noon. Aunt Lin came to me crying, saying that her daughter Jing'er and I had a good relationship, and asked me if I knew if had any private matters.
Girls of this age usually have some little secrets in their hearts, but how could she tell me? Seeing Aunt Lin crying, I felt very sad. I helped her back home and comforted her for a long time before walking back in a depressed mood.
As soon as I arrived at my door, I was surprised. My door was open! I thought it was my uncle who came back, but I soon found out that it was not him.
There was a man in the main room of my house, with his back to me, crouching over the coffin. The coffin lid had been opened by him, and he was fiddling with something inside.
"Who is it?" I was extremely anxious and didn't care about anything else. I rushed in with a roar.
The man was startled when he heard the sound, and the body he had just taken out of the coffin fell back with a thud. He ran away, knocking me who was blocking the door. When I got up, the man had already run away.
I didn't dare to chase him. When the man turned around, I saw him. He was a well-known scoundrel in our village. He was idle and a hooligan.
The gangster's face looked very strange, his pale face was tinged with blue, his eyes were bloodshot, and he looked like a devil.
I didn't care about anything else, I hurriedly closed the door and went to see if the body was okay. The coffin lid was pushed open by the bird man, the ink line was torn into a ball and thrown on the ground, and the female corpse was lying in the coffin, her hair and skirt were messy.
I was so scared that my face turned pale. This idiot had bad behavior. He was still single in his thirties. He was always lazy and behaved indecently. When I rushed in just now, he was holding the corpse. I don't know what dirty things he had done.
Fortunately, after checking, there were no signs of being violated, so I breathed a sigh of relief. I prayed to the Buddha to bless me, and carefully tidied up the body's appearance and skirt.
The coffin lid was too heavy, and I couldn't close it by myself. I lit three incense sticks, put my hands together and bowed a few times, praying that if she had any problems, she would go to Er Laizi and not blame me.
After this incident, I never dared to leave the coffin again. When I was hungry, I went to the kitchen to cook some noodles and then came back to continue guarding. Near dusk, I heard a hustle and bustle outside, as if many people were talking.
I was delighted, thinking that the girl from the Lin family had been found, so I went out to inquire about it. As a result, I heard something completely unexpected.
The idiot is dead!
Not long ago, this ruffian died in a family's cowshed. His stomach was pierced by a cow's horn, and his stomach was ripped open, with his intestines spilling all over the floor.
The villagers were talking about it, saying that the idiot was probably trying to steal the cow, but the cow suddenly went crazy and ended up killing him.
I went back to my room and closed the door, feeling something was not right. I ate some noodles in the evening, found a novel, and continued to guard the coffin.
