Mystery Leaks

Chapter 12
With a "pop", Li Qishan fell down in response.

My eyes widened in disbelief, and with a simple yell, I actually made Li Qishan lie down?

Not only me, Cao Nan was also extremely shocked, looking at Huangmao's inscrutable back with a puzzled expression.

What surprised us was that Huangmao's "unfathomable" hadn't lasted more than two seconds before he jumped three feet high and shouted: "Damn it, it really works!"

Cao Nan and I looked at each other in dismay, would he or would he not, a blind cat meets a dead mouse?

When the crisis was over, I gradually calmed down, stood up with Cao Nan's support, and asked, "Why are you here?"

"Someone asked me to save you." Cao Nan said.

"Who?" I was puzzled.

Cao Nan shook his head, "I don't know, it was an unfamiliar number that sent me a text message. I didn't believe it at first, so I went to your shop to find you, but there was no one, so I came here with Huang Mao."

My mind suddenly became a little confused, someone asked Cao Nan to save me?Who will it be?That person must know that I am here and that I am in danger.

This range is very narrow, and I can't even imagine who it is.

"You don't go out at night, what are you doing here? It was so dangerous just now." Cao Nan said with lingering fear.

I took a few breaths and told the whole thing back and forth.

"What about Chen Laogen and others?" Cao Nan looked to the left and right.

I don't know how to answer, Chen Laogen somehow disappeared, and he didn't even say hello, just like last time in the mountains, he left me again.

"This corpse can't rest in peace, you still dare to stay here, you are really ignorant and fearless." Huang Mao shook his head and looked at me like an idiot.

I hurried over, only to see that Li Qishan's previously closed eyes had opened again, just like before Mo Jin's body, the empty eyes in his eyes made people shudder.

"What should we do now?" Cao Nan asked.

Huang Mao tried to wipe Li Qishan's eyelids, but after closing them, they opened them again quickly, so he shook his head and said, "Burn it, or you'll have to pay for the dead body."

I agreed in my heart, I almost lost my mind just now, and burning it will be a cure, so I asked how to burn it.

Huang Mao touched his chin and said that he had to find a place where no one was around and burn it quietly, then take the ashes back and put them in the coffin for burial.

Cao Nan suggested burning it with gasoline, which would be faster, because collecting firewood would be troublesome, and he also knew an abandoned brick kiln where burning corpses would not arouse suspicion.

Now there is only one problem left, how to move the corpse to the brick kiln, Cao Nan said it would take four miles.

"You carry the corpse!" Huang Mao said to me.

"Can you change the method?" I resisted instinctively. This is the golden body that just cheated the corpse. I carried it on my back. If I cheated the corpse again, it would be a lot of fun.

"Don't worry, I won't cheat tonight." Huang Mao said, and then explained: "He still had a breath in his throat, and he thought he was not dead in a daze, and he lay down after I told him."

"Can it still be like this?" I was speechless, and then asked: "Then why did he come at me? I have no hatred or enmity with him."

"This." Huang Mao was stumped, and said, "Perhaps... to suck your yang energy?"

I vomited for a while, but still didn't want to carry it. I insisted that two people would save more effort to carry it. Cao Nan also agreed, saying that he would carry it with me, which would save some effort.

But Huang Mao insisted that I recite it, "There must be a reason for you to let him close his eyes temporarily. At present, it is safest for you to touch him. If we touch him, we might really get up."

Immediately, I was forced to go up Liangshan, puffed up, gritted my teeth and stomped my feet, resisted the discomfort and carried Li Qishan's body on my back. Cao Nan led the way to the abandoned brick kiln.Cao Nan went back to his timber processing factory halfway to pick up a barrel of gasoline.

When I arrived at the abandoned brick kiln, I was sweating all over. The stiff corpse was very hard to carry, straight and straight, like a stone slab.

When I entered the brick kiln, I looked it over. It was indeed a good place to burn corpses. There was no fire in the kiln, and there was a chimney for exhausting smoke, and the location was very remote.

Afterwards, Huang Mao and Cao Nan found a few thick logs and some straw to put them under. I put the body on it, Huang Mao poured gasoline on it, and lit the fire.

This is the first time I have witnessed a corpse burning with my own eyes. To be honest, it is very different from what I imagined. I thought it should be similar to burning firewood, but it turned out to be a thousand miles away.

First of all, the burnt smell of the dead body is disgusting. Cao Nan and I vomited after smelling it twice. In the end, we had nothing to vomit, so we could only vomit acid water.

The second point is that the burning process is shocking. The first thing to burn is the hair, and then you can see the eyes of the corpse protruding little by little under the pressure of the heat, and then they burst apart with a "boo"; Dissolved in the fire, burned, and made a sound similar to frying, and the pieces fell off, coked, and carbonized, and finally exposed the white bones.

The whole process was like melting a wax figure, with a sharp visual impact that made me feel uncomfortable for a long time afterwards.

It was also the first time for Cao Nan to see this kind of thing. Like me, he was as pale as I was irritated. Only the yellow hair was calm, and he kept adding gasoline with the gasoline barrel so that the corpse would be burned clean.

The burning lasted for two hours, and when the flames were extinguished, only a black skeleton remained on the ground.

Huang Mao picked up the bones one by one and wrapped them in cloth, then took us back to Li's house, put the bones into the coffin one by one, and put them back into human form.

Judging by his skillful technique, it is obvious that he is very familiar with human bones.This made me wonder about him, who is he?Why come to this poor and remote Jinpen Township?
After it was completely put together, Huang Mao clapped his hands and said to us: "Find a few stones to support the weight, and then cover the coffin lid. The rooster will be nailed to the coffin immediately after morning."

Cao Nan and I nodded, found a few heavy stones and put them in the coffin, lifted the lid of the coffin, and found the coffin nails and hammer from the side for spare.

Huang Mao murmured something, and re-ignited the brazier that had been extinguished.

There was no incident in the second half of the night, and at 04:30 in the morning, with the first cock crowing in the village, it announced the dawn of a new day.

Huang Mao immediately asked us to nail the coffin, and Cao Nan and I supported the nails and smashed them down, smashing eight coffin nails as thick as thumbs.

After I was done, I sat down on the ground and was finally safe. Cao Nan also lay on the ground and cursed a few words.

At this time, the door of the Li family opened, and Li Gensheng walked out with his family.He looked left and right and didn't see Chen Laogen, so he asked me, "Boss Meng, where is Uncle Chen?"

I froze for a moment, and lied instinctively: "Well, he left beforehand." Li's family must never know about burning corpses, which is why Huangmao asked us to put stones in the coffin repeatedly.

"Then... my father?" Li Gensheng opened his mouth, but stopped talking.

"Don't worry, with our Boss Meng, an expert, you can be buried with peace of mind. The coffin has been ordered, and you will go straight up the mountain at three poles in the sun." Huang Mao suddenly put his arms around my neck and smiled at Li Gensheng.

I looked at Huang Mao speechlessly, and thought to myself, what are you talking about, what kind of expert am I?
Huang Mao immediately winked at me, motioned me to stop talking, and then smiled at Li Gensheng: "Well, Old Uncle Chen said that we will pay for the tea fee for him." After speaking, he rubbed his fingers, the meaning was obvious , asking for money.

"Should be, should be!" Li Gensheng immediately nodded like a chicken pecking rice, took out a stack of red bills from his pocket, respectfully handed it to Huang Mao, and then thanked me a thousand times.

With this appearance, he seemed to regard me as Chen Laogen's apprentice; it was indeed easy for him to misunderstand, because I was brought by Chen Laogen, but when Chen Laogen left, I was the only one left.

I instinctively wanted to explain, but Huang Mao pinched me, hugged me and walked outside, never giving me a chance, and didn't let me go until I left Li's house.

"Why do you say I'm an expert?" I said dissatisfied. It is actually a very unlucky thing to do things for the dead, and everyone keeps them away. If this kind of reputation spreads, it will be a problem to marry a wife.

"If you don't say that, where did you get the little money?" Huang Mao didn't care at all, and flicked a dozen red banknotes with a 'crack', snickering all over his face.

I glared at him fiercely, and said angrily, "Don't spoil my reputation."

"That's right, Leizi is getting married soon, so don't joke about it." Cao Nan also spoke seriously for me.

"What's the big deal?" Huang Mao didn't care, and swallowed the money into his pocket, "You will understand why I said that later."

After tossing all night, I really didn't have the strength to argue with him, so I didn't bother him anymore.

However, the two hands he showed tonight really surprised me.My most trusted Chen Laogen threw me in a dangerous situation twice, but this guy of unknown origin saved me.

After thinking about it, I tried to ask: "Why are you here in our backcountry?"

"School, don't you think I saved you? Saving someone's life is better than building a seven-level pagoda. The merit is immeasurable." Huang Mao snapped his fingers with a holy look on his face.

"Come on, the police said you are here to prostitute." I slapped him unceremoniously.

Cao Nan also made up the money, "And I haven't paid you yet."

"Fuck!" Huang Mao jumped up immediately, and said anxiously: "I must clarify that matter, I was wronged, I thought it was a sincere relationship, but it turned out to be a business."

I didn't believe a word of what he said, and said: "Then tell me, how long has your relationship been sincere?"

"Five...10 minutes." Huang Mao hesitated for a moment.

Me, Cao Nan: "..."

"It takes only 10 minutes to produce feelings, it's really love at first sight." I said speechlessly.

Huang Mao argued, "You know what a fart, it only takes three seconds to fall in love at first sight, 10 minutes is already a long time."

"Those 10 minutes should be spent negotiating the price, and you didn't pay any money in the end." Cao Nan made up for it again.

"That's because my wallet was stolen, you have to believe me, the fault is not me, but the world!" Huang Mao looked aggrieved.

Me, Cao Nan: "..."

(End of this chapter)