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.