Chapter 9: Burning of bodies
According to Zhang Guozhong's idea, the most important thing right now is to formulate the combat policy against Li Daming on the bumpers, but Ma Zhenren as if he had never heard of it, first stole a big rooster from Captain Li's house to stewed teeth, and then it is just aimlessly wandering all over the village, every day to find no one. This can put Zhang Guozhong anxious, especially the captain Li also from time to time to go up to harass two sentences: "Mr. Zhang, Daming things can not be too anxious, anyway, the second girl has already looked at you, sooner or later is your person, what are you anxious?" ...
That night, Ma Zhenren hummed a little song as he returned from sneaking outside, it was already the ninth day, he seemed to have forgotten that there was such a thing as Li Daming. Zhang Guozhong couldn't help but speak up, "Master, Li Daming's body and bones can't stand it anymore, if we don't save him, we simply don't have to, right? ..."
This Ma Zhenren seemed like he didn't hear, looking around the house, then pointing at the roof, "Go, click some dirt down for me." Zhang Guozhong had no choice but to find a ladder and went up to the room to pick a lump of dirt, and handed it to Ma Zhenren in a bad mood. "You little bastard temper is not small, when to save people, I have a number in my heart, what are you anxious fart?" Said, Ma Zhenren crushed the earth lumps, evenly spread on the ground, and then drew a few times on the earth skin with his fingertips. "Go, you let Captain Li to the village young and strong are looking for, with digging pits of the guy, remember, to have this day this day born people do not come. Let's save people tonight!"
Zhang Guozhong heard to save people, immediately happy, Captain Li is also quick, directly with the village loudspeaker shouted on: "Today, Ma Taoist Master to cast spells to save people, in addition to today's birthday, there are a force immediately to my home to gather, with a rope shovels!" After thinking about it, I was afraid that there were not enough people, and then added a sentence: "Those who come will be counted as 5 labor points! If you don't come on your birthday, you'll be deducted five points!" (At that time, the commune distributed food and money according to the labor points, seven cents per labor point, and only five labor points for a day of work.)
The village is still living a group of youths, he took the loud speaker shouted up, and over and over again without end. Zhang Guozhong only smiled bitterly.
In less than half an hour, Captain Li's house gathered a large group of people, at least 50, the village's strong laborers basically all arrived. At this time, Ma Zhenren went up to the room, stood in the high place and began to set up. To say that this Ma Zhenren's ability to go up to the room is really not cover, 20-something lads have to carry a ladder on the room, he even helped run two steps, directly ran up, even Zhang Guozhong, including all the people look silly.
"20 people on the left, follow me, the rest of the people on the right, follow my apprentice, do you all understand?"
The villagers nodded, waiting for the next instruction, did not expect Ma Zhenren directly jumped down, stuffed Zhang Guozhong a piece of broken jade, "You take people to Li Daming's house, first tie him up, find someone to stand with the room, look at the river to start a fire, immediately put this in his mouth, do not open his mouth, pry!"
Zhang Guozhong led the people, holding the rope straight to Li Daming's house, head on just bumped into Li Erma running over, the two collided. Li Erma's face was like a piece of red cloth, "Mr. Zhang... Mr. Zhang, my father... my father is... sick again... and this time it's even more strange than any other time. ...quickly go and take a look at it..." the voice is getting smaller and smaller, said to the last few words said, just like a mosquito, finished even pursed lips and ran away, behind the captain Li looked at this happy ah, "Mr. Zhang, you see, I said the two girls look at you, not blindfolded you, right? Mr. Zhang. Surrounding villagers at the moment also began to together coaxing, what the second girl director, hard-working, can hold the family, ass big good breeding a class, Zhang Guozhong hanging heart have. If it is not important to save people, I really want to find a well to jump.
At this time Li Daming home, filled with a very uncomfortable flavor, talk about not stink, but smell more is disgusting. Li Daming is like a headless fly, in the house everywhere, but let Zhang Guozhong feel strange is, Li Daming looks like very want to go out from the house, in the door next to the crash and bang, head bleeding, is not to go door, and crawling on the ground, vomiting some yellow mucus, this disgusting flavor, is issued by this yellow mucus.
A group of villagers rushed up, Li Daming bundled, however, at this time Li Daming did not have the previous stock of bullishness, shivering hands and feet, as guilty of a big cigarette addiction. Look at the villagers bundle themselves, seem to want to resist, but the pressure is not strong.
The villagers do not dare to be sloppy, to break the hemp rope at this moment who all remember. This time Li Daming, full into a chrysalis, basically do not see the meat, set in his body of the rope are unraveled I'm afraid there is a kilometer long, strict to the point of funny, especially the body of the rope buttons, are the village of sacking Li crippled hand tie, want to unravel can only be cut with a knife.
Li Daming was full of snot and tears, lying at the soles of Zhang Guozhong's feet and squirming, "Sir, please spare me! Xiangzhang knows he is wrong! I am also wrong! Have mercy!"
How could Zhang Guozhong have mercy on him? At the moment Zhang Guozhong holding the hand of the broken jade, constantly pondering, this Li Daming suddenly no strength, these days the master must have done something to come, but he wandered around every day, the hands of nothing to take, does not seem to do ah? At the moment in Zhang Guozhong concept, always still have to have a bunch of strange materials to cure ghosts.
Besides, Ma Zhenren, led a group of strong laborers with shovels to the riverbank, pointing to the place where Li Daming dug out the coffin more than a dozen meters away from an open space, a reversal of the usual playful attitude, full of anger, yelling "dig!"
Labor force, as the name suggests, is the power of labor, the more people, the greater the power, not out of 15 minutes, has dug down more than two meters, when a villager shouted "digging that line! (Local vernacular: line, the degree of "hang sound", line = things or things or people) "At this time the villagers, with the toad in the field was surprised, everyone threw down the shovel and ran, a few seconds of hard work will be all jumped to five or six meters away from the Ma Zhenren behind, the original dug a large sarcophagus! The original digging was a large sarcophagus.
Ma Zhenren was furious and his teeth fell down, "I'm here, you're afraid of what the hell ah! Then dig! Quickly!"
The villagers fearfully picked up the shovel and pickaxe, and began to dig, about 20 minutes, the sarcophagus was completely dug out, lifted the lid, which was placed in a wet corpse.
The so-called wet corpse, is the moisture content and normal human body, or even higher than the normal human body a lot of non-corrosive corpses, some wet corpses simply soak in the water or with the same as just fished up, the moisture content of this body in line with the microbial growth conditions, but does not breed microorganisms, and does not rot, and not deteriorate, at best, fishy, but never say no stink.
Until now, the science of wet corpses, can only use the soil, climate and other reasons for vague explanation. Many novels talk about wet corpse, always with what lifelike, what is like a living person like adjectives to describe, in fact, that is the art of processing only, people died hundreds of thousands of years, even if it is put in the freezer are frozen white, let alone in the coffin soaked? The living person to have grown into this, then see his people still live not live?
Ma Zhenren walked to the edge of the pit, looked at the coffin only wet corpse, wearing the official uniform of the Qing Dynasty, but there is a mark between the head and neck, obviously beheaded and then pressed the head back to the burial, since the beheading, must be a sinner, but look at the coffin of the burial goods, it seems to more or less in accordance with the standards of the burial of the Daodai. But what is going on here is unknown.
At this time, Captain Li is leading two people according to Ma Zhenren's arrangement to carry several large bundles of firewood over, just in time no one is willing to go to get the wet corpse up. Captain Li was anxious, yelling: not just a broken corpse, I get, who come over to help, give five dollars!
Five dollars! In the commune work a month of labor points is also 10 dollars, half a month of labor points ah! As the saying goes, rich ghosts can push the mill, let alone people, this price opened out, the villagers immediately began to loosen, watching the crowd appeared to loosen, Captain Li continued to shout! "Four dollars!" At this time the villagers immediately stood out two or three people, volunteered, hesitation for two seconds on the loss of a dollar, and then hesitate down I'm afraid that even two dollars can not earn...
A bottle of lamp oil scorched on the firewood, Ma Zhenren order, a blazing fire to the whole night illuminated a red, at this time, the direction of Li Daming's house suddenly came a loud bang, shocked people, some timid and even threw the shovels in the hands of, "will not be Daming blow up, right?" The imagination of the village people really has no boundaries.
The fire burned up! Li Daming's house on the villagers shouted, in fact, do not need him to shout, the countryside is not much building, the fire can be seen for miles away.
At this time, Zhang Guozhong took out that piece of broken jade, moving Li Daming head to his mouth. Sure enough, just as Ma Zhenren said, Li Daming's body is weak, the strength of his mouth is still there, teeth clenched, just do not open his mouth. "Quickly bring the shovel!" For the first time to participate in the real meaning of the ritual, Zhang Guozhong's heart was in his throat, afraid that the jade plug was late and spoiled the event.
This piece of jade was not too big, not too small, swallowing it was impossible, but it was able to enter the mouth.
After the jade was stuffed into Li Daming's mouth, Zhang Guozhong and a few villagers around him pressed his jaw tightly to prevent him from spitting out the jade. So pressed to have ten minutes, Li Daming finally did not move, Zhang Guozhong just wanted to let go of the hand to rest his arms, suddenly Li Daming wow a mouthful of black water, even with a piece of the jade spit out, black things are not blood, but stinks ridiculously, a room full of people almost followed a piece of vomit. Zhang Guozhong thought this is over, but Li Daming's next move let him eat a pill of peace of mind. "Ughhhh soothing, starving me to death, who's going to bring me a biscuit to eat?"
