The weather in July was as hot as a dog.
I sat in the shop and kept fanning myself, but the sweat on my body still kept flowing down.
The fat man Chen Yakai was tinkering with the new wreaths he bought yesterday.
From time to time, he wiped the sweat from his forehead with his arm and shook it down, and a lot of sweat was thrown to the ground.
"Be careful, don't get the wreath wet."
I reminded Chen Yakai.
Chen Yakai narrowed his eyes and yelled: "He, Dui, is out there, you can do it."
The authentic Luoyang dialect sounded comfortable, but Chen Yakai could only speak Luoyang dialect in front of acquaintances.
I waved my hand and said, "Okay, who asked us to have such a particular customer in our stall?
I have already prepared the coffin and let you put the whole wreath to see how you make it."
After saying that, I shook the fan in my hand.
Even more powerful.
Chen Yakai and I opened a store for the dead.
To put it simply, it was a store specializing in supplies for the dead.
On weekdays, most people go to the store to buy ready-made coffins and wreaths.
Very few people pay attention to Feng Shui.
In the 21st century, people believe more and more in science.
In addition, the country now does not allow burials, and Mingdian's business is getting worse and worse.
But the customer I met this time was different.
The coffin had to be made of nanmu.
They also requested that the patterns of green dragon, white tiger, red bird, basalt and four mythical beasts be engraved around the coffin.
They also requested that the coffin must be hand-carved and the wreath had to be a Bagua pattern.
There is a lot of knowledge about the choice of coffins.
Wooden coffins, stone coffins, jade coffins, and bronze coffins were made of different materials for people of different status in ancient times, and the patterns engraved on the coffins were also different.
Chinese people believe in Feng Shui, just like Christians believe in Jesus.
Even in the 21st century, many people still believe in Feng Shui.
Especially for the older generation, even how to place the bed in the bedroom must pay attention to Feng Shui.
Originally, I didn't plan to do this business.
It was too troublesome.
Nanmu coffins are not available in Luoyang.
They have to be customized in Guangdong.
Besides, there are not many people who can still practice wood carving skills.
But the price offered by the other party was ridiculously high, 200,000 yuan.
A good nanmu coffin costs only RMB 70,000 to RMB 80,000.
After all, this business is more than I earn in a year.
Only a fool would not do it.
I simply customized a coffin and spent a month after I came back to carve the patterns of the four mythical beasts on it.
This kind of coffin was used to suppress evil things in ancient times.
Some people killed too much during their lives, and they had to be suppressed with something after death to prevent bad things from happening.
Just when I was thinking about why people still use this kind of coffin in the 21st century, a person suddenly came in at the door.
His hair was disheveled, his face was so dirty that you couldn't even see his appearance, he was dressed in tattered clothes, and he was holding a dirty black leather bag in his left hand, as if he had just crawled out of the dirt.
I thought he was a beggar, and I was about to get up and coax him away.
Unexpectedly, this man took out a rag from his bag and raised it to me.
He fell to the ground with a "bang".
I was worried.
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Is this guy trying to blackmail me?
Just lie down here and I will help you.
No matter what happens, you have to take some money out of me.
I had no choice but to lie down in front of my store.
It was really unlucky.
However, I thought back to the fact that the person collapsed in front of the store.
If something happened, it would still be related, so I quickly went over to see if the person had really passed out.
As soon as I got close to this person, a stench hit my nostrils, like the smell of dead people rotting.
I kept blowing away the unpleasant smell with a fan.
You say this person is really strange.
On a hot day of 38 degrees, he wraps himself up like a rice dumpling.
Even if he is not sick, he will faint from the heat.
However, the figure of this person seemed very familiar.
I put down the fan and turned this person over with both hands.
I lifted the hair from his face and said in surprise: "Old Bai."
Lao Bai had passed out at this time.
There were several holes in the clothes on his chest.
I quickly untied Lao Bai's clothes and saw several blood holes on Lao Bai's chest.
The blood had solidified and he looked very scary.
Man, the stench is coming from these holes.
"Master Kai, something happened, come here quickly and get the ash" I shouted to Chen Yakai.
Chen Yakai quickly picked up the incense burner enshrined in front of King Yama and ran over.
He was also surprised when he saw Lao Bai.
"Lao Bai" I took the incense burner, grabbed a handful of incense ash and sprinkled it into the blood hole on Lao Bai's chest. .
There was a "sizzling" sound from the blood hole, and then a puff of black smoke came out, and the smell became stronger and stronger, making people just want to vomit after smelling it.
After the black smoke disappeared, a small dark red insect emerged from the blood hole.
It looked like an earthworm, but its body was only as long as a little finger.
Chen Yakai covered his nose and cursed: "Damn it, what the hell."
He raised his foot to step on the little bug.
"Don't move.
If you step on it, we will both be dead.
It's corpse poison."
I shouted quickly.
After hearing what I said, Chen Yakai's expression changed, his raised foot stopped in mid-air, and he carefully retracted it.
Although this corpse voodoo looks small, if the body is stepped on, it will emit poisonous gas, and you will be dead if you inhale it.
I grabbed a handful of incense ash and spread it in a circle around the corpse Gu.
The corpse Gu was trapped in the middle and moved back and forth anxiously.
I quickly sprinkled incense ash on the other bloody holes on Lao Bai's chest.
There were seven bloody holes in total.
After working hard for a while, I finally breathed a sigh of relief after trapping all seven corpse Gus in the ash circle.
The blood hole on Lao Bai's chest was still bleeding with black blood when the corpse Gu first came out.
After a while, the blood that flowed out turned red.
I quickly asked Chen Yakai to buy some anti-inflammatory medicine and iodine, and treated Lao Bai with it.
Bai's chest was bandaged.
When Chen Yakai helped me lift Lao Bai to the bed, I once again noticed the rag Lao Bai was holding in his right hand.
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Lao Bai held on to the rag tightly, and it took a lot of effort for me to pull the rag out of Lao Bai's right hand.
It turned out to be a piece of sheepskin.
Due to its age, it looked like a rag.
The sheepskin seemed to have been torn from a whole piece of sheepskin, and the edges were uneven.
There is a Buddha's face painted on it, but only half of the face above the nose, the rest should be on the intact sheepskin.
The face of this Buddha statue looks very familiar.
I thought about it carefully but couldn't remember it, but I am sure I have seen it somewhere.
I opened Lao Bai's backpack again, and inside there was a small strong flashlight and some photos.
I was so frightened that I broke into a cold sweat when I took out the photos.
The first photo was of a woman lying on the ground with bleeding from all her orifices.
The woman's eyes were open and her eyes were very scary, as if she had seen something scary before she died.
The corners of his mouth were slightly raised, with an expression that was half-smile but not a smile, which looked very strange.
I calmed down and looked at the woman carefully, handed the photo to Chen Yakai and said, "Master Kai, why does this woman look so familiar?"
Chen Yakai took the photo, his expression became very surprised, and said: "Isn't this Lao Bai's girlfriend?"
"Oh, yes, it's Lao Bai's girlfriend.
I said I saw her somewhere.
Didn't Lao Bai break up with her girlfriend?"
Chen Yakai shrugged his shoulders and said he didn't know.
I quickly looked at the other photos.
There were seven in total.
They were all photos of women before they died.
Their expressions were as weird as those of Lao Bai’s girlfriend, but some were hanging, some were floating in the water, and some had daggers stuck in their chests.
At this time, Lao Bai suddenly snorted, and I shook Lao Bai's arm and shouted: "Lao Bai, Lao Bai" Lao Bai's body trembled for a moment and then passed out again.
I saw Lao Bai's forehead began to sweat non-stop.
I touched Lao Bai's forehead with my hand and it was very hot.
"Master Kai, hurry up and send him to the hospital first.
You drive my car there.
I'll go find Gu Zhen to find out what happened to Lao Bai's girlfriend.
Lao Bai must have gone to the grave again.
Remember Lao Bai's special situation immediately.
Call me."
After saying that, I put the sheepskin into Lao Bai's backpack, picked it up and ran towards the police station.
The police station was not far away, just a five-minute jog away.
I prayed that nothing would happen to Lao Bai along the way.
Judging from the corpse Gu on Lao Bai, he has already entered the main chamber of the tomb, but why did he only bring out a sheepskin?
What's going on with those photos?
Did Lao Bai go there alone or with someone else?
If it was with someone else, who would it be?
In an instant, too many questions popped up in my mind.
Lao Bai's real name is Bai Zangtian.
In fact, he is not old.
He is only twenty-six years old this year, three years older than me.
I, Chen Yakai, Lao Bai and Gu Zhen, the four of us were raised by my grandfather.
Lao Bai said that we used to live in a remote mountain village.
When I was very young, a plague broke out in the village, and very few people survived. .
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The four of us were the ones who survived the plague.
Grandpa took us away from our hometown and ran to the city to raise us.
From now on, my grandfather will be the grandfather of the four of us.
He is engaged in tomb robbing.
This is why the four of us have a certain understanding of Feng Shui and tombs.
When we were teenagers, my grandfather also led us to rob small tombs several times.
However, later the country began to strictly investigate the trafficking of cultural relics.
One of my grandfather’s colleagues was sentenced to life for reselling bronze tripods.
From then on, my grandfather stopped working with gold pots.
After that, Lao Bai opened an antique shop, and Chen Yakai and I opened a shop selling supplies for the dead.
Only Gu Zhen, a promising kid, joined the police station after graduating from college and even joined the criminal investigation department.
Gu Zhen is the only one among the four of us who has gone to college.
A month ago, Lao Bai called and said that it might take a month to go to Guangdong.
I didn't care at the time.
It's common for people who open antique shops to travel around the country.
I didn't expect Lao Bai to be like this today.
I ran all the way and arrived at the police station soon.
As soon as I entered the door of the police station, I saw Gu Zhen holding information in his hand.
He looked down and walked out.
"Gu Zhen" I shouted breathlessly.
Gu Zhen raised his head and said with a smile: "Qin Feng, why are you here?"