Chapter 26 The Missing Corpse
"Go back to the cornfield? What does it mean? Jiuyizi, what do you want to do?" Leizi looked at me in confusion.
I patted the red envelope sent by the village chief just now on the table: "Leizi, I always feel that we are not doing this today. The village chief trusts us so much, but we... Hey, I won't say much else, I will ask you, are you embarrassed to receive this red envelope if this matter is done like this? Are you embarrassed?"
Lei Zi pulled out a cigarette and put it in his mouth: "To be honest, I have always felt uncomfortable. I just drank this wine and felt uncomfortable! This is not my Lei Zi's style of doing things! Jiu Jizi, tell me, what do you want?"
I directly expressed my thoughts: "I still want to send Tong Tong to the back hillside! First, Tong Tong is already very pitiful, and now we are thrown away by the wilderness. What if the resentment does not dissipate and becomes a ghost? Second, the coffin is buried under the cornfield, not sure which day it will be dug up. Then today, all this matter will be exposed. Do you still want to continue carrying the coffin in the future?"
Lei Zi spitted out the smoke ring: "Well, your analysis makes sense, I think so too! I agree with your approach! But... just two of us, how could we lift that double-layer coffin?"
I patted Leizi on the shoulder: "Don't worry, I've already thought about it. We don't have to carry that coffin away. We just need to take Tong Tong's body away!"
Leizi thought for a moment, said ok, and asked me to wait for him for a while.
Two minutes later, Lei Zi found a sack and told me that the sack would be used to hold the body of Tong Tong later.
We put two shovels into the sack, took advantage of the alcohol to leave Shuiwa Village, and rushed towards the cornfield where the coffin was buried.
It was midnight at this time, and the fields were quiet and there was no light.
It feels very scary to go to dig up the corpse in the middle of the night, but we have good thoughts, so we don’t feel afraid.
Soon, Leizi and I arrived at the cornfield where we were in the morning.
I held up the flashlight and pointed at a distance to Leizi, "Is it that corn field?"
Lei Zi looked on tiptoe and said, "That's right! It's there! I remember very clearly that there is a small pond outside the cornfield!"
We looked around and confirmed that there was no one. Then we walked around the small pond and came to the back of the cornfield.
Lei Zi took off the sack, pulled out the shovel from the bag, handed it to me, and stomped the ground under his feet: "It should be here, let's start!"
Without saying a word, I quickly took off my coat, rolled up my sleeves, swung my shovel and started digging.
The black clouds covered the roof, and there was almost no light tonight. Leizi and I worked hard without raising our heads for more than half an hour without raising our heads. A dark pit appeared under our feet.
Lei Zi inserted the shovel into the soil, his voice with a hint of joy: "Dig it!"
I raised the flashlight and shone it on the soles of my feet, and I could see that the mud was exposed in one corner of the coffin.
Leizi and I looked at each other: "Dig! Continue digging!"
We both swung the shovel like a hot wheel, and soon the entire coffin appeared in front of us.
Before opening the coffin, Lei Zi bowed to the coffin and murmured: "We are here to help you, don't be offended! Don't be offended!"
"Open the coffin, we are doing good deeds. I believe Tong Tong won't blame us!" I said to Lei Zi.
Lei Zi took out the tools he carried with him, quickly pried open the coffin nails and pushed open the lid.
"Nine-Grandson!"
Lei Zi suddenly screamed, with panic in his voice, which scared me.
"What's wrong? What are you yelling?" I asked, wiping the sweat on my face.
Lei Zi stood by the coffin with a strange expression on his face. His throat trembled twice, and his voice changed tone: "Tong Tong's body... is gone..."
What?!
My surprise was awesome. Tong Tong's body disappeared?!
Lei Zi's expression told me that he was definitely not joking with me.
I quickly raised the flashlight, and a beam of light shone in the coffin. I just took a look, and my head became louder with a buzzing sound. The coffin was empty, and Tong Tong's body was indeed gone!
This...how is this possible? A corpse can disappear?
I rubbed my eyes, still unable to believe this fact.
Lei Zi quickly lifted the coffin above to see if there was any trace of Tong Tong's pupil on the coffin below, although we knew that this was impossible.
As expected, the coffin below was also empty. The blood from the coffin was lost at this time and it was almost over. In other words, the entire coffin is empty now. We know that Tong’s father turned into blood, but what about Tong Tong’s body? Tong Tong’s body could not have melted into blood, right? Besides, we didn’t find any blood in the coffin above!
Leizi and I stood in a daze under the deep pit. The cold night wind blew backwards. We were covered in coldness and stood in a daze. What was going on? What was going on?
"Did... Tong Tong's body ran away by itself?" Lei Zi said in a stern voice.
I shook my head: "Impossible, the coffin lid is sealed so hard. If it ran away from it, the coffin nails shouldn't have been sealed!"
Lei Zi took a breath: "Jiujizi, what do you mean?"
I stared at the coffin in front of me with a solemn expression: "I think there is only a reasonable possibility. Someone pried open the coffin from outside, took away Tong Tong's body, and then sealed it with the coffin! This is a practice without anyone knowing this. As long as the coffin is not opened, no one knows that the body in the coffin is gone!"
Lei Zi scratched his head and scolded, "Who the fuck would do such an immoral thing? What is the purpose of doing this?"
I looked at the face of my face and recalled all the details that happened today: "Only you eight coffincarvers and me know about this, nine of you know about this! If I was not wrong, the person who stole Tong Tong's body must be among these nine people!"
Lei Zi also realized this problem and was silent for a while: "But, who would this person be? Who has time to go back and do this? After everyone goes back, don't they sit together and drink?"
"No!" A name suddenly flashed in my mind: "There is a person who did not attend the dinner!"
Lei Zi slapped his head suddenly: "Xu Wangxin! I remembered that Xu Wangxin did not attend the dinner! He asked him to have a meal at that time, but he said he was not very comfortable and didn't come!"
"Yes! It's him!" I gritted my teeth. According to a reasonable analysis, only Xu Wangxin had the conditions and time to steal the body of Tong Tong.
"Damn it! It seems we have to ask Xu Wangxin clearly. If it was really his fault, I can't spare him!" Lei Zi cursed angrily, his fists clattering. The coffin maker steals the body in the coffin. This is completely a custodial robber. It has no professional ethics, which is a despicable and shameless behavior. Moreover, he belongs to Lei Zi's team. If this matter is spread, Lei Zi and his friends will be over, so Lei Zi will be so angry.
Xu Wangxin's thin and tall appearance appeared in my mind. He left a deep impression on me. When the coffin was bleeding, he took the lead in proposing not to continue carrying the coffin, and he also proposed to bury the coffin on the spot. Thinking about it now, this kid was deliberately trying to do so, but he had already planned to steal the corpse in the coffin.
Chapter completed!