The crow of the rooster echoed throughout the village.
The remaining raindrops dripped onto the ground along the tile eaves, and birds occasionally flew across the foothills not far away.
The wooden door of the coffin shop was pushed open forcefully.
Li Kui stretched himself across the threshold and took a deep breath. The air after the rain was very fresh. He looked around a few times and guessed that the coffin shop should be at the entrance of the village. After thinking about it, he stood up high.
Looking from a distance, part of the roads in the entire village are paved with cement and part are compacted with loess. You can already see many uncles and aunts cleaning the sewage in front of their doors with brooms.
There are two or three cement houses, and the rest are all mud houses.
Now that he can see the whole picture of Long'ao Village, Li Kui has a clearer understanding. It is indeed just a small and remote mountain village. Because of the difficult mountain roads, the development speed is very slow. Having network and electricity is already a great progress.
There is absolutely nothing worth mentioning.
Not long after, Li Kui returned to the coffin shop.
When he returned to the mourning hall, Xu Zhao came down from the stairs with dark circles under his eyes. His eyeballs were bloodshot. He didn't know whether he had not slept well or not at all.
He covered his mouth and yawned:
"You got up so early."
"Well, it just happened that the rain stopped, so I went out for a walk."
Li Kui replied.
"ha……"
Xu Zhaopi smiled without a smile, picked up the teapot on the wooden table and poured a glass of water: "There is nothing to see here, it is very poor, unlike other villages that can become Internet celebrity villages, or rely on beauty
The scenery has developed, but here, there is nothing!”
"You don't like it here."
Li Zhao's words hit the nail on the head.
Xu Zhao laughed awkwardly, raised his glass of water and drank it all in one gulp, and was about to say, "By the way, you originally..."
The words were interrupted.
"Can you inform people in the village to identify the body?"
Li Kui looked at Yang Chao.
Xu Zhao licked his lips, looked at Li Kui's stern face and hesitated to speak. He swallowed the rest of "What did you originally plan to do when you went into the mountain?" and replied: "Of course!"
As soon as he said the words, a smaller version of Xu Zhao hit his head in his heart, with a tone that made him hate iron but not steel.
"What are you doing? Why do people dare not ask after just one look at you?"
at this time.
"Brother Zhao, Brother Zhao."
There was a call from outside the door, and Li Kui turned around to look, only to see a naive fat man standing at the door. He looked about seventeen or eighteen years old.
As he said that, the man rushed in through the puddles. However, when he saw a stranger in the shop, the affectionate expression on his face instantly froze, and he seemed a little embarrassed and said: "This is..."
"guest."
Xu Zhao said directly.
"oh."
The fat man couldn't help but raise his voice when he saw Li Kui's tall appearance, and immediately shook the thermos box in his hand:
"My mother made some food, Brother Zhao, please eat it quickly!"
"Okay, Xiaoyi, help me say thank you to my aunt."
Xu Zhao couldn't help but smile on his face. He reached out to take it and opened it on the wooden table. They were all home-cooked side dishes: rice porridge, vegetables, steamed buns, and bacon. He couldn't help but lick his lips, and when he was about to pick up his chopsticks to eat, he seemed to remember
What.
He looked at Li Kui and said hesitantly, "How about you eat something first?"
"It's disrespectful."
Li Kui smiled.
"What does it mean to be unfair?"
The fat man asked curiously.
"It's just my intention to treat you to dinner."
As he said that, Xu Zhao took out an extra pair of bowls and chopsticks. Looking at the chubby little boy, he said, "I asked you to drop out of junior high school and you don't even know what it means to be disrespectful. Read more books."
"Then just say yes, it's okay, it's so troublesome."
The fat man looked disapproving.
When he arrived at the funeral, he gave Xu Mengliang some incense, then he put his hands up and wandered around the shop, not forgetting to mutter a few words in a low voice: "You just graduated from high school, and you still talk about me."
While he was talking, the fat man happened to walk to the side of a coffin. Just between his lower eyebrows, he saw a pair of dead eyes staring straight at him. He was immediately frightened and screamed, staggering and falling to the ground.
This movement caused the two people who were eating to look over immediately.
Xu Zhao moved his cheeks and said vaguely: "Xu Yi, what are you doing?"
"Zhao, Brother Zhao, why do you have an extra corpse here?"
Xu Yi stammered.
"Hey, what do I think is going on?" Xu Zhao responded casually: "Just in time, Xiaoyi, you have been staying in the village, do you know her?"
"What? People from the village?"
Xu Yi was shocked, and quickly stood up and looked into the coffin. He saw that the face of the female corpse was pale and stiff, especially the dead eyes, which was even more frightening. However, he wondered: "She doesn't seem to be from the village!"
"
"What does it mean? If it is, it is, if it is not, it is not. How can it be like!"
Xu Zhao swallowed the bacon and frowned.
"I seem to have seen her at the entrance of the village a long time ago. It's been so long that I can't remember clearly."
Xu Yi scratched his scalp and thought hard.
"It's been too long, why do you still have an impression?"
Xu Zhao was not that easy to fool and asked again.
"Because she looks fair. There is no such fair sister in the village. Of course I am deeply impressed."
Xu Yiyi spoke righteously, and then said in a slightly awkward tone: "Although it's a bit abnormal to be white now."
"..."
Xu Zhaodeng rolled his eyes speechlessly.
Immediately afterwards.
He seemed to realize something was strange, but he couldn't help but frown.
Although Xu Yi's words were ambiguous, the woman should have really appeared in Long'ao Village, and the body didn't look like she had been dead for a long time. What happened?
Subconsciously, he looked at Li Kui.
Li Kui swung his chopsticks and found that the food was delicious. After a while, he raised his head slightly and said softly: "Please come over."
"good!"
Xu Zhao glanced at the portrait.
The contents of yesterday's letter flowed through my heart, and I immediately stood up and said: "Xu Yi, please come with me and let everyone come and identify the body."
"ah?"
Xu Yi was dragged out by Xu Zhao before he could react.
then.
Li Kui was the only one left in the shop.
"It seems that the young man has a sense of justice in his heart."
Yang Chao's voice came from the black umbrella placed aside.
"However, it looks like Lao Li..."
"Ok, I know."
Li Kui lowered his eyelids slightly and put down his chopsticks. He ate very cleanly, not even a grain of porridge or rice was left.
Then he stood up and went straight to the coffin. He stretched out his hand and pulled open the sleeves of the female corpse. He saw several blue and black strangulation marks on the pale skin, so that the wrist bones were slightly deformed. It was obviously not something that could be caused in a day or two.
He looked toward the door.
His eyes were cold.
…
…
Half an hour later.
People were crowded outside the coffin shop, and people at the door stood on tiptoes to look inside.
Hearing that someone had died, it seemed that he was from the village, which made the villagers immediately put down their work and rush over without stopping.
Xu Mengliang's prestige in Long'ao Village was very high, and because the coffin shop was now a mourning hall, everyone did not dare to speak loudly, but just looked at him with curious eyes.
They were wondering who the dead person was?
Just from a cursory glance, everyone in the village seems to be here.