Within a moment, Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai took advantage of the moonlight to quietly climb over the wall and sneak out of Zeng's house.
In those days, when it got dark, there was almost no one on the street, and there were no street lights or anything like that, so they didn't worry about anyone discovering them.
Mingjiao Temple is very close to Zeng's Mansion, just two streets away. It can be said that it is just a walk away. It only took Sun and Huang five minutes to reach the back wall of the temple and successfully met Zhou Wu.
Since they had already planned in advance, the three of them didn't need to talk too much after meeting. They exchanged a few words in a low voice before climbing over the wall and entering the temple.
The body of the second wife of the Zeng family had been embalmed yesterday, and the shroud and coffin were also prepared. At the moment, the coffin is being parked in an unused room in the temple.
Corpses are not allowed in Buddhist halls. Dead bodies, which are evil things, must not enter the Mahavira Hall without being cremated. This is a rule, let alone Mr. Zeng. Even the emperor cannot mess around.
Therefore, after the corpses of the second wife of the Zeng family were brought in, they were placed in a room without Buddha statues and allowed to be chanted by monks for salvation.
Monks are also human beings and they also need to rest. At night, they rested, leaving only a young novice monk of fifteen or sixteen years old, looking at the coffin and keeping a symbolic vigil.
Sun Huang came to the door of the morgue room on Wednesday (the mortuary room cannot be closed), took a look inside, and found that the young monk was sitting cross-legged with his back to the door, his head lowered, and he was already dozing off.
Seeing this, the three of them just exchanged glances without saying anything. Huang Donglai took the lead and walked in; he used Qinggong to quietly approach behind the other party, took a piece of cloth soaked in potion from his arms, and put it on
As soon as the other person's mouth and nose were covered, the young monk lay down and fell unconscious.
Sun Yixie and Zhou Wu followed closely behind and also stepped through the door.
"Brother Huang, your medicine is pretty good." Sun Yixie joked in a low voice as soon as he came in, "Is it for picking flowers?"
"I pick your sister!" Huang Donglai retorted, "This is a serious inhaled quick-acting sleeping pill produced by me, Huangmen, with a secret recipe! Do you understand the secret recipe?"
"Okay, you can get me a dozen or eight bags another day. I don't sleep well either," Sun Yixie said.
"Get lost." Huang Donglai said, "If you don't sleep well, call me and I will knock you out with a stick."
Huang Donglai still knew Brother Sun, so in order to prevent his brother from going astray, he firmly rejected Sun Yixie.
While the two of them were saying these words, Zhou Wu on the side had already quickly opened the coffin lid (the coffin lid would not be nailed before burial).
After all, Zhou Wu is also the head catcher in Luzhou City. Even though he is not a top expert, his strength is not comparable to ordinary people. Even Sun Yixie can use brute force to remove the lid of his family's sarcophagus, and Zhou Wu opens an ordinary wooden coffin.
Of course it's no big deal.
"Still." Zhou Wu opened the coffin, glanced inside, and then said this.
When Sun and Huang heard this, they no longer joked with each other, but both came to the coffin and looked inside.
Yes, it is indeed "still there" - the glass fish is still firmly held by the second wife of the Zeng family with both hands and covering her chest.
"Humph... Sure enough." After a little observation, Huang Donglai said with a smile, "The second lady was also poisoned to death." He paused and said softly, "This kind of her is called '
When this poison occurs, the person's heart and lungs will be like being tied up by a rope, making it difficult to pulse and breathe, causing the person to suffocate and die suddenly in a short period of time; and another characteristic of this poison is that the body of the deceased is
The stiffness phenomenon will come on very quickly and be very serious, as if the whole body is 'tied up'... Therefore, as long as the glass fish is put into her hand shortly after her death, the current 'dead man's prison' will appear.
The illusion of holding on to something and not letting it go."
"Brother Huang Xian." Zhou Wu then answered, "In this case, can we still..."
"Of course." Huang Donglai knew what he was going to ask, so he answered directly, "Just force it."
"Ah?" Zhou Wu couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, "Is it that simple?"
"Nonsense, no matter how stiff it is, it's just skin, flesh and bones, not made of iron." Huang Donglai said, "Why can't it be broken apart?"
As he spoke, he reached into the coffin, and with a little force, he opened the second lady's hand.
Seeing Huang Donglai take out the glass fish so easily, Zhou Wu also smiled bitterly. Only then did he realize: In fact, in the past three days, as long as there was anyone who was bold and not afraid of desecrating the dead,
Dare to break it off directly like Huang Donglai, and the fish will be taken out. It is precisely because they are all afraid of ghosts and gods, and they all believe in ghosts and gods, that they take it for granted that the deceased's resentment cannot be eliminated, and he needs to find a monk to chant sutras and save her before she can be freed.
Release your hands.
Of course...if they really have the patience to wait like this, their hands will indeed loosen up when the rigor mortis time passes.
"Okay, done, let's go." Huang Donglai took out the glass fish, put it in his arms, and walked out.
Zhou Wu and Sun Yixie did not waste any time. They quickly walked to both ends of the coffin, one at a time and the other at the end. They took the opportunity to carry out the body of the second lady and followed them out...
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At three o'clock in the ugly hour, housekeeper Zeng Su was lying on the bed, tossing and turning, having nightmares one after another.
As the saying goes, a thief has a guilty conscience.
Although Zeng Su is already a habitual criminal with several lives on his hands, and his psychological quality is not bad, after all... he is not a professional killer, nor is he a member of the world, he is just a member of a wealthy family.
Just a housekeeper. In just half a month, it is impossible for a person to change so completely.
If things calm down this time, Zeng Su may be able to survive in another year and a half... By then, he will be used to this mentality of living with human life on his back, but he is obviously not good enough now.
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So, in his dream, everything was back to the beginning...
That day, the second wife of the Zeng family suddenly called him into the room, cried with him, and asked him when he would be able to take her away.
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The second wife of the Zeng family is thirty-two years old this year, and Master Zeng is sixty. As the saying goes, a pear tree overwhelms a begonia. It is reasonable for such a big family, with an old man and a young wife, to have such a thing happen.
In fact, Zeng Su is not young at all, he is already in his forties this year, but compared to Mr. Zeng, he is considered to be in the prime of life.
He and the Second Madam concealed their adultery very well. Apart from the person involved, only the Second Madam's personal maid knew about it. At first, the maid was coerced and induced by them to help them cover it up, but as time went on,
The maid became a grasshopper on a rope. After all, the whole thing was done at that time. Once the matter was exposed, the adulterer and adulterer would go to the pig cage and she, the maid, would definitely be beaten to death by her employer.
Originally, as long as they kept a low profile, they could continue to live like this. After Master Zeng died in a few years, they might be able to be bolder.
But the second lady was still young and hadn't accepted her fate yet... She had a pursuit, and she didn't want to be so sneaky. She wanted to get a group of Zeng family members and let Zeng Su run away with her.
As for Zeng Su, it's not that he doesn't have the courage, but he doesn't have the brains - he doesn't have such a stupid brain.
What are you thinking about? Zeng family, is that an ordinary family? Are you taking the master's second wife and running away? Can you run away? Unless you can escape from the country, you will definitely be captured.
Facing the second wife's repeated cries and threats, Zeng Su knew that it would be difficult to resolve the matter, so he decided... to run away by himself.
He had already made a plan, so he left a letter to Master Zeng, saying that he was sorry for the Zeng family, became greedy, and stole a hundred taels of silver from the cabinet. Because he had no face to see the master, he could only write this letter and run away.
Please consider the friendship we have had for many years and don't report the official to pursue you, just let yourself go.
Zeng Su calculated it very accurately. This amount of money was neither too much nor too little. It was not so much that Mr. Zeng would have difficulty letting go, and it was not so little that his escape seemed false.
When the time comes, he will take the money and fly away, and his life will not be a problem in the future, and the second wife can only stop thinking about it. If that woman really wants to make trouble again, she is just looking for death, and she has nothing to do with Zeng Su.
Originally, he was already preparing to implement this plan, but unexpectedly...just the day before he was going to run away, he met a person.
That's a woman.
A "faceless" woman.
Every time she appeared in front of Zeng Su, her face would change.
Sometimes she is a graceful young woman, sometimes she is a hunched old woman, and sometimes she becomes a beautiful girl.
That day, this woman took the initiative to find Zeng Su; she knew martial arts and was good at talking.
She knew everything about Zeng Su, including Zeng Su's affair with the second wife, and Zeng Su's plan to escape alone.
She told Zeng Su that she had a way to make Zeng Su stay in the Zeng Mansion as a housekeeper, and to make the second lady "shut up forever."
Zeng Su didn't agree at first, but he soon discovered that the other party was not giving him a "choice", but threatening him...
Zeng Su did not hesitate for too long between being accused of soaking the pig cage, killing the second wife, and continuing to be the housekeeper of the Zeng Mansion.
Following the woman's instructions, he placed the "glazed fish" at the appropriate place where He Dahe Er often walked at the appropriate time, deliberately letting them find and pick it up.
He cooperated with the woman to play tricks and frightened Zhao Daqiang.
He used the medicine powder given by the woman to trick He Er out at night, knocked him unconscious, took the glass fish from him, and pushed He Er into the pond.
He put the woman's poison into the water that Zhao Daqiang drank, causing Zhao Daqiang to die.
Then, the woman pretended to be He Er's voice, put the glass fish into He Da's room, and pretended to be a ghost again to scare He Da; Zeng Su followed closely behind and brought the servants to the rescue.
He Da was too scared and told everything he saw and heard. Zeng Su used this as evidence to report to Mr. Zeng, connecting all the events before and after, and establishing the truth that "glazed fish is an evil thing and attracts ghosts".
And put the responsibility on the He brothers.
After that, He Da left the Zeng Mansion, and Zeng Su followed Master Zeng's instructions and led people to bury the glass fish in the barren mountains.
But that night, he quietly went back and dug things back up.
After completing this, it was finally time to take action against the second lady; anyway, as long as the dead body had glass fish in its hands, the second lady's death would be attributed to the same nature as those previous "haunted incidents".
After killing the second wife, Zeng Su told Zhou the whole "ghost story" in front of all the government officials, thereby spreading the story to the streets.
On the other hand, after He Da left the Zeng Mansion, he felt that things were strange no matter how much he thought about it; he was not interested in the truth, but was afraid that evil things would find him again, so he went to the pawn shop again to ask the pawn shop owner Liuli
What happened to the fish?
But he didn't know that the shopkeeper was also bribed by the woman, and he was just playing tricks.
As a result, He Da's behavior brought about his own death. Zeng Su received the woman's instructions and ran to the inn to find He Da. While talking to him, he secretly poisoned his tea.
Silence.
At this point, Zeng Su already had four lives in his hands.
He was indeed not caught and kept his position as the housekeeper of the Zeng Mansion; he was not afraid of "Jade-faced Flying Dragon Sun Honglei" and "Xudong Old Fairy Huang Xiaose", but regarded them as charlatan warlocks.
But Zeng Su was afraid of ghosts. He was afraid that there really were ghosts in the world, and that the people he killed would come to seek his life. He was also afraid of that "shameless" woman, because he still didn't know that she was teaching him this behind the scenes.
What is it all for.
Hiss—hiss—
The strange sound woke Zeng Su from his sleep.
He hesitated for a moment in the darkness, confirming that the voice was not an illusion, and then quickly got up and lit the oil lamp on the table in the dark.
"Ah!" The moment the room lit up, Zeng Su was so frightened that he screamed.
Because he saw a glass fish on his table.
Hiss—hiss—
The sound outside the door seemed to remind him that the fish was not the most terrifying thing.
Zeng Su turned his head dully and looked towards the window, only to see... a familiar figure of a woman standing there, as if looking at him through the window.
He could recognize that it was the shadow of the second lady...
In fact, even if Sun and Huang didn't bring the second lady's body over today, and just randomly found a woman to stop there, Zeng Su would automatically think of her as the second lady in this environment.
"Namo Amitabha, Namo Amitabha..." In extreme fear, Zeng Su retreated to the corner farthest from the door and window, closed his eyes, clasped his hands together, and began to recite the only Buddhist sutra he knew, praying that the ghost would disappear.
He thinks too much...
A few seconds later, only a "squeak--" was heard.
The door to his room was pushed open a crack.
The housekeeper is also a servant, and the door of a servant's room is not allowed to be locked. It can be opened by pushing it from the outside...
In fact, Sun Yixie had already done it once when he quietly came in to release the glass fish just now, but Zeng Su hadn't woken up at that time, so he didn't know.
"Namo Amitabha! Namo Amitabha..." With the opening of the door, Zeng Su chanted sutras faster and faster, but he did not close his eyes again because he was afraid that if he closed his eyes, he would read.
I don't see any terrible danger approaching.
Unexpectedly, after the door was opened a crack, it suddenly became quiet outside, and the shadow of the woman disappeared, as if everything just now was just an illusion...
If the glass fish on the table was not there, maybe Zeng Su would really start to wonder if it was just the wind.
Just when Zeng Su felt a little relaxed, suddenly! The second lady's head hung sideways and poked through the gap in the door, staring at Zeng Su with a pair of eyes that were fixed on her.