Five hundred and seventieth chapters Chen Erzhuang
Chen Erzhuang's shop is located in the most remote alley in the village. The alley is deserted and deserted. No one has passed by for a long time. Only a few withered yellow leaves are floating and jumping on the ground.
The gravel road on the ground has been polished very smooth, and it looks like it has been there for some years. The cracks between the stones are still covered with grass. There is grass growing on one road, which means that few people set foot here.
There was a sense of silence in the whole alley.
People who often deal with dead people usually stay away from them. After all, villagers think that dead people have bad luck and don't want to be contaminated. People don't go to other people's coffin shops when they have nothing to do.
But Chen Erzhuang is the only one in the nearby small villages that deals in white goods. If an old man reaches heaven at the age of 100 or someone in the family dies unexpectedly, they will go to Chen Erzhuang.
If you find Lao Xutou, Chen Erzhuang rarely talks to people. He stays in his shop all day, and sometimes he doesn't see him for several days.
Mu Yu stood in front of Chen Erzhuang's store. His store didn't even have a sign. Come to think of it, he didn't need a sign. Everyone already knew what kind of business he did. Besides, he was the only store in this alley, so it wasn't difficult.
try to find.
There is a mighty statue of Zhong Kui at the entrance of Chen Erzhuang's store, which is made of paper. Old Xu Tou also specially praised his skill in making paper figures, and the paper figures are vivid and lifelike.
This Zhong Kui is very tall, about five meters tall, with his eyes wide open and glaring at outsiders, as if he can make all evil things get out of his way. The mahogany sword in his hand is extremely sharp, and he can kill the villains in the world without mercy.
The paint on the wooden door has peeled off. It looks like it has been there for a long time and is very badly worn.
Mu Yu walked in. The light in the store was very dark. It was obviously broad daylight, but it felt like the sun couldn't shine in. There was a faint musty smell in the store, mixed with the smell of incense and candle tributes. No one would like this.
place.
Next to it is a wooden shelf with bundles of paper money stacked on it. Various incense sticks are stacked on the top, some of which are even thicker than a thumb. On another shelf are white candles and a
Stacks of yellow talisman paper, I don’t know what they are for.
There are four or five coffins placed behind the shelf. The lids of the coffins are all half open. The smell of wood is very strong, as if it has just been chopped. Many people may not like the smell of wood, but Mu Yu is very fond of these smells.
like.
Some of these coffins are made of fir and some of nanmu. There are several beds next to the coffins, and there are actually several people lying on them!
"Not a dead person, right?"
I don't know why, even though he is a cultivator in the distracted stage, and even if his spiritual power is shocked, no dead person can hurt him, but Mu Yu still feels a little creepy when he sees this situation.
Normally he would not be afraid if he saw a dead person, but when he saw a dead person in such a strange place, he always felt a knot in his heart. He thought to himself that when he walked over, the dead person suddenly sat up, that feeling would be unforgettable for the rest of his life.
However, Mu Yu soon discovered that they were not dead people, but people made of wood, because he felt the breath of camphor wood. These wooden people were wearing very new and gorgeous blue clothes, and he suddenly understood what clothes they were.
shroud.
I have to say that these wooden figures are quite lifelike. They are tall, fat, short and thin. Their body shapes are similar to those of humans. They even have eyes, eyebrows and hair. They are even colored, making them lifelike. If the eyes were not colored, Mu Yu would
You can even treat it like a real person.
The wooden man was wearing a shroud, probably to show off to others. But this scene was too weird, and Mu Yu was very sure that he didn't like it here.
"Tell me the details of the deceased."
At this moment, a deep and hoarse voice suddenly appeared behind Mu Yu, and Mu Yu was startled. He was a cultivator in the distracted stage, and he didn't even notice that there was someone behind him!
Mu Yu turned around and frowned as he looked at the person in front of him. When he entered the store just now, he didn't even feel that there was a living person in the store. This guy seemed to appear out of thin air, which surprised him.
"Your name is Chen Erzhuang, right? Excuse me."
Mu Yu took a look at Chen Erzhuang. There was vitality flowing in his body. I wonder if it was because he had been dealing with dead people all year round. His vitality did not look very strong, but it was certain that he was a living person, and Mu Yu had no trace of it.
He felt spiritual energy fluctuations on his body.
"Tell me more about the deceased's condition, and whether he will be buried in the ground or in the sky?" Chen Erzhuang's face was blocked by a shadow, and his expression could not be seen clearly.
Sky burial means burial in a mass burial valley, which is a name from nearby villages.
"Do you still dare to do sky burial after what happened?" Mu Yu asked curiously.
The simple villagers were frightened to death by Old Man Zhao's fraud. He heard from Old Man Xu that the nearby villages no longer dared to carry their deceased relatives to the mass burial valley.
Although they believe that the Burial Valley is a crack leading to the afterlife, since the corpse fraud incident occurred, everyone is worried that they will be taken in, so they would rather bury their relatives and let them find their own way to the underworld.
"Only you choose whether to do it or not, not whether I dare to do it or not."
Chen Erzhuang's voice was very calm, so calm that it was incredible, as if the incident involving Old Man Zhao's corpse fraud had not left a shadow on his heart.
Mu Yu raised his head and glanced around, and suddenly his eyes were startled. He actually saw a coffin hanging in mid-air under the dark beams in the store!
Although the coffin was made of wood, Mu Yu could not feel the breath of wood from it.
He had long been able to control anything made of wood out of thin air, making them take root or sprout or forcibly change their shape. But he was the only one who couldn't control the coffin on the beam, which made him feel weird.
The weirdest thing is, why should the coffin be hung on the beam of the shop?
"That coffin is interesting."
Mu Yu pointed at the coffin under the beams, and when he looked out with his spiritual consciousness, everything disappeared like a stone sinking into the ocean. There was no life fluctuation, and there was no special breath. It seemed like an empty coffin.
"You are not here to do business. You don't smell like the dead, but you do smell like death." After Chen Erzhuang said this, he slowly turned around and walked towards the back of the store.
"The smell of dead people? The smell of death?" Mu Yu was stunned for a moment. He had the death energy of Styx on his body, which is the purest death energy in the world. Can Chen Erzhuang detect this?
I'm afraid this Chen Erzhuang is not a mortal, right?
"Wait a minute, I have something to ask you." Mu Yu stepped aside and stopped in front of Chen Erzhuang.
Chen Erzhuang saw Mu Yu suddenly appearing in front of him, but he was not surprised at all and didn't even move.
"You are a cultivator." Chen Erzhuang said.
"Yes, I came to you to investigate the matter of Mr. Zhao's resurrection from the dead."
Mu Yu found that he could not see through Chen Erzhuang. He had no spiritual power fluctuations at all, and he was undoubtedly a mortal. But mortals would usually call cultivators in awe as immortal masters, and would also show fear, but Chen Erzhuang
But did not do so.
"Old Mrs. Zhao's descendants were unfilial, so they were all taken away. That's it." Chen Erzhuang said simply.
Mu Yu suddenly put his hand on Chen Erzhuang, and the spiritual power on his body surged in instantly, and he frowned: "Why is there no curse on you?"
Chen Erzhuang remained motionless when Mu Yu stretched out his hand, not worried about what Mu Yu would do to him: "I have been in contact with dead people all year round, so naturally I will not be cursed by the dead."
Mu Yu retracted his hand, there was no doubt that Chen Erzhuang was a living person, and Mu Yu's spiritual power could not be input into the other person's body, which meant that the other person was not a cultivator.
This is very strange. Chen Erzhuang's calm behavior seems very abnormal. It is impossible for a mortal to be so calm and composed when facing a cultivator, but Chen Erzhuang did not even take a breath.
"You are not here to do business, so please come back! I only deal with dead people here." Chen Erzhuang did not look at Mu Yu, but bypassed Mu Yu and continued to walk to the back of the store.
Mu Yu looked at Chen Erzhuang's back, and then glanced at the coffin hanging on the beam. This time, he didn't say anything, but directly chose to leave this gloomy place.
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"Xiao Shuai, did you notice anything wrong just now?" Mu Yu did not leave too far, but stopped under a tree outside the village.
Xiaoshuai flicked his tail and said: "There are weird things everywhere, okay! How can a living person live in such a gloomy place?"
Mu Yu didn't notice anything unusual about Chen Erzhuang. If he had to say it, it was that Chen Erzhuang didn't have any insidious formations used on him like other villagers, and he looked so nonchalant when facing him.
, this is obviously inconsistent with common sense.
"Why didn't you just control him directly with the Soul Wood? Why not just ask him what secrets he hides?" Long Teng's suggestion was very simple and crude.
"The soul wood is very harmful to people, earthworm, do you have any common sense?" Xiaoshuai said.
Divine Soul Wood is originally used to invade the nerves of prey, thereby controlling the prey. If it is used on people at will, it will naturally be harmful, especially for mortals without cultivation. Mu Yu has not yet figured out Chen
Erzhuang's situation, so he didn't want to attack him.
Mu Yu shook his head: "I think the matter is not that simple. Although the hanging coffin seems to be nothing, it is really wrong. Who would hang the coffin on the beam? And since I walked into Chen Erzhuang's shop
After entering, I felt like there was a pair of eyes watching me from the dark. This feeling did not come from Chen Erzhuang, but from a corner in the darkness. If there was someone behind the scenes controlling Chen Erzhuang, in order to prevent
In case, I still can't alert the enemy."
The feeling of being watched is vague, and Mu Yu cannot find the source of that feeling even with his cultivation in the distraction period, so it is very likely that the mysterious guy behind him is not weaker than Mu Yu.
"Do you think there might be a dead person lying in that coffin?" Xiaoshuai asked curiously.
"How about you go and see it alone at night?" Long Teng said.
Xiaoshuai waved his hand: "No, I don't like gloomy places. Why can't we just bask in the sun and eat barbecue, but we have to deal with the dead?"
Mu Yu didn't like Chen Erzhuang's shop either, but what concerned him more was that he felt that there was a lot of wood in Chen Erzhuang's backyard. These wood were all newly cut, but they were not used for making coffins.
They are the same as the wooden figures wearing shrouds in the store, both made of camphor wood.
I have never heard of camphor wood being used to make coffins, but Chen Erzhuang’s shop has wooden figures. If all the camphor wood is used to make wooden figures, then why does Chen Erzhuang make so many wooden figures?
There are people who made paper figures to be buried with servants of the underworld, but I have never heard of people who carved wood to be buried with them.
"There must be something wrong with Chen Erzhuang! Let's see if we can find out from him the mysterious guy that Old Xu Tou mentioned." Mu Yu fell into deep thought.