Chapter 385: Pretend to be dead
Not long after Zhou Yunshu left the city, Youzhou City was ordered to close its gates.
Du Mazi looked at the cavalrymen rushing past, swallowed his saliva, and continued to drive the donkey cart with the coffin behind it on the road.
But he had originally thought that he would not have any more contact with the cavalry, but at the intersection ahead, two teams of cavalry searched one by one for everyone leaving Youzhou City.
Du Mazi clenched the whip in his hand and drove the donkey cart forward.
"Where are you going? What are you pulling..." The cavalryman who asked the question looked at the thin man in front of him, and then turned his gaze to the coffin on the donkey cart behind him.
Du Mazi said with a sad face, "My father was killed when he accidentally hit his head while working for someone. I want to take him home to bury him."
The cavalryman looked Du Mazi up and down, and did not believe him based on his one-sided story. He even said to him indifferently, "Open the coffin. I want to perform an autopsy."
As soon as the cavalryman finished speaking, Du Mazi knelt on the ground and cried, "Sir, sir, please don't do this! My father's coffin is already sealed. How can you open it?"
The cavalryman kicked Du Mazi, who was blocking his way, away and shouted, "Get out of the way!"
Then he called out to his men behind him, "There's a fugitive on the run. We're following orders! Open the coffin!"
Du Mazi didn't try to stop him, but continued to kneel beside the donkey cart and cried loudly, "Dad, I'm so sorry. It's really not my fault that you can't rest in peace after death! Dad, please don't blame me for being an unfilial son. After the soldiers have finished their inspection, I will take you back home for burial."
Du Mazi's crying voice has a unique tone that can easily penetrate people's ears and make people remember what he is saying.
The people who were stopped around didn't think it was a big deal at first. After all, everyone in the North respected the soldiers. But when they saw these cavalrymen being so unreasonable, they still felt a little chilled.
No matter how Du Mazi cried and shouted, the cavalry ordered the coffin lid to be opened again.
The moment the coffin lid was opened, an unpleasant stench of corpse emanated.
The cavalrymen who opened the coffin and the surrounding civilians covered their noses and took two steps back. The cavalrymen on horseback saw an old man lying in the coffin, his face and head covered with blood scabs and corpse spots.
"Close it, close it!"
After confirming that the person inside was not the one they were looking for, the cavalry who initially stopped Du Mazi immediately ordered the people who opened the coffin to close it.
But it was just closed, not even tightly closed.
After the cavalrymen walked away with gloomy faces, Du Mazi walked forward crying and covered the coffin. Then, at the urging of the cavalrymen, he got back on the donkey cart carrying the coffin and drove away.
Du Mazi kept sobbing while driving the cart. It was not until he had gone ten miles that he looked back at the coffin with a worried look.
Du Mazi traveled for a whole day and did not dare to stop.
When it was night, he drove the donkey cart to a flat place sheltered from the wind. Seeing that there was no one around, he tied up the donkey.
Du Mazi came to the coffin and knocked on it rhythmically four or five times. Then the coffin lid that was not nailed shut was pushed open from the inside.
Du Mazi's "father" sat up from the coffin. If anyone saw this scene, they would definitely think that he was a zombie and be scared to wet their pants.
The moment the coffin lid was pushed open, the unpleasant stench of corpse instantly wafted out.
Du Mazi accidentally inhaled, turned around and started retching.
"It smells terrible... Ugh~" Zhou Yunshu hadn't finished her words when she was choked by the stink.
"First... Ugh... Sheng, can you clean up first?" Du Mazi ran ten meters in one breath, and said to Zhou Yunshu after he felt he could catch his breath.
"Okay." Zhou Yunshu couldn't stand the taste either.
Thanks to Ji Sheng clearing out the backyard of the palace, Zhou Yunshu had the opportunity to escape from the palace, well, escape from the dog hole.
The first step Zhou Yunshu took to escape was to find Du Mazi. After dressing up the two of them at Du Mazi's place, they left the city without wasting any time.
It’s just that Zhou Yunshu’s “corpse” was too realistic, and the stench almost suffocated them.
Du Mazi used straw mats to enclose an area, and then stood guard five meters away, leaving Zhou Yunshu to pack and change clothes in the enclosed area.
Zhou Yunshu changed into an indigo shorts outfit, and wiped off the blood scabs and corpse spots on her head and face with a towel wet with water. However, she had been in the coffin for too long, and her whole body seemed to have been pickled.
Even though it's a little worse now, the unpleasant stench of the corpse can still be easily smelled.
There was no other way, Zhou Yunshu could only put some perfume on herself.
Hmm... the fragrance mixed with the stench of corpse makes it even more disgusting.
Zhou Yunshu maintained this state until she reached the next small town. When she entered the town, someone questioned her identity. Zhou Yunshu patted the coffin behind her and said expressionlessly, "Corpse Carrier."
Maybe they thought Zhou Yunshu was too unlucky, so they let her into the city after she paid the entrance fee.
Because of the unpleasant smell on Zhou Yunshu, Zhou Yunshu and Du Mazi spent three times the price of ordinary passengers to book a dormitory for one night.
Du Mazi went out to buy clothes, while Zhou Yunshu asked the waiter to boil some water.
The waiter disliked Zhou Yunshu very much. If she hadn't given him a reward, he would have wanted to stay three meters away from Zhou Yunshu.
But as the saying goes, money makes the world go round, let alone people.
When the waiter brought the hot water to Zhou Yunshu, Zhou Yunshu looked at the waiter, who was looking at her with disdain, and said with a smile, "Don't be disdainful. Maybe someone in your family will need my help in the future when they die."
"Pah, pah, pah, no one died in my family!"
The waiter wanted to say, "Someone died in your family!", but when he saw Zhou Yunshu's tough look, he swallowed his words back.
It is better not to provoke such an unlucky person. It would be terrible if he harms you or even your family behind your back.
After the waiter brought the hot water, Du Mazi also brought the clothes Zhou Yunshu wanted.
This time I bought women's clothing.
After Zhou Yunshu washed herself thoroughly, she felt like she was alive again.
She had been exposed to the unpleasant stench of corpses for so long that she felt her nose was going to break.
But Zhou Yunshu was in a very good mood when she smelled the fragrant smell of herself after taking a shower.
Sure enough, she still likes to be clean.
Zhou Yunshu did not stay in the inn that night. Instead, she and Du Mazi pretended to be a couple and went to the carriage and horse shop. They bought a mule cart, bought some dry food and water, and left the town directly that day to continue their journey.
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