Ancient Corpse in the Mountain Village (Twenty)
The sky was covered with a large expanse of gray-blue, and the drizzling rain hit the mud, splashing countless crown-shaped turbid water droplets.
Yu Shu came over but Yu Huan still didn't let him work, saying that as a doctor in the city he would hardly have to do farm work, so he shouldn't be too busy and get hurt accidentally.
Therefore, Yu Shu held an umbrella and watched the group of people starting the construction with Jiang Yu.
Jiang Yu's attention was almost entirely drawn to the location of the tomb, which happened to be the Qian Gua direction in the Eight Diagrams. It was a very suitable place for his uncle, who lacked the metal element in his destiny. The biggest advantage was that he could live peacefully even in the animal realm.
Jiang Yu really couldn't understand why two men didn't feel disgusted by doing this, and they were so affectionate. As an outsider, he couldn't help but get goosebumps watching it.
"Yu Ding'an is so good to him." Jiang Yu smacked his lips. He originally wanted to say 'your grandpa', but considering that Yu Shu had been calling him by his name instead of grandpa since he knew the reason, he changed his words.
The wind was getting stronger and the raindrops were slanting into the umbrella like needles. Yu Shu glanced at Jiang Yu's shoulders, which were relatively broad due to training, and tilted the umbrella towards Jiang Yu.
He turned around to look at his brother working in the rain, a hint of heartache in his eyes. "It's quite good. Yu Ding'an used to instill in me and my brother the concept of taking care of our uncle when we grow up. At that time, I thought it was just a matter of relatives looking after each other, but now I see it's all selfish."
Jiang Yu was stunned for a moment. His words were meant to be sarcastic, but Yu Shu didn't understand the circuitry and answered seriously.
The sudden thunder startled everyone. Although they were far away from the woods, there was still a possibility of accidents in the open area. They quickened their work to bury the body as soon as possible and finish work and go back.
The sky changed rapidly. Although it was ten o'clock in the morning, it suddenly became dark.
“Oh shit!”
The crowd burst into screams, and as the shovels clanged to the ground, several people lost their balance and fell on their butts in the mud.
Jiang Yu disappeared into the rain, his clothes instantly covered in stains. Yu Shu followed closely behind, wanting to take a look at the situation.
"Brother, don't come over here." Even the raindrops could not wash away the panic in Yu Huan's eyes.
Yu Shu didn't listen and took a few steps closer.
He saw the young men digging graves, not caring how dirty their clothes and shoes were, as they rolled and crawled away; the fear that crept onto the faces of the elders stretched their wrinkles and opened their pupils.
Yu Huan hurried over and pushed Yu Shu aside, fearing that he would see what was going on in the pit. But Yu Shu walked over anyway.
The rain left streaks on Yu Shu's face, but they couldn't wash away the confusion and surprise that spread throughout him. He blinked several times in succession.
The location of my great uncle's tomb was actually on top of someone else's coffin.
Moreover, the coffin was shaking constantly.
The sound of nails scraping against rotten wooden boards lurks in the sound of the falling rain, as if to cut through the noisy rainy day.
Jiang Yu's gloomy gaze passed through the elders and jumped onto the two brothers.
At the same time, the coffin shook violently, and the dull sound of hammering on the coffin pierced through the drizzle, accurately cutting a hole in the hearts of the elders, allowing fear and panic to flood in, impacting the defense line of their hearts.
Yu Shu shook a few times without warning, and the umbrella in his hand fell to the ground, stirring up countless mud foam. He was like a small animal with its throat strangled, his eyes slightly rolled up and he stood stiffly in place.
The moment the lightning cut through the darkness, it illuminated Yu Shu's face, and also clearly revealed the coldness and sinisterness hidden in his pupils and the corners of his mouth.
The slightly nodding gesture and sharp, half-smile look in his eyes made the hearts of several elders beat at 1.5 times the speed.
Yu Huan was in the same situation.
Jiang Yu frowned and said, "What are you still doing here?"
As he said this, he jumped into the pit and stuck a cinnabar talisman on the coffin to suppress the commotion inside: "I'll cover your retreat, you guys run quickly."
"Yes, run!"
"I ran into something dirty, damn it."
Despite their age, the rain didn't affect the nimbleness of the elders' legs when they really started running. Some went down the mountain along the dirt road, some went down through the bushes, and some took the untouched, overgrown areas.
They seem to be in a panic, but they are actually very smart.
If Jiang Yu hadn't suppressed the things in the coffin, the chance of being targeted would be one in three if they walked separately, and it would be more dangerous if they walked together.
Birds flew out of the woods startled and the people who rushed into the woods ran back. Soon, those who walked down the dirt road and along the weed road followed closely behind.
They are back again.
"No, why are you back? What the hell is going on?"
"Fuck, I ran down the mountain."
"How would I know what happened? I turned a corner and came back here, but I clearly didn't go uphill." The three looked at each other in panic.
Yu Shu moved behind them and said with a smile, "Where are you running to?" The slightly rising tone of his voice was so familiar, but the smile was so cold and heartless that it made people feel uneasy, like a knife hidden in the dark.
"Xiao Zheng is different when he's a policeman. He runs so fast that he disappears in a flash and comes back in a flash." Yu Huan appeared silently beside the uncle who used to be a policeman and spoke in a kind voice in his ear.
The three of them shivered at the same time.
They didn't dare to look back, and looked at the tomb in the dim light, but Jiang Yu had already disappeared.
The contents of the coffin have already come out?! But those two people were not buried here. One was buried west of the village, and the other was buried a little further up the mountain, on the downwind slope.
Isn't it said that rain during burial is a good omen? How come it turned out to be dangerous?
They had already recognized who it was. The way Yu Shu and Yu Huan spoke was so familiar to them; they had heard it for decades.
Zhang Bo hides a knife behind his smile, while Yu Dingan pretends to be kind.
"Xiao Zheng, turn around and talk to me."
Yu Huan's voice was deeper, softer and more approachable, but this gentleness was fatal, like a ribbon, gently wrapped around and slowly tightened, making it impossible for a person to call for help or struggle, and eventually suffocate.
Seeing that they didn't react, Yu Shu smiled and said, "Hey, thanks to Xiao Zheng. It's good to work in the town police station. He can help us cover up and make the villagers collude to give a good confession."
"Yes, Xiao Zhou is still so enthusiastic and hardworking in helping to bury the soil."
Yu Huan and Yu Shu sang the same tune.
Fear spread in the water. They held their breath and dared not breathe, as if this could separate the despair and helplessness that occupied their bodies. But the rain was like needles, falling on their bodies and piercing their flesh and blood, stinging their breathing, and also sewing the fear and panic even tighter.
"You two are almost the same age now, be careful of He Yuhua..."
Yu Shu smiled lightly, and his light words seemed to weigh thousands of pounds, completely crushing the three people.
"What do you mean by almost? I'm done for you. You guys did it, what does it have to do with me? Every wrong has its perpetrator, and if He Yuhua wants to find someone, she's going to find you."
"After all these years, Xiao Zhou, you still haven't gotten rid of your bad temper." Yu Shu continued, and the rising tone with a smile sounded sarcastic.
Yu Huan added softly, "Xiao Zhou, you have a bad memory. Back then, you thought that I hadn't split He Yuhua into two parts enough, and you said that she should be broken into smaller pieces. How can it have nothing to do with you?"
"I remember that, too. And Xiao Zhu, he was really hard at dismembering the body. He didn't even sharpen his knife when it was blunt, and just cut it open."
Their voices were right behind them, but when the three elders mustered up the courage to look back, they couldn't see anyone.
It was as if the brains of the three of them were connected together, and the voices of Yu Dingan and Zhang Bo were directly transmitted into their brains, and they were communicating directly in their minds.
"Fuck your dad." The elder Xiao Zhou cursed at the air.
The lightning that fell again reflected the pale faces of Yu Shu and Yu Huan.
And He Yuhua, who was floating behind them, wearing embroidered shoes and a school uniform.
The raindrops fell on He Yuhua's body, causing her skirt to flutter, revealing her legs covered with scars.
She extended her hand to greet the three people and smiled with her head tilted.
The three old men were panicked. They lost their ability to speak and their legs were weak. With a bang, their round bodies fell to the ground and they retreated frantically with their hands supporting them.
Before they had taken a few steps, He Yuhua's upper and lower body separated.
This horrifying scene almost drove away their sanity.
"Fuck you, get out!"
"It's none of my business. You're an undercover police officer, so I can't let you go back alive. The one who wants you dead the most is Old Zheng!"
"Bullshit."
"You said it yourself. You were afraid that if He Yuhua got out alive, you wouldn't be able to clear yourself and lose your job, so she had to be killed. You were the first one to agree with Yu Dingan's suggestion to dismember her body. Not to mention the police officers sent from the provincial government. It was you who got the tip-off in advance and asked Yu Dingan to hide her."
"Old Zhu, what are you barking at? You're the one who can distance yourself from the matter. When you force a woman to accept her fate, you're always the most ruthless. Zhang brought back so many women, but who escaped your clutches except He Yuhua? You're still obsessed with He Yuhua, and you didn't even let her body go after she died."
"Old Zhou, you're the one who's been Yu Ding'an's lackey the most. You're the most active in digging out organs and opening stomachs. You dug up four organs from the family of that little girl from Guangzhou."
They spoke at the same time, neither of them giving in, exposing each other's shortcomings and bringing up what happened in the past.
The three of them are over 200 years old in total, but they are still like children, trying to distance themselves from the matter by blaming each other.
"You've been a lackey less than once? You're the biggest lackey! Didn't you give all the money you earned as a lackey back to them? You bought three wives, and you beat them all up. You're a loser who only knows how to beat women."
"I'm not as cheap as you. I even sold my own child to a guy named Zhang for money."
"Eat shit, you idiot who molests corpses."
They bickered like children, but the content was so dark.
Just as the old men were arguing and accusing each other, He Yuhua disappeared.
Yu Shu continued to exaggerate: "But we all make a lot of money, don't we? Look at the houses and yards in the village, and their decoration and furniture. We've enjoyed enough, that's enough."
They were completely immersed in the argument, even excited enough to start fighting, and didn't even hear Yu Shu's fanning the flames amid the sound of rain.
A flash of lightning split the darkness and ignited the rain. Three pieces of fat wrestled with each other, and their clothes lost their original color after being soaked in mud and water, like moldy dough that had been left out for a long time and was rolling left and right.
"Squat down and put your hands on your head!"
The husky and angry voice was more powerful than thunder.
The three of them were stunned and turned their heads in unison following the sound.
Jiang Yu appeared behind them, along with three people they had never seen before.
A man in his seventies and two young men in their thirties. They had straight postures and determined eyes. One could tell at a glance that they were well-trained special police officers.
"Thank you." The old man in the lead was He Yuhua's colleague Zeng Zhiqiang, who sent a message to Jiang Yu in the background of the short video.
Zeng Zhiqiang was hiding in that coffin just now.
Last night when Yu Shu asked Jiang Yuren if he had contacted him, Zeng Zhiqiang had already arrived in the village.
Jiang Yu went to pick up Zeng Zhiqiang while Yu Shu was asleep. He used a little trick to make Zeng Zhiqiang fall into a short period of suspended animation and buried the coffin in his uncle's tomb in advance.
The other two young policemen were lying in ambush in the woods early on. When there was thunder and lightning, the three actors were very worried that something might happen to them, but fortunately nothing happened.
And the fact that they had clearly left but came back was also Jiang Yu's doing.
What Jiang Yu pasted on the coffin was not a suppressing talisman, but an activation of an artificial ghost wall. They could not get out within a radius of one mile.
He Yuhua's appearance was not unexpected. Jiang Yu had informed the two brothers in advance. What surprised him was that Yu Huan agreed to see a ghost without even thinking about it: "Since my brother has no objection, I have no objection either, but you have to make sure that nothing happens to my brother."
Except for the rain, everything was agreed upon by Jiang Yu and Yu Shu. Even the guys who fled in panic were actors he had arranged in advance.
Of course, the rain was just right, as if the heavens were helping them.
"Yu Dingan, Uncle Zhang, you two..."
"There's no Yu Ding'an or Zhang Bo, it's me and Yu Huan."
The three old men were stunned for a moment, then flew into a rage again: "How could you two brothers help outsiders?!"
Jiang Yu didn't want to listen to Yu Shu's roundabout way of saying things. His eyes condensed into ice and pierced the three old men's eyebrows. He spoke before Yu Shu could, "None of your business."
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