When his unspoken secrets were revealed, Old Man Peng jumped up like a cat whose tail was stepped on: "You are slandering me!"
"Slander, Mr. Peng, you were indeed a good worker when you were young, but you know very well that you can't make a fortune just by working.
After radios and storybooks became popular, you would listen to stories about tomb robbers and feel like you had found your direction in life.
What really made you make up your mind was the tomb robbery case that shocked the whole country during that time.
You see, they make money that you can't even imagine just by reselling cultural relics, so you decide to follow in their footsteps.
In order to get rich quickly, you bought every Feng Shui book available on the market.
But your learning ability and luck are not very good, no matter how hard you try, you cannot find the location of the tomb.
But you don't want to give up the skills you have learned with great difficulty, so you find another way and start digging graves and looking for treasures.
In the past, when people were buried, they would always be buried with some valuable things. You have accumulated a lot of wealth with these things.
But you are not satisfied with this. When you heard that you can make money by buying and selling corpses, you joined the corpse reselling industry.
Over the years, you have resold so many corpses that you probably can’t even remember how many.
When you get older, you are afraid of being exposed when you take action, so you cut ties with the organization.
After you discover that your child's brain marrow can cure a disease, you reconnect with your dying friend.
For you battle-hardened men, digging a child's grave is certainly easy.
The only thing you didn't expect was that the child you stole would come to your parents in your dreams and tell them about it, destroying the identity you had hidden for so long."
Old Man Peng's face turned pale. He had never expected that the things that happened in his youth would be told by others. If he had known this earlier, for his own safety, he would not even tell his family about his involvement in tomb robbing.
Besides, he didn't think he had done anything wrong. It's okay to give preferential treatment to people who are alive, but these people are already dead.
He had heard on TV that the dead no longer had any rights, meaning they were no longer related to anyone. Even if he didn't steal it, in a few years, it would still turn into bones.
The result is the same anyway. Stealing him is just giving him a new place to live, which is not a big mistake.
Moreover, many people died alone. What's wrong with digging this person out and finding him a family?
As the ancients said, it is better to destroy ten temples than to break up a marriage.
Even if he stole other people's burial objects, he helped so many people find their destined partners, so what's wrong with taking some "matchmaker fees"?
You know, when he stole the body, many people held his hands and thanked him for letting their children no longer be alone.
But he also knew that he could not admit to the crime. Stealing a child was not the same as participating in the corpse trade.
"This is all speculation. There's no evidence to support it, and the police won't make a judgment based on just your words."
He knew that the key to the problem lay with Liang Lin, so he gave up arguing with Su Yan: "Liang Lin, Grandpa Peng really realized his mistake.
It's probably because he was too afraid of death that he came up with such a stupid idea.
Lin, you may not understand my behavior now, but when you reach my age, you will know what it feels like to fear death.
Please forgive me this time because I am about the same age as your father and I didn't hurt the child."
Liang Lin dodged his kneeling gesture and said, "Mr. Peng, if I don't find the child's body today, you will definitely not let him go, so I won't let you go either."
Seeing that he refused to budge, Old Man Peng used his final trump card. "Liang Lin, do you really want to force me to death? Do you want to see me commit suicide at your doorstep? Aren't you afraid that the people in the village will stab your family in the back?"
"Hey, hey, hey." Su Yan interrupted his attack: "You probably don't have this chance. I forgot to tell you that your friend from your youth was caught digging a grave last night by the grave owner.
Under police interrogation, he has already given you away. I believe that before long, your golden handcuffs will arrive at your home."
The forced smile on Old Man Peng's face had disappeared. He pointed at Su Yan and said, "You're lying!"
"Whether I'm lying or not, you'll know in a moment."
[6 Ah, I thought it was just a simple child theft, but I didn't expect it to be such a big case.]
[This kind of person really deserves to die. I remember when I was a child, the body of an aunt in our village was stolen shortly after she was buried. The graves of other uncles were also turned up in a mess. During that time, every family would guard the graves of their deceased relatives for a long time.]
This person is truly incredibly stupid, actually believing the rumor that brain marrow can cure illnesses. Now, it's fine, I can just go in directly, and I don't have to worry about what medicine to take.
Those who just now thought the old man was right and wanted to help him reason, please stand up and take a step forward. Don't hide and remain silent.
Old Man Peng looked at her serious expression and felt very panicked. He didn't dare to gamble on the possibility of going to jail, and he didn't even bother to pack his luggage in the house. He just wanted to run out.
The villager standing at the door closed it and said, "Uncle Peng, running away from the crime is not a good habit. Our village can't afford this reputation. You'd better stay here and wait for the police to come."
Liang Lin thanked Su Yan, picked up the child with his own hands, and placed him in the newly made coffin.
The Liang family looked at Old Man Peng as if he were their enemy. After sensing danger, Old Man Peng hid behind a pillar and said, "I'm old. If you beat me to death, it would be against the law."
The Liang family did not tolerate him. Although they did not kill him, by the time the police arrived, the exposed skin of Old Man Peng had been scratched and a lot of his hair had been pulled out.
The police knew what Old Man Peng had done, but they did not take any action against the Liang family. They just gave them a few words of reprimand.
Old man Peng had a hard time in the days that followed. After arriving at the police station, the humid environment made the pain in his body worse.
The physical pain alone was enough to make him want to die, and the psychological torture made him feel like he was living a life worse than death.
Since being sentenced, he has been having dreams every night in which he turns into various kinds of humans, including adults, children, men and women.
The only thing in common is that these humans wake up in coffins, and then they will be dressed in red clothes and marry another person.
Every morning, he would wake up in fear, but he didn't dare to commit suicide, for fear that his dreams would become reality in the underworld.
Such torture caused Old Man Peng to age rapidly, but he had to linger on for his own safety.
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