At that time, the country had not vigorously promoted cremation. In rural areas in the mountainous areas of southern Anhui, whenever someone died, the custom of burial was still followed.
Lime powder is an indispensable tool when collecting the coffin for burial to prevent moisture and corrosion.
So she is particularly sensitive to this smell.
"Yongzhi, what are you doing? Come back quickly!"
Yang Huazhong's sudden roar brought Yang Ruoqing back to reality from her memories.
I saw Yang Yongzhi running to the coffin at some point, leaning down to peel off the shrouds inside layer by layer. Yang Huazhong called to him, but he turned a deaf ear.
Yang Huazhong stamped his feet anxiously and was about to go up and drag him back, but was stopped by Yang Ruoqing.
"Dad, take a look and then talk." Yang Ruoqing said.
This whole night, the third brother's state was very wrong. If something goes wrong, there must be a monster. We have reached the last step, let the third brother reveal the mystery for everyone!
Beside the coffin, Yang Yongzhi's movements were like a hamster trying to dig up wood chips.
Pouting his anus, most of his body almost fell into the coffin, and he threw out the clothes, straw paper, longevity hat and other burial objects one by one.
A circle was thrown around the coffin, and every time one was thrown out, the hearts of the others in the stone room jumped hard.
Everyone's eyes were on Yang Yongzhi, brother and sister Yang Ruoqing, and they were looking back and forth. They felt that there was a freak in the old Yang family. The courage was not that of a human being, but that of an ox!
"Third brother, take it easy and don't scratch the face of the corpse inside."
Yang Ruoqing hugged the sword to her chest and reminded her calmly.
"Um!"
Yang Yongzhi's muffled response came from the coffin.
Yang Huazhong stood on the edge, his whole body tense, and he kept taking deep breaths to regulate his nervousness.
Although Yang Yongzhi's behavior made people feel hairy, Yang Ruoqing's calm and onlooker attitude made everyone seem to be comforted invisibly.
It seems, it seems, there shouldn't be any big problem, right?
Driven by curiosity, there were many brave people among the villagers who tightly grasped the hoes and shovels in their hands and cautiously approached the coffin with their companions, wanting to see who was lying inside.
Maybe he is the ancestor of the Li family? A coffin full of gold, silver and jewelry might be buried with him!
In this way, more and more people gathered around the coffin, until Yang Yongzhi tore off the last shroud from the body and threw it aside, and a stench hit his face.
"Ugh~"
"Poof!"
Like a huge biochemical weapon exploding, the people who had just gathered around suddenly dispersed wailing, and even Yang Yongzhi's face turned green.
But he just retched twice before leaning into the coffin again, grabbing at it with his hands, tears welling up, and crying in a hoarse voice: "Who is it you? What is it you? Oh my god... …”
"What's going on? Are you an acquaintance?"
Yang Ruoqing and Yang Huazhong looked at each other. If they were an acquaintance of Yang Yongzhi, they must also be an acquaintance of them.
Who could it be?
Yang Huazhong's expression also changed, and he hurried to the coffin without any fear.
Yang Ruoqing also covered her mouth and nose tightly with a handkerchief and followed to see what was going on.
…
Judging from the clothing and hair, it should be a female corpse lying in the coffin.
But most of the female corpse's face was rotten, and one eyeball protruded and hung to the side of her ear. At first glance, she thought she was wearing a big round earring.
Yang Yongzhi stretched out his hand and held the female corpse's hands tightly. The female corpse's hands were covered with black corpse spots. With a little force, a hole was made. Yellow-brown corpse water flowed from the hole, which was so smelly that it made people doubt their life.
Yang Huazhong and Yang Ruoqing almost fainted when they stood behind Yang Yongzhi, but Yang Yongzhi seemed to have lost his sense of smell and lay beside the coffin, holding the hands of the female corpse tightly and wailing bitterly, with tears streaming down his face.
"...Didn't you marry a rich man to enjoy happiness? Why are you here?"
"You summoned me in, right? How long have you been lying here? Oh my god, why are you lying here...How do you want me to explain to Hong'er? Oh my god, what the hell is going on here? What's going on..."
Hearing Yang Yongzhi's miserable cry, combined with the physical characteristics of the female corpse... Yang Ruoqing's heart skipped a beat.
This is Third Brother’s ex-wife and Honger’s biological mother...Chen Jinhong!
Obviously, Yang Huazhong also thought of going together with Yang Ruoqing.
"Yongzhi, please stop crying. Is this...Chen's family?" Yang Huazhong pointed to the coffin with trembling fingers and asked in a deep voice.
Yang Yongzhi raised his face, which was stained with tears, to look at Yang Huazhong, and nodded gently.
"It's her, I recognize her..."
"Ah?!" Yang Huazhong didn't know what to say.
Li Jia and the others on the side also gathered around again and asked Yang Huazhong about this.
Everyone was shocked again when they heard that the person lying in the coffin turned out to be Yang Yongzhi's ex-wife.
Does the old Yang family have a grudge against the chamber pot family?
Previously, he came here to find his missing granddaughter-in-law, Mrs. Mo, but unexpectedly another granddaughter-in-law who had divorced was involved. Was this passage and secret room specially built to imprison their two granddaughter-in-laws? So weird!
Yang Ruoqing stood aside, and the noisy discussions and comforting voices around her continued to pour into her ears, but she tried hard to find relevant memories about Chen Jinhong in her mind.
I remember it happened many years ago. At that time, the third brother and the second brother borrowed some capital and rented a shop in the county town to start a small business with Chen Jinhong.
Business was sluggish, so the third brother was sent by Chen Jinhong to the dock to carry big bags to make money to support the family.
As for Chen Jinhong, she was not honest at home. She first targeted her second brother, who was a restaurant owner in the county town, and tried to seduce him. After the seduce failed, she got together with a rich middle-aged man in the county town.
At that time, the third brother caught the girl in bed and wore a cuckold from head to toe.
But because she was his first love when he was young, she was also the daughter of his master's family, and he grew up as a childhood sweetheart, so there was no need to doubt his feelings for Chen Jinhong.
Even though she was cuckolded, Chen Jinhong refused to repent, so after the marriage went through a period of tumultuous pains, the third brother finally made up his mind to write a letter of divorce and ended the relationship with her.
Later, the third brother met Zhao Liuer, who knew both coldness and hotness, and finally came out of the shadow of his previous marriage.
On the day they got married, Chen Jinhong came to the village to cause trouble, but she was informed in advance that she would intercept her and blindly imprison her in the woodshed in her backyard.
After visiting the old house and having a glass of wine, she, Yang Ruoqing, asked her third brother to meet in private. After saying a few words, she regarded it as a break.
In the end, he personally sent the person away to the home of a distant relative in Chen Jinhong, a neighboring county, and asked the distant relative to take care of him, leaving a sum of money by the way.
