"Let me tell you, Shitou must have had an affair with his sister-in-law, otherwise Pomegranate could chop his brother like this?"
This is what a naughty guy in his twenties next to him said to another young man.
"Liu Cuihua is so coquettish. She is more than just having an affair with a stone. If you ask me, this is a beauty that brings disaster to the family."
The young man shook his head and said with some regret.
Although these two young men were obviously gossiping about women, I thought it was definitely not groundless.
After all, the facts are before our eyes. If it weren't for the woman, why would Pomegranate kill his own brother and even chop his head into pieces?
I don't know how they would handle this situation according to their thinking and concepts?
If the police were called, Shiliu would definitely go to jail, and for deliberately killing people in such a cruel way, he would probably be sentenced to at least life imprisonment.
But if the police were not called, this would be another homicide after all.
I did a little calculation in my mind and felt that according to the way they handled the situation in the mountains, they probably wouldn't call the police.
At least for Pomegranate's parents, they definitely don't want their son to go to jail.
After all, the other son had been killed by Shiliu. If Shiliu was also imprisoned, the couple would really have nothing to pursue.
The facts are similar to what I guessed. Shiliu's parents did not call the police. However, after the great grief, they recognized the facts and started making arrangements for Shiliu's funeral.
I didn't pay too much attention to this matter. After roughly understanding the situation, I followed Lin Ze and the others back to Niu Laosi's home.
Anyway, it was a murder case, not an innocent ghost or a bad feng shui. Of course I would not get involved in such a thing.
But what I didn't expect was that in the afternoon, Niu Laosi suddenly came back to me and said that Pomegranate's family wanted to ask me to help perform a religious ceremony and help Shitou look at a cemetery.
Mountain people like them would definitely ask a Feng Shui master to visit the cemetery when someone dies. I guess Niu Laosi told the Shiliu family that a Feng Shui master like me was in the village, so they came directly to invite me. .
There was no way to refuse this kind of thing, so I had to follow Niu Laosi to Pomegranate's house.
When I came here again, the funeral hall was almost decorated, and a carpenter was hired to make a coffin in the yard.
As for Shitou's body, it had been moved to the main room and was still parked on the straw mat.
They even invited a seamstress to come over and sew the body into the stone.
But the head was completely broken, so how to sew it up was really a problem.
The corpse stitcher squatted next to the corpse and looked at it for a long time. The last solution he gave was to sew a head with paper.
Apart from that, there is no other way.
Shitou's parents could only agree.
The corpse stitcher was a wizened old man who was over sixty years old. People in the village called him Liu Ye. He was tall and thin, with deep-set cheeks and high cheekbones.
I don’t know if it’s a coincidence, or if the person who sewed the corpse has a six-character name in it?
In short, the only corpse stitcher I know, Li Laoliu, also has the character "六" in his name.
Judging from the appearance of this sixth master, he should be a person who restrains his relatives. It is estimated that he will definitely end up alone and helpless in the end.
Speaking of which, it seems that very few people in this profession end well.
"Uncle Gengtian, this is the Li Shiyi I told you, Mr. Li."
When Niu Laosi saw Shitou's father, he quickly introduced me to him.
"Mr. Li, hello, hello. I heard from the Fourth Brother that you are a high-ranking person. I can leave the matter of the stone cemetery to you."
Niu Gengtian quickly came up to me and shook hands with me with his calloused hands.
Then he quickly took out cigarettes from his coat pocket and handed one to me.
"Don't worry, looking at graves and acupoints is my specialty, no problem."
I took the cigarette and said a little shyly.
"You're so young to show people their graves and dig their acupoints, and you're not too young. Young man, this matter of death can't be settled with just words. You'd better not be fooled, lest you harm others and yourself."
Master Liu suddenly said this with a gloomy face beside him.
"Sixth Master, Mr. Li is really an expert. He helped solve the Tai Sui issue in our family."
Niu Laosi quickly looked at Liu Ye and said, obviously not wanting the other party to lose my face.
"Taisui is just a saying. I told you that the feng shui was broken when building the house."
Mr. Liu filled a pot of dry tobacco and the old god said calmly.
"Whether it's Tai Sui or Feng Shui, can it be solved anyway?"
I smiled and said.
"You are just a blind cat who has caught a dead mouse. The fourth son's wife is always good and bad. It just happened that you played a trick. His wife got well and can go to the fields, but Niu Gengtian's son died violently. People, I’m afraid it’s not possible to rely on luck alone.”
Mr. Liu said disapprovingly.
After saying that, he lit his pipe and started smoking.
"You're right. People who die unexpectedly are usually very vicious. It's hard to rely on luck alone. You should always be careful. It's best not to open your eyes when drawing the facial features of the paper man."
I said, reminding him.
Of course, this is not just a casual comment. A person like this who died violently without a head will have a lot of resentment. Once the facial features on the paper head open, the resentment cannot be covered up, and it will only become More vicious.
"Young man, are you teaching me how to do things?"
Master Liu suddenly narrowed his eyes, looked at me with interest and said, "I've been doing this for at least half my life. Do you know how to do it better than me?"
"That's not true. I'm just giving you a heads up."
I said with a chuckle.
This old man was too arrogant and obviously couldn't listen to what I said, so I simply didn't want to say any more.
"Give me a heads up?"
Master Liu suddenly sneered and said, "Young man, your tone is really louder than I imagined."
"Sixth Master, you'd better help sew up the corpse quickly. Don't take this matter seriously."
Niu Gengtian saw that both of us were about to start fighting, so he quickly offered some words of advice.
I'm too lazy to follow the old man's lead.
After roughly asking Niu Gengtian about his requirements for the cemetery, I took the people directly up the mountain to see the cemetery.
The Feng Shui around this village is quite good, so without much effort, I found a pretty good Feng Shui cave halfway up the mountain behind the village.
After the location was settled, those people started to dig the grave, and Niu Laosi and I went directly back to Niu Gengtian's house.
It was already dark by this time and the coffin had not been finished yet, so the carpenter was still busy working in the yard.
As for the others, they had already started eating at this time.
I first went to the mourning hall to take a look.
I found that the head of the stone had been glued and sewn on.
But the facial features of that papery head are actually eye-opening.
And I don’t know if Mr. Liu deliberately went against me and made his eyes look really big and round.
