"Xu Ling! What are you going to do to me!"
When Wang Zhu saw Xu Ling take out the rope from behind, his pupils were shaking, and he shouted loudly: "Here comes someone! Help! Kill someone!"
Xu Ling was unmoved at all. This was a ghost house in the eyes of the surrounding people. Who would have the guts to meddle in this place's business?
Xu Ling tied the rope into a knot, put it around Wang Zhu's neck, and stood behind him.
Xu Ling also had a lot of troubles where Wang Zhu couldn't see him.
She killed a fish for the first time in her previous life, and she couldn't bear it, but someone slapped her on the back and called her "pretentious".
Later, when she was living alone, she tried to avoid cooking because she didn't like the greasy feeling of killing and cutting meat. Of course, I still like to eat.
Why are you now reduced to killing people?
"Wang Zhu, I don't want to come to this point. You don't know how much I hate you. If I don't kill you, I won't be able to sleep at night. If I kill you, will I still be me?"
Wang Zhu could not hear Xu Ling's helplessness. He only felt that he had grasped a glimmer of hope.
He quickly begged for mercy: "If you kill me, aren't you dirtying your hands! Just let me go! I will never appear in front of you in this life! Xu Ling! For Liu Niang's sake, let me go! Don't you Aren’t you afraid that the government will arrest you?”
It was okay that he didn't mention Liu Niang, but when he mentioned Liu Niang, the rope around his neck tightened again and again, strangling his throat so tightly that he couldn't say a word.
Xu Ling sneered, "No one will find your body after you die. Who will report it to the police to arrest me?"
After saying that, she used 100% of her strength with her hands, and the person underneath her body trembled violently, just like the fish that trembled and lost its life in her hands in the previous life.
Men are still strong. If it is a woman with weak strength, it will be a problem to knock out a man with Wang Zhu's build.
Seeing that Wang Zhu was lifeless, Xu Ling was soaked and sat down on the bench.
There was deathly silence in the room, the only sound was his huffing and puffing breathing.
"If you lose your humanity, you lose a lot; if you lose your animality, you lose everything."
Xu Ling murmured.
From now on, he will think like a human and live like a beast.
He took out the prepared hood from the space and put it on Wang Zhu's head. With a thought, Wang Zhu disappeared from the spot.
Xu Ling's mouth was dry. He waited until his heartbeat gradually calmed down and checked that there was nothing in the house that would reveal his identity. Then he blew out the oil lamp and left the courtyard through the back door.
Yizhuang outside the city.
Suddenly someone knocked on the door in the middle of the night. The widower who was guarding Yizhuang went to the door with a lantern and asked, "Who is outside?"
"I'm here to claim the body. Old man, please let me in."
In the middle of the night, with the autumn wind blowing coldly, who would come to a ghost place like Yizhuang to claim the body at this time?
The old man muttered as he opened the door, and saw a young man standing outside the door, with a cart parked behind him.
A kind smile appeared on the corners of the young man's lips, and he explained rather embarrassedly: "I walked a long way to get here. I wasted time and really caused trouble for you."
He is a very polite young man.
The old man made way for Xu Ling to come in.
"What's the name of the one you want to claim?"
"Liu Niang."
"She was sent six days ago. Fortunately, you came. Otherwise, if no one claims her tomorrow, she will be hastily buried in a mass grave." The old man looked at the booklet, shook his head and sighed: "I heard that she was murdered. You are so young, so pitiful.”
"What is your relationship with her?"
Xu Ling followed him through the well courtyard and came to Yizhuang. There were only a few coffins, and most of the bodies were placed on straw mats, with their bodies covered with white cloth.
The old man explained that many people died for no reason in Lingbao Town, including drowning and drunkenness. If it were winter, there would be even more people freezing to death on the streets. Sometimes they can't find their family members for a while, so they are sent to Yizhuang. It can be parked for up to seven days. If no one claims it, it will be sent to a mass grave.
He has never married. The fortune teller said that he was destined to be a widower. He worked as a gatekeeper in Yi Zhuang when he was young. However, he was young and strong before and could help dig holes to bury these poor people.
But now I am too old and weak to dig a hole, so I can only wrap myself in a straw mat.
"It's a good thing you're here."
The old man said this sentence seven or eight times, and seemed to be very emotional.
Xu Ling just responded silently, and saw that the old man, familiar with the situation, led him through a group of unknown corpses and came to a straw mat.
I couldn't help but ask: "Old man, aren't you scared?"
The old man smiled strangely, "What are you afraid of? In all the years I have lived, the old man has never seen a corpse rising up to harm anyone. But people who walk in the clear sky in broad daylight are not particular about eating people."
He is literate and reasonable and seems like he shouldn't be here.
"Okay, lift the cloth and take a look to see if it's the person you're looking for."
Xu Ling hesitated for a moment.
"Young man, don't you dare?"
Why don't you dare? Xu Ling gritted his teeth and opened the cloth. After just one glance, he couldn't bear to look at it again.
Liu Niang's beautiful face was no longer in shape.
In his mind, he still had Liu Niang's lively face when he first met her that day.
The old man shook his head, "It doesn't matter if you were rich and beautiful during your lifetime, you will look the same after your death. You've seen it a lot, so what's there to be afraid of?"
With that said, he asked Xu Ling to help lift the straw mat and move Liu Niang's body to the yard outside.
He asked Xu Ling to wait in the yard for a while, then went to a room with a lantern. When he came out again, he had some paper money, a set of plain white clothes, and a lot of hay in his hands.
Asking Xu Ling to spread hay on the cart, he put on clean cloth for Liu Niang, "Don't make your cart dirty, the dead are already dead, and the living must live."
The old man babbled, and after carrying Liu Niang to the car, he did not forget to go back to the courtyard and break a sprig of autumn osmanthus and put it in Liu Niang's hair.
"Young lady loves beauty, go ahead, go well, and join a good family in your next life."
Xu Ling pushed Liu Niang to a spot that he had already spotted. There was a river not far from here and there were patches of willow trees growing there. He took out a shovel from the space and started digging a hole.
They worked hard until the sun rose and the morning light faded, then they set up the new grave and scattered paper money on the grave.
The sun dyed the willow trees golden, and the lonely grave seemed less desolate.
After not sleeping all night, Xu Ling was still quite awake, so he folded some wild flowers and placed them on Liu Niang's grave, and then left the place.
After a month of hard work, I returned to before liberation.
Xu Ling is penniless, but he has space, so he is not at the end of his rope.
Just have to start over again.
While no one is entering the space. Xu Ling was surprised to find that the space had become larger.
Originally, the place was only as big as two bedrooms and one living room, but after the fog cleared overnight, it actually expanded several times.
Xu Ling carefully measured it and found that the current space was about hundreds of acres. Compared with before, it could be said that it was a shotgun for a cannon.
Can the original space still grow?
But why did it grow overnight?
Could it be because of Wang Zhu's body?
But Xu Ling checked Wang Zhu's body and found nothing unusual.
Xu Ling felt more at ease. If he put the corpse in, he could expand the space. He was really afraid that he would go astray and kill people without blinking an eye...
