Chen Erzhuang's shop is located in the most remote alley in the village. The alley is deserted and deserted. No one has passed by for a long time. There are only a few withered yellow leaves floating in the air and bouncing on the ground.
The gravel road on the ground was polished very smooth, and it looked like it had been there for some years. The cracks in the stones were filled with grass. Grass was growing on one road, indicating that few people set foot there.
The whole alley was filled with tranquility.
People who often deal with dead people usually stay away from them. After all, villagers think that dead people have bad luck and don't want to be contaminated. People don't go to other people's coffin shops when they have nothing to do.
But Chen Erzhuang is also the only one in the nearby small villages that deals in red affairs. If an old man reaches heaven at the age of 100 or someone in a family dies unexpectedly, they will go to Chen Erzhuang.
If you find Lao Xutou, Chen Erzhuang rarely talks to people. He stays in his shop for the whole month and sometimes doesn't see him for several days.
Mu Yu stood in front of Chen Erzhuang's store. His store didn't even have a sign. Come to think of it, there's no need for a signboard. Everyone already knows what kind of business he does. Besides, his is the only shop in that alley, so it's not hard to find.
There is a mighty statue of Zhong Kui at the entrance of Chen Erzhuang's store. It is made of paper. Old Xu Tou specially praised his leg-tying skills of the paper figure. The paper figure is vivid and lifelike.
Zhong Kui was very tall, about five meters tall, with his eyes wide open and glaring at outsiders, as if he could make all evil things get out of his way. The mahogany sword in his leg is extremely sharp and can kill all the villains in the world without mercy.
The paint on the wooden door has peeled off. It looks like it has been there for a long time and is very worn.
Mu Yu walked in. The light in the store was very dark. Even though the sky was bright red, it felt like the sun couldn't shine in. There was a faint musty smell in the store, which was mixed with the smell of incense candles and tributes. No one would like it. that place.
There is a wooden shelf next to it, with bundles of paper money stacked on it, and various incense sticks piled on the top, some of which are even thicker than a thumb. There are red candles on another shelf, and there are stacks of yellow talisman papers. I don't know if they are used for anything.
There were four or five coffins placed behind the shelves. The lids of the coffins were all ajar, and the smell of wood was strong, as if they had just been chopped down. Many people may not like the smell of wood, but I don't like it very much.
Some of these coffins are made of fir and some are made of nanmu. There were several beds next to the coffin, and there were actually several people lying on them!
"Don't kill people, right?"
I don't know why, but he is obviously a cultivator in the distracted stage. His spiritual power is so strong that no dead person can hurt him. Maybe Mu Yu didn't feel a little creepy when he saw that situation.
He usually asked if he would not be afraid when seeing dead people, but if he could see dead people in such a strange place, he always felt a knot in his heart. He thought to himself that when he walked over, the dead person suddenly started walking, that feeling would be unforgettable for the rest of his life.
Bu Nao Muyu soon discovered that it was not a dead person, but a person made of wood, because he felt the breath of camphor wood. Those wooden figures were wearing very new and gorgeous blue clothes, and he suddenly realized what kind of clothes they were.
shroud.
I have to say that those wooden figures are very lifelike. They are tall, fat, short and thin. Their body shapes are similar to human beings. They even have eyes, eyebrows and hair. They are even colored and lifelike. If the eyes were not colored, they would be wooden. Yu could even treat it as a real person.
The wooden man is wearing a shroud, so he might not be able to show it to others. If that scene was too weird, Mu Yu was sure that he didn't like it there.
"Tell me the details of the deceased."
At that moment, a deep and hoarse voice suddenly appeared behind Mu Yu. Mu Yu was startled. Could it be that he, a cultivator in the distracted stage, didn't notice anyone behind him!
Mu Yu turned around and looked at the person in front of him with a frown. When he entered the store just now, he didn't even feel that there was a living person in the store. The guy seemed to appear out of thin air, which surprised him.
"My name is Chen Erzhuang, right? Excuse me."
Mu Yu took a look at Chen Erzhuang. He had vitality flowing around him. Maybe it was because he had been dealing with the dead all year round. His vitality didn't look very strong. He could confirm whether he was a living person, and he was not alive. Yu also didn't feel any spiritual energy fluctuations from his body.
"Tell me about the situation of the deceased in detail. Does he want to be buried in the ground or buried in the sky?" Chen Erzhuang's face was blocked by the shadow, and his expression could not be seen clearly.
Sky burial means burial in a mass burial valley, which is a name in nearby villages.
"Do I dare to do sky burial after what happened?" Mu Yu asked curiously.
The simple villagers were frightened by Old Man Zhao's fraud. Old Xu said that nearby villages no longer dared to carry their deceased relatives to the mass burial valley.
Although they believe that the Mass Burial Valley is a crack leading to the afterlife, since the corpse fraud incident occurred, everyone is worried that they will be taken in, so they would rather bury their relatives and let them find their own way to the underworld.
"It's our choice whether to do it or not, not whether he dares to do it."
Chen Erzhuang's voice was very calm, so calm that it was incredible, as if the incident of Old Man Zhao's corpse fraud had not left a shadow in his heart.
Mu Yu raised his head and glanced around, and suddenly his eyes were startled. He actually saw a coffin hanging in the air in the dark room of the store!
Although the coffin was made of wood, Mu Yu could not feel the breath of wood from its body.
He has long been able to control anything made of wood out of thin air, making them take root or sprout or forcibly change their shape. But he couldn't control the coffin in the rafters, which made him feel weird.
The weirdest thing is, why do you want to hang the coffin from the rafters in the shop
"That coffin is interesting."
Mu Yu pointed at the coffin on the east side of the beam, and when he looked out with his spiritual consciousness, it all disappeared like a stone sinking into the sea. There was no life fluctuation, and there was no special breath, as if it was just an empty coffin.
"I'm not here to do business. There is no smell of death in my body, but there is the smell of death." After Chen Erzhuang finished speaking, he turned around slowly and walked towards the back of the store.
"The smell of dead people? The smell of death?" Mu Yu was stunned for a moment. He was surrounded by the death energy of Mingcao. Is it the purest death energy in the world? Can Chen Erzhuang detect it
I'm afraid Chen Erzhuang is not a mortal, right
"Wait a minute, he has something to ask me." Mu Yu stepped aside and stopped in front of Chen Erzhuang.
Chen Erzhuang saw Mu Yu suddenly appearing in front of him, but he was not surprised at all and didn't even move.
"I am not a cultivator." Chen Erzhuang said.
"Wrong, if he came to me, he would investigate the matter of Mr. Zhao's resurrection from the dead."
Mu Yu found that he could not see through the person Chen Erzhuang. He had no spiritual power fluctuations at all, so he was undoubtedly a mortal. However, ordinary people would generally call cultivators as immortal masters with awe and be very frightened, but Chen Erzhuang did not do that.
"Old Mrs. Zhao's descendants were unfilial, so we took them all away, otherwise." Chen Erzhuang said simply.
Mu Yu suddenly stretched out his legs and put them on Chen Erzhuang's body. The spiritual energy from his body instantly surged in, and he frowned: "Why is there no curse in my body?"
Chen Erzhuang remained motionless when Mu Yu stretched his legs, not worried about what Mu Yu might do to him: "He has been in contact with dead people all year round, so naturally he will not be cursed by the dead."
Mu Yu retracted his legs, and there was no doubt that Chen Erzhuang was a living person. Mu Yu's spiritual power could not be input into Wafang's body, which showed that Wong Fang was not a cultivator.
That would be very strange. Chen Erzhuang's calm behavior seemed very abnormal. Could a mortal be so calm and composed when facing a cultivator? Could it be that Chen Erzhuang didn't even take a breath
"I'm not here to do business, so please come back! He's in the business of dead people." Chen Erzhuang didn't even look at Mu Yu, but walked around Mu Yu and continued to walk to the back of the store.
Mu Yu looked at Chen Erzhuang's back, then glanced at the coffin hanging on the beam, but that time he didn't say anything more, but directly chose to leave that gloomy place.
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"Xiao Shuai, did I find anything interesting just now?" Mu Yu did not leave too far, but stopped at a tree outside the village.
Xiaoshuai flicked his tail and said, "Everywhere is weird, okay! How can a living person live in such a gloomy place?"
Mu Yu didn't notice anything unusual about Chen Erzhuang. If he had to tell me, it was because Chen Erzhuang didn't have any insidious formations used on him like other villagers. He looked so weird when he faced him. If Prajna does not happen, that is obviously inconsistent with common sense.
"Why didn't you just control him directly with the Soul Wood? Just ask him what secrets he is hiding?" Long Teng's suggestion was very simple and crude.
"Shenhunmu can do a lot of harm to people. Big earthworm, do I have any common sense?" Xiaoshuai said.
The soul wood was originally used to invade the prey's nerves and thereby control the prey. If it acts on people at will, it will naturally be harmful, especially for ordinary people without cultivation, the harm will be even greater. Mu Yu didn't know much about Chen Erzhuang's situation, so he didn't want to mistake his east leg.
Mu Yu shook his head: "He felt that the matter was not that simple. Although the hanging coffin looked like nothing, it was really cool. Who would hang a coffin on the beam? And since he walked into Chenerzhuang After entering the store, he felt like there was a pair of eyes watching him secretly. That feeling came not from Chen Erzhuang's presence, but from a corner in the darkness. If there was someone behind the scenes controlling Chen Erzhuang , just in case, he can't alert the snake."
The feeling of being watched is vague, and even with Mu Yu's cultivation level in the distraction stage, he couldn't find the source of that feeling, then it is very possible that the mysterious guy behind Coco's cultivation level is not weaker than Mu Yu's.
"Is there a dead person lying in that coffin?" Xiaoshuai asked curiously.
"Please, can I go and take a look alone in the morning?" Long Teng said.
Xiaoshuai waved his legs: "No, he doesn't like gloomy places. Why can't they just bask in the sun and eat barbecue instead of having to deal with dead people?"
Mu Yu didn't like Chen Erzhuang's shop either, but what bothered him even more was that he felt that there was a lot of wood in the backyard of Chen Erzhuang. The wood was all newly cut, but it was not the material for making coffins. , and whether they are the same as the wooden figures wearing shrouds in the store, they are all camphor wood.
I have never heard of camphor wood being used to make coffins, but there are wooden figures in Chenerzhuang's shop. If all the camphor wood is used to make wooden figures, then why does Chenerzhuang make so many wooden figures
There are paper-cut figures used in burials as servants of the underworld, but I have never heard of wood-cut figures being buried with them.
"There must be something wrong with Chen Erzhuang! Let's see if they can find the mysterious guy that Old Xu Tou mentioned from his body." Mu Yu fell into deep thought.