I didn't expect that Mu Qing would really use this trick.
"Tell me, who are you? How do you know I killed Ke Zuo?"
I thought it was funny when Mu Qing took out a knife because I was not prepared that year.
"Put down the knife. You can't kill me. Your knife is for me. Even if I say I'm accurate, you won't believe me. I won't tell anyone about it."
"No, you will tell Ke Mingzhe. You two are very close, so you will tell him sooner or later. Then I will be arrested by the police and sentenced to death."
"You are so stubborn that I can't do anything about it."
"That's what I think. You saw everything back then. Why didn't you sue me?"
"If you can't let go, you will be in eternal pain. If you hadn't killed me back then, I would have died too, so I don't blame you."
"You, you... Ke Zuo."
"Yes, return to this world for a lifetime."
Mu Qing stood there in a daze for a moment, then he squatted down, covering his face and burst into tears.
"I think that's the end of it."
I walked out of the Bone Village, and I didn't know when Mu Qing caught up with me.
After leaving Bone Village, I went home and my mother was cooking at home.
I sat there reading books about the design of refining equipment. I have read these books many times, but I would still read them when I didn't have time.
When I was in a daze, my mother called me and asked me to call Song Meili and come over for dinner.
Song Meili came over and told me that the man from the neighbor's house had died. She stayed there for a while.
The death of Song Meili's neighbor is actually nothing new. Death is normal. It's just that we see death every day, more than others. What's more is the smell of death on our bodies, which we seem to be unable to smell. Yun Bai said that his father had the smell of death on his body. That was true. I can smell it every time I return to the world. It is true. No matter how you wash, there will be this smell.
After Song Meili had dinner with me, she asked me to accompany her to the neighbor's house, because they wanted to go to the crematorium to pray for Song Meili's funeral. This way, the funeral would be faster, some money could be saved, and it would also give her face. Even after she died, she still wanted to save face for me. That was to save face for the living. It is really ridiculous to live for face in this life.
When we got there, the bodies had not yet been sent to the crematorium. It was such a hot summer day that we could smell the body when we passed by.
"Why haven't you sent it to the crematorium yet?"
"The body was fished out of the river, in the Hun River, seven days later."
The corpse had been deformed after seven days and it was impossible to recognize its original appearance.
"It also has to be sent to the crematorium to be frozen."
"Their family is a minority, and they said there is a rule that the body should be left in the crematorium for two days before it can be sent to the crematorium."
I don't know what kind of ethnic minority this is that has such rules.
"Gelao people."
There are ethnic minorities living in the Northeast who strictly protect their national customs, which cannot be destroyed.
"The body will rot."
"Chilled."
"That won't work either. If you can't suppress it completely, your internal organs will rot and you won't be able to reincarnate."
"This is their custom and we have to respect it."
"Don't wear makeup like this when the time comes, understand."
Song Meili glanced at me.
"What will happen then?"
"If I don't allow you to put on makeup, don't do it."
We went over there, discussed some things with the family members, and then stayed by the river.
I will always like the riverside. In the past life and this life, the river is like my life flowing and I can see my own life.
Song Meili asked me why the corpse couldn't be made up.
"You've been here for three years, right? Don't you understand? Didn't your master teach you?"
"I don't quite understand. Master never says anything unless she encounters something."
"Your master He Feng is quite strange."
Hefeng is an old makeup artist at the Chixian Crematorium. She is a woman with a strange name. Her name is strange and she is a strange person too. She has a gloomy face every day and acts as if she is unhappy about someone owing her 800 kilograms.
I don’t know He Feng, but I know this person and he has some makeup skills.
"This is a big make-up. The corpse is incomplete. If it's not kept at home and its internal organs are not rotten, then there is no problem. It's just a little more troublesome to put on make-up. To return to the original appearance, you need to use various techniques. But for an incomplete corpse, when you put on make-up, there will be troublesome things. Abnormal things are things that you can't predict."
"Will it be so?"
"Of course. Have you never worn heavy makeup?"
"When she was doing her makeup, Master He wouldn't let me watch and told me to leave. She always did her own makeup."
In the crematorium, some masters are selfish. They are afraid that their skills will be learned by their apprentices and they will lose their glory. I don’t like such masters. Song Meili encountered such a master, and there was nothing she could do. There is a master-apprentice contract, and once signed, it means being a master for life.
On the day when Song Meili's neighbor was putting on makeup, I was in the monitoring room because I had no work to do that day.
The corpse was actually taken to Song Meili's dressing room. After He Feng lifted the shroud and took a look, he pierced the deceased's internal organs with a silver needle, then sat aside and lit a cigarette.
The purpose of inserting a silver needle into the internal organs was to see if they were rotten. I couldn't see clearly what the body looked like when the silver needle was pulled out, but judging from the expression, the body was rotten.
He Feng was halfway through smoking when he said something to Song Meili. She came out and I called her immediately.
"Come to the monitoring room."
Song Meili came over and sat down.
"Look at what your master does."
Song Meili seemed to have never seen a big makeup room. Of course, no one could enter any dressing room casually. This was the rule. Also, entering other dressing rooms randomly would cause problems. There were souls and ghosts in the dressing rooms, occupying them, just like their own homes. When strangers came in, something would often happen.
He Feng locked the door, then opened the makeup box, undressed the deceased, took out a knife, cut open the body, and saw the internal organs, which were basically all rotten. Song Meili covered her mouth and almost vomited.
The contract technique is indeed skillful, and it seems that she has no problem with such heavy makeup.
Then, when the contract was being cut open and the internal organs were being dealt with, he took a few steps back.
"Enlarge the image for me. Enlarge it."
The image is enlarged, but I still can't see clearly what the problem is.
Contract hesitated for a long time, and moved the needle, which meant to sew it up. I was stunned. How could it be sutured without any treatment? Just when she was about to move the needle, she suddenly jumped up and hid aside. I saw a head coming out of the corpse, the snake head.
"Oh my god, a snake in a corpse, a snake in a corpse, such a coincidence is almost non-existent. I didn't expect to encounter it today."
When Song Meili understood what was going on, she screamed. He Feng was a little confused, probably because she had never encountered this before. She was stunned for half a minute, opened the door and ran out.
"Come with me, and call Director Ke, and the Director, Gao Hua."
We hurried over and the contract was gone.
Xiaozhe, the director and Gao Hua all came over. I told them what happened and they looked at me blankly.
"Let me take care of it!"
Xiaozhe looked at Li Xiaohuan the same way.
"Forget it, I'll do it."
After Gao Hua finished speaking, he glanced at Xiaozhe.
"Forget it, let me do it!"
Xiaozhe and Li Xiaohuan went into the dressing room, and we went to the office to watch the surveillance video.
"How could such a problem arise?"
"There have been snake corpses. He Dana said that such snake corpses are also hard to find. If you look at it from another perspective, it is a good thing. If you look at it from this perspective, it is not a good thing."
After I finished speaking, Gao Hua looked at me for a long time and said.
"What do you mean by this angle?"
"After this person's bones are refined, they can be used as medicine to treat diseases. It is very good, but if the snake corpse is not handled properly, strange things will happen."
Gao Hua didn't expect this to happen.
Xiaozhe asked Li Xiaohuan to sit at the bar and watch. There must be no problems with the apprentice that Xiaozhe teaches. He teaches seriously and teaches everything. He is a good master, which makes me very happy.
Xiaozhe saw the snake's head with its tongue spraying out. Xiaozhe took out a small knife from his makeup box and threw it out. The snake fell down immediately. No one expected that Xiaozhe had such accurate hands.
Xiaozhe went over and pulled the snake out. The snake was actually more than two meters long and a very thin snake. It was a species of snake found in Changbai Mountain and was extremely poisonous.
Xiaozhe put the snake into a transparent bottle and covered it with a black cloth. He said something to Li Xiaohuan. Li Xiaohuan was stunned and sat there motionless, like a person who could not move.
When Xiaozhe was cleaning the internal organs, I felt a little disgusted. I could see that the internal organs were cleaned out and put into sealed bags, and then some things were made in advance. Good makeup artists have these things in the cabinet. When there is no work, they will make things on various people.
There were these things in Xiaozhe's cabinet. He rummaged for a long time and took out the things in the shape of internal organs. Then he put them into the body and sewed them up. While sewining, he called Li Xiaohuan. Li Xiaohuan was nervous and his hands were shaking.
Xiaozhe poured a cup of coffee and drank it while sitting at the bar.
The design of this powder room is quite reasonable, with a high bar, just like in a bar, a coffee machine, and tea, just like in a five-star hotel.
Xiaozhe watched Li Xiaohuan sew up and said something, as if he was telling her how to do it.
Xiaozhe jumped up, obviously very angry. Did Li Xiaohuan do something wrong? I thought it was over and didn't look closely.
"What's wrong?"
Gao Hua didn't understand it either.
"have no idea."
Xiaozhe scolded Li Xiaohuan, she cried and then went out.
Xiaozhe sat down and lit a cigarette. The needle and thread were still at the seam, not moving. It was obvious that Xiaozhe was very nervous.
"No, I have to go check it out."
Gao Hua is going to the dressing room.
"Wait a moment and see if Xiaozhe can handle it himself?"
We watched nervously, but Xiaozhe didn't move at all. It seemed that he had encountered some trouble and he might not be able to handle it.
"Let's go over there."
I stood up and went to the dressing room with Gao Hua, and saw Li Xiaohuan still crying at the door.
"What's going on?"
Li Xiaohuan said that.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean it, I was too nervous, I was too nervous..."
"Don't be anxious. Tell me slowly. What happened?"
When Li Xiaohuan told us what happened, Gao Hua and I were both stunned. (To be continued)