This was 1947. It has been two years since Japan surrendered, and the war has not ended yet, but the business of Yizhuang is not as easy as when the Japanese were still alive.
The number of corpse chasers traveling from the south to the north is obviously reduced. One is that a lot less people die on the battlefield, and the other is that something happened in Xiangxi, and many corpse chasers themselves have become corpses.
At this time, Qin Wanling is just a girl who is guarding a Yizhuang alone. In the eyes of others, she should be the age to trace the red makeup on the mirror, but she needs to guard the Yizhuang for her parents.
Qin Wanling's parents were also corpse chasers. By all accounts, she hadn't seen them for half a year. In her impression, her parents had always been people wearing black clothes and walking silently.
Qin Wanling, who is alone, never feels lonely, or that she has never been alone. If one day there is a sudden excitement around her, she will be uncomfortable. Since I can remember, she has lived in this Yizhuang. Everyone thinks that she is the owner of the Yizhuang. In fact, the real owner is her parents.
At this time, the sun was just right.
Qin Wanling was lying under the big locust tree in the yard, with the breeze floating, warmth flying up and down on her body. This is the most comfortable moment of her day. Most of the time, she needs to stay in the main hall of the Yizhuang. In that place, no matter how good the sun is outside the house, it is always cold. Only at noon will she come out to remove the cold from her body. Because her parents once told her that she shouldn't let her body accept the cold all year round, otherwise she would be like them. When it is rainy and cloudy, the limbs and bones will be bitten by ants in pain.
In the sun, she squinted slightly, and in the main hall were four corpses. At this time, Qin Wanling had some doubts, because there were only three corpses in the whole Yizhuang last night, and then when she woke up this morning, a strange fourth corpse appeared in the lobby.
Of the original three corpses, two were from Guangxi who died in battle. The other one was a pregnant woman with a shriveled body, with a huge meat bag bulging out of the abdomen, lying in the dark lobby with a white cloth, like a grave bag.
The fourth extra is the corpse of a baby. In other words, it is a fetus. If Qin had not seen the appearance of a dead fetus, she would never have thought that the fourth corpse was a fetus. The shriveled purple, white lanugo, like a cat that is about to rot all the time.
After a little observation, Qin Wanling figured out where the fetus came from-the pregnant woman's corpse. Because last night the pregnant woman's high belly has collapsed at this time.
Although she is young, she has enough courage to make her back chill and rot. She calmly dusted the stillbirth, which was born after being suffocated in the corpse, with lime and covered it with a white cloth. While converging, she discovered another strange thing-pregnant women's sex, found two placentas.
In other words, last night, the pregnant woman gave birth to two stillbirths, but one of them has disappeared, leaving only two sets of placenta.
Qin Wanling felt dragged by the wild cat in the mountains. She buried the extra placenta in the mountain and lay in the sun in the yard less than 30 meters away from the body. "Since a stillbirth was lost, the owner of the corpse can't be known to him, only to tell him that he gave birth to a stillbirth, and then he will be charged for another one."
In a daze, Qin Wanling thought to herself, "It's just that the wild cats in the nearby mountains are getting more and more rampant. We need to spread more lime in the Yizhuang tonight."
As the sun gradually moved westward, there was a knock on the door outside the courtyard, and Qin Wanling got up and opened the door. What came was a middle-aged man with wretched behavior, "Oh, you have a high threshold here!" The man almost stumbled when he entered the door. On the threshold, there was a vaguely engraved sentence-wild ferocious retreat, house ghost peaceful.
This man is the husband of the pregnant woman, Wang Ergang. (End of this chapter)