Chapter 11 The Convoluted Corpse Stealing Incident(1/2)
After noon, Mo Ziming, Qin Song and Lu Buping arrived at Qingzhugou together.
There is a small countryside here, surrounded by several natural villages.
Wang Jiaying's ancestral home is located in a village on the west side of the village.
Since the mysterious disappearance of the body of the old man in the Wang family, the villagers are in panic and all kinds of rumors are flying everywhere.
"Brother Mo, Brother Qin, Brother Lu, why are you here?"
Wang Jiaying was quite surprised when he saw Mo Ziming and the other two coming.
"We heard your servant talk about the old man... Brother Wang, please be mournful and follow the changes."
"I am sorry for your loss."
The three of them expressed their sincere condolences.
"Thank you, three guys, hurry up, sit inside."
After entering the backyard and sitting down, Wang Jiaying took the initiative to talk about the mysterious disappearance of his grandfather's body.
"After my grandfather was buried, we took turns to burn incense and worship in front of the grave, and we did not leave until late at night.
I left with my third uncle on the night of the second day of the lunar calendar, and nothing unusual at that time.
As a result, I arrived at the grave early on the third day of the lunar month... The grave was actually dug open.
The coffin lid was thrown aside, and my grandfather's body disappeared, including valuable burial objects..."
Speaking of this, Wang Jiaying's voice couldn't help but choke.
"This is a little strange..."
"Yes, if you want to say it's a tomb robber, why did he steal the old man's body?"
"Brother Wang, is it someone who has a grudge against you?"
"I don't know..." Wang Jiaying shook his head.
Then he said: "A strange thing happened yesterday. I heard that a family in Zhaozhuang nearby also lost the body of their relatives.
Before the man could be buried, he disappeared mysteriously that night...
The entire Qingzhugou is now panicking, saying that this is a sign of great danger..."
"Then have you reported to the officials?"
Wang Jiaying smiled bitterly and said, "I've reported it...but it's useless to report to the officials like this. At worst, it's just to send two yamen runners to the countryside to go through the motions."
"Brother Mo, what do you think?"
Qin Song subconsciously glanced at Mo Ziming.
After all, he had seen Mo Ziming destroy ghosts with his own eyes, so he naturally thought that Mo Ziming should have some experience in this regard.
Of course, if you want to talk about experience, Mo Ziming does have one thing, after all, he has played the role of the lieutenant of the gold-touching school... Simply put, he is essentially a tomb robber.
The difference is that the lieutenant of the gold medal is doing high-end work, and the ones they are all valuable ancient tombs.
Unlike some folk tomb robbers, no matter what tomb you are, even the tombs of ordinary people will be cleared for you first.
However, this incident in the Wang family is very strange, unlike the work of ordinary tomb robbers.
If you just want to make money, at worst, you can take away the burial objects. What should you do if you transport the body away?
What's more, Wang Jiaying also said that this is not an isolated case. The dead people in Zhaozhuang disappeared before their bodies were buried...
This is a bit confusing.
If it was a corpse, why did the burial objects in the tomb of the old man of the Wang family disappear again?
You can't say that you have to take away the property from the grave if you cheat the corpse?
Or maybe, first pretending to be a corpse, and then someone passed through an empty grave and took away the burial objects?
This possibility is not very high... Could it be that I will go to the cemetery to sleepwalking in the middle of the night?
After thinking for a while, Mo Ziming couldn't help but say, "Brother Wang, why don't you do this, can you take me to the old man's grave to see the situation?"
"Yeah, let's go~"
Wang Jiaying nodded and stood up and walked outside.
The cemetery is not far from the village, just on the slope to the north.
After walking uphill, Mo Ziming raised his eyes and observed the surrounding terrain, and then said: "Brother Wang, your ancestral grave is backed by Qingshan, with the south and north yin, and the terrain is rising in a step-like manner, which can be regarded as a Feng Shui treasure land.
Logically speaking, there should be no corpse transformation."
Hearing this, Wang Jiaying was quite relieved: "That's best... Brother Mo, please take a look at what's going on."
"Yeah~"
Mo Ziming walked to the grave and looked carefully.
"Huh? Brother Mo, come and see, why are these footprints so strange?"
Suddenly, Lu Buping exclaimed.
Hearing the sound, Mo Ziming immediately walked over...
"Huh? What's going on?"
When he saw it, Mo Ziming couldn't help but look surprised.
There was a messy footprint on the ground, and a string of them looked very strange.
Under normal circumstances, the footprints left by people are interlaced in parallel with left and right feet.
But the footprints on the ground are all together, and the footprints are very deep.
Obviously, it was because someone jumped and walked away, so that such strange footprints were left.
Qin Song also saw the clues, and couldn't help but look pale and said tremblingly: "Brother Mo, can this footprint be a zombie...?"
"Impossible, Impossible, my grandfather could not become a zombie."
Before Qin Song finished speaking, Wang Jiaying couldn't help but shouted in grief.
"Brother Wang, don't worry, aren't we looking for clues now? I'll test it out."
Lu Buping moved a few steps away, stepped on his feet, raised his hand, and jumped a few steps imitating the legendary zombie posture.
"Look, the footprints I just jumped... are they similar to those strings?"
"Hey, don't say it, it's really the same... Could it be that the old man really..."
Speaking of this, Qin Song subconsciously glanced at Wang Jiaying and swallowed the words behind him.
"How could it be? How could my grandfather... wuwu..."
Wang Jiaying felt sad and couldn't control it for a while, and even covered her face and started crying.
"Brother Wang, calm down. No matter what, this is a clue.
But strangely, if you look closely, there are some messy footprints here, which are obviously not from the Wang family.
The Wang family’s footprints should be walking up the slope and heading towards the village.
But these footprints were walking towards the other side of the mountain…”
Mo Ziming glanced at the direction where the footprints extended.
"Then... can we look for it along the footprints?"
"Try it."
The group followed the footprints for a while, but the footprints slowly disappeared...
The clue was cut off.
Mo Ziming thought for a while and said, "Or why I'll go to Zhaozhuang to see the situation again."
"Brother Mo, I'll go with you." Qin Song volunteered.
"That's fine... Brother Wang, how can Zhao Zhuang leave?"
"I'll take you there..."
"No, you stay at home and stay with your family. I'll go and check the situation and go back."
"Okay~" Wang Jiaying stood on the slope and raised his hand and signaled: "Follow the road east of the village, and walk about four or five miles to a fork...
Walk along the river and you will arrive after walking about three or four miles.”
"Okay, I'll go and have a look."
So Mo Ziming immediately walked quickly towards Zhao Zhuang with Qin Song.
When I arrived in Zhaozhuang, I came to the family with the lost body.
This is a poor family, the owner is a middle-aged man, and the villagers call him Lock.
The deceased was Suozi's first wife. She was just in her early thirties and died of illness.
To be continued...