Suspect in Jinling

late at night.

On such a hot summer night in June, the surface of the earth is actually cool.Dozens of strong men in black quickly passed through carrying a few thin wooden coffins. They were a group of rough men, but the posture of moving the corpse was like carefully lifting a tofu. The bar houses in the city refused to sell it For coffins, we had to go outside the city to buy boards. The boards were not painted and the wood was light, but they could find the best coffins. They came out from various houses and simply put ropes on the coffins and wound them into double horizontal bars. Taking advantage of the night, he quickly walked through the west of Jinling City.

Soon, this group of people escaped from Yingtianfu City and walked to the outer city of Jinling, which is close to the river, and the city walls are very dirty. They walked into the alley and turned around again and again. The man in clothes looked back and saw that Wu Tai was following and did not disturb the people nearby, so he hurriedly pulled up the heavy iron curtain and urged the survivors to enter.

Kuang Jian, Sha Xiangyue and others have been waiting for a long time. This is a river house warehouse of the Taiping Sect. It is two stories high and has a high ceiling. It looks like an abandoned place, and it is used for private stockpiling.

Jin Chizi's original stronghold has been dug out, and even several taverns have been seized. In the east of Jinling City, thirteen stores under his banner have been confiscated, and twelve have been confiscated. Uneasy, he retreated here to live in seclusion, and because he heard that many of the dead who were executed at that street could not be buried in the ground, he called the altar near the altar to help do this good deed.

Kuang Jian and Sha Xiangyue moved those coffins together, and opened the coffin lids one by one. The eyes and mouths of the people inside were tightly closed, and their faces were terrified before death. The head is separated from the body, and the flesh on the neck has been turned out layer by layer. If you look carefully, there is a circle of bright crimson fractures. The insects and ants smell the bloody smell and gather in the gap, biting the corpse piece by piece. .

Kuang Jian often had to deal with corpses on official business. The first corpse he dealt with was his mother, so he was skillful in his movements. He sewed the head and body of the deceased together with a curved needle, wiped the remains of the deceased, shaved the beard of the deceased, and put on clean clothes.He went to see Sha Xiangyue after he was done with one piece, and Sha Xiangyue's movements were also very fast, and they could basically complete it simultaneously.

On the relative side, Jin Chizi prepared wine and meals for them. Those people gathered together, sometimes talking and sometimes crying. When they saw Kuang Jian and Sha Xiangyue resettled with their relatives, they carefully walked over and looked at them. Neither of them was a violent person, and they moved quickly and appropriately. Finally, the deceased's face was wiped clean, the pain on his face was removed, and he gradually became peaceful. Take the pain away.

Lying here are their sons, their husbands, their brothers. The dead were bullied before, but the living couldn't even give them a decent funeral.

The warehouse was huge, and she arrived at Shigu at the end. Her neck had already been stitched up, but her whole body was scorched black. Kuang Jian had no other way. Come over and say in a hoarse voice, "I wanted to order her a coffin myself."

Kuang Jian turned her head: "I heard that the wooden workshop where you worked was smashed." Her voice was hoarse.

Zhu Shi bowed his head and said "Yes", and said in a hoarse voice: "I'm out. I won't be a carpenter in the future. They say that people like me will suppress charms in wood and harm buyers."

The elimination of demons was vigorous and vigorous, and carpenters, stonemasons, and plasterers were all implicated, because many people believed that these house builders could change the good and bad feng shui, and that they could harm themselves by mixing with the demon party. Without getting involved, if Kuang Jian didn't live in his house, I don't know what would happen.

Kuang Jian silently washed his hands with Sha Xiangyue, and went up to the second floor. The second floor was full of wooden boxes and large goods, and the goods were neatly stacked. Kuang Jian had a keen sense of smell and smelled a smell of saltpeter and sulfur .

"What is this?" Kuang Jian glanced at the black squares and asked Sha Xiangyue.

Sha Xiangyue looked as usual, found a place where she could see the downstairs, covered it with a cloth, and sat cross-legged: "Don't ask."

Kuang Jian was silent for a moment, then stopped asking, leaning on the wooden box and sitting side by side with Sha Xiangyue, clasped fingers tightly.

The people below were still eating around the dining table, all vegetarian dishes, no meat, only good wine, chattering and chatting all the time.The relatives didn't sleep that night. They stayed all night. Sha Xiangyue couldn't hold on. She squinted for a while on Kuang Jian's arm. Suddenly, he heard a low buzzing sound, and he woke up suddenly, and realized that Sha Xiangyue was gone when he hugged him. In a panic, he bent down to search along the light, only to find that Sha Xiangyue was on the first floor.

All Taipings are on the first floor.

There was a dim yellow light in the darkened cargo warehouse, and the figures of nearly a hundred people were reflected on the bulkhead, following the firelight, erratic, like fierce ghosts emerging from the tomb.

More than 30 Taiping believers dressed in neat black clothes looked down at the dozens of coffins. Even Jin Er, who was always arrogant, lowered his head silently at this moment, singing for the dead. An elderly man, Kuang Jian saw him at the gaming table, his surname was Jin, his head was raised slightly, his lips were closed, and he murmured conspiringly, sometimes in a low voice, and sometimes sighed, driving more than 30 believers and more than 60 relatives together , Whenever he changes his voice, everyone will change their voices, and it goes round and round, deep and serene.

The tall house formed a buzzing vibration in this low voice, without lyrics, but extremely deep and solemn, the dust on the beams fell, and the survivors spontaneously stood together in line with the voice, shoulder to shoulder and supporting each other's arms , Standing out of a human wall with strength and forbearance.

After an unknown amount of time, Jin Lao, who was at the head, suddenly stopped, and his big callused hands slammed a handful of powder into the brazier, and the flames trembled suddenly, the red light turned blue, and then back to red again, Red and blue lights and shadows appear alternately, reflecting everyone's face, mixed with black figures, appearing strange and gloomy.

Kuang Jian on the second floor couldn't help touching the iron ruler at his waist, but the old man said in a low voice: "Qi-ling!"

A series of black shadows walked forward spontaneously, and Zhu Shi supported the coffin with the survivors, as if he only realized what happened at this time, looked around in a daze, and suddenly shed a tear.

It landed on the coffin with a "snap", a big drop.

The congregation was silent and orderly, and the coffin was tied with knots and horizontally placed. At this time, Jin Chizi came out more and more, and directed the altar masters to go out of the city to bury the dead.More than a dozen arms tensed at the same time, and the believers who carried the coffin held their breath, and the coffins were quietly lifted off the ground, as if they were carried in and out without a sound——

Zhu Shi wiped his eyes and stood up with difficulty on his knees. Several young people of his age got together and staggered to follow the coffin. When they reached the door, one or two suddenly stopped at the same time. .

"Isn't it... just a lotus flower..." Someone murmured, rolled up his sleeves and gritted his teeth and looked at his arm. Zhu Shi's eyes suddenly became fierce after hearing this sentence, and his face was sullen. Immediately turned his head, glaring, with a murderous look all over his body.

Four or five young men followed, striding back and walking straight in front of Jin Chizi, stopped, knelt down, raised their bare arms, looked sad and indignant, and said in unison:

"Second Brother Jin, I'll wait! Please, enter, Tai, Ping, teach!"

They are the ones squeezed out by this city, their eyes are red with hatred, and they don't want a safe place to stay.

Everyone turned their heads to look at them. It was approaching in the early morning, and there was no sound. It was the darkest time in the world. The strange flames shook wantonly, illuminating each of their young faces. Kuang Jian stood silently on the two sides Lou, helplessly, watched all this happen.