Chapter 1484 is coming
Listening to Li Bai’s almost last words, the fat man’s eyes turned red as he held her hand, and tears kept rolling in them. His lips trembled, unable to say a word.
What Li Bai said is the optimal solution. It is not wise to let Shao Tong be the scapegoat. Everyone understands it, but emotionally speaking, the person who everyone does not want to leave is Li Bai.
There was a commotion outside the courtyard gate, as if many people were approaching the courtyard. The sound of the soles of their shoes scraping against the ground was long and annoying, as if everyone was rubbing their feet on the ground without leaving the ground.
“It’s too late, give me that bowl of rice!”
Li Bai struggled to sit up. She was also afraid of death, but now all she could do was not to drag down her friends, King Fugui of Jiangcheng and Yao, Shunyu, etc. Their journey was not easy, but it was a pity that her journey to accompany the three of them ended here. .
Jiang Cheng took out the wooden sign from his body and stuffed it into Li Bai's pocket, "Although I don't know the function of this wooden sign, it may be useful if you carry it with you."
Holding the bowl of white rice, Li Bai tremblingly picked up the chopsticks. Just when she had accepted her fate, a hand grabbed her hand and took off her bowl at the same time.
"You..." Li Bai looked at this person doubtfully.
Shao Tong held the bowl in one hand, pointed to Li Bai's pocket with the other, and said calmly: "Don't be so anxious, I can translate the words on that sign."
"Can you translate?" Fatty said with joy, "Then why didn't you say it before?"
Tang Qisheng and Zhu Jie's faces turned pale with anger. Jiang Cheng glanced at Shao Tong and said nothing, but Zhang Qizheng looked at Shao Tong. Tong nodded, "You are so scheming, you are testing us. If we are determined to use you as a scapegoat, you will die with this secret, and we will never understand each other." "The opportunity to read the wooden sign."
Shao Tong smiled, not giving Zhang Qi a positive look at all, "Old guy, you and these two idiots should thank Brother Jiang and Miss Li Bai, without them. , all of you are going to die!"
When did Tang Qisheng and Zhu Jie feel this anger? His fists clenched, but because of the information Shao Tong said, he did not dare to do anything to him.
"You'd better not lie to us, otherwise believe me, your end will be ugly." Tang Qisheng said with a sneer at Shao Tong.
After taking the wooden sign, Shao Tong pointed to one side of the wooden sign and said, "This side is the upright side, and it says that the living are opening the way." Then he turned the sign over, "This side is the reverse, and the top side is that the dead are returning to their souls."
"This sign is not only the key to Daotou Village, but also an indispensable item for the resurrection ceremony. With this sign, as long as it is used properly, Miss Li Bai may not die tonight." Shao Tong said firmly.
Seeing that everyone didn't believe it, Shao Tong didn't talk nonsense. He picked up the sign, faced it face to face, put it into his pocket, and then took it out again to show it to everyone.
The fat man took a look and saw no problem, but this was all within Shao Tong's expectation. The second time he turned the sign over in front of everyone, facing it backwards, and then again They put the sign back in their pockets, but when they took it out again, everyone finally realized something was wrong.
"Why...why is this sign turned back again?" The fat man's eyes widened. He clearly remembered that he put it back upside down, but when he took it out, it was right side up again.
Shao Tong took a deep breath and his expression became solemn, "The problem lies in this sign. This is not an ordinary wooden sign. It is a body examination sign used by the corpse exorcists in western Hunan."
"It is said that the corpse exorcists are here. The most feared thing in this industry is not the dead corpses, but the corpses of living people. The so-called living corpses are the corpses sent by the family members who are not completely dead. However, due to the level of medicine at that time, some people who were not completely dead were also treated as corpses, and it was a taboo to drive away such corpses."
"This kind of people who are only half alive. They can't help but die soon on the road to remove corpses. These people suffered this disaster before their life span was over, and they have great resentment in their hearts. In addition, the path chosen by the corpse remover is very complicated. They are all remote places with few people. Once the high mountains and dense forests are contaminated with some yin energy, it is easy for the corpses to appear as corpses. Ordinary corpse collectors have no way to deal with them, and they often die miserably in the end."
< br>"It wasn't until the appearance of the body examination card that everything changed. Put the body examination card on the delivered corpse, and you can tell whether the body is alive or dead, even if only half of it is left. You can also test your tone.”
“The sign has two sides. The front side is for life, which is called the birth gate, and the back side is for burial, which is also called the death gate. The specific method is to push the sign up to the birth gate and put it into the corpse’s clothes. If it is still alive when taken out, then this person is still alive. Even if only half of his body is left, he must still have breath. "
"On the contrary, if the door of life is put in and the door of death is taken out, then the person is absolutely dead and can be carried away with confidence."
Shao Tong's explanation is very vivid, everyone can understand it, and from then on Judging from the level of detail, Shao Tong definitely didn't just discover this. What he said before was not a bluff. He did know a lot of information about this mission. It should have been revealed to him by Lu Qin inadvertently, or by a night watchman.
Jiang Cheng didn't have time to listen to his detailed analysis. The sound of footsteps had already reached the door of the courtyard. "Stop talking nonsense. Just tell us what we should do?"
"This body examination sign can do it." Verify life and death, and the villagers also rely on this sign to tell whether we have been tricked, as long as we find a way to put it on the sign After working hard, the door that should have been life became the door of death. Li Bai faked his death and fooled the villagers. I think it’s not that important whether he eats the bowl of rice or not."
Looking at Shao Tong’s face, Jiang Cheng sneered, "What I said before is quite reliable, but as for that bowl of rice, I can be sure that I can't do it without eating it."
Just think about it and you will know that when the villagers came in and found that the rice in the bowl had not been moved, they then said that Li Bai was dead. These villagers were ghosts, but they were not idiots.
Moreover, the villagers were carrying straw on their heads. Jiang Cheng could see clearly that there was probably a connection between the straw and the evil white rice. The villagers were not that easy to fool.
There were knocks on the door. It was very slow. The second knock came long after the first knock, but the pressure it brought was not big at all. The fat man could even imagine the knock on the door. Just how stiff your arms are.
If these villagers do not get a satisfactory answer after opening the door, it is not ruled out that they will take off their disguises and kill them all.
"Brother Jiang, how about you let them stabilize the villagers first, while we stay to deal with this matter?" Shao Tong winked at Jiang Cheng.
Jiang Cheng agreed, and soon only he and Shao Tong were left in the room, as well as Li Bai, who was gradually losing consciousness. She was completely holding on.
“Huh——” Shao Tong breathed a sigh of relief, “You are right, that bowl of rice must be eaten. I can’t solve the rice problem, but you can.”
“I ?" Jiang Cheng raised his eyebrows.
Shao Tong stretched out his finger and pointed at Jiangcheng, then slowly downwards, and finally stopped at Jiangcheng's shadow, "To be precise, it can." (End of Chapter)