Chapter 492 - Capítulo 492: 492 Terrified
Capítulo 492: Chapter 492 Terrified
“There’s no answer to this unless they ask Tang Chuxia.”
However, no one had the courage to ask Tang Chuxia. They feared that Tang Chuxia, who wasn’t previously bothered, would become furious upon hearing the question and attack them directly.
Yet, Yang Yingjie and the others felt complicated emotions upon seeing the bones tied to their legs.
Though they had gotten used to it overnight, it was still bone, not wood.
The three of them thought they were out and could now replace it with branches.
When they rolled up their pant legs to look, the man curiously glanced and uttered in surprise,
“Is this human bone?”
Even if the man had strong mental fortitude, he was still shocked by what he had seen.
It was utterly horrifying.
Their legs were broken, but how was it done so viciously?
Using human bones to fix their legs directly?
“Can you tell?” Hu Mingcheng finally got a chance to speak and asked curiously.
The man snorted disdainfully, “Isn’t it obvious? I used to dig mass graves back in the day!”
Calling it a mass grave might have been an overstatement; it wasn’t actually that many, but because of the huge number, it was hard to count, and the sight of bones stacked upon each other was indeed terrifying.
Human bones are different from animal bones, and those who have seen them generally remember.
The statement from the man stunned the four of them. They had just started to inquire about the man’s past experiences when they heard him ask, “These bones are poisoned, aren’t you afraid of contracting a disease?”
As soon as Tang Chuxia entered, she saw Yang Yingjie and the others had already removed the bones from their legs, their faces ghostly pale and fearfully looking at Tang Chuxia, except for Hu Mingcheng who was relatively calm; the others were not.
“What’s going on?”
Tang Chuxia was gnawing on a stick of immature soybeans, the tender young beans crunching in her mouth, sweet with an overtone of bitter green juice.
Her gaze fell on Hu Mingcheng. Hu Mingcheng was about to speak, but Tang Chuxia gestured for him to stop, turning to Yang Yingjie instead, “Old Yang, you explain!”
Yang Yingjie didn’t like his new nickname, but this was not the time to worry about that.
“Your grandparents have already helped us a lot; we can’t trouble them further!”
Yang Yingjie couldn’t bring up the issue about the bones being poisoned, but he felt the need to express gratitude, alluding delicately to not wanting to use the bones.
Tang Chuxia acknowledged with a noise, glanced at the speckled bone, clicked her tongue, then gathered up the bones.
“They’re poisoned!”
Hu Mingcheng shouted abruptly.
Tang Chuxia retorted, “Nonsense, I am a doctor after all. I can recognize poisoning when I see it!”
Originally, when she had opened the coffin for examination, it was to verify this, and if it weren’t for seeing marks on the skeleton, she wouldn’t have confirmed those were her grandparents’ remains.
She collected the bones and looked at the pieces of white cloth, ultimately deciding to stop using them, and said to the man, “Big brother, do me a favor and burn these cloths!”
The man was quite distressed and asked hastily, “Why must they be burned?”
Tang Chuxia pointed at the cloths, “These have all covered corpses, the stuff on the white cloth is likely ‘corpse oil’!”
It only worsened the situation as she spoke, and Yang Yingjie and the others turned paler. If they hadn’t been nearly empty-stomached, they probably would have vomited.
She knew what it was and still had them use it, wasn’t she inhumane?
The man clicked his tongue, but did not lament the loss of the white cloth, no matter how impoverished his family was, he wouldn’t keep the white cloth because anything that covered a corpse might catch some unknown affliction, and accidentally infecting oneself would definitely be troublesome.
Tang Chuxia said to burn it, so the man directly took the white cloth they had removed to the kitchen and stuffed it under the stove.
Tang Chuxia looked at the four pale-faced people and asked with curiosity, “What’s with your complexions? It’s just burning some stuff!” Seeing that the four still didn’t speak, she slapped her forehead, “Do you feel bad about using my grandparents’ bones? That’s easy to resolve, when we bury them, you can go and kowtow to them twice!”
That was the best solution.
Yang Yingjie responded, “Absolutely!”
Even if they didn’t use the bones, visiting the elder couple of Tang Family and kowtowing was a perfectly normal thing for the younger generation to do.
Jin Haidong and Lu Qiming both nodded vigorously.
“Exactly, exactly, we will definitely go and kowtow to the elders and offer incense!”
Tang Chuxia was very satisfied and pointed to the spots on the bones, “Don’t worry, this isn’t contagious, it’s just that the toxins harmed them and eventually seeped into their bones!”
It was still terrifying even though it wasn’t contagious.
Recalling when the elder couple of Tang Family had died, Yang Yingjie curiously asked, “Why did Su Lan collect your grandparents’ bones?”
That really was an important matter.
Having finished eating her beans, Tang Chuxia clapped her hands, went outside, found two comparatively straight sticks of firewood, split them by hand into several planks, then helped them re-stabilize their legs.
“She didn’t just collect my grandparents’ bones, she also collected those of everyone who had died and had some contact with me before the New Year!”
Yang Yingjie and the others thought of the other bones they had seen in that room, and their faces turned pale again.
It was truly horrific.
“Who exactly is Su Lan?”
Jin Haidong was too curious.
Glancing at him, Tang Chuxia calmly said, “I suspect she’s not one of our compatriots!”
Jin Haidong exclaimed, “Judging by her appearance, could she be from the neighboring ‘water monkeys’?”
Tang Chuxia paused for a moment, what water monkeys?
Lu Qiming knew what he meant and explained, “People from Southern Yue tend to be dark and small, always looking moist, similar to water monkeys!”
Tang Chuxia: …
Her entire concept of ‘water monkeys’ came from internet celebrity Teacher Xiao Liang’s explanations, and when she put the image of a water monkey together with the appearance of men from Southern Yue, the greasy middle-parted hairstyles seemed slightly similar.
She gave Lu Qiming a thumbs-up, “Your observational skills are really strong!”
This connection could indeed be drawn.
Tang Chuxia shook her head, “Their accent and their style of doing things don’t quite match!”
Jin Haidong then suggested, “Could she be a ‘little devil’?”
Pursing her lips, Tang Chuxia thought for a moment, “I also lean more towards her being a ‘little devil’!”
But Yang Yingjie stated, “She doesn’t fit that category, she’s at most considered mixed-race!”
They all knew Yang Yingjie was a top secretary with his own unique sources of information. Although Su Lan was a minor figure, Yang Yingjie’s denial indicated he had investigated her.
“Su Lan is more accurately from across the strait, her mother is from the strait area, her father a ‘little devil,’ and she later married a man from our side and stayed here. It’s just unexpected that she also had a hidden identity!”
After Yang Yingjie finished, Tang Chuxia’s expression was quite complex.