Chapter 523: Who Cut It?
This sudden change surprised everyone, quieting the entire hall as everyone stared at the skull in front of Ma Family!
Lizheng’s corpse had been cleaned up long ago, so when the head fell, it was not bloody, but the horror was in no way diminished!
The skull was grey and withered, the hair and skin as well. The eyes were tightly shut, and the skin on the face was wrinkled.
The place where it had been severed was coated with a layer of glutinous rice paste, smeared sticky and thick; it had been applied by Lizheng’s sons in an attempt to put the head back.
At this moment, the glutinous paste smeared all over Ma Family, carrying a bit of flesh-pink color, which was from the bloody threads leaked from the skull.
Ma Family’s gaze blankly moved from the coffin to the skull in front of her.
She slowly stretched out her hands…
Slowly, she picked up her husband’s head…
Everyone watched in horror as Ma Family suddenly burst into laughter during this tense moment!
All the people in the room looked at the laughing old woman, shocked and unbelieving!
At a funeral, in front of a corpse, Ma Family was laughing hysterically as if she had gone mad!
The ear-piercing laughter echoed throughout the room!
Fu Miaoxue, frightened, clutched Bai Youwei’s hand tightly!
Since she was a puppet, her fingers were harder than those of a living human, making Bai Youwei’s hand hurt.
Meanwhile, Ma Family, holding Lizheng’s skull, stood up, her eyes were wide open, pupils contracted, and her mouth stretched open until it could no longer close, exposing her gums and tongue!
Her face was fierce, like a demon!
“Ma Family is possessed!!!” cried a villager suddenly in the room.
Ma Family’s sons and daughters-in-law snapped out of their shock and rushed in to pin the laughing Ma Family to the ground. One of them slapped her hard across the face twice!
But Ma Family remained oblivious, her laughter continued crazily as if she had reached the heights of joy, or the depths of pain!
Tears flowed down her face, her mouth was split open, her lips stretched to a point where they could no longer open, with blood oozing out of the corners.
In the ensuing chaos, people gathered, some yelling about killing chickens to exorcise evil, while others were busy using a straw rope to tie up Ma Family! Others were busily picking up Lizheng’s head, cleaning it, and placing it back into the coffin-
Chaos was everywhere!
Bai Youwei and Fu Miaoxue were ousted to the side, following the other villagers out of the hall.
The funeral home was in disarray, the funeral was temporarily unable to proceed, and the yard was full of people rushing to relay the news. Ma Family’s sons and daughters-in-law were still weeping loudly in the hall, the scene could not be more chaotic.
“Shall we leave?” Fu Miaoxue asked Bai Youwei, looking around. She was clearly terrified just a moment ago, but now she seemed completely unbothered.
“Aren’t you afraid of the headless male corpse anymore?” Bai Youwei said, shaking off her hand in exasperation, her hand already red.
Fu Miaoxue shook her head, her eyes wide open, “Compared to his wife, the headless corpse is nothing.”
Laughter from Ma Family was terrifying.
Bai Youwei glanced over at the funeral hall and said, “Ma Family has gone crazy, her sons and daughters-in-law are all in the funeral hall, shall we go take a look at the back?”
Fu Miaoxue nodded, “Alright.”
The two of them headed to the back of the hall.
Behind the hall were the bedrooms and a small courtyard. One side of the courtyard was the kitchen, and the other side was piled with firewood.
There was a stump next to the firewood.
An axe was lodged in the stump.
The axe was covered in blood…
If one looked closely, one could see a few strands of bloody hair stuck on the blade.
Fu Miaoxue whispered to Bai Youwei, “Case solved, right? Lizheng was definitely murdered by his own family.”
Why else would his family’s axe be so bloody?
Bai Youwei squinted slightly and followed the trail of the axe to the threshold of the bedroom. A few dark red bloodstains were visible on the ground, clearly visible even though they had been smudged by mud.
“Strange…” she murmured, ” If Lizheng’s head was cut off by his own family, then who cut off Mr. Li’s head?”