Niu Lin's wife muttered softly, "It's really incomprehensible." This sound happened to be heard clearly by each of us.

This woman is really troublesome. Judging from her appearance, she is indeed a troublesome person. She is in her forties, with makeup like a ghost. She leans against the car body and stares at the sky with her eyes squinting, as if we are only worthy of being looked at by her nostrils.

Lao Niu nodded at us repeatedly with an embarrassed look on his face, and I could only pretend not to see it.

After about an hour, Uncle Qi finally stood up, then he walked up to the woman and handed her the painting. Strangely, the seemingly arrogant and indifferent woman's expression completely reversed after seeing the painting. Her eyes and mouth turned into an "o" shape at the same time. Then she screamed and the paper in her hand fell to the ground because she couldn't hold it tightly.

Lao Niu quickly went over and picked up the drawing paper to look at it, and we also went over.

There was a human face drawn on the drawing paper. Uncle Qi's sketching skills had reached an extremely high level. The face on the drawing paper looked like a black and white photo, and the facial features were extremely clear. But what was surprising was that the person's eyes were wide open and his face was full of extreme anger.

Could it be that the painting by Uncle Qi is the current state of Niu Lin in the coffin ? This does not look like a dead person , but clearly a "middle-aged uncle" who is on the rise.

Old Niu was so shocked that he couldn't even speak clearly. He stuttered for a long time before saying, "Is this really Niu Lin's expression right now?"

"This is what I saw through the Earth Spirit Eyes. There's no way I'm wrong." He then turned to Madam Niu Lin and said, "Madam Niu, I've never seen your husband, and Boss Niu never described him. The man in my painting should be him, right?"

"Yes, yes, that's right, but you have to tell me, my husband has been dead for some time, why hasn't his body rotted, and why does he still have such a hideous expression?"

"Did he look so angry when he was buried?" Uncle Seven said.

"No, it's true that my husband's eyes were not closed when he died, but there was no expression on his face. Could it be that he was not dead when he was buried in the ground?" The woman almost knelt down.

"If he was buried alive, his body would have rotted by now."

"Then why did my husband still have an expression on his face after he died?" Niu Lin's wife's face was full of horror.

"Generally speaking, after death, the soul and spirit leave the body, and the body begins to decay. However, there are also cases where the soul leaves but the spirit remains. These are zombies , but there are also cases where the spirit leaves but the spirit remains. These are called cute corpses. These corpses are also not easy to decay, and they often have some of the reactions of a living person, such as suddenly making complex hand gestures and having expressions similar to those of a living person, showing emotions such as joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness ."

"You mean my husband has become a cute zombie?"

"Not necessarily. Your husband's soul hasn't left his body, but he's already dead. He can't be considered a cute corpse, he can only be considered a person who died in vain."

"But why did this happen to my husband?"

"Generally speaking, there's only one possibility for this kind of situation, and that's anger. Your husband didn't die of natural causes, but was angered to death. It's just that he was so weak before that that you all thought he died of natural causes."

"My husband died of anger? He actually died of anger?" After mumbling to herself for a few words, she suddenly remembered something and said, "You mean my three sons angered their own father to death?"

Uncle Seven said, "It's hard for me to say, but judging by the unlucky ones, it should be these three. I think you can ask the third brother, before Niu Lin died, did the three of them do anything to anger his father? You must tell the truth, otherwise if this knot is not untied, there will be big trouble later."

This woman was really straightforward. She got in the car and drove away without saying a word. Lao Niu apologized, "Master, please don't be offended. I, your sister-in-law, have been spoiled by you. Please don't take my lack of etiquette to heart."

"It's okay. Anyone who encounters this kind of thing will be extremely upset. It's not easy for a woman to be the head of the family."

"Who says it's not true? Can the method you just used called the Earth Spirit Eye really see my brother's current appearance?"

"How could I have drawn this sketch if I hadn't seen it?" Uncle Qi laughed.

"That's the truth." He thought for a moment and then said, "Master, can I take a look?"

"You can't see anything. If you don't believe me, you can try it."

Old Cow leaned over the pipe mouth with a suspicious look on his face and took a look. He said with a puzzled look on his face, "I really can't see it. My eyesight is not bad. Is yours better than mine?"

"This has nothing to do with eyesight. Back then, I put a lot of effort into developing these Earth Eyes. I spent all day in pitch-black rooms to get used to the darkness, and even had to read in rooms with extremely dim light. So what appears dark to you is crystal clear to me."

Luo Tianbao said, "People who can master the art of tomb divination have extraordinary eyesight. Boss Niu, ordinary people like us should not get involved in this."

I was very interested in the Earth Spirit Eye tool, so I moved closer to observe it carefully. I saw that the tube was made of copper and the surface was engraved with patterns of animals and plants with auspicious meanings.

The copper tube is about as thick as an adult's palm. You can feel circles of very thin copper sheets on the inner wall of the tube. These are sandwich copper tubes that extend downward during the rotation process. There are five layers in total that can be felt by hand. That is to say, if a layer of copper sheet is one meter long, it will be six meters when rotated to the end.

I'm so screwed. It's such a small point, six meters away from top to bottom, and it's in an almost lightless area under the soil. If it can see the whole picture of the corpse, can it still be a human eye?

"This is called the Earth Spirit Stick. In fact, like the Luoyang Shovel, it was once a tool invented for tomb robbers. However, the probability of using the Earth Spirit Stick is too low because the requirements for the user are too high. Just relying on this tiny area to see the overall situation inside the wooden coffin is beyond the ability of most people. Therefore, the Luoyang Shovel has become a tool used in large quantities by tomb robbers, while the Earth Spirit Stick has gradually become unknown." Luo Tianbao walked to my side and said.

"It's really too difficult to use. I can't imagine being able to see the condition of the corpse clearly in the pitch-black coffin through this small hole ."

"Don't even mention you. There are only two or three people in our entire family who have this skill. It takes talent to master this craft," Luo Tianbao said.

Today I finally understand Luo Tianbao's position and role in the family. To put it bluntly, he is just running errands and is not much better than me.

People's admiration always increases little by little as their knowledge improves, and the person they admire first is also the first to be forgotten.

Of course, it is a bit too pretentious to say that I have forgotten Luo Tianbao, but I will no longer worship him as much as before, because I know that many of my relatives are far more capable than Luo Tianbao, and even my seventh uncle may not be a very capable person, because "masters" are generally those who solve big problems, and those who run around outside all day to take orders cannot have a very high status in this family.

Afterwards, Uncle Qi put away the Earth Spirit Stick, and he did not put the crystal drill into the box but buried it in the soil. This was because once the coffin lid was drilled open, it would be contaminated with corpse qi. This thing must not be taken home immediately. It must be buried in the soil for a few days until the corpse qi dissipated before it could be seen in the light of day.

After Lao Niu sent us back to the hotel, he said, "Everyone, go to bed early. I'll come over at noon tomorrow."

When we entered the hotel, I said to Uncle Seven, "Since Niu Lin was angered to death by a child, what methods should be used to rebuild his grave?"

Uncle Seven frowned and said, "I don't know if I'm overthinking it, but I always feel that there's something strange about Niu Lin's body, but I can't tell what's wrong."

"Seventh Uncle, the cute corpse can have expressions and movements, but it can't move, right?" Luo Tianbao said.

"No, if it could move, it would be a zombie."

After chatting for a while, they went to sleep. The next day before lunch, Lao Niu arrived promptly and said, "Master, your calculations were absolutely correct. These three guys did something that annoyed my brother before he died. It was the way he was buried."

"Of course the dead need to be buried. Even if the three brothers talked about it too early, it wouldn't make people angry to death, right?" Uncle Seven said in confusion.

"Actually, they didn't say anything particularly harsh. My brother was born with a severe hunchback, and the second child said that Dad's body couldn't be straightened, and if they wanted him to lie flat, they would have to break his spine. Since dead people can't feel pain anyway, they just did it. My brother also has a bad temper, and he was so angry that he almost died."