Chapter 869: Cannot get to the bottom of it

After Li Mu finished speaking, Li Biao said somewhat unhappily:

"What's wrong again? I just washed from top to bottom, and I even rubbed my clothes several times before putting them on."

After Li Biao finished, Wang Li couldn't help but say:

"What's the use of how many times? Can't you smell the stench all over you now?"

What was unexpected was that Li Biao actually lifted his clothes and smelled them.

It must be admitted that although Li Biao is a big idiot, he is also truly impressive, and he definitely lives up to the "Biao" in his name.

Mainly because Li Mu was retching to that extent, but Li Biao, the real person involved, was neither retching nor vomiting, and seemed as if nothing had happened.

Just this point alone is definitely not something a normal person can do; to be honest, this can be considered Li Biao's superior trait.

But although Li Biao himself seemed fine, his action of smelling his clothes, when seen by Li Mu, instantly made Li Mu's eyes widen.

Immediately after, Li Mu retched even more violently, coughing while retching, and the whole person entered a state of being worse than dead again.

Clearly, Li Biao's clothes must have been splattered with large white maggots before.

Actually, this point cannot be said to be Li Mu being pretentious, but a stress response that normal people would have.

After all, humans have an instinctive aversion to the corpses of their own kind being eaten.

If there were maggots in the soybean paste or worms in the rice, in this era, people wouldn't particularly care.

Even if an animal is injured, leading to a rotting wound with maggots, people wouldn't care, and not only would they not care, they would even grab the maggots out of the animal's wound with their bare hands and clean the animal's wound.

Such things are commonplace to everyone and are not considered a big deal.

Only human corpses having maggots, and getting them all over oneself, is something almost no one can handle; after all, there is a big difference between humans and animals.

Of course, except for the mythical beast Li Biao.

Being repeatedly disgusted by Li Mu and Wang Li, Li Biao finally stopped trying to get close and sat alone far away from the three, sulking.

Unfortunately, Li Biao was only left with sulking, because there was no one to pay attention to him.

More than ten minutes later, the group that fired the shots earlier came over; the people who came were the militiamen Niu Dayou and his kinsman Niu Daliang.

As soon as they arrived, Niu Dayou asked Li Mu urgently:

"Second Brother Li, did you find Niu Laoqi?"

After retching repeatedly, Li Mu was already extremely weak. Hearing Niu Dayou's question, he forced himself to say:

"Found him, it was Xiao An and his brother who found him. The person is already rotten, and then Biao thought to drag him out and take him down the mountain, but the person had already been chewed to pieces by maggots, it wasn't easy to handle, and then Biao dragged him and the leg came off. Let's study how to handle it in a while."

It must be admitted that although Li Mu was very annoyed with Li Biao, when something really happened, he would subconsciously help Li Biao.

From what he said, it can be heard that he managed to turn Li Biao's mistake of damaging the corpse into a good deed done with good intentions.

Otherwise, if Li Biao, this big idiot, pulled off Niu Qi's thigh, he might really be in trouble with the Niu family.

After all, for the deceased, besides "peace in the grave," there is also the emphasis on "the deceased is supreme," so why were you, Li Biao, messing with someone's corpse for no reason?

Of course, in a situation of searching for people in the mountains, the Niu family might not necessarily care about these things, but Li Mu's approach is definitely worth praising.

After listening to this, the Niu brothers were quite calm, showing no sadness or joy, just nodding lightly. Then Niu Dayou asked:

"Then, Second Brother Li, where is he? The two of us will go take a look."

Li Mu advised:

"Why don't we wait until more people come, and then everyone go together? If you look now, you two will definitely be uncomfortable for a while, mainly because you two will have to be uncomfortable a second time."

Niu Dayou pondered and said:

"One stroke cannot write two 'Niu's; since we're here, we have to take a look, otherwise it's not right."

Hearing this, Li Mu nodded and pointed in the direction of the corpse:

"He's at the bottom of that small gully over there."

Just like that, after Li Mu finished speaking, Niu Dayou and Niu Daliang went to see Niu Qi's corpse.

No matter what, Niu Qi was a member of the Niu family. If it weren't for his violent death, Niu Qi would have been buried in the Niu family graveyard after he died.

Locally, there is such a rule: people who die unnaturally—that is, besides normal old age and illness—are called people who died violently, and people who died violently are not allowed to be buried in the ancestral graveyard.

Besides that, there is another rule: people who die violently away from home are not allowed to have a funeral hall in the village; they can only have a simple funeral hall outside the village, and must be buried as soon as possible.

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When the two came back after seeing the corpse, their faces were quite ugly, clearly very uncomfortable.

Don't know if they were sad because their kinsman died, or because they saw Niu Qi covered in white maggots and flies, and his two legs were forcibly separated, causing physical discomfort.

Only heard Niu Dayou say to Wang An, Wang Li, and Li Mu:

"We identified the corpse, it is indeed our Niu Laoqi. Well, thank you three."

To be honest, until now Wang An was puzzled about how they confirmed that the person was Niu Qi from an unrecognizable corpse full of maggots.

It must be admitted, this is truly quite an impressive thing!

After Niu Dayou finished speaking, he and Niu Daliang returned to the group, and then the two sat there with gloomy faces, silently rolling their tobacco.

Out of curiosity, Wang An asked Li Mu softly:

"Brother Li, how did you determine that the person was Niu Qi? Could you have gotten it wrong?"

Li Mu was stunned and said:

"Can't be wrong, Niu Qi's left little toe and fourth toe were frozen off when he was small, and we people of similar age all know that."

Wang An heard this and felt very disappointed.

It must be admitted that many things shouldn't be delved into, because after knowing the truth, it's not interesting at all.

While everyone was waiting, a group of more than 30 people gathered one after another.

But when the village head Sun Physician learned the news of Niu Qi's death, the expression on his face immediately turned gloomy.

Clearly, village head Sun Physician did not want Niu Qi to die.

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