Back in the 1980s, hiking in the mountains was also a way of life

Chapter 867: Can't Dig Deep
After Li Mu finished speaking, Li Biao said a little unhappy:
"What happened? I just washed it from head to toe. I even rubbed the clothes several times before putting them on."

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

"What's the point of you doing it so many times? Don't you smell that you stink all over now?"

What was unexpected was that Li Biao actually lifted up the clothes and put them to his nose and smelled them.

I have to admit that although Li Biao is a big bully, he is also really awesome, and he is definitely worthy of the word "Biao" in his name.

The main reason was that Li Mu was retching so badly, but Li Biao, the real person involved, was neither retching nor vomiting, and looked as if nothing had happened.

This alone is definitely not something a normal person can do. He speaks whatever he thinks, and this is Li Biao's outstanding feature.

Although Li Biao himself looked fine, when Li Mu saw him smelling the clothes, his eyes widened instantly.

Immediately afterwards, Li Mu began to retch even more violently, coughing while retching, and he once again fell into a state of being worse than death.

It was obvious that Li Biao's clothes must have been splashed with big white maggots before.

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

After all, humans have a fundamental aversion to seeing their own corpses being eaten.

If there are maggots in the soybean paste or bugs in the rice, people in this day and age don't really care.

Even if an animal is injured and the wound rots and maggots grow, people will not care. Not only will they not care, they will also pick the maggots out of the animal's wound with their bare hands and then clean the wound.

Things like this are common to everyone and are not a big deal at all.

The only thing is that human corpses are infested with maggots, and they are all over the body. Almost no one can stand it. After all, there are huge differences between humans and animals.

Of course, the exception is the divine beast Li Biao.

After being repeatedly disliked by Li Mu and Wang Li, Li Biao finally gave up the idea of ​​getting close to them. He sat alone at a distance from the three of them and sulked.

But at this time, Li Biao could only sulk because no one even paid attention to him.

Ten minutes later, the group of people who had fired the shots came over. They were militiaman Niu Dayou and his cousin Niu Daliang.

As soon as the two came over, Niu Dayou hurriedly asked Li Mu:

"Brother Li, have you found Old Seven?"

Li Mu was so weak after repeated dry heaving that he could hardly see. When he heard Niu Dayou's question, he said with all his strength:

"We found him. Xiao An and his brothers found him. He was already smelly. Then Biaozi wanted to drag him out and carry him down the mountain, but he was already gnawed to pieces by maggots, so he couldn't stop himself. Then Biaozi pulled his legs off. We'll figure out what to do with him later."

I have to admit that although Li Mu is very annoyed with Li Biao, when something really happens, he will still subconsciously help Li Biao.

From what he said, we can tell that he was trying to both defend and attack Li Biao, and he turned Li Biao's mistake of damaging the corpse into a case of good intentions leading to bad consequences.

Otherwise, if Li Biao, this big tiger, pulled down Niu Qi's big leg, he might really get in trouble with Lao Niu's family.

After all, for the dead, in addition to "resting in peace", we also have to emphasize that "the dead are the greatest", so, why do you, Li Biao, mess around with other people's corpses for no reason?

Of course, in this situation of looking for someone in the mountains, the people in Lao Niu's family may not care about these things, but Li Mu's approach is definitely worthy of praise.

After hearing this, Niu Dayou and his brother were relatively calm, not sad or happy, just nodded slightly. Then Niu Dayou asked:

"Hey, Brother Li, where is he? Let's go take a look."

Li Mu dissuaded him by saying:

"Why don't we wait until more people come and go together? If you look at it now, you two are going to be really uncomfortable for a while, and the main thing is that you will be uncomfortable again in a while."

Niu Dayou hesitated for a moment and said:
"You can't write two cows with one stroke. Now that you're here, you have to take a look. Otherwise, it won't make any sense."

Li Mu nodded upon hearing this, pointed in the direction of the corpse and said:
"It's at the bottom of that little ditch over there."

Just like that, after Li Mu finished speaking, Niu Dayou and Niu Daliang strolled over to see Niu Qi's body.

No matter what, Niu Qi is a member of the old Niu family. If he had not died a violent death, he would have been buried in the old Niu family cemetery after his death.

There is a rule in the local area that people who died abnormally, that is, people who died other than the normal causes of birth, aging, illness and death, are called people who died unexpectedly, and people who died unexpectedly are not allowed to be buried in the ancestral tomb.

In addition, there is another rule, that is, people who died unexpectedly outside are not allowed to set up a mourning hall in the village. They can only set up a simple mourning hall outside the village, and they must be buried as soon as possible.

When the two men came back from seeing the body, their faces looked extremely ugly, and it was obvious that something was wrong.

I don't know if they were sad because their brother had died, or if they were feeling physically uncomfortable because they saw Niu Qi covered in maggots and flies, with his legs forcibly separated.

I only heard Niu Dayou say to Wang An, Wang Li and Li Mu:
"We have identified the body and it is indeed our Seventh Brother. Well, thank you all very much."

To be honest, Wang An still wonders until now how they identified a corpse that was unrecognizable and full of maggots as Niu Qi.

I have to say, this is really an awesome thing!

After Niu Dayou finished speaking, he and Niu Daliang returned to the crowd. Then, the two of them sat there with gloomy faces and did not speak a word, rolling up their cigarettes in silence.

Out of curiosity, Wang An asked Li Mu softly:

"Brother Li, how did you know for sure that the man was Niu Qi? Could it be that you made a mistake?"

Li Mu was stunned when he heard this and said:

"That's right. Niu Qi's little toe and fourth toe on his left foot were frozen off a while ago. People of our age know about it."

When Wang An heard this, he felt greatly disappointed.

I have to say, there are many things that you can’t get to the bottom of, because once you know the truth, they’re no longer interesting at all.

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

However, when the village chief Sun Dafu learned the news of Niu Qi's death, the expression on his face immediately became gloomy.

It is obvious that the village chief Sun Dafu does not want Niu Qi to die.

Thanks to “The Big Emperor of the Empire” for the reward, thank you very much!

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(End of this chapter)