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Although Taoist Wang was puzzled, he was secretly delighted. He took the opportunity to say that there was a funeral host in the neighboring village who was very professional, should he be invited?

Just like this, with the consent of the Zhang family, Taoist Wang invited the guest who presided over the funeral over, and the Taoist Wang earned some kickbacks.

According to normal logic, it was the Taoist Wang's idea that led to Aunt Zhang's death, the Zhang family members should be blaming him, maybe they would lie to him again, but not only did they not blame him, they even helped Taoist Wang's son to cover up the truth. What did they mean?

Since the other party doesn't even want to pursue the matter, why should we worry about it?

The next day, Aunt Zhang's house tore off a white cloth, and built a big tent to start the funeral.

This time, the whole village was in an uproar, there were people talking about this and that, but most people thought that the Aunt Zhang had offended the Tree God and was killed by him.

As expected, the father and son duo kept their mouths shut, and really did not reveal the matter under the big tree, to the point where no one pointed their fingers at Taoist Wang.

Although this was a good thing, Taoist Wang still couldn't let go of this huge rock in his heart.

Taoist Wang brought the guests to the Zhang Family Residence. After a simple introduction, he returned.

Just on the morning of the second day after Aunt Zhang's death, another mishap happened.

Aunt Zhang's son rushed into the house dressed in filial clothes, crying until she was out of breath. She begged the Taoist Wang and the guests to quickly go over and ask him what happened, but he did not say anything and just hurried over.

After entering the courtyard of the Aunt Zhang's residence, the Taoist Wang and guests couldn't help but suck in a breath of cold air! Aunt Zhang's corpse was hung in the middle of the room, her head was hanging down, just right in front of her bald spot, the scene was extremely horrifying.

The husband of the Aunt Zhang was so scared that she sat on the ground. Seeing the Taoist Wang kowtowing towards him, she couldn't even say a word.

They helped the Aunt Zhang husband up and bravely rushed into the living room, only then were they able to see him more clearly.

Aunt Zhang had a rope tied around her neck, and a rope tied to a house beam. Her pale green face, as well as her dead fish eyes, just happened to meet the gaze of the customer, scaring him to the point where he almost fell on his butt on the ground.

When Taoist Wang called the father and son over to ask them what was going on, the husband said tremblingly that nothing had happened last night and he hadn't heard a sound either. When he opened his eyes today, he saw Aunt Zhang hanging there, but he didn't know what kind of crime they had done.

The guest comforted him, "Alright, stop cursing and swearing and quickly take the stool to save the person first."

Taoist Wang immediately waved his hand, saying that people could not let go of the corpse. Before the corpse was buried, they must not touch it, otherwise, it would be bad luck, and if it was serious, it would cause trouble.

Just as he did not know what to do, there was a commotion outside. Everyone who heard the news rushed over, and the Zhang family courtyard was immediately crowded.

A few people rushed out from the crowd, they were relatives of Aunt Zhang, they shouted at their father and son, what were they waiting for, why aren't they quickly putting down the corpses!

The other people in the crowd also joined in the shouting, telling them to put the corpses down and not to hang there and suffer.

Everyone had their own opinions and opinions as they were all in a state of chaos.

Seeing that the situation had lost control, Taoist Wang shouted that he would listen to him. In short, the corpse could not be moved, if anyone wanted to move the corpse, they would first step over my corpse!

Taoist Wang was normally very dignified, and probably only he could control this kind of scene. As expected, there was no more noise from the crowd, everyone agreed to listen to Taoist Wang.

Taoist Wang said a few more words, telling everyone to go back first, he would definitely think of a way to put the person down.

Hearing him say this, everyone had nothing to look at, no one dared to come over to touch the corpse, but after the relatives of Aunt Zhang burned some paper and cried for a while before returning home, the rest were even more unwilling to stay here, and quickly left.

The customer sat down and tried to think of something, but he couldn't figure out what was wrong. Logically speaking, this was a good thing for the thousand-year-old tree to burn paper and worship her. Could it be that the tree wouldn't forgive her?

Taoist Wang said no, if there really was a spirit demon that had struck her, then she would not die in this manner. It was clear that Aunt Zhang's death was a natural death, and being struck by lightning was also a coincidence.

His son told Taoist Wang about how he was struck by lightning yesterday. He said that he remembered how lightning struck the thousand year old tree.

Taoist Wang said that everyone in the village knew of this matter. Every time there was lightning striking on the tree, it would shake the tree till it seemed to be trembling, as if it did not know what grudges the heavens had with this tree. Why did they specialize in splitting this tree?

The guest said that according to the scientific explanation, this ancient tree was too big. The tree itself was the source of the thunder. It was normal for such a large ancient tree to have this phenomenon. It shouldn't be a strange matter.

Taoist Wang and the guests were busy for another half a day, but were unable to find any clues. From start to finish, they did not understand why the dead Aunt Zhang would hang herself.

At the beginning, the Zhang father and son did not want to let them go. It was true, there was a dead person hanging at home, and no one could be sure about that.

After comforting them for a long time, the Taoist Wang told the Zhang father and son that as long as you did not take the initiative to put the corpses down, nothing would happen to them. Only then did the Zhang father and son reluctantly agree.

Early morning of the next day, Taoist Wang went to Aunt Zhang's house. The corpse was still hung there, but the difference from yesterday, was that Aunt Zhang had suddenly raised his hand and pointed to the west.

He asked the Zhang father and son what was going on. They also had bitter smiles on their faces. They said that Aunt Zhang's left hand was like this when he woke up in the morning, and had even maintained this posture until now.

Taoist Wang walked around the corpse a few times, but still couldn't find anything.

This customer's curiosity was also high, so he followed the direction the Aunt Zhang pointed to and arrived outside the west wing's door.

The furnishings in the room were very simple. There was a altar in the corner with something that couldn't be seen clearly. However, there was a portrait on the wall that looked like an animal. He didn't know what it was.

Just as he was about to push open the door and take a look, the husband of the Aunt Zhang ran over in a hurry to ask him what he was doing. Without waiting for the guest to speak, the husband of the Aunt Zhang immediately locked the door.

This matter was delayed for another day, and it was only at night when he went to eat at a restaurant, when the guest mentioned the portrait he saw in the west wing, that Taoist Wang finally understood what had happened.

Early morning of the next day, he brought his guests and chased everyone out. An hour later, Taoist Wang opened the door and came out.

Hearing his words, they felt as if they had heard an imperial edict. A few of them easily took Aunt Zhang down from the roof, and then went to untie the rope.

Aunt Zhang took off the rope sheath. Since she had nothing to do, Taoist Wang instructed him to burn the rope.

After all of them were done, he placed Aunt Zhang into the coffin.