Chapter 275 - Disturb the Dead Person (2/2)

He lowered his head again and stared at the grave keeper, while the latter didn’t cooperate with them from beginning to end, like a dead mouse feeling no cold, so perhaps they couldn’t get any information even if they asked him.

Wei Zichao looked at Mo Junyang in perplexity and didn’t know what to do next.

“Go to his house and put all the members in his family in prison first. I will interrogate them after we go back,” Mo Junyang ordered simply.

Before Wei Zichao reacted, the grave keeper screamed, “No! Don’t…You can’t hurt my family…”

He was stubborn just now, while he was so scared even before they did something to him, so everybody knew his soft spot.

Wei Zichao ignored the grave keeper who clamored for mercy and took him away from the ancestral mausoleum after seeing that the craftsmen came.

The craftsmen they had found were really capable. The four or five people cleaned up the surroundings of the grave first and then walked around the grave. After they talked for a moment, they came over with a serious expression on their faces.

“What’s up? Can you repair it?” Since these people arrived, Shi Qingxue stood aside nervously all the time and intently watched their movements.

An old craftsman cupped his hands respectfully in front of them and sighed with emotion. “I don’t know who is so immoral as to treat a dead person in this way. Aren’t they afraid that it would bring their descendants retribution? They just committed a sin.”

As Shi Qingxue heard that, tears fell from her eyes uncontrollably again.

She nervously looked at the old craftsman, with plea in her eyes. “Elder, it is…”

She wanted to say that it was her grandpa who “rested in peace” here, yet seeing the scene, how could she speak out the sarcastic words “rest in peace”?

The old craftsman just sighed with emotion casually, while unexpectedly, he made Shi Qingxue cry. Under Mo Junyang’s cold glare, he had a shiver down his spine, and he hurriedly comforted her. “Lady, please rest assured. Although the grave was damaged severely, it was not difficult to repair it. But…”

“But what? What do you need? I can get anything for you. As long as you can repair my grandpa’s grave for me, I can give you whatever you need,” Shi Qingxue promised in a hurry.

Although she knew that even if Shi Lei’s grave was repaired, her grandpa would never come back, it was fine as she had a place to worship him.

The old craftsman sighed with emotion in his heart. “This girl looks arrogant at a glance and shows that she is a noble lady from her bones, being honored innately. Just now I worried that this is a hard job, but unexpectedly, this is a girl respecting the elders.”

The old man had lived for so many years and seen the fickleness of the world. Many noblemen asked him to repair their ancestors’ graves or tombstones, and he could see whether the descendants were sincere or not at a glance.

Then he didn’t sound her out insincerely anymore. Instead, he said frankly, “In fact, it’s not difficult to repair the tombstone and the grave behind it. However, just now I went to check behind the grave and found that the soil in the grave was loose and the coffin seemed to have been moved. I am afraid that it was damaged inside and covered again later in order to cover it up.”

Shi Qingxue was surprised and angry, yet soon she felt something wrong and asked in an instant, “After those people destroyed my grandpa’s grave, why did they put the coffin back in it? Did they just want to find something inside?

“Was it done by grave robbers?

“In this case, the robbers put the coffin back in the grave later just in order to cover it up, yet they did it clumsily, and it is unreasonable.”

The old craftsman was skillful in the job, but hearing Shi Qingxue’s logical analysis, he was dizzy and couldn’t explain why.

Shi Qingxue knew that it was too much to make things difficult for an old man, so she immediately apologized and then asked, “Since you said that it’s no problem to repair it. What is troublesome?”

The old craftsman looked baffled and stared at Shi Qingxue for quite a while. Then he said hesitantly, “The coffin was moved, and it is not enough just to repair it outside. We need to find some people to dig up the grave and carry the coffin out first. Then we will fix the soil inside and put the coffin back in it before filling it with soil. That’s how to repair it. However, in this case…”

Shi Qingxue listened intently and was satisfied with the old craftsman’s careful work style. As he was stuttering, she asked in confusion, “Isn’t it good to do that? Is there any problem?”

“If the coffin is moved, it would destroy the geomantic omen.” The old craftsman had been working in this field for a long time and knew well about what the rich men scrupled about.

Generally, the reach men were quite particular about life and death. When a baby was born, they would have ostentation, and when a person died, they would have many rites and taboos.

When they chose a grave and buried a dead person, they paid attention to the five elements and geomantic omen in order to bless the descendants, while the word “steady” was very important in the geomantic omen. If the arranged array was destroyed, the result they wanted would surely be ineffective. Even if it was moved back to the original position, it might be useless and perhaps it would accidentally turn the good luck to a disaster.

So once it came to moving a coffin, the old craftsmen would be quite cautious. After all, nobody wanted to move a dead person’s coffin out of kindness but cause trouble as a result.

The old craftsman unhurriedly explained to Shi Qingxue about the consequence. As expected, he saw that the girl furrowed her lanceted eyebrows deeply.

He sighed with emotion in secret again. “Gee, no matter how much the descendants respect the elders, when they have to make a choice considering the benefits, everybody is the same…

“Will…” Shi Qingxue pursed her lips and looked confused, asking hesitantly, “Will it disturb my grandpa’s peace?”

The old craftsman was stunned and hadn’t expected that Shi Qingxue would react like this.

Shi Qingxue didn’t notice the old craftsman’s reactions. She lowered her head and then murmured to retort herself, “But Grandpa’s grave was destroyed so seriously. Can we handle it negligently? Alas. Under the situation, even if it is not good, we have to disturb him.”

She pondered for a long time and agreed to let them dig out the coffin first and then bury it again, and they needed to make everything damaged return to what it had been before.

The craftsman had worked in this field for so many years and had never seen that when a coffin would be moved, a descendant first considered if it would disturb the dead person yet didn’t care about the geomantic omen at all.

He almost thought that he didn’t make it clear and she misunderstood him, so he repeated his question and stressed that it might influence the offspring’s future.

The old man still didn’t believe that Shi Qingxue wouldn’t care about this matter.