Wang Xianzhi chased after him, still wanting to grab the dog leash.
Zhao Yan spoke, "Don't stop him yet, we can just follow."
General Hei Hu ran very fast, and before they knew it, he had run ahead.
He stopped at a dirt pit ahead and kept digging with his paws, making whimpering sounds.
"Quick! We should dig too!" Zhao Yan urged.
Squatting down, Zhao Yan dug into the dirt with her hands, and Wang Xianzhi followed suit, as did Boss Zhou.
"Holy crap, Master! Look at General Hei Hu's mouth." Wang Xianzhi exclaimed in shock.
Zhao Yan stopped digging and looked into General Hei Hu's mouth. He was holding a bone.
General Hei Hu turned around, opened his mouth, and placed the bone at Zhao Yan's feet.
He sat down and barked at Zhao Yan.
Zhao Yan raised her hand and petted his head, "Good boy, General Hei Hu."
Boss Zhou clicked his tongue and said in surprise, "Master Zhao, you really have a good dog."
Zhao Yan: "?"
Boss Zhou realized he had misspoke and immediately apologized, "I misspoke, I meant to say the dog you bought is a really good dog."
Zhao Yan was also a little surprised. She had known General Hei Hu was somewhat intelligent before, but his current behavior far exceeded her expectations.
Zhao Yan picked up the bone from the ground and examined it in her palm. It was a hand bone.
Zhao Yan spoke, "Boss Zhou, could you do me a favor?"
Boss Zhou nodded, "What is it, please tell me."
"I need eight bags to collect eight sets of remains," Zhao Yan said.
Boss Zhou said it was no problem and drove off to the supermarket to buy bags.
Zhao Yan gently patted General Hei Hu's head, "Keep looking."
General Hei Hu turned and continued to dig with his paws, digging at a rather brisk pace; Wang Xianzhi couldn't keep up.
Zhao Yan dug along the direction General Hei Hu was digging.
After digging for over an hour and exerting considerable effort, they finally unearthed the remains of eight bodies.
Zhao Yan breathed a sigh of relief as she arranged the remains on the ground.
The female corpse's remains had been dug up and moved elsewhere by the excavator. If not for General Hei Hu, they might not have found her remains at all.
"General Hei Hu has really made a great contribution," Wang Xianzhi laughed, preparing to rub General Hei Hu's head.
Before he could touch him, General Hei Hu turned around, went behind Zhao Yan, and barked at him with a look of disdain.
Wang Xianzhi was speechless.
Boss Zhou placed the bags he had bought next to Zhao Yan.
Zhao Yan instructed, "Each person's remains should be placed in a separate bag, don't mix them up."
She had already arranged the remains; all that was needed was to collect them.
After collecting the eight sets of remains, Zhao Yan glanced at her phone. It was almost eight o'clock. She quickly said, "Put the bags containing the remains in the car, and let's hurry to the Yan family's place."
With that, she picked up the bags and got into the car.
She asked Boss Zhou if Yan Zhang's wife had called during the past hour.
Boss Zhou shook his head, "No, she hasn't."
Zhao Yan felt a little relieved and said to Boss Zhou, "Can you use your influence to investigate the names and backgrounds of the eight spirits?"
"Wu Mama told me that these eight spirits died over a hundred years ago, and they all made a living by performing opera."
Boss Zhou replied, "I'll try."
"Thank you for your trouble," Zhao Yan said.
It would be even better if they could find them; if not, she would have to resort to other methods.
Wang Xianzhi asked, "Master, how do you plan to handle this matter?"
Zhao Yan looked at the eight bags and said, "Find a suitable feng shui location for them, give them a grand burial, and have the Yan family place their spirit tablets in the ancestral hall and worship them as family."
Perhaps by honoring these eight spirits, they might also protect the Yan family in the future.
"What if the eight spirits don't agree?" Wang Xianzhi asked.
These eight spirits were buried here without even coffins. Finding a good feng shui location for them was already a very generous offer.
Zhao Yan stated, "If they don't agree, we'll have to use more forceful methods."
They drove all the way to the Yan family villa. Yan Zhang's wife was anxiously waiting at the entrance. When she saw Zhao Yan get out of the car, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Did anything go wrong?" Zhao Yan asked.
Yan Zhang's wife shook her head, "No, my son and husband are both lying in the living room. There's nothing unusual about them."
"Xiao Wang, spread the red cloth on the ground," Zhao Yan instructed.
Wang Xianzhi spread the red cloth he had bought on the ground.
Zhao Yan carefully placed the remains from the bags one by one.
"Boss Zhou, have you found out anything?" Zhao Yan asked Boss Zhou after arranging the eight sets of remains.
Boss Zhou replied, "I've investigated everything. I started with the place they were buried and the fact that they made a living as actors."
"Over a hundred years ago, there was an opera troupe in Jiangcheng. A wealthy landlord took a liking to the female lead singer and wanted to take her as his seventh concubine."
"She refused, so the troupe leader took everyone away from Jiangcheng. They hadn't gone far before the landlord caught up. A fight ensued, and all of them were beaten to death and then buried haphazardly in the place where we found the remains."
As he spoke, Boss Zhou handed over his phone, which contained the information he had gathered.
"However, it's been so long that it's difficult to verify if this information is true or false. Fortunately, this opera troupe was somewhat famous, and their names are all in the phone."
Zhao Yan read carefully for a while and then said to Boss Zhou, "Thank you for your hard work, Boss Zhou."
Boss Zhou waved his hand, "As long as I can save my college classmate, this is nothing."
Zhao Yan placed a talisman on the ground and took out a piece of paper, on which she wrote the names of the eight spirits.
After writing them, she attached the paper to the talisman.
Then, she placed eight talismans on the ground.
"Xiao Wang, bring Yan Jing over and place him in the center of the eight sets of remains," Zhao Yan instructed.
Wang Xianzhi carried Yan Jing over as Zhao Yan had said and placed him in the center.
Zhao Yan held a small bell, lit candles around the area, and a large brazier burned in the center.
She approached Yan Jing, shook the bell, and said to him, "All grievances have their source, and all debts have their owner. I know you all have suffered greatly, but the Yan family was truly unaware of this matter."
"Now that the eight sets of remains have been found for you, if you agree to stop troubling the Yan family, the Yan family will find an excellent feng shui location for you and give you a grand burial."
With that, Zhao Yan turned to Yan Zhang's wife and asked, "Do you agree to what I've said?"
Yan Zhang's wife nodded repeatedly, "If they stop troubling my family, I will definitely agree. I will even treat them like ancestors and serve them well."