"By then, we had figured it out too. In fact, we had noticed something strange about Sun Deji a long time ago. He looked terrible and had barely said a word before we entered the tomb. There was also a faint stench about him—it was the smell of a corpse. But we were in this line of work, after all, so we assumed he'd recently been in a tomb and come into contact with a body. None of us thought much of it."
"Even the bravest person couldn't have handled something like that. We hurriedly filled in Sun Deji's grave, then waited until the dead of night to sneak over to his home and give the woman all the gold, silver, and jewelry."
"We didn't dare say too much. We just told her we were Sun Deji's friends and that he'd left those things with us for safekeeping while he was alive."
"It was clear the woman didn't entirely believe us, but she didn't ask many questions. She probably knew what kind of work Sun Deji did. In the end, she thanked us profusely."
"We didn't dare stay long. As soon as we'd done all that, we left Liping County in the middle of the night."
"We spent some time on edge, but when nothing happened, we finally dared to return to Wolong Town. After all, we still had to get rid of the burial goods."
"For a long time after that, it was just the three of us—me, Fanjin Dragon, and Dingmen Liang—guarding the burial goods. Huashe Head went out alone to find buyers. Once he'd confirmed a buyer, the rest of us would deliver the goods to their door."
"These were all shady deals, so we always made our deliveries in the middle of the night and kept