The new content gave Chen Miao a wealth of information.
The Chen Miao in the book had finally done what the real Chen Miao wanted and dug deeper for answers.
As a result, he had learned a great deal from the old man.
Compared with what Zhong Cai had told Chen Miao, the old man's account was far more detailed.
His words gave Chen Miao plenty of points worth investigating.
For instance, the dead were not buried, but laid out at home.
Why did such a custom exist, and how did the people of Sealed Gate Village keep the bodies from decaying?
For instance, why did the young people leave Sealed Gate Village immediately after returning to oversee the funerals, without even staying overnight?
Was that really a custom, or were they afraid of something?
For instance, why were the only people left in the village elderly widows and widowers?
If every inhabited house held just one old person nearing death, then was the person cooking earlier in the book... the old man's wife?
Had his wife gotten up at night to cook for him after she died?
The dead cooked for the living?
How on earth did that work?
These customs of Sealed Gate Village...
They were called customs, but Chen Miao felt they were more like taboos.
Last time, Chen Miao had broken the taboo against going outside at night, which was why he had encountered the cooking zombie.
As for what he and Qi Ning had encountered...
If his guess was right, the old man who had told them about the customs might also have forgotten some crucial details.
For instance: "Houses with bells hanging at the entrance and no thresholds have no one living inside."
There might have been a second half to that custom.
Namely,