In the following days, three more bodies were unearthed from walls and kang beds, and were sent to the forensic autopsy room. The number of bodies in the Chen Wanjia case rose to eight.
Two of the bodies were the familiar foremen, and the third, discovered by police in the old house of Chen Wanjia's aunt Wang Lihua's kang bed, was a mummified corpse.
No one had expected this body, because Wang Lihua had disappeared years earlier, and there was a record of the disappearance. A search team had sent two people with a portable X-ray machine to scan the area. They didn't find anything in the wall, but when they scanned the kang bed, they detected a human figure.
The Chen family had used this kang bed for several years for eating, drinking, sitting, and sleeping, but not a single person had uncovered its secret. When the kang was dug up and a mummy highly suspected to be Chen Wanjia's aunt Wang Lihua appeared, everyone in the area was shocked.
