All the men in Gao Manor, young and old, a hundred or so in number, came together to fill the deep pit. It was quickly smoothed over.
And they left no discernible grave behind.
With just a few days of wind and sun, this place would soon look no different from any other, with no trace of sin to be found.
Moreover, in these times, death was commonplace; a few more bodies scarcely made a difference. Even if they encountered an exceptionally upright official, it would still result in a case of the people not reporting and the officials not investigating.
What worried the villagers most was actually... the family buried in the ground themselves.
Under normal circumstances, unless one had a peculiar life chart, harbored great hatred, injustice, or revenge, or had arranged some Magic or ritual before dying,
most people would lose most of their spiritual wisdom after transforming into ghosts.
