【001】Miscellaneous Marriage

Spring comes silently and goes quickly among people's coming and going. In a blink of an eye, two and a half months have passed in Hanmei Town.

Ran Qin and the frail and sickly Jiang Rong were properly placed under Zhiqing's careful arrangement.

Because of this fatigue, Zhiqing's health gradually weakened and was not very good.

I was so sleepy all night, and my mind was not fully awake. While listening to the noises in life coming from the street, there seemed to be a knock at the door with a "Du-Du" sound at the door. I bowed my head and twisted my head to the door and listened carefully for a while. When I was sure there was a knock, I asked loudly in the direction of the door: "Who?"

Someone outside the door replied, "Master Zhong is me."

I just returned from City A and haven't had a good rest for a few days. Could it be that someone came to ask for something? Zhong Kui secretly guessed while putting on his clothes.

He put on his clothes quickly and didn't even have time to fasten the last button, so he hurriedly opened the door to see who came to visit so early.

Just now I opened the door. A pair of rough calluses handed over a bad cigarette. A layer of sweat floated on my forehead. I stroked the beard on my chin and smiled. The wrinkles on my face were stacked together.

Zhong Kui looked at the honest peasant brother and hurriedly let him into the house. After entering the house, the peasant brother seemed a little restrained and his expression became flustered. He seemed to be not often from the county town.

"Brother, you're here from afar, right?" He took the initiative to chat while pouring water. The purpose was to ease the atmosphere and bring him closer so that he would not be so uneasy.

"Don't be proud of your surname, Lu, just call me Boss Lu."

"How can I call you big brother!" Zhong Kui said politely and handed over a cup of hot tea.

The two sat down, and Zhong Kui tried to squeeze out an apology smile and said, "I just returned to the county town a while ago and found the neighborhood committee to implement the property rights. The elderly who know me must go to the small gathering. I went there yesterday and had some wine. I was a little confused. You are here just now."

"Hi-Hi~ Master Zhong, I'm sorry, I'll disturb you Qingmeng." The eldest brother seemed to have a hard time hiding, and hesitated for a long time without saying a positive one.

Over time, Zhong Kui became a little impatient. "Don't be polite, just say anything. How good I have always been so straightforward. You said this man is so whining like a woman?"

"Okay, then I'll just say it." The elder brother smiled bitterly and continued, "I'm going to tell you about Master Zhong, this is an ugly thing. I don't know how to put my old face..." As he said that, he sighed and looked at the other party's inquiring eyes and said, "The bones of my niece and the old girl were stolen by a tomb robber two days ago."

"What are you saying? The tomb robber steals the bones of your niece?" Zhong Kui said in surprise. He looked at Boss Lu seriously, trying to see from his expression to see if he was joking or something. It is not difficult to see from the other party's shameful face that he is not joking or fooling people.

"Tomb robbers, it's not just stealing the bones of your niece and the old girl! They should have lost other burial objects." This is Zhong Kui's most basic understanding of tomb robbers. In addition to stealing the treasures of the tomb, tomb robbers do not seem to be interested in corpses.

Boss Lu shook his head seriously and said, "It's strange that it's strange here. My Lu family is not a rich man. What are the valuable burial objects there? The easiest thing is a thin bedding and old clothes with them. But the tomb robber left all these in the coffin and took away the corpse."

Zhong Kui smiled bitterly, "You're looking for me even if the cemetery is stolen." He thought of me as Holmes, and he couldn't help but make a fuss and he said, "Why don't you report the case?"

"The government controls this?" The big brother stared at Zhong Kui in surprise, making him embarrassed. His eyes contained a condemnation, and seemed to be saying: Don't push me, how can I find the government department in this way? How can I file a case for me?

Zhong Kui pretended to pick up the teacup, took a sip of the tea in a concealed manner, dropped his face, avoided Boss Lu's sharp gaze and said, "Tell me the exact time and place."

"The location of Huanggang Village is uncertain. Because when we saw it, there was only the coffin left. The coffin had not yet decayed, and the other items inside had molded and rotted."

"What day before yesterday?"

“The 6th, 3rd of the week.”

"June, 6th, 3rd of the week?" Zhong Kui murmured silently, "Yin year, yin month, yin sun." Suddenly he looked up at Lao Lu and said, "Do you have any weddings nearby?"

Boss Lu shook his head and said, "It seems that there is no." Then he looked nervous and asked, "What does this mean?"

"If I'm not mistaken, someone stole the bones of your niece and the bones of the old girl to hold a ghost marriage." Zhong Kui looked at Boss Lu with a serious expression and asked: "Did you, the old girl, and your niece, have never been married? How did they die young?"

When Boss Lu mentioned his miserable girl and niece, he felt sad. The turbid old eyes suddenly became wet, and he felt like he was crying without tears.

"The old girl died at the age of twelve. I gave the name of the old girl casually. You know that we have no education, and the child has to take the name as soon as he goes. I can't get a name for the old girl, so I give it a name for the old girl, eager to use it for the household registration." Boss Lu wiped his tears and his clear nose flowed out.

Zhong Kui hurriedly handed the tissue and continued to wait for him to continue to tell.

"That year, there was a lot of rain. The wheat ears that were left were about to be soaked in the fields. Her mother and I wanted to take them home by the rain. Our old girl was very obedient that day and helped us prepare the meal. She sat alone on a wooden bench, and sat there without saying a word and waited for us to go home for dinner. Wait and wait until we picked up the wheat ears in the fields from the water and carried them home, we realized that she was ill. She sent to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment and said that it was tonsillitis that caused the abscess and ulceration, which affected the respiratory organs that could not breathe normally. As a result, rescue failed for more than ten minutes and suffocated to death."

His girl died at the age of twelve, but her age was so old. Zhong Kui couldn't ask about the other party's age, so he had to apologize: "I'm sorry, it touched your sad things. So how long has your old girl died?"

"Three years!"

"Oh. Then what's going on with your niece?"

"Niece, she is all poor kids. She is a liver qi, and she has suffered from illness and has suffered from illness for a long time."

"How long does it take for them to die?" Zhong Kui suddenly felt like a doctor was asking about the condition. He laughed bitterly and said, "You can tell me the whole story in one breath, so as not to ask one after another. It would be bad to delay time like this."

"Their deaths were half a month apart. Some people say that the feng shui of our ancestors was not good. Alas! Poor child."

"Brother, everything has happened, don't be sad. I will try my best to help you."

"Then, it's good." Boss Lu said with gratitude.
Chapter completed!