Chapter 342: Tan Xiangrong's "Last Words"
It was repeated four or five times before Tan Xiangrong kept silent.
Don't say to guess what this means, Bai Xiu is a little skeptical about whether he even said it, but he didn't have the heart to play telepathy here, so he simply stood up and prepared to ask directly.
As a result, before he could speak, Tan Xiangrong had already taken the lead in saying, "Why don't you look at it, and I'll squint for a while?"
Bai Xiu nodded, and couldn't help but feel strange in his heart, it stands to reason that Tan Xiangrong's suspicion of him is definitely not something that Zheng Zhi can resolve in a few words, but he didn't expect that the other party would be able to put his mind at ease and let him keep vigil now.
This illustrates a problem, Tan Xiangrong may be acting, but he doesn't know which part he is playing.
If it is now, it means that Tan Xiangrong wants to see him show his flaws, so he pretends to sleep and observes secretly; if it is before, it means that Tan Xiangrong's hostility towards him is pretended.
This is strange, why did Tan Xiangrong pretend to have a bad relationship with him? Was he guarding against someone? Was it Sun Xinhong, or was it the person who wrote to them?
What kind of letter did this person write that made Tan Xiangrong play so much?
Bai Xiu thought about it, habitually swept his gaze forward, and the next second he was stunned - blocked by the railing of the stairs, there was a mobile phone lying quietly in the dark corner of the stairs, if he remembered correctly, it was Tan Xiangrong's.
Tan Xiangrong forgot to take it?
Specially left for him?
Seeing that the other party had already gotten into the sleeping bag, Bai Xiu hesitated for a few seconds and leaned over without a trace, he pressed the phone on the railing, but found that the screen was not stopped at the main interface, but displayed a page of memos.
There are only a few sentences on it.
"He's come for revenge and wants to kill me...... I deserve to die, but I can't die in vain, if something happens to me tomorrow, please give this mobile phone to a person nicknamed 'First Sister Ding Xiaohong', her home address is 'Dingbei Village, Shuixi Township'.
In order to avoid the leakage of the news, please delete it immediately after you see it, and don't let people find out that you have read this paragraph, Tan Xiangrong thanked him. ”
Bai Xiuxin said Sure enough, I am afraid that there is some secret hidden in this mobile phone, Tan Xiangrong targeted him so much before, he wanted to instill in others the impression that they were hostile, so that some people would not think that they had given him the mobile phone.
He was somewhat helpless in his heart, this trip to Nanyin Village seemed to involve him in a mysterious murder.
- Obviously, Tan Xiangrong seemed to sense that danger was approaching, or some details showed signs before, so Tan Xiangrong left this paragraph that seemed to be his last words.
Bai Xiu didn't know whether he should meddle or not, but with so many of them, maybe Tan Xiangrong could escape, and then he wouldn't need to worry about this idle matter, he just needed to return the phone to Tan Xiangrong.
After thinking about it, he put the phone close to his body, pretended that nothing had happened, and continued to close his eyes and concentrate.
But for some reason, he suddenly remembered something from a long time ago.
Zheng Ruyi left him a mobile phone when he was dying, and he found another identical mobile phone at the policeman's house.
I don't know what secrets are hidden in those two phones......
Bai Xiu thought to herself, it stands to reason that Zheng Ruyi deliberately hid her mobile phone to tell him something, and the mobile phone murderer in the policeman's house could not be so careless to let go, there should be no reliable clues.
But inexplicably, he had a feeling that the second mobile phone was left to him by Zheng Ruyi, and the former one was very likely to be a trick.
It's a pity that he didn't think of this back then, and he couldn't check it in time, and finally they were all lost in the vast mountains.
But......
It is also possible that the secret is not in any of these phones, so what does Zheng Ruyi want to leave him?
Like a gust of wind suddenly blowing away a cloud of mist, Bai Xiu's mind instantly swelled with the sparkling aura.
A string of numbers flashed in his consciousness without warning - since his phone number was still in use, what about Zheng Ruyi's?
He suddenly had a thrill, and he must check this number when he goes back......
Bai Xiu was full of worries, but he didn't feel how difficult the vigil time was, and soon it was Lin Xiaoice's turn to them, he had a premonition that there were still many things to deal with when it was dawn, so he didn't think about it anymore and lay down to sleep.
In fact, he did not get much rest, and just after seven o'clock, the deafening sound of gongs and drums came from the ancestral hall near the end of the village.
Everyone complained a lot in their hearts, but they couldn't sleep anyway, so they simply got up and washed, and just after cleaning up, Qiu Xia came over slowly: "It's really time for everyone to come, someone in the village is doing a happy event and setting up a flowing water feast, just go and rub it." ”
Hearing him say this, the little creepy they left over from last night suddenly disappeared, and Su Luo was surprised: "It turns out that someone is really married?"
"Of course it's true. Qiu Xia saw that they had already fiddled with it, and immediately shouted, "Let's go, let's go have breakfast first, I'm starving!"
A few people locked the door and followed him all the way to the south, and before they arrived at the square in front of the ancestral hall, they heard the voices of people in front of them, and they were staggered, so it was not lively.
Qiu Xia clasped his hands to find an empty spot on the side, and the people nearby stood up and slipped away as if they had encountered a plague god when they saw them, and they didn't know whether they were afraid of Qiu Xia's thorn or avoided them as "visitors from outside the world".
Qiu Xia didn't care, beckoning them to sit down, and at the same time calling for people to eat.
In fact, there was no need for him to ask them, as soon as they sat down, someone came over with a large plate, and he glanced at a few people with unkind eyes, but because of Qiu Xia's shouting, he still put a few bowls of noodles on the table.
Su Luo is estimated to be a foodie, and when he saw the toppings on the noodles, he immediately swallowed his saliva: "Wow, it's so hearty, this meat is more than the noodles below!"
Qiu Xia smiled: "You're welcome, let's eat quickly." ”
He wiped his chopsticks and picked up a large piece of the bowl Duoying, seeing that he was so casual, they didn't pay attention to those false courtesies, and they all buried their heads in hard work.
Bai Xiu planned to feed Qu Lian first, but she didn't know if it was too noisy nearby, she was always reluctant to open her mouth, and took his hand to go back.
He had to change hands and pick up the bowl to fill his stomach, and as soon as he picked up the fat piece of meat, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
He is well aware of the traffic conditions in Nanyin Village, and now this banquet is so rich for breakfast, and he doesn't know how many ingredients to prepare, and there are no animals to hunt in this vicinity, so they have to carry them into the mountain little by little.
Speaking of Nanyin Village, it is not a poor mountain and bad water, and the people in the village neither grow grain nor breed, but rely on buying outside, which is really strange.
Of course, in any case, this shows a problem, Nanyin Village's financial resources are really expensive, otherwise it would not be able to support such expenses.
Thinking of this, he faintly realized the problem, there are not a few people in this village, and they don't go out to work, what do so many people rely on to support themselves?
He thought wildly, and looked at the ancestral hall not far away, which had changed overnight, and the eaves of the lintel were decorated with red silk and yellow silk, which was very magnificent.
The door of the ancestral hall is not closed as it was yesterday, and from time to time people enter and exit, but no one brings food inside, and it seems that there are no guest seats in the ancestral hall.
Suddenly, his eyes froze, and the sedan chair was parked at the door of the ancestral hall last night.
Generally speaking, this sedan chair will not be placed in a mess before the end of the wedding, is the bride inside? The couple not only set up wine in the ancestral hall, but also "salute" in the ancestral hall? Is there really such a strange custom......
He looked at everything in front of him, and he always felt something strange, but it was difficult for him to describe it specifically.
Seeing that he was so absent-minded that he didn't even move his chopsticks, Su Luo muttered while sucking the noodles: "What, no appetite?"
Bai Xiu smiled and simply put down the chopsticks: "I can't eat too meat, I'm used to it." ”
Su Luo smiled, flicked his chopsticks, and took all the slices of meat in his bowl, she sighed while enjoying it with satisfaction.
"This meat seems to be made secretly, so fragrant! I've been traveling from south to north for several years, and I've never encountered such a delicious ...... Hehe, you don't like to eat them, then let me destroy them for you!"
When Qiu Xia heard this, he called a big bowl over, looked at her and smirked: "This 'fragrant meat' is only available in our Nanyin Village, and if it weren't for my face, you probably wouldn't have this kind of mouth today!"
Hehe, it's rare that you outsiders like to eat too...... Come on, come and try more, the older generation all say, 'love to eat fragrant meat, 100 years old worry-free', it is a good thing to eliminate disasters and diseases, in fact, it is only at such a banquet that you can eat. ”
There is a saying that the speaker has no intention of listening, Bai Xiu looked at those villagers and found a peculiarity.
Sure enough, there were many elderly people in their forties and fifties, and the other half were mostly children, and there were relatively few young adults in their twenties and thirties, among whom young women were the least.
This unique population structure made him have a bad guess, is it another Siyantan Village?
Or, like Tongmuwei, Nanyin Village is also a left-behind village, and the main labor force has gone out and married, so the fields outside the village are abandoned?
Some of those young people are radiant and very energetic, the Qiu brothers are three of them, and the other part is full of sick faces, yellow muscles and thin muscles, and the contrast between the two is as strong as people from two worlds.
At this time, he observed another detail, among the couples present, the wives were generally older than their husbands, and there were not a few old wives and young husbands, and some of them were even so different in age that people mistakenly thought that they were mother and son.
What kind of rule is this, could it be that there are other unknown marriage customs in Nanyin Village, and the older the wife, the better?