Yang Xianmao said: "Since the tragedy has happened, it is useless to think about it. Let's take care of Brother Liu's funeral, I happened to be a little free at noon, and I came over to help see if there was anything I needed to do. ”

"Thank you, Brother Yang, there is a shortage of manpower everywhere now, so you can watch and help do it. Thanks to Lizheng's good heart, he presided over this funeral for his family, otherwise I really don't know what to do. ”

Li Zheng said: "Why don't you help carry water, a few mothers-in-law who are helping are washing the blood in the house." Water is used a lot. I don't think they're busy. ”

Yang Xianmao agreed, then went to the kitchen to get a bucket and asked the person next to him, "Where to fetch water?"

One of the women who helped said, "Just around the corner of the street in front of us, there is a well where all the people in the neighborhood fetch water." Attention, the slate is a little slippery, so be careful not to fall. ”

The woman saw that Yang Xianmao was polite and polite, not like a person who did rough work. It's already rare to be able to come and help, so I kindly told Yang Xianmao. Yang Xianmao came out with a snort, carrying a bucket to the well to carry water. By the way, I wanted to see if I could find the cause of this wife's madness.

He came to the well, where not many people fetched water, and there were wells in other places around him. There was a woman in front of Yang Xianmao who was also fetching water, and while using a roller to lift up the water from the well and pour it into a large bucket. While talking to a young woman next to him, he said: "I heard that Liu Erlang's family hacked him to death, you said that there is nothing strange in this world, and the daughter-in-law actually hacked her husband to death." ”

The little daughter-in-law whispered, "I heard that his daughter-in-law has some strange disease, and she went to see Lang Zhong yesterday." As a result, the illness went crazy before he could see the person, and he hacked her husband to death at night, what kind of disease is this, it's really scary. ”

Hearing this, Yang Xianmao couldn't help but sigh in his heart, the speed of word of mouth was still very fast, and in less than half a day, the news had already spread.

Then I heard the two women say, "What is this strange disease of hers, it is really scary." He even hacked his husband to death with a knife! But don't let anyone else get this disease. ”

The middle-aged woman said, "It's crazy, it's not uncommon, people get sick from time to time." Didn't that stupid son of the kidnapper Niu family go crazy a few days ago, smashed people with stones, and finally shot the yamen to death with an arrow?"

"yes, yes, I'm scared when I think about that now. However, his son has had epilepsy since he was a child, and he has been sick and smashing people since he was a child. This is easy to understand, if it wasn't for the people from the yamen who shot him to death, I don't know how many people he would have harmed. His onset is reasonable, but this Liu Erlang's Hun family suddenly went crazy and cut her husband with a kitchen knife, no one thought about it. ”

The two of them were talking as they had already carried the water. glanced at Yang Xianmao, then grinned and walked away with the water. Only then did Yang Xianmao step forward and use the bucket to prepare to carry water.

The water in this well is not too deep, and you can clearly see that the clear water in the well is emitting an attractive luster. From time to time, a few blisters emerge from below and bloom on the surface of the water, creating a string of small ripples. Yang Xianmao held the bucket, and he couldn't bear to throw it down to destroy this piece of tranquility.

A few more blisters came out from underneath and cut through the silence of the water before he sighed and threw the bucket down to lift the water.

After filling up the water, Yang Xianmao carried it back to the kitchen and poured the water from the bucket into the water tank. Seeing that no one was paying attention to the left and right, he put down the bucket, picked up a broom, and looked around as if he wanted to sweep the floor. I want to see what's wrong with this house.

Liu Erlang's home is very simple, after all, he is a person who helps outside, there is no decent furniture, there are only three or four rooms in total, and he quickly turned around.

A few helpers in the room were busy with their own work, and the two women were constantly wiping the blood from the ground with rags, and most of them had been cleaned. The water in the bucket next to him was dyed red, and Yang Xianmao said to the two women, "I'll change the water for you." ”

He took the basin behind him, poured it into the gutter, and brought another bucket of clean water to the two women.

The two women were very happy and said: "You see how good this young man is, so many people have passed by us in front of us, and none of them thought of changing the bucket of water for us, and the two of us squatted to wipe the blood, and this waist can't get up even if I think about it, and I can't lift such a heavy amount of water." Or did he think that such a young man, whose daughter would marry him in the future, would definitely be happy. ”

Another woman said, "That's what I said, but it depends on the person." For example, this Liu Erlang, everyone looks at him well. Whether it's for his wife or for others, it's too good to be better. But why was he hacked to death with a kitchen knife? I can't blame just one person for this. As the saying goes, a slap can't make a sound, maybe it's this second brother Liu who bullied him too ruthlessly, and he couldn't hate him before hacking him to death. ”

The woman quickly shushed and glared, "Don't you get drunk with yellow soup?" How can you say this in another house? ”

The woman immediately came to her senses, quickly glanced at Yang Xianmao, and said, "It's okay, I see that this little brother is not the kind of person who talks nonsense with a big mouth. - Isn't it, little brother?"

Yang Xianmao had already gone through several rooms, and he didn't see anything that might cause illness. So he smiled, squatted down and asked the two women: "I am a good friend of Second Brother Liu, and I am also very strange why he suddenly had such a thing." I don't know if you two think there's something strange about their family that might cause him to go crazy and hack him to death. You don't have to worry, I'm not from the Yamen, I'm a guy in Qin's shopkeeper's shop. is also a friend of Second Brother Liu, purely curious, and wants to find out. ”

When the two women heard it, it turned out that Yang Xianmao also liked these gossip. So they looked at each other and smiled relaxedly. One woman said, "Don't say it's you, there is no one in the neighborhood who doesn't find it strange." But strange things happen every year, especially this year. This is really not a joke, I see, there have been a lot of strange things in our neighbors this year. For example, you can say Ma Lao Liu. What kind of person is Ma Lao Liu, that is an honest person who can't beat a fart with a stick. I didn't like to use him as an example, but I was talking about him. Before he went home, he knew which of his mothers did not say that he was a good person? That must have taken the daughter-in-law's pain into her mouth for fear of melting, and put it in her hand for fear of dropping. Just such a person, can you imagine him beating women now? You see he beat his daughter-in-law, and one day his daughter-in-law will beat him to death. ”

"Isn't it, a few days ago, he beat his daughter-in-law to death at the door, and even the yamen was alarmed. Fortunately, he was not killed, and the yamen was too lazy to take care of it, but how to manage this kind of thing, haven't you heard of the Qing official's difficulty in judging family affairs. ”

A woman nodded in agreement, and while continuing to wipe the blood with a rag, she continued: "That old woman of the Xitou Wang family is almost seventy years old. In the past, I used to eat like a cat, and I could eat a lump of rice with the size of my palm for three days. People are so thin that they have only bones left, and at some point they start to eat amazingly. She has to eat a sea bowl a day, and she only eats rice, even if there is a plate of meat in front of her, she doesn't hold a piece. Even if she picks up coolies, the amount of food can't compare to her. And it's weird, I didn't see her get fat after eating so much rice in her stomach, she was still so thin and listless, don't you think it's weird?"

When she said this, the woman looked at Yang Xianmao with a showing off look. It seems that she knows the news, and also tells Yang Xianmao, which is enough for him to show off.

Yang Xianmao's eyes widened with interest and said, "There is such a thing? An old lady who is almost seventy years old suddenly has a big increase in food. It's strange that you can eat a bowl of sea in one meal, and you don't get fat after eating. ”

Another woman saw that Yang Xianmao's interest came, so she threw the rag into the bucket, rubbed it and said, "What is this? Liu Dazhuang, a coolie of the Liu family in the west, is so good that I used to see him carrying two bluestone slabs and running like flying." Now, it's good to be able to pick up two chopsticks, the whole person is empty, walking is like floating in the clouds, and the staggering will fall down at any time, and I can't find out the reason. ”

Speaking of this, he pointed at Yang Xianmao and said, "By the way, the old man Qin from your medical hall also went to see him, but it is still useless." No matter what famous doctor or the herbs in the rivers and lakes, or even some home remedies have eaten a few big baskets, and they are useless. I heard that he also invited the host of Xuanyang Temple, nicknamed Zhang Tianshi, to exorcise evil spirits and catch ghosts, and I was worried that he had some starving ghost reincarnated and possessed. After Zhang Daochang came, he took a group of disciples to their house and did the ritual for three days and three nights. It cost a lot of money, but it didn't work at all. According to me, this Liu Dazhuang is only afraid that he will not survive this year. ”

Her remark was immediately agreed by the other woman, who nodded and said, "That's right." But according to me, his illness is not a disease, because even the shopkeeper Qin has come to see it, since it has no effect, then I think it is still evil, but I didn't invite the right person. I still owe a little bit of the ability to catch ghosts, so I can't help it. ”

"What are you talking about? Even the Xuanyang Sect's Zhang Tianshi Zhang Host you can't see in your eyes, and you still say that he is not good at what he does? Let me tell you, there is no more powerful Taoist priest than him in these four miles and eight towns. ”

"Who wouldn't brag, if you really have the ability, why didn't you catch Liu Dazhuang's evil ghost?"

Yang Xianmao really didn't want to hear them talk about these things anymore, if it was really some evil, it had nothing to do with him. What he wanted to find out now was whether there was a cause of the disease.

The previous successive plagues had already made him a little bit of a bow and snake shadow, and he hurriedly said: "This thing of catching ghosts and exorcising evil spirits is not accurate, maybe this ghost will serve this master, and that ghost will also serve that master." Just like seeing a doctor, not every Langzhong can cure all diseases, and there is a specialization in the art industry. ”