Chapter 144: Gu Zheng tells a story
Mo Xiaohe has already slept once, this will be in good spirits, just scrubbed, she lay back, flipped through the two pages of the book, the story of the wind and snow in it, it is too unrealistic, the more you look at it, the more boring it becomes. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Tossed aside, idle, she looked around at the furnishings in the carriage. All of this was purchased by her husband Gu Zheng, and the clothes and specialties brought by the couple were packed up in an orderly manner.
Mo Xiaohe found that Gu Zheng has a talent for design, optimizing the carriage space to the greatest extent, at night, put the car bench down, it becomes a bed, much more comfortable than the inn, except for the small space in the bathroom, only one person, inconvenient to wash, running long distances, there is such a rest environment, it is already very good.
About two quarters of an hour, Gu Zheng got into the carriage, he washed by the river, wiped his body with a cloth towel, saw his own lady looking at him with round eyes, no sleep, and asked, "Drink ginger syrup, is it better?" ”
"Okay, it's time to drink spirits."
Mo Xiaohe was feverish, she came out of the crack in the mosquito net, pulled Gu Zheng's arm and coquettishly, she had to listen to the story, it was best to have the adventures of his goods before, or the customs and customs of various places.
"We were with the dart board, sometimes twenty or thirty dart masters were on the road together."
Walking darts is more difficult than taking goods, almost every trip will meet thieves, robbers, escorts are more valuable items, there are also dart masters whose character is not up to par, and the guards steal themselves, Gu Zheng has met twice, after that person was discovered, he also framed him.
"It's too shameless, husband, how do you explain it?"
Mo Xiaohe is very helpless, her husband is good at everything, but there is a little bit of a bad thing, he doesn't know how to explain, he is clumsy, and he always thinks that the clean person is self-clearing, if you don't defend yourself, how can others know that you are innocent? Only when you are debunked, so by default.
"There is no explanation."
Gu Zheng never bothered to explain, and later that person confessed himself.
"Huh? How is that possible? ”
Mo Xiaohe's black line, I know that this is the answer, the business of a dart master, the character is quite important, and if you have a bad reputation, I am afraid that you will not be able to mix in this industry in the future, and the businessman only looks at how much benefit he can get, but he will not suddenly be kind and give you a chance to reform yourself.
"By fist, he finally confessed."
In that past, Gu Zheng understated it, and then he rarely went to darts, hunting in the mountains by himself, with enough money to spend, and he didn't plan to marry a daughter-in-law and have children, he lived alone, at ease, nothing bad, meeting Mo Xiaohe was an accident.
"Poof......
Mo Xiaohe chuckled, fists are the last word, it is estimated that after that, no one will dare to bully her husband.
Earn silver, in order to be happy, live a good life, in the condition of worry-free food and clothing, the most important thing is to enjoy life, this time back to Dawu, convenient goods, earn more silver, go back to the mountains and rivers, enjoy yourself, and recuperate for a period of time.
"Adventures, yes."
Gu Zheng recalled that in the late autumn a few years ago, the dart bureau where he was located received an order to transport the coffin of a young lady's daughter and return to his ancestral home for burial.
After all, it is to escort the corpse of the dead, this kind of thing, the dart head does not want to take it, but the other party is their old customer, the family is in the jewelry business, and they have a certain reputation in Dayue and Dawu.
The other party gave a good pay, and made a strange request, the dart master who escorted the coffin must be someone who had never married, it is said that the monk in the temple proposed, otherwise Miss Qianjin died suddenly, and the resentment was too deep.
What logic? Mo Xiaohe couldn't help but complain, "What do you want to do with a man who is not married?" Have a ghost love affair unfinished? ”
Gu Zheng shook his head, the love between people and ghosts is not over, it only exists in novels, folklore, only the revenge of unjust ghosts, the unmarried woman who came out to harm people, and died unmarried women, she was extremely resentful. After the dart head took the order, he was anxious, as long as he opened his mouth to propose, everyone's heads were all like rattles.
"Although it is late autumn, the weather in the south is still hot, and there are several cities to walk along the way, and in order to prevent the body from decomposing, the young lady is sealed in an ice coffin."
Gu Zheng continued, in fact, after a trip, he felt that it was okay, several of his partners, when they came back, they had a high fever and went to see the goddess, it was said that they were entangled by female ghosts and needed to drink talisman water to resolve it.
"Let's go, give a thousand taels of silver, and I'll agree."
A thousand taels of silver, back and forth for about a month, some dart masters, can not earn so much in a lifetime, no need to stop on the road, just every seven or eight hours, add ice to the ice coffin.
"Husband, then, what did you meet?"
Mo Xiaohe pulled Gu Zheng's arm, signaled him not to sell Guanzi, and hurriedly continued, her husband is full of anger, and female ghosts are afraid, right?
This trip to escort the coffin, a total of only four people were sent, originally Gu Zheng alone was enough, the dart head felt that if he went alone, he would get too much silver and make a lot of money, so he scraped together three unmarried children from his relatives.
"Those three people have no experience in walking darts, and in order to give themselves some black-hearted silver, they didn't say that this trip was to transport coffins."
The three of them didn't reach the crown, and they were about the same age as Gu Zheng, seventeen or eighteen years old, and they were full of curiosity about everything. Dart drew them a large loaf of bread, and went out for a month, and came back with a hundred taels of silver each, plus a room in the town.
The conditions were tempting, and the three of them didn't know the truth, so they thought they would transport an empty coffin, and happily agreed.
Before leaving, the dart head gave Gu Zheng five hundred taels of silver tickets, and after the return, there were another five hundred taels, which were paid over there when they went to the place. The dart head threatened him, if he talked nonsense, he would break up in the future, don't think about making an extra penny of silver in him, the dart walker, every time he walked, he exchanged his life for money, and many people left happily, but never came back.
Generally, only valuables, merchants will be willing to give up silver, the road is bumpy, but also look at luck, if the luck is good, smoother, they have earned, if they meet bandits, dead, disabled, are the most common, the little silver earned, see the sick and treat the wound is not enough.
So this trip, give a thousand taels, this price is equivalent to a pie in the sky, there are two unmarried boys in the dart game, but they have already been married, and the marriage date is close, for the sake of safety, I still refused.
"No one told them the truth, and I thought, it's a good thing that I don't know."
He planned to work harder on his own, as long as the three of them didn't come out of the moth, followed honestly, and arrived at their ancestral home in about fifteen days, the return journey would be much easier.
Mo Xiaohe nodded, she had already guessed part of it, her husband was not a talkative person, and the three of them may be curious, so it was a tragedy.
"Because of the transport of coffins, they can only be in tents along the way, and the inn does not accept them."
Even if it is an empty coffin, the innkeeper will turn a few people away and do business, most afraid of provoking bad luck, especially the ancients, in this regard, are extraordinarily superstitious.
In the first few days, Gu Zheng added ice cubes, afraid that the corpse would rot, and in seven or eight hours, he must change it once, and often had to give up the similar path in order to buy ice cubes, and took a detour into the city.
Perhaps it was his sneaky behavior that caught the attention of the other three, who did not ask openly, but secretly gathered in one place, suspecting that there was a treasure in the coffin.
Many wealthy businessmen, maybe they have quirks, afraid of attracting the attention of the mountain bandits, use coffins to transport jewelry, so that it is safer, if there is really gold inside, he does not know how much to take advantage of behind his back.
Walking for a month, one hundred taels per person plus a set of small courtyards, is it worth silver, or a lot of money, transporting empty coffins, can you give so much? Just a few days after leaving, three smart people suddenly woke up, and they became more and more convinced that there was a cat behind them.
"That night, it was a coincidence."
After they bought ice cubes in the city, they stored them properly, which should be enough for three days, and then returned to the path, day and night, just in time for the first day of the tenth lunar month, the folk winter clothes festival.
As I walked, a fog suddenly fell, and the road ahead was not real, and a few paper coins fell faintly from the sky, and the black ash of the paper money burned in the air floated. On both sides of the road, in a cemetery, there was a faint ghost fire, and they couldn't make out the direction, so they had to stop and rest.
"Then, did you encounter anything unclean?"
Mo Xiaohe remembered that there was a book at home, which introduced that the fog that appeared before and after Halloween was actually a kind of miasma, don't walk in the graveyard at night, the baby is easy to be scared away, and adults are easy to meet ghosts hitting the wall.
It is said that ghosts hit the wall is the favorite joke of ghosts, no matter which direction you go, you can't walk out of a strange circle, dangling, or will return to the starting point, at this time you can't go forward, otherwise one foot, will step into the ghost gate.
"If we can't get out, we'll stop."
Gu Zheng returned to the tent, he was too tired to travel during the day, and he fell asleep after a while, in the middle of the night, he was woken up by screams, and when he got out of the tent, the three of them had already opened the coffin together, and kept a movement towards the young lady in the coffin, with dull eyes.
The oil lamp was thrown on the grass not far away, and the oil inside spilled out, igniting the grass and illuminating everything around it.
The three of them were still motionless, as if they had been immobilized, and their eyes would not roll, Gu Zheng probed his nose and knew that none of the three of them were dead, so he was relieved.
"The screams I heard were obviously not the three of them, they should be women."
After Gu Zheng finished speaking, Mo Xiaohe felt a chill in her back, and quickly hid in the quilt, in the wilderness, it had just rained, and it was gloomy, after she listened to it, she automatically made up the scene at that time, and goosebumps came out.
"Husband, to make a long story short, just tell me the result."
The process in the middle can be omitted, my husband obviously doesn't have any talent for language, but why is it so scary after rendering the atmosphere? He probably didn't mean to, right?
Gu Zheng's face was serious, a smile flashed under his deep eyes, he hugged his wife and patted her shoulder gently, it turned out that it was so easy to let her throw herself into her arms, he had already mastered the routine in his preliminary practice now.
"I dragged them into the tent, and the next morning, they woke up."
After the three of them woke up, they were shocked, they were actually curious, they wanted to see if there was a treasure in the coffin, and when they saw the female corpse, they were not mentally prepared, one of them was determined, and the female corpse opened her eyes and screamed.
People are scary, scared to death, people who claim to see the female corpse open their eyes are not a big problem, but the other two people have a high fever, drowsy, almost dying, and finally the person told the truth, everything is made up by himself, there is no matter.
The dart head is too unkind, obviously a thousand taels of silver, he was deducted, everyone can take a maximum of two or three hundred taels, and the rest of the silver is swallowed, concealing the truth, so that they can be grateful.
"I did hear the woman screaming, but I didn't tell them."
Gu Zheng twitched the corners of his mouth, otherwise, it would not be a simple two people falling ill, he didn't want to go on the road with three sick numbers.
After resting on the road for two days, the four of them went on the road again, and every night, the three of them would hide in the tent and not go out like frightened birds, and the ice was completely dependent on Gu Zheng himself.
"Husband, the coffin was finally delivered safely, right?"
It's okay to lift the lid of someone's coffin, it's disrespectful to the deceased, it's best to apologize, repent, although, it may not be useful, many times, frightened is because your imagination is too rich, and you scare yourself.
"It was delivered safely, but after the three of them went back, they had a high fever again."
Gu Zheng sighed, he didn't say anything from beginning to end.
"The two people who were frightened and drowsy before said that on the night of the Winter Clothes Festival, they did hear a woman's screams coming from the coffin......
So, the one who deceived people to have fun before, and he wasn't sure if he saw it, heard it, and finally fell ill, and it is said that the one hundred taels of silver, please monk, Taoist aunt, please goddess, and finally cured, but the family owed a debt.