Chapter 38: Death
Although they have walked through the village countless times, the three of them feel that this time the road is more difficult than usual. Before they could get ready, they had already arrived at the door of the Tang family.
The three of them listened to the occasional woman's cry coming from the courtyard, and their hands couldn't bear to raise it to knock on the door. After a long time, under the attention of the other two, the Lin family had to slowly knock on the door of the Tang family.
Today's Tang Ran is wearing a goose-yellow collared skirt, the light cyan belt outlines her waist, and a few pomegranate velvet flowers on her head are simply pulled into a slanted cloud bun, like a peach blossom powder face is filled with a faint smile, and the girl's shyness has a bit of mature charm, and people who look at it are not envious.
When Tang Ran opened the door, he obviously didn't expect it to be the three of them, and asked strangely with wide eyes, "Sisters-in-law came to my house early this morning, is there something wrong?" ”
After Tang Ran asked like this, it was not good for the three of them to stand stupidly here anymore. Cheng bumped Wen's elbow against Wen's, and Wen tugged at the corner of Lin's clothes, and in desperation, Lin had no choice but to whisper: "Miss Tang, that, has your mother been feeling better recently?"
Tang Ran looked at the other two people who looked at the Lin family, but they didn't see it, but replied to the Lin family with a smile: "It's still the same, I've been sick for a while, and I've been good for a while, thank you for the care of the three sisters-in-law."
After Tang Ran finished saying this, no one answered anymore, and the atmosphere froze there for a while.
After a period of silence, in the end, Cheng's big grinning temperament couldn't stand it at first, took a step forward, then took a deep breath, and plucked up the courage to say: "Miss Tang, sisters-in-law tell you something, don't get excited after you hear it."
Seeing that the other party nodded, Cheng continued: "You must know what happened in the village yesterday. The village chief said that someone in the town was killed" Cheng said this, turned his head to look at Wen and Lin, and saw that both of them nodded at her, and then said heavily: "The village chief has been to Yizhuang to see, and among the people killed, there are ...... With your father, Tang San"
After finishing speaking, the three Cheng clans were afraid that Tang Ran would have any radical behaviors or emotions, so they stared at her intently.
However, to their surprise, after hearing the news, this Tang girl did not have a painful expression of losing her loved ones, no heart-rending crying, she just stood quietly at the door, her eyes closed expressionlessly, and people couldn't guess what she was thinking at the moment.
Seeing her like this, the three Lin family looked at each other worriedly. As soon as Lin wanted to step forward to comfort this poor girl, he saw Tang Ran open his eyes, lightly opened his lips and said softly: "Sister-in-law, you all go back, I want to be quiet."
When Wen saw her like this, he didn't know what to do, and he felt a pain in his heart. Just wanted to step forward and hold Tang Ran's hand, but before she could touch it, she dodged it. Looking at his hand raised in the air, Wen had to take it back in embarrassment.
However, she didn't dwell too much on this detail, and only comforted softly: "Miss Tang, if you are really uncomfortable, just talk to your sisters-in-law, don't hold it in your heart, it's not good for your health." Besides, even if you don't want to think about yourself now, you have to think about your mother, and this family will be counting on you in the future."
"Sisters-in-law, don't worry, I won't do anything stupid. I just want to be alone."
Seeing that Tang Ran insisted on doing this, they couldn't say anything more, so the three of them comforted them a few more words, and then walked towards Wen's house together.
On the way back, Lin touched his chin and frowned and asked the other two, "Don't you think it's strange?" No matter who hears the news of the death of their relatives, they all cry and come back to life, but this Tang girl is too calm, right? ”
Cheng Shi next to him said with an understanding expression: "Although the old people say don't talk about the people who have left, it's really not me who said, think about the three Tang people, animals... You can bring someone to your home...... To do such a thing, even if you are a filial person, it is estimated that you have no feelings for such a father."
Wen listened to Cheng's explanation, looked at her disapprovingly, and said: "You see that usually if someone's family loses something happy, even if their family is sleepy, then Miss Tang will come over with two things to see." It can be seen that she is also a strong person, her performance just now may not be that she is not sad, maybe people just don't want us outsiders to see it"
After listening to the explanations of the two, Lin was a lot relieved, and sighed with some regret: "According to what you say, no matter which it is, this Tang girl's reaction is reasonable." But in this way, this girl will have a sad life in the future. A crazy mother, now even the father is gone, hey, although this father is useless, but there is a man's name hanging there in the family, it is better than the orphan and widow"
"Hey, if we can help in the future, let's help with it" Listening to Lin's words, Wen sighed and shook his head.
In this way, the three of them sighed all the way back to the Wen family. But this time Lin didn't go in, but stood at the door and said to the two: "I won't go back with you anymore, there are still a lot of things waiting for me to do at home."
When the Wen family saw the sister-in-law of the Lin family say this, it was not easy to keep it. But when Lin turned around to leave, Cheng pulled her and asked worriedly, "Sister-in-law, how ...... your old lady's body?"
“…… I'm afraid I really won't be able to survive this time," Lin whispered with some redness in his eyes. Seeing that the two of them were still talking, she continued: "You don't have to comfort me. We understand the situation of the old lady in my family, and now our family also wants to open it, and the most important thing is to hope that the old lady can take less hardship herself. Alas, look at me, don't say it, it's even more late"
Looking at the back of the Lin family leaving, the Wen family said softly worriedly: "These few days are enough for the Lin family to be busy. I heard from the one in our family that Brother Lin hadn't closed his eyes for several nights."
"But no, this is also a lady like Sister-in-law Lin, if she is unreasonable and unreasonable, I don't know what kind of trouble will come of Lu Dao. By the way, you still don't know how Lu Daolin's sister-in-law married into the Lin family, right? Let's go, let's go into the house, I'll talk to you, and say, "Without waiting for Wen's reaction, Chengjia dragged her and walked into the house."
When the depressed atmosphere of the Wen family gradually improved, the sunspot walking on the street had a sad face.
Looking at the back of the unhurried walking in front of him, and looking back to quietly bow his head and eat oil cakes, Heizi couldn't hold back the bitterness in his heart anymore, grabbed his hair and shouted forward irritably: "Xue Tou, do we really want to see those corpses?" Haven't we already experienced it, why do we have to run again?"
Xue Er didn't look back, and a deep voice came from the front: "These murders are not only the mayor of Xiao, but even the county magistrate attaches great importance to them, but now we can't find any clues." There is no way, so I have to start with a few corpses" Speaking of this, Xue Er stopped moving forward, turned his head and pouted at Heizi and said: "If you are afraid, go back first, and I will do the rest with Dalin"
This sentence was like stepping on the pain of a cat, and the sunspot immediately felt like he had blown up, stretching his neck and shouting: "Who is afraid, except for my father and my sister in this world, what have you seen me afraid of." Isn't it just a few corpses that can't move, can there still be a few powerful ones in my family?"
After saying this, Heizi didn't wait for Xue Er, and walked in the direction of Yizhuang with his head held high. Looking at the sunspot in the distance, Xue Er patted Dalin next to him and said, "Eat less, you don't have to spit out what you will eat, what a waste of energy"
Swallowing the oil cake in his mouth, looking at Xue Er, who began to walk forward again, Dalin burped and asked, "Xue Tou, what do you mean, hey, don't go, Xue Tou"
As soon as they came to Yizhuang Qian, they saw a man in his forties and fifties with gray hair sitting in the open space in front of Yizhuang. When he heard the footsteps on their side, the man stood up and patted the dirt on his body, and came up to complain, "Xue Tou, you are here, I am almost asleep when I wait." Let's go, let's go in and say"
Xue Er stepped forward to stop the man who turned around to leave, and said politely with a smile: "Master Chen, before you go in, you should tell us about the judgment drawn from the corpse." So we'll be able to make a judgment later."
"Okay, good, although I haven't seen the corpse now, but you can be mentally prepared later, these people are really miserable to die" Although the man surnamed Chen said this, the two pairs of hanging eyes exuded a strange light, which did not look like a pity at all.
"These few have been stabbed about a dozen times, from the size of the wound, I think there are" Master Chen said, looked down at the ground, then picked up a branch the length of his forearm, broke it into the length of his palm, and then handed it to Xue Erdao: "I think the wound is probably caused by such a long dagger." Judging by the wounds, it should be the same person who killed them"
Xue Er looked down at the branch in his hand, frowned and thought: "I can kill three strong men with just one dagger, it seems that this person is either physically strong, or he is a practitioner."
Master Chen glanced at Xue Er with a smile, and said, "There are no absolutes in things, you can't make a conclusion so early." Then he didn't say anything more, just pulled Xue Er's sleeve and hurriedly walked to Yizhuang.
"Master Chen, don't worry, don't worry" Xue Er broke off the clothes he was dragging on, walked to a corner of the courtyard, picked up the oil lamp on the ground, took out a fire fold and lit it. He shook it at the others and said, "I'll be able to use it later."
Kuroko looked up at the sun that was shining brightly, shivered for no reason, and asked, "It's still noon, where is all this?" ”
Xue Er and Old Man Chen looked at the sunspot, smiled and didn't answer, and turned around and walked directly towards the place where the corpse was buried.
Da Lin dragged the sunspot a few steps away from him, and motioned him with his eyes to look at the man in front of him: "This old man is the man surnamed Chen?" How excited is your face? ”
Heizi looked ahead with a stiff expression, swallowed his saliva and said nervously: "Or everyone calls him Crazy Chen." I heard that this person likes to run to places like Yizhuang, if he is not a madman, who would dare to come. Dalin, when you go in, follow me, don't be afraid of me."
In fact, Dalin wants to say that he is not afraid of these at all. But seeing that Kuroko was so nervous about him, he was afraid that he would even hold his left hand tightly, and he couldn't pull it out, so in order to live up to Kuroko's kindness, Dalin let Kuroko hold his hand like this.