Chapter 29 about visiting

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This is the first time we have entered the village since we came to Chengxin Village, and the farmhouse tourist villa opened by the village secretary is at the entrance of the village, and then it is the village. There are about 180 families in the village, living in small houses with white bricks and red tiles, which reminds me of Qingdao, another city in Shandong Province, and I remember that there are many buildings with white bricks and red roofs in Qingdao, which look from afar, neat and beautiful, but it was when my parents got married in the nineties of the last century, and I don't know if those red and white houses are still there.

We asked the children in the village to lead the way and walked all the way to the village, and the children said that the old lady's family lived in the innermost part of the village, and the village secretary's family lived next door to the old lady. When we reached the end of the village, we saw two small brick houses on the side of the road, and the child pointed to the one on the very edge.

"When I arrived, the old lady's house was there." Yun Ximing gave the child 10 yuan to buy candy to eat, and the child ran away happily.

We walked to the door of the old lady's small brick house, this small house has a small yard in front, but it seems that no one takes care of it, and on the right side of the yard is a vegetable patch that has been carved out, and now it is full of weeds, but in the weeds I saw a few laughing grasses, which grew very well. A pigsty was built at the doorway on the left, and a dog kennel was built next to it, all empty. Further inside, there was a chicken coop surrounded by barbed wire, and three or five old hens were lazily huddled together. However, a small aisle left in the middle for people to walk is very clean, which is not quite in line with the old lady's casual temperament.

The gate outside the courtyard was an iron fence gate, the door was unlocked, and we pushed the door and walked in.

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The door of the small brick house is the kind of wooden door that is common in the countryside, with two layers inside and outside, the outer layer has no glass according to the screen window, and the inner layer is inlaid with glass. In the summer, just close the outer floor, and then open the backyard window, and the home will have a breeze through the hall, which is exceptionally cool. I noticed that the screen and glass of the wooden door were all clean and spotless, and I remembered that the old lady was a lonely old man, and there should be no relatives who would help him do this.

We knocked on the door, and it opened a crack in itself, the door was unlocked, and there seemed to be no one in the room. I've also been to the countryside a few times, and I usually go into the house first with the kitchen, then the bedrooms on the left and right, and the dry toilet in the yard. The old lady's house is also in this pattern, but it is still a little different, as soon as you enter the door, there is a simple kitchen, a common earthen stove in the countryside, and a large cauldron. But in the lobby in front of it, there is a Lingzhi Eight Immortals table, mahogany, and a Taishi chair on each side, which is also mahogany. The backrest of the Taishi chair is all open-carved rope patterns, the middle frame is inlaid with marble, and the bottom is a folded leg Ganoderma lucidum foot. The eight immortals table pulp is naturally moist, the ice is along the mouth, and the tooth plate is carved with Ganoderma lucidum patterns. This set of furniture is meticulous and exquisite, regardless of the value of the age, the current market price alone is about 100,000, I can't imagine that this old lady is still a person with a family background, it is really unseemly.

Directly above the table of the Eight Immortals, there is a green dragon plaque, on which only the word "Ping" is written. There is Guan Erye's god seat on the table of the Eight Immortals, but at first glance, it is a rural market goods, with rough workmanship and a little paint loss.

I walked to the table of the Eight Immortals, and was about to take a good look at the age of this mahogany furniture, but Yun Ximing called me over.

"Yin Yin, come and see this..."His voice came from inside the room, and I walked over to find the sound. The one on the right side of the wooden door should be a wing room, which is piled up with a lot of sundries, there is no door, only a cloth curtain. Yun Ximing's voice came from the room on the left.

The room on the left has a small modern wooden door with a single door, painted with white paint, and when you go inside, you find that there is a hole inside.

Several cases of red sandalwood shelves in the Ming Dynasty, high-backed Taishi chairs made of boxwood, four hollow landscape carved jade screens, and a stone scoop purple clay pot on the table, all of which can be described as priceless. This is simply a small auction site, and if my father sees it, he will have to bid according to the rules and regulations, and all of them will be packed and shipped away.

The only thing that is out of place in the whole room is the simple spring bed, some rice paper is spread on the desk, and there are a few scrapped characters written by the old lady, which is indeed quite ancient, and there is a bit of Dong Qichang's foundation in the Ming Dynasty.

"Looks like this old guy has some origins." Yun Ximing looked at the calligraphy and paintings and said.

"Let's hurry up and find something, and don't forget what we're here for." I said and began to look around, I felt that the bloody hole in the back of the village secretary's head was undoubtedly the old lady's dry pipe, but the long blunt force wound could not see what it was, could it be that the old lady still had an accomplice?

Yun Ximing and I acted separately and searched the old lady inside and out, but there was nothing valuable, the wing room on the right was piled up with some daily necessities, and some food, mainly rice, flour, grain and oil, and many packages also had the words "subsistence relief" on them, which showed that the old lady's life was not easy. Yun Ximing and I are a little confused, guarding these good things, just buy them, even if they give them to the country to get a little collection fee, it is enough to spend their old age in peace, can we all think wrongly, in this poor and remote territory, the old lady may not know these treasures at all? So where did he get so many strange treasures?

The two of us sat on the mahogany Taishi chair in the hall, looking at each other, when there was a sound of footsteps outside the door, and the old lady came back. He didn't seem surprised to see us sitting in the middle hall, and he didn't blame us for trespassing into the house, he took off the dry tobacco bag and put it on the table of the eight immortals, Yun Xi Ming Dynasty I made a look, and I saw that there were mottled blood stains on the tobacco bag and pot.

"You're here? I've been here for so long, and I don't know how to make myself a pot of tea. The old lady opened his mouth, he already had the purple clay pot in his hand, Yun Ximing and I were stunned in place, the old lady's voice changed, there was no local dialect at all, and there was a bit of Beijing accent in standard Mandarin.

"You... How do you speak..."Yun Ximing also sensed the clue and asked questioningly.

"Hear that? Yes, I don't actually speak local dialect, our ancestors are from Beijing, so what I have spoken since I was a child is an authentic official dialect. "The old lady smiled at us, and I felt that the old eyes were so deep that I couldn't see through them for a while." You're here to get me, aren't you? I'm right here, when are we leaving? That's right, I killed people. ”

"We're not from the criminal investigation department, so we're not here to get people, old lady." I touched the pattern on the edge of the Eight Immortals' table, and said leisurely, "I just wanted to come and verify a few things with you before the criminal investigation team came to arrest you." Or I should call you Mrs. Jia, you are the descendant of the Feng Jia family of the pawnshop village dynasty, right? ”