328. There is an empty coffin in the courtyard

Cuicui looked at the crazy old woman, shook her head, and sighed deeply.

"My mother has been like this for a long time, it's not normal here." Cuicui pointed to her head, "It's inherited from the ancestors, and there is no rule of law." ”

"That's right...... That's pathetic. Huang Yu sighed.

Cuicui squatted down, picked up the pots and pans scattered all over the place in her arms, turned her back to Huang Yu, and said: "The tree wants to be quiet and the wind does not stop, and the son wants to raise but does not wait, while the parents are still alive, honor them more, and do not let yourself regret it." ”

"yes." Huang Yu agreed.

Thinking about it this way, she hadn't spent a day with her father and mother since she went back, and she either ran out to play or went to find the master, and she felt a little guilty.

When she returns to the heavenly realm, she must accompany her father and mother.

At night, it was dark in the house, and only one candle was lit.

The room is not very big, Huang Yu took a cursory look, the four walls of the house were empty, only a table large enough to seat four people and a few chairs, on the table was lit a yellow candle, the candle light was faint, the heart of the candle was red, like an old man with an old dragon clock, a little gust of wind could make it go out.

The walls are dappled with rain marks and green moss. In the corner of the wall, covered with cobwebs, lay a large black chest, locked with rusty iron locks, like a monster lurking in the corner.

Probably every family will have a box like this, containing money or valuables, but most families will choose to put the box in the bedroom, and it is the first time to see Huang Yu at the door.

The doors were open to the left and right, and when you looked inside, it was pitch black, and you couldn't see anything.

Gusts of cold wind pierced through the broken wooden window lattices, and the tattered window paper fluttered in the wind.

Huang Yu squatted down to help Cuicui pick up the dishes and chopsticks, the dust under his feet accumulated, every step he took, he would bring the fine dust that flew off, and when he squatted, he smelled a rotten breath, which spread in front of the company, choking his mouth and nose were disgusting.

Huang Yu quietly twisted some dust and put it on the tip of his nose, smelling a pungent sour smell, and a faint bloody smell mixed in it.

"Cousin, what are you doing?" Cuicui suddenly turned her head and looked at Huang Yu with a pair of cold eyes.

Huang Yu rubbed his nose with his raised fingers and pretended to sneeze.

While covering up her own practices, she forgot one thing.

As soon as the sneeze came out, in an instant, the dust in front of him rolled up, forming a small tornado.

Huang Yu hurriedly stood up, but still sucked in a lot.

The smell was so bad that it made her retch.

Cuicui fanned the dust and walked over, looking at Huang Yu's eyes a little strange.

"Cousin, don't sniff something."

After saying that, he walked out with the bowl in his arms.

The phoenix feather froze in place.

Did she find something?

I haven't used my divine power since I saw Cuicui, even if I found something, I can only say that Cuicui saw that her behavior was a little unusual, and she didn't find out that she was a god.

You can't mess around.

"Cousin, give me a hand, I'm going to cook." Cuicui shouted outside.

"Hey, okay." Huang Yu responded, clapped his hands and walked out, and took a deep look at the big box before closing the door.

Because when she was sneezing just now, she heard the sound of picking up boxes inside.

Next door is the kitchen, push open the mottled wooden door, but see that there is only a stove made of unfired rough bricks in the kitchen, the outside is burned black, and it is no longer possible to see what color it is.

The kitchen was small and damp, and the two of them couldn't get along.

Except for a large stove, which was a broken leg, the cupboard fell on the wall, and the dishes and chopsticks were placed inside, covered with a layer of green gauze, and the person who watched it instantly lost his appetite.

Cuicui took out the flint from under the stove, clicked and lit the firewood, put the firewood into the dark stove, and grabbed the firewood next to it and stuffed it into the stove one by one.

"The firewood hasn't reached the tide yet, which is a great luck, otherwise I wouldn't even be able to eat." Cuicui said while busy.

Cuicui squatted and moved to the side, reaching an iron basin with a scoop made of gourds. "Cousin, you help me go to the yard and scoop some water."

"Okay."

Huang Yu took the iron basin and walked out.

There are three large vat in the courtyard, which are suppressed in three directions, and there is no vat only in the direction near the coffin.

Huang Yu only glanced at it and walked to the nearest vat, which was the farthest away from the coffin.

She could feel that Cuicui was watching her from behind, so she couldn't make any more moves that made Cuicui suspicious.

"Quack"

Countless black crows lay on the dead wood, and they "croaked" incessantly, making people's scalps tingle.

The vat was under the dead tree, about to the chest of the phoenix, and it was filled with water, and several crows were still standing on the edge of the vat, bowing their heads and drinking the water inside.

Huang Yu glanced up at the crow.

The crow was not surprised or frightened to see the living man coming, and several croaked at her, tilting their heads and shaking their obscure feathers lazily.

Huang Yu took a few more steps forward, and the crows were a little fried. They threatened the living with wary eyes, and were even more irritable when they saw the basin in her hand.

"Do you live here too?" Huang Yu looked up and asked the crow. "Can I scoop some water?"

As soon as Huang Yu spoke, the crow became even more irritable, spreading its wings and preparing to attack Huang Yu.

There are three water tanks, and if she doesn't let her scoop this one, she will have to change it to another one. Thinking like this, Huang Yu turned around and walked towards the other water tank.

Who knew that as soon as she turned her head, all the crows in the trees flew up and landed next to the water tank where Phoenix Feather was about to go.

"What a bunch of selfish little things." Huang Yu shook his head. Turning her head to look at Cuicui, who was busy in the kitchen, she didn't look this way. But Huang Yu knew that she had been paying attention to her movements.

Want to tempt her with a crow? There are no doors.

She didn't change it, and walked straight to the water tank under the tree. A flock of crows flew up to the trees and croaked and threatened her, as their grumpy eyes turned black-green.

A small crow with a slightly yellow beak suddenly flew in the sky, and it landed directly on the heads of other crows, startling the crows all over the trees to croak.

Not to be outdone, the little crow croaked back, with a posture of "if you want to fight, come here".

Unexpectedly, the other crows were also afraid of it, and flew away from the big tree one after another, and the little crow flew up to the branch as a victor, tilted its head and glanced at the phoenix feather with its slightly curious eyes for a while, and chirped.

Seeing that Huang Yu couldn't come, it flew down and landed on the edge of the water tank, clicked the water tank with its little head, and looked up at Huang Yu.

Dotted the water tank and looked up at the phoenix feathers.

Huang Yu walked over with a smile.

"Why are you so cute?" Huang Yu praised it, raised his hand and tentatively touched its little head.

When it touched the feathers, the little crow did not retreat a step, but shrank down, and when it was familiar, it slowly poked its head out and put its head on the palm of the phoenix feather.

"Cutie." Huang Yu said.

The little crow chirped twice, as if it was a little embarrassed to twist its head, arrogant and cute.

After watching the phoenix feather scoop up the water, the little crow fluttered its wings, flew back to the tree, picked up a few fallen leaves, and floated to the big water tank.

Huang Yu suddenly felt that the crow did not only represent misfortune and bad luck.

When I turned my head again, there was no shadow of a little crow in the tree.

When she went back, Cuicui was busy around the stove, with a fiery red tongue and a black whirring iron pot, the heat in the pot came out, and the aroma also came out.

There are two pots on the stove, one for boiling water and one for cooking rice, and Cuicui asks Huang Yu to pour the water into the other pot.

The firewood had not yet been lit under the pot, so Huang Yu followed Cuicui's example, first lit a handful of firewood and put it inside, and then stuffed the firewood into it.

But the firewood seemed to be deliberately against it, and it was extinguished as soon as it was put in.

Huang Yu tried it several times.

"Cousin, you haven't worked at home, have you?" Cuicui asked.

"Huh? Ah, yes, I'm the eldest in the family, and my father and brother never let me work. Huang Yu replied, with no hint of concealment in his eyes.

She didn't lie, that's what it is.

Cuicui looked at Huang Yu, wanting to see something in her eyes, and Huang Yu looked back with a smile.

Cuicui paused before saying, "So that's the case, my cousin is really happy." Then he came over with a bamboo tube and blew on the stove.

This blow caused a lot of smoke to come out, and the whole kitchen was filled with smoke, which made people cry and choke people to cough.

"Ahem, ahem, cousin, you go out first."

"Okay, okay."

When the two men came out, they were all disgraced.

Not to mention that Huang Yu can't work, Cuicui is not very good at it, the fried vegetables have become a pot of muddy because of the extra water, and the rice is boiled because the soup is too long.

This meal was made in a mess, but fortunately, the things made could still be seen, although it was slimy and became paste, it should not poison people.

When the two of them brought the food to the house, the old man and the old woman were already sitting at the table waiting for the meal to start.

The old man did not sit next to the old woman, but sat opposite the round wooden table. Cuicui sat next to the old woman, and the old man moved out.

The old man pulled Huang Yu and asked her to sit between him and Cuicui, and without waiting for Huang Yu to say anything, he moved the bench over.

In this way, the old man and the old woman, who were originally separated by a table, are now neighbors.

The old woman saw that Cuicui had no excessive behavior, and her eyes kept staring at the food, as if she had been hungry for a long time.

The family ate with their chopsticks in hand, as if nothing had ever happened.

Cuicui picked up vegetables for the old woman, gently asked if it was delicious, and wiped the rice residue from the corner of the old woman's mouth.

The old woman chewed with her toothless mouth and nodded and said it was delicious.

Huang Yu suddenly understood why Cuicui had cooked the rice like this.

The old woman had no teeth, and the cooked things were too hard for her to chew, so she could only eat such things that she didn't have to chew.

A ghost, why is it so good to an old woman in the world?

Huang Yu has been thinking about this since she saw the old woman.

The old man was eating with a bowl of stuffy head, and when no one served him food, he served it himself, and he didn't say a word during the period.

"Cousin, you eat too, you are so thin, you can be blown away by a gust of wind if you don't eat more." Cuicui added vegetables to the phoenix feather bowl.

"Hey, okay, okay, thank you, sister." Huang Yu looked at a bowl of paste, and he couldn't say what was bitter.

The meat in the dish was so badly cooked that I couldn't tell or smell what it was, but it was certain that it was fresh meat.