Chapter Seventy-Eight: Lifting a Rock and Shooting Yourself in the Foot
Around noon, Li Haoquan bought the wood for the coffin and moved it back. Yue Su immediately started work and built the coffin with his own hands. Don't look at the pig that you haven't done before, but you haven't eaten pork, haven't you seen a pig run?
With his craftsmanship, according to the appearance of the coffin, it only took one day to make it. Brush on the paint, wind overnight, and the stool is almost dry.
The coffin he hit was airtight, and it was several times better than the thin-skinned coffin in the longevity store.
Looking at the fruits of his labor, Yue Su nodded with satisfaction, and asked someone to fetch the elder's body, and asked Tie Qi to call Ju'er.
Ju'er was poor because of her background, Ruan Aoyue and Du Siniang didn't tell her to work, but just arranged a room for her to live in peace of mind. After all, now Mu Tianjiao is also there, and in the county lord's guard of honor, all the maids, mothers-in-law, and cooks are ready, and Xiong Hu also comes over to help from time to time.
Tie Qiu led Ju'er to the Zhongjin Courtyard, Yue Su looked at her and said, "The coffin is ready, I will bury your father today, there are many people here, and we will do it together, and we will soon be able to dig out the yin house and bury your father." Let's take another look at my father. ”
"Uh-uh......" Ju'er nodded continuously, ran to the elder's corpse, threw herself on it, cried bitterly, and cried for a long time before she straightened up, her face was full of tears, looking like that, it was not contrived at all.
Yue Su asked the old man with a sheep's beard to be lifted into the coffin and nailed the coffin lid to death, and then Li Haoran, who listened to the side, said: "Girl, your father is really an old blessing, tsk, this coffin was nailed by the adults of my family himself, and it is thousands of times better than buying it from the coffin shop." Don't talk about the end of the work, let's just say that the identity and status of my family can lie in this coffin, reincarnate in the next life, and go to a good family, which is a blessing that has been cultivated in several lifetimes. ”
What the! Hearing this, Ju'er almost fainted. However, her reaction was quite fast, and she came to Yue Su in a few steps, knelt on the ground, and kept kowtowing.
"Get up, it's too cold on the ground." Yue Su said softly: "When I was young, I followed my father to do carpentry, and this is the first time I have made a coffin. In fact, the headquarters also wanted to buy a longevity material for Ling Zun, but the headquarters was used to being poor, and he had nothing to do, so he took a sip, and he didn't know if it was suitable. ”
"Uh-uh......" Ju'er stood up, as if to say thank you.
Yue Su is an honest official and is famous, but I don't know if this Ju'er knows it, and I don't know what she will guess in her heart. I will wonder if Yue Su is intentional or unintentional.
"Tie Qiu, Li Haoquan, you two bring more people and accompany Ju'er to bury her father. Buy more paper money and have a little more scenery. After Yue Su finished speaking, he returned to the flower hall.
Not far from the governor's yamen, there is a longevity shop, which is the only longevity shop nearby. On the street opposite Shoucai Shop, there is a restaurant, and in the private room by the window on the second floor, there are four people sitting. These are two men and two women, two men, one is a bull-eyed man and the other is an elder with rat whiskers. There are two of them, needless to say, two women, one is naturally a white-clothed Dao Gu, and the other is a charming woman in a green shirt.
"Boss Rat, I don't know what's going on today, I'm always restless, and my heart is beating hard. Say it, Mr. Ye and the sheep's beard have been going on for almost two days, it stands to reason that it is time to buy a coffin, there is such a longevity material shop around here, Long Lao Wu has been waiting below, why hasn't anyone come. The white-clothed Daoist said a little nervously.
"That being said, since Yue Su let them enter the mansion, they should buy a coffin for burial, we all did things on the coffin, why didn't people come?" The rat boss was also worried.
"This Mr. Ye is also right, saying that the sheepbeard has closed qigong, and he has to pretend to be dead, even if the coffin is made of hands and feet, he can't suffocate in it, and when he is buried in the soil, he doesn't know how long he can last. According to my meaning, just strangle an old man and replace it, that is, why is it so troublesome. The bull-eyed man said with some dissatisfaction.
"Lao Niu, you can't say that, what does Yue Su do, what does the group of people under him do, you put people to death, and you can't be seen at a glance when you reach the governor's yamen, and then there will be someone to avenge the people, visit the murderer everywhere, and visit the origin of the old man, and the chaos will come out immediately. It is estimated that Mr. Ye will also get in. The closed qigong of the sheep's beard, I know, it is quite powerful, even if it does not show its head in the water for an hour, it will not be able to suffocate to death, and it will never be fine. Wouldn't it be a moment to bury it, and it took half an hour to die, and as soon as they left, let's hurry up and dig people out, that's it. "This time it's the woman in the green shirt.
Her words were agreed by the other three, and everyone nodded together, and looked downstairs again, just wondering, not understanding why the governor's yamen didn't buy the coffin at this moment.
Just as he was looking, a large group of officers and soldiers suddenly came over carrying a coffin, and next to the coffin, there was a girl crying on the coffin.
The four of them recognized the girl at a glance, and almost said in unison: "Mr. Ye." ”
"That's not right." The white-clothed Daoist aunt immediately said: "We have been staring here since yesterday, and we haven't seen anyone come to buy a coffin, where did the coffin below come from." Is the sheepbeard in it? ”
"Mr. Ye can cry on the side, and the people inside must be sheepbeards. This...... What's going on...... The coffin...... I don't know if I did it or not. The bull-eyed man said anxiously: "What if...... If you don't do your hands and feet, you don't know if the sheep's beard can withstand such a long effort. Boss Rat, see what you can do, or ......"
"No way!" The rat boss pressed down on the big man and said, "In this way, wouldn't even Mr. Ye get in." Besides, we don't know if there are any gaps in this coffin, and if there is, it's not to lift a stone and shoot yourself in the foot. You see, there are 60 or 70 officers and soldiers below, and how can we deal with it with just a few of us. Let's take it one step at a time. Now, let's go out and see where we're going to be buried, and as soon as they're gone, we'll dig it up." ”
"Okay......" At the moment, there really isn't a good way, and the other three just wait for their heads.
The four of them settled the accounts and went downstairs, met Long Lao Wu at the longevity shop opposite, and once again made sure that no one had come to buy a coffin in the past two days, so they anxiously took a shovel and pickaxe and followed the officers and soldiers out of the city.
When they arrived at the mass grave outside the city, the officers and soldiers picked up the guys and began to dig a pit. Don't look at the Spring Festival, the ground is still very hard, relying on the large number of officers and soldiers, everyone took turns to move their hands, and it took half an hour to dig a big hole. The rat boss who was hiding in the shadows, who was anxious, saw that the officers and soldiers put the coffin down, but they were not in a hurry to bury it, and the big guys sat on the side to rest together. And Ju'er can only cry and burn paper money as if she is like.
After another half an hour, the officers and soldiers began to bury the soil and bury it tightly, and then they collected their troops and returned to the city. As soon as the officers and soldiers left, the five rat bosses hurriedly rushed out, lifted the guys, and began to gouge out. It can be seen that they are in a hurry, and after a while, they dug out the coffin, pried open the lid of the coffin, and looked inside, the old man with a sheep's beard was lying in it with his eyes staring, his face turned purple, and he had obviously been suffocated.
"Sheep's Beard ......"
"Sheep's Beard ......"
The five of them kept greeting, where there was a response, and helped the sheep's beard out of the coffin, his body was already paralyzed, but the body was still hot, and he should have just died for a while. The eldest guy is a brother who has been passed down from generation to generation, and he is closer than his own brother, and when he saw the sheep's beard die like this, the five of them shed tears together.
"Sheepbeard, don't worry, the eldest brother will avenge you and slaughter Yue Su's bastard with his own hands." Boss Rat said through gritted teeth.
The other four, like him, were full of indignation. "Not only to avenge the sheep's beard, but also to Yue Su's head, even if he is cut by a thousand knives, it will be difficult to vent the anger in my heart!"
They have a total of twelve brothers and sisters, and now half of them are dead, although they are only indirectly related to Yue Su, but the hatred must be counted on Yue Su's head.
The body of the sheepbeard was buried again, and after they left, they did not expect that a person would come here. The man looked at the grave a few times and then departed.
Governor Xingyuan, Du Shi Niang's room.
Every day, Du Siniang and Ruan Aoyue play the piano and chat together, but for some reason, she sometimes feels that there is no caring person to talk to, and she feels empty and lonely from time to time. This feeling is very strange, saying that she is under a low eaves, no matter who does not regard her as a person, it may be a woman's mind, thinking that she is nameless and partless.
She wouldn't say this kind of thing to others, because she was from a bad background, and Yue Su was a famous Qingtian. is white and dusty, how can you be worthy of others. Such a thought has been entangled with Du Shi Niang, and there is always a feeling of not vomiting and being unhappy, but she doesn't dare to say it to anyone.
Now that I have a maid Ju'er, and Ju'er is a mute, even if she hears it, she won't chew her tongue around, maybe this happens to be the object of Du Shi Niang's confiding.
"Under the lonely night, I sat alone in the cabin, there was my Du Shi Niang in the cabin, waiting for my Lang, and I heard outside the window, someone called Shi Niang, holding the window railing and looking around, how could I not see my Lang. Yes...... Lang Jun, are you hungry and panicked......
This song was sung by Yue Su in the defense of Tongren Du Shi Niang, Du Shi Niang has always remembered it vividly, and she will sing it almost every night, but she has never sung it in front of outsiders. In her heart, this is the song that Yue Su gave her, this song, except for singing Yue Su to listen to, she will never sing it to anyone again.
But today is an exception, because Ju'er is mute.
Ju'er seemed to be listening to this song very attentively, and when she sang about the desolation in the back, Ju'er was moved by it. Her expression was inadvertently seen by Du Shi Niang, and Du Shi Niang said faintly: "Ju'er, can you understand the meaning of this song?" ”
"Uh-uh......" Ju'er kept shaking her head, indicating that she didn't understand. Then there was another gesture, as if to tell Shi Niang that she could feel the desolation of the song.
"This song describes me as ......" Du Siniang raised her head, looking a little sad, she continued: "Back then, I was an orphan like you now, but your luck is much better than mine, you can sell yourself to the old man's mansion, and I can only be sold into the Qinglou." There, at the age of fourteen, I broke melons, tasted all the world, understood the heat and coldness of the world, and I had to show a smile in front of anyone. That day, I met Li Jia, I thought I had a home, who would have thought ......"
Du Shi Niang told the story of her own ups and downs with Ju'er, of course, the story of the angry sinking of the treasure chest and the rescue of Shi Niang by Yue Su Hengjiang. She was sad when she spoke, and Ju'er was moved to listen to it, and she couldn't help but think of her life experience.
(To be continued)