Chapter 214: Spring Palace Coffin Shop
Wu Qi suddenly became happy again, he is a young man, it is difficult to have the opportunity to eat meat, eat meat once, it is like the New Year. The depression just now has long disappeared in front of this big piece of fat. The shopkeeper is really good, and he left himself a lot of fat, Wu Qi's favorite thing to eat is this thing, eat a meal, and he is reluctant to wipe his mouth for three days, and the oil is good to show off in front of others.
Wu Qi almost licked the fat meat and was reluctant to bite it. With this big piece of fat, he ate three bowls of brown rice in a row! The belly is swollen and round. A mouth is naturally oily again.
He walked to the corner of the lobby with an oil lamp and prepared to sleep on the floor.
Their coffin shop is relatively small, the lobby is full of coffins, and there is a suite at the back, which is a reception room for distinguished guests, and it is usually a place for the shopkeeper's lunch break and tea and other businesses. The other guys all went home to live after closing the shop after dark, and he had no place to go back, so he lived in the coffin shop, and laid a floor bunk in the corner of the lobby, usually rolled up the bunk and put it away, and spread it out when he slept.
After eating fat meat and three bowls of rice, he should have slept comfortably, but somehow he couldn't sleep, and for a while he remembered the baby that had begun to rot, and for a while he remembered the little daughter-in-law who first cried and cried and then was as cold as ice, and then the small grave buried in the fierce ground of the mountain beam. Thinking of this, he couldn't sleep even more, how to bury the child there! It would not be his own sin to bring any misfortune to his family.
He regretted it a little, he should have insisted on not burying it there, any place was better than there. Alas! Let's hope nothing happens!
The next day, Wu Qi got up early, because he had a nightmare all night, dreaming that the baby had bitten the little daughter-in-law to death, it was bloody and scary, and he woke up in a cold sweat. I finally looked forward to dawn and got up quickly. The people who opened the coffin shop and began to clean.
When he cleaned up, took a long bench and sat at the door, watching the pedestrians on the street slowly increase, at this time, the shopkeeper came.
Wu Qi hurriedly greeted him with a smiling face and said, "Shopkeeper, are you here?" ”
The shopkeeper snorted, lifted his robe, crossed the high threshold, and walked into the lobby. looked around at the coffins of varying heights, there was nothing unusual, nodded, and then turned around to look at him: "I worked hard yesterday!" ”
The shopkeeper is righteousness! Wu Qi thought to himself, and said hard work to his buddy, and hurriedly said with a smile: "Where, it should be, yesterday, I helped the little lady to restrain the child, the child began to stink, if it weren't for the kindness of the shopkeeper and rewarding her with a coffin, her son would only be rotten at home!" ”
"Yes! Wretched! What a pathetic! ”
"That's right, I also see her pitiful, so after helping her to collect the funeral, she has to be buried in the earth immediately, and she has no money to buy a cemetery, so she can only be buried in the underworld, so far away, I still gritted my teeth to help her carry the coffin there, and also helped her bury, and then I came back, so tired that my waist was broken."
Shopkeeper Guan nodded, said that he had worked hard again, and then went into the back room with his hands behind his back.
Wu Qiyan looked at the back of the shopkeeper and disappeared at the door of the inner room, a little unable to react, didn't the little daughter-in-law say that the shopkeeper would give money? Why didn't the shopkeeper react when he heard it? Since this has no meaning of giving money, let alone paying for the little daughter-in-law to buy a hoe, and the shopkeeper did not say that he wanted to buy a hoe for her.
Wu Qi slowly sat down on the bench again. I was a little depressed in my heart, and the joy brought by the big fat meat last night was gone. He sat on the bench stupidly, looking at the pedestrians on the street boringly, but he was thinking about not getting the money, he was really a ghost, and he was deceived by a little daughter-in-law.
There was not a single business on this day, not even a guest came in, and it was a day of sitting in vain.
After dinner, Wu Qi began to lazily begin to close the door of the shop, and the shopkeeper walked out and said, "Today I want to clear the account in the back room, you don't have to worry about me, I went out from the small door after I was busy." ”
The inner room has a small door that leads to the alley outside. However, the shopkeeper almost didn't use the small door, because he left the main door almost before closing the store after dark, and Wu Qi was responsible for the closing of the door. It's going to be a little strange today, and I'm going to stay and settle the bills. -- What kind of accounts, this month I have done yesterday's business, and I have not made any money.
Wu Qi muttered in his heart, and he didn't dare to ask more, but he agreed, closed the door of the coffin shop, spread out the futon, and lay down to sleep.
Normally, as soon as he lay down, he would soon fall asleep, but he couldn't sleep at all that day. I don't know if it was because he was wronged, or because the nightmare of the first night made him feel palpitations and was afraid of dreaming again. Anyway, I can't fall asleep tossing and turning in bed.
I don't know how long it took, but he was just dazed and a little sleepy, when he heard a sound in the back room. It was the creaking of the swaying of the bedboard, which rang and stopped. Wu Qi was very strange, thinking that the shopkeeper was not clearing the accounts in the back room? Where did this squeak come from?
He got up, crept to the door of the back room, and listened, yes, there was a sound, and it was the creaking of the wooden bed.
There was a small bed in the back room, which was used by the shopkeeper to take a nap at noon, and he slept for half an hour at noon every day. What was he doing in bed?
Wu Qi was curious, looked at the door, and found that there was a glimmer of light in the crack of the door, there should be a gap, so he lay on it and looked inside.
At this look, he was so shocked that he almost screamed! It turned out that the shopkeeper was lying on top of a woman, both of them were naked, and the fat body of the shopkeeper kept moving back and forth, and the woman under him twisted her face and closed her eyes, like a dead person, and let the shopkeeper toss around. And that woman is the little daughter-in-law who made him the big one!
What's going on?
Wu Qi opened his mouth wide, and soon, he understood, no wonder the shopkeeper gave this little daughter-in-law a good coffin yesterday! It's no wonder that the little daughter-in-law said that she told the shopkeeper about buying hoes and helping with the burial, and the shopkeeper would give money, but it turned out that the little daughter-in-law used her body to exchange with the shopkeeper!
Looking at the little daughter-in-law, it is obviously a hundred unhappy, and it is no wonder that the shopkeeper Guan is short and fat, rosacea, and has a mouth of rotten teeth. The woman doesn't have another purpose, so she won't fall in love with him.
Wu Qi felt sorry for the little daughter-in-law, and it was really pitiful to the point of exchanging his body for a coffin to bury his dead son. Wu Qi couldn't bear to look at it anymore, turned around and tiptoed back to the ground to lie down. I want to put myself to sleep.
However, just now I saw the little daughter-in-law's white body and the two round lumps of flesh on her chest, constantly spinning in his mind. This was the first time he saw a woman's sleek body since he was a child and could remember. He is strong in blood, where can he stand this. I only felt that the blood in my whole body kept rushing, and the disobedient person under my crotch was already disobedient.
He remembered to look at the little daughter-in-law's body again, but he remembered that people were unable to bear the silver humiliation of the shopkeeper, how could he still go to the sidelines?
The unbearable struggle in his heart and the interweaving of physiology made him suffer.
Fortunately, the creaking in the back room stopped. After a few more moments, the glimmer of light in the crack of the door went out. Then, the sound of doors opening and closing and locking was heard, and everything was calm again.
When she left, Wu Qi felt a sense of relief, and at the same time, he was a little disappointed. The heat of the body slowly quieted down. However, the heat in his heart has not diminished at all, and what is turning over and over in his mind is the ** delicate body of the little daughter-in-law, which makes him sleepless all night.
The next morning, the shopkeeper came and was startled when he saw Wu Qi, and said, "What's wrong with you?" Bloodshot eyes? You okay? ”
When Wu Qi saw him, he immediately remembered the fragrant scene last night, remembered the way he was lying on his little daughter-in-law, and couldn't help arousing a burst of jealousy, and said: "I'm fine, but, shopkeeper, I forgot to tell you yesterday, the woman who bought the coffin yesterday, she asked me to help her bury the child, because there was no hoe, she said let me buy one, and said that she told you that she asked me to buy it, and said that you would give me money, hehe......"
Originally, Wu Qi was unlucky to prepare his son, not to mention this matter, but last night he found out that the little daughter-in-law actually exchanged her body for a coffin, so what she said must also include the purchase of a hoe, and it should also be part of her exchange, and it has to be the shopkeeper's talent.
When the shopkeeper Guan heard this, he frowned and muttered, "How much?" ”
"Thirty-six texts."
The shopkeeper Guan took out the money bag and counted the copper coins to Wu Qi.
Wu Qi hurriedly said: "The woman also said yesterday that I would help her carry the coffin to the underworld for burial, and let me tell you the money for shoes and handwashing, and say that you will give it to me." ”
Since it has been said, Wu Qi also said this matter, he thought to himself, the little daughter-in-law is such a delicate flower, you should sleep with this fat pig, and pay some money for her. There is no need to save money for him.
Wu Qi frowned again, and counted some copper coins for him.
Wu Qi hurriedly thanked him. The jealousy in my heart has only decreased, not to mention anything else, the shopkeeper is not a stingy person.
Shopkeeper Guan walked a few steps, stood again, turned back, looked at Wu Qi, and said in a low voice: "Last night, you, didn't hear anything, right?" ”
"Huh?" Wu Qi was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood what the shopkeeper was worth, "No, I fell asleep as soon as I lay down, I usually sleep very dead, even if there is thunder in the sky, I can't hear it, hehe." ”
It stands to reason that letting Wu Qi guard the coffin shop should have been more vigilant, but he actually said that he slept very dead and couldn't hear thunder, but Guan Shopkeeper was very satisfied with his answer. looked at him, nodded, took out the money bag again, poured a handful of copper coins, didn't count them, and handed them to Wu Qi: "You are very hard at night, I am very satisfied, in the future, follow me, your benefits are indispensable." ”
Wu Qi was overjoyed, and hurriedly took it with both hands, nodded and thanked him.
On this day, it still didn't open, and in the evening, the lady who closed the shopkeeper came.
The lady of the shopkeeper Guan is surnamed Luo, who is fat and short like the shopkeeper Guan, with a horizontal face, but she speaks softly and gently. Just listening to her voice, I thought it was a delicate little lady, and when I saw someone, I was often startled. So every time Wu Qi talks to her, he has to keep his head down, firstly, to show respect, and secondly, it will be more comfortable just listening to her voice.
Roche speaks softly, slowly, and likes to chatter, and he never finishes talking about it, but the coffin shop is rarely patronized by customers, and it is rare to hear people talking. Roche came, and when he said this, it was a little more lively.
Roche was talking about disaster relief this time: "Originally, a big flood, I don't know how many people will die, so many crops will be washed away, and I don't know how many people will starve to death. I see, if this continues, our coffin shop will be closed. ”
Shopkeeper Guan frowned and muttered vaguely: "You can't wait for dead people for the sake of business." ”
"What did you say?" Luo Shiliu's eyebrows straightened, and when she was angry, her voice was still so soft, "You mean I have a bad conscience?" I have a bad conscience, how could I graft you, a coffin seller? How could you have given birth to three sons in one go? How can you take out the dowry to give you the capital? Think about it, in the past few years, if it weren't for my help, your coffin shop wouldn't have been able to pay for death? Okay, now it's the other way around to say that I have no conscience? ”
Guan Zhang sneered and said: "How can I think so, my lady is the most kind-hearted." ”
"Come less!" Roche still said slowly, "I married you back then, it was nothing more than that I took a fancy to you as an honest and loyal person, of course, you told my father and mother that you have a craft, and there is an ancestral secret recipe for convergence, but no one appreciates it, if someone appreciates it, it will definitely make a lot of money." My father believed you and asked me to marry you, but I haven't seen any improvement in you for several years. ”
"It's not like I haven't met someone who knows the goods. Met ......"
"I'm too old to enjoy your blessings. Let's focus on the present! Roche sighed leisurely, "You say I have no conscience, I'm not convinced." Doing business, who doesn't expect business to be booming? We are not blessed, grafting you to open a coffin shop, people don't come to the door during the New Year, and I have never heard anyone congratulate us on making a fortune. I was in a hurry, so I talked about it in our store, and I didn't go outside to say it, and I didn't say it to outsiders, could it be that I lost the face of you, a good person? ”
Guan shopkeeper knew that if the lady was allowed to nag like this, she might not be able to finish the third watch in the middle of the night. hurriedly interjected: "Okay! I said wrong, the lady is anxious for our business, there is no other meaning, it is me ......"
"Come on, you!" Roche didn't mean to shut up at all, "What do you have in your stomach, when I don't know?" ”
"What?" Shopkeeper Guan looked at her in amazement.
"You dislike me for being ugly, and you want to find another one!"
"How could I, how could I ......"
(To be continued)