Chapter 010: Human Bones
"It's really over. Tian'er, you're amazing, I'm impressed. You even understand this. Awesome, awesome. Zhu Fu, who gave her a thumbs up, with his current status, is indeed too inconvenient to talk to her about physiology and hygiene now, so he has to deal with the mud.
In fact, even Zhu Fu can't figure out what kind of relationship he and Zhao Tianer are currently in? If you have to say that she is your wife, I'm afraid it really can't be justified. Even if you don't have to go to the Civil Affairs Bureau to apply for a marriage certificate in this era, you can't be too casual. At least one worship heaven and earth, two worship the high hall, and three worship is the ceremony of husband and wife worshipping each other, and sending them into the cave room, or go one, and let relatives and friends or something, be a witness on the side. Fiancee? Girlfriend? That's not right, after all, it's only been a few days since we met each other, and getting to know each other has just begun.
Just thinking about Zhu Fu, who is still young when Zhao Tian'er is young, it is still in the spirit that in a few years, when she grows up, it is not too late to confirm a formal relationship with each other. If love bursts out with each other in the future, then it will be a matter of course. If you don't have that special feeling, even if you are a brother and sister with a different surname.
However, Zhu Fu estimated that the latter situation may be his own wishful thinking, after all, the girl from a good family in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty was a good girl with a tendon in her head and did not serve her second husband. What's more, she has long been recognized by Zhao Tianer as her husband. If you don't marry her, I'm afraid that she will hang herself, swallow gold, throw herself into a river, and throw herself into a well...... Or something, but it's a sin.
Fortunately, the current social environment and laws allow polygamy. Therefore, I feel that there is space and leeway, and I am not afraid that I am sorry for Zhao Tianer's Zhu Fu, so I don't treat her as an outsider. However, now, he really treats Zhao Tianer as a little sister who was deceived by a confused master.
The next morning, Zhu Fu, who once again stood behind the altar in the back garden, wore a Taoist hat, a Taoist robe was neatly dressed, and there were words in his mouth, and what he deliberately said unclear was nothing more than not turning in the front and turning in the back, Smecta, or eating grapes, not spitting out grape skins, and the bazaar was black...... For a while, he danced the peachwood sword in his hand, the scattered yellow paper flying in the sky, and then he shook the bell, grabbed the glutinous rice in the bowl, and spilled it in front of him...... Others looked at him as opening the altar, unbelievable, amazing, and only he knew best, he was completely crazy.
Zhu Fu, who performed similarly, returned the guys who were eating in his hands one by one, put them on the table, raised his right hand and pointed to the flower garden and said, "Now, you can dig boldly with confidence." So, the nine peasants who were waiting on one side early, each with a tool in their hand, rushed straight into the flower garden, threw off their arms without pity for the flowers and plants, and dug with all their strength.
On the other side, Wang Dake, who led the personal servant, stood and supervised the work himself, holding a purple clay pot in his right hand, watching them work, and sipping a sip of tea leisurely from time to time. Feeling that this matter was about to end, he was not only relieved, but also received a praise from his master. In this way, the position of the second housekeeper of his Lin Mansion will not be replaced by others, and he will be able to sit firmly.
After digging for a while, one of the nine peasants shouted as if he had won the jackpot: "The bones have been dug up." Hearing this, Wang Dake suddenly walked over in two steps as if he had been beaten with chicken blood.
And Zhu Fu, who picked up a large coarse porcelain jar from the altar, walked in their direction without hurrying. Squatting down, he first swept away the dirt on the corpse with his hands, and then picked up the bones of the people one by one and put them into the jar placed beside him.
Zhu Fu, who was silent, noticed that the human bones he had put in were not all white, but more or less purple-black. Faced with such an obviously unusual feature, it is not difficult to deduce that this person should not have died a normal death, but died of severe poisoning. Not only that, but the same part of the bone has several sizes, large and small. It's been a long time, and although their bodies have been dissolved in the soil to make fertilizer, there are still broken clothes, and the possibility of their unjust death is very great.
Zhu Fu recognized at a glance that they should be men, women, the elderly, and children. While continuing to pick up the soil into the jar, while guessing whether they would be a family, a big question mark appeared in his mind, who had a deep hatred with them? And who poisoned them? Why are they buried here? ……
Zhu Fu, who didn't make a noise and didn't shout to report to the government, thought that a headless case like this would probably be an unsolved case, after all, there was no DNA identification, computer comparison, soil sampling or anything like that. I don't want to cause trouble, and I don't want to mess up the money I am about to get in hand. So, he did his job silently, that is, after the burial, there would be no more ghost fires here. And burying them in another good place is worthy of their death. As for avenging their grievances or something, it is not within the scope of their duties.
Zhu Fu, who had two large coarse porcelain jars, not only covered the lids, but also sealed the mouth of the jar with cinnabar mixed with black dog blood on yellow paper in the shape of "X", so as to show the people present, especially Wang Dake, the representative of the Lin Mansion, that even if they did not keep their promises, they could not run out to make trouble.
Back and forth, Zhu Fu, who put the two big coarse porcelain jars into a coffin again, held a rattle in his left hand and a peachwood sword in his right hand, and recited words in his mouth, only he could understand, walked around the coffin clockwise three times, and walked around the coffin three times counterclockwise, and then ordered someone to cover the coffin.
According to all the procedures of the normal funeral, the yellow paper and white paper were thrown into the sky, and the sound of firecrackers was also a masterpiece of "crackling". Zhu Fu, who was walking in the forefront, was still shaking the rattle with his left hand, and wielding the peachwood sword wantonly with his right hand, and continued to think in his heart, I really don't know if it's bad luck or rejoicing in this matter? After all, if there was no haunting in the Lin family's courtyard, he would have been invited by Wang Dake to come here and make a lot of money. There is a hidden worry in his heart, and he is already involved in it, but he is afraid that this matter will not be so lightly drawn to a full end and it will be troublesome.