Everyone in the room sighed. Sitting here are the members of the temporary Bailu Cang Relief Association, including Lu Zilin, the township covenant of the nine security centers, each in charge of a division of labor is responsible for giving meals to the hungry people in the plains, and the head township Yotian Fuxian is the president of himself, and they constitute the upper class society of Bailuyuan. Everyone looked at Bai Xiaowen, who was pulled in by Lu Zilin, his clothes and pants were dirty and sloppy, his hair was rusty with dirt and grass residue, his cheeks and neck were covered with dirt, and the dried eye feces accumulated at the corners of his eyes poured out fresh eye feces with yellow wax wax, which made people disgusting. This unscrupulous man who escaped from the respected Bai family's gatehouse shocked the upper-class people of Bailuyuan present and scrambled to send out words of genuine distress and pity. Not only did Xiaowen not get the slightest warmth and comfort, but he was even more embarrassed, thoroughly receiving the shame of the degenerate, and could no longer say the hard words about Lusan and Xiaowu. Lu Zilin walked in with four or five steamed buns, and was about to hand them to Xiaowen, but Mr. Zhu, who had never spoken, stopped Lu Zilin's actions, waved him to take the steamed buns away, and said quietly: "Let him be hungry for a while." Lu Zilin was a little embarrassed, everyone here knew about his purchase of land and demolition of the house, so he regretted a little that he shouldn't have dragged Xiaowen in; I only wanted to push this broken kid to the upper class people to exhibit it, but I was involved; He suddenly had an idea and said to Tian Fuxian: "General Township Covenant, didn't you say that the county security brigade should be expanded?" Do you want you to introduce them to reliable young people? How good it would be to let Hyowen go! Let's look at Brother Jiaxuan's face, we can't watch Xiaowen come here to grab the house......" Everyone clapped their hands together. Tian Fuxian shook his hand and said, "I forgot about it if you didn't mention it." Ok, good, good! Xiaowen studied at Mr. Zhu's College for several years, and his writing was profound. The captain of the county security brigade specially told me to find someone with literature and ink for him!" As he spoke, he wrote down a letter of recommendation on the table, folded it and put it in an envelope, walked over and handed it to Xiaowen and said, "You go immediately, be careful that others take a seat when it's late." Xiaowen took the envelope and shed tears gratefully: "Uncle Tian Zilin......" knelt down with a click. Xiaowen was picked up by Tian Fuxian, and turned around to go out, but his brother-in-law, Mr. Zhu, stopped him and said, "Wait." You go grab a bowl of rice and eat it before you leave. Eating a bowl of rice is very beneficial......" Xiaowen glanced at his brother-in-law and leaned against the door frame. Mr. Zhu said to the people in the house: "I propose that all of us in the relief society go and scoop a bowl of rice and eat with the people, this opportunity is once in a lifetime." Give me a bowl, and if you don't go, I'll go......"

Mr. Zhu often has strange deeds, which have become enduring anecdotes of strange things. Mr. Zhu's snatching of the house suddenly spread to Bailuyuan, and then to the county government, and the new county magistrate Hao burst into tears, glad that he had chosen a good person. The county magistrate Hao appointed himself as the director of Zishui County Disaster Relief, and Mr. Zhu was appointed as the deputy director. Whoever this fat shortage is given will become the richest man in the county in half a year. The county magistrate Hao came to Bailu Academy in person and asked Mr. Zhu to go out of the mountain, and his words were sincere: "It's not good luck, I just came to Zishui and encountered a new year, and I have no ambition at all, only disaster relief is fate." I am afraid that the small people will be deducted from it, and it will be like making things worse for the people. With Mr.'s character and prestige, he is up to this important task, so put aside the compilation of the county chronicle for the time being, save the people from the famine first, and then you will continue to revise the county chronicle......" Mr. Zhu high-fived angrily: "Outside the academy, crying hunger and cold, above Qianmo, the hungry people are like ants, and it is rare for me to write calmly; I've been overwhelmed with responsibilities all my life, I've done nothing, and I've been in vain! When this life is destroyed, being able to deliver a mouthful of life-saving food to the people of this county is also a practical thing, and my life's wish is enough!" Mr. Zhu personally convened a joint meeting of the township covenants of the various warehouses to check the number of people and distribute relief food. He personally went to more than 30 warehouses in the mountainous areas of the original area of the county and in the Chuandao area to supervise and inspect the places where the meals were distributed, and assigned the literati and gentlemen who compiled the county chronicles to the warehouses to be in charge of the account of the amount of grain for relief, and strongly advocated that the grain for disaster disasters must be eaten in the mouths of the hungry people without leakage, so as to plug the loopholes of malpractice in private business. Mr. Zhu was dressed in cloth clothes and inspected various warehouses. When he inspected the Hekou warehouse for the first time, the warehouse prepared a table of rice for him, four dishes of stir-fried vegetables, and a plate of snow-white steamed buns. Mr. Zhu took a look, then picked up a bowl and scooped a bowl of millet porridge on the dining field. The chief townsman of the warehouse and his staff were dumbfounded, and repeatedly reviewed their dereliction of duty. Mr. Zhu instructed them to serve the steamed buns on the plate and the stir-fried vegetables on the plate, and walked together to the big iron pot in the dining room, and poured them in together. Mr. Zhu said, "Can you tell the people what kind of grain this bun is steamed from?" The head townsman took a look at the hungry people who were crowded, and his face was so frightened that he didn't dare to speak. Mr. Zhu said: "Under the red flag of the blue sky and the white sun, there is no need to squeeze your eyebrows and whisper. You open your throat and say to the people—" As soon as the head townsman said the reason for entertaining Mr. Zhu with relief grain, the hungry people standing in front knelt down, and the people behind knelt down silently, and the whole dining room was silent. With tears streaming down his face, Mr. Zhu said, "Who can bear to take food from the mouths of hungry people, can anyone still be counted as a human being?"

One dusk a month later, Xiaowen rode a horse into Bailu Town, wearing a straight black uniform, a black belt around his waist, and a white-circled black-brimmed hat on his head, and walked into Bailu Cang non-stop, and gave a hand-raising salute to Tian Fuxian, and then untied his shoulder bag and took out a bottle of wine, a pack of dim sum, a pack of southern sugar, and a pack of dried bamboo shoots, a total of four gifts, and said sincerely: "It's not respectful, Uncle Tian......" He then sent the same gift to Lu Zilin (he didn't stop when he passed through the village alley and passed by his door), is still the sincere words: "I don't pay respect, Uncle Zilin......"

After more than ten days of military training, he was transferred to the brigade headquarters to be a secretary of the brigade, and he is expected to have a brilliant future in the future. He had already planned and decided, and after receiving his salary for the first time, he would go to reward his benefactors Tian Fuxian and Lu Zilin, who pointed him a way to live, and then left the rest of the money to Xiao'e, the poor man was afraid that he would not be able to squeeze if he wanted to eat! Lu Zilin asked his family to scramble a plate of eggs and a plate of self-grown soybean sprouts to entertain Xiaowen. After three rounds of drinking, Lu Zilin kindly told him: "It's good, it's good!" That goods are dead, and you are destined to do your errand in the county......" Xiaowen asked with a straight eye: "Who died, who did you say died?" Lu Zilin made a disdainful look: "It's the ...... in the Dongtou kiln" Xiaowen stood up uncontrollably: "You said she ...... Starving?" Lu Zilin pressed his shoulder and asked him to sit down before saying, "It's not like he died of starvation, it's like he was killed by someone, and there is blood ...... on the kang."

A strange stench floated through the village, and the villagers thought that the dead bodies of wild dogs were rotting, and they searched the moats of the deserted gardens but there was no trace. The disgusting and suffocating stench increased day by day, and the stench was unpleasant, and someone finally discovered that the source of the stench was in the cave next to the slow road at the east end of the village, and reported it to the patriarch Bai Jiaxuan. Bai Jiaxuan said to his second son Xiaowu: "You call a few people to take a look, what's the matter?" Bai Xiaowu and a group of clansmen came to the slow ramp and stepped into the kiln courtyard, and the stench made people constantly nauseous and retching, and the stench was indeed emitted from the cave. There is an iron lock in the shape of a box cage hanging on the kiln door, and the single wooden door leaves no gaps, and the wooden fan of the kiln window is also closed, and there is darkness in the subtle cracks of the window sash. Some people began to reminisce, it seems that the kiln door has been locked for many days and has not been opened, and it seems that the ** has not been seen in the market town for a long time; Some conclude that she must have starved to death in the cave, and others immediately point out that the iron lock on the door proves that she is not there at all, and that she may have killed some wild man and escaped. In any case, the stench emanated from this hole. Hyo-mu won the idea in the chaotic controversy, and instructed the two men with pickaxes to say, "Smash the window sash!" After two crisp sounds, the two men who smashed the window sash scrambled to put their heads into the window hole, and at the same time screamed and fell under the windowsill, so frightened that mom and dad screamed. Xiaowu stepped forward and grabbed the windowsill to take a look inside, and immediately her hair stood upside down, and a naked woman was lying on the edge of the kang, with one leg and foot hanging under the edge of the kang. Xiaowu glanced at it and covered his nose and retreated to the kiln courtyard. Since the woman starved to death in the kiln, who locked the door from the outside? People crowded to the windowsill to see what was going on, and then they screamed and hurriedly retreated to the kiln courtyard. Xiaowu instructed the two men to smash the iron lock on the kiln door. The two of them said that they would not take any more risks. Xiaowu took the pickaxe from one of them and walked to the kiln door, smashed the iron lock with a bang, kicked open the single door, and buzzed, flies circled at the door like bees, and the stench rushed out of the door. Xiaowu also instructed a few young men to climb up the Tsubaki tree to pick and break branches, and set wheat grass on fire in the kiln yard, covering the branches and leaves of the Tsubaki tree with the fire, burning out bitter smoke and dispersing the flies that pounced on the kiln yard. He led three young men into the cave with firewood, grass and tsubaki branches and leaves, and lit a fire on the top of the kiln to smoke it. After the fire and smoke, they ran out of the kiln. Thick black smoke poured out from the kiln doors, windows and skylights, and the green-headed and red-headed flies the size of water chestnuts flew with the smoke flow, crawling to people's faces and climbing onto people's clothes, people screamed and took off their clothes and beat them, and those demonic flies were a symbol of ghosts.

The smoke dissipated and the stench was temporarily reduced, and Xiaowu and a few bold people walked into the kiln door to inspect it. Xiao'e lay on the kang with her upper body, one arm pressed under her ribs, the other arm stretched out to the kang mat in front of her head, one leg pressed under the jiri and the other leg hung under the edge of the kang, the whole body was naked, only a pair of small feet wrapped around the feet and covered with galoshes. The corpse has completely decomposed, large and small maggots have formed a tower, the shoulder blade on the right shoulder has been chewed by maggots, there are thousands of maggots wriggling and crawling in the hair nested in a pile, and the world of maggots is everywhere on the quilt on the kang mat and on the pot connected to the kang. Xiaowu bent down and finally found that the skin on the side of the kang was splashed with dried and black blood, and he understood that the woman was not starved to death but was killed, and the person who killed her locked the door of the kiln after going out. A jacket was pressed under her, and judging from her naked body and the galoshes on her feet, she was killed at night, because galoshes were only changed when she took off her clothes and went to bed at night, these are common sense of life that is easy to judge. The cause of her death seems to be easier to guess, since she is naked and only wears pajamas, it must be that a wild man fell out with her and killed her, or a group of wild men were jealous and failed to retaliate and kill, for this notorious official woman, there will be no deeper and more factors to think about except adultery. Xiaowu withdrew from the kiln gate and went to the courtyard, and the men surnamed Bai and Lu who gathered more and more unanimously condemned that this ** died and made the whole village smell her stench, but this time there was finally a scourge. A few old people leaned on the old and sold the old to blame Xiaowu: Look at what is so stinky ** What is there to look at? Hurry up and get a shovel to shovel out that stinky meat and bones and bury it! Xiaowu said hesitantly: "What if her mother's family or someone next to her sues the official?" It's always a homicide case!" The old men said impatiently: "I dare to testify, and everyone present can testify." You can't let anyone smell it anymore!" Xiaowu said, "That's good!" So he instructed everyone to go home and get the tools, dig a deep pit and bury her deeply.

At this moment, Bai Jiaxuan walked on the slow road with his waist bent and walked straight towards the kiln door. Xiaowu persuaded him not to go in, Bai Jiaxuan raised his face and said, "Are you still afraid of death?" Strange thing!" Bai Jiaxuan observed with his hands behind his back, saw the rotten body that was eaten by maggots, and also saw the blood stains that turned black on the earthen wall by the kang, and he didn't stop for a long time and staggered out of the threshold of the kiln door, and looked at the people who had already taken the shovel, and said to Xiaowu: "Put down the soil from the kiln cliff and block this kiln!" After that, he walked out of the yard with his waist bent and walked down the slow road. Xiaowu asked people to block the window hole from the kiln with a broken window panel, closed the kiln door again, and let everyone dig from the kiln cliff. The clods of soil poured down, blocking the kiln door and window of the kiln surface, and finally sealing the small square skylight......

"Who did this?" Hyowen asked.

"I don't know." Lu Zilin said, "I was busy distributing meals to the victims in the warehouse that day, and I was not at the scene, because I heard someone say it later." Everyone is noisy and says, it must be a wild man's work! But no one can guess who it is. ”

Xiaowen pinched the wine glass in a daze, and poured it into it suddenly.

"It's an old nephew." Lu Zilin calmly comforted Xiaowen. Xiaowen's act of carrying a gift to thank him proves that Xiao'e never leaked it to Xiaowen until her death, and the romance from the stage to the brick kiln that led to a series of disasters for Xiaowen was a ploy or trap of his; Fortunately, the murderer cleared the hidden danger in his heart for himself, and he no longer has to worry about the danger of Xiao'e leaking the bottom to Xiaowen, and he will maintain a friendly uncle-nephew relationship with Xiaowen safely. He said: "You are now in the security team, in fact, she is dead and will not make you feel troubled; You're not the same as before, and now you're a man in the head!"

Xiaowen poured wine again and again, didn't say a word, stood up and left, took out his horse from the horse number, stepped on the horse as soon as he went out, and didn't even say hello to Lu Zilin. Xiaowen ran through the village alley and went to the slow road, tied the horse to a tree, stepped on the empty soil and climbed the kiln, judged the position of the skylight by memory, and picked it up with both hands. The void covered outside the skylight was thin and soon revealed. Hyo-moon entered the kiln through the skylight, and it was pitch black inside. He wiped out three matches in succession, and in the light of the fourth match, he found the oil lamp resting on the kang platform, and there was a trace of clear oil left in the oil lamp, and the oil twist was lit up slowly. Xiaowen stood on the ground at his feet and saw a white bone, and the position and posture of the skeleton on the kang were basically consistent with the situation described by Lu Zilin. Xiaowen knelt on the ground as soon as his knees were weak, and called softly: "Kiss, I'm late......" He seemed to hear a sizzling sound in the air on the top of the kiln, and saw a snow-white moth fluttering and flying, flickering, around the flame of the oil lamp, fluttering and flickering, Xiaowen cried out: "You know I'm back, kiss......"

When Hyowen woke up, the oil lamp had burned out, and the moth was nowhere to be seen. He struck a match, and his eyes fell on the two rows of delicate glutinous rice teeth that he had kissed and kissed with never satisfaction, and they now glowed with a cold green glow. He took a stone bracelet from the bone of his right arm, which reached the side of the kang, put it on his wrist, and climbed up to the skylight in the dark. He pulled the soil from the kiln, re-blocked the skylight, jumped off the kiln, and untied the horse's reins: "I must kill the murderer, cut off his brain and sacrifice you!" Kiss ......"