Jian Qing thought thoughtfully, "Where does Lu Chuan's family live?" ”

"It's in Banyan Hutong, you always go this way, walk through that street, turn right, go inside, and see a big banyan tree on the side of the road, a hundred years up, there are many red cloth strips hanging on the tree, just ask near there, just ask as soon as you ask."

Jian Qing walked along the road, arrived at the banyan alley, and saw a big tree with intricate roots on the side of the road, it should really be a hundred years, the three of them were thick, crooked towards the east, in addition to the red cloth strips on the tree, there were many wishing cards.

Around the tree, a high platform was built, and there were more than a dozen bluestone steps.

There happened to be an old woman burning incense paper by the tree and worshipping the tree. Jian Qing walked over and asked, "Auntie, where does Lu Chuan's family live?" ”

"Lu Chuan? You mean the Lu family who came from Luba Village? Walking ahead, it was the Lu family who hung a black flag at the door. ”

Luba Village?

Jian Qing was a little confused, but she decided to go over and have a look first.

In front of it is an inverted seat two entrances, two small black lacquer doors, ox head iron ring, Jian Qing walked over and knocked on the door knocker, knocked for a long time. The next door was noisy, pushed open the door and poked her head out, "Is Aunt Lu not at home?" ”

There was another sound in the courtyard, the sound of human shoes rubbing against the ground.

"Who?"

"It's me, is it Lu Chuan's family?"

There seemed to be a pause inside. Jian Qing knew that this was Lu Chuan's family. The next door also retracted his head, but instead of leaving, he was eavesdropping.

Jian Qing didn't care, but Lu Chuan's mother seemed to care very much, and she didn't ask who Jian Qing was, so she let Jian Qing in.

The courtyard door was quickly closed, and the old woman in front of her was like a withered shape, her old eyes were dizzy, and when she looked at Jian Qing, her eyes couldn't wait to stick to Jian Qing's face, "Who are you?" ”

"I'm from Beizhen Fuji." Jian Qing now feels that the name of Beizhen Fusi is very useful, at least he can tell his identity, which makes people quite confident, "I'm here to investigate Lu Chuan's matter, auntie, can you tell me about it?" ”

"Chuan'er? Why hasn't Chuan'er come back yet? ”

Jian Qing looked at the door gods who had painted their eyes with ink on both sides of the door, and looked at the red lanterns covered with black cloth under the eaves of the porch, and his heart suddenly soured, "Auntie, I heard that your family used to be from Luba Village?" ”

"Dead ghost, why are you doing such a lack of virtue? Retribution has come to the son, you know? Do you know? The woman sat on the ground and cried and got up.

Jian Qing was busy pulling her up, and the woman scratched Jian Qing's face with one paw, "There is a wrong, there is a debtor, the dead ghost has harmed you, what does it have to do with my son?" Why do you want to repay him? If you have the ability, you can go down and find him! ”

"Who is it? Auntie, who killed your son? ”

"Who is it? Who else could it be? It's the owner! ”

Jian Qing wanted to ask again, but he couldn't ask anything. The woman was tired of crying, so she lay on the ground and fell asleep, Jian Qing wanted to get her into the house, but she didn't have the ability. Fortunately, Zhao Er came, and together with Jian Qing, he carried his mother-in-law to the house.

The house is not shabby, on the contrary, it can be seen that it used to be solid. Jian Qing has also heard that the Lu family also has a shop that is rented to people as a façade.

Next door was probing his brain at the door, Jian Qing and Zhao Er went out and asked, "Does the old aunt of the Lu family have anyone to take care of on weekdays?" ”

"This young master, don't worry, we are all old neighbors for more than ten years, and after Chuanzi went, the Lu family's mother-in-law was taken care of by us."

"Did Lu Chuan make a feud with someone or what? How could he die for no reason? ”

"Well, it's a matter of time before I talk about it." The mother-in-law who said this, the one who had just worshipped under the deified banyan tree, opened her mouth, and everyone stopped talking, looking at her with burning eyes, obviously interested in what she had to say.

"What do you say?" Jian Qing asked.

"I don't dare to say this, if it's right, no one will thank me, if it's wrong, what if Lu Pozi goes crazy and beats me?" After speaking, she turned around and walked towards the opposite door, and when she arrived at the door, she turned around and spat at the Lu family, "Dead son, you deserve it, when you made a windfall, what did you look like?" ”

A seventeen-year-old boy, more than ten years ago, naturally couldn't make a fortune, this is definitely not Lu Chuan, since it is not Lu Chuan, it is Lu Chuan's father. But Lu Chuan's father died early.

The villagers scattered.

After Jian Qing and Zhao Er walked around the neighborhood, Jian Qing went to buy a piece of pig's head meat, carried it, and knocked on the woman's door.

The door opened, and the mother-in-law first saw that Jian Qing was a little scared, and then saw that the pig's head and meat in Jian Qing's hand were all open, and after letting Jian Qing in, she didn't wait for Jian Qing to ask, so she said to herself, "Lu Chuan's father, he used to be a guy in the Shen family's crude medicine shop." One year, the chief shopkeeper of the Shen family went to Sichuan to buy medicinal materials, saying that he died there, and the head of the Shen family brought someone to go, and Lu Chuan's father also followed, but the owner did not come back, he came back by himself. ”

"When I came back, the Lu family got this house opposite, saying that I bought it. spent a lot of money to bring the mother-in-law and son from Luba Village, and also invited the maid and mother-in-law. ”

"What about the Shen family?"

"The Shen family? It's pitiful to say, I also heard that it happened more than ten years ago, the family was ruined, and the people were gone, who knows? ”

Not surnamed Yu, but surnamed Shen.

After Jian Qing left the pig's head meat, he came out to fight Zhao for the second round. At this time, it was already noon, the two returned to Renqi Lane, and when they entered the door, they saw that An Pozi was coming down from the steps of Yu's house, Jian Qing hurriedly greeted him, greeted An Pozi, and asked, "It's noon, have you eaten?" ”

An Pozi glanced at Jian Qing coldly, snorted lightly, ignored it, and turned her head into her main house.

In the house, the little maid Ying'er came out with a large wooden basin that did not match her figure, ready to go to the well to wash clothes, lowered her eyebrows and lowered her eyes, but no one paid attention to her.

Meng Zhenzhen heard Jian Qing's voice, ran out of the house, and pounced, "Brother Jian Qing, Second Brother Zhao, you are back!" ”

It seems that he reminded Mrs. An, this mother-in-law, retracted her feet that crossed the threshold, "Little brother, you said before that only your two brothers live, but now there are two more people, what do you say?" ”

Jian Qing knew that it was not good, and said with a smile, "What about the four of us brothers and sisters." ”

"Either you move out or add more money. Add an extra hundred dollars a month. ”

Jian Qing was stunned for a moment, Meng Zhenzhen's footsteps stopped, looked at Jian Qing pitifully, and then looked at Mrs. An, her eyes were filled with tears, "Mother-in-law, am I very noisy?" I won't make noise in the future, don't you let me and my brother go, okay? ”