Traces of cat scratches were found under the coffin, and I originally thought it was the cat spirit, but I never thought that the realgar used to repel snakes was found on the wooden stick placed in front of Liu's shopkeeper's bed, which made Liu Qingwei's "corpse fraud case" more and more confusing.

Although the shopkeeper Liu was sober, he also solved some of the mysteries entrenched in Xing Ruyi's heart, but he also left more mysteries. For now, it seems that the only way to do this is to wait for news from Lin Hu's side to see if the blind carpenter still lives in the same place.

After waiting for a long night, Lin Hu came back with a body of cold dew, and just entered the door, he didn't put down the saber in his hand, so he said quickly: "I found the blind carpenter's home." But the house is surrounded by walls, and there is nothing useful and valuable. ”

"Is Lord Lin going to rob?"

"Robbery? What am I robbing? The second monk Lin Hu was puzzled, staring at Xing Ruyi with a puzzled face.

"I didn't go to rob, but I also cared if people's homes were surrounded by walls and whether there were anything valuable. If there is something valuable, do you want to bring it back with you? ”

"Look at what you're talking about, are we those people? You don't understand what I mean, I mean that the blind carpenter's house is long deserted. I asked his neighbors, who said they hadn't seen him in more than a decade. At first, the neighbors saw him as pitiful and helped him clean up the house. But as the years passed, the big man did not know where the blind carpenter had gone, but he vaguely knew in his heart that this man would not come back, so he let the yard go to waste.

If ordinary people go out, especially carpenters, they only need to bring their own tools to make carpenter's work. At most, he had some cash or silver tickets on him, but the carpenter's house had nothing of value. ”

"In other words, he left the house not because he went out to do carpentry work, but because he really left."

"I've been waiting there for so long just to figure this out. I asked many people if anyone saw the blind carpenter when he left, or if he behaved unusually before he left. But they all said, "No." There is even some proof that it is said that the blind carpenter left the day he watched it with his own eyes. The blind carpenter, as usual, brought only the tools with him, and even reluctantly greeted an acquaintance before leaving the village. ”

"Did you find that acquaintance?"

"I found it, but I couldn't speak. The man was so sick that his tongue rotted. ”

"Rotten tongue?"

"yes, I didn't believe it. But his son opened his mouth and showed me that the tongue was indeed rotten. ”

"Is there such a strange disease in the world?"

Xing Ruyi pondered and glanced at the fox. The fox shook his head slightly, indicating that he had never seen such a strange illness.

"But do you think there's something strange about this?"

Liu Sheng was more delicate, and when he saw Xing Ruyi asking, he knew that this person's condition was a little strange.

"It's a little weird." Xing Ruyi didn't hide it from Liu Sheng: "If Lord Liu doesn't have anything else, let's go over and take a look together." I always thought it strange that the blind carpenter was missing. I can't tell, but the clue is in this man with a broken tongue. ”

Qing Wei's matter has temporarily entered a dead end. Although Shopkeeper Liu was able to confirm Xing Ruyi and Liu Sheng's speculation and confirmed that Qing Wei's death was not an accident, there was no information about the monster in Shopkeeper Liu's mouth.

As for Xing Ruyi and the fox, they naturally guessed that nine out of ten of the monsters in the shopkeeper Liu's mouth came from the Yufang Building. It's just that there is no evidence at the moment, and these ghostly words are just hidden in their own hearts, and they can't be said casually.

Liu Sheng really couldn't figure it out, Xing Ruyi and the fox were pretending to be confused, but they coincided with the matter of investigating the disappearance of the blind carpenter. I had some meals casually in Hutao Village, and a group of four people took Xing Ruyi's carriage to the next door to Yujuan Village.

"Hutaozhai, Yujuan Village, the name of your place is very fresh."

"It's all handed down from the old generation." Lin Hu touched his head: "The name of my hometown is strange, it's called Graveyard." This tomb is not another grave, but a grave of graves. When I was young, I felt that this name was particularly infiltrating, and when I grew up, I was embarrassed to say when others asked me where my hometown was, for fear of intimidating them. ”

"Graveyard? You don't have any graveyards for princes and generals in that place, right? ”

"Princely generals?" Lin Hu almost laughed out loud, and when he saw Xing Ruyi staring at him, he hurriedly shook his head like a rattle: "No, no, I have been the kind of child who doesn't let my father and mother worry much since I was a child, and I have run all over the small place in my hometown." The tomb of this prince and general, I am a lonely tomb that I have not seen, and there is no owner, but it is all over the mountains and fields, and I can step on a bone if I am not careful. I also practiced this courage at that time. ”

"Lonely grave?"

"Well, it's said that a long, long time ago, maybe a hundred years ago, there was a war in our place. As for who fought with whom, it's too long ago, and those who watched that war have all been buried in the ground. Anyway, in the stories that have been handed down, the war was fought very fiercely, and in the end, neither of the two sides was alive. Corpses are strewn all over the field, and rivers of blood are flowing, which probably describes that situation. Later, those people were buried in that place, and from then on, there was no distinction between you and me, and there was no distinction between me and the enemy.

Sometimes when I think about it, I feel quite bored. When you are alive, you fight to the death for territory, power, women, gold, silver and jewelry. In the end, no one fished it out, but was piled up and buried. In the words of Buddhism, it is true that dust returns to dust, soil returns to earth, life does not bring, death does not take away. Pathetic, lamentable. ”

"I can't imagine that Lin Hu can still say such a thing."

"Ruyi, you underestimate people, don't you? I'm a person.,I don't have much talent for reading.,But I also went to a private school for a few days when I was a child.。 This big truth is not as good as yours, but some small truths can still be said. As soon as the words fell, Lin Hu pointed to a village outside the carriage and said, "This is it, this is it." Well, the one with the rotten tongue I mentioned lives at the entrance of the village, and the one with a big willow tree grows. ”

Yanagi drove the car and soon arrived at the house. Depending on the situation, the family is not wealthy. The old man's son was chopping wood in the yard when he heard footsteps, stopped what he was doing, and glanced out the door.

Lin Hu got out of the carriage and greeted the old man's son with a smile, and pointed to the inside of the carriage while greeting him: "I brought a female doctor over, maybe I can cure your father's illness." Of course, when I say cure, I don't mean to give your father a good tongue, but to make him no longer suffer from this rotten tongue. ”

When the old man's son heard this, his eyes lit up at first, and then quickly returned to dimness.

"Brother Lin's kindness is in my heart, but my father's illness can't be cured by the doctors. Besides, Brother Lin has also seen the situation in my family, we don't have the money to see a doctor, and we can't afford to buy medicine. ”

"Other doctors can't see the diseases well, this female doctor can see them. My own uncle is the shopkeeper Liu who opened a tofu workshop in Hutaozhai, you know this, right? That was also sick for quite a long time. This female doctor came to me and took a look, and asked me to prescribe some medicine, and when I came back and drank a pair, she was sober. Also, this female doctor has a good heart and doesn't need money to see a doctor. As for the cost of this medicine, let's just think of it as if we got acquainted, I gave it. If you don't want to go, give me some wood, and I'll bring it back to my uncle. ”

"Brother Lin, don't make fun of me."

"Does my Lin Hu seem to be the kind of person who can make jokes?"

Lin Hu said, and lifted the curtain of the carriage. Xing Ruyi got out of the carriage, raised his hand, and waved at the old man's son: "That, I don't charge money for medical treatment, but it's not as divine as Lin Hu said." ”

"Ruyi, what are you humble?" Lin Hu said, and was about to drag Xing Ruyi. When his eyes met the fox, he smiled, and took back the hand that had been stretched out: "That, I'm a rough person, a wishful husband, don't care, I don't mean to offend." ”

The fox hummed lightly, got out of the carriage first, and then stood aside and picked up Xing Ruyi.

As soon as I entered the courtyard, I smelled a fishy smell, and the closer I got to the thatched hut, the stronger the smell became. After entering the house, Xing Ruyi confirmed that the fishy smell he had just smelled came from the mouth of the sick old man.

Because of his long-term illness, the old man has been tortured and out of shape, not only does he not have much flesh on his body, but even his cheeks are sunken in. If he says he is alive, it is better to say that he wants to die but can't.

"My dad has been suffering from this disease for more than ten years. In the early years, we also hired doctors, but we used all kinds of methods, and we still ...... Because he was sick on his tongue, my father couldn't speak, and he couldn't even eat, so he survived by swallowing a few mouthfuls of thin soup every day. Seeing him in such pain, I, as a son, feel useless. ”

"Uncle, can you hear me?"

Xing Ruyi asked softly on the side. The old man lay still, and the old man's son explained, "My father's ears are fine, he can hear." It's just that it's all boiled like this, and he can't do it even if he wants to respond to you. Whatever the female doctor wants to do, just do it. It's not that I, the son, want to curse my father, but my father can't last a few days. ”

Xing Ruyi didn't say anything, although the old man's son's words were not listened to, they were the truth. If you are sick like this, if you really go, it will be a relief. It's a pity that people's life span is doomed, and when the time comes, Yin Si will not dare to send someone to collect it, and no matter how much he suffers from this life, he can only blindly bear it.

"Uncle, I want to look at your tongue, if there is any rudeness, please forgive me."

Xing Ruyi said, gently breaking the old man's mouth. A strong fishy smell came to his nose, Xing Ruyi forcibly endured the feeling of wanting to gag, and carefully observed the changes in the old man's mouth.

"How?"

Lin Hu and Liu Sheng asked on the side.

"This tongue rotted little by little, and it became what it is today, not ten years, but eight years."

Xing Ruyi said, asked the old man's son to take a clean cloth, rolled up the cloth, and rubbed it lightly in the old man's mouth. The cloth taken out took on a terrifying blue-black color.

"This color, why does it look so much like ......" Lin Hu glanced at Xing Ruyi hesitantly, and stuck the rest of the words in his throat.