Chapter 14: The Dagger
The next morning, while I was still asleep, I felt someone pushing me.
When I opened my hazy sleepy eyes, I saw a big face of a sloppy Taoist priest in front of me, and when I saw his face, I was startled.
I looked at the sloppy Taoist priest and asked, "What are you doing this morning?" ”
The sloppy Taoist priest gave me a blank look and said, "You little cub, Lao Tzu is so scary, Lao Tzu told you to get up and go with me to find your sister's body, you still don't want to, you love to go or not, Lao Tzu still doesn't want to care about it." ”
When I heard this, I hurriedly said with a smiling face: "Hehe...... I didn't wake up just now, but now that I'm awake, I can do whatever you say. ”
Laughing, I walked over to the sloppy Taoist priest.
"Let's go to Li's house first, let's start with his house first, see if there are any clues, or find something I need." The scruffy Taoist priest said as he walked towards the door.
I followed the sloppy Taoist priest and walked directly to Mrs. Li's house, and when I just walked to the door of Mrs. Li's house, we found that the door of Li's house was open at this time, and no one would sleep without closing the door in the village, and no one would get up so early.
As soon as we walked into the courtyard, we found that Mrs. Li was sitting on a chair in front of the north wall of the house, with a piece of paper and a dagger on the table next to him, and there were many people from the Li family sitting on both sides.
When Mrs. Li saw the sloppy Taoist priest walk in, he hurriedly got up and said, "Daoist Wang is here, and we are about to invite you." ”
"What's wrong?" The sloppy Taoist priest asked suspiciously.
"At dawn, someone threw this into my house." As he spoke, Mrs. Li picked up the dagger and paper on the table, and then put it in the hands of the sloppy Taoist.
The sloppy Taoist priest reached out and took the thing, but he didn't look directly at what was written on the paper, but was directly attracted by the dagger.
I leaned over to the sloppy Taoist priest and looked at it, only to see the dagger, the dagger handle is silver, it looks like it is made of silver, the end of the dagger handle is carved as if it is a divine beast, but it looks like a dragon head, the rest of the dagger handle is some beautiful lines, the dagger blade is cold, just looking at it gives people a feeling of sharpness.
The sloppy Taoist priest took the dagger and looked at it for a long time, and then picked up the piece of paper and read the contents on it.
Because I'm short, I can't see what is written, and even if I do, it's useless because I can't read.
But the sloppy Taoist priest looked at it, his expression became more and more solemn, and his brows were wrinkled together.
After a long time, the sloppy Taoist priest put things on the table, then looked at Mrs. Li and asked: "Let's talk about it, what is the matter with the above that you owe him, and why there are still human lives, I hope you don't hide anything, because this is not only a matter of missing corpses, but also the lives of your entire family." ”
After speaking, the sloppy Taoist priest sat directly on the chair, and his face looked very ugly.
Mrs. Li looked at the sloppy Taoist priest and hesitated for a moment, and then followed the rest of the people and said, "You guys should retreat first." ”
After that, Mrs. Li looked at me who was motionless, and then was about to let me go out too, but the sloppy Taoist priest glanced at Mrs. Li and said, "He's fine, it's just a child, just say it." ”
Mrs. Li glanced at me, then turned around and sat back in the chair, and then slowly opened his mouth and said: "This matter has to start with my son, at that time our whole family lived in the county town to do business, and my son was not yet five years old.
In the county, he met a little girl of the same age, and the relationship between the two was very good, until the two reached the age of marriage, and my son told me that he wanted to marry the girl, and I was not against it at first, and then agreed to meet the girl's parents.
But who would have thought that the girl's parents were actually my business rivals for many years, and then I also pushed away this family business, but I never thought that my son was still secretly meeting with the girl in private, and when I learned about it, I locked up my son, and then the girl sent this dagger.
Soon after, I suddenly learned that the girl had committed suicide, and my son did not think about tea and dinner for a while, and it was a long time before he came out of the shadows, and then I found him a matchmaker, and he decided to marry himself.
Later, my family moved here, and before leaving, I returned the dagger to the girl's family, and everything went smoothly in the family after that, but I never expected to see this dagger here again today.
This is also about human life and this dagger, and now I have told you, I think the girl's family must have blamed us for the girl's death, but this has nothing to do with us, the girl committed suicide herself. ”
The sloppy Taoist priest frowned after hearing this, and then asked, "Is that really all there is?" You're not hiding anything? ”
Mrs. Li hesitated for a moment, and then said, "It's gone." ”
"But I just checked, there's nothing wrong with this dagger, I hope you tell me the truth, if there's really anything to hide, I won't be able to save you then." The sloppy Taoist priest glanced at Mrs. Li and said.
After that, Mrs. Li still said that there was nothing to hide, and the sloppy Taoist priest had no choice but to give up.
"By the way, let's talk about your granddaughter." The sloppy Taoist priest said as he played with the dagger.
"My granddaughter is pitiful, I just learned the news that she is pregnant not long ago, but I never thought ......" When he said this, a tear slipped from the corner of Mrs. Li's eyes.
"Wait, you just said you're pregnant?" The sloppy Taoist priest stood up abruptly and asked.
"yes, I just got the news some time ago." Mrs. Li looked at the sloppy Taoist priest and replied.
"How can you get pregnant? If that's the case, it's not going to be a good thing. The sloppy Taoist priest muttered to himself.
"Wang Daochang, what's wrong?" Mrs. Li wondered.
The sloppy Taoist priest looked at Mrs. Li and said, "Your granddaughter is pregnant, and they stole the corpse, I guess they probably want to raise a ghost corpse, and if the contents of the corpse are formed, it will be a bad thing." ”