Chapter 5: Mass Graves
On the street, people come and go, and the sound of selling is endless.
After all, it is the largest town in ten miles and eight townships, and although there are ruffians and hooligans like beggars, they still can't cover up the bustle and noise here.
Shi Chen felt some emotion in his heart.
"Big brother here!"
I saw Shen Haiwei jumping in front of him, came to the door of a pharmacy with simple decoration, and pointed to the pharmacy and shouted.
This Shen Haiwei is still a teenager in the end, which solves the problem of his mother buying medicine, and his heart is immediately different.
"It's coming!"
Shi Chen immediately responded, and then pushed his bicycle and followed quickly.
"Jishitang!"
Shi Chen looked at the medicine shop that had obviously been around for a long time, the paint had long since faded, but the handwriting still looked vigorous and powerful, and he couldn't help but read it out loud.
"This Jishitang is currently the largest pharmacy in Ping'an Town, the variety of medicinal materials is more than other pharmacies, and the price has always been the fairest, I heard the old people in the town talk about it, this Jishitang ancestor used to be the imperial doctor in the palace, and opened this Jishitang after returning to his hometown, I heard that this signboard was still given by the emperor back then!"
Shen Haiwei listened to Shi Chen look at the signboard and explain.
"No wonder this Jishitang can become the largest pharmacy in this Ping'an Town, I see."
Shi Chen nodded unconsciously, and then said.
"Let's go, let's grab the medicine and go see your mother."
"Okay."
Shen Haiwei agreed, and then ran into the pharmacy, shouting as he ran
"Uncle Li, I'm here to grab the medicine!"
Shi Chen followed in, only to see a smiling, easy-looking, and simple-dressed middle-aged man sitting in the hall.
The middle-aged man looked up at the door and smiled
"It's Haiwei, has your mother's condition improved?"
"It's better than a while ago, and I can say two words yesterday!"
Shen Haiwei scratched his head and said with a smile.
"That's good, it's good to be effective, presumably it can get better after decoction with a few doses, remember not to be tired after you are ready, and you need to rest well."
"Okay"
Shen Haiwei nodded hurriedly in agreement
"According to Uncle Li's last prescription, the medicine has been taken, and now I am here to grab a few doses."
Shen Haiwei said again
"Okay."
"Ah Da grabbed Haiwei's Fang from last time and grabbed five suits."
The middle-aged man greeted with a smile
After a few conversations, Shen Haiwei walked up to Shi Chen and said, "Let's go, big brother, I'll take you home after the medicine is over." ”
"Let's go." Shi Chen replied and followed Shen Haiwei out together. "Are you far from home?" Shi Chen looked at Shen Haiwei and asked.
"It's not far away, just outside the town, there's a small bamboo forest, and there's not much to the south." Shen Haiwei replied.
"Alright, let's go." Then Shi Chen took Shen Haiwei to push the bicycle and walked side by side in the direction of the mass grave outside the town.
On the way, Shi Chen couldn't help but ask curiously, "Little brother Haiwei, I just heard you say that your father disappeared when you were a child, so why did your father disappear?" ”
"I don't know about this, I have asked my mother many times, but my mother is unwilling to say more every time, I have no choice, and now it is a long time ago, since my mother is not willing to say more, then I will not ask more, I will tell me later." Haiwei said.
"But before I disappeared, my father gave me a piece of jade, and I vaguely remember that my father said that I should not leave this jade and wear it from a young age." Shen Haiwei said again.
"Oh? Jade? What jade? Shi Chen couldn't help but be curious.
Then he saw Shen Haiwei take out a red thread from his neck and tie a jade plate, and Shi Chen hurriedly took it over. I saw that this jade is green and transparent, the front is engraved with a dragon turtle, the dragon turtle is lifelike and the carving is exquisite, but looking at its appearance, it must also be an ancient jade with years.
The dragon turtle has a super evil function, he is a kind of Rui beast, the main auspicious fortune, the three evils. The dragon turtle has a symbol of patience, weight, longevity, and authority, and among many mascots, this beast is one of the most auspicious.
But the people who generally use the dragon turtle jade plate are generally Taoist people, and this jade plate was also given to him by Shen Haiwei's father before he disappeared, could it be that Shen Haiwei's father is a Taoist person? Shi Chen couldn't help but think.
"Brother Wencai."
Shen Haiwei saw Shi Chen walking towards the jade in a daze, and saw that he was about to hit the tree in front of him! I couldn't help but shout.
Shi Chen heard Shen Haiwei shouting, and then he suddenly came back to his senses, and looked around, it was actually a messy grave.
This made Shi Chen, who had just crossed over, feel creepy, and a cool breath rose from the soles of his feet.
After all, he came from the current society, unlike Wencai, the former owner of this body, who grew up in Yizhuang since he was a child, and followed Uncle Jiu for many years, this Shi Chen's courage still needs to be exercised.
"Alas! In recent years, there has been a shortage of soldiers, when I was a child, this is not a mass grave, just an ordinary cemetery, at that time there were often people who came to sweep the tomb to worship the ancestors, and now the fleeing refugees, the absent are not there, and it has become a mass grave no one to take care of, a few years ago, it was rumored that this place was haunted, and no one came. ”
Shen Haiwei is young, but he has a lot of emotion.
Hearing Shen Haiwei say this, Shi Chen looked at it and saw that many graves had not been worshiped for many years, not to mention adding soil to repair, and the holes were arched out one by one by rats and pigs, and then they were washed away by the heavy rain, revealing the coffins, some of the coffins were rotten, and the funeral clothes were scattered everywhere.
Suddenly, a tomb on the edge of the mass grave attracted Shi Chen's attention.
The marks on the grave bag of this tomb indicate that the tomb must have been some years old, but there are only a few weeds on the grave bag, which is completely different from the tattered and overgrown weeds of other tombs.
Does someone clean it?
Shi Chen thought so, so he unconsciously stepped forward to look at the tombstone, only to see that the tombstone said "Yang Cuilian's Tomb".
Seeing that the tombstone was spotless, in stark contrast to the deserted grave nearby, he looked at the black-and-white photograph on the tombstone.
Although the photo has turned a little yellow, it can still be seen that this is a girl with a gentle and elegant temperament.
"Alas! It's a pity that this girl, for some reason, died young. ”
Shi Chen couldn't help but sigh with pity!
Meeting is also fate, so it's better to clear the weeds.
Shi Chen didn't know why he had this idea.
He held the jade plaque in his left hand, and began to pull up weeds with his right hand.
There are not many weeds, and the three times and five divided by two will be pulled, and after clearing the weeds, Shi Chen straightened his waist, and suddenly felt that the jade plate in his left hand began to be hot, and the temperature was much higher than the temperature of his palm.
So he spread out his palm and looked at the jade plate, only to see the jade card lying quietly in his hand without any change, and he looked at it a few times and didn't see any fame.
"What's wrong, Brother Shi?"
Shen Haiwei, who was on the side, saw Shi Chen suddenly staring at the jade plate, and took the initiative to ask.
"It's nothing, by the way, Haiwei, this jade card will be returned to you."
Shi Chen returned the jade plate in his hand to Shen Haiwei, and he didn't have much nostalgia.
"Oh, let's go!"
Shen Haiwei took the jade card, turned his head and turned around, hiding the strange color in his eyes.
"Let's hurry up, it should be dark in two hours, and I'll go to the town to buy lychee wood and glutinous rice in a while!"
Looking up at the sky, Shi Chen didn't want to delay any longer.
Both of them tacitly quickened their pace.
But after walking a few steps, Shi Chen suddenly heard a female voice in his ear, as if someone whispered in his ear.
The female voice was extremely soft and glutinous, and she said it crisply and beautifully.
"Thank you, Childe"!