Chapter 35: The Hu Brothers
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My grandfather looked at Xiao Laodao and asked, "Brother Xiao, how do you feel now?" ”
Xiao Laodao took a deep breath of refreshing morning air and replied: "It's already much better, physical strength and spirit can be restored, and the life yuan wants to recover...... I'm afraid it's a little harder. ”
My grandfather nodded sadly for Xiao Laodao, glanced at the sky again, and said, "If Brother Xiao can do it, let's leave here now." ”
When Xiao Laodao heard this, he actually smiled and asked, "What's wrong brother, are you afraid that the people in the town will see the two of us?" ”
My grandfather said: "The people in the town are nothing, right now the Zhu Mansion is looking for a Taoist priest and a scholar, and now that Zhu Dada is dead, if we are seen by the people in their mansion today, I'm afraid there will be trouble." ”
Xiao Laodao suddenly waved his hand, "Brother, you are still too young, you have little experience, the one who wants to find us is surnamed Zhu, it doesn't matter to others, now that the surname Zhu is dead, their house must be a mess, who cares about us." Xiao Laodao paused for a moment, and then said: "The surname Zhu has a wife, but he didn't give birth to a boy and a girl, he is a master who raises hens and doesn't lay eggs, think about it, what is his wife doing now?" ”
My grandfather shook his head and guessed, "I should be in charge of the aftermath for him." ”
"That's not right."
My grandfather guessed again: "Or...... is reporting to the official, please ask the county government to come over for an autopsy? ”
"That's not right!" Xiao Laodao smiled: "I'll just say that you are young and have little experience, if I guess correctly, brother, then the wife is now fighting for the family property, the death of the surname Zhu, for his wives, except for the family property, nothing matters, where do they have the leisure to get along with us, think about it, am I right?" ”
When my grandfather heard Xiao Laodao say this, he felt a little difficult to accept, and my grandfather said: "Then his wives don't have feelings for him?" ”
When Xiao Laodao heard this, he immediately asked my grandfather: "How much is a relationship worth?" Even if there are feelings, people are gone, what's the use of feelings? Brother, you are still too young, these things, you will understand in a few years. ”
Xiao Lao said this, what my grandfather said was very uncomfortable, he thought of himself, remembered the tragic death of Xiao Yu, and his heart couldn't help but feel a tingling, although Xiao Yu died, his feelings for Xiao Yu are still there......
Xiao Laodao stood up from the ground and beckoned to my grandfather, "Let's go, brother, it's almost time to rest, let's go to the town to get some food first, and then toss all night, and then go back when we are full." ”
My grandfather was still thinking about Xiaoyu at this time, and the whole person stood up from the ground in a daze, Xiao Laodao glanced at him, "What's the matter, brother, why are you stunned?" ”
When my grandfather heard this, he hurriedly came back to his senses and said, "No, nothing, I haven't slept all night, I'm ...... now Somewhat sleepy. ”
Xiao Laodao patted my grandfather on the shoulder, "Let's go, I'll sleep when I'm full of food and drink." ”
In ancient times, people got up early, and they had to get up as soon as the rooster crowed. At this time, the sky was just dawning, and the town was already sparsely populated with people rushing to the morning market and doing small business.
Xiao Laodao asked the ghost monkey to wait for them outside the town, and he took my grandfather around the town. As I said before, this town is not big and not very rich, but there is only one town in Shili and Eight Villages, although the sparrows are small and have all kinds of organs, there are vegetable sellers and fish sellers in the morning market, and there are people who carry burdens to sell flatbread. What is a flatbread, I can't tell, it should be bigger than the size of the baked cake, and there are bean curd sellers, I can't tell what the bean curd is, it may be soy milk or tofu brain or something, anyway, it should be soy products.
Xiao Laodao bought a few flatbreads, asked for four bowls of bean curd, and after the two of them finished eating and drinking, the sky was completely bright, and there were more pedestrians on the street.
Xiao Laodao bought a few more flatbreads to bring back to the two apprentices, and then took my grandfather to the tavern.
The tavern was open by this time, but there was not a single guest, it was the same young man from last night, yawning and waiting for the guests.
I bought a few catties of cooked meat in the tavern and beat a few catties of spirits. After the two of them came out of the tavern, they heard a lot of people on the street talking about each other, saying that Master Zhu died last night, and the death was very scary, and the seven holes were bleeding, and I heard the people in their house say that their house was haunted and haunted by monsters last night, and Master Zhu may have been scared to death by those ghosts.
After hearing this, Xiao Laodao smiled coldly, "It's really a good thing that doesn't go out, and bad things spread thousands of miles." Saying that, Xiao Laodao glanced at my grandfather and asked my grandfather in a low voice, "How about my brother, I guessed right, your brother, in fact, if the surname Zhu had only one wife, his corpse would not be left unattended now......
Leaving the town, coming to the road outside the town, Xiao Laodao looked at the road, saw that there was no one before and after, put his hand in his mouth and whistled, and soon, the little ghost monkey came out of a grass nest on the side of the road, my grandfather saw this, and hurriedly took out a piece of cake and handed it to it, the little ghost monkey saw that there was food, he was very happy, and he picked it up and gnawed it.
The big road outside the town is the only way to the mountain, two people and a monkey walked along the road, and soon, a forest appeared on the side of the road in front, and my grandfather saw that it was the forest where the scar monk was buried last night.
At this time, I vaguely heard a voice in the forest, but because the distance was a little far, I couldn't hear it clearly, and when I got closer, Xiao Laodao and my grandfather immediately glanced at each other, and they heard it clearly, it was the screams of people, and it sounded like the sound of a cripple.
My grandfather immediately quickened his pace and burrowed into the forest, Xiao Laodao saw that my grandfather was like this, he couldn't help it, and led the ghost monkey to follow in.
The grandfather walked not far in the forest, and found that there were four people in the place where the scar monk was buried, three were standing and one was lying, my grandfather stopped and looked, the three who were standing were the Hu brothers, lying cripples, I don't know what happened between them.
The cripple's face was covered with blood at this time, trembling and curling up on the ground, it seemed that he had been beaten not lightly, my grandfather suddenly became angry in his heart, he was most unaccustomed to people like the three brothers of the Hu family who bullied the weak, bullied the weak and feared the hard.
The master was about to rush over, but he was pulled by Xiao Laodao, who just caught up. Xiao Laodao motioned to my grandfather, a slap can't be heard, and nosy things have to be clarified first, my grandfather suppressed the anger in his heart, and squatted into the grass next to him with Xiao Laodao.
At this time, I heard Boss Hu yelling viciously at the cripple on the ground: "Don't tell me quickly, who buried the pocket!" ”
After a while, the cripple trembled on the ground and said, "I—I really don't know. ”
Boss Hu went up with a kick, and the cripple suddenly screamed, and Boss Hu said again: "You don't know? You just said that you slept in the woods all night, can you not know! ”
"Big brother, I, I really don't know, didn't I already say it just now, last night, I was so scared of that monster that I fainted, I woke up this morning, I haven't even left the forest, my brothers came, I don't know anything."
"Humph!" Boss Hu snorted coldly, "Do you think that if you say this, our brother will believe you and faint?" Woke up the next day and was it okay? The monster didn't do anything to you, didn't eat you? To be honest, what did you do after we left last night, who buried the pockets, and whether you were in the same group with the monsters! ”
The cripple's face was covered with blood, and my grandfather couldn't see the expression on his face, and the cripple said with a crying voice: "Big brother, I'm wronged, I, how could I, how could I be with the monster." ”
Hu Er said: "Even if you are not in the same group as the monsters, there are suspicious things about you, you had better explain honestly." ”
The cripple looked at Hu Er and begged for mercy: "Second brother, I don't know what to explain, I don't know anything." ”
Hu Er said: "Who buried the pocket yesterday, since you fainted, that person can bury the pocket, can't he wake you up?" ”
The cripple was suddenly suffocated, and it seemed that he couldn't deal with Hu Er's words, Hu Er continued: "When the three of us were digging a pit yesterday, you secretly untied the rope on your pocket, what do you want to do?" ”
The cripple was suffocated again, and Hu Er said again: "Don't think we don't know, last night you went to Steward Zhu to inform, saying that our brother took the silver and didn't give the Zhu family a night patrol, and secretly went to drink, right, you didn't think about what Steward Zhu had to do with us, what was the relationship with you, what kind of thing are you with him?" ”
When the cripple heard this, he froze suddenly, and his eyes straightened, and it was obvious that the butler had told them.
Boss Hu shouted at this time: "Boss, two, don't talk nonsense with him, I have long seen that this dead cripple is not kind to us!" As he spoke, Boss Hu pulled out a short knife from his waist and said viciously to the cripple: "In the past, I picked one of your hamstrings, and today I will pick you another one and give you a good deed in pairs!" ”
"Ah——!h The cripple suddenly shouted, "Big brother, don't wow, big brother, I beg you, if I am lame again, I really won't be able to live." ”
Hu Er said: "Then you can be honest, what happened last night, and what happened to that monster." ”
"I—I really don't know......"
"I don't know!" Boss Hu squatted at the cripple's feet with a knife, grabbed the cripple's good leg, and looked like he was going to pick the cripple's hamstrings.
At this moment, my grandfather suddenly stood up from the grass and said loudly, "He really doesn't know, so come and ask me if you have anything." ”
The sudden sound made the Hu family brothers all startled, and quickly turned their heads to look at my grandfather, and immediately, the faces of the three brothers changed, "It's you?" ”
"Yes, it's me." My grandfather walked out of the grass without hurry and walked towards the three brothers.
"Y-Why are you here?" Hu Lao asked boldly and timidly.
My grandfather pointed to his pocket with his chin, "I buried this person, and that scary monster was also raised by me, if you have anything, come to me." ”
When the cripple heard this, he suddenly grabbed a life-saving straw and shouted desperately at my grandfather, "Heroes help, heroes help!" ”
The Hu brothers looked at my grandfather, and then at the cripple on the ground, Hu Er said, "It turns out that you did a good job." ”
My grandfather smiled, and just as he was about to speak, Xiao Laodao also stood up from the grass, Xiao Laodao stretched his waist for a long time, looked at the Hu family brothers and laughed, this laughter, anyone can hear it, is laughing at the three brothers of the Hu family.
The three brothers' eyes widened suddenly, "Daoist? Subconsciously looked at my grandfather again, "Scholar? You, you two are, you are ......"
Xiao Laodao said with a smile: "We are the people you Master Zhu are looking for, but he will never look for us again......" Saying, Xiao Laodao looked at the three brothers, and then said: "You three may not have heard of it, Master Zhu was scared to death by ghosts last night, and he bled to death." ”
"What, Master Zhu is dead?" When the three brothers heard this, they glanced at each other and looked at each other, "You said it was true or false?" ”
"Believe it or not." Xiao Laodao looked down at the cripple on the ground, and said: "The monster in the forest yesterday frightened the three of you, in front of the cripple, your face has also been lost, you are now looking for trouble with the cripple, not for anything else, everything else is a pretext, you want to get back your own face from him!" ”
"You ......" The three brothers were obviously hit by Xiao Laodao, all of them were red-faced, and they couldn't hang up.