The woman told Zhong Kui that there was once an old man who used to come to the shop to see the handicrafts. Later, when the willow branch bonsai came out, the old man became more and more diligent, and came every afternoon at 4 o'clock in a few minutes. Just watch, just don't buy.

This willow branch bonsai is finely crafted and complex, and it takes good endurance and technique to do this. Therefore, the only new boutique is very expensive; 300 yuan.

The old man seemed to be scraping together money, but he didn't have enough for a while, but he still came to see the bonsai as usual, rain or shine. It looked like it for several hours, and it was not until the time of the lamp that he reluctantly left.

Later, the old man finally scraped together enough money, and when he hurriedly came, the bonsai had been sold to an unknown woman. Later, the old man came less often, and the last time he appeared, the man was haggard and had become very weak.

Listen to the other party say the old man, "What's the old man's name?" Zhong Kui's shadow of Old Man Zhao appeared in his mind, and he hurriedly asked.

The woman nodded; "At first, I didn't bother to talk to him. Later, when I got acquainted, I asked casually, and he said that his surname was Zhao. ”

"So, do you know why he had to come to your shop to see these handicrafts?"

"As far as I know, this old Zhao Tou is a naughty boy and has a big heart." The woman was quite sure. After speaking, the woman's eyes fell on the willow branch bonsai he was holding again, and she continued to ask curiously: "You haven't promised me yet, where did you get this?" ”

Zhong Kui shook his head and didn't answer the woman's question directly, but said around the bend: "It shouldn't be like this, he may be for something else." ”

When Zhong Kui was talking to the proprietress about the topic, Zuo Xiaomu was also attracted by those exquisite handicrafts.

He immediately took out the money and bought a sailboat.

The seemingly quiet shop has an unforeseen evil aura lurking. Zhong Kui sniffed, pretending that nothing was wrong, and looked at ......

As the two of them were about to leave, the proprietress asked again, "Big brother, you haven't told me how you got this willow branch?" ”

Zhong Kui looked at the woman and replied with a very calm expression: "A girl named Liang Yuzhi gave it to my sister." As he spoke, he glanced at the other party indifferently. It seemed nonchalantic, but he still keenly caught the flash of fear and panic on her face

It seems that the woman not only knows Liang Yuzhi as a person, but also knows a lot of things.

Zhong Kui remained silent, his eyes cast on a small closed door inside. He was naturally curious about this kind of small door, and the feeling of his sixth sense told him that the biggest secret should be behind the small door.

And often the secrets hidden behind the small door are greater than what the eyes can see, and maybe a lot of the truth is hidden behind the small door. For the sake of safety, he didn't want to startle the snake for the time being, and the situation here was not very clear, so he couldn't show it and make the other party suspicious.

Coming out of the handicraft shop, Zuo Xiaomu was still obsessively looking at the newly bought sailboat wrapped in exquisite wrapping paper.

Zhong Kui wanted to take advantage of the fact that there was no news from Ran Qin's side, and wanted to go and see Old Man Zhao's home.

Old man Zhao's home lives in the west of the county seat. From their location to the West Gate, they need to pass through the outer Qingyang Town, including the junction of Jinsha Town, and then pass through a small bus station to reach the West Gate.

In Old Man Zhao's house, there is also a gray-haired woman. She is Old Man Zhao's wife, and when she talks about Old Man Zhao, she burst into tears, and her old eyes are about to cry blind.

In the intermittent narration of Old Man Zhao's wife, Zhong Kui finally really understood the cause of Old Man Zhao's death.

It turned out that Old Man Zhao had been a thrifty man all his life, and he and his wife were cousins who married, that is, the legendary close relatives married. His wife gave birth to two daughters before and after, both of whom are very cute, but unfortunately, they are a little congenitally deficient.

When the eldest girl was eight years old and the younger girl was four years old. Old man Zhao went to the market to buy rice, and when he bought rice, he felt his hands in his pocket to estimate the price.

Finally bought rice, this bag of rice cost him two months' salary, two months' rations for a family of four. Old man Zhao pushed the chicken cart to buy rice, put the rice bag on the chicken cart, and saw a rice cake seller at the gate of the market, so he wanted to buy a piece for his wife and daughter at home to taste.

The entrance to the market was originally crowded, and it was a market day. The flow of people was greater, the rice cake was bought, and when I looked sideways, I didn't know when, the thief who had been cut a thousand knives carried away a bag of rice.

Old man Zhao was stunned at that time, and he was stunned like five thunderbolts. After a long time, the crowd at the gate of the market pushed him who was staying at the door, and he cried loudly.

"Oh my God! What a sin I have done! Why didn't you take my life? A thief with a thousand knives, you stole the rations of my family, how can my family live? He cried so much that the world was moved, and the old tears were all over the place, which made the onlookers sigh.

Old man Zhao was originally an open-minded and good person, but since the loss of rice, the whole person has become a god. Because the family's rations were lost, the two growing children were hungry all day long, and the wife had no choice but to cheekily go to the market and pick up the rotten vegetable leaves that the vegetable vendors couldn't sell to make soup to satisfy their hunger.

Saying; Misfortune is not a one-way street, and it is true, just when there was a famine, the little girl got sick. After healing, her leg was disabled and could not be straightened, as if it was called polio.

Fortunately, Old Man Zhao's neurosis gradually improved. loves her daughter even more, but her eldest daughter's physique has always been very weak. He went to the temple to ask for a lot, and it was said that he wanted to marry his daughter to a man who had a rough life and had gone through countless hardships, and his health was naturally good.

It's a pity that this woman has no savior, so she can only be regarded as fateless. During her illness, it happened to be the time of Zhong Kui's great disaster, and later I was fortunate to see it in the morgue, which was already separated by yin and yang. Fate is always fate, and everything is arranged, otherwise Fluttershy would not have recklessly tempted Zhong Kui and made him lose himself in his sleep.

Hearing this, Zhong Kui's face was full of guilt. He had nothing to say except a few words of comfort.

Old Man Zhao's soul coincides with what his wife says, which shows that Fluttershy is indeed the marriage that Zhong Mingfa and Old Man Zhao made a joke about privately.

Next, Old Man Zhao's wife also talked about it, saying that Old Man Zhao didn't know where to get back a string of Five Emperor coins, and as she spoke, she took it off her neck and showed it to Zhong Kui.

The Five Emperor Coins are strung together on a thin red ribbon, and what you can see now is that there is no longer the original red color. Old man Zhao didn't worry about his wife, he gave his wife the money of the five emperors, but he died in a dream of missing his beloved daughter.

Zhong Kui learned from Old Man Zhao's wife that Old Man Zhao always looked like he was in a state of mind during his youngest daughter's illness. Running around, going out on time every day, and not coming home until dusk approaches. Because of this, his daughter didn't even see his last face, so he felt very guilty, and his heart disease was aggravated and heavy, and he was physically and mentally exhausted.

The two old men have long been separated and occupy a house. Old man Zhao didn't get up on time, his wife felt strange, so she went to push the door, but the result can be imagined, the door of the room could not be opened, and the neighbor was called to help push it open, only to find that Old Man Zhao had been dead for a long time, and his body was already cold and stiff lying on the bed.