The courtyard of the Lin family was really quiet, and I saw two little maids sitting under the tree in the courtyard embroidering, and the old servant couldn't stop Zhuang Rou, so he had to stop in front and keep saying: "This official, you will scare my young lady like this." ”

"I'm not a man, I'm afraid of something. If I really feel innocent, I can't marry it, and it's not a big deal anyway. Zhuang Rou said disapprerovingly, her eyes swept the courtyard, and walked directly to the side door leading to the backyard.

"No, sir, you can't enter this backyard!" The old servant was in a hurry, and hurriedly shouted, "Xiaocui, tell Mrs. quickly, there is an official coming!" ”

The two embroidered rings were already stunned, and quickly threw down the needlework in their hands, and quickly ran over and got into the courtyard gate.

Zhuang Rou didn't care about their ventilation news, and seeing that the old servant had been blocking her, she turned her head to look at Chen Mufeng, who was stunned behind her, and said, "Why are you still standing, why don't you hurry up and get him away for me." ”

Chen Mufeng was very clever, so he hurriedly walked up and took the old servant's collar to the side. He is tall and tall, and he can see that his body is exceptionally strong when he wears a lot of clothes, giving people a strong sense of oppression.

The old servant was frightened, and thought that he was going to be killed, and he was carried like a chicken and did not dare to move.

"Be polite, don't hurt the old man." Zhuang Rou admonished, and Chen Mufeng glared at the old servant fiercely, and put him on the chair next to him. The old servant was so frightened that he couldn't stand up.

Zhuang Rou strode in, Chen Mufeng hesitated, it was someone else's backyard, it was not good for him to break in, what if a yellow flower girl said that she was innocent and insisted on marrying herself?

When he hesitated in the front yard, Zhuang Rou had already walked inside, and saw Lin hurriedly walking out of the house by a little girl.

Seeing that it was her, his eyes panicked, and he hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Official, I don't know what's going on?" ”

"I heard that Lin Yubao is married? Isn't she dead? Zhuang Rou didn't talk nonsense with her, and asked directly.

Lin smiled and said, "My lord, the woman who died after being engaged to us is buried to get married." ”

"The first seven haven't passed yet, it's not that the mortuary will be stopped for seven days, why is there no movement at all, what about the corpse?" A three-year-old child wouldn't believe her words, Zhuang Rou said with a cold face, "It won't be that the person who died that day was not Lin Yubao at all, but someone else, and you acted like this in order to cheat money?" ”

Lin hurriedly waved his hand, "That's really not the case, she is really dead, we just didn't let the people in the village and family know." ”

After taking a few steps forward, Zhuang Rou approached her and asked, "Why do you want to do this!" ”

"This ...... We have something to hide! Lin flickered his explanation, and tried to step back.

Zhuang Rou grabbed her hand and said sharply: "It seems that you don't need to be punished, you won't confess." ”

"Mu Feng, come in and arrest all the people here, no one will be left!"

"No!" Lin's hand was pinched by her, and she hurriedly said: "Really, I didn't lie to you, because if you die without getting engaged, you will be said to be unlucky in our place, and there will be no good family to propose to the daughters in the future." ”

"My uncle said that although he hasn't passed the door yet, he has already been engaged, and he is a member of his family. Yubao should be buried in his house, so he took it directly, and there was a taboo on our side, so there was no funeral. ”

Zhuang Rou frowned and said, "Take me over, I want to take a look, otherwise I won't be able to trust you." ”

Lin's face was embarrassed, Zhuang Rou looked at her fiercely, and she couldn't help but tremble, "If the official insists on looking, the people will take you over." ”

"Let's go!" Zhuang Rou let go of her, looked up at the backyard, and saw that there were girls peeking at the windows of two rooms, and when she saw her gaze swept over, she immediately hid.

She didn't allow the Lin family to pack up her things, so she directly called the groom in the Lin house, put on the carriage and kept staring at her to get into the car, and then she and Chen Mufeng rode horses on both sides to protect them and went to the ancestral cemetery of Li Zhongxin's family.

Lin thought of a lot of ways along the way, but the good words couldn't stop Zhuang Rou from going to see it, and in the end he had to take out twenty taels of small bills, wanting to give money to eliminate the disaster.

Looking at the two small bills, Zhuang Rou took them and shook them, and then said to the Lin family: "Lin family, have you proved to me again and again that Lin Yubao is not dead?" ”

"No, she's really dead, I swear!" Lin swore a poisonous oath to prove that he really didn't tell a lie.

Zhuang Rou smiled and threw the small bill directly on her body, "Lead the way, I won't stop if I don't see it." ”

Seeing that she really couldn't make sense, Lin had to let the carriage continue to go and take them to the funeral place.

They came to a place called Fufu Mountain outside the capital, which is the largest Yizhuang in the capital and the largest cemetery for the people. Most of the ancestral graves of the people in the capital are here, and some outsiders died in the capital, and the bones could not be returned to their ancestral hometown, so they were also buried here.

Of course, the largest mass grave on the edge of the capital is not far away, there are thirty or forty Yizhuang mortuars, and Fufu Village at the foot of the mountain is full of shops selling incense, candles, yellow paper and coffins, and the whole village makes a living from this.

They did not walk through the village, but followed the adjacent road to Fufu Mountain, and the road was full of paper money, many of which had already stepped into the mud. There were also a lot of paper dolls thrown on the side of the road, some of which were drenched in rain and dew, and looked a little gloomy.

Chen Mufeng had never been to this kind of place, even if someone in their family died, they would naturally go to Jingyuan. At first, I was curious, but then I thought that those paper dolls that were thrown in the bushes and rotted seemed to stand up in the middle of the night.

Fortunately, it is broad daylight, but the sky is a little cloudy, and the wind on the mountain is a little strong, and the paper money is often blown on the face, which makes people annoyed.

After walking up for a while, there were a lot of Yizhuang, and the popularity increased, but there was a faint rancid smell wafting in the air, mixed with the smell of incense and candles, which made people smell very uncomfortable.

Most of the Yizhuang had coffins parked behind them, and they were full of unclaimed corpses, but those who were waiting to carry the corpses back to their hometowns would give out the money and stop here. In fact, no one even paid for this silver, so it would be recognized by the government and thrown into a mass grave for burial.

And Yizhuang's main income on weekdays is to dig graves and repair tombs, and rarely receive funerals.

The three of them walked along the road, and soon stopped in front of a Yizhuang under the leadership of Lin's carriage.

Zhuang Rou rode on the horse and saw the backs of Li Zhongxin and Lin Laicai at a glance, she glanced back at Chen Mufeng, and found that he also saw Li Zhongxin, and immediately jumped off the horse and ran to the side of the road, burrowing into the bushes.

A young master was scared away by a housekeeper, he was really lacking roots, he should not come up at the bottom of the mountain. Zhuang Rou thought that he was not afraid of Li Zhongxin, as long as he threatened him not to say anything, so he didn't remind him of this, but he didn't expect that he was really afraid that Li Zhongxin would go back and say it.

Lin had already gotten out of the car, and was supported by the little girl who followed him, trembling and walking towards Yizhuang, "Master." ”

Suddenly hearing a familiar voice calling himself, Lin Laicai turned his head, and when he saw his wife coming, he was suddenly angry. was about to scold her, but suddenly saw Zhuang Rou on the horse, and his whole body froze.

Li Zhongxin was also a little surprised, how could this arrest not be gone, even gave the money, but still didn't let them go.

"Master, this official doesn't believe that Yubao is dead, so he insists on coming over to take a look." Lin Shi Bao preached first.

Lin Laicai's whole person was in a trance, and he went up and bowed his hand and said, "Official, how could we do that kind of thing in our small family." ”

Zhuang Rou was too lazy to listen to what they said, so she walked directly into Yizhuang, and saw a coffin in the hall, and there was paper money and incense candles in front of the coffin.

"She's in there?" She asked, touching the coffin.

"Yes, the little girl is inside, and she will be buried tomorrow." Lin Laicai said respectfully, while Li Zhongxin stood next to him and watched coldly without saying a word.

Zhuang Rou patted the lid of the coffin and said, "Open the coffin, I want to verify whether the person inside is Lin Yubao." I have never seen a little rich family like you, who are obviously rich but don't even hold the funeral of their baby daughter, and when they are parents do their daughter's funeral, they still wear gold and silver, and they don't even wear plain clothes. ”

"Say that the funeral will be held by the son-in-law's family, but it will be done by borrowing Yizhuang. And the servants in the family thought that their young lady was married, as long as I went to the village to inquire, I would know whether Lin Yubao was married in a beautiful way. ”

At this time, Li Zhongxin walked up and said: "This tolerance, my parents died when I was a child, although Yubao has not passed through the door, but he is also my closest person." Although I am only a small housekeeper, I also want to preside over her funeral, and it is common for everyone to have such a sudden incident and some inconsiderate places. ”

"I don't know what the reason for this tolerance is so hard?"

Zhuang Rou looked up at him and said with a calm expression: "Don't talk to me so much, don't want to listen, open the coffin!" I want to see who the person inside is, if it's really Lin Yubao, I'll put three pillars of incense on her and leave immediately. ”

Li Zhongxin glanced at Zhuang Rou deeply, and said angrily to the people in Yizhuang: "Open the coffin and let this official take a look!" ”

"My daughter, such a sin will be worse after death!" Lin pulled his sleeve and cried, his body was so crying that he couldn't stand steadily, and he was supported by Yahuan.

The people of Yizhuang looked at these people inexplicably, and called for the coffin to be opened, so they used tools to warp the big iron nails on the coffin, and several people pushed the coffin away. Even though it was only early spring and the weather was still a little cool, it had been several days, and the smell of rancid was still coming from the coffin.

Zhuang Rou walked over and looked at the corpse lying in the coffin, the person was no longer fresh, but he could still see that it was Lin Yubao who was killed that day. The corpse is right, but it is not clear whether this person is Lin Yubao or not.

She thought for a moment and said, "I'm going to find Li Zheng and the villagers to identify the body, otherwise who knows who is lying in this coffin." ”

"Official, you're going too far!" Li Zhongxin said angrily.

Zhuang Rou turned her head and said disapprenously: "It's not too much, this is still wronged by Li Zheng and the villagers, and he wants to see the dead man." Don't want to use Shangshu Mansion to suppress me, I have already told your son-in-law about this, and Chen Jiugongzi said that he couldn't allow you to be wronged by me, so he followed. ”

"If he's here, you should rest assured that I won't do anything."

Li Zhongxin was stunned, "The Ninth Young Master is here?" ”

"Yes, it's right outside, in the bushes." Zhuang Rou nodded outside, and saw that Chen Mufeng didn't want to be a horse, and jumped out of the bushes, as if he was frightened by something.