Chapter 492: The Starving Ghost (2)
"My lord is in the silk business, which is to transport the silk of the Jiangnan generation of Dachen to Daliao for sale. The old man and his brothers built a courtyard in the pig basket mountain. The silk from the south was first transported to the other courtyard, and then the owner of the silk village went there to transport the goods. ”
"In the past, the master went alone. But recently, the old man's leg was sick, he was unable to move, he was taking decoction, and Da Lang was not in the royal capital, so he took Xiao Niang to take care of him. ”
"I don't know exactly who went with me, but I know the three who died, they are Chen Yuanwai, Lu Yuanwai, and a shopkeeper surnamed Xiao...... The old man asked me to send the funeral...... But I'm just a subordinate, I didn't go into the mourning hall to see, I don't know if they are like the old man, they are starving to death. ”
"As for the people next to me, I don't know......"
When Wu Dalang heard this, he hurriedly added, "I know this, my father has five good brothers, and they have formed a love alliance together." Because Dachen is far away from Da Liao, there are mountain bandits and water bandits on the road, not to mention, there are wars from time to time, which is very dangerous. If one trip is robbed, it is a blood loss. ”
"In this love alliance, Chen Yuanwai, Lu Yuanwai, as well as Shopkeeper Xiao, and my father, all open silk and satin villages. There is another one, a Khitan who opens a dart game, called starling. We have a lot of dealings, and Daddy intends to let me inherit the family business, so he took me to see it. ”
"I often advise my father, why not take the goods directly in the silk and satin villages opened by those southerners, although the profit is less, but the profit is not lost, and there is no risk. Running around for thousands of miles, a little money, all the people who called the dart game earned it. ”
Yuan Qing listened to his words and explained to Jiang Yanzhi and Min Weixiu, "Wu Yuanwai opened a two-story silk village on the street of the night market where we often go, and the business is very good. You don't know that starling, but you know the dart game he played. Do you remember that flower? ”
Min Weixiu suddenly realized, this is really small to turn around, that flower her father, isn't she the dart master in the dart game?
It turned out to be the same dart game.
Needless to say than Jiang Yanzhi, Min Weixiu could imagine that ten days ago, something very terrifying must have happened in Zhuken Mountain, causing the few people who went there to become weird.
Of the six people who have gone now, four have died, leaving only one Wu Xiaomei who keeps talking about ghosts, and a starling who plays a dart game.
"Let's go to the dart game first. In order to facilitate entry, the dart board is opened not far from the city gate, so let's walk over. "Yuan Qing knows Wang Du well, not to mention a dart game that he has only inquired about because of the investigation of the case.
Yelu Jin looked at Jiang Yanzhi and Min Weixiu naturally followed, and said speechlessly in his heart, "Hey...... Do you remember that you were going out of the city and coming home? According to this posture, when will you be able to leave Daliao......"
The dart game is really very close, and it is only a few steps away. Yuan Qing had only come here not long ago, and the people in the house did not dare to slack off, so they immediately brought him into the back house.
As soon as everyone entered the hall, they saw a very strange scene.
A thin old man sat on the edge of the table, and in front of him, there were roast whole sheep, roast chickens and roast ducks, full of meat.
As if he couldn't chew, the old man swallowed the meat and spit it out with a wow.
Seeing a group of people standing at the door, the old man's eyes moved, his mouth moved, he lowered his head again, and ate desperately.
Looking at this, from his mouth, he couldn't ask anything.
Jiang Yanzhi glanced at Min Weixiu, Min Weixiu nodded, and immediately walked over, facing the old man's neck, it was a hand knife, and the old man fell to the ground with a muffled sound.
The woman, who had been standing by his side and serving, said, "What is this lady doing?" There are a lot of people in our dart game who know kung fu, and we have already tried to knock him unconscious, but he woke up again in less than three breaths. When I woke up, I intensified and ate harder. ”
Min Weixiu pointed to the person on the ground, "The three breaths have long passed, can you see him get up?" ”
Just kidding, can General Ben's hand knife be the same as yours? You call it stunned, and I call it a deep coma......
If you use a little more force, it's called an interruption......
"Quickly tie him up with his body, any incense and the like, light it first, in short, don't let him wake up, once he wakes up, he will be knocked out with a big stick. Do you see the one over there wearing linen and filial piety? The rest of the League is dead. ”
The woman was startled and stammered, "This, this, this...... Come! ”
……
After a panic, the woman breathed a sigh of relief and had a teacup served.
"Is Wu Yuanwai also dead?" Starling's wife said, she looked at the three brothers and sisters of the Wu family who were standing on the side, and then affirmed, "It seems that they are dead." ”
"Ten days ago, our head of the family had just returned from the Southland, and we thought about unloading the goods into the courtyard of Pig Basket Mountain first. Every time he comes back, he will post to the other four in advance, and make an appointment to go to order goods together on a good day. ”
"When he came back this time, he was very scared, and he told me that they had hit a ghost in Pig Basket Mountain."
"Ghosts?" Wu Dalang shouted in surprise!
Min Weixiu glanced at Jiang Yanzhi, but Jiang Yanzhi shook his head slightly.
"That's right, he often looks back, and always thinks that something unclean has come back with him. He said that day in the Pig Basket Mountain, they unloaded their goods, and they got together to drink. But as I drank it, I smelled a smell of barbecue......"
"Because the courtyard is used as a storehouse on weekdays, and it is on the mountain, and the north is very dry, so I pay special attention to the fire candles on weekdays, how can anyone be barbecuing. A few of them followed the scent and looked at it, but found a ghost standing in the woods......"
Several of them were so frightened that they ran back, closed the doors and windows, and thought that they would sleep for the night, and when it was daytime, they would be fine. Our head of the house said that that night, he didn't fall asleep, he always saw the shadow outside the window, the woman was saying, so hungry, so hungry, eat meat, eat meat......"
As soon as it was dawn the next day, they went down the mountain in a hurry, and they didn't even pull the goods. Later, a day later, I heard that Chen Yuanwai was scared to death after returning home, and at that time, our head of the family scolded him for being cowardly; Two days later, Lu Yuanwai also died, and when he died, he choked to death from eating. ”
"And then there's Shopkeeper Xiao...... After the head of the family went to the shopkeeper Xiao's house, he came back and became like this, as if he hadn't eaten for eight hundred years, desperately wanting to eat meat, keep eating, keep eating, and vomit while eating...... I didn't sleep all night long, and after only a few days, I was no longer human. ”
I asked him what was going on, and he said retribution, retribution, and no one else said. Later, I wanted to talk about it, but I couldn't stop. ”