The woman first bowed slightly towards us, showed etiquette, and said, "Chen Baxian, I don't know about my mother-in-law's funeral, do you have any opinions?" ”

As soon as I heard this, I felt a little inexplicable, for when she was looking for the body a few days ago, her attitude was no different from that of a rural woman, and now, both in her attitude and in the tone of her voice, it was as if she had changed from a different person.

However, I still arched at her, returned the salute, and said tentatively: "I don't have any opinion, I just feel that something is wrong with this clothed mound, I wonder if you have any opinions to mention?" ”

I was very respectful to her tone, one was a courtesy, and the other was that I felt as if she had something important to say.

When the woman saw me saluting him, she was slightly stunned, then she gave up, walked beside me, sat down, and said, "During the mourning period, I saw that you kept staring at me, and you must have begun to guess my identity, and my mother-in-law is about to go out of the funeral, and I will not hide it from you. ”

After she said this, she took out a box of cigarettes, red beans, two five-day packs, sent me one, lit one herself, and took a puff.

I took the cigarette and looked at her in surprise, and was about to say something, when Qing Xuanzi pulled me and stopped, meaning, don't talk, listen to her.

I nodded, and without speaking, glanced into the hall, and the men were not at all surprised to see the woman smoking, as if they were accustomed to it, and I was very puzzled.

It stands to reason that the countryside is more conservative, not to mention smoking, I am afraid that if you expose a ditch, those gossip can drown people.

That Qing Xuanzi seemed to have also discovered this phenomenon, and remained silent. After about two minutes, the woman dropped the cigarette butt in her hand, looked at us, and said, "You must be very strange why my man's sisters have such an attitude towards my mother-in-law's funeral?" ”

I nodded and motioned for her to continue.

She said: "It's a bit long, so I'll cut it short! Four years ago, my sisters dug out a passbook at my house with 200,000 yuan on it, which was my mother-in-law's name. Since then, she has been clamoring for her mother-in-law to take out the 200,000 yuan and share it with everyone, but her mother-in-law refused, saying that she would keep it for the elderly, and everyone had been arguing for a year for this matter. After my mother-in-law got sick, those sisters didn't come to our house because of the 200,000 yuan, and in the final analysis, it was the 200,000 yuan that caused trouble. ”

Two hundred thousand? I was stunned for a moment, in the eyes of people in the city, 200,000 may not be much, but, in the countryside, 200,000 is a huge amount of money, and it can even be said that these 200,000 can change people's lives, no wonder, those people will quarrel so fiercely.

"Where are the 200,000 now?" I glanced at her and asked.

"I don't know, the passbook should be hidden somewhere by my mother-in-law, the password is only known to my mother-in-law, I won't hide it from you, after my mother-in-law fell into the river, I asked Yaoyao to rummage in her mother-in-law's room for a while, and that Nizi was not sure to find it, and in the end, I said that I would take the 200,000 yuan to my mother-in-law to take care of the funeral, and she agreed." She was a big smoker, and after saying this, she took out her cigarette and lit it.

Hearing her say this, I remembered that when I checked the deceased's room, after we left, Wang Chuyao did stay in that room for a long time, presumably looking for the 200,000 yuan to do funerals for the deceased.

"Then how long have you been a fairy wife?" After thinking about it for a while, I asked the biggest doubt in my mind.

"Three years, after my mother-in-law got sick, I took over her team, and in the past three years, I was afraid that flower arrangement would bring bad luck to Xixi and Yaoyao, so I stayed at home, and this habit of smoking suddenly came three years ago." She took a deep drag on her cigarette and explained.

I have seen this hobby she said before, and the general fairy woman has the habit of smoking, presumably those people in the hall should know that she is the fairy woman, so it is not strange that she smokes.

After hearing this, my woman stared at her for a moment, observing her expression and movements, trying to find signs of a lie, after all, we had suspected her before.

To my disappointment, her expression has always been that calm and breezy expression, and nine times out of ten she said the truth. As for the fact that she didn't tell us that she was a fairy woman, there should be her unspeakable secrets, and I didn't ask why, it was people's privacy.

Afterwards, I chatted with her for a while and asked some questions about 'Grandma Fershyau'.

She told me that she knew early on that 'Grandma Foshaw' was fake, and I asked her why, and she said that her mother-in-law had done something immoral before her death, and she had made a fake 'Grandma Foshaw' to cover people's eyes and ears, and she didn't know what the specific lack of virtue was.

I suddenly remembered what Wang Xi said, the deceased never gave birth to a boy to inherit the Wang family, so I invited 'Grandma Fjo'.

However, since 'Grandma Fuxiao' is fake, how was Wang Chengcai born?

I asked her doubts and she said she didn't know either, and only the dead knew what was going on.

Later, we talked until half past three in the evening, and I knew a lot of things, just like the deceased was bedridden for three years before her death, and according to her, the deceased spent a lot of effort to calculate the three years of illness, and the reason why she did not prevent the disaster was that she was afraid that the disaster would move to future generations.

After figuring out these doubts, I asked her what was the situation of the death of the chickens in the bamboo garden, and she said that she went back to 'go to the bridge' and counted it, and the result was the plague, and the oil paper fan showed that the plague was related to the deceased, and it was for this reason that she would talk to us and discuss ways to solve the plague.

The three of us have different opinions on this issue, I mean, first get the mound in order, and then investigate the cause, so that we can respect the deceased, and find something unusual in the process.

Qing Xuanzi means to go to the river first to find the body of the deceased.

And the woman's meaning is very simple, the plague started in the bamboo garden, and the cause should be found in the bamboo garden.

Three different opinions, we discussed for a while, and finally decided to do it in my way, after all, this is a funeral, and everything is about the deceased.

As soon as this matter was discussed, Wang Xi led eight middle-aged men into the house and said, "Brother Nine, these eight are responsible for carrying the coffin, can you see if there is any problem?" ”

I was slightly stunned, and glanced up at the eight villagers, they were about the same age, all of them were forty to fifty, their clothes were relatively simple, and there was some slight sweat on their foreheads, they should have just returned from digging a grave.

When the eight of them saw me, they smiled at me, and one of the older men came over, handed me a cigarette, and said, "When I was in the cemetery, I heard Wang Xi say that you are the Eight Immortals of Hengyang, and you are very famous over there. ”