When he slipped out of Dong's mansion, Uncle Liu took two shovels.

He took one himself, and stuffed one to Yuan Jiyue.

The shovel was heavy and heavy, but in terms of the year the two of them were going to dig, it wasn't as fast as she could cast a spell. But the point is that they are going to dig people's graves.

Fortunately, she was sure that there was no one in the grave, otherwise this matter would be too damaging to Yin morality.

There is a dense forest outside the city, the two of them go in one after the other, walk a little way into the forest and encounter a few scattered lonely graves, there are outsiders who have died in other places, there are people in Luoyang who are poor and have no ancestral graves, and there are also people who love purity, they all skip one by one. A quarter of an hour to the depths of the woods, there is a group of steles, which seem to be scattered in an orderly manner, but in fact, the steles of generations are standing in one place, gradually forming a circle, which is the ancestral grave of a family.

Uncle Liu took her to stop in the last row.

Two half-height stone tablets were erected on the flat ground, the one on the left was written "the tomb of my son Lin Zhiyuan, his father Lin Dusk wept and stood", and the right one wrote "The tomb of my son Lin Zhiyuan's wife, his father Lin Dusk Li", the two tablets were very close, it should be a tomb of husband and wife buried together, and the corner wrote that the husband and wife were buried on July 16 in the third year of Chang Gung.

July 16 was the time when the first person was killed.

What is shocking is that the tomb has been destroyed! The soil where the coffin was laid behind the monument was dug up, and the earth was piled up in two or three piles on the edge of the pit.

"What's going on!" The grave had been dug up, and the shovel he brought was no longer needed, so Uncle Liu threw away the shovel in a panic and ran over in a few steps to stand on the edge of the pit and look inside.

The pit is dug so deep that you can't see it all the way down.

Did the zombies dig up and crawl out on their own?

Yuan Jiyue said to him, "Go down and have a look." ”

The pit is one zhang wide, and it is easy to go down. However, because it rained not long ago, the soil is very sticky and soft, and the upper of the shoe has been covered with mud, and it is more difficult to walk after entering the pit.

The coffin was buried as deep as the pit was dug, about three feet deep, and when they finally saw two coffins in the center.

The difference is that the board of one coffin is closed, and the lid of the other coffin is half-open and half-closed, and Uncle Liu stares at the staggered opening, and his hand shakes.

He walked heavily in the last few steps, taking a deep breath as his leg touched the coffin, holding a candle and shining inside.

The coffin was covered with silk and satin, and there were gold and silver utensils, and there were all kinds of funerary goods, but there were no bones that should lie in it.

He couldn't spit it out for a long time.

Yuan Jiyue glanced behind him, not surprised, this was expected a long time ago, just... She saw an item that didn't belong to the Lin family.

There are two silver hooks embedded at both ends of the coffin, the silver hook is hung with white blessing ears, but the hook close to the outside is hung with a red rope in addition to the spike flower of Nafu, and the red rope hangs a jade pendant two fingers wide, she holds the jade pendant in the palm of her hand, and sees that the front is a Chen character, turned to the back, and the white jade is engraved with two lines of small characters: Guan Qingshan, Cheng Wangshu Zong.

It is the jade pendant of Priest Chen.

How could his jade pendant be here?

Yuan Jiyue thought about it carefully.

It had been deduced before that Priest Chen suspected that Dong Yuanyuan was related to zombies, but how did he know?

Priest Chen has been in Wangshuzong for many years, and it is not surprising that he has read books that record zombies, he should know that zombies must be changed after death, that must be to start from the dead, although the rank of the high priest is not in the court, but he is also a high authority, not to mention being specially sent to investigate this case, the power to check the household registration is still there, if it is not for the clues left by him before his death, she will also wait for the palace to give her the will to take over, first check whether the person who died recently is a corpse.

In this way, it makes sense.

He knew the identity of the female zombie, and he could have launched an investigation from her, and finally found Dong Yuanyuan. He wasn't sure that he was facing the zombies head-on, so he went to Dong Manman's place to test it first.

If he really wants to confirm his thoughts, he has to weigh whether he should ask for help from his master next.

This tomb was not broken by the female zombie herself, but by her nephew, and was accidentally hung on the jade pendant in the process, and he didn't find it at the time, so he left it behind.

She took off the jade pendant and put it in her arms, and waited for a few days for it to return to its original owner. She looked at the intact coffin a few steps away and asked, "Do you want me to open this coffin and take a look?" ”

Uncle Liu said: "No need, that coffin belongs to a man." "He didn't want to disturb the peace of others.

Yuan Jiyue nodded and didn't say much.

Seeing is believing, and what he doesn't say during the day, he will say it himself. She stood still, waiting for him to speak.

Uncle Liu covered his sullen heart, some things had been buried in his heart for too long, buried deeper than this pit, he thought that he would never touch it again in his life, but he didn't expect it... He exhaled a breath and said in a deep voice: "Mrs. Lin, her real name is Hui Niang. ”

It was quiet.

"I have no children in my life, and I used to say that I was also a friend and a friend of the young master, but in fact, I have treated the young master as a son. And Hui Niang was like a daughter in my heart in the early years, and later she was always a daughter-in-law. Uncle Liu turned his back to the coffin, and slowly, he actually smiled at Yuan Jiyue, "Does Yuan Immortal Master still remember Guixiang City?" ”

Guixiang City is forty miles away from Luoyang, it is a small county town, the population is not much and it is not prosperous, Yuan Jiyue has passed by when he went out to travel, there is no special place in Guixiang City in the impression, it is not prosperous, but the atmosphere is very plain and peaceful, which can make people calm down.

"You say you remember?" Yuan Jiyue caught his diction.

"I met with the immortal master more than 20 years ago, and the immortal master was in the Dong family class in Guixiang City at that time, and the cup of tea he drank was given by me." Uncle Liu smiled, "The immortal master asked me what are the characteristics of the city, and I said..." ”

Yuan Jiyue suddenly remembered, when she first arrived in Guixiang City, she heard the sound of the gong from afar, so she followed the sound and found that there was singing in the hall. The stage is not big, but it is very lively, and the people are carrying small stools and listening happily. She was interested in listening, as soon as she sat down, someone served her tea, she was a young and energetic guy, and her proud tone was exactly the same as Uncle Liu!

I didn't notice it before, but now that I look at it, my face has changed, and the eyebrows and eyes are still similar.

"There is only one side between us, more than 20 years have passed, I have changed too much, and the immortal master can't recognize it." Uncle Liu saw her reaction that he already recognized himself, "The immortal master has not changed at all, the first time I saw you, I almost called out the word "guest officer"!" ”

It's really good.

As soon as the conversation box opened, I couldn't stop: "My selfishness is to meet my old acquaintance in another country." ”

"It's true." Twenty years is half a lifetime younger than a mortal. Infected by him, Yuan Jiyue followed and smiled, "It turns out that you are from Guixiang City." ”

"Sort of. Since I was sensible, I have been asking for food, wandering many places, and finally settled in Guixiang City. I was taken in by the old head of the Dong family's class and followed him to eat. "Far from being blurred, the depths of memory are as clear as they are once unsealed.

He will never forget when he was still a dirty little flower child, a tall man suddenly appeared, and since then his life is no longer hungry and full, full every day, followed by a group of adults, other children read the school, he reads the drama book, learns the loyalty and courage in it, and is not worse than anyone else.

At first, I wanted him to learn to sing, and it was best to sing a martial artist, but his temperament and roots were not suitable, but he would look at people's eyes and do things steadily, so he followed the class owner to recognize people. After reading a playbook, he held it in the audience and watched others sing, although he couldn't learn it, he would listen to it. I usually help wipe my hair flowers, wash my costumes, and carry boxes when I'm older, sweating a lot, and I'm happy.

"The old head of the Dong family's class back then was the father of our eldest young master." Uncle Liu's tone was gentle, "The Dong family class is the only opera troupe in the city, and it is also a team that has been inherited for several generations, with a good reputation and a positive atmosphere, in addition to accepting people who love to sing opera, the team also takes in a lot of homeless people, I am, so is Hui Niang, when the eldest young master was born four months ago, Hui Niang was hugged to the class master by her mother," he stretched out his hand and compared the length of a baby, "It's so big." Her mother was a widow who lived in poverty, and she was injured when she gave birth, and she couldn't make up for it, so she knelt down and begged the head of the class to adopt her daughter. ”

Yuan Jiyue guessed: "The old class master is kind-hearted and agreed." "Otherwise, the story won't go on.

"She said that she was willing to give all the few things left behind her to the class master, and bless the great benevolent people every day after death." Uncle Liu nodded, "Accept her as a good person, how can the class master be greedy for her things." The child was accepted, but all her belongings were buried with her. ”

He smiled lowly: "Hui Niang is the name left by her mother." Since that day, Hui Niang has been raised in the compound with the young master and a group of children. Speaking of which, the immortal master still remembers which fold was sung on stage that day? ”

"Which fold are you talking about?" When Yuan Jiyue went, a scene had already ended, and she didn't hear a word. Since the beginning of the new show, she has listened to four plays, and she doesn't know which one he is talking about.

"There are two youngsters who fold." Even if he can't remember other plays clearly, he will never forget this one, "The two youngsters are five or six years old, a boy and a girl, the boy is the young master, and the girl is Hui Niang. ”

It turned out that she had already seen Dong Yuanyuan and Hui Niang.

"It is said in the play, the two are childhood sweethearts, the two have no guesses, the man will not marry her, and the woman's heart secretly promises, and the two of them sing this play in and out of the play."

There are too many such feelings in the play, whether the two people grew up together since childhood, or fell in love at first sight, the two of them easily understood themselves after some ignorant contact, and also let each other understand the meaning of their hearts. Yuan Jiyue followed the path he described, and said naturally: "But then there was an obstacle? ”

"That's indispensable, how did Mrs. Dong, who we set so well, suddenly become Mrs. Lin?" Uncle Liu couldn't help but pat his thigh, and his stomach turned around in his intestines several times, and finally turned back, "The immortal master is talking to the point, but the story hasn't come to that yet, let's not mention this for the time being." He slowed down, patted himself a few times, and took a breath, "After a few years, the old class master and his wife went unexpectedly, and the fourteen-year-old young master became the new class master. Slowly this reputation will rise, there is no one within a radius of ten miles who does not know our Dong family class, in a few years, we were invited to Luoyang Pear Garden, on the birthday of the ancestor to sing our specialty, this is the honor of our industry! ”

"This year, they are eighteen, and something has happened." He lowered his eyes, "In Luoyang City, we met a person, and then we knew that Hui Niang's mother was not a widow, she was the main house of a family in Luoyang, and her mother-in-law thought that she had nothing to do for many years, so she divorced her and let her son marry another." When she got the letter of resignation, she knew that she was pregnant, and she was so angry that she didn't want to turn back, so she supported herself incognito and gave birth to Hui Niang. ”

Even if the mother-in-law can't write a letter of resignation, the letter of resignation can only be written by her husband herself, Hui Niang, her biological mother was kicked out together, how can she go back.

"I don't know where I heard the news, Hui Niang's father came over and wanted to bring Hui Niang back, but Hui Niang was brought up by the old class master, we are her family, she doesn't want to go!"