The wrinkles on the old woman's face, which could trap flies, suddenly moved twice, and she slowly turned her head to look at Yan Heyi, "What, you are also interested in Mochizuki eel?" Yan Heyi said, "Although the moon eel is a poisonous thing, it is rare to see, so I am naturally interested." The old woman threw all the eel meat in her hand to the viper, and led them to a black water tank.

When I got closer, I could smell a pungent and unpleasant fishy smell. Yan Heyi looked into the water tank, and in the turbid green water, several moon-gazing eels the thickness of a baby's arm were scrambling to tear a piece of white carrion.

The boundless coolness rippled from Yan Heyi's heart, making him hold his breath and stiffen all over. The piece of carrion that was eaten by the Mochizuki eel was nothing else, it turned out to be a piece of snake meat! It's so vicious, it's disgusting!

"You, you feed the Mochizuki eel with snake meat, and you feed the poisonous snake with the Mochizuki eel, you, you!" Zhong Huachi pointed at the old woman, bent down violently and vomited. The old woman didn't care and said, "So what, don't talk about these cold-blooded and cold-fleshed things, they are people, it's not that you ate me, I ate him again!" ”

Yan Heyi was speechless, although this was ugly, the truth was not bad at all. The old woman fished out a moon eel from the water tank, slaughtered it with her hands and feet, and chopped it into large pieces.

"You're here for that comb, aren't you?" The old woman didn't want to go around the bend with them, "Miss Li's comb was given to her by me, in order to repay her favor." Zhong Huachi's eyes were a little smart, "We haven't said anything yet, how do you know it's for the comb?" ”

"Apart from you, there have been three or four waves of people who have come to ask." The old woman unhurriedly opened a bamboo basket, and four or five poisonous snakes poked their heads out together, making Zhonghuachi shrink behind Yan Heyi in fright.

"Mother-in-law, who are the people who came to ask about the comb?" Yan Heyi is more interested in these people. The old woman threw the eel meat in her hand into the bamboo basket, closed the lid again, and said with her fingers, "There are the housekeepers of the Li Mansion, the official officials, and the fortune tellers, and besides, the two of you!" I haven't asked yet, who are you from this Miss Li? ”

Zhong Huachi Gang spoke, Yan Heyi suddenly pointed at him and said, "This little brother is Miss Li's admirer!" Miss Li is dead, he is heartbroken, and he must find out the real culprit before he stops! Zhong Huachi's eyebrows and eyes were almost in the wrong place, and seeing that Yan Heyi was looking at him with a smile, he could only swallow this breath first, and nodded against his will.

"Oh, I see!" The old woman said, "Then you have come to the wrong place, the comb is just a common thing, and I have a lot of it here!" She washed her hands in the missing copper basin, and brought out a small basket of flowers from the room, in which, in addition to some embroidery needles and threads, there were a dozen strange ebony silver combs, exactly the same as the one painted by the pear.

Yan Heyi took a handful in his hand and asked, "This comb looks special, is there any way to say it?" The old woman thumped her waist and raised her head, "I just think those flowers are too cheesy, not as good as this cold-blooded and cold-fleshed little thing." Women, if they don't have that little affection for men, they are as cold-blooded as snakes, and they won't live a miserable life. ”

"You gave Miss Li a comb, saying that it was to repay her favor, did Miss Li do anything kind to you?" Yan Heyi really can't think of what a girl who can't go out of the door can help her.

"It snowed heavily that year, and my wife didn't eat for two days, and I fainted at the back door of Li's house. A comb is not worth anything, just a little thought. At this point, the old woman coughed a few times, and her withered and emaciated body seemed to be ready to be swept away by a gust of wind at any moment. Yan Heyi and Zhong Huachi glanced at each other and said, "Disturb my mother-in-law, Huachi, let's go." ”

The only clue was broken here, Zhong Huachi complained, "That fragrant pear is really, I know that so many people have come to ask about the comb, and they don't tell us, so we ran away in vain and didn't say anything, and we saw such disgusting things." ”

Zhong Huachi chattered, but Yan Heyi suddenly stopped, turned around and walked back, "No, we're fooled!" ”

From the time the two left to the time they returned to this small courtyard, it was only a cup of tea, and the house was already empty. What a poisonous snake, what a moon eel, what an old woman. There was nothing left but a jar of dirty water and the cotton clothes that had been taken off and thrown haphazardly in the house.

"She's lying to us?" Zhong Huachi couldn't figure out why the "old woman" did this. Yan Heyi said, "Making a big fuss about a comb, it seems that they want to hide a bigger secret." ”

"But why did she run away again?" Zhong Huachi covered his nose and said, "Let's go out with the front foot, and she will run away with the back foot." Yan Heyi said, "I'm afraid it was our big name that scared her away, and the people who came before were all mediocre people, and after a lot of rhetoric and coaxing, it passed." ”

"So, those moon eels, someone has been here or something, and they are also fake?" Zhong Huachi shuddered at the thought of that thing. Yan Heyi said, "No, the Mochizuki eel is real, but the origin of this thing, I'm afraid it's not that simple!" ”

At this time, several people who passed by outside the courtyard saw that there were people inside, and they all looked this way. Yan Heyi walked out and asked politely, "A few big brothers, I don't know who lives here?" A black-faced man at the head said, "I heard that it was a mother-in-law who sold combs, but she died three months ago, so she was empty." ”

"Thank you!" Yan Heyi thanked him and said to Zhong Huachi, "Let's go, there's no need to stay here anymore." Zhong Huachi breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to leave, when he heard a shout from a distance, "Heavenly Spirit, Earth Spirit, I am the best at fortune-telling in the world, if you want to know the good and bad things, you don't need Penglai to travel far." ”

Zhong Huachi felt that he had been haunted by bad luck since he got up in the morning, so it was better to find someone to calculate a hexagram and listen to those sets of auspicious words, and he could also be happy. So he walked over and stopped the fortune teller, "I want to take a word test!" ”

The fortune teller had a small pink face, clear eyebrows, but a thick beard, and he asked angrily, "I don't know what words you want to measure?" Zhong Huachi said casually, "It's the test of the word!" ”

"The left is water, the water is moist, there is a cold meaning, indicating that you have encountered a difficult thing, and the wall is pushed by everyone, which makes people feel cold. Shellfish, sea insects also, in ancient times, there was a matter of bartering shells, which can also be regarded as money. And the knife on the far right is cut on this money, I'm afraid I have to break the fortune to eliminate the disaster! ”