Chapter 086: Letter from the Cemetery
We stayed here for three days, but no one from the Yan Sect came to the door in the past three days, and according to the situation that they were so eager to find the treasure chest, they should have come directly.
Later, Pu Sheng and I went to find Yue Chi, Yue Chi thought about it, and guessed that Yan Men should be afraid of Pu Sheng, otherwise as long as there was a glimmer of hope at that time, he would have tried to snatch the treasure chest instead of fleeing at that time.
"If that's the case." As I spoke, my mind once again showed that the person I saw that day looked like a strong son, and his appearance should have deliberately lured us away, and then the masked people were able to go and take place, "Yan Men must know where we live, and they know that Pu Sheng is here, so they plan to wait until the day when Master acts alone before they do it." ”
"Possibly." Pu Sheng said, "No matter what Yan Men thinks, we will find a way to transfer Yan Men's people out." ”
"How?" Yue Chiqiang cheered up and asked.
"According to Yezi's idea, you take the treasure chest and leave alone." Pu Sheng said.
Yue Chi immediately agreed, because eradicating Yan Men was a piece of his heart.
Only by solving it in time can he come out of the haze.
In the afternoon, Yue Chi took the treasure chest and went to the train station alone, because he was worried that Yan Men would keep following him, and he didn't dare to come forward, so he thought that Yue Chi would take the train to Mancheng, and he would live alone for a period of time, while we would take the bus to Mancheng.
Yue Chi was leaving, and in order to avoid the eyes in the dark, in the evening, Pu Sheng called his sedan chair again, and we sat in the sedan chair, intending to go to the nearby village to rest first.
When I arrived in the village, Pu Sheng was a ghost and didn't need to find a place to live, but I still needed it, and as usual, I found a family and stayed with them for one night.
When I walked into the village, the whole village was silent, there was no sound at all, there were cats and dogs on the side of the road, but strangely they didn't bark at all.
The street lamp was dim, as if it had been used for a long time, and I was very worried, and when I saw a house not far away, the lights were still on, so I walked over.
After walking in, I found that this seemed to be the village office, a small two-story building, and the outside was painted with white ash.
"Go in and have a look." Pu Sheng took my hand and walked inside.
There was no one on the first floor, and a room on the second floor was lit.
"Anyone?" I asked, knocking on the door.
"Who?" An old man's voice came from inside.
"Uncle, I'm here to stay." I shouted through the door.
The sound of the uncle's stumbling footsteps came, opened a slit, revealed half of his face, and asked, "Who are you?" Where did it come from? ”
"I was in the town next door, I was going to go home, but it was too late, and there was no bus, just to our village, uncle. Can you help me find a place to live? I smiled and said, hoping that the uncle would find a place for me to stay for one night when he saw my sincere smiling face.
The uncle looked me up and down, with an impatient face, "Don't you know that you have to go home by car in the next town, you get off in our village, and there is no bus to other places in our village." ”
"I know." I nodded again and again, "It's because I made a mistake in the car, that's why I'm here, uncle, it's okay, take me in." ”
The uncle looked at me with a cross-eyebrow, and said as if I had disturbed his sleep, "I'm not a shelter, you can go, don't stay here." ”
After speaking, he snapped the door and closed the door.
My grandmother, the general office will provide accommodation, this old man is too unkind.
Standing in front of the door, I didn't know if I should knock again, and Pu Sheng looked inside the door, as if thinking about something.
Just as I was about to speak to Pu Sheng, I suddenly heard footsteps behind me. When I looked back, it was a chubby aunt.
"I heard it downstairs, this dead old man, a little girl can't afford to stay overnight, child, go home with your aunt." The aunt is very fat, looks like she is one hundred and thirty or forty pounds, about forty years old, and her voice is very loud.
I immediately smiled, "Thank you, Auntie!" ”
Pu Sheng followed me and kept following, but my aunt couldn't see Pu Sheng, thinking that I was a little girl who couldn't find her way home at night.
My aunt told me that I called her Aunt Bei, and it was the first time I heard the surname Bei, and I thought it was still strange.
"What's so strange, in our village, most of them are shellfish." Aunt Bei's voice is loud, she speaks loudly, and she likes to laugh, and she is a very cheerful person, "Auntie told you, fortunately, you are lucky to meet Auntie, those people in the office, no matter who you are, they will definitely not take you in." ”
"Yes, Aunt Bei, I was lucky to meet a nobleman." I said with a smile.
Aunt Bei took me by the hand and walked to her house, chattering with me along the way, talking about her son.
Aunt Bei's son works outside, and he will send money back every year, but he is filial, in fact, Aunt Bei is not rare money, she wants to come back from her son and start a family, but now young people like to wander outside, and they also want to find girls outside, who are introduced by their own families, and people don't like them.
Talking and talking, I went to Aunt Bei's house, usually Aunt Bei lives alone at home, today I came, Aunt Bei cleaned up her son's room, let me live first, because it was not very late, Aunt Bei went back to her living room to knit a sweater, thinking that her son would come back for the New Year, so she gave him to wear.
I saw that Aunt Bei was alone, and the photo on the wall of her house showed her and her son, and I guessed that Aunt Bei's man was probably dead or gone.
Seeing Aunt Bei sitting alone on a chair and knitting sweaters, I suddenly felt a little envious of her son, no matter where he went, there was a mother waiting for him at home and remembering him.
I told Pu Sheng to go out and rest with Aunt Pei for a while, and let him stay in the house by himself, and Pu Sheng nodded.
"Aunt Pei." I poured Aunt Pei a glass of water and brought it to her.
"Ye Zi, you're welcome, you are a guest, but you took care of me, come to my aunt's side to sit and rest."
"Hey."
Aunt Pei was quick and knitted a sweater while talking to me.
"Yezi, you can't read." Aunt Pei suddenly asked.
Although I don't have a high degree of education, I still know the words.
"Yes, auntie, what's the matter?" I asked curiously.
"I went to the office to get a letter, the letter was sent to me by Yazi, originally I wanted to find a gentleman tomorrow to read it to me, but I thought you should be literate, why don't you help me open the letter and read it to me." Aunt Pei said, put down the work in her hand, walked to the table and took out a white envelope.
No wonder when I came back, I kept seeing Aunt Bei holding something in her hand, it turned out to be a letter.
However, I still wrote a letter this year, this Aunt Pei's son is also backward enough, everyone in the city has a mobile phone, even in the countryside, the commissary also has a telephone, whoever wants to call will go over and give two yuan and call for a few minutes.
Why didn't this son know to call home?
I took Aunt Pei's letter, she had already opened it, and I opened the letter directly.
Yo, Aunt Pei's son's handwriting is really good, just like practicing calligraphy, pen words, written out like brush words.
I cleared my throat and began to read the letter.
"Mom, hello, I'm your son Yazi, how are you doing lately, it's autumn now, you buy yourself a few thick clothes to wear, don't be reluctant to spend money, I send you money, you can rest assured to spend, I can always earn money outside, you don't have to worry about me, I'm very good outside, it's very convenient to buy anything, my son is not by your side, you pay more attention to your body, son Yazi."
Aunt Pei smiled and stopped me from finishing my belief, listened carefully, and refused to leave a word.
I looked at the letter in front of me, I always felt obedient, I touched the words on the paper with my hands, and without much force, the words on the paper were wiped by me and stained with ink.
Something is wrong, Aunt Bei said that her son was working far away, and it would take a few days to send the letter back, it stands to reason that the word should have been done a long time ago, how could it come down in a rub, just like it was not long after it was written.
I looked at Aunt Bei's smiling face and hesitated to tell her.
"Did Yazi say anything else?" Aunt Pei leaned over to take a look.
"No, no." I quickly folded the letter, lest Aunt Pei see the place I rubbed just now.
"Auntie, I want to take the liberty of asking, Yazi, how long has it been since you came back?"
Aunt Bei raised her head, thought for a while, and said, "It's going to be three years." ”
"And when did he start sending you letters? Also three years? How often does he usually write a letter back," I asked immediately.
"No, it takes about two years to write a letter, and I write it every six months." Aunt Bei said, a wry smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.
I folded the letter silently and asked Aunt Pei if she needed to write a reply, I could help write it, in fact, I wanted to know where the letter came from.
"Okay, write."
Aunt Bei asked me to write down everything she wanted to say, and when I finished writing, Aunt Bei took the envelope to me and told me that it was the address on it.
When I took the address and looked at it, I got goosebumps in an instant, I know this address!
Evergreen Garden! The city's evergreen gardens.
This is the collective grave site that many people in the city found after they died, and there are graves one by one, each with a small place on it, on which is a tombstone, with the date of birth of the person, and a photograph.
How did this letter come from this place?
"Auntie, when the village gentleman wrote a reply letter for you in the past, did he also send the letter to this place? I mean, that, can you take out the old letter and show it to me? I wonder if Yazi has changed jobs and addresses. As I spoke, I was a little frightened.
Aunt Pei took out all the previous letters, and I saw that the addresses on them were all Evergreen Garden, and it was the address of the Evergreen Garden that I knew.
Didn't the gentleman in the village mention it to Aunt Pei? Most people should know this place.
Aunt Bei saw that I had been hesitating, and hurriedly asked what was wrong, if something had happened to the teeth.
"No, you're being fooled, it's just that the address of this envelope is a little vague, I want to see something else, confirm it."
In this way, I wrote the address on the envelope, and Aunt Pei carefully put the letter in the envelope.
It was about the same time, I asked Aunt Bei to rest early, and I went back to the room with a heavy heart.
"Pusheng, I found something big." I deliberately lowered my voice and walked over to Pu Sheng and said.
"What's the matter?" Pu Sheng was studying the wooden box, and he wanted to open it to see what was inside.
"Aunt Bei's son, Ye Zi may be dead." I whispered to Pu Sheng about the letter and the envelope, and he nodded after listening to it, saying that it was indeed strange, and if you want to know the truth, you can go to the village gentleman tomorrow to have a look, and maybe you will know if you ask.
I didn't expect to meet the kind-hearted Aunt Bei, but I found that there was such a thing in her family.
I lay in bed, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep, trying to figure out what was going on.
"Pu Sheng, I want to go to Mr.'s house and ask."
"Now?" Pu Sheng asked, "It's not appropriate to disturb people." ”
"But I can't pretend to be in my heart, you know, I can't sleep because of something in my heart." With that, I began to get dressed, but fortunately I asked Aunt Pei where she lived, and now I can go directly.
Pu Sheng couldn't resist me, and followed me out, the gentleman's house was not far from Aunt Pei's house, and it took more than ten minutes to walk.
I went and knocked on the door of my husband's house, and after a while someone came to open the door, and it was an old man in his seventies.
"Child, what's the matter?" The old gentleman wore reading glasses around his neck, and as he spoke, he prepared to put on his reading glasses.
"Sir, I am the daughter of a relative of Aunt Pei's family, I have something I want to ask you, is it convenient for me to go in and rest." As I spoke, I glanced at my husband's house, and it seemed that there were other people in the house.
"Let's ask here, my wife is not in good health, and she doesn't like to be disturbed at night." The old gentleman said, and only let me into the courtyard.
"Cheng, I just want to know, my aunt's child, what's going on with Yazi?" I asked directly.
The old gentleman listened to me, sighed, and said.
"Yazi, this child, went out to work, had an accident outside, died outside, we have one in the village with Yazi, and told us when I came back, but when I thought of Aunt Bei, she was alone, and no one dared to tell him, but suddenly one day, someone sent a letter to Aunt Bei, she came to me to see, it was written in Yazi's tone, but I knew that it was not Yazi's handwriting, I thought it should be sent by a kind person, and often sent money back, so that no one debunked it." The old gentleman reminisced as he spoke.
Sure enough, something happened.
"Then you didn't notice that the letter was sent from the Evergreen Garden?" I continued.
The old gentleman asked me to whisper, "Yes, I was also startled at the time, but I found out later that there are grave keepers and cleaning people in Yongqing Garden, and they live in a dormitory near Yongqing Garden, so ah, I guess maybe that person just lives there, nothing else." ”
After listening to the old gentleman's explanation, it is indeed possible that this is the case, but how to explain the undried pen and ink on the paper.
I asked the old gentleman if he had ever encountered such a situation, but the old gentleman shook his head and said no, Aunt Pei used to look for him after he took it back, anyway, he had already done it when he saw it.
Thank you, Mr. Pu Sheng and I left again.
"Maybe it's not as complicated as you think, it's that someone is pretending to be Yazi's name and giving Aunt Bei money." Pu Sheng said, he didn't seem to be very concerned about this matter, and he didn't think it was a trivial matter at all.
When we got back, Pu Sheng told me to rest early and not to think too much.
This is a trivial matter for Pu Sheng, but for Aunt Pei, it is a big event, her own son is no longer alive, and the one who wrote the letter does not know who it is, if one day, after she knows all this, what will happen, will it collapse.
The next day, after I finished eating, I planned to say goodbye to Aunt Pei, and Aunt Pei took the letter and planned to happily take it to the office, send it out, and walk from Aunt Pei's house to the office.
I didn't go in when I arrived, the old man kicked me out last night, and I don't want to see him yet.
It's a pity, the more afraid you are, the more you come, the old man came from not far away.
"Why haven't you left yet?" The old man said, looking at him, it was like he had come back from buying some breakfast, with a bag in his hand.
This old man, why can't he eat at his own house?
"I'll be gone in a moment." I didn't want to talk to my uncle too much, so I took the initiative to give way to him.
"Let's go, don't stay here." As the uncle spoke, he walked inside.
Pu Sheng looked at the uncle's back again.
"Is there something wrong with this old man?" I asked, he had seen this old man come here last night.
"That person, Yangshou is gone, but he is still alive, something is wrong." Pu Sheng said.
"Huh? You read that right? Can anyone else do that? I was surprised, "Could it be that he asked some master to help him renew his life or something, wasn't it Aunt Li who helped him renew his life?" ”
"It's different, you can succeed in continuing your life because your own lifespan itself has not arrived, and there is still your name in the life and death book, this person is different, and your lifespan is gone." Pu Sheng said with great certainty.
I wondered, could Pu Sheng still see life and death.
Pu Sheng told me that it was not that he could see, but that he could judge how much of each person's longevity was left.
"It's so powerful, how much is left of my Yang Shou?" I asked curiously, and Pu Sheng looked at me and told me that I could live a hundred years and live as an old goblin.
Laughing and saying, Aunt Bei has come out, and after I finally said goodbye to Aunt Bei, I left.
Because of the Yazi thing, I want to go to the Evergreen Garden to see, anyway, it's all over the city, and we plan to go sooner or later.
As for the old man's affairs, because we can't run in front of people to explain why you didn't die, we can only leave it alone.
When we arrived in Mancheng, because it was in the city, we could find a hotel to live in, because we all took the bus, so most of the time was wasted on the road, and when we arrived in Mancheng, it became night, and I wanted to plan to go to Yongqing Garden overnight, but I was scared by Pusheng.
said that at night, that place was full of ghosts, from different generations, and if you weren't careful, you would be caught in it.
I had no choice but to sleep obediently.
In the middle of the night, I suddenly felt a little thirsty, opened my eyes, and was about to pour a glass of water, when I suddenly saw a figure flashing by the window, and I was about to call Pu Sheng, but I found that the shadow of Pu Sheng had long been gone in the room.
"I ran away, when did I run?" While I was muttering to Pu Sheng in my heart, I was bold and slowly opened the door.
Walking step by step into the courtyard, I saw a shadow standing in the middle of the courtyard, and the shadow was not a person, but a ghost.
"Who! Dare to break in. I scolded, and walked over to the ghost.
"Help me." The ghost's ghost is so vague that I can't see it anymore, and I can't even see his appearance, but I vaguely feel that it seems to be a male ghost. He said two words, and his voice was not good, as if he was about to be blown away by the wind.
"Help me." The male ghost said again.
"Where are you from?" I asked, is it the first time I've seen a ghost asking for help, do I want to help or not?
"Please, help me, someone is chasing me."
As the male ghost spoke, his body began to tremble, and as I listened carefully, there seemed to be thousands of horses galloping outside.
"Something." As I said that, I ran out of the door, intending to see what it was, but the male ghost suddenly knelt down to me, crying and begging me to save him.
I looked at the male ghost and was pitiful, and I first thought about putting him in the charm box first, and then release him when I had the chance, and send him to reincarnation, and now I want to know what's going on outside.
With a whoosh, the male ghost was received into the ghost box, but he was the first to be accepted by me, Liu Ya can't be counted, because Liu Ya went out later.
Slowly opened the street door, and saw that there were really thousands of troops outside, but they were all ghosts, this is a yin soldier.
I was so frightened that I immediately closed the door, knowing that I, Qiangzi, and Wenpu had all been planted in the hands of the Yin Soldiers.
There was always the sound of thousands of horses galloping outside, and when I thought that Pu Sheng was gone, I immediately began to worry about him, these Yin soldiers would not chase him.
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but open the door again, and at this moment, a bright red sedan chair stopped outside the door.
"Leaf, come out." The voice of the man who came out of the sedan chair came from the sedan chair.
Who is he calling my name?
Since the other party has blocked the door, I can't hide here anymore, so I might as well go out boldly, lest the other party think I'm cowardly.
"Who are you?" I walked outside the door, and I didn't forget to close the door, but I couldn't let Aunt Bei come out, and I saw a large number of ghosts standing outside her house.
"You'll find out when you come in." The male ghost in the sedan chair said, and the sedan curtain suddenly moved, and I saw that the male ghost seemed to be wearing a big red robe.
"You come out." I said loudly, why do male ghosts always find me, it seems that there is something wrong with my birth date.
The male ghost was not pretentious, opened the curtain and walked out.
The male ghost looks good, but the red robe is a little too eye-catching, and he is wearing very old clothes, I can't tell which era it is, anyway, just look at it, you know that it is an old ghost with years.
"Who are you? What are you looking for me for? I asked, thinking in my heart, even an old ghost should not dare to be an enemy of Pu Sheng, if he dares to come nonsense, I will let Pu Sheng clean him up.
"You don't know me anymore?" The male ghost is holding a fan, and he looks very romantic.
Nonsense, if you know me, will you still ask.
"Don't go around in circles, tell me something, I have to go back to sleep." As I spoke, I glanced at the thousands of troops behind the male ghost, he was really good enough to move.
"It seems that you haven't remembered it yet, forget it, when you think of me, I'll play with you again."