Chapter 171: Half the Truth
Wu Zhiyuan went straight to the bedroom and found that the old woman was lying on her back at the door, and Zhang Datong's wife was lying in the house.
Wu Zhiyuan looked at the strange makeup on Zhang Datong's wife's face, and became even more puzzled in his heart, since Zhang Datong's wife has been in a coma, who is the woman with the same makeup on the bachelor's bed?
After pondering for a moment, Wu Zhiyuan felt that this matter might not be as simple as he imagined, and there must be hidden secrets behind these appearances. As it stands, the only thing to do is the woman in the bachelor's house.
Thinking of this, Wu Zhiyuan pulled the Moon Shadow Fuxian and walked out, as soon as the two walked out of the courtyard gate, they saw a figure with his head down, trotting all the way to the south of the village, looking extremely flustered, Zhang Datong's carriage was tied to the wooden stake in the south of the village, and the man ran to the carriage and stretched out his hand to untie the reins of the horse.
"Zhang Datong!" Wu Zhiyuan shouted violently, and quickly rushed towards the figure who untied the horse, and he recognized that the person was Zhang Datong, who had disappeared.
Zhang Datong heard the voice, turned his head and glanced at Wu Zhiyuan, as if he had seen a bad star, the movements in his hand suddenly accelerated, and his expression became more panicked, as soon as he untied the reins, Wu Zhiyuan's wooden sword was already on his chest.
"Brother Wu, Brother Wu, Rao ...... Spare me and let me go. Zhang Datong begged with tears.
"Where are you going?" Wu Zhiyuan asked in a deep voice, and at a glance saw the burden on his shoulders, which was bulging inside, the edges were extremely uneven, and it was not filled with clothes.
"What's in the baggage?" Wu Zhiyuan asked sharply.
"I have to go, I have to go, please let me go." Zhang Datong pleaded with a sad face, and his hands were folded again and again.
"I ask you what's in your baggage? Open it and take a look! Wu Zhiyuan was really angry, it was this Zhang Datong who brought him to this village at the beginning, but now things are in a blur, but he wants to escape. Wu Zhiyuan hates this kind of irresponsible person the most, and at the same time, he also has a hunch that Zhang Datong will definitely not be able to escape from this matter.
Zhang Datong hesitated, he looked at Wu Zhiyuan and Moon Shadow Fuxian, he simply became ruthless, turned his heart sideways, blocked the wooden sword in Wu Zhiyuan's hand with one hand, turned around and held the reins and was about to get on the horse.
Hearing only the sound of "bang", Moon Shadow Fuxian pulled out the long sword in his hand, and with a "brush" sound, the sword body was directly sandwiched between Zhang Datong's neck.
"The peachwood sword is used to deal with ghosts, and this long sword is specifically designed to deal with people like you!" Moon Shadow Fuxian said angrily, "Open your baggage!" ”
Zhang Datong stopped getting on the horse and trembled with fright, but his left hand was holding on to the burden and refused to open it. Moon Shadow Fuxian had a temper and stepped forward to grab the burden on his shoulder and tugged hard. The burden was not tightly tied, and when it was pulled, it suddenly spread out and fell to the ground, making a "bang" sound.
The three of them looked at it at the same time, and saw that the bag was wrapped with a lot of gold and silver jewelry, as well as a jade bowl and a pair of silver chopsticks, which were particularly eye-catching, and what was even more eye-catching was that there were two oceans in the pile of scattered treasures.
Wu Zhiyuan leaned over and picked up the two pieces of ocean in his hand, and before he could ask, Zhang Datong hurriedly explained: "These two pieces of ocean are what I picked up, not ill-gotten gains, I really picked them up!" ”
Wu Zhiyuan nodded, he already understood the general situation in his heart, he leaned over and picked up the jade bowl and silver chopsticks, he had the experience of robbing tombs, so he was familiar with these two things, this was by no means a treasure in the ordinary sense, but a burial vessel.
Zhang Datong looked at the silver chopsticks and jade bowl in Wu Zhiyuan's hand, and was dumbfounded, he suddenly knelt down after a moment, crying and begging: "Two uncles, please, please let me go, they are all dead, everyone is dead, I can't stay here, I will die, I beg you!" As he spoke, he kowtowed to Wu Zhiyuan and Moon Shadow Fuxian.
"Stand up!" Wu Zhiyuan stopped and said, "Your wife is not dead yet!" ”
When Zhang Datong heard Wu Zhiyuan's words, he suddenly stopped kowtowing, raised his head with an expression of disbelief, and asked, "Not dead?" Really not dead? Impossible, impossible, I obviously saw her die in the eldest mother's house. ”
"You see her lying on the ground, but she's not dead, she's just fainting." Wu Zhiyuan explained that he wanted to say that Zhang Datong's wife was poisoned, but after thinking about it, there was no need to say so much to Zhang Datong, and it was not yet conclusive whether he was poisoned or not.
"Really? Are you sure? Zhang Datong's face was happy, and he stood up and said with a smile, "That's really good." ”
"Tell me, where did you get these dishes and chopsticks and these treasures?" Wu Zhiyuan saw that Zhang Datong's mood calmed down a little, and continued to ask.
"This ......" Zhang Datong hesitated again, he was silent for a long time, and finally told the truth.
It turned out that Zhang Datong and the bachelor man had always had a very good relationship, and the two had been neighbors for decades, and they were both good drinkers, so they smelled like each other and often mixed together. The bachelor had nothing to do all day, and had no financial resources, so he started to think crookedly, and he found an old tomb without an owner on the dirt slope south of the village, the age of which was unknown, and he expected that there would be some burial goods in it. One day, when drinking at Zhang Datong's house, he encouraged Zhang Datong and his wife to participate in tomb robbery, Zhang Datong and his wife were already in love with money, and the three soon hit it off and agreed to dig the grave before the dark and windy night of a month.
The tomb is not big, only a tomb, and there is no tomb, the age should be relatively old, so it is more difficult to dig, and the three of them are not professional tomb robbers, so it took a lot of effort to dig up the coffin. After opening the coffin with nervous excitement, the three found that there was a woman about thirty years old lying in the coffin, although it was a long time, the woman's body was extremely well preserved, although the makeup was strange, but her eyebrows were delicate, her skin was fair and tender, and the blood vessels under the skin were clearly visible.
The three of them sighed for a long time, and finally swept away all the funeral goods in the coffin, hurriedly covered the coffin, hastily covered some soil, and returned to Zhang Datong's house in the middle of the night to share the stolen goods.
Who knows that after a few days, Zhang Datong's wife seems to have fallen into an evil spirit, talking nonsense all day long, saying all kinds of things like the second room of the big house, which is very incomprehensible, Zhang Datong learned from the words of his cousins in the neighboring village that there was a master of "Wu Maoshan", so he rushed to catch up, and then Wu Zhiyuan and Moon Shadow Fuxian all knew.
"You have a bad heart, you deserve to be ghosted!" Wu Zhiyuan heard Zhang Datong's memories and said angrily.
When Zhang Datong heard this, he knelt on the ground with a "plop" and begged: "The three of us are also confused for a while, if Brother Wu can help us survive this catastrophe this time, we promise not to do this kind of hurtful thing again!" ”
"The three of you?" Wu Zhiyuan listened to Zhang Datong's words, and suddenly felt that the word "three" was so familiar, he thought about it carefully, and the words of the female ghost immediately echoed in his ears: "They lived in my place, and let me not rest in peace under the Nine Springs, you say, are these three people innocent?" ”
"Not good!" Wu Zhiyuan screamed in his heart, he said "look at him" to the Moon Shadow Fuxian, turned around and ran towards the bachelor's house.