Chapter 161: Finding the Ashes

"Yihong Courtyard ......" Wu Zhiyuan looked up at the plaque at the door and muttered, remembering that this was the brothel that he and Sheng Wanxiang came to find Sheng Ji Muxing's seventh aunt Xie Linling that day, and at the same time, the call just now reminded Wu Zhiyuan of the woman who gave him a dream when he slept on the street a few days ago, when the woman warned Wu Zhiyuan to "Don't trust anyone easily", now it seems that what she said is that the identity of the Moon Shadow Fuxian is fake.

Thinking of the conversation with Xie Linling in the Sheng family in the past, Wu Zhiyuan suddenly realized, no wonder the woman asked when she would go to Shanghai to see Du Yuesheng that day, it turned out that she was the seventh aunt Xie Linling.

Thinking of this, Wu Zhiyuan pushed away the entangled women around him, turned around and walked into Yihong Courtyard.

It was noon, and it was not the busy time for business in the land of fireworks, two men were cleaning in the hall on the first floor, and an old woman in her fifties was sitting on a chair next to her and sighing, and from time to time she scolded the two guys, and it seemed that business was very cold.

As soon as Wu Zhiyuan entered the door, the old woman saw him, a smile suddenly appeared on the bitter gourd's face, and he hurriedly got up and greeted Wu Zhiyuan, the handkerchief in his hand flung to Wu Zhiyuan's chest, and said in a loud voice: "Ouch, uncle, come on, please sit inside, our girl here, that's a water spirit, proficient in blowing, playing and singing, you are satisfied, Liu Ju is red......" said, she shouted towards the second floor with her throat.

Wu Zhiyuan recognized her as the old bustard of this Yihong Courtyard, and knew that she regarded herself as a player, waved his hand to stop her, and said, "Auntie, I am here to inquire about something." ”

Before Wu Zhiyuan finished speaking, the smile on the old bustard's face suddenly condensed, her face changed, she looked Wu Zhiyuan up and down, and suddenly realized that her face was full of smiles, and her face became faster than the June sky.

"Oh...... I remember, you are the uncle who came to Miss Xie last time, right? Ouch, look at my memory, last time you inquired about people, I also received three oceans from you, I don't know what you want to inquire about this time? The old bustard smiled, and all the horizontal flesh on his face was squeezed together.

Wu Zhiyuan sneered in his heart, secretly thinking that this old bustard was really a philistine, the meaning of her words was obvious, if she wanted to inquire about things again, Dayang still had to pay. He had a huge amount of money, so he naturally didn't care about this little money, so he took out ten oceans from his arms, stacked them together and put them in the palm of his hand, and flashed them in front of the old bustard. The old bustard's eyes suddenly lit up, he smiled greedily, and stretched out his hands to take the ten pieces of ocean.

"I want to know where the ashes of Miss Xie who I came to inquire about last time are buried, you send someone to take me to find it, this piece of ocean is a deposit, after finding it, the remaining nine pieces are yours." Wu Zhiyuan withdrew his palm back, took out a piece of ocean from it and put it in the old bustard's hand, and sneered.

"Are you talking about Sheng Jinyuan's seventh aunt, the big boss of Sheng Ji Wood Shop?" The old bustard was stunned.

"Well, where did you bury her?" Wu Zhiyuan asked, he remembered that when Xie Linling asked him that day, he said that his columbarium was buried in a mass grave in the western suburbs of the city.

"Ouch, it's been a long time, let me think about it." The old bustard meditated for a long time, and suddenly slapped his head, "I remember." As soon as the words fell, she turned her head and shouted to the two young guys behind her who were cleaning the table and sweeping the floor: "Ah Guang Xiaoliu, you two come here!" ”

Ah Guang and Xiao Liu hurriedly walked over when they heard this, and the old bustard asked, "Where did you bury the ashes of the girl surnamed Xie sent by Sheng Ji Muxing a few months ago?" ”

The two guys thought hard for a while, and suddenly Ah Guang said: "I remember that after the accident, I went to Shengji Muxing to report the letter, and the boss of the wood shop said let us deal with it ourselves, so I put her ashes in the mass grave in the western suburbs." ”

"Quick! Take this uncle to find the urn back, if you can't find it, don't come back to see me! As he spoke, the bustard kicked the two fellows in the ass, causing them to scurry with their heads in fright.

Wu Zhiyuan followed the two to the western suburbs of the city, and saw from a distance that the tombstones on the west side were standing horizontally, with dead bodies and ashes altars everywhere, some of the dead bodies were wrapped in mats, revealing half of their rotten feet, and some were completely uncovered, and the whole body was so rotten that only bones remained, and the dead trees and jackdaws around were both desolate and terrifying.

The dead bodies in this mass grave, some of them are passers-by who died in a foreign land, some are lonely widows who have no relatives and no reason, and some are murdered and died.

The two guys trembled and searched for a long time in the pile of dead bodies, and finally Na Ah Guang happily shouted "found", and took out a gray porcelain jar from a row of ashes altars.

"How can you be sure that this is the jar where Xie Linling's ashes are kept?" The ash altar is different from the corpse, it has no characteristics, and it is impossible to see through it by taking one out of the prevarication, Wu Zhiyuan does not trust this Ah Guang.

"Uncle, you don't know, I heard that the hanged ghost is particularly fierce, and it is easy to cheat the corpse, so the old mother in the courtyard asked me to cremate Miss Xie's body, but she didn't give the villain a copper, and the villain had no money, so she found this wine jar from the courtyard, this kind of jar is Shaoxing's daughter red, and the villain pours wine for the guests upstairs and downstairs every day, so he will never admit his mistake." Ah Guang replied, the expression on his face was very sincere.

Wu Zhiyuan looked at him suspiciously, and Xiao Liu on the side seemed to remember something, and suddenly answered: "By the way, I remember that when I picked up Miss Xie's ashes, I picked up a hairpin, which was a hairpin, I don't know what material the hairpin is, and the fire didn't burn, so I put it in this wine jar." As he spoke, Xiao Liuzhi pointed to the wine jar.

This is an important feature to determine the true identity of the wine jar, Wu Zhiyuan took the jar, reached out and pulled out the wooden stopper at the mouth of the altar, and looked inside, there was indeed a hairpin inside, which looked like silver and had been burned white.

In this way, these two guys are not lying, and what is in this wine jar is indeed Xie Linling's ashes. Confirming this, Wu Zhiyuan took out nine pieces of ocean from his arms and handed them to Ah Guang, asked him to transfer them to the old bustard, and took out two more pieces and gave them to the two of them, which was regarded as their hard work.

The two of them nodded their heads in thanks, and happily left the mass grave with the ocean.

"Miss Xie, I have found your ashes, I will temporarily find a safe place to place you, if there is a chance to see Yuesheng again, I will definitely fulfill your last wish and put your ashes in his hands." Wu Zhiyuan gently stroked the soil on the wine jar and muttered.

There was no response, but Wu Zhiyuan believed that Xie Linling must have received what he said. He paused for a moment, picked up the altar and was about to leave.

At this moment, a muffled snort suddenly sounded from a rolled straw mat a zhang away, Wu Zhiyuan frowned, stopped and looked back.

Could it be a zombie?