Chapter 288: Burial Flower Creek
After going ashore, Bai Jin found someone to buy a good coffin for Xie Tianhui, the deceased is the biggest, he will not leave us, let us hurry up and send Xie Tianhui to the entrusted place, lest the body will rot after a long time.
Bai Jin arranged the car to send us away on the same day, all the way bumpy field chicken sat behind and wanted to stop talking, I saw that he looked lonely, kicked him: "How do you see how you have gained and lost?" ”
Tian Ji took out all the pockets of his clothes, spread his hands and hung his head in frustration: "Why is the ending the same every time, my life is desperate, but I didn't get anything." ”
"Who said that, although the Jieshi Palace has collapsed, I still remember the location." Gong Jue glanced at Tian Ji and said with a smile. "There's a whole mountain of gold down there, enough for you to eat and drink for a few lifetimes."
"Do you remember the ...... of the Jieshi Palace" Tian Ji just had a smile on his face, and immediately froze again, he glanced at me, buried his head, and didn't say the rest of the words.
I shouldn't go to that place again in my lifetime, there are guilt and regrets that I can never let go, I brought back the corpse of Tianhui, but Ling Zhihan stayed in the Jieshi Palace, I don't want to go to that place, I don't want to face everything that happened.
"Where's Tai's sword?" I suddenly remembered, looked at Tian Ji and asked. "That's the world's famous sword, it's been held by you all the time, why haven't you seen it?"
"Thrown." Tian Ji shook his head helplessly.
"You threw away the Tai'a sword? Where did you throw it? The palace lord was taken aback.
"Since ancient times, the sword has been given to heroes, although Xie Tianhui is not a hero, but without him, we would have died in Jieshi Palace, before Uncle Bai said, the Xie family will not leave a corpse after death, and it will be resolved by fire on the sea, I will think, I can't let him go empty-handed, so ......"
"So you threw Tai'a Jian into the sea, planning to bury Xie Tianhui."
Tian Ji nodded.
Gong Jue and I looked at each other, couldn't help but smile bitterly, I didn't know how to comfort him, I could only pat Tian Ji on the shoulder, guarding the coffin containing Xie Tianhui behind the car, falling asleep in a staggering way, and the harsh sunlight outside shone in when I was woken up.
We jumped out of the car, Taowu is the ancient town of Jinling, the impression of the ancient town in the south of the Yangtze River, there is no lack of long streets and alleys, small bridges and flowing water, pink walls and tiles, ancient vines coiled elegant scenery.
Tao Wu does not have the hustle and bustle of Jinling, but quiet and serene, the meandering river is like a jade belt, running through the east and west of the ancient town, more than ten ancient bridges are hidden between the weeping willows, the plain wall is green tile, and the alleys are winding paths.
I asked several passers-by, and when I heard that the three people in Fuhuaxi, they all avoided us, and they didn't want to say a word, but only pointed in the direction, as if this place was taboo, and the locals were reluctant to mention it.
After crossing several ancient bridges of the Ming and Qing dynasties, we finally found a place, which was a dilapidated house, which was incompatible with the whitewashed and tiled dwellings here, and the mottled walls seemed to have not been repaired for a long time.
Xie Tianhui has been in Liaodong, and I don't know, why did he travel thousands of miles for us to send his body to this place.
She was wearing a brocade cheongsam, the color was very bright, but under the light of her countenance, no matter how brilliant the brocade was, it looked colorless.
Next to the woman stood a child, I had never seen such a child, and in his eyes there was no child's immaturity at all, and there was a kind of old age and sophistication that did not correspond to his age, and the woman and the child looked at us without saying a word.
"Solution, do you know Xie Tianhui?" It took me a long time to react.
"Dead?" The woman's indifference overwhelmed us a little.
Nodding blankly, the palace lord pointed to the coffin that had been carried down.
"How long have you been dead?" The woman walked around the coffin.
"It's been almost three days."
"Open." The woman spoke briefly.
I was stunned, the dead are the greatest, they all pay attention to the earth, Xie Tianhui is put into the coffin, the museum is opened in broad daylight, and the violent corpse is undoubted, how to say that he also has a life-saving grace for us.
"This ...... It's not good. ”
The woman looked up at me, her eyes were cold and firm, she didn't seem to be soliciting us the same, I glanced at each other with the palace lord and Tian Ji, since Xie Tianhui asked us to send him here, presumably he has an extraordinary relationship with this woman, and it is inconvenient for us to mix in other people's family affairs.
According to the woman's wishes, the coffin was reopened, and the woman walked up, looked at Xie Tianhui inside, and there was no expression of fear on her face, and reached out and moved Xie Tianhui's head a few times: "Lift it to the back." ”
Send the Buddha to the west sky, send the coffin here for a thousand years, and it is not bad for the last few steps, we and the people near Bai work together to lift the coffin in, inside is a two-storey courtyard, and it is the patio when you walk in, because the rainwater from the inner slope of the roof flows into the patio from all sides, so this kind of residential layout is commonly known as the four water return to the church.
It's just that the courtyard is very old, no one seems to take care of it, everywhere is full of creepers, the sunlight can not penetrate in, as soon as you walk in here, you feel inexplicably gloomy, there is a small garden behind the courtyard, a stream meanders through, when the wind blows, the garden falls colorfully, fluttering and falling in the stream, presumably this is the reason why it is called the funeral flower stream.
Xie Tianhui's coffin was placed in a separate room at the back of the garden, and the people who were near Bai wanted to rush back, in fact, I knew that they didn't want to stay in this gloomy place for a long time, and to send away the people who were close to Bai, and we were thinking about where to go.
"It's not too early, if you don't dislike it, I'll stay here tonight." The woman didn't know when she was standing behind us, and she didn't seem to have any footsteps when she walked. "By the way, my name is Qin Zhanyan, thank you for sending him back."
To be honest, I don't want to stay in this place for a minute, but Jinling is a place where people are not familiar with life, we have no money, and we can't even find a place to stay, so I don't know where to go if I don't live here at night.
I had to agree hard, Qin Zhanyan arranged us in the side room of the courtyard, the room was very clean, and not long after lying down, the palace lord pushed the door in, still holding the quilt in his hand.
"What are you doing?" I asked while lying on the bed.
"Let's talk, I can't sleep alone." The palace lord did not come up to squeeze with me, but slept on the ground.
"You shouldn't be afraid?" I looked at the palace lord's unnatural expression and suddenly smiled.
Gong Jue covered the quilt embarrassedly, and before he could answer, Tian Ji also pushed the door in, and without saying a word, he ran to my bed and squeezed me inside: "It's so cold alone." ”
"I'm afraid, I'm afraid, why are you looking for so many excuses." I gave them both a blank look. "I didn't see it, you two are still afraid of this."
"It's so gloomy, I don't know why, I get goosebumps all the time." Tian Ji scratched his head and smiled. "You say, what is the relationship between Qin Zhanyan and Tianhui?"
"yes, I'm thinking about it, too." The palace lord sat up with a puzzled expression. "Xie Tianhui, why did you let us send him here?"
"I see that Qin Zhanyan and Xie Tianhui are about the same age, could it be Xie Tianhui's woman, not to mention that there is a child." Gong Jue said.
"But Uncle Bai said that Xie Tianhui is the only one left in the Xie family, and now that Xie Tianhui is dead, the Xie family will be broken." I say.
"I didn't hear Uncle Bai say, the Xie family has always had a bad relationship with the Bai family, how much can Uncle Bai know about the Xie family, maybe Xie Tianhui is a person on the underworld, in order to take care of the safety of his wife and children, he placed his wife and children here, and didn't want outsiders to know, so that he would not implicate Qin Zhanyan and the child if he had anything." Gong Jue said.
"You didn't see Qin Zhanyan's appearance when he saw Xie Tianhui." I shook my head and said. "There is not the slightest sadness on his face at all, if it is really his wife and children, how can he be sad when he learns that Xie Tianhui is dead."
"Chao Ge said this, I also remembered that Qin Zhanyan seemed to be indifferent to Xie Tianhui's death, like an outsider, and her first sentence was to ask Xie Tianhui if he was dead, this woman seemed to be waiting for Xie Tianhui to die." Tian Ji said with a frown. "Even if it is Xie Tianhui's wife and children, it is estimated that the relationship will not be much better."
"Forget it, let's not guess about Tianhui, what he entrusted us to do has been done, what should we do now?" Gong Jue asked.
"Although the Jieshi Palace has collapsed, the matter is not over, the Jieshi Palace was just built to hide a place name, and now we already know where this place is." I said thoughtfully.
"You want to find the temple?" The palace lord got up from the bed.
"There are twelve ancestral gods resting there, and you yourself said that once those gods are awakened, we don't know what the consequences will be." Tian Ji was also surprised.
"He's Bi and Suihou Zhu are not in our hands, let's wake up the gods?" I said with a furrow on my brow. "Xie Tianhui once mentioned my father, it seems that he also has a relationship with the temple, Xie Tianhui said, if I want to solve the answer, I must go to the temple."
It's a pity that Xie Tianhui didn't tell me from beginning to end how he knew about my father, and suddenly found that these people around him even knew my father better than me.
A person who was supposed to die in the Vientiane Shrine, appeared in the bullseye of the nuclear explosion again, and then I witnessed being shot and killed, a person who died three times, the mystery left to me by my father is becoming more and more bizarre and weird, I promised Ye Jiuqing to track down the whereabouts of the Nine Dragons Boat of the Moon Palace, and the original intention was also for my father.
Since Xie Tianhui made it clear that all the answers were in the temple, I would have to find that place no matter what.
"Your father's identity is not simple, the No. 1 leader of the 117 Bureau, speaking of which, he should be a member of the military, it is better to check your father's background, maybe you can know something." Tian Ji said.
"Where is it as simple as you say, the 117th Bureau is so mysterious, few people know about it at all, not to mention that the things that the 117th Bureau has come into contact with are all very important, and they have been concealed until now and have not been announced, just a few of us, what can we find." I said with a sigh.
"No matter how mysterious the 117 Bureau is, it is also a military agency, but I have a way to find out." Tian Ji said.
"What can you do?" I asked the palace lord.
"I have a comrade-in-arms in Jinling, and after changing jobs, I am in the Institute of Military History, where there are detailed files of all the armies and institutions, and it just so happens that I have a good relationship with this comrade-in-arms, maybe he can help, maybe there are records about the 117th Bureau in those files."