I looked at Yu Xin, and just then, Yu Xin also looked at me.

"That's what he told you?" I asked.

"Yes," said the old man, "there is a contradiction in his words, 'I bought something that I can't buy with any amount of money,' and since I can't buy it with any amount of money, how can he still buy it?" ”

"Then uncle, you go on."

Then I asked him, how old are you? He said, "Sixty-seven." I said, I'm a year older than you, I'm sixty-eight, just the age of the two of us, at most we will live for another twenty years, and then we will go into the coffin to protect the earth, why will it be decades later? How old is that? It's not the old king, he lives so big..."

I almost didn't laugh, I couldn't help myself.

He smiled, patted me on the shoulder, and said, "Old man, the thing I bought will allow me to live at least one hundred and twenty." I'll just say, what did you buy, the elixir? … No matter how much I asked, he just wouldn't say. I wondered, he must have been cheated by someone, and he got out with so much money... Look, I'm not mistaken, he didn't even cross the threshold of sixty-seven, and he entered the crematorium..."

The old man told us that since the old man who died had lost all his money, his sons and daughters had nothing to do with him, and it was good for him not to throw him off and stop coming to the door, and one of his sons, every once in a while, took his daughter-in-law to run to make trouble with him, scolding him for being old and immortal, saying that the money he got from buying lottery tickets was not his personal at all, but their entire family, and he had no right to throw it out and play it...

I said in my heart, this old man who died had spent all that money at once, and bought something that would have allowed him to live to be at least one hundred and twenty years old... What could it be? There is no doubt that it must be Yangshou... Moreover, that Yangshou should have been bought from Wanjin Mountain... The old man bought the Yangshou last year, could it be that the Yangshou he bought was the accountant Wang who died in the brick kiln factory? … At the beginning, we tried our best to track down the burial under the chimney of the brick kiln factory, and who owned the columbarium used to borrow Yangshou, but we have never found out... Could it be that the columbarium belongs to the old man's family? …

"Uncle."

"Huh?"

"Did he behave anything out of the ordinary before he died?" I asked.

"No... Mainly, I don't walk very close to him, usually here, that is, here in this scenic area, meet and say hello, or sit together and cheer for homely things, and at other times there is no friendship..."

I couldn't help but fall into deep thought, since the old man bought Yangshou, why did he suddenly die again? Could it be that Yangshou is also counterfeit and shoddy? …

I heard Yu Xin say, "Uncle, did he win the lottery when he bought the lottery the year before last?" ”

"Huh? Yes, I won the lottery the year before last, I spent all my money last year, and then I died this year. ”

"Oh..."

Yuxin seemed to have a voiceover, I looked at her and asked with my eyes, what's wrong?

Yuxin shook her head and pointed to the car.

"Thank you, uncle, Ah Leng, let's go."

"What's wrong?" Back in the car, I asked.

"Ah Leng..."Yu Xin looked at me, "Brother Wang knows the old man who died..."

"Oh?" I was taken aback, "Boss Wang?!" ”

"Hmm..."Yu Xin nodded, looked away faintly, and looked out of the windshield, "Although Brother Wang and I are only husband and wife in name, and we have never been husband and wife, he treats me like a princess, and he doesn't let me do anything or say anything, and he is afraid that he will treat me badly." So, he bought the abandoned house and demolished it to build a villa, just so that I could live in it..."

I said in my heart that this Boss Wang is really good to Yuxin.

"In addition, he thinks that he is just a brick kiln kiln boss, and he feels that he is not worthy of me. Therefore, he planned to sell the brick kiln and register a company in the city to develop real estate. However, the funds needed to develop real estate are very large, and with Brother Wang's savings, even if the brick kiln factory is added, it is far from enough. It is necessary to raise funds, that is, to find funds and partners. Although I have no feelings for Brother Wang, I see him going out early and returning late every day, and I am very busy and anxious, and I can't bear it. persuaded him not to start a company if it really didn't work, but he didn't listen at all. The next day, he came back in high spirits and told me that the funds had been found. I was stunned, oh? Brother Wang said that there was an old worker in the city who bought a lottery ticket and won the jackpot, after he heard about it, he visited the door and said to the old worker that it was a pity to keep the money in his hands, it was a pity that he might as well take out a part of the investment in real estate, and there would be a huge return on profits... After several days of painstaking persuasion, the old man finally got moved and agreed to invest... In those few days, Brother Wang was very happy, looking for people, relationships, and projects everywhere... Later, the people were also found, and the project was negotiated, just when the brick kiln factory was about to go out, the old man suddenly called, saying that he would not invest, the reason was that the children did not agree... Brother Wang was angry enough, he didn't expect the old man to come out like this, he regretted it very much, after the old man agreed, he should immediately sign a written contract with him...

Although the old man repented, Brother Wang did not give up, and still ran to the old man every now and then to do the ideological work of him and his children... I remember! ”

I was listening attentively, and Yuxin suddenly changed her words, startling me.

"What?"

"I remember... Brother Wang seemed to have told me, because he wanted to know if his career could be done, he made a special trip to the city to visit a master, and the master calculated it, and said in a positive tone that if he invested in real estate, he would definitely succeed! … The reason why the old man refused to invest later was not only because of the opposition of his children, but mainly because he heard that the cycle of investing in real estate was very long and the risk was very high. In order to dispel the old man's concerns, Brother Wang also took him to meet the master..."

"Are you sure?" I asked.

"Hmm..."

I thought to myself, who will be the 'master' in the city? … It shouldn't be Wanjinshan, Wanjinshan is engaged in the 'underground activities' of reselling Yangshou, and doesn't tell fortunes, so who will it be? Don't... I thought of the 'mage' who used to live in the hut behind the forest, but now dead...

"And then, Yuxin, you go on." I said.

"I don't know exactly what happened after meeting the master. After that, while still doing the old man's work, Brother Wang set out to expand the scale of the brick kiln factory. He considered that if the funds were implemented, the scale of the brick kiln factory would be large, and the price would be high, if the funds were not implemented, then he would continue to do the brick kiln factory, and then he would do some building materials business. But... Later, you know, the brick kiln factory was expanded, and Brother Wang led people to pull machines into a kiln, but the kiln collapsed, and they were all buried inside..."

Speaking of this, Yu Xin's voice was a little choked, and she rubbed her eyes with her hands.

Suddenly, I had a question in my heart, after the death of Boss Wang, his soul remained in his body, and he didn't know that he was dead, because Yuxin and his son were all in trouble, and their lives were dying, and the 'living dead' Boss Wang ran to us for help, hoping that we could save his 'wife' and children... So, the question is, according to what Yuxin said, Boss Wang obviously knows a master in the city who has helped him tell his fortune, why didn't he ask for help from the master, but for us... A thought suddenly occurred in my heart, could it be that Boss Wang's death, as I had speculated before, was not due to a collision with the evil spirit, but related to the master? … According to what Yuxin just said, in terms of time, when Boss Wang died, it shouldn't be long before he went to see the 'master'... Assuming, just assuming, that so-called master is really the 'mage', I can analyze how Boss Wang heard about it and went to meet him... We know that the 'mage' who died was a Sichuanese, and there was a 'tooth-opener' in Boss Wang's brick kiln factory, who was also from Sichuan. There are very few Sichuan people in our city, and most of the floating population in Sichuan are concentrated in Lingnan and Jiangsu and Zhejiang, as a minority, two of the Sichuan people, if Huoyazi and the master know, then, it is very likely that he recommended it to Boss Wang...

Then I thought of the dead old man at the funeral home. If Boss Wang's death was because he went to see the 'master', then the old man also went to see him, why did the old man not die, but lived until this year...

Although there are still many mysteries that reunite in my heart like a nest of ropes, I have vaguely seen the 'rope head'... Before, I just felt for no reason that Boss Wang's death was not caused by evil, but now, from feeling to 12 out of 10 belief...

"Yuxin, are you saying that Boss Wang not only did the old man's ideological work for the sake of funds, but also did his children's?" I asked.

"Well, I heard Brother Wang say that this is the case, and I don't get involved in his affairs. Except for the purchase of the abandoned house, I have not intervened in other things, such as finding funds, etc., so I have never met the old man, let alone the old man's children..."

"Let's go."

"Where?" Yuxin asked.

"Go and meet the old man's children, in addition to asking the old man if he had any unusual behavior before he died, confirm it, and see if it was them who dealt with Boss Wang the year before last, and if so, see if you can ask for any inside information..."

Since the old man was parked in the funeral home for seven days before the funeral cremation was held, there must be a registration of the old man's family in the funeral home...

After having dinner with Yuxin in a hurry, I drove towards the funeral home. Coming to the road leading to the funeral home, I 'ouch' and slapped the steering wheel.

"What's wrong?" Yuxin asked.

"Forget, because of the haunting, the funeral home is not there at all at night, and now it's past seven o'clock, we will definitely go in vain..."

Yuxin thought for a while and said, "Since you're here, let's go and have a look." ”

"It's fine."

When I approached the funeral home, I saw the lights in the courtyard.

"Someone!" I rejoice.

As soon as I stopped the car at the door, I heard a loud noise coming from the yard...