Along the way, the combination of the three of them attracted the attention of almost all pedestrians and roadside vendors. The first glance is to look at the coffin on Gao Jue's shoulder, the second glance is to see Gao Jue, and the third, fourth and fifth eyes will all fall densely on He Angelica's face and body.

Although Rabbit Town is a small village, it is not uncommon to see coffins carrying dead people in one mouth or two on the street every day. But the first eye-catching strange thing appeared: even if the family was poor, as long as they could afford to use the coffin, they should at least hire two or three people to carry the coffin, right? Why is that man carrying a coffin alone? Who is he, how can he have such strange powers? So, the eyes of passers-by shifted from the coffin to the person carrying the coffin, and found that his physique and expression did not look like a good stubble, so they quickly looked away stupidly and turned to look at the person behind him.

At this glance, many people's eyes were glued. At a glance, although the girl in the yellow dress was still young, her skin was brighter than snow, and her eyebrows were green, and she was even more beautiful than the person who took it off in the painting.

I saw that she was wearing a yellow cloth shirt with small sleeves and a narrow waist, a pair of slender bast shoes, black hair coiled on the top, only a red lacquered chopsticks on her head, and a few strands of broken hair on her ears and temples, scattered but not messy. Such a terrible outfit is placed on her body, as if a night pearl is placed in a bowl called Hanako, which dazzles people's eyes. For most of the countrymen who have never seen any beauty, this girl is as beautiful as a fairy figure.

Suddenly, the girl smiled slightly, her snow-white melon seed face showed a moving thinking look, and then turned her head and said something to another little Taoist aunt of the same age next to her, and the person who was close next to her couldn't help but prick up her ears to listen, causing her to raise her eyes and look sideways. Those eyes were like a pool of clear water, turning around on everyone's face, maybe they didn't deliberately look at anyone, but the people who were swept by her gaze had a feeling of "she was looking at me".

Jing Renxing, the shopkeeper of the Jingji coffin shop, kowtowed to the God of Wealth three times in the inner hall, burned incense and prayed: "The sky has eyes, how difficult it is in the world this year, Zhou Ji and I will make a lot of fortune, I hope that there will be more dead people next year, the business in the store will be better, and the wealth will be wider!" After praying, Jing Renxing instructed the shopkeepers to open the door panel and open a new day's business.

When the guy moved the third door panel, a beautiful little face flickered in front of Jing Renxing's eyes. Jing Renxing unconsciously ran out of the store, but only saw the backs of the three people leaving, and the tall man walking in front carried a coffin on his shoulder...... Jing Renxing's eyes are very thin, and his eyes are open and squinting to look similar to others. He opened his eyes for a moment, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and it seemed to be ...... A fragrant wood coffin made of fragrant wood! Ah, in a broken place like Rabbit Town, how can there be a family that uses fragrant wooden coffins to hold the dead!

The backs of the three disappeared from Jing Renxing's field of vision, and he licked his lips stupidly and walked back to the coffin shop.

Under the command of He Angelica, Gao Jue carried the coffin through two streets, shook it in front of the door of the coffin shop in Jingji, walked through three more streets, and put the coffin at the door of the coffin shop of Li Ji.

Gao Jue crossed his arms to his chest, looked up at the sky, and Zhenjing followed He Angelica and walked into Li Ji's coffin shop.

When Gao Jue changed his posture, clasped his hands behind his back, and looked down at his shoes, He Angelica led Zhenjing out of the coffin shop and instructed Gao Jue to carry the coffin and continue walking, and Gao Jue did as he was told.

Zhenjing covered her mouth in shock, kept shaking her head, and repeatedly chanted: "One mouth, one coffin is worth so much!" My family can only earn two taels of silver by planting land for a year, and my family needs to plant land for 70 years to afford this coffin! No, no, my family still needs money for food and clothing every year...... Hey, Xiaoyi, how are we going? Aren't we going to sell it to his family? There are one hundred and forty taels! ”

He Angelica smiled: "This shop is small, the business is not prosperous, and the loose silver on hand is naturally small, so I didn't plan to sell it to this one at the beginning." This coffin is my first pot of gold, so naturally I have to find a way to make more money, and when I invest money in the future, I will have more money and more choices. ”

Zhenjing was curious: "But why is your coffin worth so much silver?" How much did you pay for it? ”

He Angelica gestured, commanded Gao Jue to go to the coffin of Jingji again, and then said: "In ancient times, Guan Yu, the general of Shu State, was killed by Sun Quan of Wu State, Sun Quan cut off Guan Yu's head and gave it to Cao Cao of Wei State, Cao Cao guessed that this was Sun Quan's plan to blame, so he made a body for Guan Yu's head with fragrant wood and buried it well. Three days later, Guan Yu's soul appeared and returned to take revenge, killing his enemy Lü Meng. Since then, there has been a saying among the people that if the unjustly deceased person uses a fragrant wooden coffin to hold the corpse, it can ward off evil spirits, let the deceased bless their relatives in heaven, and punish the wicked. But fragrant wood is expensive, usually rich people burn incense, a total of only a few taels of incense wood are burned throughout the year, and generally no one is willing to use fragrant wood to make coffins. ”

Zhenjing blinked: "Then your family is very good to you, and I will mourn you in a fragrant wooden coffin." ”

He Angelica nodded and said: "My mother is only one of my daughters, when she heard my bad news, she was listening to the scriptures in Sanqingguan, and my mother cried and said, 'Heaven will destroy me'." The Taoist aunt of Sanqingguan persuaded me and suggested that my mother make me a high-quality fragrant wood coffin, saying that the children who died early were entangled with strong resentment, which was not conducive to the health of the elders in the family, and could be resolved with fragrant wood. So the mother took out of her dowry five hundred taels of silver......"

"Five hundred taels?!" Zhenjing's voice is like a duck being trampled on its neck.

"Listen to me," He Angelica patted her on the shoulder, reassuring her slightly, "Five hundred taels of silver is just the money to buy fragrant wood, and the other more than thirty taels of money for craftsmen is from the Luo family, the fragrant wood is extremely soft, and a beautiful fragrant wood coffin can be made in only half a day." This coffin is made of five kinds of fragrant wood, and the sleeper used to put the head, which I pried down with a knife and let you keep in your arms, is a two-inch square piece of fine agarwood, which is worth more than three hundred taels of silver......"

Zhenjing reached out in a panic and touched it in her arms, He Angelica patted her comfortingly, and said with a smile: "Agarwood can't be sold at a good price in a place like Rabbit Town, so I have to pry it off and sell it in Yangzhou City in the future." In this way, the cost price of this coffin is now two hundred and thirty taels of silver, and we have to sell it at this price so that we will not lose money. Because whether it is to buy materials or hire craftsmen, it can only be done through the channels of the Luo family, and if the rich people generally buy it with silver, it will be at least two percent more expensive. ”

Zhenjing listened with her mouth stammered, and actually asked a very cerebral question: "Anyway, these are all things that happened after you 'died', and you haven't returned to the Luo family yet, how do you know so clearly?" ”

He Angelica blinked and lied: "Huh? Oh, don't you remember, I wrote a letter to my mother before, and these are what she told me in her reply. ”

Actually, these are what she heard after returning to the Luo family in her previous life. At that time, the mother was abandoned by her stepfather, the whole person was discouraged, everything was not in her heart, she was very excited to hear that her daughter was resurrected, and felt that it was the result of her faith and worship of God, so she lived in Sanqingguan and listened to the scriptures more wholeheartedly, leaving the sky-high fragrant wooden coffin behind. Later, when my mother finally remembered that when she sent someone to the water merchant to ask for it, the fragrant wood coffin had already been sold cheaply by the ignorant Taishan, so she had to give up. I heard that the Jing Ji coffin shop in Rabbit Town, which bought the coffin, made a windfall and sold it, and the money earned bought the farmhouse, and the Jing family became the richest man in Rabbit Town.

A few days ago, He Angelica remembered this "past", and only then did he hit the idea of making money on his coffin. And the fragrant wood coffin must be sold in Rabbit Town, because once the fragrant wood coffin is brought back to the Luo family, the second aunt can find an excuse to confiscate it, and then put it into her small treasury in the future.

Jing Renxing, the shopkeeper of Jingji Coffin Shop, was still thinking about the fragrant wooden coffin just now, and then saw that the three people just now were back again, the tall man carrying the coffin, the beautiful girl in yellow and the round-faced little Daogu.

"Oh, where are you going? The coffin is very heavy, if you want to pick the coffin and the porter, the small shop has it! Shopkeeper Jing hurriedly stopped them as they walked over, ostensibly to solicit business, but actually wanted to see if he had just been dazzled.

The general coffin is to be painted with two layers of black lacquer, and the fragrant wood coffin made of fragrant wood is only brushed with a layer of basswood glue to prevent insects and mildew in order to make the fragrant wood breathable. He had just glanced at the appearance of the coffin from a distance, but now that he was approaching and sniffing and touching, he was finally convinced that this black-clothed man was carrying a fragrant wood coffin on his shoulders, and it was definitely a first-class product!

After shaking his senses, Shopkeeper Jing found that the big man in black was staring at him with a cannibalistic gaze, and only then did he notice that he pounced on the coffin and stepped on the other party's feet!

"Hehe, I didn't mean it, young man, don't be so angry, well, why don't you come into my shop, and I'll pour you a cup of tea to make amends?" Shopkeeper Jing hunched his waist and made a gesture of inviting in. The big man in black glanced at the girl in yellow behind him, the girl in yellow chuckled, and Qing Lingling's voice crawled through the heart of the shopkeeper Jing like a small claw, "It just so happens that I am also thirsty, but it is not appropriate to enter the teahouse with a coffin, so it is better to ask for a cup of tea here with this shopkeeper." ”

Shopkeeper Jing said welcome, so the three of them walked into the coffin shop of Jing Ji.

"I wonder where you're going? Why did you walk down the street early in the morning carrying an empty coffin? Shopkeeper Jing diligently served a pot of oolong tea and wanted to pour tea for them personally.

He Angelica smiled lightly, thanked him and said, "I really don't dare to be, the little girl can come by herself." ”

Saying that, she took the boiling kettle and scalded the cold tea cups one by one, lined up several tea cups in an arc, held the edge of the purple sand pot with her bare hands, and held the lid of the purple sand pot with her fingers, revealing a thin slit between the edge of the mouth of the purple sand pot and the lid of the teapot. The dark purple teapot is pleasing to the eye in the white plain hands, and the whole set. The action is smooth and done in one go.

"Please." He Angelica took a cup first, put it on the tip of his nose and sniffed it, and said with a smile, "Good tea, frozen top oolong." "Although it is a second-class frozen oolong, this fragrance is really nostalgic.

When Fang Caijing's shopkeeper served tea, Gao Jue drooped his eyelids, and his handsome face was as cool as a stone statue, obviously not wanting to drink the tea from this coffin shop. However, seeing He Angelo's decay into a magical tea art, he also reached out and took a cup, and when he sniffed it, it was really refreshing.

If Liao Zhiyuan, Duan Xiaolou and the others were here, they would definitely exclaim loudly, because although Gao Jue's face was still expressionless, his dark eyes were soaked with a slight smile. Everyone who is familiar with Gao Jue knows that this is his most "approachable" expression, and the last time I saw him show such an expression was at the full moon banquet of his daughter.

Shopkeeper Jing also grabbed a cup and took a sip, and said in surprise: "Ah, it's so fragrant, little sister is a good tea artist!" I drink this tea a lot, and I never knew it was so fragrant! This is still the tea I brewed, little sister, you can pour it casually and it will be so fragrant, if you let you brew a whole set, ah, it won't make people smell to death! ”

He Angelica smiled and took half a sip of tea, and talked along the topic before the shopkeeper Jing: "Everyone has their own specialty, the little girl can just make a cup of tea, what is it, the shopkeeper, your understanding of the coffin is admirable, just take a look, you know that we are an empty coffin." ”

"That's that," Shopkeeper Jing's small eyes narrowed, and he said proudly, "I have been engaged in the funeral industry for more than 30 years, and I know everything about coffins and dead people. ”

"Oh? This is a strange thing," He Angelica asked with great interest, "the coffin is covered with a lid, and it is tightly sealed, I wonder how the shopkeeper knows the contents of the coffin?" ”

Shopkeeper Jing leaned his head closer and whispered to her with a mysterious face: "This is a secret of the funeral industry, I shouldn't have said it, but since I fell in love with my little sister, it doesn't hurt to talk about it...... Let me tell you, dead man...... It was the heaviest, carrying the coffin of the dead man, and the footprints on the ground were three points into the ground, and the soles of the feet were black...... And those empty coffins were carried over, not only the footprints on the ground were shallow, but the waist of the person carrying the coffin was straight! ”

Zhenjing listened to his eerie tone, and involuntarily shivered. And He Angelica was secretly funny, how could this shopkeeper talk about it, and what is the basis for judging this? Even if Gao Jue is allowed to walk around with a stone lion, his footprints are still shallow, and his waist is still straight.

Seeing that she didn't seem to believe it, Shopkeeper Jing hurriedly accentuated his tone and said, "I really don't lie to you, the coffin is a thing that leads to that end, and it is unlucky and evil!" Hey, by the way, I don't know where you're going? Why do you walk down the street carrying an empty coffin? As he spoke, he glanced at the fragrant wood coffin placed in the center of the room, and said tentatively, "I see, your coffin is really good." ”

Zhenjing hurriedly asked, "Then how much silver do you think it's worth?" "Before, the shopkeeper of Li Ji's coffin shop over there was willing to take out all the one hundred and forty taels of silver in his shop to buy this coffin. And this Jingji coffin shop is three or four times larger than Li Ji's storefront, and the decoration is also very good, so it should be able to make more money.

Shopkeeper Jing's eyes moved quickly, and he said very authoritatively: "In my opinion, this coffin is worth a lot of money, it should be between eighty and one hundred taels of silver." ”

When I heard this, my face was full of disappointment.