Chapter 1: Beauty in a Bottle (1)
In the scorching summer, the happiest and most helpless thing is that there is a sudden thunderstorm, the old man who sells herbal tea smiles and beckons to passers-by who are sheltering from the rain, and after a while, the small grass shed is crowded with people. Pen ~ fun ~ www.biquge.info stools, tables, and even clean floors have people sitting and resting, and people who are full of embarrassment are crowded together, there is a feeling of why have they met before, and they soon chatted together.
The ragged young man put the burden under his buttocks, hugged a small white porcelain jar tightly in his arms, and was listening to the people inside with his ears pricked up, when suddenly a bark-like withered hand handed over a bowl of tea; "This little brother, drink some water." ”
How can a person who eats and drinks dew have the money to buy water to drink. The young man waved his hand again and again, "No, no, thank you, uncle, I'm not thirsty." ”
"The old man has so much business today, this bowl of tea doesn't need your money. As he spoke, he put the tea bowl in the young man's hand, looked at the jar in the young man's arms, and asked tentatively, "What you are holding in your arms are ashes?"
"Well, it's my mother's ashes, and I'm going to take her back to my hometown. As soon as the boy finished speaking, the voices of the straw hut disappeared.
A middle-aged man not far from him looked at him sideways, and said inexplicably: "Little brother, I see that you don't look bad, don't wait for the rain to stop, hurry up, and try to leave this town before it gets dark." ”
"Why?" the boy turned his head in confusion, he had less than ten copper plates left on him, and he could only eat one steamed bun a day, and he really didn't have the strength to leave the town before dark. What's more, it was so windy and rainy, it is estimated that he fell first before he left the town.
"This little brother, haven't you heard of the strange things in Jingtai Town along the way?" another person walked over with a mysterious face and began to talk about the strange things in Jingtai Town.
Jingtai Town is most famous for porcelain, even the palace and the mansions of dignitaries and nobles with porcelain are mostly from Jingtai Town, almost every household here has people who can fire porcelain, but there are two major porcelain merchants Gu Jia and Yu family control of porcelain trading, it is difficult to get ahead in this industry. Fortunately, under the mutual control of these two major porcelain merchants, the price is also fair, and the people of Jingtai Town make money by handicraft, which is quite rich and happy.
It wasn't until ten years ago that the head of the Gu family figured out a new process, he used this method to fire a beauty bottle, dedicated it to the local parents, and the parents gave it to the boss, and handed it to the emperor, and finally the beauty bottle reached the emperor's hands.
The beauty bottle has a delicate enamel and a graceful shape, which is aptly named. What's even better is that under the flow of lights, the beauty painted on the bottle seems to have spirituality, the cherry lips seem to be enlightened, and the eyes are filled with water waves, as if they will immediately appear and vomit lovesickness. The emperor was overjoyed when he saw it, and appointed the ancient family as the imperial merchant and paid tribute to a beauty bottle every year.
The Gu family suppressed the Yu family, completely controlled the porcelain business in Jingtai Town, and began to squeeze the local people. Not only is the price of porcelain extremely low, but it is also claimed that the clay needed to make ceramics in Jingdezhen is owned by the ancient family, and no one is allowed to use it privately. This is tantamount to cutting off the main source of income for the local people. However, the people in the government did not dare to offend the Gu family, so what could ordinary people do?
The saddest thing is, of course, the old rival of the Gu family, the Yu family.
The Yu family couldn't survive in Jingtai Town, so they planned to move with the old and the young, and take them away with the buried ancestors. When the grave was opened and the coffin was pried, nearly half of the coffin was empty, and the Yu family immediately reported to the official.
However, the people of the government could not find out that there were three, four, five, or six, the coffins and coffins were all intact, and the belongings accompanying the burial were not a lot, so why were the bones missing? The Yu family said that someone was retaliating, and the arrow pointed directly at the Gu family.
However, the Gu family also said that such a bad thing must be done thoroughly. Either destroy them all, or pick the most weighty, how can you pick a woman's coffin.
That's right, the bones of the missing bodies are all women.
The matter of the Yu family is still over, and several more families went to repair the grave because of the heavy rain, and found that the bones were also missing, and they were also women. This eliminated the suspicion of the Gu family, but it also made the people of Jingtai Town start to worry, but they can't disturb the peace of the deceased because of this worry, and they have asked the government to give an explanation.
Some people also said that it was the evil spirit, and they also invited monks and Taoists to exorcise ghosts and catch demons, but later they did not gain much. In short, until now, no one knows whether it is a demon or a man-made, and why it specializes in stealing women's bones, only that it is probably the bones of the dead that have been stolen, and Jingtai Town began to throw the bones of the living.
Women, especially those with good faces. This woman, regardless of age, is a frail girl or an old lady with goosebumps.
There are so many people in Jingtai Town, and the demon doesn't come to commit crimes every day, and it is obviously impossible to protect all women by relying on official missions, so you can only ask your family to be careful. However, no matter how the family protects them, there will always be a moment when they are careless, and there is no sound, and the living person is only left with a pair of skins. Crumpled on the ground or hung on the bed net, the only thing that could move was a pair of frightened eyes.
The young man imagined that scene, shuddered, subconsciously hugged the ashes altar, and asked in silence: "Is there anything missing from the woman of the ancient family?"
"You kid, you're alert. A young man dressed up quickly praised it, nodded and said, "At this point, the Gu family is the same as other families, and the women with outstanding looks are also lost. It's just that these women are all foreign surnames, daughters of the ancient family, maybe it's retribution, all of them are ugly, but they are safe. ”
The young man noticed the unclear meaning in the words of the catcher, raised his eyes, and saw the catcher staring at the urn in his arms, his eyes sparkled, and he approached him and said: "Little brother, I look at your appearance, before it gets dark, you must be inseparable from this Jingtai Town, why don't we cooperate?"
The demon who stole human bones came out of nowhere, and there was no trace to follow at all, and he had suspicious people, and several times of quiet investigation were in vain. Nowadays, there are fewer and fewer good-looking women in Jingtai Town, and the demon will definitely not let go of the food sent to his mouth, this is his chance. If the boy doesn't agree, then he can only ......
Without much thought, the boy agreed, first, it was getting late, and he really needed a sheltered place to spend the night, and second, even if there were really any demons and demons, how could he know that he had an urn here? After all, he was only here for one night.
After the rain stopped, the boy went home with the catch.
The house was very small, a well, a tree, a small table, four or five small stools, all of which filled the small courtyard, and there were only three rooms, and a kitchen had to be removed. The surname of the catcher is Pang Mingsong, and there was an old mother at home, which happened a month ago.
When he goes crazy to find the murderer, his fiancée is also targeted. She had happened while she was drying her clothes, and before they were finished, they were hung on a rope.