Hey, I was expecting to find another job and make more money, but I didn't expect to become a bodhisattva. I sighed in my heart, and came back with the burly man who bought the cheapest coffin, only to see that Tu Laosan had been changed into clean clothes and was lying on the door panel, as if he was asleep.

"Mother, don't worry, from now on, you will be my mother, and I will always be filial to you."

"Okay, good daughter, it's just that you've suffered you, and you haven't enjoyed any happiness when you marry into my family, the third child still treats you like that, our Tu family can't stand you."

"Mother, look at what you said, my mother's family doesn't care about me, and it's my blessing to be able to call you 'mother'."

"Okay, you two, I'm going to cry with you." The woman in yellow scolded, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law finally quieted down. It was only then that the three women found out that we had returned.

"Engong, thank you, I'm really sorry to let you be busy in vain. Since you don't want money, then this one will be given to you, you can keep it or use it as a pawn, I think this handkerchief is quite comfortable to touch, maybe it is worth a few dollars. "The old woman shoved a white handkerchief into my hand.

"No, I said I was helping, how can I ask for your things?"

"Hey, Jianghu brothers, take it! We are neighbors, helping is love, you don't usually deal with us, you owe you love, how can they pay it back? ”

Brother Chu also persuaded that he went all the way to buy a coffin just now, and he knew each other, he usually helped people move goods on the dock, and he went to the mountains to collect firewood in the morning...... Busy until now.

I know that they are all kind people, like me, although they have no money, they never like to owe others love, just like I treat Wang Fat and them, even if they work hard to earn money, they will still buy him a pot of wine from time to time and buy a piece of jewelry for Wang Jiajia.

"Okay." I took the handkerchief, only to feel that the palms of my hands were cool, my heart trembled, and even my eyes were straight. That's right, it's this silk handkerchief, pure white as frost and snow, light as cicada wings.

Mu Niangzi said, this is made of ice silk, and it feels like ice in summer, but don't look at this piece of handkerchief, it is worth one or two silver miles, and it is a thousand wen when converted into copper plates.

That's right, it's this silk handkerchief, Mu Niangzi's silk handkerchief, it also has a faint fragrance of gardenias!

"Where did this silk handkerchief come from?" I asked, surprised.

"Oh, don't dislike it, it's eighty percent of the things that this unfilial son is eating flowers and wine outside, and which woman is asking for it." The old woman said, glanced at her daughter-in-law guiltily, and pointed at Tu Laosan: "It's under him." ”

"Is it clean?" I blurted out.

"Oh, I've washed it, but it's clean." Tu Laosan replied hurriedly.

"I mean, when you picked it up, did you have any dirt stuck to it?"

Tu Laosan lowered her head embarrassedly: "There's a little vomit, but it'...... I washed it all, really, this veil is thin, and it will dry in a while. ”

Vomit? I carefully recalled Tu Laosan's corpse, and there was indeed vomit on his mouth and clothes on his chest.

Pressed under him? At that time, he was about to check his back, and Xu County's order came. Because the airway foreign body asphyxia was already clear, I didn't insist on checking it anymore.

I felt uneasy not to ask: "Where is it pressing?" ”

"Oh, under the back. We picked it up when we moved him up to wipe his body. The old woman said.

"What's wrong? Jianghu brothers? Brother Chu saw that I was stunned and also asked.

I don't know if my feelings are right, but I just think something is a little strange: Sipa, Mu Niangzi's Sipa, how can it be in Tu Laosan's hands? I also saw Mu Niangzi just now, she doesn't seem to have a handkerchief in her hand, is her silk handkerchief still there? Is it lost again? Or is it that the women of Wanhualou also use this kind of material and fragrant silk handkerchief?

"It must have been given by a woman from Wanhualou, I think this is silk, I'm afraid it's worth some money, if Engong is taboo, then I'll exchange it for money and give it to you." Tu Laosan said suddenly.

"Oh, no, no, no, I've been working with my master since I was a child, and I'm not taboo. I'm just afraid that the origin of this silk handkerchief is unknown, and if people see it in the future and say that I stole it or something, and get into trouble, it will not be good. Uh, you're sure it was given to him by someone else? ”

"It should be. Yesterday he entered the house, and I heard him ask, "Beauty, is this veil for me?" ”

He asked? Who to ask? My heart tightened: "Was there anyone else in the house at that time?" ”

"Nobody. However, he was drunk, and eighty percent imagined that the woman from Wanhualou would come back with him, so he disliked me and bolted the door. ”

"Oh." I replied and stuffed the handkerchief into my arms: "Then I'll take it, come, Brother Chu, take a hand." ”

Taking advantage of the coffin to tidy up, I picked up Tu Laosan's clothes again, just now he was too smelly, I thought his body was full of corpse spots, at this moment, look closely, on his left side of the upper abdomen, there is a place is purple, I am afraid that it is caused by a bump somewhere, although it is not fatal, but this place is facing the stomach of the person, so hit it, it is likely to vomit.

"Are you alright?" The old woman asked.

"Oh. All right. I nodded at the old woman, "How much does he drink on weekdays?" I didn't expect this to happen when eating and drinking. ”

"Hey, basically drunk every day, every time I come back, I vomit everywhere, and I don't let people say, once I said two more words, almost even I beat me, I scolded him the day before yesterday, saying that he would get drunk one day, but I didn't expect God...... God listened to the old woman's words this time. The old woman slapped on the coffin, and cried again, no matter how unfilial she was, after all, she was also her own son, how could the white-haired person send the black-haired person, how could she not be sad?

Brother Chu and his wife comforted him again, and then we loaded the coffin onto the cart and dragged it to the mountain to find a place to bury it. Compared with the beautiful funerals of large families, it is already good to have a coffin to lie in and someone to worship when someone dies in a poor family.

For the gratitude of the Tu family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, I really deserve it, on the silk handkerchief they sent, Mu Niangzi once said, worth one tael of silver, that is, a thousand copper plates, equivalent to I want to send five days of tofu.

Mu Niangzi, is this your silk handkerchief? Tu Laosan's death, you ...... Do you know?

When I returned to the Jianghu Inn again, it was almost noon, and the storyteller Uncle Fang was slapping the wood on the case, still telling the story of the White Cloud Fairy to eliminate harm for the people, but I had something in my heart, and I was not in the mood to listen to him in detail.

"Yo, Li Lang." Fauber greeted him.

"Fu Bo, just call me Jianghu."

"Okay, Jianghu, hehe, this name has something to do with our inn. Come and get the burden? ”

"No, I want to ask Mu Niangzi about something first."

"Looking for our owner?" Fu Bo frowned in embarrassment: "Then you go to the back guest room to have a look, I don't know if she is still in the room." ”

"Guest rooms?"

"Oh, the third floor, room No. 1."

"Okay."

I ran to the backyard and went down the stairs to the third floor, where I saw the number plate on the door at the end. I hesitated. How do I ask her? I'm the one who gave her tofu, and I'm not a quick catcher from the yamen.

When I hesitated, the door opened, and Mu Niangzi was still wearing a white gauze skirt, like a white lotus with clear water.

"Li Jianghu? Is there something wrong with me? She asked softly with her lips slightly furrowed.

I clenched the silk handkerchief behind my back and tried to calm down: "Mu Niangzi, you ...... What did you lose? ”

Mu Niangzi looked at me calmly: "I lost a silk handkerchief, which is the white ice silk handkerchief you saw the day before yesterday." ”

I was shocked: "That...... Where did you lose it? ”

"On the street." Mu Niangzi said, turned around and walked towards the house, and sat down in front of the dresser.

I looked into the room, and saw that all kinds of furniture were displayed in an orderly manner, and the objects were exquisite, which looked like a guest room, as if it was a bedroom for everyone's ladies.

"Come in, stand so far away, how do you speak?" Mu Niangzi smiled slightly at the corner of her mouth, this smile was like a magnet, sucking my legs towards her uncontrollably, although I knew in my heart that it was not good to enter a woman's room like this, not to mention that it was still a lonely man and a widow in the same room.

"I don't know where Mu Niangzi's silk handkerchief was lost? Since it's worth a lot, can you find it? I didn't dare to look her in the eye and looked down and asked.

"Compared to life, what is a mere tael of silver?" Mu Niangzi said, and suddenly there was a little more panic in her words: "At three o'clock last night, I met a drunk man on the way home, he blocked my way, asked me to go home with him, and also moved on me, I kicked him between pushing and pulling, and I was able to get out, but the silk handkerchief in my hand was snatched by him." ”

I can imagine her helplessness at the time, but luckily she ran away, that Tu Laosan was a devil when he was drunk, and it would be bad if he planted it in his hands.

She kicked him, and it must have been a bruise on the left upper abdomen. In this way, everything is right.

I showed the silk handkerchief: "But this silk handkerchief? ”

She took it and took a closer look, her eyes full of surprise: "Where did you find it?" ”

I told the story without reservation. By the way, he raised a little question: "Mu Niangzi, I heard that your brother is a big celebrity around Qincha, ...... You were bullied last night, why didn't you report it to the police? ”

Mu Niangzi smiled faintly: "I was separated from my father and brother when I was still in my mother's womb, and I only recognized my brother a few years ago, and my father, I have never seen it at all."

My mother told me on her deathbed that I should love my brother, but after all, we didn't grow up together, and although we had the same blood in our bodies, it was difficult to get too close.

The elder brother always wanted to fulfill his father's last wish and wanted to be a good official who was diligent and loved the people, so he followed the Qin mission to Xiangzhou City. He is busy with official business, so how can I bother him because of a disciple? Besides, I'm fine. ”

"Yes." I nodded slightly, feeling the need to say something to comfort the poor woman, so I said, "As a woman, Mrs. Mu can run this inn alone, which is really admirable. ”

Tears suddenly appeared in her clear eyes: "Three years ago, my husband and I got married in this room, and the next day, we bought this inn...... I thought I could grow old, who would have thought that I could ...... But he left me......"