Chapter 2: Bad News
"The Lu family died a year ago."
"Dead?"
The mother-in-law raised her eyes and saw Huo Ran, a woman who had been standing aside without saying a word, speak.
The next moment, another string of copper coins was stuffed in his hand. Yinzheng smiled and bought all the Poria cakes on the top layer of the burden, and there were more copper coins, she said: "We came from other places, and we don't know about the Lu family, so I bothered my aunt to tell us, what happened to the Lu family?" ”
pinched the money string in her hand, and the mother-in-law said: "It's also that the Lu family's luck is not good, the Lu family got a son-in-law in Beijing before, and the neighborhood is still very envious, who knows...... Ay! ”
Two years ago, Lu Rou, the daughter of the Lu family, got married, and her husband's family was a wealthy businessman in the capital, with a lot of money, and the dowry gift sent was 14 lifts, which made the surrounding neighbors envious. Father Lu is just an ordinary teacher in Changwu County, and his family is poor. What's more, the young master of the wealthy merchant is also handsome and gentle, standing with the beautiful Lu family daughter, and he is also a pair of beautiful people.
After Lu Rou got married, she went to the capital with her husband.
originally thought it was an impeccable marriage, but half a year after Lu Rou entered Beijing, the Lu family received a funeral news from the capital that Lu Rou died.
Along with it, there are some ugly rumors. Lu Qian, the second eldest member of the Lu family, and the eldest sister have had a deep relationship since childhood, and went to the capital with their bags to inquire what happened. The Lu family and his wife waited at home, waited, and waited for a piece of paper from the government.
After Lu Qian entered Beijing, he broke into people's houses to steal people's property, insulted women, was arrested by the master's family, and was imprisoned.
Changwu County is so big, Lu Qian is the neighbors who grew up, he has always been smart and kind, and he is a lord who loves to fight and fight. Even the neighbors didn't believe that Lu Qian would do anything to steal, let alone the Lu family and his wife. Father Lu was angry and wrote a complaint to the official in Beijing, but he didn't expect to arrive in the capital yet, and when he took the waterway, it was stormy, the boat capsized, and he didn't even leave a whole corpse.
However, in just one year, the loss of a daughter, a son and a husband, how could Mrs. Lu's Wang family afford it, and she went crazy overnight.
"People look crazy, they don't cry, they hold the rattle that Lu Rou played when she was a child, sit by the lake and sing with a smile...... "The mother-in-law sighed: "The neighborhood is afraid that something will happen to her, so take her home." One night, the Lu family lit a fire......"
It is natural for a mad woman to dump the oil lamp in front of the wooden table at night, or she wakes up briefly and faces an empty house, and has no courage to live, so she burns it clean with herself, and simply relieves herself.
"This Lu family is also very evil, and they died in a year." The woman was still babbling with Yinzheng and said, "I see that you don't get too close to this door, and if you pass the evil spirit, you won't be implicated." ”
"Where is Mrs. Lu's body?" Lu Tong interrupted her.
The mother-in-law looked at Lu Tong and met the other party's deep eyes, for some reason, she was a little panicked in her heart, and she calmed down before saying: "The Lu family's fire is big, and it is night, and when I find it, it is too late, and it has burned all night." When they went in the next day, they found only a handful of ashes. I swept it at will, but the house was not well repaired, so I simply stayed here. ”
After she finished speaking, she saw that Yinzheng and Lu Tong were still standing at the door of Lu's house, and had no intention of leaving, so she put the burden on her shoulders again and muttered: "Anyway, this Lu family is dead, I'm afraid that it will collide with something filthy, you don't have to get too close to here." It has always been taboo to live in the house of the dead, and don't regret it if something happens. With that, he walked quickly with his burden.
Yinzheng was still holding the Poria cake that he had just bought from his mother-in-law in his arms, returned to Lu Tong's side, and was about to speak, when he saw Lu Tong already walking into the house in front of him with his feet raised.
The fire of the Lu family is indeed raging. There was no trace of the past in the whole house, and there was charred smoke and wood chips everywhere.
Lu Tong walked slowly.
She has been away from home for a long time, and many of the past pictures are not very clear, but she only remembers that the former hall is in the back, connected to the back kitchen of the small courtyard. The corrobed eaves are very low, and when it rains, it often accumulates rain in the yard.
Now the scorched wood is mixed in the ruins, and it is impossible to see where the courtyard is and where the kitchen is.
Stepping on the ruins, making a small rolling sound, Lu Tong lowered his head and saw a corner of porcelain exposed in the ruined rubble.
She looked down and picked up the rubble.
It is a bluestone crumb, and there is a bluestone jar near the back kitchen of the corridor, which is filled with water all year round. Before she left home seven years ago, she fetched the last bucket of well water by herself.
Behind him, Yinzheng followed, looking at the blackened broken tiles on all sides, he couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine, and said in a low voice: "Girl, why don't you go out first." The man said that if he committed a taboo, let alone ......"
"What's more?" Lu Tong spoke, "What's more, the Lu family is very evil?" ”
Yinzheng didn't dare to speak.
Lu Tong lowered his eyes, clenched the half of the wind chimes in his palm little by little, looked at the ruins in front of him, and said coldly: "It is indeed very evil." ”
Death, imprisonment, floods, fires...... This is a series of coincidences, and she also wants to know where the Lu family collided with the "filthy things" that were so ruthlessly destroyed.
"Just now she said that the family that Lu Rou married is the Ke family in the capital?"
Yinzheng settled down and said busily: "Yes, it is said that it is a time-honored brand in the capital that does kiln porcelain business." ”
"Ke family......" Lu Tong stood up and said, "I remember." ”