Su Qiu answered and went over to hold Ah Tao's hand.

Ah Tao was so shocked by the huge surprise that she couldn't speak, carrying a bag full of sweet jujube syrup, holding a hand full of copper, and was taken out by Su Qiu in a daze.

When the Ye family's steward closed the door and turned back, Ye Fuliu was still standing on the edge of the pit, his long eyelashes covering his vision, standing on the edge of the pit and looking down.

Hearing the footsteps of the chief steward approaching, his glass-clear black round eyes were raised, and he raised his chin in the direction of the visitor, revealing a look that seemed to be smiling but not smiling.

"I told you to do something, and that's what you did? I almost called a little doll to pierce it. Will I be able to sleep soundly? ”

The Ye family's steward's face darkened.

He also stood at the edge of the pit, looking at the bottom of the pit with a blank face.

If Ah Tao were two years older, she would have found that the bottom of the pit that was so hard just now was actually only a thin layer of floating soil.

Planks were buried under the pit.

The planks were eight feet long, three feet wide, and two feet high. It's more like a simple thin wooden coffin than a long wooden box.

It just fits into a grown man who is not very strong.

——

The thin wooden coffin under the pit was raised.

The plank opened, revealing a pockmarked man lying inside.

The people inside were buried alive, and they were almost insane, their faces covered with tears and snot, and their mouths covered with rags kept screaming.

Ye Fuliu stood by the wooden plank, fiddling with the newly acquired Pisces white jade pendant boringly, talking to the person in the coffin casually.

"Brother Hu Mazi is a bold one-man who single-handedly entered the door of my Ye family, planning to rob the wealth first, and then rob the sex? Walking a lot at night, it's easy to hit ghosts. ”

The man lying in the coffin was crying, crying and begging for mercy in a vague way.

No one listened to him. The Ye family gave him two paths.

"The first way, kidnap you to the government. Article 59 of the "Dayong Law", a person who enters the house with a murderer and intends to steal will be given 80 rods and three years. You honestly confess your guilt and serve your sentence, the sky is high, don't let me see you again. ”

"The second way, you Hu Mazi is a local snake. The face is bigger than the sky, and you refuse to admit your guilt. That's easier, just lie where you are, and I'll transport you back to the bottom of the pit and bury you—"

The man in the coffin shook his head frantically and shouted, and a few vague syllables appeared in his gagged mouth, "Confession...... Confession ......"

Ye Fuliu walked into the house satisfied.

I bought a bowl of honey water in the morning and haven't eaten it yet.

After taking two steps, he was stopped by a shout from behind.

The only chief steward of the Ye family was hired by Ye Fuliu halfway, of course his surname is not Ye, his surname is Qin.

Chief Steward Qin asked, "Catch the thief and catch the stolen goods." The person was caught, wait for me to go to the county yamen, what is the stolen goods presented to the court? ”

That's a good question.

Ye Fuliu casually pointed down the corridor, "Over there."

"Over there?" Under the empty corridor, in addition to the dilapidated stone steps and gravel all over the ground, there is only a cat basin that is so dirty that you can't see the primary color. It was pulled out of the corner of the wall in the morning.

In this dynasty, it is popular to keep pets, and people with solid families love to raise cats and dogs. Feeding cat pots, dog pots, which are not few.

"How much is a cat pot worth?" Chief Steward Qin's eyelids jumped, "Report it as a thief, I'm afraid I can't file a case." ”

Ye Fuliu turned around and smiled at him.

Walked to the bottom of the porch, bent down to pick up the dusty cat basin, and washed it in the large water tank under the eaves, revealing the pale azure enamel.

"There are three sesame nails on the bottom, the top rain through the azure glaze, warm and moist, crab claw pattern, wrapped in foot burning."

She showed the small three sesame nails at the bottom of the cat's basin in the daylight, "You just take the cat's basin and my original words to the county office." The magistrate of our land is an official who has been degraded from the capital, and he was born as a jinshi, and he has been in the Hanlin Academy, so he should have the vision to know the goods. ”

She tried to save trouble, only washed a small piece of porcelain edge, and grabbed the small piece of clean glaze between her onion-like fingers, and threw the cat basin into the arms of the other side.

"It's enough to take it to the officer."

Chief Steward Qin carried the cat plate in one hand and dragged the big thief with five flowers in the other, and walked out of the door in disbelief.

When Ye Fuliu went to close the door, he was catching up with the movement outside the door leaking in. Coincidentally, the group of boys and girls who blocked the door to sell goods just now went around in a circle, and this time they surrounded their neighbor Wei's house.

The sound of shouting and driving came from the Wei family next door to the Ye family.

"Go, go, I don't need this mess at home."

The door next door was open, and the burly servant Wei Da stood by the door, blocking the whole door alone, clasping his chest impatiently.

"Don't wash your face, don't brush your teeth with balm, don't mess up with snacks, just yesterday's soup cakes! Don't want anything else. ”

The boy with a large bowl of soup cakes grinning merrily.

The other boys outside the door scattered in disappointment.

"Don't come to the Wei family again!"

"I don't want anything every day, just soup cakes."

"My family's fragrant sesame sweet baked cakes don't want the Wei family! Nong Jiangbei is quite illiterate! ”

Wei Da pretended not to hear, so he counted a few coppers outside the door and handed them to Xiao Tong, carrying a bowl of hot soup cakes to enter the door.

Ye Fuliu stood by the door of his house, Wei Da was outside his house, and the two sides took a look, Wei Da held the bowl and nodded at Ye Fuliu, "Ye Xiaoniang is early." I saw Steward Qin dragged out just now, something happened to your mansion? ”

Ye Fuliu also nodded politely, "There was a thief in the night, and he was dragged out to report to the official." Is your mansion Langjun's body better today? ”

The servant of the Wei family sighed, with a sad expression on his face, "It's still like that." It's not good to drag it badly. "I went in with a soup bowl in my hand.

Ye Fuliu slowly ate half a bowl of sweet tofu brain, drank the sweet honey water, came out with a scimitar, and continued to clean up the weeds in the yard, when he heard the movement of the neighbor again.

Wei Da was born with a loud voice, and he was in a hurry to roar, and the two courtyard walls separated by a foot and a half couldn't stop the movement at all.

"Lang Jun, eat some! The soup cake is exactly the same as yesterday's morning food, and I ate three bites yesterday, why didn't I move a bite today? ”

Ye Fuliu looked up at the top of his head.

The sun is out.

Today is another sunny day with few clouds.

The sick seedling next door doesn't seem to have a good appetite, and he doesn't eat much in the morning and evening, but most of the time he has to come out to bask in the sun on a sunny day.

She cut off a piece of newly grown grass stubble, began to unhurriedly clean up the miscellaneous items in the corner of the wall, and picked out a small carved nanmu box that was so dirty that she couldn't see the primary color from the pile of rags, and gently tapped her knuckles, the wood was thick and intact, and no silverfish were born, and she put it next to her with satisfaction.

When I looked up again, there was a figure sitting upright in the height of the two-story small wooden building facing east next door.

Ye Fuliu had already prepared, got up with the small nanmu box, and raised his face to the opposite side of the wall, still the same greeting as yesterday.

"Wei Jialangjun is early. The group of children outside the door are also arguing about you? ”

Wei Langjun in the high place was bathed in the light golden sunlight of the early morning, still the indifferent posture of yesterday, no, even more familiar than yesterday, his eyes were level at the morning glow in the distance, if he didn't hear it, he didn't even glance at the courtyard wall.

Ye Fuliu raised his head and stared at Wei Langjun calmly for a while.

Wei Langjun, who does not go out of the door and does not step out of the second door, has been recuperating at home for a long time, although the two sides are neighbors, they don't even have a serious face, and they never respond to greetings.

Occasionally, he was bumped into sitting on the high place of the wooden building basking in the sun, and the sun only shone on his shoulders, and Wei Langjun's face was always in the shadow of the long eaves of the wooden building. Of course, it is not clear what he looks like.

Ye Fuliu traveled north and south, and was used to seeing all kinds of people, and the first time he saw such a withdrawn Lang Jun, he thought it was very interesting.

She remembered what Su Qiu said when she entered the door yesterday. "For those who are seriously ill, the five senses subside......"

Maybe it's not that they deliberately ignore their neighbors, but that they are too sick to hear or see clearly.

She wanted to give it a try.

After all, her old profession is unusual. When you meet a neighbor who likes to go upstairs and look down, it's better to find out the details.

Ye Fuliu walked to the corner and dragged out the thin wooden box where the flax seeds had been locked up.

A few planks were not light, she dragged out a thin sweat, squatted in the sunny courtyard, with her back to the direction of the wall next door, and said something in her mouth, "A pair, suppress ghosts and drive away evil spirits, and the house is safe." Two pairs, into the soil for peace. Three pairs, into the soil for the ......"

The eight pairs of paper figures and paper horses brought back this time were taken out of the cage by her, and the miserable white things were stuffed into the thin wooden boxes one by one.

The thin wooden box quickly filled, and she carefully closed the wooden lid and pushed it forward.

Bang, dusty, thin wooden boxes pushed back to the bottom of the pit.

Ye Fuliu stood up and patted the dust on his hands.

High in the small wooden building next to the wall, Wei Langjun's gaze retracted from the morning glow on the horizon at some point, staring at the courtyard wall.

As soon as Ye Fuliu raised his head, the sights of the two sides happened to meet in mid-air.

Yo, it turns out that I can hear and see it, but I deliberately ignore people.

Ye Fuliu bent his eyes happily.

"Wei Langjun is early." She picked up the little Nanmu box again, looked directly into Wei Langjun's eyes, and said hello again with a smile.

Wei Langjun sat under the long eaves, the sun only shone on his shoulders, his face was hidden in the dark, his eyes hung down, and he crossed the walls of the two courtyards.

The little lady of the Ye family only returned yesterday. The night passed, as if a hurricane had passed through.

The gaze from a high place swept over the big pits and small holes that were opened all over the ground in the courtyard, the bricks and tiles stacked high in the corners of the wall, turned around Ye Fuliu's body, swept through the big pit of eight pairs of paper people and paper horses "into the soil for peace", and finally stared at the small Nanmu box she was holding in her hand.

Wei Langjun still didn't say anything, only bowed his head coldly and looked away.

Chapter 3

Ye Fuliu didn't have long to move to Wukou Town.

There are 360 lines in the world, and she has always regarded herself as a businessman. It's just that unlike ordinary businessmen, she has two ways of doing business, with a main business and a side business.

The side hustle is, of course, the cloth business. Leading more than 40 merchant ships all over the Yangtze River requires a lot of principal, sometimes making money and sometimes losing money, which seems to be quite bluffing, but in fact it is not very exciting.

Most of the time she is busy, and she is still the old business of the house. ……

The old business does not require principal, and the process is very exciting. In addition to being bold, you also have to be cautious, careful, have poisonous eyes, and run fast.

Ye Fuliu has a high vision, and there is not much business in the house that she fancies. Wukou Town was originally a place to stop by, but she didn't expect to accidentally see the abandoned mansion in the north of the town.

How long has it been since I've seen such a desirable house? Ye Fuliu people were in good spirits all of a sudden.

Just stepping on a little bit of it made her foot for the whole month.