Chapter 23: The Beginning of the Insect Hunt

Originally, the matter had a successful conclusion so far, but I didn't expect that at this time, Ermu's daughter-in-law lowered her head and suddenly said: "Daddy, Zhangjiadi's baby killed Ermu, I don't take Tu Leizi to his door to ask for mourning." ”

This young woman dressed in white, with a delicate face, and her eyes were red and swollen like peaches.

I used to work as an inspector in the county fruit and grocery company, and I met each other when Ermu delivered mountain goods, and later fell in love freely and married to Ouwo Village.

With a different upbringing, she is not very afraid of the authority of the Zhang family in this small mountain village for hundreds of years.

"What are you talking about?" was polite to the guests, but to his newly widowed daughter-in-law, He Doushu looked very majestic, and he asked with a frown.

"I don't go to the door of Zhang's house to ask for funeral, the villagers don't have any human flavor at all, what is the love, it's a big deal that I will go underground to accompany Ermu!" was questioned by his father-in-law, Li Chunran was aggrieved and sad again, but raised his head suddenly, opened his bloodshot eyes and shouted.

"You go to accompany Ermu, you go to accompany Ermu..." He Doushu was silent for a while, his hands and feet trembled, and he said with a smile angrily: "You went to accompany Ermu, what should you do with the earthen base."

Is there no Daddy at the age of four, no Eminem, or will I go underground with you to accompany Daddy?"

Her son was Li Chunran's only weakness at this time, she was stunned on the spot when she heard this, and then the big tears slowly slid down her eyes, and after a while, she slowly turned around and walked to her own livestock pen.

Watching his daughter-in-law take the green mule with a smooth scalp and smooth hair at home, and picked up his grandson who was running around, He Doushu touched his tears, lowered his head and muttered to himself: "Ermu, you are a bad baby, you don't have a good life, you don't have a good life..."

Tao Lielin on the side couldn't help but sigh, his eyes turned red, and he persuaded in a low voice: "Uncle Doushu, this is all fate, you don't think about it."

Isn't there still a foundation of soil, raised a good education, go to college, go to graduate school, and then take you to the mountains to retire, life is just as beautiful. ”

He Doushu came back to his senses, and a pleading smile appeared on his face like dead bark: "You said that the land is Nephew Lin."

Tu Leizi is the only hope of my family, you talk on the ground in front of the old man of the Zhang family, let him do well, it is Ermuzi who is evil, but not his baby..."

"Uncle Doushu, don't worry, even if I don't say this, it's okay.

You think, when Li Sheng comes to your door to help mourn, what can he do in a stingy way. ”

"That's, that's, it's all thanks to you, the head of Tao Village. ”

"Uncle Dushu, you can't be polite to me again.

Ermu's daughter-in-law and mule are well led, so I will take her to the Zhang family's old house. ”

"Yes, yes, work for your nephew, you will give a message to the old man Li Sheng for me, I am an old man who has lost a child, and I am not allowed to come to the door to ask for guilt. Please don't worry about it, don't worry about it. ”

"Don't worry, don't worry, I'll go Uncle Doushu, you let go of a hundred hearts, a thousand hearts, it's okay. Saying that, Tao Lielin walked in front, leading Li Chunran, who was holding the green mule and holding the child, to the old house of the Zhang family.

At the same time, Zhang Lisheng was in the kitchen at home, putting all kinds of dried medicinal materials into a coarse porcelain jar according to the method recorded in the ancient book "Thousand Insect Fang", and carefully mixing them together.

He didn't have a precise unit of weight, but he had some kind of strange intuition, and he moved slowly but without hesitation to add and stir the powder, and slowly a strange smell of herbs emanated from the porcelain jar.

Smelling the strange smell of medicine in the air, Zhang Lisheng nodded with satisfaction, and stirred the medicinal powder in the porcelain jar with great strength, but he didn't realize that the smell of medicine in the house had spread along the empty door frame of the kitchen.

The smell was strong and unabated by the wind, and after a while, it was smelled by Tao Lielin, who walked to the door of the Zhang family's old house.

Frowning, Tao Lielin said to himself, "What smell?"

"The smell of medicine, coming from the old house of the Zhang family, who knows what the murderer of the Zhang family is doing. Li Chunran behind him squeezed out a few words from between his teeth and said fiercely.

"Ermu daughter-in-law, don't talk nonsense for the sake of the baby, otherwise I won't care about this matter," Tao Lielin turned around and said sharply, knocking on the wooden door of the Zhang family's old house, "Li Sheng, Li Sheng, what are you doing, open the door quickly, why is this big medicinal smell." ”

When Zhang Lisheng heard the sound of calling the door, he hurriedly sealed the medicine jar with a wooden lid, and then hurriedly ran to the courtyard to open the gate and said, "Uncle Hunt, you are here, I will make the stew." ”

There is a lot of humidity in the seedling field, and the food is already mixed with herbs to dispel dampness, Tao Lielin nodded without doubt and said: "Li Sheng, it is difficult for you to be strong and sensible when you are a teenager, and you can take care of yourself by yourself." ”

"Why is this strong, it's just that you can cook, Uncle Hunt, let's get down to business. ”

"That's right, let's get down to business, this Fujigi family has come to you with a baby to ask for a funeral.

You take this green mule, and if you have a mistake before, even if you don't think about it, you will pass it.

Ermu daughter-in-law, you have a word. Saying that, Tao Lielin turned his head to stare at Li Chunran, revealing a solemn face.

Li Chunran raised his head and looked at the young man standing in the threshold, slightly flustered, and couldn't help but show a hateful expression on his face.

"Ermu's daughter-in-law hug your baby, talk quickly. Seeing Li Chunran's hateful face, Tao Lielin, who was in a hurry, hurriedly urged with something in his words.

Li Chunran was startled, looked at his son who was dozing in his arms, and his expression softened.

After being silent for a while, she took the initiative to send the reins of the green mule to Zhang Lisheng, bowed her head and said: "Old man Lisheng, the baby is still young, I will ask you to go to the funeral for his father, on his behalf." ”

It may be easy for a person with a clear conscience to kill the person who should be killed, but it must be difficult to deal with their grief-stricken innocent family members.

Zhang Lisheng misses his calmness and calmness when he recited the witch spell, but at this moment, he will never be able to "hiss, hiss, hiss...".

"Sister-in-law, I'll go, change my clothes and go, you wait.

Uncle Hunt, you wait, I'll go change my clothes. Zhang Lisheng panicked and tied the mule to the wooden buckle of the door latch and ran to his bedroom.

Just like that, ten minutes later, Zhang Lisheng, dressed in Miao Wei costume, appeared in the bamboo building of Ermu's house.

In fact, the funeral did not need any help from this teenage boy at all, and his attendance was just a symbol of the reconciliation of the Zhang and He families.

After a while, the villagers who had received Li Chunran's funeral invitation before appeared at Ermu's house one by one, and with the help of everyone, the funeral words, funeral flowers, earth and stone platforms and other funeral applications were quickly prepared.

At two or three o'clock in the afternoon, Ermu's house finally sounded a burst of heart-rending howls.

Although he had nothing to do, Zhang Lisheng stayed at Ermu's house for a few hours, and he did not return home until he had dinner in the evening when the old people in the mountain village who helped with the funeral began to disperse.

The green mule was still tied to the latch of the old mansion gate, and after a day of hunger, it had begun to stir its hooves restlessly.

I believe that if it hadn't been for Li Chunran putting on a chew in advance when he sent it to the door of Zhang's house, this big animal would have been shouting 'ahhhhhh

Looking at the green mule and touching its oily and slippery fur, Zhang Lisheng shook a handful of grass that he plucked from the side of the road and threw it on the ground, causing the mule to bow its head and keep arching.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, he hurried into the kitchen, first put the coarse porcelain jar containing the dried herbal powder into the back basket, carried it on his back, then pinned a sharp short-edged boning knife to his waist, covered it with his coat, and strode back to the courtyard with a wide rag to dry.

The green mule was still arching, and Zhang Lisheng tied the rag to its eyes.

For domesticated livestock in mountain villages, blindfolding means starting to grind and work, and after finishing the work, they will naturally have sweet forage to chew.

So the green mule quickly quieted down and let Zhang Lisheng lead him out of the house.

On the stone road in the countryside, at the beginning of the crescent moon, a young man in Miao costume carried a bamboo basket on his back and led a mule weighing six or seven hundred catties for a walk, such a scene is not common even for Miao mountain people.

But since the villagers of Yuwo Village have regarded Zhang Lisheng as an 'old man', no matter how strange things he does, no one will ask out loud.

On the contrary, there was a foreign traveler on the road who knew a little Chinese, and asked with a big tongue: "Young Yin, it's late, what are you going to do with your horse?"

β€œThisisamule。 (It's a mule)

Itookittosacrifice,mr。 (I'll take it to the sacrifice, sir)" Zhang Lisheng smiled and replied skillfully in English.

The bearded middle-aged traveler was slightly stunned, and the hearty Da Lu smiled and said, "Young Silver, your English is very good, but I am French silver." ”

This time, Zhang Lisheng didn't answer him again, and took the mule by himself.

Walking to the entrance of the village, there are still two police cars parked in the open space to prevent the recurrence of vicious criminal cases.

Because it was not a formal monitoring task, the police officers seemed a little relaxed, smoking and chatting outside the car.

Seeing Zhang Lisheng walking with a mule, they looked at each other inexplicably, and before they came back to their senses, they saw Zhang Lisheng actually break into the dense forest.

The people of Miaodi in western Sichuan naturally understand the horror of the dense forest, especially now that it is night.

A middle-aged criminal policeman was stunned and said, "Dragon, Dragon Team, Zhang Lisheng has entered the forest, we don't have to follow up, right?"

This time it was Long Guangsheng who had verified Zhang Lisheng's age who led the team, he threw down the cigarette butt with an embarrassed face, stepped on it fiercely and said: "I saw it, this guy is not very old, and he has a lot of tricks."

It's okay, Team Yang is asking us to keep an eye on it here to prevent another big incident, not to be his nanny, Zhang Lisheng went to the forest by himself, we can't take care of it. ”

Having said that, thinking of the tasks assigned by the leader, Long Guangsheng was so hateful that he almost gritted his front teeth.