Seeing that Xu was embarrassed, the middle-aged man waved his sleeves and shouted, "The child goes to play." ”

The urchins giggled and ran away, gathering together to share the chestnuts and eat.

Du Cao dusted off his cuffs and posed with official authority and said in a deep voice: "Zhong Youshou, the patriarch of the Zhong clan, listen, this official is listening to Du Cao, the little seal of the heavenly prison, today I went to your clan to investigate a trick case, there is a tenant named Zhong Erniu in your clan, where is he at this time?"

Zhong Youshou subconsciously looked at the middle-aged man beside him, and the middle-aged man said with a smile on his face: "Lord Du is here for Erniu? It's really unfortunate, Erniu didn't know where he had been yesterday, and after he came back, he became stupid and stupid, and he actually ran into the mountains at night, and he hasn't come back yet......"

Xu Dali shouted: "Nonsense!"

Du Cao raised his hand to stop him, and then stared at Zhong Youfu with a gloomy face.

Zhong Youfu was so frightened that he knelt down, and saw that the middle-aged man also knelt.

But regarding Zhong Erniu's whereabouts, they bit it to death and said that he was lost in the mountains last night.

The atmosphere was a little sluggish for a while.

The informant was nowhere to be found.

Uncanny!

Wang Qilin looked at the old men who were squatting by the wall basking in the sun, their faces were hilly and blank.

There's something weird about it.

The only normal ones were the urchins, who came up to beg for it after eating the sugar chestnuts.

Xu Da waved his hand angrily: "This sugar chestnut was bought by the uncle with money, why should I give it to you?"

A naughty boy with a teapot lid hairstyle ripped off his collar and said, "I have money, I'll buy it with money." ”

"I have it too. The other urchins ripped open their collars, revealing a copper coin tied with a red cord around their necks.

Seeing that Zhong Youshou was in a hurry, he hurriedly got up and drove away a few naughty boys: "Get out, go home, don't disturb the eldest master here!"

"Since Zhong Erniu is lost, then I won't handle the case," Du Cao stretched out his hand and clasped his shoulder and said: "Zhong Youshou, you take me to your ancestral shrine, Zhong Youfu and I are old acquaintances, since I came, there is no reason not to worship." ”

He glanced at Wang Qilin again and said secretly: "Xiao Qi, get a copper coin down." ”

Wang Qilin was stunned, there was a problem with the copper coins worn by the children?

This Zhong Youshou suddenly drove them away, could it be because of the copper coins exposed?

According to local folk customs, it is natural for someone in the family to come to mourn when they pass away.

In particular, big families pay attention to pomp, the more people who come to mourn, the more they have a row, and the higher the identity of the people who come to mourn, the more they have a row.

Even some people have a good face, and they will find someone to pretend to be a high-ranking official and come to the door for a whole sentence.

There was once a rich man who played a big game, and even found someone to pretend to be a relative of the emperor to mourn the dead ghost father, but the east window incident happened, and it didn't take long for relatives to come to their whole family to mourn.

But Zhong's is different, Du Cao said that he was going to worship Zhong Youfu, and Zhong Youshou and the two were not only unhappy, but refused with haha.

In the end, he annoyed Du Cao, and his face sank and said: "You are so afraid that the official will go to see the deceased, is it that the deceased is dead?"

Zhong Youshou suddenly became anxious: "Don't dare to talk nonsense, don't dare to talk nonsense, the patriarch is suffering from a sudden illness and left, our ancestors have rules, the patriarch must be low-key and mourning, and he can't make trouble." ”

Du Cao said: "I once had a fateful friendship with your patriarch, and when he left, I went to a stick of incense, is this called making trouble?"

Zhong Youshou looked at the middle-aged man beside him in embarrassment, and the middle-aged man said: "Of course I don't call, my lord, please." However, these two adults have no friendship with our patriarch, right?"

Xu Dayi glared at the bull's eye and wanted to pretend, but Wang Qilin blocked him and smiled: "We're waiting here." ”

He took the sugar chestnuts from Xu Da's arms to tease a few children, and Xu Da suddenly became anxious: "You dare to snatch food?"

The ancestral hall was at the highest point of the inner house, and Du Cao came back after a short while, and then took the two of them away.

Xu Da was angry: "Let's come all the way here, the informant was hidden, and the chestnuts were divided by the little rabbits, what is the matter?"

Du Cao said: "Even if you are not stupid, you know that Zhong Erniu is hidden, so where is he hidden?"

Wang Qilin was about to speculate, but Xu Da stretched out his hand to signal that he didn't need to say more.

At this time, the three of them were walking into the farmland at the foot of the mountain, and there were people around them who were driving cattle to plough the ground.

Xu Da stared at the past, and the old scalper turned his head to look at him by chance, and then one person and one cow looked at each other, and the old scalper turned around and ran.

The big man who drove the cattle was so angry that he wanted to chase him, but Xu Dachong stepped forward and grabbed him and pushed him to the ground......

Soon he came back with a satisfied smile on his face: "Zhong Erniu really didn't escape into the mountains, he was imprisoned in the Zhong family's dungeon." ”

Speaking of this, his face showed dissatisfaction: "master, what the hell do you say this Zhong family is doing? The patriarch's death is strange, the news of his death is secret and strange, and it is even more strange for a huge family to find a stupid person to be the new patriarch!"

Wang Qilin glanced at him: "I didn't expect Xu Lishi to be thick and fine." ”

Xu Da lifted his belt and hummed: "Uncle, I am thick and thin!"

Du Cao took them out of the field to find a clean stone to sit down, and said: "Not only that, there are many strange places, and the most strange thing is the thing hanging around the neck of the child in this inner house." Xiao Qi, did you get the copper coins they wore?"

Wang Qilin handed him a copper coin and said, "I got it, I used chestnuts to coax a child to take it off and show it to me, and then used a copper baht to steal the beam and change the pillar." ”

Du Cao took the copper coin and nodded at him with satisfaction: "Very good, hehe, there is a lively scene tonight." ”

Xu Da asked, "ye, what is this copper plate?"

Du Cao played with the copper coin and said, "What copper plate, this is money!"

Xu Da showed a shocked look on his face: "This is the year's money?"

Wang Qilin asked suspiciously, "What is the money?"

Xu Da looked at him disdainfully and said, "You don't even know what New Year's money is?"

Du Cao gave him a kick when he heard this: "I don't know how to pretend to understand! This is money, not New Year's money, but the two have something to do with each other." See for yourselves, what's so unique about this coin?"

Wang Qilin has already seen it, and he said: "This is not a copper coin issued and circulated by any dynasty, there is no year name on it, and it is written with the words "peace and pressure." ”

Du Cao snorted and said: "Yes, peace suppresses evil, but it can be suppressed by hanging on the dead, if it is hung on the living, hehe, it will make people become evil!"

Money is a rarity, it is a coin minted by the priest privately, not used for market circulation, but for the burial of the dead, ordinary dead people do not need it, it is specially used for the unjustly deceased.

The use of this money is to hang on the user's forehead, and the effect is twofold, one is to prevent the dead from turning into evil ghosts and zombies to cause chaos, and the other is to make road money for the deceased to use when they pass through the underworld.

Because every piece of money has been dealt with by the most vicious ghosts and demons, the yin energy is extremely strong, and when placed on the children, the yang energy in the body can be suppressed, and the form of the yin spirit can become like a yin spirit, so that the sneakers will not persecute them anymore if they treat them as their own kind.

But the children didn't understand, and they thought that the copper coins they wore were currency, so they offered to buy chestnuts to eat.

After Du Cao saw it, he knew that Zhong Erniu said that Zhong's haunting was true, Zhong Youshou must know the inside story, he just found out that the children were revealing their money and were worried that Du Cao would find them strange, so he wanted to drive these children away.

"So, the Zhong clan knew that there were ghosts but didn't dare to let us hear the Heavenly Eunuch know, why?" Du Cao asked.

"They're playing tricks, they're doing shady things. Xu Da immediately replied.

Wang Qilin nodded silently.

Xu Da can understand the truth, what else does he need to say?

What he said was, "Whatever the hell it is, everything will be revealed tonight." The child who has no money will hit the ghost tonight, he is a child of the inner house, Jin Gui, and then the Zhong family will inevitably be chaotic, we will fish in troubled waters, and go to the dungeon to find Zhong Erniu to confront them. ”

Du Cao gave him an appreciative glance.

This kid can make things happen, he can do big things!