Chapter 24: Grocery Stores, Restaurants, and Coffin Shops [I]

Casket shops must not be as common as grocery stores and restaurants.

Liu Ruiying didn't expect to be able to buy a coffin here.

The proprietress took Liu Ruiying and walked towards the back.

Walked through a corridor and saw a low room.

It's a room, not a shack.

The proprietress pushed open the door, and there were three rows of coffins neatly placed inside.

Liu Ruiying: This is the first time I've seen so many coffins.

For a moment, the feeling in my heart was indescribable.

"All the coffins are here, which one do you want to pick?"

The hostess asked.

Liu Ruiying looked at it for a moment.

He didn't know how to choose a coffin.

"Why don't you choose one for me......"

Liu Ruiying said.

"Some of these coffins are empty, and some are still lying on them!"

The proprietress said.

Liu Ruiying was shocked.

How can someone's coffin still be sold?

"The dead can't pay. The people who die here don't have any money. Their last money was used to buy a coffin, which was then placed here. If someone can pick it up, we will charge a storage fee. If no one picks it up. Then sell his coffin again, and it can be regarded as making up for the storage fee. ”

The proprietress said.

Liu Ruiying nodded.

"Why did you marry here?"

Liu Ruiying was suddenly very curious about the proprietress .

"You're finally asking something about me. ”

The proprietress leaned against the door frame, clasped her hands in front of her chest, and said with a smile.

But there is no doubt about his figure.

Slender waist, straight chest, runway legs.

"I can tell you, but let's pick the coffin first. ”

The proprietress said.

immediately opened his mouth and pointed one to Liu Ruiying.

And tell him that the mouth is empty.

Liu Ruiying bought the coffin.

When he returned to the front hall, the person in the battle building of the Yangwen Town Investigation Division who had eaten five hundred taels of food had already returned.

"Did you eat well?"

Liu Ruiying asked.

"The food was great......

The man said.

"When you're full, hit the road. ”

Liu Ruiying pointed to the dead man.

Let him take the coffin and go back to Nayangwen Town first.

Look at the back of this person leaving.

Liu Ruiying suddenly felt a little envious.

If this trip is bound to be won or lost, he is the biggest winner.

After crossing a mountain, he was served by two women and ate a meal of five hundred taels of silver.

Then climb a mountain and sleep well in your soft bed at night.

Who can do these two things?

Liu Ruiying can't.

And he knew that Jing Yao couldn't either.

Liu Ruiying has already made up her mind to wait here for at least three or four days.

Because Jing Yao will definitely pass by here.

He would never bypass the most convenient mines and go deeper into the Earthquake North Domain.

It's just not that simple here.

Who was the person who had turned the Secret Weapon before?

Why did he target Liu Ruiying and others so much?

Where did the bracelet on the lady's hand come from?

Of the five people upstairs, only two died.

Who are the remaining three?

Before these problems were clarified, Liu Ruiying couldn't feel at ease.

Not to mention sleeping.

It's dusk now.

But there are still a few hours before sunset.

In the past few hours, Liu Ruiying has to figure out all these problems.

And the breakthrough of all this lies in this frivolous and debauched proprietress lady.

Return to the table and sit down.

Liu Ruiying and the proprietress also began to drink again.

"People, you are tired for a day, and you can rest for a day. No matter what you do, no matter where you are, you have to live like this. ”

The proprietress suddenly said with emotion.

The tone is very vicissitudes.

The previous wandering wreckage was all put away and gone.

"Besides, women are nothing more than marrying chickens and dogs. If you can live a stable life, you should be content. ”

The proprietress took a sip of wine and continued.

"A friend once told me that I should come here to see the peach blossoms. Then I climbed mountains and crossed the Taishang River, and finally came here. Don't laugh, ten years ago, there were still flowers here. It's just that since the second year I came, there has been none. ”

The proprietress said.

"I didn't laugh. ”

Liu Ruiying said.

But you didn't believe it either. ”

The proprietress said.

"Because there's really no trace of a flower here. ”

Liu Ruiying said helplessly.

"Because that was 10 years ago...... Ten years is enough to change everything. ”

The proprietress said.

When she first came here ten years ago.

There is no mining farm here.

There are only a few households.

It's barely a small town.

The proprietress always opened her eyes at dawn.

The first thing people do when they wake up in the morning is to go to the thatched house.

But the hostess is not.

She wasn't a hostess at the time.

It's the boss.

She first opened the grocery store herself.

And the first thing she did when she woke up in the morning was to rehash last night's dream.

He always had the same dream because of her.

She dreamed that she was walking.

Walk without stopping.

The sun and moon swirled overhead, but her footsteps never stopped.

On a sunny day, you can't leave footprints.

In heavy rain, the footprints will be washed away quickly.

She saw the old farmers along the road, sweating and doing farm work at noon.

With the farm tools in his hand, he served the seedlings like a fat doll.

And so it goes on step by step.

I feel very tired and don't stop even when I walk in my dreams.

It's not that she doesn't want to stop, it's that her legs always involuntarily carry his body forward.

When she woke up, she buried her head in the pillow and looked out.

Diagonally across the door from the grocery store is an old woman who sells scallion pancakes.

It wasn't until the smell of scallion pancakes wafted in through the window that she got up and went to the thatched house.

At this moment, the day is the beginning.

When she came, it was winter. Here, every day in winter is exactly the same.

It's just a repetition.

After she buys a scallion pancake, she will sit in front of her shop and eat it slowly.

With my fingernails, pinch the scallion pancakes and eat them little by little.

A small scallion pancake, she can eat it for a whole day.

In the evenings, people come to her grocery store to buy alcohol.

She also loves to drink.

It was supposed to be a time of rejoicing.

But if the people who come to buy wine every day are the same, and those people say the same things every day.

Joy will fade day by day.

Until it becomes hateful and hateful.

Later, she stopped selling alcohol altogether.

But he doesn't sell alcohol.

Business has been much quieter.

There is no business, and there is less money to make.

Fortunately, she only eats one scallion pancake a day.

So I can still make ends meet.

The old woman who sold scallion pancakes was a warm-hearted person.

She told the proprietress that a woman must find a companion.

Living by a person like yourself is not a way after all.

But the proprietress asked rhetorically, isn't this old woman also alone?

The old woman was dumbfounded.

Since then, my parents have never bought her scallion pancakes.

It's not because you don't want to eat.

It's because she feels like she's saying something hurtful.

But she didn't know how to apologize.

Then I had to not meet.

Let time soothe everything.

What's more, the old people are forgetful.

It's just that winter hasn't passed yet, and the old woman hasn't forgotten it.

The mines here were opened.

The few remaining families have left the area.

She wanted to leave, too.

But after the mine opened, there was more labor.

The grocery store business is really getting good.

Working in the mine, where can there be no accidents?

Accidental size.

But within a few days, there will be hard labor who will be stoned to death because of falling stones.

These laborers have no support, no relatives and no friends.

It's all the corpses that the proprietress collected for them.

Over time, she opened a coffin shop behind the grocery store.

Unexpectedly, this was pointed out by Qianfu.

Said that the grocery store in front of him made living money, and the coffin shop behind made dead money.

How soon will people live these two ends?

is a lifetime and a death, but it is all arranged by this boss lady.

But there was only one grocery store on the mine.

There is only this one coffin shop.

Therefore, although these laborers feel bad luck in their hearts, they still have to come to buy things.

It's just that no one will say a word to the proprietress anymore.

Even when paying, he didn't dare to look up into her eyes.

The first batch of hard workers knew that the proprietress was a good person.

Every day after work, I would come to his grocery store to sit down and have a glass of wine and chat.

The proprietress will also share the braised vegetables she makes with them.

But later, those laborers died and left.

But no one knows the story of my father and mother anymore.

I just think that he is a wicked woman who makes money before and after his life.

But since her coffin was opened, more people have died in the mine than before.

But this has nothing to do with the hostess.

It's just that she did get a lot of benefits.

Because the coffins here have always been very valuable.

It's even more valuable than food and drink.

People tend to think more seriously about things they don't know.

Unless you are poor, there is no way.

Otherwise, no matter what, I hope I can lie in a coffin.

Who wants to be sacked and thrown away like an animal?

At this time, the proprietress remembered what the old woman who used to sell scallion pancakes said.

I felt like I was in need of a partner.

The story in the middle was never told by the proprietress of the house.

I only know that her grocery store and coffin shop have been closed for a month and a half.

When I came back, I came back with two fat people.

One was the fat beggar at the gate of the shantytown.

The other is his husband.

This fat boss.

The hostess is married.

Became a real hostess.

Because everyone naturally calls this fat man the boss.

She was naturally called the boss lady.

With her appearance and nature can be found better.

But he married someone who made the most wrong choice in the eyes of others.

But in this life, if you can always get things right, wouldn't it be too boring?

Be serious in your work.

Admit your mistakes.

As long as you are seriously wrong, even if it is wrong, just say sorry.

What's more, this is my own business, and I can save even a word of sorry.

It's strange to say.

Since the proprietress got married, there is this fat boss.

But no one said that this grocery store was still unlucky.

Sometimes people are just so one-sided.

Even by gender to distinguish everything.

There are some things that women don't do right.

If a man does it, he can find a thousand reasons for him, and it is not right or wrong.

Men can drink wine, and they can even find girls to drink flower wine.

But women can't say a word to other men.

Otherwise, it is a water-based poplar, and it does not abide by women's morals.

Who prescribes these?

No one can tell.

But that's what everyone thinks about it.

In fact, a woman who drinks is not necessarily a debaucher.

A man who goes home every day does not necessarily hide any evil thoughts.

It's like men always like to say that women have long hair and short knowledge.

In fact, many men don't necessarily have much of their own knowledge.

Those drunkards, gamblers, aren't they all like that?

People who are easily addicted to one thing must not be able to grow long.

Although there are also women who drink and gamble.

But there are very few people who are good drinkers and readers.

Isn't this the reason why many women have a much greater perspective than men?

Women drink for the sake of affection.

Once the sorrow is over, I may never hold a wine glass again in my life.

Women gamble money to vent.

It doesn't matter if it's profitable or lost, as long as it's fun. In this comparison, the strength of a man is not necessarily greater than that of a woman.

Even more selfish than women.

Ten years have passed, of course.

The proprietress didn't care about these criticisms.

Since you can't do it, everyone will think so.

It's better to just do what everyone thinks.

Otherwise, he obviously didn't do it, but he still had a name.

That's a thing thanks to that!

The hostess is a businessman.

Businessmen will never let themselves suffer.

That's why it's what it looks like now.

Liu Ruiying finished drinking the wine in the cup.

I also listened to the story of the proprietress of the hostess.

This story has no special meaning to him.

I just feel that it's easy to live.

But it is extremely difficult to make yourself happy and happy......

He lowered his glass, and the proprietress shook the flask on the table.

It's all empty.

The proprietress got up and went to get a drink.

Liu Ruiying asked Hua Nong to accompany him to the door to blow the wind.

Look at the people enjoying themselves in the wind and sand.

Liu Ruiying thinks, is the wind and sand here really comfortable?

He stood in the doorway.

The wind was blowing from the side.

Wrapped in loess and small stones.

The side of his cheek facing the wind was a little red.

But it's a wonderful feeling.

The wind is warm.

The loess and small stones carried by the wind, after being exposed to the sun for a day, are warmer than the wind.

It's like taking a bath in the sun on an already extremely hot day.

It's just that there is no bidet here, and there is no hot water for bathing.

But if water can bathe, who says wind can't?

It's all the same formless, pervasive things.

If the water can be used for bathing, the wind will definitely be able to do it.

Thinking of this, Liu Ruiying turned around and faced the wind and sand.

He opened his mouth.

It seems that he wants to drink this wind and sand like water.

Unexpectedly, he was stuck in his throat by a small stone, and he choked and coughed violently.

"Uncle be careful!"

Just when Liu Ruiying was coughing.

Suddenly, a strong gust of wind arose.

The wind blew a lot of the stones and tiles off the roof of the grocery store.

But just as the tiles were flying.

A cold light burst out from behind the ridge.

This sword cold light is not a hidden weapon.

It's a knife light.

After Liu Ruiying heard Hua Nong's reminder, she hurriedly dodged back.

The light of the sword fell at his feet.

The overflowing knife qi cut a crack in his boots.

The proprietress and the fat boss heard the sound of the roof and hurriedly ran out to check.

But he saw that Liu Ruiying had already drawn his sword.

The two of them stood in the doorway and did not take another step out of the grocery store.

And the hard workers at the door who were still drinking and bragging, after seeing Liu Ruiying dodge the knife, continued their topic.

No one panicked in the slightest.

Everything seems to happen from time to time.

Liu Ruiying got up and jumped onto the roof.

He saw a man jumping right from the edge of the roof.

"Who are you?!"

Liu Ruiying asked sharply.

"I didn't expect a small provincial flag in the Investigation Division to have such a sharp style!"

The man said.

But it ended up in the backyard of a grocery store.

In front of the room full of coffins.

It's a clearing.

Only then did Liu Ruiying see clearly that this person was dressed in purple and masked.

But the voice of Fang Cai's words seemed to be deliberately lowered in his voice.

I'm afraid that someone will hear something.

Ordinary people feel that black is the safest color at night.

Not really.

If you're dressed in black, you're the one who stands out at night.

Second only to white.

Only the deep purple that this man wore was the most shaded color of the night.

Looking at this person's dress, Liu Ruiying knew that he was an expert.

Just as he was about to take a leap of depth.

Unexpectedly, this person made another knife.

The sword light swept up like a fright.

Even the incessant wind made way for this sword light.

Liu Ruiying had already stepped out of his half foot, hanging in the air.

This knife is really fast and dangerous.

Whether it's the angle of the knife, or the time.

It's all very delicately calculated.

Obviously, he wanted to kill Liu Ruiying with a single knife.

Leave no room for error.

But Liu Ruyi's other foot that had not left the roof suddenly exerted force.

Kick it hard.

The whole body went away with the sword light.

In this way, he only attacked and did not defend, and he really shocked the man by advancing and retreating.

Liu Ruiying volleyed out his sword.

But it resisted the knife.

However, this man could not give up.

Immediately, his wrist flicked, but he was about to make another cut.

But he was running out of time.

Liu Ruiying was already like a bamboo, attacking and killing in front of this person.

This person suddenly threw the knife in his hand and struck directly at Liu Ruiying's front door.

Liu Ruiying didn't expect that he would throw the knife in his hand.

I had to hurriedly raise my sword to block.

It's just this moment's effort, but it's delayed......

It gave the man a respite.

I saw him take a few steps back again and again, and re-distanced himself from Liu Ruiying.

With a flip of his wrist, he held a knife again.

"The provincial flag is not small, at least it is bigger than you!"

Liu Ruiying stood still and said.

But the man was silent.

Just a cold snort from the nose.

However, this cold snort stopped in Liu Ruiying's ears, but it was a little weird.

Because of this 'hum', the pitch is a little too high.

It's not like a man can send it out.

Could it be that this person is a woman?

Before Liu Ruiying could think about it.

A few tiles on the eaves overhead had fallen.

Liu Ruiying dodged half a step to the side.

The man took the opportunity to feint with a knife, and the five fingers of his left hand flicked continuously, and he hit more than a dozen energetic qi one after another, enveloping Liu Ruiying's vital body.