Chapter 203: Digging a Grave to Find Out
Lingxi Town, Ping'an Inn.
Shi Xingjian was sitting in the guest room at the moment, flipping through the information he had collected from the Wu family.
According to the Wu family, on the third day after Wu Mingtai's body was sent back to the Wu family, Liu Yansi, who was far away in Yanzhou, moved his family to Nanming.
The next day, Wu Xun buried Wu Mingtai in a cemetery with beautiful mountains and rivers in the suburbs.
In the following month, the wife of the Wu family, Liu, died of illness. Wu Xun buried his wife next to Wu Mingtai's grave in one place.
Later, not long after the burial of Mrs. Wu, Wu Xun distributed some money to the subordinates in the mansion and dismissed them one by one.
Since then, there has been no Wu family in this Lingxi town, and no one knows where they went.
Shi Xingjian put away the booklet in his hand, raised his hand and rubbed his forehead.
Lu Ming just stepped into his room with food.
"What is Xingjian worried about? Why don't you eat something before you think about it!"
He put the food on the table one by one and smiled at him.
Since the last time Lu Ming borrowed the inn kitchen to cook a meal for Shi Xingjian, he was full of praise for Lu Ming's craftsmanship.
Lu Ming was happy to be idle anyway, so he took three meals a day for Shixingjian.
After adding food to him, Lu Ming asked, "Isn't there still a clue about the Wu family?"
Shi Xingjian said: "Not yet! The descendants of the Wu family were dismissed before Wu Xun left, and no one knows where he and Liu Yansi went? I'm afraid that this time, I'm going to disappoint Master!"
"How can I blame you for this? If the head of the Wu family is just too sad and leaves Nanming, it's okay to say, if he really wants to do something bad, how can he let others know where he went? Therefore, it's normal for Xingjian to not find clues!"
Lu Ming comforted him while naturally sandwiching the dishes into his bowl, as if he was a friend.
"Having said that, as an immortal monk, if you can't even do this thing, wouldn't you lose the face of the immortal path?"
He put the food in his mouth and chewed it, and his elegant and decent appearance made people look really comfortable.
The two chatted about their views on the matter.
"Can Xingjian confirm the identity of the murderer of the Zheng family?"
Shi Xingjian shook his head and said: "Not for the time being!" The witnesses that night did not see the full picture of the murderer clearly, but because Wu Mingtai and the Zheng family died at the same time, he turned into a powerful ghost to take revenge!"
Lu Ming had a vegetable leaf in his mouth, chewing thoughtfully, and suddenly thought of something, so he hurriedly swallowed the food in his mouth.
"Where did you say Wu Xun buried Wu Mingtai just now?"
"In the cemetery on the outskirts of Lingxi Town!"
Shi Xingjian looked at him with a gleam in his eyes, and then said, "Do you want to go to Wu Mingtai's grave?"
"Yes, dig up the grave and open the coffin to see if the body is inside, and everything will be clear?
Moreover, don't you think it's strange that the head of the Wu family behaved this time? If he loves his wife and children so much, how could he bury them here and leave the country without a trace?"
Lu Ming's words reminded the world of Xingjian.
He is right, how can anyone be willing to bury his wife and children in his hometown, while he has left the country and never visited again?
Shi Xingjian looked at him, although he felt that what he said was completely reasonable, but there was still some hesitation between his eyebrows.
It's not that he doesn't agree with Lu Ming's approach, it's just that he has never done anything to dig someone's grave, what a sin!
Seeing that there was some hesitation between his eyebrows, Lu Ming raised his hand and added food to him.
"Don't worry, if Xingjian is afraid, I'll help you see it myself when the time comes. ”
"No, I'm not afraid. I was just...... I just feel that doing so will disturb the peace of the deceased. ”
Lu Ming felt a little amused by his thoughts, this person is dead, why disturb the peace.
These statements are just living people seeking some peace of mind.
The two of them didn't say anything more, and ate slowly.
It's night.
Just arrived at the beginning of the year.
The streets of Lingxi Town are less noisy during the day and are a little quiet.
The whole town was close to a deep sleep, and only the faint light of candles still flickered gently in the silence of the night.
The owner of the paper-binding shop on the side of the street was about to close the door to rest, but Shi Xingjian raised his hand to block the door that was about to close.
"Please wait a minute, boss, I want to buy some paper goods. Excuse me so late!"
The boss wanted to be angry, this big night, he didn't come to buy early or late, but he was about to close the store, so he came.
However, seeing his frank face, and his words were restrained and polite, he collected the anger in his heart.
"If you want something, pick it yourself!"
Shi Xingjian walked into the store when he heard the sound, picked out some ingots paper money and a pair of candles, paid the money and thanked him, and left the paper shop.
Lu Ming was waiting for him not far away, and when he saw him come out with some paper goods, he couldn't help but shake his head.
This man is perfect and speechless!
"Buy it, let's go!"
The two of them carried lanterns and walked to the outskirts of Lingxi Town.
Lu Ming held a shovel in his right hand, the iron pieces rubbed against the ground, and the sound of 'rattling bells' was particularly harsh in the increasingly quiet suburbs.
Shi Xingjian looked at the shovel in his hand and said with a smile: "Lu Ming, are you afraid that others won't know that we are going to dig a grave?"
When Lu Ming heard his words at first glance, he was obviously at a loss and looked at him in a daze.
"Huh?
Shi Xingjian lowered his eyes and glanced at the ground, and he understood what he meant.
Lu Ming smiled awkwardly, and then carried the shovel on his shoulder.
Let Xingjian smile, he was so used to it in his hometown, so he subconsciously dragged it to the ground for a while.
By the way, isn't Wu Mingtai's tomb almost here?"
Shi Xingjian looked at the small mountain not far away and nodded.
"Well, according to the funeral of the Wu family, it is on the hill in front. It's a twilight place, Wu Mingtai is buried there, let's go over quickly!"
Lu Ming carried a lantern to illuminate the road under his feet, and the two went straight to the hill.
Beyond a hillside and a little further down is a small cemetery.
Shi Xingjian used the aura as a flame and ignited the paper money in his hand. He burned some in front of each grave, and he recited words in his mouth.
Lu Ming had already found Wu Mingtai among the many tombstones, beckoning Shixingjian to go over.
Seeing that he burned paper in front of each grave, Lu Ming couldn't help but sigh, this should be so polite, so that even the dead can be so respectful.
In this world, there are very few people who are not one in front of one and one behind the other, and who really respect everything in this world from the bottom of their hearts like him.
Xu didn't hear his call, maybe he wanted to burn every grave, but Shi Xingjian didn't walk towards Wu Mingtaitai's grave.
Lu Ming was not in a hurry, just quietly looked at him in white clothes shuttling among the graves, and a flash of appreciation flashed in his eyes.