After begging for mercy, the two old men gradually settled down.
They died.
His eyes were wide open, the corners of his eyes were cracked, and he stared straight at the ceiling;
The blue veins on the neck are exposed, and the blood vessels under the skin are black;
His hands and feet were curled up under him, as if he was bound with an invisible rope, and his cry before death was like a wailing before execution.
The doctors and nurses came in, they came quickly, but they didn't leave much time for them.
Whether it was the terrifying amount of bleeding or the physical signs of the two old men at this time, there was no point in taking any more rescue measures.
Next, it was to disperse the crowd of onlookers outside the ward and ask the nurses to come and clean the room quickly.
Relatives were called to the office for follow-up processing.
When Li Sanjiang saw his great-grandson, he dragged Li Zhuyuan out suspiciously and asked: "Shouldn't you go to the river with your grandfather, how did you find here?"
Xue Liangliang took out his student ID card and handed it over, saying: "Uncle, I am a student of Haihe University, I was originally in the river industry, and I sent a sick classmate to the hospital.
"He recognizes the way?" Li Sanjiang pointed at Li Chaiyuan and looked at Xue Liangliang at the same time, "He hasn't been back to his hometown for a long time, and he hasn't been to the city, which way do you recognize?"
Xue Liangliang: "Actually, I like this child quite a bit, so I thought about taking him out to play on the way."
Li Sanjiang took Xue Liangliang's student ID card, looked at it carefully, and then gave it back to him, which was considered to believe in this reason, after all, at present, the gold content of college students is still very high.
At this time, the middle-aged man and woman who were in the ward walked out of the doctor's office and went straight to Li Sanjiang.
Li Sanjiang sighed at them and said: "Mourning."
Li Chaiyuan guessed that they should be Sister Yingzi's uncle and aunt.
However, the couple didn't seem to react to the bereavement now, or rather, something more urgent was pressing them down, they each grabbed one of Li Sanjiang's hands and said quietly and excitedly:
"Uncle Sanjiang, please, save me, save me."
"Yes, uncle, help us, it's really scary."
Li Sanjiang glanced at Li Chaiyuan next to him, and motioned for them to walk to the terrace on each floor with him before talking.
Li Zhuyuan didn't pestering to follow, the third aunt was still walking in the doctor's office, and Sister Yingzi sat on the bench alone.
Just witnessed such a terrifying scene, and experienced the death of a pair of relatives, it was naturally a big blow.
Li Chaiyuan sat down and began to speak comfortably, and in the process, he also asked about what happened.
Yingzi's grandparents worked in a private aquaculture farm, and when the paddock was desilted half a month ago, a small coffin was dug up.
The coffin was red all over, and I don't know how long it had been soaked underneath, but it did not rot at all, but was soaked into a bright red.
The old couple called the boss and said that according to local customs, this small coffin had to be burned with incense and then pushed to the river.
But the boss was from out of town and didn't believe this, so he called two workers to take tools and pry open the coffin together.
Inside the coffin was the corpse of a girl, about eight years old, wearing a black padded jacket and embroidered shoes, which should have been buried in winter.
The big guy almost thought that this was someone's new burial!
But who knew that after just a few puffs of smoke, the originally tender corpse suddenly began to decay, and the flesh and skin dissolved rapidly, leaving only a skeleton wrapped in a black padded jacket.
The female corpse has a set of jewelry, a hosta in her hair, a ring on her finger, and a gold ring around her neck.
In addition, there was a porcelain bottle attached to talisman paper inside the coffin, plus a black wood carving.
The engraving first has a line of big characters:
"The corpse suppresses evil spirits, and the merit helps to ascend."
Below is another line of small print plus a signature:
"Those who see the words must not desecrate their bodies, do not touch their belongings, quickly seal the coffin, and throw it into the river to avoid great disaster.
——Bai Jia Niangniang"
Yingzi's grandparents began to beg the boss to quickly seal the coffin lid back as mentioned above, and then push it back into the river, but the boss insisted on going his own way, thinking that the jewelry in the coffin should be valuable things, and the porcelain bottle was more likely to be a precious object, so he took all the things away.
Then, scary things started to happen.
First, the boss mysteriously disappeared, and then Yingzi's grandparents began to have nightmares, seeing the girl in the dream to retaliate, and then both of them became unwell and lived in the town's health center, and then even developed a tendency to self-harm.
That day, the two old men took advantage of the third aunt's home to get food, and told Yingzi that they wanted to eat orange crystals and soaked in water, so they asked Yingzi to push her away, and then secretly ran to the roof of the building to jump off the building.
After all, if the two old people really want to find a short-sighted view in the health center, the trouble in the hospital will be big, so they can only be transferred to the Municipal People's Hospital.
However, the symptoms of the two old people became bigger and bigger, and with the sedatives given by the doctor and the strict care of their families, they were not allowed to continue to kill themselves.
But who knows, they can end their lives at the same time in such an unbelievable and terrible way.
After listening to Yingzi's story, Li Chaiyuan asked:
"What about the two workers who followed the boss to open the coffin?"
"That ...... I don't know, I haven't heard them talk about it."
"Sister, your Grandpa Nan and Grandma Nan were still clear-headed at first, right?"
"Except when you are sick, it is normal. Just a quarter of an hour before they vomited blood, they were still talking to me about finding a partner after I was admitted to college."
At this time, the third aunt poked her head out of the doctor's office and waved to this side:
"Marquis Ying, come and help my mother fill out the form."
"Here it is, Mom."
After Yingzi left, Li Chaiyuan realized that at some point, Xue Liangliang was actually sitting so close to each other, and he was deliberately eavesdropping.
Facing Li Chaiyuan's gaze, Xue Liangliang not only did not blush, but said excitedly: "I heard it, you are deliberately making a fuss."
"I'm comforting my sister."
"Huh...... I was shocked, you don't know, when I just heard the two old men shouting 'Bai Family Niangniang' at the door of the ward, my heart was in my throat, thinking that it was because I smashed the statue that I harmed people again, or I happened to send Zhao Hequan, who was still a victim, to this hospital today, triggering something that harmed them, alas."
Li Chaiyuan realized that Xue Liangliang had also noticed the inscription on the base of the statue.
"Brother Liangliang, don't worry, the time is not right, and the age is not right."
The aquaculture farm dug up the coffin half a month ago, Xue Liangliang and Zhao Hequan smashed the gods like yesterday, and the two things were not connected.
"Age, this is uncertain, right?" Xue Liangliang wondered, "In the past, transportation and communication were inconvenient, and the statue may not be so accurate.
Li Chaiyuan shook his head: "It's not the same."
"Are you sure?"
"Hmm."
Because he saw that woman, although her physical condition was very similar to that of the statue, and it might have been amplified, but it couldn't be an eight-year-old girl anyway.
"However, they are all called Bai family lady." Xue Liangliang thought, "Then will the Bai family lady be a collective name, for example, a professional group? Like what Taoist sect is collectively called so-and-so mountain Heavenly Master?"
Li Chaiyuan nodded and added: "It may also be a surname."
Somehow, Li Chaiyuan thought of the two tablets of Qin and Liu in the east room where Liu Yumei lived, and the mourning hall was filled with tablets.
"Are they all surnamed Bai?" Xue Liangliang crossed his fingers, "It's very possible, the lady of the Bai family, according to the local dialect, can indeed be understood as the woman surnamed Bai, a respectful title for those who are capable."
Li Chaiyuan responded, looking in the direction of the terrace, the grandfather and Yingzi's uncle and aunt had not yet agreed.
Xue Liangliang stretched out his hand, gently pushed Li Chaiyuan's arm, and asked cautiously: "Well, do you have any other thoughts on what your sister said?"
"There are a lot of concealments and fabrications."
"Yes, that's right." Xue Liangliang came to his senses again, "You really heard it, the boss is missing, her grandparents had nightmares and their bodies were abnormal, but what happened to the two workers who helped the boss pry the coffin together, why don't you know? Unless ......
"Unless, the two old men who helped the boss pry the coffin together"
"Your sister is just an obedient person, what she heard and what she just told you were all what the adults in the family said.
After all, if they really did what they said, why did they shout for mercy before dying, it was clear that they had done something wrong, otherwise, they would cry out for injustice.
So, to change the statement, it was probably that the two old men caught the coffin and then called the boss to come and open the coffin together.
Even, it may be that the boss fished out the coffin, the boss didn't plan to pry it open, but the two old men picked it up and opened the coffin together.
At least, they are definitely people who are deeply involved in it, and they are not so sensible and innocent."
Li Chaiyuan looked at Xue Liangliang and blinked.
Xue Liangliang waved his hand a little ashamed: "I didn't say I was innocent, but no matter what, I smashed the statue for the progress of the project, not for personal gain.
"Brother Liangliang, there is actually the most important point."
"Xiaoyuan, tell me quickly, what point?"
"Sister Yingzi can actually say the words engraved on that sign, then at least, she should have seen the handwritten version.
However, how could the two old men not only understand the words on it after opening the coffin, but also memorize it word for word, and then read it out for someone to transcribe it on paper?"
"You mean ......"
"Well, the two old men should have shared something, at least, that piece of wood carving is in their house."
After hearing this, Xue Liangliang nodded heavily, then looked at Li Chaiyuan carefully, and asked: "Xiaoyuan, are you really a primary school student?"
"Actually, I am a college student by the lakeside of the lake."
"Hehehe...... Ahem!" Xue Liangliang coughed up laughter, he reached out and stroked Li Zuiyuan's back, encouraging, "Okay, it's amazing to have this ambition!"
Li Chaiyuan could only smile.
"However, Xiaoyuan, have you heard of the Bai family's mother?"
"Brother Liangliang, I should have spent much less time in Nantong than you."
"Oh, that's right, then I'll go to the urban cultural and historical museum to check the information and see if there is anything recorded in the local chronicle."
"Brother Liangliang, you are fine, why are you so concerned about this matter, is it for your classmates?"
"Eh, shouldn't it?"
"I thought you didn't like him very much."
"This has nothing to do with whether you like him or not, everyone has their own life path choice, and I can only follow my own judgment to follow the path I choose.
Okay, the doctors should go to work, I'll go get the report, if the report is okay, I won't come to you, go to the Museum of Literature and History to check the information first.
You live in Heather Siyuan Village, right?"
"Hmm."
"Where to get off the bus? Since your grandfather is here, I won't send you back, and I'll come to you again in the evening."
"After crossing Shijiaqiao, the second person got out of the car and walked inside, and then inquired about Li Sanjiang's house."
"Can you confirm that you can inquire?"
"Well, the grandfather is very famous in the village."
"Okay, if there is no car at night, I will take a taxi."
Li Chaiyuan asked curiously: "Brother Liangliang?"
"What's wrong, is there anything else?"
"You seem to be quite rich."
He said that he was from rural Anhui, but his clothes and some living habits were not cramped at all.
"Oh, I contracted two canteens and a stationery store in school, and I also pulled a group of classmates to set up a team, which will take on some design projects from the professor or outside the school.
There are still many opportunities in big cities and universities, and it is easy to make money, but it is really not good when I am in my hometown.
In fact, it stands to reason that I can not come to this kind of internship class, but I don't want to give up this kind of front-line exercise opportunity."
"Brother Liangliang, you are very powerful."
"You too, smart child." Xue Liangliang let his forehead touch Li Zhuiyuan's forehead slightly, and when he saw Li Sanjiang and the others coming back, he got up and left.
"Grandfather."
"Where is that college student, are you leaving?"
"I went to see his classmates."
"Hmm." Li Sanjiang nodded, "Let's go."
"Where are you going, grandfather?"
"Go get something."
Her uncle Zhou Hai and aunt Chen Xiaoling led Li Sanjiang and Li Zhuiyuan back home.
The rural bungalows are very spacious, the dam faces an artificial river, and you can see the river some distance to the south.
Entering the house, Chen Xiaoling went to pour water, while Zhou Hai took out a cloth bag and opened it, with a hairpin and a wooden carving inside.
Li Sanjiang picked up the wood carving and frowned slightly when he looked at the words on it.
Li Chaiyuan leaned over and read it again.
In the narration with Yingzi, there is no mistake at all.
"Confused...... It's really confusing......" Li Sanjiang put down the wood carving and patted his legs, "Life is not so sad now, I don't have to worry about eating and drinking, why did I suddenly eat lard and blind my heart?"
"Poof!" "Poof!"
Without the scruples in the hospital, Zhou Hai and Chen Xiaoling knelt directly in front of Li Sanjiang, almost kowtowing, shouting for Li Sanjiang to save them.
It turned out that they also started having that dream.
After witnessing the fate of the old couple today, they were so scared that they almost collapsed.
"Let's go, let's go to the farm first, do you remember where the bones are buried?"
"Remember." Zhou Hai immediately nodded, "It was the two of us who dug a hole and buried it ourselves."
"Huh." Li Sanjiang sneered.
The farm is not far from Zhou's house, out of the village, and it takes a quarter of an hour to walk along the river.
The scale of the venue is very small, except for the boss, there are only two employees, that is, Zhou Hai's parents.
Therefore, in the initial narrative, they not only beautified and covered themselves up to the third aunt and Yingzi, but also did not tell Li Sanjiang the truth.
"Dig it." Li Sanjiang said.
"Don't you wait for the night?" Zhou Hai asked.
Now it is white, few people pass by here, but they still have to risk being seen.
Li Sanjiang nodded: "Then I'll go back to the village to sleep first, and I'll come back tomorrow, and you can secretly dig up the bones at night."
"That's not good, that's not good, uncle, I'm afraid, I don't dare."
"You know you're afraid!" Li Sanjiang almost roared, "When do you dig in broad daylight, you have to wait until it's dark to find something to do!"
"Okay, okay, let's dig, let's dig."
Zhou Hai and Chen Xiaoling each took a shovel and dug it up.
During this period, Li Sanjiang asked: "That boss is missing, have you called the police?"
"No." Zhou Hai lifted a shovel of soil and replied, "We didn't dare to call the police, we were greedy at that time, for fear that we wouldn't be able to hide the matter after calling the police, and we had to hand over things."
"Where is the boss's family?"
"His hometown is in the south, and he came here alone to book a venue, without bringing his family."
Li Sanjiang suddenly asked quietly: "Don't you make the boss and swallow his share, right?"
Zhou Hai immediately cried and said: "Uncle, I don't have that kind of thing to do!"
Chen Xiaoling immediately nodded in agreement: "We don't dare to do murder, we don't dare."
"Hmm." Li Sanjiang didn't ask anything more, he believed that these two people would not be so outrageous, so he immediately got up and silently prepared his own offering table.
Li Chaiyuan helped on the side.
Soon, the coffin was dug up.
Li Sanjiang took a look, and he breathed a sigh of relief, the coffin was closed and buried, and after opening, the bones inside were still intact and had not been messed up.
This is ...... Fortunately, it is misfortune.
Li Chaiyuan approached the coffin and looked at the bones inside, it was indeed a girl.
Li Sanjiang started the ritual and then burned the paper.
After completing a set of processes, Li Sanjiang asked: "Where are other things, especially the bottle?"
"Those were taken away by the boss."
"Where does he live?"
"He lived in the field, that house, we went to find him after he disappeared, and then our parents had physical problems, and we also realized that there was something in the coffin, and we also went to his house to search, but we didn't find those things, let alone see the bottle."
Li Sanjiang frowned, originally according to his idea, put all the things back, and then have a sacrifice, and then the coffin was closed and sealed and pushed into the river, and this matter was settled.
After all, the requirements on the human wood carving are also clearly stated, now that at least two lives have been lost, and maybe even three, and it is considered blood, no matter how resentful the thing is, it should be vented.
But the premise is that all the things are put back, or, even if the jewelry is lost, the bottle with the talisman paper must not be missed.
The words on the person are clearly written, that is, to use their own corpse to suppress the evil spirit!
Li Chaiyuan asked at this time: "Uncle and aunt, does the boss have any other connections here?"
Li Sanjiang immediately woke up and asked: "Yes, yes, is there anyone else I know, I heard that those bosses from the south always like to raise mistresses."
Chen Xiaoling shook her head and said: "I haven't heard of it."
Zhou Hai scratched his head: "It seems that there are, there are two, one is a widow living in Jiuweigang Town, and the other is a woman in a singing room in the city."
"Can you find them?" Li Sanjiang asked.
Zhou Hai shook his head: "I just heard my parents talk during dinner, but I don't know where they live, and I can't find them."
Li Sanjiang took out the cigarette box, pulled out two, threw one to Zhou Hai, and said:
"Call the police and let the police find it."
"What?" "What?"
Zhou Hai and Chen Xiaoling were stunned.
"I said to call the police, report the missing person and report the matter." Li Sanjiang pointed to the coffin, "Let the police look for it and ask if the thing is with them.
"But we ......"
"Uncle, if you call the police......"
"You didn't kill anyone, you're afraid of farts! Heh, even if none of the things in this coffin fall, I successfully sent the coffin back to the river today, and I will still ask you to report this police.
This kind of thing, the public will come forward, it will be much better, and you will be much safer.
If you don't want to call the police, it's up to you, as long as you're not afraid of ending up like your parents today."
"Let's report and call the police!" Zhou Hai made up his mind.
"Well, okay, the coffin and the offering table, move into the house first, before the public takes over, don't extinguish the candles, don't extinguish the paper ashes, make up for as much as you can.
You assign your own tasks."
"Got it, uncle, Xiaoling, you go to the police, I'll look at the offering table here."
"Well, okay."
Next, Li Sanjiang took Li Chase Yuan and sat on the steps of the door, smoking non-stop.
"Master, aren't we going home?" Li Chaoyuan asked.
Li Sanjiang pointed to the room behind him: "I'm leaving now, Zhou Hai inside is alone with the coffin, I'm afraid he will be scared out of his urine."
After a pause, Li Sanjiang continued: "Last night, your grandfather and I also had a dream."
"Huh?" Li Chaiyuan finally realized the seriousness of the matter, "Master, are you dreaming too?"
"I dreamed that on the rooftop of the town health center, the female doll stood in front of me and asked me why I wanted to help them and why I was helping them. He also told me that since I intervened, let me die together."
Li Sanjiang took a puff of cigarette and slowly spit it out with his nose:
"Damn it, I was also scared by today's scene."
Li Chaiyuan nodded understandingly, today's scene is indeed scary.
Moreover, he felt that although the statue of the Bai family lady dug up on the river work and this girl Bai family lady may both be from the family, their temperaments are obviously different.
The Bai family lady on the river work can listen to her own compensation, accept her own sacrifice, and listen to Luo Gong's nagging even more.
It can be said that it is very reasonable.
But the lady of the Bai family here is much more ruthless, killing is like drinking water.
"Actually, what does it matter to me, she blamed me for coming to the health center that day and saving those two old men, but I can't just die and not save them, right?
Forget it, I don't have much contamination, when the police arrive, I will make a record and get the breath of the public, and that person will probably not touch me again."
Li Chaiyuan understood that the grandfather had this idea.
It's no wonder that the little yellow warbler or the cat-faced old lady I met before were all within control, but they were far from being as fierce as this lady of the Bai family, and the grandfather couldn't grasp it.
Li Zhuiyuan frowned suddenly, he remembered the content in "Jianghu Chronicles and Monsters" and found that there was a case that was very similar to this Bai family lady.
That is the Xuanmen people, using themselves as carriers to seal themselves in order to become immortals in another way.
Although it is not as domineering and terrifying as the kind of general, it is the most difficult to deal with, because it can understand the means of living people to deal with it.
Then I think of the line on the carving: The corpse suppresses evil spirits, and the merit helps to ascend.
Now, it was completely confronted, even if she had no body, she was still dead, and she had no body...... I don't know how to deal with it.
Li Chaiyuan felt that the grandfather had done the right thing, so it was better to call the police.
The police came, and a lot came, because of this incident, it had obviously led to the death of two people and one missing.
The police took control of the scene, and Zhou Hai was temporarily controlled as a suspect.
Li Chaiyuan followed his grandfather to the police station to make a record, and it was already dusk when he came out after doing it.
Li Sanjiang also deliberately hugged the door of the police station, as if he was worried enough, and then gave himself a temporary hug with some public atmosphere, and even kissed the police station sign.
This action shocked everyone in the guard's room.
But seeing that this old man was not here to make trouble, he could only push open the window and ask:
"Old comrade, what are you doing?"
Li Sanjiang shouted back while continuing to kiss:
"Express your love."
After doing this, Li Sanjiang didn't bother to go back to the hospital to find Yingzi and her mother, and also rejected Chen Xiaoling's invitation to let him stay at home tonight.
He Li Sanjiang just wants to go home now.
It's too expensive to take a taxi back, because at this point, the taxi driver is unwilling to take you to the countryside unless you add more money.
Li Sanjiang stopped the tractor on the road and asked them where they were going.
Li Chaiyuan originally thought that this kind of luck-or-taking behavior was tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack, and was just about to sit down and wait slowly, but unexpectedly, the second tractor stopped by the grandfather was to deliver stone piers to Shigang Town.
This dares to be good, and it will be a mess along the way.
The grandfather gave someone a cigarette, and then waved for Xiao Yuanhou to get into the car.
The tractor was marching "Da Da Da", and Li Zhuiyuan and the grandfather were sitting in the back, blowing the evening breeze.
As I passed through the city, I also witnessed the hustle and flow of the city.
Halfway through, Li Sanjiang took a short nap, and then woke up, he was very happy and took the initiative to say to Li Chaiyuan:
"Xiaoyuanhou, your grandfather and I just had another dream in a daze, and I saw the female doll again in the dream, but I couldn't see it clearly, it was very blurry, and she was also talking, but I couldn't hear it clearly.
It seems that she is far away from me, your grandfather and I will be fine soon, go back tonight and burn incense well, worship all the bodhisattvas in the family, and completely break up with her."
"Master, you are amazing."
Li Chaiyuan once doubted Li Sanjiang's ability, but after the cat-faced old lady's sentence "Your grandfather has raised his hand", his suspicions were dispelled again.
Moreover, the grandfather seems to have a way no matter what happens, and the methods have all worked.
"What's so powerful, if it weren't for the sake of your grandfather Han Hou's face, I wouldn't have come here, and I was embarrassed to ask for this money, and I took my own danger in vain.
Loss, loss to grandma's house."
"Tell my grandfather not to ...... next time"
"Don't, it's not like I encounter such unlucky and dangerous things every time, your grandfather and I serve this bowl of rice, and I can't eat big meat every time, and occasionally I have to be knocked out by the stones in the rice.
Alas, I was thinking that after going back this time, I would continue to transfer you to this girl, but now I don't dare, she hasn't left clean, I don't want to implicate you, grandfather."
Saying that, Li Sanjiang knocked on the iron sheet behind him and shouted to the master who drove the tractor;
"Brother, find a small restaurant ahead, brother, I will treat you to a couple of bites?"
"How embarrassing is this?"
"Hey, what are you polite about, find a place to stop in front of you, eat and then leave."
"Okay."
The tractor stopped in front of a small restaurant, and after getting out of the car and going in, Li Sanjiang first asked for a pound of rice wine, ordered two cold and two hot, and then asked Li Chaiyuan for a separate egg fried rice.
After Li Chaiyuan finished eating, he sat next to him and waited, while the grandfather and the master were interested.
Li Sanjiang asked the store to heat a pound of wine again, and at the same time asked Li Chaiyuan for a can of Jianlibao.
"Snap!"
Open, the sound of gasping.
Li Chase took a sip, and Li Sanjiang asked: "Is it delicious?"
"Well, it's delicious."
"Then let's buy a box and take it back later?"
The master smiled and said: "Brother, you are really willing to do it."
These days, the bottles of lemon acid in beer bottles are recycled, and ordinary people can afford them, but canned drinks are still too expensive in the eyes of most parents.
"Hey." Li Sanjiang touched Li Chaiyuan's head, "Isn't making money just for the children, let me take it to the coffin in the future?"
He didn't tell the master that this was the great-grandson of his clan.
"That's the truth, my grandson is studying high school, I have to continue to drive and earn him college tuition, as long as he can pass the exam, we have to grit our teeth and pay for it."
"Hey." Li Sanjiang sighed helplessly and touched the back of Li Zhuiyuan's head, "It's a pity, my grandson is a smart person, but he doesn't like to focus on studying."
Li Chaiyuan silently took another sip of soda.
The master had a flushed face, took out the rocker and inserted it into the tractor engine, and then turned it quickly, and the tractor restarted.
"Come on, get in the car, let's go home!"
Getting back in the car and going home, Li Chaiyuan looked at the starry sky above his head and began to wonder if Xue Liangliang had arrived in Siyuan Village now.
He felt that he should ask more about the statue on the river work, since the one lying in the coffin in Jiuweigang was dead, don't say that statue...... Also.
After all, although that river was excavated now, it seemed to be a waterway before.
Li Chaiyuan vaguely felt that this Bai family seemed to be specializing in this kind of thing.
……
When Li Chase was not at home, Qin Li returned to her old position, sat on the bench inside the door, stepped on the threshold with her feet, and looked ahead.
Next to her, Liu Yumei was spreading out a piece of paper and drawing clothes with a pen.
Although it seems very unprofessional in terms of the current clothing-making process, the old tailors in those small garment workshops can understand it.
Liu Yumei's happiest thing is to dress up her granddaughter beautifully every morning, so that her mood can be beautiful all day long.
At this time, Liu Yumei noticed Qin Li behind her, her head moved, and she looked at the path in the wheat field.
Liu Yumei put down her brush and stood up straight.
I saw a young man wearing a blue shirt, holding a stack of books in his hand, walking up to the dam.
After looking at him for a while, Qin Li retracted her gaze and continued to look straight ahead.
It seems that this young man is dirty, but not obvious.
"Excuse me, this is Li Sanjiang's house, right?" Xue Liangliang asked.
"Yes, yes, he is not at home now, and I don't know if he will come back tonight, are you looking for him?"
"I'm looking for Xiaoyuan, Li Zhuiyuan, does he live here too?"
Hearing Li Chaiyuan's name, Qin Li's eyes looked at him again.
"He's not at home either." Liu Yumei replied.
"He should be back tonight, I'll wait for him, that, I'm sorry, where is the toilet, I want to make it easier."
"At the back of the house."
"Okay, thank you."
Xue Liangliang put the scroll in his hand on the table, and then trotted to the toilet.
These books were all lent by him from the Museum of Literature and History, and at present, these things are not kept tightly.
Liu Yumei opened a scroll and saw the recorded passages marked on it with bookmark paper, her brows furrowed, her eyes narrowed slightly, and she murmured:
"Bai family?"
Immediately, she closed the file again, picked up the brush again and continued to draw the clothes, but she was drawing, but she was a little restless, so she stopped writing again, recalling that the young man was looking for Xiaoyuan, and said to herself:
"How could this Xiaoyuan have anything to do with the Bai family?"
It was also a coincidence, and the sound of a tractor came from the distance.
The master did not serve people at the entrance of the village, but drove directly in and delivered them to the door.
After parting, Li Sanjiang took Li Chaiyuan to the dam.
It just so happened that Xue Liangliang came back at this time.
"Hey, why did you come home?" Li Sanjiang was very surprised.
"Master, Brother Liangliang is here to give me tutoring."
"Oh, okay, this is good, then let him sleep in the same room with you tonight, young man, have you eaten?"
"I ate it, I ate it." Xue Liangliang hurriedly replied.
"That's fine."
Li Chaiyuan walked up to Qin Li, Qin Li stood up, stretched out his hand, and took the initiative to grab Li Zhuiyuan's hand.
Immediately, her eyelashes began to beat and her body began to tremble slightly.
Li Chaiyuan was surprised, why did she hold hands this time......
"Ahri, let go!"
Liu Yumei's stern voice came, and seeing that Ah Li didn't listen to her, she could only shout to Li Chaiyuan:
"Xiaoyuan, let go!"
Li Chaiyuan pulled out his hand.
Ah Li pretended to step forward, wanting to continue to catch Li Chase.
"Xiaoyuan, say good night to Ali, I'm going to take Ah Li to rest."
"Okay, Grandma Liu." Li Chaiyuan looked at Ali, "It's too late, let's rest, let's read together tomorrow morning, good night."
Xue Liangliang picked up the files, took Li Zhuiyuan's hand and said: "Let's go, go back to your house and say, I found something amazing."
Looking at Chase Li's figure walking away, Qin Li slowly let go of her raised hand.
Liu Yumei sighed and coaxed her granddaughter to say:
"Be good, he's fine now, better than that young man."
……
"Hey, what books are on your desk?"
As soon as he came in, Xue Liangliang saw several stacks of ancient books on Li Chaiyuan's desk.
"This is my hobby."
"Is it really fake?" Xue Liangliang turned the pages of the book, "Xiaoyuan, if you have this hobby, you can take the liberal arts exam and go to archaeology in the future."
Li Zhuiyuan shook his head: "I don't want to."
He didn't want to be a department friend with his mother.
"Then what major do you want to take the exam, could it be that you choose water conservancy and take the Haihe University like me?"
Li Chaiyuan thought for a moment and said: "It's not impossible."
It has to do with water.
This university seems to be in line with my major.
"Then you have to study hard, Haihe University is not easy to take the exam."
"Hmm."
It's really not easy to deal with, and the old professors are afraid that they won't want to change schools.
"Come on, see what I found, I don't know if I don't check, I will be shocked when I check it." Xue Liangliang spread out the file, "This Bai family is really a surname, and the local chronicles of the Ming and Qing dynasties recorded many deeds about the Bai family, all of which were related to eliminating monsters and suppressing chaos, but they were all the Bai family ladies, and there was no Bai grandfather."
Li Chaiyuan asked: "Is it only passed on to women?"
"I guess so, it should be that the family only passes on their daughters, and then recruits sons-in-law, but this kind of atmosphere is quite rare in this area."
Li Chaiyuan looked at the dossier and said: "Brother Liangliang, keep talking."
"This Bai family's activity boundary should not only be within the current Nantong area, I suspect that there are traces of their appearance throughout northern Jiangsu, but one thing is certain, the Bai family's home is in Nantong.
Look at this paragraph in this article, there is a place called Baijia Town recorded here, which should be where the Bai family's home is located, probably west of Yingzhou in the East China Sea."
"East China Sea Yingzhou?"
"It's Chongming Island."
"Oh, so is this Baijia Town in Shanghai or in Nantong?"
Chongming Island is located at the mouth of the Yangtze River and can be called the gateway to the Yangtze River, most of the island belongs to Shanghai and some belong to Nantong.
Xue Liangliang hesitated a little: "The location description on this is very strange, it seems that someone has specially studied it, but there may be a problem when writing it down...... found that it should be in the river."
"In Jiangli?"
"That's right, it should be in the Yangtze River now."
"This ...... Is the record wrong?"
"But this is the only place I can find so far that records the address of Baijia Town.
And then, I discovered something very strange.
After the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, there was no record of the Bai family in the local chronicles.
Bai Jia,
Bai family,
Baijia Town,
In historical records, it seems to have happened overnight......
disappeared."
(End of this chapter)