Chapter 0046 The Dead Return
The relationship between Mo Xiu and Liu Longting is quite complicated, but from what I see, they have always been hostile.
So I never expected that they were surprisingly unanimous on the matter of Fu Qian.
Don't let me go to see Fu Qian, rescue her together, and take care of her together.
However, Mo Xiu obviously didn't want to say more about Fu Qian. He glanced at me and left.
After he left, I took out my notebook, which had several addresses written on it. One of them was in Qin Mipo 's village. It belonged to a grandmother who passed away two years ago.
Outside the door, Qin Mipo was coughing again, and the oil pan was sizzling as she hit the spatula.
I got busy, washed up quickly, and went to help Qin Mipo cook.
In the morning, I had noodles mixed with leftovers. Qin Mipo didn't have much to make a living, and I was in debt, so it was good enough that I could just eat something.
After dinner, Grandma Qin Mi took a bunch of things related to rice and took me to Grandma Wei's house.
Asking for fortune is actually waiting for the victim to come to you.
But making a living in the village doesn't require so many requirements. You need to know all of them.
On the way, Qin Mipo turned her head to look at me several times, or to be exact, at my wrist, trying to confirm whether the black snake jade bracelet was there.
I showed her my wrist openly: "Snake Lord has something to do recently, so he has to take care of Fu Qian."
Hearing this name, Qin Mipo seemed to be in a bad mood, and actually showed an embarrassed expression: "Hmm."
I wanted to ask something else on the way, but Qin Mipo just lowered her head, walked quickly forward, and remained silent.
Mrs. Wei's home is in the same village, and it only takes more than half an hour to walk there.
Her house is a new three-and-a-half-story building, which is quite beautiful. There are two large Roman columns at the door. This has become popular in self-built houses in rural areas in recent years.
It can be seen that Mrs. Wei's family conditions are indeed good. When we went there, they were still having breakfast.
There was a big table of people, even the village chief from yesterday was there. A sturdy-looking man in his forties was toasting the village chief, shaking his head and saying something with a bitter look on his face. I guess he was Gu Xiaolan's husband.
Qin Mipo stood outside the door and coughed softly.
Mrs. Wei took a look but had no intention of getting up to greet him. She just helped the village chief pick up some dishes and said, "Let's eat fish. We just caught it from the pond this morning."
Instead, the village chief stood up and greeted him: "Come, have you eaten yet? Want to sit down and eat together?"
Qin Mi Po glanced around and shook her head, saying, "I'll go check out where Gu Xiaolan lived first and look for her belongings."
When this was mentioned, Mrs. Wei's face immediately darkened. She stood up and said, "She has been dead for more than a year. Where is her place to live? All her things have been burned."
Qin Mi Po snorted coldly: "She should sleep in the same bed with your son, right? I can always see the bed, right? Do you still want to find it?"
When I saw them like this, it was obvious that they were hiding something.
Mrs. Wei pointed at Mrs. Qin Mi and wanted to say something, but the village chief tapped the bowl with his chopsticks, so she could only stand up and grumble.
But when he saw me, he immediately said, "She can't come in! People in Huilong Village all say that Snake Jiulong's daughter is a snake girl. There was such a big snake in your house yesterday..."
Qin Mipo took me away without saying a word.
Just as we turned around, I saw the man who was toasting winked at Mrs. Wei.
Mrs. Wei seemed dumbfounded. She clapped her hands and hurriedly caught up with him, "Alright, alright! Let's see, Mrs. Qin Mi, why are you so stubborn and stubborn?"
"My son is going to marry a new wife, and the new house is already decorated. Could it be that you have brought bad luck to it?" Mrs. Wei was still muttering.
Qin Mipo was so angry that she wanted to say something, but as soon as she opened her mouth she started coughing again.
I patted her back and tilted my head to look at Mrs. Wei: "I still have to go back to feed the snake. If you delay any longer, the big snake will get hungry and will probably come looking for me..."
Mrs. Wei opened her eyes in fright, looked behind me, stopped talking, and led us upstairs in a hurry.
I don't know whether the room was rearranged, but it was a mess, with clothes and shoes scattered everywhere, some still covered with cement. The bed was an old-fashioned bunk bed, and there was no mosquito net, with ropes tied at both ends.
Qin Mipo went in and walked around. I didn’t know what to see, so I just sat there and watched.
But when I looked at the rope, I always felt something was wrong. Even if it was used to hang a mosquito net, the rope should be thin, not this wide.
Reaching out to pull the rope, Mrs. Wei immediately coughed and said, "This is for tying things."
It would have been fine if she hadn't said anything. Once she said it, I took a special look and found that there was a lot of wine in the room, including two large glass bottles of snake wine. One bottle was half drunk and the other was still unopened.
Many people who do manual labor buy my father’s snake wine, saying that it can strengthen their bodies.
Mrs. Wei said coldly, "Your father bought this on the day of the sale. How do you know if the snake is alive?"
Something happened to the snake wine, but it wasn't lost in their house?
I was curious and wanted to go over to take a look, but Qin Mipo pulled me and said, "Let's go to the grave."
Mrs. Wei was still cursing as she locked the door.
When we got downstairs, the village chief and his friends had already finished their meal and were chatting. There was also a large group of people standing or sitting there.
Among them were those who followed Mrs. Wei to cause trouble yesterday. When they saw me, they were so scared that they stepped back.
Qin Mipo was obviously not very sociable, and just said coldly: "Let's go to the grave."
Mrs. Wei hurried to the chicken coop to take out eggs, beat a liter of rice, and prepared incense paper and other things.
Gu Xiaolan’s grave is right in the vegetable field behind her house. It’s really close and you can get there in just a few steps.
There was no tombstone or even a brick on the grave. There was just a wooden board with a few crooked words written on it.
The grave had been dug up and the coffin was still in it with the lid half open.
There was no corpse inside, but there was a thin shroud neatly spread out in the coffin.
There are many requirements for funeral clothes. I dressed my grandmother in the funeral clothes myself. Grandma Qin Mi told me how many layers there are and what each layer represents.
There is no upper limit on the price of a good funeral shroud, and an ordinary cheap one would cost hundreds or thousands of dollars. But that thin black shroud was obviously the cheapest one.
Mrs. Wei immediately became excited and said to the person next to her, "The body is missing, but the clothes are still there. They must have been stolen."
"I've asked around, and the price for this woman's marriage is not low outside, sometimes even hundreds of thousands." Mrs. Wei had a face full of bitterness and resentment.
Shen Shen sighed and said, "When we married Gu Xiaolan, we paid a lot of money for the betrothal gift, the three golds, and her medical treatment and medicine. We even paid for her father's funeral."
"But we didn't know that she didn't give birth to a baby for our family, and after her death her body was dragged away and sold." He spoke as if she didn't intend to be sold.
"Before setting up the incense table, ask for rice first!" The village chief couldn't stand her anymore and interrupted her.
But as soon as he finished speaking, he heard a commotion and the sound of quarreling coming from the front.
Mrs. Wei slapped her thigh and said, "Those damn bastards are here to cause trouble again. I haven't even told you that they stole Gu Xiaolan back!"
There seemed to be a quarrel going on ahead, and the village chief was in a hurry to try to stop the fight. He took two steps and then pulled Qin Mipo away again: "Go and say a few words, and ask about the quarrels every other day."
The people around were also talking about going to watch the fun. Probably because Gu Xiaolan's biological father was dead, but the Gu family still had uncles and aunts.
Originally, Mrs. Wei planned to secretly take the body away for a marriage, but the body disappeared.
They thought that what Mrs. Wei did was wrong, but Mrs. Wei suspected that the Gu family had stolen the body, so a commotion broke out over there.
The main reason was that Gu Xiaolan’s death was unclear, and the grudge was deep, and they had fought twice.
In the blink of an eye, the entire area around the grave was empty.
I looked at the neatly laid out shroud in the half-open coffin. For some reason, I suddenly remembered the piece of clothing that was draped over my shoulders when my cousin forced me to go into the mountains to find the snake coffin.
Now that I think about it, it was said that after the Long family girl was buried, no bones were left, but why were her clothes still there?
I found a position and prepared to lie down and see what was under the shroud.
Then a low laugh was heard: "Long Ling, do you want to investigate the relationship between the snake coffin and the daughter of the Long family?"
When I looked up, I saw Long Xia standing beside the grave.
After she came out of the snake coffin, she was like a ghost, coming and going without a trace, and she was not afraid of the sun.
"Do you want me to tell you?" Long Xia came closer again.
Just as she was about to get closer, she saw something cold slowly wrapping around my wrist. It was the black snake jade bracelet.
Long Xia's face immediately showed fear, and her voice was filled with a hint of regret: "Snake King really protects Long Ling very well."
I lowered my head to glance at the black snake jade bracelet on my wrist. Mo Xiu was worried about me. He clearly left, but now he comes back?
"Long Ling, the show is about to begin." Long Xia took two steps back and slowly retreated into the bamboo forest behind.
I was just wondering what was going on when I heard a sound of surprise from the front, followed by Mrs. Wei's exaggerated and surprised voice.
Mo Xiu whispered in my ear, "Go back, don't worry about the snake coffin."
I hurried to the front and saw Mrs. Wei pulling a girl who looked to be about twenty-four or twenty-five, with a look of surprise on her face.
The girl looked well-behaved and dull, and had a pretty appearance, but for some reason, something seemed wrong about her.
"Gu Xiaolan is back alive." Qin Mipo pulled me aside and said in a deep voice, "Don't ask about this anymore!"
Just as I was looking at her, Gu Xiaolan, surrounded by the crowd, looked up at me and smiled shyly.
