There was a long queue at the dock, and Nan Yi stood on the high ground and looked out.
At this point in time, farmers in other places were guarding their own plots of land, and workers were working honestly, but people in Wenzhou had already taken their business across the country and around the world.
Through the telescope, Nan Yi saw the team at the dock slowly moving forward and taking tickets from the loud-voiced ticket seller.
Adjusting the focus, Nan Yi saw the price of the boat ticket to Shanghai written on the small blackboard.
"Are they all out for speculation?"
"For the most part, reform and opening up is like crossing a river by feeling the stones. They are all stones. Whether they will sink to the bottom of the river depends on whether God is happy. Okay, let's also line up and take a boat to Shanghai."
Nan Yi didn't want to waste time explaining to Zuo Can what was considered speculation and what were small businesses permitted by policy.
After staying in Yangcheng for two days and visiting several places where domestic businessmen are concentrated, Nan Yi and Zuo Can returned to Shajiaotou.
The Revolutionary Committee has been abolished, and the names of various administrative units have changed. Shajiaotou has become a township, and Wenchangwei Brigade has become Wenchangwei Village.
After asking around, I finally found a person who was secretly doing funeral business.
"Boss, do you have a coffin?"
"Yes, what kind of wood do you want?"
"Just ordinary cypress, for adults."
"When do you want it?"
"A person who died suddenly while sleeping, tomorrow is the fourth day of the seventh month, it is appropriate to bury him. Wenchangwei, can it be delivered before the hour of Si?"
"Okay, do you want a Taoist priest?"
"Yes, how much is the money?"
"The coffin is thirty-five, and I'll give you some candles and yellow paper to put on it. As for the Taoist priest's money, you can settle it with him yourself."
"Okay, give me some tin foil, two sticks of incense, and a piece of yellow paper. I want to take it away now." Nan Yi nodded and said.
"Two more bucks."
"Okay, when you come tomorrow, just ask about Nan Yi's family. If you come from the southwest, the coffin is parked on the mudflats outside the village near Shencun Bay."
"good."
After finalizing the deal with the owner of the funeral shop, I found someone who was secretly selling vegetables, bought some tofu, cut a piece of double-blade meat, and bought a castrated chicken.
After returning to the Nan residence, Nan Yi pointed to the kitchen to Zuo Can and said, "That's the kitchen. Please help me boil a pot of hot water and remove the chicken feathers."
"good."
Zuo Can went to boil water, and Nan Yi went to the utility room by himself and took out the basket where the sacrificial supplies were stored, and also took an empty basket.
Sitting in the yard, fold the tinfoil into ingots and fold the yellow paper in half.
Soon, Zuo Can finished cooking the chicken. Nan Yi asked him to continue boiling water. He took the chicken from his hand and cleaned the chicken and the double-blade meat he had bought.
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After arranging the offerings and lighting the candles, Nan Yi held the incense and worshipped the well. After most of the gold ingots and yellow paper he had prepared were burned, he called Zuo Can to help him move the bluestone on the well.
"There is a body at the bottom of the well. It was an officer of the Guangdong Army. I don't know how many years have passed since he died. Go down and fish him out. I'll make a phone call to the village committee and ask the police to come and take a look and bury him."
"good."
After the body was fished out, a jeep from the police station came and examined the body. Apart from being curious about the fact that the body had not rotted, they did not think there was anything wrong after Nan Yi explained that the well water was very cold.
Nan Yi took the initiative to say that he would be the one to bury the body, so the people from the police station didn't make any further fuss. They just registered the matter and left.
It's not a murder case. They will be responsible for dealing with the body after taking it away. It's better to have less trouble than more.
It has only been about 30 years since the liberation. There were decades of warlord fighting before, and there were some confusing accounts later. If you dig in any place, you can find a lot of corpses.
The people at the police station are no stranger to such things.
"Uncle Xian, do you know him?"
When there were only three people left in the yard, Nan Yi asked Xian Yaodong.
Xian Yaodong took a long puff of his cigarette, sighed and said, "I know him, the son-in-law of the Liu family. I always thought he ran away from home, but I didn't expect him to die in a well."
"Do you know when he died?"
"It was probably a few days before the liberation of Baoan. But his death is strange. The Liu family was still there at that time. How could he die in a well?"
"Uncle Xian, I'm asking something I shouldn't be asking."
"go ahead."
"How many members of the Liu family did you kill back then?"
"There are seven people in the Liu family. Except for the youngest son, all the others are dead."
"Where is the youngest son?"
"It ran fast. I think it ran to the other side. It's hard to say where it is now."
Leaving a person alive could become a hidden danger for Nan Yi.
In the basement, he did not find the house and land deeds of the Nanzhai. If this kid surnamed Liu does well outside, and returns to China to invest several hundred million in the future, and then takes the house and land deeds to take back the house, the probability of taking it back is not small.
"When were you born? What's your name?"
"Born in 1945 or 1950, I think his name is Liu Nianzu."
"Uncle Xian, do the properties you seized from here match what you think the Liu family has?"
"What do you mean by a match? It's simply too much." Xian Yaodong said with regret: "However, the big heads were taken away by the working group. The villagers didn't hide much, just some Yuan Datou and so on."
Nan Yi nodded, "Let's talk about this another day. I've already ordered a coffin and will bury him tomorrow."
"Nan Yi, have you discovered him a long time ago?"
"It's just soaking in that well. Uncle Xian, do you think I wouldn't check if the well water is drinkable before I move in?"
"Why?"
"I was worried at the time. Who knows what hatred you had with the Liu family? Who knows if you killed him? I thought you deliberately didn't tell me there was a body in the well.
What can I do? I can only play dumb and pretend I don’t know.”
"How is that possible? If that were the case, I would have told you. None of the Liu family members died here back then, otherwise, I would not have sold this house to you." Xian Yaodong said, jumping to his feet.
"Forget it, it's all over."
The next day, Nan Yi buried the anonymous person on the mudflat not far from Keliya.
Xian Yaodong only knew that he was the son-in-law of the Liu family, but he didn't know his surname or name. Back then, a high-ranking military officer probably wouldn't bother with the peasants in Wenchangwei.
On the anonymous tombstone, Nan Yi also left half of the epitaph - life is as gorgeous as summer flowers.
The body has been laid to rest, but Nan Yi still has things to do.
He ran to the city and got some cement. He removed the part of the well that was protruding from the ground, pasted cement on the bluestone, completely sealing the well mouth. He also covered the bluestone with a layer of mud and planted snakes on it.
If the detector fails to detect any gold underground when it arrives, Nan Yi plans to pry open the bluestone slab after a year or two to see if the two alligator snapping turtles are dead.
Apart from gold, even if there are other valuable things underneath, they are of little significance to Nan Yi.
Especially those crappy national treasure-level antiques, Nan Yi doesn't want them even more. Those things are useless if they are not eaten or drunk.
He couldn't do the thing of transferring the national treasure abroad; but if he wanted to sell it in China, he didn't know whether he could successfully exchange it for fifty yuan plus a certificate.