The Zhen Family Brothers in the Red Chamber

In the early morning of the second day, just as Zhen Zhu had finished her breakfast, she heard a commotion outside. He frowned in disgust and asked about the situation, but the people below reported that it was the scholars outside who were making trouble.

He didn't know, so he put down the bowls and chopsticks in his hand and took Jin Bao out.As a result, before I got out of the street, I saw from a distance that the small vendors who are usually busy doing business gathered on the side of the street, regardless of their own stalls. Zhen Zhu didn't go inside, but Jin Bao ran over to follow a man holding candied haws The hawker accosted.

"Hey, pick a big one for me." Jin Bao said while pulling out copper coins from his sleeve.

The peddler was watching the excitement, and when he saw someone shouting, he immediately turned around: "Hey, how many skewers do you want?"

"Come here." Jin Bao said and gave two copper coins to the other party, and then pretended to ask casually, "What are you looking at, it's so lively." He glanced at the crowd outside while talking.

"Hey, you don't know. I heard that those talented masters moved out the statue of Confucius worshiped in the sage temple, and carried it all the way in." The peddler turned the candied haws in his hand, and then Lightly pulled out one and handed it to Jin Bao.

Jin Bao pretended not to care and nodded, took the candied haws and walked back, turned the corner and ran to Zhen Zhu's side with small steps.

"Master, it's the scholars outside who are making trouble again. You'd better not go out. There are many people who know you. They are barefoot and not afraid to wear shoes. You should avoid them." Jin Bao was also careful, he thought about those poor people Probably they all look down on others, his young master is a noble man, but he can't afford to hurt a single hair.

Zhen Zhu thought for a while: "Since the street is so lively today, you will accompany me to the grave of the Qian Jijiu. Didn't you say that you asked for the address at the beginning?" .

Jin Bao didn't know why, but he didn't ask any further questions, he greeted the carriage and left the city all the way.

Qian Jijiu's grave was dug next to his biological father, and there were no people in the remote mountains, and Zhen Zhu and others didn't see anyone else along the way.Jin Bao was afraid that the guards would follow him, so he deliberately ordered the carriage driver to take a long detour, seeing that no one was there before heading to Zhengjiazhuang.

Zhengjiazhuang is a small villa, and most of them are surnamed Zheng. In such a villa, anyone who leaves the village and remarries is known to others.Jin Bao inquired about the grave of Zheng Rong's family with an old farmer who bowed his head and plowed the field, but the old man didn't understand.

Jin Bao said: "It's because his father died more than 20 years ago, and his mother took him out of the village and remarried."

Only then did the old man nod his head: "You are talking about the kid from the Gensan family. I heard that he was very promising outside, but he came back lying down at a young age." The old man sighed and looked at Zhen Zhu's carriage suspiciously. , "Do you have anything to do?"

Jin Bao hung his neck and didn't answer, after all Zhen Zhu was here, so he couldn't make up nonsense.

Zhen Zhu was looking at the vast farmland, and when she saw the old man speak, she said calmly, "We met once before, now come to burn some paper money and offer a glass of wine to express our affection."

The old man stroked his beard, then lifted the hem of his clothes and wiped his face, walked out from the field ridge and stuffed the hoe in his hand into the firewood pile beside him, and said to the two of them, "In any case, they are all relatives, He’s really pitiful, so I’ll take you there.” While talking, he sat by the field pit and washed it in the ditch, and then he found a shoe cover from a basket on the other side, which was not big. , Jin Bao poked his head and saw that there was still a kettle inside, the old man poured some more from the mouth of the kettle, wiped his mouth and led the people into the mountain.

The country people don't know much about Feng Shui, and because they don't have much money at hand, they can only find a place with ordinary charlatans and settle down.Qian Rong's tomb was visited by a special Feng Shui master, but because suicide was not considered normal birth, old age, sickness and death, he didn't put it in the ancestral grave.

The old man sighed very much when he said this: "It's not that we don't want to. At the beginning, the village head said that Xiaosan's son is a promising man. It doesn't matter if he dies in vain. Anyway, we Zhengjiazhuang people will be more bookish in the future, but the point-finding The master refused to let him, and only said that the death of the third son was wronged, and he might not think about it in the future, so he found a place on the top of the mountain, where he can look at the mountains and rivers, and it is also a good place."

Jin Bao didn't expect the old man to be so good at chatting before, he turned his head to look at his young master, saw that Zhen Zhu was not impatient, her face was good, and she listened very seriously, so he continued following the old man's words.

"I also heard from the young master that Qian Jijiu was very powerful in his lifetime. If it wasn't for the bad luck this time, hey..."

The old man took out the dry tobacco from his waist, tapped it twice on the soles of his feet, then rubbed the mud on the ground with the soles of his shoes, filled some tobacco leaves into it with trembling hands, lit it and smoked twice.

"It's all fate. When Xiaosan got this son, before the day passed, the blind woman in our village said that this child was born with a hard life, and he would not live for three years. Even after three years old, he would not live to be thirty. Later he Mother wanted to change her surname when she remarried to him. The old man in his family refused at first, but he also heard from the blind woman that changing his surname had cheated Hades, so he could live a few more years, so he changed his surname. It's a pity ah……"

Zhen Zhu thought of herself thoughtfully, he passed away when he was 26 in his previous life, so is this life also a short-lived ghost?He didn't dare to think about it, it's just that his mansion has changed its appearance now, even if this dynasty has changed so much, it is impossible for him to follow the old path of his previous life.

While he was thinking that he accidentally kicked a stone with his toe, he stopped for a moment, and Jin Bao next to him hurriedly reached out to block it, and the old man in front heard the movement and looked back at Zhen Zhu: "It's almost here, take two more steps."

The old man looked back and said to Jin Bao: "Follow this trail and walk another hundred steps and you will be there. My fellows are still putting things aside. There are always some people with dirty hands and feet in the village, so I will go back first. "

Jin Bao didn't want the old man to leave at first, but Zhen Zhu nodded in agreement, so he didn't say anything. The two watched the old man walking back like flying, probably because they were really worried about the hoe hidden in the firewood pile.

Seeing the old man's back disappearing into the mountains, Jin Bao muttered something and then said to Zhen Zhu: "Master, I don't know how long the coachman can wait outside, shall we go inside?" He really couldn't understand his young master Why do you have to come upside down in a poor mountain ditch, and look around, it's just like the scenery.

Zhen Zhu couldn't explain why she felt it was wrong. He had concealed some things early on. Back in the capital, he was afraid that others would know his difference, so he canceled all those things. This time there was something wrong, and this dish was used quietly. After a while, anyway, he felt that the thing was useless, but it just gave him an extra photographic memory.

"It's okay, it's not far away. If that person goes back, he can find the farm's ox cart and go back to the city." Zhen Zhu is not worried about this, but he can't explain why he came here because From his point of view, that story should be true, but the person who spoke should have nothing to do with it.

The two walked two steps forward. Zhen Zhu felt that her toes still hurt a little. Seeing the stream of water, Jin Bao said, "Master, why don't you sit down for a while and apply cold water?"

Zhen Zhu shook her head, but still walked forward: "We'll be there in a while, let's talk about it when we return."

Seeing that Zhen Zhu had made up her mind, Jin Bao stopped talking.

The two walked forward along the path, and saw a grave top in the distance, and a newly built grave mound further forward.Probably the person who built it was really sad. There are not only stone tables and stone benches on the grave, but also a large area of ​​chrysanthemums planted on both sides. white sail.

Jin Bao helped Zhen Zhu sit down on the stool, then looked forward, and saw Zheng Rong's name engraved on the stone tablet, and there were no more.

"Master, it seems that someone has worshiped here, and the building is too big. Why does it look like a joint burial? Hey, the door on this side has not been sealed yet." I didn't look carefully before, but now that I got closer, Jin Bao It was like finding something very rare, and kept turning her head to talk to Zhen Zhu.

Zhen Zhu was about to speak, when suddenly she heard footsteps from far to near, and then a voice that sounded a little quiet and seemed to come from the valley: "Because there is the place where I will lie down after death."

Zhen Zhu and Jin Bao turned their heads at the same time, one of them was wearing a white attire, his hair was tied behind him with a hemp rope, and he was holding a basket in his hand, which should contain candles and paper money. Suddenly, in an empty place, A person appeared, Jin Bao immediately stood up, rushed to Zhen Zhu, clenched his fists and shouted in a low voice: "It's a human or a ghost!"

In fact, I can’t blame Jin Bao for being nervous, it’s just because the visitor’s face is pale, even his lips are bloodless, his eyes seem to be dark circles caused by lack of sleep, and the clothes on his body are only black and white. , reckoning that no matter who is scared pee pants.

Zhen Zhu tapped the back of Jin Bao's head with one hand, and cursed: "This is Xu Jijiu, there are no rules, and I still don't apologize to Lord Jijiu."

Jin Bao's eyeballs were about to light up, and the person who was said to be Xu Jijiu twitched his mouth, then glanced at Zhen Zhu: "How do you know me, we don't seem to have met."

Jin Bao interjected: "Xu Jijiu doesn't look like this, young master, did you make a mistake?"

Zhen Zhu glanced at Jin Bao, and said angrily: "We were deceived before, this is Xu Jijiu, I'm Zhenzhu, under the order of the Holy One to find out the cause of death of Jijiu, please take care of Xu Jijiu. "

Jin Bao groaned, and then sat down on the ground. Xu Jijiu over there put the basket in his hand on the stone table, took out a joss stick from it, put it on the stone tablet, lit it, and put three sticks of fragrance on it. , and then slowly began to burn paper money, and said as he burned: "I am also considered a half-dead person now, and I don't care about anything other than burning some paper money for Arong every day. If you want to ask, why don't you ask all of them once?" , so as not to come back in the future and disturb my leisure time with Ah Rong."

What he said was spooky, and Jin Bao on the side quietly tugged on Zhen Zhu's clothes, signaling his young master to leave quickly, he really couldn't believe this abnormal person, he might as well follow along As for the 'Xu' who drank the wine, it looked more normal.