sunk in yesterday

Centipede Face's house is at the west end of the village. The upper floor is made of wood, and the lower floor is made of slate walls. From a distance, you can see a few clothes drying on the open-air balcony on the second floor. It is one of the best "rich buildings" in the village.

Although the house is big, he has no children in his family, and both his parents passed away two years ago. Currently there are only two people living with him and his wife, so there is no need to worry about no place for the seven of them to live.

He knocked on the closed door, and soon the door was pulled open a crack.Only one oil lamp was barely lit, and the woman's face was dimly illuminated. She first looked at her husband who had returned home, and then put her eyes behind him, and said hesitantly, "These people are..."

Centipede Face didn't answer what she meant, and stretched out his hand to brush her away, and the woman obediently stepped aside, bowed her head and remained silent.

"Is the rice cooked?" The centipede looked at the dining table with two small pickle plates, as if feeling that the soup was too watery to lose face, and said in a bad tone: "Isn't there bacon at home? Take all of them. Come out and cut it, and warm a pot of buried wine, these are distinguished guests who have come from afar, so don’t be sloppy!”

Xia Zhuo almost laughed out loud, he didn't expect that the words he said casually would have such a purpose, he only hoped to catch up with the conversation, but he didn't expect that he planned to offer delicious food and drink.He approached the house, opened his mouth and said a few polite words: "There is no need to go through so much trouble, we have already caused trouble for the two of you, and we are very grateful for providing a place to rest."

Shen Wei murmured softly behind him: "Why are you becoming more refined?"

"How is that possible? I don't have any special features, I'm just hospitable. It's not too late, let her do her work, and let's talk about ours." Centipede turned and went to the cabinet?He took a jar of sunflower seeds, and the corners of his eyes almost wrinkled with laughter: "Sit, sit. There is really nothing good in this house, everyone, please fill your belly first."

A group of people looked at me and I looked at you, but Xia Zhuo was not polite, pulled the stool and sat at the table.After the rest of the people also sat down one after another, he looked around and asked casually, "Why don't you see your son or daughter?"

The centipede froze, obviously not expecting him to ask such a question suddenly.But Xia Zhuo didn't intend to ask him to answer, and said to himself: "I also have a six-year-old brother, who is very noisy when he is at home all day long, and jumps up and down very much. The house looks lively. When I first came here, it was deserted, and without the sound in my ears, I always felt that there was nothing around me."

"That's, that's. This house still has to be lively and lively." Sure enough, the centipede didn't continue the conversation with his previous sentence, but started another topic, and asked tentatively: "How many people are starting from the capital? It will take ten days and half a month to get here. Where is this going?"

"It's just a leisurely stroll, and there is no clear destination." Xia Zhuo said: "Seeing that you have a river and a view in your village, and you have nothing to do tomorrow, can you walk around before someone comes to pick you up?"

"This……"

It happened that his wife came over with the cut bacon, and the centipede face said, "Of course it's no problem. I'm just afraid that some people who don't know the places they live in may encounter some danger. Why don't I let my wife lead the way."

Xia Zhuo looked up, and at the same time his wife looked back. The latter seemed very unaccustomed to facing strangers, and there was a flash of haste in his eyes.

He nodded and said with a smile, "Then I'll be fine."

Centipede Face's wife's surname is Sun, and she has an ordinary appearance.After marrying him, his wife took his surname, and the villagers uniformly called her "Li Sunshi".After she tidied up everything on the dinner table, she retreated away without a sound, and there was no one at the same table.

It's hard to come up with words, everyone in this village is vigilant, and it's impossible to tell the clues easily.

Xia Zhuo thought for a while, and cast her eyes on the small pottery pot brought up by Li Sunshi.

Upon receiving his gaze, the centipede smiled and hurriedly introduced: "This is brewed with the secret recipe handed down from our village. It is usually dug out during the Chinese New Year. It has a little stamina, so everyone in the village calls it Yiyixian. Don't look at the size of this pot, if half of it goes into your stomach, you will be unconscious and just sleep peacefully."

Have enough stamina?That's fine.

Centipede Face poured him a cup, "Try it."

Xia Zhuo raised his glass with a smile: "I'm free, you can do it."

The centipede froze, it was the first time someone said that.But he didn't care, he raised his head and drank it down, and showed Xia Zhuo the empty cup that had bottomed out.

Xia Zhuo flattered him: "It's the first time I've met you who are so forthright."

When the person on the other side heard this, he couldn't hold back his mouth at all.The smell of wine had already filled the room, and when the meal was over, the pot of wine was empty, the centipede's face was filled with eyes blurred, and he couldn't speak clearly with his tongue out, obviously drunk.

Shen Wei looked at the door Li Sunshi left from, gestured "ok", and Xia Zhuo began to talk to him.He didn't get straight to the point at the beginning, but first asked if he had a bad relationship with his wife.The centipede's face smelled of alcohol, and there was a disdainful hum in his throat, and he spoke impolitely: "After so long, I still can't conceive, can't have a child, what's the use of keeping her? Before I... ...I don't like it, but now...the whole village has this problem...If it wasn't, it wasn't like this, I, I would have divorced her long ago."

"I don't think you're still married?" Liu Qianyu instinctively felt sorry for the weak woman she met just now, and muttered, "Don't take a pee to see how you look."

But the fact is that the status of modern women is high, but in the past, not being able to have children was a serious crime.

"Huh... When the temple is established, established, and the problem is solved, I, I will have money, and then I will pay a small one. Anyway, you, you big families, don’t you all play like this? Yes. For the money, I will marry someone who is as beautiful as..."

It turned out that there was another reason why he wanted to kill Uncle Wang, in order to privately embezzle the huge amount of property raised in the village and reach the sky in one step.

He is a rotten person, Xia Zhuo is sure.

His voice was so muffled that I couldn't hear the end.

Guan Yuzhou asked: "Like who?"

"Like...uh." Centipede hiccupped, "Like her."

"who is she?"

"Her. Haha. Her."

After asking twice, Xia Zhuo couldn't find out, Xia Zhuo was a little anxious to hear it.

The centipede face was lying on the table, "she, she, she" murmured, thinking of something, suddenly opened her eyes, shook her head and waved her hands in a panic: "It's not my problem, I'm right, I'm not...wrong, It has nothing to do with me, it's her—”

Liu Qianyu was startled by his sudden nervousness, and quickly shrank back.

Guan Yuzhou frowned, "Who is she?"

who is it?The centipede's expression became very gloomy, and his eyes were fixed on the ceiling. Several complex emotions flickered in his eyes, including fear, anger, and others.In the end, he slapped the table, spit flying, and gritted his teeth: "It's her, it's all her... If, if it weren't for her, our village would not be reduced to this level!"

Shen Wei jumped on his foot: "Damn, she, she, said, understand, urgently die."

Liu Qianyu guessed: "Does he not remember?"

If he can't remember, let them help him think about it.Guan Yuzhou got up from his seat, he bent over slightly, moved his face closer to the man, and asked slowly, "Is the surname 'Liu'?"

The chopsticks slid off the chopsticks pillow and fell to the ground with a clang.

As if there was something taboo about the "Liu" surname, as soon as he finished speaking, the oil lamp on the table suddenly flickered violently, and the burning flame sizzled like damp, faintly intending to extinguish it.This made Shen Wei, who was guarding the door farthest from the light source, pale with fright, and hurried to the crowded place, and before he could reach the table, there was a sizzling sound—the light went out.

"Oh my mother..." Shen Wei yelled strangely and jumped right behind Xia Zhuo and Guan Yuzhou. He felt that this place felt the most secure.

The tense atmosphere was dissipated by his words, Zhao Xiaomeng hurriedly took out the flashlight, and hurriedly turned on the switch, a cluster of light shined directly, but swept the huge black shadow behind the centipede's face.It is normal for a person to have a shadow, but that shadow has long hair, and it is clearly a woman.Even though the centipede's face was already trembling, the black shadow covering the wall remained motionless, hanging there like a painting.

I don't know who took a breath, and then the whole air became quiet.

Only Centipede Face was left reading: "Yes, the surname is Liu. Liu... Liu." After repeating this word, he was suddenly awakened by a stick like a dream for thousands of years. His pupils shrank suddenly, and he hugged his head as if denying quickly: "No...no, we don't have this surname in Murakami, no!"

He trembled violently, holding back for a long time without uttering another sentence, instead clutching his neck and curling up in pain, his throat made a strange sound of inhaling.Several people took a closer look, and saw a strand of wet black hair sliding from the shadows to the ground, tightly wrapped around his neck.Being so frightened, Centipede Face Wine suddenly woke up halfway, he tried his best to struggle away, the veins on his face popped up one after another, but even if he could do so, he only overturned the table, and those bottles and cans immediately It was broken to the ground, no matter how hard he pulled it, the hair would only shrink and tighten, with a boundless resentment that wanted to kill him on the spot.

"No, he can't die yet." Xia Zhuo snatched the flashlight from Zhao Xiaomeng's hand, letting the glaring light shine directly on the people rolling on the ground.A foul-smelling burnt smell spread slowly, and the shadow on the wall was undoubtedly injured, but insisted on turning the head of Centipede Face with its horrific black hair, twisting it back little by little.

The centipede's face and eyes were bloodshot, like a puppet that was about to explode, his eyes were forced to move, slowly, slowly - he saw a pair of embroidered shoes.

With a bang, the door was suddenly pushed against the wall.Li Sun was wearing a thin blanket, holding a red candle in his hand, and rushed in at a trot all the way.She heard the abnormal noise in the room first, and felt worried, so she hurried over from another room. She didn't expect that when she opened the door, she would see her husband lying on the ground in a strange posture, his eyes were as empty as a dead person.

But as she entered, the black shadow disappeared, and the extinguished oil lamp that fell to the ground rekindled, calmly illuminating the surroundings.

She hugged her husband in her arms, and looked at the "distinguished guests" across from her in a protective gesture, too scared to speak.She originally thought that these people were the villains who harmed her husband, but after a glance, she found that some of them were also in shock. It was obviously a reaction that would only occur after seeing something she was afraid of.

"Uh uh..."

A weak voice came from her bosom, she lowered her head, before she breathed a sigh of relief because her husband was not dead, she saw the scar on his face split open at some point, and bright red blood flowed down her cheek Dripping down, making that face even more hideous.

"Liu..." The centipede looked at the empty wall behind her, trembling from the severe pain, and finally passed out again.

After hearing the name clearly, Li Sun's breathing became heavy, and his chest rose and fell violently.She grabbed her husband's clothes and wanted to lead him back into the house, but she didn't have enough strength in her body, so she could only use her teeth to drag him towards the door.

No one wanted to go up to help. After she dragged the person into the turning point, the sound of the cloth rubbing against the ground gradually disappeared, and the smell of burning in the air disappeared.

Kong Man looked down, a little surprised: "There are actually points."

"Because I know the key information in the plot. He just mentioned 'Liu Shi'. According to the ancient rule that married wives always bear their husband's surname, this Liu Shi should be Liu Zijin's wife."

Liu Qianyu's eyes fluttered, and she was a little scared: "Is Mrs. Liu the ghost who came here just now?"

Xia Zhuo nodded, "For the time being, I can think so."

Liu Qianyu thought for a while, and then asked strangely: "Why is Li Sun's name 'Li Sun', and Liu's only 'Liu'?"

Shen Wei knew this: "In ancient times, many women had no names. Li Sun had a surname, so she added her husband's surname before her own. Liu didn't have a name before, but she was called Liu after she got married. gone."

"This man is not scared. He fainted once not long ago, and now he faints again." Xia Zhuo sighed, and returned the flashlight, "It seems that Mrs. Liu is here for him. What crime did he do?"