Nongmen Shenjue

The results of the autopsy on the coffin came out quickly, and the coffin was empty.

Not only Zhuo Yanyan's body disappeared, but also the dowry in the coffin disappeared.After all, Zhuo Yanyan is the only daughter of the Zhuo family. Master Zhuo loves her like a treasure. She is very sad when her daughter dies young. At present, she pays attention to the style of burial, and she must be buried properly. She also puts her daughter's favorite pearls in the coffin gold jewelry.

The person who died last night was the real Zhuo Yanyan.

The Zhuo family was in great sorrow. It was a sad event in the world for a white-haired person to send a black-haired person, but he suffered repeated blows twice in a year. How could Master Zhuo survive.

The yamen has been sealed and released from the yamen since I was young. It was closed for business, but the homicide case is unusual, and the murderer is clear, so the yamen quickly came to arrest Pan Xiusuo and put him in prison. As for the trial, it will start in the next year. Ya.

When Zhuo's family blocked the entrance of Pan's house, the yamen soldiers divided into two groups, one went to open the coffin for an autopsy to confirm the identity of the deceased, and the other side escorted Pan Xiu at Pan's house.When it was confirmed that Zhuo Yanyan was indeed dead, the yamen formally accepted the case and detained the murderer.

The case was not heard, and all kinds of rumors were flying everywhere.

The place where the fire broke out at night was not in the city as Wen Jixue said, but in a village called Xiliupu on the western outskirts of the county seat.Xiliupu is quite close to the county seat, and it takes only one meal on foot.It is said that there was a family of children playing firecrackers last night who didn't pay attention and lit firewood piles. Most of them finished their meal, thinking that they were closer to the county town, so they broke up and went to the city in groups to watch the excitement. They didn't find out until the fire spread. No matter how hard they tried to rescue them, they burned down three or four houses connected together.

When this happened during Chinese New Year, the four families howled all night.Fortunately, there were no casualties, and most of the belongings were rescued, but the house was burnt down and had to be rebuilt in the spring.

Because of this, the white servants who had been resting at home for the past two days had to patrol the streets and repeatedly remind them about fire prevention.

On 26, Mu Qingyan proposed the fresh pork he bought, and directed Wen Jixue to chop stuffing and prepare fried meatballs.

This was brought up by Wen Jixue.

"My grandfather was poor since he was a child, and he fought with Taizu in his early years. He liked meat the most. My grandmother was an ordinary cook, but she was very good at stewing meat and fried meatballs. My father also has this taste, and my mother learned from my grandmother. , I didn’t eat less when I was a child.” Now that Wen Jixue mentioned the past, his expression and mood have become calmer.

"These are enough to fry a pot, enough for you to eat." Mu Qingyan knows the secret of the delicious meatballs, and someone does the hard work of chopping the stuffing, so he can just direct.

Once the meatballs are cooked, with the sound of stinging, the aroma quickly permeates.

During the Chinese New Year, you will know what your neighbors are doing when you smell it.

"Taste it." Mu Qingyan put one on a plate and handed it to him.

Wen Jixue bit off half of it, and fed the remaining half to Mu Qingyan.

Gao Tian, ​​who was burning the fire, was always looking at his eyes and mind, but now he lowered his head and stared at the stove knowingly, as if the flames were particularly interesting.

After frying a pot, I fried some minced meat and lotus root clips.

After finishing the work, I was covered in oily smoke.There are two pots on the stove, one for frying, one for adding water, when the stuff is fried, the water for the other pot boils, just in time to take a shower and change clothes.Thinking about it again, put the noodles on at night, and steam the steamed buns tomorrow.Wen Jixue knows that he likes to eat fried fish nuggets, so he bought a dozen or so big fish earlier, marinated them and dried them there, and they can be eaten either steamed or fried.

They just wanted to make the Chinese New Year festive and lively, and they made food and convenience.

After taking a bath and changing clothes, I came out, only to see a visitor in the main room.

Jiao Li just came out to serve tea, and told him, "It's Mrs. Pan's family, Pan Xiu's mother, who came to look for Mr. Mu."

"Wait a minute." Mu Qingyan turned around and went back to the room.I washed my hair just now, it's half dry, and it's still loose.It's nothing to be just the four of them, if there are outsiders, it's out of style.He can only tie his hair up with hairpins.

Back in the main room, Mrs. Pan who was waiting anxiously got up and took two steps: "Mr. Mu?"

"Mrs. Pan."

"Mr. Mu, my son has been wronged, you have to save my son." Mrs. Pan couldn't control her emotions as soon as she opened her mouth, her tears flooded and she choked up.As a wife of a wealthy family, she eats carefully and has always had a rosy complexion, but in just three or four days, her complexion has become haggard, and her eyes are also red and swollen.

"Sister, don't be in a hurry, let's talk about things first." A man next to him persuaded him, he was Pan Xiu's uncle.

After some reassurance, Mrs. Pan's mood stabilized a little, but the words were still spoken by Uncle Pan.

Uncle Pan also looked distressed: "Mr. Mu, I think you have heard about my nephew. My nephew is weak-tempered and never quarrels with others. Everyone knows that he has a peaceful temper, let alone murder. , the chicken has never been killed."

"Didn't he kill people?"

"... He killed it, but I can't blame him, he was also frightened." Uncle Pan sighed again and again: "The Zhuo family girl died a year ago, everyone in the county knew about it, but last night But she went to knock on the door to see my nephew. At first, the door thought someone was causing trouble on purpose. She kept on knocking, saying that she was Zhuo Yanyan. There was no way out, so the door told my nephew. My nephew didn't believe me, why? When I got to the gate, I saw that she was really Zhuo Yanyan. She was wearing a thin white gauze skirt and her hair was disheveled, almost frightening people. How dare my nephew talk to her, so he quickly closed the gate and asked someone else The gold and silver paper money that was obtained was burned, which was meant to appease.

Alas, my nephew regarded the visitor as a ghost, I really don't blame him, anyone who encounters such a thing will think so.The girl from the Zhuo family was turned away when she was rejected, she cursed my nephew viciously, and insisted that the nephew open the door.My nephew is also afraid, but my sister and brother-in-law have gone out, only the nephew and the nephew-in-law, and the nephew-in-law is still pregnant... There is no way, we can't keep making troubles, it's New Year's Eve.He took a sword to strengthen his courage, opened the door and slashed out...

Alas, blame me, blame me, I gave you the sword.My nephew loved reading since he was a child, and he has a special study room. He wants to hang a sword in the study room.I'm just his nephew, when he was weak, I gave him a special sword, who would have thought..."

Under the narration of the Pan family siblings, they finally figured out the entanglement between Zhuo Yanyan and Pan Xiu.

Although the two families are opposite each other, they have a normal relationship with each other, and the children of the two families are naturally not childhood sweethearts.Pan Xiu said that the late marriage was due to the fact that the Pan family was picky, and that Pan Xiu had high vision.Zhuo's family is only an only daughter, so naturally she has ideas, she doesn't want her daughter to marry outside, and wants to recruit.

In an accident last year, Pan Xiu accidentally saw Zhuo Yanyan getting off the carriage when she came home.The two only met each other a few times when they were young, and they haven't seen each other for many years. Zhuo Yanyan is already a fair lady, and she fell into Pan Xiu's heart at a glance.Pan Xiu was not paying attention, she was always wandering around the gate, her sweetheart was missing, but her friends noticed it.A good friend gave him an idea to attract a group of children when Zhuo Yanyan was out, and to support Zhuo Yanyan's footsteps, so that Pan Xiu could have a good look at the girl.

It was also fate, that Zhuo Yanyan was moved when she saw Pan Xiu.

After that, things went smoothly, the two lived opposite each other, passed letters and objects in private, and in just a month or so, they made an oath to each other.

Pan Xiu proposed to her parents that she wanted to marry Zhuo Yanyan. The Pan family was not picky about the Zhuo family. The two families had similar backgrounds. If they got married, they would be a good match.Earlier, the Pan family's parents didn't consider the Zhuo family because the Zhuo family had only one daughter and they were afraid of high demands. But Pan Xiu said that he and Zhuo Yanyan had made a personal decision for life, and the Pan family thought they could give it a try.

However, the Zhuo family did not respond.

The Zhuo family has no dissatisfaction with the Pan family and Pan Xiu, but they only have an only daughter, and they want their daughter to marry.

As soon as this word comes out, the marriage will not be completed.

The Zhuo family is an only daughter, and the Pan family is also an only son.

The Pan family's parents kept persuading Pan Xiu, persuaded Pan Xiu, and then told Pan Xiu another family.

When Pan's family had a wedding, Zhuo's family at the opposite door naturally knew about it, they were happy, Zhuo Yanyan stood on the embroidered building and watched, but she couldn't catch her breath and passed away.The Zhuo family held a funeral that day.Knowing that her daughter died because of Pan Xiucai, even if the Pan family can't do anything, the two families have turned against each other.

Mrs. Pan wiped her tears and said: "Back then, the Zhuo family tried to recruit a wife, and my Xiu'er was also the only child of the Pan family. Could it be that she was going to marry into the Zhuo family? This is a polite rejection of the marriage. I can only persuade Xiu'er to give up, saying that he and The girl from the Zhuo family has no fate as a husband and wife. How do you know that the girl from the Zhuo family is so temperamental that... I don’t understand, everyone is dead, the Zhuo family’s funeral, Xiu’er even went to the grave to burn paper, why, why? Alive? Isn’t this Chunxin trying to kill my Xiu’er?”

"The yamen opened the coffin for an autopsy, and the coffin was empty, so Zhuo Yanyan must have survived. What did the Zhuo family say? Has Zhuo Yanyan been hiding in the Zhuo family this year, or is her whereabouts unknown?" Mu Qingyan asked.

Uncle Pan patted his leg: "I've been thinking about this, and I asked someone at Zhuo's house to inquire, and they all said that Zhuo Yanyan really died a year ago. Last night, Zhuo Yanyan knocked on the door of Zhuo's house first. However, the Zhuo family didn’t dare to open the door. They lost a piece of paper money and said they were sending him away. In fact, Zhuo Yanyan turned her head and knocked on the door of the Pan’s house. If the Zhuo family didn’t open the door for their own girl, what happened later would not have happened. It will happen."

Mu Qingyan frowned: "Zhuo's family won't open the door? Zhuo Yanyan is an only daughter, even if she is a ghost, as parents, she can't bear to see her through the door?"

The stories of ghosts and gods are indeed scary, but parents love their children deeply, the fright is the fright, and the heart of longing is surging. Even if it is a ghost returning, I am afraid that they will take a look at it.In people's minds, ghosts are also good or bad. As the saying goes, if you don't do bad things, you won't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door.

Uncle Pan explained: "Young Master Mu doesn't know something. Mrs. Zhuo's family has not been in good health since her daughter passed away. Most of the family affairs are handled by the housekeeper. In addition to the mistress, the Zhuo family also has a concubine. The concubine is young and beautiful. She also gave birth to a son, just two months old."

Mrs. Pan said: "That woman has a plan. According to the time calculation, she was pregnant when Zhuo Yanyan's accident happened, but she kept it a secret until two months after the person was buried. Now that she has a son, she will be pregnant again. After killing the mistress, the future family business will not belong to their mother and son. If Miss Zhuo goes back, Master Zhuo has been in pain for seventeen or eight years, can you ignore it?"

Mu Qingyan listened, but did not express his opinion. After all, it was all subjective opinions of the Pan family siblings.