Nongmen Shenjue

According to Yang Rusong, Liu Yunzhi and Tao Peng fell into the big pit one after another after the two families passed the big ceremony.

That was April eighteenth, more than a month ago.

The Zeng family's old house is in the southernmost part of the town. It has a courtyard with two entrances, and a few rooms are added in the back as warehouses.After Zeng He married his wife, he lived here for five or six years, and chose a site to build a new house.This is very unreasonable. Usually people will choose to renovate, or even tear down and rebuild. After all, this is the old house of the Zeng family, where their ancestors lived.

In this regard, Zeng He explained that it was for his wife to recuperate.

His wife, Mrs. Du, fell ill in the fifth year after her marriage. Many doctors were unable to treat her. Regarding her illness, she was kept very tight to the outside world. People in the town hadn't seen her go out for many years, and Zeng's family had never seen her appear. Or the disease can not see people.

The Zeng family only said that the illness was in conflict with the feng shui of the old house, so the northernmost part of the town was chosen for the new house.

The old house has been left unused for many years, and servants come to clean it every New Year's festival. The roof and walls are only repaired when there is a problem. Obviously, they don't care much.

Now the old house has been cleaned up, the Ruyi troupe lives here, and the stage is set up.It's too hot during the day, and people don't necessarily have free time, so plays are sung at night.Even so, during the day, there were still quite a few people gathered around the troupe, either listening to their outside stories, or leaning against the wall to listen to the theater rehearsal.

Mu Qingyan walked around the old house, there was a path outside the courtyard wall on the west side, and there was a bamboo forest beside the road.

The big pit that used to be gone has been filled with soil.

Across the courtyard wall, there is a melodious singing voice floating out, but I don't know what kind of opera it is singing.There is no soundtrack rhythm, just practice in private, and you can also hear the commentary of class leader Li.

Following the path by the courtyard wall, and going around to the gate in front, two children held wooden sticks as swords, playing and chasing and running over.Mu Qingyan reacted quickly and dodged sideways. The two children looked at him and Wen Jixue, a little scared, and ran back into the crowd.

In order to prevent the townspeople watching the excitement from entering and leaving at will, the door of the old house was closed.

Mu Qingyan knocked on the door: "I'm looking for Team Leader Li."

After a while, the door opened, and Leader Li was quite surprised to see the people outside the door: "Mr. Mu, Mr. Wen."

"Can you go in?"

"Please come in quickly." Although leader Li was puzzled, he still enthusiastically let them in.

Naturally, Mu Qingyan didn't come to check out the old house, but to talk about new plays: "Are you still singing new plays tonight?"

Leader Li smiled wryly: "Mr. Mu doesn't know yet, the new opera can't be sung, and he didn't sing it last night, so we have to wait for two days."

"What?" Mu Qingyan was a little surprised.

Leader Li sighed: "Speaking of which, I'm not afraid of Mr. Mu's jokes. Fengchun sprained his foot when he was singing in Yangjiazhuang that day. Although it's not serious, he can't be on stage for at least three to five days. He is singing Xiaosheng. In the new play, he sprained his foot. He has the most words, and without him, this show would not be able to be performed. I originally planned to ask someone to replace him. After all, I know there is a new play, and you just don’t want to be in it. The audience is not happy. Who would have thought that the young master would make a fuss Temper, resolutely oppose."

Leader Li got angry when he mentioned this matter.

What the other party said was vague, Mu Qingyan thought it over carefully, and guessed a little: "Ye Luoqiu disagrees?"

Ye Luoqiu was singing the female role, and in the new play she played the role of Miss Cheng.

"Isn't it him?" Leader Li said: "He is strict with himself, and also strict with others. He said this is a new play, and it's just right for Fengchun, but it's much worse for another person. I also know, Zhong Wen's foundation is not as good, so there is no way."

Mu Qingyan didn't really come here for the new play, chatted with Team Leader Li for a few words, and then shifted the topic to the Zeng family's old house without any trace.

Leader Li is very busy. He confirmed the repertoire for the evening, watched everyone practice, and corrected any mistakes.In addition, although the theater troupe is small, there are many chores, so you have to worry about it.

"Father! Can I go out? Just walk around the town." The little girl dressed as a teenager ran over, fawning and begging. After hearing the address, she realized that she was the daughter of Team Leader Li.The little girl was twelve or thirteen years old at most, and she was innocent, even though she was only the daughter of the head of a small theater troupe, she grew up spoiled and never experienced hardship.

Leader Li put on a hard face, and opened his mouth to refuse.

"Father! I'm going to be suffocated to death!" The little girl was also determined.

Seeing this, Mu Qingyan pretended to be considerate and walked away.

He glanced at Wen Jixue.

Wen Jixue smiled and said, "No one will disturb you."

What's bothering you, we know each other well.

The Ruyi troupe lived in the first courtyard, and the second door leading to the back was locked.

Mu Qingyan pretended to be idle and released his mental power, capturing a dozen or so green light clusters, large and small.Silver light flashed in his eyes, and time went backward——

On the second day after the ceremony, April nineteenth.

At dusk, every household smoked from the kitchen, and occasionally a few dogs barked, reflecting a different kind of tranquility.

Suddenly, a woman's scolding came from a distance: "Surnamed Tao, stop! Auntie will chop you up today!"

"Liu Yunzhi, you are crazy! You will pay for your life if you kill someone!" A panting male voice was full of fear, and his steps were hurried.

"Ah!" There were two exclamations in succession, and there was a knock at the door, and a man and a woman fell into the big pit one after another.

These two people are Liu Yunzhi and Tao Peng.

Liu Yunzhi was just as described by her neighbors, with a beautiful appearance and a smart temper. Perhaps it was because her family ran a meat stall, she was a little bit pungent and forthright. The 17-year-old Miao Ling, no matter how ordinary a girl is, she has three points of beauty, let alone her, the "pork Xi Shi" in Shizhu Town.

At this moment, her head, face and clothes were covered with dust, and she was in a state of embarrassment. She looked up at the top of the pit, guessing that she would not be able to climb up, and gripped the bone chopping knife even tighter. She glanced at the person opposite, snorted coldly, and chopped The cold light on the bone knife trembled and reflected on the man's face.

"You, don't mess around!" Tao Peng is 20 years old, with thin skin and tender flesh. He has never suffered hardships, never worked, and is dressed in clothes that are probably new. If he didn't know his details, he would be a young master.

As Yang Rusong said, at this point, Liu Yunzhi wanted to get out as soon as possible, Tao Peng was afraid of the bone-chopping knife in her hand, and the two sides lived in peace.

After discovering that it was indeed impossible to climb up from the bottom of the pit, they tried to move forward along the tunnel.

The direction of the tunnel leading to the bamboo forest was blocked, so they walked in the direction of the old house.Although the tunnel was very damp and it had been a long time, fortunately it was still strong, and the two of them reached the entrance of the cellar smoothly.A stone slab was built at the entrance, and there were stone steps going down, otherwise the two of them would not be able to reach the stone slab.The two of them worked together to lift the slate and finally came out.

Tao Peng ran away all at once, as if he felt safe, with a wretched smile on his face: "Yun'er, we are sharing weal and woe, right? Tell me, if Yang Rusong finds out..."

Liu Yunzhi's face was livid, and he raised the bone cutter in his hand.

Tao Peng turned around and ran away in fright.

Liu Yunzhi gritted her teeth, patted the dirt on her body, and left the Zeng family's old house.

The door of the old house was locked, and the two of them didn't go through the door, but put something on their feet and climbed out from the courtyard wall.

Not to mention Tao Peng, but as far as Liu Yunzhi is concerned, she is unwilling to mention this experience.She felt that Tao Peng was just looking for money, so for the sake of blackmail, he would not tell this matter easily, otherwise he would have no reason to blackmail him.As for whether the Zeng family would find out, she didn't think it would. The Zeng family didn't care about the old house. Some people sneaked in to play around in the past, and the Zeng family was not angry.

As Yang Rusong said, this experience was nothing special.

Mu Qingyan thought for a while, and moved the time back, one day, two days, three days... On the fifth night, a black figure appeared outside the courtyard wall of the old house.The place where he was standing happened to be the place where the earthen pit was collapsed that day, but the earthen pit was discovered the next day, and the people from the Zeng family came to fill the pit.

"It's really troublesome!" Heiying revealed his identity with a single mouth, it was Tao Peng.

Taking advantage of the darkness, Tao Peng sneaked over with a hoe in his hand, found the right location, picked up the hoe and started digging.

He wants to throw out the previous pit.

Tao Peng is easy to understand. A person who stretches out his hands to eat and opens his mouth from a small coat can only gamble money and play hooligans. If there is no benefit, can he dig the dirt here in the middle of the night?However, what can be in the pit?He fell down with Liu Yunzhi that day and didn't find anything strange. Why did he come back after five days?

It's like digging for treasure.

Mu Qingyan suddenly remembered something. In the bamboo grove next to the path, there was the Zeng family's ancestor's tomb. The Zeng family's ancestor had a lot of money. Could it be that Tao Peng was so poor and crazy that he wanted to rob the tomb?

No, if you really want to rob a tomb, you shouldn't choose this place to dig. This place is still some distance from the cemetery.

Tao Peng was an inexperienced worker with little energy. Fortunately, the hole was newly filled, and it took more than half an hour to finally dig it to the bottom.Tao Peng panted heavily and was paralyzed for a long time before continuing to dig forward.

"Hiss, it really hurts, I hope there are good things." Tao Peng's hands were callous-free, and he was holding a hoe for the first time, and two blisters were rubbed on his palms, and he grinned in pain.He really wanted to give up, but he was not reconciled to the good things he was about to get.

Probably because the cellar of the Zeng family was dug so special that Tao Peng believed that there was something good hidden in it.

He dug in the direction of the bamboo forest, and the more he dug, the harder it became.One is that the soil layer has never been dug before, and the other is that the bamboo roots are criss-crossed and meandering very deep, which is very troublesome to dig.

"Did you guess wrong?" Seeing this, Tao Peng was full of irritability, cursed several times, and scratched a few times with the hoe.

Suddenly, he seemed to have bumped into something, his eyes lit up, and he dug a few more times.There was no light in the hole, so he couldn't see what it was, so he started to touch it.

"What... Damn it!" Tao Peng screamed, and threw the things in his hand, but he ran away scrambling, forgetting to pick up the hoe.

Then, in the faint light of the sky, a human hand with bones lay quietly at the bottom of the pit.