The First Young Master of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 1423 The death of the old man

Thinking of this, Xuan Shijing hurriedly ran towards the courtyard where he had been yesterday.

At this time, the gate of the yard was open, and through the gate, one could see many people standing in the yard, all of them were elderly people.

Xuan Shijing walked into the courtyard and walked through the crowd.

Sure enough, the dead man was the old man who chatted with Xuan Shijing yesterday. At this time, the old man's body had been put into what was barely a thin-skinned coffin. It was only then that such a simple coffin was produced, and it helped to contain his body.

Xuan Shijing knew that the old man's son and daughter had all died in the hands of the pirates, and there was no one to die, so that was the only way to go.

But the good man, who was still talking to himself in this yard yesterday, is lying in a thin-skinned coffin today. The old man in the village said that the pirates killed him, but from the time Xuan Shijing left to today It only took one day to come to this village, neither the government nor the navy received any news of the pirates coming.

Moreover, the pirates came to the village to kill such an old man without looting anything?

This is obviously unreasonable.

Xuan Shijing walked to the coffin and smelled a strong smell of blood. When he reached out to open the coffin to check the old man's wound, he was stopped by the people around him.

"Young man, who are you?"

Xuan Shijing turned around and said, "I'm a merchant from out of town. Yesterday I brought goods to the village and wanted to exchange some special products back home. I saw this old man on the street, but I didn't expect to come here again today. The old man unexpectedly brutally murdered."

"Are you a merchant?" Another old man asked.

Xuan Shijing nodded: "Exactly."

"Oh~~" the old man heard Xuan Shijing's confession, and sighed: "Perhaps the old man was killed because he said a few words to you?"

"Why is this?" Xuan Shijing asked: "We just talked about exchanging things, I exchanged some common daily necessities with this old man, and received some seafood from this old man's house, what's the difference?" OK?"

The old man shook his head: "Child, it's not wrong. It's in this coastal village. If outsiders come to the local village, if they are found out by pirates, they will choose to kill them in order not to reveal their identities and whereabouts. If the pirates haven't found you, leave this village quickly, who knows when they will come over."

"You mean, it was Haikou who suspected that the old man told me about the pirates and revealed his identity, which led to his death?" Xuan Shijing asked.

"It should be so, otherwise the old Zhangtou usually has no grievances with others, who would have hit him so cruelly." The old man said.

I didn't kill Boren, but Boren died because of me.

Xuan Shijing stood where he was, looking at the crude coffin, filled with guilt, no matter what, the old man died because of him for sure.

"Since this is the case, everyone." Xuan Shijing stood beside the coffin and said loudly to the people standing in the yard: "You should go back quickly, I will handle the funeral at the old man's house! I, a foreigner, got involved in order to avoid accidents."

Xuan Shijing never thought that after just chatting in the yard, the person who came again would die.

Simply insane!
Hearing Xuan Shijing's words, everyone didn't want to stay here anymore, and it was useless to stay here. In terms of the friendship in the same village, it was already moral to help Lao Zhangtou restrain the corpse. The next thing Well, since the young man is willing to take him down, they have no objection, after all, this is still related to their own lives.

They are still very afraid of pirates.

Chang Le and Gao Jun followed Xuan Shijing into the courtyard, while the people sent by Chen Zheng were guarding the carriage outside.

"Master." Gao Jun said: "Do you want my subordinates to go back and prepare another coffin."

Xuan Shijing waved his hand: "No need, find a good place and have a decent burial."

After getting busy again and again, there is no need to do other things for the whole day today. Now the top priority is to find out those pirates and avenge the old man.

Xuan Shijing didn't believe that this was done by pirates wandering in the sea, so he said that there must be internal agents of pirates nearby, and the killing was done by internal agents.

There are still many details in this that Xuan Shijing needs to calm down and think about slowly. Maybe we can start from here. In the absence of clues, the death of Lao Zhangtou exposed those people to Xuan Shijing. Under his nose, a clue was sent to him.

Xuan Shijing stood beside the coffin and sighed: "Old man, this junior will definitely avenge you."

There was a dilapidated cart in the yard. Chang Le and Gao Jun packed the cart out and it was barely usable. Then, the two of them worked together to lift the coffin onto the cart. Gao Jun walked to the cart and wanted to pull the cart. The car goes out.

"I'll come." Xuan Shijing walked to the cart and said.

"Master's house. Let's come down here." Gao Jun said.

Xuan Shijing shook his head, stopped talking, pulled up the cart, and walked towards the door.

It was quite difficult for Xuan Shijing to pull the cart out. After all, the cart had not been used for a long time in the yard, and the wooden wheels were very dull.

Chang Le and Gao Jun hurried to the gate of the yard and opened it. When Xuan Shijing reached the threshold, Chang Le and Gao Jun pushed behind the cart.

Xuan Shijing felt ashamed of the dead old Zhangtou, so he wanted to bury him personally and pull the cart for him. Only in this way could Xuan Shijing feel better.

The person is already dead, Xuan Shijing can only do this to seek comfort in his heart.

Xuan Shijing pulled the cart and walked in front, Gao Jun followed Xuan Shijing's side, supported the cart, and secretly pushed the cart forward, while Chang Le and Chen Zheng's people drove the cart slowly. Follow slowly.

The road out of the village was bumpy, and Xuan Shijing's footsteps pulling the cart gradually became more difficult.

After pulling the coffin to a jungle clearing outside the village, Xuan Shijing put down the cart, found tools from the carriage behind, and began to dig a hole.

The other three also came to help.

After tossing for a while, the grave was erected, but I didn't know what to write on the wooden sign.

Except for the three words "Old Zhangtou", Xuan Shijing has no other understanding of the old man.

If so, leave it blank.

On the day when the pirates were calmed down, they decided to share the money and burn incense to report. Xuan Shijing stood in front of the lonely grave and said silently in his heart. Pour out the wine, which is regarded as a sacrifice.

(End of this chapter)