I am born with insufficiency

Chapter 29
Ling An followed to the backyard of the coffin shop, but everything was as usual, but the wasteland next door was a bit suspicious.

The crumbling dilapidated hut behind the broken wall of the wasteland caught his attention again.

The door of the hut was only half-closed, obliquely blocking the opening.

He held his breath and sneaked in, and what he saw were broken tables and chairs, tilted beams and cabinets, and spider webs and flying insects. It didn't seem like someone had come in, and there was no place to hide.

But judging from the degree to which the weeds in front of the door were broken, people must come and go here frequently.

Qiaoerniang said that Liming Qianzhuang is a square hut with a candle in it, but the dilapidated walls in front of her, the dilapidated house that even beggars disdain to live in, is not what she said anyway.

He hesitated for a moment, because he was worried that he would not take care of everything, so he had to turn back to Lizheng's home.

Gu Buquan was sitting upright on a chair, drinking tea leisurely, while watching coldly the Tang family father and son fighting for the tael of silver.

The two had a great fight, the silver flew out of his hand, and it was about to hit Gu Buquan's teacup, Ling An waved his hand casually, and the silver fell to the ground with a "clang", just falling on the flower rattle that had been late. underfoot.

"Get rich."

Hua Yaoling was overjoyed, Cheng Lizheng and Tang Wang hadn't reacted yet, they quickly grabbed the money and ran away, despite the yelling and cursing behind them.

Gu Buquan shook his head helplessly.

When the silver came into Hua Rattle's hands, even if she broke her fingers, she couldn't get it out. Her enthusiasm for the silver was no less than that of the Tang family father and son.

"Stupid, have you seen the cloaked man?"

Ling An shook his head: "Two, black and white are impermanent."

Gu Buquan was taken aback: "Is black and white really impermanent? It is said that they only haunt people at night to seduce people's souls, so what are they doing in broad daylight? Are they and the cloaked man in the same group?"

Seeing Ling An's silence, Gu Buquan sighed, "Hey, it's useless to ask you a fool."

"I suspect," Ling An hesitated, "They are those two."

He has never been too lazy to talk too much, but only a few words, Gu Buquan already understood the two he was referring to, that is, the pair of old man and old woman who behaved strangely.

As early as when she was in the Zhu Mansion, she had noticed that the two of them were extraordinary, they looked old and powerful, but they were extremely powerful, they entered and left the Zhu Mansion twice, but no one could trace their traces.

"I remembered, I heard the old woman calling the old man Xiao Hei inadvertently. They should be black and white."

The stranger in the cloak had no clue, and now there were two black and white impermanences, which made Gu Buquan feel more and more uneasy.

She faintly felt that Maple Leaf Town was in the midst of a huge conspiracy, but up to now, she knew nothing about "Liming Qianzhuang".

"Stupid, you..."

She wants to ask who he is, why he is so extraordinary and why he ends up living here. The key question is, is there any relationship between him and the mysterious outsider?
But she still shut up, thought for a while, and then said, "...can you help me bury Miss Qiao'er together?"

"Hmm." He nodded naturally.

Thinking of Miss Qiao'er, she turned her head bitterly and grabbed Lizheng by the collar: "Say, who is he?"

Li Zheng shook his head: "I don't know."

"No." Gu Buquan said, "Every time I see the cloaked man collecting debts, you are the mediator. Do you know who he is?"

"I really don't know. He is just a foreigner, and he doesn't know where the accent is. I mediate with him, and he gives me the money, that's all. Unexpectedly, he took it back this time, and he paid a thousand dollars."

She glanced at Ling An, and there was obvious anxiety in his eyes.

Outside the door, the rain poured down.

The storm was extremely violent, and it didn't subside until the next morning. The sea was calm and peaceful, and the next storm was brewing.

After burying Miss Qiao'er, Gu Buquan sat wearily on the threshold of the coffin shop in a daze.

Qiao'er has both parents and an elder brother, but in the end, an orphan like herself collects her body for burial, how sad and deplorable it should be.

"In the future, I don't know who will collect my body for burial?"

Although she is an unlucky coffin girl in the eyes of others, she has also grown up under the care of Master like jewels and treasures in the past 18 years. In the past, she had never thought about such a problem.

Two stones flew towards her from a distance one after another, and one hit the coffin board leaning in front of the door, making a dull sound.

The other one was bounced back by Ling An beside her, and the scream of someone being hit was heard in the distance.

She won the bet of fetching water from a bamboo basket, and those who made money would not be grateful to her, but those who lost everything and their families hated her to the bone.

In the past, it was just "unlucky", but now it is simply "witch". From time to time, someone threw stones at the coffin shop and smashed it.

Gu Buquan's life in Maple Leaf Town is more difficult than before.

According to Hua Yingling, Gu Buquan is "harming others and himself as well as self-inflicted".

But she didn't regret it. In any case, she won a place to be buried for Qiaoer.

Hua Yingling said: "It is said that death is the end of everything, not to mention that being a daughter is inherently contemptible. Even if Qiaoer was exposed to the wilderness and fed wild dogs, it was the fault of her own parents. What's the matter with you?" Why? You made such a fuss, do you know how many people have gone bankrupt? Throwing stones at you is a trivial matter, believe it or not, they have the heart to feed you alive to the dogs?"

Thinking of her squandered silver, Hua Yaoling gritted her teeth with hatred, the tael of silver she snatched from Lizheng could not soothe her wounded heart at all.

"As a daughter, should you be betrayed by your father and brother, and cheated by your parents? Should you expose your corpse to wild dogs in the wilderness? You are also a daughter. Just imagine this switch to being you, and you can still say so lightly, 'everything is dead Hugh'?"

Gu Buquan slowly raised his head and looked at the flowers and rang the bell, "Although I was also born as a daughter, I don't know where I came from without father or mother, but I was adopted by Master and made a living selling coffins, but I never think that I am contemptuous." A person, only if he despises himself in his heart, that is the real contempt, no matter male or female."

"If it's true that death is all right, why do you have to worry about the two thin coffins of your parents back then? People think lightly of other people's affairs, and pay more attention to their own affairs. But have you ever thought about it? , every 'other' in your heart is also their 'self'."

Hua Yaoling opened her mouth for a while, but she couldn't say a word when she was always eloquent, kicked Ling An, and walked away angrily. hum back.

"Anyway, it was you who made me lose everything."

Although Gu Buquan had already reminded Hua Yingling that she didn't listen to the persuasion and made the wrong bet, but according to her logic, it was: "If you don't toss about this one, I won't lose money."

The idea of ​​flower rattles represents the thoughts of the vast majority of people. In short, it is the fault of others, but the root cause of never wanting to lose money lies in their own greed.

Gu Buquan was deeply disappointed in such a Maple Leaf Town. If it wasn't for her master's last words to keep the coffin shop safe, she would have wanted to leave immediately.

Make the coffin bigger and stronger, or go far away?
In fact, since the day Gu Buquan had to take over the coffin shop after Master left, she has been thinking about this issue from time to time.

(End of this chapter)