snake coffin

Chapter 45
The relationship between Mo Xiu and Liu Longting is rather complicated, but from my point of view, they have always been hostile.

So I never expected that they would be surprisingly unanimous on the matter of Fu Qian.

Don't let me go to see Fuqian, rescue her together, and take care of her together.

But Mo Xiu obviously didn't want to say more about Fu Qian, so he gave me a heavy look and left.

When he left, I took out my notebook and wrote several addresses on it. One of them was in the village of Qin Mipo, a grandma who had passed away two years ago.

Outside the door, Qin Mi Po was coughing again, making a sizzling sound as she touched the frying pan with a spatula between her hands.

I got busy, washed up in a hurry, and then went to help Qin Mipo cook.

In the morning, there are leftovers for noodles, Qin Mipo has no livelihood, and I am even more in debt, so it would be nice if I could eat something casually.

After finishing the meal, Mrs. Qin took a bunch of things for me and took me to Mrs. Wei's house.

Asking Mi, he was actually waiting for the owner to come to his door.

But making a living in the village is not so exquisite. All the miscellaneous things are all in the meeting.

On the way, Qin Mipo turned her head several times to look at me. To be precise, she looked at my wrist to make sure the black snake jade bracelet was there.

I showed her my wrist generously: "Snake Lord is busy recently and has to take care of Fu Qian."

Hearing this name, Qin Mipo seemed to be in a bad mood, and she actually showed a sly expression: "Yeah."

I wanted to ask something else on the way, but Qin Mi Po kept her head down and walked forward quickly, silent.

Mrs. Wei's home is in the same village, and it takes less than half an hour to walk there.

Her house is a new-style three-and-a-half-story building, which is quite beautiful. There are two large Roman columns at the door. In recent years, this has become popular among self-built houses in rural areas.

It can be seen that the conditions of Mrs. Wei's house are really good. When we went, they were still having breakfast.

There was such a big table, and even the village chief from yesterday was there. A man in his forties, who looked very solid, was toasting to the village chief. He was shaking his head and talking about something, with a bitter look on his face. He was probably Gu Xiaolan’s husband. .

Qin Mipo stood outside the door and gave a low cough.

Mrs. Wei glanced at her, but she had no intention of getting up to greet him. She just helped the village chief hold the vegetables and said, "Eat fish. I just caught it from the pond this morning."

Instead, the village chief stood up and came over: "Here you go, let's eat? Let's sit down and have something together?"

Qin Mi Po looked around, shook her head and said, "I'll go see where Gu Xiaolan lives first and look for things she had before her death."

When she mentioned this, Mrs. Wei's face immediately darkened. She quickly stood up and said, "She has been dead for more than a year. How can she still have a place to live? Everything is burned."

Qin Mipo snorted coldly: "She should sleep in the same bed with your son, right? I can always see the bed, right? Do you still want to find it?"

When I see them acting like this, they are obviously hiding something.

Granny Wei pointed at Qin Mipo and wanted to say something else, but the village chief tapped the bowl with his chopsticks, and she had to stand up crazily.

But when he saw me, he immediately said, "She can't come in! People in Huilong village say that the daughter of Snake Wine Dragon is a snake girl. Yesterday your house had such a big snake..."

Qin Mi Po pulled me away without saying a word.

Just as we turned around, I saw the man who was toasting and winked at Mrs. Wei.

Mrs. Wei seemed dumbfounded. She clapped her legs and hurriedly chased after her: "Okay, okay! Just take a look, Qin Mipo, why are you so stinky and stubborn?"

"My son is going to marry a new wife again. The new house has been furnished. Could it make you angry?" Mrs. Wei was still muttering.

Qin Mipo was so angry that she wanted to say something else, but when she opened her mouth, she coughed again.

I patted her back and looked at Mrs. Wei: "I have to go back to feed the snake. If you delay any longer, that big snake will be hungry and might come to me..."

Mrs. Wei opened her eyes in fright, looked behind me, stopped talking, and led us hurriedly upstairs.

I don’t know if the room was heavily decorated, but it was quite messy inside. Clothes and shoes were scattered everywhere, some with cement slurry. The bed was an old-fashioned canopy bed, and there was no mosquito net hanging on it, and it was tied at both ends. rope.

Qin Mi Po went in and took a walk, and I didn’t know what to see, so I just stayed close by.

But when I looked at the rope, something didn't feel right. Even if the mosquito net was hung, the rope should be thin, not this wide.

Stretching for the rope, Mrs. Wei immediately gave a low cough: "This is for tying something."

She didn't say it was fine, but when I said it, I took a special look and found that there were still a lot of wine in the room, among which there were actually two large glass bottles of snake wine, one of which was more than half drunk, and the other still unopened.

Many people who work hard buy my dad’s snake wine, saying that they drink it to strengthen their bodies.

Mrs. Wei said coldly: "Your father bought this on the day of the sale. Who knows if the snake is alive?"

Something happened to Snake Wine, but their family didn't lose it?

I was curious and wanted to go over and take a look, but Qin Mi Po pulled me and said, "Let's go to the grave."

Mrs. Wei was still cursing and locked the door.

When we got downstairs, the village chief and the others had already eaten and were chatting. There were also a lot of people standing and sitting there.

Among them were those who followed Granny Wei to the house yesterday to cause trouble. When they saw me, they were so frightened that they backed away.

Qin Mipo was obviously not very gregarious, so she just said coldly: "Go to the grave."

Mrs. Wei hurriedly went to the chicken coop to fetch eggs, beat another liter of rice, and prepared incense paper and other things.

Gu Xiaolan's grave is in the vegetable field behind her house. It's really close and it only takes a few steps to get there.

Not to mention the stone tablet, there is not even a brick to build the tomb. There is just a wooden board with a few crooked words written on it.

The grave has been dug, the coffin is still in the grave, and the lid of the coffin is half open.

There was no body inside, but there was a thin shroud spread out nicely in the coffin.

There is a lot of emphasis on the shroud. I personally wore the shroud for my grandma. Po Qin Mipo once told me how many layers it has and what each layer represents.

There is no limit to the price of a good shroud, and a cheap one can cost several hundred or even thousands, but that thin black shroud is obviously the cheapest.

Mrs. Wei got excited immediately, and said to the people next to her, "It's just that the body is gone, but the clothes are still there. They must have been stolen."

"I have inquired, this girl's marriage price is not low outside, there are prices over 10,000." Mrs. Wei looked bitter and resentful.

Shen Shen sighed and said: "When we married Gu Xiaolan, the three gold gifts were the same amount, and we also spent the same amount of money on her medical treatment and medicine. Her father's funeral was paid for by us."

"Who knew she didn't give birth to a baby for our family during her lifetime, and her body was dragged out and sold after she died." She said it as if she didn't want to sell it.

"When setting up the incense table, ask about rice first!" The village chief couldn't stand her behavior and quickly interrupted her.

But as soon as he finished speaking, he heard noises and quarrels coming from the front.

Mrs. Wei patted her legs: "Those damned ones, those who were stabbed a thousand times, are making trouble again. I haven't even mentioned that they stole Gu Xiaolan back!"

There seemed to be a quarrel ahead, and the village chief was busy trying to persuade the quarrel, and after taking two steps, he pulled Qin Mipo away again: "Go and say a few words, and be careful, there has been a lot of trouble these days."

People nearby were also talking about going to watch the fun, probably because Gu Xiaolan's biological father was dead, but there were still uncles in the Gu family.

Originally, Mrs. Wei planned to secretly take the body out to get married, but she didn't know that the body was missing.

The other side thought that what Mrs. Wei was doing was wrong, but Mrs. Wei suspected that the Gu family had stolen the body, so there was a commotion there.

Mainly because Gu Xiaolan's death was unclear, and she had deep grudges and had two fights.

In the blink of an eye, the entire tomb was empty.

I looked at the well-spread shroud in the half-open coffin. I don’t know why, but suddenly I remembered the dress that my uncle put on my shoulders when he forced me to go into the mountain to look for the snake coffin.

Now that I think about it, it is said that after the Long family girl was buried, no bones were left, but why are the clothes still there?
I found a spot and prepared to lie down to see what was under the shroud.

Then I heard a low laugh: "Long Ling, do you want to find out the relationship between the snake coffin and the Long family girl?"

As soon as I looked up, I saw Longxia standing beside the grave.

After she came out of the snake coffin, she was like a ghost, coming and going without a trace, and she was not afraid of the sun.

"Do you want me to tell you?" Long Xia came over again.

Just when she was about to get closer, something cold slowly wrapped around my wrist. It was a black snake jade bracelet.

Long Xia's face immediately showed fear, and her voice was slightly regretful: "Snake Lord is really protective of Long Ling."

I lowered my head and glanced at the black snake jade bracelet on my wrist. Is Mo Xiu worried about me? He left and came back again?

"Long Ling, the show has begun." Long Xia took two steps back and slowly retreated into the bamboo forest behind.

I was just wondering what the show was like when I heard a sound of surprise in front of me, followed by Mrs. Wei's exaggerated and surprised voice.

Mo Xiu whispered in my ear: "Go back, don't worry about the snake coffin."

I hurried forward and saw Mrs. Wei pulling a girl who looked about 24 and [-] years old with a surprised look on her face.

The girl looked cute and dull, just pretty, but for some reason, she felt something was wrong.

"Gu Xiaolan is back alive." Qin Mipo pulled me and said in a deep voice: "Don't ask about this again!"

While I was watching, Gu Xiaolan looked up at me among the crowd and smiled shyly.

(End of this chapter)