Corpse Retriever

Lunch, very sumptuous.

Originally prepared to entertain guests, but the guests left.

However, most people's small tables only had more dishes, but the portions did not change much. Only Runsheng's table had two large basins instead of one.

Li Sanjiang saw it and couldn't help cursing, "Damn it, why don't you just eat in a bathtub!"

Runsheng asked with some joy, "Is it okay?"

Li Sanjiang rolled his eyes because of choking.

Runsheng realized that he had misunderstood, smiled embarrassedly, then held the incense in his left hand and the spoon in his right hand, and started eating alternately.

Li Zhuiyuan looked at the drunken shrimp in front of him. The shrimp was soaked in white wine and served with onions, ginger and garlic to remove the fishy smell.

He picked up one, put it in his mouth, and gently sipped it. The shrimp meat came out, and it tasted delicious.

He picked up another drunken mud snail, bit the front end with his teeth, and then slowly pushed it out to separate the mud snail meat from the shell. The snail meat was very small and very crispy to chew.

Be careful when eating this, don't eat it fast. If you are a little impatient, you may eat the sand in the mud snail into your mouth.

There is a common tradition of eating raw pickled food in coastal areas. For people who are used to it, this is a delicacy that is hard to give up.

But for most inland people, this kind of dish is simply terrible.

In fact, it is true that raw pickled food does have a greater risk of parasites.

After Li Zhuiyuan tasted it briefly, he saw that A Li was not interested in the two dishes and did not touch a chopstick, so he stood up and picked up the two dishes, intending to send them to Li Sanjiang for him to drink.

"Give it to me."

Liu Yumei spoke.

Li Zhuiyuan brought the drunken shrimp and drunken mud snails to the table of Liu Yumei and Aunt Liu.

"Are you not used to it?"

"Yeah."

"Good things, don't know how to enjoy them."

Liu Yumei ate two drunken mud snails in a row and took a sip of the rice wine in the cup.

Aunt Liu smiled and said, "Ali doesn't like these things either."

Liu Yumei shook her head: "Ali just finds it troublesome."

Then, Liu Yumei asked Li Zhuiyuan: "What do the people who came this morning plan to do?"

"Buy a house. They like the house of the bearded man."

"Oh, how is that house?"

"It's very spacious, and the fish pond is also quite large. Now it's in a hurry to sell it at a very cheap price. Grandma, are you interested in taking a look?"

"Why should I go and see it? I don't have money to buy it."

"If you don't want to buy it, you can go and see it."

"If you don't have money to buy it, you will be even more angry when you go to bed at night. It's better not to go. Besides, I'm not from this village. According to the rules, I can't buy it.

In short, everything should be done according to public rules."

Li Zhuiyuan knew that Liu Yumei was deliberately reminding him that he should call the police to solve it and not mess around on his own.

"Uncle police are busy too. Besides, isn't there a slogan about police-civilian cooperation painted on the outer wall of the police station?"

Liu Yumei took a deep look at the boy in front of her, picked up the rice wine, took another sip, and said lightly: "There are also mountain kings among the monkeys."

Meaning that there is really a tough guy among this group of water monkeys.

Li Zhuiyuan said: "Maybe he is just a general among the short ones."

"Hehe." Liu Yumei smiled and waved her chopsticks, "Let's eat, kid."

Li Zhuiyuan walked back to his own table.

Auntie Liu lowered her voice and asked: "Do you want me to see what book Xiaoyuan is reading?"

The boy's previous words actually contained the matter of Sihai's fish pond, implying that since he could recognize the wrong bait hole and fall, no matter how high his level is, it would be just like that.

This cognition has already frightened Auntie Liu, even more than the boy asking her if she had poison in the morning.

The latter shows the child's nature, while the former means that this child seems to have really got started, and has got started very deeply.

Liu Yumei shook her head: "Earlier, when the child didn't come, it would be interesting to see the books in Li Sanjiang's basement; now that the child has figured out the trick, it would be easy to get involved if he goes there again. Are you in a hurry to see Ali?"

"How can that be? You need someone to serve you."

"Although I'm old, I can't cook."

Aunt Liu: "It seems that the books in Uncle Sanjiang's basement are really extraordinary."

"Indeed, they are extraordinary. Didn't he say that when the Four Olds were destroyed, several groups of people specially deposited books with him."

"Then it seems that those groups of people are not ordinary."

"There is no such truth in this world. Only we have good eyesight, and others are blind."

"You are right."

In fact, Liu Yumei has a few more words in her heart, which she didn't say.

That is, no matter how extraordinary the book is, it is still a book.

And the more extraordinary the book is, the harder it is to understand.

How many people have spent their entire lives without really being able to read a single Xuanmen book.

She liked to sit on the dam and drink tea, and the boy sat on her head and read. I only remember that the boy read books like turning over comic books, one book after another.

If it was really a great Xuanmen collection, it would be really unreasonable for him to read it and learn it in this way.

But the facts seem to be here.

When he first moved in, he was just a child who was frightened by the first experience of death. Now, he can not only distinguish the bait hole and the main hole, but also personally guide the death.

If such a child was in the pre-liberation period, I am afraid that each family would fight for him to inherit their own legacy.

Heh...

If the tablet he enshrined was not a dead one, but had some spirit, he would probably have to make a fuss at night to ask me to accept him as a disciple.

He would even have to fight over whether to follow Qin or Liu.

See,

Liu Yumei picked up the wine pot and poured herself another glass of wine.

When A Li recovered from his illness, he might pass on the "Liu Family Qi-Watching Secret" to him to show his gratitude.

Li Zhuiyuan sat back and ate lunch peacefully. There were some things he had to explain to Grandma Liu, and he had to make his attitude clear.

After all, he still needed Aunt Liu to protect him.

Although the incident would happen in the big bearded man's house, if he failed to handle it and got into trouble, it might also affect his family. At that time, he would have to ask Aunt Liu to go back to his hometown to accompany Uncle Qin to take care of his uncle.

After lunch, Runsheng went to the workshop to work with a big belly and did not plan to rest.

Li Zhuiyuan stopped him and handed him a few drawings: "Brother Runsheng, help me make these things first, I need them urgently."

Runsheng took the drawings, didn't even look at them, and said directly: "Okay."

He believed that Xiaoyuan would not give him drawings that he couldn't understand or make.

Li Zhuiyuan and Qin Li came to the room.

He continued to pick and choose the ten taboos, while A Li continued to carve with a carving knife.

The desk was large, accommodating boys and girls to do their own things without interfering with each other.

In the end, Li Zhuiyuan selected two taboos.

In fact, there are many types of taboos in the books he has read, but many of them do not have the conditions for realization. Even among the ten that he has carefully selected, at least half of them were eliminated by him because the conditions for success were too complicated.

For some necessary materials, he can understand their names, but he doesn't know what they are in reality, and the prefixes are often hundreds of years and thousands of years.

There are also some special triggering instruments, which are made like making evil instruments. The human skin drums are out, and it is marked that boys and girls under a certain age must be selected.

Some even require you to build an underground palace in a special environment, collect yin and yang feng shui, and then put the little yellow warbler in.

To be honest, if I have such conditions, do I still have to think of ways to deal with the group of water monkeys?

The last two selected.

One is to change the corpse-raising land into a place of evil in a short period of time through preliminary changes in feng shui, which is a bit like pouring water into an oil pan.

The other is to wrap the scripture banner around the little yellow warbler to trigger the boiling of resentment in its body. This requires attention to the effect of the scripture banner, which is similar to a strong wind that can blow out a fire, but a proper blast can make the fire burn more and more vigorously.

However, at my current level, I only need to worry about whether the wind can be raised, and I don’t have to worry about what to do if the wind is too strong.

These two are the easiest to achieve from a practical point of view.

And the effect is similar to stimulants. After using it on the little yellow warbler, she will immediately fall into a deep depression, so that she will not be out of control in the later stage.

Li Zhuiyuan had asked Runsheng to rub the materials of the battle flag by hand. He had to re-plan and design the specific usage, at least to clarify which points of Feng Shui needed to be changed, which required a lot of deduction and calculation.

He opened the drawer, pulled out a roll of white paper, and cut a section according to the needs.

Li Zhuiyuan picked up a pen and a ruler, and began to follow the memory of that night, and drew the pond of the big bearded man's house and the surrounding terrain scenes.

He had been influenced by this family learning from his parents since he was a child, and with a good memory, it took about half an hour to finish the painting.

It was much more delicate than the sketch, and it also discarded a lot of unnecessary burdens. He grabbed the edge with both hands and raised it, which had a sense of déjà vu as if it was taken by a camera.

Li Zhuiyuan used double-sided tape to stick it on the wall, and then he stood there and stared at it.

But as he looked at it, he gradually frowned.

The reason why he chose to draw it was just like using draft paper, to reduce the burden on his brain, but this picture...did not have any effect.

Because Feng Shui and weather cannot be drawn with clear lines, when you calculate by yourself, you still have to form a realistic picture in your mind first, then add Feng Shui and weather, and finally perform deduction and calculation.

This picture is really a bit... taking off your pants to fart.

You can't use this method to draw, you have to use the ink painting method.

Li Zhuiyuan went downstairs. His family runs a paper-making business. There is no shortage of paint palettes and brushes on the first floor. He selected a set and ran back.

He cut a new piece of paper and placed it on the table. Li Zhuiyuan picked up the brush and started to draw.

But as he was drawing, he felt that it was wrong again.

It's not that this method is wrong, the method is definitely correct, the key is... he can't draw.

Genius, he has seen many classmates in the class, but everyone just learns quickly, no one is born knowing.

In the professional track, skipping the learning process, the genius is no different from an idiot.

This is also the reason why he has never been able to beat A Li in Go. A Li obviously learned it, but he didn't.

Although the most direct way is to go to the scene to check the location, now that the water monkey has set his sights on the big bearded man's house, it is impossible not to attract attention if he rashly runs there.

The key is that this is not something that can be determined by just one look. It takes a long time to deduce and calculate, so I can't go to the scene. The risk is too great.

Aunt Liu must be able to draw. I have observed her method of coloring paper figures. It is clear that she has a very deep foundation in painting.

Grandma Liu can also draw. She likes to sit at a table and design clothes for Ah Li with a paintbrush.

But these two people will definitely not help him draw this.

Li Zhuiyuan sighed, walked out of the room, and went downstairs to the workshop.

Pushing open the door, Runsheng inside was rubbing the iron spikes with his hands. These iron spikes will be used as flagpoles in the future.

"Xiaoyuan, you are here."

Runsheng handed a large porcelain cup to Li Zhuiyuan.

The porcelain cup was a little dirty, and it was soaked with patchouli leaves.

Li Zhuiyuan took it and drank two big gulps.

After handing it back, Runsheng drank it all in one breath, then picked up the kettle on the small stove and filled the porcelain cup with hot water again.

"Why is it so hot, brother Runsheng, why did you put the stove in the house?"

"Hehe, sometimes it's better to heat it up a little. It's a little hot, but just drink more water, it's not a big deal."

"You have to take care of yourself."

"I'm in good health, don't worry, I've had enough food."

Li Zhuiyuan knew that from Runsheng's perspective, as long as he had enough food, it seemed that nothing was a problem.

It's just that the conditions of this workshop are really simple and the space is a bit small. It would be great if we could build a professional studio in the future, with our own electric furnace, machine tools, and cutting machines.

That way, it would be convenient to make anything.

However, for now, it's just a thought.

"Brother, let me tell you something."

"Okay, Xiaoyuan, tell me." Runsheng didn't stop and continued his work.

Li Zhuiyuan told the story of the water monkey.

Runsheng was surprised and said, "Xiaoyuan, you didn't tell me when they came in the morning. Were you afraid that I would reveal my flaws?"

"Yes."

"What a pity. I've seen similar scenes on TV. I think I can act it out."

"Don't worry. You can polish your acting skills and you'll be able to do it later."

"Yes!"

Runsheng took the black and white towel and wiped his sweat.

"So, Xiaoyuan, are we going to poke their butts while they are about to dig the tomb?"

As he said this, Runsheng also raised the iron hammer he had just polished and made a "poking" gesture.

"Maybe, without us doing anything, Xiao Huangying can make them all eat."

"That's such a pity. I always feel uncomfortable watching others take action but I can't get out of it.

It's usually played like that in the movies. Xiao Huangying kills them first, and then a fierce man appears among them to suppress Xiao Huangying. At the critical moment, we appear."

"Have you arranged it all?"

"You have to think about it, so that you can work more vigorously."

"Brother Runsheng, you continue to be busy, I'll go up first."

"Okay, don't worry, you go think about your things, leave this to me."

Infected by Runsheng's emotions, Li Zhuiyuan also calmed down his emotions and planned to go up to solve the problem. Even if he couldn't draw it on the draft paper, he could calculate it himself. At most, he would have another nosebleed.

However, Li Zhuiyuan did not go upstairs first, but came to the kitchen. At this point, Aunt Liu was boiling medicine for him.

"Xiaoyuan, you're here. Haha, this bowl is for you, and this bowl is for the dog."

"Thank you, Aunt Liu. This bowl is for me, right?"

Li Zhuiyuan confirmed again. He didn't want to drink the wrong one.

"Yes, that's right. Drink it."

The medicine was very bitter. Li Zhuiyuan drank it at a steady speed and finally finished it.

"Aunt Liu, this medicine is expensive, isn't it?"

"It's not expensive. They are all common tonics. If you spend some time to stimulate the medicinal properties and harmonize them, the effect will come out. However, Xiaoyuan, as you said, you often have nosebleeds and dizziness. You must pay attention to your body and don't cause a deficit and damage your vitality in advance."

"I know, Aunt Liu."

"In addition, this medicine is best taken in the morning, preferably just after getting up. Follow the morning air and revive the body. Then take the medicine soup for the best effect.

How about this, I will let A Li bring it to you in the morning in the future. Anyway, A Li has to go to your room in the morning."

Li Zhuiyuan nodded: "Okay."

He didn't refuse, because he knew that this was Grandma Liu and the others who wanted to speed up the progress and assign A Li extra homework in his name.

Although, this picture is weird to think of.

Every morning when I just opened my eyes, the girl came to my bed with medicine.

But for my own health and for the girl's condition to continue to improve, I still have to drink this medicine.

In the past, there were indeed classmates in the class who were in poor health and often fell ill. Li Zhuiyuan originally thought that he did not have this problem because Li Lan had the same disease as him, but Li Lan was in good health and could go to the scene.

But the problem is that now that he has come into contact with these things, calculating them is much more complicated and mentally demanding than calculating math problems.

The little black dog was sleeping in his doghouse. When Li Zhuiyuan came over with the medicine bowl, it opened its eyes, yawned, came over, drank all the medicine, and then lay down with a full belly and continued to sleep.

After feeding for a while, eating well and taking good medicine, the little black dog's fur color became darker and brighter, and Li Zhuiyuan found that its tongue was also black. The only white thing on its body was its teeth.

This is the dog that Aunt Liu picked for him, and it should be of extraordinary appearance.

Going upstairs and walking into the room, Li Zhuiyuan planned to roll up a paper ball for himself first, and then force himself to calculate, but he saw that although A Li was still in front of the desk, he moved to his original position.

What the girl was holding in her hand was no longer a carving knife, but a brush.

Only after approaching did he confirm that the girl was indeed painting, and that she had almost finished the painting and was in the final stage.

After a careful look, Li Zhuiyuan couldn't help but open his eyes wide. She was imitating the fish pond painting he had posted on the wall, and she also drew the weather.

The problem that troubled him and the price of nosebleed were solved by the girl.

After the last stroke, Ah Li put down the brush, put her finger into the cup, dipped it in water, and then gently and evenly sprinkled it on the drawing paper, so that the ink color was further spread and the weather was further clear.

Finished.

The girl turned around and looked at the boy.

"Ah Li, you are really a genius."

The girl heard the compliment, and her eyebrows seemed to bend slightly.

Then, she stood up, stretched out her hand, and put her arm around the boy's neck.

Li Zhuiyuan felt that it seemed necessary to change a more appropriate way of acting coquettishly to the grandfather next time in front of Ah Li, or secretly tell the grandfather to change his response style.

Otherwise, every time this happens, it will ruin the scenery.

But at the moment, he could only pat the girl's head gently and said:

"I will buy you whatever Ah Li wants. I have money, plenty of money."

The ceremony is over.

Ah Li let go of her hand with satisfaction and sat back in her seat.

Li Zhuiyuan sat down, stared at the painting, and began to calculate.

Every twenty minutes, he picked up a pen and marked a point on the painting, which was the position where the flag needed to be inserted.

In the end, he marked a total of twelve points.

Even if all the twelve points were inserted with flags, there was still a lack of a formation eye, but there was no need to worry about this, because the formation eye was the little yellow warbler itself.

Next, it was the materials for the formation flag. Runsheng would make the flagpole part, but the tricky and complicated part was the flag surface. Ordinary cloth would be blown by the wind, which was not conducive to presentation, so it had to be a fixed surface, preferably a Yin-quality wood chip with good texture, so that after carving the pattern, the effect could be maximized in a short time.

Originally, Li Zhuiyuan planned to go to the cemetery with Runsheng at night, without digging graves, because there were often broken coffin boards exposed outside.

But now...

Li Zhuiyuan turned his head to look at the wooden flower rolls in front of A-li and the half-cut tablet under A-li's feet.

It seems that there are better boards to choose from.

For example,

These ancestor boards.

...

After dinner, the village chief came.

The village chief was full of smiles and kept saying that Uncle Sanjiang, you have got a good thing.

Then he took out several handwritten documents, which were already stamped with the seal of the village committee, as well as the signatures and handprints of his wife and eldest son.

Li Sanjiang sighed that Ding Dalin was really fast. He bought a retirement house right away?

He lowered his head and looked at the contents of the document again, his face froze for a moment: "Why is the house bought from the bearded man?"

The village chief must have received a red envelope from the middleman, and said with a smile:

"It's a free house and fish pond, just tell him whether you want it or not. He has already paid the money. If you sign this, anyone with a bad conscience will turn around and drive the man out. Even if he wants to sue you, he won't win."

"But I reminded him not to buy from the bearded man."

No mistake, one post, one content, one 6, one 9, one book, one bar!

"It's cheap. I think he is a returned overseas Chinese, but he shouldn't have made a fortune. If he really makes a fortune and returns to his hometown to invest, the town will directly grant him a new residential land."

"That's the truth."

Although he felt unlucky about the bearded man's house, based on the principle of not giving up for nothing, Li Sanjiang still signed and pressed his fingerprints.

At worst, after Ding Dalin left, Xiao Yuanhou would just sell the house.

"That's it. He must be anxious to return home. He will find someone to clean up the house tomorrow and move in the day after tomorrow. He will invite a troupe to play music all day and invite the whole village to have a feast together."

"It's really lively. The big bearded man's dam has been having feasts all the time."

"Haha, let's just say this now. When you go to his place the day after tomorrow to pay for the feast, you must keep your mouth shut. I will also remind other people in the village."

"I know."

"Oh, by the way, he said that he doesn't charge for the feast when he invites the villagers to the feast."

"I'd better give it."

"Yes, you have to give it. It's considered as a contribution to your own house."

Li Sanjiang nodded and gave the village chief two cigarettes. The village chief took the inner one.

"Okay, that's it, Uncle Sanjiang, I'll go back first, you guys eat."

Li Sanjiang lit a cigarette and said to Li Zhuiyuan: "Little Marquis Yuan, Grandpa earned you a house."

"Thank Grandpa."

"This is nothing, just wait, Grandpa will save some money here, and before he dies, he will definitely buy you a house in the city for you to use when you get married."

As he said this, Li Sanjiang also deliberately glanced at Old Lady Liu who was eating at a table far away.

As if he was afraid that the other party didn't hear it, he deliberately raised his voice:

"After our Little Marquis Yuan gets married, he must live in the city anyway!"

Hmph, let you, a mercenary old lady, look down on others again.

Liu Yumei picked up the wine glass and took a sip of wine. She was too lazy to get angry with this ostentatious old man.

Her Qin and Liu families both had old houses in Su Huaiyang and other places, and in the early years, they specially donated several houses to the country as cultural relics protection units.

However, just because the two children get along well together now doesn't mean they will necessarily follow their childhood sweethearts and get married in the future.

Liu Yumei actually just wanted to cure her granddaughter's illness, and she had no intention of turning the boy from the Li family into her granddaughter's son-in-law.

Since ancient times, when rich families recruited sons-in-law, they did not choose virtuous people, but honest and dutiful ones.

If you really pick a smart and capable one, and you can't control him, then all the family property will belong to this boy in the future. He will just eat it up and not even leave you a surname.

After dinner, Li Zhuiyuan drew the pattern drawings of the battle flag.

Then he went downstairs to the kitchen and personally cooked ten packs of three-fresh noodles and sent them to Runsheng in a basin.

Runsheng was still staying up late to rub iron. Seeing a large bowl of noodles and two thick incense sticks on it, he was so happy that his mouth almost smiled to the sky.

After reminding him to rest early again, Li Zhuiyuan went upstairs to take a bath and go to bed.

When he woke up, Li Zhuiyuan stretched first, then turned his head.

He saw the girl sitting on the chair at the door with a bowl of medicine in her hand.

This look unexpectedly looked cute and adorable.

Ah Li stood up, walked to Li Zhuiyuan's bed with the medicine, sat down, and slowly moved the bowl towards the boy's mouth.

The boy knew that she was going to feed him the medicine like the elders in the family treated her in the past.

Li Zhuiyuan gladly accepted it.

Then,

Li Zhuiyuan went to wash his hair early in the morning.

Li Sanjiang yawned and left the room. Seeing Li Zhuiyuan by the water tank, he asked:

"Little Marquis Yuan, what's wrong? Did you also have bird shit on your head today?"

"Grandpa, I think my hair is a little oily, wash it."

After breakfast, Li Zhuiyuan returned to the house and gave Ah Li the design drawing, asking her to be responsible for carving on the board.

He himself began to draw the scripture banner. With the experience of drawing talisman paper in the past, it was not difficult to draw this time.

Moreover, the "power" of the talisman paper also made Li Zhuiyuan believe that his scripture banner would never be too effective. It would only stimulate Xiao Huangying but would not really suppress her.

At noon, all the materials were ready, and the flagpole at Runsheng's place was also rubbed.

In the afternoon, the twelve flags were assembled and pieced together.

Li Zhuiyuan specially added a long rope to the scripture banner, so that Runsheng could throw it up from a distance.

Originally, Li Sanjiang thought that Ding Dalin would come tonight to chat with him after the housewarming tomorrow, but who knew that Ding Dalin didn't come, and it was Tan Yunlong who came at night.

Tan Yunlong rode a motorcycle with Tan Wenbin behind him.

The father and son brought a lot of gifts, and a mattress and a bag were tied to the trunk of the motorcycle, which contained toiletries.

It turned out that the city's education bureau was going to conduct an inspection, so the town's high school had to interrupt the summer vacation classes and give the students a week off to wait until the inspection was over before returning to class.

Tan Yunlong said that he was busy with work and his wife had to go on a business trip recently, so he could only leave his son here to be taken care of, just in time for him to study well with Xiaoyuan.

Li Sanjiang heard that he was here to give Xiao Yuanhou a good tutorial.

However, except for being a little confused on some occasions, Li Sanjiang was very smart most of the time. He decisively rejected the living expenses given by Tan Yunlong, and patted his chest to promise that he would take good care of his son. After all, everyone knew the necessity of having a good relationship with the police station.

Tan Yunlong walked in front of Li Zhuiyuan, bent down, patted Li Zhuiyuan on the shoulder, and whispered:

"The two unconscious ones will wake up soon."

Li Zhuiyuan nodded, which meant that the group of water monkeys would also be dug soon.

"Binbin, I'll trouble you first. If he doesn't listen to you, you call me and I'll beat him to death."

Li Zhuiyuan turned his head to look at Tan Wenbin who was standing behind him. Tan Wenbin smiled at Li Zhuiyuan, "You know what I mean."

Tan Yunlong left.

Tan Wenbin held the quilt and said, "Xiaoyuan, where is your room? I want to sleep with you?"

Li Zhuiyuan looked at Runsheng, who immediately walked to Tan Wenbin's side, took his quilt, set up another round table next to his own, neatly spread the quilt on it, and patted it:

"Come, you sleep here with me tonight."

Tan Wenbin was not dissatisfied, but nodded excitedly: "Okay!"

After nightfall, Li Zhuiyuan went to bed early. He had to stay up late tomorrow night, so he had to conserve his energy today.

Runsheng's work was done, and he was finally able to continue watching TV with peace of mind.

Tan Wenbin watched with him. After watching the TV with a fixed black and white screen, Tan Wenbin took out the game console and taught Runsheng to play Tetris. This machine also came with another airplane game.

Runsheng had a lot of fun, but soon, the game console ran out of power.

"Oh, I forgot to bring the battery."

"It's okay, let's go to sleep." Runsheng turned off the light and went to the table.

On the opposite table, Tan Wenbin also lay down.

The dark first floor, opposite was full of paper figures, neatly lined up in the moonlight.

Tan Wenbin felt a great atmosphere, a little scared and a little excited.

He lay sideways to Runsheng, covered half of his face with the quilt, his mouth in the quilt, and asked in a muffled voice:

"Runsheng, do you know what it means to fall dead?"

"Yes."

"It's the kind of body that falls into the water after death?"

"What else?"

"It's the kind that can walk ashore by itself after death?"

"What else?"

Hearing this answer, Tan Wenbin showed excitement in his eyes, and silently retracted his exposed feet into the quilt.

"Runsheng, have you ever fished it out?"

"Yes."

"You're awesome."

"Xiaoyuan is even more awesome."

"Hehe, I told my dad this time that I want to come here to study, actually I just want to see if there is a chance to see the dead."

It is true that the school is temporarily closed, but it is false that his mother is going on a business trip. As soon as he proposed, his parents agreed immediately.

Because in the eyes of Tan Yunlong and his wife, Li Zhuiyuan is no longer someone else's child, that is the heavenly family!

Tan Yunlong is reliable, he specially called the town high school to inquire about the transfer and grade skipping. The other party asked where his child went to school and what grade he was in. Tan Yunlong had seen Li Zhuiyuan's file before, so he also reported the junior class.

At first, the person on the other end of the phone politely said that he knew, and then hung up, a bit like giving himself face.

An hour later, the phone called back, the tone became very excited, and the other end was even more talking, shouting and asking Tan Yunlong if he was sure it was the junior class.

And said that as long as everything is true, he can come to the school to handle the procedures immediately, accompanied by the principal and director, and a series of preferential conditions.

Tan Yunlong knew that Li Zhuiyuan wanted to go back for the summer vacation, so he didn't tell Li Zhuiyuan his name and address, and pushed it back to say that he would take the child there before the new semester started.

However, Tan Yunlong was sure of one thing, that this junior class was not the kind of university-affiliated primary school he thought.

Runsheng was ready to sleep, and he felt that the guy at the opposite table seemed to be a little dumber than himself.

Tan Wenbin laughed to himself again:

"Hey, you know, when Xiaoyuan first told me that he liked to laosidao, I stupidly asked him if it was a snack."

As soon as the voice fell, Tan Wenbin saw that Runsheng's eyes seemed to light up.

Then, a resounding and endless aftertaste came:

"Delicious, delicious!"

That night, Tan Wenbin slept curled up in the quilt and didn't dare to get out of bed to pee.

...

The next morning, Tan Wenbin dazedly saw a girl in a red skirt, holding a bowl of medicine, walking past him and going up the stairs.

When he came last night, A-li had been coaxed to sleep by Li Zhuiyuan, so this was the first time he saw her.

"This little girl is so beautiful, the stars on the posters are not as pretty as her."

Runsheng sat up, loosened his neck, and reminded: "Don't get close to her."

"What's wrong?"

"No one can get close to her except Xiaoyuan."

"Is there such a rule?"

It was dawn, and Tan Wenbin felt that Runsheng was not so scary.

"It's not a rule."

Runsheng has always been sensitive in this regard. He remembered that when he first went upstairs and wanted to walk towards Xiaoyuan and A-li, A-li's body trembled.

At that time, the feeling that the little girl gave him was more terrible than the most terrible death he had ever seen.

"It's time for breakfast!"

Aunt Liu's voice was like a daily alarm clock that called on time.

Li Zhuiyuan and A-li went downstairs. Today he didn't let A-li take medicine, so he didn't wash his hair.

Tan Wenbin smiled and wanted to come over to have breakfast together.

"Brother Binbin..." Li Zhuiyuan quickly held A-li's hand and prepared to remind him.

"Come and eat with me!"

Runsheng grabbed Tan Wenbin's neck and lifted him to his dining corner like a chicken.

Tan Wenbin forgot how he had breakfast, but after the meal, his eyes were red and a little painful from the aroma.

Early in the morning, the big bearded man's house was filled with gongs and drums, and the loud speakers and speakers were playing.

The village head notified everyone yesterday that a former overseas Chinese from the village had returned to China to settle down, and invited everyone to a housewarming banquet.

And he announced that everyone just needed to come and eat, and no money would be charged.

This time, all the men, women, and children in the village came early to watch the fun.

Li Zhuiyuan and Runsheng also came, followed by Tan Wenbin who insisted on following.

"What will he do at night? He's very curious." Runsheng asked while making a hand-knife gesture in front of Li Zhuiyuan, "Knock him out?"

Li Zhuiyuan's eyelids twitched. He was afraid that Runsheng would be too immersed in the play and fail to control the strength, and be killed by a hand-knife blow.

"No need to do that, just tie him up."

"Okay."

Li Zhuiyuan began to observe today's banquet.

Because there were so many people invited, there was no room on the dam and in the house on the first floor. It was extended down to the field and a shed was built.

In addition, the performance of the troupe was set up by the fish pond, and the speakers and drums were all placed there.

Li Zhuiyuan knew that this was to facilitate the concealment of the movement when robbing the tomb at night.

Because it was a full-day banquet, it meant that there would be music and drums for a whole day and night. During the day, the play was performed for the living, and at night, it was performed for the dead.

The particular one was to take care of both yin and yang, which meant that everything would go smoothly in the future.

However, nowadays, there are very few full-day banquets in rural areas, because the performance fee at night is several times more expensive than that during the day, and ordinary people are really unwilling to spend this spare money to perform for ghosts.

This is a drum, a loud speaker, and a big sound system. No matter how loud the noise is at night, the villagers will not find it strange.

Li Zhuiyuan couldn't help but sigh in his heart, this is called professionalism, and he is willing to spend money, buy a house, and invite the whole village to a banquet.

The troupe's performance had already started, and there were people all around. Li Zhuiyuan pretended to be curious and led Runsheng around the troupe's stage. He also deliberately went to a place opposite the fish pond with Runsheng to relieve himself.

This was actually to help Runsheng determine the coordinates of the flag planting.

"Have you remembered everything, brother Runsheng?"

"Don't worry, I've remembered everything."

"I'll take two and you'll take care of the rest."

The flag was a bit heavy, so Li Zhuiyuan could only run with two of them.

"What about me, what about me?"

Tan Wenbin followed him and untied his belt.

"How many should I take?"

Li Zhuiyuan comforted him, "Don't worry, I'll leave the rest to you."

"I promise to complete the task." Although he didn't know what the task was, he just wanted to participate.

The meal started at noon.

Li Zhuiyuan took Tan Wenbin and Li Sanjiang to sit in the room on the first floor.

Tan Wenbin asked curiously, "Where's Runsheng, why doesn't he come to eat?"

"Brother Runsheng is eating at home, and don't talk."

"Understand."

Tan Wenbin made an "ok" gesture.

Runsheng had to eat with fragrance, and this move attracted too much attention. On weekdays, when he went to the banquet with his grandfather, his grandfather would also serve him food alone and let him find a corner to eat alone.

Under today's situation, it was natural that he could not arouse the suspicion of the water monkeys.

The banquet was of high quality, and a local chef was invited. After Tan Wenbin stopped talking, his mouth was full of grease.

After the banquet, many villagers felt bad and wanted to pay their share of money, but were rejected, so they went home to get some gifts and presented them.

Next, the whole afternoon was a time for everyone to watch the performance together. The performance was performed at night, and it was taboo for living people, so no one would come to watch except the performers.

The level of this troupe was very high, with singing, dancing, acrobatics, bone shrinking skills and chest breaking stone performances.

Li Zhuiyuan noticed that the performances at the end... were actually real kung fu.

Judging from the details of the performers' behavioral habits, they all followed the routine of dealing with dead bodies.

It seems that if the first two fish pond contractors had not been knocked down by the ground Yin Hongsha in the bait hole, it would have been difficult for the police to catch them with their skills.

At the same time, it also indirectly shows that Grandma Liu's evaluation of this water monkey is correct.

Because this is not a temporary wild team, this is a very professional water monkey.

After all, those guys who are just thinking about making a fortune by robbing tombs will not all deliberately practice the skills to target dead bodies.

It seems that it is really hard to say who will win or lose if the little yellow warbler faces them.

However, looking at the lively and noisy scene in front of him, Li Zhuiyuan couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.

The first time he saw the little yellow warbler was also in such a scene. At that time, the little yellow warbler was still performing on the stage.

It was she who gave him, who had just arrived in the countryside, a wild aesthetic shock from the countryside.

Li Zhuiyuan's eyes fell on the surface of the fish pond. I wonder if the little yellow warbler in the fish pond is also watching the performance?

In her heart, she should also have resentment towards the funeral team that took the money and ignored her whereabouts, right?

At this time, Secretary Jin, who had just finished singing a song and was wearing a black tights, walked to the side of the stage with a microphone and asked the audience:

"What songs do you want to listen to? You can tell me."

Rural people are generally shy, and when asked for the first time, no one dared to speak and order songs.

Li Zhuiyuan was the first to raise his hand.

Secretary Jin knew Li Zhuiyuan, and smiled and waved to Li Zhuiyuan, motioning Li Zhuiyuan to come closer to the stage: "Come on, little friend, tell me, what song do you want to listen to?"

She squatted down and handed the microphone to Li Zhuiyuan's mouth.

Li Zhuiyuan faced the stage sideways, just facing the surface of the fish pond, and he said in a clear voice:

"Well...

I want to listen to,

"Thousands of Songs"."