After the child walked out of the door, Sister-in-law Zhang said: "Uncle Zhanzi, Aunt Lanhua, you also know that Chunhua's parents-in-law disappeared some time ago, and her relatives in her husband's family did not help her, and they even joined forces to plan Chunhua's yard. .
You don’t know that the clan uncle lied that Chunhua’s parents-in-law borrowed five taels of silver from them when they built their house, and that the clan elder was there to help him. The village chief of Yuliang Village even openly helped his father-in-law. Wouldn't it be that Chunhua and the others, orphans and widowers, would have no way to survive...
If the girl from the Yang family hadn't passed by, extended a helping hand, and asked them to buy the yard for the price, we wouldn't know what would have happened to the mother and son.
Now that we are back, we will definitely not go back there. We are thinking of simply going back to the village to buy a yard, and then we can settle down in the future. "
As soon as Zhang Ganzi and his wife heard this, they knew what it meant. They wanted to buy their yard.
Before they came here, they had told them that the yard over there was for sale, and they even gave it to Mancang and his wife. They wanted to buy it for Chunhua mother and son.
After all, this is the place where they have lived for most of their lives, and they still have feelings for it. If it is sold to someone with whom they have a bad relationship, or a stranger they do not know, they will feel a little uncomfortable. For children who have seen it since childhood, then It couldn't be better.
Zhang Ganzi said directly: "If Chunhua wants to live in my yard, it will be perfect. It is the place where we have lived for half our lives, and we cherish it. If this is sold to someone we don't know, I will feel a little unhappy." .
It’s fine now. Chunhua is the one we’ve seen growing up. She’s capable and loves to be clean. If we give you the house, we’ll be done with it..."
After that, I talked about it. I knew the price beforehand. It was not expensive, and there was no need to set a price or anything. All I had to do was set a date and go to the town to apply for a new property title.
After that, Qingyan started asking about the dead children.
Zhang Chunhua's aunt and sister-in-law also looked curious. They also wanted to know what happened next. After all, there were no entertainment projects, and everyone preferred to gossip about what was happening in the surrounding villages.
Seeing that they wanted to listen, the old couple started talking to them in a low voice.
The reason why they kept their voices low was because a child was murdered in the house next door, and they were afraid that others would hear them talking about it and feel uncomfortable.
Zhang Ganzi said: "You also know why we moved here. We came here with Liu Gen's coffin. After we came here, the eminent monks from Lingguang Temple performed religious rituals for Liu Gen for a night, and then we were buried in the coffin. Go to the entrance of the back mountain.
Just to the left of the entrance, a tombstone was erected.
To be honest, we have no roots and no adults. Before, we could only bury them casually on the ground, and we couldn't even enter the ancestral graves.
Although we are here to suppress ghosts, at least we have made a dignified tomb and erected a monument. From now on, people in Shanggang Village will go there to worship every season. From now on, we will feel at ease when we die.
Hey, I'm going too far. You probably want to hear what happened before. I really know this.
After the children were buried, Xiaocui specifically told us about those children.
Those children went out to play in broad daylight and never came back. When the family went to look for them at night, they only found heartless bodies in the woods.
Not only did the children die in the same way, their bodies were also found in the same place, under a century-old elm tree in the back hill.
This was discovered after the death of three children. When the third child was found there, someone noticed this strange thing.
If two died in the same place and died in the same way, it might be a coincidence. If three of them died in the same way, it must have been intentional.
The child must have been caught and deliberately killed there. After that, the village asked some young men to form a patrol team and go there to guard it day and night, trying to see what kind of beast it was or whether it was a bad person.
No matter it was day or night, those people surrounded the place and stared closely, but the fourth and fifth children still died there in the same way.
The villagers later asked those on patrol, and they all said that they had not slept at that time and had not left during the journey. They were just in a trance for a while when it got dark. When they woke up again and lit the torch, the child's body was already there. .
At first, everyone speculated whether they were drugged, otherwise they would not have heard any movement when the fourth child died.
The second time, more people were dispatched. One group continued to surround the area, and the other group patrolled nearby, walking back and forth to see if there were any suspicious people moving in the mountains.
Even then, no one was found. As soon as the moon rose, there was another body there.
Only then did everyone think that there might be ghosts causing trouble, and then they ran to Pingyuan County to find a senior monk to come and take a look.
As a result, when the eminent monk came, he said that there was indeed a ghost causing trouble, but his Taoism was still shallow and he couldn't get rid of the ghost. He could only find a way to suppress it, and then we ended up leaving the roots and moving the tomb here... "
Qingyan waited for Zhang Gangzi to finish, then asked, "Were the five children killed next to each other? One died a day?"
If the interval was too long, it would be impossible for those people to stay there every day.
As for the sudden trance, it must have been caused by the abbot. Even if he is a half-demon, he must have some demonic skills. It should be very easy to confuse a few people.
Zhang Gangzi shook his head, "I don't know that. I just know that the time of death is not far away. It's all within those few days."
"I know this."
The sudden female voice startled everyone. After all, she was whispering secretly. When she suddenly heard other voices, she thought the person next door heard them.
Several people looked around and saw a young woman leading Zhang Gangzi's grandson standing at the door.
Mrs. Zhang and Chunhua stood up and walked over.
"Xiao Cui!"
"Sister Xiaocui!"
"Sister-in-law, Chunhua, you are here. It's really been a long time."
It turned out that Zhang Xiaocui was back. She was a few months older than Chunhua, so Zhang Chunhua kept calling her sister.
The three of them chatted for a while, introduced Qingyan to her, and then everyone returned to the previous topic.
"Those five children did not die on the same month, but on the fifteenth day of each month. One died every month, and the five children died on the night of the fifth full moon..."
Qingyan communicated with Chou Chou: "As expected of a wolf demon, it must be of the same clan as werewolves. They come out to commit crimes on full moon nights."
Chou Chou: "Have you forgotten what I told you? The abbot's demon clan bloodline is the Moon Night Wolf. He originally likes to come out when there is a moon at night."
Qingyan: "Then the tomb relocation with roots left behind is just a cover, and it doesn't have any special meaning?"
Chou Chou: "You can say no. I just took a look and found that there was no body at all in the tomb with roots. I don't know when the body was taken away."
Qingyan: "There's no corpse? Could it be that the half-demon took it away? How hungry is it? It doesn't even let go of corpses that have been dead for several months!"
Chou Chou secretly rolled his eyes, "What are you thinking? It doesn't necessarily take away the corpse just to eat it. Even if it's cold today, the corpse is already rotting. What the other party should want is Zhang Liugen's soul.
Some souls cannot stay too far away from their own bodies, so the other party takes the bodies away with them. "
Qingyan's mind is now full of questions, "What does the other party want Zhang Liugen's soul for?"
If she wanted the body, she might guess that the other party wanted to seize the body. What was the use of the soul?
Chou Chou: "Souls with special fates also have their own special characteristics. For example, people born in a yin year and a yin month are most likely to become ghost cultivators. They are also the favorite objects of ghost cultivators to devour. It can be said to be a great tonic.
It should be the same for the yang year, yang month and yang hour. It is probably useful to demon cultivators. Then we can interrogate the half-demon. "
Qingyan suddenly realized that, in this case, the death of those children was not only because the half-demon really liked to eat people, but it was also probably the trigger for moving Zhang Liugen's grave.
It is estimated that Zhang Liugen must agree to get his soul back or his close relatives allow it, otherwise the other party would not go to such great lengths.
The more Qingyan thought about it, the more she felt that her guess was correct and the best explanation.
They had lunch directly at Zhang Xiaocui's house at noon. Fortunately, they didn't come empty-handed. After all, Zhang Ganzi was also their elder, so they bought some snacks in the town and brought them over.
It's just that the snacks here are much rougher than those in Fucheng and county towns. They are some mung bean cakes and the like, which look dry, but because they contain oil and sugar, they are rare for ordinary people.
It was already given to the couple when we got off the bus, so we wouldn't feel too embarrassed eating lunch here.
Lin Dashan also came back at noon. He is a dark man in his twenties. It is said that he is a good hunter. He lived a relatively wealthy life in Shanggang Village when he was young.
What he ate for lunch was the hare he had just killed, fried Chinese cabbage, and the staple food was mixed flour pancakes.
There's nothing we can do about it, white noodles are relatively valuable here, and everyone only eats them during the holidays, and that's only for relatively wealthy families.
In comparison, the Zhang Mancang family's conditions are relatively good. After all, they are craftsmen in the town, and they were trained by Zhang Li as the heir. Their monthly wages are higher than those of ordinary workers, and they are masters. Subsidies will also be given frequently.
Moreover, he can also take on some private work in the village, such as helping the village repair furniture and farm tools. Even people from the same village will not let him do it for free, but will give him something.
After lunch, they didn't stay too long. They decided on the time to go to the town to apply for the house deed and left. Anyway, the couple had moved everything there, so they didn't have to go back to the village.
During this period, Qingyan used her spiritual consciousness to cover the back mountain and took a look. The village was halfway up the mountain, and the back mountain was the road to the top of the mountain.
Qingyan maximized the scope of her spiritual exploration, and did not look at the entire mountain. The mountain did not look high, but the area was quite large. The areas far to the north belonged to Yungang Mountain. It is the largest mountain nearby.
When they returned to town, they went directly to the carpenter's shop, and then saw that the shed on the carriage had been unloaded and placed on the ground aside.
It is tied with hemp rope, so it is actually easy to disassemble when unloading. However, because it was made of sheepskin, straw curtains and oilcloth layer by layer before, after being removed, there was a pile of them piled there. Quite chaotic.
Now the master and the apprentice are repairing the transverse axle and wheel spokes. The car has been turned over and the chassis is facing up.
They also replaced some cracked wood that looked like it was about to rot. There was nothing they could do. This carriage was collected by Chou Chou at the border military camp before. It was quite strong, but it was old enough.
Sister-in-law Zhang and Zhang Chunhua saw the mess on the ground, so they started to tidy it up. Whether these things were sheepskin or oilcloth, they were all usable things. It would not be good to throw them on the ground like this.
Fortunately, Zhang Mancang put all these on the straw mat. The straw mat was placed underneath, and the sheepskin and oilcloth were not stained with dust.
The leather mattresses on the car were also put together. They were folded and put aside so that they could be taken back home and placed on top after the car was repaired.
As for the straw mats, Qingyan decided not to use them. Since the carriage had to be rebuilt, there was a high probability that the straw mats would not be needed.
The main thing is that those straw mats were previously covered on top. They were exposed to wind, sun, snow and snow during this period, so they were already a bit rotten and deformed, so it was okay not to use them. Anyway, they were all hand-knitted before. She and Chou Chou knew how to do it. She wanted to do it again in the future. If you want to use it, just get some hay and braid it.
The wooden strips from before can also be used. Zhang Mancang said that the wood is good and good wood, and it can also be used when making carriages in the future.
Seeing that they had nothing to do, Zhang Li just stood there stupidly, telling them not to waste time with them here, but to drive the donkey cart home first. After all, the four children were still a little cold in this shop, so it was better to stay at home. Comfortable.
Although the house he lived in was at the back, it was only a small house. The other houses were filled with wood and furniture made for others. There was no way to light a fire, so they had no place to stay.
He, an old bachelor, lived in his small house. It was a mess and he was too embarrassed to let a few women in to rest.
When Qingyan and the three of them put it together, it was indeed the case. They might as well go back and put the oilcloth and sheepskin in the car, plus the leather mattress and sheepskin quilt. Putting these things here would take up space, so they might as well put them at home.
They did not drive the donkey cart back directly, but unloaded the donkey and put the bear on, and then drove the carriage back.
Qingyan was worried about leaving the big bear here, not because she was afraid of losing it or anything, but because the big bear was quite squeamish and would not listen to other people's words, and she was afraid that it would mess around without her eyes.
And this guy is also very picky about what he eats. He has to eat grass every day and drink warm water. It’s better not to cause trouble to others.
He called the four children, took out the money he was playing hide and seek with the children from a half-finished box, and drove away together.
