Xie Jing thought for a while.
Then he shook his head, "Only two aunts have it on their buns. They are younger, about 35 years old. There are no others. Oh no, there is also an old lady who has it on her hair. She looks older too. It’s a different style. It’s older than the style of the deceased’s silver hairpin.”
"Well, that's much easier to check."
Di Ying nodded lightly, thought of something, and then asked: "As for the three people you saw with silver hairpins, are their clothes neat and clean? Are their faces seriously eroded by the sea breeze? Are their fingers still intact? Relatively clean? No heavy cocoons?"
Xie Jing's head just clicked and clicked. When an adult asks, he clicks.
Di Ying sighed softly and said: "Life is hard. Only some people have a slightly easier life. They can wear silver hairpins and do less work. This is very different from the mainland.
As long as you are not too poor in the Mainland, you can basically own a silver hairpin after the age of forty. It's just that the thickness and length are different.
Let’s not talk about that. It should be easier to inquire next, after all, there are not many women who can afford silver hairpins. It didn't take long for the deceased to be burned to ashes. After all, no matter how big the rocks were, the strong and weak sea breeze could blow away a lot of ashes.
There is still so much left, probably no more than three days. Go ahead and ask. "
With the silver hairpin as an obvious identifying feature, I quickly found out.
An auntie who also wore iron earrings pointed to the area in the south where wooden houses were sparsely built and said, "That woman's name is Jiang Xiuhua. She has moved here relatively recently, right? It seems to be less than three years old." Year. Her family lives on the far side of the land and is the one with the most solid wooden houses."
Di Ying thanked her aunt and raised her feet to go over when she heard her aunt remind her again: "Her man never came back after he went to sea for the last time. She is home alone, so don't get too close."
After saying that, he asked strangely: "Hey, rich people like you, what do you want to do with her?"
Although Di Ying and the others were not dressed luxuriously, they were neat and unpatched and showed no signs of being washed away by sea water, which made them stand out in this area. They fall into the category of rich people.
However, before Di Ying and the others could answer, the aunt said to herself: "Speaking of Jiang Xiuhua, I haven't seen many people these days. If she is not at home, she must have moved away. Without a man, Women, there is no need to stay in this area, it’s hard to stay here. It’s better to leave early.”
Nagging in pieces. Then he lowered his head and continued to mend the fishing net.
Di Ying smiled at the aunt.
Xie Jing went over, gave the aunt five copper coins, and then went to catch up with the adult.
As a result, the aunt also caught up with her.
His eyes were shining brightly and he said: "You are really good people. Why do you ask for money and give me money? Hey, hey, then I can't take it for nothing. I will show you the way. If there is anything else you want to know, Ask me all, and ask more. I know a lot of things."
Di Ying smiled and agreed, then said honestly and politely: "We have something to do with Jiang Xiuhua. If you know anything about her or her family, can you tell us about it?"
"Okay, I said, I said..."
The aunt was thinking and talking as she led the way.
"Jiang Xiuhua, actually... how should I put it, is not that peaceful. There are only two people in her family, she and her husband-in-law, and they don't even have a child. Her husband-in-law went to sea, so she stayed at home by herself. It is also common to feel unbearable loneliness.
What's more, her husband-in-law... Huh? What's it called? Oh yes, his name is Cheng Xinzhi. Yes, it’s Cheng. Cheng Xinzhi went out to sea to fish, and he used an ocean-going boat. It's a big ship, the kind that goes very far. Once you leave, it will take at least half a year.
Come back and rest for a month and then leave again. I can actually make some money. As you know, the farther a ship travels, the more money it can earn.
This is a matter of going to the sea once, fighting once, and lying down eating and drinking for the rest of your life. It must have been about three years since her family moved here, and Cheng Xinzhi seemed to have come back from the sea twice. Yes, there should only be two times, no more.
One time the harvest was okay, and the other time it was terrible. The big ship was in tatters. The only way it could be pulled back was because other big ships met it and helped tow it back.
They really saved their lives. I heard that they went out with hundreds of people together, and only less than twenty came back.
That time, Cheng Xinzhi also stayed at home for about three months before going to sea again.
Her mother-in-law, Jiang Xiuhua, was free on weekdays. There is no need to do anything, as long as she can take care of herself.
But she couldn't control it well, so she had a sweetheart. It seems that his name is... Wu Yangping or Wu Yangsheng.
The name sounds pretty good, right? But that man was already an old man in his late fifties. Just a lonely old man. I heard that when I was young, I worked very hard and saved some money. My wife died of illness, and after my sons went to sea, they never came back one after another.
Then he was the only one left. He said that his father and sons had died in the sea, and he would not go anywhere, but would just stay at this seaside.
But the heart is guarded, but people are not. When I got bored, I hooked up with this restless woman.
This kind of thing, no one cares about, it is too common here. Hey, it’s here, the time for talking is here, here it is.
Huh? Why is the door still closed in broad daylight? "
As the aunt said, she stepped forward and knocked on the door.
This kind of wooden shack fishermen's residence has no yard. Just build a house and divide it into three rooms, so that people can simply live in it.
The foundation of the house is higher from the ground to prevent waves from washing or sand from being blown into the house. There are five wooden steps in front of the door.
Common people pay attention to the steps in front of their doors, which are five levels.
There is a water jar at the door, covered with a lid. There are racks supported by several wooden poles for drying clothes. The ground is all gravel.
The door of Jiang Xiuhua's house was unlocked, but the aunt didn't open it when she patted it. It was obviously bolted from the inside.
The aunt banged on the door and muttered in embarrassment: "I thought it was just half-covered, but it turns out it's bolted. Everyone in Dabai has bolted doors, what kind of shameful thing are they doing..."
Di Ying had no such idea.
There is a patch of sand in front of this door. Because this family lives at the back, there are no fresh footprints at this door. There were no fresh footprints for at least three days.
On the clothes drying pole, there was a woman's sleeveless gown, which was blown to the ground by the wind and half of it was covered by the sand. It looked like it had been washed for three days.
And the auntie knocked on the door for so long, but no one opened the door. He looked back with a little embarrassment and said with a smile: "This, this is too sleepy, do you think...?"
