who?
Zhao Si hanged himself?
Li Suijiu was a little confused and silently threw the wooden stick hidden behind his back into a small courtyard on the roadside.
By chance, he hit a hen that was hatching eggs.
It caused the hens to cluck and fly around, and they happened to step on the head of a yellow dog. The yellow dog chased it angrily, knocking over the dried radishes, pickled cabbage jars, and chili noodles in the yard...
The place was a mess.
The initiator blinked and quickly left the scene of the incident.
"Yesterday I hanged myself, and today Zhao Si hangs himself again. Is it possible that hanging is popular among people in this world?"
This is a bit strange no matter how you look at it.
Li Suijiu decided to follow the locals and go see the excitement.
So, he followed the woman and ran towards the alley across the corner.
Not long after, he saw Zhao Si's house.
A group of people gathered around the house.
Unlike [Huaijin Thatched Cottage], Zhao Si's house does not have a small courtyard, so people who eat melons are blocking the door.
Li Suijiu once again saw the six-year-old child selling melon seeds and peanuts. Just like yesterday, he had a wooden board hanging around his neck with oil-paper bags placed on it.
"They sell melon seeds and peanuts for three cents a bag."
The painting style of this world is indeed a bit strange.
Everyone seems to like watching people hang themselves, and some industry chains have been spawned from this.
Because Li Suijiu saw more than just children selling melon seeds and peanuts.
He also saw a woman in black wearing a bamboo hat, holding up a wooden sign with one hand, with a line of large characters written in ink on it - ingot, candle, coffin, sesame oil.
The signature is [Fu Shan Tang]
This heat is so intense... it's simply outrageous.
After Li Suijiu felt disdainful in his heart, he squeezed towards the crowd.
Soon, he saw Zhao Si hanging from the beam.
His neck was tilted to one side, his eyes were completely white, and there was a puddle of incontinent urine on the ground... As expected, he was really dead.
The people eating melons were talking a lot.
The voice of a young man with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks suppressed everyone.
The young man claimed to be Zhao Si's friend and was telling what happened yesterday.
He bluntly said that Zhao Si got a red-tailed carp from nowhere yesterday and said he wanted to treat him to a meal and asked him to prepare some drinks.
But how can he have money to buy wine?
So, I thought of waiting until dusk, when Zhao Si killed the fish, and then he would come over.
At that time, even if he didn't bring any drinks, Zhao Si could only treat him to fish.
It was a good idea, but at dusk, before I could go out, I was blocked by people from Jixiang Gambling House.
Naturally, I was beaten at home that night.
As he spoke, the young man also showed everyone several big bulges on his head.
Then he said that in the morning, when the people at Jixiang Gambling House left, he had the opportunity to come over, but when he came, he saw Zhao Si hanging from the beam.
I couldn't find the red-tailed carp again. I only saw a black cat with a pair of golden eyes on the roof.
"Hiss, could it be that the black cat stole the food and hanged Zhao Si?"
"It's possible that black cats like to eat fish the most. Zhao Si is usually stingy and he must be unwilling to share his food. The black cat got angry and planned to hang him."
"I do know where the fish came from. When I watched Li Xiucai hang himself yesterday, I happened to see Zhao Si coming out of [Huaijin Thatched Cottage] with a fish in his arms."
Everyone began to analyze it carefully.
But Li Suijiu had a question on his forehead. What kind of black cat snatched food, got angry, and planned to hang Zhao Si?
The key is that no one else refuted it and seemed to think it made sense.
And the guy who saw Zhao Si holding the fish, why didn't he stop him yesterday?
By the way, where is the government?
After all, someone is dead, so the government officials have to come over to investigate, right?
Just as I was thinking, a voice came.
"Give way, the government will investigate the case!"
coming!
Li Suijiu turned around and looked.
I saw two government officials in gray clothes, yawning and walking towards the door of the house.
There were two cadres, one fat and one thin, with the word "capture" printed on their chests. However, they were obviously not in a good mental state and had very deep dark circles under their eyes.
The melon-eaters made way for a passage.
The fat officer entered the room first, and frowned as soon as he entered the room: "It really stinks!"
The thin Yachai's attitude was relatively better. After entering the house, he walked around the house first and then said: "There are no signs of murder. It is definitely a suicide."
"Suicide? Then why check? It's bad luck."
The fat official vomited, then cut with a knife and let down Zhao Si who was hanging on the beam.
The thin yamen officer got a cart, put Zhao Si's body on the cart, pulled it up and walked out the door.
When they walked to the door, the eyes of the two yamen officials finally noticed the woman in black wearing a bamboo hat and holding a signboard of Fu Shan Tang.
The fat yamen officer, who was still looking impatient, suddenly became respectful.
"Song Ding, I've met Shopkeeper Ji."
"If someone dies, why don't you buy a coffin?" The woman in black raised her head.
Only then did Li Suijiu notice the appearance of the woman in black.
He actually has a pair of very beautiful red and phoenix eyes, coupled with eyebrows like willow leaves and skin like a white porcelain vase, it can be said that the spring breeze is blowing willows, and he is radiant.
It is different from Qian'er's delicate and shy appearance.
The woman in black has a temperament like a sharp sword, a slightly chubby figure, and she doesn't know what she eats on a daily basis. She is probably more than enough to breastfeed five children.
Such a woman actually opened a Fu Shan Tang?
Li Suijiu was somewhat surprised.
Then, the fat yamen's words made him even more surprised.
"Of course I have to buy it. How can a dead person not buy a coffin?" After the fat official finished speaking, he felt a little embarrassed: "But this Zhao Si has no relatives, so he may not have any money."
"Fushantang does not do loss-making business." The woman in black nodded.
"It's natural." The fat officer seemed to have thought of something and pointed to the room in front of him: "Zhao Si only has this room left, why not trade it with this room?"
"It's a good deal to exchange one room for one coffin."
"Then there will be shopkeeper Lao Ji." Fatty Yamen was overjoyed.
"By the way, I just heard someone say that Zhao Si invited him to eat fish yesterday." After the woman in black finished speaking, she pointed at the young man with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks not far away.
The young man with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks was stunned and immediately shouted: "I am innocent, I don't know anything, and I didn't eat fish yesterday!"
"Stop talking nonsense and come with us." The attitude of the two cadres changed quickly.
"No...don't!"
Although the young man with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks kept struggling, he was still taken away by two government officials.
Zhao Si's body was left behind, and the woman in black left directly pushing the cart carrying the body.
The melon-eaters had no fun to watch, so they dispersed one by one.
Li Suijiu looked at the world's methods of handling cases and was a little dumbfounded for a moment... Is this case finished like this?
When a person dies, they just leave it to a coffin shop. If they don’t have any money, they use their house to pay for it?
Thinking back to the time when he hanged himself yesterday, if he hadn't had the advantage of traveling through time, he might have ended the case so hastily, right?
After seeing the cruelty of this world, Li Suijiu gradually woke up.
This is an era when human life is at stake!
Want to be respected?
Want human rights?
Then you can only work hard and pass the imperial examination.
"Go back and study!"
Li Suijiu didn't want his wife to be snatched away one day. After all, Qian'er was too good-looking, and God knew if she would be targeted.
A scholar's social status is still low after all. Only by passing the imperial examination and becoming a court official can he be less bullied.
…
Huaijin Thatched Cottage has three rooms in total.
A bedroom, a study room, and a kitchen.
Li Suijiu went directly into the study room, where there were many copied books. Of course, there were no thread-bound single copies, but the books for scientific examinations were basically complete.
I flipped through a few books.
I found a book about the imperial examination system, and after reading it for a while, I found that the system was roughly similar to the Ming Dynasty in the previous life.
However, the dynasty is not Ming, but "Xian".
Great tribute to the dynasty!
"It's not a dynasty in history? This is a bit troublesome. You can't judge the test questions based on current events. You can only take the test hard with real materials."
Li Suijiu was not unfamiliar with traditional Chinese characters in books. He had long been used to them when he was studying ancient Chinese.
"Yesterday Qian'er mentioned that I passed the scholar examination three years ago. According to the triennial imperial examination system, August this year will be the autumn period!"
Li Suijiu began to think about his next plan.
It's March now, and there are still five months to prepare.
It shouldn't be difficult to review all the books in the study in five months.
As long as you are familiar with the history of this dynasty, coupled with the cultural heritage accumulated in previous lives, you will have at least a 60% chance of passing the exam!
If it doesn’t work, just study for another three years!
Anyway, this body is only eighteen years old. Even if he passes the examination at the age of twenty-one, he can still be regarded as a first-class young talent.
As for the eighteen-year-old Juren?
Of course, it is unique among ten thousand people, and it is like a dragon or a phoenix among people!
Li Suijiu didn't think about it anymore and continued to read books.
Before I knew it, it was dusk.
"Cuckoo!"
There was a sound in my stomach.
Only then did Li Suijiu remember that he seemed to have only had breakfast.
"We can't do this anymore. The body is the capital of studying. People who forget about food and sleep generally don't live long. If you die early, how can you love Qian'er better?"
While thinking this, Li Suijiu looked out the window.
The sun is about to set.
The last ray of sunset hangs in the sky, reflecting the clouds, like chicken drumsticks that are roasted to a golden crisp, making people drool.
Then, a purple moon appeared in the horizon.
The lavender light falls in the small courtyard, and the purple stamens on the old elm tree are even more crystal clear, and they sway in the night wind one by one.
Li Suijiu rubbed his groggy eyes with his hands.
Purple...Purple Moon?
Before he had time to think too much, he saw a black cat appear on the wall of the courtyard at some point, with golden eyes and a lazy cry from its mouth.
"Meow~~"
