Corpse Retriever.

Chapter 39

Lunch, very rich.

I was originally planning to entertain guests, but the guests left.

However, on most people's small tables, there were more dishes, but the portions did not change much. Only at Runsheng's table, the original large pot became two large pots.

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

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

Li Sanjiang rolled his eyes because he was choked.

Runsheng then realized that he had misunderstood. He 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 shrimps in front of him. The shrimps were soaked in white wine and seasoned with onions, ginger and garlic to remove the fishy smell.

Pick up one, put it in your mouth, and take a sip. The shrimp meat will come out with a delicious taste.

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

You have to be careful when eating this, don't eat it too quickly. 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 and pickled food in coastal areas. For those who are used to it, this is a delicacy that is hard to give up.

But for most inland people, this kind of food is simply horrible.

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

After Li Zhuiyuan had a quick taste, he saw that A'li was not interested in the two dishes and did not even touch them with his chopsticks, so he stood up and picked up the two dishes, intending to send them to Li Sanjiang for him to eat with his wine.

"give it to me."

Liu Yumei spoke up.

Li Zhuiyuan brought the drunken shrimps and drunken mud snails to Liu Yumei and Aunt Liu's table.

"Can't get used to it?"

"Ah."

"Good things, but I 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, "Ah Li doesn't like these either."

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

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

"They are buying a house. They are interested in the house of the bearded man."

"Oh, and what about the house?"

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

"What am I going to see? I don't have money to buy anything."

"You don't have to buy it, but you can just go and take a look."

"I don't have money to buy it. If I go to see it, I will be even more upset when I 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 must be done according to public rules."

Li Zhuiyuan knew that Liu Yumei was deliberately reminding him that he should call the police and not deal with the problem on his own.

"The police are busy too. Besides, isn't there a slogan about police-civilian cooperation painted on the wall outside 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."

What I mean is that there is a tough guy among this group of water monkeys.

Li Zhuiyuan said, "It could also be that he is just picking a general from among the short people."

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

Li Zhuiyuan walked back to his own small table.

Aunt Liu lowered her voice and asked, "Do you want me to go and see what book Xiaoyuan is reading?"

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

This realization made Aunt Liu feel frightened, even more so than when the boy asked her if there was poison in the morning.

The latter describes the child's nature, while the former means that this child seems to have really gotten started, and has gotten very deep into it.

Liu Yumei shook her head. "When the kid didn't come earlier, he could have gone to look at the books in Li Sanjiang's basement, which was interesting. But now that the kid has figured out the trick, it's easy to get himself involved if he goes to look. Are you anxious to see Ali?"

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

"I may be old, but I can't cook."

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

"It's really amazing. Didn't he say that during the Four Olds Campaign, several groups of people specially left their books with him."

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

"There is no such thing in this world. Only we have good eyesight, and others are blind and can't see."

"That's what you said."

Liu Yumei actually had a few more words to say, which she kept in her heart and didn't say out loud.

No matter how great a book is, it is still just a book.

Moreover, the more remarkable a book is, the harder it is to understand.

How many people have spent their entire lives without ever being able to truly read a single book on Taoism.

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

If it really is an extraordinary treasure of the Xuanmen sect, it would be really unfair for him to be able to understand and learn from it by looking at it in this way.

But the facts seem to be here.

When he first moved in, he was just a frightened child who experienced deathfall for the first time. Now, he can not only distinguish the bait holes and the main holes, but also guide the deathfall himself.

Before liberation, a child like this would have been fought over by every family to inherit their legacy.

Ah……

If the tablet he worshipped at home was not a dead body, but had some spirit, he would probably wake up at night and ask me to accept him as a disciple.

He even had to argue over whether to follow Qin or Liu, and the two families had to have their tablets sorted out.

look,

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

When A'li recovers from his illness, I might pass on the "Liu's Qi-Watching Technique" to him as a token of my gratitude.

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

After all, I still need Aunt Liu to provide me with a safety net.

Although the incident would happen in Big Beard's house, if he failed to control it, it might affect his family as well. At that time, he would have to ask Aunt Liu to go back to her hometown to accompany Uncle Qin to take care of her uncle.

After lunch, Runsheng went to the workshop to work with his big belly and no intention of taking a rest.

Li Zhuiyuan stopped him and handed him some blueprints: "Brother Runsheng, please help me make these first. I need them urgently."

Runsheng took the blueprint and said directly, "Okay," without even looking at it.

He believed that Xiaoyuan would not give him drawings that he could not understand or draw.

Li Zhuiyuan and Qin Li came to the room.

He continued to pick and choose among the ten taboos, while A'li continued to carve with the carving knife.

The desk is big enough for boys and girls to do their own things without interfering with each other.

In the end, Li Zhuiyuan selected two taboos.

In fact, among the books he had read, there were many kinds of taboos, but many of them did not have the conditions to be realized. Even among the ten that he had carefully selected, at least half of them were eliminated by him because the conditions for success were too complicated.

There are some necessary materials whose names I can understand, but I don’t know what they are in reality, and the prefixes are often hundreds or thousands of years.

There are also some special triggering instruments, which are made in the same way as evil instruments. Even human skin drums are available, and it is marked with boys and girls under a certain age who must be selected.

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

To be honest, if I had such conditions, would I still have to go to such lengths to think of ways to deal with those water monkeys?

The last two selected.

One way is to make initial changes to the Feng Shui and, in a short period of time, transform the corpse-keeping site into a place where evil spirits are eliminated, which is a bit like pouring water into a frying pan.

One is to wrap the scripture banner around the little yellow warbler to trigger the boiling resentment in its body. This requires attention to the effect of the scripture banner, which is similar to how a strong wind can extinguish a fire, but appropriate blowing can make the fire burn more and more vigorously.

However, at my current level, I only need to worry about whether the wind will blow, and not worry about what to do if the wind is too strong.

From a practical point of view, these two points are the easiest to achieve.

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

Li Zhuiyuan had already asked Runsheng to prepare the materials for the battle flags, but he still had to re-plan and design the specific usage. At least he had to make it clear which feng shui points needed to be changed, which required a lot of deduction and calculation.

He opened the drawer, took out a large roll of white paper, and cut a piece according to his needs.

Li Zhuiyuan picked up a pen and ruler and began to draw the pond of Big Beard's house and the surrounding terrain according to his memory of that night.

He had been exposed to this kind of family tradition from his parents since he was a child, and with his good memory, he finished the painting in about half an hour.

It is much more delicate than a sketch and a lot of unnecessary complexity is removed. Grasping the edge with both hands and lifting it up, it gives the illusion of being taken with 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 watched, he gradually frowned.

The reason I chose to draw it, just like using draft paper, was to reduce the burden on my brain, but unfortunately, this picture...didn't have any effect.

Because Feng Shui and weather conditions cannot be drawn with clear lines, when you calculate it yourself, you still have to form a realistic picture in your mind first, then add Feng Shui and weather conditions, and finally deduce the calculations.

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

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

Li Zhuiyuan went downstairs. His family ran a paper-making business. There were paint palettes and brushes everywhere on the first floor. He picked out 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 began to draw.

But as he continued to paint, he felt something was wrong.

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

He had seen many geniuses in his class, but they all just learned quickly and no one was born with knowledge.

In the professional arena, if you skip the learning process, the genius is no different from an idiot.

This is also the reason why he can never beat A-li in playing Go. A-li has obviously learned it, but he has not.

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

The key is that this is not a result that can be obtained at a glance. It requires a long period of deduction and calculation. Therefore, we cannot go to the scene because the risk is too great.

Aunt Liu can definitely draw. I have observed how she colors paper figures and it is clear that she has a very deep foundation in painting.

Grandma Liu can also paint. She likes to sit at a table and design clothes for A'li with a paintbrush.

But these two people definitely won't help me 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 patterns on the iron spikes with his hands. These iron spikes would be used as flagpoles.

"Xiaoyuan, you're here."

Runsheng handed a large porcelain cup to Li Zhuiyuan.

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

Li Zhuiyuan took it and took two big gulps.

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

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

"Hey, sometimes it's easier to make if you heat it up a little bit. It's a little hot, but just drink more water, it's not a big deal."

"You need to take better care of yourself."

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

Li Zhuiyuan knew that from Runsheng's perspective, as long as he had a full meal, nothing seemed to be a problem.

The conditions in this workshop are indeed simple and the space is a bit small. It would be great if we could set up a professional studio in the future, with our own electric furnace, machine tools and cutting machines.

That way, it will be convenient to make anything.

However, it's just something to think about for now.

"Brother, let me tell you something."

"Okay, Xiaoyuan, you go ahead." Runsheng didn't stop and continued with the work in his hands.

Li Zhuiyuan told the story of the water monkey.

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

"Ah."

"What a shame. I've seen similar scenes on TV and I think I can act them out."

"Don't worry, you can polish your acting skills and you'll be fine later."

"Ok!"

Runsheng picked up the black and white towel and wiped his sweat.
"So, Xiaoyuan, are we going to stab them in the ass when they are about to dig up the grave?"

As he spoke, Runsheng raised the iron chisel he had just polished and made a "poking" gesture.

"Maybe, without us having to do anything, Little Yellow Warbler can feast on them all."

"That's such a pity. It's always a shame to watch others take action while I can't get back on track.

That’s how it usually plays out in the movies: Little Yellow Warbler kills them first, then a tough guy shows up among them to subdue Little Yellow Warbler, and at the critical moment, we show up.”

"Have you arranged everything?"

"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, go and think about your own things, I'll take care of this."

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

However, Li Zhuiyuan did not go upstairs first, but came to the kitchen. At this time, Aunt Liu was decocting 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 it 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 pace and finally finished it.

"Aunt Liu, this medicine is very expensive, right?"

"They are not expensive. They are just some common tonics. If you spend some time to boil them, they will stimulate the medicinal properties and harmonize with each other, and the effect will come out. However, Xiaoyuan, as you said, you often have nosebleeds and dizziness. You must take care of your body and don't cause a deficiency and damage your vitality in advance."

"I understand, Aunt Liu."

“In addition, this medicine is best taken in the morning, preferably right after getting up, so that the body can recover with the morning air, and the effect is best when taken with the medicinal soup.

How about this, I will let A-li bring it to you in the morning, since A-li has to go to your room in the morning anyway."

Li Zhuiyuan nodded: "Okay."

He did not refuse, because he knew that Grandma Liu and the others wanted to speed up the progress and assign extra homework to A'li in his name.

Although, this picture seems weird when I think of it.

Every morning as soon as I opened my eyes, the girl would come 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 the medicine.

There were indeed some 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 always in good health and could even go to the site despite having to sleep outdoors.

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

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

After a period of feeding, good food and good medicine, the little black dog's fur became even darker and shinier. Li Zhuiyuan also discovered that its tongue was also black. The only white part of its body was its teeth.

This is the dog Aunt Liu bought for herself. It should be of extraordinary appearance.

Going upstairs and entering the room, Li Zhuiyuan planned to roll up a paper ball for himself before forcing himself to calculate, but he saw that although A-li was still at the desk, she had moved to her original position.

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

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

After taking a closer look, Li Zhuiyuan couldn't help but open his eyes wide. She imitated the picture of the fish pond she had pasted on the wall, and she also drew the weather.

The problem that had been bothering him and the price of nosebleed were solved by the girl.

After finishing the last stroke, Ah Li put down the brush, put his fingers into the cup, dipped it in water, and then gently and evenly sprinkled it on the drawing paper to allow the ink to spread further and the scene to become clearer.

carry out.

The girl turned around and looked at the boy.

"Ari, you are such a genius."

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

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

Li Zhuiyuan felt that it seemed necessary to change the way of acting coquettishly to the grandfather in front of A'li next time, or secretly tell the grandfather to change his response.

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

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

"I'll buy you whatever you want, Ari. I have money, plenty of it."

The ceremony is completed.

Ari let go of her hand contentedly and sat back in her seat.

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

Every twenty minutes, he would pick up a pen and mark a point on the painting, which was where the flag needed to be planted.

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

Even if all the twelve points are planted with flags, there is still a lack of a center point. But don't worry about that, because the center point is the little yellow warbler itself.

Next, it's the material for the flag. Runsheng will be able to make the flagpole part, but the tricky and complicated part is the flag surface. Ordinary cloth will be blown by the wind, which is not conducive to presentation, so it has to be a fixed surface, preferably a piece of high-quality wood, so that after carving the patterns, the effect can be maximized in a short time.

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

but now……

Li Zhuiyuan turned his head to look at the wooden flower rolls in front of Ah Li and the half-chopped tablet under Ah Li's feet. It seemed that there were better boards to choose from.

For example,
These ancestors are very simple.

……

After dinner, the village chief came.

The village chief smiled and said, "Uncle Sanjiang, you are lucky."

He then took out several handwritten documents, which were stamped with the village committee's seal, as well as the signatures and handprints of his bearded wife and eldest son.

Li Sanjiang was impressed that Ding Dalin was so fast. He bought the retirement house right away?
He looked down at the document again and his expression froze for a moment: "Why is the house we bought belonged to the bearded man?"

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

"You can tell me whether you want the house and fish pond for free. He has already paid the money and you have signed the contract. If he has a bad conscience, he will just kick them out. Even if he wants to sue you, he won't be able to win."

"But I warned him not to buy from the bearded man's."

"It's cheap. I think even though he's a returned overseas Chinese, he probably hasn't made a fortune. If he really did make a fortune, he could come back to his hometown to invest, and the town could just grant him a new residential plot."

"This is the truth."

Although he felt that the house owned by the bearded man was unlucky, Li Sanjiang still signed and put his fingerprints on it in order to avoid wasting time.

At worst, after Ding Dalin leaves, Xiao Yuanhou can just sell the house.

"That's it. They are probably anxious to return home and live here. We'll find someone to clean up the place tomorrow, and they'll officially move in the day after tomorrow. We'll then hire a troupe to perform all day, and invite the whole village to come and have a feast together."

"It's really lively here. The banquets at Big Beard's dam have been going on non-stop for a while now."

"Haha, let's just talk about this now. When you go to their place the day after tomorrow to join in the fun, you must keep your mouth shut. I'll also remind other people in the village when the time comes."

"I know."

"Oh, by the way, he said that when he invites villagers to a banquet, he won't charge for any money."

"I'd better give it to you."

"Yes, you have to give it, as a contribution to your own house."

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

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

Li Sanjiang lit a cigarette and said to Li Zhuiyuan, "Little Marquis Yuan, my grandfather has earned you a house."

"Thank you, Grandpa."

"This is nothing. Just wait. Grandpa will save some money here. Before I die, I will buy you a house in the city for you to use when you get married."

As he spoke, Li Sanjiang deliberately glanced at Old Lady Liu who was eating at a table in the distance.

As if afraid that the other party didn't hear it, he deliberately raised the volume:
"After our little Marquis Yuan gets married, he will have to live in the city anyway!"

Humph, let this philistine old lady of yours look down on others again.

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

Both her Qin and Liu families have old houses in Su, Huaiyang and other places. In the early years, they 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.

In fact, Liu Yumei just wanted to cure her granddaughter's illness, and had never thought about making the boy from the Li family her granddaughter's son-in-law in the future.

Since ancient times, when wealthy families recruit a son-in-law, they do not choose a virtuous person, but an honest and dutiful one.

If you really pick someone who is smart and capable and cannot control him, then all the family property will belong to this guy in the future. He will take it all away and won't even leave you a surname.

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

Then he went downstairs to the kitchen, cooked ten packets of three-fresh noodles himself and brought them to Runsheng in a basin.

Runsheng was still staying up late to work on the iron. When he saw a large bowl of noodles and two thick incense sticks covering it, he was so happy that the corners of his mouth almost stretched to the sky.

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

After waking up, Li Zhuiyuan stretched and then turned his head.

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

This look unexpectedly makes her look cute and adorable.

A'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 trying to imitate the way her elders in the family treated her and feed him medicine.

Li Zhuiyuan gladly accepted it.

then,

Early in the morning, Li Zhuiyuan went to wash his hair.

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

"Xiao Yuanhou, what's the matter? Did bird shit fall on your head today?"

"Grandpa, I feel my hair is a little greasy, let me wash it."

After breakfast, Li Zhuiyuan returned to the house, gave the design to A-li, and asked her to be responsible for carving on the board.

He started to draw scripture banners. With his experience in drawing talismans in the past, it was not difficult for him to draw this time.

Moreover, the "power" of the talisman paper also made Li Zhuiyuan believe that his scripture banner would never have an excessive effect. It would only irritate the little yellow warbler but would not really suppress her.

By noon, all the materials were ready and the flagpoles at Runsheng's place were also ready.

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.

Li Sanjiang originally thought that since they were moving to a new house tomorrow, Ding Dalin should come over tonight to chat with him. However, Ding Dalin did not come, and it was Tan Yunlong who came instead.

Tan Yunlong was riding a motorcycle with Tan Wenbin following behind him.

The father and son brought a lot of gifts, and on the trunk of the motorcycle, they also tied a mattress and a bag filled with toiletries.

It turned out that the city's Education Bureau was going to conduct an inspection, so the town's high school had to suspend summer classes and give the students a week off before returning to class after the inspection.

Tan Yunlong said that he was busy with work and his wife would be on a business trip soon, so he could only leave his son here to be taken care of, which was a good opportunity for him to study with Xiaoyuan.

Li Sanjiang understood it as coming to give Xiao Yuanhou some tutoring.

However, apart from being a little confused on some individual matters occasionally, Li Sanjiang was very smart most of the time. He decisively rejected the living expenses given by Tan Yunlong and promised to take good care of his son. After all, everyone knew the necessity of having a good relationship with the police station.

Tan Yunlong walked up to Li Zhuiyuan, bent down, patted Li Zhuiyuan on the shoulder, and whispered:

"The two unconscious ones are about to wake up."

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

"Binbin, I'm sorry to bother you first. If he doesn't listen to 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 gave Li Zhuiyuan a "you know" smile.

Tan Yunlong is gone.

Tan Wenbin held the quilt and said, "Xiaoyuan, where is your room? Can I 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, spread the quilt on it neatly, and patted it:
"Come, you sleep here with me tonight."

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

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

Runsheng had finished his work and could finally continue watching TV with peace of mind.

Tan Wenbin watched with him. After the TV was completely fixed in black and white, Tan Wenbin took out the game console and taught Runsheng how to play Tetris. The machine also came with another airplane game.

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

"Oops, I forgot to bring the batteries."

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

Tan Wenbin also lay down on the table opposite.

It was a pitch-black first floor, and across from it were paper figures lined up neatly in the moonlight.

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

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

"Runsheng, do you know anything about death?"

"know."

"Is it the kind of body that is found in the water after a person dies?"

"if not?"

"Is it the kind that after death, they can walk ashore on their own?"

"Or else?"

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

"Runsheng, have you ever fished for it?"

"I have."

"you are great."

"Xiao Yuan is even more powerful."

"Hehe, this time I told my dad that I wanted to come here to study, actually I just wanted to see if there was a chance for me to meet Sidao."

It was true that the school had a temporary holiday, but it was false that his mother had to go on a business trip. As soon as he proposed it, his parents immediately agreed.

Because in the eyes of Tan Yunlong and his wife, Li Zhuiyuan no longer belongs to someone else's family, he belongs to the family in heaven!
Tan Yunlong is a reliable person. He specially called the town high school to inquire about transfers and skipping grades. The caller asked where his child went to school and what grade he was in. Tan Yunlong had seen Li Zhuiyuan's file bag before, so he enrolled his child in the junior class.

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

An hour later, the phone rang again, and the tone became very excited. There was a lot of chatter on the other end, shouting and asking Tan Yunlong if he was sure it was that junior class.

They also said that as long as everything was true, you could come to the school immediately to handle the formalities, and you would be accompanied throughout the process by the principal, director, and others, and there would be a series of preferential conditions.

When Tan Yunlong knew that Li Zhuiyuan wanted to go there for the summer vacation, he did not tell them Li Zhuiyuan's name and address, and pushed it back, saying that he would take the child there before the new semester started.

However, Tan Yunlong was sure of one thing: this junior class was not the kind of primary school affiliated with a university as he had imagined.

Runsheng was getting ready to go to bed. He felt that the guy sitting across from him seemed a little dumber than himself.

Tan Wenbin smiled to himself and said:
"Hey, you know, when Xiaoyuan first told me that he liked laosidao, I stupidly asked him if it was a snack."

As soon as he finished speaking, Tan Wenbin saw Runsheng's eyes seemed to light up.

Then, a resounding and yet memorable voice came:
“Delicious, delicious!”

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

……

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

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

"This little girl is so pretty. Even 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 happened?"

"Except Xiaoyuan, no one can get close to her."

"Is there still such a rule?"

When daybreak came, Tan Wenbin felt that Runsheng was not so scary anymore.

“It’s not a rule.”

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

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

"Breakfast!"

Aunt Liu's voice is like an alarm clock ringing on time every day.

Li Zhuiyuan and A'li went downstairs. Today he didn't let A'li feed him 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 eat with me!"

Runsheng grabbed Tan Wenbin by the 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, there was a loud noise of gongs and drums at the bearded man's house, and loud speakers and speakers were playing music.

The village chief notified everyone in the village yesterday that a former overseas Chinese from the village had returned to his home country to settle down, and invited everyone to a housewarming party.

We also made it clear that everyone just needs to come and eat at the banquet, and no membership fee will be charged.

Now, all the men, women, young and old in the village came early to watch the fun.

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

"He's very curious about what he'll do at night." Runsheng asked as he made a knife-hand gesture in front of Li Zhuiyuan, "Knock him out?"

Li Zhuiyuan's eyelids twitched. He was afraid that Brother Runsheng would get too immersed in the role and fail to control the strength well, and get killed by a knife attack.

"There's no need for that. Just tie him up."

"it is good."

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, so they had to extend the space down to the fields and build a shed.

In addition, the troupe's performance venue was set up next to the fish pond, with speakers and drums placed there.

Li Zhuiyuan knew that this was to make it easier to cover up the action when robbing the tomb at night.

Because it was an all-day banquet, it meant that there would be music and dance all day and all night. During the day, they would perform for the living, and at night, they would sing for the dead.

What is important is to take care of both yin and yang thoroughly, implying smooth sailing in the future.

However, there are very few full-day banquets in rural areas now, 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.

With drums, loud speakers and big speakers, 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 what professionalism is, he is willing to invest money, buy a house and invite the whole village to a banquet.

The performance of the opera troupe had already started, and there were people all around. Li Zhuiyuan pretended to be curious and led Runsheng around the stage. He then went to a less crowded place opposite the fish pond with Runsheng to relieve himself.

This is actually to help Runsheng determine the coordinates for planting the flag.

"Have you remembered everything, Brother Runsheng?"

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

"I'll get two to plug in when the time comes, and the rest will be up to you."

The flags were a bit heavy, so Li Zhuiyuan could only run while holding two of them.

"What about me? What about me?"

Tan Wenbin followed and untied his belt.
"How many shall I take?"

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

"Make sure to complete the mission." Although he didn't know what the mission was, he just wanted to participate.

The meal started at noon.

Li Zhuiyuan, Tan Wenbin and Li Sanjiang sat down in the room on the first floor.

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

"Brother Runsheng, eat at home. Also, don't talk."

"Understand."

Tan Wenbin made an "ok" gesture.

Runsheng had to eat with fragrance, and this action attracted too much attention. On weekdays, when he went to the table with his grandfather, his grandfather would prepare food for him separately and let him find a corner to eat alone.

Under the current circumstances, we naturally cannot arouse the suspicion of the water monkeys.

The quality of the meal was very high, and a local chef was invited. After Tan Wenbin stopped talking, his mouth was full of grease as he ate.

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

Next, the whole afternoon was spent watching the performance together. It was performed at night, and it was taboo for living people to watch, so no one would come to watch except the performers.

The level of this troupe is very high, with singing, dancing, acrobatics, and performances such as bone-shrinking and stone-breaking with the chest.

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

Judging from the details of the performers' behavioral habits, they all follow the routine of dealing with death.

It seems that if the two people who contracted the fish pond had not been knocked down by the Di Yin Hong Sha in the bait hole, it would have been very 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 definitely not some improvised group, this is a very professional group of water monkeys.

After all, those guys who just want to make a fortune by robbing tombs don't all have the skills to specifically train themselves to kill dead bodies.

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

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

The first time I saw the little yellow warbler was in a scene like this. At that time, the little yellow warbler was performing on the stage.

It was she who gave him, when he first arrived in the countryside, a shocking wild aesthetic feeling from the countryside.

Li Zhuiyuan's gaze fell on the surface of the fish pond. He wondered if the little yellow warblers in the pond were also watching the performance?

Deep down, she must have some resentment towards the funeral team who took the money and ignored her whereabouts, right?

At this moment, 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:

"If you want to hear any songs, you can tell me."

Rural people are generally shy, and when asked the first time, no one was brave enough to speak or order songs.

Li Zhuiyuan was the first to raise his hand.

Secretary Jin knew Li Zhuiyuan, and waved to him with a smile, motioning him to come closer to the stage: "Come on, kid, tell me what song you want to listen to?"

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

Li Zhuiyuan was facing the stage, just facing the surface of the fish pond. He said in a clear voice:

"Um……

I want to hear,
"Thousands of Songs."

(End of this chapter)