The next day, Lingbao woke up early, but when she saw that the king was still sleeping, she didn't make a sound and just lay on the bed obediently.
He opened the window a small crack, opened the account sticker, and smiled when he looked at his name on it.
After a while, Lingbao heard a sound in the yard. He went to the slit and saw that his father and elder brother were getting up.
Dad is very diligent in studying and gets up early every day.
Lingbao also turned it over gently, then stood on tiptoes and covered the king with a quilt, and whispered: "Thank you for your hard work, king."
Today I want the king to eat more and give her share to the king.
"Brother, this is for you."
Lingbao held up the household registration card and smiled with her eyes narrowed: "We agreed yesterday." She is a good girl who keeps her word.
"So good." Cheng Yun took it and pinched her face itchingly.
After putting the household registration card in the cabinet in the main room, Cheng Yun took a towel and washed Ling Bao's face, wiping it carefully.
The little girl is getting whiter and tenderer as she grows, and is no longer the sallow and skinny appearance she had before. Her face is round and her eyes are round, like a New Year painting doll.
After washing up, Cheng Zhongqian sat at the table and reviewed his homework. Cheng Yun also took a pen and paper to copy. The handwritten copy is still the main source of income for their family and cannot be wasted.
Cheng Zhongqian will go to school in a few days, and he will definitely not be able to take care of this, so he will have to rely on Cheng Yun.
Ling Bao moved a small bench and was also reading in a murmur.
Seeing that she was not depressed because of what happened yesterday, Cheng Yun relaxed and concentrated on copying.
"Lingbao, where have you been?"
The king's vague call suddenly sounded in his mind, and Ling Bao immediately threw the branch away and ran back to the room.
"Your Majesty!" Ling Bao said happily, "You finally wake up!"
The king yawned long and licked his tongue: "Is there any water? I'm so thirsty."
"There is plenty, I'll pour it." Ling Bao ran out again, then came in with the king's exclusive rice bowl and placed it in front of it, "Drink it, if it's not enough, I'll pour it."
The king was very thirsty, so he put his head in, rolled up the water with his tongue and put it into his mouth. He drank a big bowl with a slurping sound.
"Don't choke. Is it enough to drink?"
The king nodded and burped: "That's enough, that's enough. I won't drink anymore."
Lingbao put the bowl aside, climbed onto the bed, and asked impatiently: "Your Majesty, have you found the evidence?"
The king shook his head: "No."
Ling Bao was extremely disappointed. He looked so distraught that if there were ears on the top of his head, they would have drooped down by now, like a little flower withered by the sun.
"The village chief said that your grandmother and sister-in-law were there when you were born, why don't we go ask them?" the king suggested.
Lingbao said: "But grandma is dead."
"Ah? Dead?" the king said distressedly, "What about your sister-in-law?"
"Sister-in-law is missing."
"Then there's no way to ask..."
Well, I can't ask... Lingbao lay on the bed with a sad face.
"Don't give up, Lingbao. Kung Fu is not afraid of those who are determined. As long as we persist, we will definitely find evidence. If it doesn't work in one day, it will take two days. If it doesn't work in one year, it will take two years!" The king didn't want Lingbao to have no energy, so he encouraged her like giving her chicken blood.
Lingbao nodded heavily: "Yeah!"
Zhao Guihua came over in the morning and took care of Cheng Zhongqian's head injury and Ling Bao.
"By the way, you don't know, right? Today the Wu couple were found lying in the yard with bruises and swollen faces. They were seriously ill. They said they saw a ghost last night, and green will-o'-wisps were floating around their house."
"If you want me to see it, even God can't bear to see it. It's retribution!"
Ling Bao's eyes widened and he asked curiously: "Is there really a will-o'-the-wisp? Is it really green?"
The king also approached with great interest, feeling like he was listening to a strange story. He had never seen a will-o'-the-wisp!
Zhao Guihua picked the vegetable leaves in front of her and said, "Who knows? Anyway, they said they have noses and eyes."
The king grabbed Ling Bao's clothes and ran to the door of Han's house. As soon as he walked in, he heard the sound of Wu's ghost crying and howling, and kept shouting "There is a ghost" and "Help" and other words.
The king held his head high and said: "That ghost must be a chivalrous ghost who draws his sword to help when the road is rough!"
Ling Bao nodded seriously: "Yes, Chivalrous Ghost!"
She thought for a while and suddenly asked: "Xia Shi Gui is so powerful, can it help us?"
The king was delighted: "Let's ask it. If it is willing to help us, that would be great!"
"But how to ask? How do we find it?"
The king thought deeply and came up with an idea: "Ghosts all like paper money. If we burn paper for it, it should come out."
During the Qingming Festival or the anniversary of death, villagers will burn paper for the deceased, and they will burn more paper. If the ancestors lived well underground, they will also bless their descendants.
So burning paper is useful!
"Then let's burn paper for the knights and ghosts tonight. We can't do it during the day because the ghosts are afraid of light."
The little girl is not old, but she knows a lot.
King: "Okay, we will burn it at the back of the house. I wonder if we can bring it into the space."
You cannot bring living creatures into this space, but ghosts are not living creatures!
"Let's give it a try. We won't lose anything!" Ling Bao was eager to give it a try.
She also wanted to find a basin for burning paper, but she couldn't find one, but she found a very smooth wooden stick with which she could play with the paper money.
I also made a dry steamed bun, two washed wild vegetables, and even a single wild berry picked from the roadside.
This was specially left for her by her second brother, and only she has it.
One person and one cat prepared everything, but at night, while hiding in the corner at the back of the house, they discovered that they had forgotten the most important thing - where was the paper money?!
Lingbao and the king looked at each other.
"I forgot, our family doesn't have paper money."
The ancestors of the Cheng family are not buried here, and even the Qingming Festival has not yet arrived, so the Cheng family will naturally not buy paper money.
"Are we unable to hire knights and ghosts?" Ling Bao asked.
The king said: "Although we forgot the paper money, we have prepared these. As the saying goes, etiquette is light but affection is heavy, and knights and ghosts will definitely not care."
Really? Lingbao is a little embarrassed.
She knelt in front of the "offering", put her two little hands together, raised them above her head, bowed in a decent manner, and then kowtowed.
"Xia Shigui, can you hear me? Please help me. How can I find evidence? Can you hear me? I'll give you these. If it's not enough, I'll bring it to you tomorrow.
May I?"
Ling Bao was very sincere and after saying this, he waited expectantly for the knight ghost to appear.
A small cool breeze blew by, and the leaves swirled by.
"Didn't Chivalrous Ghost hear you? Why didn't you show up?"
Could it be because she only kowtowed once? Lingbao immediately added two, and everyone seemed to kowtow three.
Even the king "nods" the cat's head three times in a nondescript manner. It is actually a round ball on its knees, and it is impossible to tell whether it is kowtow or not.