Chapter Forty-Three The mother who is slow to leave (4)
"Hey! Celery Yangzi, why can you see everything? Why can't we see it?" Fat Wei suddenly expressed his dissatisfaction with Qin Yueyang's omniscient appearance.
"Who do you call a celery seedling? I can see a lot of things. Do you think I'm a witch and you're just going to make a living?" Qin Yueyang glared at Fat Wei and ignored him.
Everyone returned home just like this. Although it was already midnight, Chen Zhi's father saw that they had returned safely and then fell asleep peacefully.
The next morning, Lu Jianguo called and said that he had to go to the hospital in an emergency and could not come for the time being. He asked them to go home and look at the table. The door keys and drawer keys were placed at Mrs. Wu's house downstairs.
He also told them to move quickly, as his wife might not come back at any time during the day, and he kept this matter from his wife.
"You're really a henpecker. A gentleman can't make the decision for anything, and he must not marry a Northeastern girl." Fatty cursed in an arrogant tone, planning to ask Lu Jianguo for more money.
At noon, Chen Zhi and Pang Wei took Qin Yueyang to Lu Jianguo's house. They first went to Mrs. Wu's house downstairs to get the key, and then opened the door smoothly. No one was in the house.
They used the key Lu Jianguo left for them and opened the wooden drawer.
When he opened it, he found a bunch of miscellaneous things inside, which were old and mostly belonging to old people. Chen Zhi flipped through it and saw a brown photo album inside, so he took it out.
It's been a long time, and the pages are a bit dirty. Chen Zhi flipped through page after page, and found some yellowed old photos. Among them were a group photo of Lu Jianguo's parents, and a single photo of Lu Jianguo's father. His father must have been a child when he was a child.
He came from a wealthy family and took many artistic photos of his childhood, as well as military uniform photos of his youth. The plastic film on them was very bright, and you could see that Lu Jianguo's mother was often wiping it.
Chen Zhi read the photo album from beginning to end and rummaged through the drawer for a long time. He didn't see anything wrong.
"I said you are not good enough as Sherlock Holmes? Didn't you brag to me last time you drank, saying your IQ was 157? Why can't you find any clues? Move quickly, Lu Jianguo's crazy wife will come back later
, I'm so scared." Fat Wei said with lingering fear, constantly looking towards the door.
I don't know whether it's out of sympathy or curiosity, but Chen Zhi just feels that this family is very strange. First of all, there is a very disharmonious thing here, that is, Lu Jianguo's wife is too beautiful, her kind
How could a beautiful woman fall in love with such a poor coal hauler who has nothing?
Furthermore, although his wife is fierce, she behaves like someone who has read a book. And there is one thing that is very wrong, that is his wife’s accent. Although she speaks Northeastern dialect, her speech is very difficult to pronounce, as if she has been specially trained
of.
If Chen Zhi's inference is correct, Lu Jianguo's wife should be a foreigner, and she is a foreigner far away from the north. More importantly, his wife does not want others to know that she is a foreigner.
"I've been rummaging through everything, but there's nothing. Apart from this photo album, this old lady has accumulated a lot of rags." Fat Wei went over to help and said as he rummaged through the pages.
Seeing that they couldn't find anything, Qin Yueyang walked over, touched the table, closed his eyes for a while as if sensing something, opened his eyes and said, "No, there must be something in here."
After listening to Qin Yueyang's words, Chen Zhi's eyes moved from the drawer to the table. At that time, they saw Mrs. Lu's "reflection" desperately pulling the drawer. Maybe the purpose was not the things in the drawer, but the table itself.
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"Tear down the table," Chen Zhi said.
"Are you okay? We broke into the house illegally and tore down the table. It would be strange if the crazy woman didn't call the police when she comes back later!" Fat Wei said.
"It's okay, let's take it apart! Take apart every mortise and tenon joint of the table," Chen Zhi said firmly.
Fat Wei had no choice but to go to the balcony to find a few guys, including Chen Zhi, and they took apart the table in a few seconds. The table was too old, and there were sawdust everywhere when it was taken apart.
After taking the table apart, Chen Zhi touched the slots in each wooden mortise and tenon joint. In the slot behind the drawer opening, he touched a stone as big as a broad bean. He pulled out the stone and put it in the palm of his hand.
Looking inside, he saw that the stone was black, like glass but very hard, with some dark purple inside. It was quite ordinary, just like something picked up casually on the road.
"What kind of rubbish is this? Where did you dig out a piece of rubble?" Fat Wei looked at it and asked.
Qin Yueyang walked over and took a look, but his expression changed drastically and he said: "It's amazing, this is a life-changing stone."
"Exchange the life stone? What is the life stone?" Pang Wei asked, eyes widening.
Qin Yueyang's face was livid, and he said to Chen Zhi, quickly wrap the stone with paper, let's go, we can't stay here for a long time.
After listening to Qin Yueyang's words, everyone hurriedly wrapped the rocks in paper, threw the broken table on the balcony, locked the door and left Lu Jianguo's house.
Before leaving, Chen Zhi went to return the key to Mrs. Wu downstairs. Unexpectedly, when Mrs. Wu saw them coming out, she immediately grabbed Chen Zhi's arm to prevent him from leaving, and gestured to Qin Yueyang and Pang Wei to enter the house together.
Come and tell them a big secret.
Mrs. Wu is a left-behind woman in her 70s. Her son works in other places. She lives alone downstairs in Lu Jianguo's house. When Lu Jianguo's mother, Mrs. Lu, was alive, she and Mrs. Wu were very close.
They often go shopping together, and Old Man Lu will tell Old Mrs. Wu whatever is on his mind. So when Old Mrs. Lu died, Old Mrs. Wu was very sad and cried for several days.
"Auntie, you usually look at her with cold eyes, is Lu Jianguo filial to her mother?" Chen Zhi asked.
"Filial, there is no child more filial than him! He is kind and kind," Mrs. Wu said with approval. "It's a pity that this child had a bad life. He had no father since he was a child. His family was poor and he never went to school. He finally got a wife.
, he got a strange disease again and coughed up blood every day. His old mother was very anxious!" Mrs. Wu sighed and said.
"You said that Lu Jianguo got a strange disease after marrying his wife?" Chen Zhi asked.
"No, his wife is just a loser. What's the use of being good-looking? She talks coldly to her mother-in-law every day, and doesn't speak to us elders when she sees her. No one in our building likes her." Mr. Wu
Tai rolled his eyes and said very dissatisfied.
"You said that Lu Jianguo's daughter-in-law was not good to her mother-in-law? Then do you know how Lu Jianguo's mother, Mrs. Lu, died? We heard that she rolled down the stairs and hit her head," Chen Zhi continued to ask.
"Tch, it's not rolling stairs. I just want to tell you this." Old Mrs. Wu made sure the door was closed tightly, turned around and stared at Chen Zhi and the others and said: "There is a goblin in their house, and Old Mrs. Wu was killed by the goblin."