Chapter five hundred and fifteen: Fengluo Town continued
"Master, Dongsheng and I went out for a walk." After staying at the hotel, he put away his luggage and had a meal. After the meal, Lin Tianqi said to Uncle Jiu, who nodded and said concisely: "Okay."
"Father-in-law and mother-in-law, Dongsheng and I went out to take a look and ask about the carriage. The journey has been hard. You and the master can rest more in the shop. Leave other matters to Dongsheng and I to handle." Lin Tianqi heard this and said to Xu's father and Xu's mother.
After hearing the words, the two elders immediately smiled and nodded in agreement. Seeing Lin Tianqi's performance along the way, the two elders became more and more satisfied with Lin Tianqi, his son-in-law.
"Xiaojie, you should also be in the store with the master's father-in-law and mother-in-law." Finally, Lin Tianqi said softly to Xu Jie again. Seeing Xu Jie smiling and nodding, he immediately patted Xu Dongsheng on the shoulder and said, "Let's go!"
Xu Dongsheng also obeyed Lin Tianqi's words, nodded immediately, stood up with Lin Tianqi, and the two brothers walked out of the door and left the hotel.
But after a moment, Xu Dongsheng looked at Fengluo Town behind him in astonishment, and looked at Lin Tianqi in confusion: "Brother, didn't you say you were going to ask the carriage what you were doing outside this town?"
However, after the two brothers left the hotel, Lin Tianqi took Xu Dongsheng out of the town directly. They took the same road they took when they entered the town. Xu Dongsheng couldn't help but be a little stunned and confused.
"Let's go, you'll know later, come with me." Lin Tianqi did not explain too much for the time being, but said, patted Xu Dongsheng on the shoulder, and continued walking towards the hillside in the distance along the way he came to the town.
Go, although Xu Dongsheng was confused when he saw this, he still maintained his trust in Lin Tianqi and didn't ask any more questions. He nodded and quickly followed Lin Tianqi. After a while, the two brothers arrived at the hillside.
It was the place where I met the two men walking out of the woods on the roadside carrying hoes when I was going down the mountain. Xu Dongsheng also recognized this place and couldn't help but become more confused and looked at Lin Tianqi.
"Do you want to know why those two people came out of here carrying hoes just now?" Lin Tianqi said with a smile.
"Senior brother means that those two people are weird." Xu Dongsheng was immediately shocked. Although he has a loyal character, he is not completely stupid. The words stupid and loyal are not the same.
"Just go and have a look and you will know. Come with me." Lin Tianqi smiled, said nothing to Xu Dongsheng, and went straight into the woods where the two men came out earlier.
Seeing this, Xu Dongsheng didn't hesitate much, a look of surprise flashed across his face, and he followed Lin Tianqi into the woods.
The forest is dense, there are no tall trees, only vines and short trees, making it difficult to walk.
"Brother, there is no road here. Is it really useful for us to search like this?"
After walking for a while in the woods, Xu Dongsheng was injured and scratched several times by the bushes. He couldn't help but look at Lin Tianqi in front of him, his face turned bitter.
"Don't make any sound. We'll be there soon. Follow me."
Lin Tianqi's expression remained unchanged, his nose carefully smelled the various smells in the air, and he lightly smelled the breath of the two people before and the faint smell of blood that still remained in the air. He looked in the direction and followed the direction of the breath.
We headed forward, and after a while, we climbed up a mountain col in the woods, and then walked downhill for a while, until we reached a patch of dirt covered with weeds halfway up the hillside.
A half-person-high mound made of renovated soil that looked like a tomb mound appeared in the sight of the two senior brothers.
"We're here." Lin Tianqi raised his eyebrows and looked at the mound in front of him, his expression brightening.
Xu Dongsheng also looked shocked and said, "Did those two people just do it for this mound? What's underneath?"
"If you want to know what it is, you can dig it up and take a look and you will know." Lin Tianqi said, and then looked at Xu Dongsheng: "Junior brother, go and dig it up."
"Ah, why me? Aren't we together?" Xu Dongsheng said after hearing this.
"Because I am a senior brother and you are a junior brother." Lin Tianqi said righteously.
Xu Dongsheng: "......"
In an instant, Xu Dongsheng felt a little bad about himself. He wanted to say that you are still my brother-in-law, but he moved his mouth. Thinking of the strength gap between himself and Lin Tianqi, he knew that it would be useless to say it, so he thought about it.
I thought about it but didn't say it out loud. I just walked to the mound and started digging.
Seeing the bitter expression on Xu Dongsheng's face, Lin Tianqi raised the corner of his mouth slightly. Not to mention, although his behavior of instructing his junior brother was a bit bullying, this feeling was really a bit refreshing!
There was a saying in the previous life that one can earn money for a while and be happy for a while, and spend money for a while and feel happy all the time. Lin Tianqi felt that this sentence would be good to apply to his junior brother.
If the junior brother is not used to instruct people to do hard work or take the blame, then what is the point.
"Oh, I'm going to die!"
A few minutes later, the mound was dug up, and Xu Dongsheng was shocked because under the mound, there were two corpses.
Xu Dongsheng was completely unprepared. When he dug it out, he was shocked and his face turned pale.
"Look at how timid you are. You are a Taoist after all. You have seen ghosts and you are still afraid of death."
Lin Tianqi also walked over when he saw this, patted Xu Dongsheng and said with a half smile, and then looked into the pit.
Xu Dongsheng also smiled awkwardly when he heard this, a little embarrassed, and then followed Lin Tianqi to look at the pit.
There were two corpses in the pit, one man and one woman. They looked like a middle-aged couple. It seemed that they had not been dead for a long time. Their faces had not changed much except for being pale. The man looked like a cultural figure.
Dressed in a black suit, the woman is a middle-aged beautiful woman, and her clothes are also very beautiful. She does not look like an ordinary family, but like a couple.
Lin Tianqi walked down to the pit and inspected the two corpses. The man had a big hole in the back of his head, as if he had been hit by a heavy object, while the woman had strangulation marks on her neck, indicating that she had been strangled.
"The time of death should be last night." After a brief inspection, Lin Tianqi quickly made a judgment.
"Brother, what should we do now, are we going to expose those two people?" Xu Dongsheng looked at Lin Tianqi and said, his expression becoming serious.
"Expose, how do you expose it? You haven't seen anyone kill someone with your own eyes. If you say it rashly, let alone expose it, we will get ourselves into trouble. Besides, you don't know the specific reasons. Who knows who these two people are?
Why did you die?"
When Lin Tianqi heard this, he immediately glanced at Xu Dongsheng angrily. As a junior, he was still too naive. Although he was sure that the middle-aged couple who died in front of him were related to the two men before, but there was not enough
It is absolutely the stupidest behavior to rashly come forward to expose the matter without any evidence or knowing the specific circumstances of the matter.
Moreover, the two dead people in front of him had nothing to do with them. The reason why Lin Tianqi came here was just to confirm. Since they bumped into each other, it is always a good thing to keep an eye out. As for redressing the injustice of these two dead people,
He had no such idea at all. There were so many people dying unjustly these days, who could take care of them?
"Then what should we do now?" Xu Dongsheng is not the kind of person who has a mother's heart. After hearing his senior brother's words, he immediately put away his previous thoughts.
"Then senior brother, what should we do now?"
"First cover up the soil. Let's go back and walk around Fengluo Town. Pay more attention at night. If nothing happens tonight, we will leave early tomorrow morning. There is no need to tell Xiaojie and her father-in-law and mother-in-law about this, so as not to worry them too much.
, just go back and talk to the master later."
Lin Tianqi thought for a moment, and Xu Dongsheng nodded immediately after hearing this, thinking that his parents had always been honest and honest country people, and it was really not appropriate for them to worry about these things.
Immediately, the excavated soil was covered back up. Of course, this work was still carried out by Xu Dongsheng.
Soon, the two brothers returned the same way. With Lin Tianqi there, they didn't have to worry about being bumped into along the way. After returning from the mountain and back to Fengluo Town, the two brothers wandered around the town again. After a while, in
A wharf on the upper reaches of the river in the town stopped.
On the pier, a tall altar was built, and a lot of yellow paper that looked like paper money was scattered on the ground around the pier.
"Brother, what is that high platform for?"
"It is an altar, generally used to hold sacrifices and ceremonies. Fengluo Town was built along the Yellow River. Many people on both sides of the Yellow River believe in the river god, so it should be a place to worship the river god."
Lin Tianqi opened his mouth and said that in his previous life, he happened to encounter a Tujia sacrificial activity while traveling in western Hunan, so he recognized the high platform in front of him at a glance.
After saying that, Lin Tianqi picked up another piece of yellow paper on the ground and looked at it. The yellow paper was very new and it looked like it had just been scattered today.
A sacrificial event was held here today!
In an instant, Lin Tianqi thought of the big red flower boat he had seen downstream, and in the big red flower boat were two living brides.
Human sacrifice.
Involuntarily, Lin Tianqi turned his head and looked at Fengluo Town behind him. From a normal point of view, the people in Fengluo Town were no different from normal towns. Even most of the people in this town seemed to be very hospitable and enthusiastic, which was hard to let people know.
It is associated with things like human sacrifice and human life.
"Sacrifice to the River God, senior brother, could the big red flower boat we saw downstream be here..."
Speaking of offering sacrifices to the river god, Xu Dongsheng also thought of the big red flower boat that the group saw downstream, and his face changed slightly.
"It's possible, but not necessarily. Okay, let's go back to the hotel. Don't make any noise for now. Go back and talk to the master."
Lin Tianqi said, patting Xu Dongsheng's shoulder, his face calm as usual. Xu Dongsheng nodded after hearing this, his expression changed a few times, and returned to normal.
Soon, the two brothers returned to the town, inquired about the carriage, and after agreeing on the price, they returned to the hotel.
PS: I had something to do during the day, so I’m delayed. Sorry, there are only two chapters today. I’m short of one chapter, so I’ll make up for it this week or something like that!