After begging for mercy, the two old men gradually calmed down.

They are dead.

His eyes were wide open, the corners of his eyes were slit, and he was staring straight at the ceiling;

The veins in the neck are exposed, and the blood vessels under the skin appear black;

His hands and feet were curled up under his body, as if bound by invisible ropes, and his cry before death was like a wail before execution.

The doctors and nurses came in quickly, but they didn't leave much time.

Whether it was the horrific amount of bleeding or the physical condition of the two old men at this time, there was no point in taking any further rescue measures.

The next step is to disperse the crowd of onlookers outside the ward and ask the nursing staff to come over and clean the room quickly.

Relatives were called to the office for follow-up processing.

When Li Sanjiang saw his great-grandson, he pulled Li Zhuiyuan out doubtfully and asked, "Aren't you supposed to go fishing with your father? How did you find yourself here?"

At this time, Xue Liangliang took out his student ID card and handed it over, saying: "Uncle, I am a student of Haihe University. I was originally studying at River Engineering. I sent a sick classmate to the hospital. Xiaoyuan knew the way, so I asked him to

He brought it with him and has already told Grandpa Xiaoyuan and the others."

"Does he know the road?" Li Sanjiang pointed at Li Zhuiyuan and looked at Xue Liangliang, "He returned to his hometown not long ago and has never been to the city. What kind of road does he know?"

Xue Liangliang: "Actually, I really like this kid, so I just wanted to take him out to play."

Li Sanjiang took Xue Liangliang's student ID card, looked at it carefully, and then gave it back to him. He believed this reason. After all, college students are still very valuable at the moment.

At this time, the middle-aged man and woman who were in the ward before walked out of the doctor's office and went straight to Li Sanjiang.

Li Sanjiang sighed to them and said, "My condolences."

Li Zhuiyuan guessed that they should be sister Yingzi's uncle and aunt.

However, the couple seems to have no reaction to the pain of bereavement now, or in other words, there are more urgent things pressing on them. They each grabbed one of Li Sanjiang's hands and whispered excitedly:

"Uncle Sanjiang, please, help me, help me."

"Yeah, uncle, help us, it's really scary."

Li Sanjiang glanced at Li Zhuiyuan next to him and motioned for them to walk with him to the balcony on each floor before talking.

Li Zhuiyuan didn't bother to follow him. The third aunt was still going through the procedures in the doctor's office. Sister Yingzi was sitting on the bench alone and absentmindedly.

Having just witnessed such a terrifying scene and experienced the death of a pair of relatives, it was naturally a huge shock.

Li Zhuiyuan sat over and began to talk and comfort him. In the process, he also asked about what happened.

Yingzi's grandparents worked in a private aquaculture farm. When the paddock was dredged half a month ago, a small coffin was dug out.

The coffin was completely red. I don’t know how long it had been soaked underneath, but it didn’t rot at all. Instead, it became even more brilliant red.

The old couple called the boss over and said that according to local custom, the small coffin had to be burned with incense and then pushed into the river.

But the boss was from out of town and didn't believe this, so he called two workers to take tools and pry open the coffin.

Inside the coffin was the body of a girl, about eight years old, wearing a black cotton-padded jacket and embroidered shoes. She must have been buried in the winter. When it was first opened, it looked a little fresh and not rotten at all.

It almost made everyone think that this was someone’s new burial!

But who would have expected that in just a few puffs of cigarette, the originally supple corpse suddenly began to turn gray, and the skin and flesh quickly disintegrated, until only a skeleton wrapped in a black cotton-padded jacket remained.

The female corpse had a set of jewelry on her body, including a hosta in her hair, rings on her fingers, and a gold ring around her neck.

In addition, there is a porcelain vase with talisman paper and a black wood carving inside the coffin.

First there is a line of large characters on the carving:

"The corpse suppresses evil spirits, and merit helps to ascend."

Below is another line of small characters and a signature:

"Those who see the words must not touch the deceased's body or touch their belongings. They must quickly seal the coffin and throw it into the river, so as to avoid serious disaster.

——Mother of the Bai family"

Yingzi's grandparents began to beg the boss to quickly seal the coffin lid back as mentioned above and push it back into the river. However, the boss insisted on his own way, thinking that the several pieces of jewelry in the coffin should be valuable items, and the porcelain bottle was more likely

Since it was a precious object, we took everything away. As for the coffin and the bones inside, we dug a pit on a nearby riverside and buried them there.

Then, scary things started to happen.

First, the boss disappeared mysteriously, and then Yingzi's grandparents began to have nightmares, in which they saw the girl coming to take revenge. Then both of them became unwell and were admitted to the health center in the town. What happened next was even worse.

A tendency to self-mutilate.

That day, while the third aunt came home to get food, the two old men told Yingzi that they wanted to eat orange crystals and soaked them in water. They made a fuss and asked Yingzi to push her away. Then they secretly ran to the roof and tried to jump off the building. Fortunately, the grandfather happened to catch up with them at that time.

Was stopped.

But after this incident, the town health center was no longer willing to let them stay. After all, if the two old men really committed suicide in the health center, the trouble in the hospital would be huge, so they had no choice but to transfer them to the municipal people's hospital.

However, the symptoms of the two elderly people became worse and worse. With the sedatives given by the doctor and the strict care of their family members, they were not allowed to continue committing suicide.

But who knew that they could end their lives at the same time in such an unbelievable and horrific way.

After listening to Yingzi's story, Li Zhuiyuan asked:

"What about the two workers who followed the boss to open the coffin?"

"That...I don't know, I haven't heard them talk about it."

"Sister, your Grandpa Nan and Grandma Nan were quite sober-minded at first, right?"

"Except when they are sick, everything is normal. Just a quarter of an hour before they vomited blood, they were still chatting with me, talking about finding a partner after I enter college."

At this time, the third aunt poked her head out of the doctor's office and waved to this side:

"Yinghou, come and help mom fill out the form."

"Coming, Mom."

After Yingzi left, Li Zhuiyuan realized that Xue Liangliang had been sitting so close to him at some point and that he was deliberately eavesdropping.

Facing Li Zhuiyuan's gaze, Xue Liangliang not only did not blush, but said excitedly: "I heard it, you are deliberately lying."

"I'm comforting my sister."

"Huh... I was shocked. You don't know. When I heard the two old people shouting 'Mother of the Bai family' at the door of the ward, my heart was in my throat. I thought it was because I smashed the statue again.

Relationships harm people, or maybe I happened to send Zhao Hequan, who is still suffering, to this hospital today, and something triggered that harmed them, ugh."

Li Zhuiyuan realized that Xue Liangliang also noticed the inscriptions on the base of the statue.

"Brother Liangliang, don't worry, the time is not right, and the age is not right either."

It was half a month ago that the coffin was dug up at the aquaculture farm, and it was yesterday that Xue Liangliang and Zhao Hequan smashed the statue. The two incidents are not connected in series.

"Are you sure about your age?" Xue Liangliang asked doubtfully, "In the past, transportation and communication were inconvenient, and the statues might not be so accurate. Maybe the statue we dug out of the river is actually a little girl?"

Li Zhuiyuan shook his head: "It's not the same one."

"Are you sure?"

"Um."

Because he saw that woman. Although her physical condition was very similar to that of the statue, perhaps amplified, there was no way she could be an eight-year-old girl.

"But, they are all called the Bai Family Empress." Xue Liangliang thought, "Then the Bai Family Empress is a collective name, for example, a professional group? Like those who come from some Taoist sect, they are all collectively called a certain mountain.

Is that like the Heavenly Master?"

Li Zhuiyuan nodded and added: "It might also be a surname."

Somehow, Li Zhuiyuan's mind came to mind in the east room where Liu Yumei lived, and in the mourning hall filled with memorial tablets from the Qin and Liu families.

“Are they all named Bai?”

Li Zhuiyuan responded and looked in the direction of the terrace. The grandpa and Yingzi's uncle and aunt hadn't settled down yet.

Xue Liangliang reached out, gently pushed Li Zhuiyuan's arm, and asked cautiously: "Well, what your sister said, do you have any other thoughts?"

"There was a lot of concealment and fabrication."

"Yes, that's right."

Why don't you know? Unless..."

"Unless the two people who helped the boss pry the coffin together were these two old men."

"That sister of yours is just an obedient person. What she heard and what she just told you are all words said by the adults in the family. The two old people who just left, in their stories, embellished and covered up too much.

After all, if it is true what they said, why did they cry out for mercy before they died? This is because they clearly knew that they had done something wrong, otherwise, they would cry out for injustice.

So, to change the statement, it is probably that the two old men found the coffin, and then called the boss to come and open the coffin.

It may even be that the coffin was fished out by the boss. The boss did not intend to pry it open, but the two old men encouraged him to open the coffin.

At least, they are definitely people who are deeply involved in it, and they are not so sensible and innocent."

Li Zhuiyuan looked at Xue Liangliang and blinked.

Xue Liangliang waved his hands in shame: "I didn't say that I was innocent, but no matter what, I smashed the statue for the progress of the project, not for personal gain. Luo Gong made it clear to my wife from the Bai family."

"Brother Liangliang, there is actually the most important point."

"Xiaoyuan, tell me quickly, which point?"

"Sister Yingzi can actually tell the words engraved on that sign, so at least she should have seen the handwritten version.

But how could the two old men not only understand the words on the coffin, but also memorize them word for word, and then read them out and have them copied onto paper?"

"you mean……"

"Well, the two old men should have gotten something. At least, the wood carving is in their home."

After hearing this, Xue Liangliang nodded heavily, then looked at Li Zhuiyuan carefully and asked: "Xiaoyuan, are you really a primary school student?"

"Actually, I am a college student from Weiming Lakeside."

"Hehehe...cough!" Xue Liangliang was so amused that he coughed. He reached out and stroked Li Zhuiyuan's back, encouraging him, "Okay, it's great to have this ambition!"

Li Zhuiyuan could only smile.

"But, Xiaoyuan, have you heard of the Bai family empress?"

"Brother Liangliang, I should have spent much less time in Nantong than you."

"Oh, that's right. Then I'll go to the city's cultural and history museum to check the information and see if there's anything recorded in the local chronicles."

"Brother Liangliang, you are fine now. Why are you so concerned about this matter? Is it because of your classmates?"

"Well, shouldn't it be?"

"I thought you disliked him."

"This has nothing to do with whether you like him or not. Everyone has their own choice of life path. I can only follow my own judgment and follow the path of my choice. In the end, who is right and who is wrong can only be proven by history.

Already.

Okay, the doctors should go to work. I'm going to get the report. If there's nothing wrong with the report, I won't come to you. I'll go to the Cultural and History Museum to check the information first.

You live in Siyuan Village, Si Nan, right?"

"Um."

"Where do you get off by car? Since your grandfather is here, I won't take you back. I'll come find you again in the evening."

"After passing Shijia Bridge, get off the car at the second entrance and walk in, then ask about Li Sanjiang's home."

"Are you sure you can find out?"

"Well, Grandpa is very famous in the village."

"Okay, if there is no car tonight, I will take a taxi."

Li Zhuiyuan asked curiously: "Brother Liangliang?"

"What's wrong? Is there anything else?"

"You seem to be quite rich."

He said that he came from rural Anhui, but his clothes and some living habits are not cramped at all.

"Oh, I contracted two canteens and a stationery store in the school. In addition, I also gathered a group of classmates to form a team, which will take over some design projects from professors or outside the school.

There are more opportunities in big cities and universities, and it’s easy to make money. It’s really not possible in my hometown. Without these objective conditions, I still send money to my parents back home every month.

Actually, it stands to reason that I don’t have to come to this kind of internship class, but I don’t want to give up this kind of first-line training opportunity.”

"Brother Liangliang, you are very powerful."

"You too, smart kid." Xue Liangliang touched his forehead lightly with Li Zhuiyuan's. When he saw Li Sanjiang and the others were back, he stood up and left.

"Master."

"Where's that college student? He's gone?"

"I went to see his classmates."

"Yeah." Li Sanjiang nodded, "Let's go."

"Where are you going, Master?"

"Go get something."

Yingzi and her third aunt stayed in the hospital to continue dealing with the following matters. Her uncle Zhou Hai and aunt Chen Xiaoling took Li Sanjiang and Li Zhuiyuan back home. In order to make time, they called for a motorcycle waiting for work at the entrance of the hospital.

The rural bungalow is very spacious. The dam faces an artificial river, and you can see the river some distance to the south.

After entering the house, Chen Xiaoling went to pour water, while Zhou Hai took out a cloth bag and opened it. There was a hairpin and a wooden sculpture inside.

Li Sanjiang picked up the wood carving and frowned slightly as he looked at the words on it.

Li Zhuiyuan came over and read it again.

He Yingzi's story is word for word.

"I'm confused... I'm really confused..." Li Sanjiang put down the wooden sculpture and patted his leg, "Life isn't that sad now, right? I have no worries about eating and drinking, so why did I suddenly eat lard and become blinded?

"

"Plop!" "Plop!"

No longer worried about being in the hospital, Zhou Hai and Chen Xiaoling knelt directly in front of Li Sanjiang, almost kowtowing, and shouted to Li Sanjiang to save them.

It turns out that they started to have that dream too.

After witnessing the fate of the two old men today, they were so scared that they almost collapsed.

"Let's go to the breeding farm first. Do you remember where the bones are buried?"

"Remember, remember." Zhou Hai nodded immediately, "We dug the hole ourselves and buried it."

"Ha." Li Sanjiang sneered.

The breeding farm is not far from Zhou's house. It only takes a quarter of an hour to walk along the riverside after leaving the village.

The place is very small, with only two employees besides the boss, namely Zhou Hai’s parents.

Therefore, in the initial narrative, they not only beautified and concealed themselves from the third aunt and Yingzi, but also did not tell the truth to Li Sanjiang.

"dig." Li Sanjiang said.

"Don't you wait until night?" Zhou Hai asked.

It's daytime now, and although few people pass by here, there is still a risk of being seen.

Li Sanjiang nodded: "Then I will go back to the village to sleep first. Come back tomorrow, and you can secretly dig out the bones at night."

"That won't work, that won't work, uncle, I'm afraid, I don't dare."

"You know you're afraid!" Li Sanjiang almost yelled, "If you don't dig in broad daylight, why don't you dig? You have to wait until dark to find something to do, right?"

"Okay, okay, let's dig, let's dig."

Zhou Hai and Chen Xiaoling each took a shovel and started digging.

During this period, Li Sanjiang asked: "The boss is missing, have you called the police?"

"No." Zhou Hai lifted up a shovel of soil and replied, "We didn't dare to call the police. We were greedy at that time and were afraid that if we called the police, the matter would not be hidden and the things would have to be handed over."

"Where is the boss's family?"

"His hometown is in the south. He came here to rent a place alone, without his family."

Li Sanjiang suddenly asked quietly: "Don't tell me that you killed the boss and swallowed his share, right?"

Zhou Hai immediately burst into tears and said, "Uncle, I'm not in a position to do that kind of thing!"

Chen Xiaoling immediately nodded in agreement: "We don't dare to kill people, we don't dare."

"Yeah." Li Sanjiang didn't ask any more questions. He believed that these two people were not that outrageous, and then stood up and silently prepared his own altar table.

Li Zhuiyuan was helping from the side.

Soon, the coffin was dug out.

Li Sanjiang took a look and felt relieved. The coffin was closed and buried. After opening it, the bones inside were still intact and had not been messed up or damaged.

This is...a blessing among misfortunes.

Li Zhuiyuan approached the coffin and looked at the bones inside. It was indeed a girl.

Li Sanjiang performed rituals and then burned the paper.

After completing a set of procedures, Li Sanjiang asked: "Where are the other things, especially the bottle?"

"Those were taken away by the boss."

"Where does he live?"

"He lived in that house on the site. We went to look for him after he disappeared. Later, his parents had health problems. We also realized that the problem was caused by the things in the coffin. We also went to his house and searched it, but we couldn't find it.

Those things, not to mention the bottle."

Li Sanjiang frowned. He had originally planned to put everything back, hold a ceremony, close the coffin, seal it, and push it into the river. That would be the end of the matter.

After all, the requirements on the human wood carving are clearly stated. Now that at least two lives have been lost, maybe even three, and blood has been seen, no matter how resentful that thing is, it is time to vent it out.

But the prerequisite is that everything must be put back, or if jewelry and other items are lost, the bottle with the talisman paper must not be left out.

The inscription on the person's name clearly states that he is using his own body to suppress evil spirits!

Li Zhuiyuan then asked: "Uncle and aunt, does the boss have any other connections here?"

Li Sanjiang immediately came to his senses and asked: "Yes, yes, does anyone know anyone else? I heard that bosses from the south always like to keep mistresses."

Chen Xiaoling shook her head and said, "I've never heard of it."

Zhou Hai scratched his head: "There seem to be two of them. One is a widow who lives in Jiuxigang Town, and the other is a woman from a singing room in the city."

"Can we find them?" Li Sanjiang asked.

Zhou Hai shook his head: "I just heard my parents talk about them during dinner, but I don't know where they live specifically, and I can't find them."

Li Sanjiang took out his cigarette case, pulled out two cigarettes, threw one to Zhou Hai, and said:

"Call the police and let the police find you."

"What?"

"What?"

Zhou Hai and Chen Xiaoling were both stunned.

"I said call the police, report the missing person and report this matter." Li Sanjiang pointed to the coffin, "Let the police look for it and ask if the things are at their place. I guess the boss is not here either."

"But we..."

"Uncle, if you call the police..."

"You didn't kill anyone, so you're so scared! Hehe, even if nothing in the coffin is left, and I successfully returned the coffin to the river today, I will still call you to report it to the police.

It would be much better if the public came forward to deal with this kind of matter, and you would be much safer.

If you don't want to call the police, that's up to you, as long as you're not afraid of ending up like your parents today."

"Let's call the police!" Zhou Hai made up his mind.

"Well, that's enough. Let's move the coffin and the altar table into the house first. Don't put out the candles or put out the ashes before the government takes over. Just make up for it as much as you can.

You allocate tasks among yourselves."

"I understand, sir, Xiaoling, you go call the police, I'll look after the altar table here."

"Well, okay."

Next, Li Sanjiang took Li Zhuiyuan and sat on the steps at the door, while he kept smoking.

"Master, don't we go home?" Li Zhuiyuan asked.

Li Sanjiang pointed to the room behind him: "I'm leaving now. Zhou Hai is alone with the coffin inside. I'm afraid he will pee."

After a pause, Li Sanjiang continued: "Last night, your master and I also had a dream."

"Huh?" Li Zhuiyuan finally realized the seriousness of the matter, "Master, are you dreaming too?"

"I dreamed that on the rooftop of the town health center, the female doll stood in front of me and asked me why I should help them and why I should help them. She also told me that since I intervened, she would let me die together."

Li Sanjiang took a long puff of the cigarette and slowly exhaled it through his nose:

"Damn it, I was also frightened by today's scene."

Li Zhuiyuan nodded in understanding. The scene today was indeed scary.

Moreover, he felt that although the Bai family empress excavated from the river and the girl Bai family empress might have come from the same family, their temperaments were obviously different.

The lady of the Bai family on the river can listen to her apology and accept her sacrifice, and she can even listen to Luo Gong's talk.

It can be said that it makes sense.

But the Lady Bai here is much more ruthless, killing people is like drinking water.

"Actually, it's none of my business. She was blaming me for coming to the health center that day and saving those two old men, but I can't just ignore them, right?

Forget it, I haven’t been involved too much. When the police arrive, I’ll make a record and get the aura of being a public official, so that person probably won’t touch me again.”

Li Zhuiyuan realized that this was what the master had in mind.

It's no wonder that whether it was the little yellow warbler or the cat-faced old lady that I met before, they were all within control, but they were far less fierce than the Bai family lady, and the master couldn't control them either.

Li Zhuiyuan suddenly frowned. He remembered the content in "The Chronicles of Jianghu and Strange Monsters" and found that there was a case that was very similar to the lady of the Bai family.

That is the Xuanmen people, who use themselves as a carrier and support themselves, in order to find another way to become immortals through military means.

This kind of death does have some Taoist and magical powers in life. Although it is not as domineering and scary as a general, it is the most difficult to deal with because it can understand the methods that living people can use to deal with it.

Then I think of the words on the carving: The corpse suppresses evil spirits, and merit helps to ascend.

This time, they were completely confronted. Even though she had no form, she was still dead, and she was incorporeal... and she didn't know how to deal with her.

Li Zhuiyuan felt that his grandfather had done the right thing and it was better to call the police.

The police came, and there were a lot of them, because this incident apparently resulted in two deaths and one missing person. Although the cause of death of the two old men was not homicide, the situation was different after all.

The police took control of the scene, and Zhou Hai was temporarily controlled as a suspect.

Li Zhuiyuan followed his grandfather to the police station to take notes. When he finished, it was already dusk when he came out.

Li Sanjiang even hugged the door of the police station, as if he was not worried enough and wanted to give himself a little more public air. He even kissed the police station sign.

This action shocked everyone in the guard room.

But seeing that the old man was not here to cause trouble, he could only open the window and ask:

"Old comrade, what are you doing?"

Li Sanjiang shouted back while continuing to kiss:

"Express love and respect."

After doing this, Li Sanjiang was too lazy to go back to the hospital to find Yingzi and her mother, and refused Chen Xiaoling's invitation to stay at home tonight.

He, Li Sanjiang, just wants to go home now.

Taking a taxi back is too expensive, because at this point, taxi drivers are not willing to take you to the countryside unless you pay more.

Li Sanjiang stopped the tractor on the road and asked them where they were going.

Li Zhuiyuan originally thought that this kind of trying his luck was like finding a needle in a haystack, and he was just about to sit down and wait. Unexpectedly, the second tractor that his grandfather stopped was to deliver stone piers to Shigang Town.

This relationship is so good that it's a complete mess.

The master gave someone a cigarette and waved to Xiao Yuanhou to get in the car.

The tractor was moving "dah-dah", and Li Zhuiyuan and his grandfather were sitting in the back, blowing the evening breeze.

When passing through the city, I also witnessed the hustle and bustle of the city.

In the middle of the journey, Li Sanjiang took a short nap, and then woke up. He was very happy and proactively said to Li Zhuiyuan:

"Xiao Yuanhou, your great master, I just had another dream in a daze. I saw the girl doll again in the dream, but I couldn't see clearly. It was very blurry. She was also talking, but I couldn't hear her clearly.

It seems that she is far away from me. Your master, I will be fine soon. I will burn incense when I go back tonight, worship all the Bodhisattvas at home, and completely break up with her."

"Master, you are so awesome."

Li Zhuiyuan once doubted Li Sanjiang's ability, but his doubts were dispelled after the cat-faced old lady said, "Your master has already raised his hand."

Moreover, it seemed that no matter what happened, he had a solution, and the solution worked.

"What a great thing. If it weren't for the sake of your grandfather Hanhou, I wouldn't have come here. I would be embarrassed to ask for this money, and I would be in danger for nothing.

It's a shame, it's a shame that it went to grandma's house."

"Don't call me grandpa next time..."

"No, it's not like we encounter such unfortunate and dangerous things every time. Your uncle and I are serving this bowl of rice, so I can't eat big meat all the time. Occasionally, I have to get my teeth knocked by the pebbles in the rice.

Sigh, I just thought I would continue transporting this little girl like you after I go back this time, but now I don’t dare, she hasn’t left yet, and I don’t want to implicate you.”

With that said, Li Sanjiang knocked on the iron sheet at the back and shouted to the master driving the tractor;

"Brother, let's find a small restaurant ahead. Brother, can I treat you to a bite?"

"Why is this so embarrassing?"

"Hey, why are you so polite? Find a place to stop ahead and eat before leaving."

"Okay."

The tractor stopped in front of a small restaurant. After getting off the car and entering, Li Sanjiang first ordered a pound of rice wine, two cold and two hot, and then ordered a separate portion of egg fried rice for Li Zhuiyuan.

After Li Zhuiyuan finished his meal, he sat next to him and waited, while the master and the master chatted in interest.

Li Sanjiang asked the store owner to heat up another pound of wine, and at the same time asked Li Zhuiyuan for a can of Jianlibao.

"Crack!"

Open it and make a steamy sound.

Li Zhuiyuan took a sip and Li Sanjiang asked, "Does it taste good?"

"Yeah, it tastes good."

"Then let's buy a box and take it back later?"

The master smiled and said, "Brother, you are so willing to treat me."

These days, beverages such as citric acid in beer bottles must be recycled, and ordinary people can afford them, but canned beverages are still too expensive in the eyes of most parents.

"Hey." Li Sanjiang touched Li Zhuiyuan's head, "Isn't the money you make just for the bastards? Do you want me to take it to the coffin in the future?"

He did not tell the master that this was his great-grandson.

"That's the truth. My grandson is studying in high school. I have to continue driving to help him pay for college tuition. As long as he can pass the exam, we will have to grit our teeth and pay for it no matter what."

"Hey." Li Sanjiang sighed helplessly and touched the back of Li Zhuiyuan's head, "It's a pity. My grandson is very smart, but he just doesn't like to focus on studying."

Li Zhuiyuan silently took another sip of soda.

It was almost eight o'clock in the evening when dinner was over. There were no drunk driving checks these days. The master, with a red face, took out a wrench and inserted it into the tractor engine, then turned it quickly and restarted the tractor.

"Come on, get in the car, let's go home!"

After getting back into the car and going home, Li Zhuiyuan looked at the starry sky above his head and began to wonder if Xue Liangliang had arrived at Siyuan Village now.

He felt that he should ask more about the statue of the god on the river. Since the person lying in the coffin in Jiuwei Port was dead, the statue of the god... too...

After all, although that river channel was dug now, it seemed that it was also a waterway before.

Li Zhuiyuan vaguely felt that the Bai family seemed to specialize in this kind of thing.

…

When Li Zhuiyuan was not at home, Qin Li returned to his old position, sitting on the bench inside the door, stepping on the threshold with his feet and looking forward.

Next to her, Liu Yumei was spreading out a piece of paper and drawing a pattern of clothes with a pen.

Her paintings are very good and very expressive. Although it seems very unprofessional based on the current clothing-making process, those experienced tailors in small clothing workshops can understand it.

When her granddaughter is still growing, her clothes have to be changed every season. The happiest thing for Liu Yumei is to dress her up beautifully every morning, so that her mood can be beautiful all day long.

At this time, Liu Yumei noticed Qin Li behind her, moved her head, and looked towards the path between the wheat fields.

Liu Yumei put down her brush and stood up straight.

I saw a young man in a blue shirt walking up to the Bazi holding a stack of books.

After looking at him for a while, Qin Li retracted her gaze and continued to look straight ahead.

It seemed that this young man was dirty, but it was not obvious.

"Excuse me, is this Li Sanjiang's house?" Xue Liangliang asked.

"Yes, yes, he is not at home now, and I don't know if he will come back tonight. Are you looking for him?"

"I'm looking for Xiao Yuan, Li Zhuiyuan, does he live here too?"

Hearing Li Zhuiyuan's name, Qin Li looked at him again.

"He's not at home either." Liu Yumei replied.

"He should be coming back tonight. I'm waiting for him. Well, I'm sorry, where is the toilet? I want it to be convenient."

"At the back of the house."

"OK, thanks."

Xue Liangliang put the book in his hand on the table and ran to the toilet.

These books were all borrowed by him from the Museum of Literature and History. Currently, these things are not kept strictly.

Liu Yumei opened a volume and saw the recorded paragraphs marked with bookmarks. She frowned, her eyes narrowed slightly, and she murmured:

"The Bai family?"

Immediately, she covered the file back, picked up the brush again and continued to draw the clothes, but as she was drawing, she felt a little uneasy, so she stopped writing again, recalling that the young man was talking about looking for Xiaoyuan,

Said to himself:

"Why does Xiaoyuan have anything to do with the Bai family?"

By chance, the sound of a tractor was heard in the distance.

The master did not drop off at the entrance of the village on the road, but drove directly in and delivered it to the door of the house.

After the separation, Li Sanjiang took Li Zhuiyuan to Bazi.

It happened that Xue Liangliang came back from the convenience store at this time.

"Hey, why are you here at home?" Li Sanjiang was very surprised.

"Master, Brother Liangliang is here to give me tutoring lessons."

"Oh, okay, this is good, then let him sleep in the same room with you tonight. Young man, have you eaten?"

"Eat, eat, eat." Xue Liangliang replied quickly.

"That's okay."

Li Zhuiyuan walked up to Qin Li. Qin Li stood up, stretched out his hand, and took the initiative to grab Li Zhuiyuan's hand.

Immediately, her eyelashes began to beat and her body began to tremble slightly.

Li Zhuiyuan was surprised, why did she hold hands this time and still...

"Ali, let go!"

Liu Yumei's stern voice came. Seeing that Ah Li didn't listen to her words, she could only shout to Li Zhuiyuan:

"Xiaoyuan, let go!"

Li Zhuiyuan took out his hand.

Ah Li tried to move forward, hoping to catch Li Zhuiyuan.

"Xiaoyuan, say good night to Ali, I'm going to take Ali to rest."

"Okay, Grandma Liu." Li Zhuiyuan looked at Ah Li, "It's too late. Let's rest. Let's read together tomorrow morning. Good night."

Xue Liangliang picked up the files, took Li Zhuiyuan's hand and said, "Let's go back to your room and tell you, I found something incredible."

Seeing Li Zhui's retreating figure, Qin Li slowly lowered his raised hand.

Liu Yumei sighed and coaxed her granddaughter:

"Be good, he's fine now. He's better than that young man."

…

"Hey, what kind of books are on your desk?"

As soon as he came in, Xue Liangliang saw several piles of ancient books on Li Zhuiyuan's desk.

"This is my hobby."

“Is it true?”

Li Zhuiyuan shook his head: "I don't want to."

He doesn't want to be friends with his mother.

"Then what major do you want to take? Could it be that like me, you would choose water conservancy and take the entrance examination at Haihe University?"

Li Zhuiyuan thought for a moment and said, "It's not impossible."

Related to water.

This university seems to match my major.

"Then you have to study hard. It's not easy to pass the exam at Haihe University."

"Um."

It's really not easy to do. I'm afraid the old professors won't be willing to let me transfer to another school.

"Come on, let's see what I found. I don't know if I didn't check it. I'll be shocked when I check it."

The deeds of the Bai family are all related to eliminating monsters and fighting chaos, but they are all about the Bai family's empress, not the Bai family's grandfather."

Li Zhuiyuan asked: "Is it only for daughters?"

"I guess so. It should be that the family only inherits the daughter, and then recruits a son-in-law, but this kind of custom is quite rare in this area."

Li Zhuiyuan said while reading the file: "Brother Liangliang, continue talking."

"The Bai family's area of ​​activity should not be limited to the current Nantong area. I suspect that there are traces of their presence in the entire Jiangsu Province, but one thing is certain. The Bai family's original family is in Nantong.

Look at this paragraph in this article, it records a place called Baijia Town, which should be the location of the Baijia family, and is probably located to the west of Yingzhou in the East China Sea."

"East China Sea Yingzhou?"

"It's Chongming Island."

"Oh, is Baijia Town in Shanghai or Nantong?"

Chongming Island is located at the estuary of the Yangtze River. It can be called the gateway of the Yangtze River. Most of the island belongs to Shanghai and part of it belongs to Nantong.

Xue Liangliang hesitated and said: "The location description here is very strange. It seems that someone has studied it specially, but there may be something wrong when writing it down. I followed the direction recorded in it and actually looked it up on the old map and found...

I found it should be in the river."

"In the river?"

"Yes, it should be in the Yangtze River now."

"Is this... the record wrong?"

"But this is the only place I can find that records the address of Baijia Town.

And next, I discovered something very strange.

After the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, there was no record about the Bai family empress in local chronicles.

Bai family,

Bai family,

Baijia Town,

In historical records, it seems like overnight...
Chapter completed!