Chapter 38 Mortuary
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Yi Xingchen hurriedly asked again: "Where is the body of Miss Xinghua? Has it been buried?"
Mr. Gui shook his head and said, "Because it was a murder case, the bodies of their master and servant had been transported to the morgue in the yamen for storage, so that the coroner could investigate the body and find clues to solve the case. He said he would have to wait a few days before he could hand it back to handle the funeral."
Yi Xingchen nodded, bowed his hand and thanked her, and turned to Gongsun He and said, "Master, there has been sealed here, and we can't go into the house to pay tribute. Since the body of apricot blossom girl was transported to the morgue by the yamen, why not, let's go to the yamen to see if we can burn incense and paper in front of her body, which can express our feelings more, and the spirit of the apricot blossom girl will be relieved."
In fact, Gongsun He's earliest thought was just depressed. He seemed to have something blocked, so he wanted to go out and take a walk down the brothel to see where there was a warm place the night before. He just wanted to pay tribute to him. But Yi Xingchen was troublesome and proposed to burn paper money in the brothel. Gongsun He felt soft. He remembered the tenderness of the Apricot Flower Girl to her at night. It was also worth spending some money to buy some paper money to burn for her. So he nodded and agreed. Unexpectedly, after coming, the scene was blocked. Yi Xingchen proposed to go to the morgue where the body of the Apricot Flower Girl was stored to pay tribute. This idea made Gongsun He feel a little confused about what to do.
However, when Gongsun He heard Yi Xingchen talk about the Apricot Flower Girl, saying that burning paper money would make Apricot Flower feel relieved in the sky, his heart trembled, and this sentence twitched the most fragile heartstring in his heart. He gritted his teeth. In this life, perhaps this woman had a skin-friendly relationship with him. For this reason, he went to the yamen and burned some paper money for her, thanking her for her favor and love for her, but after this bad relationship, he might be able to sleep peacefully when he went back, and everything would return to normal tomorrow, and he would still set up a stall to tell fortunes.
Thinking of this, Gongsun He finally gritted his teeth and nodded.
So the two walked along the street toward the Tunzhou Yamen.
The Tunzhou Yamen was divided into inner yamen and outer yamen, and the outer yamen was divided into front and back yamen. The front yamen was an open area, used to go to the lobby to ask questions, post announcements, judgments, etc. In ancient times, when I went to the yamen to sue, the yamen would not be given to the parties, but were just posted on the yamen's screen wall, so that the parties could copy them themselves. Therefore, although the yamen had already disbanded the yamen, there were still many people in the front yamen's screen wall, looking up at the various documents on the yamen's screen wall, some were reading, and some were copying. Of course, many lawsuits were illiterate themselves, and could only ask the yamen's clerks to help copy them. Of course, such manuscripts were charged for copying.
Yi Xingchen looked around curiously and saw a side door on one side of the front hall. Two tolerances were sitting listlessly at the door and bragging. Yi Xingchen inherited some basic ancient common sense in his memory, such as the general layout of the yamen. Based on these common sense, he knew that the yamen's morgue should be somewhere inside the side door guarded by the two tolerances.
So, he walked up and bowed his fists, saying, "Two brothers, my master and I want to go in and worship the Apricot Flower Girl who was killed in Cuixianglou last night. Do you think it's okay?"
A fat man looked up and down at Yi Xingchen, then looked at Gongsun He who was standing in a daze not far away, and recognized them as the two men who set up stalls on the streets of Tunzhou. These two manipulators often patrolled the streets, so they recognized them. They said, "So it's Mr. Gongsun, who tells fortunes. Why, does Miss Xinghua have any connection with you?"
"Well, that's right. The Xinghua girl often asks my master to tell her fortune, and she rewards us a lot. I heard that she was killed, and the master was very sad, so I wanted to pay tribute and ask the two elder brothers to give me peace."
The other thin toddler smiled and said, "That's right, I heard that your master and you were telling fortunes for the Apricot Flower Girl in the Embroidery Building last night. Early this morning, Captain Cui went to ask you questions. You just have a fortune telling relationship with her, and you can think about paying attention to her. This friendship is indeed worthy of praise. I think, let them in."
The fat man almost nodded and said, "Then you go in. The morgue is in the innermost part of the right hand, a small dark room against the wall. An old man is guarding the door. You tell him to open the door and you go and burn paper money and come out."
Yi Xingchen agreed. After the fat tolerance opened the side door, he followed the master into it and walked along the alley to a small black room on the high wall of the yamen. The door was locked, and there was a small duty room next to it. An old man hummed a small song and was drinking slowly with a wine pot.
Yi Xingchen hurriedly went up to explain his purpose. Of course, the old man also recognized Gongsun He, narrowed his drunken eyes and said, "You two really want to go in and burn incense paper for Xinghua? Tell you, the girl Xinghua died miserably, but she looked very scary. Do you really want to go in?"
Yi Xingchen glanced at the master, and the master nodded slowly, and nodded, saying, "We are friends with the Xinghua Girl. We just want to pay tribute. After burning paper money, we will come out. I believe that her spirit in the sky will not scare us."
The old man nodded and said, "You may not know the rules of the yamen. People who deal with corpses are very unlucky, so we need some money to wash the hand, money to open the door, money to lock the lock, etc. However, I know you can't get any money. But the rules cannot be broken. So, I won't ask you for money. You can tell me a fortune to be the money to unlock the lock, and I will let you go to the morgue to burn incense. OK?"
Gongsun He nodded, finally forced a smile and said, "What are you always going to ask?"
The old man narrowed his eyes and thought for a moment: "My errand is the errand of guarding the morgue. The key is to see who died and whether there are people who are willing to pay to visit me. So you can calculate it for me, and see if I guard these two corpses this time, will any of the big customers come to see her? Can I receive a decent amount of money to open the lock and buy wine? Hehe."
Gongsun He nodded: "Since you want to calculate whether you have money, please bring your wallet, then withdraw some money from it, count the number, and grab it three times in a row, and I can call the divination."
The old man took out the purse from his waist and shook it. There were dozens of coins in it. He pulled open his pocket and reached in. He grabbed three handfuls of coins in three times and counted them in the palm of his hand. After Gongsun He looked at the number, he came up with a hexagram.
He said in a deep voice: "Your hexagram, the upper hexagram, the lower hexagram are all Qian hexagrams. If you disassemble it, it means that your Qian hexagram means the elder, which is consistent with your identity, which means that this hexagram is accurate, and the things you represent that you divination are also Qian hexagrams. Qian hexagram belongs to metal, represents gold, silver and treasure, which means that you will make some money tonight, and there are quite a lot of them. Congratulations!"
When the old man heard this, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, but said, "Is your hexagram really accurate? Can I really make some money to buy wine tonight?"
Gongsun He nodded and said, "That's what hexagram says. I always interpret the hexagram according to the hexagram."
Yi Xingchen opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but swallowed it again.
Because when the master calculated this hexagram, a three-dimensional hexagram also appeared in his head. Although it was the same as the master's hexagram, both Qian hexagrams were above and below, there were two differences, that is, the second and third lines of the hexagrams were flashing.
According to past experience, this flashing line prompts that he should interpret the hexagram from the line text of the Book of Changes.
The second line of the "Book of Changes" is: "Seeing the dragon in the field and seeing the great man." The third line of the line is: "A gentleman is always vigilant, and he is vigilant all day, and he is vigilant, and he is not guilty."
The content of the two lines of the lines shows that the old man who was guarding the door would meet an official after a while. It was a favorable thing, but unfortunately he messed up and would be taught a lesson by the official, such as slapping in the face, but it would not cause major disasters. But if you want to make money, there would be no way.
Chapter completed!