On the dark and windy night, Ruyi was breathing heavily, and a voice sounded from behind: “Ruyi.”
It was the voice of the cicada mother!
Ruyi turned around and looked at Chan Mother playing lanterns with her left hand and holding a fire stick that raised fire in the pit of Cheng’en Pavilion in her right hand.
Mother Chan’s voice trembled: “I’m waiting for you to come back. When I heard a sound outside, it was like a quarrel. I came over. I saw… When I saw that beast wanted to bully you, I picked up the fire stick and rushed over… Ruyi, it’s not your fault.”
Before Mother Chan’s action, Ruyi pushed Zhang Zongxiang away.
“Mom!” Ruyi rushed over and hugged cicada’s mother tightly, like hugging the only firelight beside her in the cold weather. She killed someone. At this time, her hands and feet were numb and she could not get out of fear for a moment.
Mother Cicada put down the fire stick and gently stroked her spine, “Good child, it was you who found the whereabouts of my parents for me, and you dragged me out of the Hall of Hell, and advised me not to commit suicide and live well. For the past ten years, you and I have been companionship in Cheng’en Pavilion, and have long regarded you as a relative. Don’t worry, I will not tell you, let’s enjoy the blessings together, and bear the difficulties together, look–“
Mother Cicada pointed to the glimmer of two fireflies far below the mountain, “It was the woman who was on night, patrolling with lanterns. We have to think of a way to bury this beast.”
Stand high, look far, Ruyi calmed down the mind. As expected, the desire to survive defeated the fear, and the two quickly walked down the steps.
From the foot of the mountain to Cheng’en Pavilion, there are a total of eighty-one steps. Ruyi usually goes down the mountain like a gust of wind, but tonight I feel that this step is extremely long and seems to never reach the end.
I went down the steps, but I couldn’t find the body!
“Where can’t people run away without death, right?” Ruyi said.
Mother Chan was in her sixties after all. After experiencing the Shi family’s house search, her life was bumpy. At this time, she was panicked and calm. She looked up at the 81st steep steps and said: “Falling down from such a high place, she shouldn’t stop falling here. She must have rolled to the opposite side of the road.”
Mother Chan was lying on a lantern and searching opposite her. Sure enough, she found Zhang Zongxiang with wide eyes under a big willow tree, but his neck was broken, his neck twisted for half a week, his face was on his back, but the back of his head was on his chest, which was very strange.
Ruyi watched the lanterns in the distance get closer and quickly blown out the lanterns and dragged the body behind the willow tree with her mother cicada.
After a while, when the woman who had been waiting for the night passed by, Ruyi had an idea in her heart and said, “Today, my ancestors asked me to bury the pair of white deer on the island of the lake. The pit was dug by me with eight servants. It was big and deep. It would be no problem to bury one more person. We transported him over overnight-the boatIt bent right next to the dock where we were washing clothes. “
Fortunately, I have this pair of white deer! Otherwise, if they don’t have shovels and other tools, it would be even worse to dig a hole and throw it into the lake. Maybe it will float up at dawn.
Mother Chan nodded and said, “Okay, my old woman has been doing rough work for half her life, and she has some strength to help you carry someone. “
Time was tight, and the two of them did it as soon as they said that they were bleeding from their mouths and noses, so they quickly took off the marten fur robe on the body, with the fur facing outwards, wrapped around his head, hands and upper body, tied it tightly with a sweat towel, and then dragged one leg with the cicada mother and pulled the corpse to the dock of the Shili Gallery.
The corpse was dead, but fortunately Ruyi and Cicada mother had a strength, especially Ruyi, she could pick up Ruyi’s mother. The two worked together to drag the corpse.
The fur of the marten fur was smooth, and it was much more labor-saving to drag it. Cicada mother dragged the corpse while observing whether there were still women who were patrolling at night.
Ruyi said, “Don’t worry, mom, since Aunt Pan went to the East Mansion to be the wife of the housekeeper, the women at night are under my control. I set up a shift for them, and I patrol every half hour. The night patrol is mainly for fire prevention. The focus of fire prevention is on forest land and houses that are prone to fire. The Shili Gallery is full of water. They will not pass here at night, nor will they look towards the lake. “
As the job is, it’s all like this. I never take a step more when doing business. The woman who went to the night had the least monthly money in the Summer Palace. In this cold night, who wouldn’t think of coming to patrol the lakeside.
Besides, the lights in the Shili Gallery are only lit up during the Chinese New Year and August 15th, and they are usually pitch black.
The two dragged their bodies and soon arrived at the dock, threw the bodies into the boat, and Ruyi skillfully rowed the sloping oars and headed towards the island in the middle of the lake.
The boating skill was learned by her and Jixiang when they were young to avoid the chickenpox plague. This thing was like swimming, and once they learned it, they would not forget it.
The island in the middle of the lake is like a black and sleeping beast lying in the middle of Changshou Lake.
The boat arrived at the dock of the lake island, Ruyi first went ashore and pushed a cart out of the shed on the shore. This is the tool used by deer farmers to transport food, firewood and charcoal.
The two carried the bodies ashore, carried the cart up with their strength, and pushed the cart all the way to the deep pit in the pine forest.
There were eight shovels here, and the servants would come to fill the pit tomorrow.
Mother cicada was about to push the body down the pit, Ruyi said, “Let’s go, search for his body to see if there are any money bags, jade pendants, and gold seven things. Even if these things turn into white bones, they will reveal their identity. “
The two of them searched their bodies and found these things. The cicada mother said, “You are so careful, you still think about it at this time.This thoughtful. ”