Chapter 797: Scare (6 chapters added for the reward from the book friend "Jinyiwei: Rongrong")
Manbao glanced at Zhou Lijun and asked, "Erya, do you still remember my childhood?"
Because of Zhou Lijun's insistence, Manbao rarely called her Erya anymore. When she did, Zhou Lijun felt that her aunt was not in a good mood. She walked over to sit next to her and said, "You remember some things, but not others. What's wrong?"
"Do you remember what happened when I was born?"
Erya tried hard to think about it, but couldn't remember anything and shook her head.
She doesn't remember things as early as her aunt does. Most of the things she can remember now are from when she was five or six years old, and they are scattered, and she can't remember most things.
Manbao slumped his shoulders and said, "It's okay, I'm a little sleepy."
Zhou Lijun looked confused, but still stood up and said, "Then lie down for a while, little aunt. I'll go to the kitchen to help. I'll call you when it's time for dinner."
Manbao nodded.
Zhou Lijun ran to the yard to find Bai Shan to ask him how he bullied her aunt. However, she couldn't find him after looking around, so she could only go to the kitchen to help angrily.
At this time, Bai Shan was hiding in Zhou Silang's room and whispering to each other. The doors and windows were closed, and they kept their voices low, so people outside could not hear anything going on inside.
Bai Shan whispered to Zhou Silang, "...Now even County Magistrate Tang has been alarmed, and the two county magistrates are working together on the case. Manbao and I thought that with our friendship, we could get some information, but the two magistrates kept it a secret from us and were unwilling to tell us. To this day, we still don't know what happened."
Bai Shan said, "Manbao cried this afternoon because he was worried about his family. Brother Zhou Si, do you know what case Magistrate Tang and his men are investigating? Is it related to your family?"
Zhou Silang didn't expect things to develop so quickly. He just came back yesterday and received such bad news today. His face turned pale and he denied it, "It has nothing to do with our family."
The atmosphere was tense for a moment. Zhou Silang, perhaps sensing something was wrong, quickly said, "Perhaps there's some misunderstanding."
He tentatively mentioned Zhou Yin's funeral notice and said, "We didn't check it carefully when my uncle's funeral notice was delivered. Maybe it wasn't ours?"
Bai Shan's heart moved slightly, and he asked, "If the funeral notice is not from Uncle Zhou, then where is Uncle Zhou?"
Zhou Silang lowered his eyes and said, "Who knows? My uncle has never returned since he left home. This funeral notice is the only information we have."
Bai Shan said tentatively, "But from what I heard from County Magistrate Tang, it seems that it's not because of this matter, but because of money or something..."
Bai Shan stared at Zhou Silang's face as he spoke. Seeing that his face was getting paler and he looked a little flustered, he paused and said, "Brother Zhou Silang, you know, we have some relatives who are officials. Not to mention those far away, just take the Bai Mansion next door. Although we had a fight before the New Year, who didn't fight when they were kids? Even if we quarrel or fight again, we are still from the same clan. We can always help each other if there is any problem."
"Brother Zhou Si, although County Magistrate Yang has returned to the capital to marry, County Magistrate Tang is still here. If there really is some misunderstanding, it's better to clear it up as soon as possible. Otherwise, how about this, you tell me, I'll have my grandmother come forward and personally invite my cousins and others to talk to Lord Tang?"
Zhou Silang didn't say anything.
Bai Shan sighed and said, "Brother Zhou Si, this matter cannot be delayed any longer. Otherwise, if something is found out, even if Lord Tang and Lord Yang are our friends, they won't be able to shut up so many officials."
Zhou Silang clenched the corner of his clothes, his conscience and desire fighting in his heart, unable to tell who would win, so he pursed his lips and said nothing.
Bai Shan stared at him for a long time, then finally sighed, got up, opened the door and went out without disturbing him.
As soon as he went out, he found Daji standing not far away. He didn't take it to heart, but ran across to knock on Manbao's window.
Zhou Silang and Zhou Lijun came home, and he finally remembered the differences between men and women. They were old now, and he could no longer go directly to Manbao's room.
Manbao opens the window.
Bai Shan leaned halfway inside and whispered to Man Bao, "I scared your fourth brother. I think this has something to do with someone."
"who?"
"Your uncle," Bai Shan said, "County Magistrate Tang said that Baldy mentioned your uncle's name, and County Magistrate Tang also asked about your uncle. And just now I said that County Magistrate Tang was investigating an old case, and your fourth brother subconsciously mentioned your uncle."
"If a name appears so frequently, there must be something wrong with it," Bai Shan looked up at Man Bao and asked, "Do you think you are your uncle's child? Anyway, I think you look quite similar to Brother Zhou Si and Brother Zhou Liu. Oh, and Big Head and Second Head, too. Your eyes are especially similar."
Manbao perked up and thought carefully, finally coming up with something different. "In the past two years, when we went to visit the grave, Dad always asked me to kowtow to my uncle, but my eldest brother and his brothers never knelt down to kowtow. They only bent over to burn incense."
The two looked at each other and felt their hearts beat wildly, as if they had grasped something.
Bai Shan urged, "Think about it carefully. Is there anything special about you since you were a child? For example, what do you need to do but your elder brother and nephew don't need to do. Are you the only one who is special?"
"I always have eggs, and they don't."
Bai Shan: "That's because they love you, what else?"
Manbao was silent for a moment, then looked up at Bai Shan, staring into his eyes and said, "Also, every year when I visit the graves, I light a stick of incense at each grave and invite them to come and eat the food I prepare for the ancestral worship."
"Who's in the grave?"
"I don't know. My dad said it's an unoccupied grave that's been there for a long time. It's just that it's near our house. It's also a kind of fate. Since they are here to visit the grave, I will help them shovel the grass on the grave, light a stick of incense, and then invite them to have a meal with my grandparents. It will be nice to have some fun."
Bai Shan: "...Is there such a saying?"
Manbao said: "My family is very hospitable."
It is because she received such education since childhood that Manbao is so hospitable. Even when she goes to visit the graves of strangers next door, she will help clean the grass on the graves, burn incense, and invite them to have a meal with the ancestors of the family, not to mention being hospitable to people.
Bai Shan was silent for a moment and then asked, "Then didn't you ask the villagers whose grave that was?"
"I've asked, but they all say they don't know," Manbao said. "If they don't know, then they don't know. Why should I get to the bottom of it?"
The main reason was that the grave had been there since she could not remember. In her mind, it was something that had always existed, so she naturally would not think of finding out the truth.
So after asking once she won't ask again.
If you look into it carefully now, you can find many things that are wrong.
For example, who would build a tomb in their village?
Good night
(End of this chapter)
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