Jinyi Town Mountains and Rivers

Chapter 199 Eat You First, Eat Me First

Zhou Yishou's house was full of crying.The once-famous head of Qianmen in the capital unexpectedly died and traveled westward on a crane!
He Liu frowned at the door: "If he doesn't die sooner or later, he will die when we come to the door."

The old shopkeeper Xu said: "It's strange. A few days ago, I took an ancient spring and autumn tripod to see Mr. Zhou. At that time, he was still in good condition, full of energy, and his face was full of red. How can I say that it is gone if it is gone?"

Old Hu said: "It's not surprising, have Yan Song and his son done less killing and silence these years?"

The three entered Zhou's house.Zhou Yi didn't have a son, so it was Li Zipian, Eleventh Elder of Jin Yiwei, who gave him a flag to pretend to be a dutiful son.

Li Zipian stood up and said, "Sixth Brother, Third Master, why are you two here?"

He Liu lied and said, "Old Master Zhou is my master's family friend. I can be regarded as his nephew. After he died, I would naturally come to worship him."

Li Zipian smiled wryly: "My third brother. To say something that shouldn't be said, the people mourning in this mourning hall are all famous liars in the capital. Is it easy for you to lie in front of a group of liars? Sigh, Could it be that my master, the old man was involved in some other case during his lifetime?"

He Liudao: "Old Eleven, you know the rules of our Jinyiwei. Between the Taibao and the Taibao, you can't inquire about the details of the cases you have handled."

Li Zipian sighed: "Oh, okay, I won't ask any more. Since you are here, the three of you should offer incense sticks to my master and his old man."

The three of them burned incense, and old shopkeeper Xu glanced at the corpse in the coffin, then nodded to He Liu.That means: the person in the coffin is indeed Zhou Yi.

He Liu asked Li Zipian: "How did Mr. Zhou die?"

Li Zipian said: "My master has been a liar for most of his life, and he has many enemies in the world. Although he is 80 years old, he can eat and sleep. One meal can eat two roast ducks. I am I suspect that he was poisoned and assassinated. I also specially asked the old twelve to do the autopsy. But the old twelve did the autopsy and found no abnormalities, confirming that my master died without a problem."

Old Hu said from the side: "Mr. Zhou is already eighty years old, and it is not uncommon to die without a disease. My condolences to Eleventh."

Li Zipian said: "Before Commander Lu took me into the Jinyiwei, I ate and wore my master's clothes. His old man fed me up with feces and piss. He is actually mine. Dear father! Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooomatic

At this time, the secretary of the mourning hall shouted: "The filial son has fallen into the basin!"

According to the rules in Beijing, after a person dies, he must first bury his body at home and accept worship from relatives and friends.After the worship is over, a clay pot with eyes will be dropped, which will be called "Yin Yang Basin" tomorrow.

Legend has it that there is a Meng Pozi in the underworld who will force the dead to drink a bowl of ecstasy soup to make them unconscious so that they cannot be reborn.The filial son of the mourning family prepared a "Yin-Yang Basin" with eyes in order to let the ecstasy soup leak; the purpose of breaking the earthen basin was to let the deceased take the earthen basin to the underworld to deceive Mrs. Meng.

If the yin and yang basin is dropped, the servants of Shuntian Mansion will cross out the person's name on the household registration book.The dead can be buried.

Li Zipian raised the "Yin-Yang Basin" high above his head, and he shouted: "Master, let's go!" Then he smashed the basin into pieces with a "boo-cha".

An officer from Shuntian Mansion wrote Zhou Yi's name on the notebook, cupped his hands to Li Zipian and said, "Eleventh Master, the old man's account has been closed. You can bury him now."

Several strong men closed the coffin panels.Li Zipian waved the flag, and a dozen strong men lifted the coffin and walked to the cemetery.Relatives and friends followed behind the coffin, crying and shouting endlessly.

Lao Hu and He Liu watched the strong men bury the coffin in the soil with their own eyes.

Li Zipian said loudly to the crowd: "My master has no relatives. He usually serves his maids in the house. Each of them comes to me to get 300 taels of silver. The housekeeper gets 500 taels of silver. There is no permanent banquet in the world. I, Li Zipian, thank you Thank you for taking care of my master! After taking the money, everyone will go their separate ways."

Li Zipian distributed money to the maid and housekeeper, and everyone returned to the city.

In the middle of the night, Shou Tomb in the west of the city.

In front of Zhou Zhoushou's grave, two men in black were digging the grave with pickaxes!
The two men in black are He Liu and Lao Hu.

Old Hu said: "Lao Liu, our father and I are the Taibao Lords of Jinyiwei, but they are digging graves in the middle of the night. Wouldn't it make people laugh when they spread the word?"

He Liu said with a smile: "It's not as simple as laughing your teeth out. Liu Da is now staring at our shortcomings like a black-eyed chicken. Liu Da knew it, and he must have chopped off our heads. Fortunately, I guess this grave is a fake one. Zhou Yi was not in the grave at all that time. It seems that if we dig a fake grave, we will not commit the crime of stealing graves and digging graves in "Law of the Ming Dynasty."

Old Hulei was sweating profusely, and he started a fight with He Liu with a pickaxe: "In a while, if Zhou Zhou cheats the corpse, he wants to eat us, you let him eat you first. I'm old-fashioned, no Very chewy."

He Liu said with a smile, "It's not my little Xiangxiang who is in the hands of Zhou Yi, I want to hug and chew everything I see."

The two spent an hour of effort, and finally dug out the coffin that Zhou Yi held.

He Liu drew out the Xiuchun knife bestowed by the emperor.This Xiuchun knife is made of fine iron, and the blade is extremely tough.He used the Xiuchun knife as a crowbar to pry the coffin board, and pried off the coffin lid.

The coffin lid was pushed aside, and the two of them took a quick look—the coffin was empty, where was the shadow of Zhou Yi's corpse?

He Liu smiled: "I knew that the old fox in Zhou Yi's hands would not die so easily!"

Old Hu said: "Strange. We watched those men close the lid of the coffin with our own eyes. We followed the coffin to the cemetery and watched them fill in the soil."

He Liu reached out and knocked on the bottom of the coffin.On the bottom of the coffin, there were actually several iron buttons and a small lock.The bottom plate can be opened.

He Liu smiled and said, "That's the strange thing. The floor is movable. It must have been when the men built the coffin. Zhou Yi opened the floor with his hand and jumped to the ground. At that time, the coffin was laid flat on more than a dozen chairs. Use a The white cloth covered the legs of the chair. We couldn’t see what was going on under the coffin. We couldn’t hear the sound of the suona player Balabala playing “Hundred Birds Facing the Phoenix” in the mourning hall.”

Old Hu said: "But when the coffin is lifted, there is nothing on the ground!"

He Liudao: "This shows that there must be a secret room under the ground where the coffin is parked in Zhou's house. Finding the secret room is the skill of Jin Yi's family raiders. Let's go, let's go to Zhou's house and check it out."

The two came to Zhou Zhou's house.The maids and housekeepers in the house have been dismissed by Li Zipian, and there is no one there.

He Liu turned around where the coffin was parked.He tapped the stone slab on the ground with his hand, "boom".

Old Hu heard and asked: "Hollow? Is there a secret room under the stone slab?"

(End of this chapter)