I just wanted to tell Old Man Ma, I don't know the situation now, I am really powerless, but without speaking, I heard Butler Xie walking towards the shed with a few people. I hurriedly moved and sat aside, napping with my cheek supported, and the old man Ma also lay silent in the coffin.
"Brother, wake up." Butler Xie patted me and said with a smile: "A few of them are full. Let's start with the old man's coffin now."
"Okay." I stood up, and didn't know what to say for a while, anyway, I couldn't let Housekeeper Xie see anything abnormal.
Several people fastened the lid of the coffin and tied up two more ropes. Fortunately, the funeral custom here is that the nail is nailed before the coffin is buried. Otherwise, Old Man Ma would not need to save him and he would be suffocated in it.
We worked together to lift the coffin out. Squire Ma waited at the gate. After meeting me, he was very kind. I had a few words with him, and my heart went up and down. I haven't dealt with the Ma family before, so I don't know if Ma Squire is the impostor of Ma Yuan.
There was a carriage parked outside the gate of the house. After several people carried the coffin and got into the car, they slowly walked around the town of Ping An. After leaving Ping'an Town, the horse-drawn carriage ran fast. Squire Ma sat with his eyes closed and rested. Butler Xie talked with us about the housework.
I’m not entirely sure of what the old man Ma said, but I can see that there is no sadness on Squire Ma’s face. Although Steward Xie is not a relative of the Ma family, it is his old boss who died after all. At this kind of funeral, my heart is not sad, and my face has to be a little sad. Thanks to the housekeeper, it is better to talk and laugh, and I am happier than the Chinese New Year. Those few people who helped carry the coffin were similar to the housekeeper Xie, anyway, they didn't look like a funeral at home.
I have seen these, but for the time being, there is no other way. I can only act by ear when the time comes.
It’s just that I don’t think there is any chance. So many people are guarding the coffin. When the coffin is transported to the ship and driven to the destination, the coffin will be placed in the river. Two fists are hard to beat four hands. If the Ma Squire is really bad Heart, I dismantled it face to face, and he would only clean it up.
The carriage continued to move forward. Butler Xie estimated that the coachman who drove the carriage had never stopped along the way. At most, the carriage was slowed down to let the horses breathe a little. Just walked like this for about two hours, and when it was noon, the carriage reached a section of the river that looked particularly deserted.
I haven't set foot in this section of the river. In fact, many sections of the river on the beach are not very different. If it is not for the big difference in topography, they are all like this. When we got to this river, I saw a small boat parked on the shore with two people waiting.
"Bro,
arrive. "Butler Xie patted me on the shoulder and said, "After sitting in the car for so long, I got down to move my hands and feet. It's still early, not in a hurry. If you are sleepy, just lie down in the car for a while." "
By this time, I obviously felt wrong. Mr. Xie told me at the time that he was looking for someone who was familiar with the river, and he was afraid that the coffin would be carried on someone else’s boat. But I'm not familiar with this section of the river, and the housekeeper Xie prepared the boat in advance. This matter is not right.
"Thanks, butler." I jumped out of the car and asked, "Didn't you say that the boaters are unlucky and don't want the coffin to get on the boat, so do I need to use my boat? My boat is not here."
"The road is too far, brother, I'm afraid it will delay the time of the old man's burial. This is the ship I bought temporarily at midnight last night." Steward Xie said: "We people, after all, we don’t deal with the dead, so we carry the coffin. He, there must be someone who knows how to support it."
"I'm a corpse scavenger, and I don't know anything about burials." I shook my arm and said, "Thank you, butler, the old man's coffin has also been carried here. I don't think I can help with anything else. ."
"Why then?" Steward Xie smiled and said: "Brother, you can help us a lot."
"I… "
I just wanted to talk again, and suddenly a knife was placed on my neck after being cold and cold. I was shocked in my heart, but at any rate, I have experienced so many tortures before, and I have not seen anything. So after I was shocked, I calmed down and looked slightly sideways, and I saw two people carrying the coffin with knives. Stand behind.
"Brother, you are of great use." Steward Xie smiled, waved his hand gently, and said to the two people who carried the coffin: "This little brother is tired. I'm afraid he will run around. I can't help but feel wronged. He will tie it up and take care of it."
I didn't talk much, and no matter how much I said now, it won't be useful. Those two people tied me up with a rope, and you can see from the other side's hands that they are all skilled and absolutely impossible to be ordinary servants.
After the two tied me up, they pushed me to the side of the carriage, sandwiching me one by one. Butler Xie took out his pocket watch and took a look, walked up to me, and said, "Brother, you are probably also a knowledgeable person, and you are not at all flustered, but I missed you, brothers, take good care of my brother."
"What do you want to do?"
"I'll know in a while." Butler Xie turned his head and looked towards the river. Now that the spring has just begun, there are not many boats in the river. He looked up for a while, and ran to Squire Ma and muttered a few words.
I regret it in my heart to die, but regretting it at this time is of no use. I squinted at the coffin on the carriage. This time, not only saved
No matter Old Man Ma, maybe he should get in too.
The river beach in the early spring was still very cold, and this section of the river was dying. After waiting for such a long time, no one passed by here. Unknowingly, the afternoon passed, and it was the twilight hour of sunset.
"Go!" Steward Xie looked at the sky and waved to several people.
Someone brought down the coffin on the carriage, and I was always guarded by two people. Until this time, Squire Ma slowly walked out from the front and asked: "It's all this time, people haven't arrived yet?"
"It's about half an hour. It's a good thing. It shouldn't change. Let's get on the boat and get ready. We will wait for him on the shore."
A group of people carried the coffin and walked towards the boat docked by the river. I don't know what the group of people are going to do, but at this time, when you think about it, you will know that there will be no good things to do with your heels.
I started to struggle, but my hands and feet were tied up, no matter how hard I struggled, it didn't help.
"Brother, if you want to keep making money like this, you can only wronged you again."
"What the hell are you going to do!?" I didn't care about anything, and shouted, "What are you doing!?"
Butler Xie didn't answer, but winked. Someone came up and gagged my mouth with hemp walnuts. After that, someone took out a cloth cover sewn with black cloth and put his head down.
I couldn't speak, nor could I see anything. After struggling for a while, I felt that this was a waste of effort.
I was lifted directly to the side of the boat. Ma's coffin got on the boat first, I struggled still, but was also carried up.
Get on the coffin and tidy it up a little bit, and you are basically ready, you just need to sail to the destination. However, the boat has not been sailing. Butler Xie is walking around on the bow. I can't see it, but I can hear his footsteps. I feel that they should be waiting for someone.
"Old Xie." Squire Ma was sitting in the stern of the boat, probably because he was a little impatient, and said, "Is the person you're looking for?"
"Master, don't worry, I promised five hundred ocean rewards, and people will definitely come."
When Steward Xie said that, Squire Ma stopped asking. I stopped struggling, holding my breath and trying to listen to their conversation to see if I could hear some more clues. But these few people brought by Mr. Xie spoke well, and occasionally talked a few words, and they also talked gossip.
However, I probably know that Squire Ma and Steward Xie estimated that some things could not be done, and they had to wait for someone to help. They would only do it when the other party arrived.
There may be some time now, but I have no chance to get out.
After waiting for two quarters of an hour, butler Xie patted his thigh and said, "Come on! I'll go to welcome you."
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