Xie Lincheng left Su's house without doing anything to Su Jinzhi that day.
To be precise, there was no time to do it, because the above-ground tomb of the Xie family caught fire.
The above-ground tomb of the Xie family was built on a relatively high hill in Qingzhen. That hill belongs to the Xie family, and Qingzhen is at the foot of the mountain, so people at the foot of the mountain can see what happened on the mountain. very clear.
The fire started from the tomb above the ground, and the red light of the fire intertwined with the sunset glow at dusk, and quickly spread over half of the hilltop, and everyone in Qingzhen saw it.
After Xie Lincheng received the news, he hurried back to Xie's house and summoned soldiers to fight the fire on the mountain.
Fortunately, the fire was quickly brought under control and did not spread to several nearby mountains. However, the upper tomb of Xie's family in the center of the fire was burnt to the point where only a few blackened stone walls remained, and the few people who had been resting inside The ancestors of the Metabolism family turned into ashes all over the place.
The fire was completely extinguished after the sun went down. Without the lighting of the fire, the surrounding area of the mountain was extremely shady. Even if people carried oil lamps to light it, they could not see anything clearly. People who came and went to put out the fire stepped on the soil, and at dawn, it was blown by the cool wind from the mountains, and it disappeared without a trace.
This fire was not simple, no one thought it was an accident, after all, the Xie family’s above-ground tomb was made of stones, it was not easy to catch fire like ordinary wooden houses. Under normal circumstances, no one will come to this mountain. What's more, the people in Qingzhen heard that old Mr. Xie, who had just passed away, turned into a zombie and was subdued by Mr. Su and sent back to the tomb above the ground.
Therefore, the people in Qingzhen avoided this mountain, for fear that the old Mrs. Xie in the tomb would suddenly come out to eat people, so they saw the tomb of Xie's family caught fire and burned all the coffins of their ancestors inside. The happiness in my heart is greater than the sympathy - I am glad that the threat is gone, and the tomb of the ancestors who sympathize with Xie's family is gone.
Every Qingming Festival, people will go back to the tombs of their ancestors to offer incense and worship to their ancestors. Prosperity does not decline, but also for the stability of my underground life.
But now, the Xie family's ancestral tombs were all burned down, not even ashes remained, and there were no real bones left. People can't imagine how bad the Xie family will be this time.
"Why are they all burned?!"
After Su Jinzhi fully recovered the next day, he went to Xie's house. Because of the fire in the above-ground tomb, Xie's house had many soldiers under Xie Lincheng's subordinates. Those soldiers had all seen Su Jinzhi and knew that their marshal had a very close relationship with this third master Su. , led him in directly. But before Su Jinzhi entered the hall of Xie's house, when he was in the outer courtyard, he heard hysterical shouts from the people in the house, and the person who spoke was Xie Linyu.
These words are a bit intriguing.
As soon as Su Jinzhi arrived at the door, he found that there were many Xie family members gathered in the hall, with anxious and fearful expressions on their faces, while Xie Linyu was kneeling on the ground, with a gun pointed at his head, Xie Lincheng sat on the high seat and said coldly looking at him.
Seeing that the situation was not suitable for entering, Su Jinzhi stopped at the door and looked at the hall.
Xie Linyu's mother was stopped, she opened her eyes and shouted at Xie Lincheng: "Xie Lincheng, what are you doing?"
"I also want to ask what the second cousin wants to do?" Xie Lincheng snorted, and glanced at Xie Linyu's mother with a cold gaze as if mixed with frost.
"How could Linyu burn the graves of his ancestors?!" Xie Linyu's mother was still stubborn, trying her best to excuse Xie Linyu.
Xie Lincheng sneered coldly: "But the second cousin has already admitted it."
Xie Linyu, who was kneeling on the ground, didn't speak. He stared blankly at the ground, as if he couldn't recover from the news for a while. Everyone looked at his expression, and then contacted Cai Cai's unbelievable murmur. what happened.
But... Xie Linyu can't be blamed for this incident, it can only be blamed on the carelessness of the person who set the fire.
What's more, compared to Xie Lincheng, who everyone hates and fears, they are more willing to speak well for Xie Linyu: "Linyu is certainly at fault, but you shouldn't... point a gun at your brother like this."
"He burned the ancestral graves, and all our ancestral graves are gone." Xie Lincheng looked at Xie's family with a smile as if he had heard some big joke, "Is that how you react?"
"It's not your fault!" Xie Linyu's mother broke free from the shackles of the soldiers, and rushed to Xie Linyu's side to hug him, "Linyu is still a child, what does he know?! It's all because of your disaster!"
Xie Lincheng didn't speak, just looked at Xie Linyu's mother coldly.
For a moment, Su Jinzhi suspected that he might pull out a gun and shoot her to death, but his mission in this world was to prevent Xie Lincheng from killing people, so Su Jinzhi quickly said, "Su San seems to have come at a wrong time."
Seeing that it was him who came, Xie Lincheng's face softened a lot, but he didn't let his subordinates move the guns pointed at Xie Linyu away.
The Xie family seemed a little embarrassed and annoyed when Su Jinzhi came. After all, Su Jinzhi came at the wrong time. Just like this, he brought him to the hall openly and aboveboard, watching Xie's family's jokes in vain.
Su Jinzhi didn't care about the way other people looked at him, walked straight to Xie Linyu, pointed the soldier's gun at him and said, "If you have something to say, it's really inappropriate to see blood again after something like this happened to the Xie family." gone."
Xie Linyu and his mother didn't seem to expect that Su Jinzhi would speak for them, so they couldn't help but raise their heads to look at him.
Su Jinzhi let them look at him frankly, then went to Xie Lincheng's side and patted him on the shoulder, and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "I won't let others bully you."
If Xie Linyu and his mother heard this, they would definitely vomit blood with anger. Looking at their current situation, who is bullying whom? !
However, Xie Lincheng's words from Su Jin were very useful. He raised his chin towards the soldiers and signaled them to put away their rifles. His gloomy face softened a little, and he said to Su Jinzhi with a smile on his lips, "The third master is getting better." ?”
"Thanks to Marshal Marshal, Su San is already much better." Su Jinzhi also smiled at him, and replied softly, but he raised his head and looked slowly around the Xie family below.
How his illness came about, the Xie family must know much better than him.
Sure enough, after being swept away by his gaze, there were several people below who avoided his sight. Xie Lincheng also saw the faces of those people clearly. He seemed to understand something for a moment, and his face turned cold again.
But Su Jinzhi pressed his shoulder again, implying Xie Lincheng to be safe and not to be impatient. He came to Xie's house in such a hurry this time, not only for the revenge of the dead man's medicine dregs, but also for Xie Lincheng.
It is really not suitable for Xie Lincheng to be popular during this period of time, it is better to be a vegetarian, and set up a tablet for the ancestors of the Xie family to bow down to the immortals.
Xie Linyu's silence just now proved some things. For example, the fire in the upper tomb of Xie's family was not started by outsiders, but by the Xie family themselves. Su Jinzhi knew that Xie Linyu couldn't be stupid enough to set the fire himself, but the person who set the fire must have something to do with him. On a deeper guess, it is likely that he instructed the arsonist to set the fire.
Su Jinzhi thought that Xie Linyu probably only wanted to burn Old Master Xie's coffin. After all, Old Master Xie did not die. Even if he was stunned by his coffin nails, those guilty people would always worry that he would come out to kill again.
Besides, it is impossible for Xie Linyu to do such a big thing as setting fire to the above-ground tomb. Xie Lincheng probably guessed this too, so he didn't shoot Xie Linyu directly.
The fire in the above-ground tomb of Xie’s family was not an ordinary fire. The descendants set fire to the ancestral tombs, leaving no bones of the ancestors. The feng shui pattern of "fairy splashing water" that blessed Xie's family was also destroyed as early as the moment the above-ground tomb caught fire. If it is broken, fire and water cannot tolerate it, not to mention that when the fire just started, all the coffins of the ancestors of the Xie family must have fallen to the ground.
He still doesn't know how strong the Xie family's ancestors' grievances are, but no matter how much Xie Lincheng's body is covered with blood to ward off evil spirits, it can't overcome the collective resentment of the Xie family ancestors. After tonight, the Xie family will definitely suffer catastrophe!
Su Jinzhi came to Xie's house today to protect Xie Lincheng.
"Marshal Xie, can you take a moment to speak?" Su Jinzhi lowered his head and whispered in Xie Lincheng's ear.
Hearing what he said, Xie Lincheng raised his head to look at him and nodded: "Third Master, go to my room and talk."
After saying this, Xie Lincheng and Su Jinzhi left.
Seeing them leave, Xie's family breathed a sigh of relief and left.
"Are you feeling better?" Su Jinzhi entered the room and was hugged by Xie Lincheng.
Xie Lincheng buried his head on the side of his neck, his voice muffled.
Su Jinzhi raised his hand to embrace him, and said softly, "Marshal, I'm fine."
"It's fine if it's okay, Haitanger, why don't you call me Marshal like everyone else, you should call me Lincheng." Xie Lincheng laughed softly when he heard him say that, and teased Su Jinzhi by the nickname he asked from Su's mother , but his head was buried on the side of Su Jinzhi's neck and did not lift up.
"Of course I only call it if I like it." Su Jinzhi moved his hand up and touched Xie Lincheng's head for the first time. Xie Lincheng's hair is black, thick and stiff, not as thin and soft as his hair.
Xie Lincheng was touched by him, silent and did not speak, and said after a long while: "After all, I still didn't let my grandfather go away with peace of mind. It's all my fault." He didn't send any more soldiers to guard the tomb above the ground, but he didn't expect that the Xie family would not give up. They insisted on burning the old man Xie to ashes, and accidentally burned the coffins of the ancestors of the Xie family.
If he had been more careful, or didn't have to worry about his non-existent family relationship with Xie's family, this incident would not have happened.
"It's not all your fault." Su Jinzhi knew that Xie Lincheng still cared about Xie's family. After all, Marshal Xie was notoriously moody, even Su's mother had heard about it. But the Xie family has always scolded him like a disaster, and he rarely showed his anger. It can be seen that he once hoped to get along well with the Xie family.
But there will be no such hope in the future.
Most people would say "it's not your fault" to comfort others, but Su Jinzhi just said "it's not all your fault".
Xie Lincheng was a little dazed, and looked up at him from the side of his neck.
Su Jinzhi immediately raised his hand and touched his face: "You just need to apologize for the self-blame in your heart, Mrs. Xie won't blame you."
After comforting Xie Lincheng, Su Jinzhi immediately sent A Ping to his house to pick up some things, and told Mother Su that he might stay at Xie's house for a few days and would not go back to Su's house for the time being, telling Mother Su not to go too far Worry.
Because Xie Lincheng took Su Jinzhi to the Western Hospital for medical treatment, Su's mother already felt that the two of them were close friends, and the fact that the Xie family's ancestor's grave was burned, Su's mother didn't think much about it, and asked Aping to bring her message, so that Xie Lincheng mourns.
Before nightfall, Su Jinzhi asked A Ping to buy an empty spirit tablet, and found many red threads soaked in cinnabar.
When Aping hurried back to Xie's house, the sun was almost setting.
Xie's family set up dinner in the hall. Everyone sat around the round table with sad faces and sighs. They couldn't eat with the bowls and chopsticks. It seemed that they ate a lot less than usual, but the meat and vegetables on the table were not. Nothing less.
A Ping glanced at it hastily, and took the things that Su Jinzhi had brought to Xie Lincheng's room.
Xie Lincheng and Su Jinzhi didn't eat for almost a day, and in the end Xie Lincheng was worried that Su Jinzhi would not be able to resist, so he drank some vegetable porridge with him.
Seeing that Aping had brought the things, Su Jinzhi opened the cloth bag and handed the empty tablet to Xie Lincheng, asking him to change into the filial attire for Mrs. Xie's funeral, write the name of the ancestor of the Xie family with gold powder, and put it on the ladder on the cabinet.
When Xie Lincheng began to write the memorial tablet, Su Jinzhi circled the door of his room with cinnabar red thread, and finally closed the door and window, and locked it carefully with the red thread.
"Third Master, do you need A Ping's help?" Su Jinzhi asked his bearers to go back. A Ping followed Su Jinzhi's order and could not go back, so he also stayed at Xie's house together.
"Come here and fold ingots with me." Su Jinzhi handed him a stack of silver papers.
A Ping immediately sat beside Su Jinzhi: "Oh, yes."
"What about me? I finished writing." Xie Lincheng respectfully put the last tablet on the ladder cabinet, and asked Su Jinzhi and A Ping sitting at the round table stacking ingots.
Su Jinzhi looked up at him, curled his lips and said, "Kneel down."
Today's sunset was very fast, and the sky darkened in a short while.
Unlike Fang's family, Xie's family lived at the end of an alley in the suburbs and was sparsely populated, so although it was quiet after nightfall on weekdays, it was not dead silent.
But tonight, there seems to be something different. It feels like even the cool breeze in the hallway in summer has turned cold, and it blows over people's ears in a sinister manner, as if a ghost has blown on your neck. From the neck to the soles of the feet, the cold penetrates into the bones.
There was a "creak" closing sound at the door, and Xie Linyu's mother thought that Mr. Xie had come back for convenience, so she said, "Master, turn on the light and go to sleep. Tomorrow, I have to invite someone to redo it for the family. The new grave." Xie Linyu's mother wrapped the quilt tightly around her body while talking, wondering why it was so cold tonight.
The above-ground tomb of Xie's family was burned, and the ancestral grave was lost, so they had to find someone to rebuild a new one.
But there must be no bones of the ancestors in the new tomb, so we can only offer memorial tablets, but this is the best solution so far.
There was a low "hmm" from the other side of the round table, and the candle was extinguished, and the room suddenly went dark, and it was so dark that you couldn't see your fingers. Xie Linyu's mother endured her fear and tucked the quilt tighter. At this moment, she felt someone walking towards her and lifted her quilt.
Xie Linyu's mother thought it was Mr. Xie, so she let go of her hand and complained softly: "It's really evil, why is it so cold tonight—"
Before she could utter the last word "death", her teeth chattered up and down and began to shake, because she felt that a large block of ice was covered in her quilt, which made her whole body tremble with cold. Trembling!
Her heart was beating wildly, and she subconsciously opened her eyes and looked to her side.
It was supposed to be a room so dark that she couldn't see anything, but she suddenly could see things, but Xie Linyu's mother would rather not see anything! Because she saw that the person lying on the pillow was not Mr. Xie at all, but a woman with dark red eyes and bleeding tears. The eye sockets are normal, and she leans close to her ear and exhales cold air: "You sleep cold on the bed... I sleep below... colder than you..."
The Yinming paper was folded several times between the white and slender fingers, and soon it turned into a bulging silver ingot. Su Jinzhi put it into a small basket on the side with satisfaction, and stretched out his hand to take out a piece of Jinming paper, and folded it .
Xie Lincheng knelt with his back straight in front of the ancestral tablet of the Xie family that he had written by himself, his brows were tightly frowned, and his face was serious.
"Ringling..."
Only then did Su Jinzhi turn his head to look at Xie Lincheng, and the small bell around his waist rang. At the same time, the incense candles in their room trembled twice in mid-air as if blown out by the wind, and the flames gradually weakened. , only the light blue flame is still dying.
Although there was a strong wind outside the window, the leaves were blowing wildly, but they closed the doors and windows, and there was no wind in the house-something wanted to blow out the candles.
The room darkened in an instant, Su Jinzhi stopped his movements, and said to Xie Lincheng: "Light incense, kowtow."
Xie Lincheng, who knelt like a sculpture in the middle of the night, finally moved. Perhaps his body was a little stiff because he knelt motionless for too long, but he still quickly lit the incense and knocked heavily on the ground three times. Nodding his head, he inserted the incense into the incense dish in front of him.
"Kuang! Kuang! Bang!" Suddenly there was a loud knock on the door, and the wooden door vibrated as if it was about to be knocked open. Su Jinzhi jumped in fright, and he could almost see the gloomy aura from the corner of his eye.
"A Ping, light the brazier!" Su Jinzhi took a deep breath, and quickly asked A Ping to light the brazier and bring it to Xie Lincheng, then handed them the folded ingots to him, and asked Xie Lincheng to put the paper ingots into the brazier.