Su Bai touched his nose, then studied the female corpse, and scanned her throat. He was shocked: "Look, there are two horizontal and vertical T-shaped scars on her throat. They come from the wounds."
Look, it’s a fatal injury.”
"She was killed." Cui Ying murmured: "After being killed and buried in such a grand way, who is this woman?"
"I can't control this, you have to save this child." The old lady suddenly sat down on the ground: "I have told you such a secret thing, you have to ensure that he survives, otherwise, otherwise..."
"What else?" Cui Ying suddenly felt a little unhappy: "Old lady, we will do our best. Since we are all taking care of this business, we won't only care about half of it. It's you. This child has such a strange background, aren't you afraid?
?”
"What's there to be afraid of?" The old lady stood up and said coldly without brushing off the dust on her pants: "After reading this, just close the coffin lid. She is the mother of the child after all. Don't let her live in peace.
.”
The four of them exchanged glances and quickly closed the coffin lid. The old lady locked the lock again and said to the four of them: "Come over again tomorrow, the child will never be able to live without you."
"Okay, let's come over early tomorrow." Yue Qing agreed: "But, old lady, it's not convenient for me to ask, how did the previous owner of this house pass away?"
"I know it's inconvenient, what else do you have to ask?" The old lady seemed very tired. She suddenly thought of something, walked into the kitchen and took out a bag of things: "You can try the snacks I made myself. By the way, you guys
How much does it cost?”
"We don't want money." Yingning said innocently.
"You don't want money?" the old lady said, "You have to show how much you want. You go back first. We will meet again tomorrow."
The four of them walked out of the gate of the old house and stood motionless on the street. I don't know how long it took, but Subai stretched himself and said, "Go back, it's already midnight."
The footsteps of the four people echoed in the quiet alley, and each step was startling. Ying Ning finally couldn't hold it back: "You guys are talking. It's scary to be silent."
"What are you talking about? I was really scared to death just now. How can a dead person give birth to a child?" Cui Ying pushed Yue Qing: "Have you ever encountered such a thing before?"
"I've heard that a newly deceased woman gave birth to a child in a coffin." Yue Qing still found it puzzling: "But this is the first time I've seen a woman who has been dead for hundreds of years and still gave birth to a child like this."
"It's incredible." Su Bai said: "There can only be one explanation. After the woman died, the metabolism in the body did not stop completely, and she could still supply nutrients to the fetus. However, it makes no sense. If she said that she had already died at the time of death,
If you are pregnant and have a baby in ten months, you have been pregnant for a hundred years."
Su Bai also had his own opinion on the identity of this woman: "Looking at the coffin she was buried in, you can tell that she was buried in a rich way. She must not be an ordinary person. It's a pity that the old lady was urging her hard just now, otherwise we can take a closer look."
Yingning held up the snacks given by the old lady and said with a wry smile: "I don't know why, but I don't want to eat the snacks given by this old lady."
Cui Ying understands this feeling. The old lady is inexplicable and behaves strangely. She now suspects that there may be poisonous insects in this bag of snacks...
When she returned to the antique shop, Yingning opened the oil paper package and breathed a sigh of relief at what she found inside. Su Bai and Yue Qing were very familiar with this thing: "This is a Jingba piece."
"Eight?" Yingning counted: "It's indeed eight. Is there any explanation for this?"
"Jingbajiu is a Beijing-style pastry with eight shapes and different flavors. It was first created in the imperial kitchen of the Qing Dynasty and later spread to the people. It is filled with eight kinds of raw materials including date paste, green plum, raisins, rose, bean paste, white sugar, banana, salt and pepper, etc.
, using oil, water and flour to make a skin, stuffing it with the skin, and baking it. There are fewer and fewer people who can do this now." Su Bai picked up a piece and put it in his mouth: "Hey, it's very good. This
The old lady’s craftsmanship is really good.”
Su Bai had already tasted the food. Seeing that he was safe and sound, everyone's hearts returned to their stomachs. Everyone picked up a piece and tasted it carefully. Cui Ying tilted her head and said, "This old lady is so strange. She looks a little abnormal.
But my skill in making dim sum is not bad."
"Why did you come back at this time?" Xue Xiang and Xue Fen opened the door and walked in. Seeing that the four of them had just come back, they couldn't help but frown. Especially Xue Fen felt helpless: "You are the ones who are naturally restless.
, just after a few days of peace, he started running around."
Yingning suddenly asked: "Strange, where has the big-headed ghost gone?"
"I just walked halfway down the road, and I seemed to be attracted by something again." Cui Ying said: "The curiosity of the big-headed ghost is not generally strong. Although it looks weird, it is quite cute."
Yingning nodded in agreement: "And he's very kind. Kinder than all the ghosts I've seen."
Wei Jie disagreed: "You don't take me seriously, damn it!"
"Okay, stop talking about it. Did you run into something weird again?" Xuefen snorted: "Why are you afraid that we will know?"
Ying Ning recounted everything that happened that night. Xue Xiang and Xue Fen were also very surprised to have been pregnant for a hundred years, but they could not think of a reasonable explanation, so Xue Xiang asked everyone to take a rest.
Yingning and Xuexiang lived in the same room and were lying next to their mother. Yingning immediately grabbed her mother's hand and leaned her head on her mother's shoulder with a sweet smile on her face. Xuexiang saw this and stroked her daughter's hair.
: "Are you happy?"
Yingning nodded happily: "Yeah."
"Because of Su Bai?" Xue Xiang said: "You have been very happy since you came back from the Taoist temple. What did the child say to you?"
"He said he would wait for me. If there was a way to stay with me longer, he would definitely do it." Yingning said, "He also put on my shoes. It was the first time he told me the answer so definitely, Mom,
I'm really happy, no matter whether he can do it in the future or not, I am very satisfied now."
"That's right to think about it. After all, there are differences between the two races." Xue Xiang sighed faintly: "There is no such thing as a banquet that never ends."
Yingning is still optimistic: "It will take at least a few decades."
"Good boy, go to sleep." Xue Xiang patted Ying Ning's back gently, still treating Ying Ning as a child.
With her mother by her side, Ying Ning fell asleep quickly. Not long after, Xue Xiang heard her snoring. She breathed a sigh of relief and closed her eyes...
Early the next morning, Yue Qing planned to go to the old house again. The baby's corpse energy was brought from the mother's body and was deeply ingrained. He had to clean it out at least twice a day. The four of them walked to the house. Cui Ying went to knock on the door, but
No one opened the door for a long time, and she asked doubtfully: "It's strange, isn't the old man Jue Shao? He's not up yet at this time?"
Yingning walked to the window and looked through the gap. The crib was empty!
"The child is missing." Yingning said nervously, "What's going on?"
Suba was already gearing up: "I'll climb over the wall and go in to have a look."
Suba jumped into the wall. The yard was empty. He called out: "Old lady, are you at home?"
No one answered him, so Su Bai planned to open the door to let others in. When he got to the door, he was surprised. There was a lock on the back of the door. Why did the old lady lock herself in the house? Su Bai was kidding.
Pulling the lock, Cui Ying happened to be outside and urged: "Su Bai, open the door quickly."
"It can't be opened. There's a lock inside. You can climb over the wall and get in." Subai said helplessly, "Things are a bit strange."
Seeing no one around, the three of them quickly climbed the wall and entered. After landing in the yard, the first thing Ying Ning did was to find where the baby was. There was no one in the room. The utility room in the yard was still locked, so she could only
They could vaguely see the coffin inside. Just when a few people were feeling confused, the sound of chopping vegetables came from the kitchen. One after another, "bang", "bang", "bang", the sound was very clear. Subai touched himself
"It turns out to be in the kitchen."
The four of them walked into the kitchen and breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the stroller. The child was lying in it and blinking. The old lady was busy preparing meals. She was still using an old-fashioned stove. Maybe she was too involved, or maybe
Because her ears were not working properly, she turned a deaf ear to what was going on outside and just concentrated on chopping vegetables. Yue Qing walked over carefully: "Old lady, didn't you hear us knocking on the door?"
The old lady slowly raised her head, glanced at the four people, and said calmly: "I am old and deaf, so I can't hear clearly. How did you get in?"
"We came in over the wall because we were a little worried." Yue Qing asked doubtfully: "Do we have to prepare so many dishes in the morning?"
On the stove, the old lady has prepared eight dishes. They have all been cut and placed on the plate. The side dishes are also placed. The colors are beautifully matched. No matter how fastidious the people in the imperial capital are in the morning, they will not be so rich.
What's more, she is the only one here with an old lady and a baby? Is such a scale necessary?
The old lady lowered her head and said nothing, and continued to cut the vegetables in her hand: "It will take thirteen plates."
Everyone was at a loss for words. Yue Qing bent down to see the child. The child was holding a bottle in his hand, but he had no strength to feed. Yue Qing said: "Old lady, you are busy, I will continue to remove the poison from the child's body."
"You're all here, let's eat something together." The old lady's voice was extremely cold: "There are so many dishes, and my old lady can't finish them all by herself."
The four of them hesitated at the same time, and the old lady stopped moving the knife in her hand. She raised her head and sighed: "I know you young people don't want to deal with the old lady, forget it, I won't force you."
"Actually, it's okay." Cui Ying said with a smile: "Anyway, we didn't eat anything for breakfast, right?"
The other three people quickly nodded in agreement: "Yes, yes."
The old lady glanced at Cui Ying and said, "Take the child out. There will be smoke soon. Be careful of choking him."
Cui Ying had been waiting for the old lady to say this. Cui Ying quickly pushed the stroller out and went to the yard. She turned her head and said to Yingning: "They say that the older a person is, the weirder their temper. I think it is true.
This old lady is sometimes yin and sometimes yang, which makes me feel strange."
Yingning was simple after all, so she said, "I've cooked so many dishes today, what kind of day is it for this family?"