After Tang Qing and the others rushed out of the People's Barber Shop, she walked through the alley from another street intersection to the old courtyard on Lushan Road.
"Sister, Master Jiujin is here."
Li Ya accompanied Tang Qing to Li Li.
Li Li sat at the Eight Immortals table at the top of the hall, leaning her head on the table with a tired look on her face.
Seeing Tang Qing come in, Li Li stood up to greet her. But as soon as she stood up, she staggered back to sit on the stool.
"You'd better go back to the house and take a rest."
Tang Qing went over to help Li Li.
"No, thank you for coming."
Li Li was full of guilt and guilt.
"Liya, you and your sister bring the three small boxes to the room together."
Tang Qing asked Li Li to carry the small box taken from Aunt Li's grave, and Li Ya carried the two small boxes taken from the Li family's old house to the east main house.
After Li Li and Li Ya entered the room, Tang Qing waved Wang Carpenter and Cai Toutou to come to discuss:
"You two hurry up and decorate the mourning hall as I just asked, as quickly as possible, and the more exaggerated the better."
"Master Jiujin, don't worry, I promise to scare that coward to death!"
"Master Wang, he is not a coward. You must not let him see any flaws."
"Master Jiujin, let me do it. I am an expert in this field."
"Master Talent, don't take it lightly, he is a scheming man."
"Master Jiujin, no matter how scheming he is, you can definitely defeat him."
"I said not to take it lightly, and we must not let what happened at Xishan Cemetery happen again. Otherwise, not only will we not be able to help sisters Li Li and Li Ya, but we will also become the culprits who lured wolves into the house."
"Master Jiujin, don't worry, we will arrange it well."
"Master Jiujin, please go in and do your work. We will make arrangements according to your requirements."
“Be sure to arrange it well!”
After Tang Qing gave instructions to Carpenter Wang and Tou Tou, he walked into the main room at the east end and closed the door.
Li Li and Li Ya also held three small boxes in their hands.
"Put the small box down first."
"oh."
At this time, Li Li was a completely different person than she was in front of Aunt Li's grave in Xishan Cemetery.
"Did you call the locksmith?"
Tang Qing leaned down and looked at the three small boxes placed on the desk.
"I called six locksmiths one after another, but they couldn't open the locks above."
"Have those locksmiths touched the locks up here?"
"They wanted to open the lock, so of course they touched the lock."
"Where are you two?"
"We've touched it too, but we just can't open it."
"Master Jiujin, these locks really don't have keyholes."
Li Ya's hand reached for one of the locks.
"Don't move yet!"
Tang Qing stopped Li Ya.
The three small boxes are exactly the same, all made of rattan wood and maroon in color.
The height of each small box is about 80 cm, the length is about 90 cm, and the width is about 60 cm. The corners are wrapped with copper foil, and the workmanship is very exquisite.
There is a small lock on the left and right sides of each small box. The small lock is small and exquisite, shaped like a small butterfly, dancing gracefully under the light.
Tang Qing stared at it for a long time and asked Li Li. Li Ya said:
"Do you have any souvenirs left by your parents?"
“These are the three small boxes.”…
Li Ya answered Tang Qing first.
"Yes, these two are the souvenirs left by my mother to us. My father told me. This one is the souvenir left by my mother to us. It was said by Grandpa Tang, as you know."
Li Li pointed to the three small boxes in front of her and explained to Tang Qing.
"I know that. I'm asking if you have any souvenirs on your body that your parents left for you when you were young?"
Tang Qing looked at Li Li and Li Ya.
"I never met my mother when I was a child, so there must be no souvenirs left by my mother for me."
"I never saw my parents when I was a child, and there are no souvenirs left by them to me."
Li Ya, Li Li answered Tang Qing without thinking.
"Did you wear necklaces or bracelets when you were little?"
Tang Qing saw Li Li and Li Ya wearing necklaces around their necks, but they were different. Looking at their hands, they were empty, with nothing on.
"Did I wear necklaces and bracelets when I was a kid? The one I have now was given to me by my sister."
"I have been fostered in other people's homes since I was a child. It is even more impossible for me to wear necklaces and bracelets."
Li Li and Li Ya denied it.
"Am I thinking wrong? So what do these little locks mean? If it's a lock, why don't it have a keyhole? If it's not a lock, where is it hanging? Hmm? The lock of a box should be locked on the front. These little locks should be locked on the front.
How do you lock the box on both sides?"
Tang Qing racked his brains and thought hard.
She leaned over and took a closer look at the small butterflies, that is, the small locks.
"Erect a tombstone, erect a tombstone,
Brother Liang, please engrave two words in red and black.
The red one is engraved with my name Zhu Yingtai,
The black one is engraved with you, Liang Shanbo.
You and I were incompatible as husband and wife during our lifetime,
Brother Liang!
Even if I die, I will share the grave with you."
The lyrics of the Yue Opera "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" rang in Tang Qing's ears. It was because of Aunt Li's last wish that his grandfather was willing to risk the world's disapproval and erect two red and black tombstones in front of Aunt Li's grave.
Are these three small boxes also related to the play "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai"?
Lock?Butterfly?
In the end, didn't Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai both turn into butterflies and fly together?
Tang Qing kept thinking about the lyrics about "butterfly" in the Yue opera "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai".
"Your father refuses to give up the marriage,
I, the Liang family’s sedan chair, will carry it first!
Hangcheng invited the teacher’s mother-in-law,
I wish you to sit up in the living room,
The betrothal gift is a jade fan pendant,
I hide it tightly in my sleeve.
jade butterfly,
jade fan pendant,
Can’t they be husband and wife?”
"Jade butterfly,
jade fan pendant,
Butterflies are supposed to be in pairs,
Didn’t you know that you and I make our own decisions?
No one thinks of it as a matchmaker."
Yes, jade butterfly, jade fan pendant. Since this lock is a butterfly, the corresponding one should also be a butterfly, the jade butterfly on the fan pendant.
Tang Qing thought of this and asked Li Li. Li Ya said:
"Did your father give you any special relics before he passed away?"
"A special relic?"
"What special relic? Which aspect are you referring to?"
Li Li, Li Ya don't understand what Tang Qing's special relic refers to?
"Like a fan? A fan with a pendant."
Tang Qing reminded Li Li, Li Ya...
"Fans? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!"
"There is indeed a fan. My father said that when my mother's grave is found, he will be buried with her. The others may not be buried in it, but the fan must be buried with his urn."
Li Ya, Li Li replied.
Tang Qing was overjoyed. He stepped forward and grabbed the hands of Li Li and Li Ya respectively, and asked excitedly:
"Where is the fan? Where is the fan?"
Li Li and Li Ya didn't know why Tang Qing was so excited, and quietly told Tang Qing:
"That fan, that fan..."
"Already, already..."
"Already? What happened already? Tell me quickly!"
When Tang Qing saw Li Ya and Li Li hesitating, he was so anxious that he pulled Li Li and sister Li Ya's arms hard with both hands.
When Li Li and Li Ya saw Tang Qing like this, they didn't dare to retract their left and right hands that were so painful from Tang Qing's pulling, and they replied in a low voice:
"It has been cremated by us and dad together."
"Qingtuan, don't worry, it's just an ordinary old fan. The ribs have been broken and the fan surface is in tatters. My father said that he wanted to bury it together, so we think it's better to cremate it and put it into the ashes.
In the box.”
"Oh, oh, you, oh, you, what are you going to do? What are you going to do?"
Tang Qing let go of Li Li and Li Ya's hands, beat his chest and stamped his feet, heartbroken.
"What's wrong with you?"
"Master Jiujin, is that fan important?"
Li Li and Li Ya asked Tang Qing cautiously.
"That fan must be the key to opening these small boxes. How could you cremate it together?"
Tang Qing cried anxiously.
"That fan is the key to these little boxes?"
"Is it possible? How could that fan be the key to opening these small boxes? Qingtuan, please calm down. I know you have worked hard to help us both, but don't think too much, and you should pay attention to your own body.
"
Li Ya and Li Li do not believe that the key to the three small boxes is the fan.