Reborn as Murong Fu: This time I am the protagonist

Chapter 49
It was already afternoon when Murong Fu and others arrived under the leadership of Ba Tianshi.

The name of the deceased was Zhao Laosi, in his thirties, from Bashu, who traveled to and from various places, doing some tea and spice business.

A small storefront, nothing special. At this time, the counter has been removed, the whole room has been converted into a mourning hall, and the body is parked in the center of the main room.

Because the deceased was a foreigner, he had no relatives in Suzhou, only Fa's wife and a thirteen or fourteen-year-old son were with him.There was no one else who came to express condolences except some familiar neighbors, so the whole mourning hall seemed very deserted. Only a woman led a half-old child kneeling in front of the mourning hall, which added a bit of sadness.

The door was open, and Ba Tianshi knocked lightly on the door, indicating that someone was coming. The people in the room immediately got up and looked towards the door. The child followed behind to greet everyone.

Ba Tianshi opened his mouth and said: "This is my young master, Mr. Li. He has some business contacts with Boss Zhao on weekdays. Hearing that Boss Zhao passed away unfortunately, he specially brought a few familiar eminent monks to express his condolences."

According to what was agreed in advance, Murong Fu pretended to be a businessman, and Ba Tianshi pretended to be Murong Fu's servant. In order to avoid trouble, the two even changed their appearance a little to make themselves look more in line with their identities.The three Baoding emperors did not change, and still appeared as the original monks.

The woman saw that although the so-called Master Li's master and servant were dressed in ordinary clothes, they had an indescribable demeanor in their gestures, and the three monks behind them were all about five or sixty years old, and they all recited Buddhist scriptures. With a compassionate face, he can be seen as a good monk.

Although he had never met many people before, seeing how they described them, he immediately believed Ba Tianshi's words, so he hurriedly invited them into the house.

Several people paid homage one by one in front of the mourning hall for the deceased, and the three eminent monks of this generation began to read scriptures in front of the mourning hall.

Mr. Zhao had always been running a small business and barely supported his family. His sudden death brought the whole family into financial difficulties. Therefore, the whole funeral was very simple and there were no monks or priests to do things for the deceased. Therefore, Murong Fu led three eminent monks to come. Paying homage to the dead is also considered a good deed.

After chatting for a while, Murong Fu asked: "Hearing the bad news of Brother Zhao, I am very surprised. I have been friends with Brother Zhao on weekdays. I have never heard of any illness of Brother Zhao. I don't know why Brother Zhao passed away?"

The woman wept and said, "Thank you, son, for your concern. The fourth child, alas, he has no disasters or illnesses on weekdays. He looks like a nice person. Who knows, he suddenly left our mother and son behind. What will happen in the future?" Live!"

Before the words were finished, the woman was already sobbing.

Murong Fu and Duan Zhengming exchanged glances, and they both saw a trace of affirmation in each other's eyes, convinced that the woman was not lying.

"I don't know if Brother Zhao had any unusual behaviors before his death? For example, he had a quarrel with someone or something like that." Murong Fu asked.

The woman sobbed and said: "The head of the house is usually an honest person and treats people kindly. He has never had a blush with anyone in the past ten years. How can he fight with others? He just opened a shop and did business as usual. During this period of time, the business is not good. The head of the house I often worry about this, and always sigh behind our mother's back. He is always like this. He doesn't tell anyone what he has, but just bears it silently. Maybe it's due to overwork, and he is anxious, but this time it's just like that went."

After speaking, weeping loudly.

Murong Fu frowned, obviously what the woman said was not what he wanted to know, and he didn't know how to continue to lead the topic in the direction he wanted, so the child said: "Mother, did you forget? The day before yesterday A great monk came to our shop, said he wanted to buy something, and gave a deposit of ten taels of silver, but he was so happy that he said that God opened his eyes and took care of our Zhao family. The smile on his face these two days It's all increased."

Hearing the word "monk", Murong Fu's expression froze immediately, he exchanged a look with Duan Zhengming, and continued to ask: "What kind of monk, what does he look like, and how old is he?"

The child told Murong Fu one by one, but his appearance didn't resemble any of the three of Jiumozhi. When he was a little disappointed, the child added: "So these two days, father has been begging everywhere, never A lot of pepper, prickly ash and other things were put in elsewhere, just to get what the monk asked for."

Hearing the child's addition, Murong Fu's heart moved, and he immediately had an idea.

It turned out to be the case.

The foodies of later generations only know that things like prickly ash and pepper are used as hot pot bases, but few people know that these things also have antiseptic functions. In the era when there was no refrigeration equipment such as refrigerators, these things served as food. function of the preservative.

It is a long journey from Gusu to Tubo, so it is not easy to bring Tianmani's body back intact, so this method is the only way to keep the body from decomposing. Speaking of which, a hundred years ago, a monarch of the Liao Kingdom died unexpectedly in Han, and it is also Enjoying this kind of treatment, he became the only mummy emperor in Chinese history who was the same as the Egyptian pharaoh.

A trace of excitement flashed in Murong Fu's eyes, Jiumozhi, oh Jiumozhi, have you finally shown yourself here?
Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Murong Fu said to the woman: "Brother Zhao and I have known each other for many years, brother Zhao passed away unfortunately, I am deeply saddened, would it be rude to want to pay my last respects to brother Zhao's remains? "

The woman said: "Since the husband was a good friend of the late husband, this is also reasonable. Please do what you want, sir."

After speaking, he covered his face and wept.

Murong Fu led San Ben to the door where the body was parked, San Ben twirled the rebirth mantra in his mouth to save the dead, Murong Fu pretended to be sad and came to the side of the dead, bent down to observe carefully.

The deceased looked peaceful, there was not much pain on his face, and there was no injury on his body, it didn't look like he died of murder, and there was no sign of poisoning, but when Murong Fu grabbed the wrist of the deceased and injected a little internal force, he found Several meridians were severely damaged, especially those near the heart.

"Wuxiang Jiezhi!" The term flashed through Murong Fu's mind.

Simply put, this martial art is to kill people invisible. With Jiumozhi's finger power, if you want to use Wuxiangjie to kill an ordinary person who doesn't know martial arts at all, it is natural that no one knows it. The most important thing , besides him, who else would attack an ordinary person at this time!

Murong Fu stood up, then asked the child: "Has your father told you where the great monk lives?"

The child thought about it for a while: "No, my father always just told me to study hard so that I would be a leader in the future, and told me not to be a businessman like him in the future. So my father never told me about business matters."

Hearing this, Murong Fu showed a look of disappointment on his face, but then, the child's words made him very happy: "But father told me yesterday that he had something to do when he went to the Town God's Temple in Xicheng, and told me and mother not to wait. He had dinner, and the next day when he came back, my dad, he just "

Having said that, the child paused, with a hint of shock in his eyes: "Could it be that my father was killed by someone? Yes, I said that my father is usually in good health, so why did he leave suddenly?" , Someone must have killed my father, it must be! I want to avenge my father, mother, I want to avenge my father!"

Speaking of which, the child rolled up his sleeves and prepared to go out, but was stopped by the woman's good words of persuasion.

By now, it became clear that one of Jiumozhi's three people must have ordered a large amount of spices to preserve Tianmani's body for embalming. Tian Mani's body was secretly swapped with the shop owner. Without knowing it, he took the body to Shu, and then entered Tibet from Shu. The meridian does not develop until the shopkeeper returns home. This kind of manipulation, let alone a woman's family, even if it is an ordinary operation, who can tell that it will only be regarded as a sudden heart attack and die.

Murong Fu sneered in his heart.

After learning the whole story, Murong Fu and the others stood up and said goodbye. Before leaving, they left 200 taels of silver to the woman and child for the funeral and future living expenses. After all, in a sense, the death of the shopkeeper It has something to do with me more or less, I really can't bear to see the orphans and widows with no one to depend on in the future, so I can only send some silver as a token of my heart.

At the beginning, the woman refused to ask for anything, she only said that when her husband was alive, he always supported the family with his own ability, and he never accepted favors from others for no reason, and she could not become famous as her deceased husband. A sum of money stored with him, now that the other party has passed away, it should naturally be transferred to his wife and children, and the woman accepted it.

Afterwards, Murong Fu and his party left with some guilt amidst the gratitude of the mother and daughter.

(End of this chapter)