vrcanaries Chapter 306 Jin Family
Chapter 306 Jin Family
Jinji was almost feeling guilty, his mind was completely blank, he just believed whatever others said and came back with his people without saying a word.
The security team members were also inside. They were two rough men with dark skin.
It is a private enterprise, and the staffing is very down-to-earth.
He had no special equipment and was dressed like ordinary people, so he was completely inconspicuous in the crowd.
The old man in the lead is an elder in the town, highly respected. Whenever there is any problem in the town, people will go to him for advice, and he will help enthusiastically.
A group of people pushed open the gate, and Tu Shan and Ling Yang just walked into the yard.
Jin Ji said hurriedly: "They are the child's aunt and uncle, comrade, these are villagers in the town. They heard that the child was missing and came to help.
We searched outside but couldn't find him, so we went home to check if the child was mischievous and hiding somewhere."
That being said, everyone knows in their hearts that it is just words of comfort.
"Don't worry, the child was lost in our town. We will definitely help find him. Don't worry, the child won't be lost."
The old man values his reputation very much. If a child in his town goes missing, he can treat it as an internal incident and handle it internally.
But if a child of an outsider is lost, they cannot be careless. Otherwise, if the news gets out, no one will come to the town to stay overnight, and they will lose an income.
Remote towns like this are poor and have little to develop, and can only rely on occasional income generated by outsiders to sustain life.
So, reputation is important.
But the old man may not know that Jinji has sold out their town.
After hearing what the old man said, Jin Ji didn't dare to refute. He felt ashamed and guilty.
Tu Shan looked around. Among these people, some were sincere, some were perfunctory, and some had ulterior motives.
"I'm sorry to bother you all. The child has been found. Please go back."
"found it?"
Everyone exclaimed in unison.
Jin Ji was the most shocked. The child was lost in his home and his family situation was special. No one knew how sad he felt.
He took two steps forward excitedly, his face full of surprise: "Did you really find it? Where did you find it? Is the child okay?"
Tu Shan glanced at him and said, "In the coffin in your backyard, nothing happened. The child was indeed naughty and caused trouble for everyone. I'm sorry."
Jinji seldom goes to his backyard, where piles of things are piled up that the family used to eat.
These things were not allowed to be done in recent years, and everyone was poor. In addition, he didn't want to do this business anymore and thought those things were unlucky, so he piled them all up in the backyard and never paid any attention to them.
When someone in town dies, they will come to his house to buy a coffin, but other than that, he usually doesn't go to the backyard.
I thought that once the coffins were sold, I would burn everything else and clean up completely.
Unexpectedly, several children would run to the backyard in the middle of the night and sleep in the coffin.
Could this be due to being bewildered by something?
Not only Jin Ji thought so, but also the neighbors and residents in the town who felt that the Jin family was unlucky and were unwilling to visit his family all thought so.
The Jin family is a local family of spirit mediums. With their inherited skills, they were very popular and famous a hundred years ago. Many dignitaries came to the Jin family and promised to pay a large sum of money for help.
The family also opened a funeral shop, and business was booming.
The Jin family was once a wealthy family in the local area.
More than fifty years ago, for unknown reasons, the Jin family suddenly fell into decline, and family members died one after another for no reason. Especially in the past twenty years, none of the younger generations in the family lived past the age of twenty.
Now Jin Ji is the only descendant of the Jin family, and he is nineteen years old.
Everyone was afraid and felt unlucky. They believed that the Jin family must have done too many things that revealed the secrets of heaven, changed too many of their originally destined destinies, and offended all kinds of monsters and demons, so they were punished by heaven and cursed.
For fear of being implicated, everyone avoided him and would not walk past his house even if they passed by.
If outsiders come to stay overnight, they will be persuaded to leave by others, for fear that they will be killed by the Jin family and affect the reputation of the town.
However, Tu Shan and the others arrived by coincidence, and no one saw them when they arrived, so they found the Jin family.
The child had gone missing before and there had been no news of him. Everyone thought it was a supernatural event, and the Jin family must have occupied an important position in their imagination.
For this reason, some extremists came to the Jin family to cause trouble.
Jinji is young and not as tall as the people from the north, so he has always avoided dealing with things.
Fortunately, the old man suppressed it and it didn't get out of hand.
Today, the child who lived in the Jin family appeared inexplicably in the coffin, which seemed to prove everyone's previous speculation that there was really something wrong with the Jin family.
Everyone's face turned pale.
"I told you that the Jin family couldn't stay and should have been driven away long ago. You didn't believe me, and now look, something happened, right?"
"Today I'm just sleeping in a coffin, but next time I won't be able to get up from it?"
"Yes, this time it's an outsider. Will it bring trouble to us neighbors next time?"
"Old Master, let Jinji go. We can't let him stay here any longer."
"Our town has already lost four children. What will happen if there are fewer?"
Men, women, young and old were all very excited and ran to put pressure on the old man.
The old man's face turned pale and he remained silent.
Jinji felt guilty and lonely, standing there helplessly, enveloped in great sadness.
It can be seen that he also feels that there is something wrong with his family and with himself.
And he firmly believed that those children were harmed by him.
He could do nothing but hide in his shell and not run out to cause trouble for others.
I held back yesterday, thinking it would be fine to stay for one night, so I kept Tu Shan and the others.
But I didn't expect that it would still harm them.
But he was nineteen and wouldn't live much longer. He didn't want to leave. He was afraid of dying on the way and having no one to collect his body.
However, after what happened today, it seemed like he really couldn't stay.
Tu Shan and Ling Yang were stunned by the turn of events. Weren’t they just talking about finding the child?
Why did they chase people away? What were these people thinking?
At dawn, Tu Shan interrupted the crowd's heated discussion.
"Well, we still have to hurry. Thank you all again. We won't bother you anymore. We'll leave right away."
The noisy crowd instantly quieted down, and no one tried to persuade them to stay. They all looked at the two with burning eyes, and their meaning was very clear: let them go, so that they could take care of their family affairs.
Jinji also hoped that they would leave quickly, fearing that he would implicate them again.
"I'm sorry." Apart from these three words, he didn't know what else to say.
Tu Shan raised her eyebrows, and without further delay, she carried the three still sleepy little ones out and left.
It was too abrupt, which made Jinji sad. He thought that they must have been scared, which was why they left in such a hurry.
After leaving the town, Ling Yang spoke: "Let's find a place to have breakfast. The child can't sleep all the time, he needs to be woken up."
Tu Shan had no objection, since she didn't plan to go far anyway.
The two men crossed the cultivated land area of the town and stopped when they reached an uninhabited area.
I found a sheltered backside and set up the pot to cook.
"People in this small town seem to believe in ghosts and gods."
Tu Shan raised an eyebrow, believing it. "This is what the human traffickers want most. With a ghost taking the blame, they can steal the children with peace of mind."
It's not the ghost who is taking the blame, it's the people. Ling Yang felt sorry for Jin Ji, a young boy under 20 years old, who had to bear everything.