The Lin Clan Charity Cemetery stood on the outskirts of Qingkou City. It owned a thousand mu of fertile farmland donated by the Lin Residence, and all its income went toward supporting struggling members of the Lin Clan.
It provided private schooling, distributed subsistence grain to the elderly, and lent out its grounds to help with weddings and funerals.
Aside from that, the Lin Clan Charity Cemetery also had a room specifically used to temporarily house unclaimed remains found near the Lin Clan Lands. If nobody claimed them after a time, they would be buried in the mass graveyard outside the city.
Precisely because of this room, ordinary Lin Clan members would not use the charity cemetery's facilities unless their families were truly in difficulty. They considered it unlucky.
At night, only a deaf-mute elder from the clan, hired by the Lin Residence, kept watch here.
Creak~
Unwilling to spend money on lamplight, the elderly watchman went back to his room early after checking the grounds inside and out. Almost as soon as he entered, two figures wearing bamboo hats and straw rain capes approached from the docks.
"This is the place?"
Lin Hao looked up at the sign for the Lin Clan Charity Cemetery.
When Yi Feng had given him information about the Lin Family, he had specifically mentioned this place, saying that the Lin Residence took relatively good care of its impoverished clansmen.
"Yes. Old Zhang can't hear, and he sleeps soundly. Dead bodies are often kept here too, so hardly anyone comes nearby at night."
Li Yanbing did not use the main entrance. She vaulted straight over the wall into the charity cemetery, then reached one of its rooms in a few quick steps and knocked three times slowly, then three times quickly.
Only then did Lin