Great Sui Guoshi

Chapter 21 Whose Obstacle

The turbulent mist seemed to have seen the past of the female ghost.

The cold wind blows away the thick snowflakes, floating on the red cheeks, following the back of his father in front of him, walking through a vast expanse of whiteness, and when he looks back, his home is mixed with heavy snow and becomes blurred.

She was only seven years old then.

There are many things that the little girl understands, and some don’t understand. She followed her father to the town and entered a warm and bright hall. She was asked to sit outside and talk to an old man. There were many beautiful clothes and tiaras around her. , gongs and drums, and at the door of the dark house on the other side, a child similar to her was looking over.

Soon, her father came out with a rattling bag and squatted in front of her.

"Don't blame father...don't blame your mother either. You were born here. If you listen to your uncle, you will stutter. It's better than going hungry at home, you know?"

She knew that she had been sold, her eyes were red, she didn't cry, she timidly followed her father to the door, rubbed her fingers, and stood in the wind and snow.

Still couldn't help crying out: "Father! When are you coming to pick up Yun'er?"

The father left without saying a word, and the old man came over and pulled her in. The old man was not kind, he beat and disciplined her with a slender whip, crying more and more until he dared not cry will stop.

Later, she gradually understood the meaning of what her mother said when she left: "You must be obedient and sensible outside, so that you will not starve." The other children in the yard gradually decreased, and some were not suitable for this line of work, so they were sold. Brothel, after two years, she was also sold to a theater troupe in Hegu County.

The original name also changed to Hong Lian. He opened his voice, sang songs, and practiced the basic skills he had practiced in the small courtyard. If he was a little lazy, he would be beaten and scolded. After another three years, when he was 12 years old, he went to the stage and followed him. Play, sing some small roles, and finally get some small and small rewards.

It was the happiest year for her to see copper coins accumulated in the small wooden box. Later, because of her beautiful and soft voice, she was valued by the class leader. When she was 16 years old, she became a famous Huadan in the Li family class. Perhaps It won't be long before he really becomes Zhengdan.

The money I saved over the years was exchanged for silver taels, and I picked a good day to ride a rented carriage and go back to the house I remembered from my childhood. I wanted to see my parents and my younger brother.

However, it was a neighbor next to her house who received her. It turned out that her house had not been repaired for many years and had collapsed. She also learned from the neighbors that her mother died when her younger brother was one year old. Father Chongxin, an expert in the temple, donated incense and cremated the disaster, and his younger brother's illness was not cured. After a long delay, he was sent to the town's medical clinic, but he was unable to recover.

After the younger brother died, my father came to his senses and went to the temple to kill him with the family hatchet, but was beaten bloody by the people in the temple, and was carried back by the villagers, and followed him in less than half a day.

Instead, the people in the temple said that he broke in first with a knife and was beaten as a bandit, so the government stopped pursuing him.

There is no one in the family.

Hong Lian hugged the wooden box and listened to the narration of the neighbor, and cried out suppressedly. The tears fell on the wooden box. When she left, she left the wooden box to the neighbor and went to her parents. I knelt in front of my younger brother's grave for a long time, and when it was almost dark, I left in a carriage. I am afraid that the small village that is gradually going away will never come back.

Back in the opera troupe, she seemed to have grown up, singing happily, her reputation became more and more famous, and more and more people came to support her. Precious, but less of the expectations of the past, but at least, she lived a better life than her parents...God gave her a beautiful face and a moving voice, and rewarded her with food. The class leader Li Yunxiu said that God rewards her with food If you can't even hold the bowl steady, then don't live.

Not only did she have to eat, but the whole troupe also had to eat. After receiving the invitation from Fushui County, Yuanwai Chen's birthday, the whole troupe got busy, and carefully compiled "Nanjun Wenshou" as a big show.

Hearing the enthusiastic cheers from the stage, she knew that the opera was a success, and it wouldn't be long before Fushui County would know her fame.

The famous Hua Dan has her own small room to remove makeup and change clothes, humming a ditty, a figure walks by outside the window, and then pushes the door in. It is a drunken scholar who says he likes her.

Hong Lian knew him, he was Chen Yuanwai's only son, but he said he liked him when they met, and pushed the scholar away with both hands: "Mr. Chen, you go out first..."

The scholar refused, seeing no one around, with a drunken smile on his face, he rushed to pick her up, threw her on the table, and impatiently reached out to untie her pants.

Hong Lian was good at beating him, and kicked his feet hard: "Young Master, Hong Lian is only here to sing, not a prostitute in a brothel... Please let me go... Get out..."

Pleading, kicked the scholar's genitals, the pained opponent took half a step back, Hong Lian quickly jumped down, ran towards the door, was caught again halfway, and dragged on the ground.

The scholar who was beaten was furious, and slapped her on the face with his backhand, his cheeks were red and swollen.

"What's the difference between you being an actor and a prostitute in a brothel?! This son thinks highly of you, it's a blessing from your parents!"

"Father.....mother...." Maybe it was the pain in the cheek, or maybe it was the title that was awakened and hidden deep in the memory, Hong Lian suddenly crazily bumped her head at the scholar in front of her.

"what--"

The scholar whose nose was smashed yelled, and immediately dragged Hong Lian's hair to the bedside, picked it up and threw it up, grabbed a red water chestnut on the table where costumes were piled up, and wanted to tie the girl up.

Hong Lian struggled and cried, grabbing him with all her might.

"Let me go...someone, help me...father...mother...where are you, save Yun'er..."

Afraid of being overheard, the scholar held the red water chestnut to cover her mouth and nose, and yelled, "Don't call!" He quickly took off the woman's clothes with his other hand, and just as he took off the outer clothes, he found that his struggling body was no longer Moved.

The scholar hastily removed his hand and Hong Ling.

The woman stared at her eyes and made no sound...

The scholar ran out in panic, found his blushing father, and Mr. Li who was accompanying him. He told the truth, but was beaten up by the furious old man. Mr. Li was also in front of dozens of ingots of ingots and did not report to the officials.

Directly in the suburbs, a mud pit was dug, a piece of grass swept over Hong Lian's body, threw it in, and buried it.

No one will ever know.

*****

The fog surged, and the crowded crowd fell into silence. It lasted for a long time, and Lu Liangsheng was also touched. He didn't make any further moves, and just looked at the stage in the distance.

"This female ghost is a bit pitiful, what a pity..." Taoist Toad woke up at some point.

Lu Liangsheng raised his eyes and looked at the toad sitting on top of his head: "Master, she is very pitiful, but what do you mean by pity?"

"She... turned into a fierce ghost and claimed several lives. If she kills another person, she will become a Rakshasa ghost. At that time, she will really be unable to reincarnate forever, and she will not even be able to be a beast."

The young man looked at the lonely female ghost on the stage and fell silent.

"God is unfair to her... and she also encountered such a thing, and in the end she didn't even have a chance to reincarnate..."

The tentacles of the centipede that were clenched tightly in his hand were released, and then tightened again.

After thinking for a while, Lu Liangsheng took a breath, and with a serious voice, he spoke to the stage over there.

"Girl, you have to forgive others and forgive others. I am here today, and I will not allow you to kill anyone. Please leave quickly. If you want to kill yourself, you can come here!"

The female ghost's figure was erratic, she didn't look at the group of people in the middle, she stared at Lu Liangsheng inside the cloak, after a while, she bowed slightly.

"I don't dare to offend Mr., how can I let him go today, but Mr. will never stay in this small mansion, once you leave, I will come again!"

"That's for the future too!"

The female ghost raised her face, glanced at the scholar in the crowd, and sneered a few times: "Mr. is here today, I will spare your life for the time being. After Mr. leaves, I will meet Chen Lang privately."

He bowed to Lu Liangsheng from a distance, his figure slowly disappeared into the mist, and the stage also disappeared along with it, the surrounding mist and the wind that was blowing gradually stopped.

The people sitting on the turf of the flower garden let out a heavy breath, and the sweat kept flowing out like water after the gate was opened.

"My mother, if you don't come here again, you will almost die."

Some people screamed out loud, and some stood up, and suddenly yelled at the Chen family father and son over there: "It's not as good as a beast."

"That's right, the father and son are devoid of conscience!!"

"Just report to the police!"

However, Chen Yuanwai over there ignored the group of people's denunciation, and hurried to Lu Liangsheng who was on the rock. The old man's son knelt down and kowtowed to the ground.

"Sir, master, please save my life. This is really a foolish thing I did after drinking, and I will never dare to do it again..."

At this time, the fog had cleared, and the voices of maids and servants could be heard around. Chen Yuanwai hurriedly called someone over, brought 500 taels of silver, and saluted respectfully.

"Sir, please accept this money."

A piece of white silver ingots was neatly arranged in front of him. Lu Liangsheng came here for it, not to mention that he really helped the father and son, and he didn't take it for nothing.

Immediately nodded: "The old man just wandered here and heard that there were ghosts at work, so he came to take a look... It's a pity that we can't stay for a long time, so let's do it."

As he spoke, he pulled out a small knife that he carried with him from his waist.

"This is what the old man carries with him. Let your son wear it on his body to prevent that evil ghost from coming again. Don't do such outrageous things in the future."

That Chen Yaoke quickly grabbed it in his hand, quickly tied it around his waist, and kept bowing to Lu Liangsheng.

"Thank you sir for your teaching!" "Thank you sir for giving me this gift to ward off evil spirits!"

"Xiaosheng will do more good deeds in the future!"

Under the shadow of the cloak, Lu Liangsheng looked at him coldly, stretched out his hand to take the plate of silver, poured mana into the tentacles of the centipede, stirred up a demonic wind, and blew it over. away.

Among the clumps of grass and trees, the dusty bed sheet was thrown aside, and the 500 taels of silver was hidden before coming out.

Mixed into the noisy crowd and called Lu Pan and others, quietly went to divide the money into nine parts and hid it on each person. The headhunters are here.

The sky was dark and the ghosts receded at this time, and the panic in everyone's hearts eased a lot. For those who came from the yamen, they felt more at ease and greeted them one after another.

"Zuo Butou, you came just in time, this place is really haunted!"

"Yes, yes, that ghost is really powerful. If it weren't for the large number of us, the Chen family and his son would have suffered disaster."

But no one mentioned the origin of the sneakiness in the words. After all, these people will continue to beg for a living here. Chen Yaoke was arrested, how could Yuanwai Chen let him go?

Zuo Zhengyang frowned and watched these people talking in a hurry, so that his subordinates quickly pulled them aside for detailed questioning.

Then, standing at the door and staring at every face, he walked out of the Chen Mansion in front of him.

He is skilled in martial arts. When he was thinking about the case of the Chen family in the yamen that night, he felt terrified, so he brought people over and saw the expressions of these people when they went out. It seemed that something unbelievable happened.

After everyone had left, he found Yuanwai Chen and wanted to continue questioning, but he refused on the grounds of being tired, so he had to take him back to the county government office.

On another street not far from him, a group of nine people found an inn and opened a spacious room. Looking at the 500 taels of silver piled on the table, they kissed and smiled.

"Haha, I got rich this time!" "Why don't you buy some rouge powder for the mother-in-law when you go back?" "You who play ball, you must buy food, oil and salt."

"It's best, buy some more fabric and make new clothes for the family."

"Then let Liang Sheng make up his mind."

"But speaking of it, that female ghost is really pitiful. The Chen family's father and son, especially that Chen Yaoke, are so devoid of conscience that I wish I could slash him with a knife!"

How to use this large sum of money, everyone still looked at the young man who finally made up his mind.

"It will be up to the time. It is certain to buy things for every household. As for Mr. Chen, it is beyond your control. God will accept him."

Lu Liangsheng smiled at them, sat by the bed with a book in his hands, and read it quietly by the oil lamp.

As time passed, the night became darker.

The Chen Mansion, which was originally quiet, gradually became more windy. The night watchman carrying a lantern, walked past the corridor, and suddenly heard a faint chuckle in the wind.

"That ghost... not long after he left, he came here again?"

"Go and inform the staff!"

Someone ran away quickly, and the person holding the lantern saw something flying towards the courtyard where Chen Yaoke lived in the dark night sky.

Terrified, he yelled, "Come on, come on—"

The entire compound was quarreled, maids and servants rushed over with beating gongs and drums, Mr. Chen was simply wearing a coat, and was helped to the room where his son was, and the two strongmen rushed to open the door.

A bloody smell came out.

The maid holding the lantern poked inside, screamed "Ah!", and the lantern fell to the ground.

In the range where the flickering flames illuminated, on the bed, a figure fell obliquely between the bed and the ground, the clothes were torn open, and a big gap was opened in the exposed chest and stomach.

The bloody internal organs were pulled aside, not far away, there was a bloody knife.

"My son..."

Member Chen howled, his body shook violently a few times, his eyes turned white, and he fell into the arms of the servant girl.

For a moment, the whole mansion was in chaos.

Night Breeze ran across the eaves of the corridor.

On the treetop that no one noticed, a figure in a white dress sat on it, his blue hair stroking, watching this scene, he got up and drifted away again.

……

Outside the chaotic and noisy Chen Mansion, the street was quiet, with occasional dog barking. Inside the lighted paper window, eight big men holding silver were lying on the ground sleeping soundly, laughing from time to time.

Toad nestled on the pillow, opened one eyelid, and glanced at the desk.

"What a fool."

I yawned and continued to sleep.

The oil lamp was dim, and the boy was lying on the table, already asleep, with the book "Supplements of South Water" beside him, turning a page in the breeze squeezed in through the window.

"Huang Chuan has sorcery and is very vicious. He can harm people with his belongings. If he is not careful, his intestines will be pierced..."

Chapter 22 Noise, Noise, and the Court

Grumble... grumble...

Birds with gray wings landed on the eaves, the straight street, the peddlers carrying candied haws and loads walked the streets and alleys, the stalls on the street opened the steamers, steaming, the wheelbarrow pushed by the old man creaked lightly, There was also a tricky yell from the shop guy.