Daming's Bizarre Story: Painted Skin

Zhu Zi sent them to the door and said worriedly: "Little Daddy, do you suspect that my mother killed someone? My mother eats vegetarian food and prays to Buddha, she will not kill anyone."

"What kind of Buddha did your mother recite?"

"The Tathagata of the past." Zhuzi said.

"It's the past Buddha again." Zhao Ran couldn't help muttering in his heart.

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Zhaoran and Jiuru went out, and the sky was already as dark as Chen Mo.

Jiu Ru glanced at the flying flowers in the sky: "What Su means...Meng Qingwan is her illegitimate daughter."

Zhao Ran replied: "If Meng Qingwan was her illegitimate daughter, then the Su family would never have confessed to her."

Jiu Ru nodded and said, "Then what does she mean? Find another target for the real murderer?"

Clearly said: "That doesn't look like what Su did. She shouldn't be able to do things that framed her. She eats fast and recites Buddha, and recites past Buddha is also recites Buddha."

"Su's mention of Meng Qingwan must have her reasons..."

Zhao Ran raised his head and looked into Jiuru's clear eyes: "Sir, why don't we go see Meng Qingwan again?"

Jiu Ru nodded, and the two turned around and left the Meng Mansion, probably because of Meng Chengtian's escape, all the guards of the Meng Mansion were mobilized, almost completely enclosing a huge Meng Mansion.

"Our young lady is inconvenient to see guests tonight, so please come back tomorrow if you have something to do," the head of the security team said.

Clearly said: "We have something urgent to see Miss Meng, please pass it on."

People in the Meng Mansion don't like Zhao Ran at all. The Meng Mansion is a god-like existence in the book city. Now the mistress in the mansion is an adulterer, and the young master is the son of an adulterer. His reputation has plummeted. If it wasn't for Jiu Ru's special status, he would have been rude to them a long time ago. up.

"It's late at night, it's inconvenient for our young lady to meet outside guests."

Jiuru said: "Then please report to the head of the mountain for us."

The head of the guard team hesitated for a moment, only to hear someone's voice reply crisply: "Who is outside who wants to see the head of the mountain?"

As soon as Zhao Ran raised her head, the round-faced Su Fen turned out from behind the door. The eldest son of the Meng family fled, and only Meng Qingwan was left as the next generation. After Mammy died, the biggest servant in the courtyard was Sufen.

"So Sister Sufen, what we want to see is Miss Meng." Zhao Ran said with a smile.

Seeing Sufen coming out, the head guard was happy to get away, turned around and walked away on the grounds of defense.

Seeing them, Sufen was a little uncomfortable, but still squatted down and bowed: "What do you want to teach me, little sage?"

Zhao Ran felt "tsk tsk" in his heart, this Sufen has been trained by Meng Qingwan to look good after he hasn't seen her for a few days, his biggest failure may be that he underestimated this Miss Meng who was raised in a deep boudoir.

He thought she was arrogant and conceited, but she was actually far-sighted, decisive, and ruthless.

"We have something important to ask to see Miss Meng tonight, please pass it on for me." Jiu Ru said.

Sufen's face showed embarrassment: "It's getting late now, and my lady is tired, why don't you two come back tomorrow."

Zhao Ran said with a smile: "Sister Sufen, you know why Ms. Meng likes you as a first-class maid."

Su Fen was slightly taken aback, and continued clearly: "Ms. Meng accepted you not because the dim sum you made is delicious, but because you are greedy. She likes to keep people with defects by her side, such as Nanny Song and Yin Niang , Another example is you. Because you are so flawed, she doesn't have to worry about not being able to catch it, so you can show improvement, but if I were you, I wouldn't appear to be too much improvement. "

Sufen's round face turned red and white under the lamp, and she said after a while, "I'll let you know, whether or not Miss Meng wants to see you is not up to me to decide."

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Su Fen served the tea cakes, and Meng Qingwan lighted the tea leaves in the boiling water with jade-like hands and said softly, "Did you tell them that it was getting late, did I rest?"

Sufen said anxiously: "The servant girl said it, but the little sage said that what they want to say is very important, and it is related to your life, Miss."

"Life is related..." Meng Qingwan chuckled lightly, and said calmly, "Who can endanger my life now?"

Su Fen hurriedly said: "The servant girl also thinks that they are just scaremongering. The Meng Mansion is now surrounded by so many people, and the mansion has been screened one by one, so that no one can get in. Now the Meng Mansion is in the hands of the young lady. You can murder Miss here, unless he can fly into the sky and escape from the ground."

But her words seemed to have touched Meng Qingwan. She covered the tea bowl and reprimanded lightly: "Things in the world are ever-changing, and you can talk about everything in your hands. It's simply ignorance."

Sufen was expecting Ai Ai again: "Then, Miss, do you still want to see the little, little sage?"

Meng Qingwan picked up the silver and gently picked up the magnolia in the bowl with the tea foam and said: "Let them wait."

Zhaoran and Jiuru waited for a long time outside the gate wall, the stars and the moon gradually rose and then gradually set, Zhaoran: "Why so long?"

The guards outside the courtyard watched them intently, as if they were specially guarding against any misdeeds from them.

Sufen finally came out with two maids carrying lanterns, and then led them to the side hall where a four-faced veil screen was displayed. Sufen stood in front of the screen and said reservedly: "Keep you waiting for a long time. , my lady said that it was getting late, and men and women are different, so I can only talk to you two in the side hall across the screen."

Through the gauze screen, Meng Qingwan's sitting figure could be vaguely seen inside, Jiu Ru turned around and faced her with cupped fists and bowed slightly: "Miss Meng."

"You wait outside the door." Meng Qingwan said to Sufen, and waited for the maids to leave the door before saying unhurriedly, "I heard from the maids that you said that I have a life-threatening matter. Which one is the saint referring to?"

Clearly said: "Then Miss Meng doesn't think so, right? Mrs. Meng killed Yinniang, the shopkeeper of the bookstore died with Nanny Song, and now that Chief Fan She is also dead, do you think you are safe and sound?" gone?"

Meng Qingwan's voice was still as cold as cold beads: "It's all their own fault, what does it have to do with me?"

"Miss Meng, it is impossible for Yinniang to show you that painting. She is showing it to another person, a person who can make her wear heavy makeup and show off to the meeting. This person is not Mr. Fan She, because Mr. Fan She is still there. Not enough to make her offer that painting with both hands." Jiu Ru said calmly, "This person killed Yinniang with old lady Meng, old lady Meng with the shopkeeper of the bookstore, and the shopkeeper with Nanny Song. , used you to kill Nanny Song, and in the end even Chief Fan She didn't let go, don't you... you're not curious, who will he use to kill you!"

Meng Qingwan chuckled, and took a sip of tea: "I don't really understand what the little sage means."

Jiu Rudao: "Do you think that everything this man does is for you? Unfortunately, you are wrong. Everything he does is for revenge, and you are just his son."

Zhao Ran said sharply: "I think Ms. Meng should wear less veils and look in the mirror more, otherwise you will know that you are not that attractive and let a man plan so many murders for you. You must know that if this man really likes you You, it's impossible to get blood on your hands."

"Who is this person? Tell us, you may still have a way out." Jiu Ru said.

Hearing the crisp sound of bowls falling to the ground behind the screen, the screen was blown away like a palm. Behind the screen, Miss Meng was bleeding from the corner of her mouth. She was lying on the chair with her fingertips still trembling slightly. Shrieking in fright, she shook Meng Qingwan visibly: "Who is this man, tell him his name."

Meng Qingwan stared straight at the door with her eyes wide open, but in the end she couldn't say a word before dying.

She has tried her best, is bold and ruthless, but in the end she still thinks highly of herself.

"Su Shi wants to say that the person Yinniang is going to kill is Meng Qingwan, and she uses tuancha." Jiu Ru looked at the exquisitely glazed tea bowl on the ground and the tea foam that fell on the ground.

Yinniang has served Meng Qingwan for more than ten years, so of course she knows that Meng Qingwan likes to order tea, and likes the ancient group tea, so she only needs to sprinkle the poison on one end of the tea cake, and she can quietly wait for Meng Qingwan outside the Meng Mansion. Qing Wan died.

This is a full circle.

Mrs. Meng strangled Yinniang to death, the shopkeeper of the bookstore frightened and killed Mrs. Meng, Nanny Song poisoned the shopkeeper of the bookstore, and Meng Qingwan strangled Nanny Song and was poisoned by Yinniang. full circle.

There were footsteps outside the door, and someone shouted: "He, they killed Miss."

Zhao Ran turned his head away, only to see Heng Sheng wearing a Tsing Yi and steadily crossing the threshold, dignified and upright, he said with grief and indignation on his face: "Little Sage, although you are the symbol of the Book City, but the one who has run the Academy for thousands of years has always been It's all the Meng Mansion, why do you want to force the Meng Mansion so hard, making the whole mansion fall into an abyss!"

The nurses of the Meng Mansion looked at Jiuru with resentment, and Sufen screamed: "Miss is dead, she was forced to death by them! It's them, I heard it clearly outside the door, they said that Miss is also an old man The illegitimate child of man!"

Another trap.

"Don't let them run away, take them down and give our Meng Mansion justice." Heng Sheng shouted angrily.

"Go!" Jiu Ru grabbed Zhao Ran's hand and rushed out from the door.

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The guardian of the Meng Mansion held a torch and made half of the book city red, Jiu Ru galloped with Zhao Ran on his back, and behind him was the sound of horseshoes from the Meng Mansion hurriedly chasing him.

"Go to Xishan!" Zhaoran whispered in Jiuru's ear.

According to Meng Chengtian's understanding of the Meng Mansion, there must be a reason why he chose to flee to the West Mountain.

"Master, there is movement in the city." A guard at the entrance of the Xishan Cave said to Meng Chengtian.

"His plan succeeded." He took the binoculars in his hand, looked in the direction of the book city, "Get ready for artillery fire!"

Jiuru turned around and ran towards Xishan with Zhaoran on his back, Zhaoran asked on his back, "What's there in Xishan?"

"The mining area, it has always been the property of the Meng Mansion under the management of Meng Chengtian."

The sun rises slowly along the mountains, illuminating a bright path along the ditch.

On the west mountain, the figures of Zhaoran and Jiuru could be clearly seen in the binoculars, and the subordinates turned their heads and asked, "Do you want to bombard the little sage?"

Meng Chengtian put down the binoculars in his hand and said, "This is his plan."

"Then we..."

"But I don't like to obey others in everything. Since the master is here, what's the problem with our teacher-student meeting for a while?"

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There are flying flowers floating in the academy all the year round, but it has never been as dense as it is now. The pink and white petals seem to have turned blood red, falling on the bluestone clay board, like wounds one after another.

City inn.

Shen Fangji stood at the window looking out of the city, an old man behind him said: "Since the little sage and that Zhaoxian have already fled to Xishan, why didn't they hear the cannon fire from Xishan?"

"Meng Chengtian has a flamboyant personality and likes to go his own way. He must not follow the plan in everything?" Shen Fangji said, "Since he is a phantom creature, he must be completely opposite to me in some respects. Where I am most reliable is where he is least reliable, and he should be very similar to the past."

The old man was taken aback: "Then letting them reunite, will it affect your plan?"

Shen Fangji said calmly: "Since the past has disturbed the time sequence of the book city for thousands of years, it will have a countermeasure. Even if Meng Chengtian doesn't do what I say, it will react. We just need to wait and see. to know what it means?"

The house suddenly shook violently from side to side, and there seemed to be someone screaming outside the window, sporadically dotted with rumbling noises.

It took a while before the shaking stopped. Shen Fangji opened the window, and saw the street was in chaos, the inn was inexplicably higher, the flat street turned into a hill, and the bluestone slabs were cracked. Open like a rag belt hanging from a hill.

"Is there an earthquake?" The old man couldn't help asking.

"Sure enough, it started..." Shen Fangji looked at the old man and said, "It will reset everything to zero."

"Return to zero?"

"Back to the way it was before the beginning. There is a little sage in the academy, and the Meng Mansion in the book city." Shen Fangji spoke calmly, but there was an indescribable weirdness.

Wurong next to him was so frightened that he took the old man's hand and said, "Grandpa, this city is so weird, let's get out of here."

Although the old man felt uneasy, he patted her head and said, "This is the best chance to unravel the mystery of our aliens."

"Brother A Xian, what secrets does the stranger have?"

Shen Fangji looked at the rolling hills outside and said coldly, "Stranger, are we trapped in time?"

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Because of mining in Xishan, the trees have been felled, and the mud flow washed down from the top of the mountain, forming a series of trenches, mixed with knee-high bushes.

Jiuru climbed up the mountain with Zhaoran on his back, but the ground vibration felt strong. He jumped up suddenly, and the arms-thick branches under his feet broke through the ground in all directions. They stretched rapidly towards the sky, and soon grew into a It's just a big tree soaring to the sky, and the tree is full of fruits. If you look closely, you can see that it is full of human heads.

The big fruit in the center is Meng Shanchang, and next to it are Baimei, Nanny Song, and Meng Qingwan, all of whose heads hang peacefully on the tree.

Their faces are peaceful, as if they will ripen soon, and grow back into individuals.