Daming's Bizarre Story: Painted Skin

There was a little snow at night, and in the morning there were thousands of silver chestnuts among the trees. When the mountain wind blew, the snow fell down.

Zhaoran ran towards Rong'an Town on a snowy path with a bag on his back, and when he got close to the town, he saw that the guards at the gate of the town had been strengthened. Go to the door.

It was different from the last time, the faces of the townspeople in Rong'an Town were a bit frightened, and they clearly entered a teahouse through the curtain.

The teahouse was very lively, and it seemed that there were quite a few people like Zhao Ran who were trying to inquire about gossip.

Zhaoran asked for a few plates of orange cakes, black dates, and boiled chestnuts, made a pot of tea and threw a few copper coins to Xiao Er, before asking: "The town magic clock has been ringing all night, and there are so many extra officials tonight. What the hell happened here?"

Xiao Er greeted guests and saw them off all day long, but she had never seen such a masculine lady, she glanced at her with a strange expression, and said, "Don't dare to talk nonsense, it's written in the law of our Ming Dynasty, and you can confuse people with evil words." But punishable."

When Xiao Er left, the person at the next table came over and whispered: "Little lady, if you are not from Rong'an Town, you should leave earlier."

"Why?"

"Yesterday night, there was a wife of Master Juzi who asked Yaoxu to eat it. What a pity, there was only a piece of skin left." The man shook his head again and again, and poured a few cups of hot tea as if it was not the case. Can't get rid of the cold.

As soon as he started, the other people in the teahouse also whispered and whispered.

Zhaoran roughly understands that the master's surname is Li, his first name is Mo, and his style name is Tanning. He was an imperial scholar in the Jingtai period. So he retired from the court and retired, and his family moved to Rong'an Town.

Although Li Mo was an unwilling official, he was the most honorable person in the town. Even the county magistrate would give up his sedan chair when he came to the town occasionally and met him.

As soon as the buddhas came, Yao Yao ate Li Mo's wife until she left a skin, which showed that the horses and chariots were as good-looking as these little buddhas.

Zhaoran not only "tsk tsk" twice, he picked up his burden and went straight to the Demon-Suppressing Tower, intending to return the Falling Demon Bow to Jiuru and persuade him casually.

Since the National Teacher Tower was erected on Xiaoxing Mountain, many Demon Suppressing Towers have been built in various places. The Demon Suppressing Tower is actually built after the National Teacher Tower, but it has a few floors less than the National Teacher Tower.

Zhao Ran arrived under the Demon Suppressing Tower, and saw that Jin Yiwei was guarding outside, he just stretched his neck and looked in, when someone Jin Yiwei stepped forward and shouted: "What are you doing?!"

Obviously, he couldn't say "I have old friendship with the Buddha inside." So he had no choice but to turn around embarrassingly, but just as he turned around, his back broke out in sweat, and Wen Zhigeng walked towards him.

He bowed and stepped back, sure enough, Wen Zhigeng even glanced at Jin Yiwei who was approaching the door, and said coldly: "Princess wants to select more attendants, you all go over with some people."

Zhao Ran couldn't help but feel moved, the dog slave saw Ru Niang, if he came back, even wearing Ru Niang's skin might not be safe, but if he sneaked into the princess mansion, Wen Zhigeng and the dog slave probably wouldn't have the guts to search for Jiashan's princess It's just that Jiuru had to find a chance to return the Falling Demon Bow to him later.

He found an inn, rented a room, wrapped the token and Rong Xian's leather, found a gap in the bricks and put it in, then went out and walked along the street to find the place where the Princess Mansion was staying.

Rong'an Town is the only nearby town outside Guanxing. The town is not big and the station is not small. It is a courtyard with three entrances, and one lower courtyard is as big as a courtyard with one entry for ordinary people, but even so, the maids inside They still fanned it gently with a green silk handkerchief. It was snowing and the moon should not be hot, but it must be because there were too many people in front of them.

"Who are you?" A guard at the desk at the door asked with a pen.

"Three Tun Village." Zhao Ran quickly replied.

"what is it call."

"Ru Niang."

"Is there anyone else at home?"

"No, they all passed away." Zhao Ran remembered that the Princess Mansion only recruited orphans.

The guard glanced at Zhaoran up and down, then Zhaoran puffed up his lips and blinked his eyes, pretending to be a girl.

"Literate?" The guard was unmoved.

Zhao Ran couldn't help but wonder whether it's better to be literate or not, someone next to him sweetly interjected, "Master, I'm literate."

Zhao Ran turned her head, and saw a woman standing beside her, wearing a crescent-colored light shirt, stepping on the dark blue brick surface, as if a lotus came out of mud, and a hibiscus standing in a secluded pool, with a bright texture, not like a fairy, But isn't this person the footsteps of the ancestor of Rongjiazhuang Jingli who called himself the young master?

When Zuyin saw him, he raised his chin and straightened his waist, his chest really trembled a few times, he looked straight at the guard who was not looking sideways just now, and clearly remembered the pig urine foam inside, and with a "poof", he put the mouth in his mouth. A puff of air was sprayed out.

The saliva spattered on the guard's face, Zhao Ran hurriedly said: "I can also read a few words."

Just as the guard was about to scold him, he suddenly bowed and said, "Miss Forsythia."

Zhao Ran turned his head slightly, and saw a woman in a sable hair and crane cloak leading a few maids, the scent of orchid musk wafting, and the sound of wearing rings walking over, the maid who was waving the handkerchief hurriedly came out of the gate with a mask on her face. She smiled flatteringly and said, "Sister Lianqiao is here."

Lian Qiao's voice was crisp and clear: "What's the matter, how is the candidate going? Today, the princess is going to have a banquet for the disciples of Buddha, so don't delay."

Zhao Ran thought in his heart, what a great style, she turned out to be a maid.

"All the rough envoys and servants outside have been selected, but the princess has not yet decided on the newly added ones."

Lianqiao flipped through the post in her hand, her eyes fell on the faces of Zuyin and Zhaoran, Zhaoran wanted to walk away, but Lianqiao pointed at Zhaoran and said: "I don't think so, I am waiting for someone to use it, just her Bar."

Zhao Ran was totally unexpected, when he walked by the sound of footsteps, he could only hear his voice in a low voice: "Tomorrow afternoon, I will wait for you at the gate of the Lower Court, if you don't come, you will die."

Before Zhaoran could reply, the maid behind Lianqiao turned around and urged, "Hurry up and follow."

Zhao Ran didn't care about the sound of footsteps, he lowered his head and followed a few steps, he followed and saw that Lissian Qiao was walking unimpeded all the way, everyone in the house, big and small, all saluted her and called her "Miss Lian Qiao".

When they walked through a hand-painted corridor and came to a courtyard, the courtyard wall had been repaired, a row of tile loach ridges, water-milled powder walls, and heavy guards guarding the courtyard gate, it was obvious that the only person living here was a princess. Yes, last night Li Hanlin's wife was eaten, and the princess's residence was closed but the guards became tighter.

Lianqiao Zhaoran was waiting in the courtyard, while they stepped into the room, after a while, a maid came out and pointed at Zhaoran, "Come in."

Zhaoran crossed the threshold, and saw that the room was full of extravagance, with woven blankets on the floor, Boshan stoves burning in the corners, and some new melons and fruits placed on the tables around.

"Raise your head up!" Lianqiao said.

Zhao Ran raised his head, and saw a young woman sitting on the small Buddha seat in front of her, wearing a gold embroidered beaded waistcoat, with dignified facial features, straight black eyebrows, and clear mandibular fracture angle, she would look dignified for a man He is handsome, but he is a bit rough when placed on a woman's body.

"Sure enough, I have a bit of imagination." The woman glanced up and down and said.

"Like who?" Zhao Ran thought to himself.

Lian Qiao said: "If the princess is satisfied, then I'll send someone to fix it up for her."

Jiashan hesitated for a while: "It's not good if people find out."

Lian Qiao smiled and said: "Who dares to look closely in front of the princess, and besides, there will be no trouble if there is a servant girl watching."

It was only then that Zhaoran understood what they meant. It was because the monsters ate people. The princess wanted to find a scapegoat. The two of them answered the questions and did not take Zhaoran seriously. Zhaoran couldn't help but feel a little angry, thinking I'm going to take off this whole body of skin, I'm afraid you will be frightened to death before that monster arrives.

Princess Jiashan stopped talking after that, and Forsythia uttered all the answers.

Lianqiao didn't seem to want to keep Zhaoran, so she waved her hand and asked someone to lead Zhaoran down.

Several maids escorted Zhao Ran to the backyard like a prisoner, pointed to the big wooden barrel in the house and said: "Here, wash yourself first."

The few of them are the ones who serve the princess, they don't wait patiently for Zhaoran, they put down the washing bag and the change of clothes, then turn around and close the door, gossiping in the courtyard by themselves.

"Why is Mrs. Li dead and our princess is so nervous?"

Another woman whispered: "Mrs. Li has always had a personal relationship with our princess. When she was leaving that day, she sat in the princess's jade carriage. I heard from the guard next to the horse that maybe the monster wanted to attack us. It is the princess, but our princess is a noble person and has great luck, so Mrs. Li has no choice but to be a scapegoat."

"No wonder Fu Ma wants to keep Buddha to live in the North Courtyard."

"Now I'm afraid that the monster won't dare to come."

The women giggled, clearly thinking that the Buddha was in the north courtyard, and wondered if Jiu Ru was there.

He jumped into the bathtub, saw a few grains of soap the size of broad beans in the carved wooden box next to him, and felt a faint fragrance of jasmine on his hands.

Smelling the fragrance of flowers, not only felt itchy scalp, but also used up half the box of soap with water, thinking to himself, wondering if this can fool the dog slave.

He soaked in the bathtub and thought again, since Buddha lives in the north courtyard, maybe Jiuru is also there.

I don't know if the princess will let him go to the banquet instead, but unfortunately he has too many things to do recently, and I am afraid that there is no chance to persuade this little Buddha to return to vulgarity, so he sighed clearly.

After washing his clothes, he put on the clothes that the maids put aside, it was still a garnet red skirt with a phoenix tail, and on top was a red embroidered gold silk jacket with a stand-up collar and fox fur exposed.

It seems that this is a princess' attire, equally rich and oppressive.

Zhao Ran put on his clothes, patted the door and said, "It's finished!"

There were whispers in the yard just now, but now there is no sound, Zhao Ran was surprised, pushed the door, and the door opened.

I saw the man standing outside, with strong facial features and eagle eyes, who is he if he is not the current Master Fu Ma, the hair on his head is clearly wet, and he looks as stupid as he is with his mouth open.

That Fuma Lord frowned for a while before asking: "Are you literate?"

Zhaoran rolled his eyes halfway, thinking that the monster had eaten Mrs. Juzi until she was left with only the skin. He was afraid that she was a dog and would gnaw bones. If he really came to find the princess, he might not be able to live. He closed his mouth and said Shyly said: "My family can read and write."