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Chapter 78: The City of Masks

Huo Qingtong turned around, and the original thousand-faced bronze mirror suddenly disappeared, and the wind and sand from the barren mountains were blown up in front of her eyes, and the flying dust made her vision blurred.This place is isolated from the rest of the world, as if cutting a stubborn spot outside the world. She saw a thatched hut at the foot of the barren hill. A dilapidated feather duster was lying on the ground outside the hut door, and the sound of singing to put the child to sleep came from the crack of the window. come out.

She took a step forward subconsciously, "Where is this?" Huo Qingtong turned around and asked Huaenu, only to find that she was completely in a strange world, the thousand-faced bronze mirror and the stream that trapped her in a narrow corner. The tearful Calyx girl has disappeared without a trace.

The echo resounded through the eastern sky, "This is another perfect world, through that mountain, the ghosts in the town live like people, they are happy and content, never sad."

At the end of the red sky, the setting sun is slowly setting, and the orange light covers the hut in front of me. There is a woman who is bending over and kicking one foot to fetch water from the well. The heavy wooden bucket is salvaged wet from the bottom of the water. After resting with my waist down for a long time, I picked it up and moved the bucket to the kitchen step by step.

With a splash of water, she suddenly heard footsteps outside, and turned her head to see Huo Qingtong.

Huo Qingtong was bathed in residual brilliance but couldn't feel any temperature. She saw the tightly wrapped "woman" walking towards her slowly, and she was more surprised and puzzled. The bones and joints are clearly visible, and they approached him without any flaws in the daytime, with joy on his face, "Who are you? Are you here to help me?"

She waited for a long time in this contracted place, but her husband still didn't come.Everyone who passed by here, she would ask, "Are you here to help me?" However, no one was willing to lend a helping hand. Those people only need to pass through that mountain to obtain eternal happiness. I will meddle in my own business and delay my own good affairs.

Huo Qingtong was supported by the woman, she had all kinds of expressions but was no match for the uniformity of the skeletons, Huo Qingtong was respectfully invited by her to sit down at the stone table in the yard, watching her use the two canine teeth The skeleton mouth opened and closed and said: "It's been a long time since I've had any guests, and I don't have any tea at home. If you don't mind, try the well water I just dug."

She looked at this lonely courtyard, and suddenly there was a baby crying again in the hut. The woman picked up the feather duster and ran in. Huo Qingtong faintly heard the woman coaxing the child: "Don't cry, Bao'er!" Be obedient, Daddy will be back soon. At that time, I will buy new tiger-toed shoes and silver bell bracelets for Bao'er, and mother will take Bao'er across the mountain to buy candied haws in the town."

The baby's crying gradually stopped, and the tranquility in the air made Huo Qingtong feel inexplicably uneasy. She stroked the stone table and stood up. There is no breath of living people in this world. If the guess is right, this place should be The Great Wilderness Dreamland, and the Calyx girl just now should be the legendary nightmare ghost who was imprisoned in Onitsuka.

She wiped her eyes, the reality in front of her made her want to escape.These eyes allowed her to see through the disguise, but also made her suffer hundreds of times more cruelly than others.

"I'm sorry, my children love to cry." The woman leaned over and closed the door and came from under the eaves. She raised her head to look at the sky and said cautiously, "Girl, are you alive? Are you not afraid of me?" Huo Qing Tong raised her head, and a woman's face was reflected in her pupils. She suddenly lifted the cloak, and there was still a pitiful look on her stern and terrifying face, but the hands had already stretched out towards her.

Huo Qingtong subconsciously bent down to pick up a few stones on the ground, and they landed on the woman's ribs with the flick of her fingers. The woman let out an ouch, clutching her two broken ribs, and pleaded slightly: "...Nian'er I have never done anything harmful to nature, girl, please don't hurt me. Just now, I just wanted to help the girl remove the dead grass in her hair."

"Are you waiting for me?" Huo Qingtong looked around, sized up the woman and said indifferently: "This barren mountain and desert, birds and reptiles, and even the sun, moon and stars are all fake, why do you stay here?"

The woman immediately became excited when she heard the words, as if the long-awaited agreement was about to be fulfilled, she took Huo Qingtong to the back of the house, pointed to a wooden stake tied with a scarecrow and said, "The girl must be a master! Since the girl You know everything, why don't you help me find a husband, my husband and I went to die together, and now I have been waiting for him here as agreed, but he has not come yet. Bao'er and I have been waiting for an unknown amount of time, the yard The red bean tree in the garden lived and died for a long time, and I almost don’t remember his appearance.”

Huo Qingtong didn't quite understand, she looked around, this world seemed ordinary but contained great power.She looked at Nian'er, saw that she was wearing a white spirit bead on her chest, and asked, "Why are you waiting for your husband here? Do you know that this world is just a dream in Xumi's illusion. Now I'm just stuck in Onitsuka wasting my years."

"I know." Unexpectedly, Nian'er raised her head faintly, touched the beads on her chest with her fingers, and said, "Girl, are you the one who accidentally broke into this place? If you don’t come, since we met by fate, as long as you help me find my husband, I will send you out.”

She was afraid that Huo Qingtong would not believe her, so she hurriedly said: "When I was alive, my husband and I were praying at Yuelao Temple, and a pockmarked woman gave us a pair of twin beads, oh, this is what I wear. She said that as long as we are sincere to each other , no matter how long after you die, you can come here through spiritual power and stay together forever. She also told us how to get out, as long as I find my husband, I will keep my promise and send you out."

Huo Qingtong had no other choice but to compromise temporarily, besides, she strayed into the Nightmare Ghost's formation by mistake, if she wanted to go out, there must be some kind of rules, the mystery might be related to the request of the woman in front of her?

"Then how can I find your husband." Huo Qingtong asked directly, Nian'er excitedly pulled off the twin beads she was wearing, and said excitedly: "Originally, my husband would come here to meet me first, and then We left together again. But now, after a long wait, I have to ask the Raun to take this bead and stuff it into the scarecrow's heart, and then bury the scarecrow in my grave. So I can see where my husband is. .”

Huo Qingtong looked into the distance, and there was indeed a protruding hillock in the barren grass. Nian'er's eyes dimmed, and her eyes were full of sorrow, "Husband said let me wait for him, but I waited for him here For a long time, Bao'er has been crying, crying, and he has never appeared. I just want to ask him, is his promise to me still count?"

The woman wept in the wind, and her slim figure became weaker and weaker because of her sadness.

Huo Qingtong couldn't help asking her, "How long have you been here?"

The woman timidly raised her head, her eyes curled up like autumn smoke, she pursed her lips slightly and looked around, then finally shook her head, "I don't remember."

"Maybe he has been reincarnated." Huo Qingtong tried to convince her.

The woman's expression suddenly became a little flustered. She stood up from the stone bench and murmured: "No, my husband and my twin pearls are still there. He must still be here. He said that no matter what happens, the No matter what, he will never abandon me and the child. And...with twin pearls, even if he drank Mengpo soup and crossed the bridge of Naihe, he would still remember the promise between us. He is a person who keeps promises .”

She muttered to herself, completely ignoring that Huo Qingtong was still by her side, the animal ruler on Huo Qingtong's waist suddenly fell to the ground and gave off a faint blue light.The children in the room seemed to feel the grief of their mother, and they also burst into tears.Huo Qingtong followed Nian'er into the room, and there was a skeleton ghost curled up on the kang in the room, crying earth-shatteringly.

It turned out that this child was also a dead baby. Seeing the yin energy of the soul was extremely strong, I thought that Nian'er's husband had passed away for many years.

"My Bao'er is crying again. You must be missing Daddy." The woman rushed in from the door and picked up the ghost baby. She looked at Huo Qingtong with some disappointment, "I once invited the best man in town My mother-in-law came to calculate. She told me to weave a scarecrow with my own hands, and then we can only reunite when a noble person helps me and my husband. The girl is willing to listen to me so much, she must be a kind person, please help us .”

Huo Qingtong stood by the door, looking at the swaddling baby in her arms, and suddenly turned her eyes on the woman, and said indifferently: "Is it worth it for you to live in deception like this?"

"What?" Nian'er looked at Huo Qingtong in surprise, she turned around and opened the door to open the window, and the last ray of sunlight came in.The ghost baby in her arms stopped crying slightly, the white skull head tilted to the right, making a clicking sound, she raised her hand slightly in the sunlight, the baby's gloomy eye sockets met Huo Qingtong's face , like a bottomless pit.

Why didn't Nian'er bury the baby?This pair of skeletons is fused with the soul, and even if it survives, it will be deformed.

Huo Qingtong turned the Jie beast ruler in her hand, and wanted to end all these entanglements for a moment. Xu Huachao's body suddenly hurt a lot, and a certain part of her heart felt particularly uncomfortable. She sighed: "Even the sunshine here is fake." , your skin is also fake, why bother to be persistent and deceive yourself and others."

Nian'er put Bao'er down, and knelt down at her feet nervously and timidly, "Please... We have suffered so much in life, and after death is just another reincarnation. My husband and I know each other, and we just want to keep this Persistence. As long as you are willing to help us, even to see him, you can ask me to do anything."

Huo Qingtong took a deep breath, only to hear Nian'er say: "My husband and I swore an oath in Yuelao Temple, he will never betray me."

"I'm already dead, this bead can only be put into the scarecrow's heart for me by the living." Nianniang cried and said in a panic: "Benefactor, please help me, I just want to see how he is doing now Anyway, never bother him."

Huo Qingtong picked up the bead and looked at it, then looked at Nian Niang suspiciously, "Nian Niang, maybe he has forgotten you, and he has another life in the world. If you stick to a vow, it's better to drink a bowl of Meng Po soup. Give yourself another chance."

"Girl, have you ever loved someone?" Nian Niang looked at Huo Qingtong disappointedly, "Life and death are not important at all. I believe in my husband's promise, not just for a vow. He said he would find me, I I will definitely wait for him."

Huo Qingtong sighed: "Since that's the case, then I won't force it. The only thing is, if the result is not what you want, you should go to reincarnation and don't be obsessed with it anymore."

Nian Niang nodded again and again, and then Huo Qingtong led Nian Niang to the back of the house again. The weeds covered the outline of the tomb, which looked inconspicuous, and the scarecrow standing in front of the tomb looked more like an ominous omen.

Huo Qingtong put the bead into the scarecrow's heart, and then put it on the open tomb coffin, the scarecrow suddenly burned, and a scene suddenly appeared in the raging fire.

In the flower hall full of pearls and emeralds, a man in a moon-white round-neck embroidered gown is playing with a child in his arms with a snow-blue charming woman. In the yard is a woman dressed as a commoner kneeling. The person who escorted her is very rude.

The man was not angry when he saw this, he just put his arms around his wife's waist, and said with a smile: "I just bought a cheap girl. Since my wife likes it, I will send it to you."

The lady leaned over to thank her happily, glanced at the little girl out of the corner of her eye, and stepped on her finger without leaving a trace. The man smiled slightly, looked at his wife dotingly, and continued to smile: "My daughter has become much smarter recently, Why don't you ask a teacher to teach you at home."

"What the master said was exactly what I thought. I picked out the few gentlemen who came to the door just now. There was a female gentleman who was very knowledgeable and stable. I thought that it would be inconvenient for strange men to come and go in the inner courtyard of the back house. Pay her a deposit, and someone will come over later."

The man laughed and said, "Is it possible to make Madam so happy, then it's all up to Madam to decide!"

Madam smiled and flattered, "It's better for the master to post a list to recruit talents. I'm just a woman's opinion." She glanced at the girl behind her who dared not speak and was shaking with pain, and said lightly, "This girl was born clean. , I will delay it, why not give it to the teacher to serve the pen and ink." The man nodded again and again, "Madam said it is true."

Huo Qingtong looked at the harmonious scene of the husband and wife, and suddenly heard that Nian Niang's legs softened, she stepped back a few steps, and said with tears: "He has married someone else."

The promise of love from the past was like a thorn, and Nian Niang suddenly disappeared. Huo Qingtong heard the door slamming, and ran over to see that Nian Niang had already disappeared with Bao'er in her arms.She was worried that Nian Niang would do something stupid, so she quickly followed her and ran out.

The flame behind him gradually became smaller, and a female gentleman in men's clothing was reflected in the flickering flame heart.She saw Madam with a smile, bowed and said: "Xu Huachao has little talent and learning, thanks to Madam's love."

In the vast night, Huo Qingtong stepped on the night light, followed all the way, and asked where there was someone surnamed Cui.

In the early morning of the next day, she finally found this family in Qian County. Nian Niang was standing outside the door with Bao'er in her arms, staring at the vicious guards outside. It's really your husband, now that the past is gone, why are you so persistent? This is a ridiculous dream after all."

"I have been happy all my life, so what am I afraid of losing? Since he abandoned me and my son to be happy with others, I must ask him why." Even in this peaceful world where ghosts and ghosts are reborn, she wants to fight for the last Dignity, face to face questioning.

"Benefactor, please do me one last thing." She turned quietly, passed Bao'er numbly, and said, "Let Bao'er go to the ground first! After I finish this last thing, we will Get out of here with you."

The author has something to say: unit plot, one sentence: believe me this is a lily story.

Thanks for a half-section of mine ~ Sorry forgot to time it

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