[Baiyutang] Wind-dried clothes

A rustle of sand and sand leaked in from the cracks in the planks, splashing onto Lu Caishu's face, choking her so much that she couldn't even breathe.I don't know how long it took, the turbid stench was like a shroud wrapped around it, and Lu Caichun felt like she was put into a pig cage and sank into a cesspit.She didn't dare to take a deep breath, only dared to take a shallow breath and exhale slowly.

The sound of soil being sprinkled on the coffin gradually died down, and the surroundings fell into dead silence and darkness. For a moment, she felt that her ears became extraordinarily sensitive, and she could hear air bubbles under the skin of the corpses around her, and earthworms wriggling in the soil.

Some remorse arose in her heart, but she let herself get rid of it in an instant, and said in her heart: Since she promised Bi Tao to find her sister for her, she shouldn't feel sorry for herself when things come to an end.Thinking that the ghost face should go far away, she stared at the invisible coffin lid, tried her best to lift up her bound hands, the moving hand took the immovable one, and bumped into the coffin one after another, making a "duk tuk" sound. The sound, hoping that passers-by will hear it.

I also felt that the passers-by heard it, and they only thought that the body had come back to life. They had already frightened their hearts with fifteen buckets to fetch water, and they were up and down, how could they come to rescue her?Thinking of this, her heart became cold again.For a while, she regretted that she didn't learn some internal skills from her uncle. If she had internal skills, it would be so difficult for her to split the coffin with one palm.In the end, she felt that she should not only think about blaming herself, but should think about something useful, such as the person who dragged Qian An into the attic, the ghost face, and the Mei family who used incense... But she then thought about how she really deserved this The coffin was smothered to death by the mud, and it was useless to figure out why.

Lu Caichun finally couldn't help crying, her crying was choked, as if she swallowed the egg yolk in one gulp, choked it in her throat, her chest heaved.She said in her heart that she didn't miss anything, even if she died, she shouldn't be so uncomfortable, why was she still so scared.She hit the coffin with her hands, cried unconsciously, and guessed in her heart how people would react if they couldn't find her.That little girl Bi Tao will definitely cry - will she cry herself?Just crying for her sister who didn't come back.Ding Meng and Zhan Zhao get along with him day by day, and he doesn't like to see him very much. The friendship is not deep, so I'm afraid he will just sigh; will Gongsun Ce laugh at her for being overconfident... The uncle will be anxious, he should reflect I shouldn't have left her behind when I was in Songjiang Mansion... If my uncle knew that Bai Yutang brought her out, would he cause trouble for him?

——And Bai Yutang, she thought to herself, she shouldn't have gone to him.It would be fine if he didn't know that he had entered the Pang Mansion, but if he knew, he must come to find him.If he couldn't find himself, he might feel sad and blame himself for a while.It would be fine for her to die herself, why should she make others suffer?

Thinking of this, Lu Caichun cried so much that he was about to choke and faint.

The blood on her wrist should have stopped, she had nothing to bleed after so much bleeding.The hand bumping against the coffin was already swollen and painful, and I don't know if another layer of skin was rubbed off.The dizziness came up along the spine again, like an arrow, rushing into the head, trying to shoot through the sky.She also tilted her neck and passed out completely.

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When Bai Yutang lifted the lid of the coffin, he saw such a scene.Lu Caichun's hands and feet were bound, his face was crooked, half of the swollen corpse was pressed under him, and he passed out in the coffin.His whole body was covered in plaster and blood, his mouth was stuffed with sackcloth, his hair was loose, the bruises on his neck were pinched, and the most appalling thing was his hands, dripping with blood, and the tattered lotus-colored skirt was also stained with blood.

He didn't bother to care that the sand would stain his clothes, so he jumped straight into the pit, stepped on the gap beside the pale woman's body, rolled up his sleeves, bowed his waist, first pulled out the sackcloth from her mouth, and then drew out the dagger to cut her hand He tied the rope on her feet, put her hands under her back, lifted her up, and grabbed her arm with one hand, but found that her arm was weak and weak.He moved his hand along, touched the shoulder joint, and found that someone had dislodged the joint. He was startled in his heart, held the upper arm of the dislocated arm, pressed and pushed, and connected her arm, and finally caught her. He put his hand around his shoulder, and wrapped one hand around her waist through the girdle, half dragging and half hugging her and jumped out of the grave.

As soon as the strength in his hand was loosened, Lu Caishu slid softly to the ground like a puddle of mud.Bai Yutang also lifted the hem of his clothes, squatted down, and put his thumb to pinch her.

After about half a cup of tea, Lu Caishu finally woke up in a trance.At the first sentence, he muttered: "Why is the hall in the underworld as bright as the Crystal Palace?"

Bai Yutang asked back: "Is Lord Yan still born like your Fifth Brother?"

When Lu Caichun saw Bai Yutang suddenly, her tears welled up as much as the flood that broke the embankment. She sobbed and sobbed, covering her face with her hands, and said vaguely: "The smell outside...but... ...fucking...it smells good."

Bai Yutang pulled her wrist, said: "Isn't it refreshing to stain the wound with salt water?" As he spoke, he tore off a piece of his clothes, and went to wrap the hideous wound on her wrist.

Lu Caichun struggled to sit up, rolled on the edge of life and death, lost his sanity, cried for a while, stunned for a while, laughed for a while, opened his angry eyes again, and cursed: "That set of ghost faces Beasts, beasts in human skin! The eighteen generations of his ancestors should be stuffed into the grave!" Fu sighed again: "After tossing around for most of the night, I still don't know where Bi Liu is." Fu wrinkled his nose again Said: "Buddhas say that a person dies but a stinky skin—or it really stinks like hell."

Bai Yutang said: "It must be very uncomfortable to have so many words blocked in the throat by the linen."

As if finally seeing him, Lu Caichun asked, "Fifth brother, how did you find me?"

Bai Yutang snorted coldly, and threw a piece of lotus root-colored silk cloth in his hands, the color of the character "阝" drawn in blood on it had turned crimson black.

Lu Caichun stared at the cloth for a long time, and sighed leisurely as if in a lifetime.Recalling something, she suddenly realized something, and shouted: "I suddenly thought of something!"

Bai Yutang sneered, "What do you think of? When we ask people to bury them next time, we have to order them to cover the coffin with a little more soil?"

Lu Caichun ignored his ridicule, she said to herself: "The villain wearing a ghost mask said before that he walked in a hurry last night because it was raining, so he didn't cover the coffin with soil. I think he came here the night before. Who did he bury—Fifth Brother, go and see who he buried!"

Bai Yutang is a person who loves cleanliness, and he doesn't touch dirty things unless he has to. Hearing what Lu Caishu said, he couldn't help turning his face to the side and took a deep breath. He really didn't want to go down into the pit again and endure the stench of corpses.

Seeing him not moving for a while, Lu Caichun knew that he didn't want to, so she thought about struggling to have a look. Because her hand was badly injured, she bent her elbows to support her body, and slowly moved towards the edge of the grave.Bai Yutang stared at her for a while, and could only sigh: "I'm really afraid of you." Then, he stood up, jumped into the coffin, covered his mouth and nose with one hand, picked up the swollen female corpse with the other, and jumped out of the pit, Putting the corpse in front of Lu Caishu, he said, "You want to see it."

Seeing this, Lu Caichun was overjoyed, and thanked him repeatedly: "Fifth brother, you are really a very good person."

Bai Yutang snorted softly, but did not answer her.

Lu Caichun lowered his head, suppressing his nausea, and looked at the female corpse lying on the ground.The female corpse's eyes were wide open, her lips were slightly parted, although she was swollen by the rain, her face was still blue with blood spots, and there was a bruise on her neck, obviously someone strangled her neck with a rope or silk cloth. Caused death by suffocation.

And a rope made of colored threads was exposed at her neck, Lu Caichun quickly hooked it with his fingers, pulled it out, and the other end of the rope really brought out a piece of purple water jade carved as a statue of Guanyin.

"This is Bi Liu!" Lu Caichun exclaimed in shock.

Bai Yutang asked: "Bi Liu is that little girl Bi Tao's sister?"

Lu Caichun nodded, no longer pulling the rope and pendant in his hands, but quietly stuffing them back.Looking up at Bai Yutang, Lu Caichun said: "Fifth Brother, you should go back to Kaifeng Mansion to call someone. This is indeed Bi Liu's body. I will guard here to avoid any mistakes."

"Where is the need for my young master to call them?" Bai Yutang denied immediately, he thought to himself, the distance from Anyuanmen to Fengfu is not short, and it takes a lot of time to come and go. At this time, if he was on a business trip again, he was afraid that he would not come back to save her. After all, it would be difficult to explain to Ouyang Chun at that time. He looked around and found that a farmer had already hoeed the fields not far away, so he lowered his head and said to Lu Caichun, " I'll get someone to watch over the corpse, and you wait here." After saying that, he walked quickly towards the farmer.

Hearing that there was a murder nearby, the farmer called some villagers and followed Bai Yutang all the way to the mass grave. When they saw the corpse, they all started talking.Bai Yutang helped Lu Caichun up from the ground, and when Lu Caichun stood still, he cupped his hands and said to everyone: "Please take care of the body first, my sister-in-law and I will go back to Kaifeng Mansion to find an official."

Bai Yutang half dragged and half supported Lu Caichun, and walked half a mile.Lu Caichun's feet were bound all night, and then squeezed into the narrow coffin, curled up for these hours, and he lost too much blood, he had already lost his strength, and when his two legs stood on the ground, they shook like sifting chaff.Seeing her like this, Bai Yutang still gritted his teeth and walked on, so he sighed and said, "I'll carry you on my back, I'll carry you into the city first, and then I'll rent another carriage to go back to the Kaifeng government office."

I thought that Lu Caichun would give way for a while, but she responded immediately: "Fifth brother is really a kind person! I'm not welcome!"

Helping her stand on a rock, Bai Yutang slightly bowed his back to her, Lu Caishu lightly jumped forward, threw himself on his back, and wrapped his arms around his neck.Bai Yutang twisted his arms, wrapped her legs through the skirt of her skirt, and walked towards the city gate.

Lu Caishu's hair was torn apart by the ghost face earlier and had not been tied up. Now it flows down her back and hangs down to Bai Yutang's jaw.She is light and soft, Bai Yutang can carry her effortlessly, but this hair is really disturbing, so he ordered: "Put your hair up."

Lu Caishu stretched out her hand to hold the hanging black hair as she said, and smelled the rosin on his clothes with her nose, feeling at ease, leaned on his back, and began to think.

Seeing that she didn't speak for a while, Bai Yutang asked, "How did you get to that point? Let me listen to the story, so that it can be used as a joke after dinner."

Lu Caichun spit: "You know how to make fun of me!" After spitting, she still told him how she got into Pang's mansion, how she got the news from Lord Pang Xiaohou, how she met Qian An and was dragged into the broken pavilion, How can he be caught by the ghost face, relying on his quick wit to leave a mark, and lead Bai Yutang all the way to find the random graveyard.

Hearing Pang Jiong's words, Bai Yutang was furious and funny at the same time, he said: "Next time you meet such a wanderer, just greet him with your fists - and listen to his instructions! It's really laughable when you tell it. others."

Lu Caichun said: "Didn't he open a warehouse for the refugees to release food? I thought he was a kind person, so I was polite to him."

After listening to Lu Caichun finished speaking, Bai Yutang pondered and said: "This ghost-masked man probably has something to do with the Pang Mansion. He made two moves, one was to bury Bi Liu, and the other was because you saw through Qian An's matter, and he came to clean up the insiders—this Both matters are inseparably related to the Pang Mansion."

Lu Caichun nodded: "Fifth Brother is right. Master Bao will pay more attention when he finds out."

Bai Yutang carried Lu Caishu on his back and walked through the city gate. It was not long after sunrise, the morning air was cool, and the sellers of powder soup and sesame seed cakes who got up early were already walking down the street yelling.

The peddler carrying the cakes passed by them, and the smell of burning was overflowing.Lu Caichun's stomach gurgled twice, imitating the pigeon.After breakfast yesterday, she spent the whole day looking for Bi Liu in Pang's mansion, and all she ate was a Poria cocos cake fed by Pang Jiong. Back, but just escaped the danger without realizing it, now smelling the aroma of cooking cakes, hunger came to the surface.

Bai Yutang sensed it and chuckled lightly.Lu Caichun was embarrassed, coughed, and said: "From the time when the cock crows to now, I don't believe you are not hungry either!"

Bai Yutang said, "I'm really not hungry—then let's continue walking."

Lu Caichun knew that he was angry with himself, so he could not help but "hum" heavily.Bai Yutang turned around with her back on his back, called the peddler and said, "Here's a pancake."

After paying the copper coin, Lu Caishu pinched the pancake with greaseproof paper on his bloody hand, brought it to his mouth, and asked, "Fifth brother, do you want to eat?" At the end, he hurriedly added, "Can you eat it?" Don't finish it for me."

Bai Yutang was amused by her, and said: "There is Huang's shop near the yamen of Kaifeng Prefecture that serves Yunying noodles, there is a hawker selling crispy Qiong Ye in the east of the city, and fried ring cakes in fragrant oil in the north of the city, there are early shops within a few steps, I am greedy." Your cooking cake?"

Lu Caichun stared at the pancake in his hand, and said softly: "If you say that, the pancake in my hand will not taste good anymore."

"Hurry up and eat, be careful not to chew when it's cold."

Hearing his urging, Lu Caichun carefully put the pancake into his mouth, bit off a piece, and hot air came out of the pouch.She wrapped one arm around Bai Yutang, held the pancake with the other hand, chewed the pancake dryly in her mouth, and swallowed it with difficulty and quickly.

When they arrived in the city, they rented chariots and horses, and the two went to Kaifeng Mansion.