Envy

Meng Tou and the others figured out the way when they came during the day.Huo Zhi walked ahead, exploring the way by the moonlight.Three people followed closely behind.The Zhou Mansion is overcast at night, the path is covered with dead leaves, and people's feet will make a crisp sound when they step on it.There is a picture of two dragons playing with pearls carved on the stone wall. The moonlight shines on it, and the longan's eyes stand out, which is shocking.

They walked from the vestibule to the back porch, but did not find any movement. When they approached the courtyard, the bell around Xue Ye's waist rang.There is a well in the courtyard, and the sill of the well is covered with moss.There is a mass of cloudy air floating above the mouth of the well.

Meng Xi saw it for real, and was terrified and grabbed his elder brother's sleeve.Meng Tou stretched out his arms to protect her behind him.

Xue Ye walked to the well with his sword in hand, and looked towards the bottom of the well.He suddenly widened his eyes and took two steps back.

Meng Xi's voice trembled a little: "Brother Xue, did you see anything? Is...is there a wild spirit?"

Xue Ye's voice was calm: "There are indeed ghosts, but they are just a few small wild spirits." He took out the yellow talisman from his pocket, closed his eyes and chanted in a low voice, and the yellow talisman caught on his fingertips instantly ignited.

Huo Zhi said: "Wait a minute, you release the ghosts in the well first, and it won't be too late to see what kind of ghosts they are."

Xue Ye said "Oh", and he summoned his sword and stabbed into the well.After the sword hung straight into the well, there was a loud noise, a blue light suddenly appeared, the sword was bounced out, and he took the sword back in his hand.

The seal covering the well was broken.Three Yin spirits rushed out of the well one after another, and quickly crawled towards the depths of the forest.Huo Zhi's quick eyesight and quick hands stopped the ghosts.

Huo Zhi went around to them, took a closer look, and then said to Meng Tou, "It's Shui Ze, that's right."

Xue Ye sat down on the sill of the well: "So much water is sealed in the well, no wonder everyone in the Zhou family's yard has corpse spots. It turns out that they drank the well water."

Meng Xi hid behind his elder brother, and dared not look with his eyes closed. Now he secretly opened one eye, and saw the blue wild spirit, and moved a little closer to Meng Tou.

Huo Zhi asked: "Are you from the Zhou family?"

Several wild spirits were dressed as maids, and one wild spirit spoke with a delicate and crisp voice: "We are the maids in the room of the second young master of the Zhou family. We are all people with hard lives. Please do me a favor, sir. let's go."

Meng Xi asked Meng Tou softly, "Brother, can Yin Ling still talk?"

Meng Tou tilted his head, looked at the wild spirit, and explained to his sister: "Ordinary ghosts can't speak. But wild spirits with strong resentment like Meigu, Shui Ze, and Yuan Ling will have memories of the current world. They can also talk. Like these ones, they are all Mizusawa. Most Mizusawa died by drowning in water.”

Meng Xi said "Oh", nodded, and asked again: "What is that Meigu? The name is very nice."

"...Mei Gu..." Meng Tou said, "Every kid asks so many questions, why do they ask so many questions? If you learn a lot in the future, you will understand."

"You answer my question first, and then we make plans." Huo Zhi asked, "Why did you die, and why were you sealed in the well?"

"We are the second young master's... maidservants." She seemed ashamed to speak, and her words were a little hesitant, "The second young master brought back a woman in red from outside to the house a few days ago, and that girl clearly has no enmity with us. , but harmed a few of us, threw our bodies into the well, and sealed our souls here."

"Did you know that because you were sealed in the well, the Zhou family suffered catastrophe, no one was spared, and even a one-year-old baby had corpse spots on his body?"

She was a little guilty, and her voice was low: "I know. But we were also victimized by others, and we didn't intend to make the Zhou family suffer this crime."

Meng Tou said, "Your young master, are you a womanizer?"

She said meekly: "Yes, the young master likes to look for flowers and ask willows on weekdays."

"Do you know where the girl in red is from, or do you remember her accent?"

"She seems to be... from Xiaoyang, and her accent sounds like Xiaoyang.

"Okay." Meng Tou said, "Huo Zhi, let's save these girls. This life is thin, and I will find a good family in the next life."

After hearing this, Xue Ye got up from the well and walked to Meng Tou's side in three steps at a time: "That's the end? Don't you have anything else to ask, such as what the girl in red looks like and why she wanted to harm the Zhou family?" And the poor second young master of the Zhou family... What's going on with his lifeblood, you have to ask clearly, right?"

Meng Tou said, "No need. Didn't you hear her say just now, does the girl in red look like someone from Xiaoyang?"

"Xiaoyang?"

"Probably Jiang Yi's people. It seems that Mu Cheng still has Jiang Yi's eyeliner. They made such a big commotion in the Zhou family, they just wanted to delay our trip. If the girl in red is really interested, do you think we can still do it?" Get the words out of the mouths of these Yin spirits? She didn't kill the spirits because she expected that even if we guessed who was behind the scenes, we would still stay in Mucheng and wait for seven days to pass before the Zhou family was in danger. .”

Xue Ye was taken aback: "Brother Tou, then we..."

"Of course we want to stay. They've gone to such lengths to make us stay."

……

Meng Tou decided to stay, and their trip back to Mu Su was delayed again.There was nothing they could do in a hurry, so they could only stay for a few more days, patiently waiting for the corpse spots on Zhou's family to fade away.In the next few days, they took turns going to the hospital to check on the condition of Zhou's family members.

That hospital was regarded as unlucky, and patients avoided it.The doctors in the hospital were also complaining, but they were suppressed by the government, so they had to take care of the Zhou family.However, the government did not provide much subsidy, and the medical center suffered serious losses and internal conflicts, and even broken teeth had to be swallowed in the stomach.

Autumn in Mucheng is still rainy and less sunny, Meng Xi never forgets to bring an oiled paper umbrella when going out.She and Huo Zhi came back from the clinic and walked back to the inn along the long street.With nothing to do, Meng Xi was picking out novelty gadgets in front of the stall.

Huo Zhi felt that Meng Xi really had a preference for sweets, a street was about to go out, Meng Xi had already bought three bunches of candied haws and a few packs of sweet-scented osmanthus mung bean cakes, but was not very interested in her daughter's hairpin sachet and other small things.She still has innocence and kindness in her body, and she treats people tenderly and considerately, which is a bit rare.

Meng Xi stuffed the pastry into his hand, and ran to another stall to look around.Huo Zhi was waiting for her, but his eyes were attracted by the calligraphy and painting booth beside him.

The stall owner is a young man dressed in sloppy clothes.He just spread a piece of blue cloth on the ground, placed calligraphy and paintings randomly on it, and lay on his back with a piece of dogtail grass in his mouth.What caught Huo Zhi's attention was a painting hanging on the booth, the edges of the scroll were yellowed and worn.In the painting is a girl in a dark green floral dress, smiling.

Huo Zhi seemed to have been splashed with cold water, he approached, grabbed the scroll at the bottom, and took a closer look at the painting.

When the young man saw someone coming, he lazily propped up half of his body and said with a triumphant smile, "How about it, isn't this painting good? Buy it and hide it at home. I will only charge you this amount." The young man stretched out five fingers.