Subversion of the plot [Comprehensive]

Although Hehua Lane is inconspicuous, but because it is close to the Imperial College and there are many students living there, its value has increased.Tonight is the ghost festival, every household in other places burns sacrifices, only this alley is quiet, and occasionally a gleam of fire can be seen.

Liu Yuchun's rented house was in the back, a small courtyard with only six rooms.

In the past, there were only Liu Yuchun and Shutong Shi Mo, the place was very spacious, and it was very comfortable to invite two or three friends to get together.Now Li Jia took Du Shiniang to stay overnight, including Li Jia's Shutong Yantai, and Cheng Ping'an, and there were four more people at once.The main room was Liu Yuchun's bedroom and study, so Li Jia and Du Shiniang were placed in the east room, and they lived safely in the room next to each other. There was a kitchen on the right, because it had never been used, and it only boiled water to store sundries, and there was another room. It is made of graphite, and now the inkstone is squeezed into a bed with graphite.

Li Jia has decided to take Du Shiniang back to his hometown to report to his parents, so he will leave in two or three days.

The night was getting dark, Liu Yuchun and the two bookboys went to bed early, only Du Shiniang and Ping An squatted in front of the door burning paper, and Li Jia accompanied them.

It is inevitable to be sad to burn paper for the ancestors.

Du Shiniang recalled that there were great changes in her family, her parents and relatives were gone, and she was living in the capital again. She hadn't returned to her hometown for more than ten years. Every New Year's day when other people reunited with her family, she could only cover her wounds secretly, with a smile on her face. Hospitality.Fortunately, now I have to meet Li Jia, who has a gentle temperament, not only has her heart on her, but is willing to redeem her body and marry her as his wife.

Worry once, joy once, burn paper while weeping.

Li Jia helped her up, and persuaded her, "Don't be sad, Shi Niang, she's already passed away. It's windy outside at night, go back and rest."

Ping An on the side also said: "Shi Niang went in with the young master first, I watched the fire go out before going to sleep, lest the sparks be blown to other places by the wind, and it would be bad if it burned."

"It's late at night, it's not safe for you to be alone, hurry up and follow me." Du Shiniang ordered a few words before entering the room with Li Jia.

Seeing the two people leave, Ping An took out all the paper money and red clothes left in the basket, slowly put them on the fire and burned them, saying, "Cheng Yuniang, these are for you. Your body is forced to do so, but you have no loss. You died when I came. From now on, I will burn paper for you on every day of offering sacrifices. If there is an afterlife, I hope you will have a good birth and grow up safe and healthy. Big, forever."

A gust of wind blew, and the flames swayed slowly.

Ping An suddenly felt cold, so he used a stick to sweep all the unburned paper money into the groove made with a few bricks to make sure that the flames would not fly out, and then he picked up the basket and got up.

"Cheng Anan...Cheng Anan..."

Just as he was about to close the door, he vaguely heard someone calling his name. He was stunned for a moment, and then shocked.Cheng An'an was her previous name. Since she came here, she has been called Cheng Ping'an. How could someone be called "Cheng An'an"?

He listened again, but there was silence.

Pingan frowned, closed the door immediately, lowered the latch, checked again, and then hurried back to the room.As soon as he reached the door, another call came from behind him.

"Cheng An'an." This time the voice was very clear, it was the voice of a young woman.

"Who?!" Ping An was a little annoyed, and suddenly looked back, but there was no one in the yard except her.Everyone else was asleep, only Li Jia and Shiniang's room had a faint light shining through.

At this time, Shi Niang asked in the house: "Ping An, what are you talking about?"

Pingan felt a little uneasy in his heart, and hurriedly replied: "It's nothing, I said I'm going to sleep, so Shi Niang should take a rest too."

Ten Niang responded, and then the candles in the room went out.

Ping An also hurried into the room, closed the door tightly, lit the candles in the room, stared at the door, and waited sternly.Someone called in the middle of the night. In her previous life, she must have thought it was a prank, but who would deliberately tease her now?July is the ghost month, there are many taboos, the ancients were superstitious, it is even more impossible to do such a thing, not to mention that in this yard, apart from her, only Shi Niang is a woman.

That voice was not Shi Niang at all, on the contrary, it was a little familiar, and that familiarity made her feel chills all over her body.

After staring at her for a long time, just when she thought everything was as usual, she suddenly heard a low sobbing sound, followed by another cold voice asking viciously: "How dare you snatch my daughter's body? Give her body back!"

Ping An was horrified, and hurriedly followed the sound and looked towards the dark corner of the room, only to find that there were three people standing there silently at some point.These three people were not only dressed in messy clothes, but also had a large scar on their foreheads, and blood was continuously flowing out, flowing over their facial features, staining their clothes, and splashing down on their feet.

"You, who are you! What do you want to do!" Ping An spoke harshly, but it was a bluff, and he was already terrified in his heart.In fact, she knew the identities of these three people as soon as the words came out of her mouth, because one of the youngest women, even though her facial features were stained with blood, could still be seen. Cheng Yuniang!

Cheng Yuniang is dead, together with her mother and sister-in-law, she has been dead for three years!

Pingan sat down on the edge of the bed, trembling his lips, it was a mistake.She asked herself that she had never done anything wrong to others in her life, but now she robbed someone else's body, even if there was a reason for the incident, she was still short of breath when facing the right lord.

If she said to return her body, she was unwilling.

God gave her a chance to do heavy work, but she couldn't give it up graciously.

"Cheng Yuniang died a long time ago, I didn't murder him." She tried her best to calm down and tried to negotiate with the three ghosts. After all, she couldn't escape. If she remained weak and timid, she might die tonight.

She doesn't want to die, she wants to live, she wants to get married and have children, and live her life in peace.

"That's my daughter's body!" Cheng's mother gritted her teeth and gritted her teeth because of her distorted face and the appearance of a tragic death.Cheng's mother didn't listen to Ping'an's words at all, and rushed forward yelling, trying to drag Ping'an out of her body.

"Ah!" Ping An exclaimed, instinctively rolling and dodging.

"Your body is back!" Mrs. Cheng also rushed forward.

Ping'an was startled and frightened, there was no way he could hide from the two ghosts, they were about to pounce on them, hugging their heads and curling up together, shouting loudly.After a while, her body seemed to be fine. She opened her eyes cautiously, and saw the two gloomy faces of Cheng's mother and Cheng's sister-in-law, close at hand, almost sticking to her face.

This time Ping An was so frightened that he didn't even make a sound.

Cheng's mother and the two quickly backed away. Cheng's mother waved to her daughter who had been standing there, and raised her hand to point to Pingan: "Yu Niang, upper body."

Although Cheng's mother couldn't pull out Ping'an's soul for some reason, she was able to get Cheng Yuniang on her body.

After two or three years in the underworld, Cheng's mother also heard all kinds of experiences from some ghost people. Some ghosts said that if they want to return to the sun, their body is the best. According to the legend, those who resurrected not long after death are Got all kinds of opportunities to return to Yang.Cheng's mother thought that Ping'an's soul could not be dragged out, but it would not be difficult for her daughter to enter her own body, and then just push out the Ping'an's soul.

Cheng Yuniang swayed over, looked at the terrified Ping An, and cried timidly: "Sister, don't blame Yuniang, Yuniang doesn't want to die, and Yuniang still wants to see her father."

As he spoke, Hun'er turned into a puff of smoke and submerged into Ping'an's body in an instant.

Immediately, Pingan felt different, as if the whole person was imprisoned, able to see and hear, but unable to speak or act, like a bystander, completely lost control of the body.Pingan was terrified. If this is the case in the future, wouldn't life be worse than death?

At this time, Cheng Yuniang was happy, moved her hands and feet, confirmed that she had really come back to life, and hurriedly announced the good news to her mother and sister-in-law: "Mother, sister-in-law, it's me, I am Yuniang, I really came back to life!"

Cheng's mother wept with joy.

The sister-in-law was both sad and happy, and said to Cheng Yuniang: "Yu Niang, if you meet your brother in the future, don't talk about the prison. If our family is rehabilitated in the future, let your brother marry a good wife, and don't forget it during the holidays." Burn me a piece of paper and let me know how he's doing."

Cheng's mother also looked sad when she heard the words. Prison is not a place for women, especially some pretty women.The three mothers of Cheng committed suicide, one was because of being in the Jiaofang Secretary, and the other was the abuse suffered in the prison.Cheng's mother was old and sick, no one touched her, Yuniang was still young, she was a virgin, and she wanted to sell it for a good price, those people dared not touch her, so they picked up the idea of ​​the young and beautiful sister-in-law Cheng.Sister-in-law Cheng couldn't avoid it, and finally she couldn't bear it anymore, so she hit the wall and died.

Cheng Yuniang was only ten years old when she died, and she was timid and submissive. When she saw her mother and sister-in-law like this, she cried too, and said: "Sister-in-law and mother should not go back to the underworld. We are together, and then we can reunite with our parents and brothers." .”

Mother Cheng shook her head: "Silly Yu Niang, how can a dead person stay in the world? As soon as tomorrow comes, the ghost gate will be closed. At that time, the ghost guards will check the register, and arrest anyone who stays in the world. We are not like you, You have the body to return your yang, even if the ghosts find you, they can’t hide, but we can’t hide, if you catch it back, you will be punished, I’m afraid that when your yang life is over, we haven’t been reincarnated yet.”

"I, I don't want to be alone, I'm afraid." Yuniang kept crying, full of hesitation.

At this time, Ping An was stunned.

Hades?Hell?Ghost?

Suddenly, she remembered the paper store she went to during the day. The owner of the store had reminded her, but she didn't care. How could she know...

At this time, Tao Shuobai, who was remembered by Cheng Pingan, missed the trip due to an accident.

Tao Shuobai took Zhu Changshu out the door, the street was deserted and deserted, and occasionally one or two red lanterns were lit by the side of the road, the air was full of the smell of burning paper, and sometimes the night wind would blow black ashes, and only the sound of to the sound of a person's footsteps.

Zhu Changshu looked at Tao Shuobai from time to time, from head to foot, from foot to head, and looked behind him from time to time to confirm that there was indeed a shadow.All the way down, he only heard his own footsteps, but the people beside him seemed to be floating in the air, without any sound at all.

I remember that when I first arrived at the paper goods store in the daytime, after setting up the guest room, the guard Li Chang once said to him: "This paper goods store is weird. From the shopkeeper Mu Shu, to his son Mu Shan, Mu Aunt, and that Yue Niang, they are all masters. The subordinates can't see their cultivation, but from the aura they reveal, they are definitely superior to the subordinates."

The four puppets of the Foundation Establishment Period would not look very different among mortals, but would only be mistaken for masters of the hidden world, especially during the prosperous period of the Ming Dynasty.

Li Changben tried to persuade Zhu Changshu to stay here, but Zhu Changshu was determined.

Li Chang didn't say anything else, the four shopkeepers are so powerful, could Tao Shuobai, the boss, be an ordinary person?Li Chang observed carefully, Tao Shuobai had a calm and natural aura, just like an ordinary person, but his steps were light, and he landed silently, as if he had practiced kung fu to the extreme, returning to the basics.

Zhu Changshu seems cynical, but in fact he is shrewd in the city, otherwise how could he live so happily under the eyes of Concubine Zheng.He naturally saw the difference between Tao Shuobai, but so what?Tao Shuobai didn't have any malice towards him, it just so happened that this store was so interesting, he couldn't bear to leave.

"Do you accept disciples?" Zhu Changshu asked suddenly.

But Tao Shuobai remembered what Su Yi said that he wanted to learn from him, so he pursed his lips and restrained the corners of his mouth from rising.

"Your bones are already hardened, it's too late to learn martial arts." Tao Shuobai unceremoniously punctured his extravagant hopes.

"It's not too late, not too late, I'm only seventeen. I have perseverance and the determination to endure hardships. If I fail to study in one or two years, if I fail in five or ten years, I still have a lifetime." Zhu Changshu said half-truthfully.

Tao Shuobai couldn't see his careful thinking, and was about to provoke him with a few words, when he suddenly smelled the burst of hostility, and his expression paused.After counting her fingers, she was vaguely involved with Zhu Changshu.