Jiajing Spiritual Records

Amidst Ning Huan's nagging complaints and urging, Su Xian was finally dragged up reluctantly.Ning Huan stood on one side with his chest full of dissatisfaction, he squinted at Su Xian's face full of anger, and his dark watery eyes almost burst into flames.But Su Xianshu still raised his eyebrows as if he didn't notice, and slowly bent over to look for the boots, and put on the boots, taking half the time it took for him to put on the boots.

He clearly did it on purpose, Ning Huan thought, he squinted his eyes angrily, puffed his cheeks, and didn't know how he offended this ancestor today.

By the casement outside the door, two heads poked out quietly at this time.Ning Siben was still puzzled, how could his young master suddenly fall in love with a man?But when he saw that Mr. Su, who was usually unambiguous even flying over the roof and walls, was now moving slowly like a wounded person, the last struggle in his heart dissipated.

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Ning Si looked at Ning Huan with a broken heart, and he whispered to Ning Xi who was beside him: "Tell me, how did the young master fall in love with a man so well?" His eyes fell on Ning Huan inside the room. Twisting her small face, she remembered something, and suddenly sighed, "It's fine if you like it, and it's nothing to worry about. Master and Madam are dedicated people, and I don't know who this is for."

"Follow the watch master, nephew follow the uncle." Ning Xi subconsciously replied.Under the questioning eyes of the housekeeper, Ning Xi realized that he had missed something just now, and he quickly whispered with a flattering smile, "I... I also listened to the young master."

"Don't learn well!" Ning Si scolded in a low voice, "What does the young master know, he didn't listen to me!"

"Yes, yes." Ning Xi quickly agreed.He lowered his head, but he still felt extremely surprised in his heart.He could remember that when he finished talking about it just now, Steward Ning threatened to kill that "male vixen" with his beard and stares, how could his attitude change so quickly now?

Ning Xi looked into the room with complicated emotions, and after hesitating for a moment, he decided to say something nice for Lord Jin Yiwei.Ning Xi let out a long sigh: "Lord Su is also a poor man, he lost his parents since he was a child, young master, young master, it's really inappropriate for him to do this..."

Ning Si was taken aback when he heard the words. After all, Steward Ning had been instructed by the master all these years, and he confiscated Ning Huan's scriptures. Immediately shook his head sadly: "It's a crime!"

The hibiscus flowers outside the house covered the shadow of the person behind him: "What's the crime?" Ning Si turned his head and looked at the person behind him in astonishment, his expression changed abruptly, he stumbled and said, "Master, master, Why are you here?"

Ning Huan resigned himself to sitting beside Su Xian, his upper body slumped on the bed, he rubbed the quilt with the tip of his nose, and asked in a low voice: "The other courtyard of the palace we went to last time, the Holy Majesty is How are you going to deal with it?"

"Of course it was burned." Su Xian replied.

"It's burning—" Ning Huan stared at the carved mahogany bed curtain on the top, and thought, maybe those memories that were entangled in the white mist had already disappeared with the end of the story of the two of them.

Su Xian glanced at Ning Huan: "You don't think that the emperor will keep that other courtyard after he knows everything?"

"I'm not crazy." Ning Huan replied dissatisfied, he suddenly looked at Su Xian beside him, and asked, "Then just burn it, why have you been busy in the palace for so long?"

"Someone reported to the officials that there were many women's corpses in the mass graves outside the city. My lord Tongzhi was afraid that there might be evil spirits, so he sent me to take a look."

"Ruan Graveyard?" Ning Huan had indeed heard about this matter these days, but there has been no report of the disappearance of the family members of the official's family in the capital recently, so he didn't take it to heart, "Then... is that really evil?"

Su Xian shook his head: "There are so many monsters in the world." He put on the last boot, got up and straightened the folds of his sleeves.He was dressed in a black dress, with tightly tied wristbands, and a belt embroidered with red patterns tightly cinched his waist, making his broad shoulders and narrow waist adorned.He untied the red hair rope that tied the ponytail at the back of his head, and threw it to Ning Huan casually, "Help me tie it up," he said.

Amid Ning Huan's surprised face, Su Xian sat down beside him. "But I don't know how to do it." Ning Huan half-kneeled up, "I was tied up by the maids in the morning, don't you want me to call them in?"

Su Xian's hair was scattered on his waist, he raised his head slightly, his protruding Adam's apple became more and more obvious, he was almost half leaning against Ning Huan's arms, his obsidian eyes seemed to be covered with a veil. There was a thin layer of water mist, and he looked at Ning Huan's slightly flustered face behind him: "No." He opened his lips and said, his slender eyelashes trembling slightly, he half closed his eyes, and relaxed on Ning Huan's face. On Huan's body, he was as obedient as a cat that has been patted down, gently shaking its long fluffy tail and urging the people behind him to hurry up from time to time.

Ning Huan blushed, twisted the hair rope and hesitated for a while, then gently brushed the hair at the back of his head.He is extremely unskilled in doing it, and the soft hair always slips down in tufts and tufts in his hands.

Ning Huan pursed his lips, but he was so focused that even a thin layer of sweat broke out from his palms. "Don't move, it's falling down again!" Ning Huan complained in a low voice.

Su Xian looked at Ning Huan's tangled expression, and suddenly chuckled, he took the hair rope from Ning Huan's hand, and said, "I'll do it myself, Mr. Ning is like this, I don't know when and what month I will be able to get out." door." With the hair tie in his mouth, Su Xian skillfully gathered up the scattered strands of hair behind his head, and tied the hair tie tightly.

"I've said it all, I can't handle it, so you still let me come." Ning Huan replied with a whimper, sneaking behind Su Xian and tugging at his high ponytail.

The afternoon in Ning's house was quiet, Ning Huan was slightly surprised, and before he had time to think about it, he stepped out of the gate of Ning's house together with Su Xian.On the way, I happened to meet a group of people gathered together to watch the fun.There are many restaurants in the bustling capital city, and there are many performers from all over the street.Ning Huan likes to be lively, so when he saw a group of people gathered around, he also joined in.

Ning Huan squeezed into the front row, and saw a wooden sign erected in the center of the crowd, with the words "Beauty Snake" written in black paint on it, several strong men eight feet tall were guarding the side of a rectangular iron box superior.

"Beautiful snake?" Ning Huan widened his eyes curiously. Could it be a snake as tall as a human?Seeing that Ning Huan's eyes were filled with only the "beautiful snake" in front of him, Su Xian could only curl his lips helplessly, "Aren't you listening to the new storyteller?" Su Xian asked angrily.

Ning Huan's eyes were staring at the iron box without blinking, and he said without turning his head when he heard the words: "Don't worry, it's still early before dark, Mr. Storyteller won't be able to leave for a while. Besides, today No way, let’s go tomorrow!”

Su Xian twitched the corners of his mouth, not knowing who the person who was anxiously going to listen to the book was just now.But Ning Huan said so, Su Xian had no choice but to give up.

What kind of beautiful snake, Su Xian probably was just a gimmick, maybe it was just a strange snake with a pattern like a human face, he stared at the word "beautiful snake" on the wooden sign, snorted, his heart was dark pondered.

After the sound of gongs and drums, an old man came to the middle of the crowd: "This is a snake with a human head and a beautiful woman's body that I bought from the Western Regions with a lot of money. If you have money, you can buy it for money, and if you don't, you can buy it for yourself." Everyone cheered, Ning Huan excitedly tugged at Suxian's sleeve: "Human head and snake body, is there such a thing as a beautiful snake in the world?"

Su Xian frowned: "Where did the beautiful snake come from, it's just pretending to be a ghost."

Several strong men spread out, revealing the faded black-painted iron box behind them.The side of the iron box is firmly locked with a finger-thick iron chain, and a half-inch-long gap is used to vent the living creatures inside. The boxy shape looks like an iron coffin .

At this time, the old man walked over and opened the iron box.

Through the half-inch gap, Ning Huan saw the face behind the iron box.Under her loose long hair revealed a bloodless face, the whole person was like shriveled human skin hanging on a human skeleton.Her eyes seemed to have been gouged out, and there were two dark red bloodstains under those black eye frames. She had no pupils, but at that moment, Ning Huan felt that gloomy gaze, bypassing the noisy voices. Looking straight at himself from the hustle and bustle of the street.

Su Xian beside him gave a "tsk", and Ning Huan suddenly looked away, and the cold gaze just now disappeared.In front of him, the old man had opened the lid of the iron box at some point, and a pungent rancid smell wafted into the air.The old man picked up the iron box with a wooden stick, and saw a disheveled woman slowly crawling out of the iron box.She lowered her head and couldn't see her face clearly. Her upper body was dressed in rags, but her lower body was wrapped in a piece of inferior snake skin, imitating the crawling movements of snakes, but her behavior was more like a wriggling giant insect.

That appearance is clearly disguised by a human being, where is there such a beautiful snake with a human body and a snake tail.It's just that there are a group of strong men around, and no one dared to raise any objections, so many people were amazed and threw out a lot of rewards.

Ning Huan frowned, pursed his lips and looked at Su Xian.

"It's really brave to pretend to be a ghost in the capital under the blue sky and white sun." Su Xian didn't wear an official uniform today, and he looked like a young man, but his cold voice was a bit coercive, attracting people around The sound stopped.

The old man was obviously a little upset, he looked at Su Xian in the crowd and said, "You... why do you think I'm pretending to be a ghost?"

Su Xian sneered, and replied: "How can you be a beautiful snake by wearing snake skin?"

As soon as the old man's face changed, he stepped forward and grabbed Su Xian by the collar: "I think you're here to make a mess!" Su Xian dodged, and the old man was in vain. "I think you are toasting and not eating fine wine." He waved his hand in embarrassment, and several big men around surrounded him.Su Xian glanced at the crowd indifferently, lowered his eyes and sneered softly, and in the blink of an eye, all the people who came up fell down.

"What's the matter! What's the matter!" A group of patrolling officers and soldiers came over upon hearing the sound.Seeing this, the old man hurried forward, the villain first complained and knelt down on the ground with a "plop", almost crying: "Master, we are doing business well, but some people beat people in the street, this...is there any king in this capital?" Is it okay?" As he spoke, he took out a piece of silver from his cuff and stuffed it into the hands of the officer leader, "You take these as money for wine and meat."

The leader of the officers and soldiers frowned, hesitated for a moment but didn't accept it immediately, he walked to Su Xian's side: "You were the one who beat someone?"

"It's me." Su Xian replied.

The leader of the officer and soldier was startled when he looked at the person in front of him, and suddenly changed his face, "Su...Master Su." He hurriedly saluted Su Xian, "Master Su, why are you free today?" It's coming from the street." The leader of the officers and soldiers broke out in cold sweat on his forehead, secretly lucky not to accept the fatal silver.

Su Xian didn't respond, he raised his eyes and glanced at Ning Huan beside him, but saw that Ning Huan had been staring at the "beauty snake" in the cage in a daze, he curled his lips in frustration, this kid Fortunately, letting myself fight is not ambiguous at all, and I don't worry about myself.

As soon as Su Xian was angry, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Why do I have to report to you when I go to the street on a holiday?"

"Where to say, what to say, how dare I." The officer and soldier leader didn't understand how he had offended the Lord Jinyiwei Town Fushi today, so he had to apologize repeatedly.

Su Xian raised his chin in the direction of the old man: "These people were cheated and abducted in the street, and I exposed it. There was a girl locked in the black box. Her hands and feet showed signs of restraint, which was similar to that of a few female corpses left in a random graveyard outside the city." You might as well ask Mr. Li to look it up." Suxian replied casually.

Hearing that there was a good opportunity to make meritorious service, the chief of the officers and soldiers quickly nodded and said yes, and those big men were restrained by the rest of the officers and soldiers. He cried bitterly: "My lord, my lord is wronged, we really have nothing to do with the female corpse in the capital's random graveyard."

The leader of the officers and soldiers frowned, waved his hand impatiently, and then those people were taken away.The crowd of onlookers dispersed, and Su Xian ordered the woman to be released from the cage first.The snake skin was indeed worn under her body, but she had been locked in the black box for a long time, and the woman didn't seem to be able to walk after taking off the snake skin.

"Lord Su, don't worry, I will definitely settle down this girl." The officer leader replied.

At this time, the woman raised her head suddenly, and under the disheveled hair, her face was quite clean and fair. She was only seventeen or eighteen years old, and her eyebrows and eyes were beautiful. "Beauty Snake".Her voice was extremely hoarse, as if she hadn't spoken for a long time: "You...are Su Jinxin's son?"

Su Xian suddenly raised his head in astonishment, and looked at the woman with slightly widened eyes.After a while, the woman chuckled and said with a hint of sorrow in her voice, "I am Zhao Wanniang."

Su Xian was also obviously taken aback: "You...are Zhao Wanniang?" With a blank look on his face, he stepped forward one step at a time, knelt down slowly with a little stiffness, and stared at her carefully with his eyes motionless. s face.The hands hanging on both sides clenched into fists, and his tone was extremely light and slow, as if he was trying to suppress the turbulent waves surging in his eyes, and asked, "Wanniang, why are you here? You are here, what about my parents?"

Ning Huan was taken aback when he heard the words, this girl Su Xian who looked no more than seventeen or eighteen actually called him Wan Niang.

Zhao Wanniang lowered her head, "Your parents..." She sighed softly: "Ahem!" Before she could speak halfway, a mouthful of blood suddenly spit out from her mouth, her face turned pale, and her body was covered with blood. The traces left by the whiplash, even gasping for breath in the weak words seemed to be struggling.

Blood stains splashed onto Su Xian's trouser legs, but his dark obsidian-like eyes kept staring at Zhao Wanniang's face without any response, he gritted his teeth and asked again, "Where are my parents?"

Ning Huan frowned, hesitated for a moment and stepped forward, he gently tugged on La Suxian's sleeve, and said carefully, "This girl can't take it anymore, if you have anything to ask, find her first." Come and see the doctor."

Ning Huan lowered his eyes, was slightly startled, and found that Su Xian's hands were trembling.His drooping eyelashes remained motionless, and there was a sense of bewilderment in his dark and quiet eyes.Ning Huan frowned slightly, squatted down, and gently turned his face.The two looked at each other, "Su Xian." Ning Huan called his name.

Su Xian was overwhelmed, the focus gradually recovered in the empty pupils, and Su Xian murmured: "Ning Huan, Zhao Wanniang is still alive, does this mean that my parents are still alive! I..."

Ning Huan's hand hurt a little from being pulled by Su Xian: "Then you leave me alone, that girl is going to die, so where do you go to ask your parents whereabouts?" It was the first time Ning Huan saw Su Xian's touching face. There was inevitably a trace of panic in his heart, he calmed down, called the bearer, put Wanniang on the sedan chair and sent her directly to Su's mansion, and asked someone to call the doctor.

Before Suxian left, Fu turned around and said to Ning Huan: "The storyteller from Wenxianlou can only go with you another day, this Zhao Wanniang..." His voice paused slightly, hesitant to speak.The light-colored pupils were reflected in the sunlight, and there was a trace of complicated expression, "That Zhao Wanniang, I have something important to ask her."

Ning Huan nodded: "I'm fine, you can go back." Su Xian didn't want to tell him, so he naturally didn't go to ask more.

The crowd around had dispersed, and Ning Huan looked at the dark iron box again and again with deep thoughts. Who was that pale woman's face he saw just now?

After Suxian left, Ning Huan pondered for a while, and caught up with the officer leader just now. He glanced at the old man behind him, took out a bank note from his pocket, and handed it to him, smiling: "I have a few words to ask these people, could you be more accommodating?"

The chief of the officers and soldiers was taken aback for a moment, and recognized that this was the son of the servant of the Ministry of Rites, and quickly let out a way in a good voice: "Mr. Ning, let's talk about it."

Ning Huan looked at the old man and asked, "The girl in the black box just now..."

Ning Huan's words came to an end, the old man quickly knelt down, and argued: "My lord, I bought that girl from Ren Yazi a month ago, I... I really don't know anything. "

Seeing that the old man looked ignorant, Ning Huan couldn't ask any questions, so he gave up.Ning Huan was silent for a while, then asked again: "Which girl was only locked in that black box just now?"

The old man nodded again and again: "This is the only one. To tell you the truth, I was really unlucky. I wanted to buy a few girls from Ren Yazi to perform, but I didn't pay attention to them and they all ran away. Only this one who can't walk is left. There is no other way but to make it a 'beautiful snake'."

At this time, the Yacha also echoed, "Mr. Ning, I checked it, and there is only the girl who was picked up by Mr. Su just now in the black box." Ning Huan frowned and nodded. Could it be that he was thinking too much?