The dilapidated courtyard was deserted, and the white silk hanging everywhere was even more desolate. The house was full of broken walls and pits, several pieces of furniture of different old and new, a boy of seven or eight years old, and a girl in her teens.

"Young Master Tianya, please mourn, the matchmaker is ordered by Mrs. Tai to serve you. The girl whispered. She looked at the boy with pity in her eyes.

The young man seemed to be enraged, and went up to push the girl: "I don't want you! I want my father and mother, you get out!"

The girl said: "The seventeenth master and the seventeenth lady have died in the hunting ground, and the young master of Tianya please mourn." Young Master Tianya, according to the clan rules, you are a concubine, and you can only have one maid, and the monthly example is five coins Tianxuanshi. In the future, you can only light charcoal during the wax moon, and you can only eat meat twice a month. Her voice was soft, without any ups and downs, as if she were recounting an ordinary event.

"Get out of the way...... the boy finally pushed the girl, and then burst into tears.

......

"Matchmaker, I'm so cold...... It's already a moon, why don't you light charcoal?" the boy shrunk in the patched and white-washed quilt, and finally couldn't help but scream loudly.

"Young Master Tianya, the deacon's room didn't send charcoal, I'll go and ask. ”

The girl had only been gone for half an hour, and then she came back with a wound. She sat on the edge of the bed, gently rubbing the quilt, trying to bring a little warmth to the boy.

"Matchmaker, are you back, where is the charcoal?" the young man refused to come forward, because as soon as his delicate skin came into contact with the cold air, it would freeze, and his little feet, which had finally been a little warm, would immediately become cold.

The girl didn't answer quickly this time.

"I ask you what about charcoal?" the young man was furious, and he poked his head out, trying to show the majesty of the lord's house. But when he saw the girl's blue nose and swollen face, he felt a chill in his heart, and knew that he must have been wronged in the deacon's room. At a young age, he had already realized the truth of "beating a dog to see the master", and those damned minions were clearly coming at him.

The girl still said very softly: "Young Master Tianya, I listened to the people in the deacon's room. A few days ago, the young master of Tianmu bought back a woman from a green house as a concubine, and Mrs. Tai was furious and wanted to reduce the use of the young masters. Now the charcoal is only given once every two months, and the monthly case has been reduced to three coins of Tianxuanshi. ”

"They're going to kill me!" the boy's eyes gleamed with hatred.

The girl got into the quilt and hugged the young man's cold body: "Young Master Tianya, please don't resent Mrs. Tai, she is also a hard ......"

The young man was gifted and intelligent, never forgetful, and studied hard to gain a precocious mind, so he didn't say anything more. This is the first time he hugged the matchmaker, he felt very warm, and couldn't help but say: "Matchmaker, you are the only person who is good to me besides my father......" He closed his eyes as if he was asleep, and suddenly opened his eyes in shock, "Your hand!" He grabbed the girl's hand, rough, swollen, and densely covered with wounds, and the scene of the girl's laundry, washing vegetables and cooking flashed in his mind, and tears couldn't stop flowing.

"It's okay young master, it's okay ......"

"Matchmaker, I can't sleep, you sing to me. ”

"Young master, the matchmaker will only 'cut plums'. ”

"Okay, you can sing. ”

The matchmaker swallowed a breath in her stomach, first hummed a few tunes in a nasal voice, and then sang in a low voice in a soothing voice.

"The red lotus fragrance remnants of the jade in autumn. ”

"Lightly relieve Luo Shang and go to Lanzhou alone. ”

"Who in the clouds sent the brocade book?"

"When the word goose returns, the moon is full in the West Building. ”

"The flowers float and the water flows. ”

“......”

......

"Young Master Tianya!

On this day, the matchmaker walked in in a hurry. Three years have passed since then, but because of her perennial work, she is still so short and thin, and her complexion is not as ruddy as it was at the beginning.

Xue Tianya saw the matchmaker so excited for the first time, and couldn't help laughing: "Matchmaker, what's so happy?" He was used to the matchmaker's soft and soothing voice, and he was a little surprised to see a different matchmaker.

"I, I shouldn't be happy......" The matchmaker immediately restrained her emotions, "Young Master Tianmu, they're back." The slave maid heard from the people in the deacon hall that the young master of Tianmu offended a noble person in the entrance trial of the Taoist court, and even the other young masters were demoted, and no one in the family had worshiped the Taoist court for a hundred years, and the lady was angry, and then the seventh master proposed that the young master of Tianya, who was still a freshman, try it. ”

A monstrous wave set off in the heart of the Snow Sky Cliff. He finally waited for this opportunity to turn over, and couldn't help laughing: "Okay, this is a good thing, matchmaker, you should be happy, young master, I am sure, but there is a lack of a chance." ”

"Great, great......" The matchmaker was so excited that she couldn't help herself, her sunken eye sockets were full of tears.

Xue Tianya looked at the more and more thin matchmaker, couldn't help but go up and hug her, and said loudly: "Matchmaker, when I enter the Dao Court and become a cultivator, I will definitely lead you to the beginning, and you will be my Taoist companion in the future!"

"No, this can't be, slave maid ......" The matchmaker was stunned, and a flush appeared on her thin black face. Although he feels humble, his small eyes are full of yearning.

There was a pair of eyes outside the window, which took this scene into the bottom of the eyes, and the jealousy and resentment disappeared in a flash, and all stared into the cold eyes. "Young Master Tianya, the old body invites you to come. She walked into the house and watched the matchmaker push the young man away in a panic, standing to the side tremblingly, the coldness in her eyes was a little more contemptuous and disdainful.

She is the grandmother next to Mrs. Tai, surnamed Kong, she has been with Mrs. Tai all her life, and she knows that the most important thing in Mrs. Tai's heart is to let the children of the clan worship

Entering the Dao Court—this means that there will be another heyday of at least a hundred years—so he didn't dare to show Xue Tianya's face at all, with a smile on his face, he repeated happily: "Young Master Tianya, the old body invited you here, it was Mrs. Tai's order. ”

"You minion, you don't know how to talk outside, look at you scare the matchmaker, old thing!" Xue Tianya angrily reprimanded.

"Yes, the old woman is rude, and I also ask the young master of Tianya to go and see Mrs. Tai quickly, don't let Mrs. Tai wait. Mama Kong smiled with a smile, and the resentment in her heart was all poured into the matchmaker.

Snow Sky Cliff was quickly led to a warm house filled with aromatherapy. What he saw, heard, and smelled, he had not experienced since he was born, and he knew that there were still people in the family who lived such a happy life, which was in strong contrast to his own dilapidated courtyard.

He knelt in front of the bed.

Mama Kong whispered a few words in the ear of an old woman lying on the bed, and then stood aside respectfully. The old woman was lying there, but she was in good spirits, and her voice was still very clear: "Tianya, child, get up quickly, let Grandma see you." ”

Xue Tianya stood up as she said, looked at the old woman silently, and wondered if the love on her face was true or false. In the month of that year, the scene of him and the matchmaker hugging each other for warmth came to mind.

"Are you blaming your grandmother for not loving you and not giving you a good life?" said the old woman as if she could penetrate the snow cliff.

Xue Tianya panicked in his heart, he knew that his only chance was to rely on the family's quota and directly enter the stage of the Dao Court qualification test, otherwise he would never have a bright future in this life. hurriedly said: "The grandson doesn't dare, the grandson depends on the grandmother to feed, this is the grace of nurturing, how can the grandson not know what to do and blame the grandmother." ”

"I only give you three dollars a month, but you don't hate me?" said the old woman with a smile.

Xue Tianya said: "Grandma not only has to follow the family rules, but also has the intention of tempering the will of her grandchildren. As the saying goes, 'jade can't be cut without cutting', and now it is seeing results. Sun Er is confident that he has a better chance of entering the Dao Court than his Tianmu brothers. ”

"Good, good, what a good boy. The old woman smiled from ear to ear, "Ziyan, you come in." She called, and from the outside walked in a girl with bright eyes and bright teeth, about fourteen or fifteen years old, with skin like condensation, and her figure had begun to see exquisite curves.

Xue Tianya has never seen such a good-looking girl, the matchmaker next to him, in order to take care of him, was tortured by life to be thin and black, he never felt ugly, but when he saw Ziyan at this moment, he knew that the matchmaker was so ugly. His face turned red, his heart beat faster, and there was a kind of ** restlessness. In the depths of his heart, a voice told him that he couldn't do this, but he couldn't control the restlessness.

The old woman said: "Tianya, Ziyan is a maid raised by my side, knowledgeable and reasonable, you go to apprenticeship this time, you can't lose the face of the Xue family, with Ziyan by your side, you can show the heritage of the Xue family, in order to be looked down upon." - Ziyan, you have to serve the young master well, like me, you know?"

Ziyan said crisply: "Ziyan knows." As she spoke, she looked at the Snow Sky Cliff, and between her eyebrows appeared a rare beauty of her age, bright as a drop of dew on a bud.

Xue Tianya's face was red and his ears were hot, and he felt that his body was not his own, and he had an urge to knock down the purple smoke. His heartbeat is getting faster and faster, after the limit, his face turned white, and suddenly he thought of the matchmaker, compared to the purple smoke, the thin and black matchmaker is really ugly and can't be seen; but deep in his heart, the matchmaker has an unparalleled status, although he forgot it for a short time, he still resisted the temptation, and said to the old woman: "Grandma Rongyu, there is a maid you sent to take care of your grandson by her side, no need to add more." ”

"You mean matchmaker?" the old woman sat up, leaned against the head of the bed, and looked at the snow cliff lightly. "I know she's close to you, but no, if you take her out, you'll lose face for the Xue family. ”

"Grandma, then I'll bring both, it's always okay. "Snow Sky Cliff is in a hurry.

The old woman's heart was as strong as iron, and she said lightly: "Tianya, you can only choose one: take Ziyan to the Taoist court to apprentice, or go back to your courtyard and continue to live a hard life with your ugly girl." ”

Snow Sky Cliff ushered in the most important choice in life.

Ziyan's beautiful eyes turned and she saluted the old woman: "Mrs. Tai, can you allow Ziyan to whisper a few words to the young master of Tianya?"

The old woman nodded.

Ziyan pulled Xue Tianya aside and whispered, "Young Master Tianya, why don't you promise Mrs. Tai first, wait until you enter the Dao Court and become a cultivator, and then come back to greet the matchmaker?"

"This ......" was held by a soft and boneless little hand, and Xue Tianya couldn't help but feel like an ape, and the proposal full of temptation also made his will sway from side to side. He finally decided to accept the offer.

But unexpectedly, this decision made him live in the pain of resentment for the next twenty years. This memory, he has always sealed it deep in his heart, and he did not dare to expose the slightest, only in this quiet room, did he dare to take it out and count it carefully, to see if there were any forgotten passages, if there were, he naturally had other ways.

Collecting the crystal, he pressed a mechanism on the bookshelf, and the wall behind him slowly moved away, revealing a secret room. He walked in and lit the candle on the wall, and the light of the fire slowly illuminated the secret room, illuminating a tortured person locked on the wall, who was a woman from the shriveled body on her chest.

"The End of the World...... Young master, please...... Kill ...... I ......" Her voice was completely inaudible, like the sound of two pieces of rusty iron rubbing against each other.

Xue Tianya stretched out his hand and gently stroked the woman's face: "Ziyan, I'm here again, I'm here again, I'm about to forget what happened back then, I am about to forget, you tell me again, just tell me the story after we left." ”

"You nonsense...... Say......" The woman's eyes turned to hatred and resentment, "You torture me...... Twenty...... Year...... in your heart

...... I remember ...... better than anyone else."

Xue Tianya let out a sneer that no one had ever heard before, but the look on his face was very gentle: "Ziyan, you are exactly the same as the matchmaker back then, since I refused to abandon the matchmaker back then, I will naturally not abandon you now." Ziyan, don't worry, I won't let you die, I will always let you live. ”

Now there is no need to deal any blow to this body, just being alive is the greatest torture for her. She almost collapsed, no, she had broken down many times in the past twenty years, but no matter how many times, she would find that her body would recover during the period of mental collapse, and then her spirit would be forcibly corrected, and she would be awake and suffer the same torture again.

She tried to keep herself from thinking about it, and that was the only way she could not break down. And if you don't want to think about it, you have to keep saying it, numbly repeating what Xue Tianya wants to hear.

She is Ziyan, the maid given by the old woman to the Snow Sky Cliff. She has been good-looking since she was a child, and she has been praised and sought after countless times, and even Mrs. Tai loves her very much. This made her cultivate the ambition to become a master, and the only way to achieve it was to step into the immortal gate and become a cultivator through the young masters in the mansion.

It's a pity, Xue Tianmu's bunch of waste. No matter how many times she repeats it, she uses "waste" to describe the young masters in the house. Originally, she had already received the approval of Mrs. Tai, and she was able to follow one of the young masters into the Immortal Gate, but she didn't expect it to fail. She was naturally unwilling, so she dedicated her body to the most lustful seventh master, asked him to help speak, and asked the only young master of Tianya who did not participate in the trial to save the scene.

She still clearly remembered that the night before leaving, the seventh master ran to her room to beg for joy, saying that this was her last night in the house, and there would be no chance in the future. She was very angry, how could she agree, but she was threatened by the seventh master to move out of Mrs. Tai. She knew that if Mrs. Tai knew that she had caused it, she would inevitably be sent into the cold palace, so she had to half-push and half-obey.

If the first dedication is for the future, then the second is humiliation. Under the humiliation, she went to wash herself in the middle of the night, and overheard Xue Tianya's farewell to the matchmaker. They kissed each other and told touching stories. When she saw Xue Tianya's handsome face, she thought of the greasy fat face of the Seventh Master, and thought that she should have been cared for by Xue Tianya's arms, and her crazy jealousy devoured her heart.

She went to find Mama Kong, and the two resentful and jealous hearts were very harmonious and hit it off.

It was a cold morning, and the matchmaker had just gotten up to sprinkle and sweep in the courtyard, and Mama Kong brought someone here. What kind of inhuman abuse the matchmaker has suffered, Ziyan is not clear, because at that time she has already embarked on the road of seeking Taoism with Xue Tianya. She only roughly knew that when the matchmaker was dragged to Mrs. Tai's room by Mama Kong, she was no longer human, her nails were lifted, blood was dripping, her entire mouth was sewn up, and her lower body was festered by something. This was the punishment of the maid of a large family at that time to seduce the master, and it was quite popular.

Mrs. Tai was indifferent to all this. Mama Kong got the permission and said sharply: "Matchmaker, it was Mrs. Tai who was kind at the beginning, and when she saw that you were pitiful, she bought you and raised you in the house." Later, I asked you to go to the young master of Tianya, so that you could serve for a good life, who knew that you would use clever words, confuse the young master of Tianya's body and mind, and have the ambition to turn over and be the master, Mrs. Tai can't see a cheap maid like you the most. However, Mrs. Tai's heart is still kind, even if you have been punished, this matter will be revealed, but the young master of Tianya is pitiful, and he has been confused by your body and mind, if you come to the family for you in the future, what should I do? So Mrs. Tai decided to immediately deprive the young master of Tianya of his qualifications to seek Taoism. ”

"Don't, don't!" the matchmaker was already confused, but when she heard this, it was about the future of Xue Tianya, and she immediately stood up and begged, "I'm willing to do anything...... Willing to do ...... Ask Mrs. Tai for mercy, ask Mrs. Tai for mercy......"

"Are you really willing to do anything?" said Mama Kong.

"I'm willing to ......," the matchmaker said tearfully.

Mama Kong looked at Mrs. Tai, and when she got her approval, she smiled coldly: "Okay, it's okay if Mrs. Tai is gracious, you can write a letter of decision to Young Master Tianya now, explaining that you are unworthy, so I ask Mrs. Tai for permission and go back to my hometown for another permit." ”

For the sake of the future of Xuetian Cliff, the matchmaker endured the double torture of body and mind and wrote a letter of decision.

Mama Kong checked that it was correct, and then sneered and called a bowl of tea, and threw it in front of the matchmaker: "Matchmaker, now Mrs. Tai has given you a bowl of tea, and the kindness of the master and servant is over, and you can return to your hometown." ”

The matchmaker grew up in the house since she was a child, and she has seen a lot of "giving tea", and she knows the meaning very well, and she can't help laughing miserably.

Mama Kong said meaningfully: "If you don't drink it, you have a grudge against Mrs. Tai, and in order to prevent the young master of Tianya from being infected by you, you have to deprive ......."

"I'll drink!" the matchmaker directly interrupted Mama Kong with her actions.

The tea is naturally poisonous, and the matchmaker was already injured, and she died on the side of the road less than half a day after being driven out of the house, and her body was even eaten beyond recognition by wild beasts. This is the truth that Xue Tianya slowly investigated after using supernatural powers.

"Matchmaker, matchmaker, matchmaker......"

The bloody memory was torn apart again, and Xue Tianya knelt on the ground in pain.

This was Ziyan's most pleasant moment, twenty years of torture, let her see the snow cliff at this moment, and wonderfully produced the pleasure of revenge. "You've been ...... I cry so hard every time...... Didn't cry this time...... It seems that the matchmaker ...... It's starting to be unimportant......" said with a strange chuckle.

"You're wrong!" Xue Tianya stood up, a look of hysterical madness on his face, "No matter what the price is, I will let the matchmaker come back to me!"

"She's dead!" Purple Smoke screamed.

"You're right. Xue Tianya laughed lowly: "But the conditions for her to resurrect have been found." His face was smeared, "Matchmaker, wait, wait, wait...... The young master will see you soon......"