18. Chapter XVIII

A restaurant in the imperial capital of Jue Kingdom, where people come and go, and business is lively.

The shopkeeper was busy before and after, and his feet didn't stop. Just after sending the two guest officers in, there were guests at the door again.

However, the two new guests were a little strange, a man dressed in purple and a girl with a veil and hat on her back.

Whether it was the little lady who was tired of walking so she let her husband carry it, or whether the little girl had a leg disease, he couldn't tell. However, in business, curiosity is curiosity, and it is important to welcome guests.

He greeted him with a smile that did not make the guests feel hypocritical and flattering, but could feel his enthusiasm, a smile that he had practiced in front of the mirror every day for almost a month to achieve so perfectly. You must know that although he is a shopkeeper, he is also a shopkeeper with pursuits and ideals!

He said a sentence that he had to say every day quite skillfully: "Please be a guest officer, hit the tip or live in the hotel?"

"Sharpened. The one who answered him was the woman in pink behind her, obedient, and her voice was quite good.

His mouth quickly rolled up and down: "That guest officer has come to the right place, our Baikelou is the top in terms of food in our Jueguo capital, and the chefs are all famous chefs in the country......"

He was talking at a time when he was interrupted by a guest.

"Noise. The man dropped these two words and walked to a table in a damp corner, and with imperceptible care, he put the woman on his back down.

The shopkeeper chased after him awkwardly and smiled: "Then I don't know what kind of dishes the guest officer wants, are there any taboos and preferences?"

The pink-clad woman's eyes were crooked, and she seemed to smile at him: "He has a bad temper, don't worry about it, just have two dishes." ”

He has been running in the store for so long, and he has never heard any ugly words, how can he care because of two words. But the girl must be a beauty with such good eyes, but unfortunately he can't see the true face with a veil, he thought with some regret.

"The guest officer is too worried, then I'll let the kitchen arrange two seasonal dishes. Xiao Er nodded and left after receiving the nod from the girl in pink.

"Hey, have you heard about that?"

After Xiao Er left, the conversation of the people at the table next to him attracted Bi Yuewu's attention.

"What's going on? There's been a lot going on lately. The man in the green shirt listlessly stuffed a peanut into his mouth, took another sip of wine, and smashed his mouth, lacking some interest.

"Of course it's the haunted thing in the Nine Kings' Mansion?" the blue-clothed guest who spoke first lowered his voice.

"Huh, haunted?" the man in the green shirt became a little interested, and his head was brought closer, and his voice lowered.

"You know that little girl of the Cheng family, right?" the blue-clothed guest looked a little mysterious.

"Isn't there only one daughter in the Cheng family who married into the Nine Princes' Mansion? Didn't you say before that it was a saint chosen by the national teacher? How could there be a little daughter?" The man in the green shirt put down the peanuts in his hand, "You also know that I have only been in the capital for a short time, and I don't know much about these things." ”

"You really don't know? Speaking of which, this matter also has a lot to do with the national teacher. The blue-clothed guest took a sip of wine and moistened his throat, "The Cheng family has a little daughter, who is one year younger than the Ninth Princess. I heard that there was a vision from heaven at birth, and the moon was cast into the stars, which was a sign of heavy rain. Sure enough, the day after the Cheng family's youngest daughter was born, God began to rain heavily for three days. At that time, there was a severe drought for many years, which was far from being comparable to the four or five months of no rain six years ago. At that time, the national teacher speculated that the youngest daughter of the Cheng family was related to this vision, and as long as this woman was there, Jue would definitely not have a major drought. ”

"I heard the old man in my family say that more than 20 years ago, there was indeed a great drought in Jue Kingdom, and the people were not able to make a living, and countless people starved to death every year at that time, and there were even cannibalism in many places. Then if the youngest daughter of the Cheng family really makes Jueguo rain abundantly every year, she must be prosperous and rich all her life, so why haven't you heard of this girl now?"

"Of course you outsiders haven't heard of it. The blue-clothed guest sighed, "That little girl is accompanied by glory, but she also died miserably." Everyone is ashamed, so they usually don't talk about it. If it weren't for the recent incident in the Nine Kings' Mansion, I'm afraid no one would want to think of her again. ”

"By the way, didn't you talk about the Nine Princes' Mansion? Why did you get involved with the little daughter of the Cheng family? Wait, you said she died a miserable death? Isn't it...... The last sentence was with his mouth open and he didn't make a sound.

The blue-clothed guest understood the shape of his mouth, nodded, and sighed heavily: "Everyone is so suspicious in private, after all, a person has been burned by the fire for three days and three nights, and the onlookers are all happy, so how can this person who has been burned by the fire have no complaints?"

"Three days and three nights? How could it be? It should have been reduced to ashes a long time ago. The man in the green shirt was startled and slapped the table hard.

After receiving the displeased glances of the guests around him, he stood up and smiled apologetically and arched his hand.

After sitting down again, he hurriedly approached and asked in a low voice: "I really don't understand more and more, people are burned, and if the fire is big, it will turn to ashes within half a pillar of incense, how can the little girl of the Cheng family be?"

"How could it not be? I saw with my own eyes that she was in agony from the fire, and at first she screamed slightly, and then she couldn't make a sound. And even after her head hung down in the early morning of the fourth day, her body was intact, and even her clothes did not show any signs of damage. On the fourth day, the moment the little girl hung her head and died, a downpour fell from the sky, extinguishing the fire on the high platform, and the little girl also died. ”

"It's so strange, isn't that Cheng family woman a monster?"

"Everyone thought the same way at the time, everyone looked at the long-awaited heavy rain and shouted 'The demon girl should die' or something. ”

The man in the green shirt asked, "What about the truth?"

"At that time, because of the serious illness of the national teacher, I didn't see anyone for a long time, but I asked the eldest daughter of the Cheng family to meet after the drought. After the eldest daughter of the Cheng family came out of the national teacher, she took the token of the national teacher and said that the national teacher gave her the holy daughter and asked her to be in charge of the country's worship to heaven. ”

Within a few days, the eldest daughter of the Cheng family began to say that the drought was due to the younger daughter of the Cheng family, and that she had to be burned to death to contribute the sacrifice of the rain god. ”

"At first, people didn't believe it, but as the drought became longer and longer, people gradually began to die of thirst and starvation, and everyone became more and more panicked. There are more and more people who believe that the youngest daughter of the Cheng family is a demon girl of the country, and everyone thinks that the drought in Jue is because of her. ”

His Majesty finally complied with the will of the people and issued an edict to put the youngest daughter of the Cheng family in prison. The ninth prince has been married to the youngest daughter of the Cheng family since he was a child, and he was originally going to get married in a few months, so he immediately went to intercede with His Majesty. On the one hand, there is the plea of his beloved child, and on the other hand, the people's heart, and His Majesty is also in a dilemma. Later, he still gave death to the youngest daughter of the Cheng family to the country. ”

"In the days when the youngest daughter of the Cheng family was burned, His Majesty imprisoned the Nine Princes, afraid that he would save people. After being locked up for three days, the Ninth Prince received the news that his fiancΓ©e died in agony after being burned by the fire for three whole days, and he didn't say anything at the time, and then secretly committed suicide. Fortunately, he was found early at the time and was rescued in time, but it is said that he later heard that it was like a walking corpse. ”

The blue-clothed guest poured himself another glass of wine and drank it into his stomach: "After that, the Cheng family felt ashamed of the Nine Princes, so they married their eldest daughter into the palace." ”

The man in the green shirt couldn't help but interject: "Why do I feel that there is something wrong with the eldest daughter of the Cheng family?"

"Now that everyone has come to their senses, they have guessed like this. The blue-clothed guest shook his head, "But at that time, everyone thought that the eldest daughter was the one who saved Jueguo. ”

Less than a month after these things happened, the son of the national teacher, who had been sent to the mountains to learn the Tao since he was a child, returned. ”

When he returned, he entered the house where the national teacher lived, and found that the national teacher had been sitting and flying for some time. ”

"Ascension?"

"It's dead, those who practice die and say that they have ascended, saying that they are going to heaven to be immortals. The blue-clothed guest's face was already a little red at this time, and it seemed that he was a little drunk.

"And then? Was the youngest daughter of the Cheng family killed by the eldest daughter? That's why she came to take revenge?"

"Everyone speculates that the death of the youngest daughter is absolutely inseparable from the eldest daughter. And later everyone found that the people and coffins in the grave of the youngest daughter of the Cheng family in the suburbs were gone, and everyone speculated that they were afraid that the eldest daughter of the Cheng family had dug up the abandoned corpse in the wilderness. However, there is also a theory that some people speculate that the youngest daughter of the Cheng family is not dead, and has been waiting for the opportunity to come back for revenge?"

"Why did this Cheng family sister hate so much before?" the man in the green shirt sighed.

"What else could it be? Men of course. The eldest daughter of the Cheng family admires the ninth prince, but it is true that the younger sister has a marriage contract with the prince. It is not difficult to guess a woman's mind, and naturally she can't tolerate her sister. ”

The man in green shirt said: "It's always been like this, the eldest daughter and the youngest daughter of the Cheng family shouted, I have heard the name of the eldest daughter, but I don't know the name of the younger daughter." ”

"The youngest daughter of the Cheng family was named Bi Yuewu by the national teacher after the rain star among the twenty-eight constellations. ”