2. Wei Jiang (repair)
The bitter smell of medicine rushed into her nose coaxingly, clearing away a bloody breath, Er Niang woke up in despair, and saw a hexagonal glass lantern hanging overhead, she thought: Why didn't you die?
"Phew!" At that moment, she could hear bones shattering, and the pain spread from her face to her toes. That's right! She also saw blood, like a snake winding out of her mouth.
How could she not have died?!
The resentment gathered in her heart, causing her to cough violently. Suddenly, a hand covered her forehead and touched it again and again. This hand was warm, with a faint hint of salty seafood, and it carried pity with each stroke, gently brushing the broken hair on her forehead behind it.
"A-Jiang, it's time to drink medicine. My mother has added sugar to it, and it is not bitter. ”
It turned out that when she arrived in the Netherworld, she was finally able to reunite with her family.
Er Niang closed her eyes and reached out to grab the palm that was touching her forehead. This palm is slightly rough, and it is indeed a mother's hand. Her eyes were hot, and she said with tears: "Mother, my daughter misses you......"
"Silly girl, what nonsense are you talking about, get up quickly and take the medicine, so as not to cough again later."
The hand pulled Er Niang up hard. Er Niang opened her eyes and saw Niang sitting in front of her alive, holding a medicine cup in her hand and carefully sending it to her mouth.
Er Niang was shocked, and hurriedly reached out and touched her mother's face carefully.
Warm! It's warm!
Seeing her so weird, Li couldn't help but hide back, and then squinted his eyes.
"A-Jiang, what's wrong with you today? It's weird. ”
Er Niang didn't listen, continued to reach out to touch, and then hugged Li and cried.
Li was frightened and accidentally knocked over the medicine cup, and the bitter taste instantly filled the entire room. After relieving herself, she patted Er Niang's back distressedly, and said straight in her mouth: "Ah Jiang must have had a nightmare." Don't be afraid, my mother will go to the Great Dao Gong to burn incense and ask for a talisman, so that he can bless you with an early illness. ”
Er Niang had mixed feelings, she just cried and didn't speak, she didn't know if she was dreaming or had just woken up from a nightmare.
The crying was too loud, and the eldest brother and second brother were attracted over.
Seeing this, Da Lang Wei couldn't help frowning and asked, "What's wrong with my little sister, she suddenly cried so sadly." ”
Erlang Weiwei also squeezed his head in, and joked improperly: "She is bitter about medicine, and she doesn't know how to get used to eating it for so many years, she loves crybaby!" ”
What a familiar mockery, the silent thing in Er Niang's memory woke up, she cried even more, took off Li's hand, jumped out of bed and rushed over to hug the two brothers, muttering: "I didn't expect to see you again......"
Erlang Weiwei rolled his eyes, hugged her with both hands, but muttered dissatisfiedly: "Why are you chattering, you can't see anything." You still had the heart to quarrel with me just now, and you were as fierce as a yaksha, not like my own sister at all. ”
Seeing that she was only wearing single clothes and barefoot, Da Lang Weitong picked her up without saying a word and carefully put her back on the bed.
"Okay, don't cry. Bitter medicine, the more bitter it is, the more it can cure the disease. ”
The eldest brother is the same as Er Niang remembers, gentle and considerate, and works hard for her. On the night of the slaughter of the officers and soldiers, it was he who hid around with her on his back, and finally jumped into the cliff with her in his arms, saving her life with his body as a cushion.
Er Niang owed him a life, she grabbed his clothes with both hands and wept silently, afraid that if she let go of her hand, they would turn into green smoke and disappear.
"Oh, could it be that you are really evil?"
Erlang Weiwei was rarely serious, and he didn't dare to laugh casually anymore, so he hurriedly turned his head and ran out and shouted as he ran: "Master Chang, come quickly!" My sister is gone! ”
When Li Shi heard this, he was anxious, and stomped his feet three times in a row: "This kid, he has no sense of proportion!" Then he took a step away and chased after him.
Maybe she cried too hard, Er Niang began to feel dizzy, and her hand grasping her eldest brother's clothes gradually loosened. She was so afraid that he would disappear, so she desperately hooked her little finger around his sleeve to prevent him from leaving.
Wei Tong comforted softly: "Don't be afraid, big brother won't leave." ”
Er Niang is not at ease, she knows that good dreams are easy to disperse, and she just wants to stay in this dream for a while.
After a while, Master Chang came. The old man with a beard in his sixties is not good-looking, slightly hunchbacked, but his medical skills are very good, if it weren't for him, the second girl of the Wei family would have died of illness a long time ago.
Er Niang remembered that when the officers and soldiers rushed over that night, he happened to go out to look for a friend and escaped.
The kind old man likes to call her "Er Nizi", and as soon as he opened his mouth, he said: "Er Nizi is not good at taking medicine again, if you don't take medicine, how can the disease be cured?" ”
With that, he sat down to take her pulse, stroked his gray beard while measuring the pulse, shook his head, took out the golden needle from the medical box and pricked it at her.
There was a slight itch when the golden needle pierced her body, Er Niang suddenly felt that this was not a dream, she looked around carefully at the people around her, and then looked at the furnishings in the house, which was clearly her former home.
Er Niang couldn't help but be in a trance and asked, "What day is today?" ”
Li replied: "May twenty-nine." ”
"How many years?"
"Ren Shen Nian."
Renshen year? Er Niang was surprised, Ren Shennian, she was thirteen years old, could she be thirteen years old again?!
Er Niang didn't believe it, and shouted to look in the mirror, and Li quickly took the mirror and handed it to his hand after hearing it. Er Niang took a deep breath, tried to calm her mind, and then slowly moved the delicate mirror in front of her.
In the mirror, the person has a yellow face and thin muscles, a pair of unusually large eyes deeply embedded in the face, she looks like a little monkey, and her eyes are full of anxiety and fear.
Er Niang remembered that she was like this at the age of thirteen, and the face that once disgusted her with inferiority complex was unspeakably excited when she saw it again.
She was reborn!!
In books and plays, it is often said that people will go to the underworld after death, and there are few jokes about rejuvenation and rebirth. Er Niang never thought that this kind of thing would happen to her, more surprised than afraid, more happy than surprised...... For a while, she turned over the five-flavor bottle in her heart, and it took many days before she really accepted it.
Er Niang is happy! In the previous life, she lived a sloppy life and lived a depressed life. And in this life, she can have the opportunity to live for herself and do what she wants. But the worries of the past are like a shadow, and she is afraid that the tragedy will happen again, and the beginning of the tragedy has to start before she was born.
Her father, Wei Ding'an, used to be the commander of the army, loyal to the banner of King Haidong, and then the first emperor died, the royal family fought each other, King Haidong was destroyed, and he was also homeless.
As a thousand total, there are still some soldiers at the bottom. When the new emperor ascended the throne, the court regarded them as thieves, and Wei Dingan simply took the risk and brought his brothers to Luzhou to set up their own door, and became a maritime merchant who passed through the Wuji Sea.
It is said that it is a maritime merchant, but in fact it is a pirate. There is also a way to steal, Wei Ding'an does not disturb the villagers, robs the rich and gives to the poor, and over time he has a small reputation in Wujihai. However, the sea is the same as the land, as long as there are people where there are disputes, in addition to the Wei family, there are also Nanmen Hong Gang, Qiongdao Kuihu, Pu'an Erxiong, they are brothers on the surface, secretly they are calculating each other, fortunately, there is the old man Zheng for a long time, but after the death of the old man Zheng, the Wuji Sea became scattered sand, and completely fell into the troubled times.
Wei Qian always died in this troubled world, earlier he had several waterways close to Kuihu's territory, for which he fought no less than dozens of times, and then the old man Zheng became more and more confused, obviously biased towards Kuihu, Wei Qianzong's subordinates could not make profits, and they took refuge in the rest of the gangs, the power of the Wei family was weakening day by day, and the court became the last straw that crushed the Wei family.
After the Wei family was destroyed, she did not go to find someone who had received the favor of her father, but guarded the sea full of corpses for a day and a night. Fortunately, God opened her eyes and let her wait for Master Hong, who found a place to hide her, hoping that she could spend the rest of her life, but what was the point of surviving her sick body?
Er Niang did one thing, she begged Master Hong to help her think of curing tuberculosis, even if she didn't hesitate to reduce her life. She knew that Master Hong could do it, because he had mentioned it a long time ago when he was drunk.
In the end, Master Hong couldn't resist her, and cured her illness with Soul Rejuvenation Grass, but her life was only six years left.
In the past six years, Er Niang has done a lot of things, like fireworks to the extreme, and at the moment when she was about to disappear, she finally fulfilled her lifelong wish.
Er Niang didn't regret what she had done, but she couldn't help but wonder: what would happen to him if she was reborn?
Er Niang closed her eyes, she couldn't help but think of his eyebrows, the person she was entangled with was dead, whether he was reborn or not, this life had nothing to do with her, she wanted to choose another way, live proudly and chicly.
Thinking about it, Er Niang got out of bed and walked barefoot to the mirror. The person in the mirror was weak, and she couldn't help but reach out and touch her sick face, as if she was in another world.
The old dream, she can start all over again, she doesn't want to be a mother anymore, she wants to be Wei Jiang again.
The person in the mirror suddenly smiled at her, and the charm gradually disappeared from the corner of her eyes.
In an instant, Er Niang disappeared, and Wei Jiang was reborn.
***
After lying in the room for a few days, Wei Jiang felt much better, she could move to the cloister alone to look at the blue sea, and occasionally fight with her second brother Wei Wei. However, every time Li saw her standing in the corridor, her thin body was crumbling by the wind, and she felt distressed.
"Ah Jiang, hurry up and hide in the house. The wind was strong, and I was going to cough again. ”
Li came to persuade her that she would be stubborn in the past, but this time she saw her mother frowning, so she obediently returned to her room and lay down for several days.
Wei Jiang was not idle when she was lying down, she asked the maids to bring paper and pencils, and while she still remembered, she wrote down the events that happened in her previous life one by one. She deliberately used drawings that others couldn't understand, and drew two booklets.
Seeing that she was silent, she wrote and painted there all day long. Those who have a heart find it strange.
"Huh? Are these two girls stupid? ”
Wei Jiang was not in good health, and his sick appearance was not likable. As a result, the girl in the room took her even more seriously, and even began to laugh at the second girl in the room when she went out.
There is a maid named Lu You who is the daughter of Wei Jiang's nurse, who looks a little beautiful, and is also respected in the hospital by virtue of the relationship between the nurse. She has never taken Wei Jiang in her eyes, and she has done a lot of things that violate yin and yang.
In the last life, Wei Jiang was so sick that she often couldn't remember clearly, such as the jade pendant given to her by her two brothers, she put it in the cabinet and disappeared every now and then.
This time, Wei Jiang was interested, and she looked at the few in the room with Erniang's eyes, and saw that there was bad water in Lu You's belly.
After many years of stumbling and crawling in Hualou, Er Niang has developed a pair of poisonous eyes, which is good or cheap. After trying Midoriyu, she knew she was a cheap embryo.
There was a fly flying in the room, and Wei Jiang couldn't sleep, so she picked two girls and called them in, and then said: "I know that you have been serving me with resentment, and I don't want to embarrass you, so I will force you to stay by my side, if you have any ideas or which yard you want to go to, tell me clearly, I will let my mother arrange it for you." ”
The two maids couldn't help but gasp when they heard this, thinking to themselves why this girl suddenly changed her personality and mentioned this. You look at me, I look at you, and they don't dare to speak.
Wei Jiang was impatient, and she felt tired after sitting for a long time, she snorted and asked slowly, "What?" Is it that hard to speak? ”
Her voice sounded weak and weak, but the two maids were frightened into a cold sweat, and they glanced at her tremblingly, and she smiled a little strangely, and under her deep eyebrows, her eyes were dark and gloomy, like ...... Female ghosts.
The two maids were so frightened that they immediately knelt on the ground, kowtowed and begged for mercy, and spit out what they had seen and heard for many days.
"Second girl, the two of us have served you for so long, and we have never had the slightest dissent, you have to believe us no matter what. Usually we don't talk much, and most of us listen to others next to us. ”
"Say what?"
They said...... Said...... "The maid swallowed and vomited." Wei Jiang directly threw the tea cup in front of her, and screamed with the maids, and the white porcelain cup fell apart.
"Girl, we know we're wrong. It's not us talking about yours, it's Luyou! She has been saying bad things about you behind your back, saying that you are crooked and sick! ”
"That's right, it's her! The two of us didn't say anything, just listened. ”
The maid couldn't stop talking, and only after she had finished saying everything did she realize that she had spoken too much. The two of them glanced at Wei Jiang timidly, and Wei Jiang's expression was calm, which was more terrifying than being angry and crying.
The two maids cried, kowtowed again and again, and sobbed softly: "We haven't done anything, the second girl raises your noble hand." ”
Wei Jiang knew that they were timid, and believed that they didn't dare to chew the root of their tongues. She raised her hand to tell them to shut up, then waved her hand and said, "You can go." ”
The maid chuckled, surprised that it was over?
Wei Jiang seemed to know their thoughts, and said again: "You two can go." ”
As if they had been granted amnesty, the two maids kowtowed again and again, and then ran away in a hurry.
With just these few words, Wei Jiang was already too tired, she lay back on the couch and got into the quilt, closed her eyes for a while and fell asleep.
In the evening, Lee came to see her. Wei Jiang obediently drank the medicine she handed over, then took her hand and lay on her lap coquettishly.
"Mother, you are so good to me."
That's true. In her previous life, Wei Jiang watched her mother die in front of her, and she only said one sentence before she took her last breath: "Ah Jiang, run ...... quickly"
The tragic scene was vivid, Wei Jiang was scared, and couldn't help hugging Li's waist tightly. Li smiled, stroked her forehead lovingly, and said in a low voice, "This stupid boy, what's wrong with you these days?" ”
"Nothing, I had a nightmare." Wei Jiang muttered, then took Li's rough hand, put it on the lips and kissed it. "Mother, can you do something for me? Help me drive Lu You away, her hands and feet are not clean, and she stole the jade pendant that my eldest brother gave me. ”
"Oops! Really? Li was shocked, he didn't expect the well-behaved Green You to do this.
"Really, I don't believe you asked someone to search for it. In the past, when she took my things, I would open and close my eyes, and I thought forget it. But she became more and more excessive, and when I was sick, she chewed the root of my tongue behind my back, saying that I looked like a crooked melon and cracked dates, and I was stupidly sick! It's a wolf's heart! ”
When Li heard her say this, she trembled with anger, she had always been polite to her subordinates on weekdays, but she didn't expect them to kick their noses in the face and dare to say this about her daughter.
"I've got to figure this out!" With that, Li got up. Wei Jiang added another sentence: "People are bad and bad, and the nurse can't be trusted, so drive her away, or send her to another courtyard to do rough work." ”
After that, Wei Jiang smiled, and his eyes involuntarily showed Er Niang's charm. Li couldn't help but be stunned when she saw it, for a while she thought that Wei Jiang was covered by a fox spirit, and then looked over, she was still the sick little girl.
Later, the Li family took the two grandmothers and went to the green room. Lu You was startled, thinking that something was wrong, but when he saw that they started to search the house without saying a word, his face suddenly turned blue.
Sure enough, the grandmothers found a lot of good things in the green room, and there were a few things that she couldn't buy in her life. If you get all the stolen goods, you can't rely on it. After the nurse learned about it, she cried and begged Li for mercy, saying that her daughter was confused for a while and would never dare to do it again.
Wei Er, who usually speaks seldom, smiled lukewarmly and said, "How can it be for a while? How many of these things add up, right? I heard that the nurse bought a piece of land in the countryside a while ago, where did the money come from? ”
When the words fell, the nurse was speechless, and she couldn't speak. Sure enough, there was a bad nest of people, and the Li family also found a few good things from the nurse's room, and in a fit of anger, she drove them all away and never hired.
Hearing the news that Lu You was driven away, Wei Jiang just smiled slightly, and then said to the two maids below: "You guys are making up for it, remember if there is any rumor in the future, tell me first, understand?" ”
The two maidens nodded like pounding garlic, and their eyes involuntarily aimed at Wei Jiang's booklet, only to see her draw a cross with a cinnabar pen on it, and then close it again.