Chapter 1: The Night
When the bang was knocked three times, there were fewer people in front of the mourning hall.
The two girls threw a handful of burnt materials into the brazier and yawned.
"Sister, let's go squint for a while." One of them said.
"This is not good, let's go too, and there will be no one to keep a wake for the young lady." The other said with some hesitation.
The girl from earlier pouted.
"Who let the young lady die early, the sister who was born is so young, it's good to be able to cry twice, not to mention the filial son and filial daughter." She said, pulling the girl again, "Let's go, let's go, I'll be back in a while, I don't even care about the eldest son, what are we afraid of." ”
The girl got up, and the two walked out of the house while talking.
"So whatever is good is not as good as your own body, you die early, and what you earn is for others...."
The night wind blew in, and the mourning sticks and paper hanging flower brushes sounded, and the snow-white mourning hall was even more empty.
In the brazier in front of the unpainted coffin, the last burner jumped a few times and turned into ashes, and the three sticks of incense were about to burn.
A small figure flashed in through the door, the small one was not as tall as the table leg, and he had to tilt his head as he looked at the coffin in front of him.
It was a little girl of three or four years old, with big eyes and a pink face, but the jacket on her body was crooked, and her hair was scattered.
She looked at the coffin that had not yet been sealed, walked over slowly, held on to the stool holding the coffin, and finally stood up after two or three failures, her hand grabbed the coffin board, and slowly stood up and looked inside the coffin.
Under the bright white candles in the mourning hall, a young woman lay quietly in a coffin.
The face of the silver plate was rubbed with lead powder, more and more white and delicate, high nose and cherry lips, wide forehead and long eyebrows, black hair and cloud sideburns, hairpins with nine wings and beads and golden hairpins, dark blue exquisite embroidered cloud brocade shroud, and the colored pearls hanging on the neck were fully circled three times, shining dazzlingly under the light of the white candle jumping.
The little girl held out her hand.
"Mother, Mother, get up, hug." She muttered.
The small arm was barely on the coffin, not to mention the person who pulled it inside, it was difficult to even reach in.
She stood on her tiptoes, again and again.
A scream pierced the silence of the mourning hall.
The little girl turned her head and saw two girls standing at the entrance of the mourning hall, with pale faces, looking at herself in horror.
"Mother called me." She said, stretched out her finger and pointed to the coffin, deliberately explaining to the two girls.
This sentence finally shattered the nerves of the two girls, and they let out a miserable scream and collapsed on the ground and fainted.
The hustle and bustle of the Wang family's compound, which occupied the entire street, spread instantly, making the hazy moonlight in early summer swaying and fragmented.
In the westernmost part of the Wang family's mansion, there are two or three small courtyards that do not belong to the Wang family, and the river in the city meanders through it, making it water-stained and dark all year round, and moss is everywhere.
The sound of hurried footsteps resounded in the streets, shattering the silence here.
The sound of footsteps stopped in a small courtyard, and two lamps hung in the narrow courtyard, casting a soft yellow shadow in the night, illuminating the people who stopped in front of the door.
It was a group of four, two men and two women, one of whom was holding a brocade quilt in her arms.
They seemed to be in too much of a hurry, and after they stopped to catch their breath, a man came up and knocked on the door.
The wooden door under the lamp became more and more old and pale, and the man's hand reached the door, and with a creak, the door opened by itself.
The sudden opening of the door in the middle of the night made the four people who were already nervous tremble at the same time, and the two women couldn't help but take a step back and look at the half-opened door with a little horror.
The light spilled in halfway, and the remaining darkness became more and more permeable.
"The Cheng family... Lady...", the man's teeth twitched slightly, "at night... Won't you close the door either..."
The voice of the voice alleviated everyone's fear, and the woman holding the quilt took a deep breath and stepped forward.
"Cheng family lady" she looked into the door and shouted softly, "Cheng family lady... Cheng."
As the voice suddenly turned into a whisper, everyone saw a lantern floating in the darkness of the door, and at the same time the sound of small footsteps sounded.
"Are you here to seek medical treatment?" A delicate female voice asked.
When the lantern approached, everyone saw that behind it was a cardamom girl in a goose yellow dress, with phoenix eyes, high nose and red lips, and a little beauty mole under her lips, which was smart and fresh.
The gloomy fear dissipated in an instant, and the hearts of the four people outside the door fell to the ground.
"Yes, yes, it's so late to bother the lady, my little lady is a little bad..."The woman holding the quilt hurriedly stepped forward and lifted the quilt.
A girl was exposed, lying on the woman's shoulder, sleeping soundly.
The girl in the goose yellow shirt leaned over and nodded.
"Okay, please come with me." She said.
The four of them hurriedly entered the door, and the girl in the goose yellow shirt turned around and stretched out her hand to stop it.
"She's the only one who brings the child in." She said.
Then the two men and the woman stood still, and watched the woman go in with the child in her arms, and the lantern went away, and the two disappeared into the darkness as if they had been devoured by some beast of prey.
There was a rain yesterday, the gravel road was a little slippery, and it was a house in a dark location near the river, and the smell of humidity in the air was particularly strong.
In the small house, there were no lanterns, and the two of them walked by the lantern that the girl was carrying, and the darkness around them became more and more oppressive.
"It's so late to bother your lady..."The woman holding the child couldn't help but speak, as if only the oppressive feeling of speaking could soothe it.
"It doesn't matter." The girl in the yellow shirt replied crisply, led her through the hall, and moved the lantern back, "Watch out for the steps. ”
The woman staggered slightly, stood still in time, and when she looked up again, she saw a light shining in the darkness in front of her, and after her eyes adjusted, she saw that she was standing in front of a house, and the light was on in the room.
The girl stepped forward quickly and pushed the door open.
The light inside the door slanted out, and the woman was uncomfortable for a moment, and she tilted her head slightly for a moment before looking inside the door again.
There is a beauty palace lamp in the atrium, and a six-fold cloud yarn painted screen behind it, faintly revealing the figure lying on the side behind it.
Is this the Cheng lady?
"Lady, someone is seeking medical treatment." The girl had already walked in the door and whispered.
The figure lying on his side behind the screen slowly lifted up, and through the light, he could see the black hair pouring down like a curtain of water.
"Let the patient in."
A slightly wooden female voice came from behind the screen.
The woman breathed a sigh of relief and was about to take a step with the child in her arms.
"You stand still, don't move." The goose-yellow girl hurriedly said, walked out quickly, and stretched out her hand, "Give me the child." ”
The woman hesitated for a moment, then handed the girl in her arms to the maiden, and watched her carry the child in.
The door was not closed, and the woman could see that the maiden was carrying the girl behind the screen, and the shadow of the lamp was reflected on the screen, and the silhouette of a woman, who seemed to be wearing a wide robe, threw out a shadow as she stretched out.
In just one glance, the girl bent over and picked up the child and walked out.
The woman hurriedly stretched out her hand to take it, and looked at the child in her arms still sleeping as flushed as when she came.
"Suddenly, due to the invasion of the frightened wind evil, the needle has been applied, and there is no hindrance, no more convulsions, incontinence." The female voice behind the screen said.
The woman was overjoyed, and she was surprised that she didn't say anything, and she knew about her illness here, and she was happy that this sentence alone was enough to prove that this lady of the Cheng family was really good at medicine.
"Thank you, lady." She hurriedly gave a gift, and took out a money bag from her arms, "It's a nuisance to the lady." ”
Before she could finish speaking, she was interrupted by a female voice in the room.
"This little child, it's not sick, the one in your family who is sick is the one lying in the coffin, don't you really plan to treat her?"
What the?
The woman looked up in astonishment, and looked at the figure that had returned to her side behind the screen, because her body was undulating with her hands on her head, intertwined with the dark night, orange lamps, and cloud gauze flower shadows, showing a strange beauty.
The dead in the coffin, can it still be cured?
Is this Cheng family lady talking nonsense?
At the fifth watch, the nurse carefully lifted the tent, and the girl who was asleep in the brocade quilt seemed to be disturbed, and shook her hand slightly, and the nurse suddenly held her breath and became nervous, but the girl just shook and still slept peacefully.
The nurse reached into the quilt and touched it, but the girl still didn't wake up.
The nurse breathed a sigh of relief, put down the tent, turned around, and looked at the group of flowery women behind her.
"How?" One of the gray-haired old women asked eagerly in a whisper.
"Back to the old lady, Sister Yuan didn't pee, and she didn't wake up, and she has been asleep since she came back, and she hasn't had convulsions during this time." The nurse also lowered her voice and said.
As soon as these words came out, the women in the room were relieved.
The old lady waved her hand, and walked out of the hall first, while the others hurriedly followed.
The sky outside was already faintly bright, and the courtyard was full of white lanterns, and those who shuttled back and forth were all wearing filial piety, and the hearts of those who watched were heavy.
"Liu Daopo is here." A servant woman came and whispered.
The old lady's face was silent for a moment.
"Let her wait and see how it goes." She whispered.
There is a funeral at home, and at this time, please come to the Taoist woman to be surprised, and outsiders may not know how to spread gossip when they see it.
What a headache.
Why did the daughter-in-law suddenly fall and lose her breath after a fall, the worst thing is that this kick fell in her own house, and what is even worse is that their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had a dispute at that time.
The lady of the Cheng family said, "The old lady thought of this, and asked the nurse in a low voice.
Before the words fell, there was a sudden cry outside, and when the sky was about to dawn, the sharp woman's cry was particularly penetrating.
The faces of those present changed.
"The in-laws are here!" Several servant women ran in in a panic and said.
Standing outside the mourning hall, the eldest uncle of the in-laws was almost heartbroken.
Suddenly received the news of the death of his sister, the family was almost shocked to blow up, the old father fainted directly when he heard the news, looked at this situation, and said that he didn't dare to tell his mother, the chicken and the dog jumped on the horse to appease the family, and the eldest uncle took the three brothers and killed the family.
The eyes were full of vegetarian food, so that their last hope was shattered, and when they entered the door, they saw the empty mourning hall, and the sad in-laws and others almost fainted.
What do you mean? What do you mean? Not to mention the people who cry the spirit, the incense in front of the mourning hall is broken!
I was bullied like this when I died, and I didn't know how difficult it was before I was alive!
The brother-in-law who greeted him in a panic was immediately surrounded by his brother-in-law and hit him with his head and face.
"My lord, it's not that you don't keep it, it's haunted," shouted some of the servants, shaking their legs, trying to explain.
"Phew, don't do bad things, don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door! You killed my sister, what the hell are you pretending to be now! The women of the in-laws also threw away the nobles of the past, crying and scolding, and pointed to the servants and servants they brought with them, and drove the people of the family to beat them indiscriminately.
There was a mess outside the mourning hall.
Seeing this, the old lady and other women who came from behind were so frightened that they did not dare to come out.
But it's not a way to hide.
"Old lady, it's about to dawn." The servant reminded anxiously.
There must have been such a commotion at home, and everyone on the street must have heard it, and when the morning dawned to attract more onlookers!
The old lady's hands and feet trembled, and she heard in her ears that the in-laws outside were already clamoring to report to the official, if this really caused trouble to the government, the name of their family for generations would be ruined!
The name of several lifetimes was ruined in her own hands, so how could she see her ancestors and ancestors when she died!
What a wickedness!
"Old lady, what should I do?" The daughters-in-law and servants asked one after another.
What to do? At this time, there is no way to do anything! Unless the person is not dead!
People didn't die?
The old lady is a spirit.
"Nurse Nurse!" She turned around and shouted, "Go and invite the Cheng family!" ”
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