Hua Dongyang listened to Shu E's hoarse voice, and felt very anxious and sad in his heart, stretched out his hand, and was about to touch the thin curtain, but finally stopped his hand in mid-air, hesitated for a moment, and slowly hung down.

After searching for so many years, after searching for so many years, she made a marriage contract with her grandfather, and dissolved it with her. However, this agreement has guided the direction of his life, and perhaps, it has also ruined the happiness of his life.

Now that they are close at hand, this person who has vowed to protect his life has suddenly become so far away.

The sky gradually darkened again, tea, decoction, porridge...... The same came one after another.

Lilac's expression was as if she was willing to suffer on behalf of Shu'e's illness rather than seeing her uncomfortable. Looking at Lilac's expectant expression when she held the decoction, Shu E smiled slightly and drank the decoction one by one. The decoction is thought to be added to the raw land, and the taste is clear and direct bitterness. Every time I drank it, it was bitter to the mouth, and bitter to the heart.

The stomach was churning, and the bowl of fragrant lotus leaf porridge finally had no appetite to drink it again.

The taste of the decoction seems to change day by day, and when I occasionally eat a bite or two of porridge and rice, I always can't help but feel sick in my stomach, so I shake my head and stop eating. The originally white and smooth arms gradually lost weight in just a few days. I don't think about eating and drinking every day, and I need to be helped to get out of bed when I walk. Occasionally, I got up and passed by the bronze mirror, and I saw the figure with a rickety back inside, lifeless, so strange.

Shu E saw her reflection in the water of the copper basin and couldn't help shaking with the water, but her painful and dry eyes couldn't see what the person in the reflection looked like now. Seeing it clearly, it's just more disgusting to yourself.

I woke up in a trance and fell asleep in a trance.

I don't know when, I suddenly heard outside the bed, Hua Fu called in a low voice: "Madame......"

Shu E seemed to be asleep, but when she heard Hua Fu shouting about herself, she thought it was an illusion. Yes, the surroundings are so quiet, only the unknown insects are crying incessantly in the bamboo forest, and although their eyes are still swollen and painful, they can distinguish that the sky is dim at the moment. It's just that I don't know if it's getting late or if it's about to dawn.

It was still Waffle's voice, and he asked softly, "Madam, are you awake?" ”

"Sun Niangzi, is it time to take medicine again?" Shu E asked in a daze. As if to fulfill some kind of obligation, every day, you have to take medicine on time. As for whether there is any improvement, Shu E herself doesn't know what to say.

"It's not about taking medicine, I'm listening to my wife's unstable sleep, so I'm here to talk to my wife." "If you are sleepy, Madame," said Waffle, "please sleep peacefully." The slave and maid watched you fall asleep before leaving. ”

"Sun Niangzi......" Shu'e shouted.

Restless sleep? Maybe.

As soon as I closed my eyes, the scene was still clearly visible.

I stood under the falling petals, the petals fluttering.

Make lotus as clothes, and set hibiscus as clothes. The petals are fluttering, and the lotus clothes are flying.

The footsteps are light, the body is beautiful, and the skirt is slowly unfolded, like a lotus leaf, swaying gently in the wind above the sparkling water waves.

However, the petals in the sky gradually changed color.

Originally, it was a faint powder that was almost white, and the cheeks that seemed to be a girl's white jade were coated with a light layer of rouge, which made people feel excited.

But gradually, gradually, the color of the petals became darker and darker. The rouge of sandalwood (light red, light crimson) became redder and darker, and the girl's cheeks became a scarlet intoxication. Drunk and sultry, evocative.

But the red color is still deepening. Petal by petal, the red and glamorous are shocking.

Shu E was in a panic, and stopped her whirling dance steps, just trying to dodge. It's just that the petals seem to have a heavy weight that doesn't match the shape, and they fall so fast that people can't avoid them. Finally, little by little, they all fell on their skirts.

The petals that fell on the skirt couldn't shake off and couldn't be pinched, but they were like taking root and growing deep there.

Shu E was flustered for a while, and hurriedly tore the skirt of her clothes.

Suddenly, I realized that the petal flower on the skirt was actually a little drop of blood.

Panicked, frightened, opened his mouth to call, but asked, "Huifeng, what are you doing?" ”

The panicked girl tugged at the corners of her skirt, but when she raised her head, it was Huifeng's appearance.

……

When I opened my eyes again, I still couldn't tell the difference. Where is he in his dream? Or, did he become Huifeng?

I don't know if Zhou's dream is a butterfly? Butterfly Dream for the Week?

Shu E settled down, and Hua Fu's figure was outside the bed, herself, still herself. In the past, Zhuang Sheng dreamed of butterflies, and things and I were one, so what is the truth of Fangcai's dream?

"Sun Niangzi......" Shu E looked at the top of the bed, the light was too dim, and the delicate pattern didn't look as clear as the petals in the dream, "I'm not sleepy." ”

"When my grandfather died when I was young, I heard my grandmother say that after death, people should be buried in three days, that is, they should wait for the deceased to come back to life in these three days. If you wait for three days, the dead will not be able to be resurrected. "Waff seems to be a seasoned old man, speaking calmly and slowly.

Shu E's hand grasped the quilt tightly, her eyes opened, but she didn't say a word.

"I was too young to remember all those things. Now that I think about it, I only remember my grandmother wiping my grandfather's body and changing into a shroud. And the water used to wash the body is not the water used on weekdays, but the incense burned and paper money was used to buy the 'Yin (world) water'. It is said that he can no longer use the water in the yang world. Later, he moved his grandfather to the main house, which was called the gift of 'Yi Kuo' [Note].

"Later, he killed the rooster around the house to summon the spirits of his grandfather. When everything was ready, the old scholar in the village wrote an obituary, and someone went to a relative's house to report the funeral. The close relatives were all dressed in filial piety cloth and stood by the coffin. I remember that there was an oil lamp in front of my grandfather's coffin, and my grandmother asked me to keep watch over it. It is said that the everlasting lamp is the soul of the grandfather, and it cannot be extinguished before the burial. At the time of the hanging, all the neighbors and relatives were there, and they all kowtowed to his grandfather's spirit and saw him off. Alas, it has been too long for many things to remember. ”

Shu E just felt a little strange in her heart, and just listened quietly to Hua Fu's narration without saying a word.

"All I know is that my grandfather died of a violent illness and died very suddenly. The hometown is in the countryside, and many families do not have a room to stop the soul, so after the burial, they will be buried directly in the ground. However, my grandmother heard that people who died of violent illness were all karmic obstacles that had existed for many lifetimes. She was worried that her grandfather would suffer in the underworld, so she did not hesitate to use all her belongings, sent her grandfather's coffin to a temple not far away, and stopped in the temple for three days, and asked the monks to do rituals to surpass the soul. Eventually, it was properly buried. Waffle's voice was not too turbulent, but there was a long time in his voice.

[Note] Yi Xuan: Before a person swallows the last breath, move a place for him. According to the "Book of Rites", Zeng Zi was critically ill, and his son and disciples were guarding him, and the boy saw that Zeng Zi was laying a bamboo mat (that is, a kind of bamboo mat in ancient times) that was given to him by others, and put forward his opinion, so Zeng Zi ordered his son to start Yi Zhen, and as soon as the seat was changed, Zeng Zi was breathless. Later, people called death "Yi Zhen". Before dying, people move places or change beds, because they are afraid that the deceased will be nostalgic for the place where the beginning and the end will be, and the ghost will attach itself to a certain place or a certain object and will not leave, so as to disturb the home.