Late at night on the fourth day of the first month of October, in the suburbs of the night, Xia Shuanghan, who had coaxed Xia Chaoyang to sleep in the courtyard of Tingtao a few hours ago, rushed to the south gate of the capital before the closure of the south gate of the capital, took the carriage of the Xiangyang Palace, and together with Su Yixing and Li Qinglan, came to the Zhuangzi where the Xu family is now located. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Under the dense forests of Cangshan Mountain in the deep darkness of the night is a vast field, and in the middle of the flat and open field is a small manor of small size. Quietly driving the carriage close to the manor, and then stopped near the straw pile with a tall black shadow, Li Qinglan, who was in charge of driving the carriage, raised his hand and gently tapped the wall of the carriage with his knuckles.

In the carriage with the oil lamp that was not very bright, Xia Shuanghan, who relied on the disguise technique he learned from Lin Xiran before leaving for Guanwai last year, had already turned one of his faces white and blue, accompanied by bloodstains.

Raising his hand mirror, he looked carefully at the red, black, red, and black eye circles that he had traced, as well as the bloody mouth, to make sure that his face was really the same as Xia Shuanghan, who had begun to decompose after death, nodded with satisfaction, and then turned to Su Yixing beside him and said, "Then next, please take the lead with Qinglan, and when I change my clothes, I will come to meet you again." ”

"I didn't even know that you still have this talent?" Pinching Xia Shuanghan's chin, he adjusted the angle slightly left and right, carefully looked at Su Yixing, who had a terrifying face in front of him, shook his head and chuckled, turned around and pushed the car door, and jumped out of the carriage.

Su Yixing and Li Qinglan, who climbed over the courtyard wall and entered the manor, went to light the sleeping holes for the servants in the manor. After the two of them ensured that the entire Zhuangzi except for the Xu family, the others could not wake up even if the ground moved within two hours, Xia Shuanghan, who was wearing a white dress sprinkled with red chicken blood on the lower half of his body, came to the back door of the Zhuangzi as agreed.

After a gentle "squeak", Xia Shuanghan, who had scattered his long hair that had been temporarily dyed black, smeared mud and bloody handprints on his white dress, and walked over the threshold through the dilapidated wooden door to the backyard of Zhuangzi.

"Qinglan, what about the white phosphorus I asked you to prepare for me? Quick, give it to me. While following Li Qinglan, who led the way to the house where the Xu family now lives, walked forward, Xia Shuanghan, who felt the fire fold from his sleeve pocket, and soon met Su Yixing, who was standing outside the Xu family's house.

"How? Xu is asleep, right? Taking the white phosphorus in the bottle from Li Qinglan's hand, Xia Shuanghan pulled out the cork, tilted the bottle, and poured out the cold water used for liquid sealing inside, while carefully paying attention not to let the white phosphorus that had been cut into small pieces slip through his fingers.

"Sleep, sleep is not sound, we can go in." "Squeak" pushed open the door, and Su Yixing, who was facing forward, led Xia Shuanghan through the curtain hanging from the partition in the room, and entered the dim, only a little moonlight leaning in from the window.

"You go up first!" Raising his finger to the beam on his head, he glanced at the summer frost and cold of Xu's shelf bed hanging with a gauze tent, and while placing the wet white phosphorus cube in a suitable position on the ground, he said softly: "When I signal to you that everything is ready, you will do it again." ”

"Okay." Nodding slightly, Su Yixing, who flew up to the beam of the house with a jar of chicken blood with anticoagulant powder, quickly moved directly above the shelf bed where Xu was placed on the beam of the house.

"It's time to do it." After placing the white phosphorus that still had small droplets, after waiting for a while, he estimated that the water had almost volatilized in the summer frost, stood up and gestured to Su Yixing, who was squatting on the roof beam. Then, in the form of small streams of blood, poured out of the bamboo tube and landed on the white gauze tent of the shelf bed.

was thrown from the Dingguo Mansion with fine clothes and food to this shabby Zhuangzi, the huge gap in material conditions and the worry that "Lu Shijie will divorce his wife as soon as he returns to Beijing" made the Xu family suffer from both physical and mental pressure and torture. She tossed and turned all night, and she basically didn't fall asleep much.

The chaotic dreams kept changing, and Xu, who was immersed in sleep and curled up in pain, suddenly felt some cold liquid dripping continuously on his neck.

The chicken blood that splashed a black and red ** trace on the top of the gauze tent soon penetrated the double layer of gauze, and dripped down on Xu's forehead, face, nose tip and neck.

And just when Xu, who woke up from his sleep, raised his hand and touched it, he immediately saw that the liquid in his palm turned out to be blood, and when he screamed bitterly, the cyan flame emitted by the white phosphorus ignited by the fire fold also illuminated the terrible face of Xia Shuanghan, who was covered in weeping blood.

"Oh my God! Hell! Xu, who screamed and grabbed the quilt and shrunk at the corner of the bed, closed his eyes tightly and didn't dare to look at Xia Shuanghan. And Xia Shuanghan, who saw the scene of Xu shivering and groping with the help of the faint moonlight, and took off a string of Buddhist beads from his wrist with the intention of resisting it, rolled his eyes uncontrollably in his heart.

"Madame, do you remember me? I'm Zheng Ruoshui! Hoarse in his throat with sorrow, Xia Shuanghan, who rubbed his voice, moved little by little along the white phosphorus that was ignited one after another to Xu's bed, and said slowly: "Do you know that for more than ten years, since I was killed by you, I have been looking for opportunities to come to see you!" ”

Zheng ...... Aunt Zheng? Suddenly, hearing the name "Zheng Ruoshui" that had been kept in his heart for more than ten years, Xu Shi was slightly stunned in disbelief, and then cried uncontrollably: "What are you doing with me, you have been dead for more than ten years, why don't you go to reincarnation?!" Don't come, don't come! ”

"Madam, do you know how badly I was deceived by you in the first place?" In the swaying cyan firelight, the Xu family, who was panicked and almost frightened, didn't dare to lift the gauze tent in front of him and look at Xia Shuanghan's hideous and terrifying face. Therefore, even if he knew that his appearance was 108,000 miles different from Zheng Ruoshui, Xia Shuanghan was not worried that he would be recognized by the Xu family at all.

"Madame, I believe that you have never resented me because of my entry, so you have always respected you from the bottom of your heart, but why did you harm me and my poor child? Before you could give birth to my child into this world, you killed him, and when you killed him, didn't you hear him crying desperately in my belly and asking for help? ”

Outside the closed window, Li Qinglan, who was listening intently to the movement in the house, heard the word "child", and untied the rope that bound the cat she had brought in advance.

The cat brought by Li Qinglan is an adult cat that has been injected with aphrodisiac and is showing the characteristics of estrus. So, as soon as the rope tied to the mouth was untied, the cat in heat sent into the house a cry that closely resembled the cry of a baby.

"Madame, do you hear me? That's my kid crying! Over the years, our mother and son have not been resented and unable to reincarnate, and have been wandering in this earthly world without leaving, in order to come to you for revenge! Look at the blood and dirt on my body, these are the traces of my death in the blood collapse and my wanderings in this world! ”

Raising his bloody hands, he lifted the bloodstained gauze in front of him, pressed down slightly, and approached Xu, who was holding the Buddha beads, and said: "Madam, don't read it, you have made a mistake and do not repent, even if you recite the scriptures hundreds of thousands of times, the Buddha will not save you!" Only after death can you go through the torture in the eighteen layers of hell in turn, and you will be able to wash away your sins! ”

"Do you know, today, you are far away from the masculine Dingguo Mansion and the dragon-spirited palace, and there are not many angry subordinates beside you, for me, it is really a good time to take revenge. Now, let me take advantage of this great opportunity to take you on the road! ”

"Don't! Help me! Someone! "I was taken aback by Xia Shuanghan's statement that "the Buddha won't save you", and then threw away the Buddha beads and crawled to the end of the bed, and was grabbed by Xia Shuanghan, whose hands were cold, and pulled back by his feet and neck during the cry.

"Madam, stop struggling and come on your way with us!" As he spoke, Xia Shuanghan, who vigorously overturned the crying father and mother, and the sobbing Xu family, raised his hand to take out the dagger that flashed with cold light from the sleeve, and then laughed wildly "hahahaha", and stabbed the sharp weapon in his hand into Xu's chest fiercely.

The dagger, which automatically retracts the blade of the knife after hitting a hard object and spews out the chicken blood contained in the hilt, only leaves a shallow dent on Xu's chest. However, the scene of the stabbed Xu Shi in her eyes was that the shining silver blade sank into her chest and caused her to bleed profusely.

"Madam, my murder technique is amazing, right?" Xia Shuanghan, who stubbornly put the handle of the dagger on Xu's chest, leaned down to look at Xu, who kept kicking roughly, his eyes were wide open, and he was terrified, and smiled sadly: "Do you know, this is all something I have practiced little by little in the past ten years, and I will kill you with one sword, even if the king of heaven and Lao Tzu come, I can't save you." So, come on, let's go. ”

Xia Shuanghan's bloodstained left hand moved away from the hilt of the knife and touched Xu's blood-stained cheek. And at the same time as experiencing the cold touch on his face, Xu, who was overly frightened, finally passed out unbearably.

"It seems that Xu's courage is greater than I imagined!" Glancing at Xu Shi, who was fainting in fear, and confirming that she was not pretending to be dizzy but really dizzy, Xia Shuanghan, held the handle of the knife in her hand and straightened up, turned around and walked out of the gauze tent. "I was just wondering if I should continue to scare you further if you weren't faint."

"Wonderful, wonderful!" Su Yixing, who had been squatting on the beams of the house, took in everything that had just happened in this room with an excellent perspective. He jumped down from the roof beam with a laugh, walked in front of Xia Shuanghan in a few steps, looked at her with a smile and said, "Give up sleep and run here with you, and watch such a wonderful show, it's really worth it!" Frost Cold, you played such a slippery prank, you didn't do such bad things when you were a child, right? ”

"You can watch other people's pranks so happy, think that when you were a child, you must have done a lot of things to 'base your own happiness on the pain of others', right?"

I don't know if I can glance at Su Yixing, who was full of smiles, picked up the fire fold placed on the ground and lit the candle in the house, walked to the window, pushed open the window, and ordered Li Qinglan, who was waiting outside the house, "You can give the cat an antidote." Then, turning around, she began to clean up the residue of burning white phosphorus on the ground.

"What are you going to do with her next?" Glancing at Xu Shi who was sleeping in the bloodstained gauze tent, Su Yixing, who knew that just scaring and scaring her was definitely not Xia Shuanghan's last resort, was very curious.

"Don't do anything, just leave her here."

Cleaning up the traces on the ground, Xia Shuanghan, who stood up, blew out the candle, led Su Yixing to the outside of the house and said, "I'm just going to tell Lu Shijie, who is one of the victims, all the things that the Xu family did more than ten years ago, and then hand over the rest of the work to him." After all, with tonight's haunting, I believe that the Xu family, who was once again asked about Aunt Zheng's affairs back then, could not continue to hide the truth as if nothing happened. ”

"In that case, let's go." Returning to the courtyard shrouded in the starry sky, taking a look at the summer frost beside him stretching his waist, yawning, and showing exhaustion, he remembered that there was also a Zhuangzi under the name of Xiangyang Palace, and Su Yixing, who was not far from here, said: "Let's go, go back to our Zhuangzi to freshen up and rest by the way, and then rush back to the city." ”

The blackened hair was washed back to brown, and the hideous and terrifying face returned to its original clean and delicate appearance. Xia Shuanghan, who changed out of the dirty and smelly bloody clothes on his body and rested on the Su family's Zhuangzi, because he had a sense of responsibility that "he must rush back to his younger brother before dawn", he quickly got into the carriage again with Su Yixing, who was going to the court in a few hours.

In the slightly swaying carriage, Xia Shuanghan, who was sitting on the wall of the carriage, was slowly swept away by the surging drowsiness in this regular continuous shaking, and then lowered his head little by little. Su Yixing, who was sitting next to her and saw his sweetheart falling asleep little by little, stretched out his arms and took Xia Shuang's soft body to his side.

Li Qinglan, who took advantage of the time to freshen up in the summer frost and cold, drove the carriage energetically all the way, and came to the towering city wall before the south gate of the capital was opened in the morning. After showing Su Yixing's token and asking the soldiers defending the city to let the carriage go, Li Qinglan, who quickly returned to the palace outside Xiangyang, noticed the existence of Lu Shaoyun, who was an uninvited guest, the moment he stopped the carriage.

On the afternoon of the fourth day of October, Lu Shaoyun, who saw that Xu was forcibly sent into the carriage and was about to go out of the city, was very relieved about Xia Shuanghan and Xia Chaoyang, who were splashed with dog blood by Xu.

It's just that considering that it is impossible for Su Yixing to let him enter the Dingguo Mansion, and Xia Shuanghan is now holding the title of the princess, it is inconvenient to go out to meet him, so he knows that if he wants to see Xia Shuanghan, he can only wait for Lu Shaoyun, who is waiting for the night, to visit the Xiangyang Mansion again after the curfew.

Lu Shaoyun, who arrived at Tingtao Courtyard between the cornices, soon found himself in the air, and in the huge courtyard, Xia Shuanghan, Su Yixing, Li Qinglan, none of the three of them were there.

"Shuang Han just left the sleeping Chaoyang alone in the Xiangyang Palace, where did she go?" Lu Shaoyun, who knew Xia Shuanghan very well and knew that no matter what she did tonight, she would definitely return to Xia Chaoyang before he woke up the next day, so after returning to the Dingguo Mansion to rest for a night, he returned to the Xiangyang Mansion again when the sky was bright.

Seeing Su Yixing walking down from the carriage with the sleeping Xia Shuanghan in his arms, Lu Shaoyun, who couldn't help but grow a little jealousy in his heart, quickly leaned towards the two of them.

"Shuang Han was busy all night last night, and I have to take care of the rising sun who woke up for a while, if you really don't feel sorry for her and don't want her to sleep well for a while, then no matter what you do, I will accompany you to the end."

A blue shadow under Xia Shuanghan's eyes made Lu Shaoyun, who knew that what Su Yixing said was true, chose to listen to his advice, but he still wanted to figure out the questions that should be asked: "What did you do all night last night?" ”

"I don't think Frost is happy to tell you what we did last night, if you don't believe me, you can ask her yourself." Retracted his arms, let Xia Shuanghan, who was leaning on his chest, lean inward with attachment, Su Yixing, with a look on his face, "Don't think that you can't have a little secret that is inconvenient to tell you between me and Shuanghan", stepped past Lu Shaoyun and entered the gate of Xiangyang Palace.

Birds chirp and the sun shines, and the arrival of the morning wakes up the summer frost from sleep after a short rest. After hurriedly taking care of herself, she rushed to Xia Chaoyang's side, and took care of her younger brother's diet and daily life, so in the process of accompanying Xie Shi to breakfast according to the custom, she was hardly busy eating.

"Don't worry about me, it's the same when Chaoyang is full." At the round table where the fragrant breakfast was placed, Xia Shuanghan declined Xie's proposal to let others take care of Xia Chaoyang on her behalf, so as to make time for her to eat, and said with a smile: "Others don't understand Chaoyang's dietary preferences and taboos, so I have to watch from the sidelines, and pay attention not to let Chaoyang eat things that will make him allergic to rashes, which will be troublesome." ”

"Sister, you eat too." Xia Chaoyang, who was holding a small steamed bun in his hand and tore it apart little by little, stretched out his hand to feed the steamed bun to Xia Shuanghan's mouth and said: "I tasted this steamed bun just now, the flour is more refined than ours, and the taste can be delicate and delicious." ”

"yes, it's delicious." Xia Shuanghan, who lowered his head with a light smile, swallowed the steamed bun pieces into his mouth, and continued to feed his brother porridge unhurriedly.

Since Xia Chaoyang came into the mansion yesterday, although Xie has only been with him for a short time, from Xia Chaoyang's words and deeds, she can see that he is a good child who has inherited the fine family style of the Xia family. Intelligent, polite, strong and sensible, in the face of such a painful child, Xie didn't understand how Xu could be so ruthless and hurt such an innocent child several times.

Seeing Xia Chaoyang, who couldn't see, sensibly feeding Xia Shuanghan steamed buns, Xie Shi, who was destined to not be able to have his own children in his life, couldn't help but think: Could it be that it is because Xu has five of his own biological children, and he can't ask for it like her, so he can't have a love for every child like her?

After the warm breakfast, Xia Shuanghan, who took Xia Chaoyang to eat and take a walk in the garden, ushered in the Baliya and Chen brothers who heard about Xu's blood splashing and came to visit Xia Chaoyang.

"It's good for you to talk to him, and you are absolutely not allowed to pull him around nonsense, you know?" In the brightly lit flower hall, Xia Shuanghan, who pressed his younger brother to sit in a chair, turned around and pointed at the tip of the nose of the Chen brothers and gave a few commands, then walked away a few steps, returned to the round table and sat down, and then started to make a family trip with Balia.

"How are you preparing for your marriage with Xiran? Will it be done before the end of this year? The weather is getting colder and colder, so if you want to do it, you have to hurry! ”

"I discussed it with Xiran and decided not to do it this year, and when my father and my brother came to the capital in the spring of next year, it would be better to do it at that time."

"Well, too. A once-in-a-lifetime wedding, without the blessings and companionship of family members, this family affair is indeed too brief and hasty. nodded approvingly at Baliya's statement, and suddenly remembered Xia Shuanghan, who had made bold words from Lin Xiran, and couldn't help laughing: "I think at the beginning, Xiran also said that he would definitely marry you before the end of this year, but now it seems that his ambition is going to be disappointed!" ”

"Hmph, who let him reject me without giving any reason when I confessed his heart to him?" With a look of arrogance on her face, Baliya snorted and said, "Now is the time for him to pay the price for breaking my heart in the first place!" ”

"Yes, yes, yes, it's wrong, and he deserves to be punished." Xia Shuanghan, who had a teasing smile on his face, waited for the family who came to report the news while talking, knowing that he was Xia Shuanghan who came to report with news about the Xu family, and temporarily handed over the task of taking care of Xia Chaoyang to Bariya, and then changed places to talk with that family ding.

There are two points of news brought by the family: first, the people who are responsible for informing Lu Shijie of the "truth about Aunt Zheng's death" have already set off to welcome people on the official road back to Beijing. Second, although Xu, who was scared half to death yesterday, is not crazy, it is no different from a mental breakdown.

"yes, got it." Knowing that Lu Shijie would definitely give up returning to the Dingguo Mansion after learning the truth, and directly turned from the official road to the Lu family's Zhuangzi to find the Xu family to confirm the truth, Xia Shuanghan nodded with satisfaction, and then returned to the flower hall and continued to chat with Baliya.

"Heaven is clear, retribution is unpleasant, it's not that you don't want to repay, the time has not come. Xu, now is the time for you to pay for the sins you have committed. (To be continued.) )