Chapter 2 Ah Yan
"Huh?" The elders smiled and pretended to be deaf with Manshu. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
"Alright!" Manshu really can't help them, "In this way, a compromise, I'll go to the county to have a look, you go to the state capital and wait for the meeting, pretend that I'm there too?" It's a long way to go, and it's going to take a while for the meeting to take place, right? Just pretend I'm here! It's really a meeting, and when it's time to check the entrance, maybe I'll rush back? ”
The elders exchanged their heads for a moment, then said, "We have another way. "Well, another good way." "It's better indeed." "That is to say—" "O master! "You can go to the venue first to earn face for us, and maybe we can hear more news that we can't hear." "And then what about the ...... over there in the county" "Just let the henchmen of the head of the family do it on behalf of the head of the family!" "Anyway, the head of the family, you have a confidant, right?"
“…… You guys can really figure it out! "Manshu simply has no temper with these old foxes.
"Yes, yes!" The elders said happily.
So the morning breeze went.
Manshu trusted the morning breeze.
Chenfeng went to the county of Xuanpin, looking for the traces of the demons that had been witnessed, and also to find out who the girl who was said to have been devoured.
Qianpin County is actually the nest of the Su family.
The Black Fork Forest Lord pretended to be Su Sui, and he went to Xuanpin County. However, if he wants to play Su Sui, it is estimated that he will not have the extra energy to investigate these. Morning Breeze will be the main force of the investigation. The Black Fork Forest Master will try to help him as much as possible.
The girl who was devoured was seen on the outskirts of the county, or in the slums.
The girls in the slums, coming and leaving, are not very clear.
Let's use an analogy! Last winter, when the snow was falling heavily, there was an old man named Yao in this slum who hid in his house and kept warm by the stove with his hands on the stove.
His home is very small, with only one room, the living room, bedroom, dining room, and washroom. The house is adobe-bottomed and has wooden shelves. The earth was old, and the original texture was not good, and the northwest wind howled and shook like a tiger and wolf, as if it wanted to uproot his house.
If his house was really blown into ruins, it would be a good match for the house next to it.
The house next to it is a big mansion of a rich and noble family, where a waiter surnamed Huang lives. But Huang Shilang committed a big crime not long ago, disobeyed the heavens, and was executed, and the family should have confiscated as slaves, but before the government came to arrest him, he gathered in the house and set himself on fire and died.
The fire burned for three days and three nights.
After the fire was extinguished, the Yellow House was in ruins. Huang Shilang was supposed to be beheaded, but his family sought their own death and did not obediently accept the decree of the imperial court, which made the king of Xuan Pin very angry. As a result, Huang Shilang's criminal law was changed to Ling Chi.
That was before the snow fell.
I heard that Huang Shilang's execution did not go well. But in the end, he still died. The dead were supposed to quietly retreat in the world of the living. But there are rumors that the Huang family is not normal, I'm afraid that the young daughter of the Huang family is a ghost!
That girl is the youngest young lady under Huang Shilang's knees, but she is actually the righteous daughter he accepted, and I heard that it may be his private niece outside. Madame Huang was very bad to this little lady. Strangely, Huang Shilang also treated this young girl very badly. So one day, on such a snowy night, the little lady disappeared. The disappearance was so mysterious that legend has it that she was abducted by goblins.
A few years later, the Huang family suddenly suffered a catastrophe. Perhaps, it was the little lady who made a fool of herself and came back for revenge.
So no one dared to approach the Huang family mansion again. Except for some poor people, there is nowhere else to go anyway, and they still live next to this house, just like Old Man Yao.
However, inside the abandoned mansion, none of them dared to enter. Even if you pick up firewood, you don't dare to go in.
Old man Yao was roasting the fire and heard a knock on the door.
He thought he had misheard, but the knock quickly became so rude that it was a kick. A posture of "if you don't open the door, I'll kick it".
Old man Yao had no choice but to open the door, and the heaven and earth outside were connected to the snow, and it was not the silver and white that the poems praised, but a gray one.
In the gray shadow, a woman stands.
The woman was dressed in a coarse brown garment, her skin was frozen white, and her lips were getting redder. Snowflakes embroidered her clothes. She was terribly weak, as if she had come by a snowstorm and a gust of wind could blow her away. But there was a slight smile in her eyes, and she didn't care about the warmth and coldness, life and death, nodded to Old Man Yao, and stepped into the door.
"Hey......" Old man Yao spread his hands, I don't know what to do, think about it, it's better to close the door first, so as not to let the cold wind pour in.
The woman took out a piece of silver and gave it to him, "I will live here." This is the only possession I have. But in the future, I will work to make money to supplement you. ”
Old man Yao stayed. It's not that he doesn't want to make money, but there is only one dilapidated house, and he can't stay with female guests.
The woman had already taken a fancy to his attic. It was only four feet high, and it was sealed on the top of the roof for piling up miscellaneous items. She unceremoniously drilled up: "You can use it here!" Let me tell you, I am a husband, I have married several husbands, and I have killed men. Finally they tried to sell me into a prostitute, and I fled. Take me in, and say I'm your distant niece. Saving a life is better than creating a seventh-level floating slaughter, thank you! ”
Old man Yao was still staying.
"Oh yes," the woman poked her head out of the attic again, "my name is Ah Yan, thank you for your attention!" ”
Winter goes to spring.
Even in the slums, there is spring. The miscellaneous flowers bloomed little by little, branch by branch, piece by piece, as if they didn't know that there was another winter ahead. Starlings and sparrows stand on the branches and sing in the air, as if they have only one event in their lives.
The bright spring light does not enter the attic. The low-hanging green vines spread out the window, and Ah Yan didn't brush them away. She worked in the rattan window. In the shadows, her eyes were glowing, like a beast, and she could see things clearly at night.
The neighbors gradually learned that Old Man Yao had a distant niece in his family. The little girl is quite delicate, and some of the matchmakers made up their minds, but when they heard that Yao Ayanke had died of many husbands and had nowhere to go, she went to this slum, and no one dared to ask about it anymore.
Yao Ayan's life is really hard, he dared to go to the Huang family's abandoned house to pick up firewood, and he never bumped into evil once. In addition, she will do a little needlework to supplement the family. It's a good thing that Old Man Yao has such a niece.
Gradually, Old Man Yao developed feelings for Ah Yan, and sometimes sighed at her: "A good woman, why is her life hard?" I want to marry a good man......"
"This is already a good family!" Ah Yan smiled at him, holding the needlework and going to exchange money.
On the way, someone took one look at her and immediately turned her head.
This is a hard-fated, unlucky woman! There was once a gangster, who was not afraid of evil and wanted to fight Ah Yan's idea, touched her a few handfuls and ate a meal of tofu, and then he had an evil wind, his head was swollen and his mouth was crooked, and he lay on the bed for a long time and couldn't move. After that, people didn't dare to look at Ah Yan more.
Only a bad old man like Old Man Yao, who has been lonely all his life, can live under the same roof with Ah Yan and be safe.
Ah Yan looked calm and walked slowly.
The spring sun shone warmly on her, and she leaned against the mossy stone wall, stretched, and let out a long breath.
I don't know if anyone believes that this period of time is indeed the most leisurely and reassuring day in her life.
She wished that such days would go on forever.
Only one person could recognize her face and shatter her precious day. But Ah Yan thought that she should not be afraid. After all, the adult was very busy. The world is so big, he won't go to this corner to make rounds. No one would notice the orphan girl in the slum and bring her to him to identify her, right? Ah Yan is safe.
When she passed the blind fortune teller, she still couldn't help but stop slightly.
The blind fortune teller shouted hard: "Female guest officer, you have a disaster!" Two copper plates, as long as two copper plates, will eliminate disasters for you! ”
The corners of Ah Yan's mouth were raised, and he walked over.
Her calamity, even if she moves two mountains of gold, cannot be dissolved.
The fortune teller shouted behind her: "Really! You're going to be killed unexpectedly! ”
Ah Yan paused.
The moment of fortune telling, I couldn't breathe well. The air seemed to be condensed. There seemed to be an invisible knife pressing against his neck.
In an instant, the air began to flow again. The suffocation just now seemed to be an illusion. Ah Yan walked over, and his expression did not change at all.
She handed in the needlework, carefully received the meager remuneration in her arms, and went back to Old Man Yao's house, but halfway saw a person lying in the corner.
The wind rattled the torn paper on the wall. Those are all government posters, all kinds of wanted.
For example, Jiangyang thieves, murderers, injured officials and horses, illegally practiced medicine, and the prefect did not evade when he went out on patrol, all kinds of crimes. The laws of the county are strange and all-encompassing. There's even a wanted executioner's.
The executioner, who was going to give Huang Shilang the punishment of Ling Chi, should have cut 120 knives to kill the prisoner, and the onlookers were happily waiting to see the wonderful performance of 120 knives. As a result, the senior executioner, somehow, made a mistake on the spot, which made Huang Shilang die early. The audience was very dissatisfied, and the emperor was very unhappy. The executioner was to be punished with one hundred and twenty swords as the prisoner deserved. He was scared away, so the court posted a general order.
It was early winter, and after a winter, the paper was already in tatters. People talked about it for a while, and then they threw it away.
After all, that's a matter in the county.
And this is the hidden city of Ranpin County.
New paper was pasted on the torn paper. There are too many fugitives to pursue. The man who fell in the corner, the public studied it, confirmed that he had the passage quotation of the good people on him, and left him, and the people of the hidden city came to watch, and found that he was only severely malnourished and fell and caused severe pain in the abdomen, and he was bored and ready to disperse.
There is a very kind stick instructor who has just started to learn emergency care for trauma and wants to practice his hands on him. As soon as his fingers touched the man's body, Ah Yan sighed in his heart. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (qidian.com) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. For mobile phone users, please read it on m.qidian.com. )