Chapter Twenty-Six: Horror
The dark night sank as if it was about to be deducted, the stars and the moon were gone, Zhang Yuxia looked at the sky, her heart tightened, and the tenderness and sweetness just now were gone. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
It's so dark!
Zhang Yuxia and Kwai Zhi went one after the other, and they learned that Suosuo stepped on the bluestone path.
Turning the moon gate, the lights of Biwuyuan were faintly visible, and the feet of the two of them tightened. Zhang Yuxia had no distractions, staring ahead, just wanting to go back to the garden one step earlier and get rid of the suffocating night sky.
Zhang Yuxia thought that she was dazzled, only to see a black shadow burst out from between the trees, and instantly disappeared into a dense cluster of flowers.
Zhang Yuxia's footsteps froze, covering her chest with her hands, comforting the frightened little heart.
Rao is Kwai Zhi was behind, and he was also frightened, his body stiffened, and he trembled for a long time, "Miss, Miss, what is it?" ”
Kwai Zhi's voice was seriously out of tune, and Zhang Yuxia once thought that it was not Kwai Zhi talking, but the terrifying voice of a thousand-year-old demon.
It's dark this night! I was shocked that I shouldn't have thought about it!
Kwai Zhi wanted to take a look around, but her neck was like it wasn't her own, straight and couldn't move, she rigidly lifted her steps and landed on her feet, and followed Zhang Yuxia with her steps.
"It's a cat." Zhang Yuxia's tone was extremely light.
"It's not like that, how can cats have that cleverness." Listening to Zhang Yuxia's usual voice, Kwai Zhi felt a little warmer in his heart, and blurted out his words.
She realized that her words seemed to have violated this taboo in the dead of night, and when the words slipped out of the tip of her tongue and teeth, they spiced her slightly, and she looked around in shock, and raised her hand to cover her disobedient mouth.
Zhang Yuxia was immersed in her own thoughts, and she didn't listen to it at all. She had already guessed what that quick leg guy was, but according to folk sayings, bumping into it at night was like crashing into a great immortal, so the best way was to turn a blind eye and force her composure so as not to disturb her mind.
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Zhang Yuxia's face was calm, which was very different from the softness in the past.
Although Kwai Lan is naughty, she also knows how to read words and colors. Seeing that Kwai Zhi was secretly giving her a look, she also smiled with a playful look, put her face in warm water, soaked a towel, and helped Zhang Yuxia wash her face.
The candles in the room flickered, like a human soul jumping. The girls do their own thing, busy but not chaotic. Everything seemed so normal, but there seemed to be something restless and not normally in the air. This atmosphere is very secretive, as if she was choked by an invisible person, and there was only an endless, deeper and deeper panic in her heart, which was like the moment she sank to the bottom of the water in her previous life, painful and hateful, hating the impermanence of the world.
Zhang Yuxia sat on the bench, letting the girl fiddle, like a puppet, and her image was sluggish. She was extremely depressed, and she had a gut feeling that something was going to happen, but she couldn't find the head or the end.
Kwai Zhi carefully helped her take off the hairpin, hairpin, black hair shawl, bath and change clothes.
After soaking in hot water, Zhang Yuxia came back to her senses, and the tiredness swept like a strong wind.
Aoi Zhi served her to lie down, put down the slow rise, extinguished the candle, and quietly retreated outside.
The night became quieter and quieter, and even the insects in the corner of the wall stopped hissing, it was too quiet! Not a single sound could be heard. She thought she was deaf.
Zhang Yuxia's body was very tired, but she was completely sleepy in her mind. The emperor's kind face shook in front of him for a while, and for a while he unconsciously remembered the terrifying "cat".
Tossing and turning, seven up and eight down. Thinking wildly, he closed his eyelids in a drowsy state.
Her eyes were closed, her breathing was even, and her face was serene.
"Xia'er, Xia'er." Someone called her.
With such a familiar and friendly voice, Zhang Yuxia opened her eyes and found herself in the white world, and she couldn't see the real sight of the vast surroundings.
She was a little scared, "Daddy, is that you?" Xia'er can't see you. Her voice was filled with uncontrollable tears.
"Xia'er, Daddy is here. Unafraid. As he spoke, his father Zhang Shuncheng was already in front of him, with a loving face and a smile in his eyes.
"Daddy, Xia'er and her mother miss you so much, my mother wants to wear it, and I look forward to you coming home every day." Zhang Yuxia took her father's hand, and warmth came from her hands, driving away the cold.
"Xia'er is really a good daughter of her father, you have to take good care of your mother in the future......" Zhang Shuncheng stroked Zhang Yuxia's face with a pair of big hands. Although there was a smile on his face, his eyes seemed to be covered with a thin layer of moisture.
"Dad, are you crying?" Zhang Yuxia's eyes widened and she shouted in disbelief.
She stretched out her hand to try to wipe her godfather's tears, but her father suddenly let go of her hand and floated leisurely, laughing and hanging with tears, looking at her, floating higher and higher, drifting farther and farther.
"Daddy, daddy, daddy......" Zhang Yuxia shouted in despair.
Kwai Zhi and Kwai Lan heard the scream, pushed the door and came in to see Zhang Yuxia's eyes closed, dancing with her hands, and her face full of tears. Miss, Miss, wake up. ”
Zhang Yuxia opened her eyes in shock, and there was silence all around.
Is it a dream? Why do you have a personal experience? It's like you're there.
She heard her own pounding heartbeat, and she panicked.
"What time is it?" Her throat was dry and hoarse, as if it had been torn.
"Yin Shi. It's dark, and I guess it's going to be dawn in another hour. ”
Zhang Yuxia struggled to get up, her body was as lazy as cotton.
Kwai Lan and Kwai Zhi quickly helped her up and leaned on the soft pillow.
Kwai Zhi took a cup of hot tea, and Zhang Yuxia drank the tea in small sips, her throat was less dry and much more comfortable. She rubbed the cup, looked at the empty cup, and her swollen heart before going to bed was like the bottomed water in the cup, which was suddenly hollowed out, and she was empty.
The thick sorrow enveloped my heart like a fog, and it did not dissipate for a long time.
She looked out the window, and a few flickering lights in the verandah were fluttering in the dark night with the wind, like a skull with a cold light, Zhang Yuxia trembled all over. Why tonight is so different, there are elusive mysteries everywhere. She secretly prayed that her father would be safe and go home as soon as possible.
She looked out the window at a glance, looking forward to the dawn. She couldn't sit still, and she couldn't wait to go and sit down with her mother and talk, maybe then she would be more at ease.
She wanted to be comforted, but no one could understand her thoughts, and she sighed slightly.
Seeing Zhang Yuxia's strange expression, her face was pale like a demon, and she bluffed Kwai Lan's little hands so cold and cold, she trembled, and she didn't dare to speak, she just kept looking at Kwai Zhi.
Kwai Zhi is also weak and timid, but in such a situation at the moment, they obviously do not allow them to mess up, she can only force her composure and composure.
Kwai Zhi wondered again and again in her heart that the young lady's appearance of "madness" could really be related to the "Wong Tai Sin" she bumped into at night? Could it be that he was frightened? Although she didn't see what that guy was, listening to the evasion in Miss's tone, it should be eight or nine and ten.
The fear brought by the nightmare followed her like a shadow, haunting Zhang Yuxia. She was exhausted, her mouth was dry, and she drank tea sullenly.
There was a glimmer of blue-gray light in the sky, and it looked like it was almost dawning.
Kwai Zhi and Kwai Lan secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Zhang Yuxia retracted her gaze and rubbed the cup for a while, as if she was calming down her nervous emotions.
Her mood gradually calmed down, and she tried to convince herself that it was just a dream, and that she could not disturb her mother because of an ethereal dream. If she can't bear it, let alone a weak mother.
Zhang Yuxia shook her head and sighed, she was originally a reborn person, fearless of life and death. Misfortune and fortune are only in the moment, even if there are people who plan, it depends on the will of God. Daddy is far away from thousands of mountains and rivers, but I'm afraid that the distant water can't save the near fire.
She closed her eyes weakly and sat there confused.
Kwai Zhi and Kwai Lan calmed down, covered her with a thin blanket, and stayed by the couch.
I didn't have a dream, and when I woke up again, the warm sun was hanging in the air, and the birds were singing and the flowers were fragrant.
Zhang Yuxia moved, her neck was sore, and her arms were numb.
"Miss, you're awake." Kwai Zhi, who was embroidering on the side, came over with a smile, pulled the curtain aside, and was busy rubbing her neck and arms for her, "Miss looks much better now, what do you want to eat?" ”
The feeling of soreness and numbness crawled all over the body, as if there were many ants attached to the body and wriggling, indescribably uncomfortable, and the hunger in the stomach was even more real, "Is there porridge?" ”
"Miss, there is porridge. The millet lotus seed porridge just delivered from the big kitchen, and the barley wheat kernel porridge sent by the lady. I'll bring it to the young lady. Kwai Lan, who had just come in from outside the door, answered.
The crunchy sound is like a green jujube just picked from the tree, with a slight hint of greenness in the sweetness, and an endless aftertaste. When Zhang Yuxia heard the voice, she felt like a world away, and she sighed in her heart, but the relationship between people was extremely delicate and difficult to figure out. The two little girls entered the house by selling their bodies, and their status was lowly, but they were loyal and affectionate; Several sisters are related to the same blood, but they are intrigued, jealous and hateful, and even do not hesitate to break their heads for their own selfish desires, which is really an insoluble grudge; Daddy's nurturing grace should be rewarded, but in her dream, she could only watch her father's departure, unable to do anything, in vain, what to do? The emperor and her are happy, but they are still worried in their hearts, and they are uneasy, just because the emperor is friendly with his father, and he can be called a father, is this considered a bad fate?
Many times people are like this, half confused, half sober living, helpless, walking on thin ice, cautious, cautious, but still can't get around the potholes on the road of life, intricate and troublesome.