Chapter 116: Bones
"Miss Hongchen......"
I don't know if it was the cold wind blowing, Ouyang Hao woke up from the coma, opened his mouth, and shouted in a daze.
Wei's eyes immediately turned red, and he comforted him continuously: "My son, my son, don't be afraid, I'll take you to him, take you to him!" β
The next moment, Ouyang Hao opened his mouth, but suddenly lost his voice...... His face was pale, his eyes were open, but he couldn't move, only his eyes were dripping, and his face showed a frightened expression.
The corners of the eyes are slightly moist, and the water ripples.
His mother half-hugged her son, with an anxious and crazy face, wailing outside the door, and shouting unabashedly: "Please, Miss Hongchen, you will be merciful and come out to see my son, I know that our son is not worthy of you, but you can't die without help!" I only have this one son, if the Ouyang family is extinct, then I won't live! β
This shows the disadvantage that the house is not big enough, it is noisy outside, and unless the ears are blocked inside, it can still be heard in the innermost.
Hongchen shook his head with a wry smile.
Wei made such a fuss, Luo Niang and the others were calm, in fact, it was useless to be angry. The people from the Yamen came very quickly this time, and without waiting for Webster's next round of funerals, they slipped away neatly.
also assigned a platoon of servants to temporarily help their family stand guard.
Hongchen is not like before now, as a county lord, even if he has not officially completed the canonization ceremony, he is almost a serious person with a knighthood, and he can't just collide with any ordinary person.
The people in the yamen over there also had a headache.
Ouyang Hao is a new science and technology scholar, and they give a little face. dragged Webster away, but he didn't directly put people in prison.
Merriam-Webster is not a fool, though.
was taken in front of Jing Zhaoyin, she knew that the young lady could not be offended casually, Jing Zhaoyin was just a fourth-grade official, and the person who might be this official in the capital must not be an ordinary person.
In his early years, His Majesty also served as Jing Zhaoyin for a while.
Later, His Majesty's own nephew, Prince Li, also served for a year.
It can be seen that this position in Da Zhou is by no means in the aggrieved position of Beiyan and Dayong.
The current Jing Zhao Yin's surname is Yu, and his name is Yu Ze. Famous gate in Beijing. The famous Mrs. Yu is a distant aunt of his, and the relationship is not close, but she can also see that the family has a wide range of power and most of the affairs in the capital. He still managed to handle it. I am also sleek. It's easy not to offend people to death, but those princes and grandsons who have committed things don't dare to be too angry in front of him, and they will generally follow his ideas honestly. It is time to lose money and lose money, and it is time to be punished and punished.
Of course, if there is a big case, there will inevitably be all kinds of ruffles, and if the background is not hard, I really don't dare to govern Jingzhao.
It's not a big deal in front of me, it's just quite tiresome and crooked.
Lord Yu reprimanded Wei Shi with a straight face, Wei Shi listened very honestly, and promised again and again that he would never dare to harass the young lady again, so people let him go back.
One of them is old and the other is weak, and it is not appropriate to be in prison, and it will damage the reputation of that young lady.
In the past, Wei Shi was indeed safe, and he didn't dare to make trouble in front of Hongchenmen, but there were some rumors of chaos in the capital.
Most of them said that Hongchen was cold-blooded and ruthless, and even Ouyang Gongzi was about to die, and he refused to take a look.
Even if you don't like others, but after all, the other party is a man who loves him wholeheartedly, and he refuses to even give this little face, which is too much.
Wei didn't say anything, just went to various medical centers to ask doctors for help, and when someone asked her for news in private, she would only cry and not say a word.
In this way, some people really think that Hongchen is bullying.
People in the world don't say they are ignorant, but when it comes to spreading news, they are accustomed to spreading those dark, obscure, and exciting news whenever they want.
I don't dare to say such things to my face, but there is also an undercurrent.
Luo Niang and Xiao Yan have been for several days, their faces are not very good-looking, and Hongchen is not in a hurry at all: "Don't worry, this is the capital, not Qi County, and a little gossip can't hurt anyone." β
If it was in the capital division, even this little rumor could ruin a county lord who was personally sealed by the saint, then the county lord of Ronghua would have turned into dry bones for hundreds of years, Hongchen slowly tidied up his table, took a talisman, put it into the charcoal basin, and glanced at the old ginseng who was sitting at the table and was bored, and made a look, and the other party floated out.
In the past two years, Lao Ginseng has long broken free from the shackles and can walk very freely, and his body has grown thicker and stronger.
Hongchen used a huge potted flower pot, which could be used to carry it around, and even the big garden in the house didn't dare to bury it in, so that it couldn't be opened, but it was purely that this place was only a temporary residence after all, and it was always buried in and dug out, which was also very troublesome.
Lao Shan Ginseng plans to find a piece of feng shui treasure land to settle down, and then follow Hongchen around.
It's a big deal to ask Hongchen to arrange a defensive formation for it or something.
The old ginseng went out for a walk.
When he returned, there was a thin black shadow behind the curtain.
Luo Niang was still a little scared, and couldn't help but take a step back, but two years have passed, and there are a few demons and monsters I have seen.
Sometimes demons don't eat people, they eat people to their own kind.
Hongchen knocked on the table, and there was a slight touch of aura on his slender snow-white fingers, and as soon as he stretched out his hand, the black shadow was attracted to him, and he sat down honestly at the desk, his face was confused, but his expression became a lot more sober, and when he looked up and saw Hongchen, he jumped up in fright, and sat down with a plop.
"You, you ......"
The light on Hongchen's body burned her mind.
"What's your name?"
With a breath of aura in his tongue, Hongchen said softly.
"The little woman's maiden name is Zhou, the small character Weiwei, and she later married the Ouyang family as her daughter-in-law."
Hongchen was relieved: "Tell me how you died, why did you pester Ouyang Hao?" β
Zhou Weiwei was stunned, a blank appeared on her face, and she said after a long time: "The little woman doesn't know, I don't know why I can't leave my husband......"
Luo Niang frowned. It's a fool.
She doesn't see ghosts much, but occasionally listens to Hongchen tell stories, and she has said that some ghosts are easy to get confused after death, and they can't remember many things before they die, but if they have grievances or concerns, they will instinctively act according to their obsessions before death.
Hongchen exhaled, shook his head, took another talisman, and threw it into the charcoal basin on the table in front of him.
Boom. Flames splashed.
The old ginseng is very eye-catching. Thorn jumped out to work, and in the blink of an eye, the house was cold and full of black fog.
Zhou Weiwei's face turned pale with fright. "Ghosts. Hell, ahhhh β
Luo Niang: "......"
Hongchen slapped it on the table. In the next moment, the room was instantly calm, and even the scrolls were swept away by the wind. also honestly fell back into place.
The shadow who came this time was more violent than Zhou Weiwei, with a hideous face, it was the quiet young woman that Hongchen saw on Ouyang Hao's shoulder last time, but at this moment, she didn't show the demeanor of everyone before.
Hongchen picked up the tea on the table and splashed it on her, this fierce young woman came back to her senses, her body shrank in pain, but the black gas dispersed, seeing Hongchen, it was obvious that she knew, and she actually pounced on the table: "Miss, don't marry into the Ouyang family, Ouyang Hao is a madman, and his mother is also a madman!" β
"Don't worry, speak slowly."
After reassuring her, the woman calmed down a little, perhaps at last someone could hear her, and she held it for a long time, and she wanted to pour out all the words in her stomach.
ββ¦β¦ The concubine first married Ouyang Hao, and he didn't think it was inappropriate, he was very talented, he could write essays and poems, and he looked dignified, my family was just a small family, and I could get a reading seed as a husband, and my father and mother were very happy, but it didn't take long for the concubine to find that his temper was not as good as he was, he was very irritable, and once he didn't know who he was angry with outside, he kicked the concubine and vomited blood, and he couldn't get up for half a day......"
When the young woman said this, Zhou Weiwei's body trembled, and she suddenly shrank her head and hugged her shoulders, and the whole person got under the table.
"Woo, don't hit me!"
Luo Niang was taken aback: "There is such a thing? β
Hongchen was also stunned.
To say that these days, Ouyang Hao's mother and son are making trouble, they feel that it is very annoying, but at most they feel that Ouyang Hao is a little confused and confused, but I don't know that he still has this kind of problem!
Inquire outside, this Ouyang Gongzi's reputation is actually very good.
Those literati thought that he was polite and talented, in fact, among so many scholars, he was admitted to the second-class jinshi at the age of twenty, and no one could say that he was not talented.
"Although the concubine was wronged, he bowed down afterwards and made a small compensation, promising not to commit it again, and the concubine forgave him."
This thing is normal, Hongchen smiled bitterly, women are married, these years are also particular about marrying chickens and dogs, she was beaten, I am afraid that she will have to cover up for her husband, after all, it is ugly, I am afraid that even my mother's family is not willing to let me know.
"I thought he could really change for the better, but after that, again and again, again and again, I couldn't stand it, so I packed my baggage and wanted to go back to my parents' house."
Two lines of tears hung on the young woman's face, "I think that although I am not a century-old famous family, my father is also a little famous, and the concubine is loved by my father and brother at home, and my life is happy and happy, if it weren't for the unfortunate fact that my former fiancΓ© went out to work and was robbed and died, I wouldn't have married him as an ordinary son, where can I endure this?" β
"On that day, I made up my mind to write a letter to my father and mother, informing me of everything, so that I could reconcile with him, I would rather the Green Lantern Ancient Buddha live for the rest of my life than suffer such humiliation, I don't think about it, I don't think about it, I don't think ......about it."
The young woman curled up on the ground and cried, "That Ouyang Hao is shameless, he actually wrote a letter to my father and mother in imitation of my handwriting, only saying that I had eloped with someone." β
Luo Niang trembled.
Hongchen also straightened her face, although she saw the ghost of the young woman, she already knew that she would be killed, but when she heard that there were such shameless people in the world, she was also rarely angry in her chest, and the expression on her face became heavier and heavier.
The young woman lowered her head, and her voice turned sad: "Ouyang Hao locked me in the basement, tortured day and night, I couldn't stand it, so I committed suicide by hunger strike, and then I didn't die, and I remembered in a daze that he threw me into the dry well behind Ouyang's old house." β
"After my father and mother found out, I didn't believe it at first, but then I saw that I really disappeared, and I thought that my son-in-law would not lie in this regard, what a shame, I can only beg Ouyang Hao not to publicize it, otherwise my sister is afraid that her reputation will be lost. Ouyang Hao announced my death to the public, and made a heartbroken appearance...... all these years. Our Xiang family helped the Ouyang family a lot, mistook the enemy as a benefactor, even when he studied for the imperial examination, the eldest brother did not subsidize him, and even helped him visit famous teachers! β
There was silence in the room.
The previous young woman, Zhou Weiwei, trembled, raised her head for a long time, and said in a voice like a mosquito: "It turned out to be Sister Xiang, I, I don't know how I died, although he also beat me." But I never told my family about it. β
Zhou Weiwei's mind doesn't seem to be very clear. A little confused, "I just think that he is too tired from studying, and he has suffered a lot of grievances outside, and he has always been submissive." Filial piety to mother-in-law. The dowry was used to supplement his pen and ink...... How did I die? β
Hongchen sighed. said in a low voice: "Don't think about it if you can't think of it, it's good for you to have no obsession." β
Ouyang Hao married three wives, and this family and Zhou Weiwei were his second and third wives. The first one is not here.
Hongchen tried to find it but didn't find it, it shouldn't have turned into a ghost, so he asked Luo Niang to take a gourd over and take the two of them away for the time being.
Xiang wanted to speak and stopped.
"Miss Xiang, don't worry." Hongchen smiled, "I will definitely let people settle in the ground, and also make your father and mother feel at ease." β
It's just that Xiang's father and mother rashly knew that their daughter was not eloping, but dead, and they didn't know what their mood would be.
Xiang Ying Ying bowed, his face full of gratitude.
The old house of the Ouyang family has not been renovated for many years, it is dilapidated, this time the title of the son's gold list, originally planned to renovate it, but Wei's heart is looking for another place to live, but after all, the old house has lived for many years, so I didn't think about selling, only let people tear it down, and plan to rebuild and tidy it up, temporarily seal, and add Ding to the family in the future, I can't say that it can still be used.
Last month, Merriam-Webster asked the Chinese to pay attention to this aspect of the craftsman, but now he can't care about it, and he is bent on seeking medical treatment for his son.
It was drizzling on the horizon.
Wei Shi stood at the door, anxiously waiting, she asked someone to help invite a doctor from a century-old pharmacy today, but the doctor went to the clinic and agreed to come over in the afternoon.
A few women in the neighborhood were sitting under a tree next to them doing laundry, chatting with Webster.
The wife of the Xiao family next door has always been close to the Ouyang family, and they speak directly to each other, and while washing clothes, they frowned and asked: "Brother Hao is such a person, why is he sick, I heard that he has lovesickness?" Old sister-in-law, it's not me who said you, don't be too cowardly, you have to be tough when you should be tough, where is the fox......"
As she spoke, Webster just lowered his head, looked sad, and didn't say a word, and the neighbors around him became more and more angry and discussed.
As he was talking, a team of officials Hao Hao Tang Tang slaughtered at the gate of Ouyang's house.
All of them are menacing.
The gossiping neighbors immediately shut down, looked at each other for a while, and no one dared to move.
Wei Shi was stunned for a moment, and when he saw the old lady and the little master of the Xiang family, he came over with a blue face, trembled, and said in a trembling voice: "Old in-laws, this ......"
Old lady Xiang's expression was strange, as if she was hesitant, and seemed to hide a little resentment, so she didn't look at her, and turned her head to herself.
A group of officials crowded around a carriage.
As soon as the curtain of the car door opened, the two women who came down inside made Wei startled, and his pupils contracted--it turned out to be Miss Hongchen!
Wei Shi suddenly felt a strange uneasiness, and took two steps over, with a smile on his face, but before she could speak, Hongchen looked around and pointed inside: "Let's go, backyard." β
The officials nodded, and the group swarmed in, kicked open the door and walked straight inside.
Hongchen thought about it, and said to the old lady Xiang: "I'm tired of the old lady to call more people, the yang energy is a little more, her house is dark, and there are more people." β
Old lady Xiang was a little absent-minded, but she still responded, turned her head and explained a few words, and she didn't know what the little master of their family said when she went out, and there were more than a dozen people who came to the house, most of them were neighbors, and some of them were pulled from the street, all of them were strong men.
The group rushed into Ouyang's old mansion.
Wei's face turned white with fright, and he hurriedly chased after him, stopping this and that, and roared angrily: "You guys, what do you want to do when you trespass into people's houses!" I, my son is a dignified scholar, I'm going to sue you! β
The leader of the first catch said with a quick smile: "There is a spirit master who has calculated that your family is hiding the bones, according to the rules, we must search and see." β
The spirit masters of the Great Zhou do have this kind of power, if they calculate something, they can mobilize the government to do things, of course, not all spirit masters can, it depends on whether they have face. However, most spirit masters are stingy with their reputation, and they will never act so lightly, because if they make a mistake once, not only will they not have the opportunity to do such a thing next time, but more importantly, they will be severely punished, and they will never be able to become a spirit master again.
In the final analysis, the most important thing for a spiritual master is word of mouth, and if you make a mistake, your status will plummet.
Anyone who needs a spirit master. It must be a situation where mistakes cannot be tolerated. Naturally, you have to choose a master who never makes a mistake.
Many people around listened to the words of the catcher, and they were all interested, and the people always loved to watch the excitement, and they were not afraid. Swarmed. Merriam-Webster's whole body stiffened. Then he came back to his senses and chased desperately.
Chase all the way to the backyard.
Hongchen looked up and saw the snow-white old ginseng sitting on a stone. Smirked.
She blinked and pointed to the boulder, "It's down there, move the stone out of the way first." β
The official nodded in response, and hurriedly walked over, Na Wei pounced, the whole person fell to the stone, and scolded: "Stop, whoever dares to touch my family's things, you all stop, even if I die today, I am not allowed to ......."
Hongchen glanced at it, held the gourd that was shaking in his waist, pulled out the gourd stopper, and a black shadow floated out.
Catching Kuai was very impatient, and just wanted someone to pull Webster away, when she suddenly covered her neck, her voice stopped abruptly, and she staggered down from the stone, rolling all the way to the side, struggling for a long time and unable to stand up.
It was as if a gust of wind was blowing.
Everyone was struck by the fire.
Several officials exhaled, they were used to seeing their bones and everything, so they were not afraid, they spat and foamed, and shouted to move the stones away.
Hongchen waved his hand, and someone behind him tore open a red canvas and blocked it with a bamboo pole, and only then did the person responsible for salvaging the bones step forward.
The yamen often disposes of these, and naturally specially raises people to do this kind of work, don't look very clean, but you can make a lot of money, and the reward you get once is more than those serious officials who work for a month, and the salary you usually get is also high.
The specially called, similar to the rake of tools, slowly went down into the well, slowly stirred, only a short time, and the faces of the people working on it showed joy: "There is, there is." β
He took a torch and shone it, "It's a corpse, it's complete, it looks like it's a female corpse." As he spoke, he muttered in a low voice, "Although it has been soaked for a long time, it doesn't seem to be rotten." β
Before the words fell, there was an uproar around.
The old lady of the Xiang family was still standing firmly, but when she heard the words, she shook and fell on his youngest son's shoulder, crying: "My Niuniu! β
Everyone turned their heads, only to see that Wei was not tied up at all, and no one suppressed him, but his face was distorted, twisting and twisting on the ground, and he couldn't stand up after struggling for a long time.
Everyone's hearts were cold.
Fortunately, there were many people present, and they were all tall and big men, so there was a little less fear.
Catch quickly softened his throat and coughed: "I'm bothering a few people to come up." β
When the voice was answered, he shouted the trumpet, shouted, pulled up, two people moved, and there were two more strategies next to him, changing hands at any time.
Catching Kuai's heart beat a drum, coughed dryly, and smiled: "Do this kind of work, pay attention to inviting people out once, if you can't invite people, you have to change people, or ......"
The voice did not fall, only a plop was heard.
And the body fell.
The people above were stunned, and the two who were in charge of picking up the corpses went down and replaced them with the other two.
Catch quickly frowned: "The two of you are in the hands of today." β
The two didn't speak for a while, and shook their heads: "This is a strange thing today. "They're used to doing these kinds of errands, they're familiar with it, and they can't make mistakes.
Before he spoke, he plopped again.
The two also withdrew their hands, turned their heads and said: "No, no, this one seems to don't want to go, little dog, three donkeys, you two try again, if it doesn't work, we can't go out today on this errand, we still have to wait for tomorrow." β
Catch the fast landing when his face changed: "How can that be done!" β
As far as the Xiang family went to report the case, it was simply sensational, and the adults waited for the results, but they couldn't find the body here, so it was okay?
Hongchen frowned, glanced at it, shook his head, and said, "Luo Niang, help me get my clothes from the car." β
Luo Niang answered, and went to turn over a big cloak, Hongchen took it, moved lightly to the well, walked to the well, spread the cover with both hands, and said loudly: "I know that you have not been wronged, you are not in the netherworld, and you are not well-dressed, and you can't see people, but today is the day of Zhaoxue, your father and younger brother are here, just come up quickly, don't delay." β
Master Xiang cried and shouted: "Niuniu loves beauty the most, Dad knows, Dad knows, you can come up, Dad will buy you new clothes, new jewelry, whatever you want, Dad will buy you anything." β
The little master also cried: "Sister, I'll give you all the pocket money, come up, I won't quarrel with you anymore, woo woo." (To be continued.) )