Chapter 154: Butterfly Dance (5)
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I only heard Shen Bijun whisper: "It's gloomy and terrifying here after nightfall, I don't want to stay anymore." ā
Master Shen immediately answered: "Come, I'll send you back." ā
Wang Li heard their footsteps moving away, and only then did he touch the wall of the well, and inserted his dagger into the gap, moving up little by little. His whole body was numb from the cold, and his movements were not very dexterous, and after only a while, he felt that his breath had become thicker, and when he looked up, he was still a long distance away from the mouth of the well.
He gasped for breath and climbed up again, suddenly losing weight and falling back into the water. The fall was so hard that the bones of the whole body almost fell apart. He rested for a while, then slowly climbed up again with one breath, and this time halfway up he heard footsteps again. Wang Li was in a dilemma, if he dived into the water again, he was afraid that he would not have the strength to escape, but it was easy to be discovered if he stayed here.
Suddenly, a hemp rope hung down and went all the way into the water.
The people above didn't speak, just waited quietly.
After a moment, Wang Li grabbed the hemp rope, wrapped it around his wrist a few times, and slowly went up along the wall of the well. When he was still three or four feet away from the wellhead, he loosened the hemp rope and lifted his breath upward, and the sudden light in front of him made him squint.
The sun is rising in the east, and the morning is shining. The gloomy woman lowered her body to untie the hemp rope tied to the tree next to her, and rolled a few rolls casually.
Wang Li couldn't help but say: "It's you." ā
The woman glanced at him coldly, and a strange smile tugged at the corner of her mouth: "Of course it's me, otherwise who do you think it will be?" My sister, my father, or your well-behaved and clever rose girl? ā
Wang Li smiled slightly bitterly: "Thank you." ā
Shen Wanjun casually threw a roll of hemp rope aside, and said coldly: "It seems that you have seen and heard a lot of things that you shouldn't know this night in the well." ā
She swept back the strands of hair that were hanging from her ears and whispered, "That Rose Girl is right. I don't want you to find out the secret of this Zhuangzi, but I don't want you to know it. ā
Wang Li was silent. The warm spring sun reflected on his body, and his originally numb body began to feel a little warmer.
"My mother is from the Yi ethnic group, and she fell in love with my father, and even married him despite the opposition of the clansmen. My mother's ...... In fact, she knows how to use witchcraft, but because my father doesn't like it, she keeps it hidden. But ......"
This paragraph is exactly the same as what Master Shen said before, and it is true when you think about it.
"However, my father soon found out, but he did not blame my mother. Because of this incident, my mother was even more obedient to him. Shen Wanjun took a deep breath, "One day nine years ago, my mother went to the mountains to collect medicine, but she didn't come back. Everyone searched for it many times, but they didn't find it, so everyone said that my mother met a python in the deep mountains, and was torn apart and swallowed by them. I don't believe it, one night I went out to look for it, and when I came back, it was only the second watch, and I saw a man who looked like my father's back burying something, so I hid behind the bushes and watched. Daddy finished burying it and left. I just wanted to go out, but I was afraid that he would suddenly come back to take a look, so I had to squat without moving. Sure enough, it didn't take long for Daddy to turn back and leave when he saw that there was no one. ā
The haze in her eyes deepened, and she said coldly: "I squatted so that my legs and feet were numb, and I finally got up and walked to the place where my father buried things, dug the soil with my hands, and my nails were dug out, and my hands were full of blood, and I finally saw what was buried inside." She smiled strangely at Wang Li: "Guess what I see?" ā
Wang Li said in a low voice: "...... Is it the corpse of Lingtang? ā
Shen Wanjun nodded: "It's my mother's corpse, her whole body is shriveled, as if she has been sucked out of all her essence and blood." She wasn't eaten by a python at all, she was killed by my father! This brute, after knowing that my mother knew witchcraft, begged her to teach him, and then used this method to kill her. Later, my father probably found out that the place where he was buried had been dug up, and he began to suspect our two sisters. My sister is stupid, he doesn't know anything, and he can only suspect me. I don't know how much I suffered in order not to be seen by him. Later, my family moved to this town of flowing water, where people kept dying mysteriously, and I understood what was going on when I saw the death, but there was no way to stop it. ā
When she said this, her eyes were already full of tears: "Fortunately, my sister is ...... I don't understand anything, I don't know anything, all this, as long as I understand it alone, it's enough. She wiped the corner of her eyes with her sleeve: "The Taoist priest named Ling Xuozi you know was killed by my father, and he is probably also because he found something." Wang Gongzi, I think you should leave, the sooner the better. Your junior sister is still young, and she is so smart, it would be a pity if she died in this village of the living dead. ā
Wang Li finally thought of what the flashing thought was before: this family's behavior was strange everywhere, obviously they were father and daughter, but they were wary of each other and slandered.
He turned back into the vestibule and bumped into a man around the corner. The man's body was soft, and he sighed softly, with a rose accent.
Rose turned her head, looked at him with a wet and embarrassed appearance, and smiled slightly: "Hey, Brother Wang, why did you go swimming early in the morning?" ā
Wang Li looked at her, and saw that she had a pleasant smile, a fine white complexion, like a freshly produced fine white porcelain, a gentle appearance, but a stomach full of bad water, and said lightly: "I was swimming all night last night." ā
Rose heard the voiceover, stepped forward and said softly: "It's still April, what if you catch a cold?" Brother Wang, go and change your clothes. ā
Wang Li returned to the guest room, and was about to take off his robe, when he found that Rose also came in, Shi Shiran sat down at the table, supporting himself with one hand and fiddling with the teacup with the other.
Wang Li glanced at her: "Don't you avoid it?" ā
Rose smiled and groaned: "I will just sit here and talk, and I will not look at you." She paused, and then said, "You asked me yesterday if you sometimes have delusions, but what did you see in that well?" ā
This matter is nothing compared to the main thing. Wang Li hummed casually and changed his soaked clothes.
Rose smiled lightly: "This matter is very important, don't be perfunctory to me." ā
Wang Li looked at her and said slowly, "Do you already know something?" ā
Rose's eyes rolled and fixed on him quietly, the corners of her mouth slightly curved: "Why should I tell you everything I know?" Then he turned and walked away.
Wang Li put on his robe, and his hand that tied the belt suddenly slipped, and the belt fell to the ground. He slowly lowered his body to pick it up, and suddenly thought of one thing: judging from what Master Shen had done, he didn't know why the edge of the well had collapsed. So, did someone deliberately dig the edge of the well, or was it just a coincidence that the edge of the well collapsed at that time?
If this is just a coincidence, then there are too many such coincidences, and how did Shen Wanjun know that he was at the bottom of the well? Why did Master Shen leave with Shen Bijun halfway?
If someone did it on purpose, what was the purpose?
Rose sat on the edge of the lotus pond and put her hand in the water, and a small fish cautiously approached her, bit her fingertips, and swam away with a whizz of her tail. She couldn't help but chuckle, and after a while, she saw the little fish from before slowly leaning over, biting her tentatively again, and then running away, but this time she didn't hide as far as the last time.
Rose touched her face, very distressed: "Am I so unbelievable?" Obviously, everyone is smiling all the time, so friendly......" She suddenly heard footsteps approaching behind her, and saw a slender woman already standing behind her. She smiled slightly: "Miss Shen." ā
The woman smiled playfully: "I will talk to the birds, see how often you sit here, are you talking to the fish?" ā
Rose nodded, "yes, they tell me a lot of things." ā
Shen Bijun sat down beside her and tilted her head slightly: "What will the fish say?" ā
"They said that there are a lot of resentful spirits here, and they can't leave because they are restrained, and they also say that when they enter this Zhuangzi, they must bring something to ward off evil spirits." Rose said.
Shen Bijun looked at her, her eyes were crystal clear, and a few ripples slipped through her eyes.
Rose looked at her for a moment, looked sleepy, and slowly closed her eyes.
She slowly sank her face, with a faint fierceness in her eyes, and said coldly: "Even if you know that there are a lot of resentful spirits here, just a little cleverness, what use are you?" She stood up, and Sister-in-law Zhang, who had led them to Shen's house, immediately came over, wrapped her wide robe around Rose, and then picked her up, and said with a smile: "Miss, this little girl is so light, as if she has no bones. ā
The corners of Shen Wanjun's mouth twitched, revealing a somewhat strange smile: "If the body is heavier, it is better to suffer less." She walked straight to the backyard, and Sister-in-law Zhang followed behind with roses in her arms.
Shen Wanjun walked to the abandoned well, stopped her steps, turned back to Sister-in-law Zhang and said, "Throw it down." ā
Sister-in-law Zhang threw the roses into the well, only to hear the sound of water, and the robe wrapped around her immediately floated up.
Shen Wanjun caught a glimpse of the flat stone slab placed nearby, and reached out to grab one end: "Lift this stone slab up and press it on the well." ā
There was only a click, and the stone slab was pressed tightly against the edge of the well, and there were still some gaps in the collapsed place, but the gaps were too small for a child to climb through.
Shen Wanjun stretched out her hand and pressed it on the stone slab, then dusted off the dust on her hands, and her smile slowly bloomed like a spring flower.
Rose felt as if she had woken up from her sleep, and countless fragments flashed through her dream: first, she stood by the lotus pond and fed the fish, surrounded by the faint aroma of agarwood. Then she was in the mist, watching a man come in the mist, dressed in a flowing robe with cold armor over the sleeves of his robe, and his steps were calm and noble. In a blink of an eye, the fog dissipated, and when she looked up, she happened to see a pair of dark purple eyes in front of her, which was the sea.
Not long after she woke up, she suddenly found that Feng Jiu had appeared.
"What, Boss Rose has another nightmare? Lonely, lonely, scared, right? Feng Jiu said with a smile as he looked at the rose.
"What's the matter with you, old goblin." Rose slipped into the bed with her back to him.
Fairies always know people's hearts best, and Rose sometimes pretends to be blindfolded by herself, but he is the first to pierce her mask. It really makes her extreme......
Angry......
Suddenly, he took off his coat, lifted the quilt and got in.
Rose hurriedly turned over, resisting his entry with her hands, and also resisting the coolness brought in by him.
But through the thin clothes, his strong chest was like fire, and the warm, hard lines rose and fell with a fatal attraction.
Rose felt like she had fallen into his arms and grabbed his waist. Keep the side of your face and your entire upper body firmly attached to him. Until loneliness and loneliness are completely masked at his temperature.
"Feng Jiu, can you stay until tomorrow morning......" Rose heard herself invite him.
It was the first time she had said that to a man, and in normal times, with her self-esteem, I would never have been allowed to say it.
He lay down next to the rose: "Just stay? ā
In the darkness, Rose couldn't see the expression on his face, only a faint smile in his tone.
"What else can you do but stay?" Rose asked in a daze.
Then he kissed Rose on the mouth abruptly.
Rose's heart shook violently, beating violently, almost popping out of her chest.
"Feng Jiu?" In a panic, he turned his head away and Rose screamed, but he didn't give up, chasing her lips tighter.
It was the first time she had touched his lips, but she felt that his beautiful lip line was so seductive, and his lip flap was so soft. There was a lot of inexplicable joy in my heart, and waves came up. Although I was still scared, Rose liked this feeling so much, I really liked it......
"Feng Jiu......" Rose couldn't help but shout softly, and her body had unconsciously stopped resisting......
Suddenly, the glass on the window shattered with a thud, and the glass shards fell down. A cold wind poured into the room, blowing away the beauty of the room, and hitting the rose straight in the face.
She couldn't help but be stunned, and it was only in this short moment that Rose realized that her body was very light. There was no Feng Jiu at all, only a quilt.
A dark shadow was rolling through the window into the Rose Room.
Confused and frightened, Rose quickly got up from the bed and felt the oil lamp beside the bed.
Her head was dizzy during her movements, and her body was trembling. As he pulled up his messy clothes, he quickly glanced at the visitor.
"Wang Li, you ......"
As soon as she spoke, Wang Li stepped forward and grabbed Rose's face with her right hand, and saw a faint blue flame flash in front of her eyes. The two eyes reflexively closed, and at the same time, the feeling of dizziness disappeared without a trace.
Rose pressed her heartbeat like a war drum and cautiously opened her eyes, and then looked at the person in front of her in a daze......
It turned out to be a dream......
The unbridled intimacy with Feng Jiu just now was a dream, but the feeling on his body that had not completely dissipated was real, and the warm sweat on his back was also real......
reacted, and his brain suddenly became excited.
"Come with me!" Wang Li shouted violently.
Rose hesitantly followed him to the living room.
He slammed open the door to the living room.
A smell of earth and water came to my face, and the scalp of the smoked roses was numb
In the corridor outside the door, the wall was covered with thick dark silt, and several humanoid silhouettes faintly protruded from the silt. Some of the silhouettes are standing, some are crouching, and the faces and details are blurred, as if someone is really sealed inside.
But just now, before Rose closed the door, the outside was still clean!
Is it a dream, or is it a fleeting success?
Rose's head was dizzy again.
"Boss Rose, I found out, this is the nest of butterfly fairies," Wang Li whispered after closing the door.
Butterfly demons eat bones, and sex likes to live in groups. There are several kinds of butterflies, queen butterflies, bear butterflies, and worker butterflies.
The butterfly queen "rules" the butterfly nest; Bear butterflies reproduce offspring and protect their nests. Butterflies, kings, butterflies, bears, and butterflies can all transform into human shapes.
The worker butterfly cannot transform into a human form, and is responsible for absorbing the essence of the moon to feed the butterfly queen and the bear butterfly, and at the same time raise the larvae. This kind of monster is oviparous, it is a caterpillar when it is born, and after breaking the cocoon into a butterfly, it becomes a bear butterfly that is nourished by the moon, and it becomes a worker butterfly when it is nourished by the moonlight. But it is not clear how the butterfly queen grows up.
Originally, this kind of goblin lived by absorbing the moonlight, and there was no conflict with humans. However, the way they reproduce is really horrifying, because the eggs can only hatch in the human body two days before the big day.
This butterfly nest has existed for many years, and every year the butterfly demons use various methods to trick a number of humans, called human cocoons. First, use the intestinal cleansing soup to clean the toxins in the host's body, then use the flower essence to restore the host's vitality, and then pour a large amount of moon essence. Finally, the butterflies mate with the cleaned female cocoon, and the young eggs are injected into the female cocoon. The young eggs feed on the essence of the moon in the female body, and after two days of development in the mother's body, they can become caterpillars and emerge from the abdomen. Caterpillars like to eat meat before they become bony ghosts, and live by eating the flesh of male cocoons.
During the breeding period, the Bone Charm will perform two ceremonies. In the first ceremony, all the bone charms release aphrodisiacs, which induce the bear butterfly and the female cocoon to come into heat. In the second ritual, the Bone Charms will release all the goblins to help the newborn Bone Spirits break out of their cocoons and transform into butterflies.
After listening to Wang Li's words, Rose suddenly felt creepy and couldn't help asking, "How do you know?" ā
When he returned to his room last night, Wang Li recalled what had happened, from the time he entered the cemetery, he kept thinking about what he had seen and heard in the cold well water last night, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong.
The coffin of the former dynasty lady is located in the stone room, and there is another passage behind it, and the ordinary burial chamber is often used to place the coffin at the end of the burial chamber. Moreover, in the secret passage behind, there are broken dragon stones cast with dark iron, and the decoration of the stone room in the secret passage is too elegant, which is too inconsistent with the cemetery itself.
After he and Rose were trapped by the Broken Dragon Stone, it was Shen Bijun who came to find them. If she knows the language of birds, then she is very familiar with this cemetery. But who is Tao Ziyan? Is she really as Shen Bijun said, a femme fatale?
And last night, he already knew that what Master Shen said to him before was not pure and untrue, so could Shen Wanjun's words be believed? The two of them are on the same page on not very critical matters, but when it comes to the most important part, they are at odds with each other. One of them must have told a lie, or either of them was a lie, so what is the point in that?
The truth is already clear, and only a clue is close to being revealed.
But what is the thread that leads to the truth?
He was thinking slowly when he heard a few knocks outside the door, so he casually said, "Please come in." Hearing a burst of laughter like silver bells, Shen Bijun rushed in, holding a plate in his hand, which contained a few bright red apples: "These apples are so beautiful, I couldn't help but take a bite when I saw them, but I was scolded by my sister, she said it was not clean." She put the apple on the table and said with a smile, "Now I will bring it to you after I have washed it, and it is not dirty." ā
Wang Li looked at the plate of apples and shook his head: "I don't want to eat it yet, just wait a while." ā
Shen Bijun flattened his mouth: "Okay." ā
Wang Li suddenly asked: "Where did Miss Rose go, why hasn't she come back yet?" ā
Shen Bijun was stunned: "I haven't seen her, I'll ask my sister if she has seen her." ā
Wang Li thought that Rose would not be able to leave the Shen Mansion, let alone any accidents, so he said: "There is no need to ask, the Rose Girl has always been naughty, and she doesn't know where to play." ā
Shen Bijun knelt on the table and looked at him without blinking: "I often play hide and seek with the birds, what will you play?" ā
Wang Li thought for a moment and said, "Catch monsters." ā
Shen Bijun asked again: "What about after you catch it?" ā
āā¦ā¦ Wait for the monster to escape, and then catch it back. This sentence is completely true, "Because there is a kind of demon who is very sharp-toothed, so I have to talk with it." ā
Shen Bijun was completely confused, and said blankly: "Is it ......?"
Wang Li didn't know what to think, and suddenly smiled: "Occasionally, I will meet the kind of demon who understands the world very well, doglegs, can be coquettish, and will only pick good and irrelevant things when talking." ā
Shen Bijun looked at him and couldn't help but say, "I don't think you're talking about monsters, but like ...... I can't tell what it looks like, but youkai are certainly not that interesting. ā
Wang Li was slightly stunned, and suddenly felt that the things in front of him seemed to be shaking. He stood up with his own support, but his body lost his strength, and he staggered back a few steps and fell to the edge of the bed.
Seeing him like this, Shen Bijun suddenly jumped up and ran out of the guest room, shouting: "Sister, sister, come quickly, someone here is sick!" Check it out! ā
Wang Li bent his knees, but found that he soon had no strength to move his fingers. He gathered his mind, gathered the last bit of strength, and bit the tip of his tongue, and a faint smell of blood overflowed at the corner of his mouth.
Hearing the sound of footsteps outside the door, Shen Bijun turned back and stretched out his hand to help him: "Where do you hurt?" Does it matter? My sister is gone, I'm looking for her again! ā
Wang Li smiled bitterly: "What are you looking for her?" "He was drugged so he couldn't move, but he couldn't figure out how he could have been poisoned. He watched Shen Bijun act upside down, and could only murmur softly, she probably didn't know anything, and she couldn't do anything.
Shen Bijun took his hand and tried her best to pull him up, but Wang Li's whole body was weak, and she couldn't pull it with her strength alone, so she could only stomp her feet in a hurry, and after a while, she said, "I'll go find my sister again!" ā
After a short while, a slender figure appeared at the door of the room, Shen Wanjun's face was gloomy, he approached, slowly approached until he was in front of him, and smiled strangely: "Really, it is the purest soul ......" (to be continued. )