Chapter 224: Seeing the Light Again—It's Joy and Sorrow
As soon as he got out of the room, he heard a heart-rending cry coming from somewhere, which made Ji Ran jump up with a 'wow', and Ji Bing'er had to hug him and gently pat it to comfort him. This sound passed, followed by bursts of screams, and each one became more and more poignant, and it felt even more creepy in this wild temple where you couldn't see your fingers.
Ji Yu was a man after all, although he also felt terrible, he had to stand up and reprimand at this time, "Who is pretending to be a ghost here, if I am caught by the young master, I will have to kill your dog." ”
"Amitabha, good, good, the old nun has made improper arrangements and frightened a few people, which is really a sin." Teacher Shu Xing hurried over with a papier-mâché lantern, his eyes were particularly shiny in the dark, and his expression was calm, which made people feel much more at ease.
"Master, what kind of voice is this, it sounds strange and terrifying." Ji Bing'er complained to Shu Xing.
"It's a poor person, don't ask a few people, let the old nun send the two out, Bing'er, you can go back to accompany your mother."
Then I thought of a few screams, Ji Ran walked out with the support of Teacher Shuxing, maybe I heard too much, or maybe there was an old man with me at this moment, and then I listened carefully to this voice, it was inexplicable and there was a sense of déjà vu. In order to confirm whether he was delusional, he deliberately stopped and said to Shu Xing: "Mrs. Shi has always lived in this nunnery? ”
"I've been here, never left, what do you mean?"
"I do have one thing I want to ask Mrs. Shi, apart from my Prime Minister's Mansion, Aunt Xia's mother and daughter, there have been other people here, whether male or female."
The meaning of these words couldn't be clearer, but Teacher Shuxing listened too much, stood in front of him with a lantern and bowed his head and was silent, and there was no movement for a long time, which made Ji Yu and Ji Ran look forward to it.
"If you say yes, there is, if you say no, there is none." Shuxing, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly came out with such a Zen sentence.
Fortunately, the two sisters and brothers have rare patience today, Ji Yu said: "Mrs. Shi, please make it clear, there is something, and nothing is nothing, and the two of us are also looking for a close friend, but we have no other thoughts." ”
"Old Nicol took the two of them to take a look, but the eldest lady is weaker, so it's better to wait for the eldest young master to relay it to you after reading it, because the person who sent it here is quite indecent."
Ji Ran was suddenly overjoyed, this means that there is indeed a person who has been sent to the temple, if this is the case, it is indeed the mother. Since she is her own mother, how can she dislike her, this old nun is too tricky, if this is heard by the person who does good things, she doesn't know how to bury her reputation.
"This princess has never seen anything, since she is our friend, there is no reason for disdain, you old woman is really verbose, take us to see it."
Teacher Shu Xing was too helpless, so he carried the lantern and led the two to a corner of the nunnery, where there was a small wooden house, and the sound came from this house.
Ji Ran stood outside the door with an incredible look, and suddenly had an urge to escape, but there was an invisible force pushing her forward. She involuntarily moved her steps towards the wooden door of the cabin, as if she had a thousand gold, and every step was a bone-crushing pain. "Forget it, it must not be the mother here, how could she be locked up here, we must have made a mistake."
Ji Yuben also felt that her sister had a nervous problem, how could she hear the scream of the madman and ran over inexplicably, and when she saw that her sister was leaving, she took the lead in turning around and walking out.
Master Shuxing sent the two away, and when they returned to the room to rest, they thought about the weirdos who were locked up. At the beginning, the person who sent her over only said that it was temporarily deposited, and gave enough silver taels, but now after less than half a month, the young lady and young master of the Prime Minister's Mansion came to find someone, is it too much of a coincidence. Tossing and turning until midnight did not close his eyes, in the end he wanted to get up to find out what was going on, got up and called a little apprentice to make a lantern for himself, and the master and apprentice groped and went to the cabin.
It's summer, and the moonlight is still a little bit on weekdays, but for some reason it's extra dark tonight, and occasionally a gust of wind blows on the body to make it cool.
"Master, that madman is very fierce, he almost bit the senior sisters a few days ago, you old man need to pay attention." The little apprentice obviously felt that it was a bit inappropriate for the master to go to see the person who was locked up at this time, and she was so small that she was frightened by a few senior sisters, and the closer she got to the wooden house, the more she trembled.
"I'm just going to take a look, if you're scared, go back first." Teacher Shu Xing obviously didn't notice the changes in his apprentices, and just cared about moving forward.
When you get to the outside of the hut, take out the key and open the door, and take the lantern yourself to look into the room. The hut was not very small, with a bed against the wall and a barrel next to it, and nothing else.
"How can it be so simple, you are too lazy, you should have some wardrobes and food and drink in it, although she is not sensible, these basic things are still needed." Master Shu Xing obviously felt that the care here did not match the silver left by the person who sent it, but she didn't notice why she hadn't asked about the diet and daily life of this ugly and mutilated person before, and how she remembered it in the middle of the night today.
"The senior sisters did it at the beginning, but this crazy woman threw things around as soon as she went crazy and made a mess here, and there was really no way, and in the end there were only these two left. But she seems to be used to it, and now she doesn't hit people and throw things, so she wakes up a few crazy screams day and night. ”
As if hearing someone talking, the lying Liu slowly moved, her hands had been cut off, her throat was also poisonous, and her legs could barely move. However, even so, she did not feel that she had suffered retribution for her many evils, she was blind and hateful, and she was carefully searching for any movement all the time. The reason why she pretends to be crazy is that this kind of hellish life is really unbearable for her, she needs to find a channel to vent, and second, she needs a shell of self-protection, only a waste who has lost her mind will not let the enemy have the determination to kill herself, or this kind of reluctant life makes the enemy more proud. In fact, for Ling'er, there is indeed a reason for this, but she didn't expect that the Liu family would be able to help King Heng in the end.
The iron chain locked between Liu's and the leg of the bed made a crisp collision sound, and the little apprentice nervously grabbed Teacher Shuxing's sleeve, "Master, your old man has also seen it, if there is something to tell the senior sister to do it tomorrow, let's go back and rest." ”
Master Shu Xing was silent for a moment, and at this time the lying person was obviously awake, but she pretended to be motionless, but intuitively, this must not be the ordinary madman. In the end, what is the relationship between her and the Prime Minister, whether she set herself on fire or saved someone's life this time, Shuxing couldn't help but start to wonder. "That's it, let's talk about it tomorrow, let's go back first."
When the two of them turned around, the corner of Shu Xing's eyes saw that the person on the bed was already trying to sit up, but she didn't want to stay here for a long time, and this matter still had to be taken care of.
I finally returned to my residence, and after thinking about it for a long time, I gradually fell into a dream, and the night really went by. Yes, I got up late on the second day, but I heard a rush of footsteps outside, and the little apprentice knocked on the door and said, "Master, the pair of young ladies who came outside yesterday are here again, let me see your old man." ”
Master Shuxing's heart moved, and he felt that what should come would come after all, so he didn't panic, and said slowly: "Let them wait in the hall, and I'll clean up and go over." ”
Here Ji Ran and Ji Yu have been arguing all morning, and it is difficult for any of them to convince anyone, and they are fighting, and the two sit separately and ignore anyone.
Master Shuxing walked in too slowly, and said politely: "Do the eldest lady and the son have anything to order, Lao Ni, I am late, please forgive me." ”
"Mrs. Shi, my eldest sister and I came here to go around your backyard, I don't know if it's convenient?" Ji Yu said very implicitly, and after speaking, he looked at Shuxing Shitai, and he didn't blink, which made people feel stunned.
"Although the place is narrow, the layout is not boring, if the two of you don't dislike it, you can walk around at will." I understand that Master Shuxing is too an understanding person, and he will be resigned to fate when he comes to this.
No matter how much Ji Ran rejects the fact psychologically, she can't force herself to avoid her mother's existence, and that terrible scream is like a bayonet stabbed in her chest, which makes her heart ache incomparably.
As soon as the first rays of sunlight in the morning shone into the window lattice, Ji Yu was woken up by a series of knocks on the door, "Hurry up, you have to accompany me to the nunnery again today, I think there is something wrong there." Ji Ran shouted at his younger brother unceremoniously.
Ji Yu is the boss is unhappy, what does it mean to always go to a place where the slap is bigger, not to mention that he doesn't believe that his mother will be there anyway, and there is no place to hide that big living person. Although he thought so, he still didn't dare not listen to his sister's words, so he got up, and the sister and brother hurried over.
Standing outside the wooden house with the key, Ji Ran looked at Ji Yu, Ji Yu had no intention of opening it at all, and the expression on his face when he saw the ghost was extremely contemptuous.
"Yu'er, open the door."
Ji Yu took the key unhappily, only turned it, and the wooden door opened in response.
The Liu family in the room had already sat up, and was leaning against the wall at the moment and "looking" ahead, when he suddenly heard the sound of the wooden door opening. Maybe it was the mother and daughter concentric, or maybe it was the familiar breath, she suddenly began to be restless, and then a mournful cry pierced the sky.
Ji Yu and Ji Ran clenched their ears in unison, and Ji Yu said in disgust: "You want to see the madman, is it possible that you are also crazy, hurry up and leave." ”
Ji Ran was stupid, is this a person in front of him? It's more like a monster, his face is already covered by gray hair, he has no arms, and his whole body is as thin as dry wood. But I didn't feel scared in the face of such monsters and madmen, and I still felt some closeness, and slowly and involuntarily approached forward.
As if sensing the sound of someone's approaching footsteps, Liu, who stopped screaming, didn't feel his whole body tremble, and then buried his head deep between his legs, and as his body trembled, he could clearly feel that she was crying, the kind of heart-rending cry.
"Mother, is that you?" Ji Ran was frightened by herself, how could she call such a monster girl, but she just couldn't help but want to try, because there was a feeling that it was the breath of a mother.
"Are you crazy? How can she be a mother, let's hurry up, in case this madman starts crazy again, I don't know what to do. Ji Yu turned impatiently and walked out the door.
Liu Shi began to shake his head for a moment, as if he had fallen into an evil spirit, and shook quickly.
Ji Ran looked stupid, and then she understood that this person was going to pull the hair in front of her. "Mother, are you Ran'er's mother? If so, all you have to do is nod your head. ”
Ji Yu was attracted by Ji Ran's words, suddenly stopped, and turned back to see her sister's jokes, really her sister has been stupid since she became a princess, and any old monster crazy woman thinks of her as a mother, saying that she will go out, and she doesn't know how to be laughed at.
Liu Shi stopped shaking her head, and the next second, I saw her nod slightly, and then she nodded sharply like a chicken pecking rice.
Ji Ran collapsed to the ground all of a sudden, she turned out to be her mother, the one who was always well-dressed, shrewd in the world, giving advice to herself anytime and anywhere, giving herself a big and small affair, meeting any of her unreasonable needs, and spoiling herself and loving her mother from childhood to adulthood.
"Don't listen to her nonsense, how can our mother be like this?" Ji Yu stepped forward to help her sister, but she couldn't accept this fact at all.
Liu began to let out a low "whine" sound, crying hoarsely, and he fell to such a point that even his own children could not accept it. The children who have adhered to the belief for so long and can't let go of it wholeheartedly collapsed in an instant, and all the beliefs in their hearts collapsed, and they only heard the sound of "plopping", and their whole bodies fell down.
At the moment when she fell, Ji Ran and Ji Yu saw the face clearly at the same time, although she was thin and deformed, her appearance would not change, she was her mother, the mother she had been looking for for a long time.
Ji Yu ran over first, stretched out his hand to pull all of Liu's hair aside, and then looked at it carefully for a moment. looked back at her sister and said blankly, "Yes, it's my mother." ”
Ji Ran forced herself to walk to the front, she felt disgusting when she killed a mosquito on weekdays, and staying in this gloomy hut was the extreme, how could she stand such filth. I looked at it a few times with nausea, and screamed as if I was crazy, "Who is it, who did it, I'm going to kill him!" ”
Ji Yu was silent, he already had a guess in his heart, but he didn't dare to think about it, if it was really his father who cheated on his mother in revenge, then which side should he stand on? For a second, he even thought that if he hadn't listened to his sister's invitation to come to the temple and didn't see such a mother, maybe it would be better. However, everything is fate, and he can only face it.