As she was thinking, a large group of people turned out on the west side of the mountain, with a large drum on the horse-drawn cart, and many people holding gongs in their hands.

The movements that I heard in the peach blossom forest just now, could they have made them? Jin Xia stepped forward in surprise, gave a salute to the leader first, and asked, "This uncle, it's rude." Just now the two of us were in the peach blossom forest, and we heard the sound of gongs and drums, but what are you waiting for? ”

The leader was an old man with a gray beard, and when he heard that the two of them were in the peach blossom forest, he was also shocked, looked them up and down, and saw that they were all bearded and tailed, so he breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "You two are in the peach blossom forest?" Why haven't you seen a snake? ”

When he saw it, he heard the sound of gongs and drums, and all the snakes ran away. What's the deal with those wild boars and hares? ”

"Oh, that's the custom here. Every year, after the sting and white dew, the wild boars and hares in the nearby fields are driven into the peach blossom forest with the sound of gongs and drums, and the peach blossom fairies in the forest can bless the nearby villages for a year of safety and freedom from snakes. You can actually retreat in the forest, it must be the blessing of the peach blossom fairy. ”

This summer nodded again and again: "That's that, we still saw it, the immortal was dressed in a red python robe, and he was in the purple red auspicious clouds." ”

Lu Yi on horseback was silent, and finally didn't answer.

The old man was pleasantly surprised: "I didn't expect that the two of you would be so blessed to see the Peach Blossom Fairy!" ”

This summer smiled and continued to talk eloquently: "The immortal is very kind, very kind, and has said a lot of things to us......"

Seeing that she was talking nonsense, Lu Yisheng was afraid that she was talking too outrageously, so he interrupted her and said to the old man: "It's a pity that there are different immortals, and we are stupid and stupid, so we didn't understand a word." ”

"Who said ......" This summer was forced by Lu Yi's heavy cough, so he had to change his words, "Who said it wasn't, it's a pity." ”

The white-bearded old man exclaimed: "The two are really people with great blessings, those who entered the forest before were either dead or injured, and the two of them not only had nothing to do but also saw the immortals, which is really a blessing from the previous life, congratulations!" ”

"Thank you, thank you. Although I can't understand the words of the immortals, I can see that the immortals love the sound of gongs and drums, and this custom must be maintained. ”

This summer, the white-bearded old man resigned and led the horse to continue walking, which can be regarded as thinking things out: after the sting, the snakes and insects woke up, and it was the hungriest time, and the villagers drove the wild boars and hares into the forest, so as to prevent the snakes from going out to forage for food and hurt people. Today is really a coincidence, otherwise I am afraid that she would have been buried in the belly of the snake at this moment.

"My lord, we're really lucky!" She smiled and turned back to Lu Yi.

Lu Yi corrected: "It's your luck." ”

“……”

Holding the horse, looking back at the rotten peach blossoms this summer, remembering today's encounter, he felt and said: "The master knows that the master has a big life!" …… The peach blossom nunnery on the peach blossom dock, the peach blossom fairy in the peach blossom nunnery, the peach blossom fairy planted peach trees, but exchanged the peach blossoms for wine money......"

One and a half coins of white clay, one or two pieces of white angelica to remove the skin of the floater, five points of broken beads, one word of musk, two coins of light powder, five coins of eagle strips, seven times of tantric monk fire calcining, one tael, five pieces of gold leaf, five pieces of silver foil, five coins of cinnabar, and a little brain. The above grinding is finely minced, and then the high-grade powder is put into the beginning of the hosta flower, steamed, and the cyan black is the degree. Take out and mix the two to get bead powder.

In the mirror, Zhai Lanye took the bead powder and poured it into the palm of her hand, and the maid lit some water with a silver pick, and the incense powder melted in the palm and smeared her cheeks carefully.

"Gui'er, see if I'm much more haggard than before." She looked at herself in the mirror as if she were examining a piece of porcelain, not letting go of any flaws.

The maid pursed her lips and smiled: "What's the matter, if you want me to say, the girl used to look like a child, but now she is childish, and she is better than before." ”

Fingers caressed the slightly flickering mangze on the upper cheeks, the cheeks in the mirror were gorgeous, and the whole face was radiant, but it was still uncertain.

"But what if he just likes to look like a child?"

"That can't ...... Girl, you're too worried. The maid rearranged the hair of her sideburns, "If you want me to say, men are all the same, and a girl has such a character and appearance, depending on who he is, there is nothing that he will not fall." ”

Zhai Lanye took the eyebrow pencil and sighed faintly: "You don't understand, he is different from those individuals." After that, he looked in the mirror and traced the willow eyebrows in detail.

Seeing this, the maid knew that no matter how much she persuaded her, she shook her head with a smile and asked, "Girl, I have carefully ironed the three clothes you picked out yesterday, but which one does the girl want to wear?" ”

Zhai Lanye turned around and looked at the three pieces of clothes on the Huanghuali Lingzhi pattern hanger, speculating in his heart about his preferences, and it was difficult to make a decision for a while......

"These are all newly cut clothes for the spring of this year, and I think the silver red one is good, and the clothes are also charming." The maid looked at Zhai Lanye's expression, and pointed to another one, "How is this azure piece, it is soft and dense to the touch......

Zhai Lanye still shook his head and commanded, "...... Go and get the autumn-colored coat at the bottom of the box. ”

The maid went as she said, and took it after a while: "This one is brand new, but the colors on it are not fashionable, why don't the girls want to wear it?" ”

Taking the long jacket and rubbing the embroidery stitches with her fingers, Zhai Lanye sat quietly on the waist drum stool, frowning between her eyebrows, as if she had fallen into deep thought. The maid was used to seeing her like this, so she was in a daze and didn't bother her.

After a long time, the self-chiming bell "chirped" a few times, Zhai Lan Ye Fang woke up like a dream, made up her mind to get up, and said to herself: "That's it, although I don't dare to hope for it, but if he ......" Although she didn't say any more, a thin layer of red appeared on her cheeks, and her eyebrows were shy and timid, showing the delicate appearance of her little daughter.

Shen's Medical Center, backyard.

"What! Here you go again! ”

If it weren't for the fact that her hands were still stirring the flour, for fear of getting dirty, Yang Yue would have directly pulled her ears.

"Be quiet, don't shout." This summer reassured him, "Didn't the young master come back with all his beards and tails, nothing happened." Listen to me, the man and the woman are not my hallucinations, I have found the woman's footprints. ”

Yang Yue was surprised: "Footprints? Didn't you say that the woman was dead and no one was found? ”

Jin Xia shook his head and frowned: "I also think it's strange, I don't think there are footprints in the man's position, but he was pressed by a heavy object, and the man's footprints appeared next to him, isn't it strange?" ”

"The man didn't die, and then left the peach blossom forest with the woman in his arms?" Yang Yue speculated.

"There's another possibility,......" Xia sighed, "and that's that both of them died in the belly of the snake." You haven't seen that snake, it's so big, big enough to swallow a wild boar alive, and its disciples and grandchildren, twisting and twisting, and I get goosebumps when I think about it. ”

"You've seen a snake again?! At this time, the snake has just woken up, and it is the most ferocious. ”

"If you don't say that the little master has a big life, he has the protection of the golden armor gods...... Hurry up, I'll wait to eat the noodles, remember to lie down with an egg, I'll take a look at the head first. ”

This summer, before Yang Yue's lesson, he flashed out, slipped a cigarette to Yang Chengwan's room, and called respectfully outside the door, and only pushed the door to enter when he heard Yang Chengwan inside.

"Boss, are you feeling better? It's boring, don't you want me to collect some idle books to relieve your boredom? She moved a small stool and sat down in front of the bed, looking at Yang Chengwan with a smile.

Watching this child grow up, seeing her smiling like this, Yang Chengwan squinted his eyes slightly, and asked, "Did you get into trouble outside or did you make trouble, so weak-hearted?" ”

"Look at what you said, you are recuperating here, how can I do those things that make you worry about it, am I so ignorant." Seeing Yang Chengwan's expression this summer, he took the initiative to say, "You have to go, I'll tell you, it's nothing in the past two days, it's just that a pair of men and women were found in the peach blossom forest, and the woman ......" She said everything again, and of course hid the poisonous miasma and snakes in the peach blossom forest.

After hearing this, Yang Chengwan frowned deeply, and asked again: "You just said that the woman is barefoot, and the man's position has traces of being pressed by heavy objects. ”

"Hmm." Jin Xia nodded, "That's why I think it's strange." ”

"You can draw the woman's footprints and the marks of the weight pressed against me, and the shape and position must not be wrong." He commanded.

"Oh."

Although he didn't know the intention of the leader, this summer he still obediently asked the doctor to borrow pen, ink, paper and inkstone, lay on the table and drew the picture as it was, and handed it to Yang Chengwan after drying the ink.

Yang Chengwan looked at it for a moment, and then asked, "What's wrong with that man?" ”

"At that time, there was fog in the forest, and I couldn't see it clearly, but vaguely I remembered that the man's arm was very awkward, as if he had been forced by someone," this summer hesitated for a moment, "Speaking of which, there is another strange thing, that night with Xie Xiao in the Qifen Pavilion, I saw from the window that there was also a pair of men and women hugging each other on a painting boat, and the man's arm was also like this, could it be the same person?" ”

Yang Chengwan was silent for a long time before he said, "This is not a person. ”

"Huh? Not human? "I'm surprised this summer.

"In the past, there was a kind of torture instrument, like an upright coffin, which was covered with three-inch-long spikes, and after the person entered the coffin, the coffin board was nailed to death, and the spikes entered the body, and the blood flowed out little by little, so tortured, it took two or three days for the people inside to die."

Yang Chengwan's calm narration made him feel goosebumps on his body more and more this summer.

"Who came up with this thing, what a big hatred it is, it's ruthless." She sighed.

"Later, someone improved it and made it into a doll with spikes in its body. When the puppet embraced the person into its arms, its arms contracted, the internal organs activated, and the spikes popped out and pierced into the vital points of the human body. This thing is called 'Love Farewell'," Yang Chengwan paused, "I just looked at the picture you drew, and the traces are the traces left by placing 'Love Farewell'." ”

This summer, I shuddered, and muttered: "The eight sufferings of the Buddhist family, birth, old age, sickness, death, and love are separated...... There is anyone in this world who would come up with such a strange torture instrument......"

"This torture instrument has been abandoned for many years due to the cumbersome production process, how could it suddenly appear in Yangzhou at this moment?" Yang Chengwan's brows furrowed even tighter, "And let you bump into each other twice." ”

"Could it be related to Zhou Xianji's case? Can...... What can be the relationship between the two? ”

I can't figure it out this summer.

The author has something to say: "Love Parting" This kind of torture instrument appeared in medieval Europe, and the name is "Hugging **