Chapter 22: Cui Yan'er's Story

I didn't suppress it, and said indignantly: "What? Are you Cheng Wanli's wife? Cheng Wanli is already married? So what's going on with him and Lanxiang? ā€

Lan Xiang and Cheng Wanli are baby kisses from childhood, how could they kill Cui Yan'er halfway?

"When did you and Cheng Wanli get married?"

Cui Yan'er put the tablet in her hand on the table, and then said quietly: "I am a fellow villager with Cheng Wanli, he is after a scholarly family, and I am just a fishergirl, my background is not as high as his family, but unfortunately the world is impermanent, Cheng Wanli inadvertently offended the powerful people in the town, resulting in the family falling into the middle of the road, not only lost his errand, but later even fell to the point of needing to borrow rice for cooking." My father knew that I had always belonged to him, so he brought thirty pounds of rice and five taels of silver to his house to propose, when his mother was seriously ill, no silver to heal, almost destitute, my father skillfully persuaded him, he reluctantly agreed to this family business. ā€

Cui Yan'er began to cry sadly when she said this, "Until then, I didn't know that Cheng Wanli had actually been engaged to marry a long time ago, and he also went to the woman's house for help, but people disliked him and deliberately pushed away the family affair, and he was kicked out." But he was in dire need of money at that time, and it happened that my father came to the door, and he agreed to marry me. ā€

It seems that she is not to blame for this.

"Cheng Wanli and I were originally scheduled to get married on the fifteenth day of the next month, but on the third day of the next month, he suddenly received news that the Kyoto government school invited him to do school politics, he told me, and I was also happy for him, urging him to hurry up, and discussed with his father to postpone the marriage. When Cheng Wanli left, he asked me to wait for him, and he said that he would come to pick me up in two months at most, but I waited for him for half a year, but I never heard from him. ā€

The reason why Cheng Wanli was able to enter Beijing was that Mama Jiang begged Mrs. Xiangguo's relationship, he had already climbed to Lanxiang's house at that time, how could he go back to find her?

Cui Yan'er cried even more sadly, I felt that the temperature around me dropped suddenly, and Cui Yan'er was surrounded by a circle of water mist enveloping her. "I knew that he might have changed his mind, and if my family only lost a few catties of rice and a few taels of silver, I should buy a lesson and not look for him, but I was already pregnant with his child at that time! He knows! ā€

I jumped up from the stool angrily and scolded: "Cheng Wanli, this ungrateful, black-hearted and black-livered brute! ā€

Su Molai pulled me to sit down and comforted me softly: "Don't worry, listen to Mrs. Cheng first." ā€

Cui Yan'er wiped her tears and continued: "My father persuaded me to beat the child away, but I didn't agree, I didn't receive news from Cheng Wanli, and I still didn't give up after all, so I hid it from my father and only went to Beijing to find him." Even if he says he doesn't want me anymore, I want to hear him say it in person. I'm not trying to pester him, as long as he says it, I'll die, and I'll raise the child myself after it's a big deal. ā€

I didn't expect Cui Yan'er to be so backbone, and I couldn't help but feel a little reverence for her in my heart.

"I wasted all my hard work and finally found him. When he saw me, he hugged me and cried bitterly, and told me about his helplessness, and then promised to marry me, I finally believed it, and followed him home with joy, that night, he brought me a bowl of medicine, lied to me and said that it was a tocolytic drug, I began to have abdominal pain after drinking, I begged him to find me a doctor, but he stood there and said to me coldly: This child cannot be born. At that moment, I was truly in complete despair. Then I gave birth to a stillborn baby, and it's been six months, and the baby has already taken shape, and it's still a boy! ā€

Cui Yan'er couldn't support it anymore after speaking, and fell on the table and cried.

I am not angry for Cui Yan'er, and it is not worth it for Lanxiang, but I hate that I can't immediately pick up a knife and cut the brute surnamed Cheng with a thousand knives.

"I'm angry, I'm angry!" I trembled with anger, and broke the corner of the table with my hand to vent my hatred, not even knowing that my nails were broken and bleeding.

Su Molai took my hand and put it on his arm, and said, "If you want to pinch it, pinch my arm." ā€

Hum! None of the men are good.

I pushed Su Molai's arm away and gave him a hard look by the way.

Su Molai didn't get angry, but reached out to help me run my back, as if to soothe a fried cat.

I asked Cui Yan'er, "Then how did you die?" Did Cheng Wanli kill you in order to kill you? ā€

Cui Yan'er pointed to the beam on her head and replied, "I hung myself from the beam." ā€

"You're stupid enough, why don't you kill him? Instead, he killed himself! ā€

Cui Yan'er sighed: "I also regret not being at the beginning, but it's a pity that it's too late to say anything now." After I died, I turned into a resentful spirit, and no one exceeded me, so I could not enter the underworld, nor could I be reincarnated, but I could only be bound here all day long. ā€

"If you don't get rid of your resentment, you can't be reincarnated when you enter the underworld, you can only temporarily live in the city of vain, if you don't have anyone to sacrifice and worship you in the Yang World, then your soul will become weaker and weaker, until it is wiped out."

"After I died, Cheng Wanli buried me hastily, and didn't tell my father, my father still looked forward to me going home." Cui Yan'er got up and knelt down to me, and said with tears in her eyes: "The slave family has a request, and I hope the girl will agree." ā€

I lifted her up from the ground and said, "Say it, I'll do my best." ā€

Cui Yan'er said: "Since my death, Cheng Wanli has been in a panic all day long, and has nightmares every night, not that I deliberately made trouble, it is his own weak heart, and it is caused by my resentment, it may also be that Cheng Wanli has done too many bad things, and he has attracted retribution, his body is not as good as day by day, he thought it was my ghost who was doing trouble, so he found a Taoist priest to come up with an idea, and the Taoist priest told him that only if he withdrew Miss Lanxiang's marriage and married me to the underworld, he could save his life, and he did so." ā€

I looked at the furnishings around me, and I knew the origin of these things, and I also knew why Cheng Wanli wanted to quit his family.

"But my obsession is not here, Cheng Wanli has done a useless meal, and my resentment has not diminished."

Only by resolving Cui Yan'er's resentment can she cross the Nai He Bridge and be reincarnated.

I asked, "So what are your obsessions?" ā€

"There are two things on the slave's mind, first, the surname on this tablet has been changed."

I took the tablet on the table and looked at it, and it read: The spiritual seat of my wife Cheng Cui's Yan'er.

"I had a bride price with Cheng Wanli before my death, and after I died, he gave me a secret marriage. Even if I enter the underworld, the book of life and death is also Cheng Cui's, I don't want to, the first thing I want the girl to help me do is to find Cheng Wanli to sign a book of reconciliation, and then burn it to me, and then help me change the surname on this tablet. ā€

I was going to go to Cheng Wanli to settle the account, and let him sign and leave the book, but it was just a matter of piggybacking.

"And what about the second thing?"

"Cheng Wanli burned my corpse, and the ashes were scattered in the river, although it was just a shell, it had no effect on my soul, but I was afraid that my father would be more sad because of this, so I wanted to ask the girl to help me, burn the corpses of a few animals at will, all as my ashes, and give it to my father along with my new spirit card."

"Okay, I—" I looked at Su Molai, "I'll work with this boy to help you with these two things." ā€

Cui Yan'er knelt on the ground and kowtowed to each of us three times.

Su Molai wanted to get up and help him, but I held him back.

"Yan'er has thanked the two benefactors in advance."

After Cui Yan'er finished speaking, she turned into a wisp of green smoke and disappeared, leaving only a tablet on the table.

Su Molai murmured as if he had woken up from a dream, "I wasn't dreaming just now. ā€

"No, you still suffered three rings from the female ghost."

Su Molai asked with a confused face, "These are all true?" ā€

"Of course, you have just been bowed down by the Earth Bound Spirit, which means that you agree to make a contract with it to help it fulfill its wishes."

"What if it doesn't work?"

"The earth-bound spirit harms the lives of the living in the Yang World, and it will be punished by heaven, but if you break the contract first, then it will harm you again, and you will not be punished by heaven."

"Miss Cui's wish is not difficult to fulfill, but this contract is too domineering."

"Earthbound spirits are inherently vulnerable, and it's normal for the terms of the contract to give them a little preferential treatment."

Su Molai asked suspiciously: "You, a young lady of the boudoir, how can you know these strange things so clearly?" ā€

I looked left and right and said, "It's getting late, we need to get out of here." ā€

At this time, it is dawn of the rooster crow, and we must rush out of Chengfu before dawn, once we are discovered by the people of Chengfu, it will be difficult to act in the future.

Su Mo and I came out of the East Chamber, and still returned according to the route we came, and when we returned to the place where we climbed over the wall, we found that Qin Yuan had already been waiting there anxiously.

As soon as he saw me and Su Mo coming, he immediately greeted him and said, "You two are back, if it's any longer, I'm going to go to you both." ā€

I hurriedly asked, "Have you found Cheng Wanli?" ā€

Qin Yuan said triumphantly: "I found it, I beat him up, and then stripped him naked and tied him to the door post, and when the family woke up later, he would naturally be found." ā€

It is not suitable to stay here for a long time, Cui Yan'er's affairs have to be considered in the long run, and the three of us hurriedly climbed over the wall and jumped into the carriage.

As soon as the car started, I relaxed, and I felt very tired at this time, so I leaned back on the cushion and planned to rest for a while.

The morning dew was heavy, and the wind blew on me through the car window, and I was already sweating, and now I was shivering with the cold wind.

Su Molai took out the long shirt from the car and put it on me, and asked, "Are you tired?" ā€

I was really tired, my eyelids felt like they were weighing a thousand pounds, and now I just want to get some sleep.

After a while, I heard Su Molai ask again in a daze, "Fengming, are you asleep?" ā€

I opened my mouth to answer, and suddenly felt a cold piece of softness on my lips, I don't know what it was, but I felt that the breath was sweet and intoxicating, I couldn't help but stick out my tongue and lick it, the softness trembled gently, and the flirtatious people's hearts were excited.

Before I could open my eyes to see what it was, I fell asleep.