Chapter 4 Painted Skin

The painted skin girl raised her chin, and her eyes were filled with inexplicable emotions: "There's nothing to say, it's a dead end anyway." ”

Ruan Rannuo unhurriedly sorted out the non-existent folds on his clothes: "At least we know the ins and outs to decide." You don't want the world to think that Zitang is a vicious woman, do you? At least don't want him to know. ”

Master said that if you want to trick someone, you have to pretend to know more than him.

Although Ran Nuo wondered why Master, a Taoist priest, was so proficient in these crooked and evil ways, it turned out that these crooked ways sometimes had more land than the righteous paths.

Therefore, if you complain and complain, you still have to use it.

The painted skin girl squinted at a pair of peach blossom eyes, looking very unconvinced, and gritted her teeth and said, "What do you know?" ”

Ruan Rannuoyun said slowly and lightly: "I know everything, but I still want to hear you tell this story in person." ”

Actually, I only know a rough idea, but I won't tell you. Ran Nuoxin said.

The Painted Girl was silent for a while, and a secret that had been sealed for many years was slowly lifted, and the truth was revealed to them.

"Well, it doesn't hurt to tell you. As you said, when I was alive, my name was Zitang, and I was an innocent person.

"When I was fifteen years old, I was the best in Chang'an, 'Wuling was young and entangled', and I didn't care how many rich children went bankrupt to see me.

"I don't think those vulgar things are worthy of me.

"Until I met him. When I see Shiro, I mistake for life, and I don't see Shiro for life.

"Our first encounter is like the story of a talented and beautiful woman told in the book.

"I don't remember the year, month, and day, but I remember that the sky was very blue, the peach blossoms were very bright, and his smile was very bright, shaking my eyes, and my heart was full of him.

"He was one of my many suitors, who spared no expense to see me.

Without hesitation, I agreed. As for why, I don't know it myself.

"Probably, that's fate.

"The boy often goes to my place, and the strange thing is that I have known him for a long time, and he has never given his name.

What's even more strange is that when I saw her, it was a few hundred taels of silver, and ordinary people would have been poor for a long time. And the boy often goes, and he spends money without mercy.

"Then I was relieved, no matter who he was, as long as he was by my side.

"That boy is good-looking, gentle and elegant, and there is an innate nobility in his body.

"Childe refused to give his name, but asked me to call him 'Shiro'.

"He came to see me once every seven days, to listen to me play the piano and sing music, or to paint for me and write poems for me. The others do nothing.

"Most men are begging for the joy of fish and water, and this is the first time I've seen someone like him who obeys the rules.

"At first, I was also curious, thinking that he was waiting for me to take the initiative. Gradually, I got used to it. Curious and curious, I liked it.

"But I always felt that there was something strange about the way he looked at me. It's like looking at another person through me. But what does that matter? And so it went by for a year.

"I thought, if life goes on like this, it's actually not bad. I don't want to be with that son all the time, and I don't want to be a wife or a concubine, but it's good to see him once every seven days.

"Until one day, on the day we agreed, the boy did not come, and I waited for a group of people who looked like guards.

"They killed me. I was cremated until I was left with a skull, and they took my skull and used forbidden techniques to make me a painted skin girl.

"They threatened me that if I didn't do what they said, they would send me to a Taoist priest and let me live and die.

"I'm not a good person, I'm not that selfless.

I did as they said.

"In this way, day after day, month after month, year after year, I am just 'living' without being a ghost or a ghost.

"I never regretted meeting him, let alone falling in love with him.

"I thought that if I found my skull, I would be free. In the next life, you will be able to see him

"But I searched for years and couldn't find it.

"As long as I don't obey, they will recite a mantra that makes me miserable, no, I am dead, how can I live?

"Sometimes, I don't even know what I am.

"I don't know how many years have passed, just living in such a muddy way, wandering around this world. A few days ago, I was brought to Jinling, and that man killed all the men of the Chen family.

"Today the man told me that two men would come to Chen's house and ask me to kill them. I thought I would meet you, as usual. It's okay, it's okay, I'm tired anyway. ”

After listening to this, He Qianyun said coldly: "Infatuation is not a reason for you to harm people's lives. ”

Ran Nuo glanced at He Qianyun complainingly: "Senior brother." ”

He Qianyun pursed his lips, but still didn't speak again.

He Qianyun is a man, so he naturally doesn't understand a woman's mind, and Ran Nuo naturally understands the feeling of being infatuated.

Although it was a last resort, the painting did kill a lot of people.

The Painted Girl sat on the ground, her eyes blank and her mouth muttering, not knowing what she was saying.

Ruan Rannuo couldn't bear it in his heart, and secretly said: I don't have the right to stand on the moral high ground to accuse her of being ruthless, I am not her, and I can't understand her pain and despair. But she did get used to do something wrong. If she hadn't been controlled, she wouldn't have been like this. Cause and effect, right and wrong, leave it to Hades. There are those who have created iniquity and will pay the price.

Thinking so, he said, "What about the feather-clad man?" ”

The painted girl brushed the hair scattered around her sideburns and said, "...... Those people we knew when we killed people before, we killed them together. ”

"You are such a smart person, you really don't know anything about his identity, do you? You know...... Why are you suffering? After listening to it for so long, Rannuo naturally understood who this "Shiro" was.

"Don't know how? What if you know? Yes I know that we are very different. But I don't want anything else, he just looks at me. The painted skin girl changed her words and said, "The child outside belongs to him and the woman, right?" The Painted Girl asked rhetorically.

Ruan Rannuo felt uncomfortable, his throat was a little dry, and his voice was slightly hoarse: "I don't know if it's the woman's child you said, but he is indeed the son of that son." ”

The Painted Girl stopped talking, and returned to her blank state.

There was a deathly silence in the room.

I don't know how long it took, the painted girl Qi Ran raised her head and said, "What are you going to do with me?" ”

"I was going to make you feel like you're going to be gone. Now I've changed my mind. We don't have the right to decide whether you live or die.

"My brother has broken the ban in this house, and I have set up a charm, and when the time comes, your skull will turn to ashes wherever it is.

"So you are free, soon black and white impermanence will come to seduce the soul and ask for your life, and when the time comes, the eighteenth layer of hell will still be an abyss, and it will not be something I can interfere with and predict."

The painted girl lowered her eyelids and didn't speak, and after a while, she figured it out before she supported herself and kowtowed to Ruan Rannuo and He Qianyun: "The kindness of the son and the girl will never be forgotten by the slave family." If there is an afterlife......"

He Qianyun reluctantly stepped forward to help her up at Rannuo's signal.

Ruan Rannuo closed his eyes and exhaled a breath that he was holding in his heart: "Don't, the eighteenth layer of hell in the underworld is much more painful than the soul flying.

"I'm not for your good, you stabbed me so many times, and killed so many people, I hate you and take revenge on you, and you don't want to think about anything to thank you.

"I sympathize with you, but I have no right to forgive you for the souls who died tragically, innocent or not.

"I just thought that probably the most just person in heaven and on earth is Lord Hades. Right and wrong will be known before the Hades Palace.

"Simply as an ordinary female crown, I only wish you in the next life, don't love the people of God's royal family again, and may you be safe and happy in the next life."

Even if it is painful, there is a chance to be reincarnated as a human being, which means that she can start again. You can start over, so what's the point of the eighteen layers of hell?

A cold wind blew on her face for no reason, and the painted girl seemed to see something, her body was much lighter, and she seemed to let go of something.

The painted skin girl slowly walked up, with a long-lost smile on her face, and when her body was already translucent, she turned her head to Rannuo and said, "That child is a good child, you cherish it, don't follow in my footsteps." ”

Ruan Rannuo was stunned by her inexplicable words, and before she could understand what she meant, the painted skin girl disappeared.

Ruan Rannuo didn't understand what the painted skin girl said, but He Qianyun understood it, and his heart was turbulent.

Ran Nuo didn't think much about it, took a few deep breaths to calm down, raised his hand and rubbed his temples that were about to explode, and then released the feathered man.

By the faint candlelight, Ruan Rannuo could see the face of the feather-clad man clearly.