Chapter 336: The Lady Holding the Doll

Yongzhou

Left avant-garde General's Palace

Even when the general Luo Yao was not there, no one else was allowed to approach the three-story wooden building. This rule is strict to ...... Even his only son, Rowan, was not allowed to walk in easily. There were thirty-six silver-armored warriors guarding the perimeter of the wooden building, and they would not obey anyone's dispatch except for Luo Yao's orders.

These thirty-six people, even if Luo Yao is not there, are still loyal to their duties.

As Rowan walked along the small lake, he glanced at the stilted building from a distance and shook his head.

I don't know why, he always feels that he is an outsider in this mansion at all.

His father never showed even the slightest concern for him, let alone anything warm. From childhood to adulthood, Luo Yao always had a cold appearance in his impression. When he was a child, he would be spoiled like other children, but Luo Yao would push him away every time and tell him that men should not be like this, and that they should be self-reliant.

He once asked about his mother, but his mother only said that his father was too busy with military affairs.

For a long time, Luo Yao has never had the warmth of the word father.

His mother told him that it was because his father doted on his son too much that his eldest brother Luo Wu made a big mistake, because the Luo family almost collapsed.

But what does Luo Wu's mistake have to do with me?

Luo Wen always wanted to ask Luo Yao, but unfortunately he didn't have the courage.

"Uncle Zhongbo......"

Luo Wen sat down on the stone bench by the small lake, looked at the stilted building on the opposite bank and smiled self-deprecatingly: "You said that in this compound, even the entire Yongzhou City and even the entire Pingshang Road, who can enter and leave that building freely except for my father himself?" I remember when I was a child, I once ran in to my father to show off my copy of the Autumn Hunting Beasts, and I just wanted to get a compliment from him...... But my father tore up my painting and slapped me hard. ”

Standing behind him was a thin old man with a straight waist, who looked to be at least sixty or seventy years old. His hair was gray, and his face was full of wrinkles like knives and axes. It's deep, like the saline land that has been blown by the wind for decades on the southwestern border.

"In that building, it's better not to go to the young master. If the general says, the young master should not disobey it. ”

The old man replied expressionlessly, his tone as cold as the pure steel sword box tied behind his back.

"Uncle Zhong, can't you say a warm word?"

"Heart-warming words are mostly lies."

Zhong Bo said: "The old slave can't say beautiful things, he only tells the truth. ”

"Tell me, then...... For a ranger general from the fifth grade, it is worth the labor father to personally greet him and go out for five hundred miles? It's not that my father doesn't know what I had with that guy named Fang Xie in Chang'an City, so why rush to stick a junior's cold ass with the respect of the country? ”

"When the general does things, no one else can guess the intention. But over the years, the general has not done anything wrong. ”

"yes......"

Rowan sneered: "Even if he killed his own son, no one would say that he did something wrong...... In a home like this, I don't know when I'm going to be killed for breaking his rules. ”

"From childhood to adulthood, the young master has made many mistakes."

Zhong Bo replied in a cold tone.

"I did it on purpose."

Rowan glanced back at Zhong Bo, was silent for a while, and said, "Ever since I knew that my eldest brother was killed by his own hands, I have been very scared...... With such a father, who is not afraid? The eldest brother did something wrong, even if he deserved to die, did he have to do it himself? If you want to show loyalty to the people of the Yang family, can you send your eldest brother to the criminal department? ”

"The general saved hundreds of lives from top to bottom of the Luo family."

Uncle Zhong glanced at him, and his tone was still calm and flat: "If it weren't for that, there would be no young master." ”

"Humph......"

Luo Wen snorted, picked up a piece of gravel and threw it into the lake: "Uncle Zhong, I have always been taken care of by you since I was a child, and he knows that I am closest to you." But why didn't he allow you to follow me for the three years I went to Chang'an? I knelt down and begged, but he turned around and left without even looking at him. ”

"You are the son of a great general, and no one in Chang'an City dares to do anything to you."

"Don't think I don't know!"

Rowan roared in a low voice, "He didn't really care about me all along!" Sending me to the Martial Arts Academy was the time when the people of the Yushitai jointly impeached him the fiercest. He didn't make a defense, but sent me to Chang'an, was it really to temper me? I'm not stupid...... Sending me to the Chang'an Yanwu Academy is actually the same as killing the eldest brother, he just wants to keep his official title. Born in the Luo family, the biggest misfortune is that the blood relatives are not as good as the unicorn robe. ”

Zhong Bo did not speak.

Rowan sneered: "Why don't you argue for him?" ”

Uncle Zhong touched the cold sword box behind his back and said, "I've always been by the young master's side. ”

Luo Wen's face changed slightly, and then smiled: "It turns out that you can also say warm words." ”

"The young master is bitter in his heart, but the general is even more bitter in his heart."

Uncle Zhong looked at the three-story stilted building on the opposite bank, and after being silent for a moment, he said in a wistful tone: "When you really grow up, young master, you will understand the general's hardships." ”

"No, I don't."

Luo Wen waved his hand: "I am Luo Wen, not just Luo Yao's son." ”

"The young master has anger in his heart."

Zhong Bo said: "It needs to be eliminated." ”

"How?"

Rowan asked.

Uncle Zhong said: "The young master just orders." ”

"I want to kill."

Rowan said.

Zhong Bo paused and replied, "As long as it's not a solution." His current identity is Qincha, and he can't be killed. ”

Rowan got up and sneered: "Forget it...... Although you have been by my side for nearly twenty years, you are your father's man after all. ”

At this time, suddenly the butler of the General's Mansion ran over out of breath: "Young Master...... The small door at the back came the guest ......"

Luo Wen's face changed suddenly, and a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes.

The small door in the backyard of the General's Mansion has not been opened a few times, and only those special guests will go there. Luo Wen didn't dare to participate in Luo Yao's affairs, but that didn't mean he didn't know anything.

"How many?"

"One!"

"Let him go, just say that the general is not here!"

"Yes"

"Wait!"

Luo Wen's face kept changing, and he was silent for a while and was finally overcome by the curiosity in his heart: "Open the door and welcome me to my study!" ”

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Luo Yao's wife, the Chu family, never asked Luo Yao about military affairs, and she didn't even ask about the daily chores of the palace. She lives alone in a small courtyard all the year round and rarely walks around, even if there are guests in the General's Mansion, she usually does not go out. Few people entered her small courtyard except for her cronies, and Luo Yao sometimes couldn't see her once a month.

Everyone said that Chu's temper was very strange, and he couldn't hear the child's cry, and once he heard it, he would go crazy, so crazy that he didn't even know Luo Yao.

It is said that Rowan did not have this problem after he was born, and he did not know why he suddenly suffered from this strange disease. Since then, she has rarely gone out, and that small courtyard is almost her entire world. When Luo Yao was not in the mansion, everything up and down the mansion was decided by the housekeeper. Since Luo Wen came back from the capital, there were some things that could not be decided, and the housekeeper went to ask him for advice, and he was reluctant to enter the Chu family's house.

That small courtyard seemed eerie and terrifying to outsiders.

There is a large locust tree in the small courtyard, which is rare in the south. And because there is a ghost word in the name that is unlucky, even the northern people do not grow this kind of thing in their yards. The locust tree in Chu's yard itself is not terrible, what is terrible is the doll of that tree.

Chu Shi asked people to hang all kinds of rag dolls on the branches, and they were extremely realistic. The eyes, nose, and mouth are all full of facial features, and the shape is no different from that of a baby the size of a full moon. Whenever the weather is windy, the dolls of that tree will sway back and forth, and it seems to be particularly terrifying to look at at night, as if it is crawling with demons and monsters.

Not only that, but the paintings hanging on the walls of Chu's house are also dolls, and the paintings are fine and vivid.

The housekeeper Sun is fifty-five years old and used to be one of Luo Yao's generals. When he pacified the Shang Kingdom, he lost his right arm and became a waste. When I attacked Yongzhou, I passed through the swamp, and I didn't know what insect bit my leg, and when I came out, the meat on one foot was almost gnawed away. Although he was later cured, he couldn't stand the pain every cloudy day.

After Luo Yao guarded the southwest, he became the housekeeper of the General's Mansion. Over the years, the house has been well organized.

He has killed countless people in his life, but he has never had a nightmare. He didn't believe in ghosts and gods, and he wasn't afraid of demons, but he was only afraid of walking into the gloomy courtyard of the Chu family. If it weren't for the fact that today's events were really difficult to decide, he really didn't want to walk in.

The people in this courtyard are very strange, not only Madame but also her four personal maids. These four people are her maids in dowry, and they have been in Luofu for decades. The youngest one was also fifty years old, and the oldest was six years older than Chu. The names of the four of them are Meilan, Zhuju, and the Four Gentlemen, which are beautiful and unworldly, but they are more gloomy than ghosts.

Whenever the sun was high, the four of them would carry small stools and sit in a row in the courtyard to bask in the sun. Each person holds a doll in their arms, as if they were holding a kitten or a puppy.

The movement of stroking the doll is very gentle, as if grooming a cat or dog.

Chunlan, Qiuju, Xiazhu, Dongmei, the four women didn't talk when they sat together, and the silence in the yard could even be heard when a needle landed, they were like soulless shells, sitting there mechanically stroking the rag doll in their arms. His expression was dull and his eyes were blank.

"I have something important to see Madame."

Sun Zhe leaned over outside the door and whispered, as if he was afraid of being frightened by a ghost.

"Madame is asleep, so you can't disturb her."

The eldest Chunlan replied in a cold tone.

"It's hard work, if it's not really important, I don't dare to disturb Madame's recuperation."

"What's the matter?"

Qiu Ju asked.

Sun Ji hesitated for a moment and replied, "Just tell Madame that the small door in the backyard is open again." But the general was not at home, and it was the young master who opened the door. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the door of the house creaked open from the inside.

Standing at the door, Chu Shi was wearing a household dress, and his hair was scattered behind his head. She was a few years older than Luo Yao, but she couldn't see any wrinkles on her face. Her face was like Jing Moxuan's white paper, and her eyebrows and eyes were all drawn, so she couldn't see any expression. She doesn't seem to have been eroded by the years, and anyone who sees her for the first time will surely feel that this woman will not be more than thirty years old.

The figure is still there, and the appearance is still there.

The doll in my arms is there all year round.

"Where is the young master?"

"Meet in his study."

"Invite the guests to me."

Chu Shi said lightly: "Then tell the young master and let him get the military law of twenty whips by himself." The things that the general has explained, no matter who breaks the rules, can't do it. And also...... Is there a new person in the house? ”

"There are several."

"Have you seen any guests?"

"Two"

"Let's go to the backyard......"

Chu Shi gave an expression of command, and then turned around and went back to the house.

"Backyard ......"

Sun Ji muttered and repeated, thinking of the methods of those wizards in the backyard, and his heart felt a chill. Over the years, there have been at least more than a hundred people sent into the backyard, and not a single one has come out alive.