Chapter 2 The Mystery and the Mystery
Yangzhou Liufu is one of the largest families in the city, with thousands of hectares of fertile land at home, countless industries in various places, more than 100 servants in the house, and a group of maids.
The head of the family, Liu Baiyuan, has two sons under his knees, the eldest son Liu Zun and the second son Liu Fan. Liu Zun is five years older than Liu Fan, the old city is calm at a young age, often donates to the villagers, shelters the surrounding neighbors, so he is deeply admired by the nearby squires, at the age of eighteen, Liu Zun married the daughter of Yangzhou Confucian Mu Luoqiu------- Mu Wanqiong.
Mu Wanqiong is twenty-eight years old, beautiful and delicate, fair complexion, bright eyes and bright teeth, courteous, virtuous, dignified and magnificent. Influenced by Mu Luoqiu, Mu Wanqiong has been brilliant since she was a child, not only familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, but also proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and is a talented woman who is well-known in Yangzhou.
After marriage, the husband and wife respect each other like guests, affection and love, so that Liu Baiyuan was very pleased, but unfortunately, there are unforeseen circumstances, last year, when Liu Zun went to Biansai to check the family business, it happened to catch up with the cavalry of the nomadic steppe to harass the border, many people were slaughtered and killed, Liu Zun and more than a dozen accompanying family members, were also slaughtered by the cavalry.
Hearing this bad news, Liu Baiyuan and his wife were heartbroken, and their liver and intestines were broken. Mu Wanqiong washed her face with tears all day long and closed the door. A good family was shattered like this. couldn't bear to be widowed at a young age, Liu Baiyuan and his wife persuaded her to remarry, but Mu Wanqiong swore to die and insisted on staying to serve Liu Baiyuan and his wife.
Mu Wanqiong said that since she passed the door of the Liu family, she was born as a member of the Liu family, and died as a ghost of the Liu family, and she would never marry another person for the rest of her life.
The eldest son was unfortunately killed, Liu Baiyuanhe put all his energy and hope on the second son Liu Fan, hoping that Liu Fan could be as outstanding as Liu Zun, but unfortunately, it backfired, when the forest is big, there must be a bird that is not a thing, and Liu Fan belongs to the bird that is not a thing.
Liu Fan has just turned sixteen years old this year, although he looks like a human, but this guy's heart is very obscene and dark, unlike his brother Liu Zun, Liu Fan has revealed the essence of a scoundrel since he was a child, don't look at Liu Fan's age, but he is a complete loser, he learned to eat, drink, prostitute and gamble at a young age.
This goods steal the family's money all day long to go to the gambling house, and when you win the money, you lead the fox friends to drink, and if you lose, you go home and continue to steal, and if you can't steal the money, you steal things, and pawn the stolen things to the pawnshop, and then continue to gamble with the money you get.
In addition to eating, drinking, stealing, and gambling, Liu Fan also likes sex, don't look at Liu Fan's Ding Ding has not yet developed a neat rope, but he scourges the maids in the family all day long, and leads the family to rob the people outside every day.
In just two years, Liu Fan has almost scourged the little girl within a radius of ten miles, and after the disaster is over ten miles and eight places of neighborhood, Liu Fan is worried about his sister-in-law again, and he goes to the backyard all day long, and crawls into the courtyard where Mu Wanqiong lives at night to peep, and is beaten out three or four times by Mu Wanqiong's portable ring.
Seeing that Liu Fan dared to harass Mu Wanqiong, Liu Bai angrily whipped him several times, but this did not scare Liu Fan away, but aroused his rebellious psychology, since then, Liu Fan has been more attentive to Mu Wanqiong, as long as he seizes the opportunity, he will go to Mu Wanqiong to make up for the heat.
Seeing that Liu Fan was so uneasy, Liu Baiyuan also died, he didn't dare to expect Liu Fan to support the family, in order not to let the Liu family's industry decay, since last month, Liu Baiyuan carefully taught Mu Wanqiong, let Mu Wanqiong pick up the Liu family's industry, Liu Baiyuan figured it out, if the family's property fell into Liu Fan's hands, it would be lost in less than three years.
Rather than letting Liu Fan lose the industry in the future, it is better to hand it all over to Mu Wanqiong, at least it can continue. Although he no longer reported hope to Liu Fan, in order to collect Liu Fan's heart, Liu Baiyuan helped him set up a powerful family business, and the other party was Sunflower, the daughter of Xiang Tutuo, the prefect of Yangzhou.
Sunflowers look more delicate than flowers, fat, five big and three thick, the face is big and round, covered with pockmarks, a smile full of teeth, how to look, it is really like a sunflower, since the book of this family business, Liu Fan no longer dares to harm the women of the good family, all day long looking for death and life want to commit suicide, a total of 30 days in January, Liu Xu can't wait to commit suicide 40 times.
The reason why Liu Baiyuan married Xiang Tutuo was mainly to use the power of the Xiang family, but seeing Liu Fan's reaction was so radical, and the appearance of the sunflower really didn't support the faΓ§ade, so he also regretted it a little, Liu Baiyuan also tried to push away this family business, but Xiang Tutuo finally allowed his daughter out, so he was willing to let people go back.
Knowing that the Liu family had the intention of withdrawing from his family, Xiang Tutuo suddenly turned his face, he let out his mouth to the outside world, if the Liu family dared to withdraw from his family, then he would slaughter the Liu family and copy the Liu family's property, after hearing the news, although Liu Baiyuan was angry and angry, but he was helpless, after all, the people did not dare to fight with the officials, so he had to admit this family business.
Due to the fear of long nights and dreams, Xiang Tutuo decided to complete the family affairs as soon as possible, so that Liu Fan and Sunflower round house as soon as possible, as long as the two of them have a round room, his heart will be steady, yesterday was the day of Liu Xu and Sunflower's great joy, because Liu Fan refused to win the sunflower, in desperation, Liu Baiyuan had to tie up Liu Xu's flowers, and then let the housekeeper send him to Xiang Home to welcome his relatives.
But everyone didn't expect that when Liu Fan was sent to Xiang's family to greet his relatives by five flowers, after seeing the eldest lady of the Xiang family who was like a cow, he actually broke free from the rope tied to his body with a strong perseverance......
Seeing that Liu Fan dared to escape from marriage, Xiang Tutuo was ashamed and angry, looking at the strange eyes of the guests around him, Xiang Tutuo felt that Liu Fan was insulting him, so when Liu Fan escaped, Xiang Tutuo ordered his officers and soldiers to chase Liu Fan back.
After hearing the order, dozens of officers and soldiers rode horses to chase after them, and after half a day, everyone chased Liu Fan to the lake outside the city, and saw that there was a lake in front of him, and there was no way out, so the leading officers and soldiers shouted to the front, asking Liu Fan to go back with them to marry.
But Liu Fan's equestrian skills are not good, and he can't control the horses like those officers and soldiers, so when he saw the lake in front of him and wanted to rein in the horse, he found that he couldn't stop, and looked at the lake in front of him in horror, Liu Fan was so frightened that he had no master: "Good horse, good horse, don't run forward, please, stop quickly, if you don't stop, we will have to fall into the water......"
I don't know if the horse understood Liu Fan's words, or if the horse felt the danger, when Liu Fan finished shouting, the horse actually slowed down with a sharp brake, and when it was still ten centimeters away from the lakeshore, the horse finally stopped, but, after seeing all this, Liu Fan had to not feel happy, but cried.
Because although the horse stopped, Liu Fan on horseback was thrown out, and he was thrown out of an arc, in mid-air, seeing the lake under him, Liu Fan shouted in a rage: "Help, help, I won't run away from marriage, help." β
After the officers and soldiers saw all this, they thought that Liu Fan would rather commit suicide by throwing himself into the lake than go back to get married.
It wasn't until Liu Fan gradually stopped his movements and his body slowly sank into the water that the leader came back to his senses, looked at Liu Fan who was sinking into the water, and he hurriedly ordered: "Don't be in a daze, hurry up and go into the water to save people." β
Hearing the order, several officers and soldiers who knew how to water immediately jumped into the lake to save people, but at this time Liu Fan had already been rushed into the distance, and when the officers and soldiers went into the water to save people, a wave of seven-colored ripples suddenly appeared in the lake out of thin air, but no one noticed this scene at that time.
When the ripples appeared, Liu Fan, who was wrapped in the halo, appeared next to Liu Fan's corpse out of thin air, and the two Liu Fansheng were exactly the same, at this time, Liu Fan's vitality was dead in the water, and the halo wrapped in Liu Fan took the initiative to lean towards Liu Fan's corpse.
In the dark, there seemed to be a butterfly with a seven-colored light that spread its wings, and each of its two wings rolled up a Liu Fan, and then gently merged its wings, and at the same time, countless colored points of light similar to stars covered the two Liu Fan.
With the appearance of colored light spots, the two Liu Fan wrapped in butterfly wings fused into one, and the two phantoms merged into one, and when the two Liu Fan's figures folded and coincided, the seven-colored butterfly turned into a phantom and disappeared completely.
Although this process is complicated, it happens extremely quickly, from the appearance of colorful ripples to the dissipation of seven-colored butterflies, the whole process can be described as electric light and flint, because it all happened so quickly that those around did not notice.
After the colorful butterfly dissipated, Liu Fan, who had already drowned, suddenly struggled a few more times, and the heart that had stopped beating before regained its vitality, and at this moment, an officer and soldier who went into the water to save people found Liu Fan and dragged him up.
The man shouted loudly around: "Quick, come and save people, quickly inform the adults, tell him that my uncle has found it, thank God, my uncle is still angry, I really don't understand my uncle, isn't it just getting married?" What are you doing to commit suicide by throwing yourself into the river? β
Hearing that Liu Fan had been found here, several other officers and soldiers in charge of collecting quickly swam here, looking at Liu Fan who was dying, everyone worked together to pull his body out of the water, identified the direction, and the big guy held Liu Fan and swam towards the shore.
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Exhausted, Liu Fan slowly opened his eyes, there was no one around, got up and looked around, this is a room similar to a bedroom, a bed, a table of eight immortals, a Taishi chair, a bench, a desk, a screen, a tea set, all the furniture here is full of retro atmosphere, even the opposite window is wooden.
"Am I not soaking in the lake in front of the scenic spot? How did you get here? Where is this? Why is the decoration style so weird? β
Lifting the silk quilt full of questions, Liu Fan rubbed his forehead and walked off the bed, when he walked to the bronze mirror at the end of the bed, and saw the scene of the mirror, he was stunned.