Chapter 70: The Black Bun
Yanagi's voice trembled, and he looked like a cowardly boy, and he trembled and said to the duckweed: "I was so scared that I cowered on the bed and didn't dare to move. I have a habit of sleeping that I can't sleep even if there is a little light, so I have to put out all the candles every time I sleep. That day, I closed my eyes tightly, and my whole body was hidden under the covers, not daring to move. If only I had fainted like the day before. Yanagi sighed and wiped the tears from his face with his sleeve.
"But Liu Gongzi heard someone come in?" duckweed asked with a smile.
Yanagi nodded and continued: "The knocking on the door lasted for a long time before it stopped, and I thought that the ghost might have left, so I lifted the quilt and took a look. Behold...... I actually saw a candle lit at the end of the bed. I was so frightened that I had no strength on my feet, and just as I was about to scream, I saw a woman dressed in red with her back to me, as if she was looking for something in my room. She was in a high bun, emaciated, and always looking for something.
I was so scared that I couldn't help but scream. I called out to the scholar and my old servant, but no one answered me. I was so scared that it seemed like they were sleeping deeply. At this time, the woman in red heard my shouting and stopped looking for something. She seemed to want to turn her head to look at me.
Somehow, the black hair was hooked by the bamboo pole I was drying my clothes on, and it all fell apart. ”
Yanagi said as he trembled with fear.
Xiaowa asked strangely, "It's just that the hair is falling out, what's so scary?"
Yanagi swallowed his saliva and continued, "The hair I said is falling down, not a normal woman's hair falling down. Instead, all the hair was scattered on the ground, and the hair squirmed like a worm and slowly crawled towards me......"
Xiaowa couldn't help but be scared and her scalp tingled, but the duckweed was still calm, took a sip of tea and asked, "There is nothing unusual about hair." Have you seen anything else? Have you seen the face of the woman in red again?"
Liu Sheng's fingers trembled, and he reluctantly took a sip of tea, and said, "No." I was scared and fainted again that day, and I didn't see what the woman looked like. However, I asked the scholar and the old servant to accompany me in the room during the day, and found a portrait of a woman. ”
"Portrait?" duckweed asked suspiciously, "Presumably Liu Gongzi brought that portrait today, can you let me take a look?"
"Absolutely. Yanagi took out a hairy portrait from his sleeve, with specks of oil on it, and if he didn't open it, he would have thought it was just a piece of waste paper.
Duckweed took it, and saw that the portrait was painted with a woman with shaved shoulders and a thin waist, handsome eyes and eyebrows, and also with a high black bun. Duckweed smiled: "What a handsome lady." Liu Gongzi is really a blessing. ”
Liu Sheng blushed and said with some fear: "Lady, don't make such a joke." This woman is afraid that she is a female ghost, Xiaosheng met her, it was just a bad fate, just don't cause trouble, what kind of blessing, but it is really tormenting Xiaosheng. ”
"Just kidding, don't mind Young Master Liu. Duckweed looked at the small portrait carefully, and the corners of his mouth kept a nonchalant smile, "However, does Liu Gongzi think that the woman in this portrait is the woman you saw that day?"
Yanagi nodded and said with some hesitation, "Yes." Don't hide it from the lady, Xiaosheng was born poor, and this time he entered Bianjing to take the exam, and he had already spent a lot of money in the family, so he rented a very cheap house. Hey, my parents used to tell me not to be greedy for small gains, but now I believe it. ”
Duckweed said clearly: "So, what Liu Gongzi means is that in the room you rented, did anything bad happen before?"
"Exactly. Liu Sheng couldn't help but wet his eyes again, his eyes were red and bloodshot, and he said very sadly: "I secretly asked the scholar to inquire elsewhere, and I found out...... It turned out that the house I lived in used to house the second daughter of the landlord's family. The second lady had an affair with someone, was caught, and later became pregnant, and her father forced her to commit suicide......"
"How can there be such a father in this world?" the little baby had to slam the teacup on the table, and some of the tea popped out.
Liu Sheng sighed again and again: "Although I think the same way, but even if this woman is wronged in a thousand ways, she should go to her father." I rented her house, but I didn't want to. If she is a sensible person, she shouldn't come in the middle of the night to scare Xiaosheng. ”
Duckweed couldn't help laughing: "That being said, maybe the woman is really looking for something, I don't know?"
"Xiaosheng no matter what she is looking for, these days, but I can't sleep well every day, and I can't concentrate on reviewing my homework. Seeing that the exam is coming up in a few months, this woman is so pestering Xiaosheng like this, Xiaosheng is very worried......"
"But people are just looking for things, and they don't pester you?" Xiaowa looked at the good-looking woman in the portrait and couldn't help frowning.
"She knocks on the door every night now, and then comes in and rummages things, and scares Xiao Sheng to wake up and then stun, isn't that entanglement?" Liu Sheng said angrily.
Xiaowa and duckweed couldn't help but laugh "poof", duckweed covered her lips and smiled: "What does Liu Gongzi mean that Liu Gongzi sees this woman in red every night, and he is scared to wake up before he sees her face?"
Liu Sheng wiped away the tears on his face very embarrassed, and then nodded: "Although Xiaosheng is indeed a little timid, there is no way, he grew up in the land of Bashu since he was a child, and he has seen and heard a little. For example, at the foot of today's son, this kind of thing is the first time I have encountered it. I really don't want to be entangled by this woman and unintentionally prepare for the scientific examination, please ask the lady to save her life. ”
Xiaowa couldn't help but be a little speechless and said, "Childe really loves to read." ”
"Xiaosheng is a person who reads, so naturally everything should be based on reading. Yagyu said.
Duckweed looked at the small portrait of a woman, then looked at the faint black qi on Liu Sheng's body, and said with a smile: "Since Liu Gongzi said so, then I will catch the culprit for you tonight." ”
Liu Sheng said happily: "The lady is really a good person, Xiaosheng is really unthankful." ”
Duckweed stopped Liu Sheng's hand wiping his nose and tears, covered his mouth and smiled: "Liu Gongzi doesn't have to be polite. I am now telling fortunes and divination for people in this Yuelai Inn, and I also help people eliminate disasters and difficulties, and each person has fifty taels of gold, which is absolutely not false. ”
Liu Sheng's face suddenly turned a little pale, and he said hesitantly: "The lady looks so kind, how, how can she also learn the style of those lowly businessmen and collect so much copper smell?"
Duckweed yawned and said, "In my heart, all beings are equal. Merchants and scholars are the same. If Liu Gongzi thinks that my price is too high, he can go out and turn left, and there is a blind man next to the willow tree in front of him, maybe it is the same. ”