"I still remember that night, I drank a little wine, lay in the box as usual, touched the beautiful woman whose name I had long forgotten, and prepared to enjoy the performance on stage. ”

"Liuli was wearing a purple Luo skirt, holding a delicate pipa in her arms, and the moment she raised her right hand lightly and played the piano, I looked at her right eye, and I knew that I would never be able to escape from that watery eye in my life. ”

Soon I asked the bustard about her information, her real name is Liu Li, not a local household registration in Chang'an Mansion, an outsider, because she was forced to marry by her family, so she fled here, was adopted by the bustard, and trained to become a geisha. ”

"At that time, the bustard asked me not to pay attention to Liu Li, she said that this woman was very fierce, and she only promised to perform well, and only sold her art and not her body. Once a son-in-law was drunk and wanted to force her, but she didn't expect Liu Li to pull up a self-defense dagger and cut her neck, and the gushing blood scared the child-in-law on the spot. ”

"After many inquiries, I got a lot of news related to Liu Li, and I knew that she liked the bookish Xiucai, so I rushed home overnight and began to read at night. I don't want to be comprehensible, I just hope to memorize some scriptures and poetry passages, and then I can take them out and show them, during that time I simply fell into madness, and even the shopkeeper said that if I really persist like this, it is not a dream to be a champion in high school. ”

Speaking of this, Zhou Tai sneered, and then coughed.

"Even at that time, I was up and down in the shopping mall for more than ten years, and Liu Licrao is very good-natured, cautious, how can I be my opponent, and when I returned to Dongchun Building, I began to get close to her, although she didn't lie to me, but the relationship was slowly getting better. So after that, I spent a lot of money to persuade Liu Li to have dinner with me, and while we were eating, I began to deliberately sell the poems and verses that stayed up all night to make up for it. ”

"She must be fascinated by you. ”

Wan Ning felt the breeze on his face and quipped.

"To tell you the truth, when I closed the door and sat down at the table with her, all the poems that were ripe for me were left out of the clouds. When I met her eyes, my brain went blank, and I made a lot of jokes as a veteran of the love scene, like a fledgling hairy boy. ”

Zhou Tai smiled bitterly and shook his head, presumably a lot of embarrassing things must have happened that night.

"I walked out of Dongchun Building in a daze, and I was woken up by a gust of night wind before I suddenly appeared, I was actually in love, that was the bargaining chip I used in exchange for fame and fortune in the first half of my life, but I didn't expect it to be transferred back to my hands after a while. ”

"After that meal, my relationship with her warmed up again, and after I paid Dongchun Lou a lot of money, I was finally able to take her to travel all over the Zhao Kingdom, to taste the delicacies of various places, and to take her to see those strange things, she was just a girl less than twenty years old, where had she seen these worlds. ”

"I tried everything to get her to trust me unconditionally, and I even bought off the presiding officer of the Lingxin Temple in Makue Prefecture to make her believe in the marriage sign she asked for, and to cherish the person in front of her. ”

It turned out to be the Lingxin Temple in Mujiang Mansion, but I didn't expect the bald donkey there to do such a thing, Wan Ning secretly complained.

"Finally, under a starry night sky, I confessed to her, and she was silent for a long time, and finally agreed to me. Do you know that feeling, my heart is beating wildly, my face is red, and I can't speak with excitement, even if I signed a super big order, I am far from being so out of shape and so happy. ”

"But I still have indescribable sorry for her in my heart, because I think she is such a simple and kind person, but she has been deceived by such a cunning fellow as me, and her youth should not have been wasted on me, who is almost confused. ”

"In order to express my sincerity, I took Liu Li back to Zhou's mansion and promised her that I would marry her, and I even bought the pine snow incense stone with a lot of money, wanting to polish it into a wedding ring, yes, it was the one that Zhou Jiang stole out. ”

Liu Li is very happy, she has been looking forward to all this. Because my parents died young, after getting ready, I announced to my father-in-law and mother-in-law that I was about to take the willow glass to the door. ”

"But the old man's reaction to this incident was particularly great, he insisted that the gate of the Jiang family was forbidden for these unidentified women to step into, it was okay to play, but it was impossible to give a name, and said that if I insisted on messing with Liu Li, I would want the Jiang family to cut off relations with me. ”

Speaking of this, the smile on Zhou Tai's face disappeared, and his eyes became even darker.

"I didn't fight for my true world at that time, if I broke away from the Jiang family, not only would I be beaten back to my original form with a punch, but even years of hard work would have to be put into it. ”

"In desperation, I had to settle Liu Li under my other property, I was ready to be scolded by her bloody dog, and I had even thought about the scene of crying, making trouble and hanging myself in advance. ”

But Liu Li, who learned the news, was very calm, she said that she was not greedy for my money, and even to show her will, she no longer accepted my money gifts, and she used the little private money left to buy a small house in the slums. I swore to her that as soon as my husband died, I would take her home and marry her as a wife. ”

"I actually know her feelings for me, money mixed with love. Because I am Zhou Tai, under the aura of a giant crocodile in the business world, she will look up to me, want to get close to me, and finally agree to me. If we didn't have that much money, she and I would just be passers-by, and we wouldn't have the ability to single-handedly promote the relationship between the two of us. ”

"In my opinion, her current performance is just to use a temporary loss in exchange for me to be twice as good to her in the future, in fact, in essence, this is also a transaction. ”

"But throughout the deal, I got her admiration, and that's all I wanted. And she got nothing but the greasy and clumsy love of an obese young man, not only did she not make much money, but she also did not earn a name. ”

"Half a year has passed, and the shopkeeper Kui, who was often sent by me to visit Liu Li, told me that Liu Li was about to give birth, I cried with joy, and brought the best doctor in Chang'an Mansion to rush over, it was a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses, and the last three were safe. ”

"But at that time, it was the beginning of my career, and Zhou Jiang had also entered puberty, and I had been arguing with him for a long time, and at the same time running around for life, so I didn't have much energy and time to visit the three of them. ”

"Liu Li asked for my opinion, and she wanted her sister to follow her surname Liu, and her brother to follow my surname Zhou, and I agreed. ”

"Seeing that my father-in-law's health is getting worse day by day, I am a little sad at the same time, but I am also counting the days of reunion with the three of them. I have always been one yard to one yard to people, although my father-in-law prevented me from being with Liu Li, but many years ago it was he who carried me with one hand to make me where I am today. ”

"But... But..."Speaking of this, Zhou Tai's voice began to tremble: "I didn't expect that there was a fire in the slum that day, I was still in Lin'an Mansion to discuss affairs, and after learning the news, I rushed back to Chang'an Mansion like crazy, and when I arrived at the scene, the fire had been extinguished." I learned from the mouths of the neighbors that Liu Li and my daughter Liu Anxin died... He died in the fire, which happened to coincide with my son Zhou Jingxin who went to study in a foreign study hall and escaped. ”

After that, I began to look for Zhou Jingxin's traces, but found nothing, and at the same time, I also began to live in a huge guilt for Liu Li's mother and daughter, all because of me, they ended up like this, burned alive by the fire. ”

"If I had been brave, under the threat of my father-in-law, I would have abandoned my family wealth and chosen to walk with her, I might not be able to start from scratch and return to the top. If I don't show up, she is still the shining top brand in the Dongqing Building, maybe she will meet a husband who is obedient to her in the future, even if that person does not appear, after many years, she will still be able to choose to fade out of the Qinglou and be a normal woman again, anyway, it is better than now. ”

"Originally, I was ready to hold this secret and die alone, but I didn't expect that Zhou Jiang, who knew about it, in order to make me feel the fear engraved into my bone marrow, painted the paper ghost into the appearance of the two of them after being burned. ”

"To be honest, the first time I saw them, I wasn't scared because I thought I'd never see them again. But when I tried to communicate with them, they ignored them, stretched out their long claws, and chased after me, and I realized that they had become ghosts because of their resentment against me, and had come to me to ask for their lives. ”

"Are you so afraid of death? ”

Wan Ning said suddenly.

"No, I'm not afraid of death, I don't think my life can pay one-tenth of Liu Li's own, and there is even a sweet and lovely little girl, the reason why I called you here is not to kill them, but to subdue them, and then find a master to ignite them. First, because they are all good people, they shouldn't be reduced to this, returning to reincarnation and finding a good person to reincarnate is the right way, and second, I want to say it myself... Apologize to them personally. ”

Zhou Tai said in a low voice, covering his face with a pair of big hands.

"Let's go, Brother Zhou, people can't be resurrected after death, and besides, if there is fate, we will always see each other in the future. ”

Wan Ning gently covered the jade tube tied around his waist, stood up, patted Zhou Tai's shoulder, and said.