Ruyi always felt that something was wrong, although everything from picking up relatives to entering the door to worshipping the hall was according to plan, and nothing went wrong, but she was worried in her heart, especially when she was sitting alone on this bed covered with jujube longan lotus seeds.

The sound of suona and firecrackers in the courtyard seemed to be thousands of miles away, and what was going on and over in her mind was the words she overheard when she entered the door.

"The Yang family is newly married again, and the last one has been gone for less than three months."

"It's that simple, you don't know about their family. The original wife of the eldest young master of the Yang family, Ziyun, died a year ago, and half a year later he renewed a room, but the little lady married to the Yang family and disappeared within a few days, so two months later he married a relative, but guess what, this new bride died in a sedan chair, and the door was not entered. Master Yang is in a hurry, no, it's less than three months, and he hurriedly assigned his son a family affair. ”

"This ...... Counting it like this, today's entry is actually the fourth lady? How much money is the dowry alone? ”

"The Yang family has money, and Ziyun is the only seedling of Master Yang, so naturally there is no need to worry about the silver, according to me, it is serious for him to find a fortune teller to show Ziyun, and there are already three ladies dead, isn't this a wife?"

Wife.

Ruyi only heard his father and mother say that Yang Ziyun's wife died of illness a year ago, so he wanted to remarry, but he didn't know that he had married two wives before him, and they both died. How did they die? She didn't know, but it was a little strange to think about it, otherwise why didn't the Yang family make it clear when they proposed?

Thinking of this, Ruyi felt a cold chill on the back of his neck, and a layer of cold sweat appeared. She got up from the bed, tore off her hijab, moved her stiff body a few times, walked to the table, and looked down at the blue inkstone on the table.

"I knew this was the case, why bother at the beginning, the organs were exhausted, is it really like a bamboo basket to draw water, and it ended up empty?" She sighed softly, her fingertips touching the inkstone, feeling the chill it brought her.

The door was tapped three times, and a childish voice came, "Mother, my daughter brought you something to eat, can you come in?" ”

Mother......

Ruyi was not familiar with this title, and was a little dazed for a while, and after locking his eyebrows and thinking for a while, he suddenly understood that it was Sister Liu, the daughter of Yang Ziyun's original wife, who was outside the door, so he hurriedly returned to the bed and sat down, and responded outside, "Come in." ”

Sister Liu has not yet reached the age of the golden hairpin, with a double bun, a pink complexion, and long eyebrows and thin eyes, which is very similar to her father. She walked up to Ruyi and handed over the tray, "Mother hasn't eaten for a long time, she must be hungry, so let's eat a bowl of egg custard." ”

Ruyi smiled gratefully at her and took the bowl, "Liu'er is so good." ”

As soon as the spoon touched her lips and tongue, she suddenly heard Sister Liu say again, "Mother, you were born so beautiful, why do you want to marry your father?" Daddy's body, I'm afraid it won't last long, you're still so young, are you ready to stay alive and widowed? ”

Ruyi put the spoon into his mouth, but the tender egg custard seemed to have turned into a stone, stuck in his throat, and couldn't get down.

"I'd like some tea." She touched her neck and hissed at Sister Liu.

Sister Liu didn't move, only squinted her eyes at her, and after a while, she sneered word by word, "You married us, just to get our family's money, right?" She slowly squatted down, put her hands on Ruyi's knees, and looked up at her obediently, "It's a pity that you miscalculated, the two women who married me died, do you know how they died?" It's miserable, I'm afraid you'll be scared if you tell it. ”

Although intellectually knew that he shouldn't ask, and asking was falling into Sister Liu's trap, Ruyi couldn't help but squeeze out a few words from between his teeth, "What...... How did he die? ”

Sister Liu stood up, snorted in her nose, looked at the firecrackers spread all over the ground outside the window, and said coldly, "A stumbling fell into the fish pond, the maid didn't see it, and when she found someone, her body was soaked white, and her fingers were so thick, like a small radish." ”

Speaking of this, she glanced at Ruyi, whose face was pale, and continued, "The other died in the sedan chair, and the people outside don't know yet, the suona is blowing loudly, and it is the same as today, I didn't think that as soon as I opened the sedan curtain, I saw the corpse, and everyone was stiff, heh, the happy event will be mourned directly, and the people who blow the suona are the same people, you say it's funny or not." ”

Ruyi, of course, didn't think it was "funny at all," she gasped, "why are you...... Why are you telling me this? ”

"Kindly remind you," Sister Liu smiled at her, her smile was innocent and cute, "I'm afraid that you will follow in their footsteps, mother, if that's the case, my daughter will cry to death." She said as she put her fingers in her eyes and made a tearful appearance, then smiled at Ruyi and turned around and walked out of the room.

"Am I going to die?" Ruyi looked at the pair of big red flower candles engraved with the word "Xi" on the table, and was terrified, and after a long time, she shook her head desperately, "No, I won't, I haven't enjoyed a day of happiness, I won't die so miserably." ”

She smiled at the beauty in the mirror, sorted out the makeup that was already delicate, sat down on the edge of the bed, and covered herself with a hijab.

***

Cui Ruyi, the fourth young grandmother of the Yang Mansion, died on the third day after entering the house, her body was found by the maid, she was lying on her back on the table, her eyes were not closed, and she seemed to be unwilling to leave like this. A hole the size of a fist had been opened in her head, and blood and brains were all over the floor. And the murder weapon, resting next to her corpse, was the blue inkstone.

For a while, rumors spread throughout the Yang family, and the most evil one was the incident that Ruyi's personal girl Xiaosuo said. She said that the day before Ruyi died, she saw a ghost in the garden. It was a bleeding and wet woman, squatting on the stone by the fish pond, picking at the mud by the pond with both hands, staring at Ruyi from the bottom up with blood-soaked eyes.

"You saw that too?" The other servants were so frightened by the description of the lock that they craned their necks, but they couldn't help but ask more carefully.

Xiao Suo swallowed her saliva, "No, that day the young lady said that she wanted to go out for a walk by herself, and she didn't let me follow, and then she came back in a hurry after less than a quarter of an hour, her face was whiter than paper, and she kept muttering that she had seen a ghost," she blinked her eyes and lowered her voice, "The young lady also said that she knew who the ghost was, it was the woman who fell into the water and died a few days after marrying into the door, because she died a miserable death, so she came to be a stand-in." That night, the young lady burned, and kept babbling nonsense, saying that there was a ghost who wanted to harm her. ”

"What about the next day?"

A cold voice suddenly sounded from outside the door.