Chapter 7: The Drunkard's Broken Soul
[The book continues from the above, the last book said that Mu Qingming and they went to the Jiang family for a banquet, and he did feel that the Jiang family's small courtyard was filled with evil spirits, but he couldn't find the source. After he quietly finished the banquet, he arranged for the paper man to go to watch. It was revealed that the bride of the Jiang family disappeared in the middle of the night, and the whole family was in chaos. When a drunkard returned home on the street late at night, he met a woman in red sitting alone on the street, and when he saw that there was no one around, his heart suddenly rose, and he dared to step forward to flirt, never thinking that the woman would grin her teeth and bite the drunkard's throat bitterly and bite her to death. 】
Jiang Laoer's urgent cry broke the silence in the Jiang family's small courtyard. A few wild dogs huddled in the corner not far from the courtyard suddenly woke up and let out a series of barks.
A few paper people lying on the roof of the main house twisted their necks slightly, and looked towards the Westinghouse.
I saw that on the corridor downstairs from the eaves, the second child of the Jiang family, who was frowning and full of anxiety, stomped his feet in front of the door and stomped the wooden floor under his feet with a creak.
Immediately afterwards, the boss of the Jiang family, Aunt Jiang and Uncle Jiang rushed out of the main house in response, stood in the courtyard and raised their heads together, looked at the second floor of Jiang Lao Er, and asked in a hurry: "Second child, what's wrong?" ”。
"I, I, my wife is gone?" Jiang Lao Er, who had calmed down a little, stopped stomping his feet and looked down at the railing, and exclaimed urgently: "Xiao Yun, she is gone." ”。
When he shouted this, Jiang Lao Er was even more at a loss.
In those days, the rule of marriage was to welcome the bride into the door, go to the main hall to worship the heaven and earth or something, and the bride would be sent to the new house.
She would sit in the new house, waiting for the groom to welcome the guests to congratulate her, and then go back to unveil her head or something.
Before the hijab is removed, the bride has to eat, drink, and Lazar or everything in the new house, and for the sake of good luck, the bride cannot remove the hijab herself.
It stands to reason that Xiao Yun, the bride of Jiang Lao Er, was sent into the new house under the gaze of dozens of pairs of eyes. After that, the door of the house was always closed, and there were many people coming and going in the courtyard, so it was impossible for this Xiao Yun to leave this new house if no one knew about it.
It would be even more impossible to say that she quietly left the Jiang family's courtyard, which only had one door in and out. At that moment, the Jiang family listened to Jiang Laoer's urgent shout, and they were all stunned on the spot.
After relieving themselves, the first thing they did was to rush upstairs and follow Jiang Lao Er to the new house to check.
Only the eldest daughter-in-law of the Jiang family walked out of the main house with melon seeds in her hand without hurry, walked to the courtyard and stood still, snorted the melon seeds leisurely, rolled her eyes, and said with a little schadenfreude: "What are you yelling about, maybe she just ran home?" But it's not a shame to run away on the wedding night. ”。
She deliberately raised her voice by a few decibels, wishing that her neighbors could hear it, and after a pause, she mocked loudly: "The wild lady who ran away when she got married is still beautiful?" Which lady is so shameless? ”。
"Shut up!" The boss of the Jiang family, who had searched around the house and didn't find his brother-in-law, rushed out, raised his hand and pointed at his wife in the courtyard, and scolded him with his eyebrows upside down!
The sister-in-law of the Jiang family immediately shut up, but stopped talking after snorting coldly; But the anxiety on the face of the boss of the Jiang family has increased instead of decreasing.
The new house is not big, they rummaged in the house two or three times, and even in the wardrobe under the bed, they did not let go of any of the corners that could hide people, but they still did not find Jiang Laoer's wife.
At that time, there was a lot of chaos on the land of China, and the so-called shallow water king Baduo, there were big brothers everywhere. In the mountains of the southwest, the same is true in the Kunming Dam, where the mountain is high and the emperor is far away. However, this real big brother is rare, and he has pulled a few rabble to form a team or gang, but there are many fake big brothers who pretend to be local snakes.
And among those few real big brothers, there are salt merchants.
In those years, there were not many white-collar workers, but there were many coolies, and eating chaff vegetables was something that coolies were accustomed to; But after all, they do tiring work, and they almost don't have much to eat, but they must have enough salt in the dishes, otherwise they will not have the strength to work. Therefore, although the salt merchants in Kunming City are all buying and selling cheap official salt, it is not an exaggeration to say that they are choking the lifeblood and Adam's apple of Kunming people.
If anyone provokes the salt merchants, they will raise the price of salt or not sell it to you, are you in a hurry or not? Moreover, the salt merchants were so numerous that if they raised their arms casually, there were a large number of people who were willing to die for them. Moreover, they have strong economic and financial resources, and have the closest relationship with the government.
Therefore, the status of the salt merchants in the city is only second only to the warlords who have guns and soldiers in their hands. Even those underworld people who dare to open a casino and cover the green building with a few old guns in their hands have to give the salt merchants a little thin noodles.
If Gong Xiaoyun, the eldest lady of the Gong family, really ran back by herself, then it would be okay to say; But if it is lost, all the salt merchants will be furious, and then the little Jiang family will be in a big disaster.
Since the boss of the Jiang family went out, he simply shuttled between the houses in the courtyard, he wanted to see if Gong Xiaoyun was hiding somewhere to find food.
With his understanding of Gong Xiaoyun and his younger brother's feelings, the two were already in love before they got married, and besides, this is not a marriage that is forcibly tied together, there is unhappiness or something, how can they run away and go home without permission?
He searched around every room in the courtyard, but after still not finding Gong Xiaoyun, he rushed to the second floor again, and called his younger brother to go out of the house to look for it.
According to the old rules, the bride and groom were not allowed to leave the house on the day of the worship, but now they can't take care of these rules.
Aunt Jiang and Uncle Jiang, who were in a hurry, also wanted to follow, but the boss of the Jiang family disagreed, and after scolding a few words, he left them all at home, and rushed to the dark night outside the courtyard with his younger brother.
Before they left, the paper figures looked at each other for a moment, and one of them straightened up and ran away the way they came......
The high mountain shop in Kunming city is located behind the new street of Nanping Street today, starting from the entrance of Qingyun Street in the east and reaching the south exit of Anning Lane in the west.
At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, this is not more than 100 zhang long, and the streets and alleys that are only more than one zhang wide are located in the south of Kunming, only because the local terrain is higher, so it is named Gaoshan Pu. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, because the lane was near the foot of the south city, it was renamed the foot of the south city; It was only in the middle of the Qing Dynasty that the name of the mountain shop was restored.
But no matter what its name is, from the Ming and Qing dynasties to the Republic of China, it is a relatively remote place in Kunming City. It was close to the foot of the city walls, so there were not many people in the streets of the city day and night.
In the autumn of last year (1913), after Tang Jiyao succeeded as the governor of Yunnan, in order to facilitate the traffic inside and outside the city, the Kunming city wall was dug up in the later position of Huguo Square, and a small south gate was opened.
However, the small south gate was opened, and the mountain shop was lively during the day, but it was still quiet at night. In the sheds and bungalows around them, there are some poor laborers, who have worked hard for a day, and when they come home to eat, they wash their faces and feet hastily, and then they fall asleep.
Almost all of the people who live here lie in bed for a while, then they snore and fall into a deep sleep, and before dawn, they will never be able to wake them up by the sound of thunder.
The crowded bungalows and shacks, and the narrow alleys were immersed in the silence of the night. The deathly silence descended on the mountain shop with the darkness, surging in all directions like a tide, instantly drowning everything in the mountain shop.
On the western edge of the mountain shop, next to the crowded bungalows, there is a secluded clearing on the side of the road, where a woman sits alone in the dark.
She wears a golden phoenix crown on her head, and her face is covered with a red scarf, which is commonly known as the hijab. He wears a red shirt on his upper body, a bright embroidered red robe on the outside, a collar around his neck, and a Xia curtain embroidered with a flying phoenix on his shoulder. He was wearing a bright blood-like red dress and red pants, and a pair of red satin embroidered shoes were also on his feet. She was slim and red, beaming with joy.
It's just that a woman sits alone in the silent darkness, and is dressed in a bright wedding dress, and she doesn't have much joy, but her whole body is a little weird and inexplicable.
Looking at her attire, it was obvious that she was a bride. But why didn't the bride run to this secluded place in the cave room? How did you get here? Nobody knows.
It was late at night, and the surrounding bungalows blended into the darkness, only the bride's wedding dress was still so conspicuous in the darkness.
The woman sat on the stone without saying a word, listening to the night wind that made a wolf-like howl after passing through the streets, and wondered if she would be afraid.
After a while, the night breeze drifted from a distance with a vague smell of wine.
A drunk, drunken man staggered over from the darkness in the distance, carrying a wine gourd.
* An alcoholic with a strong chest and muscular arms; Obviously, the arms are extremely powerful. And when he went to Gaoshanpu, it could be seen that his house should be nearby.
As he passed by the woman, the drunkard was stunned, and after a long hiccup, he turned his head and looked at the other with drunken eyes.
The drunkard was not afraid, but after being slightly stunned, he asked with a big tongue: "Little lady, who are you waiting for here in the middle of the night?" ”。
There was a bit of frivolity in his tone.
The bride, who had been silent for a long time in the night, finally spoke slowly at this moment: "Wait for the person I am waiting for." ”; The voice was soft and crisp, so beautiful that the drunkard's heart fluttered and he walked towards her.
"Hey, is it me?" The drunkard stood still before her and stretched out his hand; It's really drunk and cowardly, and the next second later, the drunkard didn't say a word, and lifted the hijab.
On the delicate face, under the two beautiful eyebrows, a pair of eyes full of autumn water are clear and charming, like sparkling gems in the dark. A touch of red lips echoed the wedding dress on her body, which made the drunkard suddenly look stupid.
This is the bride of Jiang Laoer, the eldest lady of the palace family, Gong Xiaoyun.
"Little, little lady, you, you are so beautiful." The drunkard was stunned for a long time, and then his heart immediately became angry. I saw him swallow his saliva, and then licked the corners of his chapped mouth with the tip of his tongue, and bent down to kiss Gong Xiaoyun.
The hand that discarded the wine gourd also grabbed Gong Xiaoyun's gently undulating breasts and rubbed them indiscriminately.
Just when his tongue stuck into Gong Xiaoyun's mouth, the smile on Gong Xiaoyun's face was gone, and she suddenly bit the drunkard's tongue, and her face was instantly covered with hideousness.
Blood gushed from the drunkard's mouth, and half of his tongue was bitten off alive by Gong Xiaoyun. Blood filled the air, and Gong Xiaoyun's slender hands were like pincers, firmly grasping the drunkard's shoulders, spitting out half of the drunkard's tongue, and biting the other party's Adam's apple.
Why did Gong Xiaoyun become like this? Will the Jiang family be able to find her? Find out what happens next, and listen to the next breakdown.