"What about Mrs. Joe?"

"Madame......" Qiao looked at Bai Aya, "On the night when the merchant was arrested by the government, Madame quarreled with the owner again. When I saw that the situation was not good, I took all the maids and women who were waiting in the courtyard away. Worried that someone would break in by mistake and listen to something I shouldn't have heard, I didn't go far and stood guard at the gate of the courtyard.

In the second half of the night, the quarrel between the lady and the owner became louder and louder. I heard the lady questioning the owner of the merchant about the lady, the owner refused to admit it at first, and kept coaxing the lady, but later, the owner somehow lost patience, not only admitted the matter between him and the lady of the merchant, but also brought him to buy through the yamen, and falsely accused the merchant of the matter.

After that, there was a long silence. Just when I thought it was over, the door opened, and the lady ran out of the room, followed by the owner. Seeing that Mrs. had rushed to the gate of the courtyard, the owner of the village called for me to stop Mrs. I...... I stopped it. ”

Steward Qiao lowered his head and clasped his hands together.

"I have been a steward for many years, and I have never seen such a sad look of my wife, nor have I ever seen such an angry look of the owner. I just obeyed the owner's instructions and stopped the lady. Madame didn't embarrass me, she just stared at the owner with those red eyes, and said: I want to go to the yamen, and I want to tell the county lord everything you do. If the county lord refuses to take care of it, I will go to the yamen of the state capital. In short, what you do wrong, you should be responsible for. ”

"Mrs. Qiao is a person with a very positive outlook."

"Three views?"

"It's okay, it's okay, you continue."

Xing Ruyi waved his hand, and the housekeeper continued: "The owner of the village was already very angry, and after listening to his wife's words, he became more and more angry. He grabbed his wife and dragged her directly to this courtyard, and then pointed to the room where the merchant lived before her death, and asked her whether her husband was important or an outsider was important. ”

"How did Mrs. Joe answer?"

Madame did not answer, but said that she was married to a man who stood up to the sky, not a shameless villain like the owner. Before the lady could finish her words, she was strangled by the owner.

That night, it was dark, it was dark. Except for the lights in the hallway, there was not even a hint of moonlight. But I could see very clearly that when the owner of the village strangled his wife's neck, his eyes became very terrible, like a monster dormant in the night.

I don't remember exactly what happened after that, all I know is that when I came back to my senses, tragedy had already happened. Madame she was hanging there, and the owner of the farm stood in front of Madame in a daze, looking at his hands.

Later, a gust of wind blew. The gust of wind blew away the clouds in the sky, and the moonlight was revealed. I saw Madame's face, her eyes, so open, that I only glanced at them in a hurry and did not dare to look at them again. ”

"How did you cover up Mrs. Joe's death?"

"Before that, Mrs. had been trapped in the room by the master for many days, and it was said that Mrs. was unwell. After the incident, I moved my wife back to the main house according to the owner's instructions, and then I told the public that my wife was seriously ill and died.

On our Qiaojiazhuang, no one will question the words of the owner. Moreover, before this incident, the relationship between the owner and his wife had always been very good. Don't say that others can't think of it, even if the owner of the village goes to tell him that he killed his wife, no one in our village will believe it.

After burying the lady, the owner of the village ordered the backyard to be sealed, and the missing merchant never showed up, so no one mentioned this matter again. ”

Xing Ruyi shook his head, not knowing what to say.

I don't know if the owner of Qiao Zhuang is too confident or too weak-minded, the furnishings in this backyard have not changed, and the house where the merchant and his wife lived before has also maintained its original appearance.

"How, have you ever identified what that demonic aura is?"

The fox nodded: "It's a fox, but the Tao is not high, at most two or three hundred years." ”

"The ghost in the courtyard should have been left by the owner's wife. The grievances in this room should be the merchant lady. can be easily abused by the owner until she is covered to death, which means that she is just an ordinary mortal, not the fox in your mouth. Then, the demonic energy left in this room can only be the merchant's.

But what I don't understand is that the merchant is a fox demon, why don't he return to this Qiaojiazhuang to avenge his wife? Is the husband and wife not in love enough, or is there something wrong with the merchant? ”

"According to what I know about foxes, this matter is not so easy to pass." The fox lightly shook Xing Ruyi's hand: "Since this matter is caused by the owner of Naqiao Village, it should also be understood by him." According to me, it's better to get out of here early. ”

"That's what the husband said."

"Madame! Madame, you can't just leave. Steward Qiao came back to his senses and half-crawled and half-knelt in front of Xing Ruyi and the fox: "You just promised Madame, if you leave like this, Madame, she ...... By the way, and Miss. Madame promised to help the young lady heal her illness. ”

"I seem to have said yes." Xing Ruyi touched his nose: "Forget it, I've also seen this house, so let's go and see your young lady again." However, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to cure your young lady's illness. ”

"This ......"

"You and your owner both know it very well in their hearts. The reason why your young lady has become what she is today is not because of any strange disease, but because of the evil things that your owner did back then, and the evil consequences that were planted. ”

"But ......" Steward Qiao gritted his teeth and said, "But there is a wrong, there is a debtor, no matter what the owner of my family did back then, it should not be retributed to my young lady." The young lady is innocent, and even the death of my wife is to protect the merchant couple. Shouldn't God favor Miss between this and that? ”

"There seems to be some truth to what you say. Let's go, let's go see your young lady first. Xing Ruyi covered his mouth and dozed off.

Steward Qiao tried to stand up, but found that his legs were limp and unconscious. He took a few deep breaths before supporting the ground with his hands, barely stood up, followed behind Xing Ruyi, and limped towards Qiao Yun'er's yard.

"Can you really cure my disease?" Qiao Yun'er wore through the veil, with a hint of impatience in her tone. "I don't know what you've just been diagnosed with, but it's not like I haven't met a doctor like you before. Past experience has taught me that the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. If you just want to stay in the village for a few days, win some favor from my father, and get something, I can help you, but please don't deceive me. Otherwise, otherwise, I won't let you go. ”

"Miss has never been sick, so how can she be cured." Xing Ruyi half-drooped his eyelids.

The sleepy appearance was not deliberately pretended by her, but she was really in good spirits at this time. As she spoke, she pressed her temples with her hands, and only after the sleepiness subsided a little did she raise her eyelids and look at Qiao Yun'er through the veil.

"Miss is under a curse."

"Cursed? And what is a curse? What kind of curse can make me become inhuman, ghost, and ghost. ”

"There are many kinds of curses. For ordinary people, it may be just a sentence, but for some masters, it will be a kind of magic. The former, with the smell of venting, the latter is targeted.

Well, I'll tell you a story, Miss.

Many years ago, there was a woman on the outskirts of Luoyang. This woman is small-minded, jealous, and has a poisonous mouth, but whoever offends her will always be scolded by her in a different way. This scolded and scolded, and really scolded a few people to death.

The first one was a neighbor who lived across the street in front of her. It is said that there is no contradiction between this one living in the front and the other living in the back. But because of a tree, the two families had a dispute. ”

"A tree?"

"Yes, it's a tree, a tree that grows in the backyard. When the tree was small, there was nothing, but as the tree grew bigger and bigger, and the branches and foliage became more and more luxuriant, problems followed. The tree blocked the sunlight in front of the woman's house. ”

"Blocked the sun! What's the problem? ”

"If you leave it in someone else's house, it's nothing. But don't forget, young lady, this woman is notoriously small-minded and difficult to speak. Blocking the sunlight of her house is like someone else stealing something from her house, which makes her feel very uncomfortable. So, she went to the door and asked the neighbor in front of her to cut down the tree in the backyard.

The tree grows in her yard, and if she says to cut it, will they cut it down? It was difficult for her to speak, and the neighbor in front of her was not a good talker, so the two families quarreled over the tree, quarreling every three days and making trouble every five days. This woman relied on her mouth to be powerful, and tore out everything in heaven and earth, related and unrelated, and scolded all over again.

In the end, she set her sights on the belly of the neighbor's lady's house. At that time, the neighbor's lady had been pregnant for several months, and this belly had already been revealed. So the woman cursed her neighbor to die on the delivery bed, leaving her mother and her son to her mother. ”

"That's what this woman said?" Qiao Yun'er frowned: "Even though they are not easy to talk to, these words are always a little inappropriate to listen to." This is also too vicious. ”

"Definitely. Ordinary people can't say anything about quarrels. But this woman is no stranger, and her poisonous mouth is well-known for all miles. Ordinary people also try not to provoke her. But the more this is the case, the more she doesn't know how to restrain herself, and the more she scolds it, the more ugly it becomes, and the more she says it, the more vicious it becomes.

As her neighbor in the front yard, she naturally knew that this woman had a strong mouth, and even if she couldn't hear what she said, she didn't take it to heart. Who knows, her swearing words turned out to be true in the end. ”

"Something really happened to that lady?"

"Yes!" Xing Ruyi held her chin with her hand: "The neighbor's lady was in pain for a day and a night before she delivered the child." Originally, everything was fine. After the child is born, it is carried by the grandmother to be washed, while the neighbor's wife lies down in bed and rests. After his spirit was a little better, he asked to see the child. It is normal for a mother to want to see her child, but after a glance, the neighbor's lady suddenly turned white and was silent. ”

"The neighbor's lady—"

"Dead!" Xing Ruyi looked at Qiao Yun'er's eyes: "A good person, just died so silently." As the woman scolded, she left her son and went to her mother. ”