"Zhu Changxi, you are talking nonsense, my brother and niece are not the people you say." Zhu Guangzhi was helped up from the ground by Xiao Shengzi.

"Not that kind of person? Uncle, did you ever like a girl when you were young? The girl was very fond of wearing pale yellow clothes, and when the wind blew in the spring, her clothes danced in the wind like a little yellow butterfly. You like that girl very much, but you are worried that the girl's family will dislike you for not doing your job properly, and that you are a prodigal, so you beg my father-in-law, that is, your brother, to help you go to the girl's house to say goodbye. As a result, my father-in-law, your brother, told you that the girl's parents did not agree. Because of this girl, you lost your soul and were sick for more than half a year. Half a year later, you still couldn't let go, so you went to the girl's house, intending to work harder, but you were told by the girl's family that the girl had hanged herself half a year ago. ”

"How do you know?"

"Of course I know, because that's what your good brother, my good father-in-law, told me. But uncle, do you know why the girl hanged herself? Because your good brother, my good father-in-law, saw that the girl was good-looking, and felt that he was a little disadvantaged by you, and it happened that he had a business partner at that time and wanted to take a concubine, so he made peace with the girl, and lied to the girl, saying that his business partner was you.

That girl, in fact, also likes you. It's a pity that you were all deceived by my father-in-law. In the six months that you were sick, the girl married happily, but when the hijab was lifted and she found that it was not your uncle standing opposite, it was already too late. Because of this marriage, my father-in-law made a great business. But the girl, because she could not bear the beating of the man, hanged herself in her boudoir when she returned to her mother's house. ”

"You talk nonsense, my brother is by no means such a person."

"I'm talking nonsense, is your current wife also my father-in-law chosen for you, how is your wife, don't you know yourself? Also, do you think my father-in-law is really helping you? If you're wrong, he just takes a fancy to you, knows that you dare to do anything, and is reckless and never thinks deeply. At best, you are righteous, and at worst, you are brainless. Are you really rich now? Your money is given to you by him, and all the shops and properties in your name are credited to him. To put it mildly, it's because I started early, if I started late, the person who is lying in bed half dead now is you. ”

"You're talking nonsense, you're absolutely talking nonsense."

"The business on this white road is all done by my father-in-law, and the unsightly things in private are all done by you, uncle. If you still don't believe it, uncle, you can ask this Sheng Zhukuai next to you, and Chang Zhukuai, who is now holding a sword to my throat, and you can ask them if the lord in the government has been eyeing you for a long time. They are waiting for your next move so that they can take you with all the stolen goods. When the time comes, the property in your name will still belong to my father-in-law, and you will become his scapegoat and stay in prison. Uncle, you have to thank me, if it weren't for me, what would you have happened to you now?

You still find a doctor for him, I'm afraid your own life is too long.

By the way, my father-in-law is a good man, a good man, but you know what? The food he gave relief to the disaster was only good on the surface. Those victims also wanted to tell the truth, but my father-in-law's reputation was so good that no one would believe the truth even if he told it. Besides, my eldest uncle raised a group of people, all of whom were raised by my father-in-law, but whenever there was any different voice, those people would take action, and the light ones would be injured, and the worst ones would be killed.

Oh, and my wife, notoriously good-natured, virtuous lady. But have you ever seen the maid beside her? Those maids have to be changed for more than a year, or as little as half a year. What my wife said to the outside world was that she had found a good family for those maids to marry. But in fact, she was beaten to death. All of them were killed. It just so happened that the people in your government were there, so I would go to our back garden to rummage through it later. Just under those well-grown flowers and plants, when you turn over a quasi-child, they are all corpses and white bones.

Do you really think that my aunt became a nun because she was emotionally frustrated? No, it's not like that at all. She became a monk because she knew what her brother and niece had done, and she still had a little conscience, and she had no choice but to hide in the mountains and seek a little peace of mind.

She is the only person in the Zhu family who is still a good person, I didn't want to kill her, but she even interceded for her vicious niece, saying that I would spare her for the sake of the love between husband and wife. It's ridiculous, it's ridiculous. I am willing to spare her in the relationship between husband and wife, but is she also willing to spare me in the relationship between husband and wife? If I don't kill her, she will kill me, and you say, do I do it or not? ”

"Rustle~" The trees in the yard sounded without wind. After a while, the courtyard door was suddenly blown open. Xing Ruyi squinted and saw a cloud of white mist approaching Master Zhu's bedroom. In the white mist, there seemed to be some crying, intermittently.

"Here it is, here it is." Zhu Changxi smiled, ignoring the sword in Chang Tai's hand, and turned around: "You see, those are the maids who were killed by my wife." They were scared by my wife, and even if they became ghosts, they were cowards, and they couldn't do anything except cry and cry all day long, and they couldn't do anything, not even scary. ”

"Maid? What maid? Ghost? What the heck? I can't see anything. Xiao Shengzi let go of Zhu Guangzhi and ran to the door, but was stopped by Chang Tai.

"There's something weird about that fog." Chang Tai looked at Xing Ruyi and found that her eyes had turned red at some point.

The moonlight was hazy, everything was still, and after Xing Ruyi opened the ghost eye, what he saw was not the fog in the courtyard, but Zhu Changxi's back. On his back, there was a very strange thing with the body of a snake on his stomach. The man was a woman, a woman in a brocade garment. The bun on her head was messy, and the strands of hair covered her eyes. She had no arms, no hands, and from her shoulders she was a snake. The snake was a large black and yellow snake, round and as thick as a water tank, with a long snake tail dragging on the ground.

Xing Ruyi originally thought that the woman was lying on Zhu Changxi's body, but when she turned around to look at herself, she found that it was not, but because the woman was too close to Zhu Changxi, so that it gave people the illusion of "lying down".

Looking at Zhu Changxi's back again, it was ulcerated, and there were some snake scales in those festering wounds.

Xing Ruyi looked disgusted, turned around and covered his chest, and spit out.

"Ruyi girl, what's wrong with you? Isn't it disgusting to be smoked by this smell? ”

Xiao Shengzi didn't say anything, Xing Ruyi hadn't noticed it, and at some point, the rich smell of fragrant cedar that permeated the room disappeared, and was replaced by a thick smell of blood, and this smell was also mixed with some fishy smell of rotten meat.

"Do you want to see something that's really fun?" Xing Ruyi smoothed his chest and took out a bottle of cow tears from the Qiankun bag: "These are cow tears, and they are also the tears that the old scalper sheds when he is sad." It is said that if you put a drop of cow tears in your eyes, you can see things that were previously invisible. For example, demons, and ghosts. ”

"Really?" Xiao Shengzi ran over: "If I drip this cow tears, will I be able to see what Zhu Changxi just said, those ghosts that are very likely to be hidden in the fog?" ”

"Yes." Xing Ruyi clenched the small bottle tightly and didn't let go: "You have to think about it, those ghosts don't look very cute." ”

"Isn't it fanged? Xiao Shengzi asked while dripping cow tears: "When I was a child, I went to the temple with my grandmother, and there was a ghost painted on the temple wall, which looked quite scary, but there was a little cuteness in the scary. Some demons have sharp horns on their heads, like oxen plowing a field. And then there are some that have ears that look like dogs. Come on, let me see what those ghosts hidden in the white mist look like. ”

With just one glance, Xiao Shengzi was so frightened that he hid behind Chang Tai, and muttered in his mouth: "Ghost, what a terrible ghost, rotten hands and feet, what a miserable ghost." ”

Chang Tai didn't speak, just silently protected Xiao Shengzi behind him, and then dripped the remaining cow tears into his eyes. His face changed slightly, but it was not as exaggerated as Xiao Shengzi had shown, but a kind of confusion, and it seemed to be clear.

"Sheng Demei, you can see clearly, those ghosts are nothing to be afraid of."

"Brother Chang, I can't, I'm timid. Not to mention seeing clearly, even if I can't see clearly, I'm afraid. I thought that Miss Ruyi was just talking and playing, who would have thought that after this drop of cow tears, she would really be able to see ghosts. It's terrible, it's so scary, I don't think I'll dare to walk at night in the future. ”

"As a yamen catcher, you have this bit of guts." Chang Tai protected Xiao Shengzi while talking to him: "Look at the clothes of those ghosts, they are just maids of this Zhu Mansion, and they were also living people like us. It's just that they were killed, and they have nowhere to appeal for grievances, so they can only wander in this Zhu Mansion. As fast catchers, what you and I have to do is not to be afraid, but to face them squarely, find out the truth, so that they can die blind and no longer be nostalgic for this world. ”

"They've all become ghosts, how else do we need to find out."

"There will be a way, but only if you have to muster up the courage now and not be afraid of them."

Xiao Shengzi took a deep breath and closed his eyes, and after a long while, he said to Chang Tai in a crying voice: "No, Brother Chang, the more I think about it, the more terrible I feel." ”