People have a face.

What about the tree? The tree also has a face of its own.

Late at night, the moonlight shone like water, shining on the begonia tree in the backyard of the Li Mansion.

Xing Ruyi squatted under the tree, supported his cheek with one hand, and leaned up. The place where the gaze lingers is a blurred face, with a forehead, nose, and mouth, but no eyes.

"Whose face do you think this is?"

Xing Ruyi asked softly, but the fox standing next to him did not squeak.

The fox was looking at a pair of feet, which hung above Xing Ruyi's head, but they were swaying gently without wind.

Up the feet, you can see a garnet-red skirt, above which is a goose-yellow jacket, and above which is a pale chin that hangs low. Under his chin was a stripped red belt, tied to the branches of the begonia tree, and the ends of the belt were entwined and tied into a dead knot.

Just as Xing Ruyi asked the fox what to say, his low chin seemed to be raised, and his closed eyes were opened.

The woman hanging from the tree looked at the fox standing under the tree, and let out a ghostly cry from her throat.

This ghost cry is really a ghost scream.

Xing Ruyi heard it, rubbed his ears, and stood up. She first glanced at the woman and asked, "Is it so comfortable?" ”

The woman shook her head, and the red belt made a grinding sound.

"Why don't you come down?"

Xing Ruyi took half a step back and pointed to the bottom of the tree.

The woman stared at her for a while, and her dangling feet began to swing violently.

"Alas!" Xing Ruyi sighed: "You said you, I don't know how you hung up, it's just that you can't even go down." ”

As he spoke, he touched the fox with his elbow: "Honey, help." ”

The fox frowned slightly, but still tapped it in mid-air with his hand according to the meaning of Xing Ruyi.

The red belt was instantly loosened, and the woman hanging from the tree fell lightly.

"Me, am I dead?"

"Do you think you're still alive?"

The woman looked up at Xing Ruyi and shook her head.

"Who are you?"

"Who are you?"

"Dongmei!" The woman spit out two words: "I am a maid in this house, and I am serving the old lady." What about you? Is it the same from this house? How come I haven't seen you? ”

"I only came into the house today."

"You're the new lady?" As soon as Dongmei finished speaking, she shook her head again: "No! You're not. Just above I heard you call out to him, and saw that you were behaving intimately, and you should be together. ”

"Of course I'm not." Xing Ruyi also shook his head: "I am the sister of your new lady, my name is Ruyi." ”

"Since you are a sister, why didn't you leave with other guests?"

"Because of you."

"Me?" Dongmei looked at Xing Ruyi in confusion.

"Today was a rare good day, but I happened to an extremely bad thing. My sister and brother-in-law have just entered the cave room, and before the bed is hot, something has happened to you. A happy event meets a funeral, and it is still a murder, if it were you, you might be safe tonight? My sister is timid, and as an older sister, she naturally has to stay in the house to take care of her for a few more days. ”

"Aren't you afraid of me?" Dongmei said, a touch of blood oozing from the corner of her mouth.

"Afraid of you, what? Ghosts? Ghosts are not changed by humans. ”

"But people are afraid of ghosts."

"That's because they don't know, people are much more terrible than ghosts."

"What do you mean?"

"One person can turn another person into a ghost, but a ghost can't turn another ghost into a human. You say, isn't it a little more terrible for people. I'm not even afraid of people, so why should I be afraid of ghosts? Big deal, I've become a ghost and I'm fighting you. ”

"Fight?" Dongmei obviously didn't expect to hear such two words, she looked at Xing Ruyi and shook her head: "I won't fight!" ”

"Although you can't fight, you can do things like helping the old lady of your family bully."

"I'm just a maid, and I have to do what the old lady tells me to do."

"It's also said that a maid can't disobey her master's orders. Next, let's change the subject. Xing Ruyi moved his hands and feet: "Do you remember how you were hung on this begonia tree?"

Dongmei looked at the tree and shook her head.

"All I remember is that I followed the old lady."

Dongmei's eyes suddenly lit up as she spoke.

"I remember, the one who talked to the old lady in the wedding hall was Madame, you."

"I did have a few words with your old lady."

"At that time, I was standing behind the old lady. The old lady has a strange temper, and she doesn't like us to be too close to her when she talks to people, so I just glanced at her from a distance at that time, and I didn't see your face too clearly, madam. If it weren't for that, I would have recognized you, Madame. ”

"And after that? What happened after that? ”

"I don't remember exactly, I only remember that the old lady was talking to you, and then I heard footsteps, very soft, very light footsteps. Then, I seemed to smell the aroma of begonia flowers, and when I was about to look back, my neck was cold and I didn't know anything. When I woke up again, I saw my wife standing under the tree with the old man dressed in white, and I thought it was the white impermanence of the Yin Si who had come to catch me. ”

"White impermanence?" Xing Ruyi glanced at the fox and nodded in agreement: "Hearing you say that, I really feel a bit like it." ”

The fox still didn't speak.

Dongmei realized that she had said the wrong thing and wanted to change it, but she swallowed back the words with the light in the fox's eyes. This man seems to be ordinary, but those eyes always make her feel a little scared.

"In that case, you don't even know who harmed you."

"I have someone in my heart, but I don't know if it's her."

"Who?"

"I don't dare to say."

"I don't dare to say it, or I can't say it."

"Yes...... I dare not say. ”

"Don't dare when you're alive, what's there to be afraid of when you're dead?"

Dongmei was stunned, looked at Xing Ruyi and smiled.

The smile is very shallow, the kind of shallow smile that laughs at oneself after an epiphany.

"Madame is right. I'm a ghost now, what else do I dare not say, what do I have to take care of? ”

"It's the old lady, isn't it?" Xing Ruyi asked: "The person you guessed in your heart is the old lady in this mansion, is Li Shen's mother right?" ”

"Yes!" Dongmei nodded: "I know she won't let me go, because I know about it." ”

"Which thing?"

"I'm not the first, nor the last." Dongmei looked up at the red belt hanging from the tree: "I recognize this belt, this is Xiaohui's." ”

"Who is Xiaohui?"

"Like me, they are all maids in this house, the difference is that I am by the old lady's side, and she is by the lady's side." Dongmei still tilted her head: "From the day I entered the mansion, I knew that the old lady didn't like her daughter-in-law, that is, the previous Mrs. Wan'er. Mrs. Wan'er is not from a good background, she can't recognize a few words, and she doesn't know any poetry and songs, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Don't say that after the old man became an official, even before he became an official, the old lady looked down on her. It's just that the old man is willing to do it himself, and the old lady had no other choice at that time. ”

"I've heard about that Mrs. Wan'er, too."

"Right? I said that this is not a secret, but the old lady herself is still deceiving herself, always thinking that as long as she doesn't say these things that happen in the house, if we don't say it, others will not know. As everyone knows, this mouth is two petals, and no matter how tightly it is closed, there is a time to loosen. ”

Dongmei said with a sneer.

"There are two faces in front of and behind, the old lady left her good face to the master, and the bad face to the lady. When the master is there, although she doesn't like Mrs., she can barely pretend to be a little kind, but if she meets the master going out on an errand, she will immediately hide her hypocritical face and try all kinds of ways to embarrass Mrs. It's really difficult for Mrs., she has suffered so many grievances, but she doesn't mention it, for fear that there will be any gap between the old lady and the old man because of her, but she doesn't know that people are mother and son, and she is just a poor person sandwiched between this mother and son. ”

"From ancient times to the present, there are few daughters-in-law who are easy to do." Xing Ruyi touched his nose: "Fortunately, my mother-in-law is not a layman. ”

"It's a pity that there are really few people in this world who are as lucky as Madame." Dongmei sighed: "I see that Madame is well-dressed, and there must be servants at home." Dongmei wants to ask Madame, have you beaten and scolded them every day? ”