"Then how did your lady get sick?"

"Blame me, blame me, blame me for listening to the words of an unscrupulous Taoist." The middle-aged man's face was full of remorse: "I should have seen at that time that he was not a Taoist priest at all." This ordinary Taoist priest, how can he be dressed in tatters, and who can talk nonsense. But after drinking at the time, I somehow believed what he said. ”

"What did he say?"

"He said that my lady is not a human being, but an evil cult who crawled out of the mass grave. He also said that if I don't get rid of her as soon as possible, my life will be lost sooner or later. ”

"Do you believe all this nonsense? You and your lady have been husband and wife for a few years, don't you know if she is a human or a demon, a ghost or a monster? Besides, what about the demon and the ghost, as long as she treats you sincerely, she can live a good life with you.

"What the shopkeeper said was, but unfortunately at that time, I was deluded and didn't understand this. When I listened to the words of the Taoist priest, I felt that my heart was in full swing. On the way back, I met a man from the same village as my wife, and I inquired with him about the wine, and asked him if he remembered that there was a woman in the village, whose name was Zhizhi. He said that there was indeed a girl named Zhizhi in the early years of the village, but that year it rained in the village, her house collapsed, and she and her father disappeared together. After hearing this, I became more and more convinced of what the Taoist priest said, that my lady was an evil cult who crawled out of the mass grave slope. ”

"You shouldn't have dragged that Taoist priest home to subdue demons and eliminate demons, right?"

"No, I haven't seen that Taoist priest since that day. If I see him again, I will surely kill him. The man gritted his teeth and said, "When I saw him that day, he gave me a paper charm, saying that I should find a way to coax my lady to drink." As long as she drinks this talisman water, she will immediately show her original form. I have a ghost in my heart, and I look for opportunities every day. Coincidentally, on the fourth day when I brought the charm home, my lady contracted a cold, and when I decocted the medicine for her, I burned the charm into ashes and mixed it with the medicine for her to drink. ”

"Then, does your lady show her original form?"

"No, she's still her, she's still my wife, she hasn't given birth to horns, she hasn't grown a tail, and she hasn't become weird. It's just that her body is getting worse and worse. In the past, when the sky changed, at most it was a cold, and after drinking two doses of medicine, it would be fine. But since that time she contracted the cold, her illness has not been cured, not only has it not been cured, but it has become more and more serious, and many other diseases have been born.

I know it's all my fault, if I hadn't listened to the fake Taoist priest and burned his messy charm to ashes and mixed it with medicine for my lady, she wouldn't have been killed like that. ”

"And what about later? Your lady is sick, haven't you ever found a doctor for her? ”

"I've found it, I've looked for all the doctors in Luoyang City. She took a lot of medicine, but her illness did not improve at all. In this way, after almost a year, she finally couldn't stand it anymore. I told her everything before she left, and I thought she would blame me, but she didn't. She only said that all this is fate, she is not blessed to accompany me to old age, and she is not blessed to be my wife for life. She also said, let me not blame others, saying that the Taoist priest is also kind.

It was also a rainy day when she left, and the rain in the yard was dripping, as if it would never stop. I sat on the edge of her bed, holding her hand until it was no longer warm at all. I watched her for three days, knowing that she would never come back, so I bought a thin coffin for her to bury.

It's not that I don't want to buy her a good coffin, it's just that the money in the family has been used to buy her medicine, and I really can't get more in my hands. ”

The man said, squeezing his hand together again.

"I know I'm sorry for her, she has been a lady for me for so long, not only has she not had a good day, but she was also harmed by me."

"People are gone, and it won't help to say these regretful words."

"It's useless, it's useless." The middle-aged man directly covered his face with his hands: "After the death of my mother, I have to go to her grave almost every day." Sometimes it's to tell her about the things we used to have together, and sometimes it's just to sit dry, from the time the sun just rises to the time it goes down. Not a word. ”

"I can understand your feelings, I have been dependent on my grandfather since I was a child, when my grandfather was there, I always felt that life was very long, some things can be said when I grow up, and some things can be done when I grow up. As a result, before I could grow up, my grandfather died. At that time, like you, I always liked to stay in front of my grandfather's grave, watching the flowers made of paper on the grave bag stretch from patches to scattered by the wind and rain.

In the days when my grandfather first left, I couldn't accept the fact that he left, and I always felt that he just fell asleep in a different place. I sat at his grave and told him about the school, about the little village, and gossiping like a woman with a long tongue. But you know what? When my grandfather was alive, I was annoyed when I wanted me to talk to him more. But then, when he left, I wanted to tell him more, but there was nowhere to say. Remorse, pain, feeling that I am particularly unfilial, but what can I do if I am miserable? He was buried in the ground, little by little, he was turned into bones, he couldn't see me, he couldn't hear me, and he could never respond to me again. Finally, one day, I woke up, and I kowtowed three times before his grave, and then left the little village and lived alone in the city. I haven't been back until now. It's not that I don't want to, but I don't dare, I'm afraid that when I see that grave again, I won't even have the courage to leave. ”

Xing Ruyi wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes: "People, they are all so contradictory, when you have it, you don't think there is anything rare, but when you really lose it, you regret it, and you feel that everything you did was wrong." Let's not talk about these uncomfortable things, let's talk about your current lady, right? What did you just mean by saying that she is becoming more and more terrifying? ”

"Oh." The middle-aged man came back to his senses and stood up from the ground: "What I just told the shopkeeper about my former lady is very important. Because my current lady has become exactly the same as the one before. No, it's not exactly the same, it's very weird, it's very scary. ”

The middle-aged man used particularly tangled words, and even with his expression, he became particularly tangled.

"When I came back, I told the shopkeeper that my current lady is a widow, and her husband is the same as my previous lady, who died of illness. It's just that my previous lady was because I gave her a medicine mixed with talisman water, and her husband's illness was brought in the womb, and she was originally happy when she got married. ”

"You're trying to tell me that all the strange things that happen to your current lady have nothing to do with her previous father-in-law, and that she was in good health when she married you. All the things that are unreasonable and incomprehensible to you started after she picked those roses to make rouge? ”

"Yes, yes, that's all I want to say." The middle-aged man nodded like a chicken pecking rice.

"My current lady is also a thrifty woman, but she is not as good-looking as my previous wife. My previous lady was very white, with a pair of apricot eyes that seemed to be full of smiles, and whenever she looked at it, it made people feel warm in their hearts. The current lady has slightly dark skin, small eyes, single eyelids, and usually doesn't smile much. I know that a man of my age is not very good at home, and people don't dislike me for being poor, they don't dislike me for being incompetent, and if they are willing to marry me, I should go to the ancestral grave to burn incense. But it was because they were born differently that I felt more and more that what was happening now was terrifying. ”

Xing Ruyi didn't speak, but waited for the middle-aged man to say it himself.

"I don't know where she learned how to make rouge from flowers. Anyway, by the time I knew it, she had already picked the flowers from the yard and made them into rouge and smeared them on her face. When I came back, I also said that I was not happy about her flower picking, but I didn't say anything. She had dark skin, and the rouge was smeared on her face, and she didn't see anything brilliant. I didn't bother to pay attention to it, so I didn't bother with it. But slowly, I noticed that her skin was getting whiter and her eyes were getting bigger, and she was becoming more and more like my deceased lady.

I didn't hide it from the shopkeeper, and when I first found out about her change, I was happy. I even thought it was my previous lady who couldn't bear me, so she came back to me. But it wasn't until a while ago that she suddenly fell ill, and her condition was no different from my previous lady. ”

"It's not unusual for this to suffer from a similar disease, right? It has been raining continuously in the past few days, and the temperature difference between morning and evening is also large, and it is normal to have a headache and brain fever. ”

"No, not similar, but really. It's like, it's as if those days that have gone have come back. The day before yesterday, just the day before yesterday, when this rain just fell, my newly married lady, like the previous lady, died of illness. ”

"Sick ...... Passed away? Xing Ruyi was originally leaning against the door, but when he heard these three words, he suddenly straightened up.

It's no wonder she was surprised, listening to the story, listening to it, there was another dead person, and whoever it was, couldn't digest it in this moment.

"It's sick, it's sick." The middle-aged man muttered, "It's exactly the same, all of them are exactly the same." The weather, the clothes she wore, the words she had told me before she went, and her expression were all the same. I was stupid, and like the lady before I sent her away, I held her hand and sat on the edge of the bed until her whole body became cold. ”

"Then you are really ......" Xing Ruyi looked at the middle-aged man's face: "Let's mourn and change, I'm not a good person, I can't say comforting words." Well, I'll give you some money in advance, and I'll buy your roses at that time. Go buy a good coffin and bury your current lady. ”

"Nope! No need. I'm not here to ask for money, nor to scrape together money for my wife to buy a coffin. The middle-aged man lowered his head: "I came to ask the shopkeeper to go back with me to see if my lady has also become an evil person." She's dead, she's really dead. But this morning, just as I was about to bury her, she ...... It came back to life. ”