"Do dead people count?"

The man cautiously spoke and asked.

"Dead man! What kind of dead people? ”

"It's just a beggar. A while ago, a beggar died in this city, and when my lady went to the street, she happened to hear people talking, so she followed to take a look. When I came back, her face was pale, and I asked for a long time before she told me that she had seen a dead man. ”

"You're scared, aren't you?"

"My lady is not the kind of timid person, besides, we and my wife were born in the countryside since childhood, grew up in the countryside, and encountered a famine year, what kind of dead people have not seen this, what kind of dead people have not seen. But I've never seen a dead man who could scare my lady like that. However, I didn't ask in detail, thinking that after a few days, she would naturally forget.

Who would have thought that at night, my lady would wake up in fright. As soon as I lit the lamp and candle at the bedside, she hugged me in a panic and cried, reciting many words that I did not understand. ”

"Do you remember what your lady was talking about?"

"The words I say after my dreams are fragmentary and indistinct, and I can barely hear some of them."

"What did you hear?" Xing Ruyi asked, and added: "These words are very important, and they are very likely to be the root cause of your lady's illness." ”

When the man heard this, he panicked.

"All I heard was my lady babbling that the beggar had died a miserable death, and that her stomach had been cut open, but the contents were missing. I didn't see it with my own eyes, but just listening to those words made me panic. Also, my lady seemed to be scared, and she said, "They're coming." ”

"They're coming?" Xing Ruyi frowned.

"Yes, that's them. I heard these words very clearly. I wondered who they were. I asked my lady, and she just hugged me in fear and said they were them. ”

"Isn't your lady scared and confused?"

"That's what I thought at first. But later, my wife told me an unbelievable thing. ”

"What's the matter?"

"Madam, can you believe in the past and present lives, karma?" The man opened his eyes with a strange expression on his face that was indescribable.

"Originally, I didn't believe it, but then I encountered something that made me believe that there is indeed some inextricable fate between people. These fates, described in past and present lives, karma, seem to be just right. ”

"I don't believe it." The man shook his head: "But what my lady said, I have to believe that there is really an inextricable fate in this world as Mrs. Fang just said." My lady told me that she knew the beggar, but not in this life, but in a past life. ”

"Your lady actually remembers the events of her previous life?"

She said that she didn't remember it at first, but when she saw the beggar, there was a picture in her mind that had never appeared before, and along with that picture came fear, a fear that she had never experienced.

My lady told me that she was a man in her previous life. He had a good family background, practiced martial arts since he was a child, signed up for the army at the age of fifteen, and became a deputy general in the army before he was twenty years old. Of course, the speed of promotion and promotion, in addition to fighting bravely to kill the enemy, is also related to chance and the background of the family. Looking at my lady's face, the reason why she was able to become a deputy general in her previous life was mostly because of her family.

Originally, everything was fine, as long as she stayed in the army for a few more years and accumulated some military achievements, she could enter the court, find a relatively idle position with the help of her family, and no longer have to face life and death on the battlefield.

But the plan can't catch up with the changes, where she is, there is a rebellion, and she, as a deputy general in the army, naturally has to lead the troops into battle and go to fight the enemy. After three days and three nights of fighting with the enemy, she and her soldiers were scattered by the enemy. The rest, dead and wounded, she could only flee with them.

Eventually, they fled to a mountain village. Because of hunger, they took up the weapons that were supposed to protect these people and robbed them of the food they needed to survive. In the end, because of hunger, they ate everything they could eat in the village, including the people in the village. ”

"Eat...... Cannibalism? ”

Xing Ruyi and the fox glanced at each other. She is no stranger to the story of cannibalism. As far as she knows, there have been many instances of cannibalism in history. There are tyrants who eat people, and there are soldiers who eat people because of hunger. Even in modern times, there have been tragic incidents of famine and starvation. However, it is one thing to read the written record, and it is another thing to listen to someone tell it alone.

"You think it's scary, don't you?" There was some fear in the man's eyes: "When I listen to my lady say these words, I only have one feeling, and that is fear. In addition to being afraid, there are also some who don't believe it. Say, "How can this man eat people?" You look at those arms, those legs, and you have to have the courage to get down that mouth. But looking at my lady's face, I don't think she is lying, and it doesn't seem like she's making up a scary story to deliberately scare me. ”

"So, what about later? Did your lady say what happened to you? ”

"My lady said that when they had eaten the last piece of meat in the village, they went out of the village, and then they set a fire to burn the village as they left. That village, which was originally hidden in the mountains, was burned down, and no one ever knew what had happened in that village.

My lady also said that when they entered the village, they still had about twenty people, and when they left the village, there were only seven or eight left. Some died of illness, some refused to eat people and starved themselves to death, and a few killed each other for the little meat in their mouths, and died inexplicably. These dead people also ended up being in the pot and into the stomachs of their colleagues. ”

The man first showed a disgusting expression, and then made a nausea, vomiting motion.

Xing Ruyi looked at it, and then frowned.

"When they came out of the village, the rest of the people swore to God that they would never tell what happened in the village for the rest of their lives. Then they agreed not to return to the army, and they would each go incognito, and even if they said goodbye, they would pretend not to know each other. ”

"What about your lady? Did she return home? ”

"It's not my lady, it's my lady's previous life. You forget, as I just said, my lady was a man in her previous life. is not only a man, but also a man with a good family background, his father and ancestors are all officials. So, after leaving the mountain village, she changed her clothes and secretly returned home incognito. I don't know how she told her family, anyway, in the end, her father, oh, it should be said that it was the father of the previous life, used his status to help her re-establish a new identity. She is still a child in that family, but she has changed from a former sister-in-law to a child of a relative's family. Although he couldn't enter the court as an official and enjoyed leisure, he also got a good job.

However, just when she was about to get married, an accident happened. She was stabbed to death by her own bride, who, according to her, died like the beggar she had seen. Her belly was cut open by the bride. When the man said this, he asked Xing Ruyi: "Is what I said a little messy, can you understand what I'm talking about, madam?" ”

Xing Ruyi nodded: "It's okay, I understand." Your lady was a man in her previous life, and after returning home, her family used the power in her hands to change her identity, arrange official positions, and even marry a lady for her, but this bride killed [her] on the night of marriage. ”

"Yes, yes, that's what I said."

"And then? Anything else? ”

"My lady said that after she died, she was sent by the ghost to the underworld. In the underworld, she met those who had been killed by her and her soldiers. They knelt in front of Yan Jun and complained to Yan Jun. Yan Jun sentenced my lady to a woman, so that she could be a woman in this life, and taste the suffering that a wife and a mother should endure. ”

"Did this Yan Jun receive any benefits? It's not his style to be sentenced so lightly. Oh, no, it's kind of like his style, too. Xing Ruyi touched her nose and said in her heart that the Yan Jun she knew was indeed a little unreliable, and even managed the underworld, and was a little freewheeling.

"There is a god in the head, and in this case, Madame must not say any more. How could Yan Jun favor my lady and accept the benefits of my lady in private. It's just that Yan Jun said that my lady accumulated blessings in her previous life, and although she did evil things, she had to do it as a last resort, and the merits and demerits were offset, so she could only be judged like this first. As for what my lady owes, she will naturally have to pay it back when it's time to pay it back.

After Yan Jun pronounced the sentence, he asked a ghost messenger to lead my lady to reincarnate. She couldn't remember the rest of the story. But when she saw the dead beggar, somehow, these images appeared in her mind. My lady also said that when these images flashed away, she recognized the beggar as one of the few people who had left the village with her. She still remembers that the beggar's surname is Zhang, and she was very respectful to her in her previous life. ”

"After that, your lady is sick?"

"It wasn't right away. At the time, I didn't believe what she said, thinking she was frightened, so I coaxed her to sleep. As a result, when I woke up the next day, I found that the lady was gone. When she was found, she was lying in the courtyard, cold and cold, and then she became ill. ”

"All said and done?"

"Well, that's it." The man nodded: "Oh, no, there is one more thing. ”

"One more thing?"

"When my lady was lying in the yard, she was still holding something in her hand, something that my family didn't have and shouldn't have been."