Huaiyue smiled and curtsied: "Yes, girl, the slave maid has been guarding the mountain and rarely returns home, but I didn't expect the girl to remember the name and age of the slave maid." ”

Shen Shuxu helped her up.

"When I was a child, I used to play with Sister Huaiyue, so I naturally remember it."

Huaiyue smiled meekly, took out the fire fold, and put the oil lamp in her palm.

"Boom—"

The torrential rain finally fell, and the raindrops the size of beans smashed on the roof, mixed with thunder, as if they were about to break through the roof.

The dim light of the oil lamp in the room outlined Huaiyue's smile a little warm, and the incense ash mark on her eyebrows was as hideous and terrifying as a life-urging charm.

Shen Shu looked away, looked around, and asked softly: "There is not even a bronze mirror in this meditation room, and I asked my sister to help me find a bronze mirror, I think...... Look in the mirror. ”

Judging from the picture that came to her mind, Huaiyue must have been on duty in this house at night, sleeping on the floor and dying.

Shen Shu was in a room with her.

If Huaiyue was killed, Shen Shu should also be doomed.

It's just—

When Shen Shu was dressing up in the house in the morning, she didn't see the ash mark on her eyebrows.

However, based on the experience she had seen on those animals before, this ash mark would appear and disappear with the killing thought.

At this moment, Shen Shu could only use the bronze mirror to confirm again whether he would have the same fate as Huaiyue.

Huaiyue took a disc-sized bronze mirror from the cage against the wall of the room and presented it to Shen Shu.

Shen Shu silently took a deep breath and looked at her eyebrows in the bronze mirror......

To her surprise-

There is no mark of incense ash in the center of the eyebrows.

Shen Shu lowered her eyes in confusion, trying to recall the picture she had just "seen" again.

Huaiyue's corpse did not have the slightest scar on her body, her lips were slightly open, her face was blue, and her expression was ...... But very calm.

It looks more like he died in a deep sleep.

Shen Shu hesitated.

Don't...... Did she think too much, Huaiyue died because of the sudden appearance of her body?

However, when she thought of her third brother Shen Jinming's stupid appearance in the future, she always felt that Huaiyue's death luck was not so simple.

"Tuk ...... Sincere...... ......"

Just then, there was a knock at the door.

Huaiyue put down the bronze mirror, bowed to Shen Shu, and withdrew.

After a while, she walked in and said, "Girl, it's windy and rainy outside, and the mountain road is muddy, the old lady sent someone to say that she is resting in the courtyard of the third young master of Jingsi Garden tonight and will not come back." The old lady told you not to go back and rest early. ”

"Got it."

Shen Shu relieved her heart slightly, her grandmother was also a woman who did not let her shave her eyebrows when she was young, and it would be safer to have her in the courtyard of the third brother.

She raised her eyes to look at Huaiyue, and explained carefully: "Since grandmother is resting in the meditation garden, the people who are used to serving must also be sent over, so my sister might as well follow along." ”

"The girl is really thoughtful." Huaiyue replied with a smile: "It's just that the meditation garden is where the male pilgrims stay, and the old lady ordered to come down and let only the two grandmothers serve by her side, and the rest of the people are still resting in our courtyard tonight." ”

When Shen Shu heard this, her heart moved.

"Speaking of which, I rarely come to Hui'an Garden on weekdays, and the sisters in my grandmother's house still don't recognize them all. It's okay now, why don't you take me to meet them, sister? ”

"How can you let the girl go to them? They should have come to greet the girl, and the girl was waiting in the room, so I called them over. ”

Huai Yue retreated with a smile, and after a while, she brought the maid in the courtyard to Shen Shu's room.

Mrs. Shen lives in this temple every day, and in addition to the two grandmothers and Huaiyue, there are three older maids and two cooks in the courtyard.

Like Huaiyue, they wear a sea green robe, and they are all docile and generous.

Shen Shu swept their eyebrows one by one, and found no traces of incense ash marks.

Her heart was slightly relieved, that is, except for Huaiyue, no one in this courtyard had the doom of mortality.

At least, not the worst-case scenario of "the whole yard being slaughtered".

Shen Shu said a few simple and polite words, then waved her hand to let them retreat under the pretext that she wanted to rest.

Only Shen Shu was left in the room.

At this moment, although it was dark outside, it was still afternoon.

The rumbling thunderstorm outside the window has no tendency to weaken.

Shen Shu and Yi were lying on the bed tossing and turning, and they didn't have any clue about Huaiyue's death and the third brother's stupidity.

The only thing that made her feel a little sure was the incense ash mark on Huaiyue's eyebrows, which slowly crippled like incense as time passed......

It's like an oracle telling her that "tonight is the key."

Shen Shu forced herself to close her eyes and recuperate.

Only then will she have the energy to face everything that happened at night.

*

Three hours later, night finally fell.

The storm outside the house did not stop, but it was not as cold and crazy as it was in the afternoon.

Shen Shu took a nap, got up and ate some porridge, and put on a coat and walked around the yard for a long time before going back to the house to freshen up.

It's also strange to say -

She has an inexplicable sense of familiarity with the courtyard where her third brother lives and her small meditation room.

However, I didn't feel the slightest difference in my grandmother's yard.

Shen Shu felt more and more that in the dark, the "Medicine Buddha" was protecting her, and she was also urging her to protect the people around her from doom.

Such thoughts dispelled the fear of the unknown in Shen Shu's heart, and also strengthened her determination to get to the bottom of it.

"Girl, it's late at night, rest quickly."

Huaiyue rolled up the bed cover from the outside and walked into the small meditation room, and was about to lay the floor on the bluestone bricks-

Shen Shu stopped her with a smile: "Sister, I'm going to rest tonight, I'm a light sleeper, I like to sleep alone, and I'm not used to someone keeping vigil." ”

After Shen Shu's observation for an afternoon, Huaiyue's body was healthy and there was nothing wrong with it.

In addition, among the other three maids, there is also a maid who knows a little bit about the art of Qihuang because she takes care of Mrs. Shen.

Shen Shu could only feel at ease if she took Huaiyue to live with them.

Huaiyue was stunned for a moment, and hesitated: "The mountain temple is cold at night, and the wind is strong tonight, if the girl is startled by the wind......"

"My sister is too worried."

Shen Shu winked at her: "I have always loved to read ghosts and spirits, tonight in the mountain temple, it is such a stormy night, I am too late to be happy, how can I be frightened by this wind?" ”

She said, pretending to lower her voice mysteriously: "I can't say, I have to explore the courtyard at night to see if there is really anything unique in this mountain temple." My sister went to rest, and no matter what noise she heard at night, she didn't want to come out and disturb me. ”

Huaiyue saw her chattering look, and she couldn't cry or laugh.

The fourth girl is a well-known maverick in the house, and she has already heard of it, so she no longer demands it.

"The girl rests sooner, if ...... If you really want to go out and look for something, you have to wear thicker. ”

Shen Shu smiled and nodded.

At the moment when Huaiyue turned around to leave-

Shen Shu keenly found that the incense ash mark on her eyebrows seemed to have been erased, disappearing, lost, no, seeing!

！！！

Shen Shu's heart set off turbulent waves.

She never expected that if she didn't let Huaiyue sleep in this small meditation room, she would easily break Huaiyue's death.

It turns out that the longevity of the moon is about to end is related to the night duty!

At this moment, there are only two possibilities left regarding Huaiyue's fate.

If it weren't for Huaiyue's sudden sudden death.

That's ...... What will happen tonight in this little meditation room!

With this thought, Shen Shu's face suddenly turned cold.

She pulled out a sharp silver hairpin from her sleeve pocket and pinned it in her hair......