Chapter 154: Lotus Fish Sachet (4)
The female ghost stared at Xing Ruyi with a pair of scarlet eyes and shook her head.
Xing Ruyi sighed.
"Don't you really remember?"
The female ghost shook her head, then looked directly at Xing Ruyi, and said, "I'm not afraid of death." When those catchers came to the door, I knew I couldn't hide it. The murder of one's own husband must be a capital crime. I thought very clearly, if the county lord asked me, I would admit that I had murdered my husband. β
"You're having fun."
"Sometimes it's easier to die than to live." The female ghost tugged at the corners of her mouth, and blood flowed down the corners of her mouth again: "Don't hide it from the girl, when I first married my sick husband, I thought about death." Marriage matters, I can't do it myself, and the one who personally allowed my marriage is my father, I can't disobey, and I don't dare to disobey, but my life is my own, I can always do it.
When I went out, I secretly hid a pair of scissors while my father was not paying attention. I thought, and when I got to the new house, I used the scissors to understand myself. Alive, I can't be his person, at least I'm innocent when I die. β
"Then why are you ......?"
"Why didn't you die?" The female ghost smiled bitterly and pulled the corners of her mouth again: "Because I'm afraid, and because he appeared when I held the scissors to my throat." I seem to have said that his family is not an ordinary family, but I didn't expect that he would go on the day of marriage and appear in my new house.
He was wearing the same clothes we had worn when we first met, and he stood abruptly at the door of the new house. At that moment, I was in a trance, I actually thought that I was married to him.
The hand, somehow loosened, and the scissors fell to the ground with a loud sound. He heard it, he saw it, and then he rushed over in a panic. Before I could react, he took me in his arms and kept calling me stupid, how could I think of dying. He also said that he didn't care, and he didn't care that I married another man, he just wanted me to live, live well, and live so that he could see me anytime and anywhere.
My heart softened all of a sudden, and I never wanted to die again, and I didn't have the courage to die. β
There was a glimmer of light in the female ghost's blood-stained eyes.
"Because of him, no matter how difficult the days are, I can get through them."
"But he may not be willing to live for you."
"It doesn't matter." The female ghost pursed her lips: "He is a big husband, he shouldn't have been bound by these children's affections, and he is really good to me." He said that when my sick husband was gone, he would take me away, and then find a small yard to live with me. I know he can do it, and he can do it. I also know that he won't marry me, or even be his concubine, and I don't have that qualification right now. But I don't care, I don't care about my name, I don't care what kind of identity I'm going to be by his side. All I want is to watch over him, as he told me that night, and I just need to be able to see him whenever I want. β
"Silly!" Xing Ruyi pouted. "Although selfish love is rejected, this kind of self-sacrificing love that thinks it is great is even more despised by it. I believe that this man likes you, but he must not love you. As for you, you may love him very much, but your love, he doesn't necessarily care. β
The female ghost ignored Xing Ruyi, but said to herself: "Although I really want to live the kind of life he said with him, I know that I don't have a chance. I got rid of my dead ghost husband, but I never had a chance to be with him again. β
"There's still a chance." Xing Ruyi touched his nose.
The female ghost glanced at Xing Ruyi and said very resolutely: "I won't drag him in!" β
"OK, I understand, I understand your deep affection for him, and I am also slightly touched by your selfless love for him. So now, can you answer my previous question? Do you remember how you died? β
"I don't remember, I just remember that I was in prison. The county jail was a little different from what I thought, I thought the cell was big, very dark and terrifying, but later I found out that it was very small, and there were not so many prisoners, and the damp smell was a bit like the firewood room where my in-laws had locked me up before, except that there was no firewood in it.
As I said, I'm not afraid of death, so I've been very quiet. I asked the people who came to arrest me, and they told me that even if I was sentenced to death, I would be allowed to visit my relatives until I died. I don't have any relatives, I only have him, and I don't want him to come to see me, I'm haggard and crying.
I sat for a long time, so long that I was almost asleep, when I heard someone call me. β
"Who called you?"
"One catches fast, and the one in prison catches fast. He's here to bring me food. β
"Steamed buns?"
Xing Ruyi asked, but the female ghost shook her head.
"A bowl of dry rice. The rice must be old rice, with a musty smell. I barely ate a few bites and put the bowl down. β
"No steamed buns?" Xing Ruyi asked again.
The female ghost raised her face and looked at her: "Why do you keep asking me if I have steamed buns?"
"You answer me first if I have it or not, and then I'll tell you why."
"There is no food delivered in prison."
"The voiceover is there in the meal sent by others?"
"It's not someone else, it's still the one who delivers the food." The female ghost raised her eyes: "That meal was delivered later, it was very rich, and there are two things that I still like." β
"Did you say anything when you delivered the food?"
"That's it. When he put the rice bucket down, he said that I should try to eat as much as I could, saying that Huangquan Road is difficult to walk, and it is good to go on the road when I am full. β
"You've eaten them all?"
The female ghost shook her head: "No, there are no chopsticks in the bucket, and I can't catch them, so I only ate one steamed bun." β
"What's in the steamed bun?" Xing Ruyi continued to ask.
The female ghost glanced at Xing Ruyi in surprise: "How do you know?" How do you know there's something in a steamed bun? β
"If I'm not mistaken, it should be a note."
The female ghost nodded first, then shook her head: "It's a note, but it's not a word, it's a drawing." β
"Painting?"
"I'm a fisherman's girl, I don't know any words originally, and the ones I roughly recognize are all learned from a teacher before leaving the cabinet. He also knew that I didn't know any words, and that I was already a wife at that time, and that correspondence would inevitably be discovered, so he always drew pictures for me. If those paintings fall into the hands of others, they are just children's graffiti, and only me and him can understand what they are drawing. β
"So, when you see the painting, you know that he sent the food?"
"Before I saw the painting, I knew he had given it to me. At this time, who else but him will care about bringing me a stutter. My father, I wish he was far away from me, lest he be implicated in my affairs. β
"Have you eaten steamed buns?"
"Hmm!" The female ghost nodded: "When I saw the painting sandwiched in the steamed bun, I understood what he meant." He told me to wait, and he said he would find a way to save me. Of course, it was good to be alive, but I couldn't let anyone else see the painting until I left the cage, so I tore it up and chewed it with the steamed buns and swallowed it into my stomach. I also drank some wine, osmanthus wine, and after drinking it, I felt dizzy, and my body was very hot, and I didn't know anything after that. β
"Osmanthus wine?"
"Hmm!" The female ghost nodded: "My mother's hometown has osmanthus flowers, she likes osmanthus flowers, and she likes it even with me." Later, I met him, and he knew that I liked osmanthus, so he tried his best to get me a lot of osmanthus related things. Osmanthus oil, as well as osmanthus wine. β
"So, he's really good to you."
"He is the only person in the world who is good to me except for my mother."
"Then have you ever thought that this person who is the best person for you except your mother killed you?"
"Him?" The female ghost raised her eyes and shook her head: "No!" β
"Why not?"
"I'm already going to die, he has no reason, and he can't hurt me."
"What if he has a reason?"
"What?"
"I mean, what if the man you like has a reason to hurt you?"
"No, it won't!" The female ghost took a step back: "Even if he had, he wouldn't, besides, that matter had nothing to do with him." He knew in his heart, he knew very well, that I would not tell him. β
He knows it in his heart, but he knows it in his heart, and he may not be afraid. Not all love can withstand the test of life and death. Or, tell me, how did you die? It's not for nothing, is it? β
"Since he feels sorry for you, he brings you food, and he sends you what you love to eat, so you tell me, why didn't he put chopsticks? Did you forget, or did you do it deliberately? Obviously, the chopsticks were deliberately kept by him, and as for the two things you like, he deliberately arranged them in order to appease you and make you have a wrong psychology and make you think that he still cares about you.
You get along, he naturally knows your habits, without chopsticks, you will naturally choose steamed buns. As for the painting in the steamed bun, it should also be deliberately arranged by him. He doesn't want to save you, he wants to hurt you. He thinks that only when you die can he completely get rid of that thing. It's a pity that you are too conceited and naΓ―ve, do you really think that outsiders are not aware of your cheating?
Outsiders are aware of it, but how can the county magistrate in the government not know? Since the county magistrate knew, he would naturally arrange for someone to check him. He killed you in a hurry, but he exposed himself faster. With such an IQ, I'm afraid it's hard to become the big husband you just said. β
"You talk nonsense!" The female ghost hissed and pointed at Xing Ruyi, "You don't even know who he is, why do you say that about him?" β
"I don't even know who he is, why do I say that?" Xing Ruyi asked rhetorically, looking at the female ghost with half-squinted eyes: "Actually, you know it in your own heart, don't you?" Otherwise, how could you be in front of me? β