"Squeak-"

The dark courtyard door opened, and an old woman with frosted sideburns walked out of the door. She was dressed in black, slightly hunched at the waist, and her steps were a little staggering.

"Excuse me, is it Mr. Yin?"

"Yes!"

"My wife is already waiting in the courtyard. Mr. Yin, please, this girl, please. The old woman turned around and shouted towards the courtyard: "Xiao Tao, tell Madame that Mr. Yin has arrived." ”

After shouting, he turned around and said to the fox and Xing Ruyi: "My surname is Yan, and Mr. can call me Mama Yan." ”

When Mama Yan entered the courtyard, she found that the courtyard was full of roses. The green-clothed girl with her double bun stood in front of the gazebo, and when she saw Mama Yan, she walked over quickly with small steps: "Is this Mr. Yin?" My wife is in the pavilion. ”

The fox nodded, and followed the green-clothed maid into the pavilion. In the gazebo, there was a young woman, only twenty-three or fourteen years old, but her face was frighteningly white.

"What's wrong with this sister?" Xing Ruyi gently pulled the fox's hand.

"I'm sick."

"What disease?"

"Evil."

It was not the fox who answered, but the Yan Mama who had come to the door to greet them earlier.

"My wife has not woken up since she fell asleep five years ago, and I heard that Mr. Yan has a lot of means, so my old lady asked someone to invite her. Please also ask my husband to take a look at my wife, if it can be cured, don't say that the consultation fee of 100 taels is 1000 taels, 10,000 taels, and my lord is also willing to pay. ”

"Mama rest assured, my master is a very powerful and good person, as long as he can save it, he will save it." Xing Ruyi walked up to the young woman and looked at it carefully: "Is this lady suddenly asleep?" I've been following Master for a few days, and I've never heard anything so strange. ”

"My wife didn't fall asleep all of a sudden." Mama Yan sighed, pointed to the stone on the side and waited, "Please sit down first, and listen to me speak slowly." ”

The sleeping young woman's name was Wei'er, and she was the only daughter of the owner of the Twilight Cloud Villa. Five years ago, Wei'er was eighteen, and Mu Wanwan, the current owner's wife, married Chen Shaonan, the young owner of Windward Villa, not far from here.

The reason why it is said to be the current one is because this Mu Wanwan is the wife of Xie Zhuang's successor, and this lady and the first lady were friends before her death. After marrying the owner of Xie Zhuang, he voluntarily took the child pill because he took care of Wei'er, and never mentioned the matter of the heir. Therefore, in the Xie family, there was no dispute between the concubines, and there was no incident where the stepmother treated the first wife and children harshly in order to take care of her own children.

When Mu Wanwan started, Xie Weier was eight years old. From the age of eight to eighteen, Mu Wanwan, the stepmother, can be said to be conscientious, even Wei'er's biological mother may not be able to do it to this extent.

The owner of Chen Shaozhuang, whom Mu Wanwan chose for Xie Weier, is also a dragon and phoenix among people, not only has an innocent family background and excellent character, but also has one of the best appearances within a radius of hundreds of miles. This marriage, no matter from that aspect, is a match made in heaven, and it is all the right one.

After Xie Weier married into the Chen family, the husband and wife were harmonious, and they also got along well with their in-laws. Less than half a year after marriage, Xie Weier became pregnant, and she was properly taken care of in the Chen family. Pregnant in October and giving birth once, no one thought that something would go wrong at this last moment.

"Did something happen to the child?"

"Hmm." Mama Yan nodded lightly: "Madame has a difficult birth, and the child came out first not with the head, but with the legs." The lady gave birth for three days and three nights, and was tortured, but what was born was a stillborn child. The old lady and the young master of the Chen family were worried that the lady would be sad and sad when she saw the child, so they secretly took the child out while the lady had not woken up, and asked a baby boy of the same age to come over. Who knows, the lady never woke up from this sleep. ”

"Where's the baby boy?"

"Still in the Chen family. Madame gave birth to a stillborn child, and only the Xie family and the Chen family knew about it. Xie Chen's family are both prominent families, and if the news of the stillbirth spreads, I don't know what those people outside will talk about. In order to hide from everyone, he lied that his wife had an emergency during childbirth, and that the child was also left by his wife in a very dangerous situation. Because he was worried that his wife would not be well taken care of in the Chen family, the old man and Mrs. Wanwan took his wife back, and in order to let his wife recuperate with peace of mind, they specially built such a courtyard here and placed his wife here. ”

"Has that Young Master Chen ever come to visit Madame?"

"When Madame was just sent back, my uncle did come a few times, and invited a lot of doctors to come and see Madame. But after a long time, he didn't come, but the little young master also came to visit his wife during the New Year. Alas! In the heart of that little master, it is estimated that our wife is regarded as his own mother. ”

"When it comes to seeing a doctor, my master is not very good at it."

"It's not a doctor, it's something else." Yan's face was embarrassed: "At the beginning, we all thought that Mrs. had injured her body during childbirth, so she couldn't wake up." But it wasn't until half a year ago that after the Chen family's aunt accepted a new concubine, some strange things happened to our wife. ”

"What's weird?"

Mama Yan's gaze passed through the gazebo, over the rockeries behind the gazebo, and projected onto the room behind the rockery: "My wife will wake up at night." ”

"That's a good thing!"

"But when I woke up, I looked like my wife, but she wasn't my wife."

"What do you mean to be like your wife, but not your wife?"

"Things have to start from the night after the Chen family's aunt took a concubine. That night, as usual, Xiao Tao and I washed our wife's body first, changed into clean and comfortable clothes, and after we had settled our wife, we planned to go back to our rooms to rest. Because Madame is ill, the rooms are all connected, so that she can take care of Madame anytime and anywhere. After returning to the room, Xiao Tao and I rested separately, and as soon as we lay down, we heard a baby's cry, the voice was very weak, as if it came from outside. Therefore, people often pass by, and Xiao Tao and I didn't pay attention to it, closed our eyes and continued to sleep.

We woke up again because we heard the louder cry of a baby, and the cry was very close, as if it came from Madame's room. Xiao Tao and I didn't care about listening, so we quickly dressed ourselves and went to the lady's room. As a result, we see Madame sitting in front of the vanity mirror, motionless. ”

Mama Yan said and glanced at Xiao Tao, as if she was still a little frightened when she recalled the situation that night.

We all thought that Madame was awake, so we called Madame for joy, but Madame was like she had not heard. Sick and bedridden for a long time, naturally different from ordinary people, Xiao Tao and I went to the back of Mrs. lightly, and each called softly. But when our eyes fell into the bronze mirror, we were all frightened. The lady in the bronze mirror is actually with her eyes open. ”

"Now that I'm awake, now that I'm sitting in front of the bronze mirror, my eyes are naturally open."

But the lady outside the bronze mirror had her eyes closed. We both thought we were dazzled, so I looked at the bronze mirror, and Xiao Tao looked at Madame, and then we asked questions at the same time, and the result was exactly the same as the strange scene we had just seen. The lady in the mirror has her eyes open, but the lady outside the mirror has her eyes closed. Xiao Tao and I inexplicably felt a chill, but Madame was still sitting in front of us, and we didn't dare to flee without permission. Just as we hesitated, we heard the familiar cry of a baby. The cry did not come from the mouth of the lady outside the mirror, but from the mouth of the lady inside the bronze mirror. It was terrible, we had never experienced such a terrible scene, and we were immediately frightened and fainted. When I woke up the next day, Little Peach and I found ourselves lying in front of Madame's dresser, but Madame was sleeping in bed as if she had never gotten up. ”

"Dreaming, must be dreaming!"

"At the time, we thought we were dreaming, but it was too real and too scary. Xiao Tao and I sat on the ground, and each of us was relieved for a long time before we helped each other to get up from the ground. According to the usual habit, Xiao Tao went to fetch water for Mrs., and I was responsible for cleaning Mrs. Face, and after grooming, I helped Mrs. to this pavilion so that she could see the scenery and bask in the sun. But just as I was about to put on my wife's shoes, I found that her shoes were stained with dust, and when I looked closely, there were still some footprints from the couch to the dresser, blood-red footprints, but not blood. ”

"Such a bizarre thing happened, why didn't you tell the owner of the village?"

"Naturally, I want to tell the owner. Because of this incident, there were a lot of more people in this village, but these people were all subordinates, and it was inconvenient to meet guests, so they didn't come out. Yan Mama's face showed a trace of fatigue: "The owner and Mrs. Wanwan stayed in this village for two nights, and both nights were the same as before, they heard the faint cry of the baby first, and then the lady got up from the couch, walked to the dresser like a controlled puppet, sat down, and did not fall back asleep until the rooster crowed." Later, we found that there was nothing but the madwoman who would wake up in the middle of the night and sit at the dresser and the cry of a baby, and the fear in our hearts had subsided. ”

"Since you're not afraid, why did you ask my master to come over?"

"Because ......" Xiao Tao, who had not spoken just now, opened her mouth: "That's because my grandmother and I found out that there was another person in Madame's bronze mirror." ”

"One more?"

"It's a little girl, a very small kind of little girl." Xiao Tao gestured with her hand: "She is standing behind the lady in the bronze mirror, if you don't look carefully, you won't be able to see it at all." But she was real, especially her eyes, which looked really scary. ”

"Little girl, little girl younger than me?"

"Hmm." Xiao Tao nodded affirmatively: "Mama Yan felt that something was wrong, so she deliberately went to find the woman who delivered the baby to Mrs. Wen, and learned from Mrs. Wen that the stillborn baby that Mrs. gave birth to was a baby girl." ”