The pomegranate tree does not become a sperm.

Xing Ruyi squeezed in the crowd, looking at Dong Ping'an, who was standing under the pomegranate tree with a machete in hand, his white and tender little hand pointed to his feet, and said, "Is it a hand under his feet?" ”

Dong Ping'an was startled, and sat down on the ground, and the machete in his hand also fell to the ground.

Among the guests, there were those who were brave enough to come to the front. He looked closely at the soil under the pomegranate tree, and exclaimed, "It's really a hand, or a human hand." ”

The wedding feast ended like this, but the guests who came to the wedding feast did not leave. They were still sitting on those stools, still eating the food on the table, but with the exception of an extra show — watching the catchers dig up the scene.

The pomegranate trees were dug out and discarded at the base of the wall, and a large pit was dug into the originally flat ground. In the pit, there was a dead man. The dead man, dressed in a red coat, is about the same size as Dong Ping'an, and it can be confirmed from the accessories found with him that he is Dong Ping'an's younger brother Dong Pingshun, who has been missing for many years and was rumored to have been eaten by monsters.

In court, Dong Ping'an insisted that he didn't know why his younger brother Dong Pingshun was buried in the yard, and he was in a hurry, so he put everything on the younger brother and sister who disappeared with his younger brother Dong Pingshun. In Dong Ping'an's words, if his younger brother was killed by him, what about his younger brother and sister? There must have been a corpse too.

There was no witness, no physical evidence, only a corpse, and Dong Ping'an refused to admit that he had done it, so the county magistrate had no choice but to order him to be taken to prison first.

When Dong Ping'an was escorted away by the servants, Xing Ruyi quietly went to the backyard again. The female ghost with a disheveled head stood at the door of the new house, not knowing what to think.

"I warned you not to come to my sister-in-law of the Dong family."

"I didn't want to hurt her." The female ghost turned around, her face was pale, but she was no longer the scary appearance she had before: "I want to tell her to let her leave the Dong family and leave Dong Ping'an's bastard." He's not a good guy, he's really not a good guy. ”

"You-"

"I was originally his younger sibling." The female ghost left the bedroom, walked into the courtyard, raised her head slightly, and looked at the dark sky: "My father and my mother run a tofu factory, although the business is not big, but they take good care of me. They feel that I am a girl's family, and if I am a girl, I should not show my head and raise me like a young lady from a big family. When I was your age, I also thought about sneaking out to see what it looked like outside, but my mother grabbed me and reprimanded me fiercely. Later, I broke off my mind and made a female celebrity in the boudoir every day as my father and mother wanted. Before I left the cabinet, I had never seen anyone other than my father, and I could hear the voice. ”

"Your father, it's a bit excessive."

"No, they love me more than the average daddy." The female ghost shook her head lightly: "I know, I want to marry the son of the Dong family, and I also know that his family runs a dart game, and the business is not good or bad, but I don't need to show my head when I marry." When the matchmaker proposed, I once looked at him through the screen, not the front, but the back. Wide, reassuring back. On the night of my wedding, I was so scared that I had my eyes closed from beginning to end. Therefore, I didn't know that it was not my husband Dong Pingshun who spent the Spring Festival with me, but my husband's brother Dong Ping'an.

"And how do you know?"

"He told me."

"Who?"

"Dong Ping'an." The female ghost sighed: "I don't have in-laws, and I knew before I got married that the second elder had passed away due to illness a few years ago." I don't have in-laws, but I have an eldest brother, so the day after I got married, I went to see him with Pingshun. When I looked up at him, I just thought that his gaze was terrifying, very scary. At breakfast, I didn't even dare to look up at him again. Pingshun trusts his brother very much, and almost obeys his words. He asked Pingshun to run errands, and Pingshun went out without even thinking about it. As soon as he walked on his front foot, he dragged me into the room with brute force on his back foot. I was terrified, scared stupid, had no idea what to do next, and couldn't even remember to shout. But like a hungry wolf, he put his hand over my mouth and told me that the one who was with me last night was not Pingshun but him. He said that Binh Thuan was drunk, and I took him for Binh Thuan and deliberately ...... I had a birthmark on my body, and he could tell it clearly in a place that no one could see. Humiliation, grief and indignation, and the desire to die, but I was cowardly, completely stupid, and didn't know what to do. ”

"And then? You've become his wife? ”

"No, I'm sick, I've been sick for a long time. At first, the whole person was confused, but I vaguely knew that it was Pingshun who was taking care of me. Later, it was replaced by a girl in the house. By the time I got better, more than a month had passed. I couldn't see that it was smooth, so I asked the girl who was waiting next to me, but the girl told me that the second master was dead. I knew something in my heart, so I ran to ask him. But he locked me up. In that dark place, it takes a long time. When I came out again, I would be the bride he was going to marry, and even the girl who had taken care of me before was gone.

I'm scared, I'm really scared, I can only commit to him and be his wife in peace. In fact, he treats me not very badly, and his food and clothing are also very good, and there is no other woman in the house except for a lady like me. He only asked me the same, not to go out. I've been staying in the house since I was a child, and I'm scared when I go out, so I agreed to this request. ”

"But you didn't expect him to marry the sister-in-law of the Dong family."

"I know, because once again I saw his wolf-like gaze, but that gaze was not for me. From that day on, he was completely different from me, he hated me and even felt that I was superfluous. I thought that he might have fallen in love with other girls, and that there might be one more person in this house, but I didn't expect that he would force me to take medicine. ”

"Poison?"

"Poison! Poison that pierces the intestines. The female ghost smiled bitterly: "It hurts, it hurts, I can't tell you that feeling." Just as I was rolling and my body was cooling down, I saw Ping Shun, his head tilted, standing outside my window, with a hint of pity in his eyes. ”

"You met Dong Pingshun?"

"I don't know, because it's just a split second. After I became like this, I searched for it, but I couldn't find it. ”

"What do you want to do now?"

"I am committed to the enemy, betrayed my husband, I am innocent of death, not wronged, but I know that Pingshun must not have been eaten by monsters, but by his eldest brother. Sure enough, in that corner, they found smoothness. ”

"He won't admit it."

"I'll make him admit it." The female ghost looked down at Xing Ruyi: "But I can't get into the prison of the mansion, and I can't go to the court." ”

"It's okay, I can take you in." Xing Ruyi patted his little jacket, which was decorated with a small emerald green gourd. The lid of the small gourd can be opened, and when it is opened, a cool mint smell comes out.

"This is a small gourd given to me by the fox, which can sleep peacefully in winter, repel mosquitoes and flies in summer, and can also be loaded with things when it is critical." Xing Ruyi took off the small gourd and shook it: "You can live in temporarily, the place inside is quite large." ”

The female ghost hesitated, nodded, and turned into a wisp of black smoke and burrowed into the gourd.

Xing Ruyi exhaled, re-hung the little gourd on the small jacket, walked to the bedroom door, and patted it with his hand: "Sister-in-law, are you sleeping peacefully?" ”

"It's Ruyi, come in!"

"No, sister-in-law, come out."

"Huh?"

"The shopkeeper of the Dong family was taken away by the government, and it is estimated that he will not be able to come back. The sister-in-law of the Dong family is a newcomer, and she is not familiar with the dart game, so it is inevitable that she will panic when she lives alone. It's better to go back to the original home first, and when the case is over, it's not too late to come back. ”

"What did you say?" The door of the bedroom was opened suddenly, and Dong Sulan also removed the red hijab from her head with her hand.

"While eating, someone found a dead man under a pomegranate tree at the base of their house. According to the adults, this dead man is the younger brother of the shopkeeper Dong. It's really strange, just now the aunt of the Niu family told me the story of the shopkeeper Dong's house, saying that his younger brother was eaten by a monster, and in the blink of an eye, the person was dug out from under the pomegranate tree. ”

"Shopkeeper Dong's younger brother is buried under a pomegranate tree?"

"Yes, a lot of people have seen it. The government also came and took the shopkeeper Dong away. Hey, they all say that there is chaos outside, why is it that even our town is not safe. Xing Ruyi shook her head like a little adult: "The Dong family is also in chaos at this time." Sister-in-law can't leave, if you don't want to go, you can leave as you wish. If my mother knew about the Dong family, she would definitely complain that I shouldn't have come to the wedding banquet. Children are afraid when they see a dead person. ”

"Ruyi, can you wait for your sister-in-law for a while?" Dong Sulan squatted down and touched Xing Ruyi's head.

"Okay, Ruyi is standing here, obediently waiting for my sister-in-law." Xing Ruyi stood there obediently behind his hands.

Dong Sulan covered the door and came out in just a while. took off the red bridal dress, changed into the plain clothes she wore every day, and even the rouge and gouache on her face were washed.

"It's still comfortable to wear this dress." Dong Sulan took Xing Ruyi's hand: "Let's go, sister-in-law will send you home, if Aunt Jiang scolds you, sister-in-law will help you speak." ”

"Okay." Xing Ruyi raised his head, his eyes narrowed, and the emerald green gourd on his jacket swayed.

In the prison of the county government, Dong Ping'an sat against the wall, and what flashed in his mind repeatedly was the scene of his younger brother Dong Pingshun's body being dug up. He remembered very well that when he buried the body, he was lying flat, but when he dug it up, he was with his hands up, as if trying to crawl out of the soil.