Chapter Ninety-Six: The Water Ghost Tea Shop
This Feng Xi and I stayed in the firewood room and were still restless, looking at me and scolding,
"If it weren't for you, I would be Mrs. Hou by now. The more I look at you now, the more annoying I get. So saying, she came to me,
"Before, it was because I was in front of Master Hou that I didn't want to fight with you, but now it seems that it is time for me to take revenge on you."
I saw her stretch out her hands, remove my veil, and come up and grab it. I hurriedly stepped forward to grab her, but who knew that Feng Xi's hands had become so stiff that she had torn my clothes and had deep blood marks on my face.
I hurriedly tried to see if I could use my cultivation to scatter her to pieces. Fortunately, there was still Jing Yuan in the body, so I hurriedly fixed her. Then there was a flying foot that kicked her in the stomach, and I conjured up a sword in my hand to paint her face to pieces. When I think about it, if this is too obvious, my father will definitely punish me.
It's better to strip off her clothes and tattoo a few words on her body, so that her father will not be in the mood when he sees it.
"Su Daji, what are you going to do, do you dare? I can't get around you! Then I only heard Feng Xi wail. My masterpiece was completed, and in front of Feng Xi, I stabbed four words "people are as good as they can be". Looking at her back, there is a "watery poplar".
I was admiring my masterpiece with satisfaction, when I suddenly heard a shout outside,
"It's on fire!"
What did it start a fire?
I saw a thick smoke billowing in from the outside in the firewood room, and at this time Feng Xi looked at me,
"Why don't you let me go, or we'll all be coke in a moment?"
"It's you who change to coke, not us."
I looked at Feng Xi and replied.
Then I kicked the door of the firewood room open, only to hear Feng Xi shouting behind me,
"Su Daji, are you just leaving? Anyway, we've been playing since we were kids? I'm against you everywhere, and that's because I'm jealous of you. You have the love of your parents, and you are the daughter of the Hou Mansion as soon as you are born. Although your face is ugly, your life is also carefree, and your parents still dote on you. And I'm different, I've been abandoned in the mountains since I was a child, and I'm left to fend for myself, you say, which point am I inferior to you, right? Why is fate so unfair to me? β
Listening to her words, my heart trembled, after all, I grew up with my grandmother in real life, and my parents ignored me. I hurried back and untied her immobilization. Then took her hand and ran out of the door of the firewood room, and when she came out, Feng Xi looked at me with a smile,
"Thank you, Daji, since you saved me, then I will be your handmaid in the future. Repay you. β
"Hopefully! I hope you don't forget what you said, and don't frame me in the future. β
At this time, my father and mother were holding a burden in front of me and Fengxi. My father looked at me,
"Daji is daddy, can't you live with you? The current king of the Emperor has no way, and my conspiracy with the Marquis of Xi Bo has been exposed, and the King of the Emperor has not known who he heard about my daughter Daji, that is, you are outstanding. and forced me and your mother to hand you over before they would let me go. β
I thought to myself, but if I really handed me over with such a face, wouldn't that be a crime of deception? That's not going to save your life.
"Daddy, what should we do now?" I asked.
"You run away quickly, the farther away the better, it's best not to go back to Jizhou, if Kao'er doesn't dislike your appearance, you can marry him!"
"No, Daddy, I won't leave, I'm going to stay with you and my mother."
"Silly boy, they won't do anything to us if they can't catch you, after all, the rebellion between me and Xibohou is just a trumped-up charge, and the king wants you? He won't do anything to us. β
I looked at my mother and said,
"Mother, you persuade Daddy! The child does not want to leave you. β
I saw my mother come to me with a baggage,
"Listen to your mother's words, leave quickly, we will meet one day in the future. Mother prepared water and dry food for you, as well as some money. "Then I saw a servant also take my Jin Se Yaoqin out, it seems that my father and mother are also determined to drive me out of the Hou Mansion. As I spoke, I saw my mother shouting tears with her own eyes and pushing me out of the Hou Mansion. And the father looked at Feng Xi,
"Feng Xi is the Hou Ye, I can't stand you! I hope you will stay with Miss and take good care of her in the future. β
Feng Xi also nodded slightly, and then said,
"Hmm!" Then he took over the burden and my Jin Se Yaoqin.
In this way, Feng Xi and I left the Hou Mansion, and we walked a long way. So we came to a tea shop, and we walked into the tea shop.
This tea shop sounds like a simple shed made of straw mats. And next to this tea shop is a river, which has a thin layer of ice. In the tea shop, there was an old woman with gray hair, and I saw that the old woman was still carrying her back, with a wrinkled face, a sallow face, and her hands were also full of wrinkles, and she also had age spots. The mother-in-law's eyes had been torn into triangular eyes by the drooping skin. He was wearing a large blue-gray cotton jacket made of homespun cloth. I saw her walking towards us step by step,
"Hehe, two little girls, are you thirsty all the way? Sit down and grab a pot of hot tea on your way? The old woman asked with a smile on her face as she bared her black teeth.
"Yes! If you're thirsty, hurry up and serve us a good pot of tea," Feng Xi replied.
"Okay! It's a coincidence that you've come here today, wife, I just have a batch of fine tea here, and you've never drunk it? I saw the old woman wipe the snot that had flowed down with the sleeve of her padded jacket. He replied with a sigh in his mouth.
So Feng Xi and I also nodded to the old woman and said,
"Hmm!"
So Feng Xi and I found a place to sit down. At this time, I looked around, and saw that the guests at the other tables were neither drinking tea nor eating, but all of them were looking at me and Fengxi with strange eyes. Some even turned their backs to us and deliberately turned their heads to look at us.
I just thought it was weird, but I couldn't say what was weird, anyway, a sense of fear came from my heart. So he sat there, not making a sound or moving. At this time, Feng Xi on the side looked at me,
"Daji, why do you think these people are so ugly one by one? All of them are yellow and thin, with no blood at all, and they have an iron and blue face. I guess I haven't eaten for a long time, and I'm malnourished, right? β
I looked at Feng Xi and gave her color, signaling her not to talk nonsense.
After a few moments, the old woman came over with a teapot. Then look at us,
"Two girls, please take your time to taste tea, there is still this pastry for you today, please use it slowly." I saw the old woman take out a plate of mung bean cake with her other hand. Put it on the table and turn around and leave.
Feng Xi picked up the teapot, poured two cups of tea, and delivered one to me. The other cup was drunk by myself.
I was looking at the people around me, and they were happy to watch Feng Xi drink the cup of tea. Then he looked at me again. To be honest, I was fine with this acquaintance watching me eat, but now that these strangers are watching, I drink tea or eat, I am really uncomfortable.
I picked up the teacup and looked at the rotten grass leaf in the bowl. Then he called the old woman over and asked,
"This mother-in-law, I have been drinking tea since I was a child, why have I never seen tea leaves in this shape?"
"Girl, this tea is our specialty here! There is only a small amount of production every year, and we locals don't have enough to drink! Of course, it won't be sent outside! The mother-in-law replied.
"Can you tell me, mother-in-law, what kind of tea this is?"
"This ......γThis is the aquatic herb tea in our river."
"Can aquatic plants also be used as tea?" I took a sip and spit it out, a fishy smell.
"Why is this so bad? You can also drink it, and sell it to us as a high-quality tea? β
"Girl, don't you know, the first time you drink this tea, you will feel a little fishy, but this second sip is different, the more you drink, the sweeter it becomes."
So I took a sip,
"Bah!! Fishy and smelly, what is this? I saw that the old woman also felt that she couldn't fool me, so she stepped forward and grabbed me, and then looked at the tea customers in the store and said,
"Why don't you come over and help, do you still want to be reincarnated!"
At this time, Feng Xi's eyes were blurred, he glared twice, and then lay on the table and didn't move.
"Fengxi, what's wrong with you, wake up quickly?" I shouted.
Don't shout, she's been poisoned by the weeds in this river. I saw that those tea customers came to the eyes, and they all looked at me, and then they all stretched out their hands to me, ready to help the mother-in-law pour me tea.
Am I not going to wait for them to come and deal with me? I conjured up a long sword in my hand, and closed my eyes in front of me for a burst of slashing. When I opened my eyes, I saw only the mother-in-law and a little boy about six or seven years old.
I asked,
"You dead old woman, setting up a tea shop here and harming people's lives, and there are gods three feet on your head, aren't you afraid of retribution?"
I saw the old woman plop down and kneel,
"The girl is good, spare the lives of our grandchildren, right? Two years ago, I took my little grandson to pass by here, my grandson accidentally ate the water grass in the river, vomited and discharged, and left me one day, becoming a water ghost in the big willow river, and this water ghost can only be reborn if he finds a substitute, I can't bear to see my grandson being bullied by other water ghosts at a young age, so I stayed, set up a tea shop here, and used the water plants to deceive people to drink the tea, so that my grandson can be reincarnated as soon as possible! β
It seems that this old lady is still a person, and the other tea customers just now are all water ghosts here. I looked at the old lady again,
"You have a tea shop here, and there shouldn't be no one who drinks your tea, right? I think it's also killed a lot of people, right? Why hasn't your grandson been reincarnated yet? β
"There have been food disasters here for many years, and the grain here has almost not been harvested in recent years, and the people here are hungry. And because this aquatic plant is like Houttuynia cordata, many people eat it by mistake, which makes there a lot of water ghosts here. And the reincarnation of water ghosts also has to be first-come, first-come, first-come, and it is whose turn it is that can be reincarnated. I saw the old lady say while wiping the tears that remained.
"But it's not good to harm other people's lives and let yourself be reincarnated. I'll see if there's any other way to help you get reincarnated. After saying that, I helped the kneeling old lady in front of me to her up.
"That's really thank you girl, I didn't expect the girl to have such magical powers at such a young age."
At this time, I looked at Feng Xi who was still lying on the table and asked,
"Then can my friend still be saved?"
"There is salvation, there is a kind of green Ke growing by the river, and children pick it in summer to play with it in their hands, and they can also whistle."
"Mother-in-law, isn't this equivalent to not saying it? It's a harsh winter, isn't it? β
God looked at me with a smile,
"When I make a living like this, I am naturally afraid of harming good people, and I regret it! So in the summer, I picked some and dried it to make hay, and I will cook it for you and drink it for your friends. β
"That's great, old man, hurry up and save people!"
"Yes, yes, but girl, you must promise me that you will let my grandson be reincarnated no matter what! Even if I exchange my wife's life for me, I'm willing. β
I thought for a moment and then replied,
"Okay, old man, I promise you, you can save my friend quickly."
In this way, the old man walked into the tea shop again.
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