Chapter 8: The Underworld
"You...... Want to die? When he said this, Liu Maozi's face was full of sadness......
"Of course I don't want to die! Who wants to die! I grabbed the small basin with the wick oil, ready to splash it on Liu Maozi's body at any time.
"Liu Maozi" stared at me, his eyes were complicated, and after a while, he suddenly sighed and said:
"Anbei, Qingwen Hutong, Qingwen Hall."
As soon as she left such a sentence, before the words fell, Liu Maozi fell heavily to the ground, and in an instant, white powder splashed everywhere.
settled, the pipa on the bed was gone, I thought carefully about the words she left, this is what she wants me to go over? What is so?
"Old Seven! Ahem! Seventh! Did you hear her singing? ”
Liu Maozi covered his mouth and coughed unstraightly, he couldn't slip away...... It looked too unsightly, and I threw his clothes at him, and then asked:
"What are you singing?"
"I didn't remember...... Liu hat held his clothes, tilted his head and thought for a moment, then shook his head.
Didn't remember...... I rolled my eyes wide.
"But it seems to say something to redeem herself, what to promise three lives, and it seems to say something about change, what kind of family is in the middle of the road, what kind of life, and finally what she says, as if it means to sacrifice her to someone, and then, die......"
Liu Maozi frowned, while putting clothes on his body, words popped out one by one, and he said it easily, but my cold sweat became more and more......
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Early the next morning, the Liu family antique shop.
"Xiao Tang, where is Anbei where it let you go? I've never heard of this place. Lao Liu sat at the table, carefully checked the map, and found nothing.
I also lay on the map and searched carefully, and after a while, I felt dizzy and couldn't straighten my waist.
"I haven't heard it either, maybe the place name was different from now!"
"Dad, when did our family get the map of the Republic of China, see if you can use it." As he was talking, Liu Maozi walked in with an old map from the Republic of China.
Lao Liu wore glasses and bent over, almost lying on the map for a long time.
"Xiao Tang, I found it, Anbei is the former Zhongbei, which is near Lao Wang's house, about six or seven hours away from us, when will you go over?" Uncle Liu lit a cigarette, leaned back in the chair, and relaxed his back for a long time.
"I'll get ready for a while, I've got something to confirm...... "I don't know why, I don't have any bottom in my heart." Even, inexplicably a little scared.
"Old Seven, can I ask for one of your little bells......" Liu Maozi smiled next to me.
I looked at Liu Maozi's almost flattering smile, and gave him a big smile back:
"Hey, hey~ No! Let's go, I have something to ask you. With that, I took Liu Maozi to my store and loaded a lot of things into the car.
"Big brother, are you going to move?" Liu Maozi watched my movements, glared and sighed.
I glanced at Liu Maozi and said:
"The lyrics you heard made me have a bad idea in my heart, and if that's the case, I don't think it's easy to solve, and I have to investigate my father's business, so I probably don't know how long I will stay......" I said as I carried my things.
"Old Seven...... If you have any ideas, say them first, I'll be mentally prepared......" Liu Maozi pressed my busy hand.
"Although I can't remember her lyrics, I still remember that this woman is very miserable, we must help her......"
Looking at Liu Maozi's appearance of pity for the jade, I instantly remembered in my mind that he was crying when he listened to pipa music, and punched him on the muscles.
"Okay, pack up and leave, you have to ask for directions when you arrive."
We set off soon, and on the way to Zhongbei, I told Liu Maozi my thoughts:
Judging from the speculation of the background and the words that Liu Maozi vaguely remembered, I pieced together an incomplete but unbelievable story.
The owner of this pipa should have been sold to the Qinglou to learn art since she was a child, and her life should be something different from ordinary people, so she grew up as an Oiran in the thirty-first year of Guangxu, and lived a few years of stars holding the moon, but in 1912, the Republic of China was founded, and the Qinglou was completely reduced to a brothel......
"Red Luo ......" is a name for Tomei......
"Old Seven, when you say this, I feel that her life is even more miserable!" As he spoke, the old man, who was full of muscles, pouted and was about to cry again.
Teasing him, the car had already driven to Zhongbei, and we were asking all the way about the location of the Qingwen Pavilion on Qingwen Road, and everyone was very enthusiastic to help us at first, but as soon as they heard about the place we were looking for, they immediately frowned and walked away, as if they were very shy of this Qingwen Pavilion.
was rejected all the way, Liu Maozi and I were very discouraged, and we couldn't figure out what had happened to this Qingwen Museum, which made so many passers-by so taboo.
Finally, we found a big brother with a flower arm on the side of the road, and the big brother seemed to be a man who was not afraid of heaven and earth, but he also frowned when he heard this place:
"Brother, I can tell you the location, but it's dark, so let's go! Don't blame Big Brother for not reminding you. ”
After speaking, he pointed us in the direction, which may be the reaction of people along the way, and my heart is becoming more and more bottomless.
"This place used to be a small house for individuals, similar to the other courtyards set up by large families to raise little girls."
It's quite private, but it can also be seen as a chic courtyard.
At this time, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon, the sun was setting, the temperature was gradually cooling, I don't know why, I looked at the small courtyard in front of me, and I always felt that the yin was very heavy.
"Young people! It's getting dark, don't stay there! Just when I felt that something was wrong, a white-haired man suddenly appeared, baring his head in the corner and shouting at us.
I hurriedly dragged Liu Maozi to the uncle, wanting to ask for details, why people in this city are so taboo about this place.
"Uncle...... What's wrong with this one? "Before I could finish speaking, the uncle turned around and left, not giving us a chance to speak at all.
"Don't ask, that family is haunted at night, stay away!" Uncle walked fast.
Helplessly, I found a restaurant nearby, eat, and coincidentally, the perspective of this hotel just happened to be able to see the Qingwen Pavilion, and you can also see the building in the gate.
It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, I'm so scared that I squirt out the rice in my mouth.
"What's wrong with you, Seven?" Liu Maozi looked at my abnormality, and then followed my gaze.
"Huh? You can see this Seibunkan! But after all these years, it's not easy for this building to be so new! It looks like there's still a person living inside. Liu Maozi sighed while drinking a little wine.
"Where are the people living here, the building of this house is a formation, a ...... for raising ghosts"