thirty-four

The sound of the flute is like silk, tactful and melodic. A song of death, to the quiet fog alley, wrapped in wisps of sorrow and sadness.

Ruoxuan sat on the window and played the flute lightly. The backyard outside the window, wrapped in mist, the shadows of the trees swaying, and the shadows of the bamboos.

He hadn't closed his eyes all night, and his face was slightly tired.

Last night, Xue Yi drank five bowls of "flame wine" in a row, fell asleep drunk, and was moved to the guest room under water, the tears on his face had not yet dried, and his pale face set off the scar in a particularly terrifying way.

I heard the sound of the flute in my dream, and I woke up slowly, and my mind was not drowsy with the pain of a hangover.

Following the source of the flute, I saw Ruoxuan sitting on the window.

"Leaving the son, the little girl was rude last night, and she bothered the two of you a lot, please forgive the two of you, the little girl will leave here, and she won't cause trouble to the two of you in the future." With that, he turned around and wanted to leave.

"Wait." Ruoxuan hesitated again and again, but still opened his mouth to stop Xue Yi.

"Miss Xue, this wine is called 'Eliminate Life'."

Ruoxuan turned his hand and conjured up a transparent jade bottle, and in the transparent and clear wine dew inside the bottle, a thumb-sized ink-colored liquid bead was suspended.

He placed it on the window, turned around and entered the inner room, leaving time for Xue Yi to choose.

The light and shadow in Xue Yi's eyes went out, Xue Yi trembled and stretched out his hand to the jade bottle on the window, and when he was about to touch the jade bottle, he seemed to touch a hot kettle, and hurriedly retracted it, and then stopped, and the hand hanging in the air stretched out again, and so on.

She knew that Ruoxuan had once again given her a choice: whether to pick up the jade bottle or turn around and leave. This choice will bring her two completely different futures, as if she is standing at the intersection of two paths in life, no matter which one she embarks on, she cannot turn back.

In the end, with a horizontal vision, she reached out and held the "elimination"!

Two days later, in Chang'an City, the people spread by word of mouth that Xue Yi, the eldest daughter of the once wealthy Xue family, died violently at home for no reason!

thirty-five

Two days ago.

The morning light seeped into the quiet ancient alley, wiping a layer of warm halo in the mist, and the falling snow and morning light reflected fragments of light on the wall.

Lu Yao Pavilion, the door of the pavilion opens lightly. Ruoxuan once again sent Xue Yi to the pavilion gate.

Xue Yi saluted goodbye, holding a transparent jade bottle in his arms, the wine in the bottle was clear, and a thumb-sized ink-colored liquid bead was suspended.

"Eliminate life", if Xuan didn't sleep all night, in order to make this wine.

In the southern suburbs of the city, a dilapidated earth courtyard.

Xue Yi returned home, sat in a daze, looked at the "death" in front of him, and was slightly distracted. The state of mind is like an ink-colored liquid bead suspended in the wine dew, floating and uncertain.

Since leaving Lu Yao Pavilion and returning home, it has been two days.

The rooster crowed and the sun rose, Xue Yi was startled and came back to his senses. With a trembling cold hand, he opened the seal of the jade bottle, raised his head and drank the wine dew in it......

The sharp pain instantly permeated the body, and the ink-colored liquid beads swallowed seemed to turn into countless needle, turning into blood vessels and piercing every corner of the body.

The sharp pain caused Xue Yi to fall to the ground, his spasmodic body rolling all over the ground, trying his best to scream, but his throat seemed to be blocked, and he couldn't make a sound. Consciousness gradually blurred, the sky in front of him turned into a haze, two lines of tears crossed his face, and he was motionless, and his breath was completely ......

thirty-six

Hey? Someone crying? No, it's not just one person, it's a lot of people crying.

Xue Yi regained consciousness, slowly opened his eyes, and saw two white paper lanterns hanging above his head, on the lanterns, a big word "lay" was written in heavy ink, and the incense-filled thatched hut was full of "snow", which was countless fluttering paper money.

The fire was extinguished in the brass basin on the ground. An old woman in mourning clothes had tears on her face, waving the paper money in her hand one after another, sitting on the ground and crying bitterly, it was the old mother of Xue Yi's family.

"Someone in my family has died?" Xue Yi was greatly surprised, and hurriedly got up to help his mother.

When she touched her mother's body, she was horrified to see that her own hands had penetrated it!

Xue Yi's mind suddenly exploded like thunder.

She repeatedly touched every sad face in the room, but she couldn't catch even their tears, and she couldn't even feel the heat when she put her hand into the burning brazier.

She couldn't grasp anything, and everyone in the room couldn't see her!

Xue Yi already had a terrifying answer in her heart, she looked back, and suddenly fell to the ground, her face pale.

There is a wooden tablet on the incense table in the hall, which is engraved with "The Position of the Beloved Daughter Xue Yi", and the person lying in the coffin under the tombstone is himself! This funeral was actually for her! She died so inexplicably?

So what's going on with your current state? Has the spirit left the body and become a wandering ghost?

"You died so inexplicably? It's ridiculous! How could I just die? I'm going to get back Sulang! My old mother still has to rely on me to support her for the rest of her life! Xue Yi couldn't understand Ruoxuan's intentions, and unwilling tears burst out of his eyes.

She stepped over to her body, taking a closer look at her own face. "Hehe, it's really extremely ugly, no wonder Su Lang abandoned me." I couldn't help laughing at myself with tears and wry smiles.

Perhaps, after hearing the news of his death, he will come to see me for the last time?! Even though I had become so ugly, he at least loved me once.

Xue Yi thought so, so she looked around, but didn't find Su Yan's figure, so she stood by the door with great anticipation, waiting for her lover to come and say goodbye to her.

It's just that fantasy is fantasy after all, and the affectionate and righteous Su Lang in Xue Yi's heart is just her wishful thinking......

thirty-seven

"Master, why did you give her a 'life'? I don't understand your intentions."

"In order to let her see the cruelest truth with her own eyes, in order to unravel her obsession".

"The backlash of 'eliminating life', the master knows better than anyone else, will such a price be too heavy? Wouldn't it be good for her to continue living with illusions? ”

"Sweet dreams, of course, can give people sustenance and comfort, but there are always people who forget that no matter how beautiful the dream is, they will wake up after all. And the saddest thing is those who have already woken up from a dream, but they refuse to open their eyes no matter what. Living with fantasies all day long, she will be worse than dead. In comparison, the backlash of 'eliminating life' is no longer a painful price. ”

"At least, before she picked up 'Killing'. At that moment, she would not lose completely in this big gamble. ”

The conversation on the clouds drifted away with the wind, and the night shrouded the hut under the clouds, and two lines of clear tears melted the snow in front of the door.

It was late at night, and I didn't see my lover come to mourn. Xue Yi's spirit by the door chewed on despair alone......

The gloomy clouds reconcile the cold night, and the shallow shadow of the moon is missed.

Xue Yi walked around the Su Mansion. She is already a wandering ghost, no one can see her, nothing can stop her, and no one cares, her desolation and despair.

Xue Yi penetrated every wall of the Su Mansion, and searched up and down the Su Mansion, but he still didn't see the lover.

Sitting in front of the Su Mansion, she put her face on her lap and wiped her tears over and over again.

In fact, she knew in her heart that where she could find Su Yan, and she was still deceiving herself in vain in Su Mansion. She has never had the courage to face the truth, she hates herself for being so cowardly, she hates her love, and she is useless......

thirty-eight

Li Ruoxuan didn't know when, standing in front of Xue Yi's spirit.

The hands that couldn't touch anything were held up by Li Ruoxuan lightly. Contact obediently follows him......

The red light district, Pingkang Fang, the lights are red and green, and the singing and dancing are leveling. With light makeup and heavy makeup, all kinds of enchanting women, the women of the green building scratch their heads in front of their own signboards, intending to attract guests who come and go.

In the VIP room, there are three people and one table, and the table is full of wine and food. Some people poured a lot of wine, some people ate a large piece of meat, sitting in the chief Su Yan, hugging left and right, probing his colored hands into the placket of the left and right women, on his chest and legs, caressing and wandering wantonly.

And the other two guests turned out to be Xue Yi's two loser brothers!

Suddenly, the door of the wing room opened, and a small man dressed in coarse linen trotted in front of Su Yan with his hands down. Panic Message:

"Young Master, Miss Xue of the Xue family, this morning, I was found dead at home, and the cause of death is unknown."

Su Yan, who was full of wine, was slightly stunned when he heard this.

"Hey! That mother-in-law died well! It's long overdue! The province is still wishful thinking day by day, annoying Brother Su! It's just a disfigured woman, why should Brother Su mind? If you're dead, you're dead, don't let that bad mother-in-law sweep Yaxing! Let's keep drinking! No drunk! "The two brothers didn't think of the same root at all, and shouted loudly in unison!

"Hahaha! What he said to the two virtuous brothers is very true! Let's keep drinking! Pimp! Bring the best wine in the building to Master Ben! How can such a good thing not be celebrated? Don't hide it from the two virtuous brothers, foolish brother, I have long been annoyed by that mother-in-law and anxious! ”

The three of them raised their glasses together, and for a while the cheerful atmosphere filled the room.

"Two virtuous brothers, thanks to your clever plan! Inform me of the route of the caravan with Xue Lao'er, and let me send someone to ambush him in advance and kill him by surprise. Now the Xue family's industry is all under my Su family, I look at the business district in Chang'an City, who dares to shout with my Su family! Su Yan was excited, and he actually told such a shocking secret.

"This is this month's offering, and the two virtuous brothers have taken it!" After that, the servant pushed away the wine and food on the table, put the two wooden boxes on the table and opened them, only to see that they contained two thick stacks of silver tickets.

"Thank you Brother Su for your generosity!" The two losers saw the silver ticket full of light. One person and one pile, hurriedly put the silver ticket into his arms.

"I won't tell you Brother Su, in fact, this clever plan is not from the two of us, but from a master!"

"That day, we quarreled with the dead ghost Lao'er, and were thrown out of the house, and we were about to come here to drink and relieve our boredom, but we saw a Taoist riding a green ox, who wanted to tell a fortune for us! Then tell me about the two of them......"

Another Taoist riding a green ox? When the little guy heard this, he frowned and groaned......

Su Yan superficially echoed the two brothers' talk, but in fact, the left ear went in and the right ear went out.

The news of Xue Yi's sudden death was silent on his face, but after all, it still touched a trace of compassion in his heart.

Maybe it's because Xue Yi is the only woman who has a deep affection for him? Maybe it's because Xue Yi didn't hesitate to sacrifice his life to ask for medicine in order to save him? Maybe it was because he single-handedly caused Xue Yi's family to be ruined...... Su Yan didn't know, and he didn't want to figure it out, he was only sure that he would soon forget about it and ...... soon Now, he just wants to give himself a long-lost hangover.

In the wing, the host and guest all raised their glasses and drank booze, so happy. No one knew that Xue Yi's spirit was standing in the corner, his face full of incredulity and grief.

The conversation between the three people at the wine table fell into Xue Yi's ears word for word.

All of it, the truth revealed! It's just that this truth is so absurd and so unbearable......