Singing and that's it?

What do you mean by "singing and you're done"?

The girls were stunned for a moment, but then they were pushed forward by the turtle's paws behind.

There were no lights in the courtyard, it was pitch black everywhere, everyone staggered to help each other, and the more they walked inside, the more they smelled the smell of smoke and fire.

Suddenly, Ai Songqing saw something, she gasped, and instantly grabbed Bai Ling's hand.

"That'...... Over there......"

Bai Ling followed Ai Songqing's gaze and looked at the white flags hanging on the corridor not far away.

Bai Ling frowned slightly.

Further on, there was more yellow and white paper money on the ground.

The tortoisepaws led them through a back door into a large courtyard, and as soon as they entered, they faintly heard the sound of howling and crying.

Everyone's hearts sank.

"It's ...... Who is this going to sing for......" A girl standing in front looked timidly at the old butler nearby.

"To my wife." The old housekeeper said lightly, "Don't ask so much, go change your clothes!" ”

The girls were driven backstage.

It seems that this is a courtyard specially built for listening to the opera, although the backstage is small, but the daily necessities are well prepared, and many costumes are ready-made - of course, it cannot be compared with the pear orchard of Baihuaya, but it is enough to support a small theater troupe.

It seems that the lady who lives here is indeed a lover of drama.

The girls had changed their clothes and were waiting there with some trepidation.

After a while, the old butler reappeared.

"Okay? Come here! ”

Bai Ling walked in the middle of the crowd, and everyone walked through the thin aisle to the sides of the stage.

Looking forward from the side of the stage, from the only corner of the view, everyone finally understood where the burnt smell came from.

- In the courtyard outside, someone was wearing a white hat and mourning clothes, kneeling on the ground and burning paper money.

As far as the eye can see, the yard is filled with wreaths and long white flags......

The harlequin girl was a little unsteady on her feet, and she looked back at the old butler, "...... Not...... I didn't play the drums, and I didn't see any other musicians—"

"My wife likes to listen to a cappella." The old butler said coldly, "Please." ”

The little girl shook her sleeves, bit her lip slightly, and several girls nearby surrounded her and whispered cheers for her.

She forcibly pressed her heart, took the steps of her new learning, slowly walked sideways to the center of the stage, and was about to raise her hand to appear, when suddenly the whole person was stunned in the hall.

I saw that her mouth was slightly open, and her whole face was full of indescribable horror - the next moment, a scream tore through the night sky, and the girl fell to the ground trembling, and then stood up with her hands and feet together and tried to run back.

But the hem of the costume tripped over her.

Everyone was taken aback by this situation, and they couldn't care about the effect for a while, so they hurriedly rushed to the stage to help.

However, when they also stood on the stage and saw the situation in the courtyard, everyone was shocked by the scene before them—

In the middle of the courtyard, there was an open coffin, and behind the coffin were two boxes, so that the whole coffin was facing the stage at a 45-degree angle.

In the coffin lay a woman in red dressed in a phoenix crown, her eyes were black, and she looked straight at the center of the stage.

Next to the coffin stood a short middle-aged man - he leaned against the coffin, one hand in it, and held the cold hand of the woman in the coffin.

"Nonsense!" The middle-aged man said angrily with a crying voice, "What are you all doing!" Sing it all to me!

"Wanwan...... Wanwan couldn't see it, but she could still hear it...... You are not allowed to fool around here! ”

On the side of the stage, the old butler stepped forward with an arrow and blocked the fleeing girls, and he grabbed the harlequin's hair.

"Go back!"

The little girl cried and shook her head, "I can't sing...... I really can't sing...... Please, sir, let me go......"

"Hurry up and get on here!" The old butler grabbed the girl's shoulders without saying a word, and then kicked her on the waist and kicked her back to the stage.

The girl tried to stand up, and then just glanced down, and when she looked at the pair of black eyes, her whole body trembled.

Her body stiffened, then rolled her eyes and fell down again.

Everyone was in a mess again and hurriedly stepped forward to help.

Bai Ling and Ai Songqing had been standing behind, not knowing what was happening in front of them, but they had already understood what had happened tonight as they listened to the chatter between the turtle paws along the way.

The woman who lives in this mansion on weekdays is surnamed Kong, and she is the concubine newly received by this Lin official from Baihuaya last year. This time, Lin Daguan returned to Beijing, ostensibly under the pretext of returning a few days late, but in fact he wanted to come to Kong's place to live for a while.

- Bai Ling and Ai Songqing already knew the news yesterday.

But what none of them expected was that the wife of the Lin family, Mrs. Lin, had actually gotten the news a long time ago. She didn't expose it, she just planned it, fabricated the news of her husband's death before he returned to Pingjing, reported it to the official overnight, and framed all this as Kong's murder for money.

Lin Daguan's boat arrived at the dock outside Pingjing City at noon today--Mrs. Lin brought someone early in the morning and gouged out Kong's eyes on the spot.

Kong wailed in the house for a morning, but he still didn't wait for Lin Daguan to come back, and the people went.

Bai Ling and Ai Songqing felt chills down their spines when they heard this.

Human lives matter......

This is at the foot of the Son of Heaven, how could anyone dare to commit such a horrific murder......

Even if this Mrs. Lin is jealous, but she is so cruel, isn't she afraid that she will be arrested by the government to pay for her life......

Ai Songqing looked at the nearby turtle paw in a daze, forgetting the identity of the other party for a while, and just asked with a little disbelief, "...... How dare she? ”

"What don't you dare," the turtle paws were gossiping about Xing, raising their eyebrows and laughing, "This Kong family is not a serious master, even if he lives here, he is still a 'slave'." Which big family doesn't die a few maids every year? If they are all investigated, can the government be held accountable? ”

"That's right, besides, Mrs. Lin didn't misunderstand that her husband was murdered at that time, and there was a reason for it."

"But—" Before Ai Songqing's words were finished, the old butler in front of him had already shouted.

"Where's the little brothers of Baihuaya!?"

The tortoise paws straightened up, "What? ”

"Take care of your people!" The old butler snapped, "Our lord paid for it!" If you can't sing this play tonight, you'll have to pay us three times as much!" ”

The turtlepaws' eyes became serious, and they reached back again—to take the whip from their waists.

Bai Ling looked at this scene and shivered for no reason.

……

Under the persuasion of the old housekeeper, the middle-aged Lin official wiped his tears and withdrew from this courtyard—he had not eaten water and rice since he came back in the afternoon, and he was indeed hungry at this time.

After sending off his master, the old housekeeper turned back and continued to negotiate terms with the turtle paws.

The tortoisepaws were very dissatisfied, "You didn't say that you came to sing for the dead, did you?" ”

The old housekeeper sneered, "I've never heard of the master's troupe, and I haven't heard of any troupe daring to pick the master's troupe."

"I don't care who sings or sings tonight, but our Lin family has already paid the fixed amount, you are crying or howling tonight, you have to send someone up, and howl for me all night!"

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