Volume 1: The Candle Dragon of the South China Sea Chapter 17: The Mermaid Picture

Chen Haoyue, a sycophant, kept giving the fat man a thumbs up when she heard it, and praised the fat man again and again.

I was a little impatient, thinking that the fat man probably had stolen a few barren mountains and old tombs, and returned to the emperor's tomb, and it was estimated that he was so scared that he peed his pants before he went in, and fled in a hurry.

After the fat man finished speaking, he leaned on the back seat and lit a cigarette, Chen Haoyue hurriedly took out a lighter and lit it, and asked curiously: "Master, I read that tomb robbery novels say that there are monsters such as zombie zongzi in the tomb of the dead, have you seen it in the ancient tomb?" ”

The fat man suddenly became proud, and the cigarette he had just smoked two puffs was extinguished, and he said proudly: "There are no ghosts and gods in this world, when people die, they are like cats and dogs, and they will turn into dust after death, and there are at most some dry corpses and dry bones in the tomb. ”

The fat man's answer was a little perfunctory, and Chen Haoyue continued to ask: "Master, you have been robbing tombs for many years, have you encountered any strange things?" It's boring, so why don't you tell us a story? ”

I was also a little curious, turned my head and glanced at the fat man, and said, "How is it?" Speechless now, right? ”

The fat man looked out the window, frowned, was silent for a moment, and said: "I haven't encountered zombie zongzi, but I robbed an ancient tomb of the Qing Dynasty a few years ago, and found a biography from that tomb, don't say that there is a story recorded in that biography, and now I think it's quite interesting, since you like to listen to it, I'll tell you about it." ”

It is rumored that in the Qing Dynasty, there was a poor scholar who was admitted to the top of the liberal arts, although the poor scholar was from a poor family, but he was handsome, not only wrote a good hand, but also painted very well, relying on some literary talents, every year he would set up a stall in the city to write letters and paint for people, to change food, but he often did not have enough to eat, and slept on the streets.

At a Lantern Festival party, when a poor scholar went to the street to paint as usual, he was caught by the top brand of the drunken dream building - Xiaoyue girl, and the two hit it off at first sight, but they were silent.

Miss Xiaoyue naturally hoped that the poor scholar could be admitted to the top prize, and since then she has begun to sponsor him, and also hopes that one day, when he will soar, he will marry herself.

Huangtian lived up to his hard work, plus the poor scholars got up every day to sleep in the middle of the night, studied hard for ten years, and finally went to Beijing one year to take the exam and was admitted to the top of the liberal arts that year.

Miss Xiaoyue was very happy to learn about this, and since then, she has been looking forward to her champion Lang coming to the door to marry her.

But if you want to say that the most terrible thing in the world is the evil ghost, and what is more terrible than the evil ghost is the human heart. The poor scholar has become the champion of the day now that he has become famous, he has been reused by the imperial court, and he has been mixed with some high-ranking officials and dignitaries all day long, where is he still worried about the Qinglou woman, and now the door is not right, how can his dignified champion status go to marry the Qinglou woman, so he gradually forgot about it.

So, spring, summer, autumn and winter, flowers bloom and leaves fall, year after year passes, Xiaoyue begins to be sad and desperate, bedridden all day, and suffers from the disease of lovesickness.

Finally one day, there are rumors on the street: Now the champion is going to marry the daughter of the prince as his wife, after learning about this, this can make the Xiaoyue girl angry, you must know that the Xiaoyue girl is the top card of the drunken dream building, how many dignitaries and dignitaries are eager to squander their daughters, just for a night Spring Festival.

Miss Satsuki was sad and desperate, and she didn't pick up customers for several days.

One night, Xiao Yue got up and spent money to hire a carriage to travel overnight to go to Beijing to find the ungrateful champion.

Although Xiao Yue was terminally ill at this time, he thought that it would be good to see the champion before he died, so he drove for two days and two nights, and met a gang of robbers on the way, the robber leader killed the groom, and robbed Xiao Yue of the money, seeing Xiao Yue's beauty, he stripped Xiao Yue's clothes and took the opportunity to insult Xiao Yue, and then threw people with carriages into the river.

Satsuki is thrown into the river by the bandit leader, but is seen by a boatman who is fishing.

It is said that if you don't die, there will be a blessing in the future, the boatman picked up Xiaoyue, and after listening to Xiaoyue's crying, he felt that Xiaoyue was pitiful, so he let Xiaoyue live in his own house, and spent money to see Xiaoyue's doctor, and after the boatman's careful care every day, Xiaoyue's body gradually recovered.

At this time, Xiao Yue didn't want to go to the ungrateful Zhuangyuanlang, and since then she has lived a dull life with this fisherman every day, and the fisherman goes out to fish every day to make money, and Xiao Yue cooks at home, and the days go by like this.

The surrounding neighbors all felt that the fisherman was blessed, and he went out to sea to catch a fish, but he didn't catch it, but he picked up such a beautiful wife for nothing.

Such a dull day didn't last long, a few years later, I didn't expect the fisherman to become addicted to gambling, and all the money he earned from fishing all day long was lost by gambling, Xiaoyue didn't get angry when he saw it, but just comforted him gently every day.

Slowly, the fisherman's temper became bigger and bigger, and when he lost the money, he beat Xiao Yue, who was bruised and purple, and had to hide it when he went out.

Satsuki finally couldn't stand it anymore, so she thought about sneaking out, but before she could escape, the fisherman actually lost her gamble.

One day, as soon as Xiaoyue packed up her luggage before leaving, a group of strong men broke into the door and escorted Xiaoyue away without saying a word.

Seeing the beauty of Xiao Yue in front of him, the owner of the opera garden touched the two black and shiny beards, and began to look at the crooked idea in his heart: Now the business of the opera garden is not good, it must be that people think there is nothing to look at, and they all run to the opera house to watch the beautiful women sing and dance, I have to look like a way.

On the second day, the owner of the opera garden instructed a few guys, and a few people found needles and fishing lines, and they didn't know where to find the tail of a big fish, so they dragged the little moon out, and broke Xiao Yue's legs with an iron rod, and suddenly the blood flowed on the ground.

Xiao Yue fainted in pain on the spot, and when she woke up and opened her eyes, her two legs were gone, and a big fish tail was replaced by her feet.

After a few tosses, a lively mermaid appeared in front of everyone, and several guys gave a thumbs up to praise the boss for being smart.

Although Satsuki didn't die, she has since become a vegetative person, unable to say anything, and soaks in the fish tank all day for others to watch, except that she can move, and she is no different from a dead person.

Since then, people have heard that there is a live mermaid in the opera garden in the city, so they have come to see the opera garden, and the owner of the opera garden is even more smiling, because since then he can make a lot of money every day.

Gradually, people spread the word of ten or hundred, and this matter has spread to the ears of the prince today, and the prince thinks that the story of the mermaid is just a legend, and now there is a real one who wants to see it in person.

So the prince got up and got into the carriage, and when he arrived at the opera garden, he saw the mermaid in front of him, and it was a rare thing to see the mermaid's appearance, and the prince spent a lot of money to buy it as soon as he was happy.

The mermaid moved to the prince's house, and the prince admired the mermaid day and night, thinking that it would be better to let my son-in-law come over and open his eyes, and by the way, let him draw a picture of the mermaid.

The next day, the prince instructed the servants to prepare a banquet and personally receive the son-in-law.

At noon, the champion came to the house with his wife, and after a few people had eaten, the prince took the champion to the backyard, and was surprised to see the mermaid in front of him, but then immediately took out a pen and paper to paint.

But at this time, the mermaid's eyes were kept closed, as if she was asleep. Although the painting should be according to the living painting, but after waiting for a while, the mermaid still kept his eyes closed, and the champion didn't think much about it, after all, he was entrusted by others, not to mention his father-in-law, and quickly began to paint seriously, staring at the mermaid in front of him with all his attention.

After everyone waited for two hours, the champion also finished drawing. At this moment, the mermaid suddenly woke up, and two bright and moving eyes were looking at the champion in front of her.

In an instant, the mermaid's body convulsed, and her mouth spat blood, and after a while, her eyes turned white, and her body floated, and the fish tank was also dyed blood-red.

The prince was frightened, and when he got closer, the mermaid in the fish tank was already like a dead person.

Since then, the prince missed the mermaid too much, so he built a temple in his backyard and hung a mermaid picture to send people to worship all day long.

Since then, people in the house have begun to die one after another, and at first people didn't pay much attention to it, so they didn't take it to heart.

One afternoon, the prince's daughter came to visit her father in the house, and the father and daughter had not seen each other for a long time, so they chatted for a while, and learned from the daughter's mouth that his son-in-law went to some green buildings every night, and did not return home for the third watch. The prince sighed, and now that he was the water spilled by his married daughter, he asked his daughter to live in the house for a while, and then left when his mood improved.

On the second day, the palace was restless, because the prince's daughter died last night!

After the prince learned about it, as several people arrived at the room, his daughter's death was extremely miserable, the flesh and blood on her legs were cut off by herself with scissors, Bai Sensen's bones were revealed, blood flowed all over the room, and her daughter's face was twisted, full of fear and fear.

The prince immediately sent someone to investigate, but after checking for a day, there was neither wind blowing nor grass outside the window, so naturally it would not be killed, it must have been cut off with scissors and the flesh on the leg was killed by excessive blood loss, but why would a good person not think about it?

From that day on, the whole palace was in a panic, and everyone was afraid that the person who died would be themselves.

After a long time, this matter has been rumored in the city: the prince's mansion is haunted, offended the mermaid a few years ago, the mermaid is a god, how can it be put in the house by your little prince, it must have suffered retribution, and now the mermaid has come to take revenge!

The servants in the palace gradually began to be afraid, and some even secretly fled the palace at night.

In order to calm the panic, the prince had to invite a very famous local feng shui Taoist, the feng shui Taoist is not only proficient in tomb robbery and gold, but also has a lot of research on feng shui Taoism, the prince invited the feng shui Taoist to come to the door to see, as soon as the feng shui Taoist entered the house, he immediately felt that the house was full of demonic energy, and when he arrived in the backyard, he was even more demonic, so he asked the prince to explain the strange things that have happened in the past few years.

After the prince finished speaking, the feng shui Taoist priest suddenly understood that this must be the mermaid's soul possessed by the mermaid diagram, so he tried to set up a formation and ordered the mermaid diagram to be brought to the front of the formation to be burned.

Watching the flames burn, the mermaid figure also turned into wisps of green smoke floating around.

Suddenly, a soul rushed out of the wisp of green smoke, entangled the feng shui priest, the feng shui priest sensed that the woman's grievances were too deep, so he asked the woman to tell the matter one by one, after the woman finished speaking, everyone was sad and tearful for Xiaoyue's tragic experience, and the prince was even more furious, and brought his son-in-law over overnight.

After the woman saw the champion, she turned into a wisp of ghost and drilled into the champion's body, and pulled out a beating heart from her chest.

Feng Shui Taoist priest persuaded: "When is the time for retribution, it is better for you to let them go, I will let them bury you thickly, and put incense to worship for generations, what do you think?" ”

After hearing this, a trace of tears seemed to flash in the woman's eyes, and she looked at the champion affectionately, but at this time the champion was still fainting to the ground, and she didn't know whether she was dead or alive.

The woman closed her eyes and turned into a wisp of green smoke to disperse, but there was a beating heart left on the ground, the feng shui Taoist priest hurriedly picked it up when she saw this, and used a charm to press the heart into the champion's chest, and it didn't take long for the champion to wake up, and the feng shui priest hurriedly drew a few charms to erase the memories of those people.

After arranging everyone, the feng shui Taoist priest sighed before taking him away: This palace is also soon.

Since then, although the champion has survived, he has become seriously ill in less than a year, and even the most skilled people can not be cured, and he died young two years later. The prince was also sent to the frontier to support, and after more than ten years, people thought that the prince was dead and gradually left the palace.

The once glorious famous family has slowly fallen into decline, and since then, the story of the mermaid has been passed down by the captain of the touching gold.