Chapter 17: Meet the Ghost Lady Again
Yan Yu's voice is very good, but her singing skills are not sophisticated and calm, maybe because she is young, maybe because it is easier to magnify the flaws in the open night.
It wasn't until the last aftermath dissipated with the wind that Qiao Youqing clapped his hands and praised 'good', Yan Yu said to Qiao Youqing: "Thank you, Qiao Gongzi!" In fact, there are few people who really like to listen to my singing, most of the people who come are for fun, in their eyes, women who sing are born cheap! ”
Qiao Youqing sighed lightly: "This is the poison of feudalism, the world is changing today, and people's thoughts should also change with the times!" You can't forcibly change other people's minds, but you can change your own, if you want to save others, save yourself first, and save others before yourself! ”
"From childhood to adulthood, the people around me have taught that women are born weak and must rely on men to survive well, and marrying a man with a good family background or a rich man is the ideal destination and yearning for ...... woman."
"But what about you? Is that what you think? ”
"I ...... Unwilling! ”
"So why not work on the lifestyle you want? Go where you want to go, do what you want to do, God has never been unfair, he treats all things in heaven and earth the same, he has never given gifts, he has never asked for ......"
Yan Yu hid her face and smiled: "It would be great if I could know Gongzi Qiao earlier!" It seems that my sister is right, you are really a different person! ”
Qiao Youqing didn't have time to speak, Yan Yu said again: "From now on, I no longer feel that I am alone, I have my sister, a relative who really loves me!" And Qiao Gongzi, your friend, my sister's friend is my friend, and I don't need to ask Qiao Gongzi's consent for this. ”
Yan Yu ran to the backstage with a mischievous smile, and Qiao Youqing stood in place, smiling helplessly.
After saying goodbye to the two sisters Yan Ling and Yan Yu, Qiao Youqing returned to the inn where he lived alone, and he didn't know if it was an illusion, he always felt that there was a pair of eyes peeping in the dark.
Lighting the lamp and candle, a note pressed by the teapot on the wooden table immediately caught his attention. When I picked it up, I saw that it said, 'Please go to the temple outside the town as soon as possible'.
There was no payment, the handwriting was sloppy, and at first glance, it was a hurried word, and Qiao Youqing was full of questions. However, no matter who the other party is or what his purpose is, he must go on a trip to solve his doubts.
It was destined to be a sleepless night, with many accidents. About three kilometers outside the ancient town, there is a land temple of about 20 square meters that has fallen into disrepair; Although there are occasional people who go to worship with incense, most of them are poor people in the vicinity, and it is difficult to even guarantee their lives, so how can they have the surplus financial resources to repair them? As for the wealthy families in the ancient town, they either invite a god and Buddha to worship, or install incense and fire gods.
When Qiao Youqing came to the Land Temple, he saw a woman with her arms folded, leaning against the altar to rest. At first glance, he felt familiar, and it wasn't until she heard the movement and raised her head that Qiao Youqing recognized her as the 'ghost lady' Sang Li who had escaped in the Tianfu Official Post.
The ghost lady is tired and haggard, and her condition does not look very good, and it can even be described as 'embarrassed'. She got up and patted the dust on her clothes, brushed her messy hair, showed her usual smile, and said, "Little brother, you're finally here!" ”
Qiao You was secretly on guard and said, "The ghost lady with a fierce name, is this looking for revenge on Qiao?" ”
"Where is the little brother, strictly speaking, I have no grudge against Qiao Gongzi, and I am just a temporary team with those few people! What's more, people like us are ready to do it at any time. ”
Qiao Youqing asked puzzledly: "That ghost lady is not here to catch up with Qiao, right?" ”
The ghost lady suddenly looked solemn and said seriously: "Do you know that the ancient town in front of you is about to come to a catastrophe?" If you don't manage to stop it, the whole town will become a living purgatory! ”
Qiao Youqing was taken aback, and asked in disbelief, "How do you say this?" ”
The ghost lady said: "This is going to start when I left the Tianfu Guanyi, do you know where my little ghost came from?" ”
Qiao Youqing shook his head, the ghost lady showed sad emotions on her face, and said slowly: "She, is my child!" Little brother doesn't mind hearing my story, right? ”
Qiao Youqing said: "Qiao Mou listens! ”
The ghost lady sighed and said, "I am originally from western Sichuan, my father is in business, and my mother is the concubine he bought. One day, a smuggler surnamed Wang came to my house, and my father sent me to the animal in order to take advantage of him. That night, it was the beast that forcibly changed me from a yellow flower girl to a woman......
When the animal left, I cried and cried to go with him, but he did not agree, and my father did as he pleased. My mother could do nothing but cry, and since then, I have been subjected to cold eyes and humiliation. A few months later, seeing that my belly was getting bigger and bigger, my father wanted to force me to kill the child! Of course I don't want to, although I say that I am pregnant with a bad seed, but it is also my flesh and blood!
Until one day, my mother brought me a bowl of soup, saying that my body was too weak and helped me make up for it. I can only deceive myself into drawing a trace of warmth from her. After I finished the soup, she kept crying and saying sorry, saying that it was all for my good...... No matter how stupid you are, you can guess that there is something wrong with the soup, and only after asking again and again do you know that it is a fetal pill......
I ran away from the door, grief-stricken and desperate, and I tried every means to induce vomiting, including urine and feces, maggots......
After all, people's ability to bear is limited, and I don't remember how long I was in a coma, and when I woke up, I only felt very weak, so I had to force myself to beg along the road. I was sitting on the side of the road spitting and eating the food I had begged for, when I suddenly saw two lamas and monks walking towards me.
One of the monks checked for me and said that the child would not be saved, but of course I could not accept this fact. In order to calm my emotions, they said that there was another way, let me go with them, and they could cast a spell to try. Cast? For the sake of children, no matter how ridiculous or unbelievable, I will try.
I followed them to a small uninhabited temple in the Sichuan-Tibet region, and one of the monks gave me a wooden puppet, and every day or two I would come to the small temple to practice on the wooden puppet. And he wants me to drip my own blood on the puppet. One day, my stomach suddenly hurt terribly, and it happened that the two lamas and monks were not there, and it hurt for a long time, and I felt that I was about to give birth......
Sure enough, after a while, in the pain of death and life, the baby was successfully born, and it was still a girl. The child didn't cry, and I didn't think anything was wrong because I was completely inexperienced. I suddenly remembered what the lama monk had said: 'If a child is born, tie the puppet with a red rope to her when the umbilical cord is not cut'...... I took out the red rope given by the monk and tied one end to the child's hand and the other end to the puppet.
At this time, the child suddenly started crying with a 'wow', and I was at a loss when the lama monk who was doing it suddenly appeared. He kept muttering something in his mouth, scribbling on the child's body, on his face, and then on the puppet. I found that the child slowly stopped crying, and after cutting the umbilical cord, I was so weak that I fell asleep, and when I woke up, the child was completely out of breath......"
Speaking of this, the ghost lady was already teary-eyed, and Qiao Youqing asked, "Could it be that the method failed?" ”
The ghost lady wiped her eyes and said, "No, they couldn't save the child in the first place. The lama monk said that the child almost became stillborn, and he forcibly hung her life, and used the method of transferring flowers and trees to find a new puppet wood body for the child. His so-called method is nothing more than 'refining little ghosts'.
I have to say that he is very good at fooling, but he is right, I just wanted to be with my children, and I don't care about the rest! Whether she's a ghost or a human, she's my child! ”
Qiao Youqing said: "So, from now on, there will be more strong women called 'Ghost Lady' on the rivers and lakes." even went back to the place where you grew up; Many people were frightened too much, either went crazy, or were sick in bed, including a wealthy businessman surnamed Sang. ”
The ghost lady did not explain, nor did she justify, and continued: "That day, my child was frightened by your 'spirit cat' and took me to escape from the Tianfu Guanyi. ”
"What is 'knife labor'?" Qiao Youqing asked.
"The knife is a kind of mountain ghost, the sound is like a roar, we usually call 'ghost crying wolf howl', referring to its cry, it can spray poisonous gas, spit poisonous arrows. After I arrived in the Sichuan-Tibet area, I contacted another monk who took the child under the pretext of detoxification, saying that he wanted to remove the evil for her, and he would send it back in three days.
The more I thought about it, the more uneasy I became, and it wasn't until the next day that I heard the news: Frontier Minister Zhao Erfeng led troops to recover Tibetan areas. Lai Lama fled to 'British India'. Among them, one of the lamas' teachers and his disciples was scattered by the Qing army, and the two lamas and monks were among them. It was with great difficulty that I was able to find out where they were fleeing, and when I arrived in Chungju, Cheonryoju, Cheongliju, Cheongliju, Cheongdong Province, they fled again.
I thought it strange at the moment that their escape route seemed to have been arranged, so I searched carefully where they passed. Sure enough, I got some news in the city. First of all, they fled all the way because a group of Qing soldiers were chasing after them. Then, the leading lama was called Sengedampa, who was a Dharma teacher.
The local Pingdu Mountain is a holy place of Taoism, so there are many talented people nearby, one of whom has met with me, and there is still some intersection, and he almost took my child that time. Fortunately, he recognized that the special manufacturing method was made by Tibetan Buddhism, not by those evil monks of the people, so he was willing to let me go. I went to him and asked him for help, but at first he didn't agree, probably because he didn't want to have anything to do with the lamas, but I heard another master say to him, "Those people are coming with blood, and I'm afraid something big will happen." "They discussed privately for a long time before the man agreed to come with me to see it."
Qiao Youqing looked around and asked, "I don't know where that master is now?" ”