Chapter 118: So fateful
"Master, please inside!"
Yuan Quanquan learned from Liu Datou that someone came to her to exorcise evil spirits, she inquired about the other party's name and address, and then quickly closed the stall and directly found the person's house.
This is the courtyard of an ordinary person in a small village outside the city, standing outside the door and knocking on the door a few times, no one answered at first, and then knocked a few times before someone came to open the door.
The man was a man in his thirties, very ordinary-looking, with a slightly dark skin and a white spot on his face that resembled a birthmark, which grew on his right cheek, about the size of a copper coin. It is precisely because of his obvious appearance characteristics that Liu Datou remembers it clearly.
When the other party opened the door, the man was a little suspicious at first, but when he heard the other party mention Liu Datou, he believed it, and his expression changed suddenly, and he became respectful, and quickly invited people into the house.
"Tell me if you have any problems."
Posing as a high-ranking man, the Yuan Circle circled around the room and heard the man describe what had happened to him recently.
This man's name is Niu Er, he is a bachelor, no father, no mother and no brothers and sisters, he lives alone in this small courtyard, because he can do some handicrafts, and his life is quite passable. Niu Er is honest, even a little cowardly, in addition to bamboo products such as bamboo strips and basket frames at home, he sits by the river behind the house and watches the girls on the other end wash clothes.
Behind his house, there was a small river that was neither wide nor narrow, and many of the women and girls of the village came up here every day to wash their clothes. Next door to his house, there lives a family surnamed Wang, and there is a girl in the Wang family, named Wang Xiaocui, a girl who looks quite peugeot, seventeen this year, and has not yet allowed anyone.
Niu Er watched other girls wash clothes by the river every day, and after a long time, he fell in love with each other, but he knew that on his own terms, Xiaocui's father and mother would definitely not agree to marry his daughter. His surname was cowardly, and he didn't dare to come to the door to propose marriage, so he could only secretly watch her on the other side of the river every day.
Just a few days ago, Xiaocui came to the river to wash clothes as usual, maybe there was a delay at home, she came a little late, and the other women in the village who washed clothes went back, and she was the only one left by the river.
Niu Er didn't see her before, thinking that she wouldn't come today, so he went back to the yard with some disappointment and continued to weave the bamboo frame, but when he was halfway through the weaving, he suddenly heard a cry for help from behind the house.
He was stunned, and immediately ran out of the yard to the river behind the house, only to see a figure floating in the river.
It's actually Xiao Cui.
She fell into the river!
Niu Er panicked at that time, he stood by the river, looking at the girl fluttering in the river, and was stupid for a while.
When he reacted, he wanted to go down to save people, but realized that he didn't know how to water. I wanted to find someone to save him, but I was afraid that as soon as he left, no one shouted, and Xiaocui had drowned.
As a result, he actually stood by the river stupidly like this, watching Xiaocui struggle in the water and cry for help, and then slowly, little by little, sank to the bottom of the river, without movement.
Cui's body was recovered the next day. When Xiao Cui was just drowned, Niu Er was stunned, he was so frightened that his mind was blank, staring at the river for a quarter of an hour, and finally seemed to realize something, suddenly jumped up, ran back to his yard like a desperate escape, neither informed the Wang family of Xiao Cui's drowning, nor did he find someone to salvage the body, so as if nothing had happened, he hid what he had witnessed.
However, a few days later, he suddenly discovered something terrible.
One night, when he was asleep, he faintly heard the woman's voice calling for help, with the sound of rushing water. At first, he thought it was a dream, but he didn't care. But for the next few days, he heard it every day. The night before, when he had been awakened by the sound, he boldly went out of the courtyard and came to the river, where the cry for help became clearer and clearer, but when he reached the river, there was nothing.
The river was calm and there was no one around, except for the sound of crickets in the grass and the croaking of frogs by the river.
Niu Er was already timid, and went back to the house in a cold sweat, reciting Amitabha Buddha and falling asleep again.
However, when he got up early the next morning and opened the door, he saw a string of wet footprints in front of the door, and he fainted with fright.
"It must be Tsui! Cui must have come back to me! Master, can you help me see, is it Xiao Cui? Did she blame me for not saving her at the time, so she came to me to ask for her life? ”
Niu Er, who had a miserable face and a frightened face, suddenly grabbed Yuan Quanquan's hand tightly, and the pair of eyes that had been tortured red because of the visions of the past few nights stared at her deadly, and his expression was particularly hideous.
Yuan Quanquan was startled by him, withdrew his hand from the other party's hand, took a step back, pondered what he said, and guessed that it was probably the ghost of the little cui girl who accidentally drowned that came to him.
As for why she came to him, Yuan Quanquan thought, maybe it was because Niu Er didn't save her at that time, and she was resentful, so she came to him to take revenge? Or is it to vent anger?
I have to ask Xiaocui face to face.
"So, as usual tonight, you don't do anything, act as if you don't know anything. I'll come again at night to see if the cry for help you said came from Xiao Cui, and if the wet footprints were hers. ”
"Master, if it's her, what are you going to do? Harvest...... Did you take her? Niu Er still had horror on his face, obviously tormented by the horrors of the past few days.
The innocent face of the Yuan Circle: "Accepted her?" No, no, no, I just helped her eliminate her resentment and fulfill her wish, and then let her willingly go to the underworld to be reincarnated. ”
She is a good person, and she wants to turn ghosts, not collect ghosts.
Niu Er looked a little hesitant, and seemed to be a little worried.
Yuan Quanquan used his "half-immortal" signboard to assure him that she would definitely come to solve this matter for him in the evening, and he relaxed a little.
After Yuan Quanquan left Niu Er's house, he didn't go back to the place where he set up his stall, so he changed his clothes and prepared to go back to the palace, but he met Murong Zhen again on the road.
It's just that this time he wasn't doing office work, but sitting at a noodle stall on the street eating noodles.
The corners of Yuanhuan's mouth curled and leaned over.
"Boss, let's have a bowl of beef noodles!"
Murong Zhen raised his head and looked at her with some surprise.
"Why do you think the two of us are so fateful and meet by chance in three days?" Yuan Quanquan smiled and talked to each other, staring at Murong Zhen with his hands on his cheeks.
Murong Zhen was a little embarrassed by her, and he didn't eat half of the noodles, put down the bowl, and wiped his mouth casually with his hand, with a dashing expression in his rough movements.
I was about to stand up and salute, but I was grabbed by the wrist of the Yuan Circle, "Hey, hey, sit down, sit down." We are friends, so we don't have to talk about those false courtesies, it's very annoying. ”
Looking down at the wrist that was being held by the other party, Murong Zhen was stunned for a moment, withdrew his hand without a trace, and sat back silently.
"You're not busy today? Don't serve the people anymore? "Almost every time I see him, he is either in the office, or on the way to the office, he is a small head catcher, and he feels busier than the emperor.
Is there so much discord to deal with in the capital?
Murong Zhen's expression was indifferent, and he replied: "The matter is all dealt with, passing by here, I am hungry, and I ......."
The noodles of the Yuan Circle came up, and the hand-rolled noodles made by the boss himself, sprinkled with some green onions, and covered with a few slices of beef, although light, but full of fragrance. Smelling the fragrance of the face, the ten fingers of the Yuan Circle moved, and he didn't care about his image and eating appearance, he went down with chopsticks, picked up a large handful and blew it a little and stuffed it into his mouth.
"Hmm, it's a good time......" chewing noodles in his mouth, giving out sincere praise inarticulately, Yuan Quanquan gave a thumbs up to the boss not far away, and then turned his head and squinted at Murong Zhen and smiled, "It tastes really good." Seeing that Murong Zhen stopped eating, he urged, "Why don't you eat?" ”
Murong Zhen was a little surprised by her heroic and unpretentious appearance, and was stunned for a long time before silently picking up the chopsticks again and continuing to eat noodles.
After finishing a bowl of noodles in three or two circles, he even drank the soup in the bowl, wiped his sleeve to his mouth, patted his belly, and sighed with satisfaction: "Well, cool." ”
Because I was going to send Xiaobao to the school, I got up earlier than usual this morning, and I didn't eat much breakfast when I was sleepy. After sending Xiaobao to the school, she sat in a stall on the street for a while, and then walked out of the city to Niu Er's house, and it took a lot of energy to go back and forth, and it was almost noon at this time, and she was already hungry. So much so that now when I eat such a bowl of noodles that does not taste bad, I immediately feel extremely satisfied.
Murong Zhen also finished eating the noodles in the bowl, took out six copper coins from his waist, and put them on the table, "Boss, settle the bill." Glancing at the Yuan circle opposite, he added, "This girl's is also paid together." ”
Yuan Quanquan stood up with him and walked to his side, the two brothers patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "You invite me to eat noodles, I invite you to drink." ”
After speaking, he wanted to pull people to the nearest restaurant.
Murong Zhen is still confused, this princess suddenly ate noodles with him, and now she wants to invite him to drink, what does she want to do?
Don't...... It's because she said yesterday that she wanted to enter the government office as a quick catcher, bribing ...... He?
With a slight frown, Murong Zhen gently broke away from the hand of the Yuan Circle, took a step back, and lowered his head slightly: "Princess Niangniang, I still have something to do, I'm afraid I can't accompany the princess to drink, so I'll leave first." ”
As a result, before he turned around, he was grabbed by the sleeve of the Yuan Circle, "You come back for me!" ”
Yuan Quanquan crossed his waist and looked at him with a disgusted expression, and taught in a tone of hatred that iron is not steel: "What are you running?" I said you, the girl invited you to drink and eat, you don't give face so much, you want to be spurned, you know? ”
Regardless of Murong Zhen's opposition, Yuan Quanquan dragged people to the restaurant next to him.
Murong Zhen's arm was dragged by the Yuan Circle, on the one hand, physical contact with the woman made him feel extremely embarrassed and embarrassed, and on the other hand, because of her identity as the princess, he didn't dare to shake it off, and he suddenly fell into a tangle.
As a result, before he could figure out a result, he was dragged into the restaurant by the Yuan Circle.
And just as the Yuan Circle pulled Murong Zhen into the restaurant, Yan Jiu, who was following him for a distance, looked up at the sky, and then in the blink of an eye, only a leaf was left in the position where the person was originally standing, which was carried up by the wind, fluttering, fluttering, and falling to the ground in a whirlwind.