Chapter 8: Sleepless Nights

Summer Night was locked up in a dilapidated room in the abandoned garden, and the men locked the door from the outside and left.

The upper part of the door is a hollowed-out lattice, presumably originally pasted with paper, and the only thing left is the latticework used to increase the light of the room, but it does allow the sunlight to penetrate effortlessly and illuminate the room clearly. Summer Night saw several pieces of dilapidated furniture inside, a bed, a wardrobe, a dresser, and a bronze mirror on top of the dresser—though it was rusty and patina.

It's like no one has been here in a long time.

But at this time in the summer night, her mind was still full of the three sons, he looked exactly like An Hao, she felt that although she was a completely different person, but if she looked so similar, it should be the same person! Besides, she must have seen something when she heard his mother calling his name miserably that day. Xia Ye always felt that that time, she and An Hao crossed together.

She was a little excited, and for a while she felt that she was really lucky to see An Hao, but for a while she suspected that he was just a person who looked very similar to him. So she simply climbed into the bed and closed her eyes to recuperate, but soon, she opened her eyes irritably, and felt that she couldn't calm down at all, so she decided to divert her attention and began to think about the bed. But maybe it's a long time ago, and I can only vaguely see 'again', 'Ji', and 'Guang', but the last two words are very clear, they are the word 'hell', maybe because it took a lot of effort, so it was engraved very deeply.

Although Xia Ye's courage is not small, but in such a place, seeing this, I still feel a little hairy, and immediately jumped off the bed, but my eyes couldn't help but glance at this bed again, and suddenly realized that its shape was like a huge coffin, and she couldn't help but feel that the hairs on her back stood on end.

At this time, there was a sudden 'clang', and Xia Ye turned around in fright, only to find that the door had been opened, and Cuigu walked in with her head down, holding a tray full of food in her hand, and as soon as she entered the house, the door closed behind her.

Cui Gu raised her head, and as soon as she made contact with Xia Ye's gaze, she immediately dodged away with a little flicker.

Summer Night stretched out two hands and turned her face to herself. The woman looked up at her helplessly, but her eyes never looked at the summer night, and after a while the summer night she found that Cuigu's eyes were a little squinted, no wonder she was always so inferior and didn't dare to look up at people.

Cui Gu felt Xia Ye's gaze, and immediately turned her head sensitively, and whispered, "You, do you also look down on me?" ”

Xia Ye immediately came to his senses, waved his hand hurriedly, and pointed to his face again, indicating that he was also a **, no big deal.

Unexpectedly, Cuigu's eyes flashed with tears, she bit her lip, her two hands kept rubbing in the belt, and suddenly, as if she had made up her mind, she took out a small paper bag from it, rushed to the door, and threw it out of the door lattice.

"Okay, you stinky girl, you don't eat and drink when you toast, you are also locked up inside!"

There was someone outside, and it sounded like a little red, and she scolded and ran away.

Summer Night looked at Cuigu in amazement.

"You're a good person, they asked me to drug your food, I, I can't do it." Cuigu's hands trembled, as if the packet of medicine just now had burned her.

Xia Ye took her hand, forgot about the coffin bed for a while, and wanted Cuigu to go up and lie down for a while, but before she came to the bed, Cuigu nervously shook off her hand, and said with horror in her eyes: "There have been dead people there, there are ghosts." ”

Summer Night came back to her senses and pulled Aunt Cui to sit in the corner of the room away from the bed.

"Can you tell me what's going on?" This time, Wuye actually took the initiative to speak, and it seemed that her heart was also very curious, and even overshadowed her anger at Xia Ye.

"I heard that the old proprietor of this Wenxiangyuan is a prince of the previous dynasty, he is very cruel, he has killed many people in this room, including his wife and concubine, and Yahuan, they are all put on that bed after they die." Cui Gu whispered, as if she was afraid of something to be shocked.

"How do you know?"

"I heard from the Qi stewards, I heard that when Wenxiangyuan bought this place, they invited a monk to do the Dharma for several days, so they were relieved, but this house was also abandoned, locked on weekdays, and no one dared to come in. Steward Qi also warned us who are girls not to run to the abandoned garden if we have nothing to do. As she spoke, Cuigu became more and more frightened, and her voice was full of crying.

Summer Night took her in his arms and gently patted her on the shoulder to comfort her.

Cuigu finally quieted down, she looked at Xia Ye gratefully, and said with true feelings: "I gave birth to eyes like this, I was disliked since I was a child, and my twelve-year-old father and mother sold me to Wenxiangyuan as a rough girl, saying that it was for me to find a place to make a living." ”

"Steward Qi arranged me to the chores, the people here laughed at me, bullied me, and asked me to do the dirty work, I am not afraid of these, anyway, I have been used to doing it since I was a child, but they always secretly calculate me, I really don't understand, what did I do wrong, they want me to die? This time, the crested hairpin was obviously broken by Xiaohong and Xiaoyun, but Sister-in-law Lu only believed them. Cui Gu said as she trembled violently.

Summer Night looked at her and thought of her former self, no one had ever truly loved her.

"This time, I don't understand why they want to deal with you, and threaten me that if I don't help them, they will send me to the official and accuse me of deliberately bad people and property. Woo – I don't want to go to jail. Cui Gu scared herself into tears.

Summer Night patted her on the shoulder in understanding.

"But I can't hurt you. You are the first person in my life who is willing to speak up for me, and even if you want me to die, you will not do anything to be sorry for you. Cui Gu suddenly became excited, and grabbed Xia Ye's hand.

The summer night took Cui Gu into his arms, and it was so quiet. The sky gradually darkened, and the moonlight came in, and Cuigu fell asleep in the arms of the summer night.

"They're coming, aren't they?" Someone outside the house suddenly spoke softly.

"Leave that alone, let's get ready."

On a summer night, I saw a figure looking inside and thought, who is coming?

"They're asleep, open the door."

I heard the sound of unlocking the lock, and I hurriedly closed my eyes in the summer night.

Xia Ye heard that these two people were Xiaohong and Xiaoyun, and Xia Ye's first impression of Xiaohong was good, but later she and Xiaoyun wronged Aunt Cui, so she felt that people should not be good-looking, and I don't know what kind of ghost she is going to do.

The door was gently opened half the size, and the moonlight rushed into the room like a silver mirror, but strangely no one entered, but saw something thrown in, like a goddess scattering flowers, and the air was filled with a rich smell of meat.

"Ahh

"Help—"

With an exclamation, suddenly the door was slammed open, and two people fell in one after another, falling to the ground, and then a man in black jumped in and closed the door casually.

Summer Night squinted his eyes, looking at everything that was happening in front of him, and pretended to be asleep.

She saw that it was Xiaohong and Xiaoyun who were thrown in, and they were just about to stand up, when the man in black quickly clicked on them a few times, and they fell to the ground motionless, as if they had been caught in a comatose hole.

The man in black seemed to be very confident in his own methods, and after stopping the two of them, he didn't look at them, found a place behind the wooden bed, and began to dig up. The floor of the room was covered with bluestone bricks half a foot square, and he had some difficulty priing them up first, and Summer Night found that the reason why he was so laborious was because he was a one-armed man, as could be seen from his empty left sleeve.

He dug for a while, finally stopped, seemed to have found what he wanted, hurriedly stuffed it into his arms, did not dare to stay longer for a moment, pushed open the door and rushed out, Xia Ye immediately jumped up and quietly followed.

She followed the one-armed man to the wall, and saw that he was about to climb over the wall, when a gust of wind swept by, and in the moonlight, she saw an elegant and handsome figure, as if falling from the sky, blocking the man in black.

"I want to leave after taking something, it's not that easy, don't stand still!"

On such a cold winter night, he was like a jade tree in the wind, wearing only a thin blue shirt, a black hair tied high behind his head, and he was blown by the wind to fly wantonly, but it was a pity that he was wearing a silver mask on his face, which made people unable to get a glimpse of the true face of Lushan. I saw him standing at the head of the wall with a Qingfeng sword in his hand, pointing directly at the one-armed man in black on the ground.

"You told me to stop, just stop? Hmph, you have the ability to keep me! The one-armed man in black was also very arrogant, and as he spoke, he had drawn a strange weapon from his waist, which shone in the moonlight, and was shaped like a huge brush.

"Judge's pen, it's very good, it seems that Brother Tai is a famous acupoint, and I'm about to ask for advice." As soon as the silver-faced man came out, he raised his sword from the wall, and the two of them hit each other in an instant.

Attracted by the wonderful fight, she quietly hid behind an old locust tree to watch such a rare master duel up close.

The two of them fought back and forth, and the summer night was also fascinated, and at this moment, suddenly a black shadow scurried past the one-armed man, vaguely like a wild dog. The master is most afraid of distraction, the one-armed man is unstable at his feet, and the silver-faced man seized the opportunity to swing the sword down, fortunately, he has kung fu, and takes a step back to avoid the fatal sword, but the clothes on his chest are still cut open, and a black thing falls, he hurriedly leans over to pick it up, and the silver-faced man stabbed several swords, forcing the man in black to parry and protect himself.

And this thing that fell on the ground aroused Xia Ye's great curiosity, it was really the snipe and the clam competing for the fisherman's profit, she took advantage of the two of them to take advantage of each other's time, slipped out from behind the tree, and did not have time to see what it was, picked it up and stuffed it into her arms.

At this moment, Cuigu's exclamation suddenly came from the side of the room.

"Go away, go away!"

Xia Ye was startled, the two people who were fighting also turned their heads to this side, she couldn't care about continuing to watch the show, and hurriedly ran to the side room, as soon as she entered the house, she saw four vicious dogs, baring their teeth and cracking their mouths, barking low, constantly trying to attack Cuigu, and Xiaohong Xiaoyun, who was protected by Cuigu behind her, was pointed at the acupoint.

When the vicious dogs heard the sound of the summer night, they immediately turned their heads to her, the pair of triangular dog eyes, glowing green viciously, the summer night had heard that dogs would eat people when they were hungry!

Xia Ye turned around sharply, wanting to ask the two men for help, but they didn't expect that they had already fought again.

"Run, run!" Cui Gu suddenly yelled at Xia Ye, picked up a bronze mirror in her hand, and smashed it at the dogs.

She did this clearly to attract the attention of the vicious dog, a suicidal act, and the wild dog was really enraged and barked wildly and pounced on Cuigu.

Xia Ye felt that the blood kept pouring up her head, and her head was 'buzzing', as if it was about to explode, and vaguely she seemed to hear the voice of Wu Ye's bitter mother-in-law persuading her to flee for her life, but how could she let such a weak girl sacrifice herself to keep her safe. She screamed and rushed in, and for a moment the wild dogs were thrown into disarray. And because she used too much force, she stumbled to the edge of the bed, and there was a 'snap' on her wrist, as if something was broken.

She looked down and saw that the bronze snake bracelet that Qianqian had given her was broken, but strangely, it was still hanging on her wrist, it turned out that the bracelet was not really broken, but a hidden buckle was knocked open, revealing an almost transparent line of the thickness of a rubber band inside.

Summer Night was wondering why there was a thread hidden in this bracelet, suddenly her ankle hurt, and then the person was quickly dragged back, she hurriedly turned around, just in time to see another dog pounce on her throat, in a hurry, I don't know what to think, she suddenly pulled away the bracelet that had been separated in half, the silk was surprisingly tough, Summer Night was like a god, with the silk thread quickly wrapped around the dog's head that bit her throat, and then used all her strength to strangle. The dog screamed and struggled in pain, but there was no longer the strength to resist, and the neck soon burst into blood, and as soon as the right hand of the summer night was released, half of the copper bracelet bounced back to the left half, and the dog's head immediately drooped down, and the wild dog died after a few convulsions.

"It turned out to be a baby." Summer Night was secretly happy in her heart, and she suddenly had the courage to deal with vicious dogs.

"Get out of here, get out of here!" At this moment, Xia Ye heard Cuigu crying, and when she turned around, she saw that Cuigu was desperately using the bronze mirror that was about to break up to drive away two wild dogs that were frantically attacking the three of them, she was weak, let a dog slip through her defense, biting Xiaohong and Xiaoyun, the two woke up from severe pain, and were immediately frightened by the situation in front of them crying and barking.

Cui Gu was so anxious that she turned around and struggled to smash the attacking wild dog with the bronze mirror, and she had just smashed it twice before she was severely bitten by a dog on the wrist and dragged to the ground with force.

"Run!" Cuigu, who was covered in blood, was still urging Xiaohong and them.

When the attacking wild dog heard Cuigu's voice, he turned around and poured his anger on her, tearing and biting her frantically......

Cuigu's screams were endless, and Xia Ye was so anxious that she immediately wanted to run over to save her, but one of her legs was bitten by a wild dog, and it was very cunning, and seemed to see how the dog that was about to break its neck died, so it kept dragging Xia Ye and didn't give her a chance to get up.

"Xiaohong, help Aunt Cui!" Summer Night helplessly huddled towards the two, only knowing the stupid crying figure pleading.

However, they just cried louder than before.

Seeing that Cuigu was about to be bitten to death by two mad dogs, in the despair of the summer night, the green shadow in front of her flickered, and the cold light passed, and the three wild dogs wailed a few times, and fell to the ground one after another.

Summer Night saw the silver-faced man slowly walking towards her in fluttering clothes, and suddenly, he covered his heart with one hand, and his steps suddenly froze, and she wondered if he was seriously injured.

At this moment, there was a buzzing sound from outside the abandoned garden, and she looked up and saw a group of people hurrying over with torches.

As soon as he turned around, the silver-faced man had long since disappeared.