Chapter 43: Burning at the stake
"Daddy, what's wrong?" Zhao Liusi was surprised, and stepped forward to help Zhao Qi up, but saw that the eldest lady had already pointed at her in a panic and shouted, "Monster, she is a monster, hurry up and take her down." ”
Before the eldest lady's words fell, Zhao Liusi heard a commotion overhead, and a huge fishing net fell from the sky and covered her standing below. Before Zhao Liusi could react, a group of people rushed out from behind, picked up the four corners of the fishing net that fell on the ground and ran, chanting some spell as they ran, and quickly wrapped her into a sturdy hemp ball.
Even if Zhao Liusi has special abilities, I'm afraid it will be difficult to break free from this kind of bondage.
Only then did Zhao Liusi understand that after she entered the door, she felt a strange place - there were obviously many people's breathing sounds in the house, but she could only see Zhao Qi and the eldest lady, and it turned out that everyone else had already hidden.
What's going on? Zhao Liusi was confused, but Zhao Qiaoyun, who was on the side, raised her head, looked at her with some trepidation and shouted, "Look, I said it a long time ago, she is not a human, she is not Zhao Liusi, she is a monster!" ”
"Sister, what nonsense are you talking about?" Zhao Liusi forced herself to calm down, but the eldest lady in the room had already shouted, "She's right, you even forgot what it was on the seventh day of the eighth month, how could you be Zhao Liusi!" ”
"What is the seventh day of August?" Zhao Liusi looked confused, and Zhao Qi also stood up with the back of the chair, looked at Zhao Liusi in horror and said, "That is the day your eldest sister left, since she left, you will be in a bad mood on this day every year, go to the long pavilion to look at it from afar, how can you forget this day and agree to start work on this day?" Besides, your mother's death day is not autumn, but spring! ”
It turned out that there was stuffing on it, Zhao Liusi looked at those people who were patrolling and didn't dare to move forward, and he was a little flustered in his heart, but his mouth was still hard, "It is precisely because I have been unhappy this day in previous years, so I want to find something to do this year and change my mood." Besides, of course I knew that my mother's death was in the spring, but since my father opened his mouth, I thought you had other plans, so I said yes."
"You can't be so considerate! Besides, your mother's death day is not in the spring, but in the summer! The eldest lady yelled violently, but when Zhao Liusi looked at her, she had to hide behind a strong man.
Meow a mi! Why are there so many routines, hurry up, you old man is very bad, and you were scared like that just now and continued to frame me.
"Hehe, you can't escape, you obviously ate that plate of poisoned snacks, how can you escape? I put the poison on that plate of snacks with my own hands and watched your maid take it away. I was supposed to be a good life for you, but you escaped death, it turns out that you are really dead...... "Zhao Qiaoyun, who no one cared, knelt on the ground, said crazy, suddenly pointed at Zhao Liusi, and laughed "Hahaha...... You're just standing in front of me again because you've been taken over by a lonely ghost...... Haha, Zhao Liusi, you're finally dead! ”
Zhao Liusi looked at Zhao Qiaoyun, not knowing whether she was really crazy or pretending to be crazy, but she was also shocked in her heart. Poison pastry, so the second lady was really poisoned to death after eating at her ex-aunt's that day. So in that case, could it be that Aunt Qian was also killed by Zhao Qiaoyun?
"You killed your mother?" Zhao Liusi asked with a calm face.
"No, I didn't kill her," Zhao Qiaoyun woke up suddenly, then shook her head in denial, and shouted like a madman, "I didn't kill her, there are two kinds of pastries in the basket, one is what you eat, and it is made with a special method." You were in a hurry, and the kitchen didn't have time to make so many portions, so I took some of the usual pastries that I had made before. They were also afraid of being punished, so they bought off the maid in your room, Haruka, and told her to wait until she got to her ex-aunt, and then put the pastries back on a plate. Ordinary pastries are placed on the ex-aunt's side, specially made for you on your side, I only put poison in what you eat, you are selfish, you never give your pastries to others, so she can't be injured by mistake, she can't die! Zhao Qiaoyun shook her head and muttered to herself, obviously she hadn't thought this clearly.
Zhao Qiaoyun's behavior of wanting to kill Zhao Liusi by the pool was too obvious, and she couldn't find anything to cover up, so after the incident, she knew that she couldn't escape, so she broke the jar and waited for the eldest lady's people to come to the door in the room.
The eldest lady was not there, Zhou's mother didn't dare to be self-conscious, but she just sent someone to invite the third miss to stay in the room, and pretended to reprimand two sentences, but unexpectedly, the third lady herself "didn't confess", not only admitted that she intended to kill the second miss, so as to tell a shocking secret - the second miss had already been poisoned by her, and the second miss in front of them was not the real second miss. She killed this Zhao Qiaoyun, just to help her family get rid of the disaster.
Whether it was the fact that the second miss was pierced by a ghost, or that the third miss had poisoned the second miss, it was so appalling that it made Zhou's mother change color, and she didn't dare to deal with it herself, so she hurriedly asked people to hurry up and call the masters home.
"Then how did Aunt Qian die?" Zhao Liusi unconsciously asked rhetorically.
"You must have killed her!" The eldest lady pointed at Zhao Liusi and said, although her fingertips were trembling, she still said her speculation, "Monsters are all going to suck people's essence, you borrowed the body of the second lady, but you can't live without yang energy, it must be that you sucked Aunt Qian's yang energy, so you used the body of the second girl to borrow the corpse to revive the soul." ”
Although the eldest lady's statement is superstitious, it is very useful in this era, looking at the appearance of the people around her, you know that they all believe this statement, at least Zhao Qi's face became a little paler, he instructed the people around him to quickly wrap Zhao Liusi tightly, and then interrupted the accusations of several women, "It doesn't matter who killed Aunt Qian, don't let this evil beast run away, come on, the master's talisman, take it and paste it." And the dojo outside, the stake rack and the stake rack, are you ready? Hurry up and tie up this evil beast and burn it! ”
As soon as Zhao Qi finished speaking, everyone immediately moved, they didn't dare to touch Zhao Liusi, so they ran around Zhao Liusi, tied her into a silkworm chrysalis with fishing nets and hemp ropes, and then pasted a bunch of charms on it, so they dared to carry her out.
Zhao Liusi went to the backyard of the ancestral hall, only to find that a matchpile had been quietly erected here, and she was thrown on the top, next to more than a dozen monks in robes were chanting, and the servants of Zhao's mansion were running around with firewood, and people kept coming to add firewood.
"I'm not a ghost, I'm a human, I'm Miss Two! I'm Zhao Liusi! Daddy, look at me, look at me! Zhao Liusi knew that he was really planted this time, and he didn't care about anything else, so he just desperately asked Zhao Qi for help, telling himself that she was Zhao Liusi.
Well, she didn't know who she was, she just knew that she had to bite to death, or else she would really be burned.
But what made her desperate was that Zhao Qi didn't stop moving, he watched her cry for help, and a painful expression appeared on his face.
"Don't be soft-hearted, that monster is used to figuring out people's hearts, don't fall for her scheme." A monk walked over and stuffed the oil-stained torch into Zhao Qi's hand, "Demon Removal Guardian Dao, right now." ”
Zhao Qi clenched the torch tightly, looked at Zhao Liusi from a distance, a tear slipped from his eyes, he strode forward, and finally gritted his teeth, threw the torch on the fire, and cried loudly, "Sisi, Daddy avenges you!" ”
"Help!" Zhao Liusi saw the fire burning on the edge, and fell into despair, at this moment, I saw a person descend from the sky, kicked out the firewood that was on fire over there, and then blocked Zhao Liusi in front of her and said, "She's not a monster, she's the second miss!" ”
The people who came were so violent, that everyone had to stop. Zhao Qi looked up and saw that it was Yan Ran, and hurriedly persuaded him, "Young Master Yan, don't talk for this monster anymore, she is no longer my son, you hurry down, lest he hurt you." ”
Zhao Liusi looked at Yan Ran who was blocking in front of her, her heart was beating fast, she didn't know if Yan Ran would be shaken, and she didn't know if Yan Ran would burn her to death like these people.
"What a youkai! Nonsense! Zi Bu is silent, the monsters and monsters are just tricks made up by people with intentions to deceive people, how can Zhao Gong leave the murderers alone, but want fewer victims? Yan Ran said sharply, and his eyes fell fiercely at Zhao Qiaoyun on the side.
"This, this ......" Zhao Qi stammered a little.
"If she's not a ghost, then how did she survive death? So how did Aunt Qian die? Zhao Qiaoyun was stared at by Yan Ran and felt weak in her heart, but in the next second, she regained her spirit, bit her lip, and asked angrily.
"The third lady poisons people, but doesn't she know that not all poisons in this world can poison people?" Seeing Zhao Qiaoyun like that, Yan Ran smiled mockingly, and then said, "You put arsenic on it, and in order to cover up the taste, you mixed it with the frosting that the second lady is used to." But you don't know, Miss Er's dim sum is different from others, it is not made directly with frosting, but mixed with water, and then slowly raised with water for a period of time. After a few dilutions, your poison will not kill anyone. In addition, she was in a hurry to have a snack that day, and she didn't marinate it for a while, so the dose of contamination was very small. ”
Zhao Qiaoyun's face changed greatly when she heard this, "You, how do you know ......?"
"I went to the warehouse, and you asked for a bottle of frosting in the courtyard before, but after I got it, I quickly said that the person who delivered the things was wrong, and sent you the things used by the second lady, and I returned them to the warehouse in a hurry." Yan Ran looked at her, "Actually, I didn't make a mistake, it's just that you asked someone to buy the second lady's usual flavor outside, and returned the things after dropping the bag, the purpose was to poison Zhao Liusi's things unknowingly." ”
"So", he pointed to Zhao Liusi behind him, "Your purpose is her!" ”