Wang Shu and Wang Fu were originally brothers and sisters, but because of the mysterious death of the bride Ziyu, they became enemies.

In order to take revenge, Wang Shu found Gu Anniang, the proprietress of the coffin shop, and got a way to kill without seeing blood from Gu Anniang's mouth. He bought a black cat from the bazaar and brutally buried it alive under the main house of Wang Fu's family, resulting in the equally mysterious death of Wang Fu's eldest son seven years later.

"How did you know about the transaction between Wang Shu and Gu Anniang? Could it be that after your brother's death, this Wang Shu was proud for a while, and told you the truth? Xing Ruyi held his chin, but his eyes kept falling on Wang San's face and never left. When Wang San told the whole thing, his emotions fluctuated slightly, which shows that he was very serious when he told it, and it was unlikely that he would make it up. Precisely, this is also what Xing Ruyi is currently curious about.

"Ruyi girl, you're half right. The matter between Wang Shu and Gu Anniang was indeed told to us by Wang Shu himself, but it was not a moment of pride, but a person who was about to die, and his words were also good. Maybe he finally understood that Ziyu's death really had nothing to do with my father, and he felt ashamed, so he was honest with us. ”

Wang San paused slightly.

"I'll start from the beginning. We don't know about Wang Shu burying a black cat under my main house. I only know that in those years, there was always some peace in the family. Ever since he was sensible, the elder brother often said that he could see a cat, and he always heard the cat bark in the middle of the night. My father, although he has not taken the fame test, but he is barely a scholar, and he naturally didn't pay attention to these things about my brother, but he only thought that my brother was young and talked nonsense until my brother had an accident. ”

"But what did your brother say?"

Wang San nodded: "I don't know the specific situation, what I'm talking about now is what my father and mother told me in the future." My father said that before the accident, my brother pointed to the place where the black cat was buried and told my father that he was leaving. Because the black cat has no children, he must be taken away. My father said that all day long, my brother's spirit was a little bad, and his forehead was a little hot, he thought that his brother was sick and talking nonsense, so he only asked a doctor to come and treat him. After taking the medicine, my brother fell asleep in a daze, and my mother was always by her side to take care of him.

At night, my mother couldn't stay up, so she fell asleep on the edge of the bed. When I woke up, I didn't see my brother, and when I went out to look for him, I saw him hanging from the black locust tree. My father was so grief-stricken that he cried for a long time while holding my brother's body, and even shouted that the black locust tree should be cut down.

On the night my brother left, two things happened in the house. The first thing happened was that in the middle of the night, the sound of thunder and lightning was suddenly heard in the house, but it did not rain. When I went out to look, I found that the black locust tree was cut off by a stiff lazy waist. Later, my father found someone to come and cut down the black locust completely, and the wood that was seen was pulled away by the people in the coffin shop to make a coffin. The second thing is that my father suddenly remembered what my brother said during the day, so he dug up the ground despite the obstacles and found the black cat dead inside. According to what Wang Shu said, the black cat has been buried in my house for at least seven years, but when my father dug it up, it was the same as if he had just died, and his body was hot, but when he saw the sun, it quickly decayed.

Because my brother's death was almost exactly the same as the purple jade back then, my father naturally thought of Wang Shu, so he took my brother's coffin and went to question. As I said just now, this Wang Shu left Luoyang City after burying Shisu, and later joined the army to fight, made military achievements, and was named a pioneer general. My brother returned home only a month before he died, and even used his power to seize nearly half of my family's real estate, and then built the current house on a large scale.

originally thought that this Wang Shu should be proud of the spring breeze, but I thought that when the door of Wang Shu's house opened, my father saw an old man. With loose skin and a slim body, not to mention Wang Xianxian, who was still majestic a month ago, is a random fifty or sixty-year-old man on the street who looks more energetic than him. ”

"Do you mean, in a month, Wang Shu has changed from an upright young vanguard general to an old man who is weak and has to take a few breaths when he walks?"

Wang San nodded: "At first, my father didn't believe it, but after asking carefully and checking, the person in front of him was indeed Wang Shu." Maybe he knew he wouldn't live long, or maybe he felt guilty when he saw my dad carrying the coffin to question, so he told the whole thing. My father and he always had a brotherly affection for Wang Shu, and immediately saw him become like that, which can be regarded as evil retribution, so he did not continue to embarrass him, carried my brother's coffin back, and found a place with good feng shui for burial. My brother was killed, and my father couldn't bear to investigate Wang Shu's fault, so my mother couldn't be angry, so she went to the coffin shop, planning to ask Gu Anniang about it. As a result, there were people in the coffin shop, and I still don't know where Gu Anniang went. ”

"Even so, the grievances between you and the Wang Shu family can be regarded as resolved, how can what happened later?"

"Dissolve? Easier said than done! Wang San shook his head: "My father is kind-hearted, scruples about brotherhood, and can't bear to pursue it, this is my father's generosity." But Wang Shu's family may not think so. Just after my brother was buried, Wang Shu also died. At that time, he was also married and had children. Although the child did not remember, the child's mother remembered and blamed our family for everything. So this grudge has continued to the present. Oh, the Wang Cheng I talked about before is Wang Shu's son. The one who peed on the stones in my house was Wang Cheng's son, that is, Wang Shu's grandson. ”

"After talking about it for a long time, you still haven't made it clear about the peeing on the stone."

"Actually, it's nothing. Maybe it's because of my brother's departure, so my dad has some knots, or maybe there is really something at home, my dad and mom's health is getting worse and worse, and strange things often happen at home. One day, when my father was selling calligraphy and paintings on the street, he met a Taoist priest, and after walking around my house, he laid down such a stone and painted a talisman. It's strange to say, since then, the house has been smooth, and although the days are not prosperous, they don't have to worry about food and clothing.

A few days ago, my father was chatting with someone, and when he was quick to speak, he told me about this stone. Somehow it reached Wang Cheng's ears, that kid was the same as Wang Shu when he was young, ambitious and bold, and had a belly of crooked ideas. No, after looking at the gap, he actually asked his boy to sprinkle the boy's urine on the stone of my house, saying that it was to exorcise evil spirits for our family. ”

"Then your father thinks that his shadow is a little weird, did it also start after the cinnabar charm on this stone was destroyed?"

Wang San nodded: "Ruyi girl, don't you ask me if I don't think so, if you calculate carefully, it seems that it started that night." Because of this incident of Wang Cheng's son, my father was so angry that he didn't eat dinner, so he went out to work. Originally, my father didn't sell calligraphy and paintings at night, saying that it was dark and people couldn't see clearly, and it was easy to ruin good calligraphy and paintings, but because he was angry that day, he opened a stall at night and came back late after work. My mother and I didn't dare to sleep because we were worried and because we were afraid that my father would be angry and do anything bad again.

When my father came back, he was fine, and soon after he returned to the room, he let out an exclamation and shouted for my mother, but I heard the voice and followed. When I entered the house, I saw my father pointing to his shadow on the ground with a frightened face, saying that he had seen a ghost. ”

"Is your father's shadow really weird?"

"It's a little weird! The shadow, with its big head, didn't look like my father at all. The hands and feet were slender and very long, and the fingers, at a cursory glance, looked like the claws of a bird, but then I looked at them more boldly, and I thought that they were not claws of birds, but branches, like the branches of the black locust tree, and even the head of my father's shadow was like a crown of trees. ”

"But all monsters will not be demons for no reason, but because of people. As a common saying goes, people don't do bad things, and they don't be shocked when they knock on the door in the middle of the night. There are no ghosts in the heart, and the eyes are naturally clear. Xing Ruyi said, glancing out the door. At this time, it was late at night, and there was silence outside the door, and as for the stump of the old locust tree, there was no sign of demonism.

Opened the ghost eye, and swept around the courtyard again, although there is some yin qi, but it is all caused by the house, and it has nothing to do with the black cat many years ago. Just as he was thinking about whether to take another look at the stone, Wang Fu's voice suddenly came from the inner courtyard: "Ghost! Ghosts! ”

Xing Ruyi picked up the corner of her skirt and immediately ran in, Wang San was also sweating profusely, and followed closely behind Xing Ruyi. As soon as he crossed a crescent moon gate, he saw Wang Fu rushing out with his hair scattered. While running, he shouted, "Don't follow me!" Don't follow me."

Xing Ruyi looked down and instantly understood. She stopped in front of Wang Fu, stretched out her hand, and poked him in the forehead. Wang Fu instantly froze, raised his eyes to look at Xing Ruyi, and muttered softly: "Ruyi girl!" I, hell! ”

"Let me ask you, did you really let go of what happened back then?"

"What happened back then?" Wang Fu's eyes wandered.

"The matter of Ziyu, and the matter of the mysterious death of Gongzi, did you really let it go?"

"Ziyu's affairs have nothing to do with me!" Wang Fu said, his body was weak, and the whole person sat on the ground: "Actually, I met Ziyu earlier than Wang Shu. Ziyu is the same age as me, and her family's tofu workshop is near the private school where I studied. But at that time, I was still young and I didn't have a good understanding of my feelings, so I didn't know how good Ziyu was to me. By the time I knew, it was too late. ”

"And when did you find out?"

"The night Wang Shu got married. He is bold and very righteous, so he has many brothers. On the night of marriage, the glasses of wine were overwhelming. When he was drunk, he called me over and asked me to help him pass a message to Ziyu that he would not be able to return to his room later. I didn't think much of it at the time, and I did what he said. Just outside the new house, through the door and window, I talked to Ziyu, who was not happy at the time, and she talked a lot about our earlier events, about the first time she cooked for me.

I remember, the lotus leaf fried rice she made for me. Of course, this meal is different from the princess's cooking, and it is not so particular, but it is only because of the use of lotus leaves that we gave it such a name. Pure, just a coincidence! ”

Wang Fu said, looked up at the sky, and his eyes narrowed slightly: "I remember, we were all hungry at that time, Ziyu went to the kitchen to look for a long time, only found half a bowl of leftover rice, and couldn't find anything hot at that time, so she casually folded a lotus leaf in the yard, wrapped the rice ball and put it in the cage drawer."

After a while, we smelled the fragrance of lotus leaves, and we were even hotter and hungrier, and we all laughed at each other. The rice was hot, but the portion was not much, I let her, she let me, let me for a long time, and no one refused to eat the first bite first. Ziyu was clever and quickly thought of a new way, he found some tofu dregs, fried them together with rice and some green vegetables, and put them in two lotus leaves to make the lotus leaf fried rice that we thought was particularly delicious at the time. We were sitting on the steps in front of Ziyu's house, and the food was delicious. When he was about to finish eating, Wang Shu came, and he said that he was attracted by the aroma of the fried rice, and it was because of the fried rice that he fell in love with Ziyu. ”

"What about you? Did you like purple jade at that time? ”

"Me? I don't know, maybe there is, but I didn't realize it at all. On the contrary, he was very happy for the two of them, and felt that he had contributed to the marriage between Wang Shu and Ziyu. It wasn't until that night that Ziyu told me that the person she had always liked was me, and the reason why she married Wang Shu was because Wang Shu bullied her. ”

(Education 123 Literature Network)