"Mother, do you know what you're talking about?"

Ah Niu's eyes also widened, and the scene he had just seen came to his mind from time to time. He felt fear, not at the image, but at a mother watching her daughter be sealed alive in the mud.

"Mother, you were scared, right?"

Ah Niu asked softly, his whole expression was so cautious, lest he hear anything from the old woman's mouth.

"Ah Niu, it's not good to be a mother. Over the years, my mother has been hiding from you. The reason why my mother lives in this mountain is not because I am disgusted with the excitement of the Yun family gathering, but because my mother wants to guard her daughter. My mother knows that she is wrong, very wrong, very wrong, but what can my mother do? If my mother refused to agree back then, maybe my mother would have become a mud bodhisattva in the temple like your sister. Mother is also an ordinary person, mother will also be afraid of death, mother will also be timid. ”

The old woman covered her face and cried.

Ah Niu walked around the house a few times in despair, and then rushed to the yard without saying a word.

"Ah Niu! Pander to...... Ah Niu! ”

The old woman heard the sound and stumbled a few steps forward. The crutches in her hand fell to the ground in a hurry, and the whole person threw herself forward. There was a strange wind in the house again, and there was a smell of mud in the strange wind. The old woman was stunned for a moment, and tentatively touched it with her thin hands, and then asked, "Are you right?" You're here, you're finally willing to come to see your mother, don't you know, it's you who blinded your mother's eyes, you're not punishing your mother, you're worried about your mother, you're worried that your mother will look at you every day, and your heart will be uncomfortable, isn't it? ”

"Shopkeeper?" Li Mao looked at the strange wind, but he didn't see any ghosts in the wind.

Xing Ruyi shook his head, indicating that he didn't see anything.

"There is indeed a smell of mud in this wind, you go out to have a look, if you have time, you may be able to meet her."

Li Mao nodded, directly turned into a point of light, and disappeared from the room.

Xing Ruyi once again envied the benefits of being a demon, if he encountered an emergency, he could run away without his legs. She walked up to the old woman and helped her up: "Ah Niang, do you know that if this person is buried in the mud alive, his soul will also be sealed along with the physical body, and he cannot be reincarnated without reincarnation." If she is really your own daughter, please have pity on her and tell her what happened back then. Perhaps, Ruyi can still help her. ”

"Madame mean, my daughter has been in that temple all along?"

"Yes, she's here, there's never been a way for her to leave. She was enshrined there, with her eyes open, watching you sacrifice, listening to your confessions, but she could not say anything, she could do nothing. She can't complain, she can't complain, and she can't say her understanding in person. A-Niang, your daughter, very pitiful! ”

"I know, I know, it's all my fault. If there is a regret medicine in this world, I would rather the person who was sealed in the mud is me, it's me! The old woman beat her chest fiercely: "But madam, I also have my helplessness and my compulsion. If I had refused at that time, it would have been our mother and daughter who would have been erected in the temple now. Originally...... Originally, I thought that my little daughter would be able to escape, but who knows...... Who knew that the will of God would not be violated, and she finally died in the soil. ”

The old woman took a deep breath, raised her eyes that had long been blind, and asked Xing Ruyi: "Does Madame really want to hear about those old things?" ”

"A-Niang's other daughter died recently, right? If so, ask A-Niang to tell you about the events of the year, and maybe Ruyi can help them. Even if they don't live well, they have to die with peace of mind, and they understand when they die, right? On the old woman's body, Xing Ruyi saw a touch of death, but the death breath was not the old woman's own, nor was it the "mother" in the broken temple.

The old woman said that she originally had two daughters, one of whom was sealed in mud and made into a mother to stand in the temple, and the other probably died recently, so the old woman had this kind of breath on her body.

Recently deceased? Xing Ruyi somehow thought of Zhu. Looking at the old woman's facial features again, I feel more and more similar to the two. It's just that in this world, is there really such a coincidence?

The old woman said that the reason why she watched her daughter being sealed into a mud womb and becoming a bodhisattva was not only persecuted by those ignorant villagers, but also bewitched by men. That man is not a bystander, but his husband, the biological father of his daughter.

There are three so-called unfilial pieties, and no queen is greater. The old woman entered her husband's house for many years, but she never gave birth to a son to inherit the husband's inheritance. Seeing that the husband's business is getting better and better, and the courtyard is getting bigger and bigger, the husband's desire to have a son is getting stronger and stronger. The old woman herself is strong, and she is also a little jealous, she does not want to give her husband a concubine, and she does not want her husband to complain about herself because of her son's affairs, so she begs her son everywhere.

Perhaps with God's favor, the old woman finally became pregnant, and according to various pregnancy appearances, it was shown that the old woman was pregnant with a baby boy. If it is in the later life, it is nothing to conceive a second child in her thirties, but in the Tang Dynasty, the old woman seems to have become an elderly pregnant woman, and there are signs of threatened miscarriage in the early stage, so the couple listened to the words of others, thinking that their two daughters were desperate to kill the child in their womb.

In order to keep the child in her womb, the old woman ruthlessly sent her twin daughters to the countryside for foster care, planning to find a home in two years and marry off the sisters. Who would have thought that the two sisters were sent to the village, and the village suffered a drought that had not been encountered for several years, and even the family of the foster sister flower had an accident. Therefore, the superstitious villagers in the village regarded the two sister flowers as the plague gods, and proposed to the patriarch to sacrifice the sisters to peanuts to appease the wrath of the gods.

When the old woman went to ask her husband for a pair of daughters, she learned that the family's business had also suffered a change. Her husband even suspected that the baby boy in her womb had brought about all the disasters. In order to protect the child in her womb, the old woman actually sent a ghost to the gods and pushed all the bad things on her daughter.

With the evidence of the events in the village, and the guidance of someone with a heart, the old woman's husband finally believed that statement. In order to appease the anger of the villagers, to protect the fetus in their womb, and to protect their husband's business, they listened to the rumors and made their daughter a mud fetus bodhisattva, so as to ensure the safety of the family house and smooth business.

When the old woman said this, she couldn't help but beat herself hard with her hand again: "My daughter was originally a pair of twins, which is a bad omen in the folk, according to our country saying, one of the twins must be reincarnated as a demon, which will bring disaster to the family." I was their mother, and I didn't believe it at first, but then there were so many things that happened, and I was also confused, and finally did something like that. Fortunately, fortunately, my second daughter was clever and escaped under the protection of her sister. ”

"What about the child in your womb, did you give birth successfully?"

The old woman shook her head: "How can it be born?" After that incident had passed, we learned that the famine in the village was not caused by our daughter, but by an anomaly in the sky, and God was punishing all of us. Droughts, floods, epidemics, and hunger have almost killed most of the people in the nearby villages.

My husband, listening to the villain's words, first cruelly harmed our daughter, and then cruelly abandoned our mother and son, and drove us out of the house. But in the end, he was also killed by the villain, and the family's business was taken away by the villain, and he died in tatters. As for me, I was conceived in October, and once I gave birth, I gave birth to a deformed stillbirth. I know I'm wrong, and I need him to be right, the real obstacle is the child in my womb, not my daughters. ”

"Villain! Someone with a heart! Xing Ruyi thought of the inexplicable words that he had said to Yin Yuan before, and asked the old woman: "Can A-Niang tell Ruyi, who is this villain in your mouth, and does he also live in Yunjiaji?" ”

"His name is Hu Da, and he should be called Master Hu now. However, at that time, he was very down-and-out, but he was strong and powerful, and he was also a tyrant in the Yun family. He once fell in love with my eldest daughter and came to our house to propose marriage, my daughter didn't look like a good person and didn't agree to anything, but my lord was very fond of him, thinking that he came out of the government and could take care of our family's business. But it turns out that my eldest daughter is more accurate in seeing people, and Hu Da is really not a good thing.

He first spread rumors in the village, saying that my two daughters were demons, and then he didn't know where to find a Taoist priest to bewitch the people in front of my lord, fiddling with right and wrong, saying that only by making my daughter a mud bodhisattva can I protect the child in my womb and bless our business and family peace. But in fact, there is only one thing he wants to do from the beginning, and that is to destroy our whole family and take revenge on my daughter. It's a pity that at that time, I was also fascinated by ghosts and didn't see the villain's face clearly. ”

"It turned out to be Hu Da!" Xing Ruyi probably understood the meaning of Mo Xuyou's sentence: "When your daughter was sealed into the mud to become a bodhisattva, that Hu Da was also there?" ”

"Yes, of course he is! Not only was he there, but my lord was also there, and he let Hu Da pour mud on my daughter's face. I still remember that the wind picked up my daughter's long hair, and it was all covered with mud on Hu Da's face. Hu Da was so angry that he cut off his hair with a knife. If you don't believe me, Madam, you can go to the Niangniang Temple and take a look, my daughter's hair is still the same as it was at that time, and it is not neat. ”

"I see!" Xing Ruyi sighed lightly in response.

It turned out that what Mo Xuyou said to Yin Yuan before was true, and he asked the insect servant to find Hu Da, not because of himself, but for the poor girl in Niangniang's temple. The hair monster should be a means of punishing Hu Da.

(Education 123 Literature Network)