Yunjiaji.

The fog is getting thicker, as if trying to cover up the secrets that are about to be revealed in the Luo family's mansion.

Starting from Ruyi Rouge Shop, cross the Fulu Bridge through the main street, turn to Furong Lane, and pass through a narrow and long alley, and then arrive at Luo's house.

Unlike the last time I went to Luo's house to see the liveliness of Luo's pavilion, today's Luo's house is unusually quiet. The white walls, green tiles, and newly pasted Spring Festival couplets are newly pasted with a layer of white couplets, which is a little abrupt compared with the surrounding houses.

Xing Ruyi glanced at Aunt Lu, walked to the door, and reached out and lightly buckled on the door panel twice.

The door creaked open.

The door was opened by a child of about eleven or twelve, with a sleepy face that had not yet faded, and he was also dressed in sackcloth. Seeing Xing Ruyi and Aunt Lu, he was slightly stunned, rubbed his eyes with his hands, and said, "The old man is sick, and he won't entertain guests today." ”

"Is Master Luo sick?" Xing Ruyi glanced at the child and said, "It's just right, I'm a doctor." My surname is Xing, my name is Ruyi, I am the attending doctor of your young lady, and I came here today to make an appointment with your young lady, and I am here to help her see a doctor. Trouble the little brother to go back and say back. ”

The little boy glanced at Xing Ruyi suspiciously, and when he saw that she was sure, he didn't want to question it again, so he said: "You wait here, I'll go and ask my wife first." ”

Xing Ruyi nodded, standing in place in an orderly manner, without any intention of stepping into the door.

Through the crack in the door, you can see the shadow wall of the Luo family, and the shadow wall is also dyed with the gloomy atmosphere of death, which makes the huge Luo family even more dead.

When the little boy went, he was dazed and walked slowly, but when he came back, he was trotting all the way, panting. Seeing Xing Ruyi, he bowed and said, "Girl, please!" The little eyes are clumsy, and I don't know that the girl is a distinguished guest invited by the young lady of my family. ”

"What kind of noble guest is not a noble guest, it is a female doctor who sees a doctor. By the way, what's your name, I vaguely remember that the person in charge of the gatekeeper used to be a little older than you. ”

"Yes! The smaller ones were arranged to help on an ad hoc basis. Recently, there have been many events in the house, and there are not enough people. ”

"So, it's a bit hard for you. I look at your young age, the dark circles under your eyes are so heavy, I'm afraid you haven't rested well these days. ”

The little boy touched his head embarrassedly: "Things in the house are a little strange, there is anything to say, I live alone at the corner door, I am worried that I will be negligent and reprimanded by the housekeeper, and I am afraid of those rumors in the house, so I always dare not sleep at night, and I can't sleep." ”

While talking, the people also walked to the courtyard where Luo Ping, the young master of the Luo family, and the young lady Yun Xi lived.

There is a new couplet posted on the courtyard door, and I don't know if it was the negligence of the Luo family, or the consideration of the child in Yunxi's womb, there was no white couplet with frustration, and the door was still pasted with auspicious words.

Xing Ruyi saw the word "boat" at a glance, because it was missing a horizontal, it looked a little strange.

"Who wrote this couplet?" Xing Ruyi pointed to the word boat: "Why didn't the last stroke of this word write on the boat?" ”

"The last stroke of the word boat? What is this last stroke? ”

Xing Ruyi lightly drew a horizontal line under the mouth with his hand: "There was originally a horizontal one here, but now there is no one, and I don't know if the person who wrote this couplet did it on purpose, or if he forgot it when he wrote it." ”

The little boy took a closer look at the word, then glanced at Xing Ruyi, and said with some embarrassment: "Although the little one has read with the housekeeper for a few days, he knows all the very simple words, and the little one doesn't know the word boat, and I don't know whether there is or is not this cross." It's just that I heard that the couplets in the house in previous years were written by the lord himself, and this year is eventful, and I don't know if it was not written by the lord. ”

In the last sentence, the boy spoke very carefully, and his voice was lowered very low.

Xing Ruyi gave him a clear look, and then asked Aunt Lu to give him some scattered silver taels, and said: "Hard little brother to help lead the way, this money is considered for me to invite you to drink tea and listen to books." ”

"Don't dare, don't dare! If my young master and young lady know, they may scold me. ”

The little boy repeatedly excused himself, but he was not reluctant, but only secretly gave Aunt Lu a look. Taking advantage of the little boy's turn to leave, let Aunt Lu add a spell to the little boy.

The Luo family is troublesome, if you can protect an innocent person, you can protect an innocent person.

Entering the courtyard, I not only saw Yun Xi, who was pregnant with Liujia, but also saw Luo Ping, who was accompanying Yun Xi. Luo Ping seemed to be much older, and the whole person looked extremely tired.

"Young Master Luo! Mrs. Luo!"

"Ruyi girl!" Yun Xi's lips moved, and she looked at her husband Luo Ping beside her.

"I heard Yunxi say, Miss Ruyi, you are a doctor, I don't know if you can ask the girl to see my father."

"Master Luo?"

"Luo Ping knows that this request is a bit sudden, and it will also make it difficult for you, girl, but my father is stubborn and resolutely refuses to let people go out to ask for a doctor, but I ......"

"Young Master Luo's meaning, Ruyi understood. Since I'm here, I don't mind seeing another patient. ”

"Ruyi girl, please come with me!"

Luo Ping said, first sending Yun Xi back to the bedroom, and then taking them to an old courtyard.

"This is where my father lives." Luo Ping saw the worry in Xing Ruyi's eyes, and pointed to the old courtyard: "I heard the housekeeper in the house say, this is the original appearance of our Luo family, although the business has done well later, and the yard has expanded more and more, but this courtyard has never made any changes." My father has always lived here and refused to move out. ”

Xing Ruyi's eyes swept over. This yard is indeed not big, the courtyard wall is lower than the surrounding yard, and even one of the walls is still growing unkempt weeds, the black gate is hidden, through the slightly open door crack, you can see that there are a lot of flowers and trees planted in the yard, and the varieties are not precious.

Xing Ruyi glanced at Aunt Lu and walked the old man in.

The door of the hall was open, and there was no light inside, and the light was dim. Luo Ping stood at the door of the hall and called into the house: "Dad, it's a child!" Can children come in? ”

"It's Ping'er, right? Come on in! ”

After a brief moment of silence, a man's voice was heard from inside the hall. The voice is very heavy, and when you hear it, you are sick, and the illness is not light.

"Child...... The child also brought someone over, the female doctor who helped Yunxi see a doctor before. ”

"Doctor...... Master Luo hesitated: "Since you are here, then come in together!" ”

Xing Ruyi entered the house.

As soon as she entered the room, she clearly felt a coldness, and in this coldness, there was also a cold aura that was different from the yang world.

After a few seconds, Xing Ruyi's eyes adjusted to the dim light,

At the same time, I saw the beautiful young woman standing next to the bed curtain, with a gorgeous posture. When the four eyes met, Xing Ruyi also used ghost magic, and she heard Aunt Lu say to the beautiful young woman: "Road to road, bridge to bridge, we have no intention of interfering in the old grudge between you, but since we have come at the request of people, we do not want to meet troubled ghosts." ”

"Xi'er doesn't want to do anything."

The beautiful young woman said, but her eyes never took her eyes off the punishment Ruyi.

"Xi'er once went to find Miss Ruyi, not that Xi'er was bold and deliberately offended, but that Xi'er had a story to tell Miss Ruyi. Master Cui once said that girls love to listen to stories the most. After this story is told, Xi'er can really leave. ”

"Miss Xi'er, please speak!"

Xing Ruyi said to Xi'er, walked to Master Luo's side, and said another sentence to Master Luo.

"Ruyi, can you give the old man a pulse?"

Master Luo glanced at Xing Ruyi seriously, and never refused. So, Xing Ruyi listened to Xi'er's story while checking Master Luo's pulse.

More than 20 years ago, a small chaos broke out near Yunzhai. This chaos seems to have been caused by a small incident, but in fact, the source is in Chang'an, thousands of miles away from here.

It is said that late one night, Empress Wu had a strange dream.

She dreamed that there was a monster chasing her, that thing had a strange appearance, neither human nor beast, neither monster nor monster, it looked like it from a distance, but when it looked closely, it had no eyebrows, nose, or eyes, and there was only one mouth left on the whole face, and it still only had the upper lip, and the lower lip could not be seen.

Empress Wu looked at the thing, frightened, turned around and wanted to escape, while fleeing, calling for the left and right guards, but no matter how she shouted, it seemed that she was the only one in the vast darkness, and she could never get rid of the monster.

In the end, the monster blocked her in a dead end. It said in a weird way: "I have no hands, no legs, no body, but I still have a mouth." ”

Empress Wu woke up suddenly.

The bedroom was dark and mushy, without a single sound.

She eagerly ordered the palace people to light the lamps and candles and look around, but how could the scenes in the nightmare overlap with reality. But Empress Wu didn't think so, she felt that the nightmare just now was some kind of hint from God, so she wrapped her body tightly in the quilt and gave the first most inexplicable, but very cold-blooded holy decree.

Kill the palace guards on duty at night, on the grounds that when she was in distress in her dreams, none of the guards came out to save her.

The second way is to eliminate the remnants of the guilty concubine, not only to punish the nine clans, but also to punish everyone involved with them, even if they are not relatives. As for who this sin concubine with no hands, no legs, and no body is, the world knows it.

The third way is to find strange people and strange things in the world, trade with the underworld, and use the souls of living people as sacrifices to seal the mouth of the concubine.

Of the three holy decrees, the first and second are explicit decrees, while the third is the implicit decree, and it is also the most outrageous of all the decrees. But if the Empress Wu is serious, who can not be serious?

Xi'er is the sacrificial girl chosen by the folk warlock for the martial queen. In order to make her die a well-deserved death, those people even gave her the title of "The Remnant of the Sin Concubine".

As for Master Luo, he is actually not a petty merchant, but a palace secret guard who helps the court choose to sacrifice girls.

(Education 123 Literature Network)