"It all starts with a portrait." Mu Xi let out a long sigh: "After the human skin matter was discovered by the general, he didn't take it to heart much, but he was a little more alienated from me in his daily life. ”

"This is not difficult to understand, after the incident, the general once asked your wife, did you use a long-lost human skin mask on the rivers and lakes? Perhaps in the eyes of the general, the reason why the lady used her current face was because of the disfigurement at the beginning. He didn't think much of it. ”

"What the girl said is that Mu Xi also thought of this layer, so he didn't say it." Mu Xi rolled up his sleeves, looked up at the snow, and the snow was getting heavier and heavier: "There are no worries in my heart, and the days always pass very fast." In the blink of an eye, it was the Lunar New Year. Since the general officially entered the barracks, his father-in-law resigned from his position in the army, and also returned to his hometown with his mother-in-law to live, and over the years, for various reasons, the general and his in-laws only exchanged letters, and never returned to visit. Maybe it's because of Mu Xi this year, or maybe because of that incident, the general took Mu Xi back to his hometown.

When I saw my in-laws for the first time, Mu Xi was nervous, but this was not the most important thing, but the expression on my in-laws' faces when they heard the general call me Mu Xi. They were polite on the surface, but in private they invited the general aside and secretly gave him a portrait.

Ruyi girl, you have a quick mind, you must have guessed it at this time. The woman in the portrait is not a bystander, but the general's fiancée.

Since the separation at an early age, the general has never seen his fiancée, and his in-laws have never seen him, but the general's father-in-law is a caring person, and every year he asks people to draw a portrait of his daughter, and send it to his father-in-law with letters. It's just that these things, the general doesn't know.

One can imagine how suspicious the general must have been when he saw that the person in the portrait looked exactly like me. My face was originally taken from that person, and the eyebrows, eyes, nose and mouth are no different. Miss Ruyi also said just now, the reason why the general was infected with corpse poison was because he was calculated, and I happened to appear next to him with a face exactly the same as his fiancée, if it was a girl, would you think more? ”

"If Ruyi doesn't know what is going on here, he will definitely think about it."

"Not only pondering, but also checking privately, is also inevitable." Mu Xi smiled bitterly: "If the general had taken that portrait and questioned him face to face, Mu Xi might have hidden something, but at least he could give himself a chance to explain." But the general he didn't, he hid all his suspicions in his heart. On Chinese New Year's Eve, he still showed great affection with Mu Xi. Mu Xi only thought that he was comforting his in-laws, so he was very cooperative, who knew that the general didn't mean this, he just took the opportunity to get drunk Mu Xi. ”

"Madame is a demon, how can she be easily drunk?"

"As the saying goes, wine is not intoxicating, people are drunk. At that time, Mu Xi was already deeply in love with the general, and in a trance, he could not discern his true purpose. Besides, if the general uses a beautiful man's trick, even if Mu Xi is a demon, he will not be able to resist it. ”

Xing Ruyi recalled Li Yan's appearance, although he is now riddled with diseases and is thin and invisible, but the beauty is in the skin and bones, and men are also universal. Judging from Li Yan's body bones, he is also handsome and handsome, and it is reasonable for Mu Xi to fall in love with him.

The general took advantage of Mu Xi's drunken and deep sleep, and carefully studied the human skin on Mu Xi's face. This human skin mask is different from those Jianghu skills. If it is applied to the face, no one can remove it except the wood. Although the general has never seen those human skin masks on the rivers and lakes, looking at Mu Xi's tightly knit face, the panic and shock in his heart are afraid that outsiders can't guess. ”

"Although a general is a general, he is still a mortal after all. Besides, he had experienced that kind of thing before, and when he thought of his wife's various things, he was afraid that he would not be able to restrain himself from thinking about other aspects. For example, Madame is a ghost or a demon. ”

Mu Xi smiled bitterly and nodded.

"Indeed! When Mu Xi woke up, what he saw was the general's cold face. Mu Xi had the heart to ask, but he threw his sleeves out, and he disappeared for two days and two nights. On the third day, the maid in the house deceived me out of the house under his pretense, and when I returned, I saw that the door of the house was closed, and not only the courtyard was pasted with rune paper, but even some things such as demon mirrors were hung on the door.

At that time, Mu Xi knew that the general must have discovered something.

Mu Xi knelt in front of the door and begged him bitterly, hoping that he could give Mu Xi a chance to explain everything. As a result, it was not his voice that came from the room, but the pleading voice of his in-laws.

The in-laws begged Mu Xi to let the general go, saying that Mu Xi and the general had no grievances in the past, and there was no enmity in the near future, so that Mu Xi could spare the general for the sake of the general who had also treated Mu Xi well. Mu Xi froze in place, not knowing how to respond.

At this moment, a man dressed as a servant suddenly appeared and stabbed his sword into Mu Xi's heart. That sword can also be regarded as a Taoist magic weapon, although it will not beat Mu Xi back to its original form, but it reminds Mu Xi of his past and present lives at that moment. Because the love of acquaintance, acquaintance, and promise with the general dissipated in an instant, and the only thing left in Mu Xi's heart seemed to be grievances and resentment.

The door opened all at once.

Mu Xi looked at the people inside the door, the overly frightened in-laws and the indifferent general, and suddenly felt extremely desolate, and his limbs were tired and tired. It turns out that no matter in the past or present life, no matter whether you are a human or a demon, no one cares about Mu Xi's true heart.

When Mu Xi approached the general step by step, exuding an incomparably powerful demonic power, Mu Xi actually saw the past in the general's eyes. It turned out that in the past and present life, the person who hurt Mu Xi has always been him.

A hundred years of catastrophe, experiencing desolation and loneliness, and enduring the pain of the turn of the ladyboy, all of this is because of the man in front of him. At that moment, Mu Xi only felt extremely sad and indignant in his chest, infinitely sad. Seeing that his in-laws knelt down and kept kowtowing to Mu Xi because they were afraid, seeing that he had a pair of cold eyes, and pointed the sword in his hand at Mu Xi's heart, the scene a hundred years ago seemed to be staged in front of Mu Xi again.

His gentleness, his shrewdness and his affection were like a sharp cone stabbing in Mu Xi's heart. He looked into Mu Xi's eyes, but Mu Xi could hear the subtext in his heart, he wanted Mu Xi to die. ”

Mu Xi said, closed his eyes, and a tear slowly fell from the corner of his eye.

When he opened his eyes again, Mu Xi had returned to his true form. After the branches passed, the mansion was a mess, flesh and blood were blurred, and Mu Xi's hand went straight through a person's body. ”

"It's the general's old mother, right?" Xing Ruyi asked lightly, but there was some emotion in his eyes: "In this world, only mothers will stand in front of their own sons without hesitation when they are in trouble." ”

Mu Xi glanced at Xing Ruyi and didn't speak for a long time.

Although separated by a body, Mu Xi knew that the heart was in Mu Xi's hand, and it was still warm and alive. So, when the general swung his sword again, Mu Xi didn't dodge. Mu Xi closed his eyes again: "But Mu Xi is a demon, not a human." People have human instincts, and demons also have demon instincts, and this demon body does not belong to Mu Xi, and when danger comes again, it will also make an instinctive counterattack.

The general's sword pierced Mu Xi's clothes, but it did not penetrate Mu Xi's body, because it was blocked by the mirror. The mirror fell to the ground, the demon branch injured the general, and the general's blood fell on the mirror again. Then, everything was still, and when Mu Xi came back to his senses, he saw the general lying on the ground, covered in blood, still breathing.

Mu Xi smoothed everything in the mansion with a spell and returned to the barracks with the general. After that, you probably know what happened to the girl. The general's body is getting worse day by day, and Mu Xi temporarily forgets all about his previous life, and only thinks about saving him wholeheartedly. It's a pity that Mu Xi was wrong. Mu Xi thought that the general's injury was caused by Mu Xi's demon branch, but the result was ...... It turned out to be because of the female ghost in the bronze mirror. ”

"When did you find out?"

"Did you come to the night of the Yun family? That night, because of Mu Xi's negligence, the bronze mirror was left on the general's carriage. When I looked back, I realized that the mirror was gone. Later, Mu Xi also heard about the matter in her husband's house, so he vaguely guessed that the bronze mirror might have been seen by the general, he had seen the bronze mirror, and he also knew that the bronze mirror was carried by Mu Xi, but he didn't know that there was a female ghost trapped in the bronze mirror. He was purely disgusted with Mu Xi, so he hated everything related to Mu Xi, so he casually threw the bronze mirror out. Just right, he was picked up by his husband.

As for how the female ghost in the mirror came out, Mu Xi also had some calculations in his heart. Come to think of it, it must have been when Mu Xi was crazy that day, the general stabbed his sword on the bronze mirror, and the bronze mirror was stabbed out of the crack, plus the general's blood was already stained with corpse poison, and the female ghost was also in the same vein, when the general's blood dripped on the bronze mirror, it woke up the female ghost in the mirror. It's just that she has been unable to get out of my mana.

This Yunjiaji seems to be different from other places, here the yin qi is very heavy, and when the general threw the bronze mirror from the carriage, the crack of the bronze mirror was aggravated, and the life of the person who picked up the bronze mirror was yin, which caused the female ghost to escape from the bronze mirror. ”

"What about centipedes?"

Xing Ruyi suddenly asked.

"Centipede! What centipede? ”

"When I was at my husband's house, I met a centipede that was much bigger than a man, and that centipede also had a human skin mask on its face. Isn't it the handiwork of Madame? ”

"Mu Xi has never seen a centipede like this." Mu Xi shook his head and denied: "Although Mu Xi knew that the female ghost escaped from the bronze mirror, he didn't take her seriously. Coupled with the general's increasingly serious condition, Mu Xi didn't have the heart to take care of her at all. Especially, when Mu Xi learned her identity, he didn't want her to get close to the general. In other words, if she doesn't come, Mu Xi is too lazy to pay attention to her, and if she dares to come, Mu Xi can also make her soul scatter. As for the husband, Mu Xi is not like a girl, and he does not have that compassionate heart. ”

Mu Xi said it bluntly and earnestly, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a lie, but the appearance of the human-faced centipede in her husband's house is by no means accidental.

(Education 123 Literature Network)