Songling Courtyard has always been the courtyard where the head of the Wang family lives. This year's head of the family, Wang Hong, did not live in Songling Courtyard, but lived in Qinxin Courtyard in the West Courtyard, which now lives the old lady of the Wang family, Wang Hong's wife Sun.

Aged houses are always inevitably filled with some decadent atmosphere, especially in a hairpin family like the Wang family, and the inheritance of old furniture and old utensils is also a manifestation of family heritage.

From the moment Sanniang entered Sun's bedroom, she felt that she was surrounded by an ancient decadent atmosphere that did not see sunlight all year round. The smell in the air was like opening a large wooden box with lots of mothballs and bedding for years.

It's like suddenly stepping into a dusty history, not really. Especially when the voice that was a little too tense and trembling sounded in the Sun room next door, this dullness that seemed to be frozen in time made people a little breathless.

"It rained heavily overnight last night, and the roads around Zhuangzili were not easy to walk. This morning, after dawn, when a village pulled an ox cart into the city, he accidentally overturned into a ravine with a person and a cart. It took a long time for someone to hear and be rescued. Who knew that when he came up, he looked like he was frightened. ”

The voice paused, and seemed to swallow a mouthful of saliva desperately: "The handle of the ox-cart said that a grave in the shade of the ravine was washed away by the rain that washed down from the uphill slope, but the coffin floated up from the tomb. He wanted to walk over to see if he could find some funeral goods to make a small fortune, but he didn't want to go in and take a look, but found that the lid of the coffin was open, and although the bones inside were a little swollen and unclear due to soaking in water, the seven orifices were still bubbling out with black blood, and the ten fingers of the hands placed on the chest were also bloody and blurry. ”

"You mean that the tomb is ......," Mama Chang exclaimed.

"It's that tomb! It's the tomb where the rain came! Fu Quanjia's voice was a little nervous and sharp: "Back then, those Taoist priests said that they wanted to find a place where yin qi gathered to suppress the resentment of the ghosts, so they chose the ravine two miles away from Zhuangzi. ”

"Could it be that mistakenly, it's someone else's new grave. Just buried nearby? Mama Chang asked.

"You can't go wrong! When I heard the mother-in-law below come back and talk about this incident, I became suspicious. So I took a few people down to the ravine to check, and I ...... I saw ......"

"What do you see?" Licorice's voice was also nervous.

"And I saw that it was indeed a tomb from the rain. The clothes and shoes were still changed for her by me and the Ganquan family back then, so I can't be wrong. The Fu family said in horror.

"But the man had been dead for more than ten years. It stands to reason that the dust has long been returned to dust, how can the body and clothes be intact. Mama Chang was a little incredulous.

"I've heard. If someone dies unjustly, because the anger is too heavy, the resentment can keep the body from rotting, and know that revenge will be ......"

"Shut up!" Sun screamed to stop the trembling words of the Fu family.

"What unjust death? Who died unjustly! What kind of nonsense are you talking about. ”

There was silence, and no one answered.

"Where is that coffin now?" It seems that after a long time, Sanniang can even faintly hear the sound of rain outside the window, and Sun Shicai asked in a somewhat hoarse voice.

The slave and maid found a few villagers and closed the lid of the coffin. It's just that the coffin slave didn't dare to move, for fear of being pregnant with some feng shui. "The Fu family sounds like they're calmer than just now.

"Did Fuquan come with you?"

"He's also here, waiting outside, for the old lady has something to tell him."

"You asked him to take my post early tomorrow morning to find Jingxu of Qingfeng Guan, and let Jingxu follow him to Zhuangzi outside the city again. Back then, he swore that he would deal with it for me, and if something happened, he should naturally deal with the aftermath. Otherwise, he would have thought that our royal family's silver would be so easy to take! Sun said coldly.

"Yes, don't wait for tomorrow, the night is long and there are many dreams, and the slave maid wants him to go." The Fu family was busy, as if they had suddenly found the backbone.

Sun did not speak. It should have nodded, and Sanniang heard a rush of footsteps and went out.

"Old lady!"

"Old lady! What happened to you! ”

Mama Chang and Licorice exclaimed at the same time.

"It's okay, no fuss!" Sun's voice was a little tired.

"It's just that my head hurts, Mama Chang, come and press it for me." Licorice, you go back to sleep first. ”

Licorice answered yes, followed by a soft sound of footsteps.

After a while, Sanniang felt a slight footstep coming this way, and then the light in the room suddenly brightened, and someone walked in with a candlestick.

The man seemed to look around the room for a few moments, and then quietly withdrew, and as soon as the curtain was lifted, it was dark again.

"It's a child, sleeping calmly, and I haven't moved my eyelashes." Sanniang heard Mama Chang say softly to Sun.

"You haven't woken up after all this talk?" Sun said lightly.

Mama Chang paused and said, "Just before going to bed, the girl named Bai Ying brought a bowl of soothing tea to the third miss, afraid that she would not be able to sleep well after changing the bed, and the third miss also rewarded the girl with a bowl by the way after drinking." I guess that's why I slept so deeply. ”

Sun had no words, he should have believed Mama Chang's words.

Sanniang breathed a sigh of relief, she really didn't want to know what the Sun family had done before. Usually, the person who knows about the ** of others is not necessarily more comfortable than the person who is known**. Sun may even be even more reluctant to see her.

Sanniang lifted the gauze curtain and glanced at the floor of the stepping bed, but saw Bai Ying's eyes flickering in the subtle light. Bai Ying felt the movement and looked over to the side of the bed.

Sanniang quietly made a silent gesture and put down the gauze tent again.

"You can sit on the couch and pinch it for me, so that we can talk."

Mama Chang answered, and there was a sound of rustling.

"Is there really a ghost in this world?" Sun's voice seemed to be a little different from usual.

Mama Chang seemed to be thinking about this question, and did not speak immediately.

Sun continued: "When I was young, I didn't want to believe it. I remember the night before I got married, my sister-in-law went to talk to me. I remember she said to me at the time: 'Xian'er, don't underestimate that little place in the backyard, for a woman, that is the place where you live, and it is the dignity that you have to defend even if you fight for your life in your life. Because the husband will not be your husband alone, and the children will always leave you one day in the future, only the backyard will always belong to you, the housewife. So every inch of land counts! ’”

Sun actually laughed when he said this.

"My sister-in-law is right, since I entered the door of the Wang family, what is the difference between having a husband and not having a husband? As soon as Bai'er was born, the old pious woman of the Lu family was going to be hugged and raised, and I knelt down to the door of her yard in the cold wind during the confinement and begged her to return her son to me, she was afraid of causing the reputation of forcing her daughter-in-law to death, so she had to send Bai'er back to me. But I hurt myself and lay in bed for more than half a year. However, the Lu family used the excuse that I was sick and couldn't serve, so I got Dong Wanfang's fox to my husband's room. Dong Wanfang, this slut! will only meet and welcome, in order to please him to learn how to raise birds, sure enough, he was coaxed to obey the slut's words, and even a maid next to her had to be looked at by him, but I trampled on the real lady to death. ”

Sun seemed to be extremely angry, and his voice trembled a little. Mama Chang comforted her softly, and Sun finally calmed down.

"She let the birds she raised spoil my pots of orchids that I had married, and I was so angry that I raised a few cats and killed all the little beasts they raised! But she pretended to cry and fell to the ground in front of him for a few birds, and called me cruel! Can she spoil my beloved things at will, and I can't touch her little beasts? But Wang Hong didn't enter my yard for a year because of this. She took this opportunity to conceive a seed, and the old goddess was willing to lift her up, so she became more and more noble. ”

Sun paused and took a few deep breaths: "After Lu's birthday, my mother's brother and sister-in-law came to celebrate the birthday." Lu was afraid that his face would not look good, so he forced him to go back to my yard, and then I had Song'er. As soon as Song'er was born, the Lu family reminded me again that I wanted to be hugged and raised, but I didn't obey it. But this time the Lu family didn't rob it, she only asked the slut in front of me if she would like to let her give birth to a concubine follow her, and the slut actually cried with joy and immediately kowtowed to thank her. I couldn't believe it at the time, they could force me to go so far, if I really let that slut's child follow the Lu family, what is the difference between it and my sister-in-law? Even Bo'er had to make way for him. That time, I locked myself in my room and cried for three days and three nights, and finally I had to hug Dong'er and send it to her yard in person. ”

This time, Sun was silent for a longer time: "That time, on the way back from the Lu family's courtyard, I suddenly remembered what my sister-in-law said back then. I finally understood why in the backyard, even an inch of land has to be fought for, because if you lose an inch, you will have to leave you with dignity. Lu's she will always be old and will die. Finally, I waited for that day, because her retribution came, her mother's Anguo Mansion suffered, she fell ill, and my chance came......"

Sanniang felt that Sun's voice was a little weird, because she heard some suppressed excitement and fear trembling from it.

"Old lady, it's not too early, shouldn't you rest?" Mama Chang seemed to inadvertently interrupt Sun's thoughts.

Sun just said so much, thinking that he was really tired, so he said: "Turn off the lights, you can accompany me to Qingming Temple tomorrow." I will personally deliver the offerings for this year's Midyear Festival. ”

Mama Chang answered, followed by the sound of staying, the little light that came in through the curtain suddenly dimmed, and Mama Chang extinguished the candle.

It didn't take long for there to be no sound from there, and Sun and Chang Mama stopped one after another.

Sanniang slowly opened her eyes in the dark, thinking of Sun's words that had just been deliberately interrupted by Mama Chang, Sanniang thought of a terrible possibility, and her heart gradually sank. ()