"No one is allowed to mention what just happened." Sanniang glanced at a few girls and commanded.

Naturally, she doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, and she can't let people use her people as pawns.

"Yes." Seeing Sanniang's stern eyes, several girls glanced at each other and respectfully agreed.

"Miss, are there really ghosts and monsters in the house?" Bai Guo endured it, and when he saw that there was no one else beside him, he still asked the words in his stomach.

"Have you ever done something wrong?" Sanniang said lightly.

Bai Guo thought about it for a while, and replied, "Does stealing sweet potatoes from the field of the fifth aunt next door when I was a child count?" ”

“……”

When Sanniang arrived at Sun's main house, Wuniang had not yet come.

Sun was half-leaning and half-asleep on the rosewood three-sided arhat bed, licorice was reading a scripture book in his hand, and Gansong knelt in front of the couch to pinch Sun's legs.

Sanniang stepped forward to salute Sun, Sun raised his eyes, and said lightly: "You just sit there and write, and you can go to the right step bed to rest for an hour." What about Wu Niang? ”

Sanniang lowered her head and replied: "It's raining urgently outside, and the fifth sister must be behind." ”

Sun closed his eyes and stopped talking.

After a while, Agarwood came in and reported that Yuzhu beside Aunt Cui of Fangzhi Yuan asked to see her.

"Something stand outside, don't bring in a damp body." Sun's eyes didn't lift his eyes.

After a while, a voice sounded outside through the curtain: "The slave and maid greet the old lady, and the old lady is blessed." The aunt asked the slave maid to come to tell the old lady, the fifth lady played in the garden this afternoon and was drenched in the rain, and now her body was not feeling well, so let the slave and maid come to ask the old lady for grace to let her rest in the courtyard tonight. ”

Sun opened his eyes: "How did she become an aunt?" A good girl gets sick twice in three days. You go back and tell her that if you don't know how to take care of the child, just say it as soon as possible, and I will find someone else to take care of Wu Niang. ”

The jade bamboo outside the curtain already looked a little haggard due to the rain, and his face became even paler. I opened my mouth, but I really couldn't find a word of defense.

"Go back and tell your aunt that this is to let Wu Niang do her best to the ancestors and ancestors. Don't know what is important. Go down! Sun said impatiently.

Yuzhu didn't dare to say anything anymore, only bowed down, picked up the oil-paper umbrella that had not been put away on the ground and walked into the rain again. It's just that when he was about to leave the gate of Sun's courtyard, he suddenly paused. I looked out cautiously, but I saw only a hazy curtain of rain illuminated by the lantern. Yuzhu gritted his teeth, half-closed his eyes and rushed forward without hesitation.

Along the way, Yuzhu deliberately didn't listen to the sounds around her, just buried her head and ran wildly, until she ran into Fangzhi Courtyard, Yuzhu stopped her steps, and held her hand against the wall to pant for breath.

changed his clothes and dried the water vapor on his body before going to call Aunt Cui back.

Aunt Cui glanced at the jade bamboo who came into the house. With a silent gesture towards her, Yuzhu saw Wu Niang lying on the bed asleep.

Aunt Cui straightened the quilt on Wu Niang's body, reached out and gently stroked her smiling face, revealing a gentle smile. Then he got up and nodded to Yuzhu's side, motioning for her to follow him to the next living room.

"Did the old lady say anything?" Aunt Cui asked softly.

Yuzhu hesitated for a moment, but still said Sun's words word for word.

Aunt Cui was a little shaky when she heard this, and Yuzhu hurriedly stepped forward to help her.

"Auntie, you should be careful, don't worry. The old lady just said casually, and she wouldn't take the fifth lady away. ”

Aunt Cui had tears in her eyes: "She is a piece of meat that fell from my body." is my only hope in this world. I can't even bear to think about someone going to take her away from me. ”

Yuzhu hurriedly persuaded a few more words, and Aunt Cui slowly suppressed the tears in her eyes and asked casually:

"I heard that there were several strange things in Songling Courtyard today, did you find anything wrong when you went to the old lady's courtyard?"

Yuzhu bit her lip. I whispered a few words in Aunt Cui's ear.

Aunt Cui gasped: "Did you hear it?" ”

Yuzhu nodded: "It's indeed a bell." ”

Aunt Cui was stunned for a while, and muttered: "Is it really ......" Then she patted her chest as if relieved and said: "Fortunately, I didn't let my Yue'er go, she is a child, she is already weak, what if she provokes evil ghosts." From now until fifteen, I will detain her and prevent her from going out, and you will take good care of her step by step. ”

"But if the old lady blames you......"

"What is the problem of being punished by her for copying scriptures and kneeling? As long as I can protect my Yue'er, I am willing to do it no matter what. Aunt Cui's originally weak little face was full of determination.

"Auntie, what's going on in Bailing Pavilion? The slave maid asked a few old grandmothers, but no one would say. ”

Aunt Cui frowned slightly when she heard this, as if she was recalling, and suddenly she seemed to shudder: "Don't mention the matter of Bailing Pavilion in front of others in the future, this matter was ordered to die by the old lady back then." ”

After thinking about it, he said: "If you follow Yue'er, you don't know if you are calculated...... I'll just say a few words to you. Aunt Cui sighed, "When Aunt Dong poisoned and assassinated the old lady, the old lady was aware of the grandmother beside the old lady, and the old lady wanted to pour the bowl of bird's nest porridge that was originally prepared for her to Aunt Dong." At this time, Aunt Dong's maid Yulai ran out and said that the poison was caused by her, and it had nothing to do with Aunt Dong, and she poisoned it because she hated the cat raised by the old lady and killed the rain sparrow she raised. At that time, the old lady was still alive, and she wanted to keep Aunt Dong, so the old lady poured the bowl of porridge into the girl. ”

Yuzhu was a little puzzled when she heard this, this kind of wives and concubines fighting is not uncommon in the backyard, and the one who died was just a girl, why is everyone still silent after more than ten years?

Aunt Cui sat on the couch, stunned, until Yuzhu called her worriedly, she came back to her senses as if awakened, but the fear in her eyes did not completely subside.

The medicine was poured down, but the little girl did not die immediately. She tossed and turned on the bed and cried for a day and a night, and on the third day she was bleeding and breathing. The grandmother who guarded the door of the room saw that she did not move, so she opened the door, but found that the walls and bed in that room were full of bloody scratches, and none of the ten fingers of Yulai were intact, and her eyes were open until she died. The mothers also saw a few strange symbols drawn in blood by the rain on the wall, and two bloody brass bells on the bed. The grandmothers were frightened and reported the matter. Originally, the old lady didn't take it seriously, but in the next few days, the people in Bailing Pavilion said that they heard the sound of scratching the wall and the sound of bells at night. After that, the old lady invited a few Taoist priests to come to the house, and a Taoist priest who had been to Miao Jiang said after looking at the runes and bells that it was Miao Jiang's blood curse, which was used to curse the enemy. ”

Aunt Cui's voice was soft and glutinous, but it made people feel chills in their hearts for no reason on a night when it was raining heavily inside the empty house. Yuzhu unconsciously hugged his arms, trying to stop the trembling.

There was a sudden flash of lightning and thunder outside the window, and Wu Niang, who was sleeping in the back room, seemed to mumble a few words softly, and Aunt Cui immediately stood up and walked quickly to the back room.

Yuzhu stood there in a daze, remembering the sound of the bell he heard outside when he went to Songling Temple today. Unconsciously looked out the window, but found that the shadows of the trees in the yard always seemed to be hiding something.

……

After Sanniang finished writing the "wrapping" for an hour, she beckoned her girl to come in and serve the washing, and slept to the right side of the Sun family. Bai Ying laid a bunk on the three-foot-wide floor outside the Babu bed, and Bai Ying and Bai Guo lived in the backyard.

In the middle of the night, Sanniang was suddenly woken up by a sound of "squirming", and opened her eyes in a daze, only to find that the light was on in Sun's room next door. Sanniang thought that it might be that the Sun family was going to get up at night, so she didn't care.

Sun's bed has not been inhabited for several months, and it has rained for two days in a row, the window has not been opened in the room, the room is damp, Sanniang always feels that the bed has some musty smell from old antiques, so she did not fall asleep for half a day after lying down. It's easy to fall asleep, but it's also shallow and easy to wake up. Thinking that she would have to write for a day tomorrow, Sanniang turned over, intending to force herself to sleep again.

But the sound of the next room was heard through the curtain.

"It's so late, what's the important thing she has to ask to see now?" There was some impatience in Sun's voice.

"The Fu family is in charge of the affairs of Zhuangzi outside the city, presumably there is something wrong with Zhuangzi." Mama Chang said softly.

"Hmph, let her in, I won't get up."

Mama Chang thought that the old lady brought the old lady from her mother's side to help the whole family, so she answered.

After a while, a hurried footstep rushed in.

"Old lady, it's not good, something happened!" A mother-in-law shouted in horror as she entered the house.

"Shut up! What is it worth your shouting and losing the rules! Sun said angrily.

The woman paused and took a few breaths before continuing: "Old lady, it's really bad, it's a corpse!" ”

"What corpse? Don't be alarmist here! ”

"No, old lady, the slave is not alarmist, yes, it is the rain that cheats her corpse." The woman's voice trembled out of tune.

As soon as this sentence came out, it was as if the pause button had been pressed next door, and there was no sound.

After a long time, Sanniang heard the hoarse voice of the Sun family next door: "Gansong, go and pour a cup of hot tea for the Fushun family to warm up." ”

There was a sound of broken footsteps, followed by the sound of water pouring into the porcelain Gu, and then it was as if Jamansong had handed the tea Gu to the woman's hand. After that, Sanniang seemed to be able to hear the sound of porcelain Gu constantly knocking his teeth.

But no one said a word.

"Tell me, what the hell is going on. If you dare to say half a lie, you don't need me to say, you know my temper. Sun's voice was no longer emotional. ()