Chapter 7: The Dark Room
For Hui Niang, she misses a lot of people.
She admired her mother-in-law, who had only been with her for just two months, and heard that she was a weak and strong woman, the one who calculated in every way and hoped that she would live well, and the person she lost forever and missed the most.
She respects the old class master and his wife, treats them as parents to be filial, when she was young, she was punished for not learning the play well, she was wronged, she wanted her mother to come back to life, she wanted her father to appear and take her away, when she knelt, the brothers were willing to kneel with her, there were people everywhere, she cried and cried and laughed. Afterwards, the head of the class owner's wife rubbed her bruised knees with medicinal wine, and the old head picked the eggs in his bowl for her, she thought that she had a family, and the old class owner and his wife were not fathers and mothers, but also a group of brothers and sisters.
There are people in the troupe who don't have a father like her, but her father is still what she has fantasized about countless times.
When Dad really appeared, she unexpectedly and firmly said that she would not leave.
Her father abandoned her mother back then, and she didn't want to follow him!
Dong Jiaban has her relatives, as well as people she likes!
But she ended up leaving.
"It was the young master who took the initiative to let Hui Niang go." Uncle Liu has always been unable to agree with the decision Dong Yuanyuan made at the beginning, knowing that he was thinking about Hui Niang, no one can know the result when making a decision, but it is indeed he who has harmed Hui Niang for the rest of his life. Hui Niang is a woman who is content with the present, not greedy for glory and wealth, and wholeheartedly supports the Dong family class and is a bride-to-be.
The palms and backs of his hands were full of meat, and he admitted that Dong Yuanyuan had done something wrong.
Everyone didn't want Hui Niang to go, Dong Yuanyuan stopped him, but he couldn't stand people playing yin.
"Her father secretly kidnapped Hui Niang, and the young master and I came to the door, and he persuaded him bitterly... What about singing to Pear Flower Garden, the drama will always be a play, and it will be a ninth-rate thing for people to enjoy all their lives. His daughter is the daughter of a good family, and she is different from us. ”
After the death of the singer, he cannot enter the ancestral grave and cannot be written into the family tree, which is a lowly profession in the world.
Where's the low?
If this is the case, Hui Niang will not be begged to be sent to the Dong family's class, and the door that her mother can't enter the most is the door that she resolutely left behind.
But Dong Yuanyuan wavered.
When he was young, he kept saying that he wanted to break into a world, leaving his hometown to get more places, and the insults he received increased.
The most hateful thing is that there are nobles who covet the beauty of Hui Niang.
Can he stop it once, stop it twice, stop it a third time, and stop it a third time, a fourth time?
What made him stick to it was the original intention, and it was the applause from the audience.
"When he saw that the young master was shaken, he gave the young master a sweetener and persuaded him to get out of this business and do a serious business, if he could gain a firm foothold in Luoyang within five years, he would marry Hui Niang to the young master, and let them marry in a beautiful manner!"
"But there were twists and turns." Yuan Jiyue had already guessed what was going to happen next when she heard this.
To give up opera or to give up Hui Niang, he has already made a choice. A stick and a sweet date, coaxed him to disband the Dong family class and turn to business, a stunned young man who has been focusing on a skill for 18 years, and suddenly crashed into a field that he has never been in contact with, and he must have been fooled. She knows that learning drama is very hard, Dong Yuanyuan is not afraid of hardships and does not lack perseverance, coupled with the strength to work hard to break into today's rich family property.
Gold and silver treasures are not what he wants, he only wants to hold the beauty. In the end, the beauty has become another wife, and the breath that hovers in his heart has not been gone away for a long time, and he has been sick since then.
"Because Hui Niang and her father are a liar."
"What excuse did he use to regret it after five years?"
Uncle Liu's words were loud: "Why five years? Four years, our young master only took four years. ”
Dong Yuanyuan wanted to try a few jobs, but after all, it was not a long-term solution, and the salary was not much. The troupe was disbanded, but the brothers couldn't drink the northwest wind together, everyone he brought out followed him, and dozens of people were deceived when they joined forces, and gradually found out the way and started a fat powder business.
The horns will put on powder, and the most special oil paint is not used by ordinary people, but the fat powder girl's family always can't resist. One stall and two stalls, with the money to rent a small shop, one shop and two shops, bought the title deed and bought a house.
In his heart, he felt that Dong Yuanyuan was a miracle.
He has been studying with the old class master for half his life, and he has been working hard with the new class master for half his life. The brothers in the past took their own shares, and the shopkeeper got dividends, and he also had them, but he was still willing to follow Dong Yuanyuan to take care of him, volunteered to be a housekeeper, and changed his title from the class master to the young master.
"Not to mention four years, from the beginning he didn't plan to marry Hui Niang to the young master. A month after Hui Niang recognized her ancestors and returned to their ancestors, there was a happy event in their house, Hui Niang's eldest sister married the eldest young master of Lin Mansion, and it was rumored that they were a natural pair of talented women, and the dowry occupied two streets, and the sound of firecrackers was very noisy! Uncle Liu put his hands into his cuffs, his smile was full of ridicule and self-mockery of others, and the hand hidden in his sleeve clasped the flesh on his arm, "Who knows if it's not the eldest girl who marries, it's our Hui Niang." The Lin family has money and power, but the eldest young master is about to die, and he wants to be happy, and after combining the eight characters, he named the eldest girl, her father is reluctant, but there is no way, they have seen it all, the Lin family knows what the eldest girl looks like, and they can't find someone to replace it, at this juncture, Hui Niang simply fell from the sky, and she looks ninety percent similar to the eldest girl! ”
Her father was a cold-blooded man. has no feelings for the girl Bai picked up, and insists on admitting that she just wants to save her own pearl.
Steal the dragon and turn the phoenix into a phoenix, and play a good hand.
Is it bad to blame Hui Niang's life? looks like her father.
It's ridiculous that they only found out after four years that the sisters were transferred.
He said in person that he originally wanted to take Hui Niang away by force, but when the young master looked for it, he wanted to tease this stupid boy, just to play with him. When the truth was revealed, he tore his father's face, laughed at our young master, and said that if he wore a costume, he would never be able to take off this layer of skin in his life! Not only low, but stupid! The young master has nothing left, and he threw away the drama that the ancestors had sung for a hundred years, and he has been in a state of collapse ever since. ”
If Dong Yuanyuan hadn't been persuaded at first, he would have looked at Hui Niang who was crying and shaking her head at him, and hadn't resolutely turned around and stepped out of the threshold, everything would have been different.
It's a big deal to fight for your life, even if you are beaten to death.
It's better than more than ten years of half-dead.
How many times have I dreamed of returning to Guixiang City, he hated and loved the word "play", regretted and ashamed, and saw no one mention the play for the rest of his life, and after adopting Dong Manman, he didn't let him touch the play, and cultivated him in the direction of a noble son, which was completely different from himself.
One day many years ago, when the sun was setting, a young boy came out of the jewelry shop, holding a wooden box with a smile on his face.
"On the day I left Guixiang City, the young master went to make a set of gold ornaments as a dowry according to our customs, and planned to give it to Hui Niang after singing in the pear flower garden, and hairpins were one of them. It wasn't until the day of Hui Niang's death and funeral that the young master quietly went to put the dowry into her coffin. ”
There was no shortage of funeral goods in the coffin, but a box of gold that was not valuable in a pile of treasures was not there. Hui Niang climbed out of the coffin and only took it with her.
Resting his hand lightly on the cold coffin, he felt a surge of hope rise in his heart.
"Zombies... Is it sane? ”
Ask while knowing the answer.
Hui Niang bit Dong Yuanyuan.
"Then how could she remember to take the young master's dowry away?"
Bad fate.
"Let's go meet it." Yuan Jiyue replied to the question, "Everything will be clear then." ”
If she still has a trace of humanity, will the immortal master kill her?
Uncle Liu closed the lid of the coffin and did not ask.
To put it mildly, the human world often experiences wars and the invasion of demons and monsters, and to put it mildly, people will be approached by many thieves and enemies, and many people will build dark rooms and secret passages at home in case of emergency. The Dong Mansion will not be an exception, it has a total of fifty-six large and small houses on the surface, and it is difficult to say it secretly.
The dark room can save lives at critical moments, and it is often built in the master's room, or in a hidden place, and Yuan Jiyue has found it in the room where Dong Yuanyuan lives, but there is no mechanism.
The dark room of the Dong Mansion was built in another bedroom.
The bedroom was far from the room where all of them lived, and the door was locked. There are only two keys to the lock, one in Dong Yuanyuan's hand and one in Liu Bo's hand.
The interior of the room is very wide and sunny, without any sundries, only four walls, because the walls have not been cleaned for a long time, the cobwebs on the walls are hung, and the floor is covered with a thick layer of dust. There are footprints on the ground trapped in the dust, one large and one small, staggered in two rows, stretching from the door to the corner of the wall, some positive and some negative, obviously left by people walking back and forth.
There is a secret door in the corner.
It could have been covered up with decorations, but it stood out in the empty room at the moment.
Behind the door is a long staircase leading to the ground.
Step by step, I went down one step at a time, and when I landed, I was already three meters deep from the ground.
It is surrounded by solid stone walls, which form a long dark passage, and it is impossible to see where the exit is.
When they left, they were quietly unaware, and when they returned, they were greeted only by pitch black. The two of them entered the dark passage one after the other, and after walking for about half an hour, Uncle Liu stopped first, turned around and faced the wall on the left, what he was facing was no longer a wall, it was a door, a thick stone door that was a person high, and the door was bare without carved patterns.
"If you go any further, you can get out of the house." Uncle Liu didn't go forward anymore, and lowered his voice very softly, "This room with a secret passage is the master bedroom, but because the first master gave it a name with a guizi, the young master didn't live there." ”
If he wants to guess where Hui Niang will be hidden, he can only think of this.
He took the lamp and shone it on the mechanism next to the door.
With a single touch, the door will open.
Yuan Jiyue pulled him away from the door and protected him behind him. Slowly, he put his hand on the protruding mechanism and grasped the flute at his waist.
She pressed it.