The family was already living in poverty, and there were not many candles left, so Yu Zhenyan didn't dare to waste it, so he only picked the wick again and again.

She was sewing her clothes there, and she heard a cry outside, and the mixture of women and children sounded very miserable.

Yu Zhiyan suddenly remembered the words of the little ring, and suddenly trembled in fright, and the tip of the needle suddenly pierced her fingertips.

She hurriedly walked outside the house, but saw a few blood-red handprints on the door outside, Yu Zhiyan was so frightened that she hurriedly closed the door and hid in the house.

However, there were still knocks on the door outside, which made Yu Zhiyan more and more frightened, lying in the quilt and not daring to move.

I don't know how long later, a sound of footsteps sounded in the house, she trembled and lifted the quilt, trembling and asked, "Who?" ”

Gu Jue was startled when she heard her trembling voice, and hurriedly walked over to check, but saw that under the faint light, her little face was pale and her eyes were full of fear.

"What's wrong with you?"

When Yu Zhiyan heard his voice, it seemed that he had grasped a life-saving straw, and he didn't even have time to put on his shoes, so he suddenly threw himself into his arms.

His chest hurt from her hit, and he ran his hand through her bun, "What's wrong?" ”

She said in a terrifying voice: "Donglang, there are ghosts and ghosts in the house. ”

"Folding cigarettes." Gu Jue called her name softly, "There are no ghosts in this world, it's just that you are scaring yourself, you are not even afraid of that fierce and evil person, how can you be so afraid of ghosts." ”

Yu Zhiyan hurriedly told Dong Lang about today's events, but after hearing this, he hurriedly pulled her to the door, holding the bright red handprint, but laughed, "Look, it's just chicken blood, and there are chicken feathers on it." ”

After she saw it clearly, she realized that she had been tricked, and her face couldn't help but turn red with anger, and she couldn't wait to put on the knife and go to the little ring to fight hard.

Gu Jue hurriedly tugged at her sleeve, her face full of treacherous smiles, "Have you learned the art of war, do you know how to plan?" ”

Yu Zhiyan's face was full of confusion, she just read the Four Books and Five Classics, where did she know what art of war.

"I have a plan for you to punish those people properly." Gu Jue lowered her head and whispered a few words in her ear, and Yu Zhiyan was full of adoration after listening to it.

"Please bow down to the disciples." She leaned over respectfully, "No wonder you have made great military exploits, and you are actually a non-toxic husband." ”

Hearing her praise like this, Dong Lang nodded her forehead hurriedly, "You stupid person can't even praise people." ”

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There are almost all the people in the village, and when they came together in the morning, they heard that Yu Zhiyan died suddenly yesterday because of excessive fright.

Before Gu Jue left for work, he deliberately went to Qiao Niang's house to find a broken mat and wrap Yu Zhe's cigarette, and then just waited for a few days to park at home and then go to bury it.

And when Gu Jue went to find the mat, he still showed sadness, only saying how painful Yu Zhiyan was before he died, and said that he would turn into a ghost and come back to report

Enmity.

And that Xiaohuan also heard about it, she was just a woman's family, and she was also scared when she saw that something had caused a fatality.

So he hurriedly found those women to come to Yu Zhiyan's house, still carrying melons and fruits and other things in their hands, just thinking about worshipping, and they were afraid that Yu Zhiyan would come back to settle accounts with them.

Xiaohuan came to the house, but saw a wooden board parked in the house, and there was a broken mat on it, presumably Yu Zhiyan's body was wrapped in it.

"Don't blame us, it's you who can't help but be scared, and it's not our turn to take revenge." Xiaohuan put the basket in his hand on the ground, "You are also suffering when you are exiled here, it is better to go early and be relieved." ”

As soon as Xiaohuan finished speaking, the women behind him also started talking, for fear that Yu Zhiyan would seek revenge against them.

At this moment, a very eerie voice suddenly came from the mat, "You killed me." ”

The women were so frightened that they almost fell to the ground, and their legs were so frightened that they didn't even dare to run away.

They looked at the mat with trepidation, but saw that the corpse inside slowly crawled out, and the dead Yu Zhiyan's face was covered with blood, and his messy hair was also scattered, looking very hideous and terrifying.

Yu Zhiyan pointed to Xiaohuan with his finger, "You killed me." ”

Xiaohuan was so frightened that her face was pale, and she pointed to a woman behind her and cried: "It's her, she pretended to be a ghost to scare you last night, and it has nothing to do with me." ”

When the woman heard that she had been betrayed, she immediately pointed to Xiaohuan and said, "She gave me thirty copper plates to do this." ”

Seeing them like this, Yu Zhiyan held back the laughter in his heart, pointed at those people and said, "You kowtow to me three times, otherwise I will eat you now." ”

Those few people hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, but just after knocking two, Yu Zhiyan couldn't hold back anymore, and laughed out loud.

Only then did the women know that they had been fooled, and they hurriedly stood up and looked at Yu Zhiyan angrily, "You-"

Yu Zhiyan wiped the fishy chicken blood on his face with his sleeve, and then sneered: "What a fool, I think you have so much courage." ”

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Since that day pretending to be a ghost to scare those women, Yu Zhiyan's days have become more and more difficult, and he has to fish by the stream every day and change some copper plates to barely support his family.

And Dong Lang can take home very little rice and noodles, and he can't feed the two of them at all.

As the sun sets, the birds return to the forest, everything seems so quiet and beautiful, Yu Zhiyan only caught two and a half pound of fish, and then had to go home.

On the road, he saw that the wild dates on the side of the road were ripe, so he hurriedly climbed to the tree and picked them.

She was picking up her strength when she heard the sound of horses, and when she looked down, it was a carriage galloping.

Who knew that she stepped on the wrong branch under her feet, only to hear a "click" The branch broke, and she fell to the ground along with the jujube branch.

The carriage stopped in time, but she was very embarrassed, covered with leaves, and the fish in the basket fell out, jumping wildly on the dirty ground.

And at this moment, a pair of white hands slowly stretched out in front of her, and she handed her hand to him without thinking about it.

That hand was so cold, even though the climate in Lingnan was extremely hot, that person's hand was still as cold as a piece of ice.

Yu Zhiyan just stood up, but saw that the person who helped him up had a silver mask on his face, although he couldn't see his appearance clearly, but those dark eyes were like the most beautiful stars in the sky.

At this time, a man who got down from the carriage said angrily when he saw Yu Zhiyan: "You don't know how to live or die, you actually disturbed Lord Ning's carriage, what should you be guilty of." ”

Yu Zhiyan raised his head, but saw Wu Tongshan with an angry face, Yu Zhiyan remembered that he was the Taishou here, and when Gu Jue and Yu Zhiyan first came, he also sent it.

She didn't know what kind of character this Lord Ning was, and she didn't want to offend others, so she just quickly picked up her fish and left.

However, there was a fish that seemed to be against her, and she couldn't catch it several times, which made her sweat profusely.

That Wu Tong's face was pale, and he only said: "Don't worry about your broken fish, don't hurry up and get out of the way." ”

At this moment, the hands grabbed the fish hidden in the mud, and then handed it to Yu Zhiyan, but did not say a word.

Yu Zhiyan hurriedly stretched out his back basket, and then smiled brightly. "Lord Shainin—"

Feng Huang behind the mask gently pursed the corners of his lips, and a pair of eyes seemed to be glued to Yu Zhiyan's body, and he didn't move away for a long time.

He had never seen such a cigarette before, and she was wearing a linen dress with patches sewn into the cuffs.

And there is no hairpin ring on his body, and he only has a braid on his head, which hangs from behind his ears to his waist. And her eyes are full of bright and bright, even her smile is so happy, and even her voice is so sweet.

Feng Huang never thought that she would live so happily in this poor and remote place, as if the rich and noble life of being drunk and spending money was just her once, and this place belonged to her.

Seeing that he had been staring at him for so long, Yu Zhiyan couldn't help glaring at him with anger on his face, but he still thought of something.

"This adult can buy fish, why don't I sell it to you cheaper?" Yu Zhiyan said with a smile.

Most of the fish she caught was carried by the big cow to the town to sell, and since the distinguished customer bumped into it today, why not find a big one.

Wu Tongshan's face can no longer be seen, if the women in the village see the man, they will not hide, only this woman is shameless in business.

She very skillfully dragged a piece of hay from the side of the road, then threaded it out of the fish's mouth, tied it quickly, and then handed it to Feng Huang, "Just one or two silver." ”

Wu Tongshan said angrily: "Roll on, you are deceiving people in front of Lord Ben, your fish is not even worth half a copper, you can buy a basket of silver for one or two silver." ”

However, Feng Huang waved his hand, and then the guard next to the carriage came over, and then took out a gold ingot from his arms and handed it to Yu Zhiyan's hand.

Yu Zheyan held it in his hand, but his face was full of sadness, "I can't find you, with so much money, there is really no place to find it for you." ”

The guard glanced at Feng Huang, and then said, "The rest will be rewarded by my family." ”

This ingot of silver is enough to make her live a big fish and meat for a while, she was overjoyed, and hurriedly reached out and handed the fish in her hand to the man wearing the mask, "Lord Xie, you will definitely live a long life, and have many children and grandchildren——"

Hearing this, a faint laugh suddenly came from behind the mask, and if there was nothing, Yu Zhiyan thought that he had heard it wrong.

She clutched the gold tightly in her hand, and then ran away for fear that he would regret it.

It wasn't until her back disappeared into the vast mountains that Feng Huang turned his head and said to Wu Tongshan, who was thoughtful beside him: "Let's go." ”

Wu Tongshan smiled and said, "Lord Ning likes this girl, but it's a pity that she is an exile and is already someone else's wife." ”

Although Feng Huang's voice was gentle, it was still distant, "I don't have as much as you think, this beauty is naturally everyone's favorite, isn't it?" ”

The sunset stretched Yu Zhiyan's figure very long, the mountains and rivers here were far away, only two mountains away from her thatched house, but she had to walk for an hour.

The gold in her hand was a little hot when she grabbed it, but she was full of joy, almost jumping to the house, and even the sour dates in her mouth felt sweet.

However, as she passed a mountain, she faintly heard the cry of a small beast, which sounded like the voice of a tiger.

This made Yu Zhiyan suddenly creepy, often heard that there were tigers eating people in this mountain, and even Gu Jue had killed a tiger, but she had never even seen a tiger hair.

Now she is alone by herself, this thin body, the tiger is only afraid of searching for her teeth.

She looked around in horror, only to find that the sound was coming from behind the grass, but it was not loud, as if it was very painful.

Yu Zhiyan had the courage to push away the grass, but saw that it was the hunter's trap with a small tiger in it, its front legs were already bloody, and it looked very painful.

She didn't want to meddle in her affairs, but when the tiger's pitiful little eyes looked at her, her heart was not assertive.

If the hunter had come, it would have been skinned.

In the end, Yu Zhiyan still loaded the tiger into the back basket behind him and carried it back home.

She found the cage in which the rabbit had been raised, put the tiger cub in it, and tied its wounds with strips of cloth. He chopped up the fish stored in the tank and fed it to it.

The little creature was so hungry that he ate three whole fish before he licked his mouth and slept quietly.

In the evening, Gu Jue came back, and when he saw Yu Zhiyan's face full of joy, as if he had picked up gold, he couldn't help but say: "I saw you sad yesterday, why are you so happy today." ”

Yu Zhiyan was holding the food in the pot, and then took out a gold ingot from his cuff, and said with a happy face: "Donglang, look at what this is?" ”

Dong Lang took it, only glanced at it and frowned, "Where did you get such a lot of gold?" ”

"Ran into a fool." Yu Zhiyan smiled proudly, "I sold him two fish, and then gave these gold, thinking that God saw me and was pitiful, and he actually gave me a windfall." ”

Gu Jue turned over the gold, but saw the mark underneath, "This is official silver, who did you sell it to?" ”

Yu Zhiyan thought about it, shook his head and said: "Then Wu Tongshan called him Lord Ning, and he had such a respectful and respectful attitude, obviously his official position is not low, but he is a fool." ”

Gu Jue only felt that this matter was not so simple, but Yu Zhiyan had already set the meal, so he put the gold and was about to walk to the dining table, but he frowned and looked at the fish in the tank.

"Have you sold all the fish you keep in it? Why isn't there a single copper plate in the bowl? He just asked casually, but Yu Zhiyan bit his lip with a weak face.

He never asked about the money in his family, but he didn't expect to ask, which made Yu Zhiyan a little strange.

As he spoke, he had already walked to the table, and had already eaten the rice, and the flames of the candles shining on his face made him look a little unreal.

Yu Zhiyan asked tentatively, "Donglang, what if I pick up a young tiger?" ”

Gu Jue glanced up at her, Qingjun's face was inexplicable, "The color of the fur is good, if it is good, it may be worth some silver taels." ”

She bit her chopsticks tightly, and then said, "If you have one at home—"

After Gu Jue finished eating the food in his mouth, he frowned and said, "I can't even support myself, and I still have the heart to feed a tiger, isn't it crazy, you won't-"

Yu Zhiyan shook his head nervously, "No, nothing." ”

Gu Jue mistakenly thought that Yu Zhiyan was timid, and when he saw a tiger, he could scare half his life, how could he pick it up and raise it himself, so he didn't take her words to heart.

When Dong Lang lay down on the bed, he saw Yu Zhiyan weighing the gold in his hand, and couldn't help frowning: "Look at you like that, you look like a greedy ghost." ”

Yu Zhiyan heard the ridicule in his mouth, and put the gold under the pillow stupidly, for fear of losing it, very cautious.

Dong Lang tilted his head to look at him, and suddenly smiled, "What are you doing there, I'm not afraid of waking up tomorrow and my neck is crooked." ”

Yu Zhiyan glared at him fiercely, just lying on the pillow, refusing to pay attention to his taunts.

Gu Jue blew out the candle on the side, hugged Yu Zheyan in his arms, and was about to fall asleep, but vaguely heard a small sound outside.

All the drowsiness disappeared suddenly, he shook the cigarette beside him, and then said, "There is movement in the yard, you wait in the house, I'll go out and take a look." ”

Yu Zhiyan knew that it must be the little tiger he picked up who made a fuss, so he only grabbed his arm, "Maybe it's a hare, it's better to rest earlier, why bother with that." ”

Dong Lang had already put on his clothes, and then said with a vigilant face: "Didn't your rabbit be taken and sold a long time ago, I look like the voice of a tiger, you are waiting in the house." ”

She really couldn't think of a better reason, so she could only watch him push the door and leave, still carrying the rusty kitchen knife in his hand.

Yu Zhiyan was afraid that he would kill his tiger, so he hurriedly took the fire fold and lit the candle, but as soon as his feet stepped on the ground, he saw the ground

There were a pair of onyx bead-like eyes looking at her.

She was so frightened that the candle in her hand almost fell out, and when she saw it clearly, she was surprised and delighted, it turned out that the little tiger actually came in through the crack in the door, and Gu Jue didn't see it when she went out.

Yu Zhiyan was so frightened that he hurriedly blew out the candle, then hid the tiger cub in the bed, and lay back on the bed.

The tiger cub was quiet behind her, and remained still, perhaps asleep.

Gu Jue, who was patrolling outside, also came back, his thin lips pursed tightly, and he seemed to be very displeased.

"I heard that there was movement, why didn't I find it." He frowned, and went back to the bed to lay down, and by the moonlight, he could faintly see that her cheeks were covered with fine sweat.

"What's wrong, isn't it scared?" As he approached her, a strong manly aura enveloped her, "I'll set a few traps at home tomorrow night, and if those beasts come, they won't hurt you." ”

Yu Zhiyan nodded slowly, "Well, go to sleep." ”

Gu Jue lay down on the bed at this time, but saw that she was short of breath, for fear that she would be frightened, so he turned around and hugged her in his arms.

The moment his hand wrapped around her waist, his face changed dramatically, and he sat up from the bed.

A cool breeze came in, Yu Zhiyan couldn't help but shiver, and hurriedly asked, "What's the matter?" ”

His voice was a mixture of bewilderment and disbelief, and he said, "Why do you have a tail?" ”

Yu Zhiyan knew that something was wrong, but he was afraid that he would touch the tiger's tail, so he couldn't help but start sloppy, "What kind of nonsense are you talking about, can I still become a fox spirit." ”

Gu Jue was willing to give up, only lit the candle again with a fire fold, "I obviously touched it, is it still wrong, you stand up and I'll take a look." ”

Seeing this, Yu Zhiyan even hugged the quilt together, and the tiger was wrapped in the quilt, although it was a little chaotic, it was still suppressed by Yu Zhiyan.

He rummaged through the bed and under the bed, and sure enough, there was nothing, so he also felt that he had touched the wrong thing just now, so he asked Yu Zhiyan to spread the quilt, and the two of them went to sleep.

It's just half a pillar of incense, and Yu Zhiyan's heart is like a few times in the oil pot.

After such a fuss, Gu Jue was already sleepy and talked about it, until Gu Jue's steady breathing came from beside her, and she breathed a deep sigh of relief.

The little tiger also fell asleep at her hand, clinging to her like a cat, and Yu Zhiyan touched its prickly hair, and gradually fell asleep.

Gu Jue was asleep, and he only felt that something was kissing his face, accompanied by the sound of shallow breathing, he only thought it was Yu Zhiyan.

"Stop making a fuss." Gu Jue closed his eyes and sighed softly, "I'm very tired, but it's the first time you've taken such an initiative, and now it's like you've been given a vixen." ”

However, as soon as his words fell, he sensed that something was wrong, and a pair of eyes opened suddenly.

The thing actually licked its own face, and the spiky tongue was human.

Gu Jue woke up suddenly, but his right hand suddenly picked up the thing, and then slammed it to the ground.

With a terrible scream, Gu Jue sat up and saw a young tiger lying on the ground, howling in pain, as if it had fallen in pain.

Yu Zhiyan was also woken up, and when he opened his eyes, he saw the little tiger struggling painfully on the ground, and couldn't help but step on Gu Jue's body, only ran to the ground, picked up the tiger, and hugged it in his arms.

At this time, Gu Jue understood and knew that this thing was raised by Yu Zhiyan, but she didn't expect her to deceive him like this, so she couldn't help but get angry and went straight to the rusty kitchen knife.

Yu Zhiyan was inspecting the wound of the little tiger, but saw that the cloth strip was full of blood, thinking that Gu Jue had broken its wound again, and couldn't help but feel distressed on his face.

"Let me slaughter this beast." Gu Jue walked over slowly with a kitchen knife, his voice was full of coldness.

"Nope." Yu Zhiyan hugged it in his arms, if you dare to hurt it, you will kill me first.

"Do you know how much this beast's fur is worth, and don't let it go?" She obviously likes money the most, why can't she be reluctant to do so.