Chapter 50: The Burial

"Hellβ€”" The four coffin-bearers dropped the coffin and hurriedly fled, and fled without a trace.

The shadow left by the crow siege in the mountain temple two days ago is still there, and Zhu Yixiang is also frightened and pale, and he knows very well in his heart that he will wait for the crow to make dinner if he doesn't run at this time, but his legs and stomach tremble, and his knees are weak after just taking two steps, and he fell next to the coffin, and he didn't get up after climbing several times. Seeing that the crow that covered the sky and the moon was about to fly up and treat him as a dinner at night, Zhu Yixiang subconsciously closed his eyes and silently recited in his heart, "The Jade Emperor, the Queen Mother, the Mother of the Buddha, the Father-in-law, the Lord of the Thousand Households, who of you will save me......

Just when he thought that everything was over, there was a melodious flute in the night sky, and the sound was poignant and tactful, like crying. The crows lingered over Zhuyi Alley for a while, and then they retreated like a tide.

Zhu Yixiang collapsed next to the coffin and wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, is this a narrow escape? Although he didn't know which way the immortal appeared, anyway, he escaped this catastrophe tonight, just breathed a sigh of relief, he heard a sound behind him, he looked back, they were all familiar faces, seven or eight brocade guards were wearing night clothes, ghosts generally appeared behind him, if he didn't mean to look, he really couldn't find them, Lu Yan and Lu Qianhu were also among them, and at this time they were silently looking at the direction where the crows were going.

One of the brocade guards patted his thigh and said, "Oops! This flock of crows has appeared, why did they retreat again? ”

Lu Yan closed his eyes and listened to the flute, and after a while, he opened his eyes and said, "This flute is a little strange, you go and take a look!" ”

Then there were two or three Jinyi guards who followed the flute according to Lu Yan's instructions, and there were only a few of them left at the scene, Zhu Yixiang really didn't expect Jinyiwei to follow him, but when he saw this group of people, he was unconsciously afraid for a while, Lu Yan's hand was really amazing!

Zhu Yixiang glared at Lu Yan with a pair of resentful eyes, and asked, "Lu Qianhu, let me ask you, am I the 'cicada' in 'Praying Mantis Catching Cicada'?" Or the meat buns that you threw out to beat the dog? ”

Maybe Lu Yan also felt that he was not authentic enough in this matter, and he avoided Zhu Yixiang's questioning gaze a little, and was silent.

But a brocade guard next to him couldn't stand it, and no one dared to speak to their boss in this tone, and said angrily: "Don't be ignorant, if we are not afraid of any danger on your way, we will come over to protect you overnight?" ”

Zhu Yixiang was angry with this sentence and laughed, "Heh! Protect me? Your Jinyiwei's ability to reverse black and white is really perfect, and you are not afraid of flashing your tongue, and you dare to say that it is to protect me, do you still want to be shameless? You have clearly calculated that when I give the green peony a funeral, the other three people of "Wine and Wealth" will definitely appear, and you are here to arrest people! Presumably it was your idea to let me go out after curfew, right? ”

Lu Yan didn't speak, it was a tacit acquiescence!

At this time, Zhu Yixiang was even more angry, stood up and pointed at Lu Yan and said, "Lu Yan, ask yourself how I treat you?" For so many days, how many problems have I solved for you, I want to take credit, I have to work hard, I have to work hard, I have been called by you to drink, I am beaten and scolded, I get up earlier than the chicken, I sleep later than the dog, have I taken a tael of silver from your brocade guard? I don't want to be promoted and make a fortune in the brocade guard, but you can't do this to me, right? Actually threw me out as bait, in case I have three long and two short, anyway, there is no bitter master when people die, and they will end up with a clean ......."

The more Zhu Yixiang talked, the more angry he became, the more aggrieved he became, Lu Yan was nothing, he himself shed tears in anger.

Lu Yan held his arms and waited for Zhu Yixiang to scold, and when his mouth was dry and enough to scold, he took out a few pieces of paper from his sleeve and handed them to Zhu Yixiang, "Although you are bait, I will not let you be in any danger, this will be compensated to you!" ”

Zhu Yixiang wiped the tears on his face, took the pieces of paper handed by Lu Yan suspiciously, looked at the content on them, the aggrieved look on his face was slightly reduced, rolled it into his sleeve, and said: "Even so, I still can't forgive you!" ”

Lu Yan nodded "um", "I don't need your forgiveness!" ”

Zhu Yixiang's slightly softened expression froze on his face again, and today he finally understood that this Blood Yama was not only ruthless, but also hard-hearted and inhumane! God, this face grows on him, it's really a tyrannical thing!

Although Lu Yan said that he didn't need Zhu Yixiang's forgiveness, after all, he was still a little reluctant in his heart, especially when he saw the pear blossoms and rain on Zhu Yixiang's face, after getting along for a while, he found that although Zhu Yixiang didn't have a proper shape on his lips, he was full of obscene/obscene reading, but sometimes he was still a child, in fact, he didn't hate it after getting along for a long time! So he asked Jinyiwei to help Zhu Yixiang carry the coffin of the green peony to the mass grave.

The moon stars are scarce, and several people found a vacant lot in the large and small mounds of mass graves, dug a big pit, and buried the coffin of the green peony here.

Died of an accident, the cemetery was in a mass grave, the coffin fell to the ground on the road, and the child was buried, and all the unlucky things were caught up by the green peony, but she could not be regarded as a good person during her lifetime, and there were no descendants left in the world, so there was no need to avoid these, Zhu Yixiang set up a wooden tablet in front of her grave, which was very simple, and it was written "The tomb of Mu Xiaoniang, the daughter of the Mu family"

Her real name, Zhu Yixiang also just learned that the pieces of paper that Lu Yan just gave him were the life experience of Green Peony, and knowing Lu Yan these days is the most humane thing he has done!

As Green Peony herself said, she turned out to be a young lady of the official eunuch family, his father studied hard for ten years to enter the imperial examination, once achieved the position of the prefect of the five grades, because he was not used to the emperor's superstitious Taoism, all day long cultivating immortals and refining pills and ignoring the government, and more worried about the traitorous ministers to deceive the saint and disrupt the court, so he wrote a letter of advice, and soon after the Lord Mu was framed for accepting bribes, corrupt the law, issued an edict, and was executed after the autumn, and Miss Mu, who was eight years old at the time, was sent to the Department of Education.

Women in this era generally began to wrap their little feet at the age of four or five, and the three-inch golden lotus, which had endured great pain little by little, had already taken shape at the age of eight. After entering the teaching department, Miss Mu forced herself to let go of her feet, and used a rolling pin to smooth out her deformed feet little by little, and practiced that peerless light skill.

When she was sixteen years old, she finally killed the official who framed his father, and chopped up the body little by little, threw it into the pigsty, fed the pigs, and she was wanted by the imperial court, and then went incognito to the rivers and lakes, under the pseudonym Green Peony.

Zhu Yixiang burned those pieces of paper to the flame in front of the grave of Green Peony, Green Peony is actually a poor person, it is this world that has changed her from a young lady raised in the deep boudoir to a murderous female Jiangyang thief. At the same time, Zhu Yixiang also admires the green peony, in the face of this filthy world, she did not choose to be obedient and resigned to fate, but raised the butcher knife of resistance, even if the fish died in the end!

Lu Yan stood not far from Zhuyi Lane, looking at his expression, like an infatuated lover confessing in front of the grave of his beloved woman, and suddenly asked, "Do you really like this woman?" She approached you with a purpose from the beginning, and I don't believe that with your cleverness, you will not be able to see her clumsy acting skills! ”

Zhu Yixiang added a handful of paper money to the fire, smiled bitterly, and said slowly: "I don't know, maybe there are no twists and turns later, I and her are just a dewy marriage, maybe they will forget about each other overnight, I really didn't expect that she was the Jiangyang thief who robbed the army five years ago, at the beginning I actually planned to listen to the truth with her, it is not easy for anyone to make a living in this world, especially these Qinglou women, pitiful, if she is not a big traitor, she will be persuaded to go on the right path, I didn't expect you to arrest people so cleanly! Maybe I'm too pitiful and can't resist the temptation in the face of beauty, anyway, I can't sit idly by, even if I let her go better in the end, I want to do my best! ”

Lu Yan looked at the bright moon in the night sky, in fact, after seeing the green peony is life experience, he couldn't help but feel a sense of being connected to the same fate, undoubtedly he was much luckier than her, at least when his father died, he was already an adult, and after arriving in the capital, he met the noble person in his life, and now he has the ability and opportunity to investigate the death of this father.

And what about eight-year-old Miss Mu? After she lost her parents, she had to face the cold wind and rain of this world alone, and it was the imperial court that forced her onto the road of Jiangyang thieves.

She hates those corrupt officials and corrupt officials, hates this black and white upside-down court, and hates even more the emperor who is high up in the cultivation and alchemy! Why don't you hate? If he hadn't met that noble man in the capital back then, maybe today he is also a Jiangyang thief in the rivers and lakes, and he will also pour dirty water on the court after his father's death, and the villains who were framed and framed were slaughtered and fed to the wild dogs.

Wu Dayong put away the flute and turned around, and a ghostly black shadow was standing behind him, the cold tip of the sword against his throat.

This person was clearly standing in front of Wu Dayong, but his low and hoarse voice seemed to come from another world, with the smell of death, "Why did you stop me from killing Zhu Yixiang?" ”

The crow seldom spoke, and Rao had known him for so many years, and he still felt creepy when he heard his voice.

Another person came out of the woods, with a round figure, like a tumbler sold on the street, with a smile on his face that was full of kindness, and said: "He is not stopping you from killing Zhu Yixiang, but saving your life, otherwise you will become the second green peony tonight!" ”