Chapter 8: Visitors to the Deserted Garden
The people of the whole city are talking about the recruitment of a son-in-law by the daughter of the Nangong Marquis Mansion, but there are always people who don't care about it.
The old mansion of the Marquis of Ningyuan is overgrown with grass, and in autumn, the green trees and weeds experience a summer of crazy growth, and with the approaching cold, the fragrance fades, revealing a decay that is almost overflowing.
The already ruined walls are even more desolate when there are yellow deciduous grasses and bare black branches everywhere.
Ten years took away not only the prosperity of the Marquis of Ningyuan's mansion at the beginning, but also the memory of the bloody massacre that night.
With the passage of time, the abandoned mansion has gradually dissipated in the memory of the Yongcheng people, and few people will remember that this is the former Ningyuan Marquis Mansion.
A few days after the news of Table Qianqian's recruitment of a son-in-law spread throughout Yongcheng, at dusk on this day, two ragged people stood at the dilapidated gate of the Marquis of Ningyuan's mansion, looking at the desolation of the garden.
"You said you would bring me to get rich, and that's what you said?" One of them was a little younger, with a little childishness on his face, looking at the deep and dilapidated courtyard with a questioning face, "Are a few rotten tiles here worth it?" Or a few pieces of rotten wood that can be used as firewood? ”
"If the rotten tiles and rotten wood were valuable, do you think someone would leave this land for you?" Another slightly older man, covered with dust and unable to see what his face looked like, stomped on the broken bluestone on the ground: "Tell you that the sunspots are worth all here!" ”
"Second master, are you crazy chased by those debt collectors?" Kuroko's man reached out and nudged the man next to him, and asked with a serious face, "Do you know what this place is?" ”
"Hmmm! Of course I do! The second master didn't care, and entered the dilapidated gate in a few steps, and his voice came with the cold wind at dusk, "Isn't it the Ningyuan Marquis Mansion back then?" A family of 280 people was killed overnight. ”
The sunset seems to be no longer attached to this gradually cold earth, the west sinks very fast, the night gradually opens the black curtain, the sunspot looks at the ruins in the twilight, and listens to Mu Erye say "Two hundred and eighty people were killed in one night" When he felt a chill in his back, he couldn't help but shiver.
"You know so many people are still here after they died!" Heizi quickly caught up with Mu Erye, his eyes rolled and looked around vigilantly, for fear that something would jump out of the shadow, "After so many years, this house should have been sold and rebuilt by the imperial court a long time ago, but no one has dared to buy it, do you know why?" ”
"Of course I do!" Mu Erye kept walking in front, his eyes kept staring at the ground, and from time to time he kicked two feet as if he was looking for something, and suddenly stopped Huo turned his head to stare at Erhezi, and said in a trembling voice: "Isn't it just haunted?" ”
"And you're still here?" Erhezi was so frightened that he almost jumped up, after all, he was still young and looked like he was only eleven or twelve years old, his voice was also a little trembling, and he looked at the shadowy black shadows around him and said timidly: "Let's go!" ”
"You have to go, you go!" Mu Erye turned his head and said with a firm attitude: "I'm just a poor ghost, am I still afraid of these things that can't be seen and can't be explained!" ”
As soon as the words fell, a black shadow suddenly flashed behind the half-collapsed shadow wall, and a dark wind blew, and the sunspot was so frightened that his face turned pale, and he couldn't help grabbing Mu Erye's cuffs and said, "Ghost!" Ghost! ”
"What the hell?" Mu Erye grabbed the sunspot and sandwiched it under his armpit, pointed to a black cat behind the shadow wall and said, "I can see clearly that it's a cat!" ”
As he spoke, the sun had completely sunk in the west, and a cold moon had risen in the east. The cold air in the autumn night is pressing, and the rockery in the mansion of the Marquis of Ningyuan is disorderly, and the dilapidated pavilions and pavilions stand in the distance like ghosts, and sometimes there is a cold wind passing by, and the bare branches are whining and screaming like human voices.
The black soul was half frightened, and there was a cold sweat on his head, and the black cat couldn't see its body shape all over, and could only see two eyes like ghost fire shaking in the night.
Heizi's frightened words were incoherent: "You Mu Erye is not afraid of being bold, but my Heizi is timid, I would rather go back to ask for food than do anything here to make a fortune." What's more, those debtors are chasing you and not me, so I'd better go! ”
The sunspot was about to run out, and suddenly the flames outside the gate of the Marquis of Ningyuan's mansion were in flames, dozens of big men were holding torches, and one person led by them only shouted inside: "Mu Eryi, come out quickly, if you don't pay off your debts today, the brothers will block this door and not leave, see if you will be scared to death inside, or will you be starved to death inside?" ”
Mu Erye's original name was Mu Eryi, because the pronunciation is similar, and he is often mixed in the gambling house, and people give him the nickname Mu Erye. In fact, he is not a master at all, he is just a dilapidated settlement who wandered to Yongcheng from other places, and as for where he came from, even the sunspot who has been following him can't say.
Heizi only knew that when he slept in the broken temple a few months ago, when he got up the next day, there was another person in the temple, and it seemed that he had fallen from the sky, and that was him Mu Eryi.
The two had a few meals together, and Kuroko mixed with him, only to find out that Mu Eryi, who was already in ruins, was actually a gambler.
When you have money, you can live in the gambling house, and you can eat a full meal for a few days when you are lucky, and you can't eat a good meal when you lose when you are unlucky, but people who are good gamblers have a stubborn idea, and always feel that they can turn over the next handful, and sometimes they can't help but borrow silver in the gambling house.
Borrowing money sometimes does win these days, not only can you pay off your gambling debts, but you can also eat and drink for a few days, but sometimes it is like hitting a moldy head, and you will lose all your money for a few days.
At this moment, Mu Erye is unlucky, and he even sold the last few clothes on his body that he still looked at.
When the gambling house saw that this guy had reached the end of the mountain, he didn't care about any face, turned his face to collect debts, and chased all the way to the deserted mansion of the Marquis of Ningyuan.
I don't know if he really thinks that he can make a fortune here or if he is chased and has no soul, he actually hid in this Ningyuan Marquis Mansion, which has been deserted for many years, and no one dares to set foot because of the frequent haunting in recent years.
To say that he was chased without a soul and lost his mind, it is not like it. From entering the Ningyuan Marquis Mansion to the present, the sunspot around him is scared and soulless, but he Mu Eryi is very calm.
The people outside shouted for a while, if it weren't for the rumors that they were haunted, they would have rushed in a long time ago.
"It's really haunted!" Mu Erye poked the sunspot beside him badly, and when he saw the sunspot staring at the eyeballs and swallowing his saliva vigorously, he smiled and said, "That!" Look at the debt collectors are coming! ”
Kuroko couldn't smile bitterly, but after being teased like this, his tense nerves finally eased, and he said with a worried face: "Second master, you have one life left now, what do you pay?" Even if you work as a helper with them, the family still thinks you have a lot of food, and I don't think they want you! As he spoke, the look of worry on his face quickly turned into disgust.
"Phew! Who am I! Mu Erye pushed the sunspot and said with thin anger: "I am Mu Erye, so I am also a master!" Help them? They think it's beautiful! ”