Chapter 8: The Tragedy
It's already the third watch, Mrs. Chang is still lying in bed and can't sleep, Chang Chunze has been out for so long, and he hasn't come back until now, Chang Yuan is still not feeling well, she went to bed early, and she can't go out of the house to find someone herself, so she can only just do it and wait.
In normal times, she would not be so anxious, Chang Chunze already loves wine, and it is not impossible to stay awake all night, but after experiencing a few days of strange things, now she is like thousands of ants pouring into her body, and her whole body is numb and painful, and she is restless.
The flame of the oil lamp moved a few times, illuminating a shadow outside the window, and Mrs. Chang sat up from the couch suddenly, "Chunze, is it you?" ”
The people outside did not speak, but suddenly cried mournfully, this cry, his head seemed to be unable to support his neck, and the "wheel" suddenly rolled to the ground.
Mrs. Chang almost screamed, she had already recognized from this cry that it was her husband, and seeing that his head was missing all of a sudden, she got up from the bed without thinking, pushed open the door and rushed outside.
There was a pool of blood in the open space in front of the window, but Chang Chunze didn't know where he went, Mrs. Chang knelt on the ground, tremblingly stretched out a hand, and dipped it in the blood, trying to determine if it was real or just her dream.
The blood was warm, apparently not long after it came out, so who did it belong to? Is it really his own official?
The back was cold, and a wet body was pasted, "Run..... Run, get out of here, she'...... It's already here......"
"Haruzawa." Mrs. Chang turned her head sharply, only to find that there was nothing behind her. The oil lamp in the room moved twice, and she suddenly saw a person sitting at the table, who was petite, dressing up in front of the mirror, combing his hair and humming while humming: "The dragon boat is swaying in the east and the east, and the red on Cailian Lake is even redder." The wave is faint, the water is soluble, and the slave is not connected to the lotus road. West Lake South Lake Doucai boat, green pu purple lily full of Zhongzhou. The waves are misty, the water is long, and the king is long lived. ”
Mrs. Chang shook her two legs, which were almost completely softened, and barely stood up against the wall, "Yuan'er, Yuan'er......"
Chang Yuan turned his head at her, raised his eyes slightly, and slanted a pair of black shiny eyeballs to the corners of his eyes, "Mother, my father has been killed by me, do you want to know how he died?" ”
Mrs. Chang opened her mouth, and let out a few desperate "ahhhh
She was just about to rush into the house, but saw Chang Yuan pick up the butterfly jade hairpin in his right hand and gently insert it into his bun. The jade hairpin reflected the lights, fainting a strange light, stinging Mrs. Chang's eyes.
She suddenly felt a tightness in her neck, and her limbs spread wide in all directions as if they were being pulled by something. The force became bigger and heavier, and her veins were broken one by one, and her skin was stretched into a transparent pale.
If she could scream, Mrs. Chang would definitely let out a burst of miserable howls that resounded through the world now, but her neck was also pulled, and all the breath in her throat was pressed out, and she couldn't make any sound.
"Poof", the junction of the arm and the shoulder took the lead in cracking a big hole, and the blood-red texture and thick blood vessels in the mouth were even more shocking against the background of the dark night. There was another "poof", the blood vessels burst, and blood spilled all over the window, turning into a strange flower.
Chang Yuan sat in the house, watching his mother's blood paint the window paper red, and when the last limb was broken, the blood on the window paper had accumulated too much, soaking it all, and it was blown by the wind, and a hole was easily broken, and blood beads flew in from the hole, spilling all over his face.
The corners of Chang Yuan's mouth moved slightly, "Father said that he couldn't sleep without you to warm the bed, so you just die in one place and go to the underworld to be a pair of mandarin ducks." He took the butterfly jade hairpin off his head, and the jade hairpin was glued with blood droplets, and the color turned crimson, as if it had absorbed blood, and its strange light dyed Chang Yuan's eyeballs red, flickering and dimming, like a precursor to madness.
In a dilapidated house a mile away, Old Man Tian suddenly woke up from his sleep, and before he could open his eyes, he felt a bright red outside his eyelids. When he opened his eyes, he saw that the butterfly jade hairpin that was cast a few days ago was leaning firmly next to the pillow, and the strange light emitted by his body was disappearing little by little.
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"The Permanent Division hasn't come yet?" Cheng Muyou looked at Jiang Xixi, who was standing aside, and asked.
"No, didn't he take leave of absence from the adults?"
Cheng Muyou shook his head, "He is a strict person, and he will definitely ask for instructions in advance," he lowered his head and groaned slightly, thinking of what Shi Fei said yesterday, he couldn't help but feel a little anxious, "It's a pity, did you see anything unusual when you went to his house last time?" ”
"His son Chang Yuan accidentally fell into the fish pond that day, but nothing else, and Oshi and his wife looked like everything was going on."
"I'm not worried, in this way, you and Shi Jin will go to Chang Mansion to see what happened to Chang Chunze."
Jiang Xixi saluted, went out to call Shi Jin, and the two of them each rode a horse and galloped towards Chang's house.
The door of the permanent house was closed, and it was black, giving the two of them an extremely bad premonition. Jiang Xixi patted the door and found that no one answered inside, so he nodded at Shi Jin, so Shi Jin took out a long knife, inserted it into the crack of the door and stirred it up and down a few times, only to hear a "bang", the door bolt was knocked off, and the two doors slowly opened in front of them.
The smell of blood rushed to his face, and Jiang Xi said "not good," and rushed in with Shi Jin. Seeing the scene in front of her, she exclaimed in surprise and grabbed Shi Jin's arm, "Quick, go and call the adults over." ”
The fish pond seemed to be swept by a red paintbrush, a turbid red, and the koi inside seemed to be unable to stand the dirt under the pool, each floating on the surface of the water, and swallowing the air above with their mouths one by one. In the middle of these heads, there were two heads covered in blood and black hair, and they were also face up, but unlike these fish, they had already stopped breathing, their eyes were wide open, their mouths were slightly open, and under their necks was a piece of red and pink minced meat.
Cheng Muyou couldn't bear to look any further, he turned his head and whispered to the row of officials behind him, "Salvage all the pools to see if you can find other parts of the body, and the Chang family also has a six-year-old child, search the whole house to see if you can find him or ...... His corpse. ”
He had no hope in his heart, adults died so miserably, how could a child escape the murderer's murderous hands.
But it didn't take long for Jiang Xixi's voice to come from the inner room, "My lord, I found Chang Yuan." ”