The night is in full swing, and the rain is splashing, and it is confused.

The small courtyard surrounded by mountains is like a lonely boat in the wind and waves at this time.

The rain had spilled from the ground into the house, and there was a watery smell everywhere. Chu Cheng glanced through the window, and just happened to see the faint grave behind the house, the dead tree standing next to it, like a fierce beast.

She turned her head too hare, not daring to look again.

Yang La took out the fire fold and lit the candles in the house.

"I don't know when the rain will be, and even if it stops, the ground will be muddy, and the carriage will not be easy to walk." Hu Yu dusted his sleeves and sighed.

Li Zhongyi lowered his head and said, "I just hope this rain will stop soon, it's quite difficult for Lao Tu to stay outside alone." ”

Lao Tu is the coachman he hired.

Su Yu timidly walked up to Chu Cheng at this time, pulled her sleeve, and whispered, "Madam, I'm hungry." ”

Chu Cheng was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that everyone had not eaten dinner. I was thinking of going out of the bay to eat in the nearby town of Fuhua, but this heavy rain was menacing, disrupting the original plan.

Fortunately, she carried a lot of pastries with her, and she just took them out for emergency at this time.

"This is chestnut cake, this is osmanthus cake, this is cloud cake, and this is preserves." Chu Cheng took out a red lacquer box from her baggage, and there were all kinds of small snacks in it. It is not enough for a group of people to eat, but it is better to eat two or three cushions per person than to have nothing to do.

When she said this, Yang La also remembered it, and took out three cowhide water bladders from the burden behind her: "Fortunately, I filled water in Qingxi at noon, and Hu Yu said that I was in trouble, so I only loaded three." Hu Yu snorted: "Where did you know that it would rain hard." He took the water bladder and distributed it to everyone, "I share one with Uncle Li and Yang La, Su Yu, you and your mother use it, and the adults and Mrs. use it." ”

Chu Cheng glanced at the water bladder in her hand and shook it towards Lin Boqin: "Do you want to drink?" ”

Lin Boqin had been sitting in the corner of the room, as if he was quietly listening to the rain.

He glanced and shook his head.

Chu Cheng stepped forward and stuffed the water bladder to him: "You don't eat sweet, you must not be able to eat any of those pastries, it is better to drink more water, at least to fight hunger." ”

Lin Boqin hesitated for a moment, but raised his hand to take it.

The group was eating pastries and drinking water, chatting from all over the world.

Hu Yu couldn't figure it out, so he asked, "Uncle Li, your father-in-law's family didn't offend anyone in Shiliwan, right?" Why is it that after death, people still say that this place is haunted? ”

Li Zhongyi recalled for a moment, frowned and said, "My father-in-law's family is really not very good. I haven't read a book, I have lived in Shanwan Bay all my life, how can I understand what people are sophisticated. He waved his hand. is also a very unreasonable character in the township, and it is estimated that the person who arranged him after death is the one he has offended before. ”

Hearing this, Lin Boqin subconsciously glanced at Chu Cheng.

Chu Ji felt his gaze and glared at him: "What are you looking at me for?" ”

Lin Boqin didn't answer, and the implication was that she was also quite unreasonable.

Li Zhongyi didn't notice the sword and sword shadows of the two of them, but continued: "Xiujun and I often live in Qingyuan County, and there are very few times when we go back to Shiliwan. Xiujun doesn't like her parents, and neither do I. The father-in-law's family is very partial to their son-in-law, and they don't care about Xiujun many times. ”

Hu Yu echoed empatheticly: "That's really the case, my father has to be partial to me." ”

Yang La looked at the dark grave outside the window, and asked "Your deceased wife doesn't like her parents, but why do you want to take her back to Shiliwan for burial?" ”

Li Zhongyi was stunned when he heard this.

He clasped his hands, put them on his knees, and sighed: "This...... I don't know. After she had a difficult birth, she was bleeding nonstop, and Su Mei told me to go and see her for the last time...... My wife took me by the hand and begged me to bury her back in Ten Mile Bay. After all, it is the place where she has lived for more than ten years, and she must be a little reluctant to die after all. ”

Although Su Yu has never met Zhu, she knows that she is kind at heart and has been secretly helping her mother.

He couldn't help but clench his fists and said, "Those who make up ghost stories are really hateful. My aunt...... It's so good, they talk nonsense. ”

Li Zhongyi sighed: "Yes, your aunt is indeed very good. These people just made it up, it was not reasonable at all, at that time your aunt had already delivered the baby, and Su Mei took it to bury it with her own hands. In that case, how could a ghost baby emerge when the spirit was stopped? Nothing short of nonsense! ”

Although Chu Cheng knew that this was fake.

But she was still a little scared.

At that moment, the sky streaked across a silvery white, and the surroundings were as bright as day! I heard a deafening loud noise, and a thunderbolt hit the dead tree behind the house with a crooked neck, and suddenly sparks splashed everywhere, burning the smell of burning.

Everyone in the room was taken aback.

Abandoned houses in deserted villages, lightning and thunder, torrential rain......

Chu Ji didn't dare to think about it anymore, she only felt that her cold hair stood on end, and she ran straight to Lin Boqin's side, pulled up his sleeves to cover his eyes, and her figure was trembling.

"Li Siniang!"

Lin Boqin was helpless.

He brushed back his sleeves and frowned at her: "It's just a thunderstorm, what are you afraid of?" ”

Chu Ji reached out and tugged at his sleeve again, and said sadly: "Hu Yu said before...... That ghost baby crawled out because of a thunderbolt...... "She looked around, not knowing that the room had stopped, she moved two steps forward, and got closer to Lin Boqin.

It is said that men are yang, and Chu Cheng hopes that following him can avoid evil.

Lin Boqin simply didn't understand.

He asked, "How can you be so afraid of ghosts when you are so bold on weekdays?" ”

Chu Cheng opened her mouth and did not explain.

She was afraid of ghosts because when she was a child, those grandmothers always liked to tell her some stories about demons and monsters, she didn't dare to listen to them, but she wanted to listen to them, and ordered her grandmothers to tell them, and she felt scared after listening to them.

In addition, there were dead people in the palace from time to time at that time, and it was rumored that there were hanged ghosts in the cold palace and water ghosts in the wells...... Another time, Chu Cheng saw a white thing floating above Zhong Cui Palace with her own eyes, and she was so frightened that she fell seriously ill. Later, it was found out that the white thing was the white silk that Concubine Dong Shu deliberately hung out with a rope, in order to frighten Concubine Yu of Zhongcui Palace.

Even if she knew the truth, Chu Cheng was afraid of the shadow of the ghost's soul, and she had never seen it better.

Lin Boqin saw that she didn't speak, so he didn't ask.

Chu Cheng was not in a very good mood thinking about the messy things in the palace. She ate the osmanthus cake, choked without paying attention, and coughed violently.

Lin Boqin hurriedly handed her the water bladder, frowned, and said, "No one is robbing you again." ”

Chu Cheng gulped it into her stomach, feeling better, she looked at Lin Boqin with red eyes, and said slightly aggrievedly: "I was careless." ”

Su Yu came over and patted her on the back, then turned her head and asked Li Zhongyi: "Uncle, the rain won't stop tonight, where will we sleep." ”

Li Zhongyi let out an "oh" and hurriedly turned around and went to another room to pick up a quilt.

These quilt pillows have not been dried for a long time, and they have a strong musty smell. He laid out this house, and then ran to another, back and forth, several times.

Yang La pointed to the bed that was not wide and said, "There are only two people sleeping here." ”

Li Zhongyi said: "There is a long kang in the next room, and there is a rattan couch in the other room, the three of us can sleep on the long kang, Yu'er wants to take care of her mother, so she sleeps on the rattan couch, and we can hear any movement." ”

When Chu Cheng heard this, she and Lin Boqin were paired again, and then said, "Can the long kang sleep four people?" ”

"Madame and your adult sleep here just ......" Li Zhongyi was a little puzzled, "Haven't you already reconciled?" ”

Why do you have to sleep in separate beds?

He didn't ask the latter question, but everyone was very strange.

Lin Boqin didn't explain, he didn't think it was necessary, so he only asked, "Can you sleep?" ”

Li Zhongyi was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Of course you can." ”

"Yes, I'll live with you."

Li Zhongyi looked at Chu Cheng and said, "That lady is going to rest alone tonight." ”

Chu Cheng faintly felt that it was not very good...... She tugged at the hem of her clothes tightly and asked, "Which room is the room where the soul rests?" ”

"Well...... Li Zhongyi knew that she was afraid of ghosts, but he didn't dare to hide it, "It's here." But don't worry, no one has died in this room, my father-in-law, mother-in-law and brother-in-law died in the house of Dakang, and my two nephews and sister-in-law died in the rattan couch. He turned his head and asked Su Yu, "Yu'er, are you afraid?" ”

Su Yuren is cautious but very mature: "I'm not afraid, my mother is with me." ”

Li Zhongyi nodded with satisfaction and said to Chu Cheng: "Madam, don't do anything wrong, don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door." Yu'er is not afraid of a child, and you should not be afraid. ”

"I didn't do anything wrong, but I'm scared."

Chu Yu was about to die, and she said to Su Yu: "Su Yu, you and your mother will move to my house, right?" ”

Su Yu looked at Liang Xiuyun in embarrassment, leaned close to her ear, and whispered: "Madam, my mother is very afraid of you, you know." ”

The last time Chu Xiuyun injured Liang Xiuyun, she had been afraid of herself.

If he really shares a room with Liang Xiuyun, something may happen. She thought to herself, stomped her foot, and simply dragged Lin Boqin, who was about to go to the next room: "Don't sleep with them, follow me!" ”

"Li Siniang, what are you talking nonsense again?" Lin Boqin's face was first blue for a while, and then turned red.

Fortunately, it was dark and no one could see it.

Chu Cheng raised her head and whispered to him: "I'm afraid, it's a big deal for you to sleep in the bed, I'll sit on the edge of the bed, anyway, I don't dare to stay here alone." ”

"You—" Lin Boqin wanted to lecture her, but he didn't know what to say.

"Please, husband, you are my husband." Chu Cheng glanced at a few people in the room, "At least do a full set of acts, we are nominally husband and wife." ”

Lin Boqin didn't say a word, didn't agree, and didn't refuse.

Chu Cheng pulled him into the room and said earnestly: "If you don't speak, I will take you as a default, I will definitely repay you for your great kindness to me this time." ”

When everyone saw Chu Cheng and Lin Boqin entering the house together, they all tacitly agreed.

Yang La urged Hu Yu to go quickly, and Li Zhongyi sent Su Yu and Liang Xiuyun to the next door and went to squeeze into a room with Yang La.