After roasting fish in the Valley of Hundred Flowers, they ate dry food on the stream, and the group went to Shiliwan.

Chu Ji accidentally wet the skirt when she was spearing fish, and in the carriage, she lifted the skirt fan and fan, fan and fan.

Lin Boqin, who was sitting across from her, couldn't stand it anymore.

He frowned and said, "What are you doing?" ”

"My skirt is wet, can't you see?" After Chu Cheng finished speaking, she stretched out her hand and shook it in front of his eyes mischievously, that virtue seemed to be treating him as a blind man.

Lin Boqin's face darkened, and he turned his gaze to the carriage window, ignoring her.

Chu Cheng was in a good mood.

She hadn't been happier in more than a decade.

She sighed for a while, and said to Lin Boqin sincerely: "Do you know, my wish since I was a child was to take off my shoes and socks to catch fish in a stream; Find a tall tree with a nest, then climb it and feed the chicks bugs. When I was six years old, I sneaked to the Imperial ...... At a pond, I used one of my favorite nets to catch small carp in it, scooped it up and put it back. I was having fun, and suddenly I was bumped into by my father and my mother...... You know what? ”

With that, she winked at Lin Boqin.

Lin Boqin was originally looking out the window, but at this time, he raised his eyebrows slightly and asked casually, "What?" ”

Chu Cheng was still smiling, but her tone was a little gloomy: "My mother reprimanded me fiercely, and my father even came over and broke my net pocket...... After that, I never dared to go near the pool again. ”

One year, Chu Cheng mentioned this matter again to Empress Renxiao, and Empress Renxiao no longer remembered her behavior back then.

However, for Chu Hui, it is a shadow that has been burned in her heart for a lifetime.

She still remembers that her father and queen mother condescendingly scolded her, while she held the broken gilt net and cried heartbreakingly.

For a long time, Lin Boqin did not answer.

He glanced at the woman in front of him who was fiddling with her skirt with her head down, and said in a low voice, "As a woman, you should behave properly. ”

"Then I'd rather not be a woman."

Chu Cheng raised her head, and there was a disbelief in her eyes: "Why should a woman behave decently?" Why should a woman abide by the rules? Men can go down to the river to fish, go up to the trees to catch birds, then I can too! ”

Back then, she overcame all difficulties and made up her mind to learn martial arts from Huo Ying, and it was for this reason.

As it turned out, she wasn't wrong.

Lin Boqin was stunned when he heard this, and did not quarrel with her, but reasoned: "It's not that women want to be like this, but everyone needs to be like this." Since the pre-Qin period, Confucianism advocated the rule of etiquette, Legalism advocated the rule of law, and this dynasty pursued etiquette and law, honesty, benevolence, righteousness, virtue and wisdom, which is tantamount to restraining oneself, but not forgetting morality. ”

His words were conclusive, his expression was serious, and he was completely the same as the old lady of the country.

Chu Cheng was stunned, and gave up arguing with him.

Lin Boqin is simply a moral model in this dynasty, and it is simply unpleasant to tell him something that violates the etiquette law.

She simply diverted the topic, took out a piece of osmanthus cake from the baggage, and asked, "Do you want to eat it?" Without waiting for Lin Boqin to answer, she stuffed it into her mouth and said indistinctly: "I almost forgot, you don't eat sweet." ”

Lin Boqin twisted his head to the side and stopped looking at her.

***

Over the mountain pass, there is Ten Mile Bay.

The roads in the bay were cramped and the carriages were blocked, so Li Zhongyi asked his coachman to guard the mouth of the bay.

Along the way, many farmlands were deserted, thatched huts were uninhabited, and the courtyard doors were covered with cobwebs and dust.

Chu Cheng couldn't help but wonder: "How many families live in this Shiliwan?" ”

Li Zhongyi frowned and explained: "Ten years ago, there were quite a lot of residents here, but because my father-in-law's family died in the fire, there were rumors of good deeds...... So much so that quite a few people have moved out of the bay. ”

Su Yu blinked and asked, "Uncle, what kind of rumors are you?" ”

"Don't ask, kids." Li Zhongyi didn't want to say anything.

Chu Cheng was aroused by curiosity and asked, "Uncle Li, it's boring anyway, just talk about it." ”

"This ......" Li Zhongyi looked at Chu Cheng in embarrassment, and then at Lin Boqin, and slowly spoke, "After the death of my deceased wife, I will send her body back to Shiliwan for burial in accordance with her last wishes." On the night of the seven-day stoppage, the candle ignited the couplet, and the father-in-law's family slept deeply and could not escape, the father-in-law and mother-in-law, the brother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and two nephews...... A family of six was burned to death. ”

When he said this, Hu Yu suddenly let out an "oh" and exclaimed: "It turns out that the legend said that it was your father-in-law's family who was killed by the ghost baby?!" ”

"Ghost Baby?"

When Chu Ji heard that there was a ghost, she immediately hugged her shoulders and shrank for a moment.

Hu Yu said vividly: "Madam, don't you know, it is rumored that there was a case of ghost baby murder in Qingyuan County. A family of six gave a wake to their daughter who died in childbirth, and the sky was clear during the day, but there was a sudden rainstorm that night, and a thunderbolt fell, just on top of the coffin of the dead soul...... Then a terrible scene happened, the daughter who had died in childbirth sat up, and out of her belly crawled out of her bloody and blue-faced fanged baby! The woman who died in childbirth and the baby who died in childbirth were the most resentful, so they turned into a powerful ghost and killed everyone when they saw it, and the family of six was killed like this! ”

Li Zhongyi couldn't listen to it anymore, he shouted: "It's all nonsense! I have come to Shiliwan every year to go to the grave of my father-in-law's deceased wife, and I have never encountered rainstorms, thunder and lightning, let alone ghost babies killing people! ”

Hu Yu was a little aggrieved: "I also listened to what others said...... Others said that they heard the baby's ghost cry and the begging for mercy from your father-in-law's family that night. If he really died in the fire, why ask for mercy? ”

"Those villagers will spread false rumors and make things up." Li Zhongyi frowned and said, "Besides, the county magistrate personally came to Shiliwan back then, and it was determined that he died of a fire, how can the rumors be so mysterious." ”

But Chu Cheng was afraid.

She even saw the empty houses on both sides of the trail, and she felt a chill down her spine.

"Lin Boqin, do you believe this story?" She tugged at Lin Boqin's sleeve and asked in a low voice.

Lin Boqin naturally didn't take these ghosts and gods seriously, he said lightly: "In "Warring States Policy", Pang Cong said that the king of Wei said that there is no tiger in the city, but the three of them became tigers, which is the origin of the three of them becoming tigers. He paused for words and glanced at Chu Cheng, "I have always believed that seeing is believing, and hearing is false." ”

Chu Cheng was preached by him again, but he didn't take it to heart.

She looked at the barren fields around her, the quiet mountains and forests, and the half-human-tall weeds, swallowed her saliva, and quickly followed Lin Boqin: "Then aren't you afraid of ghosts?" ”

"Why be afraid?" Lin Boqin didn't know why.

"Ghosts can be scary, they will choke their necks, and they will float around in the sky!"

Lin Boqin only said that she was bored: "Ghosts also have grievances and revenge, and since you haven't done anything wrong, you don't have to be afraid." ”

He was frank, and Chu Hui's heart relaxed a little.

Passing around a pond, you will see a low mud-walled thatched hut in the distance. Although the construction is not as good-looking as in the county, the houses are side by side in an orderly manner, and if it weren't for the black marks on the walls, Chu Ji would have almost forgotten that there were six dead people here.

She regretted that she readily agreed to Su Yu and came to his house to burn incense......

Yang La stretched out his hand and touched the earthen wall and asked, "Has it been renovated here?" ”

Li Zhongyi nodded and replied: "There were only a few walls that were burned before, and I thought that I would come here every year and live there occasionally, so I asked someone to repair it." ”

He asked Su Yu to take out the wax paper money and other things in the baggage, and then walked to the back of the house.

Chu Cheng and the others also followed.

The tomb of the Zhu family is at the back of the house, with seven neat earthen bags side by side, and moss grows on the stone tablet. Next to the grave grew a dead tree with a crooked neck, with some dodder wrapped around it, which shook in the wind, making it even more desolate.

Liang Xiuyun, who had never reacted, saw Zhu Chengye's grave, and suddenly went crazy and punched and kicked his stone tablet. Hu Yu and Yang La hurriedly went to stop her, and Su Yu also hugged her waist and comforted: "Mother! Mother! Calm down! ”

Liang Xiuyun heard his son's words, so he withdrew his hand.

Her eyes were red and she was panting, as if she hated Zhu Chengye very much.

Chu Cheng sighed beside her, can you not hate? Because of Zhu Chengye's irresponsibility, Liang Xiuyun and Liang Muniang would have been exiled to Qingyuan County, if it weren't for Zhu Xiujun's frequent help, I am afraid that I don't know what would happen to their mother and son.

Li Zhongyi pulled her to Zhu Xiujun's grave and persuaded her: "Auntie, don't be angry, give your sister incense." She must be happy to know that you are reunited with Yu'er. ”

Liang Xiuyun seemed to understand his words, took the incense stupidly, and knelt in front of Zhu Xiujun's tomb.

Chu Cheng is here, so naturally she is going to be incense.

Several people worshipped one by one in front of the Zhu family's grave, and then raised their heads and found that the sky was suddenly overcast and terrifying.

It was already dusk, but it seemed to be about to be pressed down when it was dark, and in a short time, the wind blew fiercely, and the surrounding mountains and forests were blown to and fro.

"This damn weather, I'm afraid it's going to rain again."

Hu Yu cursed lowly.

Yang La thought that Chu Cheng was gone in the last rainstorm, and glanced at her meaningfully.

But I happened to see Chu Ji tremblingly pulling Lin Boqin's sleeve and urging: "Let's go, let's go, it's going to be dark." ”

She didn't want to stay in this inaccessible ten-mile bay for long!

However, the sky did not fulfill people's wishes, as soon as Chu Cheng finished saying this, the raindrops fell like pebbles, and the heavy rain curtain came from behind the mountain, turning the world into a gray expanse in an instant.

Li Zhongyi hurriedly knocked open the door of the house, and everyone hurriedly ran in to dodge, but despite this, most of them were still wet.

"It's raining too much, isn't it?" Hu Yu wiped the rain from his face, looked out the window, and felt that the house was washed away by the heavy rain.

Yang La sighed and asked, "I don't know when I can stop." ”

Li Zhongyi found a few stools, brushed off the dust with his hands, and said, "With such a heavy rain, you can't go for a while, so let's sit down and rest first." I stay here for a few days every year, with bedding and pillows, and if it rains, it doesn't hurt to stay here for the night. ”

Chu Ji's face turned green when she heard this.

“…… Not quite right? Why don't we wait for the rain to light up and we'll go? ”

Li Zhongyi and the others had no objection and nodded in agreement.

However, what Chu Cheng didn't expect was that the rain not only continued to decrease, but also became more and more ferocious. It didn't take long for the wind to rage again, thunder and lightning.

Not to mention going out of the bay in the rain, even sitting in the house, I was a little frightened.