Chapter 20: Something Goes Wrong
The female ghost didn't speak, tears flowed quietly, and her half-covered beautiful skin looked at the bad old man silently, this was the first time she faced him so calmly.
At this moment, the two are no longer enemies, but he is the teller of the story of her life.
"Quietly again?" Xiao He is a listener of stories who love to ask questions and think about things, and when he saw the two of them stopping, he saw the stitches and said, "Won't the Lou family of the other faction learn the lessons of their predecessors and guard against it?" β
"No, you're wrong." The bad old man shook his head, "The night in the east of Yunxian County was the brightest that day, and people were awakened by the sound of firecrackers in the middle of the night. Then, they saw the fiery red sky in the east, and the brilliant fireworks in the sky that continued to flash like dominoes falling.
At that time, Lou's house was in a sea of fire, and in the sea of fire was the sorrow and helplessness when they were swept by guns, but people in the distance only thought that a gratifying event was happening here. Because the fireworks in the sky are dazzling and even dazzling, and the red light in the east is an auspicious omen, no one feels that there is anything wrong.
The fireworks were lit until dawn, and people who were not interested in watching it had already gone back to sleep, but when they woke up, the fireworks of Lou's house were still flickering. At this time, someone finally realized that something was wrong, the remoteness of Lou's family, and when they arrived, the fire had stopped, and the ground was full of charred corpses scattered everywhere and bullet casings that had fallen to the ground.
It is said that a caravan of the Lou family survived that time, but on the way back, it was assassinated, and in the end only two survived, one missing a leg and one missing an arm.
And you ......"
"I don't know." The female ghost shook her head, "I just remember waking up and I was locked in a cage." β
"Senior sister, it's not a coincidence that you went up the mountain." The old man's fingers kept groping on the briquette that had not been sent out, "Do you believe it?" β
"......" Xiao He looked at the two of them speechlessly, he didn't want to interject now.
The female ghost is very pitiful in this life, but what he can't understand even more is why this bad old man told the female ghost everything so cruel before he died.
He could see that the old man had a special affection for female ghosts, and he had been defending her and even fearing that she would be hurt, but why did he still attack others so much? What is the good man who says that he will die, and what he says is good?
He said in his heart: If something goes wrong, there must be a demon. At such a thought, my mind suddenly remembered that the female ghost had told him that he was lying. Xiao He had doubts in his heart, could it be that this bad old man had not been injured all along, but was pretending to be dead?
"......" The female ghost didn't speak, but looked at him with a little more dodging in her eyes, and she was afraid.
"It's no accident that the old thing went down." In the end, the bad old man spoke, "There are some things that I only figured out later." He took the fourth child to Yun County, when the second child's leg was already injured, if he wanted to buy medicine, he should go to Wenxian County under the Taoist temple, instead of going far.
The second child is his protΓ©gΓ© and successor of later generations, and he is in a hurry to go to Wenxian, which can only show that there are more important things happening, and he must go. β
At this, he suddenly laughed. "You should have thought of it, right?"
"Hmm." Lou Yuling nodded, "Are you saying that the mastermind behind the destruction of the two factions of the Lou family is the master?" She seemed to feel that it was no longer appropriate to call him Master, so she said, "Yu Qifu, he is actually my enemy?" β
"I don't know if it's an enemy. However, there is one thing you should be interested in. The bad old man deliberately paused to hang her appetite, "Yu Qifu was originally also a member of the Lou family, but he was not a big man, just a child of a subordinate of the Lou family who was an official in the west.
The Lou family is strict and cautious, it is a big family that has been inherited for hundreds of years, and some things are unbearable. The old thing happened to be guilty of this rebellion, and he was kicked out of Lou's house because he was not clean in his hands and feet. The housekeeper saw that he was still a half-old child, and was afraid that he would not be able to live alone outside, so he kindly gave him a little pestering and asked him to go to a temple to hide in for a while and then come back.
After all, in Yunxian County, the two Lou families are really good masters, and no one dares to take in the people who don't want the Lou family when they go out. It's not that I'm afraid that the Lou family will find trouble, but I'm worried that my temple can't fit this living Bosha.
The housekeeper had good intentions, but he didn't want him to hear the deep meaning, and he really found a Taoist temple with few people. The Taoist was kind enough to take him in, maybe he still didn't live steadily, right?
After half a year, the Taoist priest and the boy were unhurriedly poisoned by him with chronic medicine, and he also got acquainted with the people under the mountain for half a year. After the death of the Guanli people, he naturally pretended to be a Taoist priest, and all this was seamless and no one noticed.
This Taoist priest is a lifelong monk. However, his heart is not a monk, but has been drilling into the crooked path. You know that, right? β
"Huh." Seeing that she didn't speak, the bad old man chuckled, "Do you know why I'm telling you so much? β
Lou Yuling was stunned for a long time before she squirmed her lips with difficulty. "I don't know."
"I'm running out of time." The bad old man half-closed his eyes, "But there are many things that I don't understand." Do you understand? β
"......" Lou Yuling shook her head, because she found that the more she looked, the more she couldn't understand this bad old man.
She had been chasing him for more than sixty years, and she knew even more about the bad old man's habits than she knew herself, but at the moment she felt that he was very strange, and he couldn't completely coincide with the one he knew before.
An opponent who thinks she knows a lot actually understands less than a dime, and this kind of frustration is something she can't tolerate.
"Do you want her to live for you and understand what you don't understand?" Xiao He felt that he had said a tongue twister, and the question that had just plagued him was now clear.
"Senior sister, learn like someone else." The bad old man snorted, completely ignoring the white eyes of Lou Yuling.
"Don't shout and kill all day long, you're not too young, women, be gentle. The days to come are still long, you have to think more, don't get Alzheimer's and let Sister Ah watch from the sidelines and be anxious. You say yes, sister? β
The strange wooden face of the "giggle...... mouth shape turned into a crescent moon again, and it "giggled" and laughed, and the originally harmonious and beautiful atmosphere became eerie again.
This kind of atmosphere is something that Xiao He is very unhappy to see, and when people fight, he may be afraid that the world will not mix with each other, but it is a ghost fight, as a bystander, no matter how bold he is, he will feel hairy in his heart.
Especially the wooden-faced sister, he even thinks that the rotten face of the female ghost is much cuter, more or less, and they still have a bit in common. But Sister, he can't say it, I always feel that something is weird.
"That, Lou Yuling's mother-in-law!" Xiao He thought that his name should be correct, "Can you make that sister stop laughing?" β
Lou Yuling was not dissatisfied with his mutated title, but frowned slightly unaccustomedly, "Sister." β
Sure enough, Mu Tou listened to her, and Lou Yuling was quiet as soon as she spoke.
The bottom of the well was quiet, and life seemed to be dead.
The rain fell in from the well, and the sound of "popping" was on the stone wall at the bottom of the well, splashing layers of water, and a gust of wind blew through, and it was cold.