"This master of the Jiang family was also a warlord who dominated one side back then. My father worked as a cook in his family when he was young, and my mother was also a descendant of the Jiang family. I grew up in this house since I was a child, playing with the young masters and ladies of the Jiang family. When I grew up, I went to the eldest lady's room to be a maid and clean up the house for her. ”

The old lady began to talk about the history of the house while munching on melon seeds.

"The seven or eight young masters and young ladies of the Jiang family are all perverse and domineering. Only the eldest lady is the child born to Master Jiang and his original wife when he was not yet developed, she is beautiful and has a good personality, and she is good for us people. The eldest lady has always regarded us as human beings, unlike her younger brothers and sisters, who all treat our subordinates as animals. I also secretly brought me snacks to eat when I didn't catch dinner, and even the lord liked the eldest lady the most. ”

The old lady looked up at the leaves overhead, as if remembering something. After a long time, Xia Beifeng was about to get impatient with the waiting, and when she wanted to urge her, she continued: "Later, when the eldest lady was seventeen or eighteen years old, I don't know why, the old lady insisted on sending the eldest lady outside to study. The eldest lady had been reading outside for many years, and it was only then that the lady was very ill and came home to see her mother. ”

The old lady sighed again when she said this, looking at her expression with some regret. A strand of white hair fell from the side of her face, and she reached down to pin it behind her ear. This hair-pleasing gesture looks very pleasing to the eye, cocking her fingers, gently and slowly, like a young woman in her twenties.

"When the eldest lady came back, Mrs. Xu was happy to see her, and she was well within two days of her illness. However, the eldest lady also fell ill a few days after her mother recovered, and she could not see the wind. I don't know how many doctors have been invited, but Dr. Yang has seen a lot, but he hasn't seen any good results. The eldest lady became more and more ill, and she couldn't even get out of bed for the last few days, so she died in less than a month. Evil, be a good person, say no and it will be gone. At that time, several aunts and wives said that it was not good for girls to die at home before they got married, and they were not allowed to bury the eldest lady in the ancestral grave, for fear of affecting feng shui. In the end, I had to find a place with a good scenery for the eldest lady to bury. ”

Xia Beifeng had been listening quietly beside him, and when he saw that the old lady seemed to have finished speaking, he asked cautiously: "What kind of disease did your eldest lady have, and did she have any symptoms when she was sick?" ”

"I don't know what the illness is, and the doctor can't tell what the illness is. When I was sick, my heart hurt, I couldn't breathe, and my face was blue and blue......" The old lady said that she seemed to remember something, and suddenly patted her thigh and said: "At that time, there was a Taoist priest who didn't know where he came from, saying that this may be an evil spirit." Later, the master said that he went to the mountains to find out what the eldest lady had provoked, but he never came back. ”

"Did you mention that you young lady knew a gentleman surnamed Shen?" Xia Beifeng interrupted the old lady's words and asked her, "It should be the elder of our family who she met when she was studying...... I came to sketch in the mountains this time, and I brought these two letters with me, and I actually wanted to try my luck. I didn't expect to meet you by mistake, and it seems that this letter should be able to be sent. ”

"Mr. Shen? Yes. When the old lady heard Xia Beifeng say this, she immediately got closer and carefully observed Xia Beifeng's face.

"It does look a little like that. This Mr. Shen was my young lady's teacher when she was studying in Beiping, and he was a very powerful person, and he was also good-looking. I have a very good relationship with the master in private. Our young lady also secretly said that she wanted to marry that Mr. Shen! ”

"And what about later? What happened after Miss's death? Xia Beifeng was basking in the sun and eating melon seeds, while listening to the old lady's story, looking very pleasant.

"After the death of the eldest lady, the old illness relapsed, and soon followed the eldest lady with her. Mrs. hurt her body when she gave birth to the eldest lady, and she did not have any more children later. It's a pity that a man who is about to be fifty years old suddenly dies of his precious daughter! The old lady shed a few more tears when she said this, and Xia Beifeng hurriedly took out a pack of tissues and handed it over.

The old lady wiped away her tears and continued: "Then the Japanese came the next year. The old man didn't bring anyone, and he secretly ran away overnight by himself. Several aunts and wives saw that the old man had run away, and after making trouble at home for a while to divide the family property, they also ran away with their children. There are only a few people left who live nearby, and occasionally come to this old mansion to clean up...... I'm so old, I really don't know what will happen to this house when I die! ”

"Uh......" Xia Beifeng looked up at the gate that was old, but obviously many people were entering and leaving, and he didn't know what to say.

You told me that this house is deserted and uninhabited, do you dare to ask yourself if you believe it?

"You're old, you don't have a family or anything?" Xia Beifeng didn't dare to ask more, for fear of hearing something terrible. I had to divert the topic and ask the old lady herself.

"You're so old, and your family dares to let you out like this?"

The old lady bowed her head and did not speak.

Xia Beifeng grabbed a handful of melon seeds from his bag and piled them on the steps. Sitting side by side with the old lady on the steps in front of the house, looking at the lush woods in front of them, they were in a daze with melon seeds.

The sun gradually moved to the west, and large areas of fiery clouds appeared in the sky.

It's already so late?

Xia Beifeng looked at the golden light faintly shining through the gaps in the leaves, and suddenly realized that it was evening.

He looked down at his watch and saw that it was past five o'clock - after the lesson he had learned last time in Lop Nur, he would never go out with that expensive and fragile mechanical watch again.

It doesn't matter if you can tell the time, the key is that the previous watch was too expensive, and it really hurt when it was broken.

"Old woman, it's getting late." Xia Beifeng leaned close to the old lady and asked, "It's time for dinner, is there anyone else here?" ”

"Huh?" The old lady looked at Xia Beifeng in surprise and yelled at him loudly: "Why are you still here, I said that the person you are looking for is not here." Hurry up and go find your Guo Dao elsewhere. ”

Come on. Seeing this, Xia Beifeng immediately understood.

This one is probably confused again.

Just as Xia Beifeng looked at the old lady and didn't know what to do, the door that had been tightly closed behind them made a slight noise from inside.

The door creaked when it opened. Xia Beifeng looked back, the door was only opened by a small crack, and a little boy who was only about one meter old stood behind the door, revealing a small face.

Half of the child's face was covered with terrible scars, and he was blind in one eye. The rest of his eyes flashed with a very uncomfortable light, and he didn't look like a seven- or eight-year-old child at all, but more like a middle-aged man with gloomy thoughts and bad intentions.

The kid looked Xia Beifeng up and down for a while, and reached out to push the old lady.

The old lady was in a daze, and the boy was pushed and almost fell to the ground. Xia Beifeng hurriedly reached out to support the old lady, and at the same time glared at the child fiercely.

The kid didn't seem to have the slightest guilt, and he wasn't afraid of Xia Beifeng's angry glare at all, and he also glared back at Xia Beifeng.

The old lady beside her suddenly grabbed Xia Beifeng's hand hard, and kept muttering something in her mouth.

Xia Beifeng got closer and listened carefully, the old lady seemed to be humming a children's rhyme to coax children, but the lyrics were very strange, even a little weird: "Little sheep, run, run, wait until the dark wolf is about to come to eat you." When it gets dark, Grandma will turn into a big bad wolf and come to eat the lamb......"

Xia Beifeng shrugged his shoulders and helped the old lady to stand up. He turned around and asked the child, "Little friend, do you live here?" ”

The boy nodded, not saying a word.

The last rays of the setting sun disappeared, and the sun finally sank completely. Only the dimly colored fiery clouds on the horizon remained, proving that the sun once existed.

The old lady, who had been chattering incessantly, and was able to stand with the support of Xia Beifeng, seemed to be awake again after the sun completely set. She pushed away Xia Beifeng's hand holding her arm, straightened her waist, turned back to the child and said, "There are guests today, you go back and ask them to add more dishes and chopsticks." ”

The child nodded, and gestured at the old lady with both hands.

Mute?

The child that Xia Beifeng noticed at this time also had a scar on his neck that was similar to his skin color. From behind his right ear, it slashed diagonally across his throat and down to his left collarbone. It looks like the vocal cords must have been destroyed.

"Yes." The old lady looked at the child and nodded to him.

"That's it. When the guests come, we should get something delicious and don't let the guests think that we are neglecting. ”

The boy gestured again, and then ran out into the yard as fast as he could. Only a crack in the door remains.

"Laughing." The old lady saw that Xia Beifeng had been staring at the child's back, and explained a few words to him: "I picked up this child on the side of the road, and when I picked it up, he was dumb, blind in one eye, and covered in injuries. I saw that he had no father or mother, so I took him with me and raised him as my own grandson. ”

"Oh." Xia Beifeng responded absentmindedly, "Then you are really a good person." ”

He had learned a little sign language, and looking at the few gestures the child had just made, it seemed to mean: There is a new person coming? Where is he going to live?

Although it seemed that there was nothing wrong with saying this, Xia Beifeng still felt that something was wrong. Moreover, the old lady's answer was also that the donkey's lips were not right on the horse's mouth, and the child did not know how to understand, but actually replied: "Yes."

It's not right to think about it. Xia Beifeng watched the child run into the gate, disappeared in a blink of an eye, and smiled bitterly.

"Alas, I just see that this child is pitiful, and I can help if I can." As she spoke, the old lady pushed the door open.

"Don't look at this kid who doesn't look good, but he's actually sensible. He has a smart brain, but he can't speak...... Come in with me. I'll find you a room first, clean it up, and you'll be ready to eat in a while. ”

"yes, okay." Xia Beifeng followed the old lady into the gate and saw the magnificent house in the courtyard.

He closed the door behind him and held the old lady in his arms.

"You go slowly, be careful. Is there anyone else living here? ”

The old lady still looked like half of her body was in the ground in the afternoon, and she would be more and more energetic, and she walked faster than the summer north wind.

"You don't have to hold me, I know the way." The old lady turned back to Xia Beifeng and smiled, and answered his question: "There are a lot of people in this house." When you look at it in the evening, it's lively. ”

I don't want to know how lively it is at night, I just want to sleep well, okay?

Xia Beifeng looked at the old lady's vigorous steps in front, and looked around the courtyard around her, and her bad premonition became stronger and stronger.

The yard is full of flowers, potted plants, and a small pond. It is said that the furnishings in the yard of such a large family will be more or less asked to be seen by a gentleman, which is in line with feng shui. But the furnishings in this yard are messy. If you look at Feng Shui, not only can you not bless the safety of the family and gain fame and fortune, but it will be a great disaster for the family to be ruined and the children and grandchildren will be ruined.

What the hell is this place? Or rather, what kind of "ghostly" place is this? Xia Beifeng wondered in his heart.

The old lady stopped at the door of a room. Looking back, Xia Beifeng was still standing in the yard, did not follow, stomped his feet anxiously, and shouted at him: "You are a young child, how can you walk slower than my old lady, come quickly." ”

Xia Beifeng had no choice but to put aside the doubts in his heart for the time being, and trotted to the old lady's side.

"This is the room you're going to live in, take a look." As she spoke, the old lady pushed open the door of the room, and the smell of decay came to her nose.

"This room hasn't been inhabited for a few years, so you'll clean it up and stay overnight. I've wronged you. The old lady lowered her head and said apologetically to Xia Beifeng.

"Don't be aggrieved, it's good that I have a place to live." Xia Beifeng went in to observe the furnishings of the room for a while, turned around and smiled at the old lady: "This room is very good." If I hadn't met you today, I might have spent the night camping in the mountains. Now that I have a house to live in, I would like to thank you. ”

"That's good, that's good. You can clean up here yourself, I'll go see if dinner is ready. When the old lady had said this, she turned to leave.

"You go first, I'll clean up myself." Xia Beifeng smiled politely at her, watched her walk towards the backyard, and couldn't help but remind her out loud: "You walk slowly, be careful of falling." ”

The old lady didn't answer him, but walked around a corner and disappeared into the corner of a house in the backyard.

Xia Beifeng grinned and looked at the dusty room in front of him in embarrassment.

I'm a double divider*********************

This is the double watch that I owe before.,It's finally made up by me at the end of this week.,It's almost 8,000 words for a whole day today.,It's a small cosmic explosion for me.

I really admire myself

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