He Angelica's gaze swept around the mourning hall, and finally landed on an ebony plaque that was knocked down by Zhenming and the others.

Nine big gold lacquer characters stabbed her eyes, "the spiritual seat of the beloved daughter He Angelica", and there is another row of small characters engraved below, which reads "Ming Hongwu 27th year of September 7 Li" - the tablet 18 years ago, the mourning hall 18 years ago, the Taoist temple 18 years ago, and their own ...... Eighteen years ago body.

This year, she was ten years old.

She didn't have time to sort out the chaos of her thoughts, and now all she knew was that she wanted to live!

"Little Master Zhenjing, can you give me a bowl of water to drink?" When he opened his mouth to speak, He Angelica was startled by his hoarse voice.

Zhenjing, who was kowtowing and chanting, heard the person in the coffin shouting his name, could it be ...... Ghost Hook...... Hit yourself? Thinking like this, Zhenjing's soul immediately flew out of the sky, like a marionette, his eyes straightened, his whole body stiffened, poured the bowl of water, moved lightly to the coffin, and lifted the bowl above his head. Seeing this scene, the whites of the eyes of the three of Zhenming rolled and they were unconscious.

He Angelica held the bowl in both hands, ignoring the various faces inside and outside the mourning hall, and sipped water one by one. This cold water is better than the bird's nest chicken soup she used to drink; This coarse porcelain bowl is better than the golden cup and jade cup she used in the past.

Drinking all the water in the bowl without a drop, He Angelica turned his head to look at Zhenjing who handed him the water, smiled gratefully, and Zhenjing didn't react in a daze. He Angelica understood that it was really scary for him to suddenly sit up from the coffin and ask for water to drink, so he didn't say much, took Zhenjing's hand and pressed it on his heart, and said: "Don't be afraid, you touch it, I still have heat, I'm not dead, I'm still alive." ”

Zhenjing immediately came back to her senses, her round eyes full of fear. He Angelica continued to hold her hand and press his pulse. Zhenjing looked at the little face that was as white as a white paper but was unusually calm, and her frightened heart was surprisingly calm, she took a deep breath, her hands stopped shaking, and then she really touched the other party's warm muscles. skin and beating pulse.

Surprise replaced fear, Zhen Jing hurriedly shouted: "It's really hot, Miss He is really not dead!" Master, come and see, Miss He is still alive! Let the doctor show her! ”

Taishan Shi is nearly fifty years old, and he has seen more and more knowledge, and when he saw that people who had been dead for two or three days came back to life, he believed it in his heart. She thought secretly, I heard that this Miss He had three disasters and six diseases, and the cold wind that blew on the mourning hall for two days, a good person couldn't help but toss like this, let alone a half-dead person. Maybe it's just a flashback, just wait for her to spit out that hot breath......

Thinking of this, Taishan said: "It's getting late, and it's raining, where can I go to ask for a doctor?" Besides, Miss He has just recovered, the most important thing is to recuperate, really quiet, you can help her to rest in the east wing. Then, he turned his head to look at the presiding officer, "Senior sister, what do you think?" After reciting a Zen mantra, Master Taixi said no more, and Taishan nodded and smiled with satisfaction.

Zhen Jing's heart was full of suspicion, not to mention that there was a doctor on the Zhuangzi halfway up the mountain, and her uncle Taichen alone also had some ability to diagnose the pulse and prescribe prescriptions. What a chance is it for a person to be able to come back from the dead, and how to listen to Master's tone, but it means to let Miss He fend for herself...... Zhenjing suddenly remembered that the house in the east wing had been unoccupied for a long time, and the window paper was so broken that it couldn't even stop the wind and rain!

He Angelica glanced at Taishan expressionlessly, grabbed Zhenjing's hand and climbed out of the coffin, and smiled: "Then Master Lao Zhenjing will lead me to the East Chamber to rest." Zhenjing nodded hesitantly.

When the two of them were far away, several women who had been sent to deliver the spirit surrounded Taishan and asked nonsense:

"Mrs. Shi, you are close, do you think she is really alive? Shall we go and report to the second lady overnight? "Out of this kind of moth, why don't you do it to exorcise evil spirits?" "I've always had an old problem with chills, can't I get close to those cold things?" "Hurry up and send us a few runes to get rid of, you also saw it, she must have complained that her grandfather's family was not good to her, so she came back to hook her soul and ask for her life!"

Taishan waited for them to finish one sentence at a time, and then said with a smile: "Don't be in a hurry to report the news or something, if this Miss He can only last for half a day, let's go and alarm your lord, don't you make the old lady and the ladies happy?" If the old lady is provoked to shed tears again and hurt her mind for a few days, won't it become our sin. ”

Li Jiuguang's family nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, the old lady has always been bad, the second lady invited the Xiangshi to come to the family house, saying that the person who lives in the West Cross Courtyard is hard to beat the elders, but it doesn't mean her." You see, now that they are dead, they can still come back to life, and they can still drink water and talk, but they have not fulfilled the words of the Xiangshi! ”

Gao Dashan's family also echoed: "When I was alive, I didn't have oil and water, I hoped to earn her a dead man's money, but she didn't stop, now it's good, the funeral money is not in the soil, and we have to post the car car money to report the news upside down!" No wonder everyone in the family said privately that she was a money-loser! ”

Liu Gui's family listened to what they said vulgarly and ugly, and frowned: "It's already the middle of the night, let's talk about it later." The things in the mourning hall are laid out like this first, and then we will make plans for a few days. ”

After watching such a "midnight terror", everyone was already dizzy and dispersed.

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The east chamber of the water business concept is exactly the same as what He Angelica remembers. Zhenjing selected a dozen rooms for a long time, and found a relatively better one to help He Angelica in and lie down. The room was windy on all sides, as cold as an ice cellar, except for the wooden bed where He Angelica was lying, there was only a square table and a four-legged stool.

"Miss He, this place is the most quiet, suitable for you to rest," Zhenjing found a robe to cover her, "You lie down for a while, and I will go to the master to ask for some clothes and bedding, and hot soup from the stove to ward off the cold for you." "I'm going to run out.

"Wait!" He Angelica, who had been silent on the road, suddenly spoke.

Zhenjing looked at the weak little man in front of her and smiled soothingly: "You don't have to be afraid, I'll be back soon." ”

"Tell me, what year and month is it? What's my name? He Angelica asked.

"Huh?!" Really silent.

"Quick! Tell me! ”

Zhenjing scratched her cheeks and replied, "Years and months...... It's September of the twenty-seventh year of Hongwu, and as for your name, it's written on the spiritual table, but I don't know how to read......"

He Angelica closed his eyes when he heard this, there is no mistake, there is no mistake, this is really eighteen years ago. With a twist of thought, she touched it in her arms, and sure enough, she touched a golden lock. This is when she was just full moon, and her mother asked a craftsman to give her a rich immortal lock. She rubbed the golden lock lovingly and smiled bitterly, at that time, I am afraid that it was the time when my mother loved herself the most in her life.

When she was two years old, her parents were reconciled, and He Xiaowei raised the concubine raised outside to his wife, and deliberately changed her mother to "Aunt Luo (Li)" on the family tree, so she changed from the daughter of the main wife to the daughter of the aunt, which means that she was demoted from a concubine to a concubine. When his mother left He's house, she took her young self away and brought her back to her parents' house. At first, his mother probably thought that He Xiaowei was only confused by the fox spirit for a while, so he would reconcile with her, and when he thought about his daughter, he would naturally turn back to her and take them back.

Therefore, the mother who lived in her mother's house still bought off the subordinates of the He family to inquire about the current situation of Captain He and the new lady. Who would have thought that when my mother heard half of it, she cried and scolded at the same time, and smashed everything in the house that was within her reach. It turned out that when the new lady was a concubine, she gave birth to a big fat boy to He Xiaowei, who was only one month younger than He Angelica. Since then, my mother no longer wants to hold He Angelica and sing.

When she was four years old, her grandmother saw that the He family really didn't plan to ask for He Angelica, so she ran to her mother's yard and had a small quarrel for three days and a big quarrel for five days. At that time, He Angelica was already sensible, and when he heard words such as "dragging oil bottles" and "can't keep it", he was afraid that his mother would really not want him, and he was afraid and sad day and night, so he had a serious illness. My grandmother took the opportunity to convince my mother that it would be easier to feed her children on farmsteads outside the city. The mother was only twenty-three years old at the time, and she hated He Xiaowei's ruthlessness and unrighteousness, and she didn't want to cut off her future with just one daughter, so she agreed to send He Angelica away.

Three years later, her mother listened to the saying that "remarrying a person with the same surname is not a loss of virginity, and she is still called Mrs. He, and her reputation is good", and through the words of her parents, she married He Fu, a down-and-out son who was three years younger than her. However, after two years of marriage, she was unable to conceive, and the doctor diagnosed that she had used a large amount of musk in her early years, and now she is unable to have children. The mother suddenly remembered her only daughter, so she took the nine-year-old He Angelica back to her side, and let He Angelica shout around He Fu every day "Daddy, Daddy", and let He Angelica learn to play the piano and dance to make He Fu happy.

Unexpectedly, after living in the He family for less than a year, He Fu spent money to dredge up the relationship and found a governor of the Jingwei Command Envoy Division. On the day he went to Ying Tianfu to take up his post, he didn't take the two of them with him, and only let a few servants pick up their luggage and leave in a hurry, without even leaving a word of explanation. The house of the He family was the dowry brought by the mother, and the mother asked someone to pawn the house out and return to her parents' house with He Angelica.

My grandmother passed away two years ago, and now the second master's wife, Sun, is in charge. The mother was disheartened and ashamed to stay at her mother's house, and spent most of her time living in the Sanqingguan to listen to the scriptures. Ten-year-old He Angelica lived in his grandfather's house for half a year, but for some reason, he didn't know what to do, and was carried into the water business temple by the coffin.

In the previous life, He Angelica at this time also woke up in the cold coffin like this, with bruises on his forehead and a serious sprain on his ankle, but he couldn't remember what happened at all, and he didn't know why he slept in the coffin.

At that time, she was asked how she could have come back from the dead, and she replied that she only remembered a dream in which she saw three young children fighting over a jelly bean, and the jelly bean rolled on the ground, which she picked up and eaten, and then woke up.

After that, these words reached the grandmother's house, and the old lady and the eldest lady specially invited someone to interpret the dream. No one heard what was specifically said, but from this ancestor family, he threw He Angelica in the water business view, let her "cultivate her self-cultivation", and gave Taishan fifty taels of silver, and asked Taishan to ask her to hire a master to learn "Female Virtue" and "Female Training".

Guanli raised her as a guest at first, and although the three meals a day were simple, the portions were very large, but she had to chant and repent every day. Every once in a while, Taishan asked her to recite the "Repentance Text" to everyone during the morning class. The content was written by Taishan and Taichen themselves, to the effect that she was born an ominous person, and that her parents, grandfather and grandmother, and brothers and sisters could not be born in the world, and she begged all the immortal officials to forgive her sins, etc. At that time, He Angelica couldn't understand the literary language, and he didn't know what the "repentant text" was talking about, others asked her to memorize it, and she memorized it like that, and the Taoist aunt who could understand the literary language covered her mouth and laughed while listening.

Two months later, Taichen went to his grandfather's house to report on the results of the "teaching" and ask for some "care fees" by the way. Who knows, Taichen didn't even see the face of the second wife, and the housekeeper's mother-in-law stuffed her five yuan on the corner door and sent her away like a begging for food. Since then, He Angelica has suddenly been demoted to the lowest level of the water business concept, she doesn't dare to do less work, she can't eat more, if it weren't for Zhenjing occasionally leaving her some leftovers, I'm afraid she would have been lying in the coffin for the second time.

She took a cold bath in the wax moon, which made her sick, and she didn't dare to take a cold bath again after she got well, and there was no hot water available, so she didn't bathe for a long time. As soon as the Taoist aunt in the temple saw her, she covered her mouth and nose with her sleeves and ran away quickly, as if there were ghosts chasing them behind. And in the face of the stinky sweaty firewood man, they fell to the front one by one.

In this way, in her previous life, she lived in the water business temple for half a year, until her mother had heard enough of the scriptures in Sanqingguan and returned to her grandfather's house but could not find her, so she sent someone to take her away.

Walking into the door of her grandfather's house for the third time, she was full of grievances and bitterness, and couldn't help but run to the old lady and mother to complain, but they turned a deaf ear and refused to give herself a head. When the second wife heard about her going to complain, she held a grudge, and since then she has often secretly reduced her food and clothing.

Because she was very unhappy in her grandfather's house, she has been looking forward to getting married soon. She fantasized that one day a handsome man would appear and take her away from this house, and go far away, so as to protect her from any harm.

When she was fourteen years old, she inadvertently saved an old lady who was injured in a fall, and then someone came to propose marriage and asked her if she would like to marry King Ning as a concubine, and she knew that she was saving King Ning's nurse.

My grandfather's house suddenly seemed to be fried, and I didn't see such a lively scene during the New Year's holidays, the eldest wife, the second wife, and the third wife held her hand and said something considerate, and a group of cousins, cousins, cousins and nieces circled around her, and the left "sister and sister" and the right "aunt and cousin" shouted, asking her to carry her more, as if they had saved all their life and finished talking to her on that day.

My mother couldn't hold her head up at my grandfather's house for more than ten years, but that day she held her head up, her face radiant, and accepted everyone's congratulations with a smile on her face.

The old lady is the wife of her grandfather and the sister of her grandmother. She usually doesn't talk much, but that time she called He Angelica to her and told her a lot. The old lady asked He Angelica to think about her mother before doing anything, and asked her not to resent her grandfather's family for treating her badly. The old lady taught her that it is an iron rule that a woman obeys her father at home, marries her husband, and obeys her son when her husband dies. And the hardships she suffered in her childhood cannot be blamed on her grandfather's cruelty, but on her own lack of protection from her father.

The old lady twisted a string of Buddhist beads and followed the temptation, don't stay away from her dear family because of a small dispute, and don't forget the great favor of others because of a small grudge, blood and family affection, which is broken bones and tendons. No matter how bad her grandfather's family is to her, she has always raised her for more than ten years, let her drink water and think of the source, even if she can't be blessed with her relatives when she is glorious, if she is unfortunately convicted one day, she will not be involved in her grandfather's family......

So, carrying what everyone had said to her, and carrying the dowry that her mother had carefully purchased for her, she sat on the big red sedan chair brought by Ning Wangfu, thinking that she would get out of the sea of suffering and ascend to the sky in one step. Who admits it, who admits it, she just jumped from a sea of misery into another fire pit.

Because she was just a concubine accepted by the old lady of King Ning's mansion, after getting off the sedan chair, there was no lantern to tie the joy of the hall, there was no worship of heaven and earth and two worships of the high hall, nor was she sent to the cave room, and she didn't even see whether King Ning was round or flat.

On the second day of entering the house, she went to kowtow to Princess Xie for tea, but the princess "missed" and knocked over the tea bowl, and the hot tea splashed her face. Later, when I saw Concubine Zhou, she gave her a bottle of scald medicine, and comforted her and said that she had survived it like this, and she would slowly get better in the future. For that bottle of medicine, for that word of comfort, she was grateful to Dade and engraved it in her heart, and in the end, Zhou Jinglan stabbed her in the back.

A year after entering the palace, she finally saw her husband at a family banquet, Ning Wang Zhu Quan, that noble, mysterious, wise and elegant man. He has a terrifying look in his eyes, a touching smile, and as long as he stands there casually, even the air around him will be filled with elegance, even if there are layers of murderous intent hidden underneath. He was as good as her fantasy perfect husband, no, it should be said that it was even better.

Most people do only three things in their lives: deceive themselves, deceive others, and be bullied. She was deceived in the first half of her life, and deceived herself in the second half of her life. She used the words that the old lady said before she got married to spur herself, lying to herself that compassion is the best weapon, forcing herself not to resent her grandfather's family, not to resent Princess Xie, and not to resent those who had harmed her and were about to harm her.

The heart is the biggest liar, others can only deceive her for a while, but the heart will deceive her for a lifetime. In her previous life, she thought that as long as she tried her best to do everything, she would be able to come to the bitter end one day, but who would have thought that everything was just a flash in the pan. Her dedication to Zhu Quan wholeheartedly and forgetting her life and death was exchanged for his ruthless betrayal and abandonment, and her tolerance and generosity towards her rivals again and again, but in exchange for one never-ending nightmare after another.

God played a joke on her, and she lived the most ridiculous life. Now she finally realizes that everything was a scam from the beginning, and she has only lived in vain to make wedding clothes for others.

He Angelica didn't dare to close her eyes, she greedily scanned every inch of the walls and ground in the broken house with her eyes, and greedily breathed the cold wind that made her cough with her nose. She was afraid that she would close her eyes like this, and when she opened them again, she would go back to the cold and dark water prison and struggle......

All night, she was overshadowed by the memories of her past life. The tears are like the river and the sea bursting the embankment, and they can't be stopped, as if the tears of a lifetime in the future are destined to dry up tonight.