"Isn't it the young master who Hua Ling admires and went to Zhang's house when he learned that Hua Ling was not dead?"

In the mountain behind Huaxi Village, in the open space next to the scorched forest, a bonfire was erected. At the top of the fire was a simple barbecue grill made of wooden sticks, and a hare was leaning against it.

Bai Li quickly flipped the barbecue grill while staring at the roast rabbit, as long as he saw the oil dripping down, he quickly turned it over, and at the same time pricked the meat with a bamboo skewer so that the flowing oil juice could seep back into the rabbit meat. The thick aroma of barbecue meat filled the cold moonlight, and the originally silent mountain forest seemed to have a sound.

"It's fragrant, it's so fragrant, it turns out that this roasted rabbit is roasted like this." Old man Tao stretched out his hand, but Bai Li pierced it back with a bamboo stick, "Don't worry, it's not baked yet." ”

"I can eat it even if it's half-cooked." Old man Tao sucked his saliva, and his eyes narrowed into a line more and more.

"I'm not afraid to eat you, I'm so old, it's not worry-free." Bai Li said, turning the rabbit over again, "I just asked you, you haven't answered me yet, did this young master of Hualing find the Zhang family?" ”

"It's just a maid, and it's not the lady that Ming Media is marrying, and it's all carried out, and this young master can still go out to find it." Old man Tao glanced at Bai Li, and when she didn't think about it, he quickly tore off a piece of meat from the rabbit: "It's sweet." ”

"It's not sweet if you don't sprinkle the seasoning." Bai Li stood up, crossed his waist, and glared at Old Man Tao: "I warn you, don't eat it secretly, this half-cooked rabbit meat is easy to have diarrhea after eating." You're too old to stand the toss. ”

"Are you concerned about me?" Old man Tao tasted the rabbit meat in his mouth and looked up at Bai Li's eyes.

It's obviously just a little girl, but the momentum that can be revealed from those eyes is a little scary. Old man Tao squinted his eyes and scratched in his arms a little uncomfortably. He has been a fierce beast for thousands of years, and it is the first time he has met someone who dares to lose his temper with himself. This feels pretty good.

"Wait." Bai Li looked at Old Man Tao a little unbearable, she first checked the rabbit meat on the grill, then moved the grill away, and only took the whole rabbit off the grill after the rabbit meat was slightly cooler. "There are so many old people in Huaxi Village, I haven't seen that one who can be more greedy than your mouth. However, thanks to your greed, master, we have this roast rabbit meat to eat. Oh, one and a half, you are more and I am less. ”

"The girl is so filial." Old man Tao took the roast rabbit and tore it gently, and the whole rabbit was torn in half: "The girl knows that she feels sorry for the master, and the master must also know how to take care of the girl." Well, that's a lot for you. ”

"For me?" Bai Li took the barbecue and put it to his nose and sniffed it, subconsciously licked the dry lips that were roasted by the fire, closed his eyes and felt the unique aroma of the rabbit meat after being roasted: "I really ate it, don't regret it." ”

"Let's eat, when I'm full, I'll be in the mood to cook more delicious food for the master." Old man Tao took a bite of rabbit meat: "It's really fragrant, but the meat quality is a little worse, not as fragrant as those rabbits that eat grass." ”

"Aren't all rabbits grass-eating?" Bai Li asked with a grunt.

Old man Tao's eyes flashed slightly, and he changed the topic without a trace: "Where did we just go?" ”

"Hua Ling, you haven't finished talking about Hua Ling yet." Bai Li nibbled on the rabbit meat while ignoring the image of the lady: "What did you just say, saying that it is not the lady that Ming Media is marrying, and the young master will not go out to find Hualing." It's not that the young master has found the Zhang family, so what can happen to the Zhang family? ”

"Dead man's thing." Old man Tao bit the two words "dead man".

"Dead people?" Bai Li's eyes widened and looked at Old Man Tao: "Is Hualing dead?" I remember that there was no one with that name in the village. ”

"Who is this Xi Niang, you also know the girl, she was born with a broken mouth, either the east family, or the west family. If people talk too much, they will naturally be said by others. There is suddenly a beautiful girl in this family, how can she not be talked about. The speaker is unintentional, the listener is intentional, Zhang Xiniang also thinks that this flower bell is her husband's good friend outside, and the child in Hua Ling's belly is her husband's flesh and blood. ”

"Aunt Zhang really dares to think about it." Bai Li touched her nose, although she had never seen Zhang Xi's father, but in terms of the conditions of the Zhang family, she was really not a family that could take concubines.

"She doesn't dare to think, she dares to do it." Old man Tao stroked his belly and stood up, turned around, and looked at the courtyard of the Zhang family at the foot of the mountain: "While pondering the words of others, she secretly observed her husband's every move between her husband and Hua Ling. The more I observed, the more suspicious I became. There is a saying among your people that you have a saying, suspicion gives rise to dark ghosts. She took advantage of her husband's time to go out to do errands, tricked Hua Ling into the backyard, and took advantage of his unpreparedness to take out the wooden stick prepared in advance and knocked it on. ”

"Knocked to death?"

"No, I just fainted." Old man Tao burped: "But after knocking people unconscious, this bride did something more." She took out the rope she had prepared, tied her in a strong knot, gagged her with rags, and pushed her into her own water cellar, and when her husband returned, he said that someone had come to the village to take her. ”

"Can such a clumsy rhetoric be coaxed to get by?"

"If this is someone else, it is naturally impossible to coax, but Zhang Xi's father is a person with no heart, and he knows the origin of Hua Ling, so he really thought that the family inquired about Hua Ling's residence, and for the sake of the child in Hua Ling's belly, he took Hua Ling back."

"What about this flower bell? Is it dead? What about corpses? Is it still buried in that water cellar in the backyard of the Zhang family? Bai Li asked a few questions in a row, and his eyes followed the glance towards the Zhang family at the bottom of the mountain.

"This flower bell is indeed dead, and it is still starved to death in the water cellar." Old man Tao turned around and met Bai Li's eyes: "Hua Ling is a living person, and after waking up, even if his hands and feet are tied, he will still struggle a little." This sound of struggle can also be heard by the people of the Zhang family, but except for Zhang Xiniang, no one in the Zhang family has associated this sound with the missing flower bell. ”

"And then?"

"Later? Later, Hua Ling was starved to death in the cellar in the backyard of Zhang's house. When this flower bell died, it was also winter, and the body was soaked in sludge, so it was naturally not easy to stink. But winter went to spring, everything recovered, and the body of this flower bell began to rot, and the Zhang family began to float with a stench. Zhang Xiniang knew that she couldn't hide it, so she told her husband the whole thing. No one knows what kind of mood this Zhang Xi's father was in at that time, only that he and Zhang Xiniang took advantage of the dead of night to remove Hua Ling's bones from the water cellar, put them into rag sacks, and buried them in the forest over there. ”

Old man Tao pointed casually, and Bai Li saw a girl standing in the forest over there, and she looked very much like the flower bell described by Old Man Tao.