2. The Island of Desire Chapter 35 Aiding and abetting
Linghua carefully put together the remnant mirror and injected spiritual power to activate the treasure mirror. The black vortex stretched backwards and retreated, and the past was clearly visible on the mirror-
Zhang's house.
A black figure flashed into the courtyard like a ghost, and walked quickly to the back garden.
Zhang Kaiyuan really made a lot of money in business, and the huge pond in the garden was full of lotus flowers, which were waiting to be released at this time. The lotus pond is bordered by several winding corridors, on which are hung with red lanterns at intervals, but none of them are lit. At the end, the hidden place is connected to the five-curved bridge, which leads to the darkness.
Sun Lianran seemed to be here for the first time, and after looking around for a while, she found the Wuqu Bridge hidden in the vegetation, and flew towards the darkness at the end.
Her black clothes blended perfectly into the dark night that was darker than ink, and her blood-red eyes were terrifying in the dark night.
At the end of the pitch-black bridge was an iron gate that was only two people wide, and it was so low that even Sun Lianran had to bow her head to enter. There was a brass lock on the door, and the lock was already rusty, and it must have been impossible to open even if there was a key.
Sun Lianran split open the iron door with one palm, and the heavy door slammed on the ground with a "clang", making a loud noise in the quiet night.
She hunched down and stepped into the smashed hole, which was still a garden, overgrown with weeds and buzzing mosquitoes and flies, with only a few rockeries standing on the messy grass.
Sun Lianran strode to the back of the farthest rockery, her left hand emitting a dotted red light. The hands were raised and flung out, and the weeds on the ground were sucked up along with the clods of dirt and flew down to the clearing on the right.
Zhang Kaiyuan was already alarmed at this time, carrying a red lantern, and hurriedly walked up to the corridor with four or five strong men. He had a serious expression on his face, and the blade of his hand shone bright red in the light of the lantern.
He strode into the weeds and found a black figure standing motionless in the bleak moonlight.
Zhang Kaiyuan clenched the knife and shouted: "Who are you?" What do you want to do when you break into a contemptible mansion in the middle of the night!? ”
Sun Lianran turned her head when she heard this, and her red eyes stared directly at Zhang Kaiyuan's fat-headed and big-eared face: "I'm here to collect interest, Zhang Fu." ”
She turned, holding a skull in her hand.
She stroked the skeleton, brushed off the soil on it, carefully examined the skeleton's bone statue, and traced it with her fingers, as if she had come up with the flesh before turning into a skeleton: "Ten years ago, Chun Nuan Pavilion, Chen Wan." You won't forget, will you? ”
Zhang Kaiyuan was shocked when he heard this, and he began to tremble: "Ten years ago...... It turns out that it will really come back, it will really ...... You, you're the one sent by the mage? ”
"Huh...... What is done, what is done, what is done, must be repaid. Sun Lianran sniffed the skull, "The breath of the resentful ghost, I like it the most." ”
Her eyes turned to Zhang Kaiyuan: "I like your breath too." ”
Zhang Kaiyuan saw that her red eyes were black and small, and when he saw that the situation was not good, he shouted and took a few steps back, and beckoned to the strong man behind him: "Up, up!" Kill her for me! ”
The strong men were shocked when they saw this strange scene, and they fled one after another. Sun Lianran sneered, and with just a slight wave, these strong men stopped in place and couldn't move, and with a flick of their fingers, a red line pierced the head of a strong man like a marble.
The strong man was bleeding from his seven orifices, and fell to the ground weakly like a mess of flesh, and a line of blood flowed from the center of the Heavenly Spirit Gai, gurgling to the position of the sideburns, gathering a puddle of dark red marks on the ground.
Zhang Kaiyuan was frightened and wanted to turn around and escape, but his legs were fixed in place like sculptures. He gritted his teeth and lifted his feet hard, but to no avail, cold sweat trickled down his head.
Raising his eyes to look at the woman in black with bloody eyes, those emotionless eyes were laughing at his indiscretion. The strength of his legs was drained for a while, and he knelt down in front of Sun Lianran with his knees weak, trembling and said, "Female mage, female bodhisattva!" Spare my life, I don't want to die...... I'll do whatever I want, I'll do it all! ”
Sun Lianran snorted coldly, pointed at Zhang Kaiyuan and said, "Don't think I don't know what you're thinking, now is the time for you to show your sincerity." ”
She gestured to the four or five strong men who were still alive: "Kill them." ”
Zhang Kaiyuan shrank and raised his head with his mouth wide open: "What?" What? ”
Sun Lianran walked towards him slowly, her red eyes looking his body up and down, as if looking at a piece of food: "Don't you understand?" ”
Zhang Kaiyuan suddenly reacted, got up tremblingly and walked behind a few strong men, with a fierce look on his face: "You have seen my secret today, even if you go out, you will not have your life, it is better to end your life here, right?" ”
The strong men trembled one by one, shaking their heads frantically and shouting "spare their lives". Zhang Kaiyuan covered his ears, took a deep breath, and quickly raised a knife to stab four or five people to death one by one.
He watched his loyal men fall to the ground one after another, breathed a sigh of relief, wiped the blood splashed on his face, turned his head and said with a flattering expression: "I don't know if the fast knife mage below is satisfied?" ”
Sun Lianran had no time to take care of Zhang Kaiyuan at the moment, she was closing her eyes and sucking all the resentment from the dead soul into her nose.
After inhaling her, she exhaled a breath of satisfaction, a beam of blood flashed in her red pupils, and there was a smile in her eyes: "Satisfied, naturally satisfied." ”
Zhang Kaiyuan hurriedly shook his fists twice in flattery: "Then the interest under the next is over?" ”
"Finished? It's still far from it. Sun Lianran stared at him with a smile, then stretched out her hand, and a white porcelain bottle appeared out of thin air in the tightly wrapped palm, "Drink it." ”
Zhang Kaiyuan hesitantly took the porcelain vase, and after opening it, he wrinkled his nose and was stunned: "What is this letting you drink?" ”
Sun Lianran forcibly poured the contents of the bottle into Zhang Kaiyuan's mouth, injected spiritual power into his head, and Zhang Kaiyuan swallowed all the things with a "coo".
After a few moments, he clutched his throat and began to howl in pain, the pain making him sweat profusely, and his fat body fell to the ground, scratching at his body like a thousand ants.
After about a tea time, Zhang Kaiyuan was no longer uncomfortable, he staggered to his feet, his eyes were red, his lips were purple, and his body exuded a black aura.
He seemed to be stronger than before, and his nails had grown. He rolled his eyes uncontrollably, his whole body twitched, and a cloud of black qi gathered in the dantian.
As if he couldn't bear it, he slapped the rockery, which instantly turned into a stone and collapsed, and then he fainted on the grass.
Sun Lianran smiled even more, looking at Zhang Kaiyuan lying on the ground: "I'm waiting for the day of success." ”
Then he disappeared in a flash.
The scene on the mirror was also blurred at this moment, Linghua touched the mirror, and the hazy scene returned to the dark vortex, slowly rotating on the mirror.
Sun Lianran fell in love with Zhang Kaiyuan's resentment, and this matter was conclusive. It's just that what did she give Zhang Kaiyuan to drink? And why did Zhang Kaiyuan call her a mage? It's still a mystery. Linghua frowned.
Henggu pouted: "And the previous rumors are all false, where did An Huai hear that Zhang Kaiyuan and the woman in black 'talked happily' and 'confidant', it's just hearsay." ”
Linghua touched Heng Gu's head: "Listen to these gossip, and leave after hearing the truth and falsehood." An Huai is a storyteller, so he naturally wants to talk about things that can cause a topic. ”
"I know, I won't believe it next time." Heng Gu lay on the table very low, and sighed softly: "It turns out that Zhang Kaiyuan really buried Chen Wan's body in his own home, and now she has become a pile of white bones, it's really pitiful......"
Before Heng Gu's words fell, a crisp breaking sound sounded behind him, and when he looked back, Chen Xi was standing in place in a daze, with a broken white porcelain plate and a steaming meal at his feet.
Her eyes flashed with tears, and when she saw the sight of the three of them, she still pretended that nothing had happened, and pulled the corners of her mouth with a smile: "Look at me clumsy, I can't hold the plate, I'll make a new one." I'm really sorry for the benefactors. ”
She crouched down to pick up the broken porcelain, and a tear fell on the glossy white porcelain. Linghua stepped forward and shook her hand: "Let's talk." ”
In the bedroom, Linghua and Chen Xi were still sitting facing each other.
Chen Xi's eyes were still red, but she wasn't crying for herself this time. She wiped the tears on her cheeks with her sleeve and asked, "How did the benefactor know about Chen Wan?" ”
Linghua's face did not change: "Because we are avenging her." ”
Chen Xi's eyes widened suddenly, she put down her sleeves and ignored the tears that fell, and knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Linghua: "Benefactor, please save her, save her!" ”
Linghua didn't like to kneel, and she didn't like to kowtow, so she vigorously helped Chen Xi: "Miss Chen, you don't need to be like this, I will help her." It's just that you have to tell me the truth, and I will know how to help you. ”
She was a little embarrassed, and explained to Linghua in the expectant period: "Benefactor...... I didn't mean to hide it from you...... It's just that when I said this, even I looked down on myself...... So, can you ...... Can you ......?"
Linghua sighed in his heart, but his face was gentle: "I won't tell others." ”
Chen Xi nodded, rolled his eyes, and said softly: "Chen Wan is my sister, she disappeared when I was eight years old, I was still young, I vaguely remember that we looked for her for several days without news, and then I heard that she appeared in Chunnuan Pavilion, Daddy went to look for it, but unfortunately found nothing, and was beaten."
This became a knot in my heart. Because it was I begging my sister to buy me candy that day, she would go out alone, and if it weren't for me, she wouldn't have disappeared......
When I was sixteen years old, I also took the path of my sister to buy candy man, but I was also abducted and arrived at the incense factory.
Mother Shen recognized me at the first glance and wanted to beat me to death. I was surprised, and I was even more sure that my sister had indeed had an accident here. I decided to check my sister's affairs in the incense courtyard, so I made up a random name and pretended not to know anything, so I escaped.
I deliberately asked Shen's mother, was there someone who was as disobedient as me before, so he beat me?
Shen's mother looked at my face over and over again, and said that everyone who looked similar to me had gone to pick up customers, and asked me to pick up customers too.
Later, Zhang Kaiyuan took a fancy to me and told me that he had been helping my family and saving my father, but I didn't want to talk to him for anything.
Because I saw Shen's mother tell him that today according to his request, he kidnapped a few women to him and used them as prostitutes to give to the adults and wealthy families in Yuncheng. He's a brute!
I didn't want to continue to be there with him, and I was going to run away, but he actually knew that I heard him talking to Shen's mother, said that he wouldn't let me go, and that he would kill me!
I first pretended to give in, became his concubine, and lived with him for a while. He seems to trust me very much and asked me to come to the incense house to collect money, but in fact, he is still looking for someone to follow me behind my back, for fear that I will steal his money and run away!
He tortured me like this, and I was really going crazy...... On that day, I took advantage of their unpreparedness and rushed out of the incense courtyard to meet the benefactors! It was the benefactors who saved my life, thank you so much. ”
Linghua carefully sorted out what she said, and said tentatively: "Zhang Kaiyuan likes you in name, but in fact, he may want to marry you home to better control and monitor you, and find out if you know about Chen Wan." ”
Chen Xi's eyes widened in surprise, covered his mouth and said in astonishment: "How can this be? He's so insidious! ”
Her eyes were full of tears, and she went to shake Linghua's hand: "Benefactor, tell me, did he really kill my sister?" ”
Linghua regretted not looking at her pitiful eyes: "Yes." ”
Chen Xi seemed to be crazy, and beat his chest fiercely: "If I knew, I would kill him!" He's a beast! Benefactor, benefactor, I know you have great powers, you can help me kill him! Kill him, let him die, and never open his mouth! Just let him die, and let me go to eighteen layers of hell! ”
Linghua was stunned for a moment, looked Chen Xi up and down, and decided to stabilize her first: "This ...... You rest for a while, I'll think about it, something will look for you. ”
Chen Xi had tears on his face, tired/panting, and used his afterglow to look at Linghua's expression: "Thank you benefactor, thank you ......"
Linghua nodded and walked quickly to the hall, where Henggu and Yang Xichi were waiting for news outside. Heng Gu saw Linghua hurriedly get up and greet him: "What did she say?" ”
Linghua took out a handkerchief from her sleeve and wiped her hands: "She still lied to me." No matter how pitiful she pretends, the language loopholes cannot be covered up by pretending. ”
Henggu tilted his head: "Lying? Why is she lying to us? ”
Linghua remembered Chen Xi's crazy tone, and what she said: Kill him, let him die, and never open his mouth!
She suddenly understood: "Chen Xi must have had other festivals with Zhang Kaiyuan." She told me just in time that Shen's mother saw that she looked similar to Chen Wan, but she didn't kill her because she was pretending to be stupid.
This is unlikely. Shen's mother has been in Yuncheng for many years, and she can deal with all the three religions and nine streams, and the dignitaries and nobles can deal with it easily. Would such a shrewd person easily believe it because of the nonsense of a twenty-eight-year-old girl?
Unless they are casting a long line to catch a big fish, or if what Chen Xi said to me is mixed with truth and falsehood, her words are false.
Chen Wan said last night that Zhang Kaiyuan already knew where her home was, and he also knew Chen's father. Chen Xi also said that Zhang Kaiyuan was helping her family, and it was easy to control the Chen family, so why did he use Chen Xi to cover up his murderous behavior?
Even if Chen Xi was already in the Incense Courtyard and knew some of their secrets, for Zhang Kaiyuan, it was clear that killing her was a more direct and preferred method for him.
In order not to leak the secret, he can kill us in the illusion, or he can kill the nursing home who was born and died for himself. Why can't you kill Chen Xi?
Besides, Chen Xi and Chen Wan are very similar in appearance, I can see it, not to mention Zhang Kaiyuan, who has been haunting this matter in his heart.
Why is Chen Xi still alive and well? ”
Although Linghua didn't want to believe it, he still said his speculation: "Unless, Chen Xi is his companion like Shen's mother, and they didn't think that Chen Xi would escape." ”
When Heng Gu heard this, he denied it again and again: "How is it possible? Chen Wan died so miserably, how could her sister help the abuse? ”
Linghua shook his head: "There is no other explanation." ”
Henggu sat on the chair and his three views were destroyed.