Zhang Xian answered: "Hmph, the culprits are Mrs. Jiang's father and mother and the wild Taoist priest of the rivers and lakes, and what is even more hateful is Mrs. Jiang's weakness and incompetence!" ”

Xia Yulong's right fist slammed into the stone table, and said indignantly: "This Wutong mage has lost his conscience, it is really unpopular, how can he be worthy of the word mage, if he meets Grandpa Yao, I am afraid that he will be slaughtered by a sword long ago." ”

The Ice Silkworm Fairy pondered for a moment, and then said: "I have become a waste, so thin that only skin and bones remain, I said that they will stop here, who knows that in the spring of the next year, they will ask the mage to cast a spell on me......"

The mage picked out ten nails from the fingers of the Ice Silkworm Fairy, and let her roast them by the charcoal fire, and her body was blistered, and the pus flowed all over her body, and stuck tightly to her clothes, and when she pulled her clothes, she felt a cone of pain.

The Ice Silkworm Fairy couldn't bear the torture, her spirit was almost broken, thinking of her ten-year-old child, she washed her face with tears all day long, and finally cried and blinded her eyes, and then the mage instructed the family to beat her to death again, and hastily carried her to the wilderness and buried her in a coffin.

Hearing this, Lan Xin and Zhang Xian hugged each other and cried into tears......

Zhang Xian said: "Mother-in-law, I have lost my father and mother since I was a child, and I think I have a miserable background, but compared to my mother-in-law, what is it, woo...... Don't take the angry words I said to you before. ”

Lan Xin also said: "Mother-in-law, there is something wrong with Xin'er, don't be angry with me, I will listen to whatever my mother-in-law says in the future." ”

Xia Yulong was also full of tears, he just shook his head, not knowing what to say.

The Ice Silkworm Fairy looked at Xia Yulong and the three of them, moved her lips slightly, and her face showed imperceptible distress......

Like a mother caring for her child, she wiped away the tears on her face for Lan Xin and Zhang Xian, and said: "Where will I be angry with you, as Xian'er said, bad things will be punished after all, when they buried me, the clear sky was suddenly covered with dark clouds, and a lightning bolt slashed down, splitting the coffin board, and everyone scattered in a panic, Jiang Tiangao's father and mother broke one on the way back, and the other four front teeth were knocked out, and then I heard Jiang Tiangao say that the two old people died when they were covered with maggots. Master Wutong swept away the family's last money, and two years later, he died in a fire, and his bones were taken by wolves. ”

Zhang Xian and Lan Xin all clapped their hands and applauded, and said in unison: "You deserve it, it's really a wicked person who has evil retribution." ”

Xia Yulong also smiled: "It's really happy, Master Wutong cheated to eat and drink, I don't know how many people have been harmed, and he deserves this retribution!" ”

Lan Xin asked anxiously: "Mother-in-law, the heavens are angry, punish the guilty, and make sure that the suffering people will be blessed, will you become an immortal like this?" ”

The Ice Silkworm Fairy looked worried, shook her head, and replied: "This road to cultivating immortals is still very long, after the lightning, the coffin was filled with biting ice water, and I was rescued by the old woman who was scavenging, she cried and shouted, Child, what kind of grievances have you suffered, there was red rain and snow in the June sky." ”

Zhang Xian said: "My mother-in-law was so wronged that she even shed tears from heaven, how desolate and miserable it is! The Ice Silkworm Fairy nodded and said: "The scavenging mother-in-law took me to a wooden house on the edge of a mass grave, I recuperated in the wooden house for a long time before my body gradually recovered, although my eyes were blind, but my ears were becoming more and more sensitive, every night I heard the sad song of the ghost crying in the mass grave to my ears, at first I was very scared, and squeezed into the corner of the wooden house, the scavenging mother-in-law took my hand and said, don't be afraid, child, it is a sound from hell, and there are spirit beasts guarding the two worlds of yin and yang, The ghosts in hell can't escape the yang world, we are daughters, the more scared you are, the more the yang energy in your body will be lost, and over time you will be riddled with diseases. ”

Lan Xin asked: "Mother-in-law, I'm afraid that this old woman is also a god of one party, right?" ”

The Ice Silkworm Fairy shook her head and said with a smile: "She is just a grave keeper, her youngest daughter died of a plague before she was five years old, and she was buried in this mass grave, her son has long been an adult, and his father has been running the tea horse road all the year round, and she has not come back for more than 20 years, and she does not know life and death, she said that she wants to guard the tomb for her daughter, and also for the people who died in the plague, so that she will feel at ease, and at the same time she is also waiting for her husband and son to come back......"

"Alas......"

The Ice Silkworm Fairy sighed lightly, and said: "In those years, there were many robbers on the Ancient Tea Horse Road, if you want to seek stability, you have to go together with at least ten people, and they haven't come back for more than 20 years, this road is dangerous, I'm afraid I really can't come back, I wanted to tell her my thoughts, but thinking that she was so persistent, how could she dampen her self-confidence, so I comforted her and said, yes, they will be back soon, listening to my words, she giggled. ”

Xia Yulong said: "I heard my grandfather say that the ancient tea horse road is not only a lot of bandits, but also the most difficult road to walk all official roads and business roads, it connects the hinterland of the Central Plains in the east, and reaches the desert countries in the west. ”

The ice silkworm fairy picked up the Buddha beads in her hand, stared ahead, and said slowly: "Later, the scavenging mother-in-law told me that she didn't know that her husband and son could not come back, one day she pointed to the mountain in front of the wooden house and said, you see, the mountain in front of it was originally called Qingpan Mountain, that is where I sent my husband and son away, whenever I think of them, I and my daughter climb to the top of the mountain and look at the thousands of miles of mountains, staring at the road where they pick up baskets and take the ancient road, and later I renamed this mountain Wangfu Mountain, After my daughter's death, I washed my face with tears all day long, and I was already haggard, alas, if my daughter didn't die, she would be the same size as you......"

As he spoke, the Ice Silkworm Fairy burst into tears again, and choked up: "At that time, I naturally couldn't see, but my heart was as clear as water. After hearing my words, my mother-in-law hugged me and cried bitterly, and said, "Girl, when it comes to life, I am much better than you." I said, mother-in-law, don't cry, it's all over, if you don't dislike it, I will be your daughter from now on. Since then, my mother-in-law and I have been dependent on each other, as a mother and daughter, my mother-in-law taught me a lot of medical skills, I am blind and rely on my ears, it is very difficult to move, my mother-in-law cares for me like a daughter, and I feel a long-lost happiness in this wooden house. ”

As she spoke, a smile appeared on her face.

Suddenly, the Ice Silkworm Fairy became sad again: "With my ears, I am used to groping in the dark, and I can do laundry, cooking, and sewing clothes for my mother-in-law......

Zhang Xian answered: "In fact, the most beautiful happiness in the world is not being rich and rich, but having a family by your side!" ”

The Ice Silkworm Fairy nodded, but sighed, "Alas! But the good times didn't last long, in the third year of winter, my mother-in-law couldn't afford to be sick, paralyzed in bed for more than half a year, when she died, she took my hand and said, child, this half a year you have been serving me and urine, it's really difficult for you, at that time I only cared about crying, but couldn't say a word, who can understand the pain of losing a loved one. After my mother-in-law died, I buried her next to her daughter's grave, and I guarded my mother-in-law's grave, so naturally I became a grave keeper. ”

Xia Yulong thought of the sad scene when his grandfather died on Lingshan, and tears unconsciously rolled in his eyes.

Lan Xin also remembered the mind of the queen mother, how heartwarming it was. She sighed with red eyes: "Mother-in-law scavenging is the same as mother-in-law, she is a bodhisattva, and good people will be rewarded after all." ”

Zhang Xian asked, "Mother-in-law, did the people of the Jiang family come to look for you later?" ”

The Ice Silkworm Fairy replied: "I don't know how many spring and autumn seasons have passed, Jiang Tiangao came to the wooden house to find me, at that time we were all past the year of confusion, he said a lot of nice things, and asked me to go back with him, I said, your father and mother will kill me, he said that his father and mother had died in the early years, at that time I sneered, and said, hmph, they deserve this retribution, I am used to the life of scavenging, you don't come to me again......"

"Alas!"

The Ice Silkworm Fairy sighed again and continued: "Later, Jiang Tiangao came to the door several times, and I was blasted out, and after two years, my son Jiang Lao Qi came to find me again, I stroked my son's appearance, but I couldn't cry anymore, I said, son, my mother is living well here, the Jiang family is defeated in the hands of your father, you go back to take care of the affairs of the family, and support the Jiang family for me, after my son went back, he did not let me down, he also came to see me from time to time, and often brought me food and clothing, My life is also considered carefree. ”

Zhang Xian approvingly: "My mother-in-law's son is really filial, it can be said that the mother and son are connected." ”