Chapter Twenty-Six: The Nightmare Stops
Mrs. Shi could not recall that her daughter had any abnormalities before the accident, and insisted that because she was weak when she was young, the family paid special attention to her daughter's food, clothing, housing and transportation, and never gave her anything from unknown sources.
And this Miss Shi was a typical boudoir woman before her death, and she didn't go out at all, except for occasionally having some contacts with a few other rich ladies in the county.
She has never even been out of Yuanchuan County, let alone gone to the Qianlixiang Teahouse in Pingcheng County to drink tea.
Du Ruo originally guessed whether Miss Shi Jia, like herself, had been to Qianli Xiang and drank the mysterious "Flower and Moon Tea", so she fell into the road, and this guess also fell short.
It's not early, after tossing for a day, Du Ruo feels tired at the moment, and his head seems to be foggy, chaotic.
Mrs. Shi's eyes were sharp, she saw Du Ruo's tiredness, and hurriedly offered to let her and Ye Yuanzhou rest early, Du Ruo was really tired, and she didn't excuse herself, and was led to the side courtyard of the Shi family's house by the servants of the Shi family.
It is obvious that the stone staff regard them as benefactors, so the etiquette is also extraordinarily thoughtful, and a group of servants are busy decorating the guest rooms in and out, and the rooms are particularly comfortable and clean.
Not only are the bedding soft and comfortable, but incense is lit in the room, and even snacks and tea are prepared on the table in the guest room.
It's just that Du Ruo is very tired right now, and she has no time to take care of these things, and after the servants of the Shi family who were tidying up the guest rooms have gone out, she fell headlong on the bed, and then fell into a deep sleep.
In the dream, Du Ruo returned to the examination room of the palace examination, she held a brush in her hand, and wrote the paper, but as she wrote, she found that the words she wrote down turned into a mess of tadpoles on the paper.
Just when she was stunned, she suddenly heard a loud shout: "Bold woman, dare to sneak into the palace examination room!" Someone's coming! Drag this crazy woman out of here! ”
Du Ruo was shocked, looked down, and found that he was dressed as a woman, not even an ordinary dress, but a colorful dance dress.
In the blink of an eye, she was grabbed by both arms and dragged out, Du Ruo wanted to cry out, but she couldn't scream anyway, so she could only be dragged out of the hall in front of her eyes.
As soon as she came out of the hall, the white light around her was so bright that she couldn't open her eyes, only to feel that the restraint of her arms suddenly loosened, and the person fell down, and then opened her eyes, but saw that she was sitting in the courtyard of her home, or the willow tree in her memory, and the small stone table under the tree was exactly the same as when she was a child.
At the other end of the table sat my grandfather, still with a crane-haired and childish face, with a small purple sand teapot in his hand, twisting his beard and pondering the chess game on the stone table.
As if sensing someone on the other side, the grandfather raised his head and saw Du Ruo, with a loving smile on his face: "Why did Ruo'er come to me today?" But what is there that bothers you? ”
Du Ruo held his cheeks and let out a long sigh.
When she was a child, she encountered something she couldn't understand, so she especially liked to talk to her grandfather, because her grandfather traveled from south to north, saw a wide range of things, and always knew many strange things that others had never heard of.
"Grandfather, the child has been stumped by a strange incident recently." Du Ruo frowned and said, "Do you know what can make people's spleen swell, blood thin, and not the slightest bit of fishy smell?"
Since I was a child, I have been reading medical books and pharmacopoeias, but I have never remembered that there is a record of medicinal materials with this effect! ”
"Everything in the world is invisible, in the Three Realms." Grandfather stroked his beard, looked at Du Ruo with a smile, and his tone was not in a hurry, "It's not something from the Central Plains, it's from Fanbang, and there is a way to come after all." ”
"There are all kinds of things in the country, and I know very little about them......"
"The medicinal materials are all dead things, and they won't run to the Central Plains by their own legs." Grandfather smiled and shook his head, "The key is not what the thing is, but the people who brought it and used it in the crooked ways of the evil sect." ”
Du Ruo's heart suddenly brightened, and he realized that he was really blinded by that kind of strange appearance, and he drilled the tip of the bull's horns.
Grandfather picked up a chess piece, put it on the chessboard, and looked at her again: "Ruo'er, go back, this is not a place where you should stay for a long time." ”
Du Ruo was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized that his grandfather had passed away for a few years.
She was startled, and there was a feeling of falling, and when she opened her eyes again, she only felt that there was a hazy red around her, and she seemed to be covered by something in front of her, and her body was also swaying left and right, shaking non-stop.
She reached out and grabbed a red hijab from her face, and when she looked closely, she found herself sitting in a sedan chair, which was lifted extremely bumpy, as if she had been taken away that day.
That's not right! Du Ruo's head gradually calmed down, and he became much more sober, and suddenly realized that all this was very wrong.
She has already passed the Tanhua exam, and the official title is Songzhou Sima, how could she be dragged out in the examination room of the palace examination wearing a dancer's clothes?
My grandfather has been dead for a few years, so how can he sit with him and guide him!
And this palanquin! It was clear that he had successfully escaped that night, and it was Ye Yuanzhou who picked him up!
It's a dream! This was the first thought that popped into Du Ruo's mind.
But she felt that something was wrong, if it was just a dream, why did a dream cover a dream, she has realized this now, so she tried hard to wake up, but why couldn't she wake up?
This strange dream seemed to have turned into a sticky paste, enveloping Du Ruo, making her unable to break free from it, and even the more she tried to wake up, her head dizzy for a while, and the more unconscious she felt.
I don't know how long she struggled in all kinds of bizarre dreams, and suddenly a cool breath penetrated Du Ruo's head.
Du Ruo only felt that for a moment, his more and more chaotic brain became awake again, and with the cool and even a somewhat chilling breath becoming more and more intense, the originally pasty dream around him became hazy.
Her eyelids trembled, and the feeling of being a thousand pounds before finally disappeared, Du Ruo slowly opened her eyes, and when she could see everything in front of her again with her blurry eyes, she was the first to see Ye Yuanzhou with an anxious face and a frown.
And a small cyan gourd bottle in his hand.
The cool and chilling breath that had just entered his nose seemed to be overflowing from the gourd bottle in his hand.