Chapter 9: Ecstasy Grass
One day later, Bai Qiuyue took advantage of the day when Ma Suqin and Master Bai went to the temple fair, and when she came to pick up the painting, she saw the young man standing on the boat, looking at the scenery leisurely, and the boat was swaying quietly and slowly with the water.
Bai Qiuyue waved her hand at Liu Wanxi on the shore, and when Liu Wanxi's gaze inadvertently fell on the shore, she found that the slim girl was smiling at him, holding a snack box in her hand, signaling his boat to dock.
The willow gradually rowed the boat leisurely and leisurely.
"You're so laid-back." Bai Qiuyue quipped, in front of him, she slowly regained the vitality that a girl should have.
"Do you want to come up?" Liu Yanxi looked at her with a smile.
"Okay." Bai Qiuyue said unceremoniously, when she was about to put her feet on the boat, she didn't expect Liu Yanxi's hand to hold her hand, and before she could react, she borrowed his strength to get on the boat, and almost touched his chest, that moment of physical contact, so that Bai Qiuyue felt a little flustered in her heart, the boat shook slightly on the water with Bai Qiuyue's coming up, and the two were very close at this time.
She felt the heat of his breathing evenly, and in order to hide the shyness in her heart, she took out the snack box in her hand and said with a smile: "Young Master Liu, this is the snack I specially made for you." β
"You're welcome, then." Liu Yanxi opened the box, saw the delicate glutinous rice cakes inside, took one and put it in his hand, and looked at it, as if he was thinking about something.
"What's wrong?" Bai Qiuyue asked.
"I'm just thinking that a young lady from a rich family like you wouldn't do this." Liu Yanxi smiled and took a bite: "The taste is sweet, soft and glutinous, and delicious." β
When Bai Qiuyue was a little stunned, she looked in Liu Yanxi's eyes, and Liu Wanxi couldn't help asking, "What's wrong?" β
"Like a painter, I have a sad past."
"Are you trapped by love?" The painter wondered.
"No, it's just a family trivial." Bai Qiuyue sighed slightly. No more speech.
She just sat quietly on the boat, watching the painter shake the boat, watching the boat shake the ripples on the lake again and again, as if she was stirring her heart, there were a few dead leaves floating on the lake, just like her heart that was about to wither at this time.
"Young Master Liu, can you do me a favor?" Liu Yanxi's ears were a slight sigh from the woman, and he turned his face away, and the woman's gloom was sad.
Bai Qiuyue told him everything that happened at home.
Liu Yanxi listened quietly.
When Bai Qiuyue said the plan in her heart, Liu Yanxi found that the woman in front of her had a hateful expression on her face, and that trace of determination and pain couldn't help but affect Liu Yanxi's heart.
"I want you to draw me a picture. The picture of Aunt Mei who was once killed by Ma Suqin. Bai Qiuyue said sadly.
The woman in front of him made him feel a sense of pity, and he was also willing to help her, hearing what happened to her, he also felt that Ma Suqin was a hateful person, Liu Yanxi just said lightly: "I'll take you to a place." β
When the boat docked, it was already far away from the studio, there were a lot of bushes in front of him, Bai Qiuyue didn't know what Liu Wanxi was going to do, only to see Liu Wanxi focus on pushing away the bushes while introducing: "I usually pick indigo here, here are overgrown with weeds, but there are some strange plants, have you ever heard of Ecstasy grass?" β
There was a kind of mystery in Liu Yanxi's tone.
"Ecstasy grass can confuse people's minds, but is there such a plant?" Bai Qiuyue suddenly understood his intentions during his inquiry, she knew that Liu Yanxi wanted to help her confuse Ma Suqin's heart, and she was a little moved for a while.
"I had come here by accident, but I had seen a tree that looked like no other shrub, but its leaves could be told by the wind, and I was a little curious, so I looked closely, and I didn't expect to feel dizzy, and when I woke up, it was the next day, and I didn't know when I fell asleep. And in my sleep, I saw a very long, long white corridor, and I actually saw my mother in the corridor, who was stabbed to death by a robber, you know? Later, I found out that this road led to the place where my father was an official, and that year, my mother was killed on the way to see my father with me, and this became my inner demon! β
Liu Wanxi said bitterly.
Bai Qiuyue knew that the man in front of her had been silently enduring the pain that had been suppressed in her heart. I couldn't help but touch his back with my hand sympathetically, feeling the temperature on Bai Qiuyue's palm, Liu Yanxi's body trembled slightly: "Thank you." β
In fact, she wanted to get close to his heart, she smiled: "We are just sympathetic to each other, and we will not feel cold to warm each other." β
In fact, at this time, Bai Qiuyue was moved by what she said just now, but also a kind of fear, the ecstasy grass has always been a plant that makes people feel infinitely weird, when she followed behind Liu Wanxi, she naturally pulled her hand on his clothes, because she had an uneasy look at Liu Wanxi to open the bushes and look for them one by one.
After searching for a long time, until she saw that the plant was more emerald green than the other plants around her, and only when it was rotating irregularly, Bai Qiuyue felt that her body was about to be emptied, her brain seemed to be unable to control her whole body, and her legs were a little paralyzed. Fortunately, he was supported by Liu Yanxi, and at this time, he gently covered Bai Qiuyue's eyes with his other hand, and said: "Close", Bai Qiuyue's heart settled down somewhat.
When she closed her eyes, Liu Wanxi had already picked the grass and put it in her arms.
Liu Yanxi said happily: "It seems that God also wants you to punish the wicked, otherwise how could you find it so easily." β
"But these alone can't make Ma Suqin confess, because all bad people will subconsciously erase the memories in their minds, just because they don't want to think about it anymore." Bai Qiuyue said worriedly.
"That's going to make her remember and be afraid." Liu Wanxi looked like he was winning.
He always has the ability to make Bai Qiuyue feel at ease, she believes in him, at this time, her eyes fell on his hand, and saw that his hand was gurgling and bleeding, it turned out that he was accidentally stabbed by a plant just now, she was a little distressed and took the handkerchief from her arms to bandage him, Liu Yanxi saw that her handkerchief was embroidered with an orchid pattern, and knew that she liked orchids in her heart no less than she liked chrysanthemums.
In that painting, the bluegrass seems to be a good painting.
It's just gone. Returning to the studio, thinking of this, Liu Yanxi said to Bai Qiuyue with some guilt: "I'm sorry, the painting I made for you was sold by my father." I'll redraw it for you. β
"Okay. Next time I'll ask you to pay me a better one. Bai Yuhan joked.
Bai Qiuyue noticed that the original picture of Dai Xi on the wall of the studio was burned, and she had some doubts for a while, but Liu Yanxi said sadly: "Yesterday, my father came to the studio and saw a portrait of the woman I once loved hanging on the wall, and he was afraid that I would be immersed in it and not do my job, so he burned it in a moment of anger."
Bai Qiuyue thought that it was no wonder that his flute sound was more sad than before that day.
And next, Liu Yanxi is going to help Bai Qiuyue paint.
Under Bai Qiuyue's description, Liu Yanxi was about to paint, but when he was painting, he suddenly heard movement outside the house, and suddenly looked alert and shouted: "Who?" But he saw a small woman running away.
When Bai Qiuyue went out, the person had already left, but when he saw Liu Yanxi, he frowned slightly, presumably deliberately eavesdropping.
Bai Qiuyue's first reaction was that Ma Suqin sent it, but fortunately, the matter discussed was not said in the house.
When Liu Yanxi finished painting, Bai Qiuyue wanted to say goodbye, but she was discovered by Liu's father, and Liu's father had a sense of surprise when he saw Bai Yuhan: "It turns out that you are the woman in the picture yesterday." β
"That's right." Liu gradually responded.
"The rich merchant told me that if I found the woman in the painting, I would have to pay more!" Father Liu said greedily.
"You must not fight the idea of the white girl, do you know that it is because of your previous greedy and cheap character that your official position is not guaranteed, haven't you learned a lesson?" Liu Yanxi said angrily.
When he protected Bai Qiuyue behind him, Bai Qiuyue felt warm, and he also felt that Father Liu's personality was not at all different from Liu Wanxi, Father Liu snorted coldly and left, Liu Wanxi's arm was gurgling and bleeding, as if it was because he was too hard just now, Bai Qiuyue saw that his handkerchief was about to be soaked in blood, and he had some shocking feelings: "I'll bandage you." β
"If it weren't for the maintenance of blood relations, I wouldn't recognize him as a father, and what I remember most is the time with my mother." When Bai Qiuyue was bandaging Liu Yanxi, Liu Yanxi said.
The situation between the two of them is really too similar.
"I'll protect you." Liu Yanxi didn't know if he felt sympathy or what the reason was, he muttered this sentence, and took out the ecstasy grass from his arms: "If you plant it near Ma Suqin's house, it will release a large amount of hallucinogens when it is approaching the evening and night, and people with ghosts in their hearts will be delirious." β
Bai Qiuyue wrapped the grass and hid it in her clothes, and took the painting made by Liu Yanxi.
Sure enough, when she got home, Ma Suqin stopped her, she naturally heard what Huiyu said, and Huiyu didn't hear it clearly, she only heard that she wanted to make a picture, thinking that the picture must be boring, "Open it and let me see." β
When Bai Qiuyue unfolded all the scrolls, she saw a woman wearing a red wedding dress painted inside, she seemed to be smiling, but there was indescribable grief and sadness in her eyes, she was holding a big red plum blossom in her hand, it looked so real, in fact, the red paint on the plum blossom was painted with blood on Liu Wanxi's shoulder, he wanted to give people a more cold effect.
When the painting unfolded, Ma Suqin's expression was not frightened, obviously she didn't expect that it was the woman, and she was still picking on how bad the plum blossom painting was.
"But do you want me to say that this plum blossom is stained with blood?" Bai Qiuyue's low words startled Ma Suqin's heart, and she began to tell a horror story again.
"She has appeared in my dreams several times, and has been saying that she has a grievance, and this plum in her hand is dripping with a little blood, and I can't see her face, but I hear her singing in a low voice in front of me, do you know when I saw her clearly? It was a gust of wind blowing, her long hair floating, I could see her face burned by the fire, only one bloodshot eye stared at me, and there were blood and tears, so terrible, I heard others say, give her a portrait, burn incense for her, it should be better. Otherwise, tomorrow will be the moon and a half, and ghosts usually haunt the night of the full moon, because it is the most cloudy time. Bai Qiuyue's face turned pale. Even his scalp felt numb when he said this, let alone Ma Suqin.
Ma Suqin let out a cold sweat when she heard this, and in her mind, the woman who was killed by her arsonγγγγγ
Bai Qiuyue secretly planted this grass near her house, in a secret place.
The constantly rotating leaves seemed to be absorbing people's souls, and Bai Qiuyue was also a little scared, so she left this place.
Later, her goal was indeed achieved, when Ma Suqin was approaching the evening, she would always see a pale, long hair, holding a plum blossom in her hand woman standing in front of her courtyard, smiling at her, even in her dreams, she was also lamenting, she even dreamed that she stretched out her blood-stained fingernails and pinched her neck, day and night nightmares haunted her, her spirit gradually deteriorated, and she would shout with her neck during the day: "Look at it, over there, ghost~"
The people in the Bai Mansion were panicked, so Master Bai had no way to take her, so he took her to see a doctor, but she was always like a madman, showing her teeth and claws, and refused to go to the doctor when she died, so she also invited a mage to exorcise ghosts, and the mage just said lightly: "There are unclean things in the house." β
For a while, everyone began to talk about it, saying that it must be Aunt Mei, and mentioning the fire a few years ago, and some people said that the ruins were an unlucky place, day and night like someone was singing, and some people also saw the red clothes fluttering in the sky.
There were people in the Bai Mansion who wanted to leave, and Qiaoyu also felt scared, but Bai Qiuyue told her not to be afraid, this was just to treat others in the way of others.
Qiaoyu didn't understand, but Bai Qiuyue smiled, you will know later.
Master Bai has been busy enough in business these days, and he has to take care of things at home, he really feels a headache, at this time, Bai Zihao has gone wrong again, he has lost a lot of money in a single business that he handed over to Bai Zihao, but he is good at making claims, stealing the money from the store to eat and drink, when he came back, he was drunk, and Master Bai was going to beat him, and said angrily: "You are not a good thing!"
"Enough! You always say that about me!" Bai Zihao was unexpectedly disrespectful, and went up and pushed Master Bai.
At this time, Bai Qiuyue, who was enjoying the scenery in the courtyard, stepped forward to stop: "Do you know what you did?" β
"How I don't know, I know so much! Don't think I don't know, it's your fault that my mother became like this! Bai Zihao pointed at Bai Qiuyue and said drunkenly.
"Get out!" Old Man Bai hurriedly coughed violently, and Bai Qiuyue stepped forward to help him.
At this time, Old Man Bai burst into tears: "How can I have such a son." β
Bai Qiuyue thought in her heart, if you weren't confused back then and brought your illegitimate child home, you wouldn't have caused such a tragedy anyway, but she didn't say it, she was sure in her heart that her father regretted his decision back then.
Taking advantage of such an opportunity, Bai Qiuyue took the opportunity to say: "Father, you know that Aunt Mei recently entrusted me with a dream, saying that the person who killed her was Ma Suqin, otherwise she would not always come to her to pay for her life." β
"It's... No... Maybe" Master Bai's expression was a little trance, he couldn't believe that he was wrong to love such a woman.
"Father, would you like to make a bet with me?" Bai Yuhan said confidently.
Just when Master Bai was pondering, suddenly the family took the ecstasy grass, "Just now the mage found the reason, it turns out that the evil thing is this grass." β
"How can this grass appear in our house?" Master Bai probably knew what kind of grass this was, and he was a little frightened.
"I did it." Bai Qiuyue said neatly.