The churning mist seems to see the past of the female ghost.

The cold wind blew away the thick snowflakes, floating on the red fluttering cheeks, following the back of the father in front of him, walking through the white expanse, and when he turned back, the home was mixed with goose feathers and heavy snow, and became blurred.

She was only seven years old.

The little girl understood many things, and some did not understand, so she followed her father to the town, and entered a warm and bright hall, and asked her to sit outside, talking to an old man, and there were many beautiful clothes, tiaras, gongs and drums around, and at the door of the dark house on the other side, there were children about the same as her looking over.

Soon after, her father came out with a rattling bag and squatted in front of her.

"Don't blame your father..... don't blame your mother, you were born here, listening to your uncle, you will stutter, it is better than starving at home, you know?"

She knew that she had been sold, her eyes were red, she didn't cry, she followed her father timidly to the door, stirred her fingers, and stood in the wind and snow.

I still couldn't help crying: "Dad, when are you going to pick up Yun'er?" ”

The father walked away without saying a word, and it was the old man in the house who came and pulled her in, but the old man was not kind, and he took a slender whip and whipped and trained him, and the more he cried, the more he beat him, until he did not dare to cry.

Later, she gradually understood what her mother said when she left: "You must be obedient and sensible outside, so that you will not starve." The other children in the yard gradually decreased, and some were not suitable for this business, so they were sold to the Qinglou, and after two years, she was also sold to a drama troupe in Hegu County.

The original name has also become Honglian, open his voice, sing songs, practice the basic skills that he once practiced in the small courtyard, a little laziness is a beating and scolding, and after another three years, when he was twelve years old, he went on the stage to follow the play, sang some small horns, and finally got some small rewards.

Looking at the small wooden box, there are copper accumulations, it is her happiest year, and later, because of her beautiful and soft voice, she is valued by the class owner, and at the age of sixteen, she has become a famous Hua Dan in the Li family's class, and it may not be long before she really becomes Zhengdan.

The money saved over the years was exchanged for silver taels, and I specially picked a good day, took a rented carriage, and returned to the house in my childhood memories, wanting to see my father and mother, and my younger brother.

However, the reception of her is the neighbor next to the house, it turns out that her house has not been repaired for many years, collapsed, and also knew from the neighbor that the mother died when the younger brother was one year old, less than half a year, the younger brother was sick again, the father Chongxin temple in the master, donated incense to cremate the disaster, the younger brother's illness was not cured, it dragged on for a long time, sent to the town hospital, has no power to return to the sky.

After the death of his younger brother, his father came to his senses and took the family's firewood knife to the temple to kill, but he was beaten by the people in the temple and was covered with blood, and was carried back by the villagers, and followed in less than half a day.

On the contrary, the people in the temple said that he broke in with a sword first, and was beaten as a bandit, and the government did not pursue it anymore.

There was no one left in the family.

Honglian held the wooden box while listening to the neighbor's story, while crying suppressedly, tears fell on the wooden box, when leaving, she left the wooden box to the neighbor, and went to the grave of her parents and brother to kneel for a long time, until it was almost dark, she left in the carriage, and gradually went to the small village, I am afraid that she will not come back.

Back in the troupe, she seems to have grown up, singing happily, her reputation is getting louder and louder, and there are more and more people who come to cheer her on...... God gave her a beautiful face and a moving voice, and he rewarded her with food, and the head of the class, Li Yunxiu, said that God has appreciated the food, and even the bowl is unstable, so don't live.

Not only did she have to eat, but the entire troupe also had to eat, and after receiving the invitation of Chen Yuanwai's birthday in Fushui County, the entire troupe was busy, and she also carefully compiled "Nanjun Asks for Birthday" as a big drama on the stage.

Hearing the enthusiastic cheers under the stage, she knew that this opera was a success, or it wouldn't be long before Fushui County would know her fame.

Hua Dan, who became famous, had an independent small room to remove makeup and change clothes, humming a little song, and a figure flickered outside the window, and then pushed the door in, it was a drunken scholar, saying that he liked her.

Hong Lian knew him, he was Chen Yuanwai's only son, but when he met, he said he liked it, and pushed the scholar away with both hands: "Chen Gongzi, you go out first....."

The scholar refused, looked at no one around, smiled on his drunken face, rushed over to her and picked her up, threw it on the table, and impatiently reached out to untie her pants.

Hong Lian hit him with his hand, and kicked over with both feet: "Childe, Hong Lian is just here to sing, not a prostitute in Qinglou..... please let me go..... you go out......"

Pleading, kicking the scholar's lower body, the painful opponent took half a step back, Hong Lian jumped down quickly, ran towards the door, and was caught halfway through and dragged to the ground.

The scholar who was beaten was furious, and his backhand slapped her in the face, and her cheeks were red and swollen.

"What's the difference between you being a drama and a prostitute in the Qinglou?!

"Daddy..... Mother....." Maybe the pain in her cheeks, or the name that was awakened and hidden in the depths of her memory, Hong Lian suddenly went crazy and hit the scholar in front of her.

"Ahh

The scholar who was hit by his nose screamed, and immediately dragged Honglian's hair to the side of the bed, picked it up and threw it up, grabbed a Hongling on the table where the costumes were stacked, and wanted to tie up the woman.

Honglian struggled and cried, grabbing him with her hands.

"Let go of me..... someone, save my ..... father ..... mother...... Where are you, save Yun'er....."

Afraid of being heard, the scholar covered her mouth and nose with the red ling, and shouted: "Don't scream!" The other hand quickly took off the woman's clothes, and just took off the clothes outside, and found that the struggling body was no longer moving.

The scholar hurriedly took his hand away from Hongling.

The woman's eyes widened, and she was silent.....

The scholar ran out in a panic, found his father with a flushed face, and the Li class master who was accompanying him, told the truth, and was beaten by the angry old man, and the Li family head was also in front of dozens of ingots and did not report to the official.

Directly on the outskirts, a mud pit was dug, and a piece of grass swept away Honglian's body, threw it in, and then buried it.

No one will ever know.

*****

The fog surged, and the crowded crowd fell into silence, which lasted for a long time, and Lu Liangsheng was also touched, and there was no next action, just looking at the stage in the distance.

"This female ghost is a little pitiful, but it's a pity ....." The toad man woke up at some point.

Lu Liangsheng raised his eyes and looked at the toad sitting above his head: "Master, she is very pitiful, but what do you mean by pity?"

"She..... turned into a ghost and claimed several lives, if she kills one more person, she will become a rakshasa ghost, and then she will really never be reincarnated, and she won't even have to be a beast. ”

The young man looked at the lonely female ghost on the stage and fell silent.

"God was unfair to her..... and she encountered such a thing, and in the end she didn't even have a chance to reincarnate......."

The tentacles of the centipede essence pinched in his hand were released and pulled tightly.

After thinking for a moment, Lu Liangsheng took a breath, his voice was serious, and he spoke to the stage over there.

"Girl, you have to be forgiving and forgiving, I am here today, you are not allowed to kill anyone, please leave quickly, if you want to bring about your own destruction, you can come here!"

The female ghost's figure flickered, she didn't look at the group of people in the middle, stared at Lu Liangsheng in the cloak, passed for a while, and bowed slightly.

"The slave doesn't dare to offend Mr., how can I let him go today, but Mr. will never stay in this small mansion, as soon as you leave, the slave will come again!"

"That's for the future!"

The female ghost raised her face, glanced at the scholars in the crowd, and snorted a few sneers: "Mr. is here today, leave you a dog for the time being, and after Mr. leaves, the slave will come to meet Chen Lang privately." ”

It was to bow to Lu Liangsheng from afar, and the figure slowly disappeared into the fog, and the stage also disappeared, and the surrounding mist, the blowing yin wind gradually stopped.

The crowd sitting on the turf of the flower bed breathed a heavy sigh, and the sweat was like water after the gate was opened, and it kept flowing out.

"My mother, I won't come here again, I almost gave my life. ”

Some people screamed, and some people stood up, and suddenly snorted at the Chen family father and son over there: "Birds and beasts are not as good." ”

"Yes, yes, this father and son are simply unconscionable!!"

"Just report to the police!"

However, Chen Yuanwai over there ignored the condemnation of this group of people, and hurriedly ran to Lu Liangsheng on the rock, and the old man's son knelt down with him and kept kowtowing to the ground.

"Sir, please save my life, this is really a foolish thing I did after I was drunk, and I will never dare to ..... again"

At this time, the fog had dissipated, and the voices of the maids and servants could be heard around, so Chen Yuanwai hurriedly called someone over, brought five hundred taels of silver, and saluted respectfully.

"Sir, please take this money. ”

A piece of silver ingots from Baihuahua was neatly arranged in front of him, Lu Liangsheng originally came for it, not to mention that he did help the father and son, and he didn't accept it for nothing.

Immediately nodded: "The old man just wandered around here and heard that there were powerful ghosts, so he came to take a look...... It's a pity that you can't stay long, so be it. ”

As he spoke, he pulled out a knife from his waist.

"This is something that the old man carries with him, let your son wear it on his body, but in case that terrible ghost comes again, don't do this kind of hurtful thing in the future. ”

That Chen Yaoke hurriedly snatched it in his hand, quickly tied it around his waist, and kept making gestures towards Lu Liangsheng.

"Thank you, sir, for your teachings!" "Thank you, sir, for giving this thing to ward off evil spirits!"

"Xiaosheng will do more good deeds in the future!"

Under the shadow of the cloak, Lu Liangsheng looked at him coldly, stretched out his hand to take the plate of silver, poured mana on the tentacles of the centipede essence, stirred up the demon wind, blew over, and when the squinting people couldn't open their eyes, they ran away with the silver in their hands.

In a tuft of grass and trees, he threw aside the dusty sheets, and hid five hundred taels of silver before he came out.

Mixed in with the still noisy crowd called Lu Pan and others, quietly went over and divided the silver into nine parts and hid them on everyone, when they came back here, there was a commotion in the front yard, and the servants in the courtyard over there ran over, saying that the left catcher of the yamen had brought people here.

The sky was dark, and at this time, the ghosts retreated, and the panic in everyone's hearts eased a lot, and they were more at ease for the people who came from the Yamen, and they welcomed the past one after another.

"Zuo Catcher, you came just in time, this place is really haunted!"

"Yes, yes, that ghost is really powerful, if it weren't for the fact that there are many of us, I can't say that the father and son of the Chen family have suffered a scourge. ”

Between the words, no one mentioned the origin of the sneaky, after all, these people still have to continue to beg for a living here, Chen Yaoke was arrested, how could Chen Yuanwai let himself go?

Zuo Zhengyang frowned and looked at these people talking nonsense, just to ask his subordinates to quickly pull them aside to make detailed records and interrogations.

Then, standing at the door, staring at each face, he walked out of the Chen Mansion from in front of him.

He is superb in martial arts, and when he was thinking about the Chen Mansion case in the Yamen that night, he felt frightened, so he brought people over, and looked at the looks of these people when they went out, thinking that something unbelievable had indeed happened.

After everyone was gone, he found Chen Yuanwai and wanted to continue questioning, but he refused because he was tired, so he had to take someone back to the county office.

On another street not far from him, a group of nine people found an inn, opened a spacious room, looked at the five hundred taels of silver piled up on the table, and kissed and smiled.

"Haha, I've made a fortune this time!" "Why don't you go back and buy some rouge gouache for your mother-in-law at home?" "You who are rolling the ball, if you want to buy it, you must need food, oil and salt." ”

"It's best to buy some more fabric and get new clothes for the family. ”

"Then it's up to Liangsheng to come up with ideas. ”

"But speaking of which, that female ghost is really pitiful, the father and son of the Chen family, especially that Chen Yaoke, have lost their conscience, and they can't wait to slash him with a knife!"

How to use this large amount, everyone still looked at the young man who finally made up his mind.

"When the time comes, it will be certain to buy things for every family, as for that Chen Gongzi, it is not for you and me to manage, and the sky will accept him. ”

Lu Liangsheng smiled at them, sat on the edge of the bed with a book in his hand, and quietly flipped through it with the help of an oil lamp.

The night grew darker as time passed.

The Chen Mansion, which had been silent, gradually had the sound of the wind, patrolling the night with lanterns, walking through the eaves, and suddenly heard a faint chuckle in the wind.

"The ghost....not long after leaving, and killing again?"

"Get out of the way!"

Someone ran away quickly, and the man with the lantern saw something flying to the courtyard where Chen Yaoke lived in the dark night sky from a distance.

Frightened, he shouted, "Come on—"

The whole compound was noisy, the maids and servants rushed over with gongs and drums, Chen Yuanwai simply put on a coat, and was helped to the room where his son was, and the two strong pouncers hurriedly knocked the door open.

A rush of blood came to the nose.

The maid holding the lantern poked in, and with a scream, the lantern fell to the ground.

The flickering firelight went away, and on the bed, a figure fell crookedly between the bed and the floor, his clothes torn, and his open chest and stomach were torn.

The blood of the internal organs was pulled aside, and not far away, there was a blood-stained knife.

"My son....."

Chen Yuanwai howled, his body shook violently a few times, his eyes rolled white, and he fell into the maid's arms.

In a moment, the entire mansion was in chaos.

The night breeze ran through the eaves.

In the treetops that no one noticed, a figure in a white dress sat on it, Qingsi stroked, looked at this scene, got up and floated away.

……

Outside the chaotic and noisy Chen Mansion, the streets were quiet, occasionally a dog barked or two, and in the lighted paper window, eight big men holding silver lay on the ground and slept soundly, laughing from time to time.

The toad, nestled on the pillow, opened one eyelid and aimed at the desk.

"What a fool. ”

Yawned and went back to sleep.

The oil lamp was dim, and the boy was lying on the table, already asleep, and the book "Nanshui Collection" was written next to him, turning a page in the breeze squeezed in through the gap in the window.

"Huang Chuan has evil arts, very vicious, with a thing with him can harm people, careless, intestines through the stomach rotten ........"