The night was thick, like overturned ink flowing everywhere, dyeing the dark blue sky black, and in the endless darkness, only the mournful chirping of the feathered crow was heard in the distance, stirring the hearts of the people who were becoming desolate.

There was not a single candle in the room, it was very dim, only a little faint and invisible light was slowly moving, like a firefly fluttering its wings, and the light was shining. Looking at each other, someone was holding a white porcelain candlestick and walking slowly inside.

The six-fold yellow rosewood tortoiseshell screen separates the room, the four-pillar carved sandalwood bed is next to the wall, the carved carvings at the head and end of the bed are half sunk in the shadows, half drowned in the shimmer, the azure light smoke curtain blows with the wind, and the tangled lotus pattern seems to come to life, faintly fragrant.

Luokui has always been afraid of the cold, and the things next to it can be improvised, but the things at night when sleeping are not sloppy, and every year they make a few thick new bedding with the new cotton of the year, so that they can survive the winter. And now the weather is hot, only on the thin mattress spread a cool purple mat, open the purple mat, revealing a whole bed board, tightly packed on the bed frame, without the slightest clue, looking at it is a very ordinary bed.

A short and small candle head on the white porcelain candlestick was burning in embarrassment, Jingmo took the lamp and candle in Luo Kui's hand, and approached her, only to see her pull out a short blade from under the pillow, the blade was sharp, flashing a miserable white cold light under the candle flame, and the thin blade pierced the bed board against the wall, slowly swiping at the foot of the bed along the gap.

The blade touched an uneven bulge, and with the tip of the knife gently flicked the bulge, turning it three times to the left and then to the right, only to hear a few creaks, and the whole bed slowly moved outward, and finally stopped at a distance of more than a man from the base of the wall.

Looking through the faint light of the candlelight, there was a long, narrow and dark hole at the base of the wall, along which stood a simple wooden ladder, which led down to the dark depths, and the bottom seemed to be very deep and dark, and the five fingers could not be reached.

Luo Kui leaned over, stretched out her hand to rub on the uneven stone wall for a long time, touched a semi-circular depression, she took out a thumb-sized round bead from her sleeve, and embedded it tightly.

The light on the beads flowed, and a line of cold white shimmer rippled out like water lines, and when these glimmers touched the mottled stone wall, they were burned on it like stars, shining brightly, and the wooden ladder was faintly visible in the glimmer of the light being polished smooth.

Luo Kui looked back and blew out the candle head in Jingmo's hand, took the four-layer food box at the end of the bed and drilled into the darkness, and climbed down with her hands and feet.

Jingmo has always been afraid of the dark, and when he goes out at night, he wants to have a few lanterns to guide the way, and he wants to be brightly lit in the house, bright and bright as day, and now looking at the dark and dark part of the dark room, he is so frightened that his hands and feet are weak, and he opened his mouth tremblingly on the top of Luo Kui's head: "Ah Kui, it's so dark here, this, where is this." ”

Luo Kui raised her eyes, she knew that Jingmo was timid, but she didn't expect him to be afraid of even the dark, so how could he afford this bloody future. Her bright eyes smiled faintly, shining in the dark, like the stars before dawn: "Be careful of this when you come down, it's a small thing if you fall, and it's a big thing to smash me." ”

"I'm afraid of the dark and afraid of heights, so can't you feel sorry for me and light one more lamp. Jingmo gasped, and his weak legs and stomach swirled.

"Light one more lamp, you said it lightly, I only have one pair of hands, and I have to carry the food box and hold the tablet. Luo Kui looked back, his cold eyes glanced at his face, and he couldn't help laughing: "You forgot that when you were a child, you liked to go to the house to uncover the tiles, and you also liked to go out at night to steal the black chickens of the neighbors, why are you afraid of the dark and afraid of heights, you use this to coax Qu Lian is almost the same, you use this to lie to me, I also have to believe it." ”

Jingmo was silent, speechless for a while to refute, the so-called ignorant are fearless, when he was young, he didn't know what was difficult to die in life and what was to be afraid of, and his grandfather was always blessed, so he developed a mixed and stingy temperament that is not afraid of heaven and earth, and now he has seen his grandfather die, and has personally experienced the fall of the wicked people, how can he not understand, how can he not be afraid, how can he still have the courage of the little and the more reckless.

He was so frightened that his hands and feet were weak, but after thinking about it, his face was more important than his inside, so he could only rub the thin cold sweat in his palms, and climb down cautiously.

Who expected that this place was not as deep as it seemed, but after climbing down a dozen wooden ladders, it reached the bottom, Jingmo could straighten his waist, but saw Luo Kui take out a thumb-sized bead from his sleeve and embedded it in a semi-circular depression, and the light suddenly circulated in the dark room.

Jingmo looked around, and there was an offering table in the square inch of land, enshrined in six black tablets, and several dark yellow cloud brocade futons were neatly stacked on the ground.

There are three drawers on the side of the case, Luo Kui holds the round carved handle on the middle drawer, turns it three times to the right, and then turns it three times to the left, only to hear the squeaking sound overhead, and the bed slowly moves to its original position, and the dark room under the bed has really become a place that is difficult for outsiders to detect.

There are no windows and no doors in this square inch of land, the bright moonlight flowing outside, the slightest point does not shine here, the candle shadows on the stone wall are better than the moonlight circulation, the light smoke curls in the void, and it is extremely lonely and cold. There was a very low sobbing sound from Jingmo's ears, like a night wind whimpering, mixed with a long, cold sigh.

Luo Kui patted Jingmo's shrugged shoulders, settled down, put Grandpa's tablet and several other tablets together, took the incense stick and lit it on the lamp and candle, escaping a wisp of light white incense, she slowly knelt down, raised the incense above her head, bowed three times, and said sadly: "Daddy, grandpa is with you, you, you have to take care of each other." She choked up, held back the hidden pain in her heart, and said softly, "Daddy, grandpa, Jingmo has arrived in Qingzhou safely, I will take good care of him, you, you can rest assured." ”

She gently inserted the incense stick into the lotus petal wrong gold incense burner, the thin smoke curled, the old people and old things loomed in it, these people have left, this world is finally left alone alone, she can't help but feel heartache, the grandfather in memory is a thin old man with fairy wind bones, although he is old, but the body is very tough, I once heard my father say that my grandfather was profound, able to go to heaven and earth, good at catching ghosts and driving away evil spirits, but such a person, after all, still could not escape a dead word.

Jingmo knelt on Luo Kui's side, opened the food box, kneeled a few steps, and placed the eight sacrifices on the offering table, two lines of clear tears meandered down, hearing Luo Kui's words, he was originally calm a little bit of his state of mind, and he couldn't hold back his grief again, he sighed: "When Grandpa left, the person who couldn't let go of you the most was you, and his mouth kept chanting your name." ”

Luo Kui's mind was a little trance, drifting farther and farther into the distant past, it was the past that he didn't want to think of but couldn't forget, just remembered, he was wrapped in thick blood, and even his breath was bloody. It wasn't until Jingmo grabbed her hand that she realized that her thoughts had wandered for so long, and she couldn't help but sigh in fear, her heart ached, she slowly pulled out her hand and hid it in her sleeve, and slowly spoke, with a painful epilogue: "I didn't expect that the meeting with my grandfather a few years ago turned out to be the last meeting." ”

The light in the dark room was dim, and only the white candle was long, and the glimmer was sufficient, casting ghostly shadows on the equally dim stone walls, which were thin and slender like marionettes.

Jingmo shook his hand, held a handful of void, he was suddenly a little afraid, he had no way to retreat, only the Luo Kui in front of him could be relied on, if, if, if even Luo Kui pushed him far away, he really had nowhere to go, the more he thought about it, the more afraid he became, and finally hugged Luo Kui, sobbing non-stop: "Ah Kui, I, I will only have you as a relative in the future, you, you, you can't bomb me away." ”

Today, another dear person has become a few thin words on the tablet, those words are like a thin blade, the blade is cut in the heart, it is a blunt knife to cut the flesh, and the blood beads are sandwiched with the sound of zila and zila, and the pain is deep in the bone marrow bit by bit. Luo Kui breathed a sigh of relief, and every word was calm and tenacious, and she was extremely restrained: "I know, I know, you have had a hard time in the past six months, and now that we are together, the two of us support each other, and no matter how difficult the hurdle is, we can overcome it." ”

Jingmo's tears rippled, soaking Luo Kui's clothes, his chin rested on her shoulder, and said softly: "Yes, you and I are an unmarried couple, and we will definitely support each other in the future." He plucked up his courage again, took her cold hand through Luo Kui's sleeve, and said softly, "I know you will take care of me." He turned his face to Jingfeng's tablet and said solemnly: "Grandpa, don't worry, I have already seen your granddaughter-in-law, she promised to take good care of me, your old man can rest assured." ”

Her heart moved slightly, climbing through the wisps of strange emotions, Luo Kui suddenly blushed, fortunately the pearl was slightly manggy, not so bright in all directions, and she couldn't see the hibiscus on her face slightly red, she raised her eyebrows, thinking of the many concubines who Jingmo received when she was in Yangzhou, and the many romantic things that were provoked, she only felt that her heart was depressed, she thought, if she agreed to this kind of marriage so easily, I was afraid that there would be endless concubines to fight in the future, and I would go to Goolan Washe in the middle of the night to find someone, and drag him out of the gentle township of the Furong tent, she thought of a headache, sighed silently, pulled out her hand and pressed the corner of her forehead, and said coldly: "You shouldn't drink too much, why are you talking nonsense in front of your grandfather's tablet. ”

Jing Mo shook a thin page of paper that he had always regarded as a treasure, and pursed his lips with a smile: "This is the marriage contract between Uncle Shui and my father, and it is about the two of us, do you want to admit it." He nodded at the tablet: "If you don't want to admit it, just say it in front of Uncle Shui and my father's tablet." ”