Chapter 8: The First Seven Ghosts

"Let's have a bite to eat. Yun Yi entered the room and put down the wooden plate, took out the food and put it on the table.

The woman had already changed into a Taoist robe at this time, and when she heard this, she just shook her head, her eyes revealing endless sadness.

"I know you're uncomfortable, but you should eat something and don't starve yourself. Yun Yi picked up the chicken soup and walked in front of her.

The woman turned her head to look at the chicken soup, her eyes were red again, and she got up and knelt down with a "poof".

Seeing this, Yun Yi immediately put the rice bowl back on the table, and turned around to support her: "What are you doing, hurry up." ”

"The body of the concubine is still in the ice and snow, how can the concubine be able to eat it?" The woman cried bitterly: "The concubine is willing to be a cow and a horse for the Taoist chief, and I ask the Taoist to help the concubine collect the remains of her parents." ”

Yun Yi couldn't help but feel a little at a loss when she heard this, so she could only try to help her up again, but the woman refused to get up.

Yun Yi was helpless, so he had to stabilize her first: "Okay, okay, I promise you." ”

"Thank you, the concubine was originally a slave and a maidservant, in order to report the great kindness of the chief. The woman wanted to prostrate.

"I don't want you to be a slave or a servant," Yun Yi picked her up: "You eat the meal first, and then I will find a way to take care of your parents' funeral." ”

The woman wept silently, walked to the table and sat down and served the rice bowl.

Yun Yi sat across from her, waiting for an opportunity to ask her name and family history.

The woman didn't talk much when she ate, maybe she followed the ancient precept of eating without saying anything, or she didn't want to talk because of the pain of bereavement, in short, she answered whatever Yun Yi asked her, and the reply was like gold, and Yun Yi didn't ask her and wouldn't say much.

After asking about the other party's background, Yun Yi asked Dong Zhuo why he killed her whole family.

As soon as this question came out, the other party's mood that had just calmed down a little fluctuated again, and the sadness on his face became more and more intense, and he put down the chopsticks in his hand.

Seeing this situation, Yun Yi secretly scolded himself for having no brains, which pot he really didn't open.

Fortunately, the other party did not hide what he meant, and after a short period of sadness, he told him in detail about the causes and consequences of the incident.

Her name is Wang Xiaoshu, her father is an official in the court, and she is a second-class member of the court.

Although Dong Zhuo's name is Han Chen, he is actually a Han thief, holding the Son of Heaven hostage, traveling to encroach on the honor guard of the Son of Heaven, and disrupting the court.

At the beginning of last year, the princes of the eighteen towns raised troops to suppress Dong, Dong Zhuo saw that the eastern capital Luoyang could not stay, so he simply set fire to the palace, and moved the capital to Chang'an, which made a cadre of Hanchen very dissatisfied.

However, Dong Zhuo commanded the court, assisted by famous generals such as Lu Bu, Li Dao, and Guo Yan, and commanded 100,000 brave and warlike Xiliang troops, so the civil and military officials were not afraid of him, and no one dared to count his sins in person.

Some time ago, Wang Xiaoshu's father sent a secret letter to Yuan Shao, asking Yuan Shaoxing to crusade against Dong Zhuo, but the secret letter was intercepted by the Xiliang army before it was sent out of Chang'an.

Wang Xiaoshu put down her chopsticks and choked up to tears again, Yun Yi explained her a few words, and said, "Eat more." ”

Wang Xiaoshu raised her hand to wipe her tears, pinched her chopsticks and ate again.

Although Zhou Tiandan replenished her qi and blood in the past few days when she was in a coma, Yun Yi fed her gruel, which was difficult to resist the hunger in her stomach.

Even so, she did not gobble up like ordinary people, nor did she deliberately twist and fabricate, this is a good habit formed by receiving the influence of nobility since childhood.

Wang Xiaoshu is a female streamer, Yun Yi didn't stay here for long, found a new bed sheet to replace the old bed sheet with blood stains on her kang head, and took it out and threw it away along with the old clothes she had changed before.

After returning to the house for dinner, Yun Yi called the fat man who was about to strip and fall asleep, and the two went out of the Wujiao Courtyard with lanterns.

The snow began to fall at the beginning of the unitary hour, and by this time it had been more than two hours but it had not stopped, and the snow on the ground had flooded their feet and necks, and the bitter cold wind brought up snow slag and made their faces tingle.

It is impossible for the gatekeepers of Locke Road to monitor the Wujiao Courtyard day and night, and it is even more impossible for them to guard here in ghostly weather like tonight, so the two of them can calmly hurry.

The moon was dark and the wind was high, and the cold wind was howling, so the two of them could only hold the lantern tightly for fear that the lantern would be blown away by the strong wind and they could not see the road clearly.

"It's freezing outside, and the corpses don't rot and stink, so it's not too late to go when the snow stops. The fat man was extremely reluctant to go out at this time, and there were many complaints in his tone.

Yun Yi didn't answer the fat man's words, many years of begging life made the fat man have a deep fear of the cold of Sanjiu, and many beggars froze to death on the streets of Chang'an City every year, and the two of them would worry about how to survive the cold winter every winter in the past.

Braving the wind and snow to rush to Wang's mansion, Yun Yi was stunned, Dong Zhuo acted not only ruthlessly, but also absolutely, Wang's mansion was burned to ashes at some point, and now there are only some ruins covered by heavy snow.

The fat man was so cold that he stamped his feet, and shivered: "It's all burned like this, I'm afraid there is not even a single bone slag left." ”

"Go in and have a look, if you can find one or two of her parents' belongings, leave a thought with her, and cut off her thoughts of finding a short time. Yun Yi stepped into the courtyard that had been reduced to ruins.

"She's looking for a short time, so let's go back. The fat man followed.

Yun Yi didn't answer, half of the fat man's trembling came from the severe cold, but the other half was because dozens of people had died here, and it gave people an eerie feeling during the day, not to mention that it was the middle of the night.

The fat man understood Yun Yi's temper and knew that the decision he made was difficult for others to change, so he could only follow up in the courtyard.

At this time, the courtyard was covered with thick snow, and the corpses were also burned by fire, and it was difficult to find anything.

The fat man couldn't bear it the most, and he yawned for more than half of the time, so he informed Yun Yi and went to find a sheltered place to take a nap.

Yun Yi was also a little discouraged at this time, so he didn't embarrass the fat man, and searched in the snow alone for a while, and saw that the fire and candle in the lantern were about to burn out, so he wanted to call the fat man back.

Before he opened his mouth to call the fat man, the fat man got up consciously, Yun Yi only thought that he was awakened by the cold, and did not care, and greeted him and walked out of the house first.

When he went out of the gate, he found that the fat man did not follow, and looked back inside, only to see that the fat man was kneeling in the snow and digging something.

"Forget it, let's go. Yun Yi greeted the fat man again.

Maybe the wind was too loud, and the fat man didn't hear it, and still lay down in the snow to search.

Seeing this situation, Yun Yi had to go in again to call him, and when he arrived at the fat man's side, the fat man suddenly got up, and there was an extra white jade ring in his hand, and there was also half of the finger bones that had been burned by the fire.

Seeing the white jade ring in the fat man's hand, Yun Yi had the heart to cry, the place where the fat man found the white jade ring was the location he had originally searched, but he didn't search carefully, he couldn't find this thing earlier, and he suffered from the cold for nearly an hour.

"Show me. Yun Yi said.

The fat man handed over the white jade ring, Yun Yi took it and was about to borrow the candlelight to take a closer look, but saw that the fat man suddenly knelt down with a "poof", kowtowed and said: "The Taoist saves the little girl, and the incense of my Wang family continues. ”

Yun Yi felt cold all over his body when he heard this, and the cold and cold of his body rushed down his back to the Tianling Gai, and his scalp was numb.

Not only did the fat man speak in the wrong tone, but even his voice was replaced by a neutral male voice.

The deeds of the unjust soul asking for their lives are quite popular among the people, and at this time the funeral also has the custom of doing seven with the dead, and he has also heard of the first seven souls, but his understanding of these things is limited to hearsay, and he has not personally experienced it.

At this time, seeing that the fat man was actually on the body of a ghost, he was so shocked that his teeth trembled, and his body trembled unobediently.

At this moment, the fat man suddenly tilted his head and fell unconscious, Yun Yi was slightly stunned when he saw this, and after a while, he had the courage to step forward and hug the fat man.

After pinching him several times, the fat man finally woke up slowly, was blown by the cold wind, got up and said, "Hey, why am I here?"

Hearing that the fat man's voice and tone were no longer abnormal, Yun Yi's worries were gone, the ghost who possessed the fat man before called himself Wang Zhen, and he was Wang Xiaoshu's father when he heard his words.

Estimated time, it should be not long after the arrival of Zishi, it is the seventh day when the Wang family was killed, and it is also the night of returning to the soul.

Thinking that there were countless ghosts wandering away from Wang Mansion at this time, Yun Yi felt his scalp tingle again, and pulled up the fat man and hurried away.

The fat man was used to being rough, and he had forgotten to ask the previous question, and Yun Yi didn't plan to tell him, he was frightened like this in the middle of the night, so he was still frightened, but don't scare the fat man out of anything.

"Did you find anything?" asked the fat man, yawning.

Yun Yi quietly flicked off the finger bone in the white jade ring, and handed the white jade ring to him instead.

The fat man took it and looked at it with interest: "This thing should be worth a lot of money." Then he handed it back to him.

The two walked a short distance before the candle in the lantern finally burned out. Without candlelight lighting, the two can only follow the path in their impression to move forward in the dark, slipping and falling are inevitable, and hitting the wall and hitting the wall also happens from time to time.

As a result, it took an hour longer to return than it had come, and it was already the middle of the night when I returned to the Wujiao Annex.

Because the two came out when the other people did not know, so the door had already been latched, the two had done a lot of stealing chickens and dogs, and it was naturally difficult for them to climb over the wall and enter the courtyard, but the black light was blind, and there was a lot of snow on the ground, and it was inevitable to slip and fall when they climbed over the wall.

Worried that everyone would be regarded as a burglar, the two did not dare to shout loudly when they were in pain, so they could only cover their heads and consider themselves unlucky.

The fat man was already sleepy, and at this time he muttered dizziness again, and swayed back to his room to rest.

Yun Yi put away the white jade ring and went back to the room to sleep, in the evening, he only cared about adding firewood to Wang Xiaoshu's kang, and forgot his kang head, so the kang was already cold at this time.

was frightened before, Yun Yi also lost the mind to burn the kang, and fell asleep soon after lying down.