Chapter 52: The Old Woman Is Also Made of Water
A big black dog tied to the side yard struggled with the rope and roared into the light reflected by the window lattice.
Puff puff....
Puff puff puff.....
The sound of water spraying was still ringing, and in the warm yellow room, Mrs. Zhou pinched the silk handkerchief and cautiously approached the door, whispering to call the maid next door.
"Xiaohuan..... get up quickly and go outside to see what's going on. ”
The maid who was sleeping next door had already woken up at this moment, and she had heard this kind of sound in the past, and she didn't know what it was, and when she heard her lady's command, her little face turned pale.
Trembling, he walked to the door, opened a gap in the door, and glanced out.
Then....bang, close the door.
His face was bloodless and he knocked on the back room, and his voice brought a cry: "Madam..... the old woman outside has reappeared..... she is outside." ”
Mrs. Zhou was also frightened, and hurriedly opened the door and let the maid in, which was better than being alone.
"That's how to do it. ”
The two of them couldn't think of anything in the house, and their daughter Zhou Rong on the bed also seemed to be in a nightmare, constantly moaning, and her face was covered with sweat.
"Do you see what that old woman looks like, have you ever been to the house before?"
The maid shook her head again and again, unable to speak, and Mrs. Zhou saw her like this, so she had to approach the window lattice, stretched out her finger and poked a small eye out of the paper window, and looked out.
The lantern under the eaves swayed, and the lights swayed, and I saw a short, hunchbacked, old woman, walking slowly on crutches, but she blinked to the corner of the room, and walked out of the corner of the room in less than a few breaths.
As I walked, I kept squirting water from my mouth and nose, as if I couldn't finish spraying, and obvious wet marks spilled out where I passed.
Mrs. Zhou was also so frightened that her face turned pale, her voice trembled, and she was about to say, "I have to find a way to inform the master, or other people in the courtyard......"
The old woman outside stopped abruptly, and the black dog on a leash in the distance also roared even more frantically.
Wangwang......
In the dead of night, the sound of barking dogs came from far away in the front yard, and the servant who was walking in front with a lantern looked over there, looked back at the scholar who was following behind, retreated to the side, bowed and said, "Master Lu, this is it, the little one is waiting outside." ”
After saying that, the man looked in the direction of the dog's barking, and his lips muttered.
"..... started barking again. ”
"The dogs in the house bark so fiercely on weekdays?"
Hearing the scholar's question, the servant turned back with a lantern, "This dog was not raised in the house, it was only bought a month ago, and it was placed in the young lady's ......."
The words stopped abruptly at this point, and the warm yellow light of the lantern ranged, and Lu Gongzi did not go to the toilet in the thatched house, but stood by the water tank and took out a brush from his wide sleeve.
The corners of the servant's mouth twitched, and the reader should also be poetic when he goes to the toilet?
But he couldn't help but ask: "Master Lu..... what are you going to do?"
"Shh
On the edge of the water tank, Lu Liangsheng's index finger stood up in the middle of his lips, and then took out a small piece of ink from another wide sleeve, stretched out his hand, and on the surface of the water tank next to him, a circle of ripples appeared, and in the servant's puzzled gaze, he pulled out a water line and rolled it on the ink block, quickly forming ink.
"Don't tell anyone what you see. ”
After the ink was evenly proportioned, and the tip of the pen was put in the palm of his hand, Lu Liangsheng touched the wall as if he had painted by hand in the past, and pulled out a horizontal line at will.
The servant was a little trembling with the lantern, seeing the previous scene, he was already bold not to be scared away, and now the scholar opposite was still the lord's honored guest, and he couldn't help but stammer.
Lu ...... Land...... Lu Gongzi ...... What are you going to do....."
Lu Liangsheng stopped his pen and looked at the ink line drawn.
"Of course it's to save people, do you want to draw a picture of the beautiful scenery on the edge of the latrine?"
The next moment.
The ink line on the wall, writhing as if alive under the servant's horrified gaze.
The night breeze blows through the courtyard.
Lu Liangsheng flicked the sleeves of his robe, raised his arm sideways and pointed in the direction of the dog's barking.
"Go!"
The ink lines that floated out of the wall flew out of the servant's head, and the hair was stirred and swayed by the wind, and in a moment disappeared into the darkness of the courtyard.
......
In the side yard, the barking of dogs became anxious.
A little water stain suddenly splashed on the paper window, Mrs. Zhou shrank back in fright, the paper window melted open, and she clearly saw the old woman outside, slowly turned her face, a crane hair down, her face was like edema, and she stared at the woman in the room expressionlessly.
At a certain moment, the black dog over there did not dare to roar, and retracted into the nest with its tail between its whimper.
Puff puff puff.....
Burst.....
When Mrs. Zhou took two steps back in fright, the old woman outside spurted water from her mouth and nose again, took two steps with a cane, and suddenly jumped to the window in the blink of an eye.
The master and servant in the boudoir rolled their eyes and fainted in fright.
The yin wind stirred up the lights, the window lattice was pulled upside down, two edematous hands climbed up the window frame, and the old woman's upper body leaned in little by little, and opened her mouth towards the woman on the bed.
The water dripped down the corners of the mouth and chin to the ground.
The next second.
The bloated and old body was about to go in, and the treetops a little farther away stroking, an ink line rushed in, carrying mana, flying directly to the eaves, entangling the old woman's body, and even the hands that were climbing on the window lattice were pulled back in an instant and dragged to the courtyard.
"So much water, you drowned?"
On the other end of the ink line, a walking figure flew into the hand, and when the clear words came slowly, the person also walked into the range of the lantern light.
"Even if there is a grievance, you can complain, why bother to come out and harm others, and make it difficult for yourself to be reincarnated. ”
Over there, the old woman who was tied up didn't look at the scholar, and was still headed towards Miss Zhou's boudoir by the ink thread.
This ghost, no spiritual sense?
Lu Liangsheng frowned, the ink line wrapped around the middle finger in his hand suddenly retracted, and when he walked to the old woman under the eaves, the ink line was obviously tightened again, and the gray robe made deep marks, and the whole body was like a sponge, and a large amount of water was squeezed out.
"So much water ......"
There were more than one water stains, and there was a faint fishy smell, Lu Liangsheng drove the magic trick to pull the old woman closer, and the ink line was also tightened, and the old woman's whole person was strangled out in circles, and her eyes were bulging.
In less than a moment, in front of Lu Liangsheng, the flesh and bones were rotten, soft into a lump, and the speed visible to the naked eye turned into a puddle of clear water, leaving only the clothes and robes still on the ground.
"That's it?"
Lu Liangsheng removed the ink line, observed for a while, walked into the room quickly, Zhou Rong slept quietly on the bed, checked Mrs. Zhou and the maid on the ground, and after seeing that there was no major problem, he left first and returned to the front yard.
In the living room, Zhou Yao saw him come back and asked the maid to pour the wine.
"Liangsheng has been gone for so long, he should be punished with a cup. ”
"It's a drink. Lu Liangsheng came over and looked around, the servant who saw him casting the spell was also not far away, he didn't dare to raise his face, smiled, drank the wine in his hand, and said, "Old Zhou, it's getting late at this time, I'll go back first." ”
Probably a little drunk, the old man put his arm around the scholar, asked him to sit down, waved his robe and told the servant to go to the kitchen and order a few more dishes to be served.
"Since it's getting late, it's better to stay at home, so why run around. ”
Lu Liangsheng waved his hand to prevent the servant from going to the kitchen, got up and retreated to the door and gave his hand again.
"Old Zhou is kind, Liangsheng thanked him, but he suddenly stayed overnight, and there is still a daughter to be married in Zhou's family, and it is not good to be known by outsiders. ”
These words made the old man sober up a little, and nodded: "Okay, the old man is also a little drunk, I'll send someone to send you back to the inn." ”
"That's not necessary, the inn isn't far from here, I'll just walk back. ”
After saying goodbye, Zhou Yao still sent the scholar to the door, turned around and returned to the living room, and ate for a while, when suddenly a few servants came from the backyard in panic and whispered a few words in his ear.
The old man was drunk and sobered up instantly, followed behind the nurse and the servant with his robe, and trotted briskly to his daughter's side courtyard, where there were already several maids waiting, and someone held a lantern to shine on a puddle of water and clothes on the ground.
"Sir, Madame and Miss are fine, just the clothes on the ground, and this puddle of water..... people who have seen the old woman say that this dress is very ...... with her body."
"Master, master, Madame is awake!"
Zhou Yao temporarily put aside the clothes and water stains on the ground, and entered his daughter's boudoir, the old wife had already sobered up, half lying in the arms of a maid, and her state was still a little free.
When I saw my husband who entered the door, I was somewhat sober.
"Master..... there is an old woman who sprays water around Rong'er's room......"
"I didn't see any old women for my husband, but there were more clothes and many water stains on the ground. ”
Zhou Yao appeased his wife for a while, and couldn't help frowning about what happened in the side courtyard, and was also suspicious, and immediately recruited a small number of subordinates and nurses in the house.
"Do you know what's going on?
The old man has been famous for a long time, and there is a majesty in his words, and the servants and maids lowered their heads, not daring to respond, and it is an answer that they don't know.
Among the servants, one of them was particularly conspicuous in cowering, and Zhou Yao looked at him and called him out.
"You say!"
The servant was the little maid who led Lu Liangsheng to the toilet, and he stood up reluctantly and looked at the old man with a sad face.
"Sir...... I don't dare to say ......"
"Say!"
The old man drank suddenly, and the startled little man shuddered, and hurriedly spoke: "It's that Lu Gongzi......"
"I saw a 'boom' and sucked the water from the tank into my palm!"
“...... The pen was stained with ink, and he drew a horizontal line on the wall, and the line came alive and flew out! The little one was so frightened that he sat on the ground with his legs limp.......
"Then, the line flew to the young lady..... Lu Gongzi followed, and the rest of the little ones knew so much....."
After pouring beans in one breath, all the servants and maids in the courtyard were silent, and Zhou Yao under the eaves also had a shocked look on his face, and his eyes looked at the puddle of water and clothes on the ground.
"Are these words true?"
The servant nodded.
"Seriously!"
Zhou Yao lowered his voice: "Don't say what happened tonight." ”