Chapter 54: The Painted Ghost
Lin Ze saw her like this for the first time in his life, and he chuckled in his heart, couldn't he have said the wrong thing?
Women have always been good-looking, and Fang Cai's words are indeed a bit heavy.
I poked my head out and looked into the backyard, but there was no movement.
"What's wrong?" Le came back just to see Lin Ze poking his head, and asked with some puzzlement.
"Oh, nothing"
Le put the clothes he got back on the chair and cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks on the table, Lin Ze saw it and immediately snatched it up, "I'll come, how can you let a girl do these rough jobs?"
Le puff laughed out loud, "Childe said that I laughed, in the past, I made it all by myself, and besides, you are a guest, and you made all the food, and I should clean up the dishes and chopsticks."
Lin Ze was about to say something when he heard movement in the backyard.
"Alright, let's go see the girl," he said, picking up the dishes and chopsticks and walking to the kitchen.
Lin Ze didn't have much to say, so he walked to Su Ning's room with a plate of snacks.
"I'm not like a woman, I think your mother-in-law looks like a woman, where is that woman good, her face is charming, maybe it's some kind of demon............
Su Ning circled around the room angrily, his mouth was a little dry, he poured a glass of water, the water was boiling hot, he just took a sip, and his hot tongue was a little numb, "Even you are against me?"
With a casual throw, the cup fell to the ground and shattered.
Seeing the bronze mirror on the side, Su Ning walked over and sat in front of the mirror, looking at herself in the mirror very seriously.
The palm-sized face, the willow eyebrows, the red phoenix eyes, the cherry mouth, and the tear mole under the right corner of the eye just add a bit of Chu Chu moving, isn't this a full beauty face.
Isn't it like a woman?
"He's blind, yes, blind," Su Ning muttered indignantly.
Suddenly, there was a knock on the door.
"Who?"
"It's me"
"What for?"
"Seeing that you haven't eaten much for dinner, I'll bring you some snacks."
"Not required"
"You...... Are you angry?" Lin Ze asked very lightly, but was still heard by Su Ning.
"No, what am I angry about?" Su Ning puffed out her cheeks and said the opposite.
"I'm just talking for a while, don't take it personally. Actually, you are also very good, you have excellent medical skills, and you are also a first-class beauty in the Liyuan Continent, it is I who have eyes and don't know Mount Tai, I am blind to the dog's eyes, and I am abrupt of you, don't you be angry?"
Wang said before that as long as a woman is angry, no matter who is right or wrong, just apologize first, and this trick can be regarded as handy.
There was no movement in the house for a long time, and Lin Ze knocked on the door again, "Su Ning?"
"I'm sleepy and going to sleep"
"Then I'll put the dim sum out of the door, remember to eat it when you wake up" Lin Ze asked tentatively, put the dim sum on the windowsill, Su Ning didn't speak again, and Lin Ze left.
"What's wrong? made her angry?" Le finished cleaning up, and came out of the kitchen just in time to see the scene.
"Hmm"
"You really don't know how to please girls."
Lin Ze was stunned for a moment, and shook his head violently, "Le, you misunderstood, she and I are brothers, and I said the wrong thing just now........"
Le lowered his head and smiled lightly, "Okay, it's not early, let's go back to the house early to rest, maybe tomorrow will be fine."
"Okay, you can rest early," the two went back to their rooms.
There was a faint fragrance of flowers in the room, and Lin Ze took a sharp breath, refreshing his heart.
Lay in bed and fell asleep after a while.
When Su Ning slept until midnight, she suddenly heard a burst of singing, as ethereal as a ghost.
After hearing this, I couldn't help but shiver, and I felt that my back was cold, as if a wind was blowing in.
Su Ning curled up her whole body in the quilt and covered her ears with a pillow, but the song seemed to be chasing her, and the sound was in her ears.
"Who, don't sleep in the middle of the night" In the end, Su Ning couldn't help it, opened the door and prepared to go out to see who it was.
The night is as cool as water, the surroundings are quiet, and the wind can be heard occasionally.
Su Ning was a little scared, so she simply knocked on Linze's door, ready to call him together, but after a long time, there was no movement, Su Ning lay her ear on the door, and could vaguely hear a burst of snoring from inside, "It's really a pig"
Tightening his clothes, he walked towards the singing, as if it was coming from the other side, if I remember correctly, wasn't the opposite side the room where the shopkeeper who called Le lived? Why was he still singing so late? The voice was still so terrifying.
Su Ning couldn't hold back her curiosity and slowly walked towards the opposite side.
Outside Le's window was a large plantain, and Su Ning stood on tiptoe and looked through the gap in the banana leaves towards Le's room.
There was a moment of stunnedness, and after a while, Su Ning only felt that her stomach was surging upside down.
Le, starting from his head, peeled off the skin from his body little by little, put it on the table, and painted on it with various colors of paint.
"Skinner, she's not human!!"
Su Ning covered her mouth to prevent herself from screaming, and slowly retreated with her body bent, not wanting to kick down an altar.
The sound is especially loud at night.
The painter ghost in the room turned his head stiffly, his indistinct mouth grinning slightly, as if he was smiling at Su Ning.
She saw Su Ning.
Su Ning's scalp was numb, and she turned around and wanted to run, but she couldn't take a step with her feet, so she approached Su Ning step by step.
"Linze, Linze, Linze......... Su Ning shouted loudly towards Linze's room, "
"It's useless, he can't hear"
Su Ning took a deep breath, forced herself to calm down, and took out the silver needle in her sleeve and stabbed it towards Le.
Le smiled at her ghostly, "You mortal things, useless to me"
"You...... What are you going to do?"
"Won't you know later?" Le took out the silver needle on his chest and stabbed it towards Su Ning's neck.
Su Ning only felt a little dizzy, and closed her eyes in a moment.
A few crows flew over the roof.
Next
It was three poles in the sun, Lin Ze slowly woke up, his head hurt a little, his limbs were also a little weak, and he sat and rested for a while before slowly walking out of the room.
Looking towards Su Ning's room, the dim sum placed on Su Ning's window yesterday was still "Could it be that it hasn't been deflated yet?"
Lin Ze tidied up his clothes, walked over and knocked on Su Ning's door, but no one answered, "Su Ning, Su Ning, Su Ning.........."
"Something must have happened, right?" was about to break down the door when he heard the sound of music.
"Lin Gongzi, are you free, I want you to help me go to the idle village to get some things"
Lin Ze looked at Su Ning's room, "Maybe you haven't woken up yet" After comforting himself, he happily walked to Le's side, "What do you take?"
"Go out and turn right, go all the way to the end, and then turn left to arrive, this is not a lot of chairs and tables in the lobby need to be changed, a few days ago I specially ordered a batch, count the days, you can get the goods today, there is a trip to Lao Gongzi"
"Little things, wrap it up on me" Lin Ze patted his chest, and looked at Su Ning's house without thinking much about it when he left.
"If Su Ning gets up later, please make her some snacks, she didn't eat much last night."
"Good"
After Lin Ze left, Le's originally smiling eyes instantly became a little gloomy, and he glanced at Su Ning's room, and the corners of his mouth raised slightly, "Who can come to save you?"
Walking towards a flower in the garden, gently moving the flower pot, a secret passage appeared on the ground.
The chamber was dark and damp, with the occasional rat passing by.
Su Ning curled up in the corner, hugging herself tightly, and the green silk was messily draped over her shoulders.
Hearing the sound of footsteps, she unconsciously took a few steps back, her back against the damp wall, and a drop of water flowed down her neck to her waist, extremely cold.
Le slowly squatted down, and Su Ning saw that she only felt turbulent in her stomach.
"Are you afraid of me?"
Afraid? Su Ning has never been afraid of anything since she was a child, and now the joy in front of her does not make her feel scared, but disgusting. Thinking of last night's picture, Su Ning's stomach was full of sour water.
"Do you know, the painted skin ghost can only rely on fresh human skin to survive in the world, and it just so happens that this skin is dead" Le stretched out his long fingertips and gently slid across Su Ning's face, "I like this face of yours very much"
"No matter how beautiful things are, they belong to others, you have killed so many people, are you not afraid that black and white impermanence will take you back and fight you into the eighteenth layer of hell?"
Su Ning looked at a few white bones not far away, and her hairs stood on end.
"Hahaha" Le laughed as if he had heard the funniest joke in the world, and at the end of the laugh, a few tears oozed from the corners of his eyes, "Is the eighteenth layer of hell terrible?
She was also kind, but this kindness was ruined alive and worthless in the eyes of that person.
"Does my face look good now?"
"What's the use of a beautiful face, it can't match the ugliness in your heart" Su Ning glanced at her disdainfully, and then pinned her head to the side, this face really made her sick.
"Do you know how I died?" asked Le helplessly.
Thirty years ago, I was just like you, still alive in this world.
It's a pity that I met him, at that time he was just a scholar with nothing, but I fell in love with him, so I did not hesitate to cut off relations with my family, although my life was poor, but I barely got by, he was very good to me, just for his goodness, I followed him so desperately.
He said, when the imperial examination is famous, it will be necessary to marry me in a beautiful way, so I will look forward to this, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Finally, he hit the list, and I thought it would be a bright spot, but I didn't expect it to be the source of my nightmare.
He married the prime minister's two daughters, twin sisters, and they looked exactly the same, and I couldn't tell the difference.
I cried, but it didn't work, he said, "I have to do it as a last resort for the sake of prosperity."
On the day of the wedding, he tied me to the firewood room and hugged the two of them to see me.
The woman on the left pointed to my face and said, "Husband, her face is very beautiful, why don't you take her skin and make me a lamp, and I will be happy to look at it in front of the bed."
The woman on the right said, "You have to pick it off when you're alive, so that the skin can last longer."
He didn't even think about it, and the three of them stood there laughing.
I hugged his leg and begged him not to, but he didn't care about the past and kicked me away.