Chapter 24: The Beauty

"Hurry up and save people!" Lin Yi ran over and asked, "Brother Zhang, are you water-sensitive?"

"Will dive. Zhang Yingzhuo replied busily.

The water had already flooded over the maid's head, and only one hand was left on it, and the two of them jumped into the lake and swam towards her. arrived in a blink of an eye, Lin Yi made a gesture, separated from Zhang Yingzhuo back and forth, pushed and pulled, and dragged the maid to the lakeshore.

The two of them took the maid ashore, held their knees and panted, and looked sideways, the girl was about fourteen years old, dressed in silk, with a mediocre appearance, combing a big maiden bun, choking on the water until she fell into a coma.

"It's okay to look for any short-sightedness, but it's good for us to touch. Zhang Yingzhuo twisted his clothes and reproached.

"It's important to save people!" Lin Yi said, folding his hands against her chest, pressing constantly. The maid spit out a few mouthfuls of lake water and coughed a few times before she woke up leisurely and cried, "Woo...... Why save me, my family is like this, it's better to let me die. ”

Lin Yi heard it in a fog, and said softly at the moment: "Don't be afraid, girl, say slowly, what's going on at home?"

The maid sat up, looked at the life-saving benefactor, and choked up: "Don't hide it from the two sons, the little maid's name is Xianglan, she is the girl of the Xu family in the city, the housewife is very kind to me on weekdays, and Master Xu also treats me as a family member, Xianglan feels deeply gracious." Although the Xu Mansion was not very rich, it was not short of food and clothing, and the life was harmonious until three days ago, when a beautiful woman fainted at the door......"

In the early morning, Xianglan opened the red lacquer door, holding a bamboo basket, came out of the house, went to the morning market to buy vegetables, and was startled, it turned out that there was a dirty woman, lying on the steps.

When the woman saw someone coming out, she slowly raised her head, revealing a melon seed face in the black cloth blouse, with picturesque eyebrows, but her lips were shriveled and her face was hungry. She trembled and stretched out her arms, her knuckles were protruding, she was as thin as firewood, and said weakly: "Little girl, give me something to eat, the cheap slave has been hungry for several days, and the grain of rice has not been eaten, and if you continue to boil, I am afraid that you will have to be violent corpses on the street, please be kind and save me." ”

Xianglan didn't care about interrogation, so she quickly turned around and ran back to the house to tell her mother. It didn't take long for him to rush out with his mother and two family members.

Seeing them, the woman in the black shirt repeated the words again. The housewife glanced at her a few times, and immediately made a decision to let the family support her and bring her back to the house for relief.

Everyone rested in the lobby, and the housewife asked Xianglan to go to the dining room to get a full plate of hot steamed buns, and then made a bowl of porridge, put it on the table, and pushed it in front of the woman in black shirts, and did not forget to say carefully: "Sister, you eat slowly, don't choke." ”

The woman in the black shirt sobbed gratefully, nodded heavily, and gobbled up a bowl of porridge before relieving herself. Finding that everyone was looking at him, he hurriedly put down the bowl in embarrassment, blushed, picked up the steamed bun, tore it open with his fingers, stuffed it into his mouth one by one, and chewed it carefully.

Seeing her eating fragrant Sven, the housewife smiled and said, "It's okay, don't be reserved, look at my sister like this, she must be hungry." As he spoke, his eyes kept looking at her face.

This woman has a moth eyebrow, teeth like Qi Bei, delicate facial features, born a small jasper, although covered with dust, but does not hide her beauty, the housemother likes it, so she asked: "What is my sister's surname, where is she from?"

The black-shirted woman replied: "The slave's surname is Yuan, he is from the north, recently there has been a plague of locusts, the fields have been swept away, and they have been plundered by the Great Youjun Army, and their parents have died tragically. ”

The mistress stroked her head and sighed: "Alas, my sister is really unfortunate, if you have nowhere to go, you might as well stay at my house first, and then make plans later." ”

"Thank you Bodhisattva!" The beautiful woman surnamed Yuan burst into tears when she heard this, trembling and kneeling, and muttered: "The little woman is useless, I don't know how to repay ......"

"It's serious!" The mistress hurriedly helped her up and said sadly: "Good sister, don't cry, you take care of your body in the house first, my sister is willing to take you in, and she will not send you to do rough work." ”

Seeing the beautiful woman surnamed Yuan crying with pear blossoms and rain, Chu Chu was pitiful, and couldn't help but say angrily: "The north is like a jackal and a tiger, burning, killing and looting, doing all kinds of evil, how many people are displaced, and sooner or later they will be punished by heaven!"

After a while of comfort, when she was full, she asked Xianglan to take her down, take a bath, and arrange a place to live.

The wind and clouds are moving, the sun is sinking in the west, and when it is time to unitary, Master Xu came back from a business trip, and he listened to the servant Ding talk about it, asked his wife, and knew about it.

The mistress said to her husband: "I saw that the woman was beautiful, behaved, and spoke fluently, so I took her in, thinking that she would confess her love in the future, and that she would have nowhere to go, so I would be a concubine for you, my lord." ”

Master Xu was pleasantly surprised, and said hurriedly: "Then I'll take a look, what does this beauty look like?"

The housewife was jealous and said: "Dead thing, what are you in a hurry, I haven't told her yet, besides, even if you let her get started, it's just a small one!"

"Hey, of course. Master Xu said happily, "Since you turned over the vinegar jar, why did you take her in?"

The housewife glanced at her and said helplessly: "In these years, who is not a third wife and four concubines, master, you are also a figure with a head and face in Yongzhou, how can you let outsiders look down on you? Moreover, you work on an errand during the day, and I am the only one in charge of things at home, so I always feel that I can't be busy, and I should find a sensible person to share my worries." ”

"It's still a virtuous lady. Master Xu gave a thumbs up and chatted absentmindedly about a few family things, and the housewife saw his thoughts and sneered: "Look at you like that, go if you want to see it...... Hey, remember, don't scare people. ”

Master Xu agreed to go out of the house and smiled from ear to ear.

Walking briskly all the way, he rushed to the guest room, knocked on the door, and coughed: "Lady Yuan, I am the head of the Xu Mansion, and the insiders are preparing in a hurry today, are you still used to living there?"

Footsteps sounded in the house, the door creaked open, and a beautiful woman walked out, with a graceful figure and a peugeot appearance. The beautiful woman bent down and saluted: "Thank you Master Xu, the little girl has nothing to repay, and I am willing to make you a cow and a horse." ”

"You're polite, you're polite, it's just a gesture...... I heard that the insider said that you have a poor background, I don't know what happened?" asked Master Xu worriedly.

The beautiful woman smiled shyly, knowing that he was not drunk, so she deliberately asked this stubble, so that she could talk for a long time before she could take the opportunity to enter the house. After thinking for a moment and making up his mind, he leaned sideways and said, "Master, it's dark outside, you might as well come in and sit down, and the slave family will talk to you slowly." ”

Master Xu's plan succeeded, and he didn't shirk at the moment, and stepped into the house. But before she turned back, she heard a bump behind her, and the beautiful woman took the initiative to close the door.

He couldn't help but be overjoyed, his heart itched unbearably, but before he was happy, the back of his head hurt suddenly, his eyes turned black, and he fainted.

The beautiful woman put down the deadbolt in her hand, took off her clean clothes, and revealed her thin body. Then, the whole person froze, his eyes were distracted, his back was raised high, and his skin was swollen and agitated, as if there was something in it, and he was struggling to get out.

There was a stabbing sound, and a black claw tore open its back, and out of it came a pitch-black monster and fell to the ground. This monster was the size of a monkey, covered in red stripes, with a round bald head, a few strands of red hair hanging on the back of its head, green fangs, a pig's nose turned up, and its eyes bulging out, but without eyelids, and it was extremely ugly.

The whole body of the beautiful woman seemed to be deflated, and it dried up in an instant, turning into a pile of human skin and falling to the ground.

The monster grinned, turned over Master Xu's body with his hands, ripped his clothes apart, exposed his chest and abdomen, raised his black claws, his nails were slender and sharp as knives, and stabbed him in the heart!

The mistress waited in the house for a long time, but when she did not see her husband come back, she wondered and complained, "What the hell is this dead thing for?"

She put on her coat and went out to look for it, but there was no trace of Master Xu in the courtyard, and finally when she arrived in front of the guest room, she heard a strange noise inside, as if a wild beast was biting its prey. I couldn't help but feel cold, a vicious chill surged up the back of my neck, and I felt ominous, and immediately pushed open the door.

As a result, I saw my husband lying in a pool of blood with his clothes open, disemboweled, and his intestines left on the ground, apparently already dead. A black monkey-like monster was reaching into his abdomen with its claws, pulling out the internal organs, holding them to his mouth and nibbling on them. At the sound of the voice, it turned its head vigilantly, revealing a blood-stained and terrifying countenance, ugly and hideous.

"There are ghostsβ€”β€”! "The hostess screamed in tears and fainted on the spot.

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Xianglan continued: "Hearing the shouts of the mistress, my family and I picked up a wooden stick and hoe and hurried over, thinking that there had been a thief in our home. As a result, when I got there, I saw the mistress lying at the door, and in the side room, the old man was eaten until there was only one shell outside. I was so frightened and frightened that I finally woke up my mother, and when I heard what she said, the whole house howled and cried, and a few bold ones collected the body of the old man and held a funeral behind closed doors. ”

Lin Yi and Zhang Yingzhuo looked at each other and saw that each other had panic on their faces.

Xianglan choked up and said: "Since that night, the housewife has been like a different person, she beats and scolds her subordinates when she has nothing to do, and says that it is all my fault, leading monsters to the house, and today she even picked up scissors to fight with me." The family members hurriedly stopped the housewife, I was scared stupid, all the way out, thinking about it, I felt that I was wrong, walked to the Pearl Lake, planned to commit suicide by throwing myself into the water, but was rescued by you. ”

After hearing this tragedy, Zhang Yingzhuo's face turned pale with horror, and he asked in a dumb voice: "Senior Brother Lin...... How is this good?" After speaking, he realized that his voice was trembling.

Lin Yi was stunned, and after a while, he spoke: "Go back and tell Master, he should have a way." ”

Xianglan suddenly raised her head and exclaimed, "Does your master have a way?"

Lin Yi nodded and said, "The family master Luoshan is the spiritual official of the Heavenly Book Mansion. ”

When Xianglan suddenly heard this, she was shocked and lost her mind, "Lingguan...... Could it be those rumored spirit officials who specialize in slaying demons and destroying demons?"

Lin Yi said proudly: "Exactly!"

Xianglan came back to her senses, knelt down and kowtowed, and cried: "Thank you for the great grace of the two sons, I implore your master to go out of the mountain and kill the demon for Xu Mansion!"

"Get up quickly, it's going to torment us!" Lin Yi stepped forward to hold her, "You go back to the Heavenly Book Mansion with us, explain to Master Luo, and let the old man take action." ”

"Thank you, Childe!" said Xianglan, wiping away tears from her eyes.

The two led the maid back, Lin Yi frowned and thought hard, and suddenly said, "Miss Xianglan, you said that the monster will hide its form through the trick, is this true?"

Xianglan raised her hand and swore: "The little maid listened to what the mistress said, and we also saw the human skin left by the beautiful woman surnamed Yuan, if there is deception, let me thunder and thunder in the sky, and I will not die well!"

"Don't swear by it. Lin Yi hurriedly stopped and asked, "You heard the sound that day and rushed over to rescue, was she the only one left at the scene, did anyone see where the monster went?"

"At that time, I was busy with the Savior's Mother, and the master became like that again, and no one noticed where the monster went. ”

Lin Yi sighed thoughtfully and didn't ask again. The three of them quickened their pace, anxious to see Luoshan.