9. Origin
The middle-aged man with a sad face and gray hair bowed his head:
"Master, save me!"
The old man in front of him has white hair and beard, fairy wind and bones, and a dignified appearance, just like the fairy figure who walked out of the painting. The middle-aged man nodded secretly in his heart, he actually met Qingzhou's 'Master Liu', his luck was really good!
Liu Xingrong's old face was dark red, but in this dim environment, he couldn't see clearly:
"Rise up first and speak slowly. ”
The middle-aged man made another move, but he looked a little embarrassed:
"Master, I haven't touched a drop of water for a few days, okay? ”
The middle-aged man opened his mouth cautiously, rubbing his hands back and forth, a little hesitant, as if he was worried about offending the famous Qingzhou warlock 'Master Liu' because of his abruptness.
"Uncle, there is some well water in the small basin, which seems to be drinkable. ”
The immature voice seemed to come from beside him, and the middle-aged man turned his head and saw a person standing behind him, this person was wearing a strange costume that he didn't recognize, as if he didn't look like a person in the Great Qi.
This person's face was covered with carbon black stains, and he couldn't distinguish his face, but he could only distinguish a young man from his immature voice:
"Little brother, who are you?"
"Peach coat emblem!"
Peach Jacket said with a smile.
The old man's voice sounded at the right time, and Liu Xingrong in the border prison suddenly interjected: "This is, despicable and beloved disciple!"
The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly, he made a gesture again and said politely:
"The little brother is really a jade tree in the wind, and Master Liu is really discerning. ”
The peach coat emblem wiped the stains on his face, and he was suddenly a little embarrassed.
The middle-aged man suddenly threw himself on the edge of the porcelain altar and scooped up a handful of turbid well water with his hands, like a cow drinking.
Liu Xingrong suddenly interjected, not caring at all: "This is the Black Prison Division's Yin Prison, since my brother has appeared here, he must have encountered something extraordinary." ”
The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, and the admiration on his face was even worse:
"Master Liu is really extraordinary, and he can see what is going on at a glance. ”
"I wonder if the master has heard of the king outside the suburbs?"
"But, Wang Hao, the boss of Jubao Zhai?"
"Exactly. ”
The middle-aged man with a sad face seems to be stuck in a memory, his sad complexion has changed several times, it is a complex emotion, like sadness, as if he is happy, as if he is remembering, as if he is angry:
"This matter, but also from half a year ago, my lord is obsessed with the gods and Buddhas, weekdays every three or five will go to the city god temple to offer some incense and silver, the villagers all admire my lord in his life to be kind and charitable, help the poor and help emergencies, all call him 'Wang Dashan man'. However, the strange thing is that although my lord has done countless good things in his life, I don't know what kind of strange disease he had, although he took a few aunts, he never got an heir!"
Tao Hui and Liu Xingrong stopped speaking and listened quietly.
The middle-aged man seemed to be thirsty, and picked up a handful of muddy water from a small basin with his hand and drank it all: "The master learned that the art of Liu Blind in the Qingzhou Medical Center was amazing, so he went there several times, but the people in the city said that the medical skills of the blind Liu in the 'Holy Hand Medical Hall' were amazing, and his medical skills were amazing. But this Liu Shengshou looked at it a few times, and said that no matter from the perspective of qi and blood, or pulse, my master has no hidden disease at all. ”
The old man was furious at that time, and the old man, who has always been approachable, unexpectedly quarreled with Blind Liu, and the sound was very loud, which attracted many neighbors near the medical hall to come to watch, and even started with Blind Liu in the back. ”
The old butler and I hurriedly stepped forward and hurriedly pulled away the two of them, and kept persuading, and the old man gave up. When I returned to the house, it happened to be my turn to be on duty that night, and that night I saw the old man sitting in the pavilion in the courtyard, sighing and sighing. After the vigil, I went back to my room to rest, and when I woke up in the morning, I went to the hut and saw the old man sitting in the pavilion with a withered face, and the old man seemed to have stayed awake all night. ”
The man with a sad face paused for a moment, and then said:
"Since then, the old man has been restless all day long, listless, the old woman saw that the old man was getting withered, so she ordered a few of us to force the old man to go to the Qingzhou City God Temple to worship, pray to God. ”
"That is, on that day, after we worshipped, we left the City God Temple, and the lord was still listless. But at this moment, a man dressed as a scholar with a sharp beak and monkey cheeks and a rat's whisker suddenly stopped the old man and said that he looked at the old man, and the dark clouds covered the top, as if there was a calamity, and there would be no heirs!"
"We and the old man were immediately shocked, and hurriedly grabbed the rat-whisker scholar to ask the reason. The man dressed as a rat-bearded scholar didn't say much, but just took out a porcelain bowl with a lid and said that he would go back and let the young woman take it, which would definitely ensure that the old man would be able to pass on the ancestry. ”
The old man was overjoyed, took out a few silver tickets, and stuffed them into the scholar's arms, but the scholar didn't seem to be moved at all, only said, in the dark, there seems to be a providence, the old man met him, it was also karma, so he sent him a creation. After that, he turned around and left, and the old man hurriedly called us to chase the man, but the scholar merged into the crowd, turned around a few times, and disappeared. ”
As if recalling some terrifying things, the horror in the eyes of the middle-aged man was even stronger:
I waited for a reply to this, and was complained by the lord for a few words, and then the lord hurried home with us. The strange thing began at this time, and when the lord came home that day, he hurriedly asked his wife to take the contents of the small enamel bowl with a lid. Later, the little lady's belly gradually grew bigger day by day, and the old man was elated, and asked the kitchen to cook some delicacies from the mountains and seas every day to make up for the little lady's body..."
The middle-aged man with a sad face changed his words:
"Later, I heard the little lady's maid Xiaolan say that inside the small enamel bowl was a throbbing sarcoma, and I was extremely disgusted when I heard this. But in the past few days, some strange things have happened! Since the completion of the old man's new mansion, the well water has been flowing continuously. But in the next few days, the water in the old well suddenly became extremely fishy, not to mention drinking, even for washing, and it was stained with a foul smell. When the master learned of this, he instructed us to bring in craftsmen to dig a new well, and within a few days, the craftsmen dug a deep well. ”
The middle-aged man with a miserable face sighed slightly:
"At first, some people reported to the old housekeeper, and often found some of the corpses of chickens, ducks, pigs, and sheep raised in the house, but the strange thing is that these corpses were just some skins, and the flesh and blood in them were gone, and the old housekeeper didn't tell the master at the beginning, thinking that the suburbs of the city were close to the wilderness, but there were some wild beasts infested, and we were just asked to be on duty at night to strengthen our vigilance, and later, some animal traps were laid outside the courtyard,"
"Chen Er, who was in the kitchen one day, actually fished out some women's hair in the well of the new house. The old butler hurriedly reported to the master. The old man came to look at the well and asked us who dared to go down, but we didn't speak. And the lord said, Whoever goes down: Ten taels of silver. Everyone rushed up, scrambling to be the first, and the master pointed to me and He Jun to go down. But the two of us went down, but we didn't find anything, but strange things didn't happen because of this, the dead animals got bigger and bigger, and there was a cow dead in the back! Later, the maid in the house fished out some women's hair from the well, and the lord hurriedly invited monks from the City God Temple to open the altar and chant the scriptures..."
The middle-aged man suddenly stopped talking, his face full of horror and pale.
Liu Xingrong coughed dryly and reminded the man to continue to tell the story:
"With me Liu someone here, why are you afraid?!"
The grim-faced man glanced at Master Liu in the prison on the other side, Tie Qing's face recovered a little, and continued to tell:
"One night, I suddenly had an urgency to urinate, and I ran to the latrine, and I saw the little lady standing by the well, as if she was fetching water, and she turned around, but I saw that she was pale, and the ground was all over, all of them..."
The middle-aged man suddenly stopped talking, trembling, and couldn't even understand the words.
Liu Xingrong sneered, snarky, and seduced: "Heh, those rich families, there are many servants who can't stand being beaten and scolded, or jumped into a well and died, or committed suicide by hanging a beam." Xu has been wronged, turned into a wronged soul, and came to find the evil created by your master!"
The middle-aged man suddenly argued and regained some of his senses, "No, no, my lord is not that kind of person." ”
Liu Xingrong asked coldly, "Then what did you see?"
"That night the moonlight was bright, and there were many fire candles in the house, I actually saw the little lady's stomach slowly cracking, I hurriedly hid behind me and looked closely, I saw, inside, there were some hairs inside!"
The middle-aged man with a miserable face blurted out, and after he finished speaking, his tense body relaxed:
"I screamed and ran away, I don't know how many distances I had run, I felt tired, and when I woke up again, I was in prison..."
During this period, Liu Xingrong and Tao Hui raised a lot of questions, and the middle-aged people with sad faces answered them one by one.
Through the narrow vent, the peach coat emblem looked out, and it was already sunset.
This conversation turned out to be twilight from dawn to twilight.