Chapter 10: The Lamentation of the Living
"Chen Yuanwai, in the dead of night, why don't you go to bed early?"
The person who came was Chen Yuanwai, holding a rosewood box and standing in the doorway of the backyard, with a sad look on his face. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
"There's one thing I want to look at. ”
"Oh?" Qi Dezhong had an idea and stepped forward to take a look.
Chen Yuanwai slowly opened the wooden box, and on the middle layer of silk, there was a simple bronze mirror, the mirror side was facing down, and there was a lotus relief on the back of the mirror as seen by the naked eye, and the petals were overlapped, just like the real thing.
Qi Dezhong was silent, closed his eyes and opened them again, the divine light in his pupils shone outward, and he saw the nine-colored lotus blooming, and he knew that this bronze mirror was not only an ordinary product, but also a magic weapon refined by cultivators!
"Artifacts should not be taken lightly, and it is difficult for the world to bear blessings and misfortunes. Qi Dezhong also sighed a little, and asked Chen Yuanwai: "This bronze mirror is indeed a cultivation weapon, but I don't know its origin. ”
Chen Yuanwai pushed the boat down the river and said: "Then please ask Qi Xianchang to accept it and study it in detail." ”
Qi Dezhong smiled bitterly: "Outside, this is not how gifts are given, please tell you the ins and outs of this thing, otherwise I will never touch this thing." ”
Generally speaking, the things given by the master cannot be given away at will, and even if they want to be sent, they must tell the master and the person who gave it clearly about the opportunity. And if you don't know the origin of something given by others, and the practitioner doesn't dare to accept it casually, who knows what the cause and effect are involved behind it?
Qi Dezhong motioned for Chen Yuanwai to sit in the West Wing, and Chen Yuanwai's sad expression decreased slightly, and then he told about this bronze mirror and the events of the past few days......
More than 30 years ago, Chen Yuanwai was just a young man working around in Changlin County, working as an inn junior, walking through darts, and working as a smuggler, and finally saved a little savings, but because he provoked a group of big businessmen, he owed a lot of debts, and he almost didn't cut off his own flesh to pay it back.
At this time, Chen Yuanwai met Hong, who was fierce by nature and did not want to embroider in the boudoir, Hong's fate with Chen Yuanwai, Hong's took money from home to pay off Chen Yuanwai's debts, Chen Yuanwai swore to repay his kindness, and the two went back and forth, but they were married in two years.
With the help of Hong's mother's family, Chen Yuanwai's family business has been like blowing a ball for more than ten years.
When Hong married Chen Yuanwai, the dowry included this bronze mirror, which was originally only treasured as an antique along with a vase, and the bottle mirror meant calm, and it was not too conspicuous at home for decades.
If there is any regret for this couple, it is probably that they have no children for many years after marriage, and this kind of thing is reluctant. But Chen Yuanwai's old parents were very anxious, and under repeated urging, they even asked Chen Yuanwai to take a concubine.
Originally, with Chen Yuanwai's family business, it was not difficult to take a concubine, but it was a pity that the Hong family was fierce by nature and could not tolerate Chen Yuanwai like this, and the suspicion between husband and wife was increasing. But this could not stop Chen Yuanwai from taking concubines, and after giving birth to several daughters in succession, one of the concubines finally gave birth to a son, that is, Chen Xin.
Hong and Chen Xin have been at odds with each other for a long time, this is not a secret, and Chen Yuanwai is also quite doting on Chen Xin, and he is indulgent and indulgent everywhere, and the staff outside himself is increasingly addicted to beauty, if the maid in the house has a little bit of beauty, they are all accepted into the room by Chen Yuanwai.
Now the youngest concubine, the Li family, was originally a maid in the house, and the maid's brother has been following the staff for many years, and now she is already a housekeeper in the Chen Mansion, and the brother and sister can control almost half of the Chen Mansion.
This concubine has been pregnant for nearly half a year, and it is estimated that she will give birth in more than a month, but there are sudden variables in Chen's mansion.
More than half a year ago, there was a Taoist who came to the door of the Chen Mansion to make a fate, and the Chen Mansion Nursing Home did not allow him to enter, and the Taoist laughed three times in front of the door, and then said a paragraph:
"Congratulations to Chen Yuanwai for having another son! I'm afraid that his brother is blessed, and this son will kill his brother in this life!"
At that time, Chen Yuanwai didn't understand what he meant, thinking that it was just a crazy Taoist who was passing by talking nonsense, and later the concubine was diagnosed with pregnancy, and the house was happy for a while.
When Qi Dezhong heard this, he could roughly guess what happened later: "I'm also calculating in the past few days, if I can't break the spell at the beginning, Ling Lang's remaining days will be more than a month at most...... Outside, this bronze mirror shouldn't be in the hands of the butler, right?"
"In the words of the immortal chief, he is really an extraordinary person!"
Qi Dezhong waved his hand: "Since it is the Hong family's dowry, it may not fall into the hands of the concubine, the housekeeper has been with you for many years, but it is the person who is most likely to come into contact with this thing...... I get what they're thinking. ”
In the final analysis, this is a matter of robbing the Chen family's business. The reason was the words of You Fangdao more than half a year ago, which made the concubine think that she was pregnant with a man, and the death of the Hong family soon after, which made the concubine's ambition swell, and secretly conspired with her housekeeper brother.
However, just as Qi Dezhong guessed, the person who placed the curse may not know that his curse is in effect, and the housekeeper takes care of the affairs of the house on weekdays, and the bottle and mirror are wiped every day, but his own resentment and hatred are contaminated with the bronze mirror magic weapon, and he inadvertently detains the Yin Spirit of the Hong family.
What the housekeeper really did was to buy off one of the Lang Zhong who treated Chen Xin, and let him kill Chen Xin with the medicine of the tiger and wolf, who would have thought that Chen Xin, who was possessed by ghosts, could not be regarded as an ordinary patient, and the medicine of the tiger and wolf stimulated Chen Xin's meridian vitality, but he failed to take his life immediately.
"In this way, it's hard to say whether the Hong Yin Spirit harmed Chen Xin or saved Chen Xin......" Qi Dezhong sighed and shook his head, the curse was so bizarre and weird, it was difficult to measure right and wrong in the world.
"But that Li Cang is really hateful!" Li Cang that Chen Yuanwai said was the housekeeper.
"Don't mention whether resentment is a curse, bribing doctors, drugging and murdering, this move has violated the laws of the world, I don't know what to do?"
Chen Yuanwai gritted his teeth and said, "I will break his legs, and then invite the best lawyer in Changlin County to send him directly to the Yamen!"
"There is another person, what do you want?" Qi Dezhong said, of course, was the youngest and pregnant concubine Li in Chen Yuanwai.
I saw Chen Yuanwai's grief: "I just sent Li Cang to the official, and when I came back, I heard that his sister was hanged in the room...... One corpse, two lives, alas......"
Qi Dezhong was silent, his brother's evil deeds were punished, this is a matter of course, and it is undeniable that the concubine is closely related to this matter. But judging from Chen Yuanwai's actions, he also wanted to keep the concubine, at least wait for her to give birth smoothly before dealing with it. It's a pity that the little concubine couldn't bear the fear and worry in her heart, so she committed suicide first.
"I'm not even afraid of death, what else can I be afraid of?" Qi Dezhong only said in his heart, but he could only sigh at such an unfortunate ending.