"Why, during the Dragon Boat Festival when the Yang Qi is so strong..."
After running for a while, the two stopped to catch their breath. Dai Luan coughed twice and asked this question.
"Could it be that the lies they told angered the female ghost?" Mu Wan also adjusted her breathing, "Besides, she is afraid that she wants Bai Gu to be the last to be the heir, so she shouldn't allow them to move out."
"...So she is a kind of earth-bound spirit? Once she leaves the realm of her death, she cannot be controlled, right?"
Dai Luan suddenly said this, as if she remembered something. Mu Wan nodded slightly, pulled her and started to hurry up again.
"Wait, I know! A way to save Shanhai!"
"What?"
"I figured it out. The branch actually doesn't refer to the position of the inverted pillar, but the root of the branch!"
"Gen?" Mu Wan didn't quite understand.
"The tree that Miss Songyun hit and died in the courtyard is the real body of Ni Zhu, that is, the human-faced tree. Do you still remember the boy named Zhu Zhu in Huansha City? That karmic ghost was shut out even though , but because part of his demonic energy was in him, he entered the house. I think the same is true for the human-faced tree. And the direction of the roots of the branches is where the tree originally grew. "
Mu Wan clapped his hands: "If you find it, you can control the evil ghost... And the yard has shrunk due to competition for land. In other words... among the tree stumps on the street, one of them was from that year... …But, is this too much?”
"I...I know which one it is."
Shanhai took out the peach wood sword from its sheath. The wooden sword, which had been soaked in calamus water overnight, was no longer afraid of the power of the demonic fire. He wielded his sword and easily cut through the flames, but was unable to eliminate them from their source. The other three people were huddled together like mice, crying, which was disturbing to hear.
"Miss Songyun! If you have any resentment, just say it! If the lies they made up have offended you, then please tell me the truth yourself!"
Shan Hai's right hand tightly grasped the hilt of the sword, and his left hand raised two fingers to rest on the sword. Through the horizontal mahogany sword, less than a foot away, he could feel an invisible wave of air hitting the door again and again. When he said this, he had no confidence in his heart. After all, if she really turned into a ghost, then she would not have a normal human mind and would only think about revenge.
At this moment, the force turned into a knock on the door again, very fast and loud, as if urging him to hand over the person.
"Finally, I want to ask you." Shanhai turned around, "Who can tell the truth?"
Baigu's wife tried her best to get into her husband's arms, but he pushed her away again. His face still had that unique dullness and his movements were very stiff. He pointed to Bai Gu’s wife and said:
"It's her! It was all her idea!"
"Me? Do you blame me?" Bai Gu's wife's sharp voice was very harsh, "Now you blame me, didn't you support it at the beginning! It was your own mother who cleaned up the mess for you!"
As soon as these words came out, the old lady felt as if she had been stabbed by a needle. She slapped her daughter-in-law in the face and cursed:
"Bah! You're so shameless! You still dare to call me mom. Without me, you'd still be living in poverty!"
"That's better than dying here!"
At this time, they actually started to quarrel, and Shan Hai frowned. Although this sword can ward off evil spirits, it is not necessarily powerful enough to kill ghosts. As a last resort, he might have to use self-destructive methods to suppress it.
When he focused on the door again, he found that the talisman that sealed the door was glowing dimly red along the cracks in the door, as if something had burned them off. Shanhai thought to himself, "Oh no!", and then he was thrown into the sea of fire by the strong wind that broke through the door.
The burning and pain that should have been felt did not come.
Shan Hai opened his eyes, and at some point, he found himself in another scene. He tried to lift the sword in his right hand, but found that he couldn't move it. It was just like a ghost on the bed. He couldn't even control the rhythm of his blinking.
He was a little panicked at first about losing control of his body, but he quickly calmed down. Because Shanhai discovered that the scene in front of him seemed to be the Baigu family courtyard in the daytime.
At that time, their house was still very spacious, unlike now, where it always feels very cramped.
He saw many servants working in the courtyard and many new faces. Everyone who saw him greeted him.
"Good morning, madam."
Shanhai understood. What he saw at that moment was exactly what Miss Songyun had seen.
Perhaps, this was what the ghost wanted to tell him.
This day passed very normally. There were many servants in the courtyard, but the only real Bai Gu family members were her and the old lady. The servants were busy with arrangements on their hands. Shan Hai saw through these eyes that mugwort leaves and calamus were hanging everywhere in the courtyard. It seems that today is also the Dragon Boat Festival.
Miss Songyun spent a normal morning walking in the yard, looking at the flowers, and chatting with the little maids.
At that time, the old lady didn't seem to be as old as she is now - but it was only a few years ago, and her hair is now much grayer. When he saw her, her expression was cold. Miss Songyun came into the room and greeted her, but she didn't say anything. After a while, the young Bai Gu's wife also came in. She was not much different then than she is now.
When the old lady saw her, she suddenly laughed, and the two of them exchanged greetings and chatted about household matters. Shanhai stood beside him, feeling vaguely that the owner of this body sighed. Then, she bowed and left the old lady's house.
After the meal, Miss Songyun stayed in the house alone. I was holding a book and reading with the sunshine pouring in from the window. The book didn't seem to be interesting, and he couldn't read the words clearly. Perhaps, the owner of the book has no intention of reading it.
At this time, the young and beautiful Bai Guzi knocked on the door and came in.
With a smile, she held a plate of pastries and said that the old lady had given them to her. She also brought tea and said she wanted to have a good chat with her sister.
"What's there to talk about? What a boring person I am. You are wasting time here." Miss Songyun said.
"Why do you say that, sister?" She opened her eyes wide, "You and I are all a family, why should we be so secluded from outsiders?"
"A family..." Miss Songyun murmured, "A family has never been reunited."
"Sister, are you talking about the young master?" She blinked, "In order to make more money to support this big family, the young master will naturally have to work twice as hard to support the family. Well, just like this plate of mung bean cake, if it weren't for him We are still busy outside during the Dragon Boat Festival, so we may not be able to eat it yet. Sister, please try one."
Shan Hai felt that the owner of these eyes had been wandering between Mung Bean Cake and Bai Gu's wife many times, as if he had doubts. There was also a voice in her heart telling her, why did my concubine, who usually ignored her, become so talkative today? Bai Gu's wife poured two cups of tea and held one cup in front of her. Seeing that she didn't eat the pastry, she said jokingly:
"Is sister afraid that I will poison it?"
"..."
The green dim sum is indeed exquisitely made. And because of what happened in the morning, Miss Songyun was in a bad mood and didn't eat a few bites of lunch. Now she looked really hungry. In order to dispel her suspicion, Bai Gu's wife picked up a mung bean cake and said to her:
"Then sister, I will be rude and test a poison for you."
Miss Songyun watched her chew it and swallow it carefully, then slowly picked up a bean cake next to it and put it into her mouth. The bean paste is very fine and the sweetness is moderate. It is indeed a dessert with expensive craftsmanship. She swallowed a little hastily, and took another big sip of tea to wash it down, and Baigu's wife quickly continued.
As a result, Miss Songyun seemed to be less vigilant, slowly put down her doubts, and chatted with the young Bai Gu's wife, nothing more than some filial piety.
After chatting for a while, she felt a little burning in her stomach, wondering if she had eaten or stayed. She lightly hammered her chest, and the fire-like burning sensation became more obvious. After a while, a sharp pain came up from her stomach. She felt a little nauseous. She covered her mouth with a handkerchief and suddenly coughed up something. Looking at the handkerchief, there was a bright red blood on it.
"You..." She stretched out her hand tremblingly and pointed at the person opposite. Baigu's wife suddenly stood up and took a step back.
Miss Songyun felt that all her strength had been taken away from her. She fell off the chair and crawled towards Baigu's wife. Baigu's wife backed away and hid at the door, mocking condescendingly:
"Of course this snack is extremely expensive. I can't learn it, let alone poison it. But when have you ever seen me take that sip of tea?"
"Bitch!"
Miss Songyun screamed and tightened the hem of her clothes. She viciously stamped on her face several times and kicked her away. She ran out of the door, and Miss Songyun chased after her with difficulty. She climbed very hard, concentrating all her strength on her arms. There was still a burning pain in his stomach, and Shan Hai clearly felt the same pain.
At the same time, there was also the resentment and curses that surged to his lips. However, her vision gradually became blurred, and she could hardly crawl anymore.
Her eyelids became heavier and heavier, and even though she fought very hard, she slowly closed her eyes.
In a daze, she heard the young master's voice.
"This...you, is this done!"
"Nonsense, what are you talking about? I asked you to come back later, why did you come back so early. Forget it, forget it, come and help me drag her out."
"W-what did our mother say..."
"Slowly, are you still a man? I have already said hello to my mother. Anyway, she is your eldest brother's wife, and she has never liked her..."
This living heart became dull, it beat slower and slower. Instead, there was extreme unwillingness and hatred. The last thing Shan Hai felt was that after hearing the young master's voice, his sand-filled fingertips trembled slightly and stopped moving.
He struggled to open his eyes and found that he was back in the sea of fire. It was like a dream, but it fit seamlessly into reality.
After opening his eyes, what he saw was not only the red color that greeted his eyes, but also a charred corpse.
The body had turned into a lump of carbon and was unrecognizable, as if it had been burned for a long time. But judging from the damage to the surrounding furniture and the intensity of the fire, his dream just now was only a momentary thing.
Taking another closer look, there was an old lady who was unconscious and motionless, and a young master with dull eyes who was walking like a zombie with the charred corpses. He waved his hand in front of his eyes, but there was no response. Maybe he was frightened.
Four people... no, three people were surrounded by raging fire. The endless wind that poured in through the open door made it burn more and more. It seems that everyone is about to answer here.
