Lei Ye walked to the door and listened carefully.
The dilapidated window lattice was swayed by the wind, making a heartbreaking creaking sound. The fallen leaves were picked up by the wind, swirling in the air, and kept clattering. The wind blew across the mouth of the well, and a few whimpers came from time to time.
Every sound made the hairs on the back of Lei Ye's neck quiver, and when he thought about what the girl said that several people had died here, he felt a little creepy. He slipped on a pebble and fell to the ground with a thud.
The people inside seemed frightened by the sound, burst into tears, and begged for mercy, crying: "Grandma! My grandson never dares to do it again! Please let my grandson out..."
When Gongsun Zhen cried, Lei Ye came back to his senses. He didn't know what it was like for young Gongsun Zhen to be locked up in a haunted house. He thought that someone could finally cure you, so he provoked outside: "Hey, What mistake did you make? Old Madam Gongsun locked you up here?"
Gongsun Zhen barely heard who was outside, he just banged his fist on the door panel and cried and begged.
Separated by a door, it seems to be the dividing line between hell and the world.
The girl who led the way was a little soft-hearted and said: "The young master is most afraid of this place. Every time he makes a mistake, the old lady will lock him here... Don't scare him, young prince..."
Lei Ye didn't take it seriously, "It's so scary! What a haunting, it's just to fool people!"
Chen Yan was so scared that his legs were shaking, "Is there a ghost?"
Lei Ye was actually scared in his heart, but he just kept his face and gave him a loud bang, "It's so disappointing, I won't do it if I say no! If you don't believe it, let's just wait here and see if any ghosts come out!"
The girl persuaded them to leave, but the child was stubborn and said, "Just go away and don't tell anyone else about this!"
The girl couldn't resist, and she didn't dare to say anything, so she left quickly.
Lei Ye pulled Chen Yan to sit down against the door. Chen Yan said in a sweet voice, "Brother Gongsun, don't be afraid, we will be with you outside."
Lei Ye was still arrogant, "Whoever wants to accompany him, I just want to see what the ghost looks like."
Chen Yan was so frightened that two strings of mucus flowed out from his nose, "Didn't you say there are no ghosts?"
Lei Ye rolled his eyes and didn't want to pay attention to him.
Gongsun Zhen was on the other side of the door, his little body pressed tightly against the door, sobbing and sobbing all the time.
It wasn't until it got dark that anyone came to Jingyuntang.
Lei and Ye hid in the corner and listened to Mother Tong saying to Gongsun Zhen inside the door: "Young master, don't blame the old lady for being cruel. The old lady is doing it for the best of the young master. If the young master can promise not to do it again, I will do it right now." Let you out."
It was quiet for a while inside the door, and then a vague "I know" was heard.
Mother Tong heard the sound and unlocked the door. Gongsun Zhen immediately rushed out of the door with a pale face and ran to his yard desperately, as if there was really a ghost chasing behind him.
Lei Ye wanted to block the road and scare Gongsun Zhen, but was startled by his panic expression. He didn't come back to his senses until Gongsun Zhen ran away, "Is this yard really so scary? Anyone in your house will be imprisoned here. What?"
Mother Tong was startled by the two dolls, "Oh, why are you two here!"
Lei Ye persisted: "I'm asking you something!"
Mother Tong shook her head, "Only if the young master makes a mistake, he will be locked up here..."
Gongsun Zhen, who is four or five years old, has the fleshy and rosy cheeks unique to a child, but his face rarely shows the innocence and liveliness that does not understand the world.
There was always a hint of stubbornness in his eyes, a sense of alienation that meant he wanted to compete with the world but didn't have enough strength. In the end, he had to coat himself with a thin film to separate himself from others.
That was the first time Lei Ye saw Gongsun Zhen cry.
He cried in fear and panic, alone and helpless.
At this time, in the Fulingyuan of Zhenbei Palace, Mother Tong also finished her story.
Li Qingyi took a deep breath and then let out a long breath.
As the saying goes, "Everything yesterday has become who I am today."
She suddenly understood what Gongsun Zhen was like in the past.
He gradually became Qin Zeng today.
Mother Tong sighed: "After the late princess died of illness, the prince stayed in the palace for a while and then went to the border again. Although the young master was only four years old, he was cold and stubborn. He was like the other young masters in the second and third bedrooms. We don’t get along very well, so I often stay alone in the room reading and practicing calligraphy.”
Li Qingyi looked downcast when he heard this, "When I heard this, I felt as if I was stuck in my heart. The young masters in the second and third bedrooms have parents who love them, and their tempers are inevitably spoiled. How can they get along with the elders!"
Mother Tong said, "Grandma dares to say this, but she doesn't dare to say it."
Li Qingyi took out the handkerchief and wiped the corners of his eyes, and continued: "But even if my mother died young and my father was not around, if I could get the love of the old lady, I wouldn't have developed such a temper. Mother Tong, tell the truth. , why is the old lady so unwilling to see the uncle? No matter what the uncle said, he is also her biological grandson, the eldest grandson of the Gongsun family. If you put him in the care of others, he would not know how to hurt! Why does the old lady dislike her so much that she can't wait to... …”
Li Qingyi bit his lip and said nothing.
But Mother Tong knew the meaning of her words.
All the old lady's actions revealed her immense dislike for Qin Zeng, but she was actually also puzzled.
"To be honest, I don't know what's hidden in this. I remember that the old lady was very happy when the uncle was born, but it didn't take long for the old lady to change her attitude."
"How is this going?"
Mother Tong shook her head, "I really don't know, the old lady never mentioned it."
Li Qingyi frowned, "Everything happened for a reason. There has to be a reason, right? Could it be that the reason still lies with the late princess?"
Mother Tong looked hesitant. If the old lady knew that she was chewing her tongue with the eldest grandma in private, a layer of her skin would be torn off...
Of course Li Qingyi knew what she was afraid of, and said: "I know that Mother Tong is a close person to the old lady. Out of respect or awe, I dare not say anything wrong about the old lady. Anyway, I will think of another way. , it is said that there must be a brave man behind a lot of money, but I don’t believe it, no one dares to speak.”
Mother Tong's eyes lit up when she heard the word "heavy money", and she said tentatively: "Grandma, I don't know something. All the old people in this mansion have died, and many of them have left the mansion and stayed in their hometown. I’m afraid there aren’t many people who know the past between the late princess and the old lady.”
Li Qingyi suddenly showed a disappointed expression, "Mother Tong, don't you want everyone in this house to be united?"
Mother Tong was so frightened that she fell off her stool when she heard this, "What did grandma say? Of course I hope that everything in this house will be safe..."
