After blowing for a while, a subtle sound finally came out, like humming a completely off-key song.
This tone-deaf song was hummed from the mouth of a female corpse, which made everyone feel eerie and creepy.
But such a terrifying sound made Liu Zi suddenly feel sentimental.
The song of the female corpse is like a reluctant murmur, with some words vaguely floated out. What she murmured softly and plaintively turned out to be the last few lines of "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" by Bai Juyi, a poet from the Tang Dynasty. She sang it very slowly and laboriously: "In the sky... …I would like to be a winged bird…on the earth…I would like to be a branch of Lian Lizhi…”
Liu Zi covered his face with his hands and began to sob.
"Eternal time... sometimes it ends..." Liu Zi knelt on the ground, his shoulders twitching, and tears dripped from his fingers to the ground: "Shuang... A Shuang..." He said dumbly, calling for this person who had been buried in his heart for a long time. name.
"This hatred..." The whisper in the wind became more sentimental and helpless, "Continuous... without end..."
The last word "period" gradually turned into a hissing sound, spewing filthy gas, slowly spitting it out from between the teeth of the female corpse, and gradually dissipated.
The female corpse was still, her eyes still open, looking blankly at the roof like dried plums.
Hearing the sentence he taught Ah Shuang to recite, Liu Zi cried so much that he bent down on the ground, his hair all messy and covered in dust, because he understood what Ah Shuang meant.
"A-Shuang..." He choked and called.
The female corpse lay stiffly and did not answer him.
When You He saw that the female body was no longer moving, he cautiously approached and covered her with a cloth.
"Okay, why did you beat Ah Shuang so hard?" he asked Liu Zi softly.
Liu Zi was still choking: "I didn't hit her...it was her parents..."
"Why?"
"They...betrothed her to a family in the city a long time ago. That family was very wealthy and wanted to take Ah Shuang as their concubine...When they found out that Ah Shuang was pregnant with my child, they immediately beat her angrily... "At this point, he was no longer just sad, but angry and his face was red. "They cursed Ah Shuang, saying that Ah Shuang didn't know the kindness of raising him, and ruined the rest of their lives because they had already taken him in. A large bride price, if the promise is broken, the family will definitely sue the government..."
"Were you there?"
Liu Zi nodded: "They plan to preemptively sue our Liu family and make us bankrupt..." said
Here, Liu Zi stopped.
You He knows very well that once the secret that has been hidden in his heart for a long time is released, there is no reason why it will not be finished.
"Then what?" he asked.
"Then...I pulled Ah Shuang out of her house and hid here."
"Is there no one guarding the ancestral hall at that time?"
"No one was there that day...for some reason."
"Then, you killed Ah Shuang?" Liu Zi suddenly raised his head, his face full of struggle: "We plan to die together."
"But you killed her?"
Liu Zi beat the ground hard, as if he wanted to vent the endless regret in his heart: "I wanted her to elope, and we fled to another place together, but she refused. She didn't have the courage to escape. All she could think about was the courage to die. She was afraid of life. We’re not familiar with each other and can’t survive in a foreign country. She would rather die. She wants us to die together!”
"so……"
"Yes! I killed her! I promised to die with her, but after I stabbed her, I saw that Ah Shuang was in pain and struggled for a long, long time. I was afraid, I was afraid, and I felt that it was not worth dying like this!"
Liu Zi said with all his heart, not wanting to keep this secret anymore, "After Ah Shuang died, the more I thought about it, the angrier I became, so I went straight to Ah Shuang's house and hanged her parents!"
Mrs. Liu could not help but tremble with fear when she saw her son's hateful face gradually changing, becoming as pale as a corpse and as terrifying as a demon.
"It's all their fault! If I don't kill them, they will harm my family!"
After saying that, Liu Zi couldn't help but pant. The emotions that had been trapped in his heart for many years finally came out at this moment.
You He lowered his head and smiled and said, "You were very calm at the time, and you even left a letter to dispel suspicions."
Liu Zi stared at him fiercely. You He hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Don't be afraid of me reporting to the official. I'm just an old man. When an old man sees a dead person, he wants to find out what happened. I won't embarrass you anymore...Besides, there are no officials here, and besides..."
You He shook his head and sighed: "In these years of war and chaos, human life is not worth much."
Mrs. Liu sobbed and cried: "It turns out that the Zigu God who has helped us for so many years is Ah Shuang..." After hearing this, the maidservant and the family members guarding the ancestral hall immediately knelt in front of the woman's body and thanked them repeatedly. They had all been helped by Zigu God. Quite a few.
"What are your plans?" Yun Kong asked Liu Zi, "Isn't what Ah Shuang sang just now your oath?"
Liu Zi was shocked: "How do you know?"
"I can see her, she told me."
Liu Zi nodded clearly, then looked up.
Everyone also looked up, but they only saw the dark roof, covered with layers of spider webs like clouds. Everyone was confused and didn't understand what Liu Zi was looking at.
On the contrary, Yun Kong looked at Liu Zi in surprise.
It turned out that Liu Zi could also see it. On the high roof beam above the memorial place of the Liu family's ancestors, a blurry white figure was sitting, crying under the gloomy roof.
The anger and fear on Liu Zi's face had long since disappeared, and his expression was unusually peaceful.
Amid the uproar of the crowd, Liu Zi suddenly fell down and pressed heavily on the female body.
"Little dragonfly!"
Mrs. Liu hurriedly tried to help him up, but she couldn't. Liu Kuan immediately came up and pulled his brother up. When Mrs. Liu saw it, she screamed in even more horror.
Liu Zi's face was completely pale, his eyes were cloudy under his half-closed eyelids, and his skin was already showing signs of collapse.
You He stepped forward and pressed Liu Zi's face with his fingers. The skin and flesh immediately sank, so loose that yellow water almost flowed out.
"How many days have you been dead?"
You He looked at Yun Kong in confusion, only to find that Yun Kong was looking at the roof beams in ecstasy. There were two white shadows entangled there. One side was swaying lightly, and the other side was singing in unison, gradually dispersing and fading away. .
"It seems that although his body is dead, he is still holding on to his last breath to go home." Yunkong said, "When his wish is over, his breath will dissipate."
"No wonder I thought he was weird just now."
You He organized Yun Kong's notes and said to Yun Kong: "I am going to be returned to the government. You should hurry up and complete the spiritual transfer ceremony for them."
"Okay." Yun Kong replied quietly.
He saw two white shadows hiding in a corner of the roof, squirming stupidly, as if they were overjoyed to be reunited.
The Liu family buried Liu Zi and Ah Shuang together in the open space next to the ancestral hall, and waited for peace to come back to properly handle the funeral.
However, no one thought of asking Zi Gu Shen to leave.
After the Liu family moved south, they never came back, and no one in the descendants knew about the Zigu God who was never invited back.
