The next time I heard the news about Lin Lang, it was that he sold his mansion and married a girl. But how can a ruined person attract attention again? Naturally, the wife he married was so beautiful that Duan Yun's beauty later became a legend.
Her eyebrows are like new spring willows, her eyes are like clear springs, her lips are like the color of autumn maples, and her skin is like jade.
However, Duan Yun's personality is not as gentle and beautiful as her appearance. It is said that two bullies took a fancy to her and came to look for trouble. Duan Yun refused to comply. He picked up a chair and broke one of its legs. The two men dragged her to report to the magistrate with a bloody head. Duan Yun angrily complained about her evil deeds, demanding the truth even if she died, and even threatened that if the magistrate protected her, she would go to the imperial city to beat drums and complain. The county magistrate didn't know the virtues of these two people and didn't want to make things worse, so he imprisoned them on charges.
She became famous in one act, and this is how the name "Stubborn Lady" came about.
What everyone didn't expect was that she turned out to be the daughter of the Duan family. What a shame!
Duan Yue covered her face and cried: "My sister has not lived a very good life since she was a child. Because of her humble status, she cannot even live with us as a concubine. Her father has given her to take care of me since she was a child. My mother is gone. Early in the morning, my aunt and sister treated me very well, and I was very close to them. But my aunt didn't like them, and made things difficult for them at every turn. I wanted to protect them, but in the end I was outnumbered, and there was no way to fight against my aunt and them. With their arrogance and domineering , Crazy..."
She cried bitterly when she said this, "They tortured my aunt to death...and then Yun'er seemed to be a changed person. She didn't like to laugh in the first place...she hasn't laughed since her aunt's death..." .I also thought she was overthinking the loss of her loved one. But when she calmly told me with red eyes that she wanted to take revenge, I had a premonition that something was wrong. I was afraid that she would do something stupid, but I couldn't stop her. From then on She left home...
Later I heard that she was married to Mr. Duan. Everyone knows what Mr. Duan is like. I really didn't feel comfortable going to see her, but when I saw her smiling face, I didn't want to disturb her. I knew she was doing well... Later, something happened to my aunt's family, and she died in prison. He's crazy, and dad's health is not good either...I think...this is probably retribution..."
Just a few words, but it is someone else's bleak life.
Xu Yuan felt mixed emotions in her heart and didn't know what to say.
"So please, please help my poor sister," she said, about to bow.
Xu Yuan immediately helped her up: "We will help."
Xiao Jichu stood aside and said softly, "Take us there."
Arriving at Duan Yun's residence, Xu Yuan was shocked by the sight in front of her. The sky is dim in the daytime, the light is dim, the wind is blowing, the surrounding buildings are ruined and overgrown with weeds. Walking inside, the door was wide open, and a wooden coffin was hanging in the beam. The lid of the coffin was opened and broken, and it was broken on the ground. The room was full of spider threads and dust, like an abandoned house that had not been lived in for decades.
Hanging coffin-made figurines!
Xu Yuan wiped the cold sweat that suddenly broke out on his forehead and asked Duan Yue: "Your sister lives here?".
Duan Yue walked into the house while answering, and knocked twice on the door: "Sister, sister is here to see you."
Suddenly, a hoarse voice came: "Have you seen my husband?"
Then a woman with disheveled hair ran out and knocked Duan Yue head-on.
Xu Yuan helped Duan Yue up. When Xiao Jichu grabbed Duan Yun, she grabbed her arm and struggled away.
"She knows martial arts!"
"Sister!" Duan Yue let go of Xu Yuan and hugged her with all her strength. "They are here to help you, they are here to help you!"
Duan Yue was stunned for a moment, her eyes gradually cleared, and she called hoarsely, "Sister?"
"Sister-" Duan Yue couldn't help crying again.
...
It turns out that Duan Yun was robbed when she was away from home, and it was Lin Lang who rescued her when she was penniless and desperate. Duan Yun said that although her husband was looked down upon because of his poverty, he was loyal and kind. He was starving but could give all his money to strangers to treat their illnesses, he could not wear warm clothes but he gave clothes to lonely elderly people, he was disliked but he taught literacy for free to children who could not afford school. Life is hard but also cool.
Duan Yun once asked him: "Why do you live like this?" He smiled and said: "Isn't life just about experience?" Sweetness is experienced, bitterness is experienced, luck is experienced, misfortune is also experienced. I have tasted all kinds of things in the world in my life, and this trip is not in vain. "
Duan Yun talked about him with tears in her eyes but raised her mouth. She said: "Lin Zhao is the best person I have ever met in my life, and also the stupidest person. When I asked him what he wanted in return for saving me, He said he saved me. I said I wanted to be with him, but he didn't refuse. Instead, he said that this was the way he would be for the rest of his life, which made me think clearly. What he didn't know was that I had completely fallen in love with him at that time. Him."
Duan Yun wiped the tears on his face, but the tears were like bursting a dam and could not be stopped: "But good people really don't get rewarded. He will leave me when he is only thirty years old.
He told me not to blame him, he was selfish for once in his life. He said that the person he was most sorry for was me, and he should not have agreed to be with me and wasted so many years of my time. He told me to live well. If I meet someone who can make me happy, he will be very happy.
He never said he loved me, but I asked him if he would still be with me in the afterlife. He said he must meet me early in his next life..."
Although Xu Yuan didn't understand love, she still felt sad. She sighed: "What a pity..."
Duan Yun shook his head, "It's no pity. Meeting him is the greatest luck in my life."
Xu Yuan was not very good at persuading people, so she only said: "I think Mr. Lin must also hope that you can live a good life in the future."
Duan Yun chuckled, "Stay alive? We have begged, we have begged countless times, but what's the use? It's so hard to live, and it's so hard to stay together."
"Do you believe in an afterlife?"
Xu Yuan thought to herself, I am a living example, I don’t just believe it! But she glanced at Xiao Jichu and shook her head.
Duan Yun then said with satisfaction: "I don't believe it either. Even if I believe in strange powers and chaotic gods, I still don't believe in the afterlife. Many people in the world believe in the afterlife, but people with the same appearance will not have the same heart, and people with the same destiny will no longer be the same person."
Xiao Jichu said: "The way to life can only be found."
Duan Yue covered her tears and said, "But life and death are ordinary, and people can't predict the fate of the world."
Xu Yuan and Xiao had a rare tacit understanding at the beginning, and said at the same time: "Yes!"
Duan Yun could no longer hear what they were saying, so he thought to himself: "He and I are not born at the right time in this life, and we will have the same fate if we die."
In an instant, Duan Yun's appearance changed drastically, his eyes were bloodshot, his black hair turned blue and white, his face was bloodless, and he looked like a mummy. Xu Yuan was shocked: "Duan Yun!" Xiao Jichu blocked her with quick eyes and hands.
Xu Yuan immediately pushed him away and said with his eyes: "I don't need your protection." Xiao Jichu rolled his eyes speechlessly, as if to say, I'm afraid that if you die, it will be difficult to explain when you return to Xuantian Sect.
Xu Yuan lazily argued with him. She turned around and looked at Duan Yun again.
At that time, she already looked like an old woman.
Duan Yue burst into tears on the sidelines.
Duan Yun just looked at them calmly without making any move, and said hoarsely: "Don't be surprised, it's just a backlash."
Xiao Jichu had no patience to deal with her anymore and asked directly, "Why did you make Lin Zhao into a corpse figurine?"
Duan Yun was surprised for a moment, then smiled miserably: "I don't know."
Xiao Jichu said: "The time to nourish the figurines with blood is not long."
Duan Yun admitted: "Yes! I can't live without him, I don't want him to leave me, I have to do this!"
Duan Yue said sadly: "Sister, don't be like this, let it go, let him bury him in peace, and you can live well!"
Duan Yun shook his head: "No, we haven't finished our lives well yet. We promised to travel around the world, we promised to grow old together, we promised never to be separated, and we will have children in the future. ....We still have a lot of things that we haven’t done yet.”
Xiao Jichu said: "He is already dead!"
Duan Yun shouted, "No! He can still listen to me, stay with me, and he can still look at me... He just won't smile at me and will leave me, but it doesn't matter, I'll wait for him, I will Keep waiting for him..."
Xu Yuan said: "He has been turned into a corpse figurine by you!"
Duan Yun said: "So what, it's enough that I can accompany him!"
You are really stubborn, Xu Yuan said sullenly: "You always say you don't want to, you don't want to, you don't know, do you know whether he wants it or not!"
Xiao Jichu also said: "He won't want to be turned into a corpse figurine by you."
Duan Yun suddenly lost consciousness, hugging his head and crying at a loss: "I...I don't know..."
Xu Yuan simply said: "He wants you to live well and live for yourself, instead of insisting on keeping him in the form of corpse figurines, so that you don't know what you are chasing all your life!"
"Yes, sister, let it go!"
Duan Yun almost collapsed: "He has never left me. He has always been by my side. How can I let him go? I can't let him go!"
Xu Yuan said: "It's just that you can't let go, but he has to be pulled by you and can't let go!"
"Sister, don't make the same mistake again and again!"
Duan Yun said in despair: "I love him, what's wrong with me!"
Xu Yuan said: "It's just wrong. Love should not be an excuse for your persistence, let alone his shackles. Let me ask you, if it were him, would he turn you into a corpse figurine? Into a mutated shape, inhuman. Isn’t it something ghostly?”
"No, he won't do this..." Duan Yun burst into tears: "Lin Zhao, did I do something wrong? Did I do something wrong? Don't blame me... Don't blame me, I miss you so much ah...."
Xu Yuan looked at her and felt hateful and pitiful.
Duan Yue comforted her and said: "He loves you so much, how can he blame you? If you can live well and live your own life, I think he will be very happy."
Duan Yun asked: "Really?"
Duan Yue said: "Of course."
Just when her mood was about to stabilize, Xiao Jichu asked, "How do you know how to control corpses?"
Duan Yun's emotions changed. She was trembling all over and yelled, "I don't know, I don't know..."
Xiao Jichu asked again, "Who taught you?"
Duan Yun was almost epileptic at this moment, grabbing his hair wildly, breaking down and crying, "Lin Zhao...Lin Zhao..."
"Okay! Xiao Jichu." Xu Yuan stepped forward and dragged him out.
Xiao Jichu was a little impatient at being dragged, and solemnly said: "This is a clue!"
After leaving Lin's house, Xu Yuan let go of his hand and said, "We can use more time to investigate the clues."
Xiao Jichu didn't know: "Why waste this time?"
Xu Yuan took a deep breath: "Can we ask why she is in this state? Even if she says it, is it credible?"
Xiao Jichu's eyes darkened and he stopped talking.
…
A few days later, Xu Yuan went to Yicheng again.
There was no trace of Duan Yun in Lin's house, and Duan Yue didn't know Duan Yun's whereabouts. She said that she went crazy again and was never seen again. There were only a few cases of corpse figurines in the city, and there were no casualties. However, a few corpses were exhumed. The number of times was so high that people became numb.
Xu Yuan searched all over Lin's house but could not find a few old things. A painting had been covered in dust for a long time and had become mottled. A wooden box had a few pieces of jewelry, and a brocade bag had lost its thread but was embroidered with live mandarin ducks.
Xu Yuan carefully put it away, thinking that she would return it to Duan Yun when she saw her again in the future.
