Xiaoman was a brothel girl. When she was a child, her family was too poor to take the blame, so her father had no choice but to sell her in exchange for money to buy food for her younger brother. It was originally promised that she would be sold to a wealthy family as a maid, but I didn't expect that Ya Po was evil-minded. Seeing how pretty she was, she sold her to a brothel.
The brothel's madam was a gorgeous woman about forty years old. Xiaoman resisted fiercely at first, so the madam asked her turtle slave to whip her with a thin rattan whip. No blood was seen, but it was very painful.
Xiaoman escaped several times but was caught. Every time she was covered in scars, so she no longer thought about escaping and accepted her fate.
She gradually grew up, and about a year after she was trapped in the brothel, the madam forced the twelve-year-old girl to accept a client.
From then on her tragic short life began.
Xiaoman lived a miserable life, until she was twenty-one years old, and she fell in love with a man.
The man is a scholar. He met Xiaoman when he went to a brothel with his friends to drink wine, and then the two gradually got to know each other and fell in love.
When Xiaoman learned that the man lacked the financial means to go to Beijing to take the exam, he took the initiative to give the man the money he had saved for many years. The man accepted the offer after evading it several times.
Before the man went to Beijing to take the exam, he promised Xiaoman that he would come back and marry her as his wife once he got the exam. She waited happily, but when she was twenty-six years old, the man still didn't come back.
One day, an ugly, fat and wealthy businessman gave the madam a banknote and then obtained her contract of sale.
The wealthy businessman used various methods to torture her until life was worse than death.
One night, the desperate Xiaoman jumped into the well and died holding a vase - the vase was the only thing the man left her. He said it was an heirloom of his family and was to be left to his daughter-in-law for safekeeping.
One year after Xiaoman's death, a middle-aged man came to Beijing. Not long after he became the shopkeeper of "Zhenbaozhai", strange things happened in the capital.
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General's Mansion.
Bi Hui led Zhu Yuanyu and Wang Jinyi towards "Fuqu Pavilion".
"Fuqu Pavilion" is the main room of the general's mansion, where the general Bi Hong and his wife Ma Miaomiao live. The general's wife suddenly fainted while checking the account books in the room.
When the three of them entered the "Fuqu Pavilion", the chief steward of the General's Mansion looked at Bi Hui with embarrassment, "Master, these two young masters are..."
The chief steward is now fifty years old, and he is devoted to his duties to the general's mansion. He is even more loyal to the general since he was a child of his own family. Now that the general's wife was critically ill, he did not dare to slack off at all, so when he saw the young master leading two richly dressed young men to enter the "Fuqu Pavilion", he knew that the young master would not do anything that would harm the general's wife. matter, but still stopped him.
Bi Hui also understood the conduct of the butler, so he didn't mind. He stopped, looked at the butler and said as if to explain: "Steward Chen, these two young masters are not outsiders and can be trusted."
Seeing that the butler still had a hesitant look on his face, Bi Hui added, "It's only through this young master that I can stand up again." As he spoke, he put a hand on Zhu Yuanyu's shoulder.
The chief steward's eyes widened in surprise. Even though he had experienced all kinds of incidents and was not surprised at all, he was still shocked by Bi Hui's words.
The chief steward thought to himself: Is this young master a miracle doctor? But this is too young!
"This is really, really..." The butler said excitedly, but he didn't know how to express what he was thinking.
At this time, Zhu Yuanyu didn't pay attention to their conversation and focused on looking at the surrounding scenery. They were in the front yard of "Fuqu Pavilion", and he found that the main courtyard of "Fuqu Pavilion" - the room where the general and his wife slept was actually shrouded in a layer of black smoke.
His guess was correct, there really was a powerful monster in the General's Mansion.
I just don't know what kind of monster it is, but it can ignore the general's evil aura and assassinate the general's wife.
With this thick black smoke, as long as the monster wants to harm people, ordinary people cannot resist it. The general's wife may have been in contact with the general from time to time, so her body was contaminated by the general's evil spirit, so she was not killed all of a sudden.
If you want to get rid of this troublesome monster, you need to know what its true form is before you can start.
"Brother Bi, I know it's a bit presumptuous, but can you let me go in and take a look?"
Zhu Yuanyu's cautious look made Bi Hui instantly feel excited.
"Yuanyu, what do you know?"
"I need to go in and check to be sure. The only thing I can be sure of is... the general's wife is dying."
Bi Hui pursed his lips and tightened his grip on the cane. He squeezed it before relaxing, "Then I'll trouble you, Yuan Yu."
Zhu Yuanyu nodded.
Bi Hui looked at the chief steward again, "Steward Chen, please go in and report."
It was related to the life of the general's wife, so the housekeeper didn't dare to delay and went to report it immediately.
Then General Bi Hong came out.
Bi Hong's appearance is very rugged, and his burly figure makes him imposing and majestic. Maybe something happened to the general's wife, so he looked at Zhu Yuanyu with a serious look on his face and sharp eyes.
It was probably because the butler told him something, so he found the right person based on his feeling.
"Do you have a way to heal my wife?"
Wang Jinyi, who was standing next to Zhu Yuanyu, shuddered. He felt that the current general was like a ferocious beast, as if he could tear him apart at any time.
Different from the noble aura of the wise king, the aura of the general is more sharp. After all, he has been on the battlefield and killed people. There is an evil aura. The timid one may be scared to death by the general's glare.
But who is Zhu Yuanyu?
His experience has enabled him to face any momentum head-on and calmly deal with various emergencies. No matter how fierce a living person is, he can't be as fierce as a powerful evil thing.
"General, there are always many things in this world that people can't imagine. If you can't see or touch them, it doesn't mean they don't exist." Zhu Yuanyu pointed out.
Bi Hong's thick eyebrows frowned fiercely, "What do you mean?"
Bi Hui, who was also standing next to Zhu Yuanyu, looked at him thoughtfully.
Zhu Yuanyu thought about it and said, "Do you believe in Buddhism?"
Bi Hong was puzzled and frowned even more tightly.
Wang Jinyi understood what his cousin was going to say. If there is a Buddha in the world and the Buddha is positive, then there must be a negative side. It is self-evident what the negative side is.
At the same time, Bi Hui seemed to have guessed what Zhu Yuanyu meant, but he was not sure. Like his father Bi Hong, he was also an atheist.
At this time, the big butler had a look on his face, "I see. I understand everything." Even though the big butler looked like a serious and honest man, he was actually a very superstitious person. Thanks to his mother, he had been doing this since he was a child. He grew up worshiping ghosts and gods, and he still worships gods in his home.
"Master, you mean... Madam, she..." the butler asked nervously in a low voice, "Who is causing trouble?"
Bi Hong glared at the butler sternly and said in a deep voice: "Do you think Madam's coma is caused by ghosts?" Then he stared at Zhu Yuanyu, only to find that the other person's face was serious, and the word "ridiculous" suddenly came out of his mouth. I couldn't say anything.
