I heard that it was because of the "plague" in Shi Mansion.
The "plague" will not make people collapse, but will make them irritable and chaotic. Those people will make strange noises when they speak, and they will also eat people.
When the door opened again, Master Shi appeared in front of everyone and said he wanted to hire a servant for three taels a month, which for some people was a huge fortune.
There are many rules here and the master is mysterious, but due to the high monthly salary, many people still come.
The servants were quite scared at first, but they didn't feel relieved until the first month's monthly salary came into their hands and the white money came into their hands.
The servants had burned it in private, and it was genuine silver, but it didn't have much luster.
They thought about working in the Shifu for a few more years, then redeeming their deed of betrayal, returning to their hometown with the money, converting the earthen house into a brick house, and then living a good life without hunger with their parents.
The days passed like this day by day.
They will talk to each other at first and gossip about their masters.
Later, they found that the people around them became stranger.
As a result, some people remembered the "plague" of that year.
This "plague" is always there.
These servants are different from Shen Sinian. They live in the outer courtyard. Even if they enter the inner courtyard, they only do it to complete their work. After the work is completed, they will quickly leave the inner courtyard.
They knew that they could avoid getting sick only by abiding by what Mr. Shi said, not going to certain places, not doing certain things, and pretending not to hear certain words.
In this stone mansion, "plague" is everywhere.
The servants took the money and left one after another.
"Double Happiness, this is yours." Madam took out two pieces of silver and placed them in Su Qingyu's hands.
"Thank you madam for the reward."
After Su Qingyu said goodbye to his wife, he stopped a servant who was hurriedly trying to return to the outer courtyard, trying to get the situation of Shi Mansion two years ago from him.
The servant shrank slightly and lowered his head, unwilling to talk to Su Qingyu.
Until Su Qingyu took out the silver lock that Madam had just given to her.
The servant's attitude softened, he took the money, pulled Su Qingyu aside, and told her about the crying and the "plague".
Plague is supposed to be pollution.
The flow rate of time inside the copy is different from that in the real world.
The crying happened two years ago, and it was more than a year ago that Shifu opened its door again.
There were several months in between.
what happened?
It won't take long for death to change from human to strange.
It took several months for it to become strange, which shows that when the cry came out two years ago, Mr. Shi, Madam, the eldest young master and the second young lady were not dead.
Their death should have been a year ago.
As for the eldest lady, she has not starved to death after being locked up in the woodshed for so long, which means she must have something to eat. The second lady insists on delivering broth every day. Although the eldest lady resists, she does not always give up the bowl. Knocked over.
When humans eat human flesh, they will be slowly contaminated as their spirits gradually collapse. This kind of pollution requires a process.
After the servant finished telling these things, he fled in a hurry.
He himself was already lightly polluted. When he saw Su Qingyu, he noticed that both of her eyes were white. The servant did not dare to say anything because he was afraid that he would be infected.
As night falls, white lanterns hang on the vermilion corridor painted with red paint.
The moonlight passed through the gaps between the leaves of the old locust trees in the courtyard and shone on a corner of the courtyard. The wind was strong and blew the dead leaves in the courtyard, making a rustling sound.
The hour is approaching.
Xu Yizhi knocked on the door of Su Qingyu's room.
Three sounds in total.
Xu Yizhi turned his back to the door. It wasn't until the door opened that he turned around and walked in.
"Shuangxi, I have been where you asked me to go." Xu Yizhi got straight to the point, "I found this thing at the bottom of the well."
Xu Yizhi took out a bloody stone and a muddy purse.
"There was no water at the bottom of the well. I dug down at the bottom of the well and found five coffins. Four of them contained highly decomposed corpses, and the fifth coffin was empty." He was not afraid at all. "The corpses It has long since rotted and cannot be seen, but the fabric and pattern of the clothes can still be barely seen clearly, they are exactly the same as those on your body.
How many personal maids does your second young lady have? "
Su Qingyu instantly felt the sting of the wound on her head. She stroked the wound on her forehead and said, "One...no, five."
They were all dead, and only Shuangxi had the obsession to crawl out from the bottom of the well.
"There are all five poisons in the coffin, and they were all buried in the way of great evil." Xu Yizhi had done many bad things, so he still knew a little about these methods of suppressing corpses, "It's like a black man eating a black man, you are evil, What is put in your coffin and buried with you is even worse. Once the coffin board is closed, you will fight among yourself.
It's just weird. Logically speaking, you should have been eaten to pieces..."
"It was the second lady who saved me." When Xu Yizhi ran over and told Su Qingyu what was under the well, she triggered the memory given to her by the copy. She was like an NPC telling the plot, telling Xu Yizhi what happened in the past, "I Now that I think about it, there are no friends of my master in the countryside at all. You are my son who is fostered in the countryside.
The old man was also a poor scholar at that time. After he came to the county, he married a wife and had children. The previous wife only gave birth to the eldest daughter, and then there were no children for many years. The old man raised an aunt and gave birth to a son in the country.
Then he was discovered by the previous lady, who committed suicide by touching the pillar.
The master married the current lady again, and soon the lady became pregnant with twins, giving birth to the second young lady and the eldest young master. "
Combining the information given by the copy and the clues he found, Xu Yizhi continued to deduce: "As a scholar, I don't know my life experience at all.
Based on the letters I found under the second lady's bed, I guessed that the affair between the scholar and the second lady was eventually discovered by the master. Master Shi was concerned about his reputation and had all five maids present at the scene executed. "
Wells were built back then to cover up the bodies.
Otherwise, if the officials knew about such a disregard for human life, Shi Mansion would definitely be investigated.
This will affect the young master's future.
"What you said is not entirely correct. The second young lady is also very pitiful." Su Qingyu looked at Xu Yizhi, "Two years ago, you abandoned the second young lady and left alone. The master kept the second young lady in the room. The second young lady only seemed gentle. , has a very strong temper.
She struggled to escape for several months. When she found that she could not escape, she put her head in the basin and drowned.
After the second young lady died, the master asked several maids who served her to be buried with her.
In order to prevent the second young lady from talking too much when she was reincarnated and ruining the Shifu's reputation in the underworld, the master stuffed the second young lady's mouth with straw and covered her face with her hair, so that she would have no words of misery in the underworld. "
After the death, the second young lady continued her habit of delivering food to the eldest young lady who was previously locked in the woodshed.
But the food changed from normal rice to human meat.
This is also the reason why the eldest lady persisted for so long.
"There is one thing I am very curious about." Xu Yizhi squinted his eyes and looked at Su Qingyu, "What is your obsession?
The four maids are all dead, why did you crawl out from the bottom of the well? "
