Bai Yujun was speechless.
Being strangled to death by her beloved's own hands and thrown into the wilderness, she was willing to give up everything and even her own humanity for the sake of her future. However, Xia Lan did not feel resentful and turned into a ghost because of this. She just waited for the unfaithful person to take her home day after day in the wilderness. Just like when he lied to her and took her to the barren mountain.
"How many years have you been dead?" Bai Yujun asked.
"A full seven years."
In seven years, I am afraid that the heartless man has long since married the daughter of a minister, and has been living in a rich family with wine and meat. How could he still remember an old skeleton in this barren mountain?
"People and ghosts have different paths. Since you die, you should go where you should go. I will save you."
"No! I want to wait for Li Lang to take me home!"
The female ghost Xia Lan has a firm attitude. This is her biggest obsession after her death. Bai Yujun is also helpless about this. If she ignores it, she may be beaten to pieces by passing monks in a short time, or she may be sucked by the evil ghost again. There is no chance of reincarnation, so it would be fine if she is an evil ghost. She is a kind-hearted ghost who refuses to become evil. She is a good person. To be precise, she is a good ghost.
"He will not come back, never, even if you wait another hundred or a thousand years, he will not come back to pick you up." Bai Yujun had to tell this cruel reality.
"No! He will come! He will definitely come to pick me up!"
Xia Lan shouted stubbornly. Even though she was so excited, she still didn't become resentful and turned into a devil. She was a good girl.
"Wake up! He is in the capital! He will not come back!"
"No...it won't happen..." Xia Lan shook her head and cried.
"People's hearts will change. The easiest thing to change in this matter is the heart, but the oldest thing is also the human heart. You are a good girl, but you fell in love with the wrong person at the wrong place at the wrong time. Give up and leave. The way to go.”
"He won't! I gave him my best, and he won't not come..."
"But in the end, he personally strangled you to death, the girl who might hinder his future. Have you forgotten?" Bai Yujun hated the fact that iron cannot be transformed into steel.
"I know he must have his reasons..."
"madness!"
"He will come back... In a few days, it is the day when he goes home to worship his ancestors every year. He will definitely come to pick me up..."
Bai Yujun counted the days and decided to help her, but he only wanted to send her into reincarnation.
"Okay, I'll send you to find him. If he refuses to take you back, will you reincarnate?"
"I...I will leave."
"It's a deal."
Bai Yujun spent the night on the ridge that night.
She originally planned to collect Xia Lan's bones and bury them first, but she insisted on waiting for Li Lang to take her bones home, so she had to give up.
The next morning, after puffing up the clouds, he went down the mountain to find Xia Lan's house. Her house was not far from the barren mountains and the village was not big. Bai Yujun, who was carrying a bookcase and asked the villagers, found it easily... and found Xia Lan's former home.
In order to raise enough money to go to Beijing to take the exam, the Xia family sold their house and land, and someone else lived here.
A new courtyard was built next to it, with the word "Li Mansion" written on the plaque hanging at the door. The stone lion guarded the door with mighty force, the vermilion gate was surrounded by blue brick walls, the houses in the mansion had carved beams and painted roofs, and there were gardens and rockeries. The villagers told them that it was the Li family who had won the first prize in the exam. After marrying the daughter of a high-ranking official in the capital, he built a new manor in his hometown to support his parents. The neighboring villagers just envied him so much that they seemed to have forgotten the Xia family.
Finally, Bai Yujun found Xia Lan's parents outside the village...
An ordinary thatched house is surrounded by a fence. There are a few chickens, ducks and a big yellow dog in the yard. Two old people are busy in the vegetable field behind the house.
He shook his head and turned to leave.
Waited for a few days.
The Li Mansion became busy. The old couple warmly greeted the guests at the gate, and there was an endless stream of gift-givers. The local county magistrate even came to deliver gifts in person. The main purpose was to help the Li family with ancestor worship, and to take the opportunity to get to know the ministers of the capital.
The guests filled the door with laughter and laughter, and even the weather seemed warm. You could smell the aroma of food, wine and meat in the courtyard wall from a distance.
It is estimated that the person named Li will come back soon, and Bai Yujun returns to Barren Mountain.
He took out his paper umbrella and took out a few talismans to protect ghosts from the book box to transform the paper umbrella. There are hundreds of ways to do this in the library.
Go to the dead bones and open the paper umbrella.
"He's coming back soon. I'll take you to see him."
With a blur in front of her eyes, Xia Lan emerged from the ground and stood under the umbrella. With the protection of the paper umbrella, she could appear during the day.
"Thank you, I don't know the benefactor's name yet."
"Bai Yujun."
No nonsense, Bai Yujun held an umbrella and took Xia Lan down the barren mountain. Xia Lan, who was going down the mountain for the first time in seven years, looked excitedly at her increasingly familiar home. As she got closer, she saw that someone else lived in her former home. Sad and sad.
"Let's go to the entrance of the village."
Qing Umbrella took Xia Lan to the entrance of the village, and stood on the ridge of the rice fields in the distance, watching the gongs and drums at the entrance of the village.
The village has a top scholar who is still a high official in the capital. The top pick of the Li family is the pride of the whole village. When every family teaches their children, they will say, look at the words of someone from the Li family to inspire their children. People forget it and no one will remember it. Who will support the Li family boy to study for the imperial examination? At this moment, the whole village gathered at the entrance of the village eagerly waiting for the number one scholar to return to the village.
On the ridges of the rice fields, Bai Yujun and Xia Lan seemed like outsiders.
The breeze blew through the swaying green seedlings, and the strong fragrance of rice flowers reminded Xia Lan of her childhood and her parents. Ghosts have no tears. She finally remembered who was the most painful person.
"Nvxia, my parents... are you okay?"
"I have a house to live in and fields to cultivate, but I feel a little lonely without my descendants."
"well……"
In rural areas, especially in the feudal era, people looked down upon people who had no family. If a family had a baby, they would not invite them for fear of bringing bad luck. They would gossip and ridicule, otherwise the old couple would not move to live outside the village.
The old couple of the Xia family were not seen in the team welcoming the top official. I am afraid that the two old people are still thinking about how to find their daughter. They would rather believe that their daughter was deceived than to die.
"coming."
The two words Bai Yujun said made Xia Lan excited. She stood under the umbrella and looked at the end of the village road from a distance.
What a big team.
The servants in front held a solemn guard of honor, and there were several guards. Dozens of people escorted them to the remote village. The drum band at the entrance of the village began to beat and set off firecrackers. The old master who taught Li Lang to read was stroking his beard and smiling. , Yiying’s classmate even arranged his appearance to prepare for the visit.
The team was getting closer.
Dozens of people escorted an official on horseback wearing official robes and a luxurious carriage, which was also followed by several maids.
Xia Lan was so excited when she looked at the figure on horseback that she wanted to run over but didn't dare to leave the paper umbrella. She was just as excited as when Li Lang, the number one scholar in high school, returned to the village.
The whole village was paved with loess to welcome the arrival, and the county magistrate and a group of township gentlemen happily made the scene complete.
The senior official of the Li family dismounted, and after being polite, he walked to the Li Mansion surrounded by people. In front of the Li Mansion, the two old men of the Li family were glowing and beaming with joy. The children rushed to see the former No. 1 scholar, hoping that he would become a high official after being soaked in the fragrance of books.
