"Bai Erlang, if you don't intend to seek death, then why do you hang yourself with Bai Ling?"
Nan Er looked at the white strip of cloth still wrapped around the branches. The strip of cloth didn't look like a belt, but seemed to be a white silk ribbon that was bought on purpose.
"I...I can't live anymore."
When Bai Erlang said this, he was obviously a grown man, but he burst into tears. He wiped the tears with the corner of his sleeve, but the more he wiped the tears, the more they started to flow.
This person is afraid of being asked why when he is sad. If you are alone, your inner depression can only be accumulated in your heart and cannot be vented. But once someone asks, it's like the flood has been opened, and all the grievances and anguish in my heart are poured out.
"Woooooooo..."
He started to cry again, covering his mouth with his sleeve, tears falling down, completely soaking the white cuffs.
"Oh, you are this person..."
Nan Er didn't like to see people cry, especially a man. You said that a dignified man, if he can't look away from something, has to cry like a little girl.
"You should tell me if you have any difficulties. If you don't tell me, how can I help you?"
"You can't help me...wuwu..."
Bai Erlang shook his head. He choked and rejected Nan Er's kindness.
"You step on the horse... don't make me curse. How about I help you hang up the white silk? Just close your eyes and kick your legs."
Nan Er made a gesture of sticking out his tongue, rolled his eyes at the same time, and looked like a hanged man, and then said:
"It's all over immediately!"
"No, no... Hanging is too painful. The rope strangles my neck and it hurts. I don't want to hang. If I had known that hanging was so painful, I would have chosen to drink poison."
Bai Erlang shook his head like a rattle, tears and snot coming out of his eyes. He looked like a little kid who had his toys robbed.
"Drink poison? Haha, drinking poison is good. After one sip of poison, you will feel as if there are hundreds or thousands of ants in your stomach biting your internal organs. Then your whole body will twitch and you will start foaming at the mouth. , and died tragically in the end.”
Nan Er deliberately wanted to scare Bai Erlang, so he said such terrible and cruel words. As expected, these words made Bai Erlang, who was originally sobbing, speechless.
The other party raised his head and looked at Nan Er with frightened red and swollen eyes. His lips trembled for a long time before he asked tremblingly:
"Does it hurt?"
"Nonsense, there is no way to seek death without pain."
Nan Er curled his lips angrily, feeling that Bai Erlang was just like a stupid kid who hadn't grown up. He would make a lot of noise and fuss when he was slightly wronged, and even planned to threaten his parents by not eating.
He patted his forehead speechlessly. After traveling in the world for so many years, he had seen a lot of vicious and sinister people, as well as simple and honest people, but this was the first time he had seen a stupid boy like Bai Erlang who was ignorant of the world.
"Is there any way to die without pain? I am not afraid of death, but I am afraid of pain..."
Bai Erlang's eyes were red and swollen, and he said ridiculous words.
"Well, there are painless ways to die. It's just not very good."
Nan Er grasped the handle of the long knife at his waist. His face suddenly turned cold, and his eyes instantly became sharp, like an eagle soaring in the sky ready to hunt.
"I'll kill you with one knife, I promise it won't hurt."
"Ah? This..."
Bai Erlang's eyes widened. He was only a few steps away from Nan Er. Before, he didn't have much feeling for this knight he met for the first time, but when Nan Er's face turned cold and he got ready to draw his sword.
Suddenly there was a cold wind blowing up from the Yongquan point on the soles of the feet. It was like falling into a newly dug ice cave in the middle of winter. It was cold all the way from the soles of the feet to the hair.
Bai Erlang couldn't help but shiver, and his legs felt a little weak.
"Don't worry, no one who has died under my knife has said it hurts."
Buzz——
The long knife is ready to be unsheathed.
Plop!
It wasn't that Bai Erlang's head fell to the ground, but that because he was too scared, his legs weakened and he sat under the tree. If there was no tree trunk behind him to lean on, he would have collapsed on the ground.
"I, I, I... have mercy on me."
Bai Erlang was not shaking his head, but his whole body was shaking, shaking like chaff.
"Are you still planning to die?"
Nan Er glanced at him and asked coldly.
"No, no, no, not dead, not dead anymore."
Bai Erlang quickly replied.
"Yes, you are such a good person, why would you seek death when something happens? As the saying goes, it is better to live than to die."
Nan Er put away his murderous intent, slowly pressed the knife back into the sheath, and then rubbed his cheek unnaturally.
To be honest, it was his first time to scare people with such a sullen face.
"But what happened to me, even if Song Qingguan is resurrected, will not be able to examine clearly, allowing me to avenge my injustice."
Song Qingguan refers to a good and upright official who appeared in Daqi decades ago. He is not only upright and upright, but also good at resolving unjust cases and loves the people like a son. At that time, there was a major case involving two powerful people in Daqi. No one in the Manchu Dynasty dared to try the case. It was Lord Song who stepped forward and finally cleared the deceased. At that time, even His Majesty the Emperor of Da Qi praised him, saying that Mr. Song was really a good and upright official.
Bai Erlang is a scholar who studies, but his character is weaker. He is usually not sociable and only likes to study alone in his bedroom.
Although he is more straightforward, he is not as pedantic as the old master. He just feels that he has been wronged and has no way out.
"How have you been wronged?"
Nan Er was curious, and he didn't know what kind of injustice it was to force a simple guy like Bai Erlang into such a wronged and seeking death state.
"I...I...am ashamed to say it."
Bai Erlang turned his face to the side, with a look of grievance and confusion on his face. His bitter face made people frown when they looked at it.
"explain!"
Nan Er shouted loudly, which made Bai Erlang, who was sitting on the ground, tremble with fear. If it weren't for the big tree behind him, which could no longer make him retreat, he would have been so frightened that he would have run out.
"I...I woke up one day and found that I was not in my bed, and there was a woman lying next to me."
Bai Erlang said intermittently.
"Then what?"
"I just walked out, and then someone saw me, and then... I ran out and hanged myself."
"Oh. This doesn't sound like a big deal. I see that you are not a child of an ordinary family. If something happened to a certain maid accidentally, it would be understandable. The worst thing is to take a concubine."
As Nan Er was talking, he saw Bai Erlang's face flushed and his lips trembling for a long time, as if he had something else to say, but he just couldn't.
"Which woman has what identity?"
"My...sister-in-law..."
Bai Erlang squeezed for a long time, and finally squeezed out a few words from the gaps between his teeth, which sounded like mosquito wings.
"oh!"
Nan Er's eyes widened and he blurted out almost without thinking:
"Fornication between uncle and sister-in-law! This is a serious crime against ethics. According to Daqi law, it must be executed immediately. No wonder you escaped here."
"No! No! I didn't! No!"
Bai Erlang shook his head vigorously, waving his hands constantly, resisting Nan Er's words with his whole body.
"What is that? Don't tell me that you two were in love, and then you couldn't help it and took the wrong path."
"No! I didn't. I had no evil thoughts about my sister-in-law at all, but I don't know what happened that day. I appeared in my sister-in-law's room as soon as I woke up."
Bai Erlang quickly explained.
"I really haven't done anything shady, but now I can't argue with anyone. People in Mulberry Town are talking about my unfounded scandal, which really makes me shameless."
"This thing is quite difficult. What does your sister-in-law say? If she also says that you haven't done it, she will only have someone to prove it to you."
"My sister-in-law...she...she..."
When Bai Erlang talked about his sister-in-law, he hesitated again.
"Did she hang herself?"
Nan Er thought of the worst outcome, that is, the Bai family's sister-in-law was ashamed of the scandal outside and couldn't stand the rumors, so she hanged herself.
You know, people's words are terrible.
"No, my sister-in-law also said that I have never done anything like that. But... but..."
Bai Erlang twisted his tongue for a long time before saying:
"But she was diagnosed by the doctor as being pregnant."
"Yours? Or your elder brother's?"
Nan Er knocked on the scabbard and asked.
"My eldest brother...has been dead for five years."
Bai Erlang lowered his head, not daring to look at Nan Er again.
The current situation is that someone found himself sleeping in the same room as his widowed sister-in-law, and now his sister-in-law was found to be pregnant. He was really speechless and couldn't explain it clearly.
"Oh...then the child must be yours."
"No! I don't! It's really not mine."
Bai Erlang almost shook his head off, tears spilled everywhere on his face, causing Nan Er to frown and take a step back.
"Is it possible that your sister-in-law had an affair with someone else and then deliberately framed you for the sake of family property?"
After all, Nan Er was more knowledgeable than Bai Erlang, and he quickly formed a hypothesis in his mind that could not only explain the current situation, but also fit the truth of Bai Erlang's injustice.
"Probably not. My sister-in-law has always been a virtuous and virtuous family. This kind of thing... shouldn't be possible."
Although Bai Erlang said it was impossible, his eyes were firm, as if he had agreed with what Nan Er said.
"Listen to me. Let's go to Mulberry Town together. I will help you find out the ins and outs of this matter and return your innocence."
Nan Er patted his chest. People in Jianghu were very particular about drawing out their swords to help when the road was rough. Since Bai Erlang was in trouble, he would naturally help if he could.
If it were Nan Er who had never taken revenge, he might not have done this, but since he got his revenge, his character has gradually become more cheerful.
The two walked through the woods together and came to Xia Zhichan who was waiting beside the horse.
Before Nan Er could introduce Bai Erlang, he saw Xia Zhichan pointing at him and saying:
"There's a ghost in you."
