I don't know if it was because of the barrier of the physical body, but the ghost boy hidden in the child was not aware of Qi Jingzhi's gaze. He just kept raising his head and chewing with his eyes closed. He obviously didn't eat anything in his mouth, but His face was full of intoxication.
Qi Jingzhi was not in a hurry to take action.
After all, Cui Zitao and the woman are both ordinary people. It would be difficult for them to attack Chi Yu rashly. What's more, there are two ghost boys, and there is a so-called "Tiger Lord" standing behind them. I don't know if he is nearby at this time. .
Cui Zitao probably had a hard day's work. After eating and drinking for a while, he stopped drinking and throwing chopsticks, and stood up.
He glanced at the child who was still taking off his chopsticks, with a helpless and doting smile on his face, and said to the woman who also stood up: "Why is this child so greedy today! I'm a little tired today, so I went to the study to read I'll go to bed after writing two official documents. Madam is watching Pearl here, being careful not to overwhelm him."
The woman didn't speak, just nodded with a smile.
She watched Cui Zitao leave before sitting down again. When she turned to look at "Zhu'er", her face was covered with frost, and she said in a cold voice: "Why, I have only pretended to be a filial son and grandson for a few months, now I have to turn to my true form." Exposed?"
Hearing this, Pearl's movements froze, and then she threw the chopsticks on the table, turned her head and bared her teeth in a smile: "Mother, it's not me who wants to reveal my true colors!"
The voice when it spoke was crisp and raw, especially the phrase "Mother" was extremely sweet and sweet, but also had an indescribable weirdness to it.
The woman trembled when she heard this, and quickly turned her head to prevent Pearl from seeing her face, and whispered: "A lot of big things have happened in the city in the past two days. Could it be that the master is behind it..."
Seeing her like this, Pearl didn't take it seriously at all. She reached out and picked up the chopsticks that she had just thrown away. She plucked at the plate carelessly and said with a smile, "Why, I have been a young mistress in this shabby family for several years." , you forgot your identity? You can also interfere with the Lord’s affairs?”
Qi Jingzhi squatted on the wall and saw the change in the woman's expression. If her eyes were full of hatred at the beginning, when she mentioned the "Master", she could only see the expression from the bottom of her heart. of fear.
The woman lowered her head and was silent for a long time. Then she asked faintly, "Can you spare Cui Lang's life?"
Zhu'er's face darkened, and her tone became colder: "Back then, you did not enter the Anfeng Marquis Mansion, but instead chose the Cui family without permission. The Lord was already very dissatisfied, but it was because of the close relationship between the Ding and Cui families. , Cui Zitao was of some use, so I didn’t deal with you immediately. Now that the Lord’s big event is about to begin, don’t make the mistake of yourself!”
The woman's expression suddenly changed, her teeth bit her lip until it bled, and she said in a low voice: "I won't hide it from you now. In fact... Cui Lang should also know a little bit about my identity. The year before last, I was careful The hidden clothes disappeared, no matter how hard I looked for them, I couldn’t find them. Now even if the Lord gives me any instructions, I’m afraid I’m powerless.”
Hearing this, Zhuer seemed to have expected it, and immediately sneered, her voice was like ice, and every word was covered with ice: "Do you think I have only called you father and mother in Cui's these past few months? , Just trying to be nice and not doing anything serious?"
"What? You found it!"
Hearing this, the woman suddenly raised her head and stared at Pearl. There was both passionate prayer and resistance that she didn't want to believe on her face, and her facial features were all distorted due to this struggle originating from deep within.
"Of course I found it! But the person who hid the colorful clothes was not Cui Zitao. That pedantic scholar didn't have such a brain! I am afraid that until now, he still thinks that you are a man who has lost his father and brother and can't even afford clothes. , the daughter of Orion who can only be wrapped in tiger skin!"
"Tsk, tsk, he actually believed such a clumsy lie back then, and even made you his wife after his wife died suddenly. Cui's family style is so lax, no wonder it has fallen to this point! Just look at this one , your vision in selecting people back then was quite vicious, otherwise how could the Lord tolerate you today?"
Zhuer chuckled and looked at the woman with ridicule in her eyes: "My lord knows exactly what kind of person you are. Do you really think you can get away with pretending to be stupid these past few years? How dare you not report the loss of your colorful clothes? Don't say you can't find it. Cui's fart is somewhere bigger.
, there are only a few dozen people in total. If you really search hard, what can't you find? "
"And this Zhu'er, obviously not your child, but you doted on him to the sky. I cursed his soul to death and took over his body. You secretly look at me like a cannibal. You really think I don't know. What? My good mother, is it possible that you have been blinded by your imagination in the past few years and really want to be Mrs. Cui who will be your husband and raise your children for the rest of your life? "
Upon hearing this, the woman's face turned pale.
She obviously had no chance anymore, so she took a deep breath and said, "What do you want me to do, my lord?"
"now it's right!"
Zhu'er clapped her hands like a real child and said with a smile: "You will put on floral clothes later and turn Cui Zitao into a ghost. What's next...hehe, I haven't told you yet!"
It jumped up from the stone bench while laughing, and ran towards Cui Zitao's study first.
The woman stood up slowly, looked at Pearl's bouncing figure, her eyes flashed with fierceness, she quickly lowered her head, and then quickly followed.
Qi Jingzhi saw this scene completely and roughly guessed who hid the woman's colorful clothes. He finally knew what Cui's old servant meant by the housework.
If there were no Tiger King and Demonic Boy behind this woman, it would really be just a housework for Mrs. Cui, but who would have thought that doing housework can also lead to death?
He jumped down from the courtyard wall and chased after him without hesitation.
Judging from Cui Zitao's words and deeds today, this person is very competent and ethical as an official, and he really does not deserve to end up in such a miserable end.
What's more, whether it's the blood debt of the Wei family's annihilation or the personal enmity between himself and the other party, Qi Jingzhi cannot stand idly by, both publicly and privately.
He hadn't gone far when he saw Pearl and the woman standing one after another outside the study room, which was lit by candlelight. Pearl was beating the door happily, her voice full of innocence and joy: "Is Daddy asleep?" Mother and Pearl have something to tell daddy!"
Qi Jingzhi also walked to Zhu'er and the woman's side, flipped his wrist and grasped the handle of the Niuerjian knife.
After thinking about it, he pointed the tip of the knife at Zhu'er, directly at the demon child inside her.
After all, the woman seems unwilling to bow her head and obey orders, and the root of the problem still lies with this beast.
When the demon boy reveals his true colors in front of Cui Zitao, he immediately shows up to restrain him, and after forcing him to reveal Tiger King's plan, he kills him and makes a snack for the mirror.
At this moment, I heard a creak and the study door opened.
Cui's old servant stood in the door, already bent at the waist: "Old servant has met Mr. Sun and met the young lady."
"Hello, Grandpa Cui! Mom and I came to talk to daddy!"
Pearl smiled sweetly at the other party and skipped to the study room.
Unexpectedly, the old servant suddenly stretched out his hand to block Pearl's way, and whispered softly: "The young master has important business to do at the moment, so please don't go in and disturb Mr. Sun."
"Um?"
Pearl's expression changed, and she immediately raised her head and shouted into the room: "Daddy! I'm Pearl, can you hear me?"
It shouted twice, but received no response at all. Immediately, its mouth dropped, and it raised its head and stared at the old servant, looking aggrieved that he was about to cry.
However, Cui's old servant seemed as if he hadn't seen him before. He still stood motionless with his arms crossed and his head lowered.
"snort!"
Pearl stamped her feet angrily, then turned back to look at the woman behind her, with a stern look in her eyes.
The woman saw this and bit her lip before stepping forward and saying, "Cui Lang has always doted on Zhu'er the most. He never ignored his call. He thought he just had a few glasses of cold wine and put it on the desk. Then he went to bed. Cui Bo asked us, mother and son, to go in, serve Cui Lang, rest, and then leave."
The old servant remained unmoved. He obviously seemed to have no lack of etiquette and his tone was respectful, but there was a sense of repulsion: "In the past few days, the young master will stay in the study. If the young lady doesn't have the extreme It’s better not to disturb important things.”
When the woman heard this, her face changed and she became displeased.
He asked, "What does Cui Bo mean by this?"
"To report back to you, Madam, today a police officer from the Demon Suppressing Academy came from Linzhou. Although he is young, his eyes are very extraordinary. When he met the young master, he said that there was something... something not right around him."
Cui's old servant spoke very vaguely, and at the same time, his eyes deliberately turned to Pearl. There was a hint of ill intention in his words: "If you want to live a long life, young lady, you might as well rely on me. Just be patient for a few days, and be careful and make no big mistakes. Once that person leaves Liaozhou, everything will be back to normal."
After the words fell, the woman didn't have time to reply. Instead, Pearl's big eyes flashed and she asked curiously: "Grandpa Cui, what's wrong with daddy?".z.br>
Cui's old servant then smiled gently at it and said: "I don't know, maybe the young lady has been negligent recently and left small things like needles, thread, and hairpins on the young master's clothes. Master Sun, our Cui family can You are not an ordinary person. If your clothes are not neat enough, you will be laughed at by outsiders."
Pearl nodded as if she understood, and suddenly let out a light sigh: "Grandpa Cui, why are there dirt on your trouser legs? Will you be laughed at by others?"
The old servant was stunned, and quickly looked down, only to see that Zhu'er had already knelt down and stretched out her two small hands to touch his trousers.
"I can't do it. What is my status as an old slave? How can I..."
Cui's old servant stepped back as he spoke, but before he finished his sentence, his feet suddenly stiffened, and the soles of his feet seemed to be firmly stuck to the ground, unable to move at all, while most of his body remained intact. Leaning back, if he hadn't reacted quickly and straightened his waist in time, he would have almost fallen to the ground.
"Where did the monster come from!"
The old servant's expression changed drastically, and he suddenly looked at Zhu'er who was squatting at his feet, and his eyes suddenly shone with light.
He immediately bent over and turned sideways, raised his right palm and put it in front of his chest, and when he saw the top of Pearl's head, he pressed down hard.
"You can't! Its body still belongs to Pearl!" The woman suddenly opened her mouth and shouted.
Cui's old servant's pupils shrank, and the palm that had been fully prepared could no longer be pressed down.
He could no longer maintain his previous humble and arrogant posture, and looked at the woman in astonishment, with pain and regret on his face: "Why are you doing this, madam?"
The woman was stunned when she heard this, and then she realized what was wrong with her. She knew that the old servant had already seen something wrong with her. At this time, she thought that she was the one who made the ghost, secretly harmed Pearl, and instigated the ghost to harm him.
At this moment, several clicks, almost in no particular order, reached everyone's ears, and soon after, the old servant groaned in unbearable pain.
I saw Pearl's two small hands tightly grasping the old servant's calves. The fingertips not only scratched through the trousers, but also penetrated deeply into the flesh, obviously hurting the bones.
The old servant's face twitched violently, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and bright red blood gushed out from several holes on his calf, immediately staining his trousers, shoes and socks red.
Zhu'er raised her head, with a faint blue-black color on her face, and smiled innocently at him: "Grandpa Cui, can my mother and I go in to find dad now?"
Cui's old servant looked at it with a complicated expression. In addition to being sad, he also felt a hint of happiness.
He shook his head slowly and said: "As long as the old slave is still breathing, the Cui family's bloodline will not be harmed in the slightest. Just now, the old slave saw that the young master was tired, so he used some means to let him have a good sleep. Now it is You can’t wake me up. Master Sun is now growing up, so he should go back and rest early. If there is anything else, it’s not too late to talk about it tomorrow.”
Hearing that the other party still called her Master Sun, Zhuer was stunned for a moment, and then she looked at a fool and said in disbelief: "Grandpa Cui, in your eyes, I am still of the Cui family's blood in my current state?"
"The body is intact, so naturally it is still the blood of the Cui family!" The old servant of the Cui family nodded without hesitation.
"The master's family was originally a direct descendant, but in the young master's generation, it has become a single descendant! As long as you don't hurt the young master, don't harm yourself physically, and work for the Cui family in the future, who dares to say that you are not a bloodline of the Cui family?"
After saying these words viciously, the old servant turned his eyes away from Pearl and looked straight at the woman beside him for the first time without avoiding it.
"Young madam, you are so kind.
In the past few months, Master Sun has suddenly become much more well-behaved and sensible. The young master has also become more and more doting on him. He can be called a loving father and a filial son, and he enjoys it happily. The old slave also sees it and is happy in his heart! Since...since several months have passed like this, why not let the young master and the young master Sun continue to enjoy the warmth of this world? "
The old servant paused and looked at the woman with half hope and half pleading. After all, in his opinion, it was the young lady who really made the decision at this time.
"Although the Cui family has been in decline for a long time, if you apply your heritage to one person, I dare not say that compared with Prince Anfeng, he will definitely not be inferior to his other descendants! Especially the Cui family has a secret method that can absorb the tiger evil spirit. , if...if you have the talent in this area, your future will be limitless!"
When he mentioned the words "endowment" and "prospect", the old servant glanced at the woman's belly, seemingly intentionally or unintentionally: "The young lady and the young master have a deep love for each other, and they will definitely give birth to children as strong as tigers in the future. This will Houfu... is still growing!"
These words became more and more intriguing. When the woman and Pearl heard this, their expressions changed again and again.
For a moment, the woman felt mixed emotions, while Pearl's face was gloomy. She glanced at the woman from the corner of her eye, already wary.
During the brief silence, someone suddenly sneered.
This laughter was so ethereal and ethereal that I couldn't tell where it came from.
The woman, Pearl and the old servant were all stunned for a moment, and then a look of surprise appeared on their faces. Suddenly a sharp knife about a foot long poked out from the void behind Pearl, and pierced its back with a pop. It came out from the chest.
Thick black blood slipped from the sharp tip of the knife, and at the same time an unknown green and black aura emerged from the knife edge.
Qi Jingzhi suddenly appeared and smiled brightly at Cui's old servant who looked frightened and angry.
"I'd like to teach you how to learn that this... in Zhu'er's body is not a ghost that takes orders from your young lady, but a life-threatening evil ghost who wants to kill Magistrate Cui and cut off your Cui family's bloodline!"
"You want to seek skin from a tiger, but you even got the real owner wrong! This catastrophe of destroying a family and destroying an entire family is right in front of you, how can there be any future blessings?"
