Just as he finished speaking, suddenly dark clouds covered the sky, the sky and the earth lost their color, and cold winds blew in his face.
Prefect Yao was blown so hard that he could not stand steadily and was supported by Zhao Chengmo.
Gu Lingze sat there without moving, chanting in a loud voice: "The great compassion of the Heavenly Venerable saves all the ghosts. The ten directions spread the subtle power, and the talisman commands the spring of amnesty. He rescues the three hells from suffering and frees them from the blood lake. The souls of the trapped souls, show mercy to them during the catastrophe."
I saw ghosts emerging from the lotus pond, walking to a place in the front where Zhao Chengmo and Prefect Yao could not see them, and then gradually disappeared.
Only Gu Lingze knew that these wronged souls had entered the underworld and been reincarnated.
The two little girls standing in front of the painting bowed to the three of them.
Gu Lingze nodded and said softly, "Go ahead." Then the two of them turned around and left, disappearing from the sight of the three people.
On the way back, the three of them were all silent with heavy hearts.
Prefect Yao even interrogated those who had served Zou Yingguang before that night, and after being tortured, they all confessed.
Zou Yingguang has been a pervert since he was young. At the age of twelve, he took in the maid that Zou Guangmao prepared for him. After that, he became even more unscrupulous and touched all the servants around him who were slightly pretty.
When he was fifteen, he was taken to a secret place by his bad friends. Unexpectedly, he contracted a serious disease when he came back.
From then on, Zou Yingguang dared not go to that kind of place again, but he was very interested in the newly bought little maid in the mansion.
The little maid was a girl of only eleven years old who had just been sold into the mansion by human traffickers. She was tortured to death on the bed by Zou Yingguang.
Unexpectedly, he became addicted to the pleasure of this kind of abuse and always asked his traffickers to send people in.
After Zou Guangmao knew about this, he did not try to stop it, but was worried that people would become suspicious over time.
So they went to the countryside farther away and either tricked or abducted these children into their home to satisfy Zou Yingguang's increasingly crazy desires.
No one knew what Zou Guangmao was thinking. After his son tortured the man to death, he asked his servants to fill the body in the lotus pond.
When Zou Yingguang was in a good mood, he would paint by the pond. The people being interrogated included Prefect Yao. Just thinking about that scene made him feel nauseous.
The He sisters were bought into the mansion together. Their original parents favored boys over girls and would beat them at home at any time.
After listening to the words of the Zou Mansion's housekeeper, I thought that as long as I listened to my master's orders and worked hard, I would be able to live a life of well-fed and warm clothing.
Unexpectedly, they had just escaped from the tiger's den and fell into a wolf's den. As soon as they entered the mansion, the housekeeper sent the two to Zou Yingguang's room, who was already impatient.
In order to protect her younger sister, the elder sister endured the pain and cooperated with Zou Yingguang's various perverted requests, just because the other party said that if he could "satisfy" his needs, he would not touch her sister.
Until her death, she still held on to a glimmer of hope, but she didn't expect that on the third day after her death, her sister's body was also buried in the lotus pond.
In the end, Zou Guangmao was sentenced to confiscation of property and exile, and those slaves who assisted the tyrant were given severe punishments.
One night before his exile, Gu Lingze was thrown into the government jail with the tacit consent of Prefect Yao.
On the way to exile, Zou Guangmao and his housekeeper were covered with sores and died because there was no cure.
After Prefect Yao learned about this, he only said one sentence: "The law of heaven is clear and retribution will come."
In the blink of an eye, it was the day when Xu Mingyan was going to take part in the provincial examination. Aunt Tao repeatedly checked the things that had been prepared before, and everyone sent him to the gate of the Imperial Examination Hall together.
After entering, you will be searched first, and then the basket you carry with you will be checked.
"What is this?" The yamen runner in charge of checking Xu Mingyan asked, pointing at the noodles in the basket.
"This is homemade noodles." After hearing what he said, the man broke off a piece and chewed it in his mouth, and found that it really tasted like noodles.
"How can I eat this dry thing?" This sentence was not a question, but the bailiff's self-talk after being puzzled.
After the examination, I entered the cell. Fortunately, I was not assigned to a cell next to the toilet. Otherwise, there would be seventy or eighty people in a row of cells defecating and urinating in the same place, and the smell would be unbearable. It would be a blessing if I was not suffocated to death.
After the designated time, all cells are closed and locked, and no one is allowed to enter or leave except to get water or use the toilet.
Xu Mingyan first took out the things in the basket and put them away one by one. After calming down, he opened the test paper.
It was not until noon that Xu Mingyan stretched his arms and twisted them left and right to relax his muscles and bones and prepared to eat.
I took the roujiamo that Aunt Tao had made in the morning out of the basket, heated it up on the charcoal stove, ate it, washed my hands, closed my eyes and rested, and continued to do my homework in the afternoon.
The temperature dropped at night, so Gu Lingze went out to get some water and boiled it on the stove. He melted the beef broth and added the noodles.
The delicious smell made the examinees in his row of dormitories drool, but they could only sigh at the dry food in their hands.
Some people couldn't help but think: This person is really free, he makes such a fuss just to have a meal, it would be better if he soiled the toilet paper and was criticized for not taking it.
The day of the exam passed in a flash, and the four of them waited at the entrance of the Imperial Examination Hall early for Xu Mingyan to come out.
As soon as the iron gate was opened, candidates came out one after another. Aunt Tao hurriedly stuck her head out to look.
"Let's not talk about the difficulty of the questions in this provincial examination. I don't know who in our row of rooms has been spending all his time thinking about food every day."
"The aroma makes me feel distracted. This person has no ambition and will definitely fail the exam."
"Indeed."
After a while, Xu Mingyan came out with a scruffy beard, but he seemed to be in good spirits.
The five of them returned to the inn together. No one asked Xu Mingyan how he did in the exam. Aunt Tao busied herself bringing him hot dishes and hot soup, and told him to have a good sleep after dinner.
After waking up, Xu Mingyan knocked on Gu Lingze's door with a box in his hand.
As soon as I opened the door, I found Zhao Chengmo was also in the room.
"I'll keep the pens and inkstones in this box, but I'll return the three hundred taels of silver to you." Xu Mingyan handed the banknote to the other party.
Gu Lingze accepted it generously. In the past, he was worried that the Xu family did not have enough money for Xu Mingyan to take the exam, but it was difficult for him to ask him for it. Now that he has the snack business, he naturally does not worry about these things.
Since he had promised to tell Xu Mingyan the whole truth after he finished the exam, Gu Lingze told him the whole story of the Zou family from beginning to end.
After hearing this, Xu Mingyan slammed his fist on the table and said angrily, "Zou Yingguang is such a beast, he is unworthy of being a scholar."
After Gu Lingze waited for him to calm down, he said to the two of them calmly, "I was the one who killed Zou Guangmao and the housekeeper."
Zhao Chengmo looked at him and asked, "That bottle?"
Gu Lingze nodded. He used the bottle to collect the resentment of the dead and transferred it all to Zou Guangmao and the housekeeper that night in the prison.
Within a day, their bodies will be covered with ghost-faced sores, which will keep gnawing at their flesh and blood and will not stop until they die.
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