Chapter 54 Chapter 54 The miserable lady under the moon knows how to repay...
When Shentu Yuerong saw her come out, she immediately told her everything that happened at the night market in a rage, and then said angrily: "I have not given up my twenty years of life to suffer such humiliation!"
It can be seen that this lady under the moon must have been quite pretty when she was young. Even now that she is old, her every move is very polite and well-mannered like a lady from an aristocratic family, and the peach blossom hairpin between her eyebrows is also beautifully painted.
As soon as she opened her mouth, she revealed her vicissitudes of life: "Fool, I can only guarantee that you will marry the man you want to marry. Whether this marriage is satisfactory or not is definitely not something I can influence."
She paused, and said with some sadness: "Even if it is really a red thread tied by the matchmaker, is it definitely a good match?"
Shentu Yuerong was so angry that she choked. After a long while, she spoke with worry, "Now that Xiping Duan has appeared, I don't know if this marriage can be stable. Madam, please wrap the red thread a few more times."
Duan Zhiwei and Yuan Shenji were hiding outside the ruined temple, watching Yuexia Niang take out some strange red threads that looked like blood from her backpack. Unlike the threads used by Yuexia Laoren, the threads were thick and rough like coarse linen.
She did not tie the string around the person's ankles, but took out two dolls about the size of Mohelo from the brocade box.
He used the thick red string to tie the two dolls together, circle after circle, thinking that one of the dolls might have Yuan Shenji's name and birth date written on it. Duan Zhiwei's back began to feel cold.
Yuan Shenji's face turned even livid at the side. He always hated this kind of winning tactics. This time he was manipulated in this way. How could he not be annoyed? He immediately drew out his cold and bright Mo Dao.
Duan Zhiwei was worried that the other party might have some tricks up his sleeve, so he grabbed the corner of his clothes to stop him from passing and wanted to observe and see.
Shentu Yuerong was still asking, "If I get the birth date of that Duan, I'd like you to tie her up with some ugly peddler, so that I can marry into the Yuan Mansion without any worries."
Duan Zhiwei was furious. "You, Shentu Yuerong, it's ok for you to impersonate someone else, but you carefully selected a young, handsome, promising and virtuous fourth-rank official, and you chose a peddler for me, and he had to be ugly. Are you still a human being?"
She was immediately filled with rage and was about to go find her to settle the score, but Yuan Shenji calmed down, stopped her, took off his quiver and bow, and bent down to smear kerosene on the arrowhead.
Duan Zhiwei also squatted down and whispered, "I know you are angry, but burning someone with fire is also against the law."
Yuan Shenji's anger was somewhat dissipated by her words, and he said, "This arrow is not used like this."
As he spoke, he took out a flint and lit the sharp tip of the arrow. Then he stood up, his posture straight, his left hand firmly holding the hard bow, his right hand resting on the feather arrow that was already burning with flames. The bowstring was tightened, and then he loosened his fingers, and the flaming feather arrow flew out with a whoosh, hitting the doll that was wrapped in the hands of the lady under the moon.
The two dolls were licked by the flames and quickly dissipated into black smoke in the fire.
"Who's over there?" Lady Yuexia was furious. Her wrinkled face fell into darkness and she rushed directly towards Yuan Shenji and Duan Zhiwei.
Yuan Shenji said: "You are using the art of suppressing victory here, which is high treason. I will definitely arrest you and bring you to the Dali Temple for trial."
Duan Zhiwei hid behind him. She was frightened by Yuexia Niangzi's gloomy expression, so she had to explain the facts to her: "My lady, the relationship between a man and a woman is not only determined by heaven, but also depends on the feelings of the two people. As the saying goes, a forced melon is not sweet. You are forcing two people who have no feelings to be tied together like this, which is simply torturing each other. They will not live happily this way."
Duan Zhiwei felt that what he said was indeed reasonable, and he could not help but nodded as he spoke. Unexpectedly, the lady under the moon sneered: "Just want them to torture each other?"
Duan Zhiwei: “?”
Lady Yue said, "The old man said that even if we are from the enemy's family or in a foreign land, we must get married. This ruined my life. Why should others have an easy life?"
Her father became the magistrate of Songcheng County. He fell ill and died along with her mother. There was only a blind wet nurse named Chen in the family who raised her while buying groceries. When she was four years old, an assassin came to the house and stabbed her in the middle of the forehead. The wet nurse carried her to the clinic at night, but because she was blind, she fell countless times on the way, and her body was covered with scars when she arrived at the clinic.
Perhaps because of the fall at night, her wet nurse died soon after. She was taken to her uncle's house. Her uncle was a governor. In order to win over Wei Jun, he sent her out like a commodity in the West Market.
She was born beautiful, like the most luxuriant peach blossoms on the branches in spring, but she had to marry an old man who was almost the same age as her uncle. She hated him so much that she gritted her teeth, but she had no choice but to marry him since she accepted the kindness of her uncle in raising her.
Wei Jun was vicious, violent, and lustful, and he was actually the culprit who stabbed her back then. When Wei Jun told the assassination story as a joke, she thought of her wet nurse Chen who had fallen countless times at night.
She had no place to vent her anger, and murderous intent shone from her eyes. However, her son was so diligent and studious, studying hard every day just to gain fame. For the sake of her son, she had to endure it. Everyone lived a perfect life, except her.
She has no name in the story, and the only ending is that she and Wei Jun "respect each other to the extreme". How can one not hate her?
After death, he turned into an immortal on earth and opened a small shop in a dark alley in the West Market, named the Engagement Shop. Countless girls checked into nearby hotels before curfew, waiting for the dark night of the full moon, holding a lantern, walking through the fog, and then knocking on the door of the shop, exchanging their precious lifespan for the marriage they wanted.
But she has no control over how this marriage ends.
Duan Zhiwei listened to the play "The Engagement Shop" from another perspective for the first time, and suddenly felt that the principles she had spoken were too self-evident, and she felt great sympathy and shame in her heart.
Unexpectedly, Yuexia Niangzi didn't want others to sympathize with her, "Don't look at me with sympathetic eyes." Then she rushed towards Duan Zhiwei.
Yuan Shenji pulled her behind him and then started fighting with her. The Mo Dao in his hand emitted an extremely cold light under the moonlight, and his chop was full of force. The opponent was just a small earthly immortal, so he had no strength to fight with him and soon fell into a disadvantage.
He won easily and quickly put the Mo Dao to the opponent's neck.
Duan Zhiwei hurriedly said, "Wait a minute." She looked at Yuexia Niangzi and said, "How many marriages have you forced on others? Those who should be untied should be untied, and those ladies' lifespans should be returned to them."
Lady Yuexia sneered and said, "Absolutely impossible." She had been tortured by a horrible marriage all her life and was in urgent need of pulling some people into hopeless marriages. She still wanted to untie them?
"Isn't your long-cherished wish to never have any contact with Mr. Wei again? Write a letter of release and give it to us, and we will submit it to the government for you."
Lady Yuexia was stunned: "Let your husband go?"
After the Song Dynasty, ethics and moral teachings advocated that women remain chaste and faithful to their husbands. This method must have been shocking. But women in this dynasty have the same right to let go of their husbands as men.
"Yes, let go of your husband. We don't need a knife to separate. From now on, don't rely on your enemy. All the longings will be wiped out." Duan Zhiwei quoted the declaration of Zhu Shuzhen, a famous talented woman in the Southern Song Dynasty, to let go of her husband: "From now on, there will be no connection between the two of you, even in the underworld."
Lady Yuexia was moved by what she said, and she immediately took out paper and pen. It seemed that she was quite talented in writing. She gritted her teeth and wrote a long paragraph in small regular script with flowers on her hair, saying "Cats and mice live in the same nest" and "Gathering together to form resentment", and every word was heartbreaking.
When the book was finally handed to Duan Zhiwei, she was obviously relieved. Yuan Shenji took a closer look at the book: "Wei Jun is vicious. He killed a young boy like this. He must have other crimes. I will definitely report it to the Dali Temple and revisit the old story. I will not let "The Engagement Shop" only have a 'respectful' and whitewashed ending."
The lady under the moon shed tears, and the cluster of gorgeous peach petals on her forehead fell to the ground and broke into pieces. Then her whole body began to gradually become nothingness and turned into countless peach petals, emitting silver light like moonlight and floating in the air.
If she could, she would only like to go back to the time when she was four years old. Her wet nurse Chen was selling vegetables at the entrance of the hotel, and she was playing nearby. She moved a small bed for her wet nurse to sit on. When the stall was closed, the wet nurse could not see her, but she still came over with a loving face, smiled and held her hand: "Today's shepherd's purse is all sold out. Can you go to the market right away to buy some candied fruit for Xiao Taoer?"
She smiled and said okay.
Duan Zhiwei sighed. There were several large boxes in the dilapidated temple, which might contain the thick red string and various dolls with birth dates and horoscopes written on them.
She and Yuan Shenji walked in and wanted to move everything out to see whether to hand them over to the Monster Catching Division for proper disposal or just burn them on the spot.
Fire... She didn't know if it was an illusion, but she really smelled the scent of kerosene.
Before she could react, the flames rising into the sky had blocked the way to the door.
"What's going on?" she asked in horror.
"Someone set the fire intentionally." Yuan Shenji reacted quickly, took off his armor and put it on her, then walked around with his Mo Dao in hand. The person who set the fire was very careful and actually poured kerosene around the ruined temple.
I'm afraid that the kerosene and flint that Yuan Shenji dropped on the wall were taken away by someone.
Duan Zhiwei immediately thought of the disappeared Shentu.
But now is not the time to look for the real murderer, Yuan Shenji made a prompt decision and carried her on his back, then wrapped several thick red ropes around her and tied the two of them together tightly.
The only exit was a dilapidated hole in the ceiling, and the only way out was by climbing the only unstable-looking mahogany pillar in the temple.
Duan Zhiwei leaned on his back and felt the temperature in the temple rising. "Captain, I'm too heavy for you to carry. Put me down so you can run more easily. When you get out, we can find the fire-snatching troops with spatter guns to put out the fire."
She thought this was the best idea. One of them would definitely be able to escape, and if she was lucky she would be saved. Yuan Shenji carried her on his back and climbed up the wooden pillar. If they were unlucky, both of them would be dead.
Unexpectedly, Yuan Shenji ignored her and just gritted his teeth and carried her up. She had no choice but to lower her head and untie the complicated red rope by herself.
This knot was something Yuan Shenji learned specifically to tie up enemy prisoners. She couldn't untie it no matter what she did, so she had to give up and go try to persuade him again.
Yuan Shenji was sweating profusely, and ignored Duan Zhiwei who kept muttering. Finally, he just said: "Do you still remember how you took me forward in the frost and snow in Liangzhou?"
Duan Zhiwei stopped talking. She silently fell on his back.
He was only a little bit away from climbing onto the beam, but the fire suddenly grew larger and burned the pillar down. The two of them were about to fall into the sea of fire. Before that, Yuan Shenji held her in his arms.
"Swoosh" an exquisite flying carpet came in from the hole in the ceiling, caught two people, and then flew out of the hole.
The two of them were still hugging each other. Duan Zhiwei buried her head in his arms. She could only hear the rustling of the wind passing by her ears. Her face was full of tears. She didn't know whether it was because of fear or the smoke.
Yuan Shenji raised his hand and gently wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with his rough fingertips: "Why are you crying again? I didn't bully you, don't cry."
Her voice was muffled: "When did you know?"
Yuan Shenji was stunned for a moment, then reacted: "I knew it the first time I saw you, why did you deliberately hide it from me?"
Duan Zhiwei looked up at him: "I don't want to be considered a fox spirit."
Yuan Shenji laughed: "That was something Wang Qian made up for his Bianwen. I never thought you were a fox spirit, except..."
"Except what?"
"Except for stealing my heart."
Although the love words spoken by this rough military officer were heart-warming but also somewhat uncomfortable, Duan Zhiwei was about to say something when he heard a huge sound of firecrackers.
Fireworks began to be set off in the West Market. Looking down from the air, the Lantern Festival flower market was like a winding golden dragon. Lanterns of various colors and shapes fell to the earth like stars, forming a brilliant sea of lights on the side.
The east wind blows thousands of flowers into bloom at night, and countless fireworks explode in the sky, like millions of flowers blooming, like shooting stars whistling through the dark sky, and like colorful star fish floating down.
Duan Zhiwei and Yuan Shenji sat in mid-air and watched the beautiful scenery.
Yuan Shenji looked up at the moon and remembered something. He took out the pearl hairpin from his arms. There was a huge pearl on the hairpin that was as big and full as the moon. Duan Zhiwei took it and turned it gently. The halo of the pearl began to flow.
She smiled and said, "Put it on for me."
Yuan Shenji's tall body approached, enveloping her in a shadow, and then gently pinned the hairpin on her head: "Don't take it to the pawnshop and sell it just to expand your restaurant, you money-grubber."
"I won't!" Duan Zhiwei raised her hand and stroked the hairpin twice: "If there was someone else who saved you outside Liangzhou City, would you fall in love with someone else?"
Yuan Shenji was helpless: "What if the one who saved me was an old man, would I still give myself to him?"
It was rare for Captain Yuan to be so humorous. Seeing Duan Zhi smiling happily, he said, "If it was someone else who saved me, I would give away all my wealth to repay the favor of saving my life, and then wait for Madam Duan's help."
Duan Zhiwei was a little touched, and then she thought of something: "I was the one who saved you, so it doesn't stop you from giving me some of your wealth." She spread her hands.
The latter stretched out his big hand and held hers: "From now on, Yuan's salary, the rewards from the palace, and myself, will all be yours."
Yuan Shi of Runan was a man of integrity. He lost his mother at a young age and joined the army at a young age to protect the people in the border areas and fight against the arrogant Turks. After going through all the hardships of the north, he had 107 knife wounds on his body. I guess God took pity on his misery.
Finally, tonight, all the fireworks of the prosperous world and all the joy of the world are given to him.
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