Chapter 451: Deep Mansion (Thirty-nine)
The young man shrugged indifferently, then put away his contemptuous smile and said in a calm voice: "Pan Quan, you are originally a scholar from Panjia Village, your family is poor and you have nothing.
However, your parents love you very much. Since you were young, they chose a beautiful girl to raise you by their side and make her your child bride.
You and this woman named Pan Tingting grew up together and have a special relationship.
When you were young, you met a Taoist priest by chance. In return for a bowl of rice and a glass of water, he gave you a piece of parchment and a bamboo slip.
There were no words on it, and you just thought the old Taoist was a lunatic and didn't take it seriously.
But parchment and bamboo slips are expensive, so you didn't throw them away.
Time flies, and you've reached your twenties. Your entire family hopes you'll succeed in the imperial examinations, but how difficult is it to make the leap from one class to another? Your family has spent all their money, barely enough to send you to school. Books are expensive, and even copying requires a considerable expense for brushes, ink, paper, and inkstone.
Under such difficult conditions, it would be a struggle for you to pass the examination and become a student, let alone a scholar, a juren or even a jinshi?
But the Pan family really cannot afford such repeated exams.
So your adopted child bride... oh, Aunt Pan Tingting suggested you stop studying and focus on farming. But after holding a pen for over a decade, suddenly having to wield a hoe, you couldn't accept the outcome, so you had a huge argument.
As soon as the words fell, almost everyone looked at the female ghost whose face was covered by the red veil, but she did not move at all, as if everything around her had nothing to do with her. Everyone had to turn their attention to the young man who was telling the story.
“You think Pan Tingting looks down on you, and you are a woman who can’t endure hardship.
Although Pan Tingting was your child bride, she was beautiful and filial, and you were always satisfied with her. It was because you liked her that you were sad and upset. Until the exam, your relationship had not been repaired.
You desperately want to make a name for yourself after this exam, but despite your talent, you still failed this time.
Lost in confusion and too embarrassed to go home, you set off on a mountain road in a daze, encountering Ding Quan, who had been brutally murdered by bandits.
Yu Huo turned his head to look at the male ghost lying unaware by the well, and curled his lips: "Speaking of Ding Quan, everyone in the town knows that he is a scholar who married into the Liu Mansion. They say that scholars are the most unfaithful, but Ding Quan is not that kind of person. He has been caring for Liu Ruyin since he married into the family. Even after he passed the imperial examination, he and his wife still lived in harmony.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. On his way out, he was targeted by robbers and died in the mountains.
You were truly horrified when you saw Ding Quan's body. Perhaps because you were so frightened, your bookcase fell, spilling the parchment you had always kept with you.
You picked it up in a panic, and unexpectedly discovered that lines of bloody handwriting had appeared on the parchment at some point.
It says: Forbidden Technique - Face Changing Technique."
As he spoke, Yu Huo took out the parchment that Sadako had given him and slowly unfolded it.
Those lines of bloody words were so shocking that people subconsciously dared not reach out to touch them.
The young man held the parchment with a normal expression, even stroking it with his hand, and continued to speak in a voice without any fluctuations.
“Literally, as long as you change your face, you can become the original owner of the face.
The snow has not melted yet, and you look at the silk and satin clothes on Ding Quan, feeling your heart burning.
You don’t need to study hard to become a juren, you just need to change your face and you can get it!
Thinking this, you did the same.
Then, you become Ding Quan."
The male ghost in a bright red wedding gown glared at him sinisterly and sneered, "Where's the evidence?"
The other party refused to admit it, and Yu Huo just clicked his tongue and said, "The evidence is that you haven't set foot in Liu Ruyin's courtyard in the past three years, and you haven't played the piano in the past three years."
The dungeon boss stopped quibbling and continued, "After entering the Liu residence, you took possession of everything Ding Quan had, except his wife.
I have to say, Pan Quan, although you have no moral bottom line, you have the potential to be in love. In the past three years, you have never touched Liu Ruyin.
And as time goes by, you miss your parents and Pan Tingting more and more.
Finally, you can't bear it anymore and want to sneak back home to take a look.
After this trip, you were shocked to discover that your parents had been crushed to death by a roof beam that collapsed under heavy snow when you were preparing for the imperial examination. And Pan Tingting...was now living in even greater poverty.
Your Pan family's land has been occupied by relatives. They took advantage of the fact that your parents were not around and used various excuses such as not officially marrying Pan Tingting and not having any children to steal all your valuables.
You also caught them getting even more greedy, wanting to occupy the remaining residential land and even wanting to sell Pan Tingting.
You were furious, and you took people to beat up those distant relatives of the Pan family who were causing trouble, and dragged Pan Tingting back to the Liu residence.
When you see her again, you start thinking about rekindling your relationship with her.
But the process was not smooth. Although Pan Tingting thanked you, she did not want to go back with you. She looked fierce, but she also had the stubborn thinking of women of this era. Not to mention that she was your child bride, even if you had been together for more than ten years, she would not marry into the Liu family.
Faced with her alienation and resistance, you want to confess your identity, but you can't say it, because once the forbidden technique is implemented, you will completely become the master of that face, and you cannot tell another person to know, otherwise everything will be like a mirage, a castle in the air, and even you will end up with your soul torn apart.
Of course, you are even more reluctant to give up this Liu Mansion and the status and fame that your status as a juren brings you.
During this period, Pan Tingting cried and made a fuss, but you still detained her in Liu's house.
You tried every possible way to please her, but were rejected every time. You were surrounded by guilt, reluctance and sadness. This cycle repeats over and over again, and you go to Xiyuan again and again with hope in your heart.
In order to be able to welcome Pan Tingting into your family legitimately, you bribed the housekeeper to set up a trap and let Liu Ruyin be molested by a gangster on the street.
From then on, Liu Ruyin no longer wore bright clothes, and dressed herself up old-fashionedly every day. Moreover, she was humble and flattering when facing you, and she didn't even have the face to ask you to kick Pan Tingting out.
Originally, everything would develop according to your plan, but unfortunately, you forgot about the bamboo slips on Pan Tingting's body.
Forbidden spells require the lives of blood relatives to unlock. The deaths of the old couple in the Pan family provided the conditions for unlocking these two forbidden spells, so words appeared on your parchment, and the same was true for Pan Tingting's.
As he spoke, Yu Huo took out a bamboo slip and chuckled, "Yin Yang Conversion Formation."
"Pan Quan, you've underestimated your child bride's love for you. You could hold back before, but now that she's in the Liu residence, a prime location, how can she not be tempted?
Besides, she has an extreme and aggressive personality, and your forced marriage became the last straw that broke Pan Tingting's moral character.
In order to resurrect you, she is ready to sacrifice five lives: Liu Ruyin, the housekeeper, you, Liu Ruyin's maid, and Tian Guihua who is beside her. They gather gold, wood, water, fire and earth to perform the forbidden technique of resurrection. But by mistake, you are Pan Quan, not Ding Quan, so this forbidden technique is doomed to fail.
The result is that you are killed by Pan Tingting. You are puzzled and unwilling, but you still love her and want to marry her. You are trapped by your obsession, confused and muddled, until you turn into a ghost and condense this ghostland.
At this point, the Liu Residence was opened and became a copy - the Deep Mansion Courtyard.
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