the truth
"Yes! I am a ghost, a ghost that crawled up from the underworld to claim your life." Tan Linshuang followed Zhang Kaigui's words and said in a deep voice.
The candlelight flickered, and his shadow twisted from the ground to the wall. As he approached, it gradually enlarged in front of Zhang Kaigui's eyes, finally enveloping him.
“Uh…uh…”
Zhang Kaigui was so frightened that he couldn't scream, and could only make unclear sounds from his throat.
Soon, Tan Linshuang's figure completely covered him, blocking all his light.
This overly handsome and gloomy face really looks like a ghost that is coming to take his life and send him to hell to be punished.
However, when he met Tan Linshuang's familiar eyes, he was startled and blurted out, "Young... Young Master?"
Tan Linshuang did not respond, but just leaned over and stared at him straight, her eyes were hot and cold, like the feeling of a knife being roasted on fire and then piercing the skin.
Zhang Kaigui opened his mouth, but could no longer utter a single word, and even a ringing sound came out of his throat.
The room suddenly became so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
The house without a fire was particularly cold at this moment.
Especially after the extreme fear, Zhang Kaigui felt the floor beneath him was cold and hard, but it was still not as cold as the look in Tan Linshuang's eyes as she looked directly at him, which was like falling into an icy cave.
In a trance, he felt that he was being tortured by Tan Linshuang's eyes.
He finally couldn't bear it anymore, and immediately turned over and got up, then knelt on both knees and kowtowed to Tan Linshuang, "I deserve to die... I deserve to die..."
Tan Linshuang straightened up, lowered her eyes and looked at him, her face as cold as ice.
Boom boom boom——
The only sound around was the sound of kowtows.
Only when Zhang Kaigui's head was broken and bleeding did he slowly stop, lying on the ground with his head lowered, saying: "I shouldn't have been so obsessed as to harm the master and the mistress, and... and the baby in the mistress's belly..."
"What did you say?"
Hearing the latter part, Tan Linshuang was stunned and stared. She grabbed his collar and pulled him up. "My mother...was she pregnant at the time?"
“Yes, yes, yes…”
Zhang Kaigui nodded vigorously, "It's because my wife is pregnant, that's why... that's why..."
He really couldn't bring himself to speak.
Just thinking about that little-known secret made him feel terrified and nauseous.
Tan Linshuang narrowed his eyes, "How many people know that Tan Mozhu has a 'pregnancy fetish'?"
Zhang Kaigui was stunned, then shook his head hesitantly. "Not much, I guessed it. I once saw... saw the Second Master talking to... to the Madam..."
"What did you do to her?" Tan Linshuang clenched her fingers, making it difficult for Zhang Kaigui to breathe.
He didn't dare beg him to let go, so he could only open his mouth wide, breathing hard, and whispering, "Once I went to the South Residence to deliver a message, and I saw the Madam running out of the bamboo forest crying, followed by... the Second Master. His... hair was messy, and there were scratches and slap marks on his face. The Madam's dress was also a little wrinkled and stained with bamboo leaves. I immediately guessed something, but I didn't dare to think about it."
"Not long after... the Second Master ordered me... ordered me..."
By the end of his speech, his voice was as soft as a mosquito's, as if he had used up all his strength.
Regret and fear suddenly flooded my heart, but it was too late.
Tan Linshuang took a deep breath, suppressed the urge to twist his neck, and asked hoarsely, "Does my grandmother know what you did?"
Zhang Kaigui shook his head. "I don't know if the old lady knows. After that day, I left here under the Second Master's arrangement without even telling my family."
"Then does grandma know that my mother is pregnant?" Tan Linshuang asked again.
Zhang Kaigui guessed, "They probably didn't know. Madam wasn't pregnant yet. Perhaps to be on the safe side, Master didn't announce it yet."
"Then how do you know?" Tan Linshuang frowned.
Zhang Kaigui lowered his eyelids and said in a trembling voice, "When the carriage fell off the cliff, the master begged me to rescue his wife, saying that she had just become pregnant. But by then... it was too late..."
Tan Linshuang closed her eyes, and the veins on her hand that was clutching his lapel were exposed.
After a long time, he opened his eyes again, suddenly let go, turned and left.
Zhang Kaigui suddenly fell to the ground, his inner clothes soaked with cold sweat.
"Keep an eye on him, don't let him die!"
After saying this to A Ri, Tan Linshuang left Gujing Lane.
Ayun and Ari exchanged a glance and hurriedly followed, "Master, are you going back home now?"
"Go to Huadengfang." Tan Linshuang didn't even think about it.
After getting on the carriage, he leaned against the wall, and some forgotten memories of his childhood gradually emerged before his eyes...
The day Zhang Kaigui appeared at the South Residence, he was actually there too. There was no shortage of bamboo forests in the Tan Mansion, but the bamboo forest at the South Residence was the best growing, making it very suitable for cooling off in hot weather.
As usual, when he was playing hide-and-seek with Ayun and Atao, he deliberately hid in the bamboo forest of the south residence and happened to hear his mother's crying and pleading. When he looked in the direction of the sound, he did not see his mother, but only saw someone who looked like Tan Mozhu leaving in a hurry.
That night, he also heard his parents arguing. It seemed that his father was saying that this matter must be told to his grandmother, while his mother was trying to dissuade him.
He was completely confused at the time. As a child, he did not delve into the matter, nor did he connect it with the scene he had witnessed at the South Residence.
Two days later, something happened to my parents.
"Now that I think about it, my father must have taken my mother to complain to my grandmother, asking her to come back early to deal with Tan Mozhu... He was so stupid..."
"Even if she hadn't been killed by Tan Mozhu, my grandmother would have just kept quiet. She might even turn around and blame my mother for being a beauty who brought disaster upon herself."
"Oh!"
Tan Linshuang suddenly sneered, "No wonder I hate that bamboo forest in the south residence so much."
"No wonder I can never get close to my grandmother."
When the truth came to light, he suddenly understood.
All kinds of results are caused by causes.
He clenched his fists, filled with hatred.
Even as the carriage drove into the bustling Huadengfang and the windows were illuminated by colorful lights, it still couldn't heal his gaping wounds.
"Tan Mozhu, blood debt must be paid with blood!"
He punched the wall of the car, causing it to shake and blurring the light and shadows on the windows.
At this moment, Tan Mozhu's vision was also blurred.
He didn't even know where he was. He just felt dizzy and weak all over.
Where am I?
He rubbed his eyes and turned his head to glance to the side, and two nearly naked women immediately caught his eye.
One of them was lying down, the other was lying on his stomach, neither of them was on the bed, and he was also lying on the ground, with scattered clothes under him and a mess all around him.
He covered his forehead and finally remembered what happened last night.
After accidentally making Xu Qiaolian bleed, he felt disappointed and hurriedly dressed and left. However, the evil fire in his body not only did not subside, but became even worse. So he turned around and went straight to Caiyun Tower and found two familiar prostitutes to accompany him.
Because he was upset, he drank a lot of wine, and you can't imagine what happened after he got drunk.
Now that the evil fire has dissipated, he is completely exhausted.
"Is Tan Lang awake?"
Hearing his movements, the prostitute lying next to him opened one eye, gave him a coquettish smile, and complained: "You were so bad last night, tossing me over and over, and even calling my name wrong."
"oh?"
Tan Mozhu slowly sat up, found his underwear from the pile of clothes that couldn't be distinguished between men's and women's, and asked casually, "Who did I call you?"
"Yan'er."
The delicate voice made Tan Mozhu's back stiffen and he could no longer move. He felt as if he was entangled by a poisonous snake. A chill spread from his toes and spread throughout his body.
His heartbeat was so fast and irregular, "boom, boom, boom", as if it was about to break through the skin.
"Who is Yan'er? Your new lover?" The delicate voice sounded again, with a hint of reproach.
Snap——
Her response was a loud slap in the face.
"Second Master..."
The prostitute covered her left cheek and looked at Tan Mozhu in horror and astonishment, tears welling up in her eyes.
Another prostitute was startled awake and turned around to see Tan Mozhu glaring at her. She was so scared that she dared not say a word and quickly lay down again, closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep.
Tan Mozhu glanced at her, shook his right hand that was hurt, then suddenly leaned forward, grabbed the prostitute's hair, and pulled her in front of him. He glared at her fiercely and warned her word by word: "Don't mention those two words again! Otherwise..."
He increased the strength of his hands, causing her scalp to hurt, and his words made her tremble with fear.
Noticing that she was trembling all over, Tan Mozhu loosened his grip a little, then leaned over to whisper in her ear, but each word was sharp as a blade, "Sell her to Yunlian and make her a slave wife to those southern barbarians."
After saying that, he loosened the prostitute's bun, stood up suddenly and continued to dress.
The atmosphere in the room suddenly became cold. The prostitute collapsed on the ground, not daring to breathe. It was not until Tan Mozhu slammed the door and left that she felt as if she had escaped from the gates of hell and was reborn...
"call……"
As the cold wind blew on the street, Tan Mozhu took a deep breath and his mind gradually became clear.
He slowly walked back to the Tan Mansion, and before he knew it, a face from many years ago appeared before his eyes.
Elegant, fair and beautiful.
Such a beautiful face, but in the end she cried her heart out in front of him.
In an instant, the beauty disappeared, leaving only endless pain, the pain of not being able to get it.
Why? He never gets what he really wants, but that father and son can easily get what he wants most.
Since he can't even have children, can't you give the woman to him?
Suddenly, the tearful face turned into a smiling face, like a crabapple in spring, full of vitality and making people want to kiss its fragrance.
"This time, I must be more careful than last time!"
A familiar thought suddenly popped up in his mind. He clenched his fists, his eyes sharp, determined to succeed.
Once the remaining plum powder fades, apply new red makeup on the crabapple.
Taking advantage of the sunny and warm weather, Zhao Mingyan and Xiaozhu went to the Chastity Hall, and then followed the river, sitting in a carriage and enjoying the scenery along the way.
"Hiccup!"
Zhao Mingyan, who had eaten too much snacks, burped. Xiaozhu quickly took the food box in front of her and said, "Miss, you've been sitting for too long. Let's get off the bus and walk for a while."
Zhao Mingyan smoothed his chest and nodded in agreement.
"Miss, do you think that the sack-carrying lunatic is the enemy of our Zhao family?" Xiaozhu took the initiative to talk about the rumors about the "sack-carrying lunatic."
Not long ago, a thug appeared in Zhaohua Town who specialized in beating people with a sack over their heads. All the victims were men with the surname Zhao, or to be more precise, Zhao Mingyan's cousins. This made people suspect that the other party was deliberately targeting the Zhao family.
Li Yuzhu was terrified when she heard about this, and quickly asked someone to tell Zhao Guangyao to go out less recently, or to go out with servants, and never go out alone, because those people were put over their heads with sacks and dragged into corners to be beaten when they went out alone.
The government is currently investigating the matter, but there is no result yet. It is also suspected that it was done by the Zhao family's enemies.
But Zhao Mingyan just smiled and said, "If they were enemies, why did they single out my cousins? And why did they just beat them up and leave it at that?"
Xiaozhu blinked, "If it's not an enemy, then who else could it be?"
"They will eventually perish as a result of their own evil deeds... huh?"
Before Zhao Mingyan finished speaking, he suddenly looked at the river bank not far away, and then ran away wildly.
"Miss?"
Seeing that she hadn't let go, Xiaozhu hurriedly followed, "Miss, slow down!"
Zhao Mingyan ignored her and just waved her hands and shouted, "Madam, don't do anything stupid!"
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