Chapter 24: Escape from Death
At 2:15 am, Yunsong and other people who were responsible for purchasing went out.
Several people were holding lanterns in their hands as they passed by a long river. The lights illuminated the river, which was glowing with a faint green light.
But there was a slight fishy smell coming from above.
One of them couldn't help but mutter, "What bad luck! We can't avoid this river when we go shopping this time."
Yunsong was shocked, and a layer of coldness covered his back, so dense that it felt like millions of ants were gnawing at him.
His heart sank little by little, and he couldn't help asking the people he was traveling with, "What's wrong with this road?"
The people traveling with him were startled and looked at him in surprise. "Don't you know? This river is very strange."
"This river drowns several people passing through it every year. Gradually, people think it's unlucky and don't go there anymore. But we're unlucky not only to pass by it today, but also right now at the hour of Yin."
The yin energy is strong at night, and it is also the time when people's yang energy is weak.
People with weak horoscopes and bodies are often prone to seeing things that others cannot see.
Someone whispered in Yunsong's ear, "I heard that this is because there are water ghosts in this river."
"Those who died were all captured by the water ghost as substitutes."
"We have to be careful and watch our step."
Yunsong's heart was pounding, his back was wet with cold sweat, the sound of nails scraping through wooden boards flashed intermittently in his ears, and the string of beads on his hand began to feel slightly hot.
The closer we get to the river, the more distinct the feeling of its scalding heat becomes.
It was such a cold day, the chill was so intense that everyone else was pulling their hands back due to the cold, but Yunsong felt as if his wrists were about to be burned through.
Yunsong swallowed his saliva, the cold wind brushing across his face. His face was tense, and he looked rather timid. "Don't scare yourself in the middle of the night. If there really is a ghost, it won't come to us!"
After all, as the saying goes, if you don't do anything wrong, you don't have to worry about ghosts knocking on your door.
He hasn't done anything bad, so how could he be haunted by a ghost!
Yunsong held his breath and continued walking forward with the lantern in hand.
But at this moment, he was suddenly tripped by something and fell forward uncontrollably.
Fortunately, there was a thick pile of grass in front of him, which blocked his way. He threw his whole body on the grass and almost fell into the river.
Suddenly, something tightly gripped his foot, and he felt an icy cold touch. Yunsong's scalp went numb, and he was about to shout for help, but the strange coldness disappeared.
As if it never existed.
The bracelet on his hand was so hot that it almost burned through his wrist.
Yunsong stared blankly at the pile of grass beneath him. Two people who were traveling with him helped him up, one on each side, and glanced at the river with strange expressions.
"What happened? Why did you fall down right after I finished speaking?"
"I see there are no branches or rocks blocking the way ahead. I just said there's something wrong with the river, and this guy fell down. Let's go! This is too weird!"
Everyone who was traveling with them took a deep breath.
Yunsong's scalp tingled. He didn't dare turn around, and could only glance at the river water, which was shimmering with a cold green light, from the corner of his eye. "Just now... just now I noticed something cold touching my foot..."
As soon as these words were spoken, there was a burst of gasps and hurried footsteps.
"You damn bastards, wait for me!"
After the previous incidents, no one dared to stay any longer. They endured the discomfort of tingling scalps, quickened their pace, and quickly left this place of trouble.
Yunsong turned his head quietly and was almost frightened to death by the scene before him.
He saw a thing emitting green light all over. It rubbed its wrist with an extremely angry look and stared in their direction with a resentful and unwilling look.
But when he looked again, the thing seemed to have sunk to the bottom of the water, as if everything just now was just his illusion.
Yunsong's heart trembled, and he dared not stay any longer.
How could he know that at this moment, the deathly look on his face completely disappeared, and his original short-lived appearance also changed.
Yunsong found an opportunity the next day and asked someone to call Ruihong to the front yard.
Taking advantage of the fact that no one was around, he took out the bracelet and pointed at one of the beads that had become dull.
"Thanks to it, otherwise I might not have come back last night!"
As Yunsong spoke, he lowered his voice and told Ruihong everything that happened to him by the river last night, word for word.
When Ruihong heard this, her eyebrows jumped violently and her expression became extremely strange.
Yunsong frowned. He had escaped death, but why did his sister have such an expression? "What's wrong with you?"
"But what happened over there in the backyard?"
Ruihong's face was extremely strange. She looked around and saw that no one was around. Then she lowered her voice so that only she and Yunsong could hear it and said, "The young master made a fuss all night last night and forced me to burn the things his mother made."
"If I say no, you'll have me burned."
"But guess what? This morning, I saw a big black spot under the young master's eye. When I asked him, I found out that he had a nightmare last night."
"He said that in his dream, there were many children whose faces he couldn't see clearly chasing him."
"There was also a little girl covered in blood, she grabbed his neck and asked him why he didn't treat his mother well after he stole her."
As Ruihong spoke, she felt goosebumps all over her body.
Yunsong broke out in a cold sweat after hearing this. He couldn't help but say, "I heard you say before that this young master often sees dirty things that others can't see, and he used to be sick frequently."
"Somehow, he gradually recovered, and I never heard of him touching those unclean things again."
"Now...now I think it's not that he grew up and got better, but that the things his mother made worked?"
Otherwise, why would Song Xiao start having such a nightmare right after Su Tan took the things he made from Song Xiao's yard?
Ruihong pushed his arm and said, "I don't know. Don't tell anyone else about this."
"You know that master never recognized his own mother and only thought about the one in Tingfeng Hall."
Yunsong's face showed disdain. People outside said that the young master was a beast worse than pigs and dogs, and he thought so too. "He doesn't even recognize his own mother, so you don't have to pay too much attention to him. Just be lazy when you can."
Ruihong used to be concerned about it, but she was chilled by Song Xiao's attack yesterday and the words "burn you". Now she feels that her brother's words make sense.
You can never tame an ungrateful person.
Old Madam Song and Liu Qingyin doted on Song Xiao to the utmost. Ruihong used to be afraid that the child would learn bad things, so she would give him some advice. But now that she has made up her mind, she is too lazy to say anything more.
"He doesn't want his mother now. Let's wait until the girl from Tingfeng Hall marries the general and see if there's still a place for him in the mansion."
"To put it another way, this morning I saw that beggar clinging to the general again and taking her out of the palace."
But she didn't hear where they were going.
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