Chapter 87 Kaifeng Weird Things
Before the carriage reached the gate of the Yi family mansion, the tablet that was quietly held in the arms of Old Madam Yi began to tremble, as if to convey some information to the outside. Yaya, who was sleeping inside, frowned uneasily, but could not wake up because of the suppression of ghosts during the day.
She is still too weak.
Madam Yi, who was holding the tablet, was the first to notice its trembling. She immediately called out to Mr. Yi, who was pacing outside the door: "Bo Yuan, come quickly! Ya Ya!"
They all thought that Yaya wanted something, so she used the shaking of the tablet to tell them. However, when the two old people came to the tablet and stared at it without blinking, calling out their granddaughter's nickname from time to time, the tablet stopped shaking.
Just when the two elders were thinking hard about whether this was what their granddaughter wanted, someone from the gatehouse came and said that the young master had returned.
After saying this, the servant who came to deliver the message hesitated for a long time before saying the rest of the words.
"The one who came back with the young master... was not the lady."
Madam Yi then responded as if struck by lightning: "Bo Yuan!"
Mr. Yi's expression was as ugly as hers. He held his wife's wrist and whispered, "Madam, Yaya is probably reminding us."
Reminder of what?
That murderous woman is here!
Madam Yi's face turned pale, and her wrist, which was held by her husband, trembled non-stop. She was half angry and half sad: "Not only that, not only that..."
Only now did she realize something that had been overlooked.
How could Yaya come here alone? In the past, she would only get on the carriage if Hengniang brought her here. Even when Ke'er said she wanted to carry her on a horse, she refused. She just couldn't remember her mother.
What about this time?
This time will certainly be the same as before.
But what about Heng Niang? !
Where did Heng Niang go?
Thinking of Yaya, Mrs. Yi almost couldn't catch her breath.
If it was really that woman who killed Yaya, then Heng Niang would be dead!
The couple looked at each other and saw the anger and fear in each other's eyes. If they knew that Ke'er would arrive today, they should have asked the fairy to stay last night. At the very least... at the very least, they should have asked the fairy to give them a magic weapon to protect them...
Now that the person has entered the house, it is too late for them to regret. The most urgent thing is to hide Yaya's body and the tablet and never let that woman find them!
Mr. Yi called his loyal servants and ordered them to do it immediately and quietly, and make sure Miss Sun was properly hidden.
Afterwards, he and Madam Yi tidied their appearances and looked at each other for a moment. After making sure that there was no trace of flaws on their faces, the two elders walked to the front hall hand in hand as if they were going to die.
When they arrived at the front hall, although the two elders were prepared, after seeing their son greeting them, the sudden grief almost broke their decades of patience.
Their son...is this still their son?
It looks flawless, but in fact, it is flawed everywhere! This is the child they have raised for more than 30 years, how could they not recognize and distinguish it!
Even if the person in front of them is their real child, I'm afraid... he won't be able to escape the clutches of this woman!
Mr. Yi's eyes were slightly red, and he and his wife turned their heads away, pretending to be angry at his son for taking a concubine and bringing the concubine home, and refused to look at them again.
"Go back to your yard! You unfilial son, Master Li has cultivated you with great care, but you treat Heng Niang like this! During the Mid-Autumn Festival, you didn't bring your wife and daughter back home to reunite with your elders, but actually, actually..."
He supported his wife, who seemed to be so angry that she had a headache, and turned her back. He swung his sleeves and scolded: "You can lose face, but your mother and I can't! We will go to Lord Li to apologize in a while, and you and this...you stay in your own yard and are not allowed to come out! Do you hear me!"
Yi Ke never dared to go against his parents' wishes, so he had to agree meekly and returned to his own courtyard with his fragile concubine.
The servants standing guard outside the front hall hung their heads, not daring to speak in private. As soon as the young master and the concubine left, the old master and the old mistress' angry curses and the sound of cups being smashed could be heard from the front hall.
Although the master and the old lady were tolerant of the servants, no one dared to step forward and offend them at this moment. Didn't you see the butler shrink his neck and retreat?
About half a cup of tea later, the old man and the old lady came out one after another, both looking unhappy.
The official who had returned hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Master, Madam, the carriage is ready."
The two elders got on the carriage and headed straight for Li Tongpan's official residence.
The joy when the eldest son married the only daughter of the magistrate was still vivid in his mind, but now, only a few years have passed, and the vow of lifelong marriage made in front of his parents and guests has been broken so easily.
Mr. Yi and Mrs. Yi were ashamed and embarrassed to open their teeth, but they could not just pretend to be deaf and dumb. They could only sacrifice their old face and apologize to their in-laws.
In the backyard, Zhi Ji was lying on a noble concubine couch made of lychee wood, with one hand supporting her head and the other hand on her knee. Yi Ke was kneeling in front of the couch, trimming her nails.
This imperial concubine couch made of lychee wood was not exquisite enough, but Yi Ke spent several months asking a carpenter for advice and made it for his wife himself.
But now, its only owner is no longer in this world, and the murderer who killed it has occupied it openly and described it as "inferior goods".
“Cluck, cluck…”
The baby ghost, which only Zhiji could see, crawled towards her on all fours, hiding from the sunlight, and reported everything it saw to its "master" with high and low cries.
After hearing this, Zhi Ji sneered: "You old fool, you still dare to look down on me... I will eat you first!"
Upon hearing that the first person to be eaten was a good person with merit, the baby ghost shrank back for a moment, but was soon dominated by his insatiable greed. His smelly saliva dripped onto the floor, corroding several holes in it.
Evil spirits will not touch good people with great merits. Eating such people will increase their sins, and eventually their merits will backfire on them, causing them to be torn into pieces and their souls to scatter.
But evil spirits are different. All they think about is eating, eating, and eating.
Unless they are the sons of destiny favored by Heaven, the destiny recognized by Heaven can kill them.
Except for the Son of Fortune, everyone else can be food. It doesn't matter if they are backfired by virtue. The energy emitted by the fragments can heal them, as long as they come back in time before being completely shattered by virtue.
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As soon as Mr. Yi and Madam Yi got off the carriage, they entered the mansion without stopping. Li Tongpan took off his official robe, but before he even walked into the front hall, he saw the two relatives-in-law walking in a hurry.
Li Tongpan was shocked: "Oh, Brother Yi, brother and sister-in-law, what are you doing..."
He was about to ask why he was so anxious, but Yi Yuanwai grabbed his hand and said in a very low voice, which seemed to indicate that a storm was about to come: "Shuhe, there is a ghost!"
The words "there are ghosts" instantly brought Li Tongpan's thoughts back to the morning not long ago when those women and children told him in no uncertain terms that there were ghosts and immortals in the world.
He still remembered the name of the immortal they had told him - Kakabai De.
As soon as the conversation started, Mr. Yi told Li Tongpan everything in rapid succession.
He had thought about speaking slowly on the way, but the closer he got to the Tongpan's residence, the more panicked he became, as if something terrible was about to happen.
So when he got off the car, he looked at his wife and changed his mind.
Upon hearing the bad news, Li Tongpan's eyes rolled back and he was about to faint. Yi Yuanwai and the official who always followed their master supported him in time from both sides.
But after all, his foundation in his youth was too good, and even when he was old, he did not forget to practice a set of Five Animal Exercises every day. Li Tongpan felt dizzy for a while, and was awakened by Yi Yuanwai who pinched his Ren Zhong point.
The three old men all had red eyes and tears were streaming down their cheeks.
Just when the three were about to burst into tears, the gateman of Li's mansion came and said that two knights had come to the gate of the mansion. One of them was Guard Zhan from Kaifeng Prefecture, and he had a token as proof.
Li Tongpan's eyes lit up, his hands trembled, and his voice was filled with obvious sadness: "Please come in quickly!"
These bad things seem to happen in clusters.
Before Li Tongpan could fully recover from the tragic news that his granddaughter was dead and his only daughter's life or death was unknown, Zhan Zhao, whom he regarded as his savior and slayer, dealt him a fatal blow.
His daughter was dead. It was his dead daughter who brought Zhan Zhao and Bai Yuting here from the mountains hundreds of miles away overnight. The person who killed his daughter was the concubine suspected by Mr. Yi and Mrs. Yi.
Not only that, his daughter also asked the two knights to tell him that the woman was not Yi Ke's concubine at all. She was a witch who came from nowhere and had the ability to drive away ghosts. From the moment she entered the gate of Fengyang County, she had set her sights on Yi Ke, the county magistrate.
The evil woman used countless tricks, but seeing that her beauty trap could not lure Yi Ke into falling for her, she came up with a plan of self-torture and sold herself to save her father.
That day, Yi Ke accompanied his wife and daughter to go out for a trip. When he passed by, he saw that she looked pitiful, but because she was just out for sightseeing and had no money with her, he asked the servant who accompanied them to take her back home to get some silver so that she could treat her father.
Who knew that with this one trip, the entire Fengyang County would fall into her hands!
After Yi Ke and his family of three returned home, they were forcibly separated by ghosts before they could react.
Li Hengniang watched helplessly as a fist-sized ghost drilled into her husband's body. After a painful struggle, when Yi Ke opened her eyes again, he was no longer her husband.
And the subsequent letters were all written by Yi Ke after she was possessed by the ghost. The letters written by Li Hengniang to persuade Mr. Yi and Mrs. Yi were actually to save her husband's life. That evil woman was not a patient person at all.
The three of them were imprisoned in the mansion, not allowed to go in or out, and could only vaguely hear screams coming from outside.
Li Heng's mother held her young and ignorant daughter in her arms, and while she was terrified, she tried every possible way to save herself.
But she is just an ordinary woman after all, she doesn't know martial arts, let alone escaping from this evil woman who drives ghosts and monsters?
Li Hengniang didn't know how much time had passed, but one day, the witch sent a ghost to drag her and her daughter away, and locked them in a carriage without saying anything.
The man who drove the chariot was her servant, who had followed her since she was a young woman.
Li Hengniang understood that all the people in the Manchu mansion had become puppets of this evil woman, just like her husband.
It was very quiet outside the carriage, or rather dead silent. Li Hengniang, who was shaking uncontrollably while holding her daughter, smelled a rotten smell. She was not unfamiliar with this smell, as she had seen dead bodies when she went out with her father to investigate a case.
She didn't dare to think about it anymore, let alone reach out to lift the swaying car curtain.
The carriage only stopped at night. Perhaps the witch didn't want them to die on the road, so she would give them some food at this time every day and allow them to move for a while under the surveillance of the ghosts.
On the seventh night, her daughter, curled up in her arms, whispered to her that the woman had a black pearl and the ghosts would stare at that pearl.
Li Hengniang immediately realized that the black pearl might be the magic weapon that the witch used to drive away ghosts.
She didn't know where they would be taken. Looking at her daughter who was getting thinner day by day, she suddenly felt a surge of courage in her heart - she was going to steal the pearl.
Li Hengniang kept a low profile for several days and finally got close to the witch, but the result was...
How could Zhiji, who cherishes the "Pearl" as her life, let her get it?
The visible ghosts are watching them, but what about the invisible ghosts?
Ghosts are everywhere.
In the end, Li Hengniang was bitten to death by a group of ghosts, and her daughter was slowly strangled to death by her husband's loyal servants right in front of her while she was still alive.
One of them was thrown into the wilderness, and the other was taken to a mountain lake hundreds of miles away and drowned in it. Zhiji used some tricks to make them become earth-bound spirits.
If nothing unexpected happens, the mother and daughter will never see each other again in this life.
But accidents happened everywhere. The Lord of Hell descended from the sky and picked up Yaya. Bai Yuting, who was endowed with great luck, destroyed the formation that trapped Li Hengniang, allowing her to appear. Zhan Zhao, the son of luck, dealt a fatal blow to the formation.
The mother and daughter returned to the same city and to their relatives.
This is the story of Li Hengniang and Yaya.
After her death, Li Hengniang was full of hatred. Compared with the young and ignorant Yaya, she had already stepped half a foot into the reserve army of evil spirits.
There were many evil spirits that were dozens of times more ferocious than her, and they all followed Zhiji into the city gate of Nanxiang.
Zhan Zhao guessed that Zhi Ji did not kill Yi Ke probably because Yi Ke was the key to her entering Nanxiang.
Li Hengniang also gave him evidence to support this guess.
After becoming a ghost, Li Hengniang was very afraid of officials, especially good officials who were upright and honest.
Yi Ke was also a good official. Since taking office, he had never treated the people harshly and had never made any wrongful judgments.
Therefore, before Zhi Ji controlled Yi Ke, she did nothing, and after she controlled Yi Ke, anyone who could stop her had disappeared.
In Li Hengniang's eyes, the city was shrouded in a faint golden light, and she could not enter. However, the source of this golden light was her father. Following her blood, she dived into her home through the water.
Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang didn't know the second half, as Li Hengniang didn't tell them what she wanted to do next.
Li Tongpan and Yi Yuanwai and his wife burst into tears after hearing this. Just as Bai Yuting kept winking at Zhan Zhao, indicating that he should say something to encourage them, the sound of splashing water was heard outside the study window.
——It is the sound of footsteps filled with water.
Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were about to get up to check when they heard a familiar female voice coming from outside the window: "Dad, Dad... I'm back..."
Judge Li jumped up immediately, his movements even more agile than the two young men in the room. He almost rushed to the window, his voice choked with sobs and tears streaming down his face.
"Heng Niang, is that you? My poor daughter, are you back?"
As he said this, he was about to open the window.
A hand slapped onto the window paper, and the area was immediately soaked with water.
Li Hengniang refused: "Don't look, don't look, it's ugly..."
She knew that her death would be ugly, and she didn't want to scare her father and her parents-in-law who treated her like their own daughter.
But how can parents dislike their children for having horrible faces?
Li Tongpan pushed twice but failed to move away. Then he came to his senses and understood his daughter's wish.
He cried through a window until he almost fainted.
Mr. Yi and Mrs. Yi asked her in a loud voice if she was in pain, and told her that Yaya had returned home and that an immortal had saved Yaya, so she didn't have to worry.
Hearing this, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang, who did not want to disturb their reunion, looked at each other and tacitly extracted a key word.
——Immortal.
How could such a coincidence exist in this world?
The two waited patiently.
When the three elders gradually calmed down, Li Hengniang, who was outside the window, also entered the room under her father's strong persuasion, and sat far away in the corner, with her long hair covering her face, and refused to let her hair go no matter what.
She felt hungry.
Apart from the two people in the study whom she dared not touch, she actually developed a strong appetite for her father and parents-in-law.
This made her mind even more confused. She tried her best to control herself, thinking of Yaya and recalling all the good things in her life, and only then could she barely control this strong appetite.
What if she loses control?
Then she would ask the young man in blue to kill her.
Bai Yutang looked at her for a few seconds and took back his thumb from the blade.
Zhan Zhao asked: "Mr. Yi, who is the immortal you are talking about?"
Mr. Yi's voice was hoarse. He coughed twice before saying, "It's a shame to say that I have lived for more than fifty years and I don't know the immortal's carriage or his name. It's a pity that the immortal sent Yaya back last night and then left. Otherwise..."
They even have the audacity to ask the immortals for help.
This time, the question was asked by Bai Yutang: "Is this fairy a very beautiful female fairy dressed in black?"
Mr. Yi and Mrs. Yi were shocked: "How did Mr. Bai know?"
Zhan Zhao smiled and said, "This immortal also saved me and Brother Bai."
There really is no such coincidence in the world. The immortal who saved Yaya was the woman in black who fell from the sky.
"Is this a fate?" Li Tongpan finally took his eyes off his daughter and looked at Zhan Zhao and the others. "Guard Zhan, Young Hero Bai, do you know who this immortal is? Six days ago, I resettled more than 30 abducted women and children. They also said that they were rescued by an immortal, who also left a famous saying..."
Before Li Tongpan finished speaking, Bai Yutang interrupted him and asked, "But 'Jia Jia Bai De'?"
Li Tongpan's eyes lit up, as if he had found a way out of the situation: "That's right!"
Zhan Zhao exhaled slowly, with a hint of realization in his eyes.
The three fairies are all one person.
They are all saving people...
He suddenly realized that his vigilance that day was wrong. He should have respected a fairy who saved lives, so why did he become suspicious and wary? Was it because this fairy was too majestic?
You shouldn't, you shouldn't.
“Hehe…”
Li Hengniang, who had calmed down after entering the room, suddenly made an anxious sound.
Several people looked towards her.
She stretched out a scarred hand from her sleeve and pointed to the door: "The sun is going to set... hurry... evil ghost, at night... the witch will come, daddy, hide..."
As soon as the sun sets, it is the world of evil spirits.
And Jiji...
Before the words fell to the ground, Li Hengniang suddenly jumped up from the stool, got on all fours, and let out a shrill growl towards the study door. The ghost energy that was about to condense into substance overflowed from her body and formed a circle around her that was like a shield.
"Sir, my aunt is here."
The official is reporting outside.
——Zhiji is here!
bass!
Bai Yutang raised the sword in his hand. The restless Li Hengniang looked back at him, then looked at her father who was about to come forward. She gasped twice and retreated to the corner.
Li Tongpan gritted his teeth and walked to the door, then opened it quickly.
The sky above was clearly clear half an hour ago, but now it is covered by rolling dark clouds, and it seems that a heavy rain is about to come.
No matter what Zhi Ji wants to do, she can't get around Li Tongpan, the father and mother of this city. She used Li Tongpan's son-in-law Yi Ke to knock on the door of Li's mansion. As long as Li Tongpan allows her to step through the gate, Nanxiang... will become the second Fengyang County.
"Master Li."
Zhan Zhao took a step forward and pushed Li Tongpan into the study. The sudden strong wind blew up his sky-blue clothes, overlapping with the white clothes that were also swaying next to him.
"You and the two elders should stay in the study and don't come out. Let Zhan and Brother Bai meet this..."
He glanced at Li Hengniang, who had climbed up the wall at some point. The curve of her lips was very similar to Bai Yuting's.
"An evil spirit who drives away evil spirits."
He and Bai Yuting walked out of the study, followed closely by Li Hengniang, who was full of murderous intent. The door closed, revealing the "shield" that protected the city.
Outside the mansion, Zhi Ji, holding Yi Ke's arm, stared straight at the tightly closed door. To her left and right and behind her, there were hundreds of evil spirits, each of them was extremely ferocious, terrifying and strange in shape.
They stared at the seemingly fragile but actually solid gate, roaring impatiently from their throats and abdomens. At this moment, there was only one thought left in their minds -
Eat!
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