Chapter 156
Paradise hid again on the spot.
People from that side gradually came over, a group of people, and judging from their clothes they were not ordinary people like the last wave. After waiting for a while, they perfunctorily walked around and left. At first glance, it seemed that they were here to weed and catch insects. Leyuan held her breath and waited for them to leave. She poked her head out to see that they had indeed left and were planning to leave.
Paradise quickly ran away, and after a while, footsteps were heard again.
He hid again. This time, the people outside were wearing uniform simple and straight clothes. If the previous group of people wore slightly expensive silk products, this time, these people were wearing coarse linen clothes on the surface but expensive and exquisite clothes on the inside. They did it in such an inconspicuous way, as if they did it on purpose, probably to cover up the fact that they were rich.
Leyuan blinked his eyes, and someone looked over here and murmured, "Strange, I always feel like someone is looking at me here, right?"
He did not see Paradise, but Paradise saw him, closed its eyes, and hid a little deeper.
Those people didn't notice and left. Leyuan breathed a sigh of relief and ran out quickly. Not far away, he met a girl. The girl was carrying a small basket, which seemed to be filled with vegetables. There were some wild vegetables and mushrooms in it. She was walking on the road, humming a little song, and was quite happy.
When Leyuan saw her, she had already called out, wanting her to be quiet. However, footsteps were heard again from behind, still the footsteps of that group of people. Obviously, they were not far away. When Leyuan heard it, the girl also heard it. Her face changed and turned pale. She tightly grasped the basket in her hand, looked at Leyuan and asked: "Why did you bring people back? Who did you bring?"
Leyuan said, "I didn't bring them here. They are probably here to look for me. It has nothing to do with you. Run away."
The girl made a prompt decision: "Then I'm leaving. Don't lead them to my house!"
Rakuen nodded.
The girl ran so fast that she disappeared in an instant.
The amusement park was in the same place. Before they could wait for a while, those people rushed over. When they saw the amusement park, they shouted, "Everyone! Come here quickly! It's right here! We are going to catch people right here!"
They rushed over, surrounding the park in the middle, looked at him, nodded, and one who seemed to be the leader said, "Very good."
Paradise asked: "Who are you?"
The man snorted and said, "You're still asking who I am? You were looking for someone during the day, didn't you inquire about the reputation of the Marquis's Mansion in advance?"
Leyuan looked at him and said, "So, you are the butler of the Marquis's Mansion?"
The housekeeper said, "Yes, I am. Do you have any last words? Tell them all! Once you tell me, I can report to King Yan's Palace as soon as possible. If I don't die today, it will be my fault. I don't want to suffer. I'm sorry to bother you."
As he spoke, he waved his hand and the people around him came closer, weapons in their hands, ready to stab someone to death at any time.
Paradise said, "You can't kill me."
Of course they didn't believe it.
The housekeeper laughed loudly: "How is it possible? Do you think we are three-year-old children who will be deceived by you like this? If you can fool us with just one sentence, how can we survive to this day? Oh, you underestimate us, the Marquis' Mansion. Kill!"
When he said the last word, there was no mercy at all. He shouted loudly with a serious expression, as if he was the one who was going to do the hitting. In fact, it was the servants beside him who were doing it.
Leyuan shook his head.
The housekeeper asked, "Is that your last words? I advise you to say something nice. Maybe I can plead for you with the old master and his wife. Leaving a whole body is more decent than cutting it up."
Paradise said, "What can I do with dignity?"
The housekeeper smiled and said, "Then there is no need to stay."
Le Yuan asked: "Why do you want to kill me?"
The housekeeper said, "Isn't it because you are involved with the peach blossom evildoer? This is also something we can't do. If you have nothing to do with that evildoer, we wouldn't kill you like this. What a pity. Judging from your skills, you seem to be a good person."
Paradise sighs.
At this moment, the sound of horse hooves came from far away and rushed to the nearby area. Leyuan immediately closed his eyes, climbed up a tree, and said to the people below: "If you don't want to die, close your eyes, hide quietly, and maybe you can still survive. If you don't listen, don't blame me for not reminding you if you die."
Before he finished speaking, the sound of horse hooves stopped.
Obviously, those things have arrived while we were talking.
The people below did not believe it and some were even laughing. However, before the laughter had ended, the man died and blood spurted out, hot and everywhere. A bloody smell rose from the ground, which was extremely pungent.
Leyuan closed his eyes and listened to the conversation between the man and woman. After the quarrel, the voices disappeared.
The park felt quiet. He opened his eyes and saw a corpse on the opposite side. There was no corpse here before he came up. When he closed his eyes, there were no other corpses here. However, when he opened his eyes, the corpse came up. It did not look like it came up when it was alive. Those people were not so light. If they were so light, they would not have pulled him down.
This corpse, then, is a gift from those things.
If they think it is a gift, then it is a gift; if they think it is a mockery, then it is a joke.
Leyuan climbed down from the tree and saw two people below. They closed their eyes, held their heads, and did not move at all. Their bodies were trembling. They leaned hard against the tree trunk, but even the trunk was shaking. It was unknown whether they were too strong or too weak.
There was also a sound when Paradise fell. They obviously heard it and their bodies shook violently, but they did not dare to open their eyes. Although they did not believe it before, they were timid by nature and were usually the last ones in the group. Now they smelled the blood of the dead and did not hear other people talking, so they knew that it was probably true and they dared not open their eyes.
Paradise told them, "It's all right now. You can open your eyes now."
They listened to the voice and vaguely recognized it. They opened their eyes carefully, and found that everyone around them was dead. They were horrified and sad. They wanted to cry, but they frowned and forced themselves to cry. They were afraid that crying would make Paradise unhappy, and they were also afraid that crying would make those things come back and kill them. They could only try hard to blink, but tears kept flowing.
Paradise asked them: "Why are you crying? Isn't it a good thing to be alive? Or do you want to die with them?"
The servant blinked his eyes and said with a sob, "To be honest, it's not that we want to die. It's that they died and we can't report back. We can't take them back with us. I won't say any more. If you want to go, go ahead. We can't be sure whether we can survive if we go back. These people have relatives and friends. I'm afraid that in the end they will find trouble and want to blame us two living people. There's nothing we can do. We can't find anyone else to blame."
What can we do? We are just waiting to die. From now on, it depends on whether we die today or tomorrow. How can our lives be so miserable? Ugh!
We are lucky to survive today, but if we encounter those things again, we don't know if we will be as lucky as today! Can you please save us?"
As they were talking, something fell from the tree. It was from the dead man's hand and was stained with blood. It fell to the ground very lightly without any special sound or heaviness. It fell behind Leyuan. When Leyuan didn't see it, the two people opposite him had already opened their eyes wide, seeing the thing. They opened their mouths slightly, as if they didn't know what to say.
Leyuan glanced at their expressions, wondering what made them react like that. He turned around and found a pair of earrings on the ground. He picked them up. They looked familiar. He squinted his eyes and remembered that this was clearly the thing that the stall owner had paid him 100,000 yuan to take away.
So, even though it might be a little dangerous, he still accepted it. However, this thing was not his after all, and he had no use for it. He was worried about losing it if he carried it with him all the time, so he found a pocket and a box to put it away. It shouldn't be here, which means that the identical earrings that appeared here should not be the pair he got from the stall owner before.
This should be Madam Taohua's thing.
Le Yuan looked at the two servants and asked, "Are you afraid of this too?"
The servant nodded.
Leyuan asked, "Do you know who this belongs to?"
The two servants nodded.
Leyuan asked, "Is it from Madam Taohua?"
The two servants nodded again.
Leyuan looked at the earrings in her hand and her heartbeat suddenly accelerated. She didn't know why, but she suddenly felt a fragrance coming from the earrings. The fragrance was mysterious and very charming, and it also had a bit of chili scent, like saffron and chili peppers soaked in water. Leyuan blinked and looked up. There was a cloud of smoke in the opposite direction, and in the white blur, there was a woman's back.
Still with her back to him, Le Yuan asked loudly, "Are you Lady Peach Blossom?"
The woman nodded.
Leyuan asked, "Do you have anything to ask me?"
The woman shook her head slowly.
Leyuan asked: "Why did you look for me before? Do you remember? Or, did you look for me?"
The woman continued to shake her head slowly.
Leyuan frowned and asked, "So you show up now because you need my help?"
The woman hesitated for a while, nodded, and said, "I am a wanderer, I really can't hide it, I want to go back to my hometown, but I don't remember where my hometown is, please help me."
Leyuan frowned and said, "This is difficult. If I have the chance, I will ask for you some other time."
The woman shook her head and said, "There's no need to wait until another day. These two people can lead the way. You can follow them to the Marquis's mansion to meet the Marquis and the lady. They know where I am. Even if they don't know, they have a contract in their hands. On that thing, it also says where I was born and where I came from. If they don't want to tell me, ask them for the thing and burn it for me, and I will know it naturally."
Leyuan responded, "If I see them, I'll ask them."
The woman said, "Thank you very much, my dear."
Before he finished speaking, there was no one in front of him. Le Yuan looked down again and found that the earring in his hand was clean without a trace of blood, as if it was all his illusion.
A nearby branch snapped.
Leyuan turned his head and saw that the two servants were looking at him with wide eyes as if they had seen a ghost. He moved back a little bit. The sound of the branches breaking just now was made by them not looking at the road, nor lowering their heads, but staring at people. They moved and pressed their hands on the dead branches on the ground.
Leyuan asked, “What’s wrong?”
He glanced at the earring on his hand, which had not changed. He raised his head and looked at the corpse on the tree again. The branch that the corpse was pressing on seemed to finally be unable to bear it. It fell down with a snap and landed on the ground, stirring up a heavy cloud of dust. It looked extremely hideous. The dead man's face turned over, facing the living, which was even more terrifying.
Although it was bloody, the body had been there for some time and the blood clots were not that bright in color. At first glance, it was not as shocking as when the eyes had just opened.
Leyuan looked at the corpse and didn't feel it would come back to life. He looked at the two servants and saw that they had run even further away, as if they were ready to commit suicide if they dared to get close to them.
Leyuan did not go over, but just stood there, looked at them and asked, "Why are you running?"
A servant trembled and said, "What were you talking to just now? Did you see a ghost? My mother said that people who see ghosts will definitely die, otherwise there will be no living people! If you are a ghost, do you want to kill us? If you are going to die, please don't drag us down with you! I still want to go home alive to see my mother. Wuwuwu."
Another servant chattered, "Don't think we know nothing! We saw you talking to the earring and then looking over there. We all looked, and there was nothing there! Nothing at all, you know? There was not even a shadow of a person. We were so scared that we called you several times, but you didn't hear us, even though we were shouting loudly."
Paradise said, "I am not a ghost."
The servant asked, "Why did you say before that we couldn't kill you? You are just one person, and there are so many of us! Two fists cannot beat four hands, how can you possibly win? How can you have such enough confidence that you can definitely win? Even if you win, most people would think that they have won a tragic victory or luckily.
How can someone feel like you, that you can't lose and even feel like you can survive unscathed?"
Leyuan said, "Because these people are dead now, you also saw it. I was not the one who killed them. They are dead and can't pose a threat to me. There are only you here. You are still so afraid of me. What do I have to worry about? I just knew there was danger here earlier than you. Didn't I warn you? They didn't believe it, didn't do it, and didn't listen. You can't blame me. I did tell you!"
The servants looked at each other and nodded: "You did say that, but that's not a reason for them to die! Although you didn't kill them yourself, you also caused their deaths, so you have to bear part of the responsibility."
Le Yuan laughed and said, "That's funny. You want to kill me, but you want me to be responsible? I am responsible for you, so why didn't you consider your own safety before you came to kill me? You didn't think about this matter, but you wanted me to do it. What can I think of? Even if I think about it, I can't think of your brain, right?"
He paused, then said simply and clearly: "If you hadn't killed me, you wouldn't have come here, and you wouldn't have died. Ultimately, you've reaped the fruits of your own actions, so don't blame me."
The servant blinked and thought for a moment: "It seems to make sense."
They quickly shook their heads and said, "No, no! They have done this before and have never made any mistakes. They have never died all of a sudden like today! How could it be their fault?"
Leyuan asked, "You mean, they used to kill people so casually?"
The servant shouted, "Of course not! We will not kill innocent people. We kill people who deserve to die, such as those who are sick but their relatives cannot kill them, those who are dying but still don't die, and those who violate the rules but escape. They all deserve to die! They are all asked by others to go! We are not looking for people to kill."
Le Yuan said, "Forget it. I'm not here for those dead people. Just tell me, you really want to go back, right?"
The servant replied with a tearful face: "We have to go back to report. Originally, if we killed you, we could report you missing or slipped. In short, accidental death is no problem at all. The higher-ups will make arrangements. The Marquis will not mind, and the lady has many ways to deal with it. She is not afraid of these things. However, you did not die, but these people did. They will definitely be angry.
If we don't go back, they will be even angrier, and we might die instead of being able to survive.
We don't want to die, and we don't want to die as a scapegoat. We have to go back. Besides, if we don't go back, our relatives and friends in the mansion will suffer. If they suffer because of our relationship, it will be our fault. We are all slaves born in the house. There is no other way to go. We can't go out. No matter where we go, we can't keep in touch. "
They said this and sighed.
Leyuan asked: "Can you take us to the Marquis's Mansion?"
The two servants were shocked and asked, "What do you want to do?"
Leyuan said, "Ask your Marquis and your lady for something."
The servant asked, "Could it be Madam Taohua's stuff?"
Leyuan smiled and said, “Yes.”
The servant frowned and said, "The eldest lady hates Madam Taohua deeply and will not give you anything easily. You'd better give up. If you go back with us, I'm afraid she will accuse us of treason. We will die a more miserable death."
Leyuan said, "You're all going to die anyway. What difference does it make whether you die miserably or not? After you die, you won't know anything and you won't be able to take care of anything. Do you think others will die for you?"
The servant grumbled, "Of course others cannot and will not die for us. What are you talking about!"
Leyuan said, "Since they won't die for you, no matter how you die, it will only make them sad for a while, and then it will be fine. Some people who don't have a good relationship with you will feel happy when they see you die, and they can't wait to clap their hands and cheer. How can they be sad? So whether you die tragically or not, it shouldn't matter."
The servant thought about it and nodded doubtfully: "It seems so."
They shook their heads and shouted again: "No, no! We can't believe you!"
Le Yuan asked, "Why? You clearly still remember what happened before, right? I told you that you couldn't kill me, and you really couldn't kill me. I reminded you to pay attention, and you paid attention. Isn't that why you survived? I didn't lie to you."
The servant sneered, "Just because you didn't lie to us doesn't mean you won't lie to us in the future. Maybe you've dug a bigger hole for us to fall into."
Leyuan said: "This is what you did wrong. It is not a good thing to speculate about others like this."
The servant shouted, "I don't believe you are not such a person! I won't believe you don't do this! We can't put our lives and property in the hands of others."
Leyuan said, "But if you hadn't listened to me before, you would have died a long time ago. Why did you believe me then?"
The servant groaned and said, "Isn't it because there is no other way to go? If there is a choice, who would not want to live a good life, comfortably nestling at home, not doing anything else but just lying down and daydreaming? We envy the master's life of worrying about food and clothing! We still want a good life of having everything we want, but do we have it? Not now!"
Leyuan nodded and said, "You mean, because I didn't threaten your lives, you think I'm gentle and harmless and don't want to help?"
The servant frowned. "Why do you talk so strangely? What threat? What gentle and harmless? Do you have any misunderstanding about yourself? Even if you are gentle, you are not harmless! You were scary when you appeared, and now you are even scarier. Who would think you are a harmless person after seeing you at first sight? Not even a blind person would! Even if you have no eyes, you would not!"
Leyuan picked up a knife, looked at them and asked, "Are you really not going to take me with you?"
They shuddered at the sight of the knife, and felt a chill run down their spines when Le Yuan saw them. Their stomachs started growling at this very moment, and they quickly shouted, "No, no!"
Paradise asked, “What is that?”
The servant replied, "We are willing to take you there. We will take you there. Please don't show off your weapons here. It looks scary. We are timid. We can't stand being scared. It's really scary. We are dying! Ooooooooo. Please have mercy on me, please have mercy on us. We don't want to be scared to death."
Leyuan said, "Then take me to the Marquis's house now! I want to see the Marquis and his wife!"
The servant nodded, stood up from the ground, patted his clothes, blinked his eyes, and smiled awkwardly: "Whatever you say is what it is. We will go and get whatever you want. If you want to do this, we will lead the way for you. But don't hurt your hands. Please put down the knife now! Otherwise, we dare not leave. Look at my legs, I can't walk."
Leyuan threw the knife aside, pulled out a relatively clean handkerchief from the corpse's clothes, wrapped the earrings in it, stuffed it into his pocket, looked at them and said, "Let's go."
The servant nodded, but his legs shook even more violently.
Leyuan asked, "What happened to you? Did you have a seizure? I have thrown away the knife. There is nothing left that can threaten you, right?"
The servant smiled awkwardly and said, "We are not afraid of the knife now. We are like this because we saw you took the earring. It is not a good thing! Or is it lost? We are relieved."
Leyuan said, "No, this thing is quite valuable. Even if it is useless, I will keep it. Maybe I can sell it and pay it back someday. Besides, you all acknowledge that this is Madam Taohua's thing, why should I throw it away? When I meet your Marquis and Madam in the future, maybe I can take out the thing and confront them in court. This is physical evidence."
The servant muttered, "I've never heard of using a dead person's belongings as evidence."
Leyuan asked: "Do you think it's immoral?"
The servant responded, then came to his senses and shouted, "No, no!"
Le Yuan said with a smile: "No matter how evil you are, it can't be worse than you killing a living person."
The servant laughed dryly twice, which seemed to indicate that he heard it.
Leyuan asked: "Do you really recognize this earring?"
The servant replied, "Yes, we do."
Le Yuan asked: "Where did you see this thing before?"
The servant said, "This is Madam Taohua's thing. We saw it before because she once wore it on her ear. At that time, she was quite pretty and the thing was exquisite and small. The Marquis gave her many jewels, but she seemed to like this one. The Marquis was a little helpless, and once he got angry and simply pulled the thing off her ear and threw it away.
She said at the time that if it was lost, it was lost, and she didn't want it anymore, so as not to make people sad. However, after a while, she went to look for it at night. She searched for half the night and didn't find it. She went again the next day, and didn't stop until she found the thing in the bushes. She didn't rest until late. We can't say that we all know it, but most people know it. Some people have seen it.
However, from then on, she seldom wore the earrings, and later on she seldom wore them at all. Perhaps she was seriously ill and didn't want to bother with decorations, so she simply washed off her makeup, which wasn't a bad thing. She was quite beautiful without makeup, with a gentle and charming temperament. But when she recovered from her illness inexplicably and became crazy, that temperament disappeared.
She seemed to have turned into a completely different person, now ferocious and her voice had become much louder. When she shouted, it was almost as if her voice could be heard halfway down the street. She was not shy and did not shy away from others. No matter what others did, as long as she was happy, she was happy. She jumped around everywhere. Others were afraid of her but also wanted to see her excitement. Children pointed and laughed at her, but she probably did not like them.
When she was annoyed, she would pretend to want her son, open her arms and chase the child, shouting, "My son, my son, are you there? I'm coming to find you! Don't let me find you, or I'll beat you up. See if you dare to leave me and run away alone."
The children were not afraid at first, until one of them was caught by her and couldn't struggle free. He was so frightened that he started crying loudly and was beaten. Only then did they dare not run around and scream around Madam Taohua anymore.
I think that Madam Taohua was a little quieter at that time.
During that time, the earrings were probably placed in a dressing box in the drawer of Taohua Madam's room. Later, the eldest lady found out about it and got angry. She asked someone to sell the earrings, which was considered a small profit and she was happy as it did not bring any bad luck. The eldest lady even walked around the house saying that it was really unlucky to have such a person.
Everyone heard it. It took quite some time, not just one or two sentences."
The two servants nodded.
Paradise thought for a moment and said, "If that's the case, I understand."
The servant asked, "Are you really going? If you go, you may not come back."
Paradise said, "Why not go? You're talking as if I can definitely survive if I don't go."
The servant thought about it and said, "That's right."
They took Leyuan to the Marquis's mansion and walked all the way in until they came before the Marquis and his wife.
The two servants immediately knelt down, kowtowed and apologized, crying, telling what had happened, pointing to the paradise and explaining the man.
"This man picked up a pair of earrings from Lady Peach Blossom in the peach forest and wanted to come back with us to meet the Marquis and the Madam. We couldn't refuse and had no choice but to bring him back. Please forgive me, Marquis and the Madam!"
The servant said this and did not dare to raise his head.
The lady sitting upstairs looked around the park, slammed the table and questioned, "Maniac! Who are you? Why don't you tell me your identity? Why are you working for that evildoer? I see you are young, why are you still obsessed with it? That's a bad luck! Very unlucky, why did you rush up to get involved with it?"
Leyuan said, "I heard the voice of a ghost at night and couldn't sleep. I wanted to know what happened and solve the problem, so I came here for the matter of Lady Taohua."
He paused and said, "Besides, it wasn't me who was involved. You were the ones who sent someone to look for me first."
The lady slammed the table and said, "You dare to talk back? Someone come and beat me up!"
Leyuan said, "I am here to get work done, not to be beaten."
The lady laughed and said, "You are talking as if I invited you here. Taking something without asking is stealing. If you come without an invitation, you are not a guest. Since you come with bad intentions, then good people will not come. What else should we be afraid of? You are just a poor person with unknown origins. Do you think we need to see your expression?"
Leyuan sighed: "It seems that there is no chance for us to have a good talk?"
The lady snorted, "Who wants to talk to you nicely? You are not a good person for being entangled with that evildoer. You deserve to die. Who knows if you don't die today, you will make trouble tomorrow! We can't stand such a commotion. Admit it as soon as possible, and we will let you go. If you don't admit it, then it depends on whether you live or die in my eyes."
Leyuan pulled the third child out and played in the room for a while. After calculating the time, the shadow said, "It's time to go out."
Leyuan opened his eyes again and saw people lying on the ground around him. Those who were still alive hid and looked at him with horror.
The lady just shouted: "Why don't you kill him? What's the point of keeping a man like him around? He's also a monster!"
Leyuan walked over and asked, "What did you say?"
The lady was startled and sat on the ground, angry and anxious, staring at him: "I said you are a monster! You are! Why don't you admit it? You killed all these people. You killed them, and you want to kill me? I won't surrender! I tell you, if I die, there will be many people who will avenge me."
She seemed to be bluffing, but she had been quite weak before. However, she had some abilities before, but now she didn't have any, and her decadence was obvious.
Leyuan stood in front of her and said, "I wanted to have a good talk with you, but you really didn't give me this opportunity. I see that you are not very rational now, so how about this, I will give you another chance. Clean up this place, dress up, and then come to see me. We can have a good talk about Madam Taohua. If we can explain it clearly, this matter will be settled.
If you can't explain it clearly, I can just take my time, but if you don't want to explain it at all, I won't be polite."
The lady snorted, "You knocked all these people down, and you still say polite or not polite words to me. How different are you from a robber? You broke in! I didn't ask you to go home with me. What else do you want to say? I have nothing to say to you."
The Marquis pulled the lady's sleeve, trying to calm her down and ask her to take a step back.
The lady stopped talking and turned her head away. The Marquis smiled at Leyuan and said, "I'm sorry, but Zhuo Jing was born with this kind of temper. She can't calm down for others. She is like this to me, not to mention others. I didn't mean to target you. You came from afar and took a fancy to my place. You are also a distinguished guest. Since you have given us time and opportunity, we will not be polite. Please go out and wait for a while.
How about we let the servants take you to another room, they will serve you tea and water, and we will go over after we have packed up?"
Leyuan said, "Then let someone come and lead the way."
The Marquis nodded, helped the lady to stand up, and said to the servants, "Everyone, get up, come out, Ah Yi and Ah Er, hurry up, please ask the guests to sit in the tea room next door for a while, we will be out in a while."
The two men walked out with trembling legs, their smiles uglier than crying, and they stretched out their hands to the paradise and said, "Guests, please follow us this way."
Leyuan nodded and went to the next room to wait.
The two people here went to their room, washed and dressed, but were in no hurry to go out. They looked around and saw that there was no one around and it was very quiet. They huddled together and whispered to each other.
"I think that guy is not a good person!"
"I think so too. We should do something."
"Indeed, it would be boring to just sit there and wait for death."
"I have another package of good things. I will give it to him later and invite him back home!"
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