Chapter 26 Reminiscing about the past, an uninvited guest

When Liu Mingan returned home with the wash basin, Jiang Ning was still busy in the kitchen.

Jiang Ning stood by the stove, with a neat figure, her sleeves rolled up to reveal a section of her fair arms, holding a spatula in her hand and bending over to turn the food over. The hot steam from the pot blew on her expressionless face, and Liu Mingan inexplicably felt that the scene was somewhat warm.

Noticing Liu Mingan's gaze, Jiang Ning raised her eyes and looked out the door. Liu Mingan stood outside the kitchen with a wooden basin, with a faint smile on his face, standing still, looking a little silly.

"Are you back? The meal is almost ready." Jiang Ning said, retracting her gaze, and found a large bowl to serve the mushroom stewed chicken in the pot. The aroma spread, and Liu Mingan felt that he was hungry.

There was a long thin bamboo pole hanging under the beam on the side of the main house. Liu Mingan walked over to shake out the washed clothes and hung them up to dry. When he entered the room, Jiang Ning had already put all the food on the table.

Liu Mingan cooked rice and two dishes at noon. Jiang Ning heated them up and stewed only half a chicken and fried a small bowl of chicken blood. Jiang Ning served a bowl of chicken soup to Liu Mingan and herself, blew on it to cool it down, and drank it slowly.

The taste of wild pheasant was indeed incomparable, and the taste of wild mushrooms stewed together made it linger on the lips and teeth after swallowing. Jiang Ning and Liu Mingan had not eaten anything from morning to now. After drinking this bowl of hot chicken soup, they felt that their internal organs were all comfortable and relaxed.

"It tastes good!" Liu Mingan drank it all in one breath and couldn't help but praise.

"Then drink more." Jiang Ning replied calmly.

"This chicken

is so strong!" "This is how pheasants are."

"I don't think I've seen this mushroom before."

"Eat it, it won't poison you."

...

The two of them ate and chatted casually, and unknowingly cleaned the table.

When Liu Mingan went to wash the dishes, Jiang Ning came to the yard to pick some vegetable leaves, walked to the rabbit cage, tore the leaves into pieces and stuffed them into the cage.

The three gray rabbits shrank at first and dared not move. After waiting for a long time and seeing that there was no danger, they began to eat bravely. Jiang Ning was bored and found it quite interesting to see the small three-petal mouth nibbling on the leaves. She simply squatted beside the cage and stared at it with interest.

Liu Mingan came out after washing the dishes, looked at the scene, and said with a smile: "I was just about to feed the rabbit, but I didn't expect you to do it first."

As he spoke, Liu Mingan also came to the cage and squatted down, watching the rabbit eat with interest.

The evening breeze blew through the hall, blowing Jiang Ning's hair, and gently brushed against Liu Mingan's face, making it a little itchy.

Jiang Ning heard him suddenly speak: "When I was a child, I especially liked to feed rabbits. I thought they were cute because they were furry. Until one time, I reached out to touch the rabbit's ears and was bitten by the rabbit. I cried on one side, and my parents laughed beside me, 'I told you that rabbits will bite you when they are angry, but you didn't listen. Now you know it'. Only then did I know that this little thing really bites people..."

Liu Mingan's thoughts returned to the carefree years, with a father and a mother, everything was fine, it was an unforgettable time in his memory.

"That rabbit was quite fat, about the same as these ones. I remember that I seemed to sell it for three hundred coins, and my father also bought me some crispy candies..."

Jiang Ning listened quietly and did not speak.

There is no need to respond to what people say when they are moved by the scene. She was not so curious to inquire about Liu Mingan's story. She just wanted to be a listener.

After a long time, the rabbit in the cage had almost finished eating. The sun in the distance also sank into the mountains. The sky was dim. Jiang Ning and Liu Mingan got up and went back to the house together.

Liu Mingan lit the oil lamp as usual, took out the book, and spread out paper and pen. He didn't read a single word during the day, but now he could finally read well.

Jiang Ning was idly flipping through a book of "Book of Songs". When it was almost time to go to bed, she said faintly: "Did you go to bed on your own initiative or did you want me to come and pull you?"

Liu Mingan hesitated, but thinking of the scene last night, he felt that he could not persuade Jiang Ning, so after cleaning up the table, he lay down on the bed stiffly.

Jiang Ning looked at him lying on the edge of the bed like a wooden board, with complicated emotions, as if she was forcing a decent woman.

When Liu Ming'an fell asleep, and finally reached out to hug her like he did yesterday, Jiang Ning's emotions became even more complicated.

Jiang Ning stretched out an arm for Liu Ming'an to hug, to calm him down and stop moving, then closed her eyes and began to slowly fall asleep.

At night, a breeze gradually rose, causing the door to sway slightly, making a slight, regular "creaking" sound. The sound of the wind, the swaying door, and Liu Ming'an's gentle breathing, from far away to near, were particularly clear in the silent night.

"Click!" An almost inaudible sound came, and Jiang Ning, who was half asleep and half awake, suddenly opened her eyes.

Someone!

The killer's nature made Jiang Ning instantly alert, her sleepiness completely disappeared, and her muscles tensed up, ready to attack.

Could it be the mute girl? Are you here to deliver food again?

Jiang Ning listened to the footsteps getting closer, but she didn't move because she thought she might be a mute.

Until the man walked outside the main room, Jiang Ning clearly heard her curse in a low voice: "You son of a bitch, just because you want to be a scholar, you are a shit scholar, bah! If I don't treat you well, my surname will not be Li..."

It seems that the person who came here is evil.

The woman didn't leave after cursing, but tiptoed to the back of the house.

Jiang Ning wanted to see what was going on, but Liu Ming'an was holding her so tightly that she couldn't get her arms out. She had no choice but to move her mind and get into the space, use the space to get out of the way, and then walk out of the house silently, following the woman.

The woman tiptoed around the back of the house, holding a piece of bamboo in her hand. Jiang Ning watched her squat at the back of the house, and then began to dig the soil with the bamboo, and soon she dug a small hole.

What was she doing? Jiang Ning was deeply puzzled.

However, what happened next shocked Jiang Ning, a modern person who had never seen the world.

The woman threw away the bamboo, then stood up and started to take off her pants!

The white buttocks were exposed to the air, and the woman then took out something from her crotch, the size of a palm, with two long straps on it. She hooked her fingers on the belt and continued to put on her pants.

Jiang Ning now understood the purpose of this uninvited guest. She came to cast a spell.

The thing that this woman took out from her crotch was obviously an ancient sanitary napkin, and it looked like it was stained with menstrual blood. In Jiang Ning's memory, this thing was called "Riding Cloth", but I don't know if it is still called this in Daliang.

In ancient times, women's menstrual blood was considered dirty. Some dynasties even believed that women during their menstrual period were dirty and could not go out. There was also a saying that if a man saw or touched the menstrual blood, he would be haunted by bad luck.

At the same time, from the perspective of Feng Shui, the front of the house is Yang, the back of the house is Yin, the roof is bright, and the bottom of the house is dark.

This woman planned to bury the strips of cloth with menstrual blood at the bottom of the back of the house. The dark and evil spirits would secretly devour the yang energy of this house. The people living in this house would have their luck cut off, all kinds of disasters would happen, their blessings and longevity would be ruined, they would be plagued by illness, and their official career and wealth would be bypassed.

The reason why Jiang Ning knew this so clearly was because she had once assassinated a businessman. The businessman was very superstitious and believed in this.

Jiang Ning scoffed at these nonsense, and she felt disgusted when she saw someone doing this.

How did Liu Mingan offend this woman that she would come to him in the middle of the night to cast such a vicious spell on him?