Chapter 18 Who will pity me when my beauty fades? (End)
A few days later, when the court was dismissed, an official who worked in the same military department as Liang Shao looked at him puzzledly and asked, "Tomorrow is a day off, why is Sir Liang so worried?"
Although Liang Shao was very concerned about his reputation and knew that family disgrace should not be made public, the Liang family had long been a laughing stock throughout the capital. He was under a lot of pressure and was too irritable to care about too much. He sighed and poured out the bitterness of the past few months.
After finishing speaking, Liang Shao sighed deeply: "Hey, I don't want to stay at home at all now. I feel bored and annoyed, but I have to go back."
At this time, several more people came up and said in unison: "Every family has its own problems. The women in my family are no exception. They quarrel and make a fuss every day. One of them cries, and the next, another gets hurt. It's so annoying!"
"Yes, yes. My mother and my wife quarrel every day over the right to manage the household. Such a small matter makes me feel overwhelmed."
"You guys were just arguing, but the ones in my family just started fighting each other, causing chaos and no peace!"
Amidst the quarrel, the official who first asked Liang Shao a question interrupted everyone, narrowed his eyes, and said with a chuckle: "Everyone, you are so troubled, do you need me to help you relieve your worries?"
One person immediately asked, "Do you have a good idea? Tell us quickly."
"Hey, don't worry, just follow me to a place where you can forget all your worries."
When everyone heard this, they all started to make a noise: "Okay, let's go now. I want to see what good solution you have!"
Liang Shao was sandwiched among the crowd and said hesitantly: "I, I won't go..."
When everyone heard this, they all advised, "It would be good to go and see him. Aren't you also troubled?"
"Yes, let's go together. What are you afraid of?"
"That's right, why bother with so much? Let's go..." As they spoke, everyone pulled Liang Shao away.
The next morning, Liang Shao staggered back to the mansion in dishevel and with a cheerful face. As soon as he opened the door, he saw Chen Bing'er sitting beside the bed, staring at him intently. He smiled and said, "Good morning, good morning."
A smell of alcohol and rouge hit Chen Bing'er's cheeks. Her face froze, and she immediately realized that her husband had gone to places like Qinlou and Chuguan to have fun last night. Anger instantly rose in her heart, but she forced a smile and asked, "Brother Liang, why didn't you send someone to tell your family when you didn't come home all night? Bing'er was worried all night."
"I asked Fugui to come back and tell him, how come... he didn't tell you?" Liang Shao took off his coat and threw it beside the couch, then took off his shoes and lay down on the bed.
Chen Bing'er was startled, and instantly realized that it was Liang's mother, the old grave-grandmother, who had caused her to worry in vain. A sharp light flashed in her eyes, and her hands in her sleeves fiercely grabbed the flesh on her legs. Without changing her expression, she asked again, "Brother Liang, where did you go yesterday?"
Liang Shao felt a little guilty when he heard this, and then he thought of the fun he had last night and what his colleagues said. He said impatiently, "Why are you so annoying? You didn't let me touch you and you didn't allow me to go to the brothel to have fun."
Chen Bing'er looked at Liang Shao in front of her in disbelief. He still had the familiar face, but why did he seem like a different person? She felt a sour feeling in her heart again, which rushed straight to her brain, making Chen Bing'er's eyes fill with tears in an instant.
Liang Shao turned his head irritably, straightened his body and got up from the bed, and said: "Cry, cry, cry, all you do is cry all day long. I'm not dead, why are you crying? You have a sad face all day long, it's so annoying, just cry slowly by yourself!" As he said that, he took the coat with one hand and went out.
Chen Bing'er pinched her palm hard, her face turned pale, the corners of her lips were bleeding, her eyes were red, and tears as big as beans slid down her cheeks. After enduring for a long time, she finally followed Liang Shao out to find him.
At the same time, hearing that her son and Chen Bing'er had quarreled again, Liang's mother happily sent someone to invite Liang Shao into the house. She opened the portraits of women that she had selected overnight one by one and introduced them one by one.
Liang Shao just came out of the land of gentleness this morning, and that feeling was still lingering in his heart. Looking at the beautiful face of the woman in the painting, he thought of Chen Bing'er's thin and sallow crying face just now. Moreover, she didn't let him touch her, and he also needed to carry on the family line. After thinking it over for a while, Liang Shao agreed to Liang's mother's suggestion of taking a concubine.
The mother and son, one was thinking about the land of gentleness, the other was happily preparing for the ceremony of taking a concubine, and neither of them noticed a thin figure gradually walking away outside the door.
Not long after dinner that night, everyone in the Liang Mansion fainted. A thin figure nimbly moved in and out of the rooms of the Liang Mansion. Her plain yellow linen clothes were dyed bright red. Then she drove a carriage out of the city overnight. All of this was carefully seen by Lu Qi who was hiding in the dark.
A few days later, the people living around the Liang Mansion smelled the stench coming from the Liang Mansion, and they all gathered together to push open the door of the Liang Mansion - a foul odor came towards them, and everyone rolled their eyes and felt nauseous, and covered their noses with handkerchiefs. When they looked around, they saw that the entire Liang Mansion was littered with corpses, dried blood everywhere, and flies and mosquitoes flying around on the corpses.
Apart from flies and mosquitoes, there was not even a living creature!
Such a tragic incident happened, and everyone quickly reported it to the government office in the capital. The detectives and coroners also rushed to the scene. After checking, they found that almost everyone had been killed by a single knife, except for Liang's mother who lived in the main house.
She was lying on her back on the bed, which had turned completely black due to being soaked in blood. Her limbs were tied to the four corners of the bed with ropes, and her flesh and blood were all over her. Her eyes were wide open, and her face was full of pain and hideous expressions. There were two purple handprints on her chin, and her mouth was stuffed with a handkerchief. There were more than twenty knife wounds on her chest, and the knife avoided the vital parts. Her abdomen was cut open by a knife, and her entire lower body seemed to be cut in half, and the organs inside were missing.
The scene was so horrific that even an experienced coroner could not bear to watch it. In the entire Liang Mansion, only Liang's mother died from torture, and her death was so painful. One can imagine how much the murderer hated her.
After the detectives counted the bodies in the Liang Mansion, they found that Liang Shao and Chen Bing'er were not there, so they immediately reported the matter to the court. The emperor disliked Liang Shao in the first place, and immediately issued a wanted order after hearing the news. As for the Liang Mansion, in order to prevent panic and infectious diseases, the emperor directly ordered it to be burned down.
Outside Luohu Village, far away from the capital, a horse-drawn carriage quietly drove into a hidden forest and slowly stopped in front of a dusty yard.
The curtain of the carriage was lifted, and Chen Bing'er came out wearing a new plain white dress. She opened the door, tidied herself up briefly, then helped Liang Shao stumble out of the carriage. Liang Shao turned his face away fiercely, his eyes were red and swollen, because the meridians in his hands and feet were cut, he leaned weakly on Chen Bing'er. He wanted to struggle, but he could only think about it. He was a useless man now, and could let Chen Bing'er do whatever she wanted.
Chen Bing'er took him to the bed with great effort and made him lie down. Then she came in carrying a big box. When she opened the box, a foul smell came towards her. She took out a box from it without caring, slowly walked to the bed and sat down, opened the box and handed it to Liang Shao, smiling and said, "Look, Brother Liang, this is the place where children are conceived. Didn't mother say that I couldn't have children, so I took her uterus and we will have our own children soon, very soon!"
At the end of her speech, Chen Bing'er's eyes flashed with a captivating light, and her hand trembled as she stroked Liang Shao's cheek.
Liang Shao's eyes widened in horror, and the muscles on his face trembled uncontrollably. At this moment he felt every pore in his body trembling, and a chill ran from his heels straight up to his scalp. He opened his mouth but couldn't utter a word.
Whether it was when he woke up in the carriage and learned that Chen Bing'er had killed more than a dozen people in the Liang Mansion, or when he found out that the tendons of his hands and feet were cut, or even when he discovered that Chen Bing'er was mentally abnormal during the few days he was in close contact with her in the carriage, Liang Shao did not feel fear. His heart was filled with hatred from beginning to end.
However, at this moment, a strong fear surged up in his heart, making him think that he was in a nightmare. The hatred in his eyes disappeared in an instant, and what remained was only the twisted and hideous fear and terror. His eyes were wide open, looking extremely terrifying.
A voice came from deep in my heart - I don't want to be with her, she is crazy, crazy! Run away, escape!
Liang Shao opened his mouth wide and wanted to yell, but his broken vocal cords could only make hoarse cries. He twisted his limbs desperately, trying to escape from this horrible place, but he had just turned over when Chen Bing'er had put away the box and walked over with a smile. She looked at him gently, as if she was looking at a toy, with a doting and beautiful smile: "Brother Liang, where do you want to go?"
"Ahhh..." Liang Shao trembled all over and shook his head vigorously, indicating that he was not going anywhere.
Chen Bing'er smiled softly, hugged his head, stroked his face, and whispered softly: "You are mine, mine alone, you can't go anywhere. If you take a step, I will cut out your kneecap and make you lie in bed with me for the rest of your life. Don't even think about committing suicide. If you commit suicide once, I will pull out one of your fingernails to let you know how much my heart aches..."
She was still whispering gently in his ear, just like a lover whispering in his ear, but Liang Shao's face was full of despair, and this despair was a desire for death.
But he knew clearly that this despair and pain would only become more intense and would accompany him until his death.
"...Brother Liang, Bing'er really loves you so much. I want to be with you forever, even if we die together."
"That's great. That annoying old woman is gone. Finally, no one can stop us. You belong to me completely. No other woman can compete with me for you."
"Brother Liang, our vows have really come true. We will be together for the rest of our lives..."
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Chen Bing'er: Don't mess with me, when I get crazy even I'm afraid of myself~
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