Chapter 8 The top seven ghosts
"Eat something." Yun Yi went into the house and put down the wooden plate, took out the food and put it on the table.
The woman had already changed into a Taoist robe at this time. When she heard this, she just shook her head woodenly, and endless sadness appeared in her eyes.
"I know you feel uncomfortable, but you should eat something and don't starve to kill yourself." Yun Yi picked up the chicken soup and walked in front of her.
The woman turned her head and looked at the chicken soup, her eyes were redder again, and she stood up and knelt down with a "thump".
Seeing this, Yun Yi immediately put his bowl back on the table and turned around to support her: "What are you doing? Get up quickly."
"My mother's body is still in the snow and ice, how can I eat it?" The woman cried bitterly: "I would like to be a cattle and a horse for the Taoist priest, and ask the Taoist priest to help me restrain my parents' bodies."
Yun Yi couldn't help feeling at a loss when he heard this, so he could only try to help her up again, but the woman refused to get up.
Yun Yi had no choice but to stabilize her first: "Okay, okay, I promise you."
"Thank you, Master, I was originally a slave and a servant, to report on my great kindness and virtue." The woman wanted to kowtow.
"I don't want you to be a slave," Yun Yi helped her up: "You eat first, and I will find a way to deal with your parents' funeral."
The woman cried silently, walked to the table and sat down and held her job.
Yun Yi sat opposite her and waited for an opportunity to ask about her name and family background.
The woman didn't talk much when she was having a meal. She might be following the ancient saying of not speaking. Or she didn't want to speak because of the pain of bereavement. In short, she would answer whatever Yun Yi asked her. She would be very proud of her words and said something like gold when she replied. Yun Yi wouldn't say much if she didn't ask her.
After asking the other party's background, Yun Yi asked Dong Zhuo why he killed her whole family.
As soon as this question came out, the other party's calmer mood fluctuated again, and the sad face became stronger and he put down the chopsticks in his hand.
Seeing this, Yun Yi secretly scolded himself for being brainless, saying that he was really not open to any pot.
Fortunately, the other party did not mean to hide his intention. After a brief period of injury, he knew it carefully and explained the causes and consequences of the matter in detail with him.
Her name is Wang Xiaoshu. Her father was an official in the court and was a second-rank senior official in the court.
Although Dong Zhuo was named a Han minister, he was actually a Han thief. He held the emperor hostage and went out to usurp the emperor's ceremonial guards and chasing the palace. His sins were so serious that he could not write about it.
At the beginning of last year, the eighteen towns of princes raised troops to help the king and suppress Dong. Seeing that the eastern capital Luoyang could not stay, Dong Zhuo simply burned the palace and promoted the civil and military officials to Chang'an, which made all the Han officials very dissatisfied.
However, Dong Zhuo was in charge of the court, and there were famous generals such as Lu Bu, Li Jue, and Guo Si, who were assisted by the Xiliang army with 100,000 brave and good at fighting. Therefore, all the civil and military officials were afraid of him, and no one dared to criticize his crimes in person.
A few days ago, Wang Xiaoshu's father sent a secret letter to Yuan Shao, asking Yuan Shao to raise troops to attack Dong Zhuo, but the secret letter was intercepted by the Xiliang army halfway before it was sent to Chang'an. Dong Zhuo was furious when he learned about this, so he sent all the Xiliang soldiers to kill the entire Wang family.
After Wang Xiaoshu said that, she put down her chopsticks and choked and shed tears again. Yun Yi relieved her a few words and said, "Eat some more."
Wang Xiaoshu raised her hand to wipe her tears, pinched her chopsticks and ate again.
Although Zhou Tiandan had replenished her qi and blood during the past few days of her coma, Yun Yi fed her a porridge, which was difficult to resist hunger in her belly.
Even so, she did not eat as voraciously as ordinary people, nor did she deliberately make things tricky. This is a well-being that has been deeply rooted in the bones since childhood.
Wang Xiaoshu is a female litter, and Yun Yi didn't stay here for too long. He found a new sheet and replaced the old sheet with blood on her kang, and took it out and threw it away together with the old clothes she had changed before.
After going back to the house for supper, Yun Yi called the fat man who was about to take off his clothes and fall asleep. The two of them left Wujiao Villa with lanterns.
The snow started falling at the hour of You, but it had been more than two hours at this time but it was still not stopping. The snow on the ground had flooded its ankles, and the biting cold wind brought the snow slag and made the two of them feel stinging.
The disciples of Luo Family Dao could not monitor Wujiaobeiyuan day and night, and they could not guard here such a ghost weather as tonight, so the two were able to travel calmly.
The moon was dark and the wind was high, and the cold wind was howling. The two of them were afraid that the lantern would be blown away by the strong wind and could not see the road clearly, so they could only hug the lantern tightly.
"It's cold outside, and the body won't rot or smelly. It's not too late to go when the snow stops." The fat man was very reluctant to go out at this time, with many complaints in his tone.
Yun Yi did not answer the fat man's words. His years of begging made the fat man feel deeply afraid of the severe cold of Sanjiu. Many beggars froze to death on the streets of Chang'an City every year. In the past, every winter, the two of them were worried about how to survive the cold winter.
When he rushed to the Wang Mansion in the wind and snow, Yun Yi was stunned. Dong Zhuo's actions were not only cruel, but also terrible. When the Wang Mansion was burned to a pile of ashes, there were only some ruins covered with heavy snow.
The fat man stomped his feet so cold that he shivered, saying, "It's all burned here like this, I'm afraid there's not even a bone slag."
"Go in and take a look. It would be nice if you could find one or two items from her parents, so as to leave her thoughts on finding short-sighted views." Yun Yi stepped into the ruined courtyard.
"She has been looking for a short sentence, so let's go back." The fat man followed and said.
Yun Yi did not respond. Half of the fat man's trembling was caused by the cold, but half of it was because dozens of people died here, which gave people a gloomy feeling during the day, not to mention that it is midnight now.
The fat man knew Yun Yi's temper and knew that the decision he made was difficult for others to change, so he had to follow up with the yard.
At this time, the yard was covered with thick snow and the body was burned by the fire, so it was difficult to find anything. The two of them digged the snow and searched for half an hour, and their hands and ten fingers were frozen and numb, but they did not gain any results.
The fat man couldn't stand his temper. Halfway through Hai, he had already yawned all over the sky. After informing Yun Yi, he went to find a place to shelter from the wind and took a nap.
Yun Yi was also a little discouraged at this time, so he did not make things difficult for the fat man. He looked in the snow for a while and saw that the candles in the lantern were about to burn out, so he wanted to call the fat man back.
Before he could call the fat man, the fat man stood up consciously. Yun Yi thought he was awakened by the cold, and did not care. He called him and then stepped out of the mansion first.
After leaving the gate, I found that the fat man had not followed him. I looked inside in confusion and saw that the fat man was kneeling in the snow and digging something.
"Forget it, let's go." Yun Yi said hello to the fat man again.
Maybe it was because the wind was too loud and the fat man didn't hear it, and he was still lying in the snow to search.
Seeing this, Yun Yi had to go in and call him again. The fat man who had just arrived, suddenly stood up, and there was a white jade ring in his hand, and half of the finger bones in the jade ring were burned with white hair and crispy hair.
When Yun Yi cried when he saw the white jade ring in the fat man's hand, he found the white jade ring. The place where the fat man found the white jade ring was the location he had searched for at first, but he was not careful and could not find this thing earlier, and he was frozen for nearly an hour.
"Show me." Yun Yi said.
The fat man handed over the white jade ring. Yun Yi took it and was about to take a candlelight to look carefully, but he saw the fat man suddenly kneel down with a "thump" and kowtowed and said, "The Taoist priest saved the little girl and ensured that my Wang family was incense. Wang Zhen will not repay such a great kindness in this life. In the next life, he will hold a whip and a stirrup for the Taoist priest."
Yun Yi heard this and felt cold all over his body. The cold and cold feeling that penetrated his body rushed up to the spiritual cover of the sky along his back, and his scalp became numb.
Not only did the fat man speak in an incorrect tone, but his voice was replaced by a very energetic male voice.
The deeds of the wronged soul seeking life are circulated among the people. At this time, there is also the custom of doing seven with the deceased. He has also heard of the first seven souls, but his understanding of these things is limited to hearsay and has never experienced them personally.
At this time, he saw that the fat man was actually being on the body by a ghost. His teeth were trembling, and his body began to tremble in disobedience.
At this moment, the fat man suddenly tilted his head and fell unconscious. Yun Yi was slightly stunned when he saw this. After a moment, he bravely stepped forward and hugged the fat man.
After pinching the person for a few years, the fat man finally woke up slowly, was blown by the cold wind and was shocked, and stood up and said, "Hey, why am I here?"
After hearing the fat man's voice and tone were no longer abnormal, Yun Yi's worry was gone. The ghost who had possessed the fat man before called himself Wang Zhen. He said that he was Wang Xiaoshu's father. I guess he saw him and the fat man save Wang Xiaoshu when his soul left the body that day. On the seventh time of his soul, he took the opportunity to possess him and the fat man thank him.
It is estimated that the time should have arrived just after midnight, which is the seventh day after the Wang family was killed, and it is also the night of the soul recovery.
Thinking that the Wang Mansion was wandering with countless ghosts at this time, Yun Yi felt his scalp numb again, and he pulled the fat man up and left quickly.
The fat man was used to being rough and forgot to ask the previous questions. Yun Yi did not intend to tell him that being frightened in the middle of the night made him still frightened, so don’t scare the fat man any longer.
"Have you found anything?" the fat man asked yawning.
Yun Yi quietly bounced off the finger bone in the white jade ring and handed him the white jade ring.
The fat man took it and looked at it with interest: "This thing should be worth a lot of money." Then he handed it back to him.
The two walked a short distance away, and the candles in the lanterns finally burned out. Without the candlelight, they could only follow the path they remembered to move forward in the dark. Sliding and falling are naturally inevitable, and hitting walls and hitting walls often happens.
In this way, the time to return was more than the time it was, and it was already midnight when I returned to Wujiao Villa.
Since the other people were not aware of the two when they came out, the door had been bolted. They had been doing a lot of stealing things, so they could not defeat them by climbing over the wall and entering the yard. However, it was dark and there was snow on the ground, so it was inevitable that they would slip and fall when climbing over the wall.
Worried that everyone would be regarded as a thief who had robbed the house, the two of them were in pain and did not dare to shout loudly. They could only cover their foreheads and admit that they were unlucky.
The fat man had long been sleepy, and now he was muttering and was dizzy, shaking back to his room to rest.
Yun Yi put away the white jade ring and went back to his room to sleep. In the evening, he only focused on adding firewood to Wang Xiaoshu's kang, forgetting his head, so the kang was already cold at this time.
Chapter completed!