Lingxian Zhenjun

Chapter 14 Evil?Are you calling?
The night is like the tide pushing the dim yellow to spread across the streets and alleys in the city, and the lights of the lights create a night scene of thousands of lights.

The red lantern was hung in the county government office. Under the red light, the guards carried two wooden boxes on donkey carts into and out of the government office backyard. The county magistrate Zhou Shenghuai frowned slightly. Inside were some gold and silver ornaments of the former wife of the Li family. He didn't like taking back the things of the deceased casually, but if his niece liked it, he could do it according to her temper.

"...These things are in Li's house, why bother to move here, you want to live there, we will move in a few days."

The slender figure at the side dangled the pearl hairpin and approached softly. Seeing that there were no guards passing by, the woman took the magistrate's arm and said in a delicate voice next to his ear: "Cousin, I like it. Anyway, we are already here." That’s right, I’ll put them in my room to play with, and I want my uncle to help my niece choose some pieces to wear.”

"You... well, it's up to you."

The woman was the daughter of one of his cousins. After her husband died, she returned to her natal home. Later, Zhou Shenghuai went home to visit her relatives.

The people in the yamen more or less knew about the intimate relationship between the two, and they took advantage of Zhou Shenghuai, so they wouldn't talk nonsense, and would avoid suspicion if they saw it from a distance.

When the two county officials cuddled up and entered the mansion in the backyard, they came out and went back to the gate of the yamen to continue unloading the remaining two boxes.One of them walked to the eaves with the wooden box in his arms, and suddenly cursed: "What a damn bad luck!"

"What's the matter?"

Another guard came over with the wooden box in his arms. Following his companion's gaze, he saw the plaque on the door above the county government office. He didn't know when it was stained with blood, and there were a few bats on the ground with their heads broken. They probably flew and hit the plaque. .

"It's evil, why do these flying squirrels still bump into it?"

"I'll clean it tomorrow..."

"Row."

The two looked at the dead bats on the ground and muttered. They felt unlucky for the things that appeared at night, which were long and permeable. They hurried in with the wooden box and closed the yamen.

The two donkey carts left, and a thin layer of mist gradually rose from the long street.

……

The backyard of the county government.

The paved road passed through the flower garden, and the front and back yards were brightly lit. The maids in the house quickly cleaned up the leftovers on the table. Zhou Shenghuai took a sip of fragrant tea and sat at the head of the middle hall, looking beautifully at the young maids with good figures.

Compared with his own niece, she was much worse, but she was perfect in the end, which made him envious for a long time.

beep, beep...

On the stairs at the side of the hall, Zhou Xiaoniang came down with a gold hairpin with raindrops, and put it in her bun, looking at Zhou Shenghuai who was drinking tea.

"Cousin, how about this hairpin, can it match me?"

"Very good."

Hearing the perfunctory words, the woman glanced sideways, stomped her feet coquettishly, and went back upstairs.

Zhou Shenghuai felt that such a glamorous person would look good in anything, especially filial piety... Bah bah, he quickly stopped thinking.

beep, beep...

After a while, the sound of footsteps came down the stairs again. This time, the glamorous woman put on a jade bracelet on her slender wrist. This time Zhou Shenghuai praised her, and then Zhou Xiaoniang went upstairs with a smile on her face, humming softly as if she was dancing. Let's dance.

The wooden boards on the roof creaked, but the crisp and moving music never broke.

"The rouge is like jade...the beauty is like a picture...the smoke from the furnace is lingering, and the tulle is half-covered...you are so beautiful..."

I heard too many elegant words, and sometimes listening to such secular and erotic words is also a great enjoyment. Zhou Shenghuai closed his eyes, crossed his legs, kicked the hem of his robe with his toes, and tapped on the armrest with his fingertips.

Since when did Xiaoniang learn such words, it really has a special charm if she sings it out.

It's just that you can't sing casually for others to listen to.

At this moment, footsteps sounded outside the house, and embroidered shoes kicked the hem of the skirt, and the woman in a purple and white dress ordered the guards carrying the wooden box to pass by the door, and even walked towards the county seated inside. Let the short stature be blessed.

Zhou Shenghuai nodded with a smile, waved her away, only felt that the niece's frown and smile were charming and moving.

It's a pity that her deceased husband can't enjoy it.

Really short-lived.

"...The desolate raindrops outside the house splashed on the window lattice, and the misty flowers could be seen to be so strange..."

This voice is also nice, especially on the bed... Zhou Shenghuai twisted the tip of his beard, the smile on his face suddenly froze, his fingertips froze when he touched the armrest, and he stared blankly at the door.

The one who passed by the door was the cousin's niece, who just asked me if the hairpin was good-looking, and who was singing upstairs...?
The originally crisp and moving music upstairs stopped abruptly.

The candlelight stayed in the lampshade quietly, Zhou Shenghuai was the only one left in the hall at some point, in the dead silence, the corridor creaked suddenly, as if someone had taken a step.

Zhou Shenghuai couldn't help shaking slightly, subconsciously raised his face to look at the stairs, between the guardrail and the aisle, there was a pair of embroidered shoes and a purple and white skirt.

"Little...mother..."

He called softly, but he could only see the hem of the skirt gently stroking, but no one responded at all. He hurriedly called the servant girl, even the servants, but no one came over.

In an instant, Zhou Shenghuai was sitting on pins and needles, and a layer of cold sweat was secreting from his whole body.

squeak~
There was a slight sound from the stairs, Zhou Shenghuai trembled, and quickly looked at the stairs. The embroidered shoes were still there, but in his vision, there was an extra strand of hair hanging at the corner of the stairs, as if protruding from his head, extending horizontally outward bit by bit.

More and more, it is a head wrapped in long hair.

Feet on the stairs, head protruding from the side... In the dim candlelight, the head slowly turned, and a white eye stared straight at it among the hanging hair.

Zhou Shenghuai was so frightened that his legs couldn't move, his heart was beating wildly, and he collapsed on the back of the chair.

Outside the facing door, in the lanterns under the eaves, and in the stone lamps outside, the red light was instantly extinguished, and the darkness seemed to come alive and spread into the house. The next moment, in the brightly lit hall, a few candles flickered off.

squeak~
squeak~~
Something sounded in the dark as it walked down the stairs.

"what……"

Zhou Shenghuai finally called out, frantically fumbled for the candlestick beside him, took off the lampshade, tremblingly found the fire pocket on the table, opened it and blew vigorously, and hurriedly lit the wick.

The bean-sized flame slowly rose. When Zhou Shenghuai covered the flame and carefully turned to the stairs, he felt a chill on his back. He instinctively tilted his face slightly. A pale face poked out of the darkness, and lightly pointed at the candlestick in his hand from his shoulder. Blow lightly.

"call."

The candles were extinguished in an instant, and the dim hall was once again plunged into darkness.

"what--"

The miserable screams immediately resounded through the hall.

In the adjacent building, a beautiful woman is taking out gold and silver jewelry one by one from the wooden box, comparing them on her body, putting them on the bedding and spreading them out one by one.

"When did you choose this?"

In the third box, Zhou Xiaoniang took out a puppet in a dress, messy hair, and a dirty face, looking dull and cold at the woman in front of her.

After looking at it for a while, Zhou Xiaoniang threw it directly to the chair beside her.At this moment, her cousin's voice was faintly heard outside, she was stunned for a while, got up and went to push open the window lattice, leaned over and turned her head to look at the main room in the middle, it was pitch black.

"Why are the lights off? Are you going to spend the night with me?"

week……

Small……

mother……

Suddenly an ethereal voice came from behind, Zhou Xiaoniang froze for a moment, then slowly turned her head in astonishment.

The candle standing on the table dimly reflected the puppet on the chair flickering. The wood carving moved slowly at this moment, turned its head to look at her, and grinned strangely.

……

The night wind blows through the quiet long street, and the ethereal sound of clappers resounds.

Chen Yuan closed the book, yawned, looked at the master who was already asleep while listening to the story in the book, smiled and took a piece of clothing and put it on the old man, and waved the whip, the old cow mooed. He groaned, and walked slowly into the street while pulling the cart with his hooves.

The sounds of shafts and hooves gradually disappeared into the mist.

On the cart, the open page of the book next to the old man.

"Huang Chuan Maozhi, Mr. Lu often heard that there were strange people in the neighboring county who were good at expelling people and harming people invisible. They caused disasters in the village for a few years. Later, they were killed by thunder and left a book called "Yu Sheng..."

(End of this chapter)