Soft and cute female mage

Chapter 41
The old man explained:
"It was my nephew who died. He had no one else in his family except his married sister, so he was considered lonely. I lived next door, and I also took care of it for me.

I was supposed to go to my yard to entertain the two of you, but there hasn't been a fire since yesterday, and there isn't even a sip of hot water, so let's just stay here overnight.Let me get you two some water to wash up first. "

The two couldn't be more grateful.

Qin Xianghe sat down to rest first, while Fang Ling helped the uncle light the fire while talking without saying a word.

It turned out that this family's surname was Li, and except for a younger sister who had married to Minchuan City, the only deceased person in the family was Li Yuchun. Everyone called him Dachun.

This big spring is delicious and lazy, and he loves to do some sneaky things. He is also aggressive, aggressive, and rogue.

So much so that the villagers and neighbors would avoid him if they saw him.

His younger sister Yufeng is gentle and virtuous, and she is also beautiful.Later, when I went to Minchuan City to do embroidery work for others, Zhao, the state capital, beat me to him, so I accepted her as a concubine.

Ever since her sister married into the state government office, Dachun has become more domineering and defiant. She once crippled a boy from the village and drove him out of the village.

The poor boy's mother was blind and lost her only son. No one knew when she died.

Uncle Li is Dachun's second uncle, who lives next door, and is also a widowed old man.

When Dachun died, the neighbors all felt that he had suffered retribution, and no one helped him, and no one cared about him for a day.

Uncle Li had no choice but to ask his grandpa to tell his grandma to find someone to arrange it briefly, and then let him use his own thin coffin, so he reluctantly built such a mourning hall.

The mourning hall was set up, but there was not even a single mourner.Just wait for Yufeng to come back tomorrow to take a look and find a place to bury him.

Fang Ling thought that this was really a coincidence. Her father was invited by Mr. Zhao of the state capital this time. If he could meet Yufeng tomorrow, it would be good to inquire about her father by the way.

Before the gossip was finished, the water was boiled, and the two of them washed up briefly, and then bothered Uncle Li to find two clean clothes to change into.Uncle Li brought two more bowls of ginger soup and two pancakes.

The two of them were getting rid of the cold with ginger soup, and they were really hungry, so they thanked Uncle Li for taking it and eating.

Fang Ling asked curiously while eating:
"Master, you said earlier that it's not peaceful recently. Could it be that something happened in the village?"

Uncle Li shook his head.

“It’s nothing serious, but wild beasts have often appeared in the village for more than half a year, and livestock have often been bitten to death for no apparent reason.

I wanted to hold a funeral, so I couldn't keep you here, but then I was afraid that you two would run into wild animals, so I just gave up on you and made do with it. "

"Oh, so that's the case. I don't know what kind of beast dared to break into the village? It's better to install a few more traps around the village and get rid of them as soon as possible."

Qin Xianghe suggested kindly.

"How could you not pretend? I pretended to be several at the beginning. But that beast is very cunning. I have never touched it once, and I don't know what it is.

But Dachun somehow stepped on two traps in a row, fell into the river and drowned. "

When the old man mentioned this matter, he couldn't help feeling extremely distressed.

Qin Xianghe was confused.

"Oh? How can there be two bear traps in one place?"

"How can you pretend like that? There aren't many animal traps at all. Several families came together to get seven or eight of them. They were only arranged on the side of the mountain, and they were all far away."

"Then how could this spring step on two bear traps?" Qin Xianghe was even more puzzled.

"It's only on the side of the mountain, so shouldn't he call for help immediately when he stepped on the trap?
If he could walk, he should have returned to the village. Why did he cross the village and drown in the river? "

Fang Ling was also very puzzled.

"Who says it isn't? I went to see the place where the accident happened. He stepped on two bear traps and then walked along a ditch until he drowned in the river.

Everyone was also surprised, but except for his own footprints in the ditch, there were neither footprints of wild beasts nor signs of struggle.

Who knows?Maybe he lost too much blood and was confused.

well!If you do evil, you will get retribution!"

"Alas! Since he has passed away, I would like to express my condolences!"

Qin Xianghe sighed and comforted.

The old man looked up at Qin Xianghe and waved his hands.

"There's nothing to be sad about. It's all his own fault. People are dead, so there's no need to talk about it. You two should eat quickly and rest early."

Perhaps he was too tired during the day and suffered some frights. Fang Ling couldn't sleep well all night and had nightmares.

After a while, he dreamed that a monster crawled out of the coffin, grabbed Qin Xianghe, dragged him into the water and disappeared.After a while, I dreamed that the person in the water seemed to have become her father again.

She was so frightened that she cried and shouted, but she couldn't make a sound. She just kept crying. The tears flowed more and more, and soon they couldn't even pass her nose.

She was so drowned that she struggled and woke up suddenly.

It was because his head was covered with the quilt that he couldn't breathe smoothly and he was sweating all over.

When I looked outside, it was broad daylight.At some point, someone seemed to have come outside and was talking to the old man. Even though they were across the room, they couldn't hear clearly.

Fang Ling got up and freshened up, and when he came out of the hall, he saw two people dressed as government servants talking to Uncle Li.

When Uncle Li saw Fang Ling getting up, he came over and said:
"My niece will be here soon. I'm going to pack some food right now. You and your brother can stay and have breakfast before leaving. Minchuan City is only half a day's journey to the left of here."

Fang Ling still wanted to ask Yufeng about her father, so she agreed and followed Uncle Li into the kitchen.

Uncle Li didn't expect that Fang Ling was good at cooking. Not only was he quick with his hands and feet, but he was also sharp with his knife, and he also cooked several common ingredients well.

A two-color meatball soup can't taste a little bit of radish flavor at all, and the ordinary pumpkin pie is made golden in color, crispy on the outside, but sweet and soft on the inside.

Originally, he was kind enough to keep the two brothers and sisters to eat, but in the end, they let others do all the work, which is a bit embarrassing.

As soon as the food was on the table, someone was heard coming from outside.

Opening the courtyard door, I saw a pale and haggard woman with red and swollen eyes, looking very tired, and a thirteen or fourteen-year-old maid beside her.Presumably this is Yufeng.

What Fang Ling didn't expect was that besides the two yamen servants behind Yufeng, his father Fang Changqing was also on the list.

Fang Changqing obviously didn't expect that Fang Ling and Qin Xianghe were here, and he looked stunned.

While Yufeng was wiping away her tears while worshiping Uncle Li, Fang Ling quickly pulled her father aside and asked about the whole story.

It turns out that Yufeng has been suffering from hysteria in recent months.At first, it was just nightmares. Later, I got up in the middle of the night to dress up in front of the mirror for no reason, talking to myself. I sat there all night, and when I woke up in the morning, I didn't know it at all.

Mr. Zhao invited several doctors and Taoists before and after, but it didn't work.This time, I don't know who said that Fang Changqing has some real skills, so I want to invite him to try.

But he didn't want Fang Changqing to be completely frightened after dealing with the Qin family's matter, and vowed that he would follow his master's teachings and only accept fortune-telling and fortune-telling in the yin and yang house, and he would never accept exorcising evil spirits.

After Mr. Zhao heard about it, he posted the post and said that he was looking at the house. After Fang Changqing left excitedly, he realized that there was trouble.He declined from left to right, and only said that he had violated the great taboo of the patriarch, and the previous exorcisms had already shortened his lifespan, and he refused to do it to Li Yufeng.

In fact, it's not that he refuses, it's just that he doesn't have the ability.

As a result, Master Zhao was offended, and he was shackled with iron chains and thrown into prison.

It wasn't until yesterday that he learned that Li Yuchun was dead that he was released and went back to Linchuan Village with Na Yufeng to look after Li Yuchun's funeral and take care of his funeral affairs.

As Fang Changqing spoke, he glanced at the two yamen servants behind him who were inseparable.

(End of this chapter)