king's concubine

Chapter 240 Shocking Changes 3
Rong Huazheng rolled his eyes and said with a smile, "I came here to visit a distant relative. I heard that some bad things happened here. Come and see."

"Ah!" The shopkeeper sighed when he heard the words, sat down beside Rong Huazheng, invited Xiao Er to serve tea, and said: "The girl is really caring, she traveled thousands of miles, a girl's family came here to visit distant relatives, this is really precious .”

Rong Huazheng said nonsense, "In the past, my father and mother were taken care of by them a lot."

"The kindness will naturally be repaid." The shopkeeper nodded in agreement and asked, "Then have you ever found your distant relative?"

Rong Huazheng made a wry smile, "No, here... seems to be more... flustered than I imagined." It has reached the point where everyone's face has changed.

"That's right. This city was prosperous before, but now it's been desolate in just two years." The shopkeeper shook his head and sighed, and frowned when he remembered something: "Girl, you came here two months ago, why didn't you persuade me at that time?" Did they move out of here?"

Rong Huazheng frowned subconsciously when she heard that it was two years ago. It was very prosperous two months ago. Why did the shopkeeper say that it was two years ago?Could it be that two years ago it was actually more prosperous, and two months ago it was already considered a period of decline?

Rong Huazheng considered the words, "I can bear it at the time."

"How could it be?!" The shopkeeper's eyes widened. "Two months ago, the haunting was the worst here. The whole city was covered in smog. The most people fled here was two months ago!"

Rong Huazheng was stunned for a moment, and murmured: "But they were fine when I went there two months ago."

The shopkeeper stared at Rong Hua for a long time, and finally showed a understanding expression, "Maybe they don't want your family to worry, and they don't want to go thousands of miles away to rely on you, so they..."

Rong Huazheng sighed, "Their family is just too polite."

"Normal." The shopkeeper expressed his understanding very much, he remembered something, and hurriedly said to Rong Huazheng: "Girl, what do you want to eat?"

Rong Huazheng was really hungry, and she said several dishes in one breath under the stunned eyes of the shopkeeper. Rong Huazheng smiled shyly at the shopkeeper, "I'm on my way, I haven't had a good meal for a long time..."

The shopkeeper nodded sharply, turned around and said to Xiao Er in a loud voice: "Let the kitchen add some portion to each dish." After saying that, he turned his head and smiled at Rong Huazheng: "Girl, come to the shopkeeper, I will definitely be full. "

Rong Hua Zheng smiled, "Thank you shopkeeper." After finishing speaking, she asked without a trace: "Shopkeeper, what happened here?" She was very curious, what happened to make this place undergo tremendous changes in two months ?
The shopkeeper held his forehead weakly, "It's a long story, and it must start two years ago."

Rong Huazheng reached out to pour a cup of tea for herself and the shopkeeper, blinking and listening carefully.

The shopkeeper said, "Two years ago, a large number of people came from Kyoto. They overturned the nearby cities several times, and they only had to dig three feet of ground. Except for that group of people, at that time A large number of rivers and lakes also came
It is said that they came for the snow wolf. They wanted to go out from the city gate and go to Zhulang Mountain to find the snow wolf gall. "

Rong Huazheng heard the cup tilted in her hand, and the scalding hot tea overflowed from the cup, scalding her fingertips.

She wiped the water stains casually, and couldn't help asking: "Two years ago?" The shopkeeper must be old, how could it be two years ago, shouldn't this happen two months ago?
The shopkeeper had a humiliated expression, "Little girl, don't look at my age, shopkeeper, my memory is never wrong, it was right two years ago." After that, he continued: "Two years ago Xue The cities near the city suddenly had countless guarding soldiers, but one night, the soldiers guarding the city gate suddenly fainted for some reason, and then hundreds of people from the rivers and lakes rushed out of the city gate, but later But they were all intercepted by men in black with strong martial arts."

The cup in Rong Huazheng's hand fell feebly from his palm, and the cup hit the table with a 'bang' sound.With that sound, Rong Huazheng's heart suddenly fell to the bottom of the valley.

two years ago?
Isn't it... two months ago?

"Little girl, what's wrong with you?" Seeing Rong Huazheng's pale face, the shopkeeper hurriedly asked, startled.

Rong Huazheng opened his lips, and spoke with some difficulty: "This... happened two years ago?"

The shopkeeper gave Rong Huazheng a strange look, seeing that she didn't know what to say, nodded and continued: "Yes, since that night, great changes have taken place here."

"Before, there were a large number of soldiers guarding the gate of the city. After that day, all the soldiers were pulled away, and the gate can be entered and exited at will." The shopkeeper recalled: "Since that day, it seems that more and more people from other places come from the city every day. Now, people are pouring out of the city gate, and their destination is to go to Zhulang Mountain."

"A lot of people went there at that time. It is said that there were probably thousands of people in total. But not half of them came back, and those who came back are said to have turned back halfway because they were frightened by the strangeness of Zhulang Mountain, and the rest Those who did not come back resolutely went to Zhulang Mountain."

Rong Huazheng listened blankly.

"This upsurge of people going to Zhulang Mountain every day lasted for about three months. After three months, it seemed that the reward was withdrawn, and then no one went there anymore."

"And the days before were still good, but those who went to Zhulang Mountain and returned halfway, even if they didn't die, they only had half their lives left. When they came back, they were already a little confused. They couldn't tell the difference between east, west and north. ,

I can't tell if it's mud or feces, and I eat whatever I grab.They frantically walked up and down the street. There were hundreds of such people on the street every day, always coming to take advantage of the space. Soon no one dared to come out casually on the street. "

"Afterwards, some of those people were picked up by their families, and some were starving to death on the side of the road. People died every day, and their bodies were collected every day. After a while, there were ghosts in the streets and alleys.

For months, no one dared to sleep, and fewer and fewer people dared to live here, so many people went to other cities to seek refuge with their relatives. "

"The haunting has been going on for nearly a year and finally stopped. Everyone has been quiet for half a year, and half a year has passed. But two months ago, the haunting trend started again, and every day, people could see ghosts walking outside the city gate. Come in, everyone is panicked, so everyone is so on guard at night..."

Rong Huazheng listened, her heart turned cold, "Are hundreds of those who came back crazy?" Humans died for money, birds died for food, although Rong Huazheng felt that there was no pity, but it was all because of this. One thing went crazy, how sad the families of those people should be.

"But it's strange to say that those crazy people are not good people. It is said that they are all treacherous and evil in the martial arts world. After they die, it is said that some people in the martial arts world will let go of it!" The shopkeeper said strangely. .

Rong Huazheng felt better now. Thinking of what happened to her just now, she frowned and asked, "Shopkeeper, why is this haunted here? Did someone really see a ghost?"

The shopkeeper was overwhelmed by Rong Huazheng's question, he was speechless for a while, and murmured: "Isn't that..."

"Then why are there rumors of ghosts?"

"Two years ago, it was because some people kept having bad luck. They could trip over and fall to death while walking on the side of the road. Some people could swallow food while eating on the side of the road. Some people could laugh when they laughed. Death, there are even more outrageous, someone read a book by the side of the road and his eyeballs cracked, and then he died bleeding from seven holes, and there are more..."

Rong Huazheng was dumbfounded.

These ways of dying are really bizarre.

"Dozens of people died at that moment, and the various ways of death were very bizarre and unheard of. Moreover, since then, people have seen black shadows floating on the street every night. The temperature in the city has dropped in the past two years It's not as high as it used to be, and it's always windy..."

"What happened to the haunting two months ago?"

"Two months ago, I didn't know what happened. A large number of people rushed back from the outside of the city gate, beating the gate one after another, wanting to come in." The shopkeeper recalled: "In the past two years, the city gate has been almost blocked. No one dared to go out from there. Why would someone come back inexplicably? Everyone felt very strange. After opening the city gate, they found that those people turned out to be those people from the world who had not returned before. They came back unchanged... …

"

"How could someone come back from the dead in this world? Two years have passed, Zhulang Mountain is a vast expanse of whiteness, and there is nothing to eat. How could they have lived there for two years, and only ghosts came back..."

Rong Huazheng heard a lot from the shopkeeper that night, so much that she couldn't digest it, and the most difficult thing for her to accept was - two years ago!

She stayed in Zhulang Mountain for two months, but it has been two years here in the world.

And the child in her belly is only less than three months old...

She left Yu Wencan for two years, but had a child in less than three months.

Tell it, who will believe it?

Moreover, she left a note to Yu Wencan saying that she will definitely come back in two months.

Calculated by two months, she missed the appointment.

This was the first time in her two lives that she made a solemn promise, but it was the first time she broke her promise.

Two years, probably everyone thought she was dead.

If she returns to the capital now, will anyone think she is also a ghost?

Thinking of this, looking at the food in front of him, Rong Huazheng suddenly lost all appetite.

The shopkeeper saw Rong Huazheng holding the chopsticks, poking the food in the bowl nonchalantly, his eyes were red, he was startled, "Little girl, what's the matter? Is the food not to your liking?" He remembered her She said she was very hungry, and she even asked someone to increase the portion of the meal by [-]%!

One or two tears dripped from the eyes to snow-white grains of rice, Rong Huazheng shook her head.

"Oh, little girl, what's the matter?" The shopkeeper was a kind person, and when he saw the beautiful little girl crying, he panicked.

Rong Huazheng wiped his eyes with the back of his hand, "I'm fine." After saying that, he picked up the bowl and put rice into his mouth.

She has no appetite, but has to eat...

"Little girl, if you have any difficulties, I can tell the shopkeeper." The shopkeeper's voice was very gentle, "Although I don't have much money, shopkeeper, I can still give you two meals and some travel expenses."

When Rong Huazheng heard it, she didn't know whether to cry or laugh. Her heart was very congested now, but hearing the words made her feel a little warmer.

She seemed to be smiling at last, because the shopkeeper said: "Oh, it's better to smile, people, you have to face everything with a smile. Shopkeeper, I have lived for decades, and I always thought that many hurdles were transgressions." But, but ah, once you close your eyes and take a big step, it’s over, there’s nothing you can’t get through.”

(End of this chapter)