Spring River Flower Moon Night: Set of 2 Volumes

Chapter 58
"Dou! General Qingke, hurry up!" Deeper Luzhong, a young man in floral dress and gauze hat was yelling softly under the lamp.

There was a clay pot in front of him, and two crickets were fighting happily in the pot.This man is Song Wenqi, the eldest son of the Song family of the wealthy family. He is over twenty years old but ignorant, and is a well-known swinger in the city.Although he has repeatedly failed the rankings, he is good at everything about flowers, birds, fish and insects. If someone's parrot has accumulated food, and whose yard has peach blossoms with worms, ask him to take care of it.

Recently, the eldest son of the Song Dynasty has become obsessed with Zhuzhi again, and the fighting insects he raised have won many battles, and he has gained a lot.

A gust of wind blew the flower window open, and in the dim moonlight, a small door in the courtyard was pushed open without a sound, and there was a pair of eyes inside, greedily looking at Song Wenqi who was playing in the window greedily.

Looking at his young and lively face, there was a look of resentment in those eyes.

Why does he have a wonderful life, but he doesn't know how to cherish it?Why is it him who is having fun, not yourself?Obviously he is also the son of the Song family.

The wind blew the slightly open door, and there was a light creak, which alarmed Song Wenqi, who was busy playing. He opened the window curiously, and looked into the courtyard.

I saw a firewood door half-closed among the flowers and trees, and there was nothing in the dark and empty gap in the door, like a ghost in hell, grinning its empty mouth.

一
In Hangzhou in late spring, the sun is getting brighter. In the sultry weather, there are few pedestrians on the road, and only the sound of insects is raging, which makes people even more disturbed.

In a luxurious inn, Wang Zijin was sitting by the window, fanning his folding fan desperately, but the fan was too small to create much cool breeze.

At his feet, there was a wooden basin filled with clear water, inside which was a snow-white fox, soaking in the cold water leisurely and contentedly.

"I said Zijin, don't fan me anymore, my head is almost dizzy from the shaking of your fan." The fox complained.

"Fei Xiao, you really don't feel pain in your back when you stand and talk, why don't you try it outside?"

"Isn't there a wooden barrel for bathing over there? No one is arguing with you."

Wang Zijin looked at the empty wooden barrel, then looked back at the white fox soaking comfortably in the water, and shook his head desperately, "I am a scholar, how can I be so unmannered? Such an informal matter, Absolutely can't do it."

Seeing that he was so pedantic, Fei Xiao ignored him, and wagged her tail twice, splashing a little water in the basin.

"My lord, an invitation has arrived." A servant outside the door shouted.

The prince listened and went outside to get the invitation card. While opening it, he wondered, who could it be?When I arrived in Hangzhou, only my mother knew about it, so how could anyone invite him as a guest?
"What is it?" Seeing the white fox, he jumped out of the cold water, squatted on the ground and shook the water off his body.

Wang Zijin only glanced at it, and immediately showed a joyful expression, "Today I have a free meal."

"Is there a treat?" the fox said as he walked into the back room, and when he came out again, he had turned into a handsome young man in white, with red lips and white teeth, and water dripping from his black hair.

"It's a distant relative of mine. In terms of seniority, I should call her aunt. Her grandson has been selected as a candidate, and now he wants to entertain guests."

Fei Xiao didn't care about the reason at all, she grabbed the invitation card and looked carefully, "Will there be a chicken?" Her eyes were focused, as if she wanted to see through the invitation card printed with elegant flowers.

"That's an invitation, not a recipe. Don't we know when we go?"

Holding the invitation card, Fei Xiao looked at the scorching sun outside again, a pair of beautiful eyes showed confusion, her pretty face was full of seriousness, obviously hesitating whether to go out in the sweltering heat or not.

Wang Zijin saw through his intentions and hurriedly whispered in his ear: "There will definitely be chickens, it would be too stingy to invite guests without chickens, ducks and fish meat, and it is estimated that there is not one chicken, but two or three..."

"I'll go!" Fei Xiao said as she slapped the window lattice, as if she had made up her mind, probably he was planning to soak in the water basin to eat chicken at night, and she was unwilling to let him go out now.

So at noon that day, in the sweltering heat, two scholars were walking on the street with few pedestrians.The sun was like the sea, engulfing their white clothes and green shirts, and in the hot wind, there was only a casual chat.

"Zi Jin, will there really be chickens?"

"There will be!"

"Can you guarantee that there will be?"

"..."

Half an hour later, the two arrived in front of the mansion marked on the invitation. From afar, there was an endless stream of guests.

At this time, the banquet has not yet started, and most of the guests have greeted the host and have already taken their seats.Sitting on the table at the head seat was a white-haired old lady, wearing a bright blue gown, wrinkled face, and a gold headband on her forehead, she was very graceful and luxurious.

"Auntie, do you still remember me? I'm Zijin." Wang Zijin walked up and chatted with the old lady.

"Zi Jin, it's been a long time, it's been ten years, and he looks so handsome..." The lady stretched out a thin hand, but touched Fei Xiao's head.

"Xiaosheng's surname is Hu, this is Wang Zijin." Fei Xiao smiled when she saw it.

After hearing this, the old lady glanced at Wang Zijin again, she seemed a little disappointed, but still took his hand and chatted with him for a long time.

When it came to the emotional part, there were tears in his eyes, Wang Zijin was afraid that the old man would be emotional if he continued, so he hurriedly dragged Fei Xiao away from the main table, and took a seat to eat.

As soon as Fei Xiao took his seat, he attracted everyone's astonishing gazes. He unfolded his folding fan quite complacently, and was busy posing beautifully.

This narcissist, like a male peacock, opens his tail when he sees people!
Wang Zijin thought to himself, quickly pretended not to know him, started chatting with a guest beside him, chatted a few words, but found out that the one selected was actually a sixteen-year-old young master.

He only remembered playing with a child named Song Wenqi from his aunt's family when he was a child, but he had no impression of this young man named Song Wenjun.

"Then who is Song Wenqi?"

"You are the eldest son of this family." The guest replied enthusiastically.

"Then how is he now?" Wang Zijin was very happy when he heard the news of his childhood playmate.

Unexpectedly, the guest shook his head and said nothing, heaved a long sigh, and said in a low voice: "It's pitiful, he has been crazy for several years, and the Song family locked him up like a monster, and no one was allowed to visit him at all."

The dishes came up like water, and there was indeed Fei Xiao's favorite chicken. He let out a cheer and brought the plate in front of him.But Wang Zijin felt that his consciousness was drifting, and he only remembered the boy who played with him a long time ago.

His facial features are handsome, well-behaved and clever, and he doesn't look like a paranoid person at all. Why did he get mad?
"How did you go crazy?" Wang Zijin came back to his senses and continued to ask.

"It's strange," the guest looked left and right again, "it is said that he went crazy overnight, and after he became crazy, he would only say one word."

"What is it?"

"It seems to be about the door, the half-open door!"

two

"Half-closed the door?" This is inexplicable, it is indeed a crazy sentence.

Perhaps Song Wenqi was in his heart, and the food and drink were tasteless, so he left the table and walked to the old lady in brocade clothes, "Grandma, I don't know where Wen Qi is? Can you let me meet?"

"Is it Fu'er?" The old lady was old, she forgot about Prince Jin in a moment, and said without thinking, "Do you miss Wen Qi?"

"I'm Zijin, didn't I talk just now?"

"Zi Jin? Oh, yes, it's Zi Jin!" The old lady replied with a smile, "Wen Qi is fine, I'll let someone take you to see him."

After she said that, she summoned a servant and asked him to lead the way for Prince Jin.

Wang Zijin followed the servants to the backyard, and a middle-aged man with a long beard twitched slightly, looked at him very nervously at the banquet, and when he saw Wang Zijin noticed, he quickly looked away.

Puzzled, Wang Zijin followed the servant along the nine-curved corridor to the inner courtyard.

I saw that the rockery in the yard was scattered and carefully arranged, but now he has no intention of admiring it, and only thinks about his childhood playmates.

"Young master, the young master is inside." The servant led him through a moon gate and came to an elegant house.

I saw that the yard was full of peach trees. Although the peach blossoms were withered at this time, the branches danced like dances, complementing the summer flowers. Obviously, the people who planted the trees put a lot of thought into it.

Wang Zijin was excited, stepped on the cobblestone path, and came to the door of the room.There were dense peach leaves behind him, and the sunlight seemed to be gradually fading in the courtyard, but he knocked on the door a few times, but there was no sound and no one answered.

"What's the matter?" Wang Zijin turned around and asked the servant, but he saw that there was no one beside the Moon Gate, and the servant returned to the front yard to do some work at some point.

Looking at the closed carved wooden door, he couldn't help being afraid. For some reason, this quiet and beautiful courtyard made him nervous.

"Win Qi, are you there?" He tried to push the door, but the door was unlocked, and opened in response.

The room was pitch black, and the windows had been boarded up from the inside, filled with a pungent sour smell.

He quickly covered his nose with his sleeve, and after his eyes got used to the darkness, he realized that it was a study room.There was no bedding in the room, only rows of bookshelves filled with books and dusty.A few sheets of paper lay on a table, which, judging from the dust accumulation, has not been used for many years.

At this moment, a soft moaning voice came from the dark part of the room, saying: "The door..."

Immediately startled Prince Jin, he followed the sound and saw a person sitting behind the bookshelf, wearing a satin dress, his long hair was disheveled, covering his face.

But the thick thick eyebrows and the straight bridge of the nose made Wang Zijin find Wen Qi's shadow.How did the lively and clever child in the past turn into this inhuman and ghostly appearance?
"Wen Qi, I'm Zijin, do you still remember me?" He asked softly, for fear of scaring Wen Qi.

Wen Qi looked at him in confusion, as if he was trying to recall his impression of him.When Wang Zijin saw that his originally fair face was covered with dirt, he felt even more sad.

At this moment, Wen Qi's eyes lit up suddenly, he looked behind Prince Jin, and shouted loudly: "Hurry up, close the door quickly, don't let it in!"

Wang Zijin was so frightened that he fled out of the study. Wen Qi then jumped up and slammed the door shut.

"The door, the door has to be closed! They can't get in!"

Terrifying cries kept coming from the door, making the bright sun in late spring even darker.

Seeing him like this, the prince was indeed completely insane. He felt lost and sad, and walked out of the quiet courtyard alone.

Wen Qi's voice could be vaguely heard behind him: "Don't leave the door ajar, ajar the door..."

Like a wail, but also like a complaint, floating in the hot wind.

The prince stepped on the growing summer grass and came to the moon gate again, but saw a thatched hut not far away, very close to Wen Qi's study, and the door of the hut was half-covered, revealing a dark crack in the door, as if Something is about to come out.

Wang Zijin was curious, so he couldn't help but take a second look, it's okay if he didn't look at it, but when he looked at it, he broke out in a cold sweat immediately.There was a white face inside the door, which was vaguely a woman with shawl hair and a pink dress, looking at him through the crack of the door.

There is still a curse-like cry in my ear: Don't leave the door ajar...

three

Wang Zijin felt chills down his spine, rubbed his eyes, but saw that the door was pitch black, where was the shadow of a woman?

He was in a daze when suddenly someone patted him on the shoulder, which immediately made him scream in fright.I saw Fei Xiao standing behind her at some point, with a cynical expression on her pretty face, looking at her with a smile.

"Oh, you scared me to death..." The prince couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief when he saw him.

"The chickens are all finished, we can go back." Fei Xiao looked around at the surrounding scenery and exclaimed, "This yard is elegant and unique, no wonder you hid here."

He looked around gracefully for a week, and when his eyes fell on the strange thatched hut, the smile on his face froze instantly.

"Is there something wrong?" Wang Zijin asked after seeing his expression.

"It's nothing, let's go back." Fei Xiaofeng narrowed her eyes slightly, turned around and left.

Wang Zijin walked with him in the garden, feeling depressed, so he told him about Wen Qi's madness he saw, lamenting the impermanence of the world while talking.

"How did he go crazy?" Fei Xiao frowned, seeming to hear the clue.

"It seems to have gone crazy overnight, without any warning."

"It's really strange." Fei Xiao shook her head and said, "Anyone who is crazy must have experienced sad things or been strongly stimulated. There is no reason why they are crazy."

Wang Zijin was not stupid, he immediately heard something in his words, and asked curiously: "Fei Xiao, did you notice something?"

Fei Rou's red lips curled up, and said with a smile: "It seems that there are monsters."

"So Vinci has a chance to recover?"

"The so-called magic height is one foot, and the Tao is one foot high, it depends on the ability of the person who saves lives." Fei Xiao proudly unfolded the folding fan, and fanned it again and again.

"Why did the monster want to kill Wen Qi?" Wang Zijin was even more puzzled.

"There are no monsters who are harmless. Do you think we are idle? Those with high mana and power have no time to enjoy this colorful world, and those who are weak are busy cultivating desperately."

"According to what you mean, someone borrowed the power of monsters to harm people?" He was even more chilled.

Seeing that Fei Xiao smiled and said nothing, it was obvious that she had acquiesced, and he could no longer hold back the anger in his heart.

Fei Xiao's beautiful eyes slanted, her eyes were like knives and swords, she was extremely cold, "Do you think there are so many strange things in this world?"?
Hearing this, Wang Zijin felt cold in his heart, and hurriedly said: "Let's save him quickly, otherwise he will spend his whole life insane, isn't it too pitiful?"

"Zi Jin, let's think about it in the long run..." Fei Xiao, who has always been a nosy person, turned her face away.

"No, no, how can you sit idly by and ignore people when they are in trouble?" Wang Zijin dragged him across the courtyard, and in a blink of an eye, he came to the hall where guests were entertained.

There was a mess of food and wine on the table, and almost all the guests had left, only the host's family was still talking and drinking.

He flicked up the corner of his robe, walked over and bowed to the Song family, "I'm bothering everyone for dinner, I have something to say."

"Fu'er, just say what you have to say." The old woman said kindly, but in a blink of an eye she forgot who Wang Zijin was.

Wang Zijin had no intention of explaining to her, and hurriedly said: "I just came back from visiting Wen Qi, and I happen to have a close friend who can cure Wen Qi's illness." After finishing speaking, he turned to look at Fei Hong behind him.

Fei Xiao didn't expect him to be so reckless, so she had no choice but to bite the bullet and stepped forward, "Xiaosheng's surname is Hu, he knows some medical skills, maybe he can help the eldest son recover."

Unexpectedly, as soon as these words came out, a middle-aged man with a beautiful beard and long beard who had been sitting in the main seat became anxious all of a sudden, and said: "You are also elegant and polite, why are you full of nonsense!"

Fei Xiao didn't answer, her phoenix eyes were smiling, and she looked at him wanderingly with clear eyes.

"My son is not sick at all, how can you treat him?" the middle-aged man said indignantly.

Wang Zijin knew that this person was his uncle whom he had only met a few times, so he hurriedly explained: "But, but I saw brother Wen Qi..."

"That's right, we made a mistake." Fei Hong grabbed him, "I'll take my leave now."

"I said Wen Qi will be fine. How can he be?" the old lady said vaguely, her eyes cloudy.

Wang Zijin only felt that this whole family was as scary as a monster. Their relatives turned into lunatics, but they ignored them. They were so indifferent that they were even worse than animals.

"Zi Jin, let's go, we will make plans later." Fei Xiao pulled Wang Zijin out of the hall.

"Are they so cold-blooded?! I still have to argue with them." Wang Zijin yelled loudly, unwilling to leave.

However, as soon as he yelled a few words, it was as if someone had strangled his neck, and he couldn't speak anymore.Walking out of the hall, the door of a side room was half opened, and there was a person hiding behind the door watching the two of them.

The man was about sixteen or seventeen years old, elegant and handsome, with a hair crown on his head, but his eyes were as sharp as hooks.

Fei Xiao also noticed his presence, he and Fei Xiao looked at each other, hurriedly looked away, and slowly closed the door.

At this time, it was almost dusk, and the shadows of the trees were whirling. The prince entered and looked at the closed carved doors, only to feel that at this crazy moment, behind the doors, there seemed to be some ghosts and monsters hiding, greedily peeping at the bustling world. .

(End of this chapter)