Chapter 141： Price (two more)

Chapter 141 The Price (two more)

Clearly the surrounding doors and windows were closed, but at this moment, Gu Yunzhen felt that the cold wind outside was blowing on her face like a knife.

She felt a faint chill rise from the soles of her feet.

Mrs. Murong, Mrs. Murong, Mrs. Murong, Murong Hui, Liu Muyu and the others flashed in front of her eyes alternately, and their hearts were full of doubts, speculating about the various possibilities behind this.

For a while, she couldn't help thinking of the dramas and storybooks she had read in the past, such as Bai Yueguang, cinnabar moles, family changes, deep-rooted love, involuntarily... The keywords such as substitutes filled her thoughts.

"Substitute." Gu Yunzhen muttered, as if he was talking to himself, and seemed to be asking Gu Yanfei, "Am I a substitute?"

After saying   , she felt that her guess was a bit absurd. She had only heard of people looking for substitutes looking for those with similar appearances, but she had never seen anyone looking for substitutes with the same character.

"It's really a 'substitute', but," Gu Yanfei sneered at the corners of his mouth, "Miss Liu should be the eldest sister's substitute."

There was a hint of mystery at the end of her slightly raised words.

Judging from the clues from the previous life, Gu Yanfei is 90% sure that Liu Muyu is Gu Yunzhen's stand-in.

"..." Gu Yunzhen was at a loss, completely unable to guess the meaning of Gu Yanfei's words.

Gu Yanfei went on to look at the second silk paper in the biography of Fei Ge, which was written about Shangqing Zhenren.

Shangqing Zhenren joined the gate of Boundless View from a young age, and worshipped Tiangang Zhenren's first apprentice as his teacher. It has been more than 30 years since then.

According to reports, he is the same as the legendary Tiangang real person. He is born with Dao bones and has extraordinary intelligence. He is especially good at talisman, alchemy, and feng shui techniques. Less magic.

For example, he once saw that the ancestral tomb of General Feng’s mansion was manipulated;

For example, he used to call back the second girl from Changning Houfu who had been dementia for five years;

For example, he used just one talisman to pull back the seventh son of Prince An's mansion, who was stabbed to death with a knife...

There are countless such miracles, and the Shangqing Zhenren became famous because of this, and they have the name of "living gods".

After reading it, Gu Yanfei handed both pieces of silk paper to Gu Yunzhen.

Gu Yunzhen also looked at it seriously. When she saw that the second piece of paper was about Shangqingzhen, she raised her eyebrows in surprise.

Gu Yanfei rubbed the depression under his lips with his index finger thoughtfully, and the old lady of the Murong family who was lying on the bed appeared in his mind again. The dead aura around him was thick like a cocoon, which tightly bound her.

"I once heard a story..."

Gu Yanfei only looked up, but Gu Yunzhen looked up from the silk paper and looked at her suspiciously.

This is actually an incident that Gu Yanfei witnessed in a mortal town when he was in Yaoling Realm.

In a small town, a scholar accidentally rescued a girl from a squire's family. Because of the grace of saving her life, the girl promised herself and married the scholar.

However, his wife was weak and died of illness within two years of marriage.

The scholar accidentally found an evil book. In order to resurrect his wife, he locked his wife's soul in her skull with magic, and then buried the skull in the ground, watering it with blood every day, from mice, to chickens, to cows... ...the amount of blood needed increases day by day until it needs human blood to be watered.

To this end, the scholar did not hesitate to kill one person after another.

Flesh and skin grew little by little on his wife's corpse, like seeds taking root and sprouting in the ground, but her body was no longer warm, her limbs were stiff, and she couldn't see the light.

His wife didn't want to be resurrected, and she didn't want to become such a half-human, half-ghost.

But the scholar still forced it, he couldn't let his wife die.

Because the scholar was originally in the middle of the road, if it wasn't for the wealth of the Yue family, he would have had nothing, and it was only the Yue family who could make a comeback.

Once his wife dies, without the help of the Yue family, the scholar will become poor and poor again.

Gu Yanfei suddenly stopped here, his eyes deep.

Gu Yunzhen's heart fluctuated with the story. At first, he was moved by the scholar's "affectionateness", and then he became obsessed with the scholar killing several people in order to save one person. Hearing this, he was disgusted by the scholar's selfishness and cruelty.

"What happened later?" Gu Yunzhen asked, feeling that the wife in this story was too pitiful.

Later...

Gu Yanfei blinked, as if returning to the memory of a hundred years ago.

Later, the wife was completely "resurrected", with flesh and blood, but her blood was black, she became an irrational evil and killed a whole city.

At that time, Gu Yanfei was ordered by his teacher to go down the mountain to eradicate evil things.

She witnessed a **** on earth with her own eyes. The wife's body was covered with human blood, blood in her mouth, blood in her hands, and she was still holding minced meat between her fingers, but she was crying, two lines of black tears gurgled down, Begging her: "Kill me!"

Gu Yanfei's eyelashes fluttered twice, and he didn't say this after all. He just wrote lightly: "Later, the scholar was killed by his wife, and the wife died too."

"Any sorcery has a price."

As Gu Yanfei said, he took out a handkerchief from his sleeve and handed it to Gu Yunzhen.

"..." Gu Yunzhen opened his eyes slightly, the end of his eyes turning red.

She was still immersed in Gu Yanfei's story, unable to extricate herself, and felt that her heart was empty.

The candlelight jumped slightly twice, and a drop of transparent candle oil flowed down, like a line of clear tears, under the candlelight, it was crystal clear.

"Cuckoo."

The pigeon let out a soft cry, and the two sisters looked for the sound in unison, and saw the three-flowered cat staring at the carrier pigeon, and the carrier pigeon shook its wings innocently.

Gu Yanfei grabbed the three-flowered cat, and pointed at the cat's nose, "You, don't know to bully Gugu all day long. Gugu is more sensible than you, and more capable than you."

Gugu is the name given to the carrier pigeon by Juan Bi.

"Meow!" The cat heard that his dignified beast was being compared with a mere pigeon, and almost didn't jump, and rubbed his claws twice in demonstration.

Gu Yanfei continued to teach the cat seriously: "You, you always eat and sleep, sleep and eat, do you know that this will make you stupid?"

"Look at you, you've grown fat into a ball, be careful not to jump high or jump far!"

Gu Yunzhen looked at this man and a cat, and was amused. He covered his mouth with a "puchi" and laughed, and the little melancholy in his heart disappeared.

Seeing that she finally smiled, Gu Yanfei curled the corners of her lips, and her eyebrows and eyes curved.

"Mi woo~" The cat approached and rubbed against Gu Yanfei's skirt intimately, and acted coquettishly around her. The sound was milky and waxy, which meant that I was the cutest, the most capable, and the most sensible.

"Okay, don't act like a spoiled child, just go to work!" Gu Yanfei lowered his head and whispered a few words in the cat's ear, then gently patted the cat's buttocks, signaling it to hurry up.

It is the best! The cat raised its tail high, glanced at the white dove not far away, and stepped out of the ancestral hall on the graceful catwalk.

In winter, the sky gets dark very fast, and the night has already fallen. At night, the Houfu is empty and lonely, silent and cold.

Tonight, the moon and stars are sparse, and the bright moonlight sprinkles softly in the courtyard.

The cat struttingly walked in the house, jumped briskly on the tree, jumped over the fence, stepped on the tiles on the roof of other houses, and took a shortcut all the way to the north of the city.

It is going to Murong Mansion.

Night belongs to cats. Qingguang doesn't recognize Murong's house, but other cats do, and there are even cats who diligently lead the way.

Sanhua cat took only one incense stick to reach Anding Hutong where Murong Mansion is located.

It is really powerful, it can run faster than a horse!

Qingguang thought triumphantly, licked her nose, and licked her paws.

The cat squatted on the top of the high wall, looking down at the gloomy mansion below, thinking about it for a while with the cat's face crooked, and finally remembered.

That's right, the master said, the old lady's yard is coming in that direction!

The cat howled again, and jumped towards the northwest of Murong Mansion...

It showed its ability to climb over walls, climb trees, and lift roof tiles. In three or two times, it found the yard where the old pines were dead and the pond was dry, and found the tree closest to the window and climbed agilely.

This time, its movement was a little too loud, and a section of branch was shaken by it and it made a "rustling" sound.

Pieces of dead leaves fell from the branches.

Sanhua cat took the advantage of being high and glanced at the window, and saw an old woman lying on the bed against the wall in the house, and a pair of men and women in their forties sitting on the coffee table and talking.

There was only one shofar palace lantern in the house, and the light was slightly dim, which made the atmosphere a little depressing.

The cat outside the house simply lay on the branch and didn't move.

The couple naturally heard the sound outside the window, but they thought it was windy at night, so Madam Murong glanced at the window and immediately withdrew her gaze.

"Master, the Gu family has already agreed to Chongxi. According to the meaning of Shang Qingzhen, I have set the wedding date on New Year's Eve." Madam Murong said to her master with a smile on her face.

"Okay!" The eldest master, Murong Hao, stroked his goatee and said hello with satisfaction, then asked a little unhappily, "Did Sister Yu run out today?"

Mrs. Murong nodded embarrassedly.

Liu Muyu is her niece, and she can't blame herself for making such a mess at such a critical juncture today.

Mrs. Murong coughed twice, then cleared her throat and said, "I was also afraid that the Hou Mansion would be annoyed, but fortunately, Mrs. Gu Tai is a reasonable person and did not pursue it."

said, the corners of her plump lips curled up contentedly.

After all, the two families have already exchanged Geng posts, and the marriage has been decided. With the character of the second son, the Gu family can't find such a good son-in-law with a lantern!

Murong Hao heaved a sigh of relief, and didn't tangle any more, only admonished: "Madam, since this marriage will not change, then marry the person."

"Don't worry, sir." Madam Murong responded in a serious tone, and quickly changed the conversation, "Shangqingren will come tomorrow and will go to the Hou residence with me."

"I'm relieved that there is a real person here." Murong Hao stroked his beard again.

There was another rustling sound outside the window, and the swaying branches and leaves left a few hideous and strange shadows on the window paper, as if something was hidden in the dark and peeped at them.

(end of this chapter)