Unparalleled Double Harmony

Chapter 17

After a while, Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai took advantage of the moonlight to sneak out of Zeng Mansion over the wall.

In those days, when it got dark, there were basically no people on the street, and there were no street lights and the like, so they were not worried that someone would find them.

Mingjiao Temple is very close to Zeng's Mansion, just two streets away, and it can be said that it is within walking distance. It took only 5 minutes for Sun and Huang to arrive at the back wall of the temple, and they reconciled with Zhou Wu smoothly.

Because the plan had already been made in advance, the three of them didn't need to talk too much after they met. They exchanged a few words in a low voice, and then climbed over the wall and entered the temple.

The body of the second wife of the Zeng family had been embalmed yesterday, and the shroud and coffin were also finished. At the moment, the coffin is being parked in an unused room in the temple.

It is not allowed to place corpses in Buddhist halls. Dead corpses, which are ghostly things, must not enter the Daxiong Palace unless they have been cremated.

Therefore, after the corpse of the second wife of the Zeng family was transported, it had been placed in a room without a Buddha statue for the monks to recite sutras around.

Monks are also human beings, and they also need to rest.At night, they went to rest, leaving only a fifteen or sixteen-year-old young novice, watching the coffin here, symbolically watching the night.

On Wednesday, Sun Huang came to the door of the mortuary room (the door of the mortuary room cannot be closed), took a look inside, and found that the little monk was sitting cross-legged with his back to the door, with his head bowed, already dozing off.

Seeing this, the three of them just exchanged glances, without saying anything, Huang Donglai walked in first; I saw that he approached behind the other party silently with light work, took a piece of cloth soaked in the potion from his arms, and walked towards him. When the other party's mouth and nose were blocked, the little monk lay down and became unconscious.

Sun Yixie and Zhou Wu followed closely behind and also stepped into the door.

"Brother Huang, your medicine is not bad." Sun Yixie teased in a low voice as soon as he entered, "Is it for picking flowers?"

"I'll pick your sister!" Huang Donglai retorted, "This is a serious inhaled fast-acting sleeping pill produced by my Huangmen, with a secret recipe! Do you understand the secret recipe?"

"That's fine, you can also get me a ten pack or eight pack some other day, I don't sleep well either." Sun Yixie said.

"Get lost." Huang Donglai said, "Call me someday if you can't sleep well, I'll knock you unconscious with a stick."

Huang Donglai still understands Sun Yixie. In order to prevent his brother from going astray, he firmly rejected Sun Yixie.

When the two of them said these few words, Zhou Wu on the side quickly opened the lid of the coffin (the lid of the coffin will not be crucified before the burial).

After all, Zhou Wu is also the headhunter of Luzhou City. Even if he is not a top expert, his strength is not comparable to ordinary people; even Sun Yixie can use brute force to remove the lid of the sarcophagus at home, and Zhou Wu opened an ordinary wooden coffin. It's not a problem.

"It's still there." After Zhou Wu opened the coffin, he glanced inside, and then said this sentence.

When Sun and Huang heard the words, they stopped joking with each other, but both came to the coffin and looked inside.

That's right, it is indeed "still" - the glazed fish is still tightly clasped by the Zeng family's second wife with both hands, covering her chest.

"Huh... Sure enough." After observing for a while, Huang Donglai said with a smile, "This second lady also died of poisoning." Binding Xiansuo'; when this poison occurs, the heart and lungs of the person will be as if tied by a rope, making it difficult to pulse and breathe, resulting in sudden death from suffocation in a short period of time; and another characteristic of this poison is that the dead body The "stiffness" phenomenon will come very fast and severe, as if the whole body is "tied up"... Therefore, as long as the glass fish is put into her hand shortly after her death, the current "dead man's prison" will appear. The illusion of holding on to something."

"Brother Huang Xian." Zhou Wu continued, "In this case, can we still..."

"Of course." Huang Donglai knew what he was going to ask, so he answered directly, "Just force it."

"Huh?" Zhou Wu couldn't help being stunned for a moment, "Is it that simple?"

"Nonsense, no matter how stiff it is, it's just flesh and bones, and it's not made of iron." Huang Donglai said, "Why can't it be broken?"

As he spoke, he had already reached into the coffin, and with a little force, he broke the second lady's hand away.

Seeing Huang Donglai take out the glazed fish so easily, Zhou Wu also gave a wry smile. Only then did he realize: In fact, in the past three days, anyone who was brave and not afraid to blaspheme the dead, If you dare to break it directly like Huang Donglai, the fish will be taken out.It is precisely because they are all afraid of ghosts and gods and believe in ghosts and gods that they take it for granted that the deceased's grievances cannot be dispelled, and they need to ask a monk to recite sutras before she can let go of her hand.

Of course...they really had to be patient to wait like this. After the time of stiffness passed, the hand would indeed be let go.

"Okay, it's done, let's go." Huang Donglai took out the glazed fish, put it in his arms, and walked out.

Zhou Wu and Sun Yixie didn't delay, they quickly walked to the two ends of the coffin, one head and one tail, took advantage of the opportunity to carry out the body of the second lady, and followed them out...

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At the third quarter of the ugly hour, the butler Zeng Su was tossing and turning in bed, having nightmares again and again.

As the saying goes, a thief has a guilty conscience.

Although Zeng Su is already a habitual criminal who has had several lives on his hands, and his own psychological quality is not bad, but after all...he is not a professional killer, nor is he a member of the world, he is just a member of a wealthy family. Butler only.In just half a month, it is impossible for a person to change so completely.

If the matter subsides this time, Zeng Su may survive in another year or a half... By then, he will get used to this mentality of living with his life on his back, but the current him is obviously not good enough. .

So, in his dream, everything went back to the beginning...

That day, the second wife of the Zeng family suddenly called him into the room, cried with him, and asked him when he would be able to take her away.

Zeng Su was speechless.

The second wife of the Zeng family is 32 years old this year, and Master Zeng is [-]; the so-called pear blossoms crushing crabapple, this big family, old couple and young wife, it is reasonable for such a thing to happen.

In fact, Zeng Su is not young, he is in his forties this year, but compared to Master Zeng, he is considered to be in the prime of life.

The adulterous affair between him and the second lady was concealed very well. Except for the person involved, only the second lady's personal servant girl in the whole house knew about it; at first, the maid was coerced and lured by them to help them cover up, but after a long time The maid became a grasshopper on a rope. After all, it was done at that time. Once the matter was revealed, the adulterer would go to soak the pig cage, and she, the maid, would definitely be beaten to death by her boss.

Originally, as long as they kept a low profile, they could continue to live like this. After the death of Master Zeng in a few years, they might be bolder.

But the second wife is still young, and she still doesn't accept her fate... She has a pursuit, and she doesn't want to be so sneaky. She wants to get a bunch of the Zeng family's minions, and let Zeng Su take her away.

As for Zeng Su, it wasn't that he didn't have the guts, but that he didn't have the brains—not that stupid brains.

What are you thinking?The Zeng family, is that an ordinary family?You ran away with the master's second wife?Can you run?Unless you can run out of the Daxiong River, you will definitely be caught and brought back.

Faced with the second wife's crying and threats again and again, Zeng Su knew that this matter would be difficult to deal with, so he decided... to run away by himself.

He had already made a plan, so he left a letter to Master Zeng, saying that he was sorry for the Zeng family, became greedy, and stole 100 taels of silver from the cabinet, because he had no face to see the master, so he could only write this letter and run away, please The master thinks about his love for many years, don't report to the officials to chase him, let him go.

Zeng Su's calculations were very accurate. This amount of money was neither too much nor too little, not so much that Master Zeng would find it hard to let go, nor so little that his escape seemed false.

At that time, he will take the money and fly away, and his life will not be a problem in the future, and the second wife can only stop thinking, if the woman really wants to make trouble again, she is just looking for death, and it has nothing to do with Zeng Su.

Originally, he was ready to implement this plan, but unexpectedly... the day before he was about to run away, he met a person.

That is a woman.

A "faceless" woman.

Every time she appeared in front of Zeng Su, she would change her face.

Sometimes she is a charming young woman, sometimes she is a stooped old woman, and sometimes she will become a beautiful girl.

That day, this woman took the initiative to find Zeng Su; she knew martial arts and was good at talking.

She knew everything about Zeng Su, including Zeng Su's adultery with the second wife, and Zeng Su's plan to escape alone.

She told Zeng Su that she had a way to make Zeng Su stay in the Zeng Mansion as a housekeeper, and to make the second wife "shut up forever".

Zeng Su didn't agree at first, but he soon discovered that the other party was not giving him a "choice", but threatening him...

Zeng Su didn't struggle for too long between being accused of soaking in a pig cage, killing his second wife and continuing to be the housekeeper of Zeng's mansion.

According to the woman's instructions, at the right time, he put the "Glass Fish" in the place where He Da and He Er often go, deliberately letting them find and pick it up.

He played tricks with that woman, scaring Zhao Daqiang sick.

He used the medicine powder given by the woman to trick He Er out at night, knocked him unconscious, took the glazed fish from his body, and pushed He Er into the pond.

He put the woman's poison into the water Zhao Daqiang drank, causing Zhao Daqiang to die.

Then, the woman pretended to be He Er's voice, put Liuliyu in He Da's room, and pretended to be a ghost again to scare He Da; Zeng Su followed closely behind, bringing her servants to the rescue.

He Da was too frightened, and told all he had seen and heard. Zeng Su used this as evidence to sue Master Zeng, connecting all the events before and after, and confirming the fact that "the glazed fish is an evil thing that attracts ghosts". And put this responsibility on the He brothers.

Afterwards, He Da left Zeng's mansion, and Zeng Su led people to bury Liuliyu in the barren mountains according to Master Zeng's instructions.

But that night, he quietly turned back and dug the things back.

After completing these, finally, it was time to attack the second lady; anyway, as long as the dead body had Liuliyu in its hands, the death of the second lady would be attributed to the same nature as those "haunting incidents" before.

After killing the second wife, Zeng Su told Zhou Butou all the "ghost stories" in front of all the yamen servants, so as to spread the matter to the streets and alleys.

On the other hand, after He Da left Zeng's mansion, no matter how he thought about it, he felt that things were strange; he was not interested in the truth, but he was afraid that evil things would find him again, so he went to the pawnshop again and wanted to ask the shopkeeper, Liuli What the hell is going on with the fish.

But he didn't know that the shopkeeper was also bought by that woman, and he was playing tricks.

Ever since, He Da's behavior brought him a fatal disaster; Zeng Su received the woman's instruction, ran to the inn to find He Da, and secretly poisoned his tea while talking with him, and successfully silence.

So far, Zeng Su already had four lives in his hands.

He was indeed not caught, and he kept his position as the butler of the Zeng Mansion; he was not afraid of "Jade Faced Flying Dragon Sun Honglei" and "Xudong Old Immortal Huang Xiaosei", he only regarded them as swindling charlatans.

But Zeng Su is afraid of ghosts, he is afraid that there really are ghosts in this world, and he is afraid that those who were killed by him will come to him to claim their lives; All for what.

Hiss - hiss -

The strange sound woke Zeng Su from his sleep.

He hesitated for a moment in the dark, and after confirming that the voice was not a hallucination, he quickly got up and touched the darkness to light the oil lamp on the table.

"Ah!" The moment the room lit up, Zeng Su screamed out in fright.

Because he saw a glazed fish on his table.

Hiss - hiss -

The voice outside the door seemed to remind him that the fish was not the scariest yet.

Zeng Su turned her head dully, followed the sound and looked towards the window, only to see... a familiar figure of a woman standing there, as if looking at herself through the window.

He recognized it, it was the shadow of the second lady...

In fact, even if Sun and Huang didn't bring the second wife's body here today, and just find a random woman to stand there, in this environment, Zeng Su would automatically think of her as the second wife.

"Namo Amitabha Buddha Nanmo Amitabha..." Under extreme fear, Zeng Su retreated to the corner farthest from the door and window, closed his eyes, clasped his hands together, and began to recite the only Buddhist scripture he knew, praying that the ghost would disperse.

He thinks too much...

A few seconds later, there was only a "squeak -" sound.

His door was pushed open a crack.

The butler is also a servant, and the door of the servant's room is not allowed to be locked, it can be opened by pushing it from the outside...

In fact, Sun Yixie had already opened it once when Sun Yixie quietly came in to release the glazed fish, but Zeng Su hadn't woken up at that time, so he didn't know.

"Namo Amitabha! Namo Amitabha..." With the opening of the door, Zeng Su recited sutras more and more frequently, more and more quickly, but he did not close his eyes again, because he was afraid that if he closed his eyes, he would see No dire danger approached.

Unexpectedly, after the door opened a crack, there was suddenly silence outside the door, and the woman's shadow disappeared, as if everything just now was just an illusion...

If the glazed fish on the table was not there, maybe Zeng Su would really start thinking about whether it was just windy.

Just when Zeng Su felt a little relaxed in his heart, suddenly!The second lady poked her head in from the gap in the doorway with her head slanted like this, and her pair of eyes stared straight at Zeng Su.

(End of this chapter)