The Demon Soul is Coming

Xia Yingchen looked at Liu Sang.

Liu Sang said: "Lady, the reason for calling the dance is because I was angry at me for the fact that the county magistrate Furou went upstairs the night before, but I really didn't do anything, she wronged me."

Xia Zhaowu said: "Hahahaha, her husband is still there, do you want to help him?"

Liu Sang said: "It's not me who came to her, but she who came to me, okay? And didn't I come down right away?"

Xia Zhaowu glanced at him: "I heard...you took off her clothes!"

Liu Sang said: "Then I threw her to the ground."

Xia Zhaowu laughed strangely and said, "And then pounced on it?"

Liu Sang shouted: "Don't make up your own mind, and then I will go downstairs, okay?"

Xia Zhaowu said: "Since you are going downstairs, what are you doing taking off her clothes?"

Liu Sang said: "This, this..." She looked at the lady timidly.

Xia Yingchen was eating on his own, and was too lazy to bother with them anymore... These two seemed to be back to normal again.

These two people were so quiet just now, it was indeed strange, but they kept arguing all over the meal... It was actually quite annoying!

In the afternoon, Liu Sang found Xia Yingchen in the garden, and saw her standing there alone, watching the maple leaves fluttering in the distance.

In the aster garden, the stream meanders, and the fiery red maple leaves float into the stream, circling continuously on the water surface, and then flow down the stream, not knowing where it is going.

Xia Yingchen stood there with light clothes and curly train, light and slender, as if she would go away against the wind at any moment.

Liu Sang said: "My lady seems to have something on her mind today?"

Xia Yingchen shook his head and thought for a while.Said: "Tonight is the sixth night of Yunji Seven Nights, and tomorrow night will be the Yunji Rare Fairy Club."

Liu Sang said: "So what?"

Xia Yingchen said: "After tonight, tomorrow morning, you will leave here with Zhao Wu and go to the Fox Clan Taoqiu."

Liu Sang hesitated for a moment, then frowned and said, "Why does my lady suddenly have such a request?"

Xia Yingchen raised his head.Looking at the sky: "For some reason, there is always an ominous premonition!"

Liu Sang was stunned: "My lady..."

Xia Yingchen turned around and stared at him: "Go to Taoqiu first and wait for me. After the incident, I will look for you. If the beautiful moon is over. Before I arrive, you should go back to Hezhou first."

Liu Sang said: "My lady..."

Xia Yingchen continued: "If I really can't go back to Hezhou, you take good care of your father and sister. Although Zhaowu loves to oppose you, but will listen to you, you..."

Liu Sang suddenly took two steps forward and raised his hand.

Xia Yingchen stood there, looking at him quietly.

Liu Sang waved his hand suddenly, and slapped her hard on the face.

Her temples were messy and her pretty face was slightly swollen.

Obviously escaped.But he didn't hide, Xia Yingchen sighed softly and stood there helplessly.

Liu Sang looked at her seriously: "Can I ask you something?"

Xia Yingchen said sadly: "Actually, my husband really doesn't need to ask..."

Liu Sang stared into her eyes, as if she wanted to explain everything clearly: "Do you...do you regard me as your husband?"

He pondered for a long time, as if even he was thinking about this question.Xia Yingchen said slowly: "Does my husband really want to know?"

Liu Sang said: "I must know."

Xia Yingchen watched his face, and said slowly: "Yes!"

Looking back at her gaze, Liu Sang breathed out: "Actually, I think so too." But he smiled wryly: "The reason why I stay in Ningyun City and stay with my lady is because I feel that even if she doesn't regard me as Husband, at least he has begun to regard me as a relative. I think there is already a tacit understanding between us. But lady, just like at that time, you would rather go to Juejizhou alone and leave me there. Doing the same thing, you're making me feel useless."

"Sorry, husband," Xia Yingchen raised his head, looked at the quiet sky, and said helplessly, "Actually, I also know that this is very hurtful, but I don't know why, and suddenly I feel restless. I can't go back to Hezhou again. If something bad happens, I at least hope that you and Zhao Wu can be safe and sound."

Liu Sang's heart was shocked... Although it was just a premonition, but with the lady's calm and calm attitude, she would be so uneasy. It seemed that something was really scaring her.He looked at Xia Yingchen and asked, "My lady, what are you afraid of?"

Xia Yingchen sighed lightly: "Do you really want to know?"

Liu Sang said: "Is it something that I don't need to ask?"

"It's not so much that my husband can't ask, it's better to say that I don't know how to answer." Xia Yingchen looked at the clouds in the sky and said softly, "If you have to ask me what I am afraid of, I think... I am afraid of death! "

Liu Sang said with a smile: "Everyone is afraid of death."

Xia Yingchen said: "But I am a little different from others. I have been very afraid of death since I was very young. When I go to bed at night, I will dream that I am killed by someone. When I wake up in the morning, I am not afraid of death." If I dare to open my eyes, I always worry that someone will kill me when I open my eyes. Every birthday, I will be very happy, because I always think that I will not survive that day, and then I start to be afraid, afraid I can't live the next life. I have no real friends, because I never dare to tell others what I am afraid of dying. I always feel that I am different from them, because they can live happily, but I might die tomorrow, six years old, seven years old, eight years old... that's how I got here day by day."

Liu Sang looked at her in shock... Everyone is afraid of death, but as a child, it is obviously abnormal to be afraid to that extent.

Xia Yingchen sighed lightly: "Let's go."

Turn around and walk slowly towards Fenglin.

Liu Sang was by her side.

Walking among the maple leaves all over the floor, Xia Yingchen said: "Husband, do you want to listen?"

Liu Sang said: "If the lady is willing to say something... I would like to hear it very much."

Xia Yingchen said: "My husband, do you know who the woman who hurt my father that day, led his wife to the Mountain of Three Corpses, and died at the hands of Zhao Wu?"

Liu Sang smiled far-fetchedly: "My lady never told me, how could I know?"

Xia Yingchen said sadly: "Her name is Jintian Yuchan...she is Zhaowu's and I's biological mother."

Standing there, Liu Sang was suddenly shocked... He was shocked, naturally not because of the secret he already knew, but because the lady finally told him the secret.He thought so.The lady will keep this secret all her life and will never tell anyone again.

Such an important secret, the lady actually told him.The lady is willing to tell him... This is something he never thought of anyway.

Xia Yingchen turned around, saw him standing there blankly, and smiled helplessly...no matter who it was.He would be surprised to hear such a secret suddenly.Seriously injuring her father, leading her to the Mountain of Three Corpses, trying to kill her, but in the end it was their mother who died at the hands of her younger sister. This kind of thing is really too bizarre.

Liu Sang murmured: "Miss, you said, you have been afraid of being killed since you were a child. The person you mentioned..."

"Well," Xia Yingchen sighed softly, "The person who killed me time and time again in my dreams, the person who was afraid of her appearing in front of me every time I opened my eyes. It's my mother."

She turned around and walked on.

Liu Sang silently followed behind her, waiting for her to continue.

Xia Yingchen said: "Although my father and I have been declaring to the outside world that my mother has long since died of illness, and said the same to Zhao Wu, but in fact, she has always been alive, and she left us by herself. That was when I was five years old. Most of the time, at that time, Zhao Wu was just a babbling child. That morning, my mother, who always loved us, suddenly broke in with a sword. She put the sword on my neck and told me . . . she will kill me."

Looking at her trembling hands, Liu Sang said in a low voice, "My lady..."

"Although I was young at that time, I knew that what she said was true. When she appeared in front of me again, she would really kill me," Xia Yingchen said slowly, "I don't know what she said. Time will come back, but riri is scared every night, I dare not tell anyone, even my father. I have nightmares every night, and I dare not go to sleep, so I have to hide in bed and keep crying .Sometimes, when my father found out, I lied to him that I missed my mother, and he comforted me, saying that my mother would come back one day, but I couldn't tell him. When he said that, I was What a horror, I really hope she... never comes back."

A girl who was only five years old was suddenly held by her mother with a sword around her neck, saying that she would definitely kill her, and then she just ignored her.But that girl couldn't tell others about such a thing, she could only bear that kind of fear, having nightmares every night and crying secretly.

Even just imagining it, Liu Sang feels pity.

A maple leaf twirled and fell, Xia Yingchen suddenly reached out and gently held it in his hand.

She sighed softly: "Many people feel that being a wife is too cold and difficult to get along with. Does your husband feel the same way?"

Liu Sang said: "I used to feel this way too, but now I know that although a lady's temper is cold, her heart is warm."

"I was not like this when I was a child," Xia Yingchen said, throwing a maple leaf into the stream, "I was a bit like Zhao Wu now. As for when I became like this, I have no idea. It's hard to say, on the one hand, it's probably because since my mother left, I've been crying and afraid in secret every day, but I want to be a sensible and good child in front of people, so gradually, no matter how much I have on my mind, I don't want to go To tell others, on the other hand, it is also because I have been required to practice female cultivation skills every day since I was a child, such as the Jade Girl Xuanjing."

Liu Sang said: "Woman practicing exercises? Are you talking about the ones passed down by Master Cao back then?"

Xia Yingchen said: "Well, those women's exercises are specially designed for women to cultivate their hearts and minds, and persuade people to stay chaste and poor, not to be slutty or slow. Before Madam Cao killed her husband, she strongly praised women's virtues, thinking that women It is beautiful to be weak and weak, no matter right or wrong, you should obey your husband unconditionally. There are also four virtues, which I want all women in the world to learn. These four virtues: chastity and leisure, and shameful behavior are women's virtues; in terms of choice of words, To stop at the right time is to speak for women; to dress neatly and not to be dishonored is for women's appearance; to be unsmiling and dedicated to women workers is for women workers."

Liu Sang thought to himself, Zhenjing is at leisure, and in terms of choice of words, she is neatly dressed and unsmiling.Almost all of these four ladies are occupied.

Xia Yingchen said: "The female cultivator's exercises created by Madam Cao can indeed make people calm and indifferent, and not be moved by external things, but in fact, they are just using exercises to forcibly suppress the desires in the heart and the pleasure of the senses. It’s nothing more than distorting women’s nature. Girls in the world always have all kinds of innocence and illusions. These female cultivation methods are for people to abandon these innocence and erase all kinds of illusions from the very beginning. Be dignified and demure since childhood. If After practicing for a long time, even sexuality will become indifferent. It is not so much that you are not moved by external things, it is better to say that you are no longer interested in external things. These female cultivation methods were still admired by some people back then, and they are still up to now ri, she has long been abandoned by the women of the world."

Liu Sang sighed: "Mrs. Cao is also a woman, how can she come up with so many things to embarrass women?"

Xia Yingchen said indifferently: "Probably because, before killing her husband, she herself is a woman who abides by the four virtues, so she feels that all women in the world should be like her."

Liu Sang said: "What kind of arrogance is this?" She deserved to be abandoned by her husband.

Just like in his previous life, Confucian Neo-Confucianism had tortured Chinese women for hundreds of years. For a long time, those rituals that tried to restrain women were taken for granted.And as a time traveler, especially as a time traveler who traveled from "modern times", he really couldn't understand that bad taste.

Imagine that Mingming is really lively, but because of these things, she dare not laugh or dance, the sister-in-law Zhaowu.That really means nothing.On the other hand, he also felt very lucky. Traveling to this era is at least much more interesting than traveling to the Ming and Qing Dynasties when Confucian Neo-Confucianism's restraint on the human heart reached its peak.

Liu Sang asked puzzledly: "Since the lady also thinks that this kind of thing distorts nature, why do you want to learn it?"

Xia Yingchen came to the stream, looked at Luofeng on the water, and said, "At the beginning, why did I want to learn it? It's just that I was young at that time, but the fear in my heart was too deep, and I was afraid day by day. , crying night after night, just like that for three or four years, when I was almost ten years old, I couldn't bear that kind of torture anymore, I just felt like my whole body was going to collapse, I climbed up a tall building, and wanted to jump down , When I came to the river, I wanted to jump into the river, and when I was practicing swords, I wanted to wipe my neck with the sword, the days when I was afraid of my mother coming back all day, it was better to die."

There was a heart-wrenching pain in his heart, Liu Sang whispered: "My lady..."

Xia Yingchen sighed softly: "What's more, at that time, Zhao Wu pestered me every day, and I took care of her. But sometimes, when she was sleeping, she would cry non-stop , thinking in my heart, if I die, what will she do? So I came up with the idea that it is better to take her to die together. Until one time, I was carrying her in my sleep, in a daze, and when I woke up, I found that I was Walking towards the river, the skirt was wet, at that time, I suddenly felt so scared, such days... I can't bear it anymore."

Liu Sang was silent for a while, and said in a low voice, "Is that when the lady started to practice those female cultivation techniques?"

"Well," Xia Yingchen said, "At the beginning, I didn't know if they were useful, but later on, I couldn't leave them anymore. Of course I know that they are things that suppress desires and destroy nature, but The fear of death is the greatest human nature. If you don’t have hope for the future, you will naturally be afraid of nothing. Purity, widowhood, chastity, and virtue, in the process of practicing the Jade Girl Xuanjing, I began to abandon All fantasies, don't give in to nightmares, don't be shaken by external objects, because only in this way can I live."

Liu Sang continued to remain silent...Because he was afraid of death, he collapsed so much that he wanted to die early, and because he wanted to live, he wiped away all his innocence so that he would no longer be afraid of death.

What kind of despair is this?

Xia Yingchen said: "I began to realize that the reason I was afraid of my mother coming to kill me was because I still loved her and I still had fantasies about her, so I abandoned all my innocence and started practicing martial arts crazily. Jian, what's so scary about death? Since she is going to kill me, let her do it. As long as I don't love her anymore, then she is my enemy. Since she is my enemy, I can kill her too. I lost her, why should I cry for her, why should I die for her? I forced myself to become proud, forced myself to look down on everyone, that is, from that time on, in the eyes of people around me, I became colder and colder, Because I am no longer naive, I clearly understand that my mother will definitely come to kill me, and I must live on, not because I still have much enthusiasm for life, I just don’t want to be killed by her, so That's all."

Liu Sang recalled the sword fight between his mother-in-law and his wife on Three Corpse Mountain.

He whispered: "At that time, the lady could have killed her, but you didn't do it..."

"Well," Xia Yingchen said, "I didn't kill her, not because I still have much affection for her, but just because I don't care about her anymore. During those ten years, I practiced jade girls day after day. The Xuanjing, and the Xuanjing of the Jade Girl is originally a kungfu that distorts people's hearts and obliterates nature. If she hadn't hurt my father, I wouldn't even bother to pay attention to her. That girl who would hide in bed and cry all night in fear, she is no longer my fantasy, nor is my shadow, for me, she has become... There are no passers-by."

Liu Sang thought to herself, although this is the only way a woman can go, it is precisely because she has abandoned all love, hatred and fantasies towards her mother that she can display the most perfect strength in the death struggle with her mother-in-law, defeating the strong with the weak , and finally succeeded in defeating the mother-in-law, and finally survived.

But the only correct path is to use exercises to forcibly suppress one's desires, distort one's human nature, and abandon the fantasy and innocence that every girl would have, step by step. come out.

The lady is an ice beauty.

Everyone knows that she is an ice beauty.

But who knew that her coldness and indifference were forcibly shaped by that human nature-distorting technique?

She actually...why does she want to become like this?

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