Xiao Shijiro

Chapter 39
Xiao Shishilang and Shen Bijun were brought into a room.

At this point, they can no longer be separated.

They only admit that they are husband and wife.

The room is naturally very comfortable and exquisite, everything is placed where it should be, and there is absolutely nothing missing that should be there.

Anyone who lives here should be satisfied.

But Shen Bijun just stood there, not moving.No matter how delicate the things in this room were, she was unwilling to even touch them with her fingers.

It seemed to her that everything in this room was under the spell of a demon, and if she touched it, she would go mad immediately.

After a long time, Xiao Shishilang turned around slowly, facing her, and said, "You sleep, I will guard here."

Shen Bijun bit his lip and shook his head.

Xiao Shishilang said softly: "You look very weak, we must not fall down now."

Shen Bijun said: "I... I can't sleep."

Xiao Shishilang smiled and said, "You haven't slept yet, how do you know you can't sleep?"

Shen Bijun's gaze slowly shifted to the bed.

The bed was huge, gorgeous and very comfortable.

Shen Bijun shrank back suddenly, his lips trembled, and wanted to speak, but after trying several times, he couldn't utter a word.

Xiao Shishilang looked at her quietly and said, "Are you afraid?"

Shen Bijun nodded, then shook his head again.

Xiao Shishilang sighed, and said, "Are you afraid of me?... Are you afraid that I will become like those people?"

Tears suddenly came to Shen Bijun's eyes, and he lowered his head and said, "I'm really scared, very scared. I'm scared of everyone here, I'm scared of everything, I'm scared to death, but..."

She suddenly raised her head again, fixed her tearful eyes on Xiao Shishilang, and said, "I'm not afraid of you, I know you will never change."

Xiao Shishilang said softly: "Since you believe in me, you should listen to me."

Shen Bijun said: "But...but..."

She rushed over suddenly, threw herself into Xiao Shishilang's arms, hugged him tightly, and cried bitterly: "But what should we do? What should we do? Are we really going to live here for the rest of our lives, with those... those ...these people lived their entire lives?"

Xiao Shishilang's face also turned pale, and he said slowly: "There is always a way, don't worry, there is always a way."

Shen Bijun said: "But you are not sure."

Xiao Shishilang's eyes seemed far away, and after a long time, he sighed and said, "I'm really not sure."

He quickly added: "But we still have hope."

Shen Bijun said: "Hope? What hope?"

Xiao Shishilang said: "Maybe I can think of a way to break the curse of Mr. Tian."

Shen Bijun said: "How long will it take? Ten years? Twenty years?"

She raised her head and said with tears, "Please, please let me do one thing."

Xiao Shishilang said, "Say it."

Shen Bijun said: "I beg you to let me go to the devil's ceremony, I am willing to go, don't say that if you want me to stay here for ten or twenty years, even if you ask me to stay one more day, I will go crazy."

Xiao Shishilang said: "You..."

Shen Bijun didn't let him speak, and then said: "Although I am not your wife, but... for you, I am willing to die. As long as you can live well, it doesn't matter what you call me."

She had decided to keep these words in her heart forever until she died—but now, life has become so humble and hopeless, everything in the world is so far away from them, what else does she worry about?Why can't she reveal her true feelings?

Xiao Shishilang felt the blood in his body suddenly boil, and couldn't help hugging her tightly.

It was the first time he hugged her.

At this moment, honor and disgrace, life and death, have become insignificant.

Life seems to exist just for this moment.

After a long time, Shen Bijun let out a breath slowly and weakly, and said, "You...you agreed?"

Xiao Shishilang said: "If you want to go, I should go."

Shen Bijun suddenly raised his head, almost shouting, "You—"

Xiao Shishilang gently covered her mouth, and said: "You have a family, relatives, future, hope, and should be alive. But what about me? I'm just an insignificant tramp with nothing, If I die, no one will care."

The tears in Shen Bijun's eyes flowed out like a spring again, wetting Xiao Shishilang's hands.

Xiao Shishilang moved his hand away from her mouth, and gently wiped away the traces of her tears.

Shen Bijun said sadly: "It turns out that you don't understand my heart, you don't understand at all. Otherwise, how could you say that no one cares about you after you die? If you die, I...I..."

Xiao Shishilang said softly, "I understand everything."

Shen Bijun said: "Then why did you say that?"

Xiao Shishilang said: "Although I said that, I'm not really going to do that devil's sacrifice!"

He focused on Shen Bijun, and continued word by word: "I will never allow you to go either!"

Shen Bijun said: "Then...then are you going to spend your whole life here?"

She lowered her head and continued softly: "With you, even if I live in hell, I won't complain, but here... here is more evil than hell, more terrifying than hell!"

Xiao Shishilang said: "Of course we have to find a way to get out of here, but we must not use that method."

Shen Bijun said: "Why?"

Xiao Shishilang said: "Because if we did that, the result would be even more miserable."

Shen Bijun said: "Do you think Mr. Tian will not keep his promise?"

Xiao Shishilang said: "I think this is just a trap. Not only does he want us to die, but before we die, he also tries to play tricks on us, torture us, and make us miserable!"

With anger in his eyes, he continued: "I think he is not only a devil, but also a lunatic!"

Shen Bijun stopped talking.

Xiao Shishilang said: "If we are willing to sacrifice our loved ones and beg him for mercy in order to live, he will not only let us go, but will also mock and ridicule us."

Shen Bijun said: "But you are not sure, are you?"

She was clearly still hopeful.

Most women are more optimistic than men, because they don't see so deeply and far.

Xiao Shishilang said: "But I'm sure he's a lunatic. What's more, the method he said is full of contradictions. Just imagine that if a person wants to live for himself, he will not hesitate to sacrifice his wife. Isn't it obvious that he wants to live for himself?" His life is more important than his wife? Since he values ​​his own life the most, he should use his own life as a sacrifice. Since he has already used his life as a sacrifice, why should he beg others to let him go?"

He seldom spoke so much. When he said this, he paused for a while before continuing: "If a person is dead, what magic can hold him?"

Shen Bijun was silent for a while, then suddenly held Xiao Shishilang's hand tightly, and said, "Since we have no hope, we might as well die now!"

"Death", no matter what anyone says, is a very painful thing.

But when Shen Bijun mentioned "death", her eyes became extremely bright, and a strange blush appeared on her face. "Death" seemed to her a very exciting thing.

She leaned her head on Xiao Shishilang's shoulder, and said quietly: "I don't know what you think, but I already felt that living is painful, and only 'death' is the best relief!"

Xiao Shishilang said softly: "Sometimes, death is indeed a relief, but it is only the relief of the cowards and the weak! Not to mention..."

His voice suddenly became very firm, and said: "It's not time to die yet, we should at least try to see if we can escape."

Shen Bijun said: "But what the owner said is also very reasonable. In the eyes of others, we are no different from ants. As long as a small stone is used, we can be crushed to death."

Xiao Shishilang said: "It's not easy to escape, so I have to do three things first."

Shen Bijun said: "Which three?"

Xiao Shishilang said: "First, I have to wait until the injury is better."

He smiled, and continued: "That Tiangong obviously doesn't want me to die too soon, he has already treated my wounds, and I don't know what kind of magic or medicine he used, anyway, it works very well, I want to live again In a few days, my injury may heal."

Shen Bijun took a deep breath and said, "I hope so."

Xiao Shishilang said: "Second, I have to find out the magic and secrets to crack him first."

Shen Bijun said: "Do you think that the secret is really in this villa? Do you think he didn't lie about it?"

Xiao Shishilang said: "Everyone has a tendency to gamble, and lunatics especially like to gamble, so he will definitely leave a loophole on purpose, betting whether we can find it or not."

Shen Bijun sighed, "What's the third thing?"

Xiao Shishilang looked out of the window and said, "Did you see those two people in the pavilion?"

The remnant game just now is over, and the two old men are drinking and chatting.The old man in red clothes took the hand of the old man in green robe and pointed at the chessboard, obviously inviting him to play another game.

A person who has lost chess always hopes that there will be a second game until he wins.

Xiao Shishilang said: "I always think these two old men are very special."

Shen Bijun said: "Special?"

Xiao Shishilang said: "If my guess is correct, these two must also be martial arts masters who have long disappeared in the Jianghu, and they are much more terrifying than Lei Yu and Long Feiji."

Shen Bijun said: "So, you want to find out who the two of them are first?"

Xiao Shishilang sighed: "I only hope that they are not the two people I imagined, otherwise, we may not be able to break through just them."

endure.

Shen Bijun has learned patience since childhood.

Because in her world, everyone thinks that the first thing a woman should learn is patience. If a woman cannot endure, she is a sin.

So Shen Bijun also thinks that "patience" is a woman's duty.

But then, she suddenly felt that many things were simply unbearable.

In such a place, she could barely survive a day.

Now, four or five days have passed.

She wasn't dead, and she wasn't mad.

Only then did she realize that patience is purposeful and conditional. People can endure almost everything for the sake of their loved ones.

Especially women.

Because most women don't live for themselves, but for their loved ones—for her husband, for her children.

In the past four or five days, Shen Bijun suddenly felt that he seemed to have grown up a lot... This house is almost square, just like the "siheyuan" in Beijing.

As soon as you enter the gate and pass through the courtyard, you will find the hall.

There is also a yard behind the hall, which is usually called "patio".

On both sides of the patio, there are two rows of wing rooms.

The back row of rooms was used by the master as a boudoir bedroom for himself and his concubines.

There is also a small courtyard next to it, which is the residence and kitchen of the servants.

Lei Yu lived in the wing on the east side. He, his two "wives" and four maids occupied a total of four bedrooms and a small hall.

The remaining two rooms are where Long Fei lives.

Long Feiji is a very strange person, he has no interest in women, nor in wine, he just likes to eat, and he eats a lot.

When he ate, he didn't ask whether he was eating chicken or duck, and he didn't care whether it was delicious or not, he just kept stuffing all kinds of things into his stomach.

The strangest thing was that the more he ate, the thinner he became.

In the row of houses on the west, there are five doors that are always closed. It is said that the two mysterious old people lived in these five houses.

But Xiao Shishilang never saw them go in, nor did he see them come out.

Xiao Shishilang and Shen Bijun live in the remaining two rooms in the west wing, one is a bedroom and the other is a dining room.

Every day when it was time to eat, someone would bring the food.

The dishes are exquisite, and there is wine.

The wine is very mellow and a lot, enough to get seven or eight people drunk.

Drunk can escape many things.

Here, Xiao Shishilang seldom sees a completely sober person.

In the past few days, he has been familiar with everything here.

What the master said is true, as long as you don't go out of the scope of this house, you can move absolutely freely, no matter where you think, no matter what you want, no one will interfere.

But since he drank the wine that day, Xiao Shishilang has never seen his master again, and it is said that he rarely shows up at ordinary times.

If a person has to deal with more than a dozen beautiful concubines, one day is too short, so where is the time to do other things?

After breakfast every day, Xiao Shishilang wandered around, as if he was interested in everything, and greeted everyone with a smile.

Except for Lei Yu and Long Feiji, he rarely saw other men.

The girls who came in and out also seemed to be very interested in his big shiny eyes. Whenever he looked at them with a smile, their smiles became even sweeter.

As soon as Xiao Shishilang left, Shen Bijun closed the door tightly.

She is not afraid of being alone.

She has spent most of her life in loneliness.

Now, it is the fifth day.

The dinner dishes are roasted pork with bamboo shoots, scrambled eggs with Chinese toon, chicken slices with hibiscus, fried three dishes, a large plate of smoked sausage and sauced tripe, and a large bowl of bok choy meatball soup.

It is the master chef in the north who is on duty in the kitchen today.

Shen Bijun was in a slightly better mood, because she already knew that Xiao Shishilang liked to eat northern tastes, and these dishes were just to his liking.

She was going to have a drink with him.

Usually, as soon as the food is delivered, Xiao Shishilang almost follows him in. When eating, he always talks a lot.

No matter what he said, Shen Bijun liked to listen.

Only then would she forget for a moment her fear and gloom, what a horrible place this was, and how miserable their experience was.

But today, the food was cold, but Xiao Shishilang hadn't come back yet.

In fact, she has had many such experiences.

Since the second month of marriage, she often waited until the food was completely cold, and reheated it several times, but Lian Chengbi hadn't come back yet.There are almost 28 days in a month when she eats alone.

She was quite used to it.

But today, her mind was very disturbed. She picked up the chopsticks several times and put them down again. She could almost see through her eyes, but she still couldn't see Xiao Shishilang's shadow.

Xiao Shishilang never asked her to wait, what happened today?

Did something terrible happen to him again?
In a place like this, anything can happen.

Shen Bijun suddenly realized that he was so dependent on Xiao Shishilang and missed him so deeply that he could hardly leave him even for a moment.

The hibiscus chicken slices were frozen, even the soup was completely cold.

Shen Bijun gritted his teeth, opened the door quietly, and walked out quietly.

This is the first time she has left the house.

Every seven or eight steps on the corridor, there are palace gauze lanterns hanging.She suddenly found someone leaning on the railing, looking at her with a smile.

It's a thunderstorm.

Shen Bijun wanted to go back, but it was too late.

Lei Yu was already greeting her with a smile, wouldn't it be too rude for her to back away at this time?

Under the light, the pockmarks on Lei Yu's face seemed denser and deeper.

Every pockmark seemed to be smiling at her, the smile was so ambiguous and hateful.

Shen Bijun nodded reluctantly, trying to rush past him as soon as possible.

She must go to Xiao Shishilang.

Lei Yu suddenly stopped her and said with a smile, "Have you eaten yet?"

Shen Bijun said: "Yes."

Lei Yu said: "Today Lao Gao is in charge. It is said that he was originally the master chef of 'Lu Mingchun' in the capital, and his skills are very good."

Shen Bijun said: "Oh."

Lei Yu said: "Although this yard is not very big, if you are not accompanied by someone, you will get lost. If the girl accidentally breaks into the owner's house, it will not be fun."

Shen Bijun said with a straight face, "Who is the girl?"

(End of this chapter)