Spring River Flower Moon Night: Set of 2 Volumes

Chapter 74 The Monkey's Claw (5)
"That's why you smoked your body so fragrantly to cover up the smell of lime." The prince suddenly realized when he entered, and he couldn't help secretly admiring Fei Xiao's carefulness.

"Stop talking nonsense! Now that I've explained the whole story to you, don't you hurry up and help me realize my wish?" Mrs. Li suddenly looked fierce, her arm shook, and the sharp short knife immediately cut Wang Zijin's neck, and the bright red blood immediately seeped out.

"Zijin, the monkey's paw is in your hands, it's up to you to decide whether to kill her or help her."

"Kill me?" Mrs. Li's eyes were like autumn water, she tilted her head and looked at Fei Xiao with a half-smile, "Do you think Mr. Wang can speak faster than the knife in my hand? If he says a word wrong, I will let you He shut up forever. As for you, you are five feet away from me, how can you be faster than the blade of a millimeter?"

"Ma'am, why are you bothering?" Wang Zijin had a sharp knife in his throat, but he had no fear in his heart. He only looked at her beautiful face, and said earnestly, "Isn't it good to age and die like ordinary people? You reluctantly What is the difference between being alive and those demons?"

"Hurry up and make a wish." Mrs. Li's complexion became even colder, and she flicked her wrist, "Don't try to play tricks with me."

"Oh... how could I harm you?" Wang Zijin shook his head and sighed, holding the withered animal's paw tightly and said, "Tell me, what wish do you want?"

"A young body makes my body as young as it was 60 years ago!" Mrs. Li let out a shrill laugh, her eyes became blood red, and her facial features were distorted with excitement.

"If you can really make your wish come true, let what this woman said just now come true."

However, as soon as he finished speaking, a white light came in from the window with a whoosh, the light was extremely fast, and the crimson eyes were sharp, and he was about to reach out to stop it, but he was still a step away.

With a lightning speed, the white light instantly bullied the two of them, and with a bang, the knife in Mrs. Li's hand was split into two pieces.

"Who is it?" Mrs. Li was startled, and hurriedly looked to the window.

But I saw the dark night outside the window, and there was a pale human head floating in the air. That face was pale and handsome, and it seemed to belong to a young man. .

"Wow——" For some reason, Mrs. Li, who had always been calm and sophisticated, didn't even frown when the trick was exposed, actually let out a terrifying scream after seeing this face, apparently terrified to the extreme.

Wang Zijin was also frightened and backed away again and again, but at this moment, the figure standing outside the window flickered, and he realized that this person was wearing black clothes, only showing a pale face.Against the background of the night, it looks like a floating human head at first glance.

"Fei, Feixiao! Who is this person?" Wang Zijin was no longer restrained by Mrs. Li, and ran to Feixiao's side.

"I don't know, maybe it's another one who wants to snatch the monkey's paw. Don't worry, he will come in and report to the house in a while." Fei Xiao was very carefree, as if she had nothing to worry about.

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a sound of small footsteps outside the door, and a man in black walked in. This man was handsome and lacked blood, and he was probably in his twenties.

"Prince, we meet again." The man was not afraid when he saw Prince Jin and Fei Xiao, he clasped his fists in a graceful manner and smiled slightly.

"How did you know me? Where did we meet?"

"Of course, this is the third time we have met." The man in black raised his eyebrows and said, "The first time was in a dark alley, and the second time was in front of the gate of Li's house. The prince is really a nobleman who forgets a lot. thing."

"You, you are the thief who stole things?"

"It's me."

"You? Could it be the owner of this house?" Fei Hong sized him up and asked hesitantly.

"Don't come here! Ah Quan, I beg you, let me go, don't pester me anymore!" Wang Zijin was at a loss when he heard their conversation, and just opened his mouth to ask, when he saw Mrs. Li curled up in the corner , eyes terrified, sweating profusely, seemed to have been strongly frightened.

"Xiaofeng, why are you bothering?" The man walked up to Mrs. Li and said softly, "Even if you killed me and left my body in a different place, I never hated you."

"No, no! You are not A Quan, A Quan is already in the ground, he will not be in this world again!" Mrs. Li said with a smile suddenly, "Hurry up and tell me who you are, why are you pretending to be A Quan?" To lie to me?"

"I'm not lying to you. I'm Ah Quan. If you don't believe me, look at this..." The man said as he unbuttoned the clothes on his neck, and it was clearly visible that there were several layers of white gauze wrapped around his neck, which seemed to fix his head.

When Wang Zijin saw his appearance, he couldn't help gasping. He finally understood why this handsome man turned pale. It turned out that his head was hard-jointed, almost like a walking dead.

"Could it be monkey's paw again?" Wang Zijin looked down at the withered and ferocious paw on his hand, and a layer of cold sweat broke out on his back.

"Of course, if that thing can really bring happiness, why is it called a monster?" Fei Xiao pursed her lips and smiled, her eyes were full of disdain, "These people always want to take shortcuts to get happiness, but they don't know that they have to pay a greater price .”

Wang Zijin looked at the couple. One was decapitated, the other was festered. People did not resemble humans, and ghosts did not resemble ghosts. They could neither enjoy the joy of life nor die transcendentally. in hell.

For a while, I felt sad and sad.

"Aquan, I was wrong. I shouldn't have thought you were dead." Mrs. Li's face suddenly burst into dazzling brilliance, like an innocent girl, she threw herself into the man's arms, "You are just like in previous years, How could I die when I went out to buy goods? Look how stupid I am."

"Xiaofeng, what's wrong with you?" The man named Ah Quan suddenly shouted, "What are you talking nonsense all of a sudden? Have you forgotten? Ever since our family was rich, I haven't traveled far for decades .”

"No, you lied..." Mrs. Li smiled coquettishly, "You don't know, every time you go out, I worry so much, and when you are coming back soon, I will go to the entrance of the village to visit every day, even though it is cold outside. Very, I still can't help going out, but I want you to be the first to see me when you go home."

"Xiaofeng, Xiaofeng, what the hell are you talking about?" Ah Quan looked at Mrs. Li's smirking face, only to realize that her eyes were blurred and the corners of her mouth were drooling, obviously she was out of her mind.

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"She's crazy. The human brain has a limited lifespan. She's thoughtful and thoughtful. After so many years of calculations, she's exhausted. You suddenly appeared in front of her without warning, and she couldn't bear it anymore. Finally chose to escape." Fei Xiao said to A Quan coldly, "This time you come back, naturally it is for the monkey's paw, right?"

"Yes, but I'm not here for the resurrection." With a lonely face, he hugged Mrs. Li who was frightened into madness, and bowed respectfully to the two, "I want to ask you two to let me die with my wife."

"Why?" Wang Zijin asked in amazement, "Isn't it good to live forever?"

"It's not good at all. It brought me only endless loneliness and loneliness..." Aquan shook his head and smiled bitterly, "A hundred years ago, I was just a small merchant, and I depended on Xiaofeng for life. There was also a lot of joy. But until one day, I rescued an old man on the mountain, and the old man entrusted me with the monkey paw, and the nightmare began.”

"I see, you must not be able to resist using it to make a wish." Prince Jin sighed, "But I guess no mortal in the world can resist its temptation."

"Indeed, even though the old man told me not to open the box, I couldn't help but open it." Aquan sighed, "First I, then Xiaofeng, we all became immortal People. In the first few years we really had a very happy time, but then the pain was far greater than the happiness, and I was afraid that this thing would harm future generations. I searched all over the world for a way to seal it. When people wanted to destroy it, Xiaofeng knew what I was thinking, and she was afraid of death, so she chopped off my head one rainy night and threw it on the mountain."

When Wang Zijin heard him casually recounting his experience of being killed, he couldn't help feeling chills in his heart, and the white cloth around his neck became even more hideous and glaring.

What's under that strip?It must be fuzzy flesh and bones, right?

After thinking about it for a while, he didn't dare to think about it again, and he didn't even have the courage to look directly at Ah Quan.

"But the irony is that even if my head is broken, I still can't die..." Aquan said with a wry smile, "As a last resort, I had to come back again to steal the monkey's paw. I wanted to burn it with a fire, but I didn't expect dozens For many years, this box that no one has opened has been opened by Wang Gongzi. I specially appeared tonight, and begged Wang Gongzi to give us and my wife a death."

Wang Zijin looked at the foolish Mrs. Li, then at the pale A Quan, with a heavy heart, and nodded slowly, "Okay, I promise you."

"Thank you son, but I hope you can make another wish three days after we leave. I want to find a good grave for our husband and wife within these three days." Say hello, holding Mrs. Li, who is wearing elegant dresses and smelling fragrance, strode into the vast night, into the endless unknown depths.

The figures of the two disappeared in an instant, and Mrs. Li's sleepy singing voice came from the distant night wind: "Come like running water, go like wind; I don't know where to come and where to end? Life and death are short, but day and night. Urgent The rushing year, the rushing water..."

The prince stood in the courtyard, looking at the direction in which the two of them were going away, feeling agitated and unable to calm down for a long time.

After a long time, he turned back and asked Fei Xiao: "Fei Xiao, do you think Mrs. Li is really crazy? Why do I think she is not crazy when I hear that song?"

"In fact, she is crazy. From the time she saw the monkey's paw, it's just that she just woke up from that crazy dream." There was a gratified smile on his face.

"There is one more thing I don't understand. Immortality, is it really as lonely and lonely as Ah Quan described?" Wang Zijin scratched his head, seemingly puzzled.

"If you have a chance, you can try it yourself. Anyway, even if the two of them are fulfilled, you still have two wishes." The smile on Fei Xiao's face suddenly disappeared, and she didn't even want to look at him, she turned around and walked away with her hands behind her back. , seemed extremely disgusted by his question.

Three days later at night, Wang Zijin made a wish according to A Quan's instructions.

That night, the moon was white and the wind was clear, it was quiet and serene, but no one knew that two tortured souls had passed away transcendentally.

"There are two more wishes, what do you want?" At this time, Fei Xiao and Wang Zijin sat under the moon, with a jug of wine and a chicken in front of them.

"Wine and meat, happy life, I really don't know what I want." Wang Zijin looked at Fei Xiao, shook his head and said, "I don't care if I live forever, I hope God will give us 100 taels of silver tomorrow."

"Why only 100 taels?" Fei Xiao jumped up, "That's only enough for us to spend two months."

"No, beware of Qing Ling." Wang Zijin said in a low voice, "If he finds out that we have so much money, he will definitely come to us and grab it."

"What about the third wish?"

"The third wish is very important, and I have already thought about it." Wang Zijin closed his eyes and meditated for a long time, and finally put the withered monkey's paw back into the wooden box solemnly, and tightly closed the box cover.

"End?"

"It's over!"

"What wish did you make?" Fei Xiao asked curiously.

"You can't say, you will know in a while."

Just as Wang Zijin finished speaking, he heard a servant shouting from outside the courtyard: "Young Master, Young Master! Someone outside sent this box and said it was for you."

"It's so fast. Could it be that Ah Quan arranged it a few days ago?" Wang Zijin was overjoyed, and ran to the front yard. When he came back, he already had a long and narrow wooden box in his hand. The edge is pinched with gold thread, exuding a scent of fragrance.

"This is the wish you made? What's in it?"

"Don't you know if you look at it?" Wang Zijin said and opened the wooden box, only to see a peony gold hairpin for women inside. The carving is exquisite and really beautiful.

Fei Xiao glanced at it, and immediately her face turned ashen.

"This is a token of love given to me by Miss Coral. It was accidentally picked up by Aquan in a dark alley a few days ago. I feel so sorry for me. This time I finally got it back with the monkey's paw, otherwise how could I have the face to do it again?" Go to Shanhu to listen to the pipa?" Wang Zijin laughed as he talked, and he was so happy that he couldn't help himself.

"Zi Jin, you really are a person without desires." Fei Xiao sized him up for a long time, making sure that he was not pretending, before uttering a sentence.

"Ah? Why do you say that? Could it be that the things I want are all wrong?" Wang Zijin heard something was wrong, and began to ask him reluctantly.

But Fei Xiao no longer wanted to waste time with him, so she grabbed the chicken leg and stuffed it into her mouth, while eating, she looked up at the bright moon in the sky and let out a long sigh.

A few days later, Wang Zijin happily took Feixiao to the opera building to listen to the pipa, but the coral girl who had vowed to share her life with him had completely forgotten about him, but after seeing Feixiao, her eyes lit up. He kept showing, serving tea and wine for a while, playing music and singing for a while, and finally took out a whole small box of identical golden hairpins from under the bed, and wanted to give them all to Fei Xiao as tokens of love.

"Thank you for your kindness, Miss, but so many gold hairpins must be very valuable, and I really dare not accept them." Fei Xiao refused while desperately flirting, and her method of refusing and welcoming made her more clever than the women in the brothel.

"Mr. Hu, you really killed me. In fact, these are all fakes! I usually use them to deceive those stupid benefactors, but I didn't expect to meet you tonight. I didn't prepare anything valuable. Shi, I just hope you don’t dislike him, and you must come here often.” Said Shan Shan while looking at Fei Xiao affectionately, being confused by his demeanor for a moment, she accidentally revealed her old background.

And the prince in that box was trembling with breath, reached into his arms, took out a brocade box and threw it out of the window.

(End of this chapter)