The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 197 Divination Operator (1)

Someone called me at the door of the book apartment, and the tone was affectionate, which surprised me more than the news of Cuiping's death in the book apartment.Because Cuiping's death had a reason to follow, and besides Bu Ying and others, I didn't know anyone else in the provincial capital.When I heard the sound, I turned my head to look across the road, and I was shocked when I saw it.

"Ruan Lang!" I cried out, "Why are you here?"

The person standing across the road was the small shopkeeper Ruan Lang I met when I first arrived in Luolian Town.In order to find his father, the old Ruan shopkeeper, he also went on the road and became a shopkeeper himself.We met on the way to Luolian Town, and later we learned that his father was dead, and a series of things happened.

What was even more surprising was that Mrs. Luo, the murderer of his father, had no hostility towards him and left all the family property to him before she died.This little peddler who had nothing at first turned into the biggest owner in Luolian Town.This is the first weird thing I have encountered since I became a city patrol horse, so I am deeply impressed by it, and I still remember it all the time.

Now Ruan Lang is not in Luolian Town as his master, what is he doing in the provincial capital?
Ruan Lang was also very happy to see me. He ran over from the opposite side and took my hand, saying in succession: "Sir! Sir! It's great to meet you. You promised to visit me in Luolian Town again, but you never Come on, I have some complaints about you in my heart. But you see, if you don’t visit me, we still met. We are destined, don’t we? Isn’t it?”

He spoke a lot of words like a cannonball, and I couldn't get in for a moment, so I had to let him hold my hand, and smiled wryly at Bu Ying and Ji Mingmei.Ruan Lang suddenly frowned again as he spoke, as if he had encountered some distress, "You know what, sir, I have encountered a very strange thing again, and I don't know what to do."

Seeing him coming up, Bu Ying held my hand without any explanation, stood there with his mouth wide open, and said in confusion, "Why... what's the matter, the one holding hands is going to elope?"

Ruan Lang hastily let go of what he said, and looked at Bu Ying and Ji Mingmei speechless.He was actually quite eloquent when he was a salesman, but he didn't understand Bu Ying's origin for a while, and seeing that he looked like a gangster, walking with us like a kidnapper holding a meat ticket, so he suddenly couldn't react.

Ruan Lang's mother, Ye'er, was Zhou Zhi'er's maid back then, he was the one who gave me my meteoric iron plate, Bu Ying actually knew all this, and I learned it from him.But Bu Ying also learned about this from his father, Bu Xiangkong, so Ruan Lang didn't know Bu Ying, nor him.

So I introduced both Bu Ying and Ji Mingmei to Ruan Lang, but I didn't say too much, just said that they were my two friends.When Ruan Lang heard that they were my friends, his expression immediately became intimate again. He first asked me why I appeared here, and I vaguely told him that I was here to find someone.

He probably thought I was here to deliver a letter, and without further questioning, he told me the ins and outs of his presence in the provincial capital.After listening to his narration, Bu Ying and Ji Mingmei and I couldn't help but look at each other, we all felt very strange, because what Ruan Lang said was really weird.

Ruan Lang had been staying in Luolian Town all the time, and Mrs. Luo's family business was somewhat complicated. Although he took over these family businesses, it was not easy to sort them out for a while.Fortunately, the mayor kindly helped him, but even so he still felt powerless.In addition, he, a foreigner, has become the biggest host in the local area, and there are many people in the town who are not convinced, and all kinds of things are also a headache.

At this moment, he received a letter, which was sent from the provincial capital, but it was not signed.He was illiterate, so he asked the mayor to help him read the letter.The letter said that there was a big family in the provincial capital, and there were three males in the family.Among them, the young master of the eldest and second bedroom had already married 30 to [-] years ago, and now they are all near the age of knowing their destiny.

Only the youngest among them, the third master, is quite different in age from the two elder brothers, and he has been weak and sick since he was a child. It is said that he can't blow the wind, so he has never shown himself in front of people.Because of his health, the third master never got married until he was 30 years old.

This family is quite powerful in the provincial capital, so if you want to tell the third master a girl from an ordinary family, it is not impossible.It's just that the third master is noble by nature, limited by his own health, and doesn't want to drag others down, so he has never agreed to this matter.Until almost ten years ago, the third master suddenly met a woman.

The woman said that she had been sad before, and since then she has been disheartened, and she doesn't want to show her face in the world anymore, so she voluntarily entered the mansion to be the companion of the third master, and she has been eating fast and reciting Buddha in the mansion ever since.In the blink of an eye, more than ten years have passed, and this third wife is indeed as said before, rarely going out in the mansion, and outsiders have almost never seen her real face.

Speaking of which, the third master is now in his prime, and the third wife is almost the same as him.Over the years, the Sanye and his wife have been quiet in the mansion, except for a special habit, they like to buy a bowl of wontons outside the side door at night.Over the years, hawkers who sell chaos have long been used to going to the side door at night, waiting to sell this bowl of wonton.

However, the strange thing is that there are two of San Ye and his wife, but every time the door opens, the people who come out only buy a bowl of wontons.This situation lasted for nearly ten years, and finally one day the wonton vendor couldn't help asking: "Why doesn't the third master like to eat wontons? I think the family always only buys one bowl."

The person who came out to buy wontons paused and replied, "Yes, the third master doesn't like wontons, only the third wife does. Now, here's the money, take it away."

After he finished speaking, he paid the money, then turned around and entered the door.The wonton seller didn't take it seriously, and left after taking the money.Unexpectedly, on the second night, she came to the side door of this family as usual, but she couldn't wait for anyone to come out to buy wontons.The wonton seller suddenly became strange, because this has never been seen in the past ten years.

Before this, the family had been buying wontons from her for nearly ten years, rain or shine, so suddenly one night no one came out to buy wontons, so she went up and knocked on the door, thinking to make sure they bought them. I still don't buy it, so as not to wait for the people inside to come out after I leave, and then I won't be able to find people.

She was thinking of knocking on the door to inquire, but as soon as her hand touched the door, the door suddenly backed away with a babble, and put on a gesture of inviting you into the urn.She was startled, and only then did she realize that the door was ajar.But there is no one around, and no one is seen coming in or out, so why is the door ajar?
Generally speaking, the door will be ajar only when someone is going out but not going out for too long, which saves the effort of opening the door when they come back.Therefore, the wonton sellers also had some understanding in their hearts. It turned out that it wasn't that no one bought wontons tonight, but that the wonton buyers had gone out and hadn't returned yet.

She figured this out, thinking that after all, she was a regular customer for nearly ten years, and she didn't want to let him come back in vain, so she just waited outside the door.Who would have thought that the person who had gone out hadn't come back after waiting until Haishi, and at this moment the fire on her cart had been extinguished, so she couldn't cook wontons even if she wanted to.

She wanted to tell the person inside the door about this, so she opened the door and walked in.She went straight along the path behind the door and came to a small courtyard. There was a Buddhist hall in the courtyard, and there was an ever-burning lamp inside. She saw a figure inside holding a bowl to eat something through the window.

Looking at the way the figure is holding the spoon, it looks like eating wontons.She couldn't help but wonder, she didn't sell this bowl of wontons tonight, how could the people inside eat wontons?Thinking of this, she didn't pause, but went straight to the window, intending to speak to the host, but the back door of the house was not closed.Besides, she trespassed into someone's house without permission, if she didn't know what would happen?

When she got close to the window and was about to speak, the window suddenly opened, and a beautiful face poked out from the window, smiling slightly at her outside the window.

This is a woman's face.

This woman is well maintained, her complexion is pink and tender, she looks like she is in her twenties, but she has a calm and dignified look that she doesn't have in her twenties; she looks like she is in her 30s, but she has a vicissitudes of life that she doesn't have in her 30s.So when the wonton seller suddenly saw her, he couldn't tell what age she was. He only thought that it could be from 20 to 40 years old.

She reckoned that the person in front of her was the third wife. She had sold wontons to the third wife for nearly ten years, but the helpers always went out to pick them up, so she had never seen the third wife in person in these ten years.So she opened her mouth very politely and asked the woman: "May I ask if it is the third wife? I sell wontons by the back door. I see that no one is going out to pick up wontons tonight, and the door is ajar, so come in and let the family know." , be careful of being thieves."

The female relatives of a rich family pay attention to a smile without showing their teeth, so the third wife just pursed her lips when she smiled at her just now.After she opened her mouth to ask, the third wife suddenly grinned at her, and it was this smile that almost scared her out of her wits.

The third wife hadn't opened her mouth just now, so she didn't see anything, but when the third wife grinned, she immediately saw a mouthful of jagged teeth, two of which were as sharp as an awl, almost punctured lips.Such a beautiful woman has such a mouthful of terrifying teeth, which is even more weird when compared with the two.

What made her tremble even more was that blood was dripping drop by drop from the gap between the third wife's teeth, which were as messy as chaotic rocks!
The gums of the third wife were also stained with blood. The blood seemed to have its own spirituality, some of which were escaping the shackles of the mouth, and smashed to the ground in despair, as if they were going to die with something; some of them were enjoying it, The mouth full of sharp teeth is used as a place for games, and it is wandering and frolicking in it.

The third wife was smiling at her, while stirring the contents of the bowl with a spoon, and then looking at the bowl in the third wife's hand, she suddenly realized that the bowl she thought was wonton was actually blood red.She gasped, this extremely weird scene had exhausted her both physically and mentally, and she was no longer able to breathe.

She just looked at the third wife through a window for a long while, she exhaled more and more, but she couldn't breathe anymore, her chest tightness suddenly became short of breath, and her vision gradually blurred.At this moment, someone suddenly said: "A bowl of wontons, no green onions, thank you."

These words sounded suddenly behind her, and she suddenly relaxed when she heard the words, and then she recovered her breath and turned her head to look behind her.Behind her, the servant who bought wontons from her for ten years was looking at her peacefully.The wonton seller met his eyes, and felt that his mind had not returned to himself until then.

She replied tremblingly: "The stove... the fire is off, cooking...can't cook wontons..."

Before he finished speaking, the person in the window suddenly said, "It's okay, I'll give you this bowl."

She turned her head and saw that the third wife handed her the bowl of scary red things in her hand.The wonton seller screamed in fright, and there was only one thought in his mind - blood wontons!The third wife ate blood wontons!

She thought that she couldn't bear it any longer, so she let out a scream, and immediately ran towards the door.After going out, she escaped from the alley without even caring about the cart, and ran all the way back home without daring to look back.After a night of shivering at home, she suddenly remembered something.

In that Buddhist hall is the third wife, and behind her is the servant, so what about the third master?The sick third master never showed up from the beginning to the end. Where did he go?

The more the wonton seller thought about it, the more wrong he became, so he suppressed his horror and went to the street, expecting to hear something about this family.However, to her surprise, there was no news from this family, and it was as calm as if nothing had happened.

After thinking about it for a while, the wonton seller figured it out. Something happened to this family, but he covered it up and didn't spread any news.She was even more afraid, because then she was the only outsider who knew about it, and this family was very powerful in the provincial capital, would they let her go?

When she thought of this, although she remembered that the wonton cart was still in the alley at the back door, she dared not push it back no matter what.So the cart has been parked at the side door of that family, and to her surprise, this family has never come to the door.

In the letter to Ruan Lang, he said that if he came to this alley in the provincial capital, he could still see this cart.There was a pot on the cart, and the wonton soup was burning in the pot, but the fire had been turned off for a long time, so the soup was already cold.

Ruan Lang received such a letter out of nowhere, thought it was someone playing a prank on him, so he ignored it.Who would have thought that he would ignore this letter, but in the following days, every once in a while, he would receive the same letter again.Until one day he couldn't bear it anymore, so he decided to visit the provincial capital.

What he never expected was that he really saw the cart in that alley, and the fire on the cart had really been extinguished for a long time.

(End of this chapter)