Chapter 40: The Rain Is About to Come (Part 2)
"Quaguaguaguaguaguagua..." Dozens of crows screamed, flew up from a yard in the Baozhengfang not far from the Daming Palace, circled in the moonlight, and refused to disperse for a long time.
"Wow, wow, wow, wow..." The dog barking sounded one after another, and instantly woke up half of the house. However, whether it was the second generation ancestor who came back late after climbing the wall or the updater who inspected the time, they all hurriedly carried lanterns, and no one was willing to look at the mansion where the crows flew up.
The mansion was haunted, and many updaters said so. It is said that there were also updaters who had seen ghosts coming and going in and out in the middle of the night. A few days later, the updater who saw the ghost hung his house in his house, with his tongue stretched out half a foot long!
The rumors were so rumored that they could not be stopped at all. Some timid and rich noble children simply took their families to move elsewhere, resulting in the number of uninhabited mansions in the former Fengzhengfang, which was originally worth every inch of land. Every time it was late at night, it became more and more yin.
"Oh--" An old founding duke who was awakened by the barking of a dog sighed and turned over, staring at the ceiling with his eyes wide open. He never blinked his eyelids for a while.
He is one of the few people in the entire house who still does not believe in the haunted saying. He also does not believe it. With Wu Sansi and Wu Chongxun and his son, they can become evil spirits after their death.
The two men in the Wu family were scheming, one of them was better than the other. But even if both men and men became ghosts, the old founding Duke Qin Huaidao promised to knock them all down within three moves.
It's almost the same for a bullshit ghost, a foolish ghost! I'm afraid that until now, the two men and women, who are known for their ruthlessness, have not understood who they died at. On the night they died, why did the Imperial Guards, the Bad Division and the Baiqi Division fail to come to rescue them in time?
As for the "ghosts" that often appear in Wusansi's old residence, in the eyes of the old founding Duke Qin Huaidao, they are even more of a group of waste snacks. No matter how hard it is, it will not have any effect except that the price of the house in the Bianzhengfang has been lowering all the way.
However, Qin Huaidao, the Minister of Revenue, who had been retiring for several years, was too lazy to stop the "ghosts" from making trouble, and even more lazy to reveal the truth and make it public.
Gou Duan was crazy about Qin and among the founding heroes who went to Lingyan Pavilion, there were not many who could continue their wealth and honor to the present and have not experienced any interruption. Among them, they lived relatively well and were no longer inferior to those of the ancestors when they were alive. Only Duan, Cheng and Qin families were the three families.
As the saying goes, if there is a name that is wrong, it is not a nickname. The reason why the wealth that the ancestor of the Qin family, Hu Guogong, was able to be safely passed down to this day is because of the word "confused". Even if it happens next door, it will ignore it and ignore it.
However, today, Qin Huaidao, the founding Duke of Licheng County, wanted to keep his ears away, but it was a little difficult. Just as his eyes began to get astringent and just as he was about to close, the barking of the dog sounded again, one more and more intense.
"Nothing!" Qin Huaidao looked down at his old wife beside him and the beautiful maid on the bed in the outer room. He took out a velvet earcup from under the pillow and covered it hard on his ear.
This time, he could go to bed with peace of mind. As for how the dog outside barked, he was too lazy to care about it.
"Second brother, next time you take fewer people, and make the dog bark like this, carefully alarm the Baiqisi!" As Qin Huaidao guessed, in the old house of the late Liang Wang Wu Sansi, a "little ghost" with a face covered with a black cloth complained in a low voice.
"It's okay, the cowards of Baiqisi don't have the courage to stare here!" The person who is called the second brother did not cover his face. Guangming showed a very beautiful but no longer young face. "Besides, this mansion is still under the name of Princess Anle. Let's come here to pay tribute to our uncle and brothers. Who can tell what's wrong?!"
"After all, you violated the curfew order! You lived in the Fengzhengfang and were caught. It was fine. But I came over the wall." The "little ghost" with a face covered was very soft, and it was extremely uncomfortable to hear it in people's ears.
"I have asked you to move to the shop for a long time. Who can you blame if you don't come?" Qingxiu's face curled her lips and sneered, and looked down on the masked man's reminder. "For you, renting a house or selling a house, isn't it impossible for you to afford that money?"
"It's not that I can't bear to give up money, I don't want to be noticed!" The "little ghost" with a face covered twitched his neck and whispered to tell, "That person seems to be slutty, but he is very careful. If all of our families moved to the same house, I guess Baiqisi would have to send someone to live next door immediately!"
"If you don't move in, will Baiqisi not pay attention to you?" The beautiful smile of his face became colder and arrogant, and he faintly felt a little disdainful. "It's better to be open and honest than to pay attention to it."
"Second brother is right. When we live in other houses, the Baiqisi people will often stare at each other." Seeing that the two were arguing, a "fat ghost" with a masked face sat up with a smile. "But, the third brother also makes sense. We should live a more scattered place, and the one in the palace will sleep more peacefully. If the Baiqisi wants to stare at us, it will cost more people."
"Fourth brother, when will you not be able to get along with me?" The masked ghost and the pretty face turned around and looked at the fat man, reprimanding him in unison.
"Now, now!" The fat man smiled and bowed, as if he could see the expression on his face through a masked scarf. "I mean, there is no need to argue about these things. The second brother likes the nobleness of living in the Banzhengfang, even if he lives in the Banzhengfang. The third brother likes the lively living in the Pingkangfang, even if he lives in the Pingkangfang. It is not easy for us brothers to come here a few times, so there is no need to waste time on these trivial matters."
"Well! Then let's talk about serious matters!" Qingxiu's face waved her hand and flatly accepted the fat man's proposal. "Have you heard about Zhang Yongzhao, the new Young Superintendent of Military Weapons, beat Hui'an, the disciple of the head of Baima Temple?"
"I heard that, the fight was good and the fight was very good!" This time, the "masked little ghost" did not deliberately face him, but instead chuckled and stroking his palm, "Second brother, I have long disliked the monk Hua Hui'an. I have been thinking about dealing with him these days, but he has been too close to Princess Anle and has not given me a chance."
"No, the second brother, although Zhang's surname is in the same group as Bi Gou, the fight was beautiful." In the corner, another tall and thin man took over the conversation and stomped his feet excitedly: "No matter what the princess does, she is still the wife of our Wu family. Brother Seven has not had a cold body..."
"Cough cough, cough cough..." The fat man lowered his head in a confused manner and coughed quietly, interrupting the "tall and tall" sound in the waist.
"Tall and thin" immediately lowered his head and waved his hand with a smirk: "Second brother, I'm not talking about you. You deliberately got closer to the princess for our Wu family. I'm..."
"Just say it! I, Wu Yanxiu, is not afraid of being crooked!" Qingxiu's face smiled, her face unrestrained, "But you better think clearly that now is the weakest time for our Wu family. If Princess Anle remarries an outsider..."
"Outsider, whom can I remarry? I can't really marry a monk! The man in the palace feels sorry for his daughter, he always wants his face, right?" The masked little ghost was stunned and blurted out his doubts.
Everyone present was also shocked and shook their heads one by one.
"It's impossible. No matter how hard the man in the palace can't control his daughter, he will not let Anle do whatever he wants in such a thing!"
"Second brother, are you thinking too much?"
"Second brother, if the princess is married to you, we will all be happy to see it. But..."
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"Of course the princess won't marry a monk. No matter how good the monk looks, he will not be able to have a sweet mouth!" Qingxiu's face waved his hand and interrupted everyone's discussion. "However, the reason why the monk took the initiative to trouble Zhang Yongzhao was because the emperor had sent someone to ask whether Zhang Yongzhao had become a relative. On the day when the emperor went to inspect the military weapon supervision, the princess dressed up as a man and followed him all the time!"
"Ah——" The doubts quickly turned into exclamations, and the room of "masked ghosts" looked at each other with their eyes, and they all saw anger in each other's eyes.
"Qua, quack, quack--" The large group of crows fell back to the trees in the yard, screaming loudly.
"Zhang Yongzhao said that he had already had a engagement, and when the princess returned, she burst into tears. So, that idiot Hui'an jumped out to find trouble for Zhang Yongzhao!" The voice of a handsome face continued to sound, as cold as the north wind outside the house. "It doesn't matter to us whether he beat Zhang Yongzhao or whether he was beaten by Zhang Yongzhao, his face was full of flowers. But since the person in the palace was determined to let the princess remarry, he would not worry about not being able to find the next suitable person."
"Damn it, Brother Seven has not yet cold!"
"What's wrong with Lao Qi's sorry for the princess? I've been killed for only a few days? The princess is actually thinking about finding a new love?"
"That guy in the palace is so sorry for our Wu family."
"He is an emperor, so how could he think of anything that he is sorry, as long as it is good for him!"
"Although Zhang Yongzhao's origin is unknown, he offered several weapons to conquer the country one after another. The princess finally lost her husband. So he was used by him once again!"
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Angry discussions came one after another, one by one, one by one, and one by one, was unpleasant to hear.
"Everyone, you scold me like this, and I will scold the one named Zhang in the Immortal Palace!" Among the group of angry lonely ghosts, the fat man called the "Fourth Brother" seemed particularly calm. "If you have the ability to curse, you might as well think about how to deal with this matter. As far as I know, there is more than the one who is in the palace in the bag, Zhang Yongzhao is the only one who chooses."
"The fourth brother is right!" The handsome face looked at the fat man with gratitude, and suddenly raised his voice and added, "The one in the palace will definitely not let the princess be young and relaxed, and she will live alone in her old age. She will not let the princess not be able to withstand loneliness and raise a monk. So, even if Zhang Yongzhao is gone, there will be Wang Yongzhao and Li Yongzhao..."
"It would be better to marry the princess to the second brother directly!" The "masked little ghost" who was called the third brother by everyone quickly interrupted. The voice was cold and dry, like a crow grinding his beak with stones on a winter night. "If the second brother marrys the princess, everything will be solved!"
"I'm afraid that the one in the palace will not agree!" Someone retorted in a very low voice in the corner.
"Kill all the things he likes and the princesses! He naturally has no choice!" The masked ghost "San Brother" sounded again, with a bone-thrusting cold.
Everyone was stunned and turned their eyes to Wu Yanxiu, who had no masked face and still had the title of Duke Huan, looking forward to his final decision.
But Wu Yanxiu didn't say anything for a long time. After hesitating for a while, he finally slowly raised his hands and bowed to everyone.
"Qua, quack, quack--" The crows clamored again in the yard, as excited as if they were found rotten corpses.
The moonlight shines like water into every yard in Chang'an City, and it is always as cold as it is.
Chapter completed!