The slightly swaying lantern reflected the deathly silence in the blood-stained courtyard. The still-dead people were rolling and moaning on the ground holding their stumps, and the broken walls were still crumbling.
Chen Yuan leaned on the ground and swayed, her bun was messy, she wiped away the blood on her mouth, her eyes fixed on the figure standing among the corpses, the wood carving in her hand was lifeless, with several cracks and lines.
"You won't die this way..."
He forced himself to take a step forward. At the other end of his field of vision, the standing figure shook and trembled, as if the pain had returned. He sat down in a pool of blood, and his only remaining hand instinctively touched his empty left arm.
"Where are the hands..."
Li Yuanshan remembered something again, stopped looking for the arm, looked at the red spots on the ground, and murmured.
"Oh, by the way...I'm here to kill...the murderer...Liu Hui...where's your son, he killed my son..."
Chen Yuan supported the wall and took a few steps closer. He had probably heard Liu Yuanwai talk about what happened before.
"I heard from a member of the Communist Party of China that Liu Boyuan made a mistake and did not intentionally kill your son. Moreover, even if you pursue the case, you should report it to the official and let the Yamen make a decision."
The slumped man over there just muttered and glanced around. Liu Hui and Liu Yuwai were lying in a pool of blood with their eyes unblinking. There was a deep gash in his back that stretched diagonally from the nape of the neck to the lower back, and he had lost all sound.
The man looked at Mr. Liu who was motionless and muttered something vague.
"My son and that woman have both made an engagement... Why did his son come in? They have a good relationship... They are good friends... I feel relieved... In the morning, he ate with me at home
I only went out after breakfast, but in the afternoon there were no people around... Why were they gone... My heart aches..."
He lowered his head and looked at the blood on his hands, and some memories flashed before his eyes as if they were yesterday.
The high-spirited young man asked Xunxian.
He was sent down the mountain for lack of qualifications and wandered around the world. After meeting his sweetheart, he began to think about starting a family. He had children and established a family business.
The swaddling child slowly grows up, whispers, learns words, toddles, is slapped on the palm by his teacher, and pouts his little mouth in grievance... little by little, he becomes a handsome young man in his eyes.
If there is no accident, he will stay with his wife for the rest of his life until his death.
The memories that came back stopped, and Li Yuanshan tried to stretch out his only hand to hold him back, but it finally shattered and disappeared in his eyes. He shook his body, closed his eyes and howled "Ah——", bent down and pressed against the ground, hoarse
cried out.
Chen Yuan looked at him. He had never thought that a man could cry so sadly. The crying lasted for a while before it gradually stopped. Chen Yuan called him, but when there was no response, he staggered closer to him.
The man was kneeling on the ground, his forehead touching the ground and motionless. He was already dead.
Over there, Liu Yuanwai also died.
...One risked his life to avenge his son, and the other tried his best to protect his son. These are two fathers.
Chen Yuan was touched in his heart, but the tight nerves finally relaxed after the other party died. Exhaustion and pain came overwhelming, suppressing the touch.
His whole body shook a few times, his feet went soft, and he fell down among the corpses on the ground. In his shaking field of vision, he could vaguely see an old man in tattered robes running towards him, clutching his stomach. There were also many people heading this way from the courtyard.
Approach cautiously.
Chen Yuan closed her eyes, and darkness swept over her.
…
The color of consciousness returned was dark. I don't know how long it took, but warm breath shone on his face, and his eyelids turned warm red. Chen Yuan woke up from the severe pain in his body, and the room was filled with the smell of medicine.
He slowly opened his eyes. The bright sunlight was shining through the open window lattice and shining in front of the bed. There was some noise outside, including footsteps and voices. When he was fully awake, he recalled what happened last night and endured the pain as he sat up.
, in sight, on another bed in the room, a crazy old man in ragged clothes, with his limbs widely spread out, was sleeping soundly.
"Master..."
If the old man hadn't suddenly arrived last night and diverted the man's attention, he might not have had the chance to lie here. Seeing the old man occasionally scratching his messy hair and sleeping soundly, Chen Yuan couldn't help but smile and got out of bed.
He bowed respectfully to the old man on the bed.
Seeing that the old man was still sleeping, he didn't wake him up and staggered open the door to see what was going on outside.
The door opened with a creak. The nurse guarding outside saw the figure at the door and subconsciously took a step back. One of them hurriedly ran away, as if to call someone.
The remaining guard raised his hands respectfully.
"I have met Mr. Chen..."
Chen Yuan knew what these people were thinking. The previous group of businessmen and troupe people knew that he knew magic and kept a respectful distance when talking to Yin Chai. He nodded and said "Hmm", and then looked at the courtyard.
.
You can see government officials everywhere in the east chamber, and policemen are walking around. When Chen Yuan wakes up, a policeman brings two people over to invite him to talk. After all, there is a murder case in Liu's house, so there is no room for carelessness.
It was impossible for Chen Yuan to really tell the other party about the secrets, spells, etc., so he probably just picked up on "That man went crazy and rushed into Liu's house to kill anyone on sight" and "I received favors from Yuan Liu, so why should I do it?"
Go up to the rescue and fight with that person"... Such words were passed off in a perfunctory manner.
The people in the troupe didn't seem to tell the people in the yamen. After listening to Chen Yuan's description, the catcher nodded and took the people away. Anyway, the real murderer was dead, so how could he pursue it? After all, there was a motive.
The son of the Li family was killed by the son of the Liu family. The motive of the other party coming to kill him is reasonable.
"Is your young master awake?"
After the Yamen left, Chen Yuan thought of the soul-enchanting talisman and looked at the nurse on the side. The latter finally felt happy, nodded repeatedly, and replied respectfully: "Mr. Hui, not long after the talisman was burned,
My young master woke up early this morning."
Seeing that Chen Yuan was easy to talk to, the nurse's chat box also opened up.
"It's a pity that my master was killed by that man. If he hadn't been here, I don't know how many people in the house would have died at his hands. It's a pity that my master... Well, the county magistrate is also here today. He is probably talking to the madam."
Chen Yuan didn't say anything, smiled at the nurse, turned around and went back to the house. After standing for a long time, his body still hurt a little. When he returned to the house and sat down by the bed, he saw a black talisman on the pillow and quickly put it on the bed.
The nursing home outside called in.
"Isn't it burned? Why are you still here?"
"This is not the bedside bed of my young master." The nurse thought for a while: "It seems to be on Li Yuanshan. Madam said that this thing is evil, so she should leave it to the gentleman to deal with."
After hearing this, Chen Yuan's expression was dull, and he thought someone had cast a spell on him, but he already knew how to break it, so there was nothing to worry about even if someone cast a spell on him.
"Excuse me, brother, go ask your wife to prepare some livestock for me. The bigger the better."
"Sir, if you ask, your wife will definitely agree. I wonder where you put the livestock?"
"Just over there in the kitchen."
After being sent away from the nursing home, Chen Yuan knew that the current predicament was that he might not encounter it again in the future. He would not be so lucky again like this time. The best way was to improve his cultivation. Just thinking about the nursing home that he left before
When he came back, he was followed by Mrs. Liu.
Her eyes were red and swollen, and she looked haggard. Next to her was a skinny young man, her son. He had been lying on the bed for two months. He was so skinny that he had sunken eyes and sunken cheeks. He followed his mother silently.
Come in.
Before Chen Yuan could speak, mother and son had already knelt down.
"Sir, please accept my mother's obeisance."
The mother and son kowtowed, and the woman asked her son to give another big salute. Liu Boyuan already knew what happened from his mother's mouth, and looked at Chen Yuan with wet and red eyes.
"My benefactor, please accept the gift!"
After saying this, without hesitation, he kowtowed three times on the hard ground.
"Get up." Being kneeled and kowtowed, Chen Yuan couldn't find the right words for a moment and helped Liu Boyuan up with his own hands. "Your father has tried every means to protect you. From now on, the Liu family will
You have to take it up."
Liu Boyuan just nodded, and suddenly raised his hand and slapped himself hard. He stood there with a sob in his throat.
"If I hadn't listened to that woman's sweet talk and hung out with her obsessively, how could I have caused such a thing..."
"This is life."
The woman also shed tears and held her son in tears for a while before helping each other and leaving.
For one woman, two families were killed.
well.
Chen Yuan sighed and saw that his master was still sleeping, thinking about improving his cultivation, so he asked the nurse to lead the way to the kitchen.
The alley at the back door was crowded with domestic animals. A few hens stuck their heads out restlessly in cages, and a sheep was tied next to it and tilted its head to look around. There was even a big green cow inside, fanning its ears and walking leisurely.
Chewing the grass.
'It's just you.'
After asking the nurse to close the door and go to the kitchen to wait, Chen Yuan opened the chicken coop, grabbed a hen, held the chicken's neck and used his magic power.
Cluck...cluck...
The gray-gray hen struggled and neighed. When its wings fell off, its plump flesh shriveled up quickly.
Skylight cuts through the gaps in the clouds.
In another direction of the city, at the Li Mansion, a carriage stopped slowly. A green and tender hand rolled up the curtain and followed a woman out of the carriage. She was wearing a white and purple dress, walking in lotus steps and looking at the Li Mansion.
Door plaque, looking back at the car, with an ambiguous expression.
"Cousin, this place will be ours from now on."
"Well, it's all ours, ours."
The car curtain was slightly opened, revealing the face of a middle-aged man with a half-foot-long beard. He was quite elegant. He stared at his niece's pretty face with a smile, and the latter rolled his eyes in a coquettish way, full of coquettishness.
If Mrs. Liu were here, she would definitely recognize this as the county magistrate who just left her house.