I pricked up my ears and listened to Qin Peilai's story. I had always wanted to know, but could not ask the question. Because I respected her, I did not force her to make any decision.
When she started to tell this story, her eyes became blurred. She was smoking a cigarette at the moment, and in the smoke, she felt a loneliness and sadness that directly struck people's souls.
She said: This plum blossom mark has been growing on my body since I was born. At the beginning, it was not so dense, it was just a sapling.
I believe you can think of what I am going to say next, this tree grows as I grow older. Moreover, maybe you did not count the plum blossoms on the tree.
Every time I grow older, one more plum blossom will be added, and on my birthday, it will fully bloom.
Because of this, I was abandoned by my parents when I was very young, because I was a girl, and another reason was because of the birthmark on my body, my grandmother thought she was a monster. My grandmother, she
She is a very devout Buddhist, but her compassion was not used on her own granddaughter.
According to my recollection, at that time, she advocated burning me without anyone noticing. Therefore, I do not regret my mother for abandoning me on the side of the road, because this was my only way to survive at that time.
Maybe I was really an unlucky child. When I was born, my family's economy, which was originally good, plummeted. But after I was abandoned, my father suddenly started to have a good career, and the family was harmonious.
I was picked up by a lonely old man, and she asked me to call her grandma, but she also passed away when I was fifteen years old. You should be able to understand how I grew up after that, so in terms of misery,
You are no better than me.
Later, an elderly woman found me. She was my mother. She said that she had never given up searching for me for so many years and begged for my forgiveness. My own grandmother, who I hated so much, also went to accompany her ten years ago.
of Buddha.
Three months after I returned home, I killed my parents. In other words, when they found me, my body was already close to terminally ill.
I went from an abandoned child to a princess with tens of millions of assets. Only then did I realize that my parents had no other children except me, and I was the legal sole heir.
I prefer a free life, and I am not a business person. Rather than letting my father's company decline and collapse in my hands, it is better to sell it and let it be inherited by others.
I only left this house as a memory.
Having said this, Qin Pei pointed to the second floor and said: Before she passed away, my mother specifically told me repeatedly not to go to the second floor unless absolutely necessary.
But I'm just like you. If she didn't specifically tell me, I might not care, but if she did, I could no longer suppress my curiosity.
The second floor was originally sealed with cement, but I found someone to open it. The mourning hall inside was not decorated by me, but how it looked after I opened it.
I interrupted and asked: Did you also place the coffin covered with yellow symbols inside?
She shook her head and said: When I opened it, it was there. You don't have to look at me. Maybe I know what is inside, but I only know what it is because I have never opened it.
Her eyes dodge for a moment when she said this, but I clearly caught it as I stared at her. I felt like I was being used and teased, so I sneered and said: So you are just like your mother,
I specifically reminded me not to go to the second floor when you were leaving.
The purpose of arousing my curiosity is to cause me to go up to the second floor, open the coffin, and use my curiosity to satisfy your curiosity?
What do you dare to do, so you plan to let me do it? What a plan, little girl, are you treating me like cannon fodder?
She held my hand and said pitifully: Okay, I'm sorry, you know, I'm a girl and timid.
I threw her hand away and pretended to be angry: "Don't pretend to be pitiful for me. I can cook you a dish with goosebumps. You can do whatever you want me to do, but don't be petty in the future."
Will I make it?
She pursed her lips, nodded vigorously, and asked me: Are you not angry?
I glanced at her sideways and said: Okay, I will lose ten years of my life if I am angry with you. Tell me, what is in that coffin? I even heard the sound of breathing inside!
"There is a person inside," Qin Pei said as his expression returned to seriousness.
"What?!" I almost fell to the ground and shouted: "You said there was a person in the coffin?! How is that possible? Not to mention that the coffin is sealed. How hungry must this person be to stay in the coffin like that?
Long?"
Qin Pei smiled bitterly and said: "Actually, I don't know if he can be considered a person. I know of his existence because I got the suicide note left by my mother to me on the second floor. She told me that in this coffin,
It’s a person.”
Qin Pei handed me a neatly folded piece of letter paper, and I opened it. The handwriting inside was very beautiful. Reading the words was like reading a person. I can imagine what a gentle woman her mother was. The content of the letter is like this.
.
Peipei, when you opened this letter, I was no longer here. I don’t know how long it will be before you can see this letter. When I wrote this letter, my heart was tangled.
I want you to see this letter as soon as possible, but I also want you to never know the answer.
Perhaps it was your mother and I who committed evil in the previous life, and all the sufferings in this life have been borne by you. This secret, about you, has been hidden by your father and I for nearly twenty years. Even your deceased
Grandma doesn't even know.
Don't blame her, she's just an old person.
Before you read this letter, you must have seen the coffin covered with Taoist symbols. Inside was a person. A "person" that could not be called a person.
I don't know how to call your relationship with him. If you are talking about blood, you should probably be brothers and sisters.
I'm sorry that I kept it secret from you for so long - you are a twin, and after giving birth to you, I gave birth to him, your brother.
There is a plum blossom mark on your body, and it grows with you.
But your brother cannot be called a human being at all, he is a monster. So, if you still listen to me, you should not open this coffin, because the image of the person inside, your brother, is
, very weird.
I want to say sorry to you once again. I chose to abandon you because of your gender and the financial resources of the family at that time. Your father and I had to choose between you and your brother. We are common people and chose him.
abandoned you.
The two of us took him all over the hospital, but we didn't dare to go to a big hospital because your brother's image cannot be seen by many people. Others will regard him as a monster.
However, there is no cure at all, and many doctors even fainted from fear after seeing it. Chinese medicine, Western medicine, and Miao medicine were all tried, but to no avail.
Finally, like normal people, after trying the scientific method over and over again, the two of us began to look for another method. We took him to find an unknown and famous alchemist.
But you know, there are too many charlatans nowadays, and there are too few real experts, so we spend a lot of money, but it is still useless.
Until finally, we went up to Longhu Mountain. When the Taoist priests on the mountain were helpless and ready to go down the mountain in despair, we met a woodcutter.
A sturdy old man. Later we heard from others that this old man was already eight hundred and thirty years old.
Don't believe it, because it's true.
He glanced at your infant brother at that time, and the first thing he asked was: Did he have a twin baby girl with a plum blossom mark on her body?
When we heard this sentence, we regarded him as a god. At first, he was not willing to save his son, but later he was moved by our eagerness to save his son and told us, he said: In fact, this child, he is a
Ghost baby.
Naturally, we both didn't believe it, so he confirmed it to us. He asked us to put your brother aside. Only then did we realize that he didn't need any food, but he wouldn't die.
The old woodcutter sighed and said: What a shame, this ghost baby and your child with the plum blossom mark are brothers and sisters according to ordinary people's understanding, but according to the metaphysics of our Taoist sect, they should actually be husband and wife.
Yes, that is to say, your baby girl is the wife of this ghost baby.
Naturally, neither of us could accept it.
————When I saw this, I looked at Qin Pei, my whole body was shaking, and I was screaming in my heart: Don’t believe me, even I don’t believe it! What is this?
Qin Pei patted my hand and said: If you continue reading, you will understand.
The following content of the letter is:
We couldn't believe it, but we had to believe it. We could only kneel down and beg the old gods for guidance.
He sighed and shook his head and said: This ghost baby is very easy to handle. Once burned, he will continue to reincarnate. But if he is burned, your girl will die immediately. Are you willing?
But even if you don't burn the ghost baby, your daughter won't live to be twenty-six years old. When the plum blossom birthmark on her body grows into a twenty-six-petal plum blossom, but she still doesn't unite with the ghost baby, the plum blossoms on her body will be gone.
She will turn into a blood plum blossom, and she will die at that time.
After the old god finished speaking, both of us were frightened. Because we are ordinary small businessmen and we have not done anything sinister, how could something like this happen to us? Did we really commit evil in our previous lives?
The old god said: The fault is not with you, but with the parents of the ghost baby. This ghost baby had a secret marriage with your baby girl in the previous life.