When night fell, in a room of the inn, Cheng Ping, whose hands and feet were tied, sat on the ground and banged the door with his body.
"Hey, hey." He weakly shouted to the crack of the door, "This is really none of my business... Is your wife awake? Ask her when you wake up, she will definitely say the same..."
No one answered outside the door, but it wasn't that there was no one. Cheng Ping could hear breathing.
"Hey, how about you get me something to eat first?" he said.
Of course no one paid attention.
Cheng Ping had no choice but to move and turn around, sitting against the door and looking inside.
This was an upper room in the inn. Perhaps it was to make it easier for the lady to see him, so she didn't tie him up and throw him into a stable or a woodshed.
The room was beautifully decorated and warm as spring, with teapots placed on the tables.
Fortunately, he didn't have to be cold, so Cheng Ping moved towards the tables, held the teapot in his mouth and tried to drink the tea. Because of his unsteady movements, he almost choked and spilled the tea all over himself, but he was still happy and full of admiration.
"Not bad, not bad, good tea." He said, then took a bite and continued drinking.
Compared to his complacency, at the door of the house on the other side, two women came over carrying medicine with anxious faces.
Two attendants were guarding the door anxiously.
"How are you? Are you awake?" the two women asked hurriedly.
The follower shook his head.
"We went to see the doctor again and sent a message home," they said.
"Are you too harsh?" Xi Niang asked.
One of the attendants looked a little embarrassed and uneasy.
Could it be that he really lost his sense of control because of panic, struck too hard, and hit the lady so hard that she still hasn’t woken up yet?
"What the hell is this!"
The two women sighed and stopped blaming the entourage. After all, there was really nothing they could do at that time. They opened the door and entered the room.
The lady behind the curtain was lying on her back sleeping.
"Sanniang, I can't take medicine like this." Xiniang said in a low voice.
Sanniang also sighed helplessly.
"The doctor said it's okay. Take the medicine when you wake up. Don't give the medicine until you wake up, otherwise it will be worse if you choke," she said.
The two people sat down on the ground and looked at each other in sorrow.
How could this happen... It's obviously fine...
"It's all that little liar's fault!" Xi Niang said angrily in a low voice, "You're a hopeless person, now it's over..."
Sanniang was silent for a while and said nothing.
"Tell me, isn't it a little strange..." She suddenly whispered.
The young lady looked at her in confusion.
"She... was a fool when she was a child... Do you think she looks like a fool now?" Sanniang said in a low voice.
Xi Niang shook her head, she looked nothing like him in appearance or words and deeds. How could there be such a fool? If such people were fools, then what would happen to them and others!
"Didn't we agree?" she said.
"How can a fool be cured?" Sanniang said in a low voice, looking around, "Could he be possessed by something... I've heard that if someone is possessed, if it is revealed, he will be scared away. Scared away, people will be scared away.
It means she is dead... Look at her like that during the day, as if she has lost her soul..."
Before she could finish her words, Xiniang was so frightened that her face turned pale and she stretched out her hand to slap her.
"What nonsense are you talking about! What nonsense are you talking about!" she whispered in a trembling voice.
Sanniang was so busy that she didn't dare to say anything more.
The two of them were silent for a while, the room was a little dark, and the wind blew through the cracks in the windows and doors, making it even more creepy.
"Light...light..." Sanniang stammered.
Xi Niang hurriedly lit the lamps, and when a few lamps came on, the room felt a little warm, and the two of them couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"The doctor is here." A follower outside the door said.
The two people hurriedly stood up and watched an old man come in carrying a medicine box.
There were more people, and the two women were just about to speak when their uneasiness subsided, and a female voice came from inside.
"No, I'm fine."
This sudden female voice made Sanniang, who was holding a lamp to lead the way, scream out in fright.
Others were also startled by her cry, and the attendants outside the door rushed in regardless of their gender.
"Madam, madam, it's my fault."
Kneeling on the mat, the two women leaned over to salute and said in panic.
It turns out that this lady has woken up a long time ago, so what they said must have been heard...
How stupid. They are afraid of being caught talking about people behind their backs, so they could just do it in front of them...
"It's okay, don't talk to you anymore. I'm...scared myself. I thought people wouldn't be so hasty when they come in and speak. I didn't expect that I still scared you." Cheng Jiaoniang said.
How can you be afraid of yourself...
This, this is really disappointing...
The two women leaned to the ground and became more chatty.
"Madam, don't listen to that little liar's nonsense. You'll be fine. That little liar just relies on his mouth to trick people into eating and drinking..." they said hurriedly.
Cheng Jiaoniang shook her head and looked at them.
"You guys do me a favor." she said.
The two women were overjoyed. Instead of driving them away, they still wanted to use them. This was truly magnanimous.
"Go and buy some books with the money." Cheng Jiaoniang said, "It doesn't matter what kind of books, the more the better."
Book? Now?
Although the woman was a little surprised, she still responded hurriedly.
The sound of footsteps in the corridor woke up the sleepy Cheng Ping.
"...Here, put it all over here..."
Along with the voices, there was the sound of things hitting the ground.
"...be careful..."
What to do?
Cheng Ping hurriedly moved to the door and looked out with one eye. Two boys walked quickly in the corridor, each holding a thick stack of books in their hands.
Book?
How come so many books were delivered in the middle of the night?
"Is there anything else in the car outside?" a woman's voice sounded.
"Yes, I really want them all. Can I come over here, madam?"
Lady?
Cheng Ping was overjoyed, the lady woke up!
"Hey, hey." He bumped against the door with his shoulder, "Can you let me go?"
After shouting several times, someone came over, but did not open the door.
"Let you go?" the male voice said angrily, "Just wait, I'll come back to settle the score with you when my wife is done!"
What are you busy with at night?
Cheng Ping looked out through the crack in the door. It was already dark, and the lights in the corridor were flickering.
Forget it, let's go to sleep first and talk about it when we wake up.
As the east gradually became brighter, the woman guarding the door woke up from her nap and saw the woman opposite lying on the mat and sleeping soundly with a quilt.
It was almost dawn. The woman exhaled, rubbed her shoulders, sat upright, and looked inside.
The sliding door in the inner room is open, and you can see the woman sitting inside at a glance.
Sit up straight!
The woman suddenly woke up. Had she been sitting like this all night?
The lights were still on in the room, and the books bought last night were almost piled up in the room. They were scattered on several tables on the floor, and the lady was sitting among them.
She did not look through the book. The volume in front of her seemed to be the one from last night, while the other books remained the same.
In the gradually brightening sky, the originally bright candlelight was gradually dimmed, and the light in the room became dim instead, as if the vitality in the woman's body was gradually dimmed.
The woman couldn't help but press her heart, feeling like it was blocked.
It turned out that the woman walked quickly, shed tears silently, and screamed after falling to the ground. Compared with sitting there at this moment, it was really not that sad.
The real sadness is to feel so despairing.
Is it really just because of what that little liar said?
Three hundred years…
In life, if a white horse passes through the gap between heaven and earth, it will happen suddenly.
Her life and death spanned nearly three hundred years.
The sixth year of the Qianyuan period of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Cheng Jiaoniang lowered her head and looked at the open book, then stretched out her hand to touch the fresh inscriptions on it.
Familiar yet strange.
What is familiar is that this era exists in her memory, but what is unfamiliar is that this fresh feeling is not in the books she once studied, nor the precious ancient books stored high on the bookshelf.
In the sixth year of the Qianyuan reign of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the dynasty had only been established for more than seventy years. Now it was the fourth emperor Zhongzong. Where she was, the Fang family of the Great Zhou Dynasty had long been destroyed, and the Daqing Dynasty that replaced it had also been accompanied by the last emperor.
The sudden death of the little emperor caused the whole city to fall apart. A new flag with the word "big beam" written on it has been hung high on the city wall where the smoke of war still remains.
Cheng Jiaoniang stretched out her hand and calculated dumbly, that would be two hundred and ninety-four years later, and that would be the time when her Cheng family was destroyed.
Cheng Jiaoniang lowered her hands to support the desk, her slender fingers turning white from exertion.
Unexpectedly, the Jiangzhou Cheng family would suffer such a genocide, and this happened ten years after helping the Yang family in the war, and still...
"Ah Fang! My father has abdicated the throne, and the Taishi Bureau has chosen the day for you and me to be canonized!"
"Congratulations to His Majesty the Emperor, and congratulations to the Queen."
Cheng Jiaoniang smiled silently while holding a few cases.
How ridiculous, how ridiculous.
It was the person closest to her who personally ordered her to be shot into a hedgehog, and then personally dug out her heart.
How ridiculous, how ridiculous.
The fourth prince of the Liang Dynasty, Yang Shan!
Daliang Dynasty, Yang family!
People say that all good things are hidden in the flying birds, but the Yang family and the Liang Dynasty had not been able to secure the throne for a few days, so why did they raise the butcher's knife against the Cheng family?
The dynasty has been established, the country is initially stable, meritorious services are rewarded, and titles have just been conferred. Why did you raise the butcher's knife against the Cheng family?
Over the past hundreds of years, the turbulent times and court changes have never affected the Cheng family in Jiangzhou. As a famous family of great fortune-tellers, they enjoy the respect of successive emperors. The head of the family has inherited the Taishi Bureau from generation to generation, observing the sky, the earth, and the wind.
Yun, making history and compiling history, this is the world-famous Jiangzhou Cheng, a wealthy family that has been married for many generations.
The century-old Cheng family was destroyed in this way!
The family was confiscated and the entire family was exterminated. The cats and dogs were not left alone, and every plant and tree was burned!
The fire burns the banners, digs out the heart and cooks it, eats the soul and destroys the spirit, all yin and yang are eliminated!
Gone! Gone! Gone!
The Cheng family is gone! The Cheng family is gone!
Cheng Jiaoniang stood up suddenly, and the woman who was looking at her with a worried look was startled.
"Madam..." she shouted.
Cheng Jiaoniang didn't look at her and walked straight out.
"Where is he?" she asked, "where is he?"
he?
The woman was startled when she was asked, but she quickly came to her senses.
"Little liar? It's next door." She said quickly.
As soon as he finished speaking, the door had been opened, and the woman sleeping on the floor finally woke up. She stared blankly and saw only a corner of her dress passing in front of her eyes.
"What's wrong?" She suddenly woke up without feeling sleepy.
The woman ignored her and chased Cheng Jiaoniang out.
"Madam!" The attendant in the corridor also called in surprise and stood up straight.
"It's okay, it's okay, I'm just walking around casually." Cheng Jiaoniang said.
Just walking around again?
Everyone's faces turned pale, this middle of the night...
Just as she was thinking about how to persuade her, Cheng Jiaoniang stood in front of the next door and reached out to open the door.
The room was dark, and the lights from the corridor were projected in. You could see a man sleeping soundly on the bed, and his slight snoring echoed in the room.
The women came in with lamps and lit the lights in the room.
The noise made Cheng Ping wake up. It was so bright and bright that he tried to protect his eyes. When he raised his hands, he found that his hands and feet were still tied. Only then did he remember what happened.
"What are you doing again..." he said with a yawn.
Before he finished speaking, someone knelt down and leaned over in front of him, and immediately there was the sound of choking.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."
Cheng Jiaoniang choked up at first, then sobbed, and then leaned over and covered her face and cried loudly.
Sorry, sorry, ancestors, the younger generations are incompetent, the Cheng family is gone, the Cheng family is gone. (To be continued)
