"Hey, did you hear the sound of opera singing last night?"
Lin Yan was taking a walk when he suddenly heard several servants whispering not far away.
"No, where is the singing voice coming from?"
"I heard it and sang it all night. It was so scary that I couldn't sleep well all night."
"Did you hear it wrong? Who would sing at the top of their lungs all night long?" The other person may have been a little scared after hearing this.
Hearing them talking about the sound of opera singing, Lin Yan then remembered that when the female ghost he met when he was with Rong Ying last night appeared, he also heard the sound of opera singing.
Thinking of this, Lin Yan put the briquettes aside, then hid in an inconspicuous corner and continued to listen to the servants.
The servant who spoke at the beginning looked around, and then whispered to the others, "What I said is true. I doubt that the voice was sung by the dead lady.
The eldest lady was born in an opera troupe during her lifetime, and I heard her sing "Snow in June" yesterday, which was her best performance during her lifetime."
"Go, go! Don't talk nonsense! If the master hears it, no one can protect you!"
"Oh, let's not talk anymore and go to work."
The man knew that he had mentioned a taboo, so he stopped talking, and they left after chatting for a few words.
Lin Yan listened to these words word for word.
He recalled the memory of the original owner. The lady the servants just mentioned died eight years ago.
Eight years ago, the original owner's mother had just brought the original owner into the Xiao Mansion. At that time, many things happened in the Xiao Mansion.
It is said that the eldest lady was unruly, and Master Xiao caught her hooking up with an adulterer.
In anger, Mr. Xiao sent the adulterer to Shen Jiang. As for the eldest lady, because of past friendship, Mr. Xiao just punished her with confinement.
But the eldest lady didn't know what was going on. When she heard that her lover had died, she fell into madness and died not long after.
It is unclear whether the death of the eldest lady was an accident or man-made.
However, Lin Yan didn't think so much now. He just came out of the ghost house this morning and he was a little hungry.
I turned around and was about to pick up the briquettes to find something to eat, but the briquettes disappeared.
Lin Yan looked around. There were several servants coming and going around Yangyang, but he didn't see the cat.
"626, did you see where the briquettes went?"
626 didn't want to answer him at first, but thought that Lin Yan might keep annoying it, so he said impatiently, "Run away."
"Run away? Why didn't you tell me earlier!" Lin Yan was a little angry and dissatisfied.
626 didn't speak, so why did it tell the host? It wished that the black cat would disappear quickly, otherwise the host would always compare it with the black cat.
Fortunately, Lin Yan only complained a few words and then went to the kitchen to find something to eat.
Unexpectedly, I met an unexpected person along the way.
"Yan'er?"
Lin Yan subconsciously turned around to look at the person, and saw a woman wearing a simple blue shirt calling him.
"Yan'er? It's really you, you've grown so big."
The woman was a little excited when she saw Lin Yan. She was holding a string of Buddhist beads in one of her trembling hands. She only had her hair tied up on her temples without any headdress.
If her temperament wasn't different from that of the servant next to her, Lin Yan would have thought that she was also a servant.
Lin Yan thought about it for a long time before he remembered that this woman was the third concubine of Xiao Mansion.
"Aunt Xue." Lin Yan thought for a while before saying this title.
San Yiniang and the original owner's mother were close friends. She ate and chanted Buddha's name in the temple all year round and rarely returned home.
So after the original owner's mother died, the original owner was often bullied by people in the family.
So every time San Yiniang went to the temple again, the original owner expected her to come back soon.
But I never thought that it would take two or three years as soon as San Yiniang went to the temple. During this time, the original owner had already suffered a lot.
Thinking of this, Lin Yan called him a good guy and stayed in the temple for two or three years, eating fast and chanting Buddha. If there is an opportunity, this third aunt should be able to become a monk.
"Why do you think you have lost a lot of weight over the years? The people in your family have treated you badly again?" Seeing Lin Yan's thin appearance, the third aunt felt distressed and angry.
Lin Yan looked away, thinking that if he was worse than a servant, could he not lose weight?