Raising a wife? The mistress of the Hou family divorced and remarried her younger uncle

Chapter 128 Ghost

"How am I doing with the song you taught me?" Lu Jing asked.

"It's OK." Su Qingwan looked at his expectant eyes and gave a positive evaluation without disappointing him. "It sounds much better than when we were in the southwest."

"Actually... I've already learned it." Lu Jing said with a smile, "I learned it very well when I was in Southwest China."

"Then why are you acting like a beginner?"

Lu Jing was silent. Why? Perhaps he wanted to attract her attention. After all, he had a serious eye injury at the time and was in a bad mood. He was afraid that he would have to live in darkness for the rest of his life. He had only one person by his side. Su Qingwan was not a talkative and lively person, and she would not take care of him in every detail.

But she was his only voice in the darkness. He grabbed the life-saving piece of driftwood, wanting all the attention to be on him. He deliberately pretended to be a beginner, and felt happy listening to her scolding him. As long as she was within his reach, he was very dependent on her during the time when he was blind.

I want to hear her voice all the time.

"I hope you can talk to me more." Lu Jing said, "Sometimes you are busy with your own things and don't say a word for a long time. I am blind and everything in front of me is dark. It is too quiet..."

It was so quiet that he could only hear the sound of the wind and the chirping of cicadas. He wanted to hear Su Qingwan's voice, no matter what she said, so when she took the initiative to teach him how to play the flute, he pretended not to know how.

Su Qingwan didn't expect that he was pretending, but was surprised that Lu Jing could be so nervous and even afraid. She thought Lu Jing was a person who didn't care about life and death.

After all, he didn't look like he was scared after they fell off the cliff.

"Are your eyes fully healed now?" Su Qingwan asked.

"The toxins have been cleared long ago, but there will be some sequelae."

As for what it was, Lu Jing didn't elaborate, and Su Qingwan didn't ask. She saw that Lu Jing could see clearly at night, so he should be almost fully recovered, which was good enough.

Su Qingwan drank wine and ate barbecue with Lu Jing, looking at the flying snow outside the pavilion, feeling very calm.

After midnight, the snow fell heavier. Fortunately, the pavilion was blocked from the wind and there was a charcoal fire, so it was very warm.

Lu Jing added another piece of charcoal fire, "Princess... why did you leave without saying goodbye?"

Su Qingwan's heart choked.

There's a dull pain.

The separation was too sudden and there was no sign at all. Lu Jing had been looking for an opportunity to ask her why she left without saying goodbye and what happened without even leaving him a single word.

The weather was very good on the day they parted. Su Qingwan said she was going to the market to buy something and would be back in an hour. She asked Lu Jing to wait for her at home. Lu Jing was blind and had stayed in the yard the entire time and had never gone out.

Su Qingwan would occasionally go to the nearby market to bring back the daily necessities they needed, such as firewood, rice, oil, salt, meat, vegetables, etc. She would go out every three days.

Lu Jing just thought it was normal. His eye injury was gradually getting better. Although his vision was a little blurry, he had hope. He also wanted to wait for Su Qingwan to come back and tell her the good news.

He waited for the night from day to night. He was supposed to come back in an hour. He waited for four hours, but there was no sign of her. He panicked and went out to look for her. His eyes were blurry in the daytime, but at least he could see the light. But he couldn't see anything clearly in the dark. He went out with a crutches and walked forward relying only on his memory. Su Qingwan would occasionally take him out for a walk after lunch, always around the yard, never far away, and he would call Su Qingwan's name as he walked. He fell down awkwardly, struggled to get up, continued to walk forward, and fell down awkwardly again.

He didn't know how many times he had fallen and bumped into things, and his forehead was bleeding. He only knew that he had to find Su Qingwan, so he kept calling out for her.

He fell down the hillside in a mess, but perhaps fortunately, the fall healed his eyes.

At that moment, Lu Jing was overjoyed.

Su Qingwan invited a doctor for him, who said that his eyes needed careful care, with medicine and medication, and that it would take at least a year for him to regain his sight. He was very anxious because he was not yet the deputy commander of the Jinyiwei at the time. If he became blind, all his plans in the Jinyiwei would be in vain. The emperor did not need a blind man, he wanted a knife.

He was very glad that he had regained his sight, so he struggled to climb out of the hillside and was able to see the situation in the villa clearly.

It was a villa located deep in the mountains. It was dark nearby and there were no houses. There was only a lonely villa with two red lanterns hanging at the door. It was quiet all around and occasionally the roar of wild beasts could be heard.

Su Qingwan once told him that they could hear the sounds of wild beasts because they lived at the foot of the mountain. After he regained his sight, he realized that they lived in the mountains and that the villa was like the place where the goblins lived in the storybooks.

Desolate and eerie.

It appeared so suddenly in the mountains.

Such a villa should not exist in such a desolate place.

Lu Jing walked back to the villa and saw the garden full of peonies.

Why did Su Qingwan ignore him? She was silent and spent most of her time taking care of the peonies. There were all kinds of peonies planted in the yard, some of which were worth a fortune. They were colorful and filled the garden with fragrance.

She told him that she had planted peonies in the yard, and Lu Jing would occasionally smell the scent of peonies, but he didn't expect that the entire yard was filled with peonies.

The villa is very large and is not built in the southwestern style. The houses in each place have local characteristics and carry some regional culture.

This villa does not look like the southwestern style, but more like the villas built in Huainan and Jiangnan. It is very large and covers a large area, like a family with a large population, but there is only Su Qingwan in the villa, which is a bit strange. What's even more strange is that the villa is very prosperous, obviously a prince's mansion, with gorgeous things everywhere, but Su Qingwan's daily simple meals do not seem like she lives in a wealthy family.

Su Qingwan's washed skirt was drying in the yard. The skirt was made of the finest silk and was exquisitely embroidered. The hem of the skirt was embroidered with large peony flowers and gold thread. Such a skirt would cost at least one hundred taels.

It would be fine if there was only one, but the closet was full of such valuable skirts, each embroidered with peonies. Lu Jing realized that this villa was definitely not a place for an ordinary woman to live in.

He sat beside the peony flowers in the courtyard waiting for Su Qingwan, and waited from night to day, but Su Qingwan never showed up. She just disappeared out of thin air.

The gorgeous and exquisite villa, the garden full of peonies, the expensive skirts, the luxury everywhere...all this should not appear in the wilderness.

Lu Jing thought, maybe the stories in the vernacular novels were not lies. Maybe there really were monsters that transformed themselves into women, turning the ruins into magnificent houses, deliberately deceiving passers-by to take yang to replenish yin. Maybe what he met were really ghosts.

But he doesn't believe in ghosts or gods.