Spring River Flower Moon Night: Set of 2 Volumes

Chapter 34
"I'm really sorry, I guessed it would be like this, so I didn't want to bring you here." Ayang apologized repeatedly.

"Don't mind, we are the ones bothering you." Fei Xiao thanked him with fists cupped, pulled the prince in and left.

"Hey! Why are you walking so fast? Is there someone chasing you?" Wang Zijin was dragged to the ground by him, with wind in his ears, he walked out of the alley in a blink of an eye and came to the front of the market.

"Hehehe, Zijin, didn't you notice?" Feixiao looked at him with a smile, her eyebrows were bright, "That carpenter is weird."

"Huh? What's weird about him?"

"He stuffed something in your sleeve, I didn't want others to know, so I dragged you here on purpose." After Fei Xiao said, she reached out and grabbed his sleeve and shook it.

Sure enough, a piece of pure white fell out and landed gently in the snow.

"What is this?" Wang Zijin bent down to pick up the thing, but it was a crumpled piece of paper.

"Open it and have a look and you'll know?" Fei Xiao stretched out her hand and snatched it, unfolding it carefully, only to see that in the misty night, there were only two shocking ink characters written on that piece of paper: Help!

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The two characters are written with teeth and claws, ferocious and terrifying, as if they were written in a hurry.Wang Zijin glanced at it, and immediately felt chills down his spine, and he didn't speak for a long time.

Feixiao beside her also frowned and said nothing, only the cold night wind reverberated around the two of them, it seemed that the future was unpredictable and uncertain.

"What, what's going on here?" After a while, Prince Jinfang asked tremblingly, "If he really wanted to ask us for help, why did he drive us away?"

"Maybe what he is afraid of is the people around him." Fei Xiao put the piece of paper in her sleeve, looked at the dark shadow behind the market, and said, "That's why I made such a bad plan and put the paper away in a hurry. pass it to us."

"Then what should we do?"

"Go back to the inn first, and wait until midnight, and I will find my own way."

After Fei Xiao finished speaking, with a smile on her face, she waved her sleeves calmly, turned around and left.

Wang Zijin has known him for a long time, knowing that he has always been secretive, he is unwilling to ask more questions.

But Fei Xiao has always been warm-hearted and cold-hearted, and never cared about the life and death of others. According to his temperament, even if that man wrote a thousand help notes, he would not take a second look. How could he suddenly be so enthusiastic today?
Prince Jin followed behind him in a daze, and the two hurried back to the inn.

"It will be midnight in one hour, what can you do?" Wang Zijin read a book under the lamp, but couldn't read a word.

"I just want to cast a little spell to lure that carpenter out." Fei Xiao nestled on the bed and ate chicken leisurely and contentedly, no different from usual.

"Why does it have to be midnight? I'm anxious now, and I can't read a word. Can't you use your tricks in advance?"

"In the past 20 years, how many days have you been able to read the book?" Fei Xiao raised her sword eyebrows and laughed at him, "Even if there is no excitement to watch, you still think about beauties every day."

Wang Zijin was hit by what he said, and immediately shut his mouth tightly, bowed his head and buried himself in studying hard.

The so-called Buddha fights for a stick of incense, and people fight for one breath.

Amidst Fei Hong's ridicule, Wang Zijin actually read the book attentively once in a while, and for a moment, in the narrow room, there were only the crackling of lamps cracking and the rustling of pages turning.

After an unknown amount of time, someone suddenly walked up to him and patted his shoulder lightly.At this moment, he was concentrating on reading a book, and he was startled suddenly, but he saw Fei Hong, in a fluttering white dress, standing behind him with a smile on his face.

"Zi Jin, it's time." Fei Xiao reached out and grabbed the brush in his hand, "Let's let that carpenter have an interesting dream."

"What interesting dream?"

"You'll be able to see it later." After Fei Xiao said, she took out the crumpled piece of paper, dipped it in ink, and wrote a few small characters on the paper.

Wang Zijin hurriedly poked his head to look, and saw the time and place written on the white paper, which was very similar to the brocade books he passed on when he was dating a beautiful woman.

"You want to ask that carpenter out?" He immediately thought like a mirror, "Then why didn't you do it just now?"

"It's still early, so there's no guarantee that he will sleep." Fei Xiao waited for the ink to dry completely, then moved the white paper to the candle, muttering something in her mouth.

When the light paper met the fire, it was instantly incinerated and turned into ashes, and a white bird jumped out of the burning paper ashes.The white bird circled around the room a few times, uttered a pleasant clear cry, got out of the window, and fluttered away.

"That's the end?" The prince started to build a pergola, looking out the window at the vast night, the sky was bright and the moon was bright, as if he still had something to say.

"It's over, we'll just go to the teahouse and wait for him tomorrow." Fei Xiao smugly patted the paper ashes on her hands, and nestled on the bed to sleep.

"I waited most of the night for this result?" After waiting for two hours, I only saw visions in the blink of an eye. No matter how you think about it, it's not worth it.

"Zi Jin, don't be disappointed, I assure you, there will be a good show to watch tomorrow." In the misty night, Fei Xiao's cool and determined voice came.

Wang Zijin was extremely sleepy and went back to his room to sleep.

It's just that in his sleep, he seemed to see the white snow flying all over the sky and the woman standing in the white snow.

At noon the next day, the two rushed to the agreed teahouse to drink tea early.I don't know how long I waited until the sun was westward and the wind was bleak, but I still didn't see the carpenter.

"Fei Xiao, did your spell fail?" Wang Zijin looked at the crowd passing by on the street and said, "Why hasn't he come yet?"

"Impossible." Fei Xiao shook her folding fan lightly, vowing, "If the message hadn't been delivered to his dream, he would have flown back naturally, but that bird obviously didn't turn back."

However, just now when I said this, I saw the corner of Fei Xiao's mouth slightly raised, pointing to a hurried figure in the distance and said: "Cao Cao Cao Cao will be here, the person we were waiting for is here."

Wang Zijin hurriedly looked up, and saw a person running towards them like the wind. He was wearing a coir raincoat and a bamboo hat. He looked indescribably awkward on this sunny afternoon.

"Excuse me, are you two Mr. Hu and Mr. Wang?" The man walked up to the two of them and bowed to the end. Only then did Wang Zijin see clearly that he was the vicious carpenter last night.

"This must be Craftsman Zhou?" Fei Xiao bowed to him, "I cast a spell last night to summon Craftsman Zhou, it's really bothering me."

"If I hadn't seen you from afar, I wouldn't have believed my eyes." The carpenter took off his bamboo hat and sat down at the table, "I had a dream last night, and what I dreamed of was this scene, even our They say the same thing."

"Xiaosheng's last name is Wang Zijin." Wang Zijin asked curiously, "I don't know what the note you gave me last night means?"

"Since you and I have known each other, we must be destined. My surname is Zhou and my name is Tianwang. You can just call me Big Brother Zhou. I am a carpenter, and I like to make some novelty things. Although I live in poverty, I get along well with my wife Qinse Life is really happy and carefree." Zhou Tianwang just said a few words, his expression was agitated, and his voice choked up, "I don't know... I don't know that such a terrible thing happened later..."

This middle-aged man, who seemed to be a strong man, turned pale when he said this, obviously he had been seriously frightened.

Wang Zijin and Fei Xiao looked at each other, feeling something bad in their hearts.

"The terrible thing, does it mean that your wife is lost and returned?" Fei Xiao looked at him with a smile, but there was no smile in her eyes, "How can such a good thing be said to be terrible?"

"Young Master Hu, you don't know..." Zhou Tianwang said tremblingly, "The woman who came back is not Zimo at all."

"Who is Zi Mo?"

"It's my wife's boudoir name, I've always called her that." Zhou Tianwang's eyes were lost, his thoughts seemed to drift into the distance, "I will never forget, that night two years ago, Zi Mo fell into the sky right in front of my eyes. Under the cliff..."

"Did anyone else see it besides you?" Fei Xiao asked curiously.

"Of course there are. There are seven or eight people in the carriage we were riding in, and two of them are my neighbors." Zhou Tianwang suddenly seemed to remember something, "By the way, you still know one of them, the one who brought you here. Yang, he was only 14 years old at the time!"

"Is that cliff high?"

"If you fall, you will definitely die!" Zhou Tianwang looked at the two of them in fear, "But a year later, also in winter, Zi Mo was found. She was just like before, standing on the edge of the cliff where she had slipped."

"I heard from Ayang that she was hidden by the gods." The prince said fascinatedly, "If there is such an adventure, I would like to experience it."

"That's not the case at all, it's not Zimo who came back." Zhou Tianwang suddenly became excited and shouted, "She is my wife, don't I know her? Although they look alike, they are completely two people. She doesn't have a birthmark on Zi Mo's hands, and she's younger than Zi Mo, but no matter what I say, everyone doesn't believe it, they even think that I've lost my mind."

"Does 'they' refer to your neighbors?" Fei Hong rolled her eyes, as if thinking of something, "Why don't you believe your words? Is there any proof?"

"Because this woman behaves very similarly to Zi Mo." This simple middle-aged man suddenly burst into tears, "And she knows all the people around her, and she even remembers clearly what those people had with her. Some I am so terrified to be around such a strange yet familiar woman!"

"Feihong," Prince Jin whispered to Feihong, "Do you think it's a resurrection? His wife's soul was attached to a newly dead woman, and she came back again?"

"Resurrecting the dead?" Fei Rou's red lips slightly curled up, and she pursed her lips with a smile, "Maybe, but why did it have to be at the same time and place a year later? There are too many coincidences, so it's inevitable."

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"Ah? Are you implying that there is no strange power and chaos in it, and everything is done by mortals?" Wang Zijin was taken aback.

"I didn't say that." Fei Xiao shook her head slowly, looked at Zhou Tianwang and said, "You ask us for help, how do you want us to help you?"

"I, I just wanted to give it a try last night, because the neighbors didn't believe me, so I had no choice but to turn to strangers for help." He replied in fear, "I don't want to report to the police, in case the woman is temporarily Bewitched by something, afraid of damaging her reputation, I just want to find a way to get her back to her senses, so don't stay in my house any longer."

"Is her presence in your house bothering you?"

"Of course, sleeping under the same roof with a stranger, wouldn't you be afraid?" The carpenter said nervously, "And sometimes in the dead of night, she would walk around in the house and in the courtyard, which is extremely scary. "

"Okay! If that's the case, let's do it to the end and go to your house tonight." Fei Xiao frowned and pondered for a while, then suddenly slapped the table and stood up, "I'm sorry, I happen to know a little magic, maybe I can Take care of your worries."

Zhou Tianwang was overjoyed when he heard this, and he urged them to ask Ayang to lead the way again, lest the women in the family feel suspicious.

Immediately, he put on the bamboo hat and left in a hurry.

At this time, the sky was getting late, and a hazy bright moon hung in the sky, like water marks frozen by the cold wind.

"Fei Xiao, this is really strange." Wang Zijin pondered as he walked, "Could it be that this woman is really possessed by his wife's soul? Confused, thinking of herself as someone else?"

"I don't know," Fei Xiao frowned, "I have to look at her to make a conclusion, but there are two problems I have been unable to figure out."

"Which two questions?"

"The first is that none of the neighbors found out that the wife who came back was fake, and she still remembers the past, as if she had experienced it herself, proving that she looks very similar to her previous wife."

"Indeed, even if you are possessed by a wronged soul, your appearance cannot change."

"Secondly, Craftsman Zhou mentioned that in the dead of night, his counterfeit wife would still walk around the house."

"This? Could it be sleepwalking?"

Fei Xiao looked at the bright moon in the sky, and murmured, "I guess she's not just walking around, she's probably looking for something."

Wang Zijin looked at his cold and handsome face under the moonlight, and his heart tightened suddenly.

For some reason, under Fei Xiao's reminder, he actually had a vague premonition that this matter was not as simple as being possessed by a wronged soul.Behind all kinds of bizarre events, there seems to be some terrible mystery hidden.

The two soon found the boy Ayang again. At this time, he was weaving cages for catching birds in the courtyard. When he saw their figures, he couldn't help but heaved a long sigh.

"You two are really persistent, is that thing so good?" Ayang turned and ran into the house, and when he came out, he already had a black piece of wood in his hand, which was "returning", "Here is this for you." , I reluctantly give up, you don't want to run away again and again."

"A gentleman doesn't take away what people love. I'm not a gentleman, but I don't want to rob a young man." Fei Xiao smiled and said, "I just need to trouble you to show me the way tonight, and we will visit Master Zhou again."

"You were kicked out just after entering the door yesterday, how dare you go?" A Yang curled his lips, seemingly reluctant.

"Hehehe, I can assure you that I will not be kicked out tonight." Wang Zijin added with a playful smile.

Seeing that they were so determined, Ayang couldn't shirk it, and like the night before, he led the two of them through the dark alley, turning around, and arrived at the door of Zhou Tianwang's house.

As usual, it was Zhou Tianwang's wife, the lost and recovered Zi Mo, who came out to entertain the guests.The difference from yesterday was that Zhou Tianwang didn't come out to drive people away, and he didn't even raise any objections when Ayang asked them to stay overnight for two nights.

"Ayang's house is indeed too small to accommodate these two people." Zhou Tianwang's wife looked at them with a smile and said kindly, "It's rare that Ayang can make such excellent friends as you, so I can stay a few more It doesn't matter the day."

When the prince entered, he took a closer look at the woman named Zi Mo, and saw that her eyes were like autumn swans, her lips were like red vermilion, although she was dressed in common clothes, she was not less gorgeous, she was really a rare beauty.

In the face of such a beautiful wife, even if her background is unknown, she shouldn't be afraid, right?
Wang Zijin thought about it for a long time and couldn't figure it out, but he was obsessed with looks, which was completely different from ordinary people's standards. As long as he was beautiful, even a female ghost would dare to marry him, let alone a woman who didn't know where he came from?

Because it was getting late and Zi Mo was a woman again, the two exchanged a few words with Ah Yang, and then went into the inner room to rest.During this period, Zhou Tianwang always pretended not to know the two of them, not even showing his face.

"How is it?" The prince sat in the shabby room and asked Fei Xiao curiously, "What's so weird about her?"

The two of them didn't light a candle, and Feixiao was dressed in white, standing in front of the window with her hands behind her back, as if she had a lot of thoughts on her mind, she shook her head after a long time and said: "It's really strange, it's not weird at all."

"How do you say this?" The words were like tongue twisters, and the prince was at a loss when he heard them.

"This woman named Zi Mo is indeed a living person." Fei Xiao looked at Wang Zijin distressedly, "and she has not been possessed by a spirit, I think her mind is clear and there is no turbidity."

"Then all the things are not caused by monsters?"

"That's right." Fei Xiao nodded and smiled helplessly, "A woman who fell off a cliff and returned home; two women who are completely different but have the same memory, these strange things are all man-made. I hate it the most. Yes, it is to plot people's hearts, but I still can't avoid it!"

"But, but, who is she? Why did she do this? This carpenter is neither expensive nor rich, how can anyone make someone want to do it?"

"Maybe it's not just these, but something farther away. What happened two years ago may also be man-made."

As soon as Fei Xiao finished speaking, there was a very light knock on the door, and then the wooden door was pushed open with a creak, and a sneaky figure walked in.

Wang Zijin was taken aback, and just about to yell at him, he heard the man whisper: "Don't be afraid, it's me! I want to show you two something tonight."

"What?" It was Zhou Tianwang who heard the voice.

He lit a candle and put a one-foot-high cloth bag on the table, with a look of nostalgia on his face, "I want to invite you to see my wife."

"Your wife?" Wang Zijin asked in surprise, "Didn't she fall off the cliff?"

(End of this chapter)