Bystander

Chapter 4 Liu Sheng

I was about to go to bed when I suddenly smelled a burning smell. I thought it was too much charcoal fire, so I got up and wanted to open the doors and windows to disperse the smell. Unexpectedly, the doors and windows were sealed, and the fire was getting bigger and bigger. This is about to grill me ah.I was choked by the thick smoke and passed out. When I woke up again, I found myself lying in a coffin with pain all over my body, my throat was choked, and I was at a loss. I heard someone talking, "Ma'am, if the young master dies, the property of the Liu Mansion may be lost to another family name. This is all because of your hard work and hard work with the master! Can you really just watch like this?"

"If you die, you will die. It's no big deal. Anyway, he has long been out of control, and being alive is also a problem. My natal family has a nephew from a concubine. I will pick a day to adopt him after the funeral. My things will take turns." No one cares about it."

It turned out that the eldest lady had made up her mind a long time ago, Liu Xunyan is also a poor person, his biological mother is gone, his father doesn't love him, his mother doesn't love him, the young master is just superficial.I was lying in the coffin, and it was impossible to count on the people in Liu's mansion to save me. I planned to recover my ability to move quickly before I was buried, and to escape at night and scare them "human skin ghosts" by the way.But I was wrong. When I woke up, it was already the fourth day after "Liu Xunyan" was burned to death. In addition to the hunger and cold, my recovery was much slower, so I was buried, um, in a coffin Buried in soil, almost crying without tears.I haven’t eaten for several days, and I have no strength at all. At this time, I thought of that little Taoist priest again. What kind of moves should the Taoist priest know to blow up trees and stones? I really should learn from that little Taoist priest. Something, I don’t know if this Liu Xunyan will come to dig a grave to save me, anyway, I “died” for him, he won’t leave me behind after using me, the 100 taels I have no flowers yet, I haven't collected tears yet, do I want to live forever in this pitch-black little coffin and endure the biting ice of Jiaziyue?The more I thought about it, the more wronged I became, the more sad I became, and I even cried, my God, I cried, I can save this Jiazi month, gourd, my little gourd, I was so anxious that I wanted to scold my mother.

Just as I was cursing Liu Xunyan's ancestors all over, I heard the sound of digging above the ground. I listened carefully to the sound of digging. "Master, is that you? Master?" I patted the coffin board call out.

Not long after, the coffin was pried open, and I couldn't open my eyes under the bright moonlight, but this was the first time I thought the moon was so beautiful. After I got used to the light, I saw Liu Xunyan standing by the side , instructing a group of big men to move me out, I looked at Liu Xunyan standing beside him with fluttering clothes and was completely moved, even though I was buried because of him, it can be seen that he can come and dig me out, I am still very moved, I sat on the ground and hugged Liu Xunyan's calf, "Young master, I knew that young master is a kind, righteous and trustworthy person, and he would not abandon me."

Liu Xunyan looked at me with his hands behind his back, and said to the person next to me, "Move her back."

The first thing I did when I came to Liu Xunyan's new residence was to eat a table of delicious delicacies from him first, trying to burst my belly. Liu Xunyan who was on the side never looked at me directly, so I asked him with a chicken leg in my mouth, "Master , how did you hide it from the people in the Liu family? Even if it is burnt to death, it will be divided into men and women. It can't be found out by the foreman. Also, where did the big men today find it? They dug out a talking body from the coffin The corpse is not afraid?"

Liu Xunyan glanced at me, "Hmph, do you think I'll find a few random people? As for the identity issue," he frowned, "Haven't you looked in the mirror until now? Somebody, get her a mirror." .”

I took the mirror and put it in front of me. I was so scared that I almost dropped the mirror. The people in the mirror were skinless, their hair was burnt, and their faces were charred. They couldn’t be seen at all. It's still 7 days old, it's hard to imagine what I looked like the day I was "grilled".

"You look like a ghost, who would want to try it out, and even Zuo Zuo would be disgusted."

"Liu! Ask! Yan! I want to add money, 300 taels!"

"Well, 200 taels, no more."

"280 taels, I'm a woman!"

"Is this a joke?"

"Don't go too far, who did I become like this?"

"200 taels, I will cover your medical expenses, board and lodging during this period."

"Deal." Having achieved my goal, I continued to gnaw on the chicken leg with my head down.

Liu Xunyan didn't want to take another look at me. Before he left, he said, "All your belongings are stored in the box under your bed."

In the days that followed, I never saw Liu Xunyan again. Instead, I often saw a maid pushing a woman in a wheelchair wearing a veil.That day I was basking in the sun in the garden, and I happened to meet a maid pushing a woman out for a walk. I was so curious that I went up to greet her. The woman seemed not to have heard her, her eyes were dull. Seeing the embarrassment in my face, the servant girl quickly explained, "Madam is insane, miss forgive me."

"That's right, I was the one who was abrupt." I carefully looked at the woman in the wheelchair. Although she was wearing a veil, she could still see the burns on her face, and her hands seemed to be deformed by the fire. The lower limbs are small and abnormal, and drooping as if the tendons have been picked, but the eyes of the woman seem to have been seen there before.

"It's windy, girl, the maidservant has brought Madam back to the room." said the maidservant.

I turned sideways and made a gesture of invitation. Looking at the backs of them leaving, I suddenly remembered that those eyes were very similar to Liu Xunyan's, and I had to guess the relationship between the two of them.Sure enough, after a few days of investigation, it was found that this woman was Liu Xunyan's biological mother. Liu Xunyan rescued her from the dungeon of the eldest lady only last month, and she recovered after a month of intensive care. Now that he is in this state, it's hard to think about what his biological mother has gone through, and it's even harder to imagine Liu Xunyan's complex emotions of surprise, distress, anger, and joy when he saw his biological mother who was not as good as an ant.

Three months have passed in a blink of an eye, and I have recovered to a point where I have recovered. Now I am looking for Liu Xunyan to collect debts every day. When I get the money, I have to hurry up and find a way to make myself cry. Last time The tears I cried when I was buried were all wasted. I recalled the feelings at that time every day, but I couldn’t cry again. I was so anxious that I was like an ant on a hot pot, but Liu Xunyan never showed up, like the world evaporated It's the same, he doesn't want his biological mother he just rescued?

When I saw Liu Xunyan again, he fell beside his biological mother covered in blood.He died, so suddenly, the servants in the family fled in all directions, his biological mother also ran out of oil and went west, and the whole courtyard was in a mess.I stepped forward and closed Liu Xunyan's open eyes, only to see his unfortunate life.

Liu Xunyan was really cute when he was a child, white and tender, with two small canine teeth.Xiao Xunyan really worked hard, slowly copying the Four Books and Five Classics on the scattered rice paper, suddenly a woman broke into the room, grabbed Xiao Xunyan by the ear and started beating and scolding, Xiao Xunyan didn't dare to cry.Who is that woman?It seems to be the eldest lady, no wonder.When the screen changed, the inquiry at this time should be about seven or eight years old. I don’t know what mistake he made. He knelt in the ancestral hall, beads of sweat the size of beans on his forehead hit the ground one by one, and there were streaks on his back. The whip marks in the bloody forest, the eldest lady was sitting on a chair beside her, still yelling and cursing.The scene changed suddenly, a handsome young man was fighting against the wind, and there was applause all around him. The young man received his invitation and saluted and looked proudly at the eldest lady who appeared in the stands, as if he was being praised, but he saw the eldest lady rolled her eyes, and the corner of her smiling mouth was full of satisfaction. It was meant to be sarcastic, the young man clenched his fists involuntarily, the man was Liu Xunyan.Eighteen or nineteen-year-old Liu Xunyan was born into a modest and modest gentleman. In the eyes of outsiders, he was regarded as a dragon and a phoenix, as gentle as jade, but when he returned home, he swallowed his anger like a dog and tried his best to please the eldest lady.Once by chance, Liu Xunyan heard the conversation between the eldest lady and the nurse around her, and learned that his biological mother was not the eldest lady, but someone else, and that his biological mother was suffering from the eldest lady's torture day and night, At this moment, Liu Xunyan wished he could rush in and kill the eldest lady right away, but he couldn't, if he killed the eldest lady on impulse, then he would never see his biological mother.Liu Xunyan gritted his teeth and went back to the medicine hut. Seeing Liu An drying the herbs, Liu Xunyan cast all his anger on Liu An and beat Liu An half to death. This was the first time Liu Xunyan hit someone. .

Liu Xunyan was still living a life of swallowing his anger, but the eldest lady hurt him more and more. Every time Liu Xunyan would spread his grievances on the servants, he gradually became a violent maniac.

Hard work paid off, and Liu Xunyan finally found the whereabouts of his biological mother. It turned out that she had been imprisoned in the dungeon by the eldest lady for so many years, and Liu Xunyan began to plan to rescue her biological mother.The first step is to take it lightly, so I found an immortal person to pretend to be him in the medicine house, and that person was me.When the time was right, Liu Xunyan set fire to the medicine hut, and the fire became bigger and bigger. All the servants came to the medicine hut to put out the fire. At this time, Liu Xunyan took his own people to the dungeon of the eldest lady to rescue his biological mother.Opening the dungeon, Liu Xunyan almost collapsed the moment he saw his biological mother. Is this person in front of him still a human being?Unkempt, disheveled, and foul-smelling, the tattered cloth had long been stained black with blood, and his limbs were chained by two-finger-thick iron chains. Scabs had already formed in some places, but blood was still oozing in other places. The nails of all ten fingers had been pulled out, and the veins in both feet had been pulled out.Liu Xunyan threw down the long sword in his hand and knelt in front of his biological mother. He wanted to hug her but was afraid that she would break like a paper doll, "Mother, it's me. I'm your son. I'm here to save you." "But the person in front of him didn't react at all, like a lifeless puppet, Liu Xunyan's eyes were bloodshot, his face was ferocious, and he vowed to kill the lady.