Bai Yujun was speechless.

Being strangled to death by her beloved's own hands and thrown into the wilderness, she was willing to abandon everything and even her own humanity for the sake of her future. However, Xia Lan did not feel resentful and turned into a ghost because of this. She just waited in the barren mountains and ridges day after day for the unfaithful person to take her home.

Just like when he lied to her and took her to the barren mountain.

"How many years have you been dead?" Bai Yujun asked.

"Seven years."

In seven years, I am afraid that the heartless man has long since married the daughter of a minister, and has been living in the wealthy family with wine and meat. How could he still remember the withered bones of the past in this barren mountain?

"People and ghosts have different paths. Since you die, you should go where you should go. I will save you."

"No! I have to wait for Li Lang to take me home!"

The female ghost Xia Lan has a firm attitude. This is her biggest obsession after her death. Bai Yujun is also helpless about this. If she ignores it, she may be beaten to pieces by passing monks in a short time, or she may be sucked by the evil ghost again.

There is no chance of reincarnation, so it would be fine if she is an evil ghost. She is a kind-hearted ghost who refuses to become evil. She is a good person. To be precise, she is a good ghost.

"He will not come back, never, even if you wait another hundred or a thousand years, he will not come back to pick you up." Bai Yujun had to tell this cruel reality.

"No! He will come! He will definitely come to pick me up!"

Xia Lan shouted stubbornly. Even though she was so excited, she still didn't become resentful and turned into a devil. She was a good girl.

"Wake up! He is in the capital! He will not come back!"

"No...it won't happen..." Xia Lan shook her head and cried.

"People's hearts will change. The easiest thing to change in this matter is the heart, but the oldest thing is also the human heart. You are a good girl, but you fell in love with the wrong person at the wrong place and at the wrong time. Give up and leave.

The way to go."

"He won't! I gave him my best, and he won't not come..."

"But in the end, he personally strangled you to death, the girl who might hinder his future. Have you forgotten?" Bai Yujun hated the fact that iron cannot be transformed into steel.

"I know he must have his reasons..."

"madness!"

"He will come back... In a few days, it is the day when he goes home to worship his ancestors every year. He will definitely come to pick me up..."

Bai Yujun counted the days and decided to help her, but he wanted to send her into reincarnation.

"Okay, I'll send you to find him. If he refuses to take you back, will you reincarnate?"

"I...I will leave."

"It's a deal."

Bai Yujun spent the night on the ridge that night.

She originally planned to collect Xia Lan's bones and bury them first, but she insisted on waiting for Li Lang to take her bones home, so she had to give up.

The next morning, after puffing up mist, I went down the mountain to find Xia Lan's house. Her house was not far from the barren mountain and the village was not big. Bai Yujun, who was carrying a bookcase and asked the villagers, found it easily... and found Xia Lan's former home.

In order to raise enough money to go to Beijing to take the exam, the Xia family sold their house and land, and someone else lived here.

A new courtyard was built next to it. The plaque hanging at the door read the word "Li Mansion". The stone lion guarded the door with mighty force, the red lacquer door was surrounded by green bricks, the houses in the mansion had carved beams and painted roofs, and there were gardens and rockeries. The villagers told them that it was the Li family who had won the first prize in the exam.

After marrying the daughter of a high-ranking official in the capital, he built a new manor in his hometown to support his parents. The neighboring villagers just envied him so much that they seemed to have forgotten the Xia family.

Finally, Bai Yujun found Xia Lan's parents outside the village...

An ordinary thatched house is surrounded by a fence. There are a few chickens, ducks and a big yellow dog in the yard. Two old people are busy in the vegetable field behind the house.

He shook his head and turned to leave.

Waited for a few days.

The Li Mansion began to be busy. The old couple warmly greeted the guests at the gate, and there was an endless stream of gift-givers. The local county magistrate even came to the door in person to deliver gifts. The main purpose was to help the Li family with ancestor worship, but to take the opportunity to get to know the ministers of the capital.

The guests filled the door with laughter and laughter, and even the weather seemed warm. You could smell the aroma of food, wine and meat in the courtyard wall from a distance.

It is estimated that the person named Li will come back soon, and Bai Yujun will return to Barren Mountain.

He took out his own paper umbrella and dug out a few talismans to protect the ghosts from the book box to modify the paper umbrella. There are hundreds of ways to do this in the library.

Go to where the dead bones are and open the paper umbrella.

"He will be back soon, I will take you to see him."

With a flash of flowers in front of her eyes, Xia Lan emerged from the ground and stood under the umbrella. With the protection of the paper umbrella, she could reveal herself in the daytime.

"Thank you, I still don't know the name of my benefactor."

"Bai Yujun."

No nonsense, Bai Yujun held an umbrella and took Xia Lan down the barren mountain. Xia Lan, who had gone down the mountain for the first time in seven years, looked excitedly at her increasingly familiar home. As she got closer, she saw that someone else lived in her former home.

Sad and sad.

"Let's go to the entrance of the village."

Qing Umbrella took Xia Lan to the entrance of the village, and stood on the ridge of the rice fields in the distance, watching the loud gongs and drums at the entrance of the village.

There is a champion in the village who is still a high official in the capital. The champion of the Li family is the pride of the whole village. Every family will teach their children and say, look at the words of someone from the Li family to inspire their children. People forget it and no one will remember it.

Who provided the Li family boy with the opportunity to study for the imperial examination? At this moment, the whole village gathered at the entrance of the village eagerly waiting for the number one scholar to return to the village.

On the ridges of the rice fields, Bai Yujun and Xia Lan seemed like outsiders.

The breeze blew through the swaying green seedlings, and the strong fragrance of rice flowers reminded Xia Lan of her childhood and her parents. Ghosts have no tears. She finally remembered who was the most painful person.

"Nvxia, my parents...are you okay?"

"I have a house to live in and fields to cultivate, but I feel a little lonely without my descendants."

"well……"

In rural areas, especially in the feudal era, people looked down upon them if they had no family. If a family had a baby, they would not invite them for fear of bringing bad luck. They would gossip and ridicule, otherwise the old couple would not move to live outside the village.

The old couple of the Xia family were not seen in the queue to welcome the top official. I am afraid that the two old men are still thinking about how to find their daughter. They would rather believe that their daughter was deceived than to die.

"coming."

The two words spoken by Bai Yujun made Xia Lan excited. She stood under the umbrella and looked at the end of the village road from a distance.

What a big team.

The servants in front held a solemn guard of honor, and there were several guards and dozens of people escorting them to the remote village. The drum band at the entrance of the village began to beat and set off firecrackers. The old master who taught Li Lang to read was stroking his beard and smiling.

, a classmate Yiying even arranged his appearance to prepare for the visit.

The team is getting closer.

Dozens of people escorted an official on horseback wearing official robes and a luxurious carriage, which was also accompanied by several maids.

Xia Lan was so excited when she looked at the figure on horseback that she wanted to run over but didn't dare to leave the paper umbrella. She was just as excited as when Li Lang, the number one scholar in high school, returned to the village.

The entire village was paved with loess to welcome the arrival, and the county magistrate and a group of rural gentlemen happily completed the scene.
Chapter completed!