Chapter 372 Flower Boat Past
As far as I know, blood moons are extremely rare and only exist for a very short time.
There are only a few times clearly recorded in Taoist scriptures, and each time is hundreds of years apart.
However, this blood moon has the power to enhance people's souls and resurrect the dead.
Since ancient times, many evil spirits, or opportunistic people who practice evil ways, will use the special aura of the blood moon night to plan things that they cannot usually do.
If what the female ghost said is true, then those who captured Li Di must have wanted to use her heart as a sacrifice and seek to do something against the harmony of heaven.
Should I believe it?
It seems that what he said is sincere, and it doesn’t look like he is lying to me!
Besides, I have just resolved the thousand-year grudge between it and the ghost old Taoist. No matter how you look at it, it is not a person who repays kindness with enmity.
"Senior, who are the people who captured Li Di? Can you tell me where Li Di is now?"
I choose to believe it and bow to it.
"Little Taoist Priest, I'm so embarrassed." The female ghost changed her previous domineering attitude and greeted me with a blessing.
"Senior, please tell me the truth. I can also make some preparations in advance to save people."
I wasn't surprised by the female ghost's change.
Unexpectedly, the female ghost said: "If the little Taoist priest doesn't despise Siniang as a rotten person, you might as well call me Siniang."
It smiled at me, showing off its charm.
"It's not that I don't want to tell you where she is, but I don't know where she is now. Don't worry, the little Taoist priest, they will bring her to the gate of the ghost gate on the day of the sacrifice. The sacrifice will be held there, you only need to wait.
At my place, I will naturally meet that girl then."
I didn't pay attention to its smile, but its words brought back memories.
"call".
These two words were written by Wu Min in bold and emphasized in the notebook.
Offering sacrifices in front of the ghost gate!
The person who captured Li Di wanted to summon something from the ghost gate!
Just like this, the female ghost seemed to remember some sad past events, and returned to a sad state, and continued to talk about the past.
After learning that Li Di was still alive, all I needed to do now was wait. I was not as anxious as before.
Get dressed and listen carefully to what it says.
Let's call her Siniang, it sounds more friendly.
It turns out that Siniang was an orphan. She was sold on a flower boat on the Qinhuai River since she was a child and became a singing girl.
Before the age of fifteen, he had bright eyes and white teeth, and his every frown and smile showed off all kinds of charm.
If the fate of geishas is tragic, then Siniang is one of the luckier ones.
Because, when it was seventeen years old, it met the old ghost who came to swim in the river.
It was the time of the fireworks in March, and Siniang was sitting firmly on the flower boat behind the green gauze tent, playing and singing.
The voice was high and low, like beads falling on a jade plate.
The old ghost man followed the sound, and with just one glance, he was astonished.
Gui Laodao had not yet practiced Buddhism at that time, but he was a handsome young man from a wealthy family.
They boarded the flower boat, the bead curtain was lightly lifted, and they fell in love at first sight, so they made a private marriage for life.
Gui Laodao ransomed Siniang's body, and despite her family's objections, she married Siniang with red makeup.
The old ghost took the beauty home, and Siniang transformed from a singing prostitute to a young lady from a wealthy family.
The two are very much in love and their life is sweet.
Gui Laodao asked for nothing but one condition, that is, no matter what in this life, Siniang is not allowed to board the flower boat again.
Unfortunately, life is unsatisfactory nine times out of ten.
Gui Laodao's father was a stubborn man. He always believed that Siniang was a prostitute, but being married by Gui Laodao was a disgrace to the family tradition.
But he just couldn't resist the old ghost, and he died of depression not long after.
When the father died, the mother felt like she had no life left.
One dark and stormy night, he set himself on fire at home.
The fire burned so fiercely that it not only burned Gui Laodao's mother to death, but also reduced their family's huge property to ashes.
From then on, Gui Laodao changed from a rich man to a pauper.
The family's decline naturally attracted outsiders' comments.
All kinds of rumors spread quickly.
People laughed at Gui Laodao for marrying a prostitute.
more than this.
Some people say that Siniang is destined to have evil spirits. She killed her parents in her early years, and now she kills her parents-in-law. She is an unlucky person.
Some people also say that the fourth mother has a low life, she is a piece of shit that is ridden by thousands of people. She cannot live a good life. She ruined her huge family fortune just after she got married...
In short, they all have the same meaning, but the only thing they have in common is that they are all extremely unpleasant to listen to.
As the saying goes, three people make a tiger.
More and more words came to Gui Laodao's ears, which made it feel that what people said made sense.
And the fact is that after marrying the fourth mother, the family broke up.
So, it believed it.
But it loves Siniang so much that it doesn't know how to mention it to Siniang.
Therefore, it chose the most useless method.
escape!
Run away from home.
But it was too naive after all.
It thought that once it left, it wouldn't have to face it again.
However, one thing was overlooked.
Si Niang is already pregnant.
This is very painful for Siniang.
Her husband disappeared without a trace, and she was pregnant, so she had to do some odd jobs for others to survive.
At that time, Siniang did not resent Gui Laodao in her heart, on the contrary, she felt very guilty.
It thinks that it is a person born with ominous nature, and it is precisely because of itself that it caused the destruction of the Taoist family.
It stubbornly believes that the only way to make amends is to give birth to a child in its belly to continue the incense of his family.
But she was born into a prostitute, and there were very few people who came to work for her.
Fortunately, the mother on the flower boat took pity on it and from time to time brought some small items commonly used by girls and let it embroider, so it didn't starve to death.
This continued until Siniang gave birth to two children, a boy and a girl.
This is a great joy, but there is no one around Siniang. She wants to cry but has no tears.
How can a person support two children when his life is already so difficult that he has to worry about every meal he eats?
But after you give birth, you can’t give it away, right?
After all, this is the flesh and blood of the man I love deeply.
The mother of the flower boat saw that it was struggling to hold on, so she gave it an idea to let it return to the flower boat and sing songs for the guests.
In such a predicament, this is the only way.
But Siniang kept in mind Gui Laodao's request and never entered the flower boat again in this life.
It declined its mother's kindness.
Spring passes and autumn comes, time flies.
The ghost old man never came back.
However, Siniang was so tortured by life that she lost her human form.
Not only that, but its two children were as thin as kittens.
A seven-month-old baby looks like a two-month-old, so weak that he doesn't even have the strength to cry.
The weaker the child, the more sickly he was. In the winter, both children got cold and were about to die.
Siniang had no money to pay for medical treatment and medicine for her children, so she could only hold them tightly and cry alone.
After her tears dried up, Siniang finally made up her mind and went to the flower boat with her child in her arms.
It thought that it was only singing to save the child's life, and that its body was still innocent. The old ghost would definitely understand it when it came back.
Chapter completed!