Chapter 124
Chapter 124
In the small square courtyard, a woman was bending over to pour water into the basin of dirty clothes. As she rolled up her sleeves that were splashed with water, Fourteen, who had just completed his task, came back from outside, smelling fishy.
Luoyue had developed an extremely strong fear of him over the past few days. When she saw his wolf-like gaze falling on her, she trembled all over.
Before she could even stand up, the man strode over, picked her up by the waist and kicked open the door.
Luoyue wanted to resist, but when she recalled those days when she had poisoned someone and attacked with a knife at night but failed and was instead brutally tortured, she dared not struggle anymore.
After Fourteen left, the nausea she had been suppressing for so long finally came up, and the room filled with the smell of blood made her vomit all over the place.
Seeing that the time was almost up, she wiped the tears from her eyes, tidied herself up, and came to Huixian Hall.
Several medicine boys were carrying wooden basins filled with broken medicine residue as they walked out. Seeing Luoyue hesitating at the door, one of them said, "Miss, would you like to see a doctor? Unfortunately, the doctor is not here today!"
"Not here?" Luoyue panicked, "Can I buy some medicine?"
"Of course you can, but some medicines require a prescription. What medicine do you want to buy, young lady?"
Luoyue blushed but didn't dare to say anything.
Although she had been deprived of her virginity by the top 14, she was unwilling to give up and didn't even comb her hair. So she was too embarrassed to talk about the contraceptive medicine in front of so many people.
She was about to change her words to ease the embarrassment, but she saw a gorgeous carriage coming quickly in the distance and then slowly stopped in front of the gate of Huixian Hall.
When the carriage driver saw the medicine boy, he unbridled the reins, got off the carriage and asked if Mr. Hua Wensheng was there, and also got a negative answer.
Seeing that no one paid attention to her, Luo Yue wanted to go somewhere else. When she passed by a carriage, she saw a man through the curtain of the sedan that was slightly blown by the wind.
His face was pale and his cheeks were sunken. He gasped with his eyes tightly closed. Looking down along his cracked lips, he saw a thick silk cloth wrapped around his neck, and blood was faintly seeping out.
Luoyue thought the man looked familiar and couldn't help but look at him twice.
At this moment, the man suddenly opened his eyes!
His vicious and mean eyes flashed with a sharp light and stared straight at Luoyue outside the sedan chair, which frightened her so much that she lowered her head and walked back dejectedly.
Seeing that two business deals that should have been in their hands were lost, the pharmacists talked about it with some heartache.
"It's really strange lately. I haven't noticed so many people coming to see Mr. Hua before!"
"That's right! So, do you know what he did?"
"I heard that day that he seemed to have something important to do, so he asked for his resignation from the shopkeeper. The old man is already old, and I'm afraid I will never see him again..."
Dark clouds rolled in the sky, and it seemed that a rainstorm was coming.
By the Wenxin Lake, Baili Shun stood with his hands behind his back in the pavilion by the lake.
He first released his spiritual consciousness into the lake to investigate, and then released a barrier to cover the entire lake.
After his spiritual consciousness returned, Baili Shun felt relieved to enter the Heart-Searching Lake. Once he entered, he realized why this place was a forbidden area.
The surface of the lake was emerald green and waveless, but underneath there was an undercurrent. Although he had a barrier to protect himself, he was still obstructed at every turn and had to be careful of the gravel underneath at all times.
Looking at the empty lake bottom, Baili Shun couldn't help but wonder, what could there be here? It was just mud and some skeletons of people who didn't know their own limits. Although Feng Yu had a strange personality and always made incoherent remarks, he probably wouldn't make such a joke.
Thinking of this, Baili Shun concentrated and summoned out a trace of spiritual consciousness again and threw it into the darkest corner in front.
But in a moment, the divine consciousness bloomed a golden light from a distance. Baili Shun looked carefully and saw that...
There is someone!
When he approached and peeled away the large patch of water grass that blocked his view, the scene he saw was so shocking that his breath was held in place.
It was a woman, beautiful but lifeless, dressed in mourning sackcloth like a dead person, lying quietly on a large rock.
But even though the exposed skin was pale and purple, her chest rose and fell evenly, as if she was breathing.
There is a woman who can breathe at the bottom of this lake?
Baili Shun suddenly felt something was wrong and began to retreat defensively, but the woman seemed to sense it. She stretched out her hands and feet and bent and swung them like a spider's legs, and then slowly opened her dark eyes without whites.
She tilted her head, her long hair loose, and gave Baili Shun a strange smile as he retreated on his guard, holding onto Baili Shun's spiritual consciousness with her frighteningly slender fingers.
"Let me ask your heart..."
The woman grinned and let out a strange laugh, then rushed towards Baili Shun at an extremely fast speed...
When he woke up again, Baili Shun felt a splitting headache and it took him a long time to feel better.
He looked around and found that it was pitch black all around him, and no matter how he cast spells, it was useless.
"Baili Shun..."
A woman's voice rang out in the dark space.
"Are you ashamed?"
Baili Shun pursed his lips tightly, turned around and looked at the woman behind him. She appeared out of nowhere and asked this question.
He was not completely ignorant of the Lake of Inquiry. He knew that this was the same routine as the Illusion of the Reincarnation. Visitors needed to answer all the questions in order to get what they wanted. If they concealed anything, they would violate the taboos of the Lake of Inquiry and be buried at the bottom of the lake.
"Yes." Baili Shun's voice was dry.
"Who do you feel guilty towards?"
"My mother."
"How can I be ashamed?"
Baili Shun fell silent again. During the time he was silent, the surrounding scene instantly changed into a quiet and elegant room.
A woman in light green with white plum blossoms embroidered on the hem of her skirt was leaning against the window. She was not wearing any makeup but had a pretty face. She looked calm and peaceful, but from her slightly drooped eyebrows and lips, she seemed to be a little melancholy.
The woman was concentrating on trimming the daffodils by the window and didn't notice the man's gaze through the screen behind her.
"Mrs. Chan is still thinking about that man. Shun'er, I'll leave it to you this time. Do it cleanly!"
Baili Shun looked at the scene in front of him. He knew it was an illusion, but the pain in his heart was tangled and complicated.
As his mind shifted, the scene changed again, and Baili Shun saw his younger self holding a sharp dagger and knocking a handsome man to the ground!
The sword pierced into his chest, gouging out a piece of flesh.
"Get lost!" Young Baili Shun picked up the bloody piece of meat with no expression on his face. "She is the wife of the owner of Tianshui Tower. She is my father's wife and my mother. She is not your Xiaochan!"
Baili Shun covered his eyes in embarrassment, clenched his teeth and didn't want to watch anymore, because he knew what was going to happen next.
The eight-year-old boy took the piece of meat back to report to his father. His father didn't know that he had let the man go, and he picked him up happily.
Baili Changyuan is a strange father. After all, in the young Baili Shun's cognition, no father would be so cold to his only son. On weekdays, he almost never cares about him except for his cultivation, and will only hug him so intimately when he needs him.
And right after that, my father took the piece of meat to see my mother.
And then,
It was his mother, with tears in her eyes, who, despite the servants' obstruction, ran all the way from her yard to his room and slapped him hard.
"Bad breed!"
"You are a bastard!"
That day, his mother's eyes were so red, as if she wanted to bite off a piece of her own flesh. He was only eight years old. How did other people's parents treat them when they were eight years old? When other people were eight years old, would their mothers hate them as bastards and their fathers use them as a knife to kill people like he did?
He didn't know, he always lived in doubt.
"You feel guilty towards your mother. Why don't you make amends and instead help the tyrant to do evil?"
The voice floated around Baili Shun's ears, and the scene in front of him remained motionless with him holding flesh and blood, as if waiting for his response.
"I……"
You have to answer, ask your heart and don't evade or lie.
"I want a complete family. I want my mother to come back to my father and me..."
"So, what did you do?"
The veins on the back of Baili Shun's hands bulged, his lips trembled, and his breathing was terribly heavy.
"I betrayed my mother and told my father about her."
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