no soul

The wind condensed as if frozen by the cold air, and the night was terribly quiet.

Lin Hong stared at the shadow below him, not daring to move, his whole body felt cold.

"My lord." A weak female voice sounded in the empty courtyard, breaking the terrifying silence.

Lin Hong closed his eyes and turned around slowly.

There were actually three people standing behind him, not just a child and three shadows.

The woman has a mediocre appearance and a short stature, but she is pure in her simplicity and has a different charm. She hugs the child by her side, and the old woman is leaning on crutches, old and rickety.

The three of them are dressed in simple and poor clothes, but their expressions are very gentle. The child is pulling at the corner of his mother's clothes, perhaps because he was scolded for jumping and laughing too mischievously just now. He looks pitiful, but he also looks at Lin Fenghong curiously. .

"Three generations are here to thank you, Young Master." The woman bowed slightly.

She looked at the pinch marks on Lin Hong's neck that had not completely disappeared, and she looked ashamed, "I'm sorry that day."

That day, she was the one who strangled Lin Hong's neck and nearly killed him. Fortunately, Wan Guchuan appeared in time and frightened them away.

Lin Hong knew what she was talking about, and touched his neck, but didn't say whether he accepted her apology, and asked, "Who are you?"

"I am Wu Niu's wife, Li Niang." The woman said, "This is Wu Niu's mother, Mrs. Jiang, and Wu Niu's and I's child, Xiao Qi." The woman gestured to the old woman and the child.

Lin Hong was surprised, so Wu Niu's family is so happy?But why did he go to his mountain home that day, and he was alone?The villagers also only mentioned Wu Niu's father.

Where did Wu Niu's wife, children and mother go?How could it be peeled off?Why is the human skin hidden so deep in Wu Niu's haunted place? ——It was like a memory he didn't want to touch.

The moonlight diluted the night so that it was cool and clear. The three of them stood in front of Lin Hong, and Lin Hong pulled his cloak tightly and stood with them in the cold wind.

Li Niang said to him, "Wu Niu's father and I have the kindness of saving lives by detoxifying snake poison, so I pledge myself to Wu Niu and have a son with him, Xiaoqi." Head, the child "hahahaha" laughed extremely happily.

"Harm..." Li Niang looked at her son with pity, and then she looked at Lin Hong and said, "Xiaoqi is a bit of an idiot, but he is also a good boy. Teach him more, he is also sensible."

It turned out that this child was a person with a heart attack. No wonder he jumped up and down and laughed like a ghost.

"I grew up without father and mother, and lived alone. It was a blessing to meet Wu Niu. We lived with his parents, and the family of five was harmonious and beautiful." Li Niang's hand was lightly placed on Jiang's shoulder, and the old man lowered his eyes. , looking a little sad.

Li Niang continued: "Wu Niu was a very good person at that time. He learned some medical skills from his father, and he was able to relieve his and his father's cough and paralysis. He also tried his best to heal Xiaoqi's heart ailment. There was no shortage of herbs in the mountains. Sometimes the villagers He will turn to him for help when he is sick, and he will help each other out of righteousness without receiving a penny of property. Therefore, the villagers respect him very much."

Lin Hong frowned, this was different from what they saw - the villagers' disgust and hatred for Wu Niu was beyond words.

"Hey... But Wu Niu is sensitive by nature. He always feels that he is born with an ugly appearance, and that the villagers are secretly looking at him with strange eyes, talking about him behind his back, and contemptuous of him—but how come! Everyone is boasting behind his back He!" Li Niang was a little excited.

Lin Hong understood that Wu Niu felt inferior because of his appearance, was extremely sensitive, and always felt that others discriminated against him—it was he himself who amplified the imaginary villagers' disgust towards him in this ghost square.

"Everything was ruined that day! When he returned home, he looked nervous and absent-minded, as if he was hiding something on his mind." Li Niang frowned, as if recalling the scene at that time.

"I asked him what happened. He said that everyone looked down on him and looked down on him. He wanted to be proud, and he wanted everyone to look up to him. He said he wanted to seize this opportunity, and he wanted to stand up! The expression was horrific—I didn't understand, I was scared, I asked him what the chance was, he didn't tell me, he didn't tell me..."

"In the night, he dragged back a coffin from nowhere. The material of the coffin is very good, and it looks like a precious thing. Our family has always been poor and thrifty, and this is definitely not something we can afford. I asked him where he got it from." , he..." Li Niang closed her eyes, trying to ease her emotions, and said with difficulty, "It was the first time he hit me. He told me to leave it alone."

Lin Hong listened quietly, without saying a word.

Lin Hong didn't know what means and what words she used to bewitch Wu Niu, arouse the distorted inferiority complex deep in his heart, and make him become tyrannical and inhumane in order to achieve his goal.I don't know if my true nature was fully exposed, or I changed a person completely.

That coffin was probably also given to Wu Niu by Lin Hong.

Unexpectedly, Lin Hong helped him to do this. Even the coffin had to be prepared for him, and then transported to Yongsui Mountain for him.

For no reason?

"On the morning of the second day after this coffin appeared, I witnessed with my own eyes that he..." Li Niang's voice choked up, "He killed his father! He killed my benefactor!"

"I don't understand, I don't understand. Father Wu is very kind to him. He always misses him in everything. He is always thinking about him. He is reluctant to eat good things by himself and wants to wait for him to go home and leave them for him. What a good father ...What a kind old man...He is kind to everyone...He is very quiet and open-minded, and he will not cause trouble to anyone...I don't understand...I don't understand...Why..." Li Niang's voice Trembling, her expression extremely sad, she covered her face, tears couldn't stop flowing, she didn't want to recall the scene at that time.

Xiao Qi felt that his mother was in a bad mood, so he raised his face and tugged at the corner of his mother's clothes.

Li Niang's hand was placed on top of his head, and he "giggled" again, completely unaffected by the disaster that happened in his family.

Jiang shi leaned on the cane with both hands, as if all her strength depended on this crude wooden crutch, and she would fall down at any time if she left it.Every wrinkle on her face was full of sadness, and she wiped her face with dry hands, as if she was wiping away tears, but her lacrimal glands were dry and old, and she couldn't shed tears at all.

Lin Hong was also very saddened by the infection, and he didn't even notice the cold wind wrapped around him.

Although they also guessed that Wu Niu might have killed their father, they still found it unbelievable and unreasonable when they learned that this was the case.

How did Wu Niu succeed?Is it really so tempting to level the world and get on the Dragon Throne?Did power, fame, and money make him abandon his human nature?

Killing your father with your own hands is like a beast!

"He put Dad into the coffin that night, and put almost all the fabrics in the house into it. There was a lot of blood... a lot of blood... dyed blood red..." Li Niang tried to breathe calmly, "We The three of them were terrified at the time, but they didn't dare to report him for murder, for fear that he would do something terrible to us."

"He killed his father, let alone being a filial piety for his father. He buried his father in a bamboo forest that day. I bravely followed him to see him. He soaked the coffin in the water... I don't understand...I don't understand... ..."

"I think he's crazy, completely crazy! Before he came back, I quickly packed up my things and ran away with Xiao Qi and Mother." Li Niang hugged Xiao Qi and supported Jiang Shi.

The old, the young, and the woman looked weak in the night, like a dead tree crumbling in the wind.

"We fled for six days, lived without a fixed place, endured the cold and sat on the ground; we didn't have enough food and money, sometimes we could only pick up something to eat, the three of us were weak, and we were often bullied...I...—— We obviously have a family!" Li Niang's eyes were a little bright in the moonlight, reflecting the light, they seemed to be full of tears, and the tears were about to fall.

Lin Hong's expression was gloomy, and his heart was on fire.

But all three of them escaped, so how could they be killed?To be tortured by skinning?

"Six days. It wasn't Wu Niu who caught us, but officers and soldiers." Li Niang's breathing became heavy, "They said that Wu Niu wanted to rebel and punish the nine tribes!"

Lin Hong was taken aback. He knew Wu Niu's failure a long time ago, but how did he get exposed?On the sixth day, the Yin soldiers have not yet formed, and do Yin soldiers really exist in this world?Where did he get the strength and ability to rebel?

"Heh." Li Niang sneered, helplessly, desperately, "Him? Rebellion? What a big joke!"

"Zhu Jiu Clan? I can't believe it." Li Niang gritted her teeth, "I don't know how these officers and soldiers found us, and who leaked our whereabouts! I don't know!"

"We were stripped naked, disheveled, chained and chained in iron cages, and walked through the market! The crowd laughed mockingly. They threw things at us, spat on us, and smashed our heads and blood. You are covered in dirt, and you have to endure their unbearable foul language!!"

Li Niang trembled all over, "Wu Niu was there when we were skinned. He was escorted by officers and soldiers to witness the whole process!

"We endured the severe pain and the fear of death! I was afraid! I was afraid! I told them not to touch my Xiaoqi...don't move! I'm going crazy! They held him down and cut flesh on top of his head... He's so small...he's screaming...he's screaming so hard...he's in so much pain...he's so small...ahh!!!!!!!"

Li Niang let out a scream, as if she wanted to vent the suppressed emotions in her heart.

Xiaoqi was taken aback, as if he didn't understand why his mother was acting like this suddenly, he was very scared and worried, he hugged his mother's waist, looked up at her, he didn't have much to say, but there was one word he said well He is the best at it, and he likes this word the most: "Mother...Mother...Mother..."

Li Niang hugged Xiaoqi, her breathing was rapid and heavy, her chest heaved violently, she seemed to be trying to calm down her emotions, her eyes were bloodshot and red, "They peeled off our skin, I looked at my intact skin...I looked at it ...my own skin...heh...and my son's...I look at my bloody hands...can you imagine? Looking at my flesh and pulse...blood dripping...I hurt... It hurts so much... I can hardly believe it's real, who can believe it? Believe that I'm going to die..." Li Niang's eyes were straightened, and she was shaking.

The old Jiang woman on the side kept her eyes tightly closed the whole time, and she was also enduring the pain of recalling all that.

Li Niang was trembling, her lips turned white, "They sewed our human skins together, I have been watching...our skins...sewed together...they put them into boxes..."

The feet of human skin are sewn together, so their footsteps overlap, their shadows overlap...

Li Niang's eyes were full of hatred and bloodshot, "Wu Niu...he was there...he was watching...it's all his fault! It's all his fault! I hate him! I hate him! Go up and crush him!!"

"Wu Niu... Wu Niu..." Li Niang repeated the name through gritted teeth, trying to crush it in her mouth with overwhelming hatred.

Lin Hong's expression was as cold as the wind.

Wu Niu.How inferior and greedy he is, the family is already harmonious and beautiful, but he is not satisfied, he wants to destroy his peach blossom garden with his own hands for the sake of flashy dreams!He is so foolish!

His actions alone caused his family members to be tortured!

Did he feel the slightest bit of remorse when he witnessed his family being skinned?

Lin Hong knew he didn't!

——This ghost recipe is the best proof.

He even hid the skins of the three in the deepest part, ignored their existence, and did not face them. He erased the existence of his wife, children, and mother, and forgot their existence. He wanted to continue to dream of his Spring and Autumn Dream!

How ridiculous.

"He's dead. I know." Li Niang showed a cold smile, "I'm bloody and bloody, but I'm not dead yet. I saw his decapitated body, and I saw his head and twisted body hanging on the city wall Come on. His twisted soul was cut open to tell the world! He deserves it! He ruined everything! He ruined my home!"

This is Wu Niu's end, with his head in a different place, and he is cast aside by the world.

Even after he died and became a ghost, he still didn't let it go. He felt that he was about to succeed. He might ascend the dragon chair, sit on the world, enjoy endless glory and wealth, and everyone would bow down to him. To look up to him, no one can despise him, he is the master of the world.

Lin Hong set a trap for him.

"Ma'am, do you know Lin Hong?" Lin Hong asked.

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