Change Human Trilogy

In 1872, the Tongzhi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty married the Empress.

On the surface, the whole country celebrates, but in fact, the invasion of Western "barbarians" and the long Tsarist-Russian War have secretly shrouded the country under depression.

13-year-old Zhong Ziqi squatted in front of his mother Jiang's room, where his father and mother were arguing over whether to let him study abroad.He is a member of the first batch of overseas students plan, and he will be sent abroad to learn knowledge in response to Master Li Hongzhang's call.Although the cars that can run and the lights that can glow make him full of curiosity, when he thinks of leaving his parents for many years, he is 100% unwilling.He is not old enough to understand the heaviness and helplessness of this national plan.

Most of the selected children were from poor families. At that time, going to the yellow-haired and blue-eyed country on the other side of the ocean was extremely difficult and dangerous. Most families with backgrounds were unwilling to let their children and grandchildren take "adventures". Zhong Ziqi was a Exception, he was born in a wealthy official family, his father Zhong Qi was a Daoist.

And it was his mother, Jiang Shi, who made this decision.

Ziqi never understood why his mother insisted on sending her so far away.He didn't want to go at all.

The father's voice in the room was full of pity: he was still a child after all.

Jiang's soft voice was as cold as ever: I'm at ease only if I send it far away.

Ziqi's eyes turned red when she heard the conversation.He broke into the door and knelt down in front of his parents: I don't want to go abroad, I want to stay at home and serve my parents.

The always open-minded father's eyes turned red immediately, he gently pulled him up, and stroked his little head caressingly.Ziqi turned to look at his mother. He knew that his mother had the final say on his affairs since he was a child. He hoped that his mother would keep him at home like his father.The mother gently pulled him in front of her face, her voice was cold and gentle: silly boy, if you want to do big things in the future, you will have to see the big world, and you will have no future if you stay with your parents.

Ziqi choked: Mother is not in good health, I want to be by my side to take care of you.

His mother gently hugged him into her arms, she seldom hugged him, but this time he clearly felt that his mother's body was extremely cold, and she said: Good boy, learn more skills outside, and be successful in the future is the greatest filial piety to me .Letting you study abroad is for your own good.

Ziqi lowered her head, tears dripping down on the ground.

Father sighed.

On the day Ziqi left, Jiang, who had always been bedridden, stood in front of the house for a long time.

This farewell, at least for several years, Jiang looked at the direction he left, and murmured to her husband: I hope he doesn't think I'm cruel.

Along the way, Ziqi watched his parents' shadows become more and more blurred. He knew that his mother's love and expectations for him had always been tolerant. Unlike other families, others had strict fathers and mothers, but Ziqi's father was loving and tolerant. , the mother is cold and serious.

stop looking.away.Zhong Qi patted his wife on the shoulder lightly.Jiang Shi looked at the direction Ziqi was leaving, and didn't move.

Like other international students, Zhong Ziqi learned a lot of new knowledge.

Although the outside world is exciting, he never lets go of his longing for home.While studying architectural design, he also tried to study medicine. He thought that one day when he returned home, he could heal his mother's sick body and let her live like a normal person.

Communication at that time was by letter.

Due to the long journey, his letters always seem to be delayed. For example, he told his mother not to forget to add clothes when it was cold in autumn, but when Jiang received it, it was snowing in winter.She often sent some dried fruit to Ziqi, and Zhong Ziqi cherished it very much when she received it, and even ate it when it was completely dried.

Ten years have passed.

At the age of 24, Ziqi returned to China. He has learned new things and seen a new world. After being away from home these years, he has become an adult with independent thoughts.When she stepped into the house, Ziqi was still shocked by the changes of the past ten years.

The corruption of the Qing court originated from the depths, and the people of the country followed suit, as well as the family affairs.

The scenery in the house has not changed much, and there are some more Western items. At this time, my father has taken in two concubines, who are not much older than Ziqi.And the mother is still lying in bed to recuperate.

His father's appearance was older than he remembered.A few strands of silver hair can already be seen from his sideburns. He is still as gentle and elegant as before. When his son returned to the country, he happily held Ziqi's hand and introduced him to the new housekeepers one by one. The name of the servant, and his 2 concubines.They are Ziqi's two aunts, one is generous and outgoing.A quiet and restrained.

Ziqi didn't like the matter of his father taking concubines, half of his enthusiasm and excitement were dampened by this incident. At that time, three wives and four concubines were common, but when it happened to his father, he felt a little uncomfortable.Facing the strange aunt, Ziqi just looked indifferent and saluted politely.After studying abroad for many years, he already has resistance to many Chinese traditions, although he knows that these concepts are deeply ingrained and cannot be changed in a short time.With many women, there will inevitably be competition and friction. Ziqi loves her sick mother.The family is big and the business is big, and jealousy among wives and concubines is not uncommon.

In ten years, everything has changed, but the mother is still the same as before, lying quietly on the couch, the moment Ziqi saw her mother, her eyes turned red, and there were a few streaks on her head. White hair, although his face is still young and plump, he still loves his mother from the bottom of his heart.With such a large courtyard, who knows if my mother, who has always been taciturn, will be left out in the cold.

Ziqi confronts her father about taking concubines.

But the mother didn't think so, and her tone was habitual: In our family situation, three wives and four concubines are very common.Then he said in a caring tone: Compared with your father, you are my only hope.

Zhong Ziqi held her mother's hand, still feeling bone-chillingly cold.

The rumors emerged not long after Ziqi returned to China.

It is said that there are monsters in the mansion, who ate the former maids.Zhong Yu angrily reprimanded several servants who were discussing privately.The more she listened, the more disgusted Ziqi became.But he also faintly felt the hidden current in this courtyard. His father rarely went to his mother's room. The two aunts never had any contact with their mother. On the contrary, Auntie became more and more aggressive.Later, the servants told Ziqi that the second aunt had been pregnant a year ago, and the doctor had determined that it was a boy, but the child was not kept.The second aunt who experienced the pain of losing her son has since become a little moody.It was pointed out that Mrs. Jiang had killed her child, and she was said to be a man-eating monster. She rushed to Mrs. Jiang's room to make noise many times and was dragged away.

After hearing this, Zhong Ziqi felt a little sympathetic to her aunt, and felt sorry for her mother for being treated like this.The second aunt obviously transferred her anger to Ziqi, and satirized him more than once as a monster born of a monster. Ziqi could tolerate her scolding herself, but he couldn't accept that his mother was humiliated for no reason. This contradiction was ignored.

Later, the second aunt hanged herself by the well in the courtyard, and her death was extremely strange.On the second day after Second Aunt's death, there was a quarrel with my father in the mother's room.The people in the house were even more afraid to approach the mother, and the third aunt was even more submissive.They all developed a deep fear of their mother.Zhong Ziqi didn't believe it had anything to do with her mother.

Until that day, he found a letter under the corner of the table in his mother's room, which was written by his second aunt to her distant uncle.The second aunt's uncle practiced and studied with a Taoist.The letter said that there lived a monster that drank human blood for a living in Zhong's mansion, please uncle come quickly to get rid of the monster.Zhong Ziqi knew that the monster mentioned in the letter was her mother Jiang Shi.And this letter was obviously intercepted by someone halfway.He put the letter back in its place with mixed emotions.He doesn't believe that there are monsters in the world, let alone that his mother is a terrible monster.But when he thought about it carefully, he had never seen his mother eating and walking normally, and everything about his mother was indeed so weird.

Finally found out in one night.

It was already midnight.Ziqi sat in the courtyard in a daze. After he returned home, he began to feel unwell, groggy during the day and insomnia at night.His body was hot and painful. He felt that his symptoms were a bit like the fever that was prevalent at that time. His father invited many doctors for him, but none of them could diagnose the specific cause.He himself had studied medicine, and he didn't know what was wrong with him.

A figure came from far away in the corridor, it was Ling'er, the mother's personal servant girl. She was not as lively as usual, but her expression was dull, and she walked into the mother's room stiffly.As if being pinned down.Ziqi called her name but there was no response.

Ziqi watched her enter her mother's room, and the door closed strangely out of thin air.Ziqi knew that her mother needed someone to take care of her day and night, so she took it for granted, but soon after, a strong smell of blood wafted away.Zhong Yu didn't know when he had become extremely sensitive to the smell of blood.He broke into his mother's room in a panic, and was stunned by the scene before him.

His mother was standing in the center of the house with her back to him, her long black hair hanging down to the ground, like a black abyss that made one feel chilly.Ling'er lay dry in a pool of blood, her skin shattered.The scene was appalling.Ziqi was too scared to speak by this scene.The mother turned around slowly, without a single wrinkle on her face, as ghostly as a young girl.On the entire pale face, only the lips were suddenly bright red.She stared at Ziqi who broke in suddenly.Ziqi was almost froze by her fright.Looking at his mother's black pupils with faint light, this familiar face is indeed his mother.He wanted to yell, but no sound came out of his throat.The mother in sight slightly raised her hand, Ziqi's vision went dark and she lost her intuition.My mother's usually cold voice sounded in my ears: You should rest in your room at night and don't run around.

Ziqi woke up again, he was already lying on his bed.

Father, mother, and several doctors were all around him.My father said: You are seriously ill and need to be recuperated.

The mother sat next to the father, her eyes were very red.

Everyone left the room, only his mother stayed by his side, Zhong Yu felt uneasy, the scene before he passed out was clearly in his mind, it was really not like a hallucination.

My mother said: Everything in the dream is false, don't think about it.

Zhong Ziqi didn't let go of what happened that night at all, and his servants told him that Ling'er was sent back to her hometown because of something in her hometown.So it never showed up.He felt that these were too coincidental.Later one day Ling'er reappeared in the mansion, and Ziqi saw that there was nothing unusual about her, so she let go of her doubts a little.

For a long time, Ziqi has been recuperating from illness, taking medicine non-stop every day, but her body is getting heavier and heavier.And his mother rarely visited him.He went to visit his mother, but was always turned away.The outside world is saying that the Zhong family has been cursed, and almost all of them are sick.

The smell of blood was getting stronger and stronger in the mansion, and Ziqi felt that the smell of blood was everywhere around her.People around him seemed to be unable to detect the smell of blood, but Ziqi became more and more depressed, as his body became weaker and weaker.In the third year of his illness, he could no longer get out of bed and walk, and would wake up coughing every night. After waking up, his hands and feet were extremely heavy, and his internal organs hurt badly.He suffers from such a self, he feels that he is completely useless and can't do anything.

Many things happened that year. The government suffered repeated defeats in foreign wars. The oppression and humiliation of the Chinese by foreigners became more and more obvious. The whole country was in a depressed atmosphere.The Zhong family was demoted because of party-government disputes.

The dismissal of the official position, the serious illness of the only son, everything indicates that the entire Zhong family is declining.

Early spring of 1886.Ziqi passed away.

A few days before his death, he had his camera repaired.Waiting for the peach blossoms in the courtyard to bloom, he asked his servants to take a photo for him.The camera was brought back when he returned from studying abroad. The first photo Ziqi took at home was a photo of him and his mother.

Before the peach blossoms bloomed, Ziqi passed away early. That night he was coughing all the time, his body was sore and feverish. He already had a premonition that he would not survive that night. Looking back on his life, he hardly did anything, wasting the great knowledge of studying abroad, and did nothing As he expected, he cured his mother's disease, but he was also bedridden. He also felt deeply guilty about his father. He was not a good son worthy of great responsibility.He felt that his departure was a kind of relief. If there was an afterlife, he hoped that he would be useful in the country and in the family, instead of being useless and wasting medicine like he is now.

The moment he closed his eyes, he seemed to see a red figure on the window sill, and his mother seemed to have been standing outside the window looking at him.But he could no longer utter a word.

The next morning, when the servants rushed to serve Ziqi, they saw Jiang Shi, who rarely left the room, appear in the room. She sat there holding Ziqi's stiff body, without saying a word.

Zhongfu hung up a white silk.

Zhong Qi rushed to the room to persuade Jiang that the dead cannot be resurrected, and they should find an auspicious day for early burial.

Do you know that the Zhong family is coming to an end?

Jiang asked Zhong Qi.

Zhong Qi didn't seem to be surprised, and said: "It's all my own fault, I am ashamed of the ancestors of the Zhong family."

She solemnly saluted Jiang and said: Thank you for protecting my family, but I failed to take good care of Ziqi.

Jiang looked at the white hair on his sideburns. After all, they have been husband and wife for more than 20 years, and he has been very generous and tolerant to her.

Zhong Qi walked out of the room, he knew that Ziqi's departure was the beginning and end of the changes in his family.

Dugu looked at Ziqi in her arms, this was her only child.In just over 20 years, he left.Human life is really fragile and short.

She regretted it.

When Ziqi was born, she was troubled by Ziqi's identity. She wanted him to have an endless lifespan like herself, but he needed blood to maintain his life.It is still short-lived, but it has all kinds of joys, sorrows, sorrows and joys to integrate into this human society.

Eventually, she turned him into a human.She wants him to live a happy and prosperous life, and she wants to protect his descendants well.

However, he is a product of immorality after all, even with a human body, there are many scruples.

Ziqi cannot approach her.

Because the evil spirit exuding from her body will affect Ziqi.Making the only human life in his body more fragile.

She made a fortune for Ziqi, saying that he would not live past the age of 15, so when he was very young, he sent him to the far west.Originally thought that Ziqi, who had survived the age of 20, would no longer be affected by her evil spirit, but unexpectedly, she still did not escape her fate in the end.

For thousands of years, she, Yu Yu, walked alone, and now her only child died, which made her wake up like a dream. Perhaps, from the very beginning, she should make him just like herself. No matter how dynasties change or the world changes, he will always live in her side.

After making this decision, Jiang Shi no longer feels uncomfortable.She just needs to give Ziqi a whole new life.

Overnight, Zhong's house turned into a haunted house.The Jiang family sucked all the lives and blood from the entire mansion, gathered them together, and gave Zhong Ziqi a new life.

No one knew why the huge mansion was left in a mess after one night, and no one survived.

In order to avoid panic, the yamen in charge of the investigation sealed the house under the pretext that the bandits had destroyed the door, and no outsiders were allowed to approach.

When Ziqi opened his eyes again, he was in a cold and spacious secret room.Woke up with a dry throat.

He didn't expect that he would come back to life, and all the pains on his body would disappear.Sitting on the steps not far away was a familiar person, who turned out to be my mother. She turned into the weird face she saw that night.

Jiang Shi had been waiting for him to wake up for a long time.

Father hanged himself.All the people in the mansion have been killed.

Mother admitted her identity as a monster.

After hearing these facts, Ziqi couldn't accept it.

He walked up the stairs, above this secret room was the Zhong family's mansion, the night outside was solemn, he walked in the familiar courtyard, the courtyard was messy and cold, and the black mark left by the dried blood was still there.Until this moment, many questions in his mind were gradually solved.

Mother is indeed a monster.It was not a hallucination to see her eat Ling'er before, but she resurrected Ling'er in order to dispel Ziqi's doubts about her.The second aunt and her child were also killed by the mother.The maids and servants who disappeared in the mansion were all eaten by the mother.And he himself is the son of a monster.In order for him to survive, she took the lives of all the people in the house.

The most difficult thing to accept is that he will live on blood like a monster in the future.

Even if it wasn't for you, no one in Zhongfu would survive.

Jiang Shi explained to him like this.But he still couldn't listen.He couldn't forgive such a sinful mother, and himself who was burdened with a large blood debt.

Ziqi thought that she would be able to resist the hunger brought by the blood, but in the end she couldn't hold back, and caught mice and spiders in the corner and ate them.He didn't expect that he would come to this point, neither human nor ghost.

She wants to take him back to the mountains, to the place where she lived before, where the mountains and rivers are beautiful and the food is plentiful.

Jiang told him that in the past, there was a human leader who made a deal with her and set aside a village for her as food. Every once in a while, some priests would send food to him. Later, with the changes, the ritual customs of the village gradually faded away. , but there are enough animal beasts out there to eat.

She is a monster from ancient times and has survived to this day.The only weakness is water.

Ziqi promised to go back to the mountains with her mother, but on the way, she pushed her into the lake

I just want to be an ordinary human being, and you, not my mother!Ziqi said.

When she sank into the water, the water would corrode her body and bring her disaster. She didn't expect that the person who pushed her into the water was her own son.

In the following years, Ziqi was depressed for a long time. He committed suicide countless times, but no matter how much he hurt himself, he couldn't end his life, and he had to suffer from hunger every day.The more painful it is, the resentment towards Dugu will increase day by day.

He believed even more that he originally had a gentle and virtuous mother, but a selfish monster appeared, killed his mother, and turned him into a monster too.

This monster is unforgivable.

Zhong Ziqi should be named Zhong Yu and start a new life.