Record of Yin and Yang

Regarding Lai Erye's doubts and questions, the owner of the Lai family did not explain. He took out a stack of papers from his sleeve, "Xiao'er is my father's grandson, and it is impossible for my father to harm Xiao'er, so I always feel that Xiaoer's body It’s not my father. But Xiao’er’s strange behavior and serious illness that day are true. I always feel that this time, someone from our Lai family wants to give me some hints. The horoscopes of other deceased members of the family."

After finishing speaking, he shook the stack of papers in his hands casually.

Patriarch Lai was still saying: "Your younger brother and sister have passed away for four years. Before you were alive, you played harmoniously with her. If she hasn't reincarnated, just invite her here so that you can meet each other." voice, "Even if the siblings become ghosts, they won't harm you, second brother, don't be afraid."

Lai Erye forced a smile.

Here, Shao Yi had already copied the horoscope, picked up the green bamboo stick, and went through the soul-inviting procedure again.

The night in early spring was still very cold, and the night wind that had been blowing slowly became stronger suddenly. The lantern in front of him was violently swayed by the wind, and the candle on the altar was almost extinguished several times. A tap on the rear saved it back.

In front of the altar, suddenly there was a black ghost, the figure was vague, almost invisible in the night.She stood shyly in the shadows with her head down, looking in horror at Shao Yi who was the closest to him who invited her.

This ghost's soul power is too weak, apart from Gu Jiu and Shao Yi, only the younger brother can see her.Shao Yi couldn't help saying, and opened the yin and yang eyes to Patriarch Lai and others.

"what!"

The moment Liniang saw the ghost, she screamed and hid to the side. She was not far from Lai Erye, so she subconsciously hid beside Lai Erye.

Erye Lai was grabbed by his sleeve by her, but he didn't look back at her, as if he couldn't feel it, he stared at the ghost in the field.

Patriarch Lai was standing next to Gu Jiu, so he wasn't too scared. He looked at the ghost that couldn't see clearly, and asked, "Are you younger siblings?"

"It is indeed Mrs. Lai." Shao Yi said.

Ghost Shadow didn't make a sound, crossed his hands together, and saluted Patriarch Lai.

Lai Erye suddenly came back to his senses, his eyes were excited, he looked at the ghost full of nostalgia, and softly called: "Qinglian, is it really you?"

Qinglian's shoulders trembled slightly, she turned her head away and didn't look at Second Master Lai.

Patriarch Lai's expression lifted, and he looked at Qinglian with lightning eyes: "Sister and brother, do you know what happened at home recently? Do you know who did it?"

Qinglian stood still, looked up at Patriarch Lai, and then at Second Master Lai, struggling and seemed worried.

"Qinglian." Lai Erye said again, "Do you know how much I miss you for my husband and two daughters these years?"

Patriarch Lai's face darkened, "Second brother, Xu Jiachang can wait later." He directly interrupted Second Master Lai and urged Qinglian, "Sister and sister, you must know what is it? Just say it, don't have any worries , as long as you say it, no matter what you ask, I will promise you."

"Qinglian!" Second Master Lai said anxiously, leaving Li Niang aside and taking a step forward.

Qinglian also moved suddenly, she took a step forward, stepped out of the shadow where she was hiding, and revealed her current face.

In the eyes of Gu Jiu and Shao Yi, Qinglian's death is already very good. She should have been in a good situation when she died. Her body and face are not as bloody as some ghosts who died tragically. His face is gray and pale, but this face is scary enough in the eyes of ordinary people.

So Erye Lai, who was still agitated just now, went up and saw Qinglian's face, and immediately took a step back in fright, and Liniang couldn't bear the stimulation, and almost fainted.

Qinglian came out, and suddenly knelt down in front of Patriarch Lai, saying "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh", patting her heart, crying loudly as if she had been wronged by the sky.

Even when the ghosts speak, there is a bit of yin in them, so their voices are resentful and gloomy, especially when they cry.

Qinglian cried and yelled, Gu Jiu and Shao Yi looked at this scene in amazement, time was in a hurry, they had limited knowledge of things before, they only knew that Qinglian died of illness, but they didn't know that she was still dumb.

"Qinglian, Qinglian!" Lai Erye looked affectionate beside him, but after careful observation, he could detect a hint of pleading in his voice.

"Shut up!" Patriarch Lai was furious, scolded Second Master Lai, then turned to Qinglian and said, "Sister and sister, I know you haven't spoken for a long time before you died of illness. But I know you can read and write, and you will Write down what you want to say and show me. You cry so sadly, do you feel that you have been wronged a lot? You are the daughter-in-law of my Lai family, and no one can bully you. If a living person bullies you, elder brother is still alive, elder brother Stand up for you; if the dead bully you, I will let these two priests stand up for you. Whether it is a human or a ghost, we will never take sides."

Patriarch Lai's words were very meaningful, like promises and guarantees.

When Qinglian heard it, she was really excited, her crying was amplified by two points, but she nodded her head, expressing that she was willing to write.

Gu Jiu immediately took out an old talisman pen and a few pieces of talisman paper and burned them to Qinglian. After the two things were reduced to ashes in the brazier, Qinglian reached out and groped in the brazier for a while, took out the complete talisman pen and talisman paper, and lifted them up. Pen ready to start writing.

"Qinglian!" Lai Erye disregarded Patriarch Lai's strange gaze, and looked at Qinglian threateningly, "Qinglian, think about the two children in the family. In a few years, they will say that they are getting married... ..."

"Everything is up to me!" Patriarch Lai said to Qinglian, who had been slow to write, "You believe in big brother, big brother will do what he says, they are my nieces, and I will never anger two innocent children for anything. I'm not going to watch them go into a fire pit."

Qinglian's hesitant expression quickly became firm, and she finally wrote on the paper.

"Qinglian!" Second Master Lai sternly said, already in a state of desperation, even ignoring Qinglian's terrified expression, he rushed up to snatch the pen from her hand.

Then he was kicked to the ground by Patriarch Lai.

Patriarch Lai stepped on Erye Lai's shoulder and looked down at him, "Qinglian is timid and timid. She cared most about her two daughters when she was alive. You mentioned them several times just now. You think I can't see that you are Are you threatening her with this? Second brother, I know what you are hiding from me behind your back. "

Second Master Lai raised his hand to move Patriarch Lai's feet away, but failed several times, Patriarch Lai stepped on him with more force. He glanced at Qinglian who was writing vigorously, and finally his expression became depressed. Giving up and lying on the spot, "When did Big Brother doubt me?"

"Today." Patriarch Lai hooked the corners of his mouth sarcastically, and he moved his foot away. "Actually, I have never doubted you before. I only blame the person you chose for being impatient." Slowly sweeping over the bewildered Liniang beside her.

Today, when he learned that the eldest son was taking wrong medicine, Patriarch Lai held back his anger and ordered to go down and search carefully. At this time, except Patriarch Lai's trusted servant, everyone else in the house was under strict surveillance.Around noon, people around her came to report that Liniang called a maid to leave secretly through the corner gate, and the place she went to was Lai Erye's house not far from the ancestral house.

The servant came back in a hurry to report to Patriarch Lai, and when Patriarch Lai was in shock, Second Master Lai came to the door.Patriarch Lai didn't have time to think about it, so he immediately tested Lai Erye.At that time, nothing was found out from Lai Erye, but with that maid in front, Lai Patriarch had already planted the seeds of suspicion towards Lai Erye.

Then Patriarch Lai recalled the scene on the day of the sacrifice, and remembered the inarticulate words that his youngest son had uttered under his strange behavior at that time.

He thought of the dead Qinglian.

Qinglian was originally able to speak, but her throat was injured after a serious illness. Before her death, Patriarch Lai hadn't heard her speak for six years. The person who has not spoken for such a long time is the voice Well, I am afraid I will forget how to speak.

Patriarch Lai connected Erye Lai with Liniang's anomaly, and then connected the anomaly of his youngest son with Qinglian's voice. He intuited that what happened this time was caused by Qinglian. Bad guess.

That's why he failed to recruit the old Patriarch, so he took out the Qinglian horoscope.

Qinglian put down her pen, she had finished writing, she handed the paper to Patriarch Lai.

Patriarch Lai reached out to take it, but it was already a femme thing. Gu Jiu took the paper in his hand and held it up for him to just look at it.

Patriarch Lai's face became darker the more he looked at it.

According to Qinglian, Erye Lai is not as refined and elegant as he appears at all, and he has a vicious and violent temperament in private. She found out that Erye Lai had an affair with Liniang, who had just entered Lai's house, six years ago, and was arrested. Lai Erye found out.Lai Erye threatened her not to tell the matter, otherwise she would vent her anger on her two young daughters.Qinglian said that she was cowardly and cowardly, and she was afraid that if Patriarch Lai found out about such a scandal, she and a pair of daughters would be angry with her, so she didn't dare to open her mouth.

But Erye Lai was still worried, he broke her voice and made her unable to speak, and then she gradually died of illness.

Qinglian's obsession with staying in the world is only because she can't let go of her two daughters. Qinglian is very afraid of Lai Erye. When she was alive, she didn't even have the slightest hatred for him in her heart. Even after death, she became a ghost with weak soul power.

Qinglian just wants to watch over her two daughters and watch them get married.During this period, she found out that Lai Changxiao, who was born by Liniang, was actually the son of Lai Erye. Lai Erye was unwilling to let the owner of his family lose most of his family property, so he planned a lot.He wanted Lai Changxiao to be valued more by the head of the Lai family, he wanted Lai Changxiao to replace Lai Changjing's position in the Lai family, to receive strict teaching like Lai Changjing, and to replace him in the future and take over the Lai family.

The person who acts as a "corpse" is the closest to the person being sacrificed in terms of blood and identity. The passage after "the son cannot be the father's corpse" is "The person who is the emperor's corpse, when the doctor or scholar sees it, he will go down." The king knows why he is a corpse, so he will do it himself."

It means that the person who acts as a "corpse" for the deceased monarch, the doctor and scholar will get off the carriage when they see him, and the monarch will personally get off the carriage for him when he finds out.

And "Chen Shuzong Yuan Rao's Biography" also said: "The noble is rewarded by kindness, and the official is added privately. There is no virtue and no merit, and the corpse is honored."

It can be seen that the person who acts as a "corpse" has a very high status.Lai Changjing has a high status in the Lai family, not only because he is the future successor of the Lai family, but also because he is a "corpse".

Therefore, the first step in Lai Erye's plan is to let Lai Changxiao replace Lai Changjing's "sitting corpse" position every year.