Mr. Lin's story

Lin Huiran walked out of the frontier, returned to the Central Plains, rested in the inn for a few days, took out geographical maps and looked through them, and suddenly remembered that her aunt lived in a small town a few kilometers away.He had a very good relationship with his aunt when he was a child. Although he seldom contacted him when he grew up, he would still get together during the holidays.Lin Huiran thought that there was nothing to do anyway, so let's go for a stroll in the town.

When the aunt's family suddenly saw him coming, they were overjoyed, hurriedly welcomed him into the house, took him by the hand to ask questions, and asked him to stay here for a few more days.The children of their family have all moved out and set up a new family. There are only aunts, uncles and a few old servants in the family.So everyone treats Lin Huiran as a baby.

He lived here for a few days, and on this day his aunt suddenly said to him: "Mr. Li's family in the town is going to marry the second wife. Our family has a little relationship with him. We must go to have a wedding wine tomorrow." She also asked Lin Huiran to accompany her. go.Lin Huiran just wanted to see some weddings and funerals in small towns, so she readily agreed.

The next day the two came to Li's mansion, surrounded by lights and festoons, and the housekeeper greeted them with smiles at the door.His aunt led him in and chatted with a group of familiar old sisters.Lin Huiran was not familiar with these people, so she could only sit on the side boredly, watching the red lanterns in the yard and the young servants coming and going, listening to the gossip of those aunts.

Originally, rich families would never do it with great fanfare when they took concubines.But Li Yuanwai's family is very special.The cause of the incident was Mrs. Li, the wife of the main house.

Mrs. Li was ugly and very old. When she was in her 30s, she recruited Li Yuanwai, a handsome man in his early 20s, as her son-in-law.Li Yuanwai worked hard at his wife's house to manage the family business. After more than ten years, he finally regained control of the financial power, and gradually revealed his domineering temper.Since the death of her father-in-law and mother-in-law, Mrs. Li's status in the family has been declining. In less than half a year, she moved from the main hall to the small attic where the maids live.

Li Yuanwai hated her to the bone, so this time he took a concubine and purposely made the scene bigger, it was even more grand than when he married his wife.

When the aunts talked about this, they didn't criticize Mr. Lin much, but agreed that Mrs. Li had a treacherous and vicious personality, was ugly, lacking in talent and looks, so it's no wonder she would become the next wife.It's just that the pair of twins who were born are pitiful. Now that they don't have the blessing of their mother, life will be difficult in the future.

Lin Huiran was listening to it interestingly, when suddenly a string of firecrackers rang out outside, and the crowd immediately gathered around noisily, going to see the bride.Rules are not strict in rural areas.After the bride got off the sedan chair, a group of playful women went to grab the bride's red hijab and her little shoes.

The red hijab fell to the ground, revealing the bride's beautiful and nephrite cheeks. Everyone was stunned, and sighed that Li Yuanwai was blessed.The matchmaker next to her pretended to be angry and repelled the crowd, covered the bride with a red cloth again, and helped her into the inner hall.

Lin Huiran stood far away, saw the face of the new woman, and thought it was very beautiful, his own cheeks were slightly red, thinking about his age, if he didn't come out to wander around, he would probably be able to marry such a charming little daughter-in-law .

"Hui'er, do you want to marry a new wife too?" Auntie came over and asked him with a smile.

Lin Huiran was startled, and said with a restrained face, "No."

My aunt took him by the hand, went to the hall to sit in the banquet, and said in a low voice: "You are a child of a rich family, and you are going to marry a daughter of a prince's family in the future. Don't mess around here, but it would be better to accept one or two maidservants and concubines." It doesn't matter. Although this is the country, there are a few good girls who look outstanding. I will show you later. If you are satisfied, I will make peace with you tonight. "

Before she could finish speaking, Lin Huiran interrupted her repeatedly: "Auntie, don't talk anymore. If you say anything else, I will leave."

Aunt then smiled and said nothing more.

The newlyweds bowed to heaven and earth, and the banquet has just begun.

Lin Huiran moved her chopsticks a few times and wanted to go out when she heard children playing with firecrackers outside.Suddenly the beaded curtain in the inner room rang, and several village girls in coarse clothes ran out laughing and passing by.

Aunt tugged at Lin Huiran's arm: "How do you see it?"

Lin Huiran shook his head and smiled, "It's not that good."

My aunt knew that he was a son of a son, and there were always beautiful servant girls and charming singers around. He was well-informed and his vision was naturally high, so she didn't say anything more.

While eating, a 12-year-old boy with long hair ran into the house, fell on the threshold, and cried loudly. A girl of the same age came to help him, and they both opened their mouths and cried together.The people in the room were just eating, drinking, talking and laughing, and had no time to pay attention to the two of them.

Lin Huiran frowned, put down the chopsticks and went out, helped the boy up from the ground, patted the dust on the clothes, and took the two children by the hand to the outside yard, saying: "You two go play somewhere else. .”

He carefully looked at the faces of the two children.The two have small eyes, thick lips, dark complexion, and broad faces, which is a kind of pure natural ugliness.But they were still children, and although they were ugly, they were not repulsive.The two of them are twins, claiming their surname Li, and their names are Longlong and Fengfeng.

It was only then that Lin Huiran realized that they were the children of Yuan Lin's family, so she looked around for servants to take care of the children, but the servants were only busy welcoming them and seeing them off, and refused to stop.

Longlong tugged at Lin Huiran's hand, and said angrily, "They only want to please that vixen, and they don't care about our lives." Lin Huiran was greatly surprised, and asked him who said this.

"My mother said it." Fengfeng said innocently, and said with her finger in her mouth: "But that vixen looks so beautiful. Everyone says that she is more beautiful than mother, gentler than mother, and kinder than mother..."

Longlong split his hands and slapped Fengfeng: "If you say that again, mother will tear your mouth apart!"

Fengfeng cried loudly, with snot and tears flowing into her mouth.

Lin Huiran was very helpless, pulled the two of them apart, and said: "Don't fight." After thinking about it, he held a person with one hand and walked in the garden for a while, to the back of a rockery, to play with the two of them.

The two children were innocent and funny. After crying for a while, they shook hands and made peace.The younger sister wanted to climb up the mountain, but the older brother squatted on the ground, asked the younger sister to ride on his neck, and sent the younger sister up the rockery.

He looked around for bricks and piled them on the ground, trying to climb up with his calves.Lin Huiran walked over, hugged his armpits, and sent him up.Longlong turned his head and grinned: "Thank you uncle."

Lin Huiran sullenly said, "Brother."

The two children called brother in unison. After playing for a while, Lin Huiran saw that there seemed to be a shadow between their eyebrows. He didn't care at first, but after a while he looked again. The shadow between their eyebrows became heavier and heavier, and turned into ink. like.Lin Huiran called Longlong over, touched it with his hand, and red liquid dripped from his fingertips.

"What is this?" Lin Huiran asked in surprise.

"This one!" Longlong and Fengfeng rushed over and replied, "This is a talisman, children must have it."

"I didn't have one when I was a child." Lin Huiran was a little puzzled.

Longlong laughed at him: "It means your mother doesn't love you." Fengfeng gave him sympathetic and pitiful eyes.

Lin Huiran wanted to say something more, when suddenly there was a sharp cry in the yard, as if it came from a certain wing, and many people rushed over from all directions.

Lin Huiran and the two children are both spectators, the three of them immediately ran towards the wing room, pushed aside the crowd and took a look inside, only to see the bodies of two children lying on the threshold, a man and a woman, eleven, Two years old.

Lin Huiran was stunned for a while, and suddenly said to Longlong and Fengfeng: "Isn't this you two?"

The two children cried out with a loud cry, flew into the room, and disappeared into the black shadows.

Lin Huiran suddenly felt dizzy, and let the crowd crowd around him, he could only hear the young servants and maidservants yelling: "The madam hanged herself, the lady and the young master knocked their heads on the corner of the table, and they both died."

This happy event turned into a funeral, and all the guests left with sighs.

A few days later, everyone found out that Mrs. Li had killed the two children first, then drank the poison herself, found a rope, and hanged herself.

Li Yuanwai was severely injured physically and mentally, his mind collapsed, and he became a lunatic. His family property was robbed and cheated, and he lived on the street by himself.That beautiful concubine was originally from a prostitute's family, and she had to go back after this kind of thing happened, but she won a lot of dowry for nothing, so it's not a disadvantage.

Lin Huiran was slightly frightened, and stayed at her aunt's house for a few days before getting up to leave.His little donkey ate a lot of leftovers and bad water at his aunt's house, and was dragged by the tail by children all day long. Hearing that he could leave this place, he happily had fun around Lin Huiran.

Back in the city, Lin Huiran first went to his own bank to get a lot of silver taels. He didn't have a seal on him, but all the shopkeepers in his bank had seen Lin Huiran, so all he had to do was swipe his face card.

Lin Huiran booked the best restaurant in the city, and also called the most beautiful oiran singer in the city to sing for him and drink with him.When the night moon was thin and the sky was fine, Lin Huiran played around until midnight, but ordered the bearers to send all the girls back.It's not that he doesn't dare to play, it's just that he is in a foreign land, these girls come from unknown sources, and he doesn't want to cause other troubles.

After taking a bath, Lin Huiran lay lazily on the beautiful soft couch, her mind was in a mess, thinking of Zili, thinking of the beautiful concubine she saw that day, it was as if a feather was flirting in her heart.

Whenever the moonlight is at its brightest, Yuanliuhuo can briefly transform into a human form.Now he is naked | standing in the manger.He sighed deeply, found a sack of forage to cover his body, and ran quickly to the restaurant.

He didn't dare to go to other rooms, so he could only run to Lin Huiran's room.Inside, the candles flickered and the bed curtains hung low.Yuan Liuhuo ran in with his waist down, and when he heard that Lin Huiran had fallen asleep, he impatiently grabbed the pastry on the table and took a bite.I also saw a bathtub behind the screen, and the water was still steaming.

Yuan Liuhuo bit the biscuit and jumped into the bathtub with a plop. Although it was Lin Huiran's leftover bath water, it was still clean and fragrant. Yuan Liuhuo didn't dislike it. After washing it, he stepped on the carpet with bare feet and gently Lifting the bed curtain, Lin Huiran lay obediently on one side of the big bed, sleeping gracefully.

Yuan Liuhuo swallowed the food in his mouth, and lay down next to Lin Huiran, snorting together.Lin Huiran slowly opened his eyes, and saw the white and pure Yuan Liuhuo.

"Why did I see you again?" Lin Huiran asked in confusion, he didn't know why he used the word "you".

"I was with you." Yuan Liuhuo said aggrievedly, because he smelled alcohol in Lin Huiran's mouth, so he turned his face away in disgust.

Lin Huiran thought for a while, but couldn't remember who came with her.He stretched out his hand and pushed Yuan Liuhuo: "You sleep on the other side, don't touch me."

Yuan Liuhuo refused to move: "I'm exhausted."

The two pushed and fought for a while, then fell into a drowsy sleep again.

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