I sat next to Si Ruo and whispered, "What on earth is that woman?"
Si Ruo said: "It should be a kind of resentful spirit, right? Some look like a resentful girl, but they don't look like it. I can't tell what they are."
Actually, I already knew what it was. There are records about ghosts in the collection of books left by my father. However, my father also made an annotation in the "Hundred Ghosts Record": Nine ghosts and ghosts in the world are fake and one is real. Those who have not seen them must not be believed to be true.
"Hundred Ghost Records" once recorded a kind of resentful spirit named Fa Nu. According to legend, hair girls are infatuated women who have been abandoned by others. Whenever they think of the romance with the betrayed person, they will continue to bite their own bodies until only one head is left.
Precisely because they had made an oath to each other to "become of one mind", all their grievances were turned into hair. The longer the hair, the deeper their resentment. The hair was both their grievance and the source of their pursuit. A weapon for the heartless.
Xu You probably knew what was hidden in the cauldron formation, so he turned Xiang Lin into a being similar to a resentful ghost, or he was planning to use Xiang Lin's resentment to attract his daughter and bring her to the cauldron formation. Kill them outside; or they want Fa Nu to regard Xiang Lin as a kindred spirit and ask Xiang Lin to find a safe passage for them.
I was silent for a while and then said: "What do you mean by that woman insisting on letting us get married?"
Si Ruo whispered: "We are husband and wife after we get married. If you leave without returning, I will definitely feel resentment towards you in my heart. Even if the resentment is just a little bit, she will find you through resentment."
"Ghosts can cross the realm of Yin and Yang. She can come to you from the underworld without being restricted by geography." Si Ruo whispered, "I think this is why she had to let us get married!"
"Yeah." I nodded subconsciously.
Si Ruo lowered his head and said, "Then we want... to get married? What if... what if my daughter comes tomorrow morning and finds that we haven't done anything, will it... "
Si Ruo's voice was not much louder than the sound of mosquitoes and flies. If it weren't for my excellent hearing, I wouldn't have been able to hear what she said. But what can I do now
Pretending not to hear anything? That would hurt Si Ruo's self-esteem.
What if we do it as the hair girl arranged? I just can't do it. After all, I don't have the same feelings for Si Ruo as between men and women. This kind of thing is not as simple as shaking hands or hugging.
I patted Si Ruo's shoulder lightly: "Wait a minute, let me think about it... there will be a solution."
I said there would be a solution, but even I don’t know what solution there is!
Si Ruo whispered: "It would be nice to live on this island all the time. There are only two of us, working from sunrise to sunset like the ancients did. We don't have to think about grudges or the world. Wouldn’t it be nice to live quietly?”
"Now is not the time for me to be quiet!" I told the truth. There are still many things waiting for me to do, and I can’t calm down and can’t be quiet.
Si Ruo leaned on my shoulder: "Then let me be quiet for a while..."
I let Si Ruo lean on my shoulder, while my mind was rapidly spinning every detail since we went up the mountain.
Suddenly an idea flashed in my mind, and I pulled out the long knife with a "crack" sound. Si Ruo was immediately startled by the flash of a sword in front of his eyes: "What are you..."
"There's something wrong with this knife." I put the long knife in front of the candlelight. After looking at it from top to bottom several times, I turned the scabbard and knocked it on the blade a few times. The scabbard quickly fell down. A layer of red powder.
"That's it." I couldn't help but sneered.
Si Ruo hurriedly came over: "What do you mean, that's why?"
I pointed to the powder on the knife and said, "Someone has tampered with my knife. He should be a better alchemist than Xu You."
After I plunged a long knife into the head of a hairy girl in Yaoding, she was immediately burned to ashes by the flames. I didn't think much about it at that time, I just thought it was a natural reaction after Fat Girl was killed.
When I was forced to escape by stepping on the bronze tripod, I just took a gamble that I was afraid of fire, but it had unexpected results. At that time, I suspected that there was something wrong with my knife.
The friction between metals can produce sparks and a certain amount of heat, but it will certainly not allow a long knife made of fine steel to directly ignite other objects like a soldering iron.
It's just that I never had time to look at my knife. Now it seems that the reason why my long knife caught fire was because of the powder in the scabbard.
The powder must have been written by Danshi, and this person must not be far from me, otherwise he would not have been able to stuff something into my scabbard without anyone noticing.
Si Ruo was surprised and said: "Even if there is still a Danshi here, it won't change anything, right?"
"No." I shook my head. "There is still someone here, which means he also wants to go to the ninth level of Dan Island. Moreover, that person is not with Xu You. The two of them have a completely competitive relationship. Xu You is anxious , that person is more anxious. It seems that I have to find a way to put some pressure on him."
As I spoke, I divided the medicine powder on the long knife into two parts, sprinkled one part onto the blade, and then swung the knife suddenly towards the stone table. When little sparks burst out from under my knife, the long knife in my hand turned red again, as if it had been tempered by a furnace fire.
I didn't wait for the burning heat on the knife to subside, and then slashed at the black hair blocking the hole with my backhand. The layers of hair ignited when exposed to fire, starting from the middle and falling to both sides. The roar of the beautiful head also started: "Do you want to commit suicide?"
I held the long knife against the edge of the hole and said in a deep voice: "My friend, if you ask me to do something for you, you have to tell me where your body is, right? If your body has been eaten by me, where can I go?" Looking for your body?"
The beauty head said sternly: "You are Wang Zhan's son, will he not tell you anything?"
I said solemnly: "If I had a son, I might not tell him everything."
The beauty outside couldn't help but fell silent. After a while, she said, "If I told you that my name is Diao Chan, would you believe it?"
I couldn't help but be slightly startled.
Although the head outside is extremely beautiful, I can't believe that she is Diao Chan.
Diao Chan has always been a very controversial figure. First of all, there is no record of Diao Chan in official history. According to current research, Diao Chan's real name was Ren Hongchang. She entered the palace when she was 15 years old and was specifically in charge of a kind of decoration worn on the hats of officials in the Han Dynasty: Diao Chan's tail and cicada feathers, so people called her Diao Chan. The prototype of Diao Chan in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is likely to be one of Wang Yun's maids as written by Luo Guanzhong.
As for Diao Chan's whereabouts after Lu Bu's death, it has become a mystery. Some people say that Diao Chan was brought to the Bronze Bird Tower by Cao Cao; others say that she was rewarded by Cao Cao and given to Guan Yu. Guan Yu was not fascinated by the beauty and beheaded Diao Chan. There is also "Guan Yu Beheads Diao Chan under the Moon" in later operas. .
I said in a deep voice: "You must be joking, right? Let me just think of you as Diao Chan. Where does your resentment come from? From Dong Zhuo? He was killed by Lu Bu long ago. From Lu Bu? Lu Bu refused to break out for you. , ended up being hanged in Baimen Tower, will you feel resentful towards him?"
Diao Chan said coldly: "This is not something you should ask. You only need to be responsible for finding my body."
I smiled and said, "You have to give me a rough location, right?"
Diao Chan said: "I only know that Wang Zhan said that my body is hidden in the Beauty Tomb. As for where that place is, I don't know."
I said coldly: "You don't know this or that, how can I find your body? You might as well just kill me to avoid so much trouble."
Diao Chan sneered: "Wherever Wang Zhan can find it, I believe you can also find it. Just look for it carefully. Do you need to say more?"
I was silent for a moment before saying, "I have to prove that you are Diao Chan first, right?"
Diao Chan's voice suddenly turned cold: "How do you want to prove it?"
I quietly spread the palm that was holding the powder, and the dark red powder immediately flowed down my blade to the tip, covering the entire blade in just a moment.
I calmly said to the outside of the cave: "According to legend, Diao Chan has no earlobes. I want to see if you have earlobes."
According to legend, each of the four beauties, who are said to be "the fish and the goose, the moon and the flowers", all have certain flaws. Diao Chan's flaw is that her ears are small and she has no earlobes. In order to cover up her shortcomings, Diao Chan invented earrings. Legend has it that when you wear exquisite jewelry and earrings, you will look even more charming under the moonlight, like a fairy dancing in the sky and falling into the mortal world.
Diao Chan outside the cave suddenly said displeased: "Don't you think your request is too unreasonable?"
"I don't think so." I said solemnly, "The lives of two people are at stake. Is it wrong for me to confirm your identity?"
Diao Chan suppressed her anger and said, "Okay, I'll show it to you. If you continue to push back after seeing it, don't blame me for being cruel."
I watched as the layers of hair that blocked the hole opened up, and turned to Si Ruo and shouted, "Daughter-in-law, bring me the candle."
Si Ruo, who had already picked up the candle, shook her palm slightly at this moment, and red wax oil dripped onto her hand.
I was immediately startled.
If all the hair at the door is opened, Diao Chan will immediately see me standing at the door holding a knife. No matter how stupid she is, she will guess what I want to do. The only chance I have to take action is the moment when my hair is about to open. Whether the powder on the knife can be ignited in the shortest time depends entirely on this candle flame.
If Si moves a little slower, I will fall short. I looked at Si Ruojian, and she quickly walked towards me, but the candle in her hand was blown out on the spot by the air flow she brought up.
The whole cave fell into darkness again, and my heart suddenly sank.