Seven Unfortunate Lifetimes Chapter 17 (1/2)

Chapter 17

“There’s no good ending coming from an elopement!”

This was the first sentence I said to Zihui, after I woke up. I grabbed his clothes tightly and said with a serious face: “Shengling sect’s butcher once told me that there was a widow in the village, who eloped with a man. Later they were caught and they were drowned in a pig’s cage.”

I was also afraid that s.h.i.+fu will drown me in a pig’s cage. Even my bones won’t be found.

Zihui stared stunningly at me for a moment. He laughed and said: “If that’s the case, then we should not elope.”

“Alright,”I immediately nodded. Even though I still have some complains against s.h.i.+fu, but I’ve never thought about leaving his side.

“Let’s go back and ask s.h.i.+fu for forgiveness.”

I wanted to leave, but Zihui grabbed me.

“If you want to go back to Shengling sect from here, it’ll take half a month.”

I was shocked: “I actually slept for half a month?!”

“No, a Xiang lady only slept for a night,”Zihui said.

“You must also already know that I’m not an ordinary person. I’m a stone turned into essent. Traveling thousands of miles in a blink of eye is just one of those spells I practiced.”

I nodded in understanding: “This is better; we can go back to Fengxueshan manor in a blink of eye.”

“A Xiang, seeing your s.h.i.+fu like that yesterday, do you think your s.h.i.+fu will let us marry, even if we admit our faults?”

I thought for a moment and dejectedly shook my head.

“But we still shouldn’t elope.”

“Of course, “Zihui said laughingly.

“We eloped because we didn’t get the consent of the elders. If we can obtain your parents’ consent, even if s.h.i.+fu isn’t willing, he won’t be able to say anything.”

I blinked and thought for a moment. Those words of Zihui did have some truth in them. But my childhood memories are vague and unclear. I can’t remember where my home is. I can’t remember the appearance of my father and mother.

Zihui said in a strange way: “Over the years, hasn’t a Xiang lady thought about going home and visit your parents?”

I scratched my head.

“I have thought about it, but s.h.i.+fu said that my parents entrusted me to him. If I didn’t master the arts, I couldn’t go home. In so many years, my skills didn’t improve much, so I didn’t dare to go home. Then I thought that accompanying s.h.i.+fu is also pretty good, so I buried it in my heart.”

Zihui stared at me thoughtfully for a while and then he hung his head and quietly whispered: “So, that was the case…Darn, your s.h.i.+fu is really shameful…”

“What?”

Zihui smiled and said: “Nothing. Along the way here I heard some news. I probably know how to get to a Xiang’s home. Stopping here isn’t the answer. Let’s go and see.”

I nodded and didn’t think much. I just followed him from behind.

It didn’t take long, before the scenery slowly made me feel familiar. I happily tugged at Zihui’s sleeve.

“Right, right, this seems to be the road!”

I picked up my pace and began to run excitingly.

“It shouldn’t be far from here. Turning around a corner, there should be a river. Across the river, is the front door of my house. In front of the front door there are stone lions….”

When we turned, across the river there’s a dilapidated front door. I froze for a moment and then foolishly walked a few steps.

“This isn’t it,” I whispered as I walked.

“The bridge wasn’t this small; the stone lions were more imposing.”

After crossing the bridge, I stood in front of the manor. There’s a broken plaque hanging on the front door, with the words “Yang Fu” on it. The closed doors were sealed with the yellow note of the officials with the words “forbidden”on it.

I stood there, my mind was completely blank.

“A Xiang,”Zihui called me and touched my head.

“Maybe I found the wrong place…”

He hasn’t finished speaking, when a man hastily walked by. Seeing me and Zihui, the man said strangely: “Aiyou, you two, how can you stop here? Let’s go quickly. Here is famous for being haunted. If it isn’t because I need to pa.s.s this road to get to the herbs on the mountain, I wouldn’t come here even if they killed me.”

I haven’t even reacted, when he turned around and walked away fast. I grabbed the man’s hand tightly. The man was scared to death and repeatedly exclaimed: “Lady, what are you doing?! What are you doing?! Could it be that a ghost went into your body?!”

“You…you know where here is?”

“Yang…Yang manor, ah.”

I was grabbing on him like a straw and kept asking: “Do you know who used to live here?”

“A business family with the surname Yang. Ten years ago the whole family has been slaughtered by their enemies.”

I loosened my hand. My head felt dizzy. Behind me a hand was supported my back, because I was barely able to keep standing. I foolishly asked: “What is…slaughtering?”

The man looked at me for a moment and sighed: “You must be a distant relative of this family. Ten years ago, I don’t know who the Yang family has offended; thirty people of Yang manor has been silenced. I heard their enemy hired the famous Shengling sect’s killers to kill them. Those killers came and went without a trace. They didn’t even leave the slightest trace of evidence. The officials had no way of finding the truth and it turned into an unsolved case. Pity those resenting ghosts of Yang family, ah!”

“Sheng…ling sect?”

I thought there was a problem with my ears, so I dug in my ears and asked: “Can you say it again?”

The man looked at me strangely for moment and then said: “Shengling sect ah. Ai, little girl, those mysterious things of the jianghu is not something that we can understand. You, a distant relative must not waste your efforts.”