After standing so concentrating and holding her breath for a long time, Jiang Xixi still didn't hear anything, her tense nerves gradually relaxed, thinking that what she heard was just one or two wild cats' spring calls, she secretly laughed at herself in her heart, Jiang Xixi, Jiang Xixi, you are still a fast catcher, how can you be like those who have never seen the world, and when you encounter a little wind and grass, you start chasing the wind and shadows.
The moon finally broke free from the dark clouds, but its light seemed to be a little dim, not as clear and thorough as just now, Jiang Xixi glanced at the full moon again, turned around and was about to go back to the house, but she had just taken two steps, but suddenly stopped.
"Bang Bang...... ......There was a strange sound from the shadow next to the wall, and the sound was very real, and it smashed into Jiang Xixi's heart rhythmically, breaking the self-confidence she had built up with great difficulty.
She clenched her fists and slowly turned her head to the right, and found a woman standing in the corner not far from her, who had no hair tied up, and long curtains of hair hung down on either side of her head, obscuring her face.
She was wearing a white mid-coat without a cover, and her clothes seemed to be soaked with water, and water droplets were constantly oozing from the cuffs and plackets.
Her fingers scratched at the wall, one after the other, making a continuous "click" sound, even if her nails were broken.
"Girl......"
Jiang Xixi frowned and took a step forward, she felt that this woman might be a madman, otherwise how could she stand here alone in the middle of the night and pick the wall, "The wind is tight at night, you are dressed thinly, go back to the room quickly." ” "I can't go back."
The woman seemed to be responding to her words and seemed to be muttering to herself, she didn't look at Jiang Xixi, but instead embedded a pair of hands into the wall, and worked harder to dig it up, only to hear a "cluck" sound, her nails were broken, blood gushed out from her fingertips and stained the wall skin red, Jiang Xixi couldn't help but hold her fingers.
But the woman seemed to have no pain, and was still grabbing the wall with both hands, and the dust of the wall fell one after another.
"Stop."
Jiang Xixi couldn't stand it anymore, she grabbed her arm and scolded, "Won't you hurt?"
The nails are gone. ” The woman turned her head slowly, revealing a small white and blue face, Jiang Xixi was taken aback, because she saw a black snake printed on the woman's forehead, the snake should have been branded by someone, the snake body was black and thick, wrapped in ugly patterns, the snake's head was raised high, and it spit out the letter fiercely.
"Who made you look like this?"
Jiang Xixi's voice shook a few times, and she took a step closer again, wanting to reach out to grab the trembling body.
"Girl, who are you talking to?"
A question suddenly came from behind him, Jiang Xixi turned his head and saw a tall girl standing behind her, her face was cold, her expression was not much, giving people a feeling that no one should enter.
"She ......"
Jiang Xixi pointed ahead, but suddenly held the words in his throat, and couldn't say half a word, because the woman with the black snake on her head was gone, as if she had turned into a puff of smoke and was blown away by the wind.
Jiang Xixi looked at the wall and found that the blood stains on it had also disappeared, but she had just seen that several of the woman's nails were broken, leaving a blurred mark of flesh and blood on the wall.
"Girl, are you a guest of Jing Mansion?
How come I've never seen you?
The woman behind her spoke again, and although her tone did not fluctuate, there was no hint of disrespect.
"I just arrived at the house tonight, so the girl doesn't recognize me."
Jiang Xixi hurriedly replied.
The woman pondered for a moment, "I know, just now the little maid who guarded the door came to report that a family surnamed Yang had come to Jingfu to take refuge in Jingfu, and you must be the sister-in-law of the aunt of the Yang family." ” Jiang Xixi saw that she had an elegant bearing and an extraordinary conversation, so she knew that she was not an ordinary maid, and now when she heard her say this, she guessed her identity by seven or eight points, "I am indeed Aunt Yang's sister-in-law, could the girl be Miss Jing?"
” The woman nodded slightly, and then said to Jiang Xixi, "Why hasn't the girl rested so late, just now I happened to pass by here, and vaguely heard the girl talking to someone, but when I came here, I found that the girl was alone," she looked left and right, "I don't know who the girl was talking to just now?"
” "I couldn't sleep before I came out to walk, I didn't expect to see a dark shadow when I passed here, so I asked casually, the person walked very fast, and he disappeared all of a sudden, and I don't know if it was someone from the house."
Jiang Xixi said vaguely, because even she herself was skeptical of what she had just experienced, how could she explain it clearly to this eldest lady of Jing Mansion.
"Dark Shadow?"
A trace of doubt appeared on Miss Jing's face, but she quickly suppressed it, "Girl, don't wander around, the flood has just passed, there are a lot of displaced people, and the Jing family can't guarantee that they will be remembered by those thieves, so let's go back to the room as soon as possible to rest." ” Jiang Xixi made a gesture and was about to leave, but suddenly thought of something, so he asked again, "Miss Jing, I look at this pagoda very well, I don't know if I can come to offer a few pillars of incense during the day." ” Miss Jing paused for a moment, and after a while, she looked at the tower, her eyes flashed with a strange brilliance, "Outsiders think that my father believes in Buddhism, so he built this tower, but in fact, this tower was originally built to commemorate my biological mother, and it has always been only open to the Jing family, so it is really inconvenient......"
"I'm sorry to bring up your sadness."
Jiang Xixi hurriedly apologized, but Miss Jing did not respond to her, she stared intently at the pagoda behind the high wall, and the whole person seemed to be completely immersed in melancholy thoughts.
Jiang Xixi didn't want to disturb her anymore, she silently retreated and prepared to leave here quietly, but Miss Jing suddenly stopped her behind her: "Girl, there is a Buddha in your heart, and everything you see is a Buddha, otherwise, it will not be half useful to incense these statues every day."
After speaking, she didn't look at Jiang Xixi again, and moved away.
Jiang Xixi looked at her back as she faded away, and sighed in her heart: This Miss Jing is an interesting person, not very old, but she seems to have understood everything in the world.
She looked at the corner where the woman in white was standing again, it was still empty and dark, and there was not even half a figure, as if everything just now was just her hallucination.
There was a gust of wind in his face, which made Jiang Xixi shiver a few times, and suddenly felt a little chill in his heart, this cold became deeper and deeper, and it extended longer and longer, jumping into the bone marrow little by little, and even the light of the stupa could not dispel it.