Chapter 228
"Don't you believe it?" Wen Shi sullenly turned his back to Xie Wen, pulled the long line of his fingers, and asked in a deep voice.
"Don't be nervous, it's a letter." When Xie Wen spoke, his voice came from his back and resonated in his chest.
Hearing this, he turned his head in a daze, and saw the hazy figure of a woman.
She is like Bu Ning's spirit, even if she stands on the ground, the soles of her feet are empty.
Although I have never seen it before, I know it at a glance when I smell it...
This is Zhang Wan.
A mortal enters reincarnation with a spirit, and will change his appearance every life. Except for spiritual creatures with an extremely sensitive sense of smell, ordinary people can't perceive the origin between who and whom.
Only in very occasional moments, there is a feeling of deja vu.
Several rounds of reincarnations have passed between Zhang Wan and the cage owner in Liuzhuang, and their appearances are quite different. I don't know how different she is from her biological mother who can't be seen in the dust.
But she looked over with complex and unspeakable eyes, as if she remembered all her life.
She said to Xie Wen, "I finally...see you."
According to Zhang Biling's letter, Zhang Wan had a son in the second year after arriving in Tianjin. When the other party became an adult, she accidentally crashed into the dead end of a cage, and never came out again.
But she said to Xie Wen: I finally saw you...
It was as if she knew clearly that the person she had raised for 18 years was actually a body that lingered in the world.
The black mist wraps around, like a illusory barrier. It seemed that no one could see her through the thick fog except Xie Wen and Wen Shi who was standing beside Xie Wen.
Xie Wen was silent for a long time, and said, "Do you remember me?"
Instead of "recognizing", he used "remembering".
Zhang Wan laughed, "I shouldn't have remembered it at first, but later I remembered it because of some... coincidences, good or bad, I don't know."
I remembered that a long time ago, there was a family named Xie in Qiantang, a wealthy family with several generations of officials.
In front of the house is Qushui Mingtang, and behind it is the courtyard of Shenzhai. In the courtyard, there are lakes and ponds with koi carp, good trees and good grass, and mahogany corridors surrounded by rockery and longevity stones, which are prosperous and elegant.
Thinking of Zhilan Yushu, the young son of the Xie family, who is upright and transparent, no one can take his eyes away when he sees him, and he is full of praise when he opens his mouth, saying that he is a gentleman, generous and tolerant, he is outstanding when he is young, and he will surely become a great weapon and shine in the family in the future , a smooth life.
That little boy is her son.
From the father's surname Xie, the single name is a question.
Ask, Yi also. God's gift.
She thought that this gift would last for decades, until she was old and died.
Unexpectedly, a blind fortune-teller walking around the streets said that the young master is good in everything, but his fate is not good. The lone star of Tiansha, the kinship is severed.
When the blind man said this, he didn't shy away from it, right in front of the young master.
The other party didn't care, just laughed it off, and politely gave the blind man some money.
The blind man disappeared without a trace, but the Xie family really began to go downhill.
She was the first to go.
He was terminally ill, serious and hard to cure, and when he passed away, Xie Wen was still young.
Fortunately, there is an old servant by his side who has watched him grow up and can take care of him a bit. But she was still worried and reluctant to part with her. During that time, she always wandered around Xie's house, and after a long time, she gradually forgot that she was no longer there, as if life was the same, but her family didn't pay much attention to her.
She watched helplessly that Xie's family declined day by day, and in the end more than a hundred members of the family were executed with a single paper. But Xie Wen made a mistake and narrowly escaped death. It really complied with the phrase that the lone star of the devil and the severance of kinship.
The son who used to be Zhilan Yushu later fell ill for a long time, trapped between life and death, and did not wake up for a long time.
One day, when she was wandering around the sick bed, she was accidentally pulled into a place.
There, the Xie family was still a wealthy family with a thriving population. The fish swim in the pond, and the rain beats the loquats in the courtyard. She saw Xie Wen, who had been sick for a long time, wearing a smock, leaning on the corridor, smiling and talking to the old servant beside him, twisting fish food with his fingers, and throwing it into the lake.
She didn't understand then.
If now, she would know it at a glance.
That's a cage.
The cage owner called Xie Wen.
No one in the later generations will know that the first cage that the Grand Master judge untied was himself.
The author has something to say:
There are also cages for serious illnesses and disasters.
Chapter 85
It is said that when a mortal suffers from a sudden serious illness, catastrophe or death, his spiritual phase is unstable and he is overwhelmed with worries. The sudden grief is mixed with all kinds of obsessions, which will make people feel like a prison and bind themselves in it. This is the cage.
It is said that the people in the cage are having a dream that they cannot let go of, and waking them up from the dream is sometimes extremely difficult and painful, so this is a hard job.
It is said that the moment of the cage master's epiphany is probably the most terrifying and painful process in this world.
...
There are only a few lines in the book, and it doesn't take up a few pages. It seems to be the simplest truth, and everyone in the future judges can recite it fluently.
People who learn it think that the truth is born like this, and it is taken for granted. But I never thought that at the beginning, this was written word by word by people.
In that life, Zhang Wan watched helplessly that the noble, elegant and high-spirited young master of her family became a cage, standing in the hustle and bustle of the Xie Mansion every day, watching the people coming and going in the mansion, indulging in a long dream. .
Then he watched him "wake up" himself, tearing the dream to pieces with his own hands.