Gucheng

Chapter 2 Litai City

"Yu Lan, I've grown up all these years, but I've never stepped out of the desert. You always say hello to Jiangnan, when will you take me for a walk?"

"Yu Lan, if you're not a woman, I'll ask my father to marry me to you."

"Yu Lan, take me away, I only want to be with you in this life."

who is it?

There was darkness in front of my eyes, and a strange woman whispered something in my ear, and when I turned around, she disappeared.

There were women crying all around, she asked her sweetheart while crying, "Ke Yulan, why don't you come..." Repeating this sentence over and over again, the hoarse crying came to my ears, every word weeping blood , Heartbreaking.

I don't know why there is a sharp pain in my chest, like a sharp knife in my heart, gouging out carefully one by one.I barely covered my painful heart and asked, "Who are you, why are you crying in my dream?"

She just cried and complained about her lover who abandoned her, and ignored my questioning.

Language Lan.This is clearly not a man's name, could it be that this girl's sweetheart is a woman?

"This little brother? Little brother, wake up...Little brother..."

I just felt shaken vigorously by someone, and when I opened my eyes dizzily, I realized that it was already dawn. The first thing I saw were a few herdsmen. When they saw me wake up, they all had reassuring expressions on their faces, "Thank God, it's finally here. woke up."

The first thing I did when I woke up was to quickly check whether the clothes on my body were intact, for fear that my daughter would be exposed.

All right, well dressed.

I felt relieved, only to find that I was lying on the sandy soil. The stubborn camel when I came here had long since disappeared. I probably escaped when I was unconscious last night.

last night?I quickly got up and looked around.

No, nothing but desert is desert, and the dilapidated and lonely city from last night has long since disappeared.

Everything about last night is vivid in my mind. I clearly entered that city, and there was a girl in white clothes who could sing, gentle and a bit coquettish, and jokingly asked me why I was wearing black clothes.Such a clear memory, could it be a dream?

What happened afterwards?I thought about it carefully, but I couldn't remember what happened afterwards, I just remembered that the woman said her name was A Gui and she wanted to take me to find a place where I could stay overnight.

"Young man, you don't look like a person in the desert. Why do you lie alone in such a desolate place? You are not afraid of being picked up by wolves." An older herdsman squatted next to me and asked.

I straightened my clothes and bowed to him: "The old man laughed, Xiaosheng is originally from Jiangnan, just because he was young and fun, he said goodbye to his parents and traveled all the way, not wanting to bump into this place by mistake. But last night Xiaosheng obviously entered In an ancient city, but I don’t know why I wake up and lie here.”

They all changed their faces after hearing my experience. A young man opened his eyes and asked me, "Did you really enter that ghost town?"

"Ghost town?" I didn't understand what they meant. Although the old city was dilapidated, how could it become a ghost town?Miss Agui is such a good-looking girl, even if she is called Agui, she can't really be a ghost, but a fairy is more or less the same. "This brother was joking. How can the girl in the city be a ghost? I saw her last night. She is as beautiful as a fairy. Even the fairy Chang'e from the sky can't compare to her."

"You silly scholar!" The man's face was full of anger, "If that female ghost is ugly, how can she seduce you lustful people?"

This... Everyone has a love for beauty. I admire the appearance of this ghost, but I have never had any unreasonable thoughts. How could I become a womanizer?

I was unhappy, so I replied in a rough voice: "Brother said she is a ghost, if you tell me that she is really a ghost, how can I argue with you properly here?"

"Young master, what my nephew said is right, it is indeed a ghost town." The old herdsman said calmly, "The female ghost is probably after you, this place is a place of right and wrong, young master, you should leave as soon as possible. Don’t lose your life in a fit of impulsiveness.”

"Why did the old man say that?"

"I don't know, the ghost city was originally called Litai City. Every family in the city was named Li. It used to be the largest city in Mobei. About 200 years ago, Litai City was slaughtered overnight. Thousands of people in the city From the city lord down to the servants, no one was spared.

Old man, when I was young, I heard people from my ancestors mention that after Litai City was massacred, blood flowed all over the ground, and the moat was filled with red blood. Never left.The rancid smell in the city floated for hundreds of miles. The old herdsman sighed when he mentioned this, "What a crime, after that all the residents around Litai City moved out, and no one has seen this Litai City again. "

"It's not that no one has seen it." The young man who was arguing with me said eccentrically, "Everyone who has seen it is dead."

"How could this be so? Thousands of lives in the city were all lost overnight. Could it be that the court didn't care?" I gasped, how could such a cruel and inhumane act be ignored?

The old man sneered, "This is where I am facing the border. The sky is high and the emperor is far away. How do I manage it? Besides, it is said that the tragedy in Litai City was the retribution of the city owner back then."

"how do I say this?"

"Master, I spent the night in the ghost city last night. I must have seen the female ghost in the city."

I didn't want to admit that this ghost is a female ghost, so I could only say: "I did see a girl in the city last night, she was slim and charming."

"She is that ghost." The old man patted me on the shoulder, "Young man, it will be your fate if you come back. That female ghost was a girl from an ordinary family in Litai City back then. Wanting to occupy her by force, she hanged herself on the beam of the new house on the wedding night. It is said that after her death, she was too resentful to escape, and she turned into a ghost and killed thousands of people in Litai City.

I have lived here for 60 years, and every year I hear that a few passers-by or herding lads were tricked into the city by a female ghost and sucked Yang Qi. They were all corpses found later, and each of them turned into a mummy. It was terrifying. very. "

I just thought he was threatening me, and bid him farewell, "Thank you, old man, for your kindness. Xiaosheng is leaving."

A ghost's ditty has lingered in my dreams for 20 years. Even if the lonely city is really a ghost town, I still want to break into it.