Chapter 225: Confinement
"Is he the one coughing in the basement?" Tie Wandao said.
"Well! At first I didn't know who was in the basement. It was dimly lit, and I was afraid of an ambush, so I didn't dare go down directly. The person in the basement kept coughing, and it seemed that he couldn't stop even if he wanted to. I thought that hiding in such a secluded place must be shameful, so I threw some things down there, and some of them hit him, making him scream. The screams made me feel that he didn't have the ability to resist me. There were candles on the first floor, and I picked one up and lit it with a tinder, then shone it into the basement, and found that the person hiding in there was him!"
"You'll just go down and kill him?"
"Yes. I held a candle in my left hand and kept waving the knife with my right hand. I paid attention to the movements around me, and then went down and killed him." Dong Su narrated the whole process to Tie Wandao, without mentioning a word that he was unaware of the fact that the man's blood splattered on his clothes.
After he killed the man, he was worried that he would be punished for missing the time to find the two children and return to Ao Qian Palace for dinner. Without thinking, he hurried to the wilderness to find the children, completely unaware that his clothes were stained with the man's blood.
"Is his body still in the basement?" Tie Wandao's eyes showed cold cruelty.
"Yes, it's still there." Dong Su said, "The south side of Tiecang Court is quiet, and Muxi Pavilion is even more deserted. I haven't moved it since I killed it, and no one else will move there either. The two times I entered Muxi Pavilion, I felt it was gloomy and depressing. I only felt comfortable when I climbed to the top floor and saw the wilderness."
When talking about Muxi Pavilion, Tie Wandao recalled an old story he had heard from someone much older than him a long time ago, and couldn't help but say, "So many years have passed, but Muxi Pavilion is still eerie..."
"Has the clan leader been there recently?" Dong Su asked.
"No. I haven't been in there for many years. The area around Muxi Pavilion wasn't as desolate as it is now a long time ago. There were still people living nearby at that time, but later they all moved somewhere else."
“I sometimes feel that it’s too desolate there.”
"I heard from older people that a woman was imprisoned in the Muxi Pavilion many years ago. Sometimes, very sad singing could be heard from the pavilion, as if it was haunted. Later, the woman hanged herself on the top floor. It is said that she had a long blue cloth tied on her hand at the time. When she was found in the evening, the wind was very strong, and the cloth was always fluttering in the direction of the setting sun. Because of this woman's incident, all the people who originally lived there moved elsewhere, and later no one went there, so the place became deserted." Tie Wandao said.
"Who is imprisoned in there?" Dong Su asked casually.
"I don't know. I asked, but no one could answer. It is said that only a few people have seen what that woman looks like. After all, it happened a long time ago, and no one has mentioned it in recent years."
"Alas, what was so wrong with her that she had to commit suicide?" Dong Su sighed.
"I heard that the woman was singing the song of the Blue Armor People, so she deserved to commit suicide!" Tie Wandao said coldly.
"So she was singing the Blue Armor Man's song! Isn't that courting death? Committing suicide is too easy for her!" Dong Su said, "The place where that woman hanged herself is probably where I monitor the two children, right?"
(End of this chapter)
