A life of two souls traveling through time

Chapter 322 Revenge for a Girl

Liu Shenghe's wife died of illness when his daughter Liu Wan was three years old, and he never remarried. The father and daughter depended on each other for more than ten years. However, it was inevitable that one person was too busy to raise a child as both a father and a mother. Liu Shenghe also had to work as a zither player in a wealthy man's house to earn money to support his family, so he didn't have much time to spend with his daughter. When he was busy, he could only ask the neighbor's mother-in-law to take care of her. It was precisely because of this debt that Liu Shenghe doted on his daughter even more and never said a harsh word to her.

Thirteen years passed in a flash, and the daughter of the Liu family grew up.

Although her father seldom accompanied her, Liu Wan grew up carefree and became a graceful young lady. She was innocent and full of spring breeze at the age of 28, but because of Liu Shenghe's pampering and love, Liu Wan became more and more willful, and often sneaked out to play alone when her father was not at home.

The girl was in love, and the gentleman seduced her. Liu Wan began to look forward to meeting a perfect man and spending the rest of her life with him. It was difficult for her to express her feelings to her father, but Liu Shenghe still felt that his daughter was still young and couldn't bear to see her marrying so early, so he kept delaying her marriage.

However, Liu Shenghe's act of loving his daughter gave people with ulterior motives an opportunity to take advantage of. Liu Wan failed to wait for the man who could accompany her for the rest of her life, but met the scheming Zhongshan Wolf. From then on, her fate became completely unfortunate.

One day, Liu Wan was sitting under a willow tree by the river, bored and watching a few small fish swimming in the river. Suddenly, the river surface rippled, and the small fish flew away in fright. She looked up and saw a small boat coming from a distance. On the bow stood a handsome and elegant scholar, Sun Gui, who was waving a folding fan. He glanced at Liu Wan under the tree by the river, and then looked at the towering city wall on the river bank as if nothing had happened. He couldn't help but recite a poem and sighed:

The sea of ​​learning is boundless, diligence is the shore, the path to success is the ladder,

A gentleman should cultivate a noble spirit, embrace the moon and pick the stars in the sky.

The handsome and talented scholar naturally made Liu Wan, who was sitting on the river bank, fall in love with him. She stared at the scholar's back as he left on the boat, her heart beating like a deer.

From then on, Liu Wan came to the river every day hoping to meet the scholar again, but she didn't see him for three consecutive days. When she was turning back home with disappointment, the fair-skinned scholar Sun Gui suddenly appeared in front of her.

How could Liu Wan, a simple-minded and inexperienced girl, escape from the clutches of Sun Gui, a master of picking flowers? Soon, she was moved by Sun Gui's sweet talk and fell in love.

Liu Shenghe saw his daughter's silly smile from time to time, but his concern made his daughter shy and run away. Liu Shenghe was helpless but did not take it too seriously. He just thought that his daughter had grown up and had her own thoughts. He did not ask too much, not to mention that if his daughter had any problems, the neighbor's mother-in-law would definitely tell him.

Liu Wan gradually lost her mind in the hunting net carefully woven by Sun Gui. Not long after, she sneaked out of the house at the instigation of Sun Gui and followed him back to his hometown to visit relatives. Of course, this was just a lie of Sun Gui.

Liu Wan followed Sun Gui all the way south to Fucheng to settle down. At first, she didn't understand why Sun Gui didn't go home directly. But he just said that she was a daughter-in-law who had not yet married and could not meet her in-laws. Liu Wan was uneasy when she heard it, but she saw that Sun Gui still loved her as usual and coaxed her to be happy every day, so she quickly dispelled her worries.

She had been in Fucheng for three months without realizing it. Only after Sun Gui had spent all the money and jewelry that Liu Wan had brought from home did his true colors show up. At first, he was just cold and indifferent to Liu Wan, but then he became even worse and often disappeared for days at a time. But when he showed up, he would either beat or scold her.

Faced with Sun Gui's sudden change of attitude towards her, Liu Wan finally realized that she was foolish and deceived, but it was too late to regret. She wanted to escape but she was penniless and could not move. She cried all day in the simple house, regretting that she was too willful and was not satisfied with her father's love.

That night, the woman in the green jacket brought Liu Shenghe and the other two to a solitary grave near a mass grave outside Fucheng. Liu Wan used to live next door to her. She felt deeply sorry for the tragic fate of this innocent little girl who looked a bit like her, but she was in a lowly position and could not help her. She could only say some comforting words to her from time to time.

"Sun Gui was a pretty boy who relied on his good looks to cheat people for food and drink. He often took women's money and pretended to be a playboy to seek pleasure from prostitutes. After he spent all his money, he forced Liu Wan to work as a prostitute in the alleys to support him. Liu Wan would rather die than obey him, so he...he forced the customer to do business with him...Liu Wan couldn't bear the humiliation and hanged herself a few days later..."

After listening to the sad story of the woman in the green jacket, Liu Shenghe was in so much pain that he lay on the lonely grave covered with snow and cried. Fu Qingli and Si Yao beside him were also in tears and full of anger. They felt sorry for Liu Wan's experience and hated Sun Gui who was worse than a dog and a pig.

"Thank you for your kindness in burying Liu Wan so that her body would not be left exposed in the wild." Si Yao wiped away her tears, walked up to the woman in the green jacket, bowed and thanked her, then took out ten taels of silver and put it in her hand.

"It's nothing. I just feel sorry for Liu Wan. But I can't afford to give her a proper burial. I can only ask someone to bury her so that she won't be left exposed in the wilderness." The woman in the green jacket wanted to return the ten taels of silver, but seeing that the other party would not accept it, she accepted it reluctantly, and then wiped her tears sadly and cried.

During the first month of the year, there was no curfew in Fucheng at night. Fu Qingli and Si Yao took Liu Shenghe, who was still immersed in the grief of losing his daughter, back to the inn in the city overnight.

Fu Qingli silently stayed in the side room with Liu Shenghe. Seeing Uncle Liu's numb expression, he felt bad in his heart. However, no matter how many words of comfort he said at this time, they seemed pale and powerless. So Fu Qingli did not say much, but patiently helped Liu Shenghe to wash up.

At five o'clock in the morning of the next day, a fire suddenly shot up into the sky from the east attic of Fucheng. The night watchman urgently struck the gong in his hand, which immediately startled the sleeping people.

When Si Yao got up and put on her clothes, Fu Qingli's urgent voice suddenly came from outside the door.

"What happened?" Before dawn, Si Yao lit a candle, opened the door and asked.

"Uncle Liu is missing." Fu Qingli said anxiously.

Si Yao did not say anything, but blew out the lights and went downstairs with Fu Qingli. They both had a premonition that Uncle Liu might have gone to find Sun Gui to avenge his daughter.

"Oh, are you two guests woken up too?" The two men had just gone downstairs, and the waiter who was leaning against the door of the inn and whispering with someone was surprised to see them and hurried forward to ask with a smile.

"What happened outside?" Fu Qingli asked the waiter hurriedly out of curiosity.

"There was a fire in Wanhonglou, and I heard someone was killed inside..."

Before the waiter could finish his words, Si Yao and Fu Qingli had already said goodbye to the waiter and hurried out of the inn.

"I heard that Sun Gui was beaten half to death by an old man with a limp, and then the old man set the wing room on fire. Judging from the intensity of the fire, I'm afraid both of them were burned to death."

"Oh, what a pity, but I don't feel sorry for that bastard, he has done too many things and deserves this fate!"

"That old man is quite loyal. I heard that he even drove the girl out of the room before he started the fight..."

Si Yao and Fu Qingli approached Wanhong Building and saw that although the fire had been under control, a lot of Wanhong Building had been burned down. Fortunately, this attic was built independently and would not involve too many people. However, when Fu Qingli heard the words of the onlookers, his eyes immediately turned red and he wanted to rush into the building but was held tightly by Si Yao.