Shen Yi is an abandoned baby I picked up on the battlefield, who has depended on me since she was little. Although we have no blood relationship, we trust each other more than blood relatives.
“This silly girl.” I sighed. Using lifespan as a price to light a Longevity Lamp for me, I bet only she would do such a thing.
Speak of the devil and he shall appear. I just floated out of the courtyard with the little ghost, and I ran head-on into the General’s family who rushed over after hearing the bad news.
Shen Yi hadn’t even entered the courtyard yet, she was already crying like a pear blossom in the rain, holding her husband’s hand and standing at the door, looking at the white mourning banner hastily hung at the Prime Minister’s residence, still unable to believe it: “Brother… is he really… really gone? How could it be? I haven’t had time to tell him I’m pregnant, General, I haven’t had time to tell him…”
Jiang Dao, that person who usually glares at me like a stubborn donkey in front of me, is quite tender to Shen Yi. He hurriedly wrapped his arms around her waist to steady her, his face full of obvious distress, comforting her: “My lady, be careful of your body. Lord Prime Minister certainly wouldn’t want to see you so sad for him.”
As he spoke, he even looked up at the white banner inside the courtyard, his eyes full of regret.
Tsk. Truly worthy of being a loyal Emperor’s faction, his acting skills are as perfect as Liang Yan’s. If I were still alive, I couldn’t help but slap him and roll my eyes cursing: “What are you pretending for!”
For someone like me who has controlled the court for many years and restrained the emperor to die, I’m afraid he would enter the palace at night and set off firecrackers together with Liang Yan who is so happy he can’t sleep. Back then I said Shen Yi was blind, out of so many princes and nobles, she had to pick a commoner promoted by Liang Yan himself. If it wasn’t for seeing how well he treated Shen Yi these years, I would have taken him with me before I died.
But I really didn’t expect Shen Yi to be pregnant at this time. Otherwise I definitely wouldn’t have coveted the snowscape in winter, I would have killed myself early in the autumn wind, so she wouldn’t have to be overly sad for my matter while pregnant.
The little ghost next to me stood bored, aiming at Shen Yi’s sash, reaching out to pull it again. I slapped the back of his hand and dragged him by his collar towards the General’s residence.
Being a ghost is good, I can hit a child and no idle political enemy will seize the opportunity to impeach me.
I am quite familiar with the General’s Residence. Before I killed myself, I was worried about Shen Yi, always sneaking into the General’s Residence in the middle of the night to see if she was living well. Later, somehow, Liang Yan that dog found out, and in the middle of the night he sent people with a sack to tie me up on the roof, causing me to not get off the dragon bed for three days.
Just thinking about it is bad luck!
Carrying a little ghost while floating is really a hindrance, I simply put him in the courtyard to play with mud, and floated back and forth alone in the General’s Residence searching. I searched from dawn to dusk, until even that energetic little ghost got sleepy playing with mud, fell under a tree and fell asleep, and even Shen Yi who went out to pay condolences came back crying, I still couldn’t find that damned broken lamp!
I leaned against the pillar, exhausted, looking at Shen Yi sitting in the corridor crying with her face covered, really speechless in my heart.
Sister, brother knows you are very sad, but can you tell me whether that lamp was lit by you and where the hell that broken thing is!
Of course Shen Yi couldn’t answer me, she didn’t know I became a ghost who couldn’t reincarnate, nor did she know I was looking at her at this moment. She just sat there crying, and I just stood there watching. The endless snow was blown by the wind from her shoulders and flew towards me. I reached out to brush it off, but found nothing on my face. That snow had already passed through me and blown onto the wall, turning into a circle of water stains.
Only then did I realize, I am dead.
Dead is dead. No snow can fall on my face, and no one can hear what I am saying. I cannot drape a fur coat over Shen Yi, nor can I pat her shoulder to comfort her and say brother is fine, I can only watch Jiang Dao hurriedly rush from behind and hug her into his large cloak, listening to her cry even louder.
Before, when I was pushed to the extreme by Liang Yan, I told him to kill me. He raised his eyebrows and bit my ear until it bled, then viciously said in my ear: “Living people suffer more.”
At that time my eyes were bloodshot, I picked up the jade seal on the table and smashed it on his head. Now I can finally spread my hands to him with an unchanged expression and say: “See, I told you to kill me earlier, the dead are actually in a lot of pain too.”
I sighed, covering my non-existent heart, bending over in pain.
“Have you found what you were looking for? Do you want to try another way?”
A voice came from behind me. I turned my head and saw that the little ghost playing with mud had woken up at some point, arms crossed, looking at me calmly.
My intuition from many years of stirring up trouble in the treacherous court told me, this is not the same person… not the same ghost as the one I carried over this afternoon.
Sure enough, that little ghost spoke: “The one sleeping is my younger brother. We share one soul body, but I can see and hear everything that happened during the day and what you said to him.”
Sure enough, now that I’m a ghost, I can encounter any absurd thing. I was briefly surprised in my heart, but on the surface I still had a calm demeanor as if I had seen the world, and asked: “What’s your name? What is the other method you mentioned?”
“Xu Sheng. My younger brother’s name is Xu Chu.” That little ghost walked two steps closer, stood in front of me and looked me up and down, hooked the corner of his mouth sarcastically: “Heh, the dignified Lord Prime Minister, actually doesn’t know that the dead can enter dreams?”
Enter dreams?
I raised an eyebrow.
Good idea!