two ears pricked up

Although the Huo family was in decline, Huo Qianjun spent a lot of thought on marrying Miss Bai into the family this time.The money raised for the wedding gift was Huo Qianjun's proceeds from selling the remaining farm of the Huo family. The ceremony was grand and lively, and it was also a desperate attempt by a chronically ill person to grab the last elusive straw.

Changyang Village and Changyue Village are located on the east and west banks of Yueyang River respectively, and it only takes half a day to go back and forth on foot.The wedding sedan chair swayed back and forth, Dahong's wedding party crossed the Yueyang River and entered the boundary of Changyue Village, and Bai Xi woke up slowly from his lethargic state.

He lay on his stomach in the wedding sedan chair with a dull expression. The soft mattress swayed and scraped against his cheeks, which made him grin and grin. His weak arms waved in the air, and the red wedding dress covered his body. Wrapped himself in a silkworm shape and slowly rolled around, laughed enough before he began to look at the place where he was.

a strange place.

He opened the car curtain a small slit, and his body, which had inhaled the soft bone fragrance, was still terribly limp, but after a short while of vain support against his arms, he became limp again and lay still on his stomach.

As a newcomer, he doesn't understand anything, as long as no one beats him, he is not afraid, because he is ignorant, so he has no fear.

There were several plates of delicate, soft and sweet pastries placed in the sedan chair, which were specially prepared by those in the Bai family who had sensed his temperament.

Bai Xi lay on his head and picked up a piece of shortbread to taste, a piece of shortbread easily distracted his mind.

He was very obedient, and he didn't pay attention to the wedding dress on his body. The hijab was thin and soft and did not cover his eyes, so he didn't touch the hijab on his head.

At noon, the wedding sedan chair arrived outside the gate of Huo's house.

The sound of playing music and suona was heard from far away. The people hired by the Huo family lit the red firecrackers hung on both sides of the gate in advance, and the firecrackers flew. ear.

The bearer yelled for the bride to arrive, and the wedding sedan was parked outside the gate of Huo's house. Everyone's eyes turned to the sedan chair, wanting to see what the bride who was married in a grand style looked like.

The fact that Huo Qianjun was seriously ill and wanted to marry Miss Bai's family to celebrate the happy event, more or less people in the village knew about it.They heard that Miss Bai's family was a pretty lady, and now Huo Qianjun, a sick child, was able to marry the daughter of Bai's family into the family. Many unmarried village men were jealous and envious one after another.

These days the ratio of men to women is unbalanced, and there are few girls. Some girls make child marriages with boys from other families as soon as they are born.The imperial court has issued a policy that each family has a limit of three children. If there are more children, the poll tax will be paid five times. The population is limited and there are few women. A man who can marry a wife is already a great blessing. point.

Also because there are not as many women as men, some men live with men in private, but the matter of violating the harmony of yin and yang cannot be brought to the fore, and such activities have to be hidden from others.

The "bride" arrived, and Huo Qianjun was not feeling well and could only wait inside the house. The Xipo said some auspicious words in front of the sedan chair, and asked the bearer to lift the curtain, squatted down and let the bride lie behind her, to serve as the bridegroom's groom. Carry the bride inside.

When the sedan chair stopped, Bai Xi's body stiffened with fright, and she didn't dare to move carelessly, nervously, kneading her fingers hidden in her sleeves back and forth.The voices of people outside were chaotic, and he was timid and afraid.

Xi Po couldn't wait for the bride to come, so she turned her head and saw that she was still sitting in the sedan chair, and shouted repeatedly.Bai Xi listened and understood Xi Po's meaning, he got out of the sedan chair stumbling with hands and feet, resting on her back softly.

Bai Xi is confused, and he does what others tell him to do.

The hijab covered Bai Xi's face, but it couldn't cover his figure.

The men in the village live a rough life, and they can't hide their eyes when they look at women, even those who are going to get married, not to mention Huo Qianjun, how long can the sick man live?Take a look at what's going on.

They looked at the little bride, who was dressed in a fiery red wedding dress, which couldn't stop her "elegant" figure.

Looking around, the waist is the waist, so thin, the buttocks are the buttocks, so round, and at the age of fifteen or sixteen, more tender than delicate flowers, Huo Qianjun really took advantage of it.

Xi Po carried Bai Xi into the room steadily, and there were already many people waiting in the room.

The person standing in the middle of the main room was Huo Qianjun. He was wearing a dark red wedding gown and looked sick.Protruding cheekbones, dim eyes, broad stature, tall, but because of long-term illness, the whole person looks like being hollowed out from the inside, thin and thin, with a wide and tall skeleton.

The two of the Huo family are no longer there, the Huo family is weak, and now there are only two sons left, except for Huo Qianjun, the other person is nowhere to be seen in the wedding hall.

When the auspicious time comes, it's time for the couple to pray to heaven and earth.

Huo Qianjun bowed to the sky, turned his head to look, and saw the bride standing still. After a while, the surrounding villagers whispered, wondering if the bride had gone back on her word He does not want to marry Huo Qianjun.

As for Bai Xi, of course he couldn't understand what he meant by praying to heaven and earth, his weak body couldn't even stand upright.

Huo Qianjun looked down at "her" and tentatively called out to her.

Bai Xi didn't respond, Xi Po was anxious on the sidelines.

There was nothing wrong with it, Xi Po approached in a low voice under the signal of Huo Qianjun's eyes, "Bless the heavens and the earth!"

Bai Xigan remained silent, and now the voices of the villagers whispering gradually increased, Xi Po had to put her hand behind Bai Xi, exert strength against his back, and force Bai Xi to bend down and make a gesture of worshiping heaven and earth.

Huo Qianjun bent down in accordance with Xi Po's movement, and the moment he lowered his head, a thick bloody smell gushed out of his throat, and the accident happened in the blink of an eye.

After the words of praying to heaven and earth fell, but the ceremony was not completed, Huo Qianjun spit out a mouthful of blood while bending down, and the whole person fell straight forward, slammed to the ground, and stood still on the ground.

A loud exclamation in the Xitang, dead!

The hall of joy turned into a hall of mourning in an instant, and the blood dripping on the floor was blindingly red.

The villagers who were noisy just now rushed outside, everyone was afraid of death, and even more afraid of bad luck. Seeing that the momentum was wrong, Xi Po hurriedly grabbed the valuables in the inner hall and ran away.

The crowd pushed and shoved, and Bai Xi was hit so hard that he staggered and sat beside Huo Qianjun's body.

Huo Qianjun was already out of breath, some of the blood that hadn't penetrated into the ground was stained by his thin white fingers, it was sticky and smelly, he quickly retracted his fingers, his eyes fixed on Huo Qianjun.

The Huo family's courtyard was fairly spacious, and after all the villagers ran away, the hall was empty, only Bai Xi and the dead Huo Qianjun were left sitting on the ground in a daze.

"Get up..." Bai Xi tried to call Huo Qianjun, and then he realized slowly that the person lying on the ground was dead.

At the same moment, Huo Zheng, who had rushed back, was startled by the changes that had happened to the Huo family. He quickly walked in and saw his elder brother Huo Qianjun lying on the ground at a glance.

Huo Zheng quickly stepped forward and turned his elder brother over carefully, and put his finger on the neck veins of the other party, but he was already powerless.

Huo Zheng's eyes darkened, and his tense face twitched slightly.

A person ran in suddenly, Bai Xi was frightened, moved his butt to the side and leaned against the foot of the stool.The man didn't say anything, he picked up the dead man and put him away, and gave him a knock on the head.

When Huo Qianjun died, the first thing Huo Zheng had to do was to bury him.

The Huo family has been in decline for many years, and Huo Qianjun almost gave away all his belongings for the sake of the wedding. He refused to accept his fate and did not want to die, and the coffin was not prepared in advance.Huo Zheng put Huo Qianjun's body in the house and put it away, then went out to ask for directions, and hurried to the city in the direction pointed by the villagers.

That night, Huo Zheng brought back the new coffin, Huo Qianjun's body was put into the coffin, the red things on the hall faded, and replaced with the white ones in the whole room.

After taking care of Huo Qianjun's funeral, it was already night, and the surroundings were dark, and the shadows of the swaying trees reflected in the courtyard, like ghosts returning to seek their lives.The cold wind poured into the room, blowing the candles flickering, Bai Xi woke up from his lethargy, leaned against the stool legs, his limbs were weak, and he whimpered.

His sobs woke up Huo Zheng's dazed soul. Huo Zheng has been anxiously preparing for his elder brother's funeral since he rushed back from other places. It was only at this moment that he remembered that today is the day of his elder brother's wedding, and there are still people in the house. There is another person left, the bride his elder brother is going to marry, his sister-in-law.

Huo Zheng approached the red shadow under the stool leg, Bai Xi saw the strange figure approaching him, wishing to melt into the stool leg, his lips were tightly pressed, his teeth trembling.

The mandarin duck red hijab has never been removed from the white thin head, and the hijab is fluttering in the wind. He clutches the clothes with his fingers, flustered, trying to get up and run away, but his limbs are filled with lead.Huo Zheng didn't move, his tongue was in his mouth, and his throat made a whining sound.

Huo Zheng lowered his body halfway, looked at the other person's red hijab, and said in a deep voice, "Sister-in-law."

Bai Xi pulled the hijab and repeated it to Huo Zheng, "Sister-in-law?"

What is sister-in-law?

Huo Zheng turned his eyes away, "Get up first, the ground is cold."

Bai Xixu raised his hand, "I don't have the strength..."

Huo Zheng said something offensive in a low voice, put his hands under Bai Xi's arms through his clothes, and pushed him up with a little force.

He didn't control his strength well, and Bai Xi's figure was unstable. When he swayed, the mandarin duck red hijab that was firmly covering his head slipped from the top of his head.

Huo Zheng lowered his head, and unexpectedly bumped into a pair of clear and lively eyes, which blinked at him.

"..." A sister-in-law suddenly choked in her throat.

Huo Qianjun never had the chance to see Bai Xi's most beautiful bride's dress, but Huo Zheng immediately imprinted it in his heart.

This is his sister-in-law...