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The innkeeper nodded in agreement, "What you said seems to make sense, maybe it's a coincidence. After the third bride died, Master Wu can be said to be completely hopeless, and he asked the Taoist priests to do rituals, please God I also begged, this disaster really happened for no reason."

Xie Qi poured two cups of warm tea, and handed one cup to Zhuang Yin, "Did anything unusual happen to the Wu family before?"

"Anything unusual? It doesn't seem to be..." The innkeeper turned his head and thought about it seriously. After a long while, his eyes suddenly lit up: "Yes! I heard that the Wu family's servant Lao Huang once mentioned that the Wu family , the livestock raised in the house will disappear strangely, and they can’t even find a trace. It’s just that some chickens, ducks and ducks are missing, and the Wu family didn’t care, they just slipped into the house as thieves.”

Xie Qi smiled softly, "They have big hearts."

"The rumors in the town are not very pleasant. They say that they are cursed because they want to kill their wives. How can a family with better conditions be willing to betroth their daughter to him? Isn't this pushing their daughter into the fire pit? But having said that, Wu The young master's family is rich and talented, and some impoverished families still want to sell their daughters to young master Wu." The innkeeper shook his head and sighed.

Zhuang Yin's eyes turned cold: "Sell?"

The innkeeper's expression remained unchanged, as if he was used to these things, and said: "That's right, it's selling your daughter for money, and it's even worse if you sell it to the Wu family. The money they get in exchange is something they won't be able to earn in their entire lives."

Zhuang Yin's eyes became colder, and he asked, "Did the Wu family buy it?"

The innkeeper said: "Hey, I bought it. Mrs. Wu was crazy about holding her grandson. After seeing the person, she immediately made a marriage agreement! By the way, it's the one you saw just now! The bride's name is Fang and her name is Ranbi. I am poor, and I have two younger brothers, whoever is not married by Young Master Wu will die, Miss Fang marrying him is really a blessing accumulated in her previous life."

The innkeeper also poured a cup of tea for himself, took a sip and said: "This marriage went smoothly until the wedding night, but a strange thing happened to this girl a few days ago. Three days ago, Miss Fang was also inexplicable." died once."

After saying that, a gust of gloomy wind suddenly blew in through the open door, and the night outside the door was gloomy, with no stars and no moon, and two dim yellow lanterns swayed with the wind.

The innkeeper wrapped his clothes symbolically, and smacked his mouth: "It is said that it was found by the well, and there was no breathing when it was found, and ah, the most frightening thing is that Miss Fang also has a strangle mark on her neck! Originally, that The family members were preparing to bury Miss Fang, but who would have thought that she would suddenly come back to life, as if nothing had happened, able to eat, drink, walk and run. The Wu family was worried, so they specially paid for the doctor to come over. After ten years of consultation experience, I didn't see anything wrong. The only thing that makes people wonder is that Miss Fang has to drink a lot of water every day these days. Ordinary people can hold ten bowls of water a day. She is not enough for ten buckets of water. Even if the buffalo see her, they will be ashamed of themselves."

Zhuang Yin recalled the glimpse just now in front of the door, saw the wedding sedan chair seeping water, and thought to himself, could it be that Miss Fang hid a full bucket of water on the sedan chair?

Just as he was thinking, he raised his eyes and saw three people stepping in from the door. In the dark night, it was really golden and dazzling, and the simple inn was suddenly full of brilliance.

The innkeeper's mouth almost turned into a crooked smile, and he immediately put Young Master Wu and Miss Fang behind him. No matter how absurd things are, they are not as important as doing business. He smiled flatteringly: "You three young masters, are you staying at the inn?"

A look of contempt appeared on Xue Yu's delicate face, and he looked at the inn with disgust, "Come to the third room." There is only one inn in Fengtou Town, if you don't stay here overnight, you can only sleep outside on the street , the imposing son of the suzerain of Taoling, with a body of a thousand statues, it is impossible to sleep on the street.

Xie Qi knocked on the table twice, neither light nor heavy, just enough to attract the attention of the three teenagers, and several eyes looked at him at the same time.

"It's you again." Xue Yu pouted.

[The author has something to say: I changed the setting: Zhuang Yin and Xie Qi followed the Qianlisan left by Duan Qingchuan all the way to Fengtou Town, Jinzhou in the past few days.Qianlisan is a special fragrance specially made by Lijing Garden. It has a long-lasting fragrance that reaches thousands of miles away and lasts for half a month. Only the butterfly in Zhuang Yin's hand can smell this fragrance.But when the two of them chased to Fengtou Town in Jinzhou, the scent of Qianlisan suddenly disappeared, and the butterfly flew aimlessly in the night for a long time, and finally stopped.

Also, I have always felt that it is amazing to greet relatives at night, so I googled it: In the old days, when welcoming relatives on the wedding day, avoid daytime and choose after sunset or before sunrise. This is actually related to ancient etiquette.In ancient books, marriage is often referred to as "faint".

"Poetry·North Wind·Gu Feng": "The banquet is new and dark, and I don't care about it." Han Bangu's "Baihu Tongyi·Marriage": "What is marriage? Salute at dusk, so it is called marriage."

"Rituals·Scholar's Faint Ritual": "The ceremony for a scholar to marry a wife lasts for a period of fainting, which is solid and named Yan. It must be fainted, and the yang will go and the yin will come."

The so-called "Yang goes and Yin comes" means that the day is about to pass and night is coming, and it also means that the male (yang) welcomes the female (yin) to come.This is the reflection of the idea of ​​the unity of man and nature in the marriage etiquette system. 】