My very cool daughter-in-law

The bride is not supposed to walk on the ground, this is the rule in this village.

Even their wedding ceremony must be held in the ancestral hall, and they strictly abide by the clan etiquette. According to the village rules, the bride should be picked up by the bearers first, then sent to a hall at the entrance of the village to dress up, and then accompanied by bridesmaids Then he was sent to the "high sedan chair", lying on the coffin lid, and was carried to the ancestral hall by the bearers.

Under normal circumstances, brides in the past would be particularly resistant to "getting on the sedan chair", and those with more temper would desperately resist when dressing up.

But of course, resistance is useless, resistance is a joke.

The ghost bearer guards the door, and the ghost Xi Niang puts on makeup.

It is already very difficult for the "bride" to be able to stay sane and sober surrounded by all the ghosts, and it is considered good endurance not to be frightened and fainted.

There really appeared one or two very courageous and indomitable bridesmaids who all had bright red nails, which could easily pierce human flesh.

Then while digging the wound, while infiltrating the cold ghost energy, the taste is like being soaked in ice water directly in the cold winter, and the bones all over the body are cold, making people who have been eroded by the ghost energy tremble involuntarily .

Repeatedly several times, the "bride" has no ability to move, no matter what she thinks in her heart, at least she is forced to behave obediently.

I will not continue to make a lot of noise and delay the bride's makeup and changing clothes, and the time to go to the ancestral hall for the ceremony.

— But who can touch today's "bride"?

Xiaoqiu is more spooky than any ghost in the deserted village. To him, the spooky aura released by the bridesmaids is worse than drizzle. In his opinion, the miasma that permeates the whole village smells like The residual oil on the roadside stalls was almost wiped off, revealing a smell of inferior and three-no food.

The only redeeming feature of this village in Xiaoqiu's eyes is that the eye of the pool of resentment is in the village.

The lake of accumulated resentment supplies the ghost village, and is fed back by the ghost village.

Xiaoqiu only brought one hand, which is not enough for him to maintain his human form for a long time, but the supply of the Resentment Pool is abundant. He seems to be carrying a mobile phone with a low battery life but finds a full charging bank, and directly uses the Resentment Pool to "charge" himself, very happy .

"It's coming, it's coming..." Xi Niang murmured behind Xiaoqiu, her voice frightened, "The hour is coming, today's ceremony will be late..."

After hearing this, the bride was not only unmoved, but there happened to be a small arched bridge in front of her, under which was a small stream that crossed the village, and the water flowing through it looked like black water under the cover of night.

Taking one step at a time, Xiaoqiu walked slowly to the bridge deck and stopped on the bridge.

He lowered his eyes slightly to the bridge, and he could see that the thing passing across the village was not water at all.

——It was a black resentment that was so thick that it seemed substantial.

"It's getting late! It's getting late!" Xi Niang screamed behind Xiao Qiu.

They seem to have a deep fear of "missing the hour", which even overwhelmed the previous fear of Xiaoqiu.

Xiaoqiu stared at the "water surface" flowing under the bridge for a while, and then he turned his gaze back to the ancestral hall with red and white lanterns that he could already see ahead.

"He will wait for me," said the bride suddenly.

The bearers and Xi Niang all looked sideways, no one knew what this ghost who did not belong to the deserted village was talking about.

But he seemed to think of something happy, and the corners of his lips twitched slightly.

After a long while, the bride's queue finally moved on.

...and in the "black water" under the bridge, where Xiao Qiu just looked down.

Something slowly floated up from the bottom of the seemingly bottomless stream.

At first they couldn't see clearly through the black resentment, as if they were fish passing by in a pool of resentment.

But only for a moment, they continued to float up and approached the water surface, and they could see clearly——

Those were human faces soaked in "black water".

The pale faces floated in the stream of black resentment, and they broke through the queue on the bridge and raised their heads, their faces expressionless.

But it was a bit like being awakened by the words and deeds of the bride.

Some of the "persons" stood still for a long time, and suddenly, they blinked slowly.

"This place was first called Sunjia'ao, because the largest clan in the area, the Sun clan, lived in this group. Later, it was renamed Fugao Village, which means to pray for the blessings of the whole clan, good weather every year, and a steadily rising life."

The pages of the dossier in Sheng Xun's hand were yellowing, and another genealogy book was spread out on the small table that Lin Lang helped clean up.

He reads very fast, and has already read the introduction of the village at a glance. As for the "brief history" of the clan that he spent a lot of time praising, he just skipped the hype and only picked out the key points.

The meaning of the village's name change and new name is read out separately, not because this part is also the key.

It's the opposite, and it's singled out because it's ironic enough.

Fugao Village has a beautiful sustenance.It is an auspicious name given by the person in charge of the clan who specially entrusts someone to calculate later.

It's a pity that no matter how auspicious the name is, it's no match for treacherous people. This whole village is terribly feudal and conservative. Compared with self-reliance, they believe in the protection of their ancestors. The Wang clan in Renwang Village is prosperous.

This obsession with worship and manifestation is engraved in the bones of almost every villager, even children.

And once a person admires some illusory obsession to the extreme, disaster will inevitably arise.

In the beginning, after spending manpower and financial resources to renovate the ancestral hall again, the money on the books continued to be lost, but the "blessing" brought by the ancestors' apparitions has not been seen for a long time.

Faced with this situation, normal people may regret it, or start to think about whether they have been deceived.

But in the mountain village where "worship" and "appearance" have reached a consensus, what the Sun family thinks is—is there still something that is not thorough enough, so the ancestors refused to appear, thinking that their offerings were not sincere enough?

This absurd reflection is recorded admirably in the clan chronicle files.

The eldest son and Zongzheng, who are in charge of the ancestral hall, spent several nights checking the worship records of the ancestors one by one, and finally told the villagers overjoyed a few days later: the problem has been found!

They found out that there was an elder on the tablet table who had contributed a lot to the clan when he was young and had been diligently supporting the renovation of the ancestral hall. However, it was such a clansman who was still single when he died.

Goodness see you!How unfair!

A good man in the clan, who made great efforts to help repair the ancestral hall, but he was alone all his life, with no one to take care of him when he was alive, and no one to take care of him after his death. He didn't even have a direct descendant!

then……

This is the custom of Sun Jiaao's yin relatives, opening his mouth to someone for the first time.

Their initial luck was even pretty good.

In the old days, big Zongmen did not like to intermarry with people of other surnames, but there was no deceased young woman in the family who was just right in age. Once the Sun family searched, they really let them find a family with the same surname Sun on the hill next door. There is a family with a daughter who died less than a year ago.

When they summed up, the horoscope was just right, and after inquiring again, the daughter was only 17 years old when she passed away unexpectedly, at the age of youth and beauty.

A yin relative was done with such excitement, and everyone thought it was a good thing that was just right.

The daughter who died young still wants someone to go underground, isn't it good?

A deceased single male elder suddenly got a young wife, how could he be dissatisfied?

It's the best of both worlds!

What's even better is that after this yin marriage, that year was particularly coincidental, and the whole village had a bumper harvest of crops and vegetables.

Who doesn't think that this is the ancestor's manifestation and the ancestor's blessing?

From then on, Sun Jiaao began to get used to marrying relatives who died prematurely unexpectedly.

But in this world, how can there be so many young girls who are at the right age and died early?

Back then, the ignorant and old-fashioned mountain villages, where the sense of clan surpassed the individual...some things would happen beyond the limits of contemporary people's imagination.

There are not enough dead people, so find a way to make it enough, isn't it all right?

Tun Ren gritted his teeth and decided to try something new.

[xxxx year xx month xx]

Sheng Xun glanced at the date recorded in the zodiac and lunar calendar, and then stopped at the last few words in the record book:

[At the moment of ugly time, Li Yingying, the daughter of the Li family in Xiaqu Village, finished the ceremony in Xiangtang and got married at Maoshi the next day. 】

The meaning of this sentence is that this girl named Li Yingying, she was still young, she was brought alive to match a yin marriage, and she went through the worship process in the ancestral hall when she was ugly.

He died at Mao the next day.

Xiao Qiu told Sheng Xun the purpose of the coffin lid.

This girl should...just leave like that full of fear and unwillingness.

"Yingying..." The pale face of the female ghost appeared beside Sheng Xun's arm.

The female ghost who helped Sheng Xun find the file seems to be barely literate. She may have been a well-educated girl when she was alive. She read the name she saw a little slowly.

Sheng Xun moved his arm a little further away calmly, being careful not to bring harm to the opponent.

On the other side, the woman who was reading the genealogy with Lin Lang suddenly turned around and said, "...Call me?"

Everyone else in the room was stunned.

After Sheng Xun covered the altar with a cloth containing Xiaoqiu's power, the cloth vaguely cut off a certain source of power in the dormitory, which made the backs of the two women stand up straighter, and their speech was also changed from two to three words. Suddenly become able to speak short sentences.

As if hearing her own name, the female ghost came towards Sheng Xun.

Sheng Xun took another step back so that the other party could stand in front of the table and read the text clearly.

But the female ghost looked at the file for a while, but she seemed a little confused: "I... can't read..."

Lin Lang also surrounded him, and just as he was about to say I'm coming, the female ghost with a low voice first slowly took the hand of his companion.

She used her deformed phalanx to hold another hand with the same worn out fingers.

"I'll teach you." The girl who was literate said.

She led her companion to point to the line with her name and surname on it, omitting the previous date and the insignificant part of getting married, and only told the other party: "Xiaqu Village, Li's daughter, Li Yingying."

"Your name is Li Yingying."

"Li...Yingying..." The girl who was holding hands repeated it several times, and it was very slow at first, as if the vocal cords were already unfamiliar with these syllables.

However, after trying several times, she gradually became fluent in these syllables: "Li Yingying, Li Yingying, Li Yingying."

She read and repeated.

Then he raised his head suddenly, and his spine completely straightened up with a heavy "click".

Tears of blood flowed down her face: "I am Li Yingying."

The girl's voice was still crying, as if the name brought back all her vacant memories, and made her finally think of herself and understand who she is.

Both Sheng Xun and Lin Lang kept their mouths shut, leaving room for the girl whose name had just been retrieved.

Li Yingying was a little anxious, she grabbed the companion who taught her to recognize the name: "You...how about you?"

She hurriedly asked her companion's name, trying to help him find herself.

In the memory of Li Yingying finally returning slowly, she remembered that she should be the first person to be punished to kneel in this ancestral hall.

And because she is the No. 1 of "married and restless", the Sun family -- or the ghosts of the Sun family -- are afraid that she will make a bad start and make other people who are used to obeying also rebel.

So for so many years, she has been locked in the dormitory of the ancestral hall.

However, one day in recent years, she suddenly had an extra companion.

The companion with a hoarse voice beside him was not like those who came to the dormitory by chance and couldn't help but give up after being punished.

As long as the opponent can still move, he has never given up fighting.

If the other party can't move anymore, they can still yell.

Later, the other party's voice also broke down, and his voice became hoarse and unpleasant, and it took a lot of effort to speak.

But the first time a stranger broke into here and tried to rescue his companion, the other party seemed to wake up suddenly from a dream, and was the first to stand up, wanting to help others leave.

"Let me do it."

After all, the ghost's movements were no more dexterous than that of a living person, and it was a little difficult for the deformed fingers to flip the paper. Sheng Xun took the file and motioned the girls to stay away from him.

Soon, after checking the genealogy, he helped the girl with the hoarse voice to find the name.

The other party is called Yu Mulan.

Her name is taken from Hua Mulan, and her parents hope that she will be physically strong, strong and brave.

She is indeed well-educated. If there is no accident, she should have taken the admission notice and reported to the university in September 18 years ago, becoming a rare and honorable college student at that time.

But she didn't.

Yu Mulan disappeared a month before going to the university to report. Her name was in the case integration of the information book that Sheng Xun had read, and there was also a one-inch color photo of her on it.

Sheng Xun's face recognition ability is not bad, and his memory is also very good, but when he saw her just now, he couldn't recognize her from the damaged face. This is the girl he had read the information about.

Yu Mulan was one of the earliest missing persons in the related disappearance case. She and Li Yingying next to her were separated by decades.

When Li Yingying was killed, Ding Shangxing of the grandson's family was prosperous, and Yu Mulan was pulled into the pond by the power of the pool of resentment after Fugao Village no longer existed.

They were born in completely different ages, and their lives were also forced to end abruptly at the age of seventeen or eighteen, and they stayed hand in hand for almost as long as they were alive.

Finally know each other's first and last names.

"People like me came here because they got lost." Yu Mulan became more fluent after remembering the name, and she quickly said everything she could think of, "The Sun family is afraid that we will be too resentful. Follow the family rules and bury us in the backyard of the ancestral hall, just behind, and please call the Baojiaxian to suppress the 'foreign surname ghost' and keep his family safe."

It's ridiculous to say that people in this village respected the practice of yin relatives to seek the protection of their ancestors when they were alive, but they have already become ghosts after death, and they still want to "continue the tradition". ask for help.

It turns out that the Lake of Resentment did not appear in the past 20 years. It probably swallowed the first girl who was married to a yin marriage as early as Sunjiaao. The stranger who died abruptly was buried in the ground with resentment. Resentment took root in this soil.

There are far more than just documented disappearance victims here.

There are also victims who had to go through the entire list before they could be counted when there were still people in Sunjiaao.

"How can something that protects evil spirits deserve to be called an immortal?" Lin Lang yelled heavily. This straightforward boy seemed to want to spit at the altar, thinking that the aborigines in this village didn't have any good things.

But there is another thing.

It suddenly jumped into Lin Lang's mind when he looked at Sheng Xun, and once he remembered it, it was hard not to care.

"What do you want to ask?" Sheng Xun sensed Lin Lang's hesitant gaze. His eyebrows were slightly frowned. The information brought by Yu Mulan and Li Yingying made him feel blocked. He was thinking about communicating with Chu Shang to extradite everyone here. The matter of the victim—he still remembered Chu Shang's distaste for the term dark marriage, and the other party had a high degree of empathy in this regard.

Lin Lang scratched his head: "Just... I thought it was an illusion at first, and suspected that I was thinking too much, but just now you did that a few times, I felt a little strange."

Sheng Xun paused in thinking and looked up at him.

Lin Lang was afraid of causing misunderstanding, so he even asked and explained: "I don't mean to suspect that you are a bad person, you must be a good person! But I feel that you are either avoiding me, or you are avoiding these two... Ms. , why have you been paying attention to avoiding other people?"

Of course, it wasn't "others" that Sheng Xun avoided.

He was avoiding "other ghosts".

It was to avoid an accident, before killing the real evil spirit, accidentally injuring teammates and innocent souls.

Sheng Xun looked at Lin Lang's young and lively face—he still didn't know that he was a ghost, and his memory was still on the day when he came to rescue Feng Qiang.

Xiao Qiu told Sheng Xun that if a person dies without knowing it, his soul will always remain in the last state before his death, and he will only think about the last important thing before his death.

Therefore, those who commit suicide will continue to repeat the suicide process, and those who rush to work and school will continue to run on the way to the company or school.

They must first realize that they are wrong, and they cannot be casually interfered with the establishment of this cognition.

Otherwise, with just one thought, the clean soul, which was originally just a cognitive deviation, would be easily contaminated with evil spirits and become a grieving ghost.

The special environment of the deserted village undoubtedly strengthened Lin Lang's perceptual confusion, not only made him unable to discover the abnormality for a long time, but his misunderstanding also spontaneously helped him complete the logic - he thought that Feng Qiang was hidden, and he wandered in the Outside the deserted village, he was looking for the next chance to save his girlfriend.

He didn't realize it was wrong at all.

"I'm because..." Sheng Xun paused.

Looking at Lin Lang's clean face, he couldn't tell the real reason.

Fortunately, at this moment, outside the dormitory, there was a sudden noise of gongs and drums at the other end of the hall.

Someone screamed: "The bride is here—"

"The person I was waiting for has arrived." Sheng Xun seamlessly continued the second half of the sentence, regardless of whether they were pieced together without beginning or end.

But Lin Lang who asked the question was indeed diverted.

"Your girlfriend!" Lin Lang said quickly, holding the shovel in his hand, "Let's go ahead!"

Lin Lang completely forgot that he was also included in the "you" who had to stay in the dormitory before, and he wanted to rush out with all his blood.

But before taking two steps, he felt the shovel in his hand sank——

Sheng Xun had no way to grab Lin Lang's collar, so he had to grab the shovel as the next best thing.

With quick eyesight and quick hands, he pulled the man back.

"Aren't you going...?" Lin Lang turned his head inexplicably, he hadn't finished speaking yet.

In the next second, including Li Yingying and Yu Mulan who also wanted to act but did not have time.

They all saw that in front of Lin Lang who was about to rush over just now, the wall separating the dormitory and the hall made two overwhelmed groans, and the wall seemed to be trembling slightly.

First, a few pieces of the wall peeled off, and two pieces of bricks on the bottom floor suddenly shattered.

Then, the whole wall fell down.

The sound of gongs and drums outside stopped abruptly, but the howling of ghosts and wolves became even louder.

Behind the wall collapsing and flying dust, Youdao's eye-catching figure is among the ghosts.

That man was really conspicuous, he was dressed in red, as if he was wearing a wedding dress.

The old-fashioned wedding dress was complicated and heavy, with a straight up and down shape, but the man wore this complicated red dress, which had a magical sense of straightness.

It didn't make him feel like he was forced to get married, but rather like he was here to mess things up.

... He really messed up the place, demolishing the ancestral hall as soon as he came.

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