After Marrying the Lord of the Underworld

"Lu Yingjiu, there is only one way to solve your natural bad luck: dark marriage. As the saying goes, "fight poison with poison, I will find you a beautiful and fierce female ghost." The master with the goatee was swearing.

The master never spoke seriously, and the young Lu Yingjiu automatically ignored the "scented female ghost" and asked, "Is it really useful?"

"Really, master, when did I lie to you, you can sleep well in the future."

——That's how the ghost marriage started.

After half a year of preparations for the ceremony, the master worked hard for a long time, and the final date was set on Ghost Festival.

That day, Lu Yingjiu stood in front of the window sill.

He was still young, so he could only stand on tiptoe and look outside.Rainwater flowed through the glass, the sky was dim, and the crowd of people in the yard looked like a flock of silent crows.Soon, thin and broken sounds came through the cracks in the window panes.

"Have you heard? This child is miserable. He has been haunted by all kinds of ghosts since he was a child."

"In my opinion, he won't live until next year. What a pity, what a pretty kid."

"What's the use of this ghost marriage? No matter how evil the evil ghost is, it can't suppress the bad luck of birth."

"..."

The master specifically instructed that parents cannot go with them.

When saying goodbye, his mother took his hand, and there seemed to be tears in her eyes, but she turned her face away, wiped it with the back of her hand, and finally smiled: "Come back early."

Lu Yingjiu changed into a red and gold silk champion uniform, surrounded by everyone, and headed for the distance.

Clothes and jewelry made of paper, a long procession to welcome the bride, and heavy rain from the sky.Even though there were people all around him, he felt a sense of desolation and silence in his heart, as if he was not going to the ancient house, but the underworld.

I don't know how long I walked along the mountain road.

At last they saw the mansion from afar.

The mansion has been abandoned for many years, and it is dead silent. The red lanterns at the door are floating in the rain, like blood and fog.

The master of ceremonies pushed open the door, and there was a piercing scream from the door.

From the long corridor to the end, a door opened——

The house is full of light, and the house is full of red.

The big "囍" character is in the middle, and the lantern is hung high.There are eight heaven and earth tables in the middle, covered with red tablecloths, and the red candles on the tables are weeping.At the end, there are paper figurines sitting on the chair of the parents.The surrounding spectators are all wearing ghost masks, tall or short.They looked at Lu Yingjiu and laughed sharply, and applauded everywhere.

What no one thought was that the master was really unreliable.What he found was a lonely ghost, he didn't know where it came from, and he didn't even have a photo or a stele. No matter how the witch and master of ceremonies shouted, he never showed up.

Lu Yingjiu stood there dumbfounded, a little at a loss.

The ceremony is set up, the birthdays are matched, and the ghosts, whether they want it or not, will make some noise after all, unlike now.

——It neither showed itself, held him with a cold hand to show that the contract was established, nor did it go mad because of dissatisfaction, and kill everyone at the wedding.

But just standing like this is not the answer.

Lu Yingjiu still bowed deeply towards the opposite side where no one was there.

Bless heaven and earth.

Worship high hall.

Husband and wife worship.

Red candles flickered, lanterns hung high, and the word "囍" hung above their heads.

When Lu Yingjiu raised his head again, the sorceress shut her mouth firmly, the master of ceremonies stepped back a few steps, his face was so pale that he seemed about to faint in a second, the master knelt down somehow, and kowtowed repeatedly in fright.Looking at the full house of guests, although they couldn't see their faces, they were overwhelmed by the deathly silence.

fear.

It was a fear that could not be described in words.

what happened?

Lu Yingjiu was a little puzzled, and then lowered his head, a longevity lock appeared on his neck out of thin air.

Cold and small, lifeless, carved with mountains and seas.

The ghost didn't show up until he left the mansion.

On the way back, the master of ceremonies and the sorceress were talking nonsense and nonsense, no matter how much Lu Yingjiu questioned, there was no result.

After finally returning home, his mother hugged him and cried bitterly, finally gritted her teeth and said: "There are so many ways, so what about bad luck, it's not like I can't live."

She is a shrewd and capable person, and she quickly cheered up and began to think about new ways.

And Lu Ying's dimple was in the corner, the young man's hand was tightly grasping the longevity lock, and he bit his lip.

He wasn't afraid, he just felt a little sad.

It seems that I have been despised...

But it was strange to say that after that, every dream of his was peaceful and peaceful.

……

13 years later.

Lu Yingjiu carried a bag on one shoulder and looked up.The summer sun fell in his eyes, giving him a soft brightness.

More than ten years have passed, the beautiful child who was praised by everyone in the past has a tall figure, a straight back, and extremely handsome young eyebrows and eyes. Even if the camera slaps his face, he can't see the pores. He looks like he walked off the cover of a magazine. When it comes out, anyone who sees it can't help but take a few more glances.

If he didn't say it, no one would have imagined that he was dealing with ghosts and monsters every day.

No one could have imagined that the child who was almost killed by a ghost would eventually become a top ghost exorcist.

The Dongyang community not far away is very old, and the walls of the buildings are peeling off.

He received a commission and said that the third floor of Building 5 was haunted.

After entering the community and upstairs, an aunt dressed in colorful clothes came to pick him up.

"That's right here," the aunt stood trembling at the end of the corridor, refusing to approach at all, "every midnight, the public phone will ring by itself."

"Shouldn't you be looking for property management?" Lu Yingjiu asked.

"But yo, this wire was broken several years ago, and it is ready to be removed. How can anyone use a public phone now?"

This sounded decent, Lu Yingjiu immediately decided to stay here for the night.

No one lives on this floor 302.Aunt Lao Hua spent a long time picking out a bunch of keys until her hands smelled of metal, so she took out a 302 key.

When she handed the key to Lu Yingjiu, she suddenly said without thinking: "Lu Yingjiu, your time has come."

Lu Yingjiu froze for a moment: "Huh? What did you say?"

In the end, the aunt was more at a loss than him, and rubbed her hands: "Did I just talk?"

After the aunt left, Lu Yingjiu opened the door of 302.There are two rooms and one living room inside, some of the furniture has not been treated, and there is a lot of dust.The sound insulation here is not good, all kinds of sounds come from the narrow door cracks, couples arguing, cartoons, cooking and washing dishes... It is a kind of crowded and lively.He opened the door again and looked out of the corridor. The haunted phone was quiet.The anti-theft net in the corridor was rusted, the sun was shining outside, a few flowers and plants were swaying in the wind, and children running in the kindergarten could be seen in the distance.

Lu Yingjiu pinched a spell, and the wind rose automatically, sweeping away the dust in the house.

Nothing seemed out of the ordinary.

The TV was still working after a hard tap, Lu Ying dimpled on the sofa, watching while eating with a bag of potato chips.

Looking at it, he subconsciously touched the longevity lock on his chest.

A full 13 years have passed, and the longevity lock is still cold.

It is the only evidence left by the ghost marriage.Without it, Lu Yingjiu would almost think that the wedding was entirely in his own imagination.

He waited until midnight.

It was quiet outside, only the sound of the second hand inside the house could be heard.

The hour hand pointed to 01:30, and the crows outside were screaming, extremely shrill.Lu Yingjiu looked out through the cat's eyes, a black cat passed through the guardrail of the corridor with its tail cocked, turned its head, grinned at him, with white teeth.

It's two o'clock.

Lu Yingjiu got up and stood silently against the door.

The black cat outside the door sensed something, blew furiously in his direction, threatened for a few seconds, and then ran away.Outside the window, the moon was dark and the wind was high, the shadows of the branches hit the curtains like ghosts, and the phone rang sharply!

Lu Yingjiu rushed out to pick up the phone.

A hoarse voice came from the other end of the phone: "...Lu Yingjiu, your time has come."

Lu Yingjiu said, "Your time has come too."

He slapped a talisman on the phone.The talisman ignited a flame, forcing out a black mist.

The black mist made an extremely sharp and terrifying cry!

Before it could escape, it was slapped away by Lu Yingjiu.

Lu Yingjiu checked the phone again to make sure that there was no Yin Qi remaining.

A very simple task, as usual, was easily solved by him.

The next day he got up early, packed up his things and was ready to go home.

The aunt followed behind him and shouted: "Mr. Lu, God! Are you sure that guy won't come back!"

"I'm sure." Lu Yingjiu lazily shook her hand.

……

The place where Lu Yingjiu lives is a bit remote, and it takes more than 40 minutes by car from the city center.His family lived in an old building with dusty exterior walls that had never been painted. The only color was the clothes hanging on the balcony.

Many people's impression of Lu Yingjiu is that he must be very rich.After all, he is the top existence in the world of exorcising ghosts, and it is too late for many people to ask him to do things.

But in fact, his life is very simple, even simple: he lives alone in an old building with simple decoration and few furniture.The clothes are either white shirts or pullover sweaters. I don’t have anything I like to eat. Sometimes I stay up late for a long time and drink a few sips of health tea like an old cadre. The most frequent places I visit are the convenience store downstairs and the bookstore 500 meters away.

The owner of the bookstore always saw him, and remembered that this young man was always reading unpopular books, most of which were related to horror, supernatural or crime. In the front, a slender neck was exposed from the back of the shirt, and the skin was as white as snow in the sun.

After hesitating several times, he asked Lu Yingjiu: "What do you do? Don't you have fixed working hours?"

Lu Yingjiu fell into a drowsy sleep: "It's a dangerous job."

"Oh." The boss said, "So you are a loan shark." After speaking, he nervously put away the wallet on the table.

Lu Yingjiu: "..."

Right now when Lu Yingjiu came home, Milk greeted him with his tail upright.It is a cow cat, enthusiastically rubbing against Lu Yingjiu's feet: "Meow——"

It was only then that Lu Yingjiu remembered that there seemed to be not enough cat food at home.

He scratched the cat's chin, and went out to the convenience store downstairs.

The convenience store was brightly lit, and a few students in the store were eating bursting beef balls.Lu Yingjiu picked out cat food, several packs of frozen food, and various daily necessities, and put them all at the cash register.

The cashier in the convenience store was a little girl named Tang Xiaoqian, her eyes lit up when she saw him.

She wore a ponytail, and her black hair was about to fly with bows.While scanning the barcode, she said, "Are you...are you free recently?" Her eyes flickered, and she didn't dare to lift her eyes. "I remember that a new action movie is about to be released. It's a foreign movie, and the reviews are very good."

Lu Yingjiu smiled: "I don't have time for now, I'm a bit busy at work."

"Okay..." Tang Xiaoqian was a little disappointed, and plucked the hair beside her ears, "It's okay, work is indeed more important, you should also pay attention to your health. By the way, do you want to pack this fish ball?"

"want."

Tang Xiaoqian handed over the hot fish balls, looked at him with bright eyes, but in the end she just said, "Be careful."

Lu Yingjiu said goodbye to her, carrying two big bags.

The automatic door of the convenience store opened, and the wind in July was scorching hot, and the heat wave outside mixed with the voices of people poured in.He heard Tang Xiaoqian say: "Mr. Lu, your time has come."

Lu Yingjiu turned around abruptly.

Tang Xiaoqian buried herself in cleaning the cash register.

After returning home, Milk sat at the door waiting for him, meowing.Lu Yingjiu patted its head, mixed old and new cat food and fed it to it.The cowcat ate happily and snorted against him.

I went to bed late two days ago, and Lu Yingjiu didn't feel sleepy at night, so I warmed up a glass of milk and read a book while drinking it.

The more you look, the more energetic you are.

His sleep quality was consistently poor, with very light sleep and insufficient time.He only slept for four or five hours last night, so hurry up to catch up on sleep now.

But no matter how bad it is, it can't be worse than when he was a child. Before the ghost marriage, he could hardly sleep at all.

Finally he fell into a deep sleep.When I opened my eyes again, the surroundings were pitch black, and the air was extremely cold.

Lu Yingjiu's head was in a daze, and just as he was about to reach out to turn on the light, something touched the back of his right hand.

A hard, cold object, like a wall.

He froze for a few seconds, stretched out his hands and groped, but the surrounding "walls" blocked his movements.He tried to bend his knees, but was also stopped.

This cage imprisoned him, so that he could only lie flat, and if he struck hard, it would only make a dull sound, like wood.

After a few seconds, he heard the sound of gongs and drums beating, and he didn't know whether it was a red thing or a white thing.

He groped around again carefully, and suddenly understood something in his heart.

This texture...

This is the texture of the coffin!

He was locked in it without seeing the light of day.

I only heard the beating of gongs and drums outside getting more and more lively, some people were playing suona and some were crying and laughing.

A sharp, piercing voice appeared.

The kid raised his voice and shouted loudly: "The time has come—!"

At this moment, the longevity lock on his chest changed for the first time in many years: it was extremely hot, almost violent.