Lingxian Zhenjun

Chapter 49 Red or White
Burn a stick of real incense in the furnace,

Dense auspicious energy reaches the universe.

……

This couplet, where is a happy event.

Moreover, it was almost dark, and I had never heard of a custom where the wedding ceremony was held at night, at most it was late at night.

Chen Yuan frowned, pinched out her fingers with the hands under the table, and suddenly the light of magic flashed in her eyes, and when she looked around, her heart suddenly sank.

The fat Taoist also brought the crazy old man under the table at this time, and said excitedly: "In the past, I was the most happy to encounter this kind of thing. The master saw that I was wearing a Taoist robe. Come here and drink a few times, and you can have a delicious meal. Dun, if you meet someone who is generous, you will even send some money. This is a strange place, the formal dinner is only held after the sun has set.”

During the conversation, red lanterns were lifted up to the eaves of the four places, and the dam was illuminated red. As the sun went down to the top of the mountain, more and more guests came and congratulated the host's house one after another.

"The bride has arrived."

"Ouch, here comes the bride!"

As someone from the side of the village ran over and shouted festively, the fat Taoist couldn't help but stand up and look at it. Chen Yuan also looked in the direction of the surrounding guests. The woman in a simple red dress was surrounded by several villagers. Surrounded by women, come slowly.

It's a pity that he couldn't see his face with the red hijab, which made Sun Zhengde smack his lips with regret.

There are no such complicated ceremonies in the village. The groom came out of the house to welcome his wife, and then stepped over the brazier at the door of the house. With the matchmaker singing, he simply worshiped the heaven and the earth, and the parents were over.

"Hiss... I always feel something is wrong." Sun Zhengde felt that something was wrong even if he didn't open his eyes. "The dress worn by the bride feels crumpled... like paper."

He looked around again, and the people in the village greeted him to sit down with a smile, saying that the banquet would start soon, but in the eyes of the fat Taoist, he always felt that there was something missing from these people.

While he was thinking, the banquet started, and the women in the village acted as help cooks, helping to pass the dishes and put them on the table one by one.

The Taoist, who had been hungry for a long time, immediately put away his thoughts, picked up a chopstick and picked up a piece of green vegetable, and put it in his mouth.

"Boss, let me tell you that a dish like this, as long as it's cooked through oil and water, it tastes absolutely authentic, unlike the chef hired by the master... It's tasteless at all, it's like chewing wax. Hey, you guys Why don't you eat?"

Only then did the Taoist realize that there were twelve people at the table. The crazy old man was sitting at the table staring at the dishes without blinking, not bothering to lift his chopsticks. Chen Yuan next to him also had no intention of holding chopsticks, and everyone else ate with gusto.

The dishes were still coming out, Chen Yuan suddenly smiled and let the Taoist eat first.

"I'm going to the hut."

After finishing speaking, he apologized to the other guests around him, got up and walked to the entrance of the village.Sun Zhengde curled his lips, seeing a plate of roasted meat served, he hurriedly handed out his chopsticks and quickly grabbed a slice. Rural banquets are fast and precise. If you wait a little longer for a main dish like this, you can only drink soup. .

"Daozhang, where is that brother?"

At this time, the host family brought the groom over, as if they were going to toast.The Taoist didn't care whether the meat was good or not, he swallowed it three times and two times, took up the empty glass, and the groom, a handsome young man, came over to pour the wine with a smile.

"My boss has gone to the latrine, but he doesn't drink very much...the one next to you, you don't need to greet him, just don't provoke him. I will keep it with the boss and put on a few good shows for everyone later. Treat it as a gift to the groom The official is very happy!"

Sun Zhengde likes to speak beautiful words, and he gave the host enough face inside and out, and ordered a few more glasses of wine to drink, his brows suddenly furrowed, and he let out an 'ouch' while clutching his belly, and his stomach rumbled. Hastily put down the wine glass and withdrew from the seat.

"Master, don't drink wine. Where is your hut? It's convenient to go there."

"Okay, okay." The host shouted with a smile: "Dongzhu, take the Taoist priest to the hut. By the way, why Shitou and Shunzi haven't come back yet, we'll be late for the banquet."

The man who was busy greeting him over there responded and came towards this side. It was the man who drove the donkey before, who took Sun Zhengde and went to the back of the house.

"That's right here, I'm still busy ahead, I'll go there first, and the Taoist priest is done with his convenience, so I'll come here on my own."

"Forget it, I can find my way."

After sending the man away, Sun Zhengde stepped into the hut cautiously, put his arms around his robe and arranged it for a while without pulling out a little bit.

"What did you eat, and you have a stomachache like this?"

When he was squatting in the toilet, he pulled out the bell from his sleeve and shook it, his vision blurred suddenly, his mind was dizzy, and he almost fell into the pit.

After waking up with a start, the feeling of shitting disappeared in an instant, so he quickly put on his pants and pushed the door out.

The red light that came into view was now pale, the red lanterns hanging in the corners of his eyes turned into white lanterns, and the red silk hanging on the treetops also turned white.

There was a sudden gloomy feeling around.

'Why did you go to a hut, and when you came out, even the color changed? '

After all, he had experienced some things. Sun Zhengde had a more careful mind, and he didn't dare to go out directly. He walked a few steps against the wall behind the house, and saw a figure illuminated by a candle on the window lattice.

He looked around, quietly pressed the paper on the window, looked inside through the big hole at the tip of his hand with his small eyes, and the cut-out Xi character was palely pasted on the altar, and a pair of white wax was quietly burning.

Eyes move.

In an instant, Sun Zhengde covered his mouth, and saw a pair of rouged paper figures standing in front of the new bed, holding wedding candies and fruits in their hands. The bride sitting in front of the bed, who was originally in a red dress, changed into Became filial piety.

I don't know if he sensed someone outside the window, the white head cover shook, the bride seemed to look up and looked this way, Sun Zhengde was so frightened that he squatted down, covered his mouth and moved his feet slowly.

'What the hell is a happy event, it's a funeral at all! '

'Got to tell my boss to...'

The fat Taoist tried to keep his voice down as much as possible, moved past the window frame, then slowly stood up, and quickened his pace. Once outside, he put away his frightened expression, and walked solemnly to the seat just now.

But I couldn't help but ask a woman who was helping the cook beside me.

"Aunt, please ask me, is the lantern red or white?"

The woman gave him a strange look, and said cursingly: "It's not good to use white things for weddings, it's bad luck!"

"Isn't that white?" The Taoist casually pointed to the white lantern hanging from the corner of the eaves, but the woman glared at him angrily, "That's red."

After finishing speaking, he stopped Sun Zhengde and continued to pass on the dishes.

hiss!
This tone, this look, the woman doesn't look like a ghost, but why are her eyes red, why do I look white?
The more I thought about it, the more weird I felt, and the more I thought about it, the more scared I became.

The Taoist squeezed a smile stiffly, and the villagers who greeted him responded one by one, and returned to their seats. As soon as they picked up the chopsticks, they saw a thick layer of incense ash on the stacked dinner plates.

"Daozhang, why don't you eat it?" A villager looked at him with a mouth full of incense ash.

"I...I feel sick to my stomach. I just finished taking a rest...you can eat after a while, you first...you first..."

Sun Zhengde smiled stiffly, as if asking for help, he looked at the crazy old man who was staring at the bowls and chopsticks in a daze, suddenly!Someone patted him on the shoulder, and he was so frightened that he sat down on the ground.

Look back.

Seeing that Chen Yuan had come back, she sat beside her.

The fat Taoist immediately grasped the corner of his clothes tightly, tears were about to come out, and he felt a sense of security that he had never felt before.

"Boss... where are you going... do you know, the last hut... I saw..."

"Wait a while, go and take Zhang Fei's wooden sculpture out of the car, just hold it tight."

Sun Zhengde pursed his lips and nodded obediently, 'Yes! ' with a sound.

The sky was getting dark, and the wedding banquet was coming to an end, but all the folks didn't leave, and they sat in their places like wooden figures.

The host came over with a smile on his face, and Dong Zhu invited Chen Yuan and the three of them to perform a woodcarving play.

"Indeed, it's almost time."

Chen Yuan also laughed. While asking the owner to help clear the space, he asked Dongzhu to go to a house not far away to prepare some things.

"Brother, just say what you need."

Dong Zhu stepped into the room, and the door slammed shut.

He turned around, and saw Chen Yuan looking over gloomyly, raised his hand and waved, Dongzhu slammed, and was pressed down to the ground by something invisible.

Suddenly, Sun Zhengde, who was already tense, was taken aback.

"Master!"

Chen Yuan ignored him, and looked straight at the man kneeling on the ground: "You lied to me to act, but it's a ghost of Zhuangzi!"

The man who was pushed to kneel on the ground looked horrified, let alone how he got down on his knees, how did the other party know that this village is full of ghosts?
Swallowing his saliva, he looked quite nervous.

"How...how did you know?"

"As soon as I entered Zhuangzi, I knew it. Except you are a living person, everyone else here is a ghost... It's just that I still keep the memory before death, and what I'm doing..."

……

The lights in the house were flickering, and there was a dead silence outside.

At the same time, on a road outside Zhuangzi, the official road leading to Tongshan, ten or twenty men with torches rushed towards this side under the leadership of an old farmer.

"Hurry up... Those two young men must have gone to Liuzhuang!"

"Everyone, don't be afraid, you are full of yang energy... save someone's life!"

"... Lizheng, isn't there a pile of graves over there?!"

"No matter what you do, it's important to save people!"

……

In the dim room.

Dongzhu looked at half of his body bathed in candlelight and half of his figure in shadow, he couldn't move even if he wanted to, but now he realized that he had encountered an expert.

"Sir...it's not Dong Zhu's intention to deceive, it's me...it's me...I have found several troupes, but no one is willing to come."

When he said this, his voice suddenly choked up.

"Mr. is right... none of the people in Liuzhuang are alive... none of them are alive... they... all died ten years ago. My parents are also there... I am the only one left alive in the whole village Being here is worse than dying."

Dong Zhu cried hoarsely, the invisible force on his body suddenly loosened, and the man fell to the ground.

With the low words, it seemed that a picture unfolded in front of Chen Yuan.

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