All the ancestors in the capital begged me to be a substitute

Chapter 3 Two Yaoniangs
A bright and beautiful face was immediately revealed in front of everyone.

There was a gasp from among the guests.

The prostitutes of the Xuanping Hou Mansion seldom go out, let alone socialize with all the male guests present.

This is the first time for the male guest to see the true face of the rumored prostitute of the Xuanping Hou Mansion.

No one expected that she was so beautiful and charming.

It seems that Tanhualang is really a blessing.

However, no matter how prominent the Xuanpinghou Mansion is, no matter how charming the prostitute is, it is not a reason to break the rules and make trouble here.

Li Xiangyang, Marquis of Yiyang, could be regarded as distant relatives with the mother and son, and couldn't bear to see Xinke Tanhua's wedding banquet turned into a farce, so he wanted to be a peacemaker to persuade him.

However, before he could speak, he saw Li Anlin suddenly staggered two steps back, and sat down on the ground.

"You, you, you are...you are Yaoniang?!"

"No, impossible! How could you be Yaoniang! Didn't you already..."

What is "it is Yaoniang" and what is "how could it be Yaoniang"?
Everyone at the table didn't know why.

All they saw was Tanhualang who was still proud of himself a quarter of an hour ago, now his face was as pale as paper, his index finger tremblingly facing the bride on the main table, his eyes were about to pop out of shock.

It was as if he had seen something terribly frightening, and he couldn't utter a single word.

Everyone was very confused.

No matter how unruly and willful Xuan Ping Hou's daughter is, she does such deviant things.

Li Tanhua doesn't need to be like this, it's like seeing a ghost!
At this moment, Mother Li behind the screen couldn't wait for her son to take the bride away for a long time.

She stuck out half of her head from behind the screen, facing the bride's back, and was about to shout loudly——

At this moment, the bride gently turned half her body.

That pair of dark, cold eyes happened to look at Mother Li.

Mother Li's cursing sound was forced back into her throat.

Her face turned from pale to red, as if someone had strangled her neck, unable to speak a single word.

"Clap" sounded.

Mother Li staggered a few steps in fright, and fell to the ground from behind the screen.

With a few "claps", a row of screens fell to the ground one by one.

Because of this accident, the female relatives behind the screen stood up in exclamation, and finally someone saw the true face of the bride sitting at the main table.

"Ah, who is this bride? She is not Yaoniang from the Xuanpinghou Mansion, what's going on..."

"Yeah, she's not Yaoniang, where is Yaoniang? Why did she suddenly change to a new bride?"

The exclamation from the female relatives finally aroused the suspicion of the male guests.

Everyone's gazes, coincidentally, all fell on the red figure at the main table.

"Ah! What's the matter with her neck?"

"My God, is that... blood..."

After being reminded like this, everyone found that the bride with creamy skin and peachy cheeks had a strangle mark on her neck where bones were visible and blood was indistinct.

Under such a deep strangle mark, it is absolutely impossible for anyone to survive.

Look carefully, the bright red patch under the bride's collar, where is the silk satin of the wedding dress, is clearly dried blood!
"Ah... this is a dead man!"

"A dead person who can move is a ghost!"

The terrified screams resounded through the entire mansion in an instant.

The guests ran from the front hall into the yard in a panic.

There are also those who are bold enough to hide away, and then stretch their heads to look back.

The female relatives were even more frightened and hid in the corner, huddled together.

Only Li Anlin and Li's mother, who were so scared that their legs were weak and unable to move half a step, stayed where they were.

The bride turned her head numbly, looking at Li Tanhua's face that had bled from fright earlier.

"Why am I not Yaoniang? Linlang, tell them, is Yaoniang in Mingyue Lane prettier, or Yaoniang in Qinghua Lane?"

"I...I..." Li Anlin looked at the man who was clearly dead before him, almost fainting.

Mingyue Lane is in the west of the city, and Qinghua Lane is in the east of the city.

Everyone was shocked, it wasn't playing cards to make a pair, how could there be two "Yao Niangs"?
Seeing that Li Tanhua couldn't answer, the bride turned her head to look at Li's mother who fell by the screen and couldn't get up for a long time, "Mother-in-law, Lin Lang went to Beijing to study for the exam, I will serve you day and night, and I never dare to slack off in the slightest. "

"He took you into the capital as a high school student, and you said he would come to pick me up soon. I thought what you said was true. I didn't expect to pick me up in the capital, but he tricked me into Qinghua Lane, and let me, the aunt who is married to me, be married. His wife will be his concubine. If I refuse to obey, you let him get me drunk, hang me on the beam with red silk and strangle me to death... Mother-in-law, has your conscience been eaten by dogs?"

"It's none of my business, it's none of my business... It's the Xuan Ping Hou Mansion, all blame the Xuan Ping Hou Mansion! Yaoniang, if you have any grievances, seek revenge from the Xuan Ping Hou! It's him, it's all because of his bullying, It's none of our Li family's business to force Zicheng to marry his girl!"

The old lady Li was already terrified, she just tried to evade, she obviously wanted to seek glory and wealth, and attached herself to the Marquis's mansion, when the matter came to an end, she actually pushed all the faults on the ignorant Xuan Ping Marquis.

Many of the guests present came here for Xuan Pinghou's face. Hearing this, they utterly despised the Li family.

The bride laughed out loud, and her bright red figure stood up suddenly, without the help of the maid, she walked in front of Li Anlin.

Seeing Yaoniang's face, which was as gorgeous as peaches and plums, but already dead, magnified in front of his eyes, Li Anlin could only feel a chill rushing from the soles of his feet to his forehead, and he was so frightened that his teeth chattered, "Yao, Yaoniang... me……"

"Linlang, I slept in the coffin very restlessly, it's so cold there. You and mother-in-law come to accompany me, can you warm me up?"

As the words fell, there was a "chuckle", and the bright red wedding silk under the porch suddenly burst into flames.

"Yes, it's the will-o'-the-wisp! Run, everyone, if you get caught by the will-o'-the-wisp, you will die!"

Someone in the courtyard yelled, and the guests didn't dare to watch any more, and everyone ran out like a swarm.

But Li Anlin and Li's mother, who were left behind, didn't raise their breath because of the will-o'-the-wisp, rolled their eyes, and passed out from fright...

Seeing the two fainted on the ground, the maid in the green skirt finally couldn't help but sneer.

"The useless embroidered pillow, I thought it was so powerful, but it's so unintimidating."

She grabbed a handful of powder from her purse and sprinkled it on the faces of Li Anlin and Li's mother, "I'll give you some of my ancestral beauty powder, and see how you can deceive people in the future."

After a long time, when the will-o'-the-wisp disappeared in the front hall, a bold person among the guests and servants came back to check the situation in the front hall.

I saw the mother and son of the Li family with black complexions, and passed out in the hall...

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Take the path from the front hall to the corner gate of Li's house, there is a dark alley, and a carriage is quietly parked at the entrance of the alley.

The girl came out from the corner gate with Yaoniang's body on her back, and three half-grown teenagers with delicate features came forward to take the body over.

The round-faced boy was holding a suona in his hand, and asked expectantly, "Sister Lingxi, how was my suona playing just now? Can I add money?"

"Sister Lingxi, and me!" The taller one stretched out his blackened fingers in front of the girl's eyes, "It's time to save money today, is my fire trick flawless and flawless? Pay me the wages."

The one with the most upright appearance, with Yaoniang's body on his back, slapped his hand away, "Sister Lingxi, it's time for me to shout, next time you arrange an errand for me to show my face? My father said , Doing white things without showing your face in front of people is tantamount to doing nothing."

After they put the corpse into the carriage, the girl glanced over the faces of the three of them before slowly saying: "Old rules, what I say doesn't count, you have to ask the owner."

She raised her clear almond eyes, looked behind the three of them, and asked with a smile: "Yao Niang, are you satisfied with this funeral tonight?"

"Sister Lingxi, you said earlier that Yaoniang was here..."

The three teenagers had known Shen Lingxi for a long time, so they naturally knew what she meant, so they put away their hippie smiles and turned around.

They scrambled to bow three times in the direction Shen Lingxi was looking at, "Don't blame Yaoniang, we are all ignorant, what an offense, don't be as knowledgeable as us." Then they swarmed into the carriage.

Shen Lingxi was the only one left at the entrance of the alley.

Xu died once, and now Shen Lingxi can see the souls of the dead.

At this moment, her eyes are falling on Yaoniang's soul.

(End of this chapter)