Midnight Forced Marriage

Chapter 15 Portrait
Take a closer look at the stone statue of a woman.

Because of the age and the stone carving, there are cracks on the stone statue.

The stone statue can't see the face clearly, but it can be vaguely seen that it is a young woman with a graceful figure.

That pair of bright and beautiful eyes will leave a deep impression on people just by looking at them, and they will never be forgotten.

"This stone statue... looks a bit like a goddess." Agu's big eyes immediately recognized it.

In this temple, it is natural that the gods are enshrined.

Chu Yue didn't bother to look at the stone statue, but was taken to a wall by the villager after he glanced at it.

There was a large picture on the wall, the paper should have been white, but it had turned yellow over time.

Although I don't know how many years it has been painted, the colors of the painting are still bright, as if they were painted just now.

I was stunned by the content of the painting: two people were painted on it, and Lima attracted me.

That is a man and a woman respectively.

The woman is spotless, agile and elegant.With clear eyes, she looks as beautiful as a fairy nestling in a man's arms.

The man's eyes are deep, and he is wearing a golden armor, so cool and handsome.The heroic figure looks exactly like Chu Yue.

This painting undoubtedly shocked Chu Yue.

He never knew that the person in this painting looked exactly like him.

Reminiscent of the group of villagers kneeling and worshiping him with adoring eyes, I guess it must be because of the person in the portrait.

Could it be that the man in the portrait is him?Is there any kindness to this village?

Of course this is just my analysis.

"That portrait must be you, right?" I pushed his arm and said softly.

"I don't have any impression." Chu Yue frowned suspiciously and lost the sentence, but his eyes never left the painting.

I never believed that there are people who look so much alike in the world.

There was a faint birthmark under Chu Yue's neck.There is also a faint birthmark on the exposed neck of the armor worn by the man in the painting.

Who is it if not you?Realizing this level and looking at the intimacy of the two in the painting, I gradually felt jealous and overturned the jar of jealousy.

I, who have never been in love before, met the sweet taste of love for the first time, and suddenly saw the picture of the man I love with another woman. Although it was painted, it happened in real life.

I felt uncomfortable, and my soul seemed to be shattered in an instant.

When a layer of mist rose from my eyes and blurred my vision, and tears dripped down my cheeks, did I realize that I was crying?
Chu Yue found that I was crying, and pulled me into his arms.I looked up at him looking at me so hurt and distressed.

I cry, he is more sad than me.

"It's just a painting." He didn't know how to comfort me, but just patted me on the shoulder.

Yes, the identity of this woman has not been clarified yet, maybe she is a couple or just a child?

"Chi'er, don't cry. Even if the person in the painting is me, there must be a special reason." Chu Yue hugged me tightly, buried his head in my hair, and could see his pity for me.

Yeah, who hasn't ever?

Chu Yue is a ghost who has only cultivated for a thousand years, so he naturally has his past feelings.I have a history of my past that is not glorious.

Thinking of this, I felt a lot relieved.That's when I realized I was too jealous.

Besides, he is so kind to me now, he came to this remote ancient village to find lime roots for me, obviously he only has me in his heart, I know very well.

"Master, do you think this woman looks familiar?" Agu seemed to be thinking hard, but he couldn't remember anything.

Chu Yue stared at the painting for a while, then turned his head and said solemnly, "The man in this painting is indeed me, and that battle robe is indeed what I once wore. I don't deny this. But this I don't know the girl."

Hearing that Chu Yue said that he didn't know the woman in the painting, but the painting clearly showed them leaning together, as close as they could be.The forbearance in my heart still broke out.

"The one in the painting should be your wife. Will you still marry me?" I started to sue Chu Yue.

Chu Yue replied seriously with a cold and handsome face, "I really don't know you. As for you, you are destined to be mine for the rest of your life."

"I don't know how I can lean in your arms and have been enshrined for so many years." I continued to question him, feeling really uncomfortable in my heart.

"Yeah, young master, think again, this woman is really familiar to me, it seems...it really has something to do with you..."

Before A Gu finished speaking, Chu Yue's face darkened at this moment, and a knife eye swept towards him, and he obediently kept silent.

I had mixed feelings in my heart, and was pulled into my arms again by Chu Yue.

"Hey, don't cry. Even if that's the case, it's a thing of the past. The past is the past, and the most important thing is the future." Unexpectedly, although Chu Yue didn't understand the world, he could still get to the point.

What he said still makes sense.

I gradually stabilized my mind, and by chance I was hugged by him and nodded, and my eyes signaled Agu not to think about it.

In the final analysis, a painting has passed, and there is no point in exploring it.

When the villagers saw the painting, they seemed to recall the kindness that Chu Yue bestowed on them back then, and worshiped it again.It was like seeing the admiration of a god.

And this time, Chu Yue's expression was filled with impatience...

Seeing Chu Yue's thin lips tightly pursed, he didn't care much about the villagers' fanatical and crazy actions, but the impatience on his face became more and more obvious.

After all, he is a ghost and has ghost nature.He said and did everything he said, and I have no doubts about it.

Looking at the group of people still kneeling and worshiping him now.Chu Yue was finally completely impatient, and before I could speak to persuade him, his face darkened instantly.

"I need lime root, I will give you half a day to put it in front of me. Otherwise, your village will be in trouble." Chu Yue said very lightly, although his tone was light, there was a tone that did not allow disobedience and rejection.

Those people were startled, they had never seen the world before, no matter how powerful they were, they knew what Chu Yue was capable of, and they were kind to this village back then, so they were not disrespectful at all.

The middle-aged villager who led us to open the temple door before came to him and bowed respectfully, with a nervous expression on his face, "But we don't have lime roots here anymore, that's just a legend."

Chu Yue's face immediately sank, the cold lines and the arrogance emanating from his body were enough to freeze the temple.

A group of villagers couldn't help but shivered, including Agu.He didn't know where he got the courage to remind Chu Yue to think about his relationship with the woman in the portrait.

Seeing his aloof and ruthless aura at this moment, Agu's legs were about to curl into twists.

"No? Look for it!" Chu Yue said coldly, sat down on the stone in the temple, pulled me into his arms and sat on his lap, waiting directly.

"It's really just a legend. There is no lime root in our village." The villager said it in not very fluent Chinese, which we could barely understand.

Later, the villager told us that the lime root did grow in Zhanli a hundred years ago, but it is gone now. It is really just a legend.

And it's not the first time we've come here to get a good lime root, and some people have come here to ask for it before.

Legend has it that this lime root is also called ghost root, which contains a grass juice that can control the sex of men and women.The main function is to give birth.

Lime roots eat horizontal roots and give birth to girls, and vertical roots give birth to boys.

In addition, this grass also has a function to balance the gender of men and women. At that time, the population growth rate was zero, and the crime rate was also zero.There was indeed such a thing in the Dong village a hundred years ago.

After the villager finished speaking, my heart was half cold.If I can't find it, I can only live for half a year.

Chu Yue's face was darker than the bottom of the pot, I couldn't laugh or cry.

This lime root seemed to be true a hundred years ago, but why did it become a legend later on?

(End of this chapter)