Chapter 48: Marriage Before the Spirit
Could it be that this matter has something to do with them? Could it be that they quarreled because Yuewan did not allow marriage?
"Chaoyun, what else is strange?"
Chaoyun shook his head: "No, no, No, Gongzi Xie, it's really gone!"
"Then you go first, I want to accompany you to Yan Xiu again. β
Xie Zhi walked into the room alone, and when he raised his eyes, he saw the wisps of incense behind the spirit card.
"Yanxiu, what do you want to tell me?" he lowered his head and meditated, and asked at the tablet, "Doesn't Yue Xuanyuan want to marry me, she just did this to fulfill your wishes? β
Tomorrow, tomorrow is Pei Yanxiu's first seven, it is said that the people who died this night can come back to see their relatives, Yuejuan insists on getting married tomorrow, maybe just for this statement, I want Yanxiu to see that he can feel at ease under the spring?
"Well, as long as I can follow her wishes, why should I care so much. Postponed, farewell that day, I don't want to even see your last entrustment. But don't worry, I will do my best to take care of Yuewan, and cherish her as much as you did when you were alive. β
The candles in the house flickered, but unfortunately the deceased was like this, leaving this wisp of cold wind into the window.
In the blink of an eye, it was late at night the next day, and the decoration of the house had not changed at all, only a few strands of red silk were hung in the innermost courtyard. The woman in front of the dressing table was wearing makeup, applying rouge to her lips, and her wedding dress was hanging on the hanger.
"Miss, the auspicious time has come, and Gongzi Xie is waiting. β
"Good. β
Pei Yuewan covered her hijab and walked out of the door slowly, seeing that Chaoyun was about to come up to help, she said: "You have worked hard these days, let's rest early at night, you said before that someone wants to buy our family's land and shop, and you will go and sell it to him with the deed early tomorrow morning." β
"But Miss, that person is taking advantage of the fire to rob, and the price is too low, this is the ancestral business of our Pei family. β
"I see that the man has come to you a few times and has a heart, except that this house has been sold, and you can collect the money from the sale first. β
"Miss, are you leaving?"
She nodded: "I have already packed my things, and I will go to Guanwai with Xie Zhi tomorrow." β
"Miss!"
"That's enough money for you to live a good life for the rest of your life. β
Chaoyun pleaded with tears in his eyes: "Miss, just let me follow you, I have followed you and the eldest son in the Pei family since I was a child, and now that you are all gone, how can I live alone." β
"Then you stay and guard this house, and maybe we'll be back." β
"Miss, take me with you!"
Pei Yuewan stopped talking, and only the man carried him to the happy room in the back.
Xie Zhen, who was waiting in the hall, was already anxious, and he was dressed in brocade clothes, which showed a lot of heroism.
"Yuewan," seeing the person who appeared in front of him, his heart was also tight: "If you regret it, we still ......"
"What do I regret?"
Although the woman was covered with a hijab, he could really hear some joy in her voice.
Dashi put down in his heart, and Xie Zhi said: "Okay, today is the first seven days of the postponement, and we also ask him to look at it and feel at ease under the spirit." β
"Chaoyun, you go down. β
Chaoyun returned to the room, she lit some incense as usual, maybe she was really tired, she just got on the bed and fell asleep.
"Brother Xie, let's worship heaven and earth. β
"Good. β
The man retracted his thoughts, took Pei Yuewan and looked at the night dome outside the house and bowed deeply. Now Yuejuan's relatives are gone, and Xie Zhi is an orphan whose parents died early when he was a child, so of course their second worship is against Pei Yanxiu's spirit card.
Looking at the lacquer words on it, Xie Zhi secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, Yan Xiu passed away suddenly, I am afraid that this sister is the most uneasy in this world, and now they are holding the ceremony, which can be regarded as their own fulfillment of their promise to their best friend.
But as soon as Xie Zhen's body bent down, he saw a gust of evening wind blowing in, which happened to blow out the red candle on the table. The room was suddenly plunged into darkness, leaving only the fragrance of the ear stove still bubbling with three sparks.
"What's wrong?"
"The lights are out, you wait, Yuewan, I'll go and light them." β
Pei Yuewan pulled Xie Shu and stopped him, "No need, I think my brother is back." β
"Delay?" When she said this, Xie Zhi also felt that the wind around her was bleak.
"I don't know the clothes I made for you yesterday, but Brother Xie is still wearing them. β
"Well, it's dressed. β
"That's good, I don't think my brother will come for a long time, so we might as well follow his wishes and get the ceremony as soon as possible." β
Although he felt a little strange, Xie Zhi still took the man's hand and bowed deeply to the spirit card in front of him. But when he got up, Xie Zhi couldn't stand still, and he faintly felt that the cold wind seemed to be blowing into his body, and it was spreading along his spine little by little. And Yue Wan's ill-fitting clothes were tightly attached to every inch of his flesh and blood, and even made him feel a little depressed.
"What's wrong with you, husband?"
Xie Zhi reluctantly shook his head: "No...... Nothing, out of the way. β
"Could it be that you were scared?"
"Heh, how could I be scared? Even if he came back from vacation, he wouldn't hurt either of us, but he felt a little weak. β
Pei Yuewan shook his hand and led each other to worship before saying, "Then it's better to go back to the room early and rest better." β
When he returned to the room, the feeling of suffocation was getting stronger and stronger, and Xie Zhi felt that the clothes seemed to melt into his own flesh and blood, and they were slowly tightening, making him breathless.
"Brother Xie, I am sorry for you in this life, and I will definitely repay your kindness for cattle and horses in the next life. β
"Yuewan, why did you suddenly talk about this?"
Pei Yuewan said faintly while unloading the hairpin on her head: "I thought that my brother was the only one in his heart, thought that he would only be good to me and smile at me alone, and thought that he would be with me forever, but I didn't expect that our relationship for more than ten years could not match the word 'life and death' after all." β
"What the hell are you talking about?"
"I remember when my parents died, I asked my brother what death was, and he only said at that time, 'Death means nothing, nothing can be seen and perceived', but I don't want to live like this, I don't want him to die early like this, I don't want to be able to face that spiritual position every day. I'm still alive and well in this world, why can he die so simply?"
At this time, Xie Zhi remembered what Chaoyun had said to him last night.
"You...... What the hell did you do with the postponement?"
"What did you do?" The woman smiled brightly: "Can't Brother Xie feel that the clothes on your body are made of brother's skin*, don't you feel that you are wearing them, don't you feel that they are extraordinarily cordial, extraordinarily warm, and extraordinarily intimate? β
Xie Zhi couldn't believe his ears anymore, and he collapsed on the bed, unable to move.
"What are you talking about! You actually put the ...... of the postponement."
"Yes, it was I who stripped his blood with my own hands* and made this garment. If this is not the case, how can I so deeply understand the great pain of the word 'life and death'?" Pei Yuewan looked at her hands, her eyes were stunned as if she had returned to that night: "Brother Xie, don't worry, after tonight, your confidant and friend will naturally be able to come back from Huangquan, but it is just a bit of humiliation, what is it." β
"Peel the skin and tear the bones...... That's a long rest, it's always loving you, protecting you, loving you, cherishing your own brother! How can you bear it, how can you do it, Yuejuan, you do this...... What is it for?"
"Why? I want to be his wife and hold hands with him, but he doesn't allow it; I want to do it just like that, his sister stays by his side for the rest of his life, but he doesn't allow it; I want him to leave one of our children so that I can spend the rest of my life, but he doesn't allow it; even if I want to go down to the Yellow Spring with him, he won't allow it! Pei Yanxiu, he only wants to marry me to you, to marry his best friend, or to send me far away to the Taoist temple in the mountains!"
"You, actually?"
"Brother Xie, do you know? When he was dying, what he was looking forward to was to break off his relationship with me and never see me again...... So I can't let him die, I can't go his way, let him get rid of me so easily. β
"You, Yuejuan, the person in your heart...... It's been a long break?" Xie Zhi suddenly realized: "You actually want to be his wife, and you want to stay with your biological brother for the rest of your life!"
Heh, it seems that you are the same as him, you can't escape these worldly eyes, you can't escape the clichΓ©s of the books. β
"That's what you're arguing about?"
"Not bad. But Pei Yanxiu, he thought that death would escape me, and that a mere yellow spring would be able to separate us forever and draw a clear line forever? I said that even if he died, he Pei Yanxiu would never be at peace, and he would never be able to close his eyes!"
At this moment, Xie Zhi was already speechless with surprise, the little girl in his memory who broke her arm and didn't cry or make trouble actually became like this. Although she has good makeup now, she looks more like a devouring ghost.
"Yue'er, how are you ...... How can he make you look like this......? I was amazed. β
"Brother Xie, don't you like me? Don't you want to be with me since you were a child, and you want to live with me for the rest of your life?
"What are you planning to me, what are you doing to me?"
"Brother Xie, from now on, you are a thing that belongs to me alone, only listen to my voice, only be loyal to my likes and dislikes, never betray, never abandon. Isn't this also your wish?"
At this time, most of the skin and flesh on Xie Zhen's eye sockets were gone, and his pupils were still barely hanging in his eye sockets, but his entire face had begun to rot and decay, and two hollows slowly appeared on his cheeks as if they were swallowed by maggots.