Chapter 35: Burning Paper Invites Ghosts
Xiu Ai looked at Qin Sisi and muttered, "You're right, I've been dead for a long time, but I always remember that day......"
Xiu Ai raised her head slightly, her blank eyes swept over the unfamiliar environment in front of her, and after more than a hundred years, she returned to the devastated Qing Dynasty.
September 23, the 24th year of Guangxu, is just an ordinary day for others, but for Xiu Ai, it is like a new life.
In the early morning of autumn, the misty sun shines leisurely on the earth, and the autumn breeze brings a faint coolness.
The community where Qin Sisi lives now was still a few alleys, with several houses scattered and scattered, and the wooden gates were antique. A bright red cloth hung on the door of one of the family's houses, announcing a happy event.
In the newly decorated boudoir, a twenty-eight-year-old girl sat nervously and shyly at the round table of pear wood, and a group of newly dressed and smiling girls surrounded her, busy and unhurriedly opening her face, combing her hair, putting on the brightest red wedding dress, and painting the most beautiful makeup......
"The crown full of pearls and emeralds is so heavy, it makes my head hurt, but I am so happy in my heart, I will soon be with Brother Heng forever. ”
The girl's clear eyes emitted a strange light, as if she had returned to that lively and joyful morning, and was immersed in the expectation and longing for love and marriage.
Xiu Ai paused for a moment, and then spoke out with a slight choked voice: "However, I didn't wait for him after all, Brother Heng was arrested by the government on the morning of his participation in the Reform Movement. I was almost stunned when I heard the news, my mother asked me to take off the wedding dress first, I refused, I waited for several days in the bright red wedding dress, but I waited for the news that Brother Heng died of illness in prison......"
Xiu Ai covered her face with her hands and sobbed lowly, her slender shoulders shook slightly, and the pain and grief of losing her lover lasted for more than a hundred years.
Qin Sisi couldn't help but feel sad, the so-called greater hope, the greater the disappointment, the accident happened on the day of marriage, and the beautiful thing that I waited and looked forward to wholeheartedly came to naught in an instant, which is really unacceptable.
Qin Sisi asked in a low voice, "Then you...... What happened?"
Xiu Ai sighed faintly, as if crying silently, and as if she smiled helplessly, she said slowly: "I didn't eat or drink for several days, and I went with Brother Heng." ”
Qin Sisi looked at Xiu Ai in surprise, it turned out that Xiu Ai died of martyrdom, and what he was waiting for was the groom official of the high-headed Malaysia, but who knew that what he was waiting for was the desolation of the people who had passed away, and under the sadness and despair, he chose to live and die.
Xiu Ai continued: "After I passed away, there was a trace of obsession left in my heart, I refused to follow the soul messenger to leave, insisted on staying in the world, and continued to wait at the door of the house, I told myself that as long as I waited, he would definitely come. ”
Then, the flowers bloomed and fell, the clouds rolled up, and more than a hundred years rushed by like a white horse, but the person the girl was waiting for never appeared again.
Qin Sisi had a general understanding of what the whole thing had happened, but she couldn't guess what kind of unfulfilled wish Xiu Ai, who had been waiting for more than a hundred years and already knew that her waiting would not be fruitful.
So Qin Sisi opened his mouth and asked: "Xiu Ai, that's the case, I need soul power now, I can help you realize a wish, I hope you can dedicate your soul power to me." ”
Xiu Ai looked at Qin Sisi in some surprise, for a long time, she seemed to understand what Qin Sisi meant, she lowered her eyes, and said sadly: "Since it is useless to wait for a long time, then there is no point in me forcing me to stay in this world, I can dedicate my soul power to you, but I want a wedding, I want to spend candles in the cave room with Brother Heng." Xiu Ai's voice became smaller and smaller, and by the end, her fair cheeks had become a thick flush.
"Wedding?" Qin Sisi was stunned.
Xiu Ai nodded vigorously and said seriously: "I haven't encountered Brother Heng's ghost, so it is very likely that he has been reincarnated. ”
"But ......" Qin Sisi still feels that this matter is very unreliable, even if this "Brother Heng" is really reincarnated, but who knows if he is an eight-year-old child or an eighty-year-old man now. Taking a step back, even if he was lucky enough to be a young man of marriageable age, how could he possibly marry a ghost?
Qin Sisi just wanted to persuade Xiu Ai to let go of this obsession, but Ye You suddenly said something.
Qin Sisi glanced at Ye You suspiciously, so he had to hand Xiu Ai a piece of paper and a pen as he said, and said, "You write down his name and birthday." ”
Xiu Ai nodded, took the pen and paper, she was obviously not used to using modern things, she wrote very slowly, but it was very neat, and she wrote down what Qin Sisi wanted stroke by stroke.
Xiu Ai just put down the pen, the purple eyes of the night flashed lightly, and a purple light shot out of his eyes, quickly enveloping Xiu Ai's figure, and in the next second, Xiu Ai had disappeared in that purple light.
Qin Sisi was stunned for a moment, and quickly reacted: "You took her back?"
"Hmm. Ye Yu responded, then jumped onto the table, and looked down at the white paper on which Xiu Ai was writing, with an uncertain expression.
Qin Sisi stepped forward and saw the name that had worried Xiu Ai for more than a hundred years - Shen Hengzhi, followed by his exact birth date.
Qin Sisi asked hesitantly, "Do you think this can be done?"
"How do you know if you don't try it. Although Ye You's tone was soft, it revealed unquestionable firmness.
Although Qin Sisi didn't know what to do in Yeyou, his calm and unhurried attitude made Qin Sisi feel a lot more at ease.
So, Qin Sisi also quickly entered the state and asked, "What should I do next?"
Ye Yu groaned: "I remember that you bought a pack of yellow paper two days ago and put it in the cabinet. ”
"Yes, what's wrong?" Qin Sisi nodded, her mother's May Seven was almost here, and when she came home from work that day, she bought a pack of yellow paper at the grocery store by the way, ready to use it for her mother's grave when the time came.
Ye Yu said: "I got it to the northwest corner of the room and burned it." ”
Qin Sisi opened his mouth in surprise and wanted to say something, but when he saw Ye You's eyes being extremely serious, he swallowed the words on his lips again, silently got up and went to the cabinet to take out the yellow paper, and then according to what Ye You said, he walked to the northwest corner of the room and lit the burning paper with a lighter.
Ye Yu also walked over, stretched out his claws and sprinkled some powder on the yellow paper that shimmered with fine light, and the powder fell lightly on the burning burning paper, and disappeared immediately.
The dancing flames spread rapidly on the dark yellow burnt paper, and the black ashes danced without the wind, like illusory ghosts.
Qin Sisi looked around cautiously, Ye Yu must have a reason for doing this, perhaps, something strange will happen soon.