After the bald man's suggestion to throw all the mountain of minced corpses into the hole from where the bald man had been rejected—some insisted that the demons would be resurrected underground—it seemed as if the only thing left was to burn it.

After all, no matter how vicious the villagers of Jinlin Village looked, they would probably faint on the spot when they came to the back mountain one day and saw this tragic scene of corpses and a sea of blood. What's more, even if something like this happens, they still have to continue digging graves.

"How so? Is it time to change the position and fix the eyes? ”

The fire provided by Shen Jingxue's kindness had been burning for half an hour, and if they hadn't blocked the barrier above the woods, those people in the village in front of them would have to come to the door collectively. A executioner, with a twitching face, sprayed the gel on the wound that almost exposed his bones, and turned his head to look at the crowd as he thought of something.

"Are you crazy?" Ji An glared at him, "I finally escaped death, and now I will blow it up again?" Do you want to dig out the lair of those skinners?! ”

"You're going to go down sooner or later, and you don't know that there are only four days left." The executioner was unceremonious, "What's the difference between dying one day earlier and dying one day later, that's the task of those students." Do you want to drag everyone to the ground until everyone is dead? ”

It's already afternoon, and everyone is hungry and fighting with those skinning demons. Chen Ming breathed a long sigh of relief, but still said: "There is not enough time, in case it drags on until dark, it will be more troublesome." Let's go back and fix it first, and by the way, count the current number of people, and come back tomorrow. ”

Most people thought so, Qiu Xuan fell at the back of the team and absentmindedly poured nutrients into his mouth, his eyes tracking the direction of Chen Ming.

Chen Ming also had a red cloth in her hand that she had begged from the male Buddha last night, and if nothing else, she would take it today to make a wedding dress with the tailor shop owner.

"What do we say, do you still go to the temple to have a look?"

Shen Jingxue put her hands behind her head and looked more absent-minded than her, Qiu Xuan glanced at him and said suddenly. "You said before, where is the bride who is going to get married in four days, and now she is being held?"

She used the word "guan" because she really disagreed with some of the customs in the village. One week before marriage, the bride must stay alone in the house for a week, during which time no living person can be seen, otherwise she will be targeted by "ghosts".

"Targeted by 'ghosts'." Qiu Xuan repeated without any emotion, "Is it the person who sees the bride being targeted, or is the bride herself being targeted, or is it ...... Others? ”

"It's hard to say, the villager who told me the information only said this vaguely." Shen Jingxue shook her head, "As for where the bride is now, she should have been taken to the Xie family in the north of the village, the Xie family is very rich, and it shouldn't be difficult to find an open place to vacate a room." ”

Qiu Xuan: "I want to see the bride." ”

"Are you serious? Some of the rules in this place are indeed very metaphysical and evil, not necessarily all feudal superstitions, and it is likely to be true that they will be targeted by 'ghosts'. ”

Qiu Xuan waved her hand, "The rules only say that you can't see 'living people'." ”

Shen Jingxue remembered the scene that day in the tomb where she crawled in the dark with a jade pendant in her mouth without touching the inner wall of the corridor, and probably understood what she wanted to do.

"There is only one piece of jade, so you can only go alone."

"Indeed, so I want to trouble you to keep an eye on Chen Ming this afternoon." Qiu Xuan said, "She is likely to go to the tailor's shop, you can see what to do when the time comes, and by the way, go and test the boss to see what he has to do with those skinners." ”

……

Qiu Xuan walked all the way to the north, and during this time, he met a man lying on the mud and playing the piano.

The man was dressed like a beggar, and almost every villager who passed by him would look at him with disdain. Qiu Xuan would focus on him because it was rare to see a person who played the violin as badly as he did.

Anyway, it's a level that the music of the yang world can't reach.

Because she was worried about going to Xie's house, she just glanced at it, who would have thought that in the next second, a dry arm would stretch straight under her nose. The man stopped playing his harp and shook his palm upwards, "Tip." ”

Qiu Xuan: ?

Qiu Xuan: "I don't have any money. ”

- This is true.

"The juniors nowadays really don't understand the rules." The beggar-like man muttered and leaned back, Qiu Xuan squinted at him for a moment, then suddenly stretched out his hand and shook it in front of his eyes.

"The juniors are really rude now!" The beggar slapped the tattered strings with his palm, and the stretched strings squeaked uncontrollably. "What are you doing now, bullying people with disabilities? The quality is really bad. ”

So he really can't see.

Qiu Xuan touched her chin thoughtfully, but after thinking for a while, she felt that this really had nothing to do with her and was not included in the main quest, so she simply said hello and raised her feet and continued to walk to the Xie family in the north.

"You're going to see the bride."

Behind, the old hoarse voice suddenly sounded, and Qiu Xuan didn't stop walking and didn't speak.

"The person who sees the bride before she gets married dies in her place."

The footsteps came to a complete halt.

Qiu Xuan pushed her tongue against the inner wall of her mouth, thought about it, turned back and sat down next to the blind man. "But the version I heard was that the bride couldn't be seen alive, otherwise she would be targeted by 'ghosts'."

"Liar." The blind man brushed the strings and left a pitiful few strings, which were stained with dirt and oil that had accumulated over the years and could not be washed away. "Where the hell there is, even if there is ......"

"In short, it's a lie made up to keep people from meeting the bride."

Qiu Xuan was silent for a while, "Then why...... Will the bride die? ”

"Stranger, you really dare to come here without knowing anything."

The blind man shook his head meaninglessly, plucked the remaining strings with his fingers, and sang hoarsely:

"The bride is married, and Fulu and Suxi are all introduced.

The bride is married into the hall, and the hall is filled with gold and silver treasures. ”

Qiu Xuan heard this tune, and it was the first time she saw a memories-like fragment when she came to the trial ground on her first day. When the bride stepped on the threshold, the black-skinned matchmaker in the center was singing this congratulatory message with a strange accent.

When the blind man sang this paragraph, although the piano plucking technique was still the harp method of the underworld, a stream of turbid tears oozed from his muddy and dead blind eyes.

Qiu Xuan'an waited quietly for him to come out of his emotions, the blind man holding the qin, his blank eyes looking straight in the direction of the north.

"Iniquity, iniquity...... Hahaha, deserved, deserved. ”

"Hou Sheng," he turned his head, his sunken eyes looking a little terrifying at Qiu Xuan. "Have you ever visited the temple?"

"It should be." Qiu Xuan said, "I've been there twice, and I saw a male Buddha during the day and a female Buddha at night. ”

The blind man sighed, not knowing if it was a good sign or if he was lamenting her. "Good, good. He will bless you, at least, from those people. ”

At this time, I had to sigh at the limitations of language, Qiu Xuan listened to it for a long time, and she didn't understand whether the god and Buddha who would bless her in the blind man's mouth were male or female, she couldn't help but remind her, and saw that the blind man suddenly reached out and held her wrist accurately.

Accurate as if he wasn't blind at all.

"Afterlife, if you are determined to go to the poor bride, then remember one thing. Whatever she says, don't say yes. Remember my words, if you will believe me. ”

came, this person turned out to be really a character related to the main plot.

Qiu Xuan didn't break free of her wrist at the moment, straightened up and asked, "Then do you know where the bride is locked up in the Xie family?" ”

"The ancestral hall in the north, if the Xie family doesn't want people to know the location of the bride, it is only possible to be there."

There really are two brushes.

Qiu Xuan secretly didn't expect this person to be quite reliable, so he heard the blind man pinching his wrist in the next second, and muttered:

"This is a happy pulse."

Qiu Xuan: WDNMD

"Do you know how to take the pulse?" She pulled out her wrist, "Forget it, it's getting dark, I won't talk to you here, I'll go first." ”

"Today's juniors are really tough, and they always like to mess with the relationship between men and women." The blind man rubbed his hands and muttered, "This is not a pulse, how can it be miscalculated, it is obviously like this, it is obviously ...... It's ......"

"What is it?"

"Junior? Where did the juniors come from? Originally, I was playing the violin......"

"Why did you stop, who was I talking to......

"I can't remember. Forget it, it doesn't matter anyway......"

The blind man scratched his head, slapped his palm on the door of his head and thought about it for a long time, and finally shook his head and went with it. He clutched a decayed and faded stringed instrument in his arms, as if he were holding all his life.

The hoarse and hoarse voices sounded again, and the villagers passing by glared at them with disgust and hatred, as if they were looking at a stall of garbage on the side of the road that no one cared for.

……

As one of the richest families in the village, the courtyard at the main entrance of the Xie family alone looks much more magnificent than the small bungalows around. To be on the safe side, Qiu Xuan sewed the ugly jade pendant into his coat pocket, weighed a few glances at the outer wall, and hooked it with his hand supporting the running a few steps.

The overall architectural style of the Xie family is a bit like that kind of courtyard-style closed building complex, with dozens of houses in the courtyards sitting in rows, and it is really not where the ancestral hall is for a while.

Qiu Xuan squatted behind a decorative dwarf tree in the corner and waited for a while, and finally saw two people hurrying out side by side.

"There aren't enough streamers in the auditorium, and the logs are all loaded."

One man looked anxious and said to another middle-aged man, who frowned. "Didn't the original budget be good, how could it be that it was not enough at the critical moment, give me this kind of trouble!"

"I don't know, even the night before yesterday, it seems to say ...... The strangers who had come to us had entered the auditorium in the evening. ”

"What did you say!" The middle-aged man was furious, "How could they enter the auditorium at night?!" Eight lives are not enough for them to die, can the woman in the temple next door let them go?! ”

"It is said that one died on the spot, and then the body of the remaining one was brought over this morning...... It's just that the damage they caused in the auditorium can't be made up for the time being. ”

The middle-aged man's face flushed with anger, and this anger eased a little when he heard that the corpse had been sent. "Let people 'dispose of' the corpse as soon as possible, so as not to have too many dreams at night...... And these outlanders, huh! Ge San's old thing shouldn't have told them not to go out at night in the first place, let them die a little sooner and die a little more, and they will be in peace! ”

"Yes, yes, you ...... dissipated your gas"

Immediately after that, the footsteps of the two disappeared outside the main entrance, and gradually became inaudible, Qiu Xuan had already searched for all similar buildings on this level at this time, and did not find where the ancestral hall was.

That's right, if the Xie family really wanted to lock it up and not let anyone see the bride, it would be impossible for the big lama to put her in the middle of the crowd.

I should have to go further north.

This time, she had a rare luck, and walked all the way down the aisle, and finally climbed out along the low wall at the back, and a small building independent of the central compound came into view. This so-called Xie family ancestral hall was built very perfunctory, and it was not even a serious ancestral hall, and the area was estimated to be the size of the two small rooms in the bungalow where they lived.

Qiu Xuan walked around the house and found a window.

After thinking about it, she didn't break in directly through the window, and patted the window with her palm.

No one responded inside.

"That, Jiang ...... Jiang Lanjing? It's called that, I'm from the archaeological team from outside, it's called Afu, I want to talk to you. ”

She waited for a while, about five minutes, and then the conversation was answered.

It's a clear and beautiful female voice.

"I can't meet you, or something bad will happen."

So does the bride herself know the fate she will foresee, and does she know that "the person who saw the bride died in place of the bride"?

Qiu Xuan continued to whisper against the crack in the window, "It's okay if you don't want to meet, then let's just say a few words, okay?" ”

It was quiet again, and just as Qiu Xuan was here wondering if she had poked someone's sore spot with that sentence, she felt the window frame in front of her be gently knocked from the inside.

Jiang Lanjing's voice sounded again, so close that it seemed to be against the crack in the window, and the two were separated by a layer of special glass, and Qiu Xuan heard her voice with a little crying.

"The windows are locked, the doors are locked, there's no way I'm going to get out...... You're from outside, can you help me, please, please help me. I don't want to marry the Xie family, and I didn't come to Jinlin Village voluntarily, I was abducted here that day in the town market! Please help me, I want to get out, I don't want to get married, please ......"

Trafficking?

Could it be that the Xie family bought Jiang Lanjing from human traffickers and then forced her to get married? What was said before, is it true that the young master of the Xie family fell in love with his fiancée at first sight and something like that?

Qiu Xuan put her hand on the window and frowned deeply.