Seeing that I was stunned there, Chen Tiannan pulled me and said, "Brother Jiu, why are you stunned!" Hurry up and get back to the tent! ”

I came to my senses, nodded, said yes, climbed on horseback, and was ready to go.

At this time, Wang Chuyao came over and said, "Brother Nine, can you take me for a ride?" ”

I was stunned and asked her why, she was stunned for a long time before she could hold back a sentence, she said: "I don't know how to ride a horse, I'm afraid of falling." ”

As soon as I heard this, I smiled embarrassedly, to say that I practiced the skill of riding a horse, it was when I was a child, I herded cattle, and I was okay to ride a bull, so I was somewhat familiar with horseback riding, otherwise, where would I know how to ride a horse.

At that moment, I pulled her on the horse and looked at Aunt Nalian again, she was smiling at me, smiling very happily, as if she didn't care that Wang Chuyao was riding a horse with me.

Seeing this, I nodded at her, and took a look at our team, there was no change from before, the flower bridge was still those bodyguards, the dowry was still those horses, Chen Tiannan was still behind me, the only change was that Su Mengke was sitting in the flower bridge and there was one more Wang Chuyao behind me.

I didn't stay here long, I said to Aunt Lian and left, and then led the family greeting team towards the tent, and a long series of firecrackers sounded behind it.

When the procession returns, there is a custom that we cannot take the road we have walked before, commonly known as 'no turning back', which means that the bride is avoided from walking back along the same path, which is the so-called divorce, so we cannot return to the tent the same way, but can only go around the distance.

Since I was not familiar with the Ten Thousand Towers, I asked the pine nut how to go, and he said that it would take a long detour, three or four miles.

After thinking about it, I decided to go farther, one is that since it is a yin marriage, it must be done according to the customs, and the rules cannot be broken, and the other is that Su Mengke has already been accepted, whether she is alive or dead, she is my daughter-in-law, and I can't treat her badly in terms of etiquette.

At that moment, I asked the pine nut to lead us on a long journey, and asked him if he had any larger red cloth.

He glanced at me suspiciously, and said, "Do you want a red cloth?" ”

I said, "If you go a long way, you will definitely encounter some temples, wells, ancestral halls, tombs, big stones, and big trees, and you need to cover the flower bridge with a red cloth." ”

He asked me why I was covered.

I said, ward off evil spirits.

He thought for a moment and said, "Aunt Lian seems to have said this, there is a red cloth in the flower bridge." ”

I nodded, and asked him to take out the red cloth, and he said something that made me want to beat him, and he said, "I'm afraid of ghosts." ”

I glanced at him deeply, Made, isn't this pine nut quite capable of beating people, why are you still afraid of ghosts? Besides, as a Phoenix native, you shouldn't be afraid of this kind of thing. After all, Phoenix is notoriously mysterious in our Hunan province.

When he saw me looking at him, he smiled awkwardly and said, "Why don't you take it yourself?" ”

I glared at him angrily, jumped off the horse, lifted the curtain of the flower bridge, and saw Su Mengke leaning there, looking ahead with a pair of eyes stunned, I don't know if there was no technical content when she pretended to be eyes, or what's the matter, some blood flowed out of the corner of her eye, I reached out and wiped it, the feeling of starting was very sticky, and there was a faint rancid smell.

This immediately reminded me of Aunt Lian piercing her heart with a hairpin, and reached out to touch her face, which was very slippery and even a little shiny.

Is there really flesh and blood?

The thought flashed through my mind, I took a few deep breaths and pinched her face, and it felt very fleshy in my hand, and I thought it was wrong, and I pinched it on my own face, and there was only a slight difference between the two.

This discovery almost didn't scare me, and a cold sweat broke out behind my back, Made, why does it feel so similar, is it that she has flesh and blood in her body?

Thinking of this, I got into the flower bridge, and I was ready to figure it out. This is not a joke, if it is really flesh and blood, the probability of Su Mengke's resurrection is as high as 90%, and it can even be said that even flesh and blood can be reborn, is it okay to be resurrected?

As soon as he got into the flower bridge, the pine nut shouted: "Chen Jiu, what are you doing?" Don't you know the rules, don't you know that the bride's flower bridge can't be entered casually? ”

As soon as I heard this, I replied to him, "Come out soon." ”

"No, I have to come out right away." His tone was a little higher, and as soon as he lifted the curtain, I saw that this guy had his eyes closed, and he must not dare to look at Su Mengke. There was no way, he knew that Su Mengke only had a human skin left, and now he was sitting in the flower bridge like a living person, and anyone would be afraid.

"Three minutes, just three minutes, and come out immediately in three minutes." I looked at him and said.

"No, Aunt Lian has confessed, no one can get into the flower bridge without reaching the tent!" His eyes were still closed, but his tone was a little harsher than before, and there was a vague hint that he was going to do it if he didn't come out again.

I sighed, with this pine nut here, it is obviously impossible to find out about Su Mengke. In desperation, I looked inside the flower bridge, and saw a red cloth next to Su Mengke, picked up the red cloth, and said, "Come down immediately." ”

After coming down from the flower bridge, I tied the red cloth to the pole of the flower bridge, beckoned the bodyguards who carried the bridge, met the temple, the big tree and the like, and covered the red cloth on the flower bridge, the bodyguard asked me, what kind of tree is a big tree, I said that there are some years of trees, the kind that one person can't hold.

As soon as the words fell, the pine nut spoke, and he said, "When you say this, I think of one thing, the road we are walking on now seems to have such a tree, and it takes two adults to hold it, but..."

I saw that he was talking in a hurry, so I urged, "But what? ”

He looked up at me and said, "But... But... The tower has some legends about the tree. ”

"What legend?" I asked.

"It is said that the tree is three or four hundred years old, and many people say that the tree has become a fine man, and it will eat people late at night, and some people say that the tree has not become a fine tree, and the birds on it have become a fine tree, and they will come out to forage for food every night, and many people in the ten thousand towers have died under the tree." When he said this, his face was very heavy, and his voice was a little trembling.

As soon as I heard this, I vaguely grasped the point, bird spirit? Could it be the swallow? No, the swallows' nests are generally indoors, and some swallows build their nests in halls or ancestral halls. There is a saying in our Hengyang side that the swallow's nest falls on the left side of the hall house, then the left side of the hall house will be good for a year in the future, whether it is a happy event or a new house, there is no need to look at the day, and if it falls on the right, it proves that the right side is beneficial.

Thinking of this, I asked him, "What kind of bird is in that big tree?" ”

He thought for a moment and said, "It looks like a swallow." ”

I was stunned for a moment, and immediately asked him again: "Are you sure it's a swallow?" ”

He nodded and said, "It must be a swallow, there are many legends about swallows in this ten thousand towers, and many Gu masters regard swallows as totems, saying that swallows are auspicious things that can bring good luck, and it is precisely for this reason that no one has dared to move that tree, even if someone is dead, no one dares to touch that tree." ”

As he spoke, he seemed to think of something, and continued: "By the way, Aunt Lian also believes in swallows, the Su family can see swallow totems everywhere, even the wood carved windows are also swallow totems, and in addition, the pillars of the square are also swallow totems. ”

Listening to his words, I suddenly realized in my heart that Aunt Lian regarded the swallow as a mascot, and there was nothing worth studying, but I remembered a common saying, the swallow is empty and laborious, and the hair grows and flies separately. What this says is that the swallows worked hard to build a bird's nest and fed the children with hard work, while those little swallows flew away with full wings, where do they remember the kindness of their parents.

And Aunt Lian is no different from Xiaoyanzi, they are both ungrateful, otherwise they wouldn't have done something worse than that beast.

As the saying goes, the one who is close to Zhu is red and the one who is close to the ink is black, that Aunt Lian regards the swallow as a totem, presumably she sees the nature of the swallow very clearly, since she sees it clearly, she should realize that her children will abandon their parents when they are full-fledged, so that she looks at her children relatively lightly, and now she shows that she regards women as her life, is she really like a swallow, and she values her children very much? No other purpose?

No, it's absolutely not, the biggest difference between people and swallows is that people know how to weigh the pros and cons, and people know how to protect their own interests, so Aunt Lian will never let herself become a mother swallow waiting to be abandoned, she can use tricks to kill Granny Qiao, how can she treat Su Mengke as her life? Therefore, everything that Aunt Lian did to Su Mengke should be pretended, which is in line with Aunt Lian's temperament.

As soon as I thought of this, I thought of the four words behind Su Mengke's eight characters, which made me more and more sure that Aunt Lian had her own little abacus, and her real purpose was not to resurrect Su Mengke.

Thinking about this, I asked the pine nut some more things, all about Aunt Lian, where do I know, he ignored me, and said, "About Aunt Lian, I am angry and have no mouth to say." ”

In particular, this person has a problem with his brain, I secretly cursed a few words in my heart, so I had to pull the topic to the big tree, and I don't know what was going on, when it came to the big tree, the pine nut seemed to have endless words, he first told me the origin and legend of the tree, and then said how amazing the swallows on the tree were, in his words, the swallows on the tree are there all year round.

Just this sentence made me doubt his words, as we all know, the swallow is a migratory bird, generally flies to the south in February, and flies to the north in August and September to spend the winter, how can it be possible to spend the winter in the south? Unless those swallows are really spermatological.

Is it really a refinement? It should be impossible, there are a lot of folk legends about animal essence, there are pig spirits, fox spirits or something, just this swallow into the essence is the first time I have heard of it, after all, the life span of the swallow is not long, and those folk legends of the essence, the long is thousands of years of cultivation, the short is hundreds of years of cultivation, in terms of the life of the swallow, it is obviously impossible to become a fine.

However, looking at the demeanor of the pine nut, it seems to respect Chengjing very much, what's going on?

At that moment, I asked the pine nut, "Where is that big tree?" ”

He stopped, pointed not far away, and said, "Five hundred meters further on, there is a steep slope, and the big tree is in that position." ”

I thought for a moment and said, "Where do we have to go back to the tent?" ”

His face changed, and he said, "There is the way to go, otherwise, you will have to detour seven or eight kilometers to get back to the tent, if you really turn seven or eight kilometers." ”

As he spoke, he took out his mobile phone and looked at the time, and continued: "It's almost time now, turn another seven or eight kilometers, and you won't be able to reach the tent before the ugly time." ”

"Why did you rush to the tent before the ugly hour?" I asked the doubts in my mind.

He smiled helplessly, "Aunt Lian has confessed that you must rush to the tent before the ugly time, saying that it is a yin marriage for you when you are a child, and it is unlucky to delay this hour." ”

As soon as I heard this, I felt a little uneasy in my heart, and I thought that Aunt Lian should have forced us to pass under the big tree, otherwise, she would not have just set up the tent there, and pinched the time of the yin wedding at the ugly time.

For a while, I don't know what to do, if I take that road, the pine nut will be so magical to the swallow, there must be a bit of a doorway in it, if I don't take that road, Aunt Lian's level will definitely be sad, more importantly, Qing Xuanzi is in her hands, in case Qing Xuanzi is a bad one, I don't want to stammer, after all, that Qing Xuanzi is a stammering brother.

Made, I slapped my head a few times, and with a hard heart, I said, "Let's go, let's go that way." ”

"Are you sure?" Na Songzi's expression was stunned, and he said in a trembling voice: "Chen Jiu, in fact, we can take a shortcut, and we can just go back the same way." ”

"No, that would break the etiquette." I rejected his opinion in one gulp.

"But... Can... But go that way, and we might die there. He looked panicked, as if he was scared of the road.

I was stunned for a moment, this situation is not right, it was he who told me that there was such a road, and he told me that the time to take that road was just in time, why is he afraid to take that road now? It doesn't seem to make sense.

At that moment, I stared at his face for a while, and then said, "Songzi, you give me an explanation, what did Aunt Lian say?" ”

"She told us to keep an eye on you, don't let you run halfway." He explained.

"That's it?" I asked curiously.

He nodded, "She only explained this sentence, and didn't say which way to go." ”

Now, I'm a little troubled, with Aunt Lian's temperament, she should have prescribed which way we should go home, but now it's for us to choose, isn't she afraid that we will go back to the tent the same way? Or is she confident that we will go down that path?

If it's the latter, then Aunt Lian should be able to find out my character. After all, I am a person who habitually respects customs, whether it is a funeral or anything else.

Seeing that I didn't speak, the pine nut spoke again, and he said, "Chen Jiu, I advise you to go back the way you came, don't believe the so-called 'no turning back'." ”

Frankly, I would love to go back to the tent the way I came, to save time, and to save time, and to say that I was a little taboo about the big tree, but if I went the same way, I would have committed a big taboo in the marriage of the yin. Comparing the two, I would rather take the risk of trying the so-called big tree than make a big taboo.

At that moment, I stopped at the pine nut and said, "Continue on the path of the big tree." ”