Zhang Ming followed me and walked all the way forward, and the candles were burning quietly in the big red lanterns on both sides.

This is a hall, and everywhere is red, and it is very lively.

Many people, from the body of Zhang Mingming and me, those people are dressed up, even the subordinates and maids look like rich and noble people, and the whole hall is crowded with people, and the voices are boiling.

These people meet each other, talk and laugh, and get together to exchange and talk.

"How can there be so many people...... And they can't seem to see us......" Zhang Mingming attached himself to my shoulder, muttering.

Without speaking, I looked up and saw a big red word of joy in front of the hall, and below it were two Taishi chairs, one on the left and one on the right.

On the table in the middle of the chair, a pair of large red candles are burned, and there are many cakes under the candlestick, all made of flour, all of which are auspicious.

More and more people entered the hall, and surrounded by the maids and servants, two older people, a man and a woman, sat on the two chairs. They are supposed to be husband and wife, and they are also the owners of the house, and I saw them look at each other with a somewhat complicated expression.

After a slight pause, the husband and wife looked at everyone calmly and smiled at those present.

This smile, how to look at it deliberately.

People stepped forward to congratulate the husband and wife, and the two who were seated stood up from time to time to respond to the thank-you gifts.

Obviously, this is a wedding scene from the Republic of China, and although the bride and groom have not yet appeared, they should be seen soon.

At this moment, I heard someone shouting for the newcomer to enter, and at that moment, the hall was noisy again, and all eyes were on the source of the sound.

Zhang Mingming and I involuntarily looked towards that place, and suddenly, I was stunned.

It was Wan'er who came in, she was still wearing that big red costume, and her body was tied up and pushed in from the outside. Wan'er's eyes were full of horror, and she didn't know whether it was tears or sweat on her face.

Wan'er was almost pushed forward, and she asked for help like the people around her, who looked at her and none of them came forward. The matchmaker behind her was tall, and she knelt down on the cushion in front of the high hall by the back of her neck.

Wan'er cried loudly, the woman in the high hall frowned, she said something to the person next to her dissatisfied, the person nodded, and said something to the matchmaker, and the matchmaker stuffed the handkerchief into Wan'er's mouth.

Wan'er whined, she couldn't make a sound anymore, and at this moment, I heard the matchmaker shouting that the bridegroom had entered, and then there was a cry, and I saw a little man carrying a huge rooster into the hall.

The rooster clucked incessantly, his eyes were covered by a strip of black cloth, and his sharp mouth pecked around, which must have been very frightened.

I immediately understood, isn't this just a secret marriage? I remember reading some books that said that in order to find a wife for their dead son, parents in the feudal era usually used a huge rooster to replace their son's worship.

It is said that they did this because they believed that the soul of the dead son would be attached to the big rooster, so that after worshipping the church, even if they went to the underworld, they could be regarded as having a saying that they would not be discriminated against by the ghosts.

Zhang Mingming's eyes widened, watching Wan'er bow down with the big rooster like this, his voice trembled: "Song ...... Song Kun, what's going on......"

I didn't say anything, just continued to watch what was happening in the back of the strange but inhumane thing.

After Wan'er forcibly bowed to the rooster, she was escorted to a place, and Zhang Mingming and I also hurriedly followed.

The place where the group passed was also a passageway, and like I had passed many times before, it was lined with bright red lanterns.

A coffin, the vermilion is very huge.

As soon as Zhang Ming saw the coffin, his calves and stomach were as soft as he was, if I hadn't grabbed him, he probably would have knelt on the ground.

He looked at me: "Song Kun, this thing, this coffin...... How ...... it?"

I saw Wan'er being forced into the coffin, along with the blindfolded, and the strip of cloth in her mouth fell as she struggled.

She desperately begged the people around her to spare her, but those people were unmoved, and threw Wan'er's hand that reached out to grab the coffin board into it again, and the coffin lid was fastened at this time.

The woman was screaming inside, her hands and feet pounding the coffin, and along with her cries came the crowing of the rooster.

Gradually, the people were gone one by one, and the voices in the coffin laughed a lot.

With my ears pressed to the coffin board, I could faintly hear the sobs of a woman. Zhang Tomorrow also came over, and heard the woman crying quietly inside, following my example.

He suddenly looked at me, and there were tears in his eyes: "She's too miserable, right, let's rescue her?" ”

Seeing that I nodded and said hello, Zhang Mingming suddenly stood up, he stood at one end of the coffin, opened his arms and forcefully moved the coffin lid out.

Looking at his expression, he almost exhausted his rights, and when he saw me standing still, he yelled at me: "Come and help me, this board is too thick, how can I push it by myself!" ”

After a pause, I stepped forward to push the board with him, but fortunately, the coffin lid was just fastened up, and there were no nails on it, and we rubbed it for a while, and the coffin lid was finally pushed open.

Suddenly, in front of my eyes, something burst out of it, and when I fixed my eyes, it was the big that was blindfolded.

The black strip of cloth on its eyes had broken off half of it, and the exposed eye was the size of a grain of rice, jumping on the coffin next to it and looking at Zhang Mingming and me.

After a few moments, it cackled at us, then jumped down, flapping its wings and striding away into the darkness.

"Can this rooster see us?" Zhang asked me tomorrow.

I shook my head, still didn't speak, looked down into the coffin, and found that Wan'er, who was sleeping inside, had a very haggard face, squinting at her eyes that had already been crying and swollen, and blocked the light that suddenly came in with one hand.

"You ...... Who is it? She asked softly.

Seeing that she was still talking, there should be nothing wrong, so we quickly pulled her out of it, her hair was scattered, and her red costume was as bright as blood.

Zhang Mingming didn't know where to find a stool for Wan'er to sit down, she looked up and asked who we were, I said you don't have to be afraid, we just happened to pass by here, and when we saw that you were in trouble, we came to help you.

She groaned, bowed her head and was silent for a while.

After a while, she suddenly looked up again and asked me pitifully, "My Ah Tian, is he dead?" ”