"Thank you for your hospitality."

"Are you two ready?"

"Eat well, eat well." Song You said as he took out a small piece of broken silver from his arms, "The host is enthusiastic, and I won't eat and drink in vain, so I will give you money." ”

"This ......"

The servant was stunned for a moment, and then said, "The villain has to ask the master before he can do it." ”

After saying that, he turned around and left.

After a while, the host's family came in a hurry.

"I have received Mr.'s heart, but Mr. is a person from outside the world, and he is passing by today, because of fate, I came here, but I invited Mr. to have a light meal, and then give some water and food, and it is rude for me not to bring some coils to Mr., how can I receive Mr.'s gift money?" The middle-aged man said to Song You, "If the two of you eat well, please ask Hong Er to take the two of you to the old house for one night. ”

"Then thank you, master." Song You also took back the money, "It's just that I don't dare to bother the master's family anymore, let's find the past ourselves." ”

"How can that work?" The middle-aged man said, "It's dark outside, the road in the village is narrow, it's far away, and there is no one to lead the way, how can the gentleman find there?" How do you know which one it is? ”

"It doesn't matter if you can't find it, just one night wherever you are." Song You looked at him, "I've been waiting all the way, and I'm used to sleeping in the barren mountains." ”

"If this is a barren mountain, it would be fine, but since Mr. has come here, how can I let Mr. sleep in the open again?" The middle-aged man said earnestly, "It won't take much effort, so let Hong Er take the two of them." ”

"Thank you very much."

Song You no longer shirked, and responded with a smile.

Then the servants led them out with lanterns.

When I passed by, I turned my head and saw that the courtyard was already full of lanterns, and the decoration was extremely festive, not much different from ordinary people's wives, except that there was a black coffin in the lobby, which was too conspicuous.

"Watch out for the threshold."

The servant reminded them.

"Thank you."

Song You retracted his gaze and stepped out the door.

Retrieving the two horses and exiting the house, they followed the servants through the dark village road.

This is the easternmost part of the village, the abandoned old house is in the westernmost part of the village, the village is quite large, the road is tortuous, extending in all directions, if there is no servant to lead the way, maybe you really can't find it.

"Here we are."

The servant pushed open the door to the room.

"Thank you."

"It's been too long since anyone lived, and it's a bit dusty, do you need a villain to clean it again?"

"No need."

"Then the little man took his leave." The servant said, "The little man is going back, so the lantern is gone, and the two of you will rest early." ”

"Walk slowly."

Song You sent him away politely.

As soon as the servant walked away with the lantern, darkness immediately returned to the place, and only the starry sky was full of stars.

However, the three-flowered cat knew that human eyes were not good, so she took on a human form and took her pony lantern and placed it on the table.

"Hongyuan Haode Five Elements Supreme Huoyang Shenwei Zhenjun, I am the Sanhua Niangniang of the Maoer Temple next to the Fulong Temple of Yin and Yang Mountain in Lingquan County, Yizhou, please Zhenjun borrow me a little firelight to light the lantern."

"Hoo ......"

There was a little fire in the lantern.

The house is also illuminated by lights.

Looking at the room by the light, it was indeed empty, with almost nothing but shelter from the wind and rain.

"Mr. ......"

The gray-clothed swordsman looked at Song You: "Something is wrong. ”

"Yes."

Song You also nodded.

The Ding family is indeed enthusiastic, but they are inevitably a little cautious, as if they are deliberately hiding something.

Knowing that they would not go to-day and that they would live in the village, he took them from the easternmost to the westernmost house, fearing that he would not let them know anything.

"Maybe it's just a custom, and it's inconvenient for outsiders to see."

"Then we ......"

"Check it out, too."

"Good!"

The swordsman agreed.

The two and a cat sat in the house, and the two horses stood honestly outside, and as the time got later and later, there was a sudden sound of firecrackers in the distance.

“……”

The two of them and a cat went out.

Walking in the direction from which the sound came, the sound of firecrackers became clearer and clearer, followed by a burst of gongs and drums, which was quite festive.

The Taoist and the gray-clothed swordsman retreated to the side of the road and hid in the night.

Tonight, the starlight was clear, there was a little fog on the ground, and I only heard the sound of blowing in the distance getting clearer and louder, getting closer and closer, even the villagers in the house behind the Taoist also quietly opened the window and looked outside.

I saw a team of relatives coming slowly.

At night, the light was dim, and when I was far away, I could only see a few lights and a group of figures, and when I got closer, I could see the team of relatives.

What a magnificent welcoming team.

A few servants in front of them, holding the opening flag, behind the opening gong, and then blowing suona, lanterns, baskets, boxes, torches, at least twenty or thirty people, eight sedan chairs in the middle.

"I married a wife......

The gray-clothed swordsman stared ahead, muttering quietly, and suddenly frowned.

"That's not right! Sedan chair? ”

Such a secret marriage, if it is not a corpse bone, it should also be a spirit card.

By this time, the welcoming procession had passed in front of them.

Faintly you can hear the sobbing cries coming from the sedan chair.

“……”

The gray-clothed swordsman looked back at Song You again.

Generally speaking, no one uses a living person for a marriage in the dark.

The reason why people in the world are looking for a secret marriage for their children is that in addition to believing in feng shui and wanting to benefit the living, they want their children to have a companion after death, so that they will not be alone. If you can use a living person to match the underworld, you will not achieve the latter purpose, and you will run the risk of being spurned by the world, and generally speaking, there is a more special elaboration.

Such a woman is a widow when she passes through the door, and she usually does not have a good life in the future.

In fact, the secret marriage is a meaningless thing, some people think it is a bad habit, some people think it is not, but even if it is a prince and a general, it is rare to use a living person to match his dead son with a dead marriage, which is undoubtedly a more meaningless and more intolerable thing in the world's etiquette, absurd.

It's just that it's not easy to say these days.

Some people can't live themselves, and they sell their children to others as slaves and slaves, and if they are sold, it is a way to live, and you have to stop it, but it will cut off the way of life for others.

However, the crying and whimpering in the sedan car made people feel that things were not simple.

At this moment, I heard a collision in the sedan chair.

The sedan chair itself also swayed.

It's like there's someone struggling inside.

"Bang ......"

A figure crashed out of the palanquin.

The welcoming team suddenly stopped, and the sound of blowing was also stagnant.

By the light of lanterns and torches, a woman in a bright red wedding dress can be seen falling out of the sedan chair. But she was tied with ropes, her body couldn't move at all, and even her mouth was gagged.

"Woo woo woo ......"

The gray-clothed swordsman's expression suddenly froze, and the hand holding the long sword also moved.

There is no doubt that if Song You hadn't been by Song You's side, or if he hadn't been entertained by this family tonight, I'm afraid that his sword would have been unsheathed at this time, and he didn't know how much blood would have been splashed.

"The bride drops ......"

Someone shouted in front of them.

The bride was still whimpering and struggling, writhing on the ground like a worm, but two middle-aged people had already come up and grabbed her and stuffed her back into the sedan chair.

"Pick up the car......"

Someone shouted again.

The sound of blowing continued to sound, and the greeting procession was back on the road.

The Taoist and the swordsman stood still.

The swordsman was thinking about it.

The Taoist listened to the movement in the room behind him.

Behind him is a thatched hut in the village, in which live the husband and wife, the Taoist, the swordsman and the cat stand against the wall next to the window, the people in the house can not see the people outside the house through the window, they can only see the team of relatives slowly walking away between the blowing and blowing, and then whispering in the house.

"How did this Ding family become so immoral? What a little lady, pull people to marry the dead! Sooner or later, it will be struck by thunder from the sky! ”

"Didn't the Ding family die several people in a row before, I heard that it was a feng shui taboo......

"I've never seen them so immoral before?"

"If you want to talk about lack of morality, who can compare to that Cao boss? The younger brother and sister just died, and when he became an uncle, he sold his niece and nephew to a dead man as a wife, where has he ever seen such a lack of virtue in this world? ”

"What if you don't sell it? That Boss Cao can't afford to eat himself, is it possible that he can raise another little lady? ”

"What do you know?"

The voice suddenly became a little quieter.

"I heard that the Ding family bought the little lady of the Cao family, but it cost a lot of money! At such a high price, I didn't buy it to be a widow, but to go into the ground with their grandson! ”

Outside the house, the expressions of the two changed.

The swordsman was already furious.

It's just that although the swordsman is upright, he also has patience and continues to stand outside the door and listen.

"Huh?"

"Can I still lie to you? Otherwise, why do you think you want to tie up the little lady of the Cao family? The second Cao was starved to death, and the little lady of the Cao family married into the Ding family, although she was a wife to the dead, but she could afford to eat, how could she live better than before? ”

"The Ding family is not so lacking in virtue, right?"

"I heard that......"

The conversation between the two in the room became quieter and quieter.

The people outside the house also listened quietly.

After a while, there was no movement in the house.

"Mr. ......"

The swordsman lowered his voice and looked at the Taoist beside him.

"Let's go check it out."

Song You took a step and walked to the east.

The swordsman followed behind him with a sword, and said in a deep voice: "This Ding family seems to be kind, I didn't expect to be able to do this kind of thing, heaven does not tolerate ......"

"Naturally, I can't."

“……”

The swordsman stopped talking, his eyes flickering, and his heart kept scheming.

I want to forget the previous hospitality, pick up my sword and look for it, see how unfair it is here, so that I can change my happiness, but I am afraid that I will not be able to kill all the hundreds of people in the Ding family, once I leave, the little lady of the Cao family will not be able to live anywhere. wanted to be softer and save the little lady, but he felt that he could neither persuade the Ding family nor settle the little lady.

"Don't be impulsive."

A Taoist voice came from the front: "Let's go over first and see if there is anything else strange about this matter." ”

"Yes."

The gray-clothed swordsman's heart was really calm.

Slowly walked back to the door of Ding's house.

I saw that the Taoist pinched his fingerprint, and with a flick of his hand, a streamer flew into the sky.

"Boom!"

Suddenly there was a thunderclap, and lightning lit up the night sky.

Amazingly, however, the night sky was clear, starry and not a single cloud.

(End of chapter)