Chapter 001: A Marriage
The ninth day of June is a good day.
The yellow calendar says that "it is appropriate to marry" and "it is appropriate to be buried".
Shen Yuyao, the most favored concubine of the Xuanping Marquis Mansion, got married.
Ten miles of red makeup, married to the new science and technology exploration flower Li Anlin.
In the capital, no matter who hears about this family affair, they must praise "good match".
A pair of talented and beautiful people, Shen Yuyao doesn't need to say, the only daughter of Xuanping Marquis Shen Ji, the three elder brothers on the top of her head, all of them are promising, and she was born with a golden branch and jade leaf with a golden key, and she is also very smart, gentle and atmospheric, and proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.
Although Li Anlin was born in a poor family, he is a rare talent in a century, and his articles are written in a variety of flowers, and he is a protΓ©gΓ© of the Son of Heaven hand-picked by the emperor's imperial pen.
Both families were very satisfied with this family affair.
The welcoming team scattered the happy money like a red rain in the sky.
The makeup of the relatives was carried from Mingyue Lane, where the Xuanping Marquis Mansion was located, to Niujiao Lane, where the Li family lived, and there was no end in sight.
At dusk, the sedan chair is carried to the door of Li's house, the gongs and drums of Li's house are noisy, and the bride and groom worship heaven and earth happily and enter the cave room.
The groom, Li Anlin, was full of spring breeze, and was surrounded by people and left, going to the front hall to feast guests.
The bride, Shen Yuyao, was wearing a red wedding dress, with a hijab on her head, and sat on the wedding bed with joy.
When it got dark, Shen Yuyao's mother, Zhang, withdrew from the new house with a smile, went back to the house in the dark, hugged a green Luo skirt, and walked into the ear room separated by a wall.
In the corner of the transept, there was a dim oil lamp, which was covered with a black veil and kept outside the room without any light.
A young girl, sitting on her knees by the lamp, just look at the outline of the side face, you can know that this girl looks extremely beautiful.
Seeing Zhang's mother come in, the girl raised her eyes, a pair of clear apricot eyes, reflecting the light of the candle flame, shining, clear, pure and innocent, as if there was a kind of insight into people's hearts.
Mother Zhang sighed secretly in her heart, these eyes were very similar to the late eldest lady of Xuanping Houfu, An's.
It is no wonder that the ancestor of the Xuanping Hou Mansion, as soon as he saw her, urged the Xuanping Hou Bang to arrest his son-in-law, and marry the fake daughter Shen Yuyao next door who was holding the wrong one to marry him quickly, so as to make room for this one and take him back to the house.
Zhang's mother knows the person in front of her, not because she is the real daughter of the Xuanping Marquis Mansion.
It's that she once did herself a big favor and owed a favor.
Therefore, when she came to the door a few days ago, Zhang's mother would come down, and today she carried her little master behind her back and secretly returned this favor.
"Lingxi, do you really want to do this?" Mother Zhang's expression was worried, and her eyes were really concerned, "Tomorrow the Hou Ye will take you back to the house, this fake daughter's marriage was selected by the Hou Ye, if you are disturbed, the Hou Ye knows, I am afraid that your life will not be easy after returning home." β
The girl stood up, took the green Luo skirt from Zhang's mother's hand, winked at her, and smiled comfortingly: "Mom, don't worry about me, since I asked you to help me with this, this matter must have been thought through." β
She took out a handkerchief embroidered with magnolia flowers from her sleeve and shook it in front of Zhang's mother.
The fragrant magnolia aroma instantly poured into Zhang's mother's nasal cavity.
But in a few breaths, Zhang's mother only felt dizzy, and her eyes suddenly became blurry.
Before she passed out, she only heard the girl whisper: "In order not to disturb my mother, you have been wronged to sleep on the ground for half an hour......"
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A quarter of an hour later.
In the new room, Shen Yuyao sat on the wedding bed, her bright red hijab blocked her vision, and the unfamiliar magnolia aroma between her breaths made her a little drowsy.
"Squeak", the door was pushed open from the outside, and a cool breeze blew, which shocked the pair of dragon and phoenix candles on the dressing table to burst the candles twice.
The visitor closed the door lightly, walked to the bed and stopped.
Shen Yuyao looked at the familiar green Luo skirt in her sight, and barely cheered up, "Tourmaline, I'm so sleepy, let Bizhu guard outside, you sit down and lean on me for a while." β
A female voice chuckled in her ear, "Girl, don't be busy sleeping, there is time to sleep tonight." β
"Who are you?"
This is not the voice of tourmaline, Shen Yuyao asked in surprise, and was about to lift the hijab, wanting to see who the person was.
The hand was suddenly grabbed by a pair of soft hands and twisted it neatly behind his back.
"Save ...... Hmmm......"
When she opened her mouth to call for help, the man "brushed", tore off her hijab, and shoved the mouth cloth into her mouth.
The sudden light made Shen Yuyao's eyes flicker, and when she fixed her eyes, she saw a girl with white skin and a beautiful appearance, as if she had stepped down from a painting, standing slim in front of her bed.
The girl was wearing a tourmaline green skirt, with a pair of glass-like beautiful eyes, and she was looking at herself.
It's a woman.
This realization made Shen Yuyao's heart slightly relieved.
"Hmm!" She glared at the girl, and let out a dissatisfied whimper, "Hmm! Not! Hmm!" (Let Me Go)
"Shhhhh......h
Stretched out his hand and tore off a piece of red silk from the side, and tied Shen Yuyao into a zongzi with his hands and feet, and tied it to the head of the bed.
The action of tying people up is so skillful, isn't she a female snitch?
Shen Yuyao's eyes showed timidity.
The girl smiled at her, her voice soft and gentle, "Don't be afraid, girl, I'm not here for you, but for your husband." You'll know in a moment that it's better to do this. β
When she laughed, her watery apricot eyes rippled slightly. There are two shallow pear vortices on the lips, and the hibiscus-like little face is like a water lily that blooms quietly at night, which is both beautiful and has a cold and delicate color.
Shen Yuyao has always felt that she is good-looking, but now, she is a little ashamed.
"For your husband."
What does this mean...... Isn't she Li Anlin secretly raised in the outer room outside?
Thinking of this possibility, Shen Yuyao's heart ached, and her eyes instantly filled with a layer of mist.
Soon after, everyone in the capital should know that she is just a fake daughter who is the wrong daughter of the Xuanping Marquis Mansion.
If there is such a beautiful outer room, if you can't get the favor of your husband after marriage, your life will be completely ruined.
The girl seemed to guess what she was thinking, and a touch of pity crossed her eyes, "Don't be sad, girl, your husband is not a thing, don't want it." β
Before Shen Yuyao could understand what she meant, she saw the other party squatting down, groping under the bed, and suddenly pulled out a thing that was the length of a person and densely wrapped in red silk.
With a "hiss", the top end of the red silk was torn open by her, revealing a pale and withered woman's face!
Yes, it's a female corpse!!
"Hmm!!!!!"
Shen Yuyao's eyes widened in horror, she had never seen such a terrifying scene, and her back spine was tingling with her scalp.
She struggled frantically, but her body was firmly tied to the head of the bed with red silk, and she couldn't move at all.
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid."
The girl whispered reassuringly, as if she was used to seeing such a scene, winked at Shen Yuyao slyly, neatly peeled off the red silk wrapped around the corpse, and took out some bottles and cans from the small baggage she carried.
While smearing the face of the female corpse, she said softly: "She is also called Yao Niang, she is from Sucheng, there is no father, no mother and no brothers and sisters in the family, relying on the ancestral Su embroidery, she opened an embroidery shop in Sucheng. Five years ago, when she married Li Anlin, Li Anlin was still a poor talent who copied books for others. β
Over the years, Yao Niang has provided food and clothing for Li Anlin and his mother Li, for him to study in the best academy, and to serve his mother for him. When Li Anlin was named on the gold list, she thought that she would survive from then on, and she would be a flower girl in the future, and she would bring all her belongings to Beijing...... Unexpectedly, in exchange for a foot of red silk in Li Anlin's hand, he strangled her to death in the house in Qinghua Lane in the east of the city. β
The girl's voice was soft and ethereal, telling Yao Niang's life experience, making Shen Yuyao forget the struggle for a while.
In just a quarter of an hour, the pale and withered female corpse became vivid under the girl's skillful hands, and her skin was like clotted fat, her cheeks were like peach plums, and her lips were like vermilion...... It's as if you're about to open your eyes and come back to life.
"Yao Niang, the makeup is done, it's time to get up!" The girl helped the female corpse up, straightened her sideburns wrapped in red silk, and praised her with a smile: "You are the best looking today, since it is Li Anlin's happy day, we have to go to the front hall to ask for a cup of wine anyway." β
As she spoke, the girl pulled out a few extremely thin red threads from the corpse's red wedding dress and tied them to her fingertips.
Shen Yuyao was horrified to find -
The girl didn't know what method she used, the finger tied with the red thread moved slightly, and the corpse seemed to come to life suddenly, and it moved with her!
Cheat...... Corpse!!
It's the hell...... Hell!
Shen Yuyao was terrified, her whole body was tense, and she leaned desperately against the head of the bed, almost fainting with fright!
The girl smiled at her, as if thinking of something, and reached out to pull the big red hijab that Fang had just thrown on the wedding bed and pulled it into her hand.
It was Shen Yuyao's red hijab.
"This one is borrowed for us." The girl comforted gently: "Don't be afraid, girl, only those who have done bad things will be afraid of ghosts." After a while, your two girls will wake up, anyway, there is no cave room now, the girl might as well think about it, do you want this man. If you insist on continuing to live with him, and one day you will be Li Anlin's second 'Yao Niang', remember to come to Fu'an Hall in Wangxian Village in the east of the city, and I will give you a regular customer price! β
After that, she put Shen Yuyao's hijab on the head of the female corpse, "snuggled" with the female corpse, opened the door, and walked out......