Without waiting for everyone's response, Xue Sheng leaned over to the ground again and humbly begged: "I beg all the gentlemen, take Ruolan out of Fengnian Village." ”

Duan Ying, who was directly opposite him, subconsciously asked when he heard this: "Take her away?" Don't you want to marry Yang Ruolan? ”

"I think."

Xue Sheng's tone was stunned, and after answering, he raised his head and looked at everyone with a sad expression: "But that was when I was still alive, and now that people and ghosts are different, how can I delay her?" ”

When everyone heard Xue Sheng's words, they were all stunned.

As Xie Yinxue said at the beginning, Xue Sheng did have something to ask for them, but they didn't expect that what Xue Sheng asked for was that they didn't want this secret marriage to happen, just like they couldn't guess that Yang Ruolan wanted to accompany Xue Sheng to die - the choice of the two was unexpected.

"Could it be that there are two ways to clear this dungeon?" Lu Ling frowned and speculated, "One is to help Yang Ruolan complete the secret marriage, and the other is to fulfill Xue Sheng's last wish and take Yang Ruolan out of Fengnian Village." ”

"But the two of them have different wishes." Liao Xinyang worried, "What if Xue Sheng's last wish is fulfilled, but Yang Ruolan is unhappy?" We helped Yang Ruolan complete the underworld marriage, and it was contrary to Xue Sheng's last wish, how can we determine whether we have succeeded in 'saving the marriage'? ”

Liao Xinyang's question is everyone's scruples, the theme of this copy is "Saving Marriage", then the customs clearance conditions must be related to Xue Sheng and Yang Ruolan, but when the wishes of the two are completely opposite, what should they do?

Besides, did they really have a way to fulfill Xue Sheng's last wish?

"To tell you the truth, we once went to Yang Ruolan and said that we could take her away tomorrow, but she didn't want to." Lu Ling told Xue Sheng, "She just wants to be with you." ”

Ying Yishui said worriedly: "Yes, we can't stun Yang Ruolan and forcibly take her away, right?" What's more, the Yang brothers looked at her very closely, and we didn't even have a chance to contact her. ”

Xie Yinxue raised her eyebrows and added lightly: "And we can't beat them." ”

When he carried out "Invite Ghosts to Eat Food" at night, he kicked a lot of ghosts, but he was not counterattacked, because Fengnian Village itself is an extremely superstitious village, and observing some folk customs here can ward off evil spirits, and all the ghosts in the dungeon are naturally attackable, which is very in line with the setting of the background of the dungeon. But people can't do it, so the Yang brothers can't attack, and in the same way, they have the same result when they face other villagers.

This means that if they are unable to finish the stage play, they will inevitably be killed by the villagers and will have no way to fight back, even if the old participants bring more self-defense weapons are completely useless.

Under such circumstances, how can they "rescue" Yang Ruolan from the Yang brothers?

As a result, Xue Sheng immediately retorted when he heard this: "No, Brother Yang and Brother Ruoming must have the same idea as me, and they definitely don't want to see this secret marriage completed!" Because they ...... I once wanted to help Ruolan elope with me and leave Fengnian Village. ”

Subsequently, he slowly said about his past with Yang Ruolan: "Ruolan and I fell in love two years ago, when I had just returned from studying abroad......"

Yang Ruolan has always lived in Fengnian Village and has never left this small fishing village, but Xue Sheng is not.

The Xue family is the richest family in Fengnian Village, so when Xue Sheng was seven years old, Mr. Xue sent his youngest son to study in other places, and it was not until he graduated and returned home at the age of twenty-two that he met the love of his life Yang Ruolan in Fengnian Village.

However, Old Man Xue always hoped that Xue Sheng could marry the daughter of an old friend of his businessman from other places, so he would never agree to Yang Ruolan and Xue Sheng's relationship.

The Yang brothers are very supportive of the love between the two, and they also hope that the two can stay together for a lifetime, they do this, not because they are greedy for the Xue family's money, but because Xue Sheng can take Yang Ruolan out of Fengnian Village and leave this backward and superstitious village.

Therefore, the Yang family helped the two plan to elope, and also took out all their wife's books and treated them as entanglements for Yang Ruolan and Xue Sheng.

But everyone didn't expect that before the day of elopement, Xue Sheng was infected with a cold and became violently ill, killing him in only three or four days.

Ironically: After Xue Sheng's death, Old Man Xue took the initiative to find the Yang family and used a lot of money as a dowry, hoping that the Yang family could let Yang Ruolan marry Xue Sheng.

Because Fengnian Village has always had the custom of ghost marriage, the men in the village, whether old or young, as long as they did not marry before death, their relatives will try their best to marry a family after death, and every family here believes that if there is a lonely grave in the family land, it will definitely affect the feng shui of the family house, as well as the prosperity of future generations.

Ordinary people are still so taboo, let alone the Xue family, which is the richest man in Fengnian Village?

"If Brother Yang and Brother Ruoming look at Ruolan very closely, they must be worried about what she is doing stupid, my father said to Ruolan, I kept reading her name before I died, and I took his hand and begged him to complete my marriage with Ruolan...... But I didn't! ”

Xue Sheng was stunned and said, "I have indeed been thinking about her, but I haven't called her name out loud." ”

At that time, Xue Sheng already knew that he would not live long.

He was lying on the bed that was gradually dethermating, and all he thought was that after he left, who would be able to take Yang Ruolan out of this village? He felt that his body was gradually getting colder, but he didn't even dare to call the name of his beloved, for fear that his father would go to Yang's house to find Ruolan and marry him after hearing about it.

But his father would not listen to what he said during his lifetime, and no one would hear what he said after his death.

After all, Old Man Xue still went to the Yang family to propose marriage, and even lied to force Yang Ruolan, who has lived in Fengnian Village since she was a child and knows the customs of secret marriage, to agree to this family affair - after all, Yang Ruolan loves Xue Sheng so much, if it is his last wish to complete the secret marriage, how can she bear to refuse? What's more, her death can bring a lot of wealth to her family, so that after her death, her brother and younger brother can eat less hard work and live a good life.

Xu Lu was surprised when she heard this: "But when we went to Yang's house for the first time, we obviously heard Yang Ruoming saying to Yang Ruolan, hoping that she could think about her family." ”

"You didn't hear it all." Xue Sheng shook his head and said, "I was also there at that time, and what Brother Ruoming said was, 'You always think about your family, why don't you think about yourself', he and Brother Yang both hope that Yang Ruolan can refuse the Xue family's proposal." ”

Li Luming muttered in a daze: "It turns out that Yang Ruolan was deceived......"

Lu Ling thought about it, but he still felt a little confused, they hadn't found the answer yet: "But this still can't fully explain why the Yang family brothers are so wary of us." ”

"Maybe it's not us that the Yang brothers are wary of." Hearing this, Xie Yinxue suddenly spoke, "It's someone from the Golden Ingot Troupe." ”

Lu Ling didn't understand: "What do we have to be wary of?" ”

"This is for Young Master Xue-" Xie Yinxue took two steps to the steps, and then turned to face the audience, "Why are we singing for them?" ”

They are referring to the brides sitting in the audience.

The only thing that everyone can be sure of now is that the real purpose of the Golden Ingot Troupe coming to Fengnian Village this time is to sing for these ghost brides; The villagers also made a request: they should sing so that they could make them cry; Yang Ruolan even said to Xie Yinxue: Only by singing this play well can her marriage with Xue Sheng be completed.

This "Saving Marriage" seems to only revolve around Yang Ruolan and Xue Sheng, but it is closely related to everyone, so what is so special about it?

Everyone's eyes fell on Xue Sheng, waiting for his answer.

Xue Sheng was stunned for a few seconds and said, "...... I do not know. ”

Lu Ling asked in surprise, "Don't know?" ”

"Yes." Xue Sheng nodded and said, "I only know that the village will start to be haunted every year at this time, so Qingfeng Village will invite people from a troupe to sing every year, and after singing, the strange things in the village will disappear." ”

Xue Sheng was also frightened when he was a child, so his health was not very good, and he went to study in other places after he was seven years old, and rarely asked about the things in Fengnian Village.

If it weren't for the fact that he met Yang Ruolan here after returning home, he would have continued to go to other places to develop after accompanying Old Man Xue for the New Year, and would not have stayed in Fengnian Village for a long time.

After Xue Sheng finished speaking, he looked at everyone's faces again, and after identifying them, he said: "Last year, the village also invited people from the Golden Ingot Troupe to sing, but those actors are not you. ”

"These plays are all sung when I was a child, I have never gone out to watch a play because I am afraid of ghosts, and when everyone comes back from listening to the play, they only talk about how touching and good the play is, and never say anything else." Xue Sheng smiled bitterly, "How did I know that these scenes were actually sung to ghosts." ”

Xue Sheng's statement, everyone still believed it, because they also noticed some details, that is, there were very few people in Fengnian Village, and it could even be said that they would hardly mention words such as "ghost", "death" and "corpse". On the day the villagers found Xue Sheng's body, they didn't say that they saw "Xue Sheng's body" on the alley road, only that they saw Xue Sheng; When they recalled Xue Sheng's soul just now, the villagers only asked "what is he doing here", but would not say things like "Isn't he dead?"

Therefore, the villagers will never say that the play that must be sung at this time of year is sung to the ghosts.

Since Xue Sheng didn't know much about these ghost brides, he couldn't get any useful clues if he asked again, so Xie Yinxue said: "Tonight's play is about to start, let's finish singing tonight." As for Yang Ruolan—"

He paused slightly, and then continued: "I think it would be better for you to meet her in person, tell her what is in your heart, and persuade her to change her mind." ”

"I will." After Xue Sheng finished speaking, he thanked everyone again, "Thank you for making me visible, I will definitely help everyone finish tonight's play." ”

Everyone loved to hear this.

If Xue Sheng was as crazy as Xu Chen last night, then they might be killed by the villagers tonight, and they wouldn't survive tomorrow at all.

However, tonight, Xue Sheng replaced Xu Chen as the monk of Jinshan Temple, and after successfully singing "Saving Marriage", the ghost brides in the audience still froze in their positions like tombstones, without any movement or sound.

"They still haven't cried......

The villagers who were guarding the seat signs looked at each other and asked each other in a panicked voice: "Why are you still not crying?" What to do? ”

"It's you-" Now the village chief of Qingfeng only had violence on his face, his gloomy gaze swept to the stage, and pressed the question on everyone's heads again, "Blame you for not singing well!" ”

Min Yuandan clasped his hands in front of him, pretending to be distressed, but in fact gloating and said, "But we didn't sing anything wrong." ”

"Failing to make the audience cry is the biggest mistake, we must make them cry!" The village chief of Qingfeng couldn't listen to Min Yuandan's words at all, he looked at everyone's eyes and was as resentful as if he wanted to eat his flesh raw, but he didn't start immediately because he still needed them to sing for another day, "Tomorrow is the last day, you only have one last ......chance left."

Seeing this, Xie Yinxue directly interrupted the words of the village chief of Qingfeng: "If they don't cry, will you die?" ”

Hearing this, the village chief of Qingfeng turned his head and looked at Xie Yinxue.

Xie Yinxue met his gaze, and although the words he said when he opened his lips were questions, he said them in the tone of a declarative sentence: "Yes." ”

Only in this way can we explain why the villagers of Fengnian Village attach so much importance to this play.

As a result, the village chief of Qingfeng ignored Xie Yinxue, he looked at Xue Sheng, softened his voice and said, "Ah Sheng, you are also from the village, you have to think of a way." ”

Xue Sheng wanted to pretend to be stupid and stunned like he had just done to his other villagers and Aunt Li, he didn't feel anything when he heard the first half of the sentence, but when he heard the second half of the sentence from the village chief of Qingfeng, his face changed, because the village chief of Qingfeng said: "You see that your father loves you so much, and he goes to such great lengths, just so that you and Ruolan can stay together, and the people in the village are also doing their best to help with your marriage, can you bear to watch the people in the village die?" ”

"But I don't want to marry this family." Xue Sheng looked at the village chief of Qingfeng and said bitterly, "Village chief, secret marriage is a bad custom, if you don't help persuade my father, why do you still want to fight for the tiger?" ”

"For the tiger?"

When the village chief of Qingfeng and the rest of the villagers heard this word, they immediately showed anger and asked Xue Sheng how he could slander them like this, and Old Man Xue also walked out of the ranks of the villagers, looked at Xue Sheng with unfilial eyes, and asked him: "Didn't you always want to be with Yang Ruolan?" Now that I have granted your wish, what more will you do? ”

Xue Sheng also replied to Old Man Xue sharply: "That was when I was alive!" I'm dead alone, you should leave me alone! ”

"You're only thinking about yourself, have you thought about the rest of the family?" Old Man Xue hammered the floor tiles a few times with his cane, and then covered his heart in pain, "How can there be a lonely grave in our Xue family's land?" That's going to break my Xue family's century-old feng shui! ”

Xue Sheng's mother, Mrs. Xue, hurriedly stepped forward to support Old Man Xue and comforted him: "Master, don't be angry, pay attention to your body......"

Seeing this scene, even though Xue Sheng still had a thousand words to say, he couldn't say it, for fear of stimulating Old Man Xue and making him angry.

After Old Man Xue stood firm with a cane, he still shook his head and said sadly: "I shouldn't have sent you to study in other places...... You've read silly! ”

Xue Sheng's gaze swept over Old Man Xue and the village chief of Qingfeng, and fell on the blood-red ghost bride behind them, he had never asked about the affairs of Fengnian Village in the past, but at this moment he suddenly understood the origin of these ghost brides, he trembled his lips, and muttered: "But you have gone crazy......"

Xue Sheng, who was lost and depressed, was finally taken back to the backstage by the participants.

Everyone stared at Xue Sheng who was sitting on the chair blankly, you look at me and I look at you, I didn't expect that one day they would need to comfort a ghost.

Ying Yishui stepped forward and just wanted to pat Xue Sheng on the shoulder, but he thought about it himself, straightened his back and said in a deep voice: "I must not let Ruolan become them!" ”

As soon as these words fell, the backstage curtain was lifted, and everyone turned their heads to look, only to see that the person who walked into the tent was Yang Ruolan's eldest brother Yang Ruowen.

Xue Sheng looked at him and said in amazement, "...... Brother Yang? ”

"I'm out to watch the play tonight, because I heard Aunt Chen say that the new actor in the troupe is you." Yang Ruowen's eyes locked on Xue Sheng, pursed his lips and continued, "I wanted to know why you joined the Golden Ingot Troupe to help the abuse, but I didn't expect that after this, I would see you and Master Xue arguing. ”

"Aiding and abetting?" Xue Sheng was also stunned after listening to Yang Ruowen's words, and he couldn't figure out why the words he had just used to describe the villagers were used by Yang Ruowen.

Yang Ruowen asked him again: "Don't you know what the village sings every year about this "Saving Marriage" is sung for?" ”

Xue Sheng shook his head: "I don't know." ”

Yang Ruowen looked at the participants, and saw that their faces were all the same blank as Xue Sheng, and continued to ask, "You don't know either?" ”

Xie Yinxue pulled her lips and smiled when she heard this, and asked him rhetorically: "Xue Sheng is a local here, he doesn't know, we have only been here for six days, do you think we will know?" ”

Bu Jiuzhao, who was standing beside him, also curled the corners of his lips when he heard this, and lowered his voice and said in Xie Yinxue's ear: "You really don't know? ”

Xie Yinxue didn't bother to take care of him.

As if dissatisfied with the young man's snubbing of him like this, Bu Jiuzhao raised his eyebrows and said, "I also found one thing, when you heard Old Man Xue's words, 'You only care about yourself, have you thought about the rest of the family', your breath was chaotic for a moment. Why, has anyone said such things to you? ”

It's a pity that the young man is still silent with his eyelashes down.

And after Yang Ruowen stood silently for a while, he finally spoke: "It's to suppress evil spirits." ”

Yang Ruowen is already thirty-two years old this year, half a round older than Xue Sheng, but the custom of singing on stage for the bride of the underworld marriage in Fengnian Village was born in the year he was born, and I don't know what year it started when I go back, I only know that a master has seen the method of feng shui to suppress evil spirits for Fengnian Village.

The master said that there are too many underworld marriages in Fengnian Village, which consumes yin virtue, and only by singing on the stage for the brides can they resolve their grievances and temporarily change the peace in the village.

However, before Yang Ruowen was six years old, Fengnian Village sang on stage for the underworld bride once every two years, not once a year now.

"When I was six years old, the troupe invited by the village sang for three days, but they sang the wrong words for three days, and the performance was not good. So after the end of the third day, people began to die in the village. Yang Ruowen lowered his head and said with a blank gaze, "My father went that year, and at that time, my mother was still pregnant with Ruoming. ”