Chapter Twenty-Three: The Wedding Feast
Chen Chichi looked at the furrow on his stomach, only felt that his scalp was numb, listened to the old lady's words, and asked suspiciously:
"Your grandson?"
The old lady rubbed her eyes, patted her mouth like a child had done something wrong, and said apologetically:
"I'm old, dizzy, I saw the wrong ......"
Chen Chichi still had palpitations.
"I'm afraid your baby is not allergic, grandma has soil ointment here, just rub it on."
"Really?"
With questions, Grandma Ding Mu took out a tube of linen-wrapped ointment from the pulp wooden cabinet in the outhouse, spread it out and looked at the black piece, and the heavy smell of Chinese medicine came to her face.
The three of them didn't carry any emergency things on them, if they resisted so hard to return to the city, Chen Chichi estimated that he would have gone crazy a long time ago, so he had to die as a live horse, and first use Ding Mu's grandmother's ointment.
As soon as the ointment was applied to his belly, Chen Chi Chi felt a chill, and the itching sensation was immediately relieved.
"Don't say it, it seems to be working."
"Grandma can still hurt you, continue to eat, and there are vegetables."
Li Huixi and the fox glanced at each other, even through the fox's face, Li Huixi could guess that the other party's expression must be the same as his own, and felt a little strange.
After eating and drinking, the bodies of the three of them also warmed up, and there were no entertainment facilities in the house, only the squeaking sound of the fire in the kitchen, accompanied by the whistling wind outside the house, and sleepiness accompanied by elevated blood sugar surged into Chen's brain.
It's going to be winter, and the dark time here is much earlier than summer, plus Li Huixi hasn't had much rest in the previous world, and after being infected by Chen's yawn, his eyelids are getting heavier and heavier.
Early in the morning, compared to the environment last night, the village suddenly became lively, Chen Chi was woken up by the shouts of the crowd, and looked at the side, Li Huixi and the fox had already gotten up at some point.
Grandma Ding Mu had already prepared breakfast, smelling the aroma of the food, and the slight resentment that Chen had been woken up for a long time also dissipated, completely forgetting what happened in her stomach last night.
"Grandma, your craftsmanship is so good, isn't it Xixi?"
The first time he heard Chen Chichi call himself like this, Li Huixi felt a little at a loss, and after a few seconds of delay, he still responded to Chen Chichi:
"Well, eat more, and we'll leave for breakfast after breakfast."
When Grandma Ding Mu heard that they were leaving, she was obviously a little unhappy, her expression was complicated, and she said with a little doubt:
"Is it because grandma is not well entertained, why do you have to leave so early?"
"Yes, Xixi, I don't have a clue, don't you have nothing to do when you go back."
Li Huixi's voice became even colder, causing the atmosphere to suddenly drop to freezing:
"Eat and leave."
Chen Chichi felt that something was wrong with the atmosphere, so he had to eat with his head bored.
All that was left in the house was the sound of chopsticks colliding with bowls, and the noise in the village outside the window had disappeared at some point.
After a period of silence, the sound of firecrackers and gongs and drums reached the ears of the four people at the table, breaking the atmosphere that had just cooled.
Grandma Ding Mu suddenly remembered something, and said to the three of them with some surprise:
"Someone in the village got married today, why don't you leave first, let's go after the wedding banquet, our marriage is different from other places, it's very interesting."
Seeing this, Chen Chichi also echoed:
"Look at Xixi, how lucky we are, anyway, it's not in a hurry, it's not too late to stay and watch the wedding before leaving."
Li Huixi looked at Chen Chichi a little helplessly, and saw her excited appearance, so she had no choice but to nod.
The three of them cleaned up briefly, Grandma Ding Mu led the way, and several people walked to the entrance of the village together.
Different from the marriage ceremonies that are now invaded by Western wedding culture, the wedding process here is very traditional and retains some of the ancient appearance.
It happened that the bride came from the entrance of the village in a sedan chair, and the people carrying the sedan chair couldn't be counted for a while.
The whole convoy was dressed in red, and strangely enough, the people carrying the sedan chair wore uniform hats, leaving only one eye to see the way, and their figures were all very different.
The leader was blowing suona and setting off firecrackers, which vibrated Chen Chichi's eardrums on the side of the road, and the man farthest away from the sedan chair was scattering flowers on both sides, maybe the temperature in the early morning was relatively low, and Chen Chichi always felt cold and swishing around him.
The fox looked at the convoy and gently pushed Li Huixi beside him, and his voice under the mask was dull:
"Do you feel unlucky?"
"Scatter flowers? It's like throwing paper money. ”
"And the sedan chair, if you turn sideways......"
"Like a coffin? It's a little narrower indeed. ”
"Hmmm......"
"In such an old village, are there more children?"
"Seems so, why are there so many children here?"
All the way into the village with the convoy of people, the uncle and aunt were also lively all the way, the sedan chair team stopped in front of a house that did not look too rich, although there is a yard, but in this countryside can only be regarded as standard.
But the house is also decorated with elaborate decorations, hand-cut safflower stickers, firecrackers hanging high, and a banquet that has already been set up.
The scale of this wedding banquet is really not small, and it can be regarded as a bit of a grand event, worthy of the big sedan chair carried by everyone.
The groom also walked out to the cheers of the crowd, and the sound of firecrackers also burned to the center, getting louder and louder.
Chen Chichi looked at the groom's face and couldn't help but complain to the two people around him:
"Are you getting married at such an old age? This man looks like he's forty years old. ”
Li Huixi and the fox didn't respond to her, but this passage was heard by a little girl and threw Chen Chichi a roll of the eyes.
The groom's expression was accompanied by joy, his steps were brisk, and he walked to the door of the sedan chair with the wedding ring.
Amid the cheers of the crowd, the groom opened the curtain of the sedan chair.
After seeing the bride's face clearly, Chen Chichi's face suddenly changed, and he looked at Li Huixi and the two with horror in his eyes.
Li Huixi immediately sensed that something was wrong, walked up to Chen Chichi's side, and asked softly:
"What's wrong?"
Chen couldn't say a word for a long time.
The groom stood at the door of the sedan chair for a long time, not knowing what to do to the bride inside, and only after a while did he carry the bride into the house, the strange thing is that the bride's face was buried in the groom's chest, and the limbs did not make any movements, and the thighs were straight and horizontal on the groom's arms, a little stiff.
When the groom entered the house, everyone's focus shifted again, and Chen Chi Chi breathed a sigh of relief and said to Li Huixi and the fox:
"I seem to know ...... person"
"Five?"
"She really looks like our classmate...... Fang Xue, who is in class four, looks exactly the same. ”
"Why is she here?"
"Why doesn't it matter here, I seem to see a few pieces on her face."
"It won't be ......"
The fox followed Chen Chichi's words, turned his head and glanced at Li Huixi, and the three of them had the same mind, and said in unison:
"Corpse spots?!"
The three of them looked together again at the house where the bridegroom had just entered, the door was locked and no guest was allowed to enter, and almost everyone had gone to the wedding feast.
"Do you want to talk to them?"
Li Huixi shook his head and said slowly to the two:
"Originally, I thought that Ding Mu was the source of this world, as long as I did last time, I could detect his death, but now there is this Fang Xue. It seems that we really can't go back for a while. ”
Chen Chichi blamed himself a little, but at this time, he was more afraid of seeing the dead.
The three of them had breakfast, they didn't feel hungry, and they were about to go back to Grandma Ding Mu's house, as soon as Chen Chi turned around, Grandma Ding Mu's face was expressionless on his face, and Chen Chi was suddenly frightened and cried.