Night.

The moon stars are scarce.

......

It's noisy!

There was a burst of talking in my ears, like a flock of ducks crowing.

It's so noisy that people's brains hurt.

"Hey, wake up!"

"Li Gongzi is awake!"

"Grandpa is fine, great. ”

......

Li Congyan opened his eyes.

There were seven or eight heads, in a circle, looking down at him with different expressions. These people, both men and women, old and young, are dressed in strange ways, with their hair tied up or in a bun, and they are dressed in retro fashion, which does not look like modern people.

The touch under his body was hard, and he felt cold and cold, and he seemed to be lying on the ground.

What's the situation?

Li Cong didn't know what to say, so he wanted to open his mouth to speak, but found that he couldn't speak, his body couldn't move, except for breathing, only his eyes could turn.

"Hurry up and help Li Gongzi to worship the church. ”

"Don't miss the auspicious time!"

"Yes, yes, the church matters. ”

A group of people said babbling.

Then.

A burly man came out next to him, lifted Li Congyan up, and walked towards the house with his arms.

In the hall, it was very festively decorated.

On the coffee table in the center, there are fruit pastries and tablets of the gods.

On both sides of the Taishi chair, a pair of brightly dressed middle-aged men and women sat separately.

The red candles are burning, and the music outside is lively.

"The auspicious time has come, the bride and groom visit the church!"

Someone shouted.

"Worship heaven and earth!"

Li Congyan was involuntarily held down and knelt on the ground, bowing down to the tablet of the gods.

At a glance, I saw a teenage girl kneeling next to her, with fair skin and a delicate side face. looks pretty, but she's still young.

The little girl was not wearing a gown or a red hood, and did not seem to be a bride.

Oddly enough.

She held a chicken in her arms, nodded her head to the ground, and saluted.

Li Congyan was confused, and before he had time to think about it, he heard again-

"Second worship high hall!"

So, he was pressed down again and kowtowed to the "high hall" in the middle.

The little girl took the chicken in her arms and bowed together.

"Husband and wife worship each other!"

Li Congyan was like a marionette, being manipulated to turn around and face to face with the little girl.

This time, he saw that the chicken in the little girl's arms was just an ordinary poultry, and it was clawed by a red rope and was powerless to break free.

The comb is small and is mostly a hen.

This is?

And the chicken chapel?

A huge sense of absurdity rose in Li Congyan's heart!

The big man next to him didn't care about what he was thinking, pinched his neck with his palm, and pressed it again.

This third prayer is finished.

After that, there was no much-anticipated "send into the cave room", but a simple "rite".

The joyful sounds of Biliba came and went, mixed with various human voices.

"Congratulations to Master Zhao for getting a virtuous son-in-law!"

"Congratulations!"

......

The bedroom was simply furnished, with a few large red characters that caught the eye.

Li Congyan was dragged in and sat on the edge of the bed in a daze.

As the night darkened, the moonlight filtered through the window lattice.

I don't know how long it took, but the noisy voices outside gradually quieted down and subsided, and the scene ended.

Suddenly.

Li Congyan's fingers moved, and then his neck twisted slightly.

After another moment, his movements slowly grew larger, and he began to gradually control his body. As the body recovers, there are many more fragmented memories in the mind, which belong to the memories of others.

Not much.

He let out a sigh: "Whew......"

He staggered to his feet, and then reactivated his muscles.

After taking a few more steps, I found a bronze mirror.

"Crossed?"

Looking at the unfamiliar young faces in the mirror, combined with the extra memories, he was almost certain that he had crossed over.

There were no car accidents, no jumps, and no visions of heaven and earth...... After just sleeping, and when I woke up again, I was in a strange ancient world, and my soul occupied a completely new body, and the original owner of the body was also surnamed Li-

Li Cheng, words from words.

is a down-and-out scholar.

Li Cheng was born in an ordinary peasant family, lost his mother when he was a child, and his father was an authentic farmer. Li's father has a heart to hope that his son will become a dragon, and he has devoted all his family wealth to let his son study, looking forward to one day being able to be named on the gold list and glorify his ancestors.

However, reading is also about talent, Li Cheng is not this material, he has studied hard for more than ten years, and has not achieved the slightest fame.

On the contrary, the more I read, the poorer I became, and I relied on the help of the villagers on weekdays to barely survive.

More than ten days ago, Li's father died of illness.

Li Cheng couldn't even make up the funeral expenses, and he was really poor.

As for borrowing?

The world is chaotic, the people are very miserable, they can't eat enough, how can they have any money to borrow from others.

As a last resort.

He came up with a way to sell himself and bury his father.

However, it is useless to be a scholar.

He is such a "waste man" who has no strength to tie the chicken and no skills, what is the use of buying it, is it just an ornament? Rich people are not stupid, on the contrary, they are very shrewd.

Until that day......

He knelt on the ground in the bazaar and sold himself, and happened to be seen by Miss Zhao.

Miss Zhao's name is "Erniang", and she is a well-known talented girl in the county. She has been smart since she was a child, and she can learn as soon as she reads, and she can understand everything at a point, far surpassing students of the same age. When she was thirteen years old, the master of the school praised her for "learning everything she can, and there is nothing to teach", which means that everything that should be learned has been learned, and there is nothing left to teach.

As a result, Zhao Erniang became famous, and after hearing about it, many people sighed that if she was a man, she would have a place in the court in the future.

Since the master has "no way to teach", Zhao Erniang no longer goes to the school, but helps his father take care of the business of the glass workshop.

In the following years, she continued to improve the glass production process, expand the sales channels, and expanded the scale of the workshop by more than ten times, and the workers praised her for her good management.

At the age of the prime, the family is well-off, and the beauty and intelligence are naturally inevitable that many people will come to the door to propose marriage, including romantic and talented people, local rich businessmen, and aristocrats who have come thousands of miles away.

But.

Zhao Erniang refused.

She claimed that she loved her family and did not want to leave her parents.

If it is placed in the future generations, it is not a big deal for a woman not to marry.

But now is a feudal era, and the main function of women is to pass on the family lineage, husband and children.

The law stipulates that if a woman over the age of 18 has no husband, she shall be married by the state or county.

In other words, if a woman is not married by the age of eighteen, she will be appointed by the government. At that time, whether it is rationed to Zhang Mazi on the street or the widowed man in the next village will not be up to him.

If not?

Do time!

Zhao Erniang is seventeen years old, and after the New Year, she will reach the age of forced marriage by the official media.

So, she moved the idea of recruiting a son-in-law, and happened to see Li Cheng sell himself to bury his father, so after a little inquiry, she bought it.

When Li Cheng buried his deceased father, after the first seven days, the wedding of the two went on time.

It's just that there was an accident in the glaze workshop, and Zhao Erniang hurriedly went to deal with it.

However, the wedding banquet has already been prepared, and the wedding cards have been sent, so it is inconvenient to cancel.

As a result, there is this drama of "worshipping with chickens".

Since ancient times, there has been a precedent for worshipping chickens, and it is not new. When a young man is unable to return home for various reasons, he can use a rooster instead of the bridegroom to visit the bride.

The use of a hen instead of a bride is the first time I have heard of it.

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"Uncle, did you sleep?"

A warbler's voice sounded outside the door.

Li Congyan opened the door.

The person who came was a little girl holding a chicken and his worship, holding a basin of hot water, standing at the door with a beautiful face.

"Little Fish Girl. ”

Li Congyan recognized her, she was the personal maid of his newlywed wife Zhao Erniang, and she was sold to the Zhao family as a slave since she was a child. I saw that the little girl's forehead was covered with fine sweat, and it was not easy to think that it would be difficult to come tonight.

"Uncle fell earlier, is it better?"

Li Congyan touched the back of his head, and there was a tingling pain.

In front of the worship hall, Li Cheng accidentally tripped and hit the back of his head.

This fall has brought out a soul from another world!

"It's fine. ”

The little girl smiled when she heard this: "Uncle, it's okay." ”

Xiao Yu brought hot water and waited for his aunt to wash and change clothes. ”

"I'll do it myself. ”

Li Congyan refused, "You're also tired in the middle of the night, go and rest early." ”

With that, he took the basin and closed the door with his backhand.

When the basin is placed on the table, the water ripples and the heat is thick.

Li Congyan looked down at the delicate appearance reflected on the water surface, the memories of the two lives were intertwined, and his mind couldn't help but be in a trance, and he was a little confused for a while, and he didn't know how to face it in the future?

Crash!

Picked up the hot water and patted his face to sober himself up.

In the future, let's take one step at a time.

wiped his face with a face towel, Li Congyan planned to take off the red dress and soak his feet again.

However, as soon as he unfastened his belt, something slipped out of his arms and fell to the ground with a thud.

When I picked it up, it was a palm-sized thread-bound booklet, with a few large cinnabar characters on the yellowed cover—Seventy-two Earth Evil Techniques.

The memory belonging to Li Cheng immediately emerged: this booklet is the heirloom of the Li family, which is said to have been left by the ancestor Li Er to future generations, and has unfathomable power. As for what kind of power it is, the descendants of the Li family do not know.

There is no content in the whole book except for a few words on the cover, and there are no pictures or words on each page, and there is a blank space. Miraculously, blank pages cannot be written, and any graffiti will be erased in an instant.

In addition, the booklet is invulnerable and invulnerable, which is really a great treasure.

As a result, the booklet was passed down from generation to generation.

This time he came to get married, and Li Cheng took his only valuable treasure with him.

......

"Seventy-two earth-shattering arts?"

Li Congyan whispered to himself, "Isn't it seventy-two changes?"

He once read the original text of "Journey to the West", and wrote for the third time that before Sun Wukong went to the Dragon Palace to borrow treasures, he said to the old monkey in the mountains: "Since I heard the Tao, I have seventy-two kinds of earthly changes...... Can't you go?"

These seventy-two earthly evil techniques, every general change is a kind of supernatural power.

For example, the well-known "fixation" can make the body and soul of the person, and even the gods and beasts or all objects be fixed, so that they cannot move.

In the story, the seven fairies went to the peach orchard to pick peaches for the queen mother, and the monkey Sun said "fixed" and fixed them in place, and the method of "fixing" was given.

Li Congyan saw this plot when he was a child, and he didn't feel inappropriate. Later, he saw a netizen asking on the Internet: Why did Sun Dasheng put seven fairies like flowers and jade and didn't eat them, but instead spoiled the peaches in the whole garden?

Could it be that the peach is a female goblin who can't be transformed? Eat me?

There are many supernatural powers of the great sage, in addition to "fixing", there is also an impressive way of change, and the body can be transformed into everything in the world. Male, female, big, small, mythical beasts, or stone temples, ever-changing, mysterious.

This method is the "false form" in the seventy-two changes!

......

Flip the cover.

"Huh?"

Li Congyan was surprised to find that unlike the blank content in the original memory, there was an ink painting on the title page. It depicts a portrait of a young man with a thin figure and delicate features.

It looks a little familiar.

He turned his head to look at the reflection in the water.

Portrait...... Inverted image......

The two faces are very similar, clearly the same person, but ...... The expressions are very different.

Take a closer look, the expression of the portrait is slightly weird, and even a little hideous and terrifying, as if it is to choose someone to eat!

It's like that-

Ghost!

A demon!

Li Congyan was startled by his sudden thought, and couldn't help but shudder.

After a while, he calmed the panic in his heart and looked at the portrait in his hand again.

Suddenly.

Daigo empowerment in general—

The technique of "Secret Communication" comes to mind!

Shadow: You can see through the illusion and gain insight into the underworld.

"There are really seventy-two earthly evil arts in the world......"

Li Congyan sighed leisurely.

He was not happy, but felt a little sad.

If there is supernatural powers, it means that there are ghosts and gods.

Under the ghosts and gods, mortals are like ants, and their lives are not within their own control.

He is no exception.