The anger that had just risen up in Rongyu dissipated immediately.
The boy has been in the coffin for too long and can hardly speak. Look at him talking nonsense all the time. He is much more eloquent than the little bracelet.
"You don't want me to die?" Rong Yu said, "Isn't it okay if you don't take me away?"
There are many forms of ghost marriages. There are dead people marrying dead people, for example, both parties are dead, they did not know each other in life, and their families arranged for them to marry after death. There are also cases where two people loved each other in life but were opposed by their families and could not stay together, so they secretly agreed to spend their lives together and commit suicide for love. In the end, they would hold a wedding ceremony.
There are also cases where the dead marry the living. For example, when a powerful person dies, they force a living person to be buried with him. Wen Yichu is such a tragedy. Many ghost marriages are also victims of this feudal custom. Some people are born with a weak fate and are prone to early death, so their ancestors will arrange ghost marriages for them and ask for ghosts' blessings. There are also unlucky people who are favored by ghosts and taken away to marry...
The so-called marriage between the dead and the living will end up in the same place, both becoming two dead people. It goes without saying that forced burial alive is completely irrelevant, and the living will become dead. Those who seek the blessing of ghosts are likely to be attacked by ghosts and lose their lives. As for those who are favored by ghosts, most of them are immediately taken away from the world of the living, so that the ghosts can marry ghosts.
Wen Yichu was originally in the first situation, being buried alive. When Rong Yu came, it became the third situation, being favored by a ghost.
According to convention, if a living person is favored by a ghost and they want to get married, the living person must die so that the two ghosts can stay together. So Yan Zhao's statement "after the marriage, they will leave this world" can also be interpreted as leaving the world of the living.
But living people can actually live forever. Conventions are conventions, but there are exceptions. If ghosts are not obsessed with turning living people into ghosts and taking people away from the world of the living, they can also marry living people. After the ceremony, they can sign multiple marriage contracts and become relatives - or ghost relatives...
It's just that there are very few such exceptions. You have to know that normal ghosts have long been reincarnated, and the ghosts that remain in the world usually have strong obsessions, evil thoughts or resentments. Paranoia and strong possessiveness are their common characteristics. If they like someone, they naturally want the person to stay with them forever, rather than letting the person continue to live in the world of the living. Basically, they will take the person away.
If Yan Zhao didn't want to take Rong Yu's life, he could just marry him as a living person.
But despite what Rong Yu said, Yan Zhao still refused: "No."
Rong Yu: "Why not? You can't not take me with you? Then just kill me now."
Blood Jade Bracelet: What are you talking about, Big Devil? If you kill me, this world will be ruined!
Rong Yu: He has to have some confidence in his master, he doesn’t dare.
Blood Jade Bracelet:…
How can one be so confident! Is being henpecked something to be proud of
As expected, Yan Zhao explained in a panic: "If you don't kill me, then I won't marry you."
The blood jade bracelet was too painful to look at. I felt that the great devil had instilled fear into the master's soul.
Rong Yu nodded: "Okay."
The blood jade bracelet was surprised.
The big devil compromises so easily
"Where is the bridal chamber?" Rong Yu looked around but couldn't find the exit. "No need to worship in the hall, let's go directly to the bridal chamber."
Yan Zhao: “…”
A suspicious blush suddenly appeared on Lord Ghost King's face.
"I'm asking you something." Rong Yu shook the pearl hairpins that were full of beads, and they were dazzling. "This pile of jewelry is heavy as hell."
Yan Zhao waved his sleeves, and a moon-shaped door appeared in front of him, leading directly to the bridal chamber.
Rong Yu walked in and saw that the room was fully furnished. There were red double happiness, mandarin duck wedding quilt, red gauze curtain, dragon and phoenix candles, and the quilt was covered with red dates, peanuts, longans, and lotus leaves...
He sighed softly: "After making all these preparations, you still say you don't want to get married."
An apple was not enough to fill his stomach, so Rong Yu sat on the bed and peeled peanuts.
Yan Zhao hesitated and said, "This cannot be eaten."
Rong Yu ate peanuts and red dates, like a hamster entering a granary: "Is it poisonous?"
Yan Zhao said: "It has a meaning. Early birth means wealth..."
He suddenly fell silent.
I realized later that something was wrong.
He had been dead for a thousand years. The wedding and funeral customs a thousand years ago were very different from those of today. Even if they were the same, he would not remember them.
Today, he realized that the person he was waiting for was coming, so he set up this wedding room in a hurry. The layout of the wedding room and the process of welcoming the bride were all referenced by these people, and he also caught a female ghost to ask about etiquette. The female ghost taught him a few words of blessing and what auspicious meanings each item had, and he carefully wrote them down one by one.
The female ghost didn't know that her mother was a man.
"Puff." Rong Yu smiled and threw a lotus leaf into Yan Zhao's arms, biting open a longan, "You still want me to give birth to a child for you?"
The Ghost King's face turned red: "Yes, yes."
Rong Yu: "... Say it again?"
Ghost King: "I mean, these can be eaten."
I thought it was bad to eat things with auspicious meanings, but since the meaning was to give birth to a daughter early... two men obviously couldn't give birth to a child, and a male ghost couldn't make a man pregnant with a ghost baby. Then these red dates, peanuts and the like were meaningless and could be eaten naturally.
"This is not enough to eat." Rong Yu ate less and less, "Is there anything else? I don't need any fine wine or delicious food, but delicacies from the land and the sea will do."
Blood Jade Bracelet: These fucking delicacies from land and sea are still okay.
Rong Yu's words were reasonable. The original owner's living standard was so poor, with simple meals and no oil or water, Rong Yu could never survive.
"Yes." Yan Zhao flicked his sleeves again, and conjured up a table of sumptuous food and wine, including fish and meat, with fragrance wafting in the air.
He looked at Rong Yu and said shyly, "No, let me starve."
Rong Yu's eyes lit up, and he immediately threw away the red dates and peanuts on the bed, sat down at the table and picked up the chopsticks.
"Where did this food come from?"
Even ghosts cannot conjure things out of thin air, and their food, clothing and daily necessities all need to be burned by their relatives in the world of the living. The King of Ghosts has been dead for a thousand years, so it is obvious that no one can burn incense and worship him anymore.
Yan Zhao said: "Little ghost, please offer me a gift."
Rong Yu smiled and said, "Oh."
No wonder, a thousand-year-old ghost king has many little ghosts serving him. So he doesn't have to worry about food and drink.
That's good. Rongyu finally put down the heavy stone in his heart. It feels so good to be a freeloader.
It is impossible for the big devil to have enough food and clothing by himself. The four words "do it yourself" will never have anything to do with him.
Yan Zhao sat opposite him, watching him eat. Ghosts don't need to eat. Food can only be tasted, not filled. Ghosts eat fragrance. If they don't get fragrance for a long time, they will be so hungry that they lose their mind and devour other ghosts. If they don't have either, after a while, the ghost will starve to death, which is a complete annihilation of body and soul.
No one burned incense for Yan Zhao, and Yan Zhao did not eat ghosts, but he was still awake and existed, and he didn't even feel hungry.
His obsession alone is enough to keep him alive forever.
But at that moment, watching Rongyu eating happily, Yan Zhao also felt a long-lost hunger, as if he had truly come alive from this moment and was no longer the walking corpse he used to be.
…even though he died a long time ago.
Yan Zhao touched his abdomen inconspicuously, his stomach was bloated and uncomfortable, but he didn't show it. He had seen his obsession, so it was no longer as deep and strong as before, and he was no longer invincible.
Rong Yu was eating with her husband, and she casually said, "I will go out tomorrow and burn some incense for you. You now have a name, and there are people who worship you. But the tombstone cannot be engraved with 'Tomb of my late husband Yan Zhao', it can only be engraved with 'Tomb of Yan Zhao'. Who made you refuse to marry me?"
Yan Zhao was startled, then smiled with his hands covering his lips.
After eating and drinking, Rongyu finally remembered to remove her makeup.
There happened to be a mirror in the room, and Rong Yu sat down and began to take off her makeup. Wen Yichu was a man, but the Hu family dressed him up as a woman and buried him. Isn't this an insult
The face in the mirror was indeed extremely beautiful. Wen Yichu was already fair and handsome, and after applying powder and rouge, putting on a silk skirt and wearing jewelry, she looked like a beautiful girl, without any sense of disobedience.
Hu Wei once teased him like this: "Young Master Wen is as pretty as a girl, why do you insist on studying hard to get a good reputation? You may fail after studying hard for many years. It is better for you to marry into my Hu family as a concubine and enjoy endless wealth and glory."
Wen Yichu was so angry that he kicked her out of the academy on the spot: "People with different ideals cannot work together!"
Rong Yu looked at the face in the mirror: Wen Yichu is a good person.
The Blood Jade Bracelet was shocked: You don’t think he is plain-looking
You know, those with great fortune all have good looks, but the Great Devil looks at everyone in an average way, and ordinary people probably don't even catch his eye.
Rong Yu: Did I say he has a nice face
Blood Jade Bracelet: ...What's so good about that
Rong Yu: His value lies in his talent and virtue. How can a man who cares about the world and is extremely talented be judged and humiliated by his appearance
Blood Jade Bracelet couldn't believe it: Oh my God, you don't just look at the face, you start paying attention to inner beauty
These words were actually spoken by the Great Devil. Was this because he was influenced by the Lord because he was close to the Lord
Today's big devil's character is beginning to collapse!
Rong Yu:? Am I such a superficial demon in your eyes
Is not it
The Blood Jade Bracelet complained in her heart but didn't dare to say it out loud: What do you think about Hu Wei saying to Wen Yichu that instead of studying hard for so many years and having no one to care about her, it would be better for her to be a concubine and enjoy wealth and glory one day
Rong Yu: How can a sparrow understand the ambition of a swan
The Blood Jade Bracelet was shocked. The Great Demon King actually had such a high level of ideological awareness! This state was too rare for the Great Demon King!
Blood Jade Bracelet: Let me choose. Would you choose studying hard or living a life of wealth and glory
Rong Yu: Is there any need to ask? Of course it is wealth and glory.
Blood Jade Bracelet:…
Okay, the big devil is still the big devil.
Rong Yu: But there is no way I can be a concubine. I will just marry into Hu's family, destroy his family and then seize all his property.
Blood Jade Bracelet:…
Okay, the big devil’s persona is maintained very well.
Blood Jade Bracelet: This big devil is really weird. Sometimes I think his values are correct, and sometimes I think they are not correct... He is both good and evil.
Rongyu: sneer.
Blood Jade Bracelet: What are you laughing at
Rong Yu: Don't you use the word randomly? The three views refer to the world view, the value view, and the life view. I live in a different world, the race I was born into, and my past experiences are different from yours. It is impossible for me to have the same three views as you, so how can I say whether they are right or wrong? Is it you who defines right or wrong? Have you been brainwashed by ordinary people
Blood Jade Bracelet: ... Which one is for mortals
Rong Yu was taking off his jewelry: Some mortals are very conceited, thinking that there are only two kinds of people in the world, those with correct values and those with incorrect values. If you are the same as him, you are right, and if you are different from him, you are wrong. It seems that they don't even know the term "different values". There are millions of people in the world, and there are so many people with different values that it is impossible to reach a consensus. Who is qualified to say that he is the correct answer and everyone else is wrong
Blood Jade Bracelet: That seems to make sense.
Rong Yu: You may not be the right answer, so how can you judge that others are wrong? Wen Yichu could work hard for many years to plead for the people, could teach and educate people without taking in any children, could be so nosy that he was beaten by the government for asking for a way for a common woman. When the villagers remained silent when he was killed, he did not hate them, but felt guilty for not being able to save them. I would never do these things even if I was beaten to death, and I would not say that these things are wrong. I can still respect those who have different values from me, but some people cannot respect others and do not allow different voices from them. Aren’t those people more arrogant and conceited than me
The blood jade bracelet was in a trance.
Is this the reverse output of the Great Devil
Rongyu: Why don’t you speak
Blood Jade Bracelet: Let me take it easy, my worldview has been shaken...
Rong Yu: Don't change so easily. Isn't it better to stick to your original intention like me? Even if I have a wrong outlook on life 10,000 times, I won't have those virtues. If I, a demon, am the same as a human, I would be a traitor to the demon clan.
Blood Jade Bracelet: Thank you, a lot.
And became firm again.
The blood jade bracelet silently took notes: I understand. Three views are very personal things. It is best to find like-minded people. If you can't find them, don't force others to convince you. You can't use yourself as a benchmark to arbitrarily criticize others, and you don't have to use others as a criterion to easily shake yourself.
…and no one paid any attention.
Blood Jade Bracelet: Big Devil, why don’t you say anything
This will make me very embarrassed!
Rong Yu frowned: "Hiss, my hair was caught by the ornaments, Yan Zhao, come and help!"